Hi guys! I have returned! I've been at camp the past week, so I couldn't write (duh). Hope this makes up for the wait!
Chapter 11: Halloween, Part 2
Lily sat at the judges table next to James, waiting for the first costumed student to come onto the stage.
"Here we go…" Lily said, watching as a small 4th year walked up. She was wearing a cat suit, but this one was… plain. Taped on cat ears made out of construction paper, and a sock for a tail.
James sniggered behind his hand and Lily shushed him. She wrote down 4 out of 10, and waved the girl on.
Luckily, only 4th years and above could enter, or it would have taken forever to judge everyone. By the time they got to the 7th years, Lily had many, many scores written on her clipboard.
Anya and Alanna walked onto the stage, and waved their tails. Lily nodded.
She said to James, "you judge them. I most likely would be biased."
James nodded. He wrote down 9 out of 10, and waved the two girls on, smiling.
A little later, when the contest was done, James and Lily went on the stage.
"Hi everyone! I bet this is the time you've been waiting for!" Lily said, smiling.
"Yeah, and we've decided each different year will get a first, second, and third place winner. The winner will have a certificate for Honeydukes. Now, let's read off the results!" James said, and Lily stepped forward.
"4th year third prize winner is Collen O'Heary!" The 4th year came up and took the 10 galleon worth certificate. (The certificates were bought by Lily, James, and a few other random 7th years from Gryffindor.)
Soon, they were saying the 5th year winners, and then the 6th years, and finally the 7th years.
Lily let James call out the names.
"7th year third prize goes to Sirius Black!" Sirius had dressed up as a constellation, the star Sirius, and his head was a sun.
"Good job, buddy!" James said as she handed Sirius his certificate.
"7th year second prize goes to Amelia Bone!" The girl was dressed in a rose shaped dress that changed colors, and stepped up and received the certificate.
"First prize is a pair winning! Alanna Ross and Anya Cruthe!" Alanna and Anya walked up grinning broadly.
"Good job, guys!" Lily said, grinning at her best friends.
As Lily and James left the Great Hall together, walking up to their dorm, James was talking about past Marauder pranks.
"Well, remember, last year? We turned everyone into a pig during the Welcome feast, and the first years were panicked and running around squealing!" James said, smiling. Lily laughed.
"How could I forget? When McGonagall, as your punishment, made you turn everyone back into people one by one, you 'conveniently' forgot to remove my tail." Lily said, smirking, but blushing a bit at the embarrassing memory.
"Well, let's say I was just a bit tired and wasn't concentrating." James said, looking away.
Lily laughed. "Then how come the only other person after me who still had ears and a tail was Snivellus?"
James looked at her, gaping. "You called him Snivellus!"
Lily rolled her eyes. "I punched the guy. I at least can call him his 'nickname'."
"Doesn't make much sense, but I'll just agree with you, okay?" James said, sniggering. Lily rolled her eyes and punched him lightly on the arm.
It suddenly hit her that she had never been this comfortable hanging around with James before in her life at Hogwarts.
"Why are you so quiet?" James asked Lily, who was staring at her feet.
"Uh, I don't know… Just something I just realized." Lily muttered, continuing to look at her feet.
"And that is?" James asked, pressing Lily.
"Oh… I can't tell you."
"No, you just won't tell me, is that right?" James said, smiling slightly.
"Yes, correct." Lily said, looking quickly at James.
Both teenagers stopped talking for a while. Lily trudged along, blindly navigating toward their dorm.
"Lily…" James began, but Lily cut him off with, "We're here."
The two stepped inside the warm Head's rooms and James motioned toward couch.
Lily had second thoughts, but decided talking to him wouldn't hurt.
They sat there, and Lily noticed how awkward it had become. Wasn't that strange that when she had realized how comfortable she was with James it became awkward?
James looked at Lily, and she looked back.
"Lily, I've wanted to… to ask you this for a while. I just realized how close we've become, and-"
"Don't say it James. I know what you're going to say. I don't want to hear it."
James looked downcast.
"Well, maybe a little part of me does." Lily said, and she leaned slightly forward and kissed James.
It was sweet, simple, even though Lily pulled away quickly.
"Whoa." James breathed, and he looked a little stunned. Lily frowned slightly, and quickly headed to her room with not a word to James.
Lily slept late the next morning, because it was Saturday. She had no desire to go down to breakfast, where he might be.
Or to the Quidditch match in a half hour, where he most certainly would be.
Lily had no idea that she had had that much guts to actually kiss the guy. She was barely planning to talk to him at the time!
'Evil nasty hormones... die, die, die you little buggers!' Lily thought, glaring at her pillow.
Lily decided she couldn't stay in bed the whole morning, so she got up, fixed her hair (not an easy task), and got dressed. She then stood and walked over to her window. It faced the Quidditch pitch, and she could see the tiny figures rushing around. 'Good, the game's starting. that practically guaruntees the halls to be empty, and even the kitchen.'
She walked into the hallway, and she remembered what she had told Anya the day before.
"No, Anya, I'm going to miss my best friend's first quidditch game of the season." Lily said sarcastically.
"Oh, how could you be so cruel?" Alanna said, laughing along wiht Lily.
'Crap. I'm dead unless I get out there!' Lily thought, sprinting in the direction of the Quidditch pitch outside. 'But how can I avoid Potter?'
Lily stepped outside and continued running toward the Gryffindor stands. The game was almost halfway over, apparently, even though there was no sight of the snitch, most likely.
Lily sat at the way top of the stands, hiding her self underneath the scarf and hat she had conjured up. Anya was heating bludgers hard at the other team and James was concentrating hard on this next goal.
The seeker, Ronan Catlen, had spotted the snitch. Lily watched as the Slytherin seeker followed Ronan into a dive, and LIly saw Anya give a hard hit to bludger at the Slytherin seeker, at the same time Sirius hit another one at the poor Slytherin.
The slytherin fell from his broom at about 30 feet, and Ronan caught the snitch.
"Game over!" The commentator said, cheering for Gryffindor.
Lily smiled and rushed down onto the field.
"Good job, Anya!" Lily said, laughing along with her friend. "Nice hit, if I do say so myself!" Anya agreed.
Lily smiled, then said, "Let's talk at the party up at the common room, okay?" Anya gave her a wierd look, but said, "Okay..."
The two friends met up with Alanna and walked to the common room, and Lily walked faster than usual. Alanna and Anya exchanged looks, and walked faster to keep up.
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