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------------Why did i fall for your charms?-----------
After a much enjoyed meal I made my way sleepily to my common room. I didn't stop to sit by the fire or read a good book I just went straight up to my dorm to get ready for a sleep I knew I would enjoy.
"So Lils, what do you think of Potter this year?" Alice asked casually, slipping on a pair of shorts and brushing her hair back ready for bed. I eyed her suspiciously before asking:
"Why?"
"Dunno, I just noticed he was a little different this year" She said, looking away from my stare and slipping a Holyhead Harpies Quidditch top on over her head.
"Oh, well yeah I guess he's changed a little" I said not really wanting to know where she was going with this.
"I mean his hairs behaving itself a little more now don't you think?"
"Oh god Alice, if you tell me you have a thing for Potter than I am going to jump out of this here window" I said shaking my head.
"No! No I don't have a thing for Potter, I was just thinking that…oh never mind"
"No…go on" I said looking at her angel like face, though she was anything but.
"Well Lily, you admitted he's changed and well, he has liked you for a long time and…"
"And what?"
"You do seem to like him a little"
"WHAT!" I yelled in exasperation. "I DO NOT!"
"Ok, ok no need to shout, I was just thinking that's all" She said looking a little hurt and then she crawled into bed.
"Oh Alice, I'm sorry but I just do not see how I could like Potter, I mean I've hated the guy since he jinxed that smelly old sock to chase me in our first year, it's the insults isn't it? People think I like him cause of the insults, I knew I should have made them nicer. I mean, no one thinks I fancy Remus do they? Because I never insult Remus, not much anyway. Oh Alice what do I do?"
"Look Lily, no one thinks you like Potter, it was just a stupid observation and I'm sure it's not correct, now please just forgive me and go to sleep" She said sounding exhausted.
"Oh yeah…sure" I said lying awake in my bed staring at the ceiling. Sandy, Daisy and Alice were all ready fast asleep and I could hear Daisy's faint snoring on the other side of the room.
Me, Lily Evans, liking James Potter…what a load of rubbish! But then again, I had never noticed it before Alice brought it up, maybe there was something there that I had never noticed. NO! No I do NOT like, and never WILL like James Potter, nope never, nah…oh but what if…
I didn't argue with myself any longer as I was already asleep before I could finish that sentence.
I woke up the next day with a frown on my face. I remembered back to the previous day, when Alice had made a suggestion so horrible, so gruesome and so vile that just thinking about it made me want to barf. She though I liked James Potter! I thought about it for a while before coming to the conclusion that I did not in fact like James Potter, and if I ever did fall in love with him it wouldn't be until at least the 6th chapter of this story because come on, I mean, how unrealistic would it be if I fell in love with him in only the third chapter?
Feeling a little better with myself I got up and dressed. I shook Sandy to awake her. Alice was already up and sitting on her bed, charming her wand to curl her long, lush locks of hair. And Daisy was God knows where. I suspected she was jinxing Hagrid's chamber pot to chase some little firsties around the common room.
"Come on Sunny, rise and shine" Sandy was reluctant to get out of bed so I swung open the curtains letting a late summer sun shine through the window. I myself had to shield my eyes from the suns blaze and Alice threw a pillow at me for 'disturbing her concentration'. I rolled my eyes and hoisted Sandy up from her bed.
"But Lils, I'm tired" She moaned attempting to scratch my eyes out with her sharp nails. She was nicknamed Sunny, because when she smiled it somehow lit up the whole room. And because when we first met her she was so shy we thought she said her name was Sunny and not in fact Sandy.
"You're also insufferable at times" I sighed dropping her arm and covering my face with my arms as to shield myself from her raging arms.
"Bubbles tell her to leave me alone" She whined some more and looked at Alice. Don't ask me why Alice is bubbles, because it's a very long and complicated story involving the Marauders and the simple hex 'scourgify'. She had never been so clean in all her life until that day.
"Hit her with the chair" She said, sounding bored and examining her nails with great interest. I glared at her and picked up my own pillow, aiming it at her head. It hit her so forcefully I swore I heard her brain rattle inside her head.
"Oh LILY!" She shouted folding her arms and throwing a strop. She wailed like a strangled cat and sulked on the end of her bed.
"Ha you sound like Lily singing in the shower" Sandy laughed hysterically, rubbing a stitch in her side.
"You're no better" I said also throwing a tantrum and pouting that oh so resistible pout I do so well.
"Oh come on, Princess and the pea brain" She said still laughing, she grabbed mine and Alice's wrist and sat us both down on her bed. "I'm going to get dressed; when I come back I expect you two to have made up, if not then I'm filling your beds with spiders tonight"
"Oh Sandy, you weener you know I have an arachnophobia" Alice whined again.
"Well I wouldn't fill your bed with fairy dust would I? And if you make up there won't be any spiders will there? Pretty simple by the looks of it. And don't call me a weener" She added and went off to the privacy of our bathroom to change.
"Well I'm not apologising" I said, my arms folded tight around my chest.
"Yeah, well…me either" She said, looking all indignant.
"Oh look this is stupid" I said spinning round to face her.
"I know" She said smiling.
"Friends?" I asked.
"The best of" She said hugging me.
"Great, I've just finished changing" Sandy said coming out of the bathroom fully clad in her uniform.
We made our way down the stairs laughing but our smiles were soon replaced by scowls as we spotted just who was in the common room.
"Daisy, you ok?" I asked calling out to her. She was sitting by the fire, the Marauders huddled round her.
"Feck off you useless bunch of morons" Sandy said coming to a stop beside Daisy and resting her hand on her shoulder.
"What we didn't do anything!" Sirius exclaimed holding his hands up.
"Yeah right, can I get that on tape?" Sandy asked sarcastically.
"Look why won't you believe us?"
"Ever heard of the boy who cried wolf?" Alice said, I looked at Remus, and felt a twang of guiltiness that was soon replaced by anger as Potter said:
"Ever heard of the witch who wouldn't bloody shut up?" He snarled, glaring at her.
"No, in fact I haven't heard of that one, are you the star in it?" She shot back also glaring.
"Look they didn't do anything to me" Daisy said looking up.
"See I told you!" Sirius said wagging a finger at us.
"Put that away you dirty tramp or I'll bight it off" I said lazily, drawling my words and rolling my eyes.
"Lily don't, they were just asking if I was all right" Daisy said looking at me with pleading eyes.
"The Marauders? Compassionate?" I asked bewildered, not believing a word of it.
"Oh is that sooo hard to believe?" Potter asked, looking at me with flecks of fierceness in his eyes.
"YES!" Me, Sandy and Alice all shouted at the same time.
"Guys I've just had a rough night that's all, they really were just concerned" Daisy said sounding strained and tired.
"Well actually we were wondering whether or not was a good time to prank her but – oof, what was that for!" Peter had stopped short of his sentence as he received a punch in the gut.
"Shush Wormtail" Sirius whispered out of the corner of his mouth.
"I knew it!" I shouted, this time pointing my finger at them.
"You better put that away Evans before I lick it" Potter smirked, his tone a little less harsh.
"If you lick my finger Potter I'll slap you so hard your ancestors will feel it" I threatened, my face dark and serious.
"Ooh I'm shivering in my very expensive shoes I am" He smirked some more.
"I'm surprised any shoes fit you with those troll feet" Sandy shot at him. He looked a little amused and a small grin arose on his face.
"I told you Rogers, I'm extremely flattered and you're hot and all but Evans has all ready stolen my heart"
"Ohh you insufferable prick!" She shrilled not being able to contain her rage any longer; she jumped at him and sent her fist flying straight at his jaw. He groaned and readjusted his jaw bone.
"OUCH!" He said finally, looking like he was about to burst into tears. He looked like a little kid whose lollypop had just been stolen.
"That was for insisting that I would like a twat like you!" Sandy yelled narrowing her eyes into just slits.
"Whoa Prongs I would get out of here before the rest of them get physical" Sirius said looking just the slightest bit amused.
Potter glared at us once more before striding out of the portrait hole without another word.
"That's our cue" Remus said winking at us. Sirius, him and Peter also left leaving us girls and an awe struck 2nd year alone in the common room. The 2nd year picked up her things and hurried from the room at the speed of light.
"Well after that I'm pretty hungry" I said breaking the silence. The other guys looked at me and smiled.
"Well then let us not keep your stomach waiting Lils" Alice said linking arms with me. I linked arms with Sandy who grabbed Daisy by the arm and linked with her.
We did that fancy step all together where our feet cross over each others until we got to the portrait hole and realised we couldn't actually all fit in at once. We twisted round and saddled side ways through the hole, never would we be beaten, well until we got to the corridor outside the common room and noticed we were wedged in between each wall.
"Oh damnit" I cursed beneath my breath. I unhooked arms with Alice and popped out from the line. We all rubbed our sore arms and continued down to the great hall laughing and joking like the great friends we were.
When we had sat down at the table and filled our plates with food galore I asked Daisy what was up with her.
"So Dream, what's up with you?" (I told you I asked her that didn't I?)
"Nothing really, I just had a bad dream is all"
"Well that's ironic" I smiled patting her hand sympathetically. She managed a small smile and stuck her tongue out at me.
"Oh dream you have a piercing on your tongue!" I gasped looking at her with envy.
"Yeah" She smiled, "but mum doesn't know, so I couldn't put it in yesterday" She winked at me and continued spooning scrambled eggs into her mouth.
I gave her a mischievous smile and bit my lower lip. She was a bit of a Slytherin when she wanted to be but she was one of the bravest girls I had ever met.
"Wassup girlies?" Jenny asked from behind us. We turned round to face her and smiled.
"Nothing much Cookie, Wassup with you?" I asked.
"Oh the usual, you know" She said absent mindedly (you guys must be having a joke of course it's a word!)
"That Billy Holman been nagging you for a date again?" Daisy asked getting up, "I'll give him a good kicking for you if you want" She added.
"Oh no, well yes, but there's no need for that" She said sheepishly.
"Hey Dream how comes you never give Potter a good kicking when he asks me out?" I asked a little hurt.
"Because if I did I would wear out my shoe by the end of the week" She said smiling. I hit her playfully.
"He doesn't ask me out that much" I said, suddenly extremely engrossed in the piece of bacon lying on my plate.
"Oh sure he doesn't, how is every time he sees you not 'that much'?"
"He didn't ask me out this morning" I said defiantly.
"Only 'cause Sandy here was at him like a spasticated hawk"
"Excuse me! I did not look like a spasticated hawk…did I?" She asked worriedly, smoothing down her hair.
"No course you didn't" I said sympathetically, patting her encouragingly on the shoulder and throwing Daisy a warning look.
"Wait fill me in here what happened this morning?" Jenny asked giving us her full attention. I gestured for her to sit down next to me and we together told her the just what happened that morning.
By the end of it she looked a little confused, but to save us having to repeat ourselves again we pretended not to notice.
"Hey Lily I just noticed something…where's your prefects badge?" Alice asked looking at my robes.
"My…oh holy CHEESE!" I yelled gaining the full attention of the whole hall. I panicked, I had totally forgotten about my prefect duties! I hadn't visited the heads compartment to talk about our assignments on the train either! I was in deep compost; I just hoped McGonagall maybe wouldn't have noticed.
"Miss Evans" Just my luck, here was the witch herself.
"Yes Professor" I said slowly turning round.
"Here is your timetable" She said simply handing me a piece of parchment with my classes on it.
"Oh, thank you Professor" I breathed grabbing my heart to stop it from coming out of my mouth.
"Oh and Miss Evans"
"Yes Professor"
"I expect you to actually show up for your prefect duties tonight" She said handing the rest of my friends their timetables and skirting off.
"Well she didn't seem too mad" Jenny said trying just a little not to laugh. I glared at her and threw a mini muffin at her head shutting her up.
My first class was Potions; I was actually quite a whiz at Potions, as I was at many other subjects. I looked around for my friend Hannah who was also in this class but I couldn't see her anywhere. Luckily for me this was one class I was sure James Potter would not be attending.
Oh how wrong was I?
"Morning Professor" He strode into the class with a look of charm to his face. The few girls good enough to have passed this O.W.L swooned over him and all raced to sit next to him. I thought for a moment that he was the only Marauder here but I soon saw Remus shuffle into the class weighed down by not only his books but Potter's also!
"Remus" I said walking over to him and bending down to pick up a book about potion ingredients he had just dropped.
"Oh hi there Lily" He said smiling.
"Why are you carrying Potters books?" I asked handing him the book weighing about 7 kilos.
"Well he's a little busy at the moment, as you can see" He said smiling sheepishly. James was fending off girls left, right and centre. He flung his legs round so his feet were covering two seats.
"Looks like he saved you a seat" I said, maybe he was a teensy bit considerate. Remus looked at me and smiled.
"Hey Evans, get that lovely arse of yours over here, I've saved you a seat" My eyebrow shot up so high I was surprised it didn't hit the ceiling. I looked at Remus again. He didn't look too bothered and the smile he had on his face didn't falter.
"Looks like he saved you a seat" He said, sticking out his hand to pull me up.
"Well I would rather sit next to an over flowing rubbish bin from 1945" I said wrinkling my nose and shivering. He laughed and dropped all of the books on a near by desk.
"Sounds great" He said, eyes shining, "but he's not that bad of a guy you know Lily, maybe if you just gave him a chance"
"Oh I'll give him a chance" I said, "When worms sprout ears" I rolled my eyes and sat down on a seat next to Remus. "He can sit next to one of those drooling girls over there, he doesn't need me" I said sounding like I had made my mind up.
Remus didn't say anything else; he just shrugged at Potter and sat back down.
We were in the middle of making our shrinking potion when James strode over to our desk and bent over to whisper something in Remus' ear.
He looked at him and hastily got up. I eyed Potter suspiciously and scooted as close to the edge of the seat as I could when he sat down next to me.
"So Evans how's it going?" He asked looking into mine and Remus' cauldron.
"Great until you showed up" I mumbled going back to chopping some radishes.
"Oh that hurt Evans" He said drawling his words like I had done that previous morning.
"Well that was the point" I said not looking at him. "Look Potter what the hell do you want because as you can see, unlike you, I'm pretty busy here" I said finally looking at him with one eye brow raised.
"Well Slughorn needed to talk to Remus, I was just telling him"
"So why don't you go back to your own desk?"
"Because I like the view from this one"
"If you're talking about me Potter-"
"Which I am"
"Then I am not even the slightest bit flattered, I would be of course if you were tall dark and handsome"
"But Evans I am tall dark and handsome!"
"Oh I forgot to add in kind hearted and smart"
"Oh…well you got me there" He smirked. I did not smirk back. Instead I glared at him a little and continued adding ingredients to my potion.
"Anyway where's Black?" I asked not really caring about the answer.
"Somehow he didn't manage to pass his O.W.L…which is ridiculous because I copied nearly all of his answers in the exam and all…" He droned on for another minute or so about Sirius but I had stopped listening.
"Look Potter if you love Black so much why don't you just marry him!" I shouted exasperated and impatient. Every one in the classroom stopped what they were doing to look at the commotion we were making. "What are you looking at?" I yelled shooing them away. I looked at Potter; he actually looked a little hurt this time, like someone had just slapped him in the face with a wet fish. "Oh Potter, look I'm sorry I didn't mean it like that, I'm just a little moody this morning"
"No, no that's fine" He said feigning a smile, trying to keep his voice from shaking.
What was this? James Potter actually…hurt?
"No, I was a moody cow, if it makes you any better, you and Sirius would make a lovely couple" I said grinning, he looked a little better, I think he found it quite funny. "And if it helps the large wound in your dignity then you're not that bad a guy" I said, straining the words out of my mouth. He looked at me and smiled a really large smile.
"Thanks Lily, erm I mean Evans"
"That's ok Potter" I said smiling at him nicely. I suppose being nice to him wasn't the biggest sacrifice I could make.
"So Evans, I don't suppose you would want to go out with me sometime" He said running a hand through his hair.
"NO!" I yelled throwing a sliced slug at his head.
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