I own no one. I own no one. I own no one. Do you understand that I OWN NO ONE!

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Ok Lily stay calm, don't panic, all you have to do is stay with Potter for a little while then you can go and have fun with Richard. Oh crap, that's not what I want is it? Dagnabit, maybe I do like him. No, no Lily erase these thoughts from your mind, let them go like birds, let them fly away to some cold mountain top somewhere and never return again.

"Lily are you done in there? I need to have a shower before I meet Frank" Alice called into the bathroom. I ignored her and looked into the mirror. What should I wear? Oh no…I didn't have anything to wear! What was I going to do? I thought I was going to hyperventilate. I couldn't well see the most popular boy in school wearing a pair of boring and plain jeans and a causal jumper. Wait…was I worried about looking bad in front of Potter? Surely not…no, definitely not, never. Oh dear…I was.

"Look Lily I really need to have a shower, can you open the door please"

"Just a minute" I called out, grabbing some cosmetics from the draw by the sink and grabbing my curling tongs from the window sill.

"Well you took your time" Alice said as I came out of the bathroom.

"Yeah sorry bout that, I was, err, fixing my hair" She looked at me sceptically, my hair was in a scruffy ponytail from yesterday evening, I was obviously doing something else.

"Morning guys gotta pee" Daisy pushed through us and entered the bathroom. Alice screamed in frustration and banged on the door.

"Can't anyone get a shower round here!" She yelled.

I chuckled silently and walked over to my vanity table. I sat down and stared hard at myself in the mirror. Boring eyes, boring nose, fat fish lips. I looked down at my arm full of makeup. Blusher, foundation, eyeliner, mascara, lipstick. I sucked in my breath and got to work on my face.

By the time I was finished I had to say I didn't look half bad. The Mascara made my lashes darker and longer, the eyeliner made my eyes bigger and the blusher made me look more feminine, though you could still see the few ugly freckles on the end of my nose. Then I smothered my lips in some dark red lipstick. I looked like a woman of the night. Not exactly the best impression on a first date. Though I knew Potter wouldn't protest to a hore for a girlfriend. Well…at least I didn't think he would. That was it, the makeup was coming off.

It took me at least an hour to get ready, as I had to pull out all my drawers and use a load of various different spells on my hair and then find a pair of shoes that went with my outfit and fitted me.

In the end I found I didn't look as bad as I would have thought. Wearing only a small amount of makeup made me look prettier but not like a common slag and my hair being in soft curls down my back made me look not too girly but not like a total tomboy either. I put on a headband to keep my hair out of my face and fixed a single bobby pin in the side.

I was wearing a tight pair of jeans with a pair of black furry boots. I wore a tight t-shirt on top that made my chest look rather large, soon I felt a little self conscious about it and slipped on a black blouse over the top.

I span round in my mirror, I was ready. Now I just had to figure out how to keep my cool while on a date with two boys.

I had told Richard yesterday that I would meet him in the village by Honeyduke's at 12pm, which gave me approximately 3 hours with Potter. I just hoped they wouldn't suss me out. I had never done anything like this before and I was really starting to freak.

"Lily you look gorgeous" Sandy said getting up from her bed.

"Thanks. So do you in your lovely teddy pyjamas" I said looking at her sceptically. "You do know you're going to miss the coaches to Hogsmeade right?"

"Oh I'm not going" She said shrugging.

"You're not going?" I asked dumb struck. "But it's the first visit this year, we always go"

"Yes Lily, WE always go, this time Jenny has Remus, Alice has Frank and you have James. It just won't be the same"

"Well can't you bring Peter then?" I asked desperately.

"Is that a joke?" She asked laughing, obviously she thought it was.

"No. Ok it was kind of funny wasn't it" I said joining in the laughter.

"Just a bit. But I'm just going to hang out here for a while, while you guys are gone. Maybe catch up on some homework or something"

"Oh my goodness Sandy, are you feeling alright?" I mocked putting a hand to her forehead.

"Oh very funny Lily, now get going, you don't want to keep lover boy waiting" She laughed. I slapped her lightly on the arm and made my way down to the common room.

"Lily…you look…wow" James – I mean Potter greeted me at the bottom of the stairs and immediately took my arm in his and kissed my hand. I blushed slightly, I was already liking this…I mean DISliking this, yeah that's it, disliking. "Oh I got you this" He handed me a single red rose and I could feel my cheeks flushing.

"Thanks" I mumbled taking it from him. I stuck it carelessly in my back pocket but he didn't seem at all disheartened. The poor boy was probably just happy I didn't throw it at him. "Oh and P-James"

"Yes Lily"

"You don't look too bad yourself" He smiled and I smiled. And to top it all off, for the first time in weeks, I was smiling inside too.

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By the time we arrived at the village I noticed I wasn't having that bad a time at all. Away from other people and a flock of girls to inflate his ego James seemed to be a pretty nice guy. Funny, smart, cute…wait I take that back, the jerks just slid his arm round my waist. I wriggle away from him and he looks a little disappointed.

"Sorry" he mumbles, whipping his arm away and moving over a little so we didn't touch at all. I looked at him, he wasn't being rude about it, or mocking, or even pestering me. I sighed, I knew what I was about to do would open up a very messy can of worms, but at that moment I felt it was the least I could do.

"I was just a little uncomfortable when you did that, I like this better" I grabbed his hand and linked our fingers. He looked at me with wide eyes and looked away blushing. Wait…blushing! James Potter blushing over a girl! And that girl was me! What was the world coming to?

"I like it better too" He smiled at me and I could feel myself going weak in the knees.

We ended up quite surprisingly at Madame Pudifoots. I always thought James would be a more boisterous type, and take me to the Quidditch store and the Hogshead and stuff. But it seemed as though he was more romantic than anything.

"Thanks" I said quietly as he pulled out my chair for me to sit on. I sat down cautiously, wondering if he was going to suddenly pull it from under me and let me fall onto the floor. Instead he slowly pushed it in so I could sit down comfortably on it.

"So do you want something to drink?" He asked me when we had sat down and gotten comfortable.

"Sure, can I have a coffee please?"

"Coffee? I wouldn't put you down as a coffee drinker"

"Why not?" I asked him, genuinely curious.

"Because coffee's a stimulant, stimulants give you a premature buzz. You always seem pretty level headed"

"How do you know that?" I asked him, gazing into the deep hazelnut pools in his eyes.

"That you're level headed?"

"No that it's a stimulant"

"Oh…I read"

"I thought that was just porn" I laughed. He blushed.

"I read intellectual books too" He mumbled, I looked at him and felt a sudden tinge of guilt. This boy wasn't what I had thought at all. All those years I had rejected him I could have been spending time with the most gorgeous and lovely and kind boy in the- he's just grabbed my hand over the table, what do I do? What do I DO?

"So about that drink" I said nervously, pulling my hand away. Go on Lily just give into it, give into his charms.

"Oh yeah…" He went up to the counter and ordered them straight off. He came back with two steaming mugs, one coffee and one cappuccino. He went to take a sip of his and when he looked back up he had a small white frothy moustache. I laughed a little abruptly and he looked at me strangely. I grabbed a napkin from the table and dabbed at his lip. We were very close and he was moving closer, he closed his eyes and…

"Oh crap, I'm sorry" I 'accidentally' pushed my spoon of the table and it fell to the floor with a loud clutter, receiving me some very nasty looks from the other couples in the room. James eyes jerked open and he pulled away quickly. "Me and my clumsiness"

We sat in silence for a little while before the date really started to get going.

"So why are you here?" James suddenly asks in the middle of our conversation on peanut butter.

"Well I thought that was pretty obvious, I'm on a date with you" I said looking at him oddly.

"I know that Lily, I just mean why now? After the other day I thought you made it clear you would never date me"

"Maybe I just realised somewhere deep down I actually thought you were a pretty good guy" I said, looking away and blushing.

"I always knew you were a good girl Lily. Actually, I always knew you were a bad girl" He laughed. I glared slightly at him and punched him lightly in the arm but I wasn't at all offended. In one light I found it quite complimenting that I wasn't portrayed as a good girl to the whole of the Wizarding world.

"I can be good and bad, that's why everyone loves me" I laughed and smiled.

"I'll say" He smirked, licking his top lip with his tongue. This kind of grossed me out as I started to imagine what he must be thinking at that moment.

"So anyway what are your hobbies?"

"Dreaming about you mostly" He said with an innocence to his voice.

"Apart from that" I blushed.

"Thinking about you"

"And that"

"Talking about you"

"Ok any hobbies that don't involve me?"

"Well I suppose Quidditch is ok" He said shrugging.

"OK? You're James Potter, you LOVE Quidditch!"

"Not as much as I love you" He said, this time grabbing my hand under the table and holding onto it.

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why do you love me so much James? You could have nearly every girl in the school. I mean, it doesn't even matter that you're not the best looking or anything, girls still love your charms" I felt instantly guilty at saying this. "Oh my goodness that came out sooo wrong, don't worry about it I'm such a cow, I assure you, you are good looking"

"That's Ok Lily, I know I'm not as 'hot' as Sirius or anything but I think I'm just attractive in my own way" He said this without any trace of big headedness in his voice, it was almost like he found himself as nothing more than a common geek.

"I'm glad James…I like your way better" He smiled and brought our hands up to the table top.

"So back to why I love you" He grinned. "Now where do I start" My cheeks were burning but I managed to keep eye contact with him.

"Dunno" I mumbled softly, staring intently into his large and gorgeous eyes.

"Well first there are you eyes"

"Plain and almond shaped" I sighed.

"Then there's your hair"

"Bright enough to blind the dead"

"Your freckles"

"Small and orange and ugly"

"And then your lips"

"Looking like they've been whacked with a shovel"

"And then your body, oh Merlin your body" He licked his lips and I don't think he even knew he was doing it.

"Fat and horrible"

"Lily what are you on about?"

"Everything you're saying, it's so not true"

"Of course it is Lily, James Potter is no liar…unless it has anything to do with homework assignments" I laughed. Here was the boy I thought meanest of the mean complimenting me on all the tings I thought badly about myself.

"I wish I was as confident as you" I said, finally breaking the stare and looking away.

"Lily you have more reason than me to be confident in yourself. You're a top student, a great friend, a lovely person and a gorgeous girl"

"You're sweet James, but I really don't think you're thinking straight"

"I know I know I'm thinking straight" He mocked, tweaking me on the end of my nose. I wrinkled it and stack my pointy tongue out. "Another brilliant thing about you, that exceedingly cute tongue of yours"

"Don't try it Potter, this tongue isn't going anywhere near your throat" I laughed. I was having the most fun I had had in ages. Suddenly a jolt of realisation hit me. It was already 11:55 and I had to meet Richard half way up the village.

"Lily what's the matter?"

"Oh no, I forgot to err…feed my pet tarantula, how could I have been so stupid? I guess I'll have to go early"

"But we've barely been her 4 hours" He said, his voice dropping and his eyes flashing with disappointment.

"I know James, and I'm sorry…I've had a really great time today"

"Well I'll walk you back to the castle then"

"No! No that won't be necessary, I'll be fine thanks."

"Well I might as well leave as well, Sirius is back at the castle, and I'll spend the rest of the day with him"

"Oh, you mustn't put up with my moaning for another hour, I need to get something from the village anyway"

"But can't I get it with you?"

"Sorry James, its girls stuff. You know tampons and that" I said blushing wildly.

"Oh…well I guess I'll see you later then" He said, looking at me hopefully.

"Yeah I guess so" He leaned in for a kiss and I hurriedly got up and left the room calling a final goodbye to him as I race walked down the road.

"Lily" Richard greeted me with a kiss on the cheek. I smiled at him and quickly fiddled with my hair to make it look a little more presentable.

"Hi"

"So do you want to go in then?" He asked opening the door. I looked down the road and saw a small James walking sadly up the road, hands in his pockets.

"Yeah…let's go"

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