Lily walked back upstairs to the Gryffindor Common Room with James. They were playing with each other on the stairs by pushing each other and making fun of one another.

"That was quite a move," Lily grinned, as she gave James a little shove.

"What?" James asked her pushing her back.

"The green leaf for eyes thing," Lily explained. James laughed; at least he thought that it was clever. "I mean, it was kind of cute," she commented.

"Kind of!" exclaimed James, "What'd ya mean, just kind of!"

Lily giggled, "I dunno," they finally made it to the top of the stair case.

"Come on," James pushed, "Didn't you think it was a hot gesture, a line, and wonderful little adjustment?" James persuaded her to say that he was an adorable boy who'd she'd love to spend time with.

"Yes," she finally confirmed, "You are spectacular," she said sarcastically, she even did a little fake bow, and burst out in laughter.

"Oh, come on," James said and shook his head. He even blushed a bit. "You don't have to be, so, so…" he drifted off.

"Rude, embarrassing, annoying?" she emphasized all of the words. James gave an awed look.

"What?" he stuttered. Lily laughed she was just playing.

"I can play around too you know," and rolled her eyes in amusement.

He sighed in relief, "Whomping Willow," muttered James. He spoke the password and the fat lady portrait swung open.

"You can be unruly too," he joked beaming at her.

"Shut up!" she said and hit him lightly. He laughed and ran into the room.

"You can!" he shouted at her. She grinned to and ran after him. They circled the room twice and then Sirius walked into the room. His gray eyes widened at what he saw, Lily and James having fun with each other and actually laughing with each other.

"Whoa," he said and started tension in the room.

James froze, and so did Lily, they just realized what they were doing. James sheepishly messed up his hair and pushed his glasses so far back on his nose bridge that it pinched his nose till it turned red.

Lily closed her mouth, which currently held open gaping at Sirius and straighter up and placed her hands on her hips.

"What are you doing here?" she snapped at him. Sirius blinked several times uncontrollably and then roared with laughter.

"What?" Lily asked him.

"Nothing, nothing," Sirius said gasping for air. He then strolled over to where James was posted and leaned on his side. James beamed at his friend and slyly winked when he notice Lily, red faced, was just looking embarrassed and praying.

"I finally did it," James grinned. Sirius chuckled again.

"Yeah, finally," he joked grinning at his friend. He was kind of happy for James, I mean, James has been trying to get Lily since their first year at Hogwarts.

"Oh, good God," Lily said. Then her face turned pale, and then turned red from anger instead of embarrassment. She stomped toward the two marauders and scowled. "If you dare tell anyone, and I mean anyone, it'll be the end of you, got it?" she said to them. The boys nodded their heads in agreement and watched Lily storm off to the Girls dorms.

"I can't believe it!" Sirius shouted at James, he was jumping up and down.

"Neither can I," James said honestly.

"This is huge! We gotta tell Moony and Wormtail," Sirius said full of excitement.

"We can't, but we will," James said deceivingly. The boys both laughed and went over to the large comfort chairs and relaxed.

"So… tell me about it," Sirius said.

"What?" James knew what he was talking about but didn't want to revel himself so easily.

"You know…" Sirius continued.

James nodded, "No, actually I don't," he said grinning. Sirius fumed.

"Come on!" he roared. James laughed.

"Okay, okay. I convinced her to build this snowman thing with me. First we made a boy, I made sure that it resembled me. She finally figured that it was me, and I suggested that we make a girl one to you know, be his girlfriend, ketch my drift?" James explained.

Sirius nodded, "Continue," he said.

"We designed the girl, she looked almost like a twin to Lily when she was completed. I said she looked familiar, even a girl I fancy, then she obviously knew it was her. Then we questioned each other if we would fancy the snow people if they were real and she said that it was fake and they'd never be real, and I…" James was cut off.

"Pretended to cry," Sirius finished for him. They both laughed a little. "Lemme guess, she bought it."

"Yeah, and I threw a snowball at her. Then she said that she used to fancy me but that mean snowball trick messed it all for me. And then, then I rolled snow for her and told her to tossed it at me. After that we just kind of got close, and that some how led up to a…" James drifted off.

"A what?" Sirius asked pounding his fists, he really wanted to know.

"A kiss," James finished.

Sirius roared with laughter "that's good my friend," he joked. James was thrilled, and leaped up from his seat.

"Come on!" James nagged, "We have to get up to bed, who knows what us two lovers will do tomorrow," he joked. The marauders raced up stairs and climbed into their beds for a rest.

Meanwhile, Lily inched up the staircase to the girls' dorms. She sighed, she couldn't believe what she just did with James, it was just so not like her. Finally she made it to her bed, didn't even bother to put on pajamas, and slid under the covers. She snorted, "Stupid Sirius," and put her heavy head on her plush pillow.

"How is Sirius stupid?" a girl's voice asked. Lily's head lunched up from her pillow, she didn't think anyone could hear her.

"Huh?" Lily asked, she then saw that it was her friend Pamela, another 7th year in Gryffindor. She had blonde curly hair and water-like, clear blue eyes, she was an average girls height too.

"You just said 'stupid Sirius', why is he stupid?" she asked rather angrily. Pamela had a huge crush on Sirius, and didn't like to here Lily call him stupid with out a reason.

Normally, when Lily said that Sirius was stupid she had a pretty reasonable reason, and loved to rat him out. But now she didn't have a supportive reason, and didn't want to rat him out, for, she didn't want to share the story, not even with her close friends.

"He was acting dumb, and that was annoying," Lily lied. Lily was often known as brainy so it seemed like something she would say.

"Oh," said Pamela. She took her hand and brushed it against her blonde curls to get them out of her face. Lily looked away from her.

"Yeah," she continued.

"Are you sure it has nothing to do with your little kiss with James?" Pamela asked. Lily shot her head and stared gaping at Pamela.

'How does she know?' Lily thought. 'No one could've seen'. Her green eyes swelled up and face flushed red with embarrassment.

"Hmph!" Pamela snorted, "you didn't think I knew did you?" she said. It was true, Lily didn't.

"How do you know!" she whispered a shout. Pamela giggled a little.

"I saw you two under a tree with your identical snow twins," she said simply.

"You can't tell anyone," Lily told Pamela. She nodded.

"I won't," she confirmed. Lily nodded slowly and then fell back onto her bed. This time she didn't mutter anything, and just closed her eyes. And she fell into a deep dream…

The next morning Lily put her robes on and headed down stairs to the common room. She had lost her winter coat and gloves and she was positive that it would be in the common room. As she searched, which she wasn't having luck with, James crept down the stairs to the boys' dorms. When James saw Lily he grinned and squatted down on the steps to hide from her. Lily sensed some one in the room.

"Who's there?" she asked looking all around. She sighed and went back to what she was originally doing.

"Boo!" James leaped off the stair case and landed on his feet on the carpet.

"AH!" Lily shrieked. She whirled around facing James and fumed with fury. "James!" she barked, "You scared me," she clutched her chest like she was having a heart attack.

James laughed, "I'm sorry," he apologized, he messed his hair up, "Do you want to throw a snowball at me?" he joked. Lily calmed down and couldn't help but to laugh, she got his joke.

"I think we've kissed enough," she said to him giving him a tiny shove.

James grinned, "come on," he pleaded.

"Your pushing your limits," Lily joked.

"What are you doing in here in the first place," James said changing the topic. Lily almost forgot, she blushed in embarrassment, "Oh, I forgot my coat in here last night," she said sheepishly.

"Oh," James's mind sparked, "I got it, its just up in my room…. I'll go get it," he turned to the stairs and rushed up them.

Lily grunted, "Great, now it'll have James's scent," she knew she wouldn't be able to stop thinking about him. Even now she couldn't get him off of her mind; it was all revolved around James.

He dallied down the stairs and stalled at the bottom step. He sighed and then hesitated before putting down his foot on the carpet. Lily gave him a look of hurry.
He dropped his foot down and rushed toward her.

"Thank you," Lily muttered grabbing her white silk coat out of his hands. She smelt something, strong, but yet, lovely. "What's that smell?" she said finally looking at him. Her green eyes flashed.

"Oh, I used a cleaning spell on it. I made a mélange out of some flowers and put on it," James explained. Lily nodded and they stared at each other for a few minutes. "Well, uh," she stuttered.

"Yeah," James said. "Anyway," he adverted his eyes away from Lily, "Do you want to do something later?" he asked her. She nodded.

"Sure!" she said enthusiastically, and then she noticed that she didn't want to seem too excited.

"Okay," he said smoothly. He looked at her, he didn't want to seem like he was overwhelmed about her answer.

"Yeah, so, what are we going to do?" she inquired.

"Uh, um…" he actually didn't have a plan; neither did he even know what he was talking about.

"Oh, you don't have any idea?" she asked. Lily wanted to act like her normal self.

"Well yeah, duh," he said, like himself, he had to be 'cool' and easy going.

"Oh great," she exclaimed, "What is it then?" she repeated.

"Well, it's uh, um, maybe we'd hang out outside, you know, in the, the gardens," James stuttered.

"And do what exactly?"

"I dunno, just, hang out," he explained.

"Whatever, what time?" Lily asked him.

"How bought, after dinner?" he said looking around avoiding Lily's eyes.

"Okay, sounds great," she said.

They both nodded and Lily spun around on his heels and strolled away from James.

"See ya," he waved after her weakly.

"See you," she corrected, and grinned at herself. She knew that it was a date, she was positive. Lily was even hoping they would kiss again. So did James.

James looked down and let his glasses droop down his nose; he was beaming with happiness. When Lily left the room and leaped up and down.

"Yes!" he shouted. "I got a date with Lily, I got a date with Lily!" he exclaimed.

He quickly rushed up the stairs and ran into the dorms. Remus, Peter, and Sirius sat on their beds. Remus was reading, Peter was fumbling with his wand, and Sirius was staring into space waiting for James.

Sirius dashed over to James. "What'd she say?" he asked him excited.

"She said," he paused, James searched the room, the other boys weren't paying attention, "yes," he finally said.

After Dinner

Lily looked in Pamela's mirror putting on make up. She put on blush to add the extra color; she also smoothed out shiny red lipstick. Lily just had to, had to look wonderful for James.

"Whatcha doing?" Pamela asked her. Lily turned her head and looked at Pam. She looked like her normal self, still casual like always.

"Nothing," Lily said, quickly pocketing the makeup.

"Then what are you doing with my mirror then?" Pamela inquired.

"I needed to see something on my face," Lily said.

"You mean, put make up on it," Pamela pointed a skinny finger at make up that was falling off the bed.

"Uh, yeah," Lily turned her head aside. "I'm getting ready for a date after dinner," Lily said simply.

"Oh, let me guess," she said slowly, "James Potter," she said.

"Yes, so let me finish, okay, and then you can have your mirror back," Lily said.

"Okay!" shouted Pamela excited, "I'm so happy for you!" she rushed over to her bed.

James kept messing his hair up, trying to make seem a little different. But of course it just stayed unkempt. He also propped his glasses properly on his nose.

"What are you doing?" Sirius asked James. James looked at his fellow friend.

"What?" James thought he wasn't doing anything wrong.

"I thought you were going with the 'being yourself gig'," Sirius said.

"I am," replied James.

"Let me help," Sirius said, swiping an arm across James's face making his glasses crocked.

"Hey," laughed James.

"Come on, your glasses are always like that," joked Sirius.

"Whatever," James said laughing. He fixed his glasses again and went down to the Gryffindor common room and relaxed in the big chair.

He waited patiently waited for Lily. He read over his schedule, he knew it wouldn't matter till after the break.

Then you heard a clomp, clomp, clomp, sound coming from the stairs over near the girls' common room. It was Lily.

She wore a dress, actually more like a dress robe, but she looked stunning in it.

Her radiance gave out a sort of aura, that suddenly filled the room. James stared at the girl who walked in wearing heals, a red dress robe, and her hair neatly loose all over her shoulders. And he though 'I did this?'

Lily was also shocked at what she saw. She expected James to be either dressed in shabby cloths or in his normal robes. But no, he had a nice suit on. Lily was flattered.

"So," she finally said. She couldn't think of what to say. Actually neither could James, he was speechless.

"Uh..." his jaw dropped open, and that's all that came out of it.

Lily giggled. She thought he was so cute, dressed in his little suit, just for her.

"You look nice, I mean great, I mean, okay, I mean fabulous…." James rambled. Lily laughed out loud again.

"You look amazing too," she commented on him. James took a minute to inspect him, then he looked at Lily and then messed his hair up. He had an expression on his face like he didn't know what he was wearing. But it quickly went away.

"That's the word I was looking for!" he exclaimed. He was half joking, but it made himself laugh.

"So, are we going to go out?" Lily finally got to the point.

James nodded, "Yeah, just grab your coat," he said reaching to get his.

Uh-oh, Lily thought. She lent her coat to Pamela who was planning to spend the night recording constellation patterns for Divination. A terrified look swiped across her face.
James happened to be more observant then thought to be, and he noticed.

"What's wrong?" he asked her. Lily's mouth opened to tell him, but she couldn't do it. She had no other coat, so she technically ruined the date.

"Tell me," James walked over to her. His coat was already on him.

"I, I lent my coat to a friend, for the night, I didn't realize that it would be snowing, I just, sort of, forgot," she laughed awkwardly as her eyes filled with tears.

"It's okay," James comforted. "Here," he said stripping his coat off, "borrow mine," he said.

Lily looked up at him, "What?" she asked him, "But, you don't have another coat, you'll freeze!" she exclaimed. James laughed.

"Honestly, I have enough layers on, I was more worried about getting over heated and sweating like a hog," he explained. Lily wiped her tears away and took the coat.

"Okay, then, if it's okay with you," she paused waiting for an answer.

"Yeah," he answered quickly. She grinned at him, and he beamed back at her.

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