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Chapter 9: Like a train
"Hey Lils!" cried an energetic Victoria, as she and Angelica walked into the library. Angelica had her arms crossed and had an annoyed look on her face.
"You seem excited," mentioned Lily glancing up from her Charms essay and sticking her quill in her ink well.
Victoria just grinned wider.
"Please she's been like this all morning! It's quite annoying really," spoke Angelica indifferently.
"Oh my gosh, someone's asked you out," declared Lily happily. "Hmm...only two people, if they asked you out, could make you that happy (a/n: one of them being Sirius)! It's Blake isn't it?"
Victoria only squealed happily.
"The one and only," said Angelica sarcastically.
"You're such a mood killer," reprimanded Lily.
"Please, not even my bad mood will kill her joyous state," said Angelica.
"Why are you in such a bad mood anyways?" questioned Lily.
"She's mad because a particular blond bloke that goes by the name of Remus Lupin, hasn't asked her out to Hogsmead yet," interrupted Victoria.
Angelica flushed. " Well I might as well get used to it, it's not like he likes me anyway," began Angelica. "Cause he's marauder, he's probably got like five million dates lined up waiting to go out with him."
At this, Victoria and Lily rapidly began making hand motions to Angelica.
Angelica spoke a little stronger now. "I mean seriously, all the girls are like 'date me, you're so cute,' and all that other crap…"
Angelica just noticed Lily's and Victoria's frantic arms waving.
"He'll never notice me and…and" Angelica paused, "….he's right behind me isn't he? Yeah, so when I turn my head, he'll be right there and I'll be really embarrassed.." Angelica turned her head, just in case she was proven wrong. "And yep, hi Remus, I'm sufficiently embarrassed now."
"Hey Angelica," smiled Remus.
"Hey," squeaked Angelica sinking into her chair and slowly becoming a lovely crimson colour.
"Er----so we have a prefects meeting tonight, right Lily?" Remus turned his head towards Lily.
Lily and Victoria were sucking in their bursting desire to laugh.
"Yep," gasped Lily trying to cover her mouth.
"Right," he said a little uncomfortably, "I didn't really ..er...trust James' answer on that...well...er--that's all I need to know…bye Angelica."
Then as soon as Remus departed, Victoria and Lily almost fell on the ground from laughing.
"It's not funny! That was so embarrassing! And why didn't you tell me he was right behind me?" scowled Angelica.
"Yeah. Sure. And waving our hands like mad wasn't anything! Please, even Remus noticed!" Lily said sarcastically.
"What are we doing in the library on a Friday afternoon anyway?" asked Victoria randomly.
Lily became serious. "HELLO NEWTs are coming up!" exclaimed Lily as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Oh yeah, that's only seven months away, how stuuupid of me," cried Victoria sarcastically.
"Let's go outside! It can't hurt to have a little fun!" moaned Angelica.
"Argg fine!" caved Lily. "But if I fail it's on both your consciences," muttered Lily bitterly. Lily shoved her Charms paper in her bag and got up with them.
"Well," began Victoria as they headed into the corridors," our consciences will be safe then, considering the only way you would get anything below exceeding expectations is if someone performed a memory charm on you and all your memory was wiped clean," she stated in an 'as-a-matter-of-fact' tone. "And I highly doubt that happening any time soon."
The girls walked outside and began descending the hill, until the marauders could be clearly seenfrom underneaththe beech tree, and Angelica began backing up. "Oh no we should head back," stated Angelica eying Remus, who seemed to be reading amongst the marauders.
"Oh no you don't," said Victoria dragging Angelica towards the lake. "We're not going to let them ruin our day."
"Yeah," said Lily eyeing James, "just ignore them," she said before feeling a curious jolt in her heart as she saw the sun gleam on James' handsome face and bring out his masculine jaw line. His dazzling hazel eyes noticeably came into direct contact with hers... until she determinedly looked away blushing and then directed her gaze towards where they were headed.
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"So who are you going with to Hogsmead?" asked Sirius.
"No one yet," said James casually leaning on the tree.
The marauders saw the girls sitting over by the lake and swinging their legs in the water. James tried to act natural and was failing miserably. Sirius seemed to notice this and nudged Remus. Remus looked up from his book and then at James and chuckled silently. James was running his hands through his hair and looking over to them every few minutes. He was looking particularly at one of the girls amongst the three. Then, seeing it wasn't working, he began fiddling with his golden snitch and practicing his reflexes.
Peter, however, was completely oblivious. "It's not fair, he's been asked by loads of girls and I haven't by one!" complained Peter.
"You might as well accept one Prongs…you know Lily's already taken," said Remus wisely.
"Yeah you're probably right Moony," agreed James. Ever since he had discovered that Lily liked him, her going out with Chris wasn't bothering him as much…it just made him even more determined. "if only she wasn't so stubborn!" thought James smiling. "So what about you Padfoot?"
Sirius gave a large grin. "Her name's Rebecca"
"So Victoria wouldn't accept would she?" said James grinning, before having one of Sirius' quaffles thrown at him. James caught it in one hand with his excellent reflexes.
"Nice try Padfoot."
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Lily woke up on Saturday morning to Victoria's bustling around the girl's dormitory, and obviously being in a panic mode.
"Wasgoingon?" asked Lily burrying her face farther into her pillow, attempting to avoid any means of light or sounds.
" Hogmeade trip, that's what's going on!" said Victoria scavenging around for her lipgloss.
"Almost forgot," said Lily slowly sitting up, " Blake right?" Lily yawned.
"Yeah! Um do mind if I borrow your halter top?" asked Victoria.
"Go ahead," said Lily finally getting up from the bed. Lily jumped in the bathroom to take a shower, and quickly got dressed. When she emerged from the bathroom, she saw that Victoria had already left.
She descended the staircase and saw Chris waiting for her at the foot of the stairs. She noticed that she wasn't the remotest bit overly excited about this date.
"Hey Chris," said Lily kissing him lightly on the cheek
"Hey," he said grinning
"Ready to go?" he asked
"Yup, but first let's get some breakfast, I'm really hungry," she answered.
"I know this place in Hogsmead that has really good French toast and sausages, want to go there?" said Chris.
"Yeah sure," she replied.
Lily and Chris lined up in front of Filch to hand him their permission slips to go to Hogsmeade. Professor McGonogall gave the usual speech about behaving on their trip. Finally dismissed to leave, Lily and Chris walked together and started talking.
"What's your favourite place in Hogsmeade?"
"I'd have to say Larry's Quidditch Gear," replied Chris thinking it over, "and let me guess, yours is Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop?"
Lily looked at him grinning . "Actually, I prefer Honeydukes, but that's close in competition."
Lily and Chris finally made it to the street where their cafe lied. Lily loved looking at the cute little shops. It was great how they were exactly the same as when she had went in previous years. Everything was going great on their date so far. Couples and friends were walking in all directions of the narrow street, and a familar jolt appeared in her heart and swelled and multiplied as she saw a head of raven black hair amongst others. Then, however, to her disappointment, the owner's face of the black hair appeared, and he was not who she thought he was.
But it was then, not a second later, that Lily spotted the guy she had previously mistaked the other person to be. She saw James and some other girl laughing and holding hands over by the front of The Three Broomsticks. Almost in slow motion, she saw James' head turn towards her, and his sparkling hazel eyes now falling into hers.
Time seemed to have momentarily frozen as she felt her pulse quicken and a nasty, hurt emotion arising in the pit of her stomach. It was then that it hit Lily like a train hits a butterbeer bottle at over 150 kilometres per hour. She let the truth finally sink in.
"I like James Potter."
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Sorry—I know it's a short chapter, but the next chapter will make up for it-promise. :)
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