I Love Her, I Hate Her
Hikari M
It's finally here! Chapter 11! 'Bout time, ey? Well, I bring you grave news: This is the second last chapter. I know, I share your pain. Well, not really. Quite frankly I'm happy to have finally finished something (I have indeed written the last chapter).
Might as well get a move on with it then. It's James' POV again, if for some reason you don't realise XD
And I might as well do a dedication hereabouts. Joey, since me finishing this story was your birthday present, both this and the last one are yours.
I can't remember the last time I've worked this hard in my life. I didn't have to think this hard during my OWLs! But I'm in the middle of something very important and it requires a lot of concentration.
Should I tell you what this important project is?
It's called Project Lily's Birthday.
That's right, it's the love of my life's birthday. In four days, to be precise. Four days, six hours and fourteen minutes to be even more precise, but you don't want to know how I know that.
I need to get her something.
Sure, Remus told me to back off, but this is a VERY special occasion! What sort of a guy in love would I be if I didn't give Lily something special? And I also need to try in some way to fix the huge amount of damage caused – mainly – by Sirius with all this diary crap.
So I've been thinking all month about what to get for her. Well, I guess it's actually been more like a week. Three days. One day. Since this morning.
Okay, so maybe I could have planned this a little more.
Who would've thought Lily would be so hard to get something for? Most guys just get girls flowers or whatever, but I'm not most guys. And I get her flowers on random days anyway. This present needs to be special!
But I can't think of anything. Nothing that I haven't already given her before. I need some help here. Who's good at this sort of stuff? Not Sirius – last time it was one of his girlfriends' birthday, he bought her a beauty set. Sounds good, right? Until she took it to mean that she was ugly and started crying about it. He hasn't gotten a girl a present since.
I suppose I could ask Remus, but lately he hasn't been too keen on helping me with Lily issues. Last time I asked, I believe his words were: "Figure it out yourself, you idiot, if I had information about how to pick up Lily then I'd be picking her up myself!"
He's been avoiding Lily lately. Wonder if she yelled at him or something.
Who else can I turn to, then?
I'll look around the dormitory for inspiration…
A pile of books…an overflowing bin…five beds…Peter trying to do his homework…
PETER!
Uh oh, I think I scared him when I yelled out his name. Ah well, I'll make it up to him later. Right now he has to help me!
He says he doesn't know what to get her. Come on! I've got nothing here!
Now he tells me to give her something that money can't buy. Were you doing homework or reading romance novels, Peter? I haven't heard anything that sappy since Muggle Disney movies.
What was that, Peter? In Disney movies and romance novels, the guy always gets the girl?
Well…what, am I supposed to go up and tell her I love her for her birthday? How would that be different to any other day?
Peter shrugs. Hey, I'm not biting your head off, mate, this is just causing me a lot of stress. If it was any other girl, and we were under any other circumstances, your plan would be great. But even romancing it up wouldn't be enough, even though I know for a fact Lily loves that sweet, romantic stuff that I hate.
Actually…
She does love it, doesn't she?
If I tell her I love her casually every day, she thinks I'm lying and being annoying.
But if I tell her I love her, in a completely fairy-tale way, she'd think it was sweet.
If it works…
What a birthday present that would be!
Four days, six hours and fourteen minutes until I give her the perfect love admission!
…four days, six hours and thirteen minutes…
Ah, to hell with it. I'm doing it now. Her birthday can wait.
Thanks Peter!
I don't think there's much to say at this point except for ONE CHAPTER TO GO! DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN!