Chapter Nineteen

Wednesday: Gentleman lesson #1:

Before anything else is said, I was forced to write in here, by no other than Pertida Hart.

She told me to keep a record of the training (SHEESH, she makes it sound as if I'm in the army) so I would be able to look back and remember the tips she advised me to do.

She sets me tasks, too. If I complete the tasks I earn more tips on how to capture my beautiful Lily Flower.

Okay; below this paragraph are the first five tasks she set me (she wrote it down in her own handwriting – which I confess is a lot messier than my own. I do have good qualities, despite being good-looking, you must remember)

The first five tasks to be completed by next week:

Call Lily Evans 'Lily'.

Stop playing with stolen snitch.

Don't ask her out.

Don't ruffle your hair.

Don't wink at her.

SHEESH! What's wrong withwhat I do? I'm like a God, I don't need to be told my imperfections, as I'm perfect all round. As I'm a God, girls should be throwing themselves on my feet, and I shouldn't be correcting my so-called 'imperfections'.

James Potter, stop this nonsense at once! This book is specifically just for your improvement with Lily and the training!

Huh. I just grabbed book away from Hart. She's glaring at me now. By the way, we're in the Room Of Requirement, and in a field, but it's different from a few days ago.

"Now I shall pretend to be Lily," Hart just told me. "Call me 'Lily', not Evans."

She closed her eyes, and her hair turned the same shade as Evans. In fact, now she looks like the twin of Evans.

"Evans," I gasped. Ev- Hart shook her head, the green pools (that are the same as Evans) filled with irritation and frustration.

"No James, try again!"

"Ev-Lily."

Hart shook her head, the red moss of hair flying. The curls cascaded lower down her back, and a few straight strands fell onto Hart's eyes.

"Now you're being plain ridiculous, James. Okay, let's try another tact. Say out loud: Lily, and don't stop until I tell you, okay?"

"What's the point of this exercise?" I whined, unwilling to co-operate with such a ludicrous demand.

"So you get used to the name rolling on your tongue," Hart explained, impatience heard on her voice.

I bobbed my head. "Fine. Ev-Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily."

Jeez. This sounds hilarious every minute. If every student saw me doing this, I'll officially be a laughing-stock.

"Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily."

I could easily make a poem out of this exercise. It'll be called: My Beautiful Lily Flower. (How obvious can I be?)

"Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily."

…I guess not. Instead, It'll be a song! It'll easily be number one, and be held there for a year!

"Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily. Lily."

"Stop, James. Now talk to me how you would talk to one of your friends."

I gave her a look of pure shock.

Hart cringed, and quickly corrected herself: "No, you must talk disgusting then. Just say: 'Hi, how was your day, Lily', okay?"

"Hi, how was your day, Ev-Lily?"

"No, a poor attempt. You won't get onto a new exercise or receive new tips if you don't complete the task. This exercise is to help you with your task, James. You can't even begin 'Evans' if you want new tips. Got that?"

"Yes sir," I mocked, giving her a salute. Hart threw me a dirty look.

"And that means you can't receive tips if you insult the teacher."

I bristled, my 'ego' as Evans would call it soaring. "You are not my teacher! If you are, I will have a desire to prank you."

"Prank me you shall," quipped Hart, "then I will not continue with these lessons."

Hart: 1, Potter: 0.

I must think of more comebacks.

000

"Where have you been disappearing to?" Sirius asked James, as they and the other Marauders sat underneath the oak tree. It was Wednesday, and when James returned the Marauders decided to have a chat.

"Disappearing?"

Sirius nodded. "Yeah, you've been gone for three hours for the last three Wednesdays (including today). So what's your secret, Prongs? Kissing Evans in the Astronomy Tower?"

James reddened slightly. "No, it's nothing to do with kissing. But Lily does come in to play."

"Lily? Where did you get that from?"

James' eyes averted away from Sirius' own eyes, but Sirius caught just in time a glimpse of nervousness in the hazel orbs.

"It doesn't matter."

"Something obviously is," stated Sirius casually, "because when you get worried your nose starts to twitch."

The twitching stopped, but now a concerned frown appeared on James' smooth face.

"And now you're frowning."

"Okay, fine! Something is up but I can't tell you!"

James' outburst took Sirius by surprise. "Alright, don't throw a temper tantrum on me."

"I've seen you pulling those a lot recently," James snarled. He got up, and stormed off.

Remus' bewildered eyes met Sirius. "Whatever Prongs' is hiding, it's eating him up," Remus said. Sirius agreed whole-heartedly.

000

Sandie and Lily were in the same fix as Sirius and James. Let down hugely and devastated that no one came to the sessions of WMA, Lily and Sandie left an hour early.

For the last three Wednesdays, they kept on being shocked that Pertida wasn't waiting for them in the Common Room.

"You would expect a friend to wait for you," grumbled Sandie, who seemed to have got her old spark back.

They were working on an essay, while the Marauders were glowering at the flickering flames of the fire.

"And what makes it worse is that Potter isn't with them," Lily added. "He's sure to be doing a prank."

Sandie's eyebrows furrowed. "That's funny," she murmured, "I haven't seen Potter with his friends."

Lily blinked. "Huh?"

Suddenly Sandie's face filled with understanding.

"Oh no," she breathed. "You'll hate what I'm going to say Lily, but I think it's the truth."

Wednesday: Gentlemen lesson #4:

Huh. As I haven't completed any of my first five tasks, Gentlemen lessons have become extremely dreary. We keep going over the Lily exercise, and Hart introduced a new one: don't ruffle your hair or wink.

I mean…Puh-LEASE! Show me some sort of mercy! Hart's treating me like scum, in fact; lower than scum!

If I dare question her so-called (this has become my favourite phrase in this…um…class) authority, she just says: I won't continue helping you get Lily Evans. Which, effectively, shuts me up.

I fear that my friends have noticed my…absence. They should be used to my weird comings and goings, but disappearing for two hours on Wednesday evenings is apparently stepping over the line.

Sirius has already interrogated me about my disappearances, but I stormed off. In fact, I was very fortunate. With his low, charismatic voice (I've been recently checking new words in the Muggle book which they call: 'dictionary' – hoping to win Evans by my choice of good words) he can be very persuasive.

Get a grip! You check words in the DICTONARY? Someone shoot me now!

Hart's notes are seriously (no pun intended) annoying! How dare she decide whenever she can write in this book?

When you weren't looking, I placed a charm on the book. Whatever I think will transfer to this page. Of course it's not all what I think, for the book would be completed by now. I allow some of my thoughts to go through. Whatever you write will show on the book I'm now carrying around.

This method is for contacting you when I feel we need extra lessons, without having to go to you (as this will cause suspicion between your friends and mine). Also, I will want to see if you have made any improvement.

Oh. Where in this Godamn place do I get the word: PRIVACY? Even my book is now being read!

I'm sorry, but throughout this process you won't get any. Have a nice day!

Do you know I hate you so much that I now won't feel guilty if I dump you in the LAKE?

Just shut up.

Someone, please help me. I'm going insane.

A/N: I liked writing that chappie………sooooooooo….what's gonna happen? Well I'M NOT gonna tell you! (I'm in my evil mood!)

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