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anyway on with the story
-------I could have waited--------
"Hey Lily wait up!" I ran to catch up with my Blossom making her way to our Charms lesson the next day.
"Oh hey J-Potter"
"Potter! But I thought we were on first name terms now"
"Exactly, YOU thought we were on first name terms, my mind thought nothing of the sort"
"Oh" I mumbled, a little embarrassed and disappointed.
"Look Ja-POTTER!" She shrieked at her mistake, and yes I did notice she was itching to just call me James.
"I'm sorry but, maybe we should give it some time, I still don't like you, you know"
"Oh well thanks for the subtlety in that, that really lowered my self esteem"
"Good, your self esteem could use some lowering" This girl really was playing hard to get wasn't she.
"But I thought we had a laugh yesterday"
"Yeah we did" She sighed.
"Then what's the matter?"
"Well it was just a laugh not an affair or making out session, I have laughs with loads of people and it doesn't mean I particularly like them" I gave her a funny look meaning 'what the hell girl do you laugh with random strangers?'
And she replied with her eyes 'no potter I mean people in our year'. See we even have telepathy!
"You're hopeless Lily what do I have to do to make you like me?"
"Well you can stop that for a start!" She was referring to my habit, the hair one were I ran my hand through it muffling it up.
"What?" I said innocently hiding my hand behind my back. She rolled her eyes and started to walk faster up the corridor.
"Oh come on you could at least have the decency to walk with me" I called up after her but she ignored me and rushed into our class room for refuge.
"Hey Prongs mate, how's it going?" Sirius asked me as I sat down in my seat.
"Well apart from the fact that Lily still hates me after she spent half the night laughing at a joke I made I'm fine, bloody brilliant" I said running my hand through my hair, even though I was trying very hard to resist the temptation.
"Hey speaking of Lily, I heard about your little 'truce'"
"Oh, that" He grinned weakly.
"Yeah, what was that about? 'Cause I know you Padfoot and if you dare hurt her you know I will kill you!"
"Hey it was just a friendship thing, she was a bit reluctant at first but after I used my dashing charm she was all over the idea"
"Yeah I'm sure she was. So it was just a friend's thing?"
"'Course Prongs mate, you know I wouldn't do that to you"
"Today we will be working on the fire charm. Incendo. Now, swish and flick" Flitwick swished and flicked with all his might and set on fire a tapestry of a unicorn fighting a horse at the back. Many of the class were in awe. I wasn't though; I had caused a lot more damage than that in my time.
I attempted it, I really did but I just couldn't seem to get it. I looked over in Lily's direction. She was surrounded by ashes from the book she had already managed to burn. Lily was magnificent, she was brilliant at charms, she was brilliant at potions, she was brilliant at EVERYTHING, except of course Transfiguration, which happened to be the one thing I was great at.
Being as bored as I was I leaned back in my chair so far my foot gave a great thump to the seat in front of me, which just happened to be Snivellus, chosen name Severus.
He turned round and gave me a nasty and malicious glare. I smiled back at him, showing all my teeth, he looked away disgusted and continued with his work.
"Hey Prongs, help I just set Thompson's hair on fire!" Sirius whispered fiercely in my ear. I muttered a simple charm and water rushed out of my wand. Gerard Thompson shook his head and water flew everywhere he turned round and gave me and Sirius an even nastier glare than the one I had received from Snape.
"What the hell was that!" He growled.
"Err well James here was having some trouble with his charm and I err was helping him…"
"SIRIUS!"
"Oh fine, it was me, sorry mate, aint very used to this charm" Sirius said smiling slightly. Thompson gave us one last glare then turned around.
Sirius whistled out of the corner of his mouth and grinned.
"You know Padfoot, if you carry on like this u'll be locked up in Azkaban by the time we turn 25" I said flicking my wand once again in a frenzy.
"Oh calm down Prongs you're sounding like my mother"
"Yeah well if I was your mother I would be giving you a clip round the ear right now!"
"Hey, hey what's up with you? You're all moody all of a sudden, you know on a normal day you would be wetting yourself at something like that by now"
"Yes, well today isn't normal is it?"
"Erm…no?"
"No, because today Lily Evans, girl of my dreams, nearly said my first name"
"And that's…bad?"
"Yes!"
"Because?"
"Because she was this close to saying James once and for all and she still said Potter!"
"Riiight"
"This means I have to work even harder for her to even notice me!"
"Well I don't think you have to work very hard to get her to look at you, look over there, she's staring at you"
"What? Really? Oh wow, how do I look?"
"Like James"
"Dammit Sirius that's not good enough!"
"Ok you are aware you just insulted your self right?"
I glared a little at him then, remembering that Lily was apparently looking at me, I smiled.
I was about to run my hand through my hair, but I restrained myself just in time to see Lily getting up from her seat and coming over to us.
"Hi Lily" I squeaked. God how embarrassing, she must of thought me some mouse creature.
"Hi Potter, just came over to say…NICE HAIR!" She burst out laughing along with several of her friends and a few scummy Slytherins.
"Huh? What's wrong with my hair?"
"Oh God James" Sirius muttered, handing me a mirror he had fished out of his bag.
I looked at my reflection, my perfect complexion and deep golden eyes. What was wrong? Then I noticed my hairs reflection. IT WAS RAPIDLY CHANGING COLOUR! First it was yellow then a deep shade of green and all of a sudden it was a deep crimson.
"Sirius why the hell didn't you tell me my hair was a rainbow!"
"I didn't notice it mate, I'm pretty colour blind, plus I swear it wasn't like that a minute ago"
"It wasn't. I was looking over at the commotion you two were making when all of a sudden your hair turned bright blue, I just couldn't resist coming over here and laughing"
"How kind of you" I mumbled, covering my hair with my hands.
"Go on Lily, do the counter curse, he's had enough humiliation for one day" I loved it when Sirius was so blunt, you know 'Mr Point out the obvious a lot'.
"It wasn't me, I'm not that clever, I would have never thought of doing that"
"Then who the hell was it!" I scanned the classroom for guilty faces, stopping for a long time at Severus, but something told me it wasn't him.
"Err James, look over there" Lily's friend Melissa was quickly stuffing her wand back into her bag and hiding her charms book under her desk.
"Melissa!" Lily asked bewildered.
"What?" She said rather too innocently for my liking.
"You turned James' hair different colours?"
"NO, why would you think that?"
"Oh well it was ju-"
"And so what if I did, huh, what are you implying Lily? That I might secretly like him or something? Yeah, yeah and so what? What If I do, what are you going to do about it?" Melissa clapped a hand over her mouth and flushed the same crimson as my hair was now changing to.
"I was just gonna ask why" Lily said quite guilty for making her friend also embarrass herself. But what was this? Melissa liked me? Melissa Cook? Now there was one hott girl! Not as hott as Lily of course but she had a gorgeous face and her body. Oh her body, I mean any guy would be thrilled to go out with her. But not me. The only girl for me was Lily Evans, NO ONE ELSE.
"Well this is awkward" Sirius piped up breaking the silence.
Everyone was fidgeting around un comfortably in their seats apart from Snivellus and Thompson who seemed to be enjoying the spectacle before their eyes with great joy.
As you can imagine I ran straight to my next class without looking back. I had just found out my girls (and yes she is my girl. She just doesn't know it yet) best friend had a crush on me. This day couldn't get any worse, well, not really.
We had potions next with Slughorn. He was an all right teacher I guess. The only problem with him was that he was head of Slytherin. Snivellus was delighted in showing off his flashy potion making skills to the rest of the class and showed no remorse when he completely humiliated me by tripping me up in front of class while I was carrying a vile that held a toxic fluid that turned your skin green. I was wrong. This day could get worse. ALOT worse.
Just my luck I had already had 2 classes with the Slytherins that morning and still they give us another!
I reckoned Dumbledore wanted to relieve any tension between our 2 composing houses but I think a better idea would have been a good healthy duel. But then again that's just one mans opinion.
It was flying practise. Ahh did I forget to tell you that the only other lesson I'm good at is Flying practise? Because it is. And you'll never guess what…Lily absolutely SUCKS! Just don't tell her ok, because when she hits you it is hard, trust me.
I mounted my broom and kicked off.
"Well done Mr Potter, now give me 5 laps of the court and I may just let you go to lunch slightly early" I could hear Madame Hooch faintly down on the ground.
I sped through the air, the cold air whipping my face and the wind ruffling my messy hair. I felt free, like a bird. Then I felt corny for thinking such gay thoughts. Next I'll be making popery baskets with Professor McGonagall in my spare lunch times.
I saw Lily's broom spinning out of control like a spasticated toothbrush. I felt a jab of compassion. She looked so cute. I went off course and steered my broom in her direction. I hovered over her for a second before asking:
"Need any help?"
"NO, I'm fine!" She gave me a slight glare, but then was suddenly thrown off balance by a sudden jolt from her broom. She was holding on to it with one hand.
"Wait, I've got you!" I shouted through the mist, fearing for the girl of my dreams safety. I thrust my hand at her and she grabbed it. I pulled her up so she regained her balance. She seemed fine until her broom did a 360 degree turn leaving her floating upside down in mid air. It was one of those slow motion times where she seemed to be floating for hours when in reality it was only milliseconds. I didn't think. I just did. I zoomed through the air, fighting against the wind. I heard distant cries from the rest of the class but I wasn't listening. I was too busy concentrating on saving Lily from her near death. I was catching up to her. I grasped her hand in mine and tugged her onto my broom. I wrapped my arms around her waist and she didn't protest. I landed safely on the ground where we were surrounded by a bunch of people all congratulating me and flapping over Lily. She looked up at me. I thought she was about to kiss me. I hoped she was about to kiss me. She leaned forward, opened her mouth and…threw up all over me.
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