Betrothed

by houdinicat3

A/N- hi! i've been busy with my other fics and life (no kidding life...ugh so much as happened...a lot has happened even since I started writing this a/n) thanks for the reviews but i'd love more. I hate begging for reviews because I don't want to have to. anyway here's chapter 3.

Ice cream was actually pretty fun. The guys aren't too bad and the Potters are really nice. We actually laughed a lot. The ice cream place was at the mall. Apparentally they had never been to a "muggle" mall before. When we passed by the arcade the guys were in awe. It was so funny. Sara and Harry let us play in the arcade. We each had $10 (I have no clue how to convert that to pounds so pleases forgive me) to use in the arcade. I'm actually not that bad at video games. My old neighbors were a family of three boys. One a year older than me, one Petunia's age and one a year younger than me. I would always play with them either at their house or the arcade. I like to play, just nothing too violent. I was playing this game where you had to press a button with an arrow on it at the right time to score points (think ddr with your hands and not on a mat) I was getting the high score. Remus, Sirius, and James surrounded me as I went on in the levels. I ended up beating the game and getting enough tickets to buy a giant teddy bear, a lava lamp, and a journal. James was so jealous when his friends were paying more attention to my win than his feeble 10th place score on the game that they just got in that day.

"Nice one!" Sirius said giving me a high five.

"That was amazing!" Remus said. He was too nervous to make contact. It was cute. I was pysched with the compliments so I just let them keep coming.

"But I got 10th place! Didn't I do well too?" James protested. That was also cute but in a different way. Jeeze, I'm going to go crazy once puberty hits being surrounded by guys!

"Would little Jamesie Wamesie like a high five?" Sirius mocked.

":Humph: Yes, he would." Sirius high fived him and we all laughed on our way back to Sara and Harry.

When we got back to the house I found out that the guys were sleeping over. If I heard this a few hours before, I would have been ticked. But after hanging out with them, it's not that bad. I stayed with them for a while until Sara came and said that it was lights out. I then said good night and went to my room. I got changed into my nightgown and robe and brushed my teeth in the bathroom connected to my room. I read for a little while. It was hard to concentrate though while hearing them laugh every few seconds. Then I heard a knock on my door. I got up leaving the book mark in the book and placing it on the bed and answered it. It was the guys. They were giggling like 5 year olds. Remus was looking embarassed. Oh lord help me! This can't be good.

"We just have a couple of questions for you." James said. "We're playing Truth or Dare and seeing as you're the only girl in the house, you of course had to be incorparated."

"Of course." I responded with my hands on my hips. Sirius stepped forward.He then whispered in my ear,

'Do you think I'm sexy?' I stepped away and closed the door.

"Freaks!" I muttered. I heard them all laughing like crazy. Then there was another knock on the door. I opened it and crossed my arms.

"What?" I said smirking and shaking my head.

"Remus has to do his dare." Sirius said. "Go on Remus." Remus stepped forward blushing like crazy.

"I really like you." He said looking at his feet. I made a look as if they were all crazy. I eyed James as if to ask a question. I don't know what the question was. But whatever it was he understood. He nodded his head.

"You're really sweet." I said. He looked up in disbelief. The poor thing. It was as if people had treated him like an outcast his entire life. (a/n-when in doubt, say irony) I nodded my head. He couldn't speak. I smiled as the guys dragged him back to the room laughing. I decided to give up on the book and go to sleep. I got into bed and had a weird dream. A really weird dream.

In the dream we were inside what I figured to be Hogwarts. We were holding hands and running. The mood was urgent. Then suddenly he pulled me into a closet.We looked at each other and kissed. We kissed for a while until we finally broke apart.

"What was that for?" I asked. He smiled at me and said:

"To-"

Then I woke up. Weird.

I looked out the window and saw that it wasn't too light out. Then I checked the clock. It read 5:07. Ugh.

I decided to go see if the guys had stayed up all night. I walked down the hall neglecting my robe and walked to James' room. I slowly opened the door. Remus and Sirius were asleep on the floor. James was sitting up in his bed.

"Hey." He said.

"Hey."

Silence.

"Can't sleep?" I asked.

"Nah. It's just too weird."

"What is?" What could possibly be weird?

"You."

"Well that's kind of you." I started to turn around and leave.

"That's not what I mean. There's nothing wrong with you, it's just. I don't know. Having you here makes me believe that I this is really going to happen. I'm just not ready for this." He looked down lost in his thoughts.

"You think that I am? I don't want to be engaged at 11 but I'm stuck with it. We just have to learn to deal with it."

Silence.

"I'm going to go back to my room to get some sleep." I say finally. I start to leave again when he stops me.

"Lily, can you do me a favor?" He asked shyly.

"Sure. What is it?"

"Don't go out with Remus."

"What?"

"Please don't go out with him." He didn't elaborate at all.

"Why? Will you be jealous or something?" I was really curious.

"Just don't." He looks at me pleadingly.

"Ok."

"Ok?"

"Ok. But why would it matter if I did? It's not like I'd be getting married to him or anything." Oo. Bad choice of words.

"Good night." He said dismissing it.

"Good night." Then I finally left. I had trouble sleeping for the rest of the night. James had made me realize it too. When your realization comes, it crashes down on you until it's completely sunken.

a/n- sorry if this is short...it's sort of a filler chap. with points that i need to get to the hogwarts part of the story. I'm planning on going through all seven years in order to go full circle to the beginning.