:Chapter Two:
"Wake up!" Jade said, shaking Lily awake.
"Hm?" Lily asked.
"Wake up! We're going to be late!" Jade exclaimed.
"Oh! My! God!" Lily screamed, getting out of bed and running around the dorm getting dressed. The two ran downstairs. Herbology was their first class of the day. Once they were there, Jade and Lily figured they were safe. The teacher was teaching all of the students to pull up Mandrake plants. Lily looked around the room and caught James' eye. She blushed as he smiled at her. She looked down quickly at her plant. Jade giggled at her.
"Shut up." Lily mumbled. Jade only laughed harder. After that class, the Gryffindors had Potions. Lily loved Potions, Professor Slughorn loved her and it was an easy class for Lily. As she walked into the class the professor told them all to stop.
"This is weird." Jade whispered.
"I'm assigning seats!" Professor Slughorn announced joyfully.
"That's even weirder." Lily whispered back.
"At this table," Slughorn's large body walked over to a table, "I'll put… Jade McCade, Gryffindor, Kaida Morey, Slytherin, Remus Lupin, Gryffindor, and Andrew Centura, Slytherin." He walked over to another table.
"This table… Lily Evans, Gryffindor, Sirius Black, Gryffindor…" Lily didn't even listen to the other names at her table because after Slughorn said 'Sirius Black' she groaned and thought to herself,
Oh dam, that's one of James' friends… How awful would that be? Jade gave her a pitying look. James bit his lip but Sirius knew what James was thinking, how "dam lucky" Sirius was to sit next to Lily. The young Black would never hear the end of it from James.
Once Lily sat down in her seat next to Sirius, she slumped her head on the desk.
"Miss Evans, are you feeling alright?" Professor Slughorn asked. She sat up instantly.
"Oh, yes Professor Slughorn, sir. I'm just a bit tired, that's all." She replied. He nodded and went on reading off the assigned tables.
"Let's get started." He said and the class started off making a potion. Lily, as usual, was the one who made the potion the best in the class.
"Very good Miss Evans! Excellent job." Professor Slughorn raved. She blushed, and taking her backpack left with Jade. James hung back in the class and left a few minutes after her, punching Sirius in the shoulder playfully.
"This is perfect!" James said excitedly.
"What?" Sirius asked, caught slightly off guard. He was expecting James to be mad that he got to sit next to Lily.
"Yeah! You just have to… become her friend and set us up!" James said, laughing a little.
"Erm, right…" Sirius said, shrugging.
"Ah! Padfoot, this is great!" James laughed a little more. He was ecstatic.
"This is awful!" Lily moaned to Jade as they reached the Gryffindor common room.
"Why? I think that Black boy's kinda cute." Jade said. Lily rolled her eyes.
"He's kinda cute, but even still… he's Potter's friend." Lily complained.
"Potter boy's kinda cute too…" Jade giggled.
"Jade! You know how I feel about him! I can't stand him!" Lily complained further. Jade just rolled her eyes.
"You can't avoid your feelings forever!" Lily's friend called as she went upstairs to the dormitory, leaving Lily on the common room couch, alone. James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter came into the common room a little after Jade left. Sirius and Remus laughed a little but the three other than James left into the boy's dormitory.
"Hey." James said, sitting on the arm of the chair Lily was sitting on.
"What?" Lily asked him bluntly.
"So, you're sitting next to Sirius in Potions…" James pointed out.
"Yes. I know, I was there." Lily told him.
"That boy is a dog, you know." James joked, mostly because Sirius was an illegal animagus. His form was a black dog. Of course, Lily didn't know that. He shook his head out a little though and focused on Lily again.
"You've really got to keep you're eye on him," James winked at her.
"Are you suggesting he's going to make a move on me?" Lily asked.
"He'd better not!" James exclaimed.
"Not if he knows what's good for him." Lily agreed.
"You're probably the only girl in the whole school who doesn't think he's cute- whether they like him or not. And, wow, those chicks thinking he's so cute… they'd go out with him in a heartbeat. But not you!"
"It's not all about looks." Lily said coldly.
"Even still. Most girls would think you're so lucky to go out with a guy like Sirius." James persisted.
"Why do you care? Are you trying to get me to go out with him?" Lily asked.
"No, no… just trying to figure out what type of guy you like." James said coolly, "And, well, obviously Sirius isn't your type… but still, you should keep an eye on him." James winked at Lily and left up to his dorm. She sighed, when he winked her heart felt like it was melting.
"I don't like him…" Lily muttered to herself as she walked up to her dormitory.
"Hm?" Jade asked her. The girl was sitting on her bed. Lily went over and sat on her own bed.
"Nothing…" Lily said, sighing.