Chapter 9: A Troubled Lily (The First Date)

"Why the hell did you do that?" James asked Sirius, much later that night, as it was now 3 a.m and the Gryffindor Tower just got told off by Professor McGonagall. The boys dormitory was now full of all of them getting ready for bed. "You almost kissed her!"

"I'm aware of that, thanks," Sirius snapped at James.

"Kissed who?" Peter asked curiously as he came out of the bathroom dressed.

"Britney! I'm surprised Dom didn't beat you up right then and there," James said.

Sirius sighed. "I'm lucky, very lucky," Sirius grinned.

"You kissed Britney?" Remus asked. "When are you going to learn Sirius?" Remus asked shaking his head.

"I didn't kiss her!" Sirius defended.

"He was so close, Evans and me were so stunned!" James said. "Padfoot, don't ever do that again!"

"How is it I have a boyfriend, and I haven't even met him?" Lily asked. It was Halloween, and a Hogsmede trip.

"Because, we were nice enough to get you a date and a boyfriend all in one," Britney muttered happily. It had been about three weeks since the incident with Sirius, and Dom was still fuming. Britney was going to spend today trying to calm him down.

The other three had dates for today, except Lily, who mentioned this on Tuesday, and before she knew it she had a date, and word got around the whole school that he was her boyfriend.

"Let's go!" Tess said happily.

They all went down the common room stairs, when Britney said goodbye and headed up the boys dormitory stairs to see Dom.

They headed out to the Great Hall, got checked by Filch and were out to Hogsmede.

"Where am I meeting this guy?" Lily asked, looking around the street.

"Here," Daisy said grinning as she put Lily on the corner of a street. "Stay here till her comes," Daisy said.

Lily frowned. Then before her eyes, Alice, Tess and Daisy went off to find their dates. Lily sighed and looked at her watch. He's supposed to meet me here at 11. It's 11 now, Lily sighed and looked around for her date.

James entered Hogsmede at around twelve and he slowly walked through the streets, when he saw Lily leaning against a pole, all alone. No friends. No date. No teachers. Just her. That date that James heard about. That boyfriend. No one seemed to know who the boyfriend was, and when James asked Britney, she wouldn't answer. Maybe he stood her up?

James walked over to where Lily was. She looked at him and rolled her eyes. "Yes, Potter?" Lily asked.

"Where's your boyfriend, I've heard so much about," James smirked.

"If you must know he hasn't shown up. He's and hour late," Lily muttered looking down at her watch again. James nodded. "All my friends are out on dates," she muttered again. "I guess I'll go back to the castle," she said and turned around to leave when James stood in front of her.

"Evans," James said in his normal voice, which sort of surprised Lily. Usually when he talked to Lily like this he'd change the tone of his voice to make himself seem more mature. "Would you like to come with me to Hogsmede?" James asked.

Lily gaped at Potter. She felt that the way Potter had just said that was very different. Before she realized what she had done, she nodded in agreement.

James grinned happily. "Great!" he said and he jumped into a position and held out his arm to Lily. Lily grudgingly took it, still slightly confused as to what just happened.

James led her down the Hogsmede street looking quite content. Lily looked at James and sighed. A few people noticed James and Lily were together and were mildly shocked. Lily just smiled at them uneasily. Lily blinked and looked at James who stopped.

"Where would you like to go?" he asked politely. Lily blinked again.

"Well, I do need to go into Honeydukes for-"

James cut her off by taking her down the street towards Honeydukes sweet shop. He opened the door and waited for Lily to go in first. Lily slowly walked into the door, to find a whole shop with sweets that you could never imagine. Many students were there to buy as much sweets they could fit in their pockets. Lily smiled, she felt James come back beside her. Lily went off to buy some candy.

"Favourite colour?" James asked Lily as they walked down the streets of Hogsmede.

"I like yellow," Lily said. "Yes, definitely," she smiled and looked at James. This whole day had been surprisingly good. James wasn't being the James at school around his pupils. He was being James, not arrogant. "Now, what's your favourite colour?" Lily asked.

"Well, I don't know, I like green," he said smiling and looking into Lily's eyes, Lily smiled but then looked down at her feet to cover her smile. "Do you have any sibling?" James asked, he was watching Lily, and he was so glad that this day had turned out great. It was all good, they walked, talked, laughed, they did everything James hoped for. Except kiss . . .

But this wasn't even a date…was it? Lily agreed to go out with him to Hogsmede. But did go out, mean what James thought it was. It was a date then. So he should kiss Lily, right?

"Yeah . . . I do have a sibling, though, I already know yours so that's not really a fair question," Lily laughed.

"Just tell me about your sibling," James insisted.

"Well, I have a sister, she's two years older than me," Lily said quietly. "We're not that close, she despises me because I'm a witch."

James was shocked. "So no matter where you go, you always get judged?" James asked, how could someone not like Lily?

Lily opened her mouth. "Not always get judged. Just by my sister and the Slytherins mostly," Lily shrugged, and smiled in reassurance to James. "It's no big deal!"

James couldn't help feeling sorry for Lily, even though it wasn't a big deal. To James it was a huge deal. James felt angry but tried to think of another question. "How many boyfriends have you had?" James asked. Maybe he'd get a few inside tips, so he'd know how her past boyfriends screwed up.

Lily turned her body to James and started walking sideways, sort of skipping along. "That's not fair, you just asked two questions in a row," Lily laughed pointing her finger at James. James smiled and put his hands in his pocket.

"Your right, it wasn't fair. But I still asked the question!" James defended.

"Well, then I ask the same question to you!" Lily grinned.

James frowned, he realized Lily was sort of frowning too as she went back to walking straight. Not the best of questions.

"Well," James started. "I guess I've never actually had a real girlfriend," James said slowly.

Lily scowled slightly. "I have had three," Lily said. "Probably not as many as you," Lily said, in a way one would think of nothing as, but James could tell she was putting that in his face.

James bit his lower lip. "So you ask the next question," Lily said.

"Your first kiss," James said. "How old were you, and who," James asked.

Lily seemed to be thinking. "I was, eleven," Lily said. "His name was Thomas," Lily smiled. "Your turn!"

James frowned again. "Uh, I was nine and her name was Alexandra," James said.

Lily raised her eyebrows and smiled. "Cute," she said. Lily then looked down at her watch. "Oh shit, dinner started five minutes ago," Lily said. "We should get back," she said. She turned around and headed back to the castle.

James was closely behind her, he hurried himself a bit more so he was now walking at the same pace and was walking right beside Lily.

Lily hurried across the Hogwarts grounds towards the castle. James noticed she seemed to be in a sort of rush. Lily hurried up the stone steps to the door.

"Wait," James said to her. Lily turned around and looked at James. James jumped up the steps two at a time and he stood in front of Lily staring at her. He then grabbed Lily's arm, and he kissed her, he then quickly pulled away and entered the school.

Lily stood there stunned. She put her fingers to her lips, then quickly put her hand to her side. She put her hand to her forehead and sighed. She stood there outside in the crisp autumn air for a while before heading into the Great Hall for dinner.

Luckily her friends were seated far away from the Marauders. Lily quickly sat beside Tess, where there was an empty seat.

"Hey, how was your date?" Alice asked as Lily sat down. Lily looked nervously down the table to where James was sitting and she quickly looked back at Alice.

"Er, it was – let's talk about it later," Lily said quickly.

"Come on, how was Brandon?" Daisy asked happily.

Lily didn't answer, instead she just piled mashed potatoes onto her plate.

"What's with you not talking?" Tess asked. "First Britney, now you?" Tess said sighing. Lily looked over at Britney who wasn't saying a thing, but poking at her food.

"What's the matter, Brit?" Lily asked Britney.

"Boys are not worth it," Britney grumbled, as she looked up from her food.

Lily frowned.

"Ok, tell us!" Alice said as she sat down on her bed, after dinner.

"Well, Brandon never showed up," Lily said, lying down on her own bed.

"What!" Daisy exclaimed. "It took Brit and I forever to find a good date," Daisy said upset.

"Yeah," Lily muttered, getting up and getting her book in her trunk. She went back to her bed with the book in her hands.

"So, what did you do for the whole afternoon you were gone?" Tess asked as she started rummaging in her trunk for something.

Lily didn't answer, she really didn't know how she felt about earlier, she was confused. She sighed. "Ok, Potter asked me out, so I went out with the afternoon around Hogsmede with him. It was going all good, then we realized it was dinner and hurried back to the castle, just before we went into the castle Potter kissed me!" Lily said quickly not taking in a breath at all.

"What?" Britney said. She had been unusually quiet for her. "James kissed you!" Britney asked alarmed. "What did you do after?"

"I didn't do anything! I was shocked," Lily answered helplessly.

"Wait, you agreed to go out with Potter?" Daisy asked curiously. "You never said yes before, why all of the sudden you agreed?"

"I don't know," Lily mumbled.

"Are you glad he did it?" Tess asked suspiciously.

Lily sat at the edge of her bed and was silent for a bit, till she quickly got up and went to the washroom and slammed the door.

"I don't think she's too happy," Alice said sighing.

A/N: This whole Lily/James going on a date was aks100 (Anna)'s idea. I thought it was cute, she also suggested this whole dating thing, but I don't know. I'm currently writing the Christmas chapter. I've concluded that this story will have 27 chapters, i'm hoping.

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