A/N: I've got writers' block right now, having submitted my new chapter to Stars In Her Eyes, which I do Not own, except the plot and that's not much, so I'm completely winging it and writing another One Shot. Please let me know what you think, and read my other L/J fic, please!
Oh, God, am I confused. For the past few years Potter's been such an arrogant git, and now he's changed so much, I can't find words to describe the feelings he's evoked. I mean that whenever I'm around him, he doesn't ask me out anymore, tease me to the point of insanity or, for that matter, bully because he can. Now is that strange or what?
Right now, I'm in the Common Room, looking out the windows, watching the rain fall, thinking of how much I would really like to walk out on the grounds and feel the rain on my face, when the person I was just talking about comes sneaking up behind me.
"What's the matter, Evans?" Potter whispers in my ear, making me jump in surprise. I turn my head and look up into his gorgeous face.
"Why would you think that, Potter?" I ask quietly, my eyes making a round of the common room to check for stragglers, it after all being 11 o'clock at night.
Potter just shrugs. Can you believe that? He just shrugs. Well, I'll be darned. I roll my eyes in habit.
Potter grins cheekily down at me, and seeing no way out, I tell my thoughts (well, most of them, anyway. Hey, even Head Girls have a reason for privacy.) And James—Wait, did I just call him James? Where's my sense of caution?—anyway, he looks out the window thoughtfully.
Finally, I get impatient. "What the heck are you thinking, Potter?" I snap. James wags a finger at me.
"Never you mind, ma'am," he replies, still wagging a finger, but grinning at me all the same. I roll my eyes, and place my hands on my hips simultaneously.
James looks slightly impressed. "I didn't know you were a multi-tasker," he says, and I decide that the move I just made was either very foolish or very smart, or both. I just decide on both when James grabs my hand and drags me outside, in the rain!
"What the heck are you doing?" I screech, feeling very foolish indeed, and snatch my hand away, feeling very warm. What has Potter done to me?
"We're in the rain, like you wanted, Lils," James replies very calmly. I roll my eyes again, and shake my head wearily.
"I see that we're outside, James," I say in exasperation. James raises his eyebrows at me. Really, can he be any more annoying?
James just shrugs and conjures a radio out of nowhere. I can hear the strains of 'Hips Don't Lie', and start humming to myself.
I never really knew that she could dance like this
She makes a man wants to speak Spanish
Como se llama (si), Bonita (si), mi casa (si, Shakira Shakira), Su casa
Shakira, Shakira
"How do you know that song?" I ask curiously, as James grins. Knowingly, I might add.
James shrugs again. Can he please do something other than that?
Oh baby when you talk like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise and keep on
Reading the signs of my body
I start to swing my hips in tune with the song, not paying attention to James.
And I'm on tonight
You know my hips don't lie
And I'm starting to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension
Don't you see baby, this is perfection
Hey Girl, I can see your body moving
And it's driving me crazy
And I didn't have the slightest idea
Until I saw you dancing
And when you walk up on the dance floor
Nobody cannot ignore the way you move your body, girl
And everything so unexpected - the way you right and left it
So you can keep on shaking it
I start singing to the song, stopping when I hear very male laughter. "What?" I ask, worried.
"Nothing, Lils, don't worry, I'm not laughing at you. I'm thinking maybe this song goes in more ways then one," James replies, smiling.
"Meaning?"
"Exactly what I say."
I never really knew that she could dance like this
She makes a man want to speak Spanish
Como se llama (si), Bonita (si), mi casa (si, Shakira Shakira), su casa
Shakira, Shakira
Oh baby when you talk like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise and keep on
Reading the signs of my body
And I'm on tonight
You know my hips don't lie
And I am starting to feel you boy
Come on lets go, real slow
Don't you see baby asi es perfecto
Oh I know I am on tonight my hips don't lie
And I am starting to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension
Don't you see baby, this is perfection
Shakira, Shakira
Oh boy, I can see your body moving
Half animal, half man
I don't, don't really know what I'm doing
But you seem to have a plan
My will and self-restraint
Have come to fail now, fail now
See, I am doing what I can, but I can't so you know
That's a bit too hard to explain
Baila en la calle de noche
Baila en la calle de día
Baila en la calle de noche
Baila en la calle de día
I never really knew that she could dance like this
She makes a man want to speak Spanish
Como se llama (si), Bonita (si), mi casa (si, Shakira Shakira), su casa
Shakira, Shakira
Oh baby when you talk like that
You know you got me hypnotized
So be wise and keep on
Reading the signs of my body
Senorita, feel the conga, let me see you move like you come from Colombia
Mira en Barranquilla se baila así, say it!
Mira en Barranquilla se baila así
Yeah
She's so sexy every man's fantasy a refugee like me back with the Fugees from a 3rd world country
I go back like when 'pac carried crates for Humpty Humpty
I need a whole club dizzy
Why the CIA wanna watch us?
Colombians and Haitians
I ain't guilty, it's a musical transaction
No more do we snatch ropes
Refugees run the seas 'cause we own our own boats
I'm on tonight, my hips don't lie
And I'm starting to feel you boy
Come on let's go, real slow
Baby, like this is perfecto
Oh, you know I am on tonight and my hips don't lie
And I am starting to feel it's right
The attraction, the tension
Baby, like this is perfection
"What exactly are you driving at, James?" I like the way that rolls off the tongue. Don't you? Anyways, James just smirks.
"What do you think I'm driving at, eh, Lils?" I'm trying to figure out his meaning, when the rain stops. James drags me under the tree to make sure that I don't get hit with the raindrops on the tree. Or at least that's what I think, until his lips touch mine. I can feel all the things he's been saying to me for the past six years in that one kiss, and when he stops, I feel dazed, as though I just fainted.
"Whoa, what was that?" James stutters, looking dumbfounded. I don't know myself. Damn, what have I gotten myself into? I push against his chest and he steps back.
"Can we please go back inside?" I ask shakily. James shrugs again and we head back inside. Can he get anymore confusing?
I have no clue what to say, but James takes care of me saying anything at all. He just places both his hands on my face and pulls it toward his own. My hands seem to have a life of their own, because I certainly didn't tell them to lift to his broad shoulders.
He starts kissing me, and I have no choice, I respond to him. He stops and I groan, mad at myself for my weakness for him.
He looks at me curiously, and asks, "What was that groan about? You don't mean to tell me that after all these years, you've actually fallen for me?"
I'm just staring at him, at his mouth, and don't know exactly what it was he'd just asked. "What?"
James whoops. "I knew it!" he cheers. "You've fallen for me!" I grin, wondering how James had known when I had only found out about two days ago.
'Lily,' Alice was saying, 'can I please read your future for you?'
I shrugged, thinking that it couldn't hurt. 'Sure, go ahead,' I told her.
'Uh, Lily… do you really want to know about your future?' she looked at me and then back at the palm she was holding in her left hand.
'Yeah, why?'
'Because apparently you are going to marry someone you hate,' she answered with a smile on her face.
'Really? I wonder who that could be,' I said dreamily, off in my daydreams. Alice continued reading, and gasped. 'What?' I asked, startled out of my thoughts.
'It says that your husband is going to be tall, dark and handsome,' she said, a triumphant tone in her voice.
'I wonder why that is,' I said to Alice while looking over my shoulder at James.
'Lily, can you please be serious here?' Alice said with laughter in her voice. But that was all I wanted to hear about my future. And I told her that. She shrugged. 'Suit yourself,' was all she said about it.
I head back to the present, and realise what my heart has known all along; I'm in love with James Potter.
A/N: I know it's different from my other one shot, but, hey, I was bored. Anyways, the song is not mine, and belongs to Shakira. Please review if you want to be on my good list, lol, just kidding.
Serindraxx
