Hands Down – Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I don't own anything Harry Potter. All of the characters in this story are JK Rowling's except Sarah, who is mine.
Lily
James? Lily thought, did I just call him James? And he'd called her Lily… but that was probably just because he'd been naked and nervous. Potter nervous, Lily scoffed, I doubt that boy would even be nervous when naked in front of his mother, he's so bloody arrogant.
Lily closed the door to the Room of Requirement behind her and started to walk down the corridor. But then she stopped. Why should she have to be the one to not have a proper bath just because Potter was being a git? He had been there longer than her and therefore, frankly, he should be the one leaving – not her.
Lily turned around and walked back to the plain space of wall where the door had been moments before. She paced in front of it and walked in to see Potter still lying in the bath, this time with his eyes closed and bubbles practically covering his head. He opened his eyes lazily and glanced up at her,
'Unable to resist my charms, Evans?' he asked, back to his usual self.
'You wish, Potter.' Lily replied, smiling falsely at him. 'I actually came back because I haven't quite finished having a bath. In my opinion, because you've been here longer than me and are clearly clean, you should be the one to leave. It was you who originally made the situation one of which I wanted to leave so therefore, you should be leaving now.'
James scowled at her and opened his mouth to speak but Lily cut across him,
'And don't think I'm going back in that bath while you're still here, Potter. You can take your naked self into another girl's bathroom, I'm sure any girl but me will be happy to share a bathroom with you.'
James blinked slowly and then made to stand up, the bubbles in his bath covering his modesty.
'Fine,' he said slowly and in an annoyed tone, 'I'll leave.'
Lily smiled cattishly.
'I have to actually get out of here first though, my dear, and as much as I'm sure you'd love to see me naked, can you please turn around?'
Lily scowled at him, rolled her eyes and turned around. A few moments later Potter was wearing his jeans and was towelling his hair with a red Gryffindor towel. He stood, topless, in front of Lily, smiling as he mussed up his hair with the towel. Lily couldn't help it, she was human and a body like James' was made to be looked at, lusted over and appreciated. She glanced quickly at his chest and his smooth abs and when quickly looking back at his face, saw that his smile had grown even bigger.
'Like what you see?' he said, wolfishly, trying to make his voice deep and sexy,
'I'd love to answer that question honestly, Potter, but I wouldn't want to dent your precious ego.' She smiled sweetly at him and his own smile faded.
He raised his left eyebrow, 'I'll just have to go find Sarah then, I'm sure she'll feel the complete opposite of what you're feeling.' James smirked, he was pleased with his comeback and hoped Lily was going to react jealously.
She wasn't.
'You do that, Potter,' she replied, 'I'm sure Sarah will definitely jump at the chance to shag you after being with you for a day.'
James eyed Lily up through narrowed eyes, 'Leave Sarah alone, you don't know her,' he said quietly, 'I didn't realise you were actually a bitch.'
Lily stared at James, surprised at his comment and unable to think of a response. With that, James turned and walked straight out of the room. Lily stood for a few moments, thinking about her conversation with James. Am I really a bitch, she thought. Yes, she did feel guilty about what she'd said to James but he'd been being his arrogant self and she couldn't have just let him get away with it. She never let him get away with being arrogant with her so why shouldn't she respond the way she had? It wasn't as if he'd never said anything offensive to her.
She sighed and then made her way over to the bath she had been in before. After shedding her clothes and stepping into the bath to relax, Lily heard a noise that made her want to hold her breath and hide from its cause under the water. Moaning Myrtle had found her again.
James
James pulled his shirt on as he walked out of the door and closed it with a click behind him. He swung his towel over his shoulders and headed towards Sarah's room.
He hated that Lily could see through him and he hated how she knew how to really get to him. Maybe Sarah was the kind of girl who'd jump into bed with him immediately but Lily had no right suggesting this as if Sarah was 'easy.'
When he got to Sarah's room, he knocked on the door but no one answered. Annoyed, he walked back into his room and lay down on his bed. He still had the rest of the day to do something so he might as well find Sirius and Remus to do something mischievous, just to pass time.
After deciding that Remus and Sirius were probably out in the school grounds or in the Great hall, James made his way to the hall first to check if they were there.
Just like he'd thought, his friends were both in the hall. Sirius was sitting with his arm around the gorgeous new Beauxbatons girl from the previous day and Remus was busy chatting to Lily. James hated that Remus could have such a good relationship with her, he wished that he could have developed such a friendship.
James couldn't help feeling out of place, Sirius was with a new potential girlfriend and Remus was busy chatting to someone who hated him. James never felt out of place and he didn't like it. Sighing to himself, James made his way over to Remus, running his fingers through his hair nervously. He especially didn't like how feeling out of place made his confidence drop so much.
Remus and Lily were laughing hysterically when he got to them, he shifted nervously on his feet as they stopped and Lily stared at him, tears of mirth in her eyes.
'Hello there Prongs,' Remus said, smiling, 'you alright?'
James nodded shiftily,
'Yeah, thanks mate. Could I have a word?' Remus nodded, said goodbye to Lily and moved away with James.
'Something bothering you?' he asked,
'Not really… I just didn't really want to be near Evans again. We had a bit of an awkward moment on discovering we both wanted to use the Room of Requirement for a bath at the same time.'
Remus' mouth fell open and he laughed out loud,
'Did she see you naked?' he asked,
'No,' James replied, flushing irritatedly, 'it was more the other way around.'
Remus' gaped at him and then eagerly asked,
'You saw her naked?'
'Well, not completely,' James said, half smiling as he remembered Evans in her underwear.
'Why are you so bloody lucky?' Lupin asked, exasperated, 'what was she like?'
'Bloody hot,' James was smiling broadly now, 'She didn't see me at first so she was just stood there, taking her clothes off. I would have stayed silent but I knew she'd see me eventually and I really didn't want her to think I was stalking her. So I coughed and she had a go…'
'I hate you Prongs!' Remus yelled and James had to punch him to make him quiet, 'why do you always end up seeing stuff like that? The same thing happened to you with Tonks last year, didn't it?'
James nodded smugly, the previous year, James had walked in onRemus' crushTonks changing in the Gryffindor Quidditch changing room. Remus had been eternally jealous because he had and still did have a massive crush on Tonks.
'It was amazing though,' James continued, 'after we decided that we'd both just have baths in opposite sides of the room-' James paused as Lupin gaped at him again, 'I know. But anyway, after that she stood by the bath in her underwear and did this slow strip tease kind of thing, as if I couldn't see her.'
Lupin raised his eyebrows sceptically and nodded slowly,
'Sure she did, James,' he said, sarcastically, 'I'm sure Lily Evans gave you a strip tease.' He patted James on the back patronizingly and started to walk away.
'But she did!' James shouted, indignant.
Lupin turned back, smiling at James and said,
'I'm suuuuure she did, Prongs.' James stared indignantly at Lupin's retreating figure.
How dare he not believe him! Why would James make up something like that? James supposed Lupin had probably thought that he'd been jealous of him chatting to Lily and wanted to make it seem like he had more of a chance with her. Yes, it was something James might do but he still didn't have the right to just assume he was lying. The git.
James looked around to see that Sirius was now sitting with the Beauxbatons girl on his lap, kissing her furiously. He scowled at them and then turned around and saw Sarah walking down the stairs in the hallway with some of her friends. Smiling, he walked towards her.
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