Ch. 6: Lily and James sitting UNDER a tree NOT k-i-s-s-i-n-g

Lily and Jordan had just come out of the great hall after dinner when Sirius, Remus, and Peter came walking down the stairs towards the two girls.

"Lily have you seen James?" Sirius asked

"Not since he apologized to me," Lily told them, "why?"

"Because we haven't seen him since before we went to talk to you" Remus told Lily.

"Seriously?" Lily asked getting worried.

"Yeah" Remus replied.

"Oh my god where could he be?" Lily urged.

"Yeah what do you think we've been doing for the past 2 hours?" Peter piped up.

"Well where have you looked?" Lily asked

"Common room, dormitory, great hall, classrooms," Sirius said.

"Well come on, we're not gonna find him by standing around here. Come on, let's split up and meet back here in half an hour." Lily said.

"Ok" the others agreed.

"Now come on" Lily replied.

"Why are you so concerned Lily, you don't even like James" Sirius said.

Lily scolded at him and Sirius headed off towards the dungeons, Peter and Remus, the hospital wing, Jordan, Gryffindor tower, and Lily headed up to the library. Lily looked down each row of books and by all the tables where people were studying and there was no James. Oh where could he be? I hope he's ok. Lily thought.

Thinking there was no where else to look, Lily walked down the steps towards the great oak doors. She creaked them open and walked out onto the dark night grounds. Hardly able to see where she was going, she took out her wand, muttered LUMOS, and walked along the grounds. It wasn't before she got near the lake that she saw a dark outline of a body sitting under a tree right by the edge of the lake. Lily stepped nearer to it.

"James?" Lily asked. There was no response. She walked closer to it and put her hand on his shoulder. She could tell he was asleep. She bent down next to him and shook him a bit. "James, wake up. James!"

James stirred and opened his eyes, "what's going on? Why is it dark?"

"Because it's late. You've been out here for hours" Lily told him.

"Really? I guess I fell asleep." James asked

"Yeah no kidding. Sirius, Remus, and Peter have been looking all over for you." Lily informed.

"Oh. Well let's go find them." James said getting up from under the tree and started walking towards the castle doors.

"I really wish you'd go out with me Lily" James said as they walked silently up to the school.

"I really wish you'd stop asking me." Lily snapped.

James stopped and turned to face Lily, "Why won't you give me a chance?" he said in a soft voice.

Lily stepped away, "I was going to until you dumped potion on Severus!"

"I said I was sorry!" James said.

"And I said-" Lily began

."What are you two doing out here?" an angry voice said from the doors of the castle. Professor McGonnagal walked towards Lily and James wearing her signature strict look.

"Uhh, we were, we were just-"Lily began.

"Yes, Ms. Evans?" Professor McGonnagal asked.

Lily remained silent.

"Very well, if you two don't have a reason why you were out here in the dark, you'll both receive a weeks worth of detentions and 15 points from Gryffindor each." Professor McGonnagal said.

James opend his mouth to protest but closed it when he looked up at his professors angry face. "Now let's go" she ordered and turned and started walking back towards the castle doors.

"Nice going" Lily said to James as they followed Professor McGonnagal back inside.

"Hey. It's not my fault I fell asleep. And I'm sure no one twisted your arm to make you come look for me" James barked.

Lily glared at him, "well if you hadn't taken off" Lily snapped back.

"Silence you two" Professor McGonnagal said. So the two followed Professor McGonnagal back to the Gryffindor common room, where the professor finally left them. Lily gave James one last glare before heading up to her dormitory. Great she thought. Now I have a weeks worth of detentions with Potter.

A/N: I know, 2 updates in one day. I doubt anyone's reading this any more but eh. And I stole this part,

"Uhh, we were, we were just-"Lily began.

"Yes, Ms. Evans?" Professor McGonnagal asked.

From the sorcerers stone movie, from right after when the trio tells McGonnagal about the stone and someone trying to steal it. They are talking to snape. Hermione said Lily's line.  Anyway, for those of you who are reading this, ENJOY and read and review please!