Chapter Four
a/n; Sorry its so short!
Recap;
Lily went into a rant about his gorgeous hazel eyes and how incredibly sexy he was and how she loved it when he ruffled his hair up.
Ella then started to join in by talking non stop about how much she loved Sirius, with Lys throwing in every now and then that she had a thing for Remus; Alice just stared in shock.
Meanwhile, in James' room James was just staring through the door, completely speechless, Sirius was pinching himself saying "I must be dreaming" over and over again. Remus noticed this and stopped him.
"Nuh-uh mate, this is real"
And on with the story.
"I can't believe you're not going to do anything after what you just heard!" exclaimed Sirius, "Lily just spent like ten minutes straight ranting about you and you're not going to do anything!"
"She was drunk you nut case!" argued James, "she didn't mean it." He added forlornly, "I'm going to bed."
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Lily woke up first the next morning, looking around she saw the four firewiskey bottles and groaned. That would explain her currently pounding head. She shakily got up and stumbled from the main room into her bedroom. She had made some hangover potion yesterday, just in case.
Thirty minutes later a showered, dressed, very much awake Lily practically bounced back into the main room.
"Rise and shi-ine!" lily called out, as loud as she could. This was met with three loud groans, and several pillows came flying in Lily's direction. After the hangover potion had been handed out the girls cleaned up and headed to breakfast.
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"James quit staring at Lily and eat dinner." sighed Sirius, "I thought you said you were over her."
"I am," replied James, not sounding even the tiniest bit convincing, Sirius and Remus just rolled their eyes at one another.
"Lily," said Ella, "I seem to vaguely recall a game of truth last night, during which I seem to vaguely recall you admitting to liking James Potter?" Lily blushed and looked at the ceiling, so Ella continued, "Well you know he has been staring at you the whole time we've been sitting here."
Alice saw where this was going and joined in, "You know rumour has it that he has given up on you…we can't have that happening, can we?" she smirked.
"At least smile at him for gods sake" added Lys.
Lily rolled her eyes at her friends, but deciding she might as well take their advice, she looked James in the eye and smiled, somewhat flirtatiously, blushing madly the whole time. She felt silly, like she was just another one of his many fan girls, but the again she couldn't seem to help it. James couldn't look away, Lily's gaze was so powerful, even from a distance, he felt like he was being sucked into a vortex of some sort, but using all his mental strength he pulled away.
Standing up and walking out of the hall James ignored his friends questioning looks and the fact that he had left half his dessert uneaten. Once he was out of the Great Hall James just kept walking, not really taking notice of where he was going, after a while he found himself at the beech tree that the Marauders considered their own. He simply sat, staring out over the lake trying desperately to think of a way to get his mind of Lily Evans.
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Over the next few weeks the whole school noticed a complete turn around of usual events.
Lily and James had stopped fighting.
James had stopped asking Lily out.
Lily was…flirting?...with James.
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"Alice! Lys! Ella!" Lily called as she walked up the stairs to her old dorm.
"Yes?" came Alice's reply as she walked in the door. Lily flopped dramatically onto what was once her bed.
"What am I doing wrong?" her question was greeted with three puzzled looks, "James! He won't ask me out! Why is it that he asked me out over four thousand times when I didn't like him and now that I do he's basically ignoring me?"
"Maybe you just have to…I dunno, crank it up a notch?" suggested Lys, now it was Lily's turn to look confused, "Well," she elaborated, "the gossip brigade that seems to live in the third floor girls bathroom has been saying that Sirius's latest tart heard him and Remus saying that James just gave up on you, now believe it or not, their info is usually pretty reliable, so I say you do every teasing thing in your power to make him want you back."
"Go for it." Added Ella, "When we say everything, we mean everything."
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Later that night Lily had just been in the bath in the heads common room, she had asked the girls for advice and was about to use their favourite suggestion. She had purposely left her pyjama's in her bedroom, and she knew the James was studying or something in the common room. Getting to her clothes would mean running past James with nothing but a towel on.
Here goes, thought Lily as she opened the door, peeking out to make sure James was the only one there. Taking a deep breath she opened the door and ran (not too fast though) through the common room to her bedroom door, grinning as she peeked out to see James' face. He really didn't know what hit him. Lily got changed and looked at the list of teasing ideas she and her friends had come up with.
Author's Note: Oh my God! That is disgustingly short and has taken me forever to come up with! Seriously, my imagination has died. Anyway, my annoying mother is shooing me into bed (its only 11.30pm) so I'd better go. Please review! I need ideas, anything that you would like to see, well read about Lily doing, let me know! You all seem to come up with fantastic ideas for this sort of thing, so help me out here people. Ok I seriously have to stop now or the author's note will be longer than the actual chapter!
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