A/N: Wowzer you guys amaze me! The reviews were lovely to see in my inbox after a particularly long day at school. Thanks and keep them coming. Oh someone asked whether this one a one-shot well after seeing another chapter that should answer it but I think this ficcie will be a smaller one. About (we'll see) 10-15 chapters? Yeah..

Disclaimer: Can't remember whether I've done one of these on the last chapter but yeah anything you recognize is the lovely Jk Rowlings.

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There was a slight pause for Lily as she looked at James who was watching her. He didn't seem to feel uncomfortable in the slightest. On the contrary he was standing there with a grin on his face, the breeze blowing through his already windswept hair.

"Oh yes I rather think they did have an off day." Lily responded in a even voice.

"Hmm well maybe it would be better if we talked it over dinner?" James inquired all the while looking at Lily, his hazel eyes quite guarded. Julia let out an audible gasp behind Lily and poked her quite hard in the back as if urging her to accept this rather spontaneous once in a lifetime invitation.

It was as if she was battling with herself. Inside her conscious told her to be careful. She didn't know this James Potter, for all she could know he just wanted her for other reasons and none to do with discussing the quidditch team of Ireland. But the reckless side of her over-powered her thoughts.

"I guess that would do." Lily said giving him a slight smile in exchange for the smile that now alighted his features.

"Sounds good to me. I'll be seeing you this weekend at 7." And with that James nodded to Lily and to the wide-eyed Julia and then walked off with his confident stride.

"Nice to meet you girls. I think we'll be seeing a lot more of each other then we reckoned on." Sirius said tipping an imaginary hat to the two and then walking off after James.

Julia waited until she could no longer see Sirius or James in sight and then rounded on Lily. "Oh my gosh. What just happened!" Julia squealed jumping up and down looking very much like a young 16 year old rather then a 21-year-old woman.

Lily let out a half grin and shook her head slightly as if just fully realizing what had just happened. "I dunno."

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After the quidditch game Lily and Julia headed over to their favorite Chinese restaurant where their other best friend Elissa was currently employed. It was in a muggle area since Elissa was a half-blood and still deeply loved the muggle world even though she was a trained witch.

Julia's trained eye scouted her out first and said excitedly, "There she is! ELISSA!" She screamed not so quietly and Lily inwardly cringed… Julia definitely wasn't one to be shy even in the open-public.

"Think you could keep it down Jul?" Lily asked sarcastically but smiled at the blonde figure walking towards them. It was funny, at Beauxbatons and after that the three of them had always been close friends.

Elissa Brooke was taller then both girls. She had long blonde hair flowing down her back and dark brown eyes that could detect a liar in anyone she met. Julia Adams was the brunette of the group. Her hair was shoulder length and she had deep blue mysterious eyes that caught the interest of many boys. And last but not least there was Lily Evans with her unusual but very attractive features. She had mesmerizing emerald green eyes and long wavy auburn hair.

Elissa spotted Lily and the sheepish grin of Julia and then said in a fake exasperated voice, "Not you two again." Lily stuck her tongue out at her and started to say something but Julia interrupted her.

"We have some major news to tell you!" She said dramatically. Elissa raised her eyes and then waved them over to a booth sitting down with them as well.

"Okay talk fast or old Herman might just have a hernia." Elissa said sarcastically, snapping her fingers impatiently at the two.

"Okay okay well don't freak out but you know how we went to the Quidditch game? Well miraculously the Quaffle went flying towards Lily-"

Elissa interrupted and said, "What she didn't catch it and it smacked her in the face?" Elissa asked cracking up and smacking the table.

"Shaddup." Lily said pretend glaring at her.

"Hello! I'm trying to tell a story here. Anyways Lily actually did catch it and guess who came up to retrieve it?" Julia asked widening her eyes for the effect.

"I dunno the fat referee?" Elissa asked.

"No James Potter! And get this after the game he came up behind us and asked Lily out on a date this Saturday. Isn't that absurd!" Julia finished quite breathlessly making sure Elissa or Lily couldn't interrupt her.

Elissa looked at Julia letting the news digest but she still had this look of incredulity on her face. "You sure you weren't just imagining things? Sometimes too much Tylenol can do that to a person." Elissa said mentioning Julia's only cure from the horrendous headaches she would get everyday.

"No damn it, I'm being serious!" Julia said excitedly. Lily thought back to Sirius and a goofy grin stole across her face wondering what he would say if he was here with the girls.

"Whoa." Elissa said.

"I know so anyways it's this weekend so you need to come over Friday night" Julia babbled on.

"Hey Elissa get the rice and noodles for takeout eh?" Lily asked, she wanted to get back to the flat that her and Julia lived at. A lot had happened today and her mind was buzzing.

"Alrightie I'll be right back." Elissa said flouncing off to the kitchen and retrieving the girls food for them and taking the galleons from the two. Elissa blew the two girls a kiss and then headed off to the small crowd that had appeared during Elissa's "break".

Lily and Julia apparated to their flat and were now lounging in their living room. Both had changed into their pajamas and were flipping through Witch's Weekly and Julia's subsciption of Transfigured-Woman that had all the gossip on the wizarding communities celebrities. Both girls were a bit giddy after the amount of Honeydukes chocolate and Chinese food they had consumed that evening.

"Lils I know what you can ask James when you go on your date. Lets say it's a request of information from me. Ask him whether the rumors are true about the night before an important quidditch game he takes a lavender scented bubble bath to calm his nerves and after whether his Mummy comes over and tucks him in to bed. I've been dying to know about that one for AGES!" Julia said breaking out into a charade of giggles which Lily responded to by throwing a pillow at her friend.

"Honestly the rumors they come up with in Transfigured-Teen. Though I wouldn't mind knowing" Lily said and then fell into the same contagious giggles with her friend that you often get after an overdose of sugar and good times with your girlfriend.

The two girls sat there looking up to the ceiling that they had charmed to look like the sky and as it was evening, stars now shone brightly in the dark sky.

"I can't seem to believe that I am actually going to dinner with him in two days." Lily murmured while fiddling with her hair.

"Me neither Lils." Julia responded back lazily. Then all of a sudden Julia shot up and looked at Lily with an excited expression on her face.

"What?" Lily asked a bit apprehensively.

"Can you say shopping!" Julia exclaimed her face glowing.

"Oh Merlin…" Lily sighed as her best friend started to gabble on about what Lily should wear to this extravagant dinner invite.

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Lily was in a comfortable dreamy sleep until she felt someone prodding. Hello did they not see that she was sleeping? "Go away." Lily mumbled swatting her arms about in the air.

"Lily, Lily I just realized something." Julia practically yelled in her ear causing Lily to let out a shriek and looked wildly around looking for the culprit but when she saw it was Julia she just pulled her purple fleecy Eeyore comforter over her head trying to block out the screech of Julia's voice.

"LILY! James Potter is a very famous so whose to say the Daily Prophet wouldn't have found out that he's taking a girl from the stands of his quidditch team to dinner hm?" At this remark Lily's eyes widened underneath the comforter and she yanked it off looking at Julia's face hoping to see that she was joking. Sadly she wasn't.

"I'm gonna go get the Daily Prophet." Julia dashed off and slammed the front door no doubt racing down to the Little Pink Store convenience store for the magical community in London.

Lily sat there thinking about how it had been simple yesterday but how things could get complicated fast. Of course the news would pick up something like that. They were probably cooking up all kinds of disgusting rumors about this. In record time the front door was closed and Julia came rushing into Lily's room.

"I've got it. Go to the sports section." She said handing the newspaper to Lily. Lily anxiously flipped through the newspaper and then came to the section. She scanned it and then saw a blowup picture of James shaking his hand in the air for victory after the game. Beneath it was the article:

England wins against Ireland but could Potter want more?

The highly anticipated game between Ireland and England has passed and England just managed to scrape the win after a highly interesting trick from James Potter. He managed to block the Irish Seeker and gain a goal for his team at the same time. We didn't get a chance to interview him after the game but we did get a shot of him talking with a mystery girl sporting a green and white striped hat. Could this be a girlfriend of one of the players on Ireland's team and James is thinking of breaking that up as well? We'll keep tabs on this story we can assure you. – Lisa Spangeil

"Wait a minute…Lisa Spangeil? Isn't that the one who truly hated you back in Beauxbatons?" Julia asked suspiciously glaring at the blurry picture they had managed of Lily talking to James. Luckily Lily's back was turned so you couldn't make her out.

"Aw frig I bet you it is…just lovely. If she ever found out wouldn't she have a hayday, probably spread a bunch of rumors. She has the power." Lily said dejectedly, not looking forward so much to the date after reading the article.

"Hey don't be having second thoughts about this date. Lisa would die to be in your place and I'm sure if she ever found out it was you James could prevent her from saying anything about you in the Prophet. Don't worry bout it. Now c'mon are we going shopping or what? I owled Elissa this morning." Julia said waving her wand at the blinds revealing a glorious sunny day.

The three girls went out shopping in London and explored the amazing stores and shops scoring out funky shirts or pants. Lily managed to forget about the article that she had read that morning but knew when it came down to the crunch if Lisa did find out that it was Lily she definitely wouldn't keep her big mouth shut.

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It was finally the awaited evening of the weekend and Lily was looking at herself critically in the bathroom mirror. Julia had gone wild throwing all kinds of outfits together for Lily but in the end Lily forked through some of the rather scandalous outfits and found something that was agreeable.

Honestly for some reason she didn't feel like impressing James with her beauty or sense of style. So she had picked out a jean skirt that came a little bit above the knee and a cream cashmere v-necked sweater that made her glow. Her hair was down naturally in waves and as she never usually wore that much makeup she didn't feel the need to begin tonight.

DiNgDoNg

"Lily he's here!" Julia said bounding into the room looking at Lily's choice.

"Why can't you ever listen to what I point out to you? He's probably bringing you to a fancy resturant." Julia said exasperately.

"Oh yes and this dress here is a perfectly tasteful dress to go to dinner with James Potter in." Lily said sarcastically shoving the short black mini dress in Julia's face.

"It's just a bit short." Julia said twirling her hair with her finger grinning sheepishly at Lily.

"Here we go…" Lily muttered under her breath. She walked over to the door and slid into her beige shoes that gave her a tiny bit of a height. She grabbed her purse and looked at herself one last time in the oval shaped mirror in the hallway.

"Don't forget the rumors. Could be a bit of an ice breaker." Julia said blowing her a kiss for good luck then hiding out of sight.

Lily opened up the door smiling slightly thinking to herself that that would be the last resort she would go to if she couldn't think of anything. Her eyes met James and he was dressed in casual attire, jeans and a handsome dark green sweater.

"Erm hey. Ready to go?" He asked giving her a quirky grin and offering her his arm and she wondered whether he had already forgotten her name. Lily nodded, took his arm and then closed the door.

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A/N: Well second chapter's all typed up! Third chapter shouldn't be too long to come out since I already have the dinner scene written out. Review and I'll update! Ciao. Suggestions welcome.