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Chapter 4: Jilly's day out

James's POV:

After they dragged Sirius away from where Rosaline and Peter were talking, he excused himself and went back to Hogwarts. The rest felt sympathetic towards him but decided not to let their day get ruined. Besides, Sirius said he wanted to be alone, so they let him be.

Remus and Mary were still on their date. That left James and Lily. Alone. Together.

James looked at Lily, grinning slightly at her. She smiled back.

"So!" She said.

James raised an eyebrow. "So?"

"So…What are we going to do?"

James shrugged and put his hands in his pockets. "Wanna go to Honeydukes?" He asked.

Lily seemed to think for a minute. Then, "Yeah, sure."

Upon entering the busy shop, James immediately grabbed Lily's hand and dragged her over to the shelves that contained some of his favorite sweets. He ignored how she blushed slightly and took her hand out of his the moment they reached their destination.

"Hm…Have you ever tried Ice Mice?" James asked picking a package from the shelf.

Lily made a face. "I heard they cause your teeth to chatter like you're freezing or something."

James nodded, grinning. "Yeah. It makes you squeak too."

"No thanks."

James shrugged, "Ok, then. How about…this!" He took a wrapped lollipop from a shelf. "Acid Pops!"

"What do they do?" Lily asked, taking the sweet and examining it.

"Just burns a hole in your tongue," he said nonchalantly, "No big deal."

Lily blinked. "No big deal!?"

"It heals quickly!"

"James put it back."

He did so, grumbling.

"James, if you like your pranky sweets, you might as well stay here. I'll go check the other kinds." James watched her go then proceeded to pick some interesting sweets for him and for Sirius too. To lift his mood when they went back to Hogwarts.

He went over to where he spotted Lily and saw that she was on her tiptoes, trying to reach a box of Nougats from one of the upper shelves. He watched her in amusement for a moment, then, deciding to be a gentleman, he got the Nougats for her without even so much as stretching his arm.

He smirked as a glaring Lily took the box from him. "You're welcome."

"Shut up, James."

James laughed out loud. He patted Lily on the head as he would a child. She swatted him away.

"James Potter, I swear to Merlin if you didn't stop that right now-!"

"Alright, alright! Calm down Lily, geez. I'm just kidding!" James said, still grinning.

"Well, don't."

They both went to pay for their purchases, James insisting on paying for Lily, and after a heated argument that stopped when people started to complain that they were causing them to wait in the line unnecessarily, and which James won in the end. Obviously.

Grinning smugly, James led Lily out of Honeydukes, carrying both their purchases.

"James I can carry my own things you know!" Lily complained again.

"I know."

"I'm not an invalid!"

"I know."

"Well? Let me carry my things!"

"Nope."

"Ugh!"

They continued like this until they stopped in front of Quality Quidditch Supplies, which was James's idea. It took nearly an hour of James admiring everything to do with Quidditch until Lily forcefully dragged him outside of the shop.

Next, they stopped at a book store, on Lily's insistence. While James only stayed in the Quidditch shop for an hour or even less, Lily stayed for far more.

"Are you done yet, Lily?" James asked for the ninth time so far. She shushed him and continued checking out new book releases and such. James was almost dying of boredom.

"Lilyyy!" James whined.

"James quit talking!"

"You're taking too long!"

"Quit it!"

James huffed. Half an hour later, James had a stack of books in his arms, almost covering his face, while Lily rushed off saying she needed "one last book."

He put the books on the counter and went to help Lily, who was again struggling to reach a book on one of the high shelves. He snickered.

"What is it with you and high things?" He asked in a teasing tone, reaching up and getting the heavy tome for her.

"Thanks." She said reluctantly. James smirked.

After paying for the books, (Lily bullying James into letting her pay for at least half of them) they shrank all their items and put them all in one bag.

After a while, James said, "You ARE short you know."

He barely missed her fist, thanks to his Quidditch reflexes, and the next thing he knew, Lily was chasing him all around Hogsmeade.

"And slow, too!" He yelled back at her, dodging people and laughing.

He knew that would fuel Lily's anger but he didn't expect her to actually catch up with him. He quickly ran into an alley between two buildings. He was dismayed when he found a dead end and turned around to see Lily advancing on him, smiling evilly. James gulped.

"Not so fast now are you?" She said, still moving towards him.

"Come on, Lily this isn't fair! It's a dead-end!" James tried to reason with her, retreating backward, while she walked forward.

Lily's POV:

Lily felt like the happiest person in the world. Yes, she might have acted very evil and all, but on the inside, she was bouncing in excitement. And happiness. Never would she have imagined running after James Potter would be this fun. She did imagine running after him and killing him. A long time ago. She decided this was better.

The look on his face made her laugh so hard, clutching her stomach.

"You are so silly, James. Honestly, I'm not going to actually kill you." She said, smiling, and wiped tears of laughter from her eyes."

"Well, you damn well looked like you were!" James said, smiling in slight relief. Lily tutted, "Language." James rolled his eyes.

She watched as James made to move away from the wall when she decided to make a move. She lunged forward until she was suddenly right in front of him. He quickly stumbled back to the wall.

"L-lily, you're scaring me, honestly." James sputtered. Lily smiled innocently.

"Why would I scare you? I'm not doing anything."

"Err…" She watched in satisfaction as James gulped, his cheeks were slightly red.

"Oh, the great James Potter is speechless. Never thought I'd see that day."

James moved his hand, probably to move her away or something, but she grabbed his hand and just looked at him, watching as his face turned a darker shade of red.

She sighed and stepped back, ignoring the little voice in her head, reprimanding her on not kissing him. She was very close to doing just that but decided now is not the right time. Besides, watching James blush like that was very entertaining. It was worth it. Wait.

Did she just see disappointment cross James's face?

Nah, probably imagining it.

James was looking flustered and seemed like he didn't know what to do with himself. The poor guy.

"Well? Why are you just standing there? Let's go!" She turned and left the small alley they were in and waited for James on the main street. It was a few minutes before James came out and they both walked aimlessly. After a while of, slightly, awkward silence, James spoke.

"Lily-" Before he said anything, Lily stopped him and, taking a deep breath, she said, "That didn't mean anything." Yes, it did.

James looked away, and her heart broke a little.

'I-it's just," he ran his hand through his hair, nervously, "Um, for a moment there, I thought-"

Again she interrupted him, "I wasn't going to do anything. I was just joking around with you James."

He bit his lower lip and nodded firmly to himself. "Yeah. Yeah, I know. Sorry."

"It's ok," Lily said, wanting to hug him and tell him what she really felt about him and that he shouldn't apologize.

Thinking that their conversation was over she started to walk again (apparently they stopped to talk at some point), but his voice stopped her.

"No. No, it's not ok. I…I promised. I promised I won't bother you with my advances. I promised myself that I won't think of you as more than a friend and I…" He looked like he was either going to cry or punch himself.

"James. You didn't make any advances. This is my fault. I'm the one who caused you to misunderstand the situation. You shouldn't apologize. It's ok." Lily said firmly.

He nodded again and smiled slightly. "So…Friends again?" He asked hesitantly.

She smiled despite her heart screaming at her. "Yes. Friends again."

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"Lily, that was so insensitive of you! Why did you do that?! Why didn't you just accept him as your boyfriend when he asked you last year! That would have made matters way easier!" Alice said to a grumpy Lily when she told her best friend what happened. Alice sounded so frustrated with her friend and Lily couldn't blame her. She looked at her bedsheets stubbornly.

"I told you, Alice, I don't know what made me do that! I don't even…Ugh! I'm supposed to hate him! Why is this so hard!?"

Alice stared at Lily, "Oh my God! What is so hard about just accepting the fact that you love him?"

"I don't know! It just is, ok?"

"No, it's NOT ok! That doesn't even make any sense!" Lily still refused to even acknowledge what her friend was saying. "Ugh! You make me want to pull my hair out! Honestly!"

"I know I was insensitive. Making him think I would kiss him or something then step back, but…really, I was about to do it then remembered I shouldn't. And…he apologized. Why did he apologize?" Lily sighed sadly, remembering the heartbroken look on his face.

"Well, maybe because he didn't want to lose you?" Alice provided helpfully.

Lily felt her guilt increase. "I'm not that cruel…I wouldn't have stopped being friends for that because I know it wasn't his fault."

"He loves you. As simple as that."

"He wants to go back to being friends you know. Just friends."

"Well, wasn't that what you wanted?"

"No, I mean yes, but…" Lily sighed again, "I don't want that anymore, Alice."

Alice regarded her quietly, then, "Lily, I got to say that I don't approve of you…controlling him like that. You either love him or you don't. You don't get to play with him like that, it's not fair. The poor thing."

Lily was quiet.

Alice patted her on the shoulder. "I wish you luck with your love life, Lily. Think about what I told you. I have to meet Frank in, like, now. Bye!" And she left Lily to her thoughts.

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James's POV:

James shifted on the couch he was sitting on. Sirius was happily eating the sweets James got for him, all negative thoughts erased from his mind. For now.

James, however, was in quite the opposite state. He was confused, sad, angry, heartbroken, and annoyed, all at once.

"Prongs, get over it. You wanna know what I think? I think she has feelings for you and she really did want to do something there for a moment. She's just in denial." Sirius said sagely, a lollipop in his mouth. James just sighed. He sort of knew that but still…

Sirius sighed dramatically and stood from his place on the opposite couch and sat next to James.

"James, mate, your problem is that you're too…easy, you know what I mean? It's great you're in love and all, but don't act like you're head over heels, even if you are. You have to show that you're this cool person who doesn't care and all that. She'll know your worth then, and SHE will come to you instead of you running after her like her personal Padfoot."

James couldn't help but laugh. "You're one to talk, though. Sirius, not two minutes ago you were moping around for the same reason! The only reason you stopped is that I gave you sweets." James rolled his eyes.

"You notice that because you're my best friend, but Rosy doesn't. And it's the same for all the girls at Hogwarts. All they see is this guy who doesn't care and who has lots of other things to live for. But…I still feel guilty for, you know, screaming at her like that. And now she's going to find someone else." Sirius said sadly. "Honestly, why does this have to happen with the girl that I actually like?"

James patted him on the shoulder. "Look, how about we forget all about girls and do something fun?" He said, feeling excited just thinking about the word 'fun'.

Sirius turned to face him with a mischievous glint in his eyes. "Oh, like what?"

And they settled for planning out some fun things to do.

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James was in a relatively good mood after he returned with Sirius from McGonagall's office. Their mission was to try and make her accept an apple from them. Off course, she was very suspicious and refused to take the apple. In the end, Sirius annoyed her to point that made her take that apple from James's hand and threatening them both of detention for a week if they didn't get out of her office. They quickly did, cackling madly. Unfortunately, they didn't know if she ate the apple or not, but it was fun riling her up anyway.

He was walking down one of the corridors leading to the secret passage behind the one-eyed witch, hands in his pockets, and whistling quietly. Sirius was stuck studying with Remus because Remus forced him to. Of course, James didn't study with them. His excuse was that he studied from before, which was true, surprisingly enough. Just as he was about to tap his wand on the statue, a dark figure stepped out from the shadows and James sighed in exasperation. Turning around and rolling his eyes, James said, "Snape."

"Potter," Snape sneered.

James folded his arms over his chest and raised an eyebrow. "Was there something you needed?" He said sarcastically.

Snape stepped closer in what he probably thought was a threatening move. "Listen, Potter, this attitude of yours won't unfazed me."

"What attitude? You're the one thinking you'd creep me out or something." James said, waving his hand vaguely towards where Snape was standing. "Anyway, I don't want to hear or do whatever it is you're here for, which is probably fighting, so if you don't mind…" James made to move around Snape but wasn't able to due to Snape moving to block his way. James sighed again. Oh well, it looks like he would fight after all.

"Why are you even following me? Aren't you supposed to have a life or something?" James said.

"I came to warn you, Potter."

"Warn me? What's that supposed to mean?"

Snape snarled. "It was because of you that Lily no longer wants me as a friend. I tried so hard to get her back but you, you keep getting in the way."'

"What?! You're the one at fault here, remember? You were involved in trying to kill me, tried to Obliviate her, and let's not forget that you're a Death Eater. Who would want to be friends with that?"

Suddenly, Snape was in his face before James could blink. "I would watch my back if I were you." He said that quietly.

"Are you threatening me!? Look here, Snivellus, I tried to keep my distance all year last year and it was because I decided to grow up that you still have your greasy nose intact. Don't think a couple of words will scare me." James said, also getting in Snape's face.

"Oh, you might not care about your own safety, but what about your loved ones? Lily perhaps? Black? The werewolf?"

James's heart jumped to his throat and he swallowed. He punched Snape and heard with satisfaction the crack of a broken nose. "Don't you even DARE threaten to hurt my friends, and especially Lily, you hear me? Now I am warning you."

He angrily stomped off. He needed to calm down before he killed someone, namely Snape. And he needed to see Lily.

There! How was this chapter? Some action started and some tension! *wink wink

Now you guys, you all know how busy Padfoot is right now and probably for a very long time, so I'm here on my own. I, Prongs, want to know what you guys want to know and see and what things do you want to be explained here in this story from the last one cuz I forgot some stuff.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter and see you in the next one!