After Classes

After class, all of the sixth years returned to Gryffindor common room. Rumour has it, the Marauders were having a party. And the Marauders always threw a great party. Even perfect prefect Lily was going.

Up in the boy's dormitory, James lay on his bed, while Sirius and Remus got out bottles of Firewhiskey, duplicating them as the went.

"James, you could help you know!" Remus exclaimed.

James looked up, "I'll help set up." he replied lazily.

Remus gave him an irritated look before duplicating more bottles. James was lost in his own thoughts. Lily had helped him today and he hadn't even asked! He couldn't wait for the party to start. Maybe this meant that she actually liked him.

All the girls were in their dormitory picking out dresses and styling each others hair. Lily skimmed through her dresser with Alice as Marlene did Josie's hair. Alice pointed to a tight red dress that she thought Lily should try. Alice had already picked her dress out. It was a navy, round neckline dress that fell just before the knees and it accentuated all the right places. Lily had the red dress, a little black dress and a sparkly emerald, sweetheart dress picked out. Marlene was wearing an off-shoulder gold dress with a snitch necklace.

Lily tried on all the dresses but decided on the emerald one. It made her eyes pop and her red hair stand out. She decided to wear her hair in loose curls and minimal makeup. Marlene and Alice wore smokey eyes and a messy up-do. Josie went a little more formal with a neat and pretty half do and a cat eye. After they had gotten ready, they complimented each other and talked for a while. It was almost time for the party.

The guys all dressed up some, but nothing like a ball. They were just comfortable muggle clothes. The common room was decorated with Gryffindor banners reading 'Goodbye Sixth Year!' Of course any Gryffindor could attend the party but it was mostly for the sixth years. There was a table set up with snacks and all the Firewhiskey bottles and there was a space cleared off for dancing. The Marauders had threw yet another great party.

All the Gryffindor's attending the party filed into the common room. All the Marauders had already opened a bottle and passed it around the circle. James kept watching the girls stairs, looking for Lily. Josie had already come down and was flirting with a sixth year in the corner.

"Well Prongs, looks like we outdid ourselves yet again this year," smiled Sirius.

"No thanks to you," said Remus. James just nodded, still awaiting Lily's arrival. He took another chug from the bottle before passing it to Peter. They hadn't even finished their first bottle and Peter was drunk, laughing on the ground about something. He didn't hold his liquor well. James struck up a conversation with Remus until Sirius poked him in the side,

"Oi! Here comes Lily," he smiled. Lily Evans walked down the stairs with Marlene and Alice in the most stunning dress he'd ever seen in his life. He felt like there was no one else in the room but himself and Lily. James stood up as soon as she had entered. Something was drawing him to her like a magnet. He walked over to them,

"Lily...You look great," he smiled at her.

"Um thank you James." He did look dashing. Much better than his usual messy self.

"I wanted to thank you again for the help. It really means a lot to me."

"It's no problem really," she tucked some hair behind her ear nervously.

"Did you want to come sit with us? ….All of you I mean."

"Um," she looked at her friends. They nodded their heads, "Sure." she smiled. James grabbed her arm like a gentlemen before leading her over to the Marauders. And she didn't pull back. James had seemed to change in the past few days. He wasn't as annoying and snotty. They all sat down in a circle. Sirius already had another bottle opened. Marlene was forced to sit next to Sirius, Sirius by Remus, Remus by Alice, Alice by Peter, Peter by Lily, and of course, Lily by James.

1 hour later

Lily was laying on James' lap, laughing. Peter was passed out face down on the couch and Sirius and Marlene were sitting awfully close to each other.

James was cracking up, "Wait wait wait! So you just took her out of class and started snogging her?!" Sirius nodded, taking another swig of Firewhiskey. Frank had came over half an hour before and sat with Alice.

"Come on! Lets play truth or dare!" said Alice.

"Oh come on Alice isn't that a little childish?," Sirius asked.

"Oh please! It will be fun!" she squealed.

"Let her play," James said, waving at her to go ahead.

"Ok me first!" yelled Alice, "Okaaaay. Marlene! Truth or dare?"

"Dare!" she laughed.

"I dare you to snog Sirius!" they all burst out laughing besides Marlene and Sirius who gladly excepted the dare. And they didn't stop until it was their turn again, then they went right back to it.

James raised his hand, "I'll go next!" he drummed his fingers together, "I choose...Lily."

Lily immediately got nervous. What would he make her do? She decided to play it safe with using truth.

"Alright...Hm," he thought out loud, "What do you really think of me?"

She was at a loss for words. She didn't know what she thought. Her mind was telling her that she hated him. But another part of her mind was screaming that she didn't.

She swallowed nervously, "I-I-um..I-," Josie came over and was drunkenly yelling,

"Lily come on! I love this song. Let's go dance!" The whole group followed besides James. He sat there, shocked. Lily was just about to tell him how she felt(if it was good or bad that doesn't matter) and now she's gone. He slowly rose to go with them. Sirius and Marlene were dirty dancing off by themselves. Remus, Lily, Alice, Frank, and Josie all danced with each other in a big group. James joined them and perked up, deciding he wouldn't let a drunk girl who loved a song ruin his night. They all laughed and talked and drank together.

After the song went off, a slow love song came on. Students quickly separated of into pairs. The only two left were James and Lily standing awkwardly in the crowd.

"Um...Would you like to dance?" he ran a nervous hand through his hair.

"Sure," It was her first dance with a boy and that boy was James Potter. 'Nice choice Lily,' she thought. She got closer to James before putting her hands around his neck and his hands around her waist. Her heart was racing a mile a minute.

She thought, "James had really nice eyes. Had he always had nice eyes? Is it getting quieter in here? When did this song come on? Time was going by so quickly. When had James gotten this close? He's got really nice lips! I can feel his breath. James smells really nice. Our lips are really close now. I'm going to kiss James Potter! I want to kiss James Potter..We are about to kiss.. Our lips are centimeters apart. We're so close-"

"Scccnnnnaaaaaggg!" Peter snored. James and Lily jumped a mile apart.

"I-I I'll...I'll see you tomorrow James." she said, nearly running up to the girls dormitory. The whole room was empty and they hadn't even noticed.

"Yeah.." he answered, "Goodnight." Before heading up to the boys dormitory, he grabbed the last bottle of Firewhiskey and drank it by himself in the common room.

Next year was going to be interesting...

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