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Lily ran out of her dorm while wrapping the cloak around her. She was just about to run out of the portrait hole before she heard voices behind her.
'Nice and easy does it Moony'
'Come on Padfoot it can't hurt that bad!'
The four marauders stepped out from the boys staircase and walked/hobbled towards the exit. Lily stared at them, each boy had cuts all over them and Remus and Sirius were limping. What the hell had happened to them?
She followed them out into the corridor and all the way to the hospital wing. Madame Pomfrey took one look at the four boys and ushered them in without saying a word. 'Honestly, I don't know what you get up to! Always coming in here with cuts and bruises everywhere...' she bustled off to find some bandages leaving the boys free to talk supposedly privately.
'Wow Prongs you really got me last night' Remus was saying, Lily frowned, why would James hurt Remus?
'Sorry mate didn't mean to but you were trying to gouge my throat out!' James smirked
'I think my leg is the more important issue here,' Sirius said, 'how am I supposed to impress the ladies when I'm limping everywhere? What a wonderful idea Moony, let's just jump on Sirius until he sprains his ankle oh and then let's do it again!' Sirius's voice was dripping with sarcasm.
Remus looked a bit embarrassed and mumbled something that sounded like 'you know I can't control myself'
Lily had heard enough, she had no idea what the boys were talking about but she had to get to lessons. She stood up from where she was crouching near the bed and started to walk away but tripped as she was getting up. She stifled a muffled 'ow!' and froze aware that one of the boys may have heard her.
'Did you hear that?' James said, argh why did it have to be James who heard? Why not Peter, they would just ignore him!
'No, what was it?' queried Remus
'It sounded like someone was near us, like right next to us' James looked around with a puzzled expression on his face.
Lily took the oppurtunity to leg it out of the hospital wing and to her first class, stuffing the cloak in her bag on the way.
Halfway through the potions lesson James, Sirius and Peter entered. I suppose Remus is still in the hospital wing thought Lily.
'Ah, nice of you to join us boys. What do you say we actually get some work done now' Professor Slughorn said jovially. 'Oh and how about we take 10 points from Gryffindor!'
'Sorry Professor' they all mumbled before finding somewhere to sit. Lily frowned, why didn't they tell Professor Slughorn they were in the hospital wing? They could have gotten off without a punishment. They were obviously hiding something.
'Ah right,' continued Professor Slughorn, 'I'm going to put you in pairs and I want you to brew a calming potion. Black and Pettigrew. Longbottom and Prewett (Alice and Frank giggled and blushed), Potter and Evans...' Oh no! Not James, anyone but James!
Alright Lils, guess we're partners eh?' James smirked as he plonked his bag down next to her.
'Right, rule number one no flirting, rule number two my name is Lily, rule number three we brew the potion correctly and if possible without any talking at all' Lily said carefully measuring out the ingredients. She glanced over at James and saw him staring at her with an odd expression on his face. She noticed that Madame Pomfrey had managed to clean up all his cuts and bruises.
'What?!' She snapped, not in the mood for Potter's ridiculous attitude
'Nothing, I just couldn't help but notice how nicely you chop up those crocodile hearts' he said in an overly smarmy voice
'What was rule number one?' Lily growled moving onto pulverising the butterfly wings
'Lily!' James cried in feigned shock, 'how dare you accuse me of flirting? By no means was I flirting with you, I was merely commenting on your brilliant ability to hack a crocodile appendage into miniscule pieces and now I see you are most beautifully smooshing those wings into a most excellently fine powder'
Lily ignored him and proceeded to drop the ingredients in the cauldron.
'So Evans,' James carried on, oblivious to the murderous stare Lily was fixing him with, 'would you consider possibly maybe if you want to maybe...err...'
'Spit it out Potter' Lily said in exasperation, she had a bad feeling she already knew what was coming.
'Well, the next Hogsmeade weekend is coming up and well...' Lily was surprised, James was blushing. James never blushed, he was smooth with the ladies, 'Iwaswonderingifyouwantedtogowithme' he said quickly
'Did you just ask me out...again Potter?' Lily said smirking
'Err...no. Well, yes...but only if you want to'
Lily stared at him. He sounded...sincere. This was new. She had overheard James talking to his friends about this mysterious girl who he supposedly loved a few times. Was it possible that the girl was her?
'Well...okay' Lily said surprising even herself.
James was so shocked at her response that he dropped the whole handful of beesnex leaves into the cauldron by accident. There was a sudden explosion and Lily felt someone grab her hand and drag her under the desk. It was James, he had recovered his senses just before the potion would have exploded into their faces. Lily felt the heat creep into her cheeks at their closeness. They were crouching under the desk waiting for the mayhem to be over in the classroom above. Slughorn sounded like he was trying to vanish the potion but it had managed to seep into every nook and cranny in the room.
Lily looked up and noticed James staring at her, unconsciously she leaned forward slightly trying to read what was going on in his hazel eyes. Suddenly James leant forward and captured her lips with his pushing her back against the edge of the desk. She was so surprised she 'forgot' to push him off and instead loosened her lips so he could easily push past them with his probing tongue.
Her mind had gone foggy as she reveled in the sensation of James kissing her. Suddenly she felt him move away and when she opened her eyes he had gone from under the desk. She surfaced as well and noticed James hotfooting it out the classroom as unbeknownst to her the class had ended and Slughorn had managed to vanish all the potion.
The rest of the class was still packing up and she stood there for a minute still in a daze at what had just happened. Did I really just kiss James Potter? I must be going insane! She packed up her bag and ran out of the classroom going to seek refuge in the library.
She entered the silent room and a wave of calm hit her, she loved sitting in the library just reading. She wandered slowly over to her favourite corner and sat down. Then she heard voices from behind a bookshelf. Familiar voices, the voices of four certain pranksters.
She moved her chair closer to the bookshelf in an effort to hear what they were saying.
'You kissed her! Like with your mouth?' That was Sirius. She stifled a laugh at his enigmatic response.
'Yeah,' James replied, 'it was amazing. I ran out of there though before she could hit me.' He sounded sad, Lily felt an urge to go over to him and deny any thoughts of wanting to hit him. It was true, not once had she thought about hitting him. Once or twice the thought had crossed her mind to jump on him and kiss him even deeper but she definetely would not tell him that!
Lily sighed and sat back in her chair wondering at these new feelings that were stirring inside of her. Life is complicated she thought to herself before closing her eyes and submitting herself to a deep sleep.