Word that James Potter had asked Lily Evans to go to Hogsmeade with him spread like wildfire. After all the classes were over, everyone in Hogwarts, mostly the girls, had heard and talked about it on and on.

"I hear she had begged him to take her out…" Lily heard a 4th year whisper to her friend as she walked by them.

"Did you see how she gaped at him like it was a miracle.." Another 5th year asked her friend.

"I can't believe of all the available girls there are in this school, Potter picked that mudblood Evans.." A Slytherin said to another within earshot of Lily, probably on purpose.

When Lily finally reached the Griffindor common, she found Regina and Miranda sitting by the fireplace, chatting away with ease.

"I can't believe the entire school heard about that 'incident' at breakfast. What kind of fool would be stupid enough to tell it to the world?!?" Lily asked her friends furiously.

"Um…" Miranda stuttered. "Was I not suppose to?"

Lily looked at Miranda, mouth wide open, eyes bulging out of her sockets.

Before Lily could strike, Regina scooched herself in front of Lily.

"Well, you didn't exactly say she wasn't allowed to tell people." She reasoned slowly and carefully. "Besides, she only told a couple of her classmates during potions. What's the worst that could happen?"

There was a long pause before Lily took a deep breath and whispered quietly but dangerously, "What's the worst that could happen? What's the worst that could happen?!?"

Uh-oh. Regina thought.

"I'll tell you what's the worst that could happen!" Lily whispered frantically. "I just walked down the hall and heard at least three, if not more, people whispering that I begged Potter to go out with me, or I paid him 7 Galleons to ask me to Hogsmeade, or that he only did it because his friends dared him, or whatever bull gossip that's being spread! So if you don't think that's the worst thing that could happen, you are WRONG, DAMNIT!!!!!

At this time, Lily was breathing pretty hard and looked at her friends without even flinching, a pindrop silence in the background.

Lily, finally able to regain herself, sighed and asked quietly, as though she was talking to herself, "What am I going to do?"

Miranda decided to be the first one to talk. "Maybe it won't go as bad as you think." She suggested.

"Yeah." Regina added. "It's not the worst thing that could hap-"

Lily glared at her.

Regina gasped and covered her mouth. "I mean…" She stammered. "What I mean is, Potter might not be as big a stuck-up, rude, arrogant git as you think. He could change. And you might actually start to like him."

There was a pause as though Lily started thinking about what Regina had just said.

To add some humor to the levity, Regina added, "If a meteor hit Hogwarts, anyway."

Lily grinned, sighed once more and declared, "Fine. I guess it wouldn't be the worst thing that could happen."

"Can we go to the Great Hall now? All this James Potter talk is making me hungry. No, wait…starving." Miranda complained.

The three girls laughed, got up, and walked out the common room and into the halls together.