Meeting Learning Living
Summary: Basically its another story about Lily and James at school. Just with a whole lotta fluff that you have to love! L/J (duh) RL/OC SB/OC seventh year. Rated T for some (very little) language, sexual reference and a few tiny scenes here and there! ENJOY!
Well I guess this is chapter three…
DISCLAIMOR: okay I obviously don't own anything you recognize, but enjoy my story….
CHAPTER THREE: HIS COAT
The girls had eventually all made it to their beds the previous night. It was now 7:00 on Sunday morning and Lily was the first of the group to wake up. She usually was the first one up though. So she got up brushed her teeth and taken a shower, when she came out of the shower she wrapped a towel around her body and walked back into the room.
Lily decided to just get dressed for the day, she pulled out a pair of jordache jeans and a brown tank that matched very nicely. (A/N remember they are in the late 70s so they won't be wearing what we wear and it drives me nuts when people forget that, at the end of the chapter there are links to pictures of the clothing they wear) She slide on a pair of brown shoes to wear with her outfit and then looked at herself in the mirror. She used magic to quickly do her make-up and hair and then she added some jewelry then she turned out the door and went to sit on a common room couch.
She sat down and was studying her nails when someone said to her,
"So are you gonna just sit there and ignore me?"
Lily jumped at the sound of someone else being there. She looked up quickly and found a pair of hazel eyes looking at her.
"I- I didn't see you there, I didn't think anyone else was down here actually," Lily said. 'Okay this is weird, why isn't he acting like a jackass?'
"Oh, well I didn't mean to scare you I-" James started to say.
"I wouldn't say you scared me, more like startled," Lily corrected.
"Okay… well, um, do you wanna go and get some breakfast with me or something?" he asked. Lily was shocked, he almost sounded nervous 'Potter, nervous? Please that'll be the day' Lily thought to herself.
But Lily herself was hungry and the offer wasn't completely rotten so she said yes.
James stood up and held his hand out to Lily, who took it, but didn't use it as a way to help herself up. She showed she was polite but not dependant.
They walked a bit in silence. James was obviously very nervous. He had been crazy about Lily for about ever, and now that she was letting him near her he had no clue what to say.
Lily on the other hand hadn't noticed James' little problem. She had the song 'Friday I'm in Love' by The Cure stuck in her head; before she knew it she was humming it.
But of course she only heard this song because of the charmed radio, so not only would James not recognize it because it is a muggle song, he wouldn't have recognized it because it won't be recorded until 1992. Quite some time in the future.
"What song is that?" James asked, curiosity getting the better of him.
"What song?" Lily asked confused.
"The one you were just humming…" James said also a tad confused, she obviously also hadn't realized she was humming.
"Um…," Lily racked her head and the only song she had had stuck in her head that morning was 'Friday I'm in Love', "How did it go?"
James hummed two or so lines and yep, it was undeniably 'Friday I'm in Love'. Lily very quickly thought of how to explain it.
"Well first off it's a muggle song, but it won't be recorded until 1992." She started explaining.
"If it won't be recorded until 1992 how do you know it?" He inquired.
"I know everything Mr. Potter," Lily said with mock seduction.
"Everything, Miss Evans?" James returned.
"I believe that's what I said," Lily said still in her "seduction" voice, she jokingly wrapped her arm around his.
"Well, Miss Evans, if you know everything what am I going to do next?" James teased her.
"I cannot tell you, you wouldn't know how to handle the truth," Lily replied, then they just started laughing. When the stopped Lily's arms were loosely crossed and James' were shoved in his pockets. 'Wow' he thought to himself 'she has the most amazing laugh in the world.'
The two were now at the Grand Hall entrance, James, being the gentleman that he was, opened the door for Lily and let her walk in completely before closing the door.
They were soon sitting at the table and Lily had began to butter some toast, James was thinking about their previous conversation hoping for there to be some clue in there that would give him something to discuss with her. And then it hit him!
"Okay, so you never really told me how you know the song," James said hoping to get a real answer. Lily smiled to herself and looked up at James, she knew her friends wouldn't appreciate it if she told him, plus the girls weren't 100 sure if it was aloud in school.
"I just do," was her simple response.
"Oh c'mon it's not like its illegal or something," he said laughing.
"Maybe some other time," she said smiling, "aren't you gonna eat?"
"Oh, uh, yea, I forgot…" he said trailing off.
"I'm sure," she said still smiling. Lily was very confused though 'why is he acting normal? Oh my goodness! Do I like him now? No, I can't I hate him, he's arrogant and conceited, and, and, and, well I dunno but I defiantly don't like him,' she thought to herself. She looked up at James; he was now eating scrambled eggs and sloshing his pumpkin juice around in his cup.
When they were finished James looked up and said to her,
"Do you wanna go for a walk or something? I mean it's a little warm still and its still rather early for people to be waking up."
"Oh, um yea, that'd be fun," she said, plus she knew her alternative to walking with him would be sitting alone somewhere.
The two once again got up and made their way to the school doors, they had decided to walk around the Quidditch Field, but once they got outside the cold air hit Lily and she jumped.
"Oh my goodness its cold!" she exclaimed.
"Yea I defiantly did not think it would be this cold," James added, "here you can wear my jacket."
James took his jacket off and held it out for her. As she slipped it on she was immediately warm, partially because the wind was no longer hitting her bare arms, but because it was warm from his body heat. The jacket was the Gryffindor Quidditch team jacket, normally the teams didn't do the whole jacket thing but James was the captain and Sirius decided because other schools do it they should to, and James being his best friend agreed to it.
James was now only jeans and a t shirt that probably had no real meaning. If he was cold he didn't show it, but he seemed rather happy.
"Can I ask you a question?" he said
"Umm, I guess," Lily responded, almost nervous about what he might say.
"Why don't you and your friends ever come to Quidditch games?" James asked.
"I dunno, we aren't Quidditch people I guess," Lily said, "why?"
"No reason I was just wondering," James said, but he knew why he asked, he wanted to know if it was because she didn't want to have to see him anymore than she had to.
"Well what brought up the question?" Lily said, she was curious about why he would bring it up, in her opinion the sport itself wasn't all that important.
"Nothing really, it was just cause we are in he Quidditch Field and it was something to talk about," James replied. A gust of wind blew and they both shivered.
"Maybe we should go back inside its getting rather cold," James said.
"Yea," Lily said, they turned back and went inside.
Once they got into the castle their body temperatures went up a good 5 degrees.
"Oi! Prongs where are you?" they could here Sirius shouting a few halls away.
"Oh, um I gotta go I'll catcha later," James said to her, he did he little mini-jog down to the end of the hall and shouted.
"Padfoot cool it I'm coming!" before he turned the corner he looked back and smiled at Lily, she smiled back and in an instant he was gone.
Lily decided it best for her to go back to her room and see who had woken up; she put her hands in the jacket's pocket and walked to the common room.
When she got inside the common room there were kids scattered everywhere with there friends, the particular group of people she was looking for was not there, so she went further up into the room.
When she opened the door they were all there, they were spread out on the beds and chairs. Charlotte was sitting on her bed with a blanket wrapped around herself, Isabel was on one of five bean bag chairs that they girls had bought for themselves two summers ago, Shelly was also on one and Anna was laying across the dresser. (A/N for those of you wondering how they get themselves across the dress its one of the long and thin ones, me and my friends do it all the time)
"Lily! There you are, were have you been?" Charlotte inquired, you could tell that she was worried for her friend by her voice, but she also was wearing her smile.
"Oh I woke up early and went for a walk," Lily said, it wasn't exactly a lie, she figured her friends needed to know everything that happened.
"With James?" Isabel said, it was a question but they all knew the answer, even if Lily was going to deny it.
"No, I dunno where you'd get that idea," Lily said acting as if her friend was ridiculous.
"Oh really, then why are you wearing his jacket?" Shelly said with a smile.
"Huh? Oh," Lily started, she had forgotten that the jacket was James', "Well I ran into him for like a second…" Lily said as she went and laid on the floor next to the dresser.
"And he just happened to give you his jacket during that small second you were together?" Charlotte said smiling at the soon to be flustered Lily.
"Well maybe I was with him for a more than a few minutes…" Lily responded
"And why exactly did he give you his coat?" Anna said propping herself up on her elbows and looking down at Lily.
"Well we went outside for a bit and it was cold, but Sirius called for him and he left before I could give it back…" Lily said
"Aww that's so sweet of him," Isabel said, "and completely not arrogant or selfish."
The girls laughed for a while and even Lily smiled.
"We need to talk about Halloween and hat stuff still," Shelly reminded the group after a few moments.
END OF CHAPTER THREE
AUTHOR NOTES AND STUFF
Okay I'm on a roll with this story but my review box is looking kinda empty at the moment…so I'm not sure how well liked the story is and I'm thinking I might wait until I get a review to stick up a new chapter… but that's only if the reviews keep coming in like this…
Okay that's really it..umm thanks to the people who have reviewed…..
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