Never Again-Harry Potter-James & Lily Chapter 2- Out of the ordinary

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It had been two weeks since they had arrived at Hogwarts. Things finally got back to normal, after the excitement of O.W.L's coming up at the end of the year.

The only thing out of the ordinary was the sight of a young couple chatting happily on the way to Defence Against The Dark Arts.

This was an unusual sight for the couple rarely got on well; this was James Potter and Lily Evans. For over the past two weeks they had been getting along better than their whole 5 years together, because not once had a certain James Potter asked the Lily Evans out.

Which was a weekly routine in which resulted in a fight if not a slap to the face. But now it seemed that James had taken a different approach at winning the young redhead's heart.

"I am really excited for this upcoming hogsmeade weekend." Said Marlene excitedly. "For I have a date with Amos Diggory." She squealed happily, making her friends chuckle at her excitement.

"I can't believe you've got a date already." Lily groaned unhappily "It's been what, 2 hours since they put the notice up?" Marlene just giggled happily, tucking her blonde hair behind her ears as she bent over her Charms essay.

"Oooh! Now that you mention dates, I'm going to score one myself." Exclaimed Em, peering over Lily's shoulder. She placed her quill and parchment on the table, before sauntering over to a group of Ravenclaw boys also studying in the library.

"What about you Lily, who do you want to go with?" asked Marlene, placing her essay on the table and stretching. "No one, I think I'll just go to the library and study." Replied Lily, turning a page of her book. "Besides, I've gotten way to much work to do."

"But Lily" whined Marlene, "You can't just spend the whole time studying, come one have some fun." Lily sighed impatiently and put her book down. "Mar, even if I wanted to go, there's no one I want to go with." She explained, curling up on the armchair.

"Oh, I can think of someone." Said Marlene wickedly, a mischievous grin lighting up her face. Lily shook her head frantically. "No, there's no one." She said urgently. "Are you sure?" Marlene asked.

"There's no one you want to go with?" "NO! Mar, not one person in this entire school is going with me to Hogsmeade." She yelled. "Well I've got a date for this weekend."

Announce Em triumphley, plumping herself down on a empty armchair. "I'm going with Andrew Lawson from Ravenclaw, and he is so cute." She gushed to the two girls. "What do you think we should do?" she asked.

"Mmmm, how about you go to Madame Puddifoots place." Said Marlene dreamily. "What about you Lily?" asked Emmeline, piking at her nails. "Lily?" she asked again. Without an answer, she looked up at Lily to find her staring behind Marlene's head.

She followed Lily's gaze and her gaze fell upon the Marauders. One in particular, James Potter. Em nudged Marlene and motioned with her head between Lily and James. After a couple of seconds it clicked and Marlene giggled and said to Lily: "LILY EVANS" Lily broke out of her stare to give Marlene a curious look before saying, "Mar, did you have to scream my name?" she asked amusingly.

"Lils, we asked you twice, what should I do?" Em asked impatiently. Lily opened her mouth to reply, but was cut off by Marlene. "No wait, I want to see why Lily was staring at James Potter." Lily blushed and opened her mouth in outrage.

"You were to." Exclaimed Em excitedly. Lily flushed scarlet while shaking her head frantically. "N-noo, I-I don't like him." She stuttered. "Oh really." Said Marlene curiously, then who do you like?" "NO ONE! I've told you this already."

Lily exclaimed, but her eyes gave it away by flicking over to where James sat. "You do, you do, you do, you do, you do!" sang Em and Marlene. Lily covered her face with her hands in embarrassment. "I do don't I?" she asked in a small voice. "YES" her two friends practically, screamed. Maybe a bit to loud since everyone in the library turned to them and laughed.

Madame Pince, the librarian, came round and shushed them before giving them the death stares and returning to the shelves. "But it's Potter, I can't like him." Lily wailed. "But you do." Laughed Em. "What do you like about him?" asked Marlene, a huge grin plastered on her face.

"I don't know, maybe its how good looking he is or how nice he has been to me these past couple of weeks." She said picking her books up and making her way out of the library. "Come on, lets go have dinner." She called over her shoulder.

"Oi, James." Called out a voice. James turned around to see Sirius waving his hand frantically while he sprinted towards him. "Have you seen Evans and that yet?" he asked falling into step with James.

"No, not since Herbology." James replied, making his way into the Great Hall. "Well, I saw them leaving the Great Hall just then." They sat down at the table and began piling their plates up with chicken, potatoes and vegetables.

"Anyways, I heard them talking and apparently Evans likes you." Sirius said, taking a huge mouthful of potato. James felt his jaw drop. "Are you shitting me?" he asked dumfounded. "Nup, I heard them talking about it, so I ran off to find you." Sirius explained before taking another bite. James felt overwhelmed and numb.

He couldn't believe that Lily Evans liked him, James Potter. Something in him clicked and he jumped out of his seat hastily before grabbing his bag and sprinting out of the Great Hall, leaving Sirius behind with a confused expression on his face.

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