Never Again-Harry Potter-James & Lily Chapter 3- A new chance?
Hey everyone, this took along time because it's a lot harder to write a story than I thought :/
Anyways I hope you enjoy because this is mostly a filler and the next chapter I promise will be way better!
At the end of this chapter there will be a sneak preview :) The same offer stands for a beta...
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter...because if i did Bellatrix would not die!
James ran down the hall loudly, as people whispered and murmured as he rushed by. Once before he would have been delighted with all the attention, but this was just annoying and might alert Lily that he was on his way.
He stopped at a random door and leaned against it, catching his breath. He reached into his pocket for his wand and he also pulled out a blank bit of parchment.
He unfolded it gently before placing the tip of his wand on the parchment and muttering: "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
Before his eyes the blank bit of parchment turned into the Marauders Map. The Marauders Map was no ordinary map, it was a map of the whole school including people wherever they were and even the secret passageways, it was the 4 boys known as the Marauders who created this map.
James searched the map until he found the one he was looking for, Lily Evans. He stroked her name lovingly before murmuring: "Mischief Managed."
He shoved both his wand and the now blank map into his pocket before setting off down the hall, bumping into people the whole way. When he finally reached he library he found it to be almost deserted with only a handful of students left studying quietly. He looked around anxiously, looking for her brilliant auburn hair.
At last he saw a flash of red and found her sitting by herself in the corner of the room with her head buried in a book. He cautiously made his way over to her table until he loomed over her, making a shadow pass across her book.
She must have felt his presence for she looked up surprised to see him there. "Yes" she said slowly putting her book down and sitting upright. "Erm, well …I was-I was just wondering if you wanted to go to the Hogsmeade weekend with me?" he asked nervously, running his fingers through his hair.
Lily was quite taken aback at first and her first reaction was a blunt NO. But it seemed that something inside of her didn't want to say no, that it wanted to see the other side of Potter, the romantic, sweet and funny side….his better side.
"Um James?" she asked "could I please get back to you on that?" James let out a breath, "she would at least think about it, that meant something right?" he thought to himself.
"Er, James?" her voice broke his train of thought and he found that he had been daydreaming. "Oh yeah right, that's fine." He replied, turning his back on her and walking towards the entrance.
"I'll see ya later Evans." He called across his shoulder, giving her a cheeky wink as he strode out. Lily was dazed and confused, she couldn't understand at all why she would even consider saying yes to Potter.
But this time was different, she wanted to say no but something had stopped her. Lily grabbed her belongings and walked quietly out of the library, lost in her thoughts.
James groaned and ruffled his hair impatiently; he couldn't believe what he has done. He had asked Lily Evans out and she had said maybe, he couldn't wait to tell the others about his exciting news.
He surveyed the empty common room; it was filled with scarlet plush armchairs and dark mahogany tables with a roaring fired in the background. It was…cosy.
He heard the portrait door swing open and the chatter of students as they made there way back from dinner. James searched frantically through the crowd of students for the rest of the Marauders but to his disappointment they were not to be seen.
With a sigh James pushed himself up from his armchair and climbed the winding staircase that led to his dormitory. He threw open the door to find that there was already a small group of students inside.
There was Sirius, Remus, Peter and two other boys, Frank Longbottom and Benji Fenwik. Frank was tall, almost taller than James with dark blonde hair that flopped over his forehead.
Frank was quiet and shy, but very passionate about certain subjects. It was probably his kind personality that attracted his long time girlfriend Alice Prewitt to like him. Alice was a good friend and roommate of Lily; she was small with dark hair, steel grey eyes and a fun, bubbly personality.
Benji however was the opposite of Frank; he was small, scrawny with mousy brown hair that was always messy and two huge mischievous eyes. Benji was a great friend and was easy to laugh. James cleared his throat questionly, shutting the door behind him. "Prongs" hissed Sirius flashing him a look of annoyance.
"Do you mind?" the 5 boys were all huddled around Sirius's bed and were looking at something in Sirius's lap. James made his way over to the bed making sure to keep quiet. He peered over Peter's short head to find that the source of all 5 boys attention was on a small mirror.
But this wasn't just any mirror, this was a two-way mirror in which you could see and hear through each one. "What's happening?" James asked Remus quietly.
"Well, when everyone was at dinner, before he met you, Sirius snuck into the girls dormitory and hid the other mirror in there." Remus replied with an amused frown. James laughed quietly, picturing the scene in his head.
Yeah I can see Padfoot doing something like that." He snorted, trying to muffle his laughter. He leant closer to the mirror to have a better look and found a dormitory similar to theirs and 4 young girls sitting on the floor with notes, wands, books and parchment littering the ground where they sat.
They were…studying. "Your watching 4 girls study?" asked James amusingly. "Not just any girls; McKinnon, Vance, Evans and Alice" replied Frank with a laugh, "So far they've just talked about this weekend."
"Shut up!" hissed Sirius warningly "I think they are saying something about Prongs." All 6 boys leant forward so they could hear properly and all was quite until a loud scream made all 6 boys jump.
"I knew it, I knew it!" yelled a happy Emmeline, throwing her parchment in the air. "I knew he would ask you out again." "Oh no, what do I do or-" began Lily in a wail but was cut off by Marlene: "Don't worry you'll be fine and it's just Potter anyways, with his gorgeous looks and yummy body." She smacked her lips together with a laugh.
"Do you even want to go out with him?" asked Alice, placing her book down and looking at Lily. "I have no idea" Lily replied, doing the same with her book. "Well I guess he is good looking, nice, funny and he's stopped being a bully and…and I guess I do like him."
She admitted thoughtfully, twisting a strand of hair with her fingers. James felt smug and he could feel a satisfies smirk forming on his face, the other boys all laughed and gave him light punches on the arms. A squeal brought them out of their discussion back to the mirror.
"Ooh! Maybe I can come with you so I can get to know Sirius Black a bit better" said Marlene, licking her lips appreciatively. "Because damn that boy is fine." The girls all erupted into giggles again, leaving the boys smirking at Sirius.
"Well I'm spending the weekend with-" began Alice, but the other's yelling cut her off: "We know, Frank!" Alice blushed scarlet but there was a huge grin plastered on her face. "What am I going to wear or do or say?" asked a frantic Lily, tugging on her hair in distress.
"Relax Lily." Said Em soothingly "We'll figure everything out tomorrow, but for now I'm going to catch up on some beauty rest for the weekend." "Yeah I'm going to do the same." Sighed Lily, picking up her belongings.
All the others followed suit, changing into their pj's and hopping into bed and closing the curtains with a swish of their wands. All was quiet in both dormitory's, "Come on I'm sleepy" whispered a tired Peter.
Sirius slipped the mirror under his pillow before shooing the others away and snuggling into his quilt. James made his way to his bed stretching and yawning; he pulled his clothes off leaving his boxes on.
He hopped into bed before bidding the others good night and closing his curtains. He placed his glasses on the bedside table and snuggled into his quilt. "Another day with Lily tomorrow." James thought sleepily before ruffling his hair and closing his eyes, it wasn't long before he was deep asleep.
*SNEAK PREVIEW*
They walked down the street arm in arm admiring the displays, they stopped at a particular shop that was selling jewelery. They browsed for awhile, pointing out various things to each other, when suddenly the red head spotted something that made her gasp.
It was a small silver pendent that was in the shape of a lily with crystal beads dotting the petals, it hung off a simple silver chain. She picked it up gently admiring it in the sun, it wasn't until she felt a warm, large hand taking it off her that she realized what was happening. "No you can't buy that it's way to expensive." she blurted out, shaking her head.
"It's alright Lils, I want to." he replied, walking to the counter. "Wait no James." she said stubbornly but it was to late for he had already handed over the large gold coins and was coming back over. "Here Lils, I bought this for you." he said, placing the pendent around her neck as he spoke. "It's beautiful" she breathed, touching it fondly.
"Just like you" he agreed, staring deep into her emerald eyes. Lily just noticed how close they were and started to panic, but before she had time to pull away he lent in and brushed his lips with hers.
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