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The first thing James heard when he woke up was the sound of running water. He opened his eyes to find that the bathroom door handle was changed from gold to bright red. Foolishly, he tried to open it. He immediately retreated his hand when he felt the searing pain shoot though it.
She had jinxed the bathroom door.
James got changed and headed down to the great hall. He noticed Sirius chatting up a dark haired Ravenclaw whom he had never met before and walked over to him.
"Not wasting any time, Padfoot, eh?" James raised his eyebrows and smirked at his best friend.
"Please excuse me, Doll, as I have a quick chat with my friend," he winked at her and turned to James.
"Doll? And I thought 'peanut' was bad!"
"Shut up James. I nearly had her!"
"Nearly had her? You could have any girl before you wink an eye! Maybe after you wink an eye, actually…"
"Speaking of girls, here comes your favourite one right now"
James' hand flew automatically to his jet black hair and ruffled it up so it looked windblown. Lily sighed and walked over to him.
"There are a few we things to go over" she said curtly. "First of all, we need to set preparations for the start of year party. There has to be decorations, a menu and a time and place. We can start making the plans tonight and show them to Dumbledore tomorrow." She said this in one breath and went over to join her best friends at the Gryffindor table.
"Hey Emily! How were your summer holidays? I missed you so much! Where's Natalie?"
Emily's dark blue eyes lit up as she saw her best friend. She had beautiful straight black hair that stopped midway down her back and her great sense of fashion showed off her perfect curves. Natalie, her identical twin sister had the same look but a totally different personality. While Emily was smart and funny, Natalie was loud, scrapes a pass and very slow. They were both great fun to be with, though, because they both never said no to a party.
"They were okay, I guess, Natalie hasn't woken up yet, I expect, good thing it's Sunday!"
The best friends laughed and gossiped about their summers; Natalie had four boyfriends and five dates, Emily went to a Defence against the Dark Arts club and met, surprisingly, Peter Pettigrew. He supposedly failed the test at the end of the term.
They went on like this until Lily felt a pair of eyes on her. She turned her head and saw none other than James staring at her with those deep hazel eyes of his. Just looking at them made Lily melt. –Wait! What was she thinking? She cleared her throat as she felt a lump starting to rise in it and resumed her chat with Emily.
James walked outside and leaned against the Marauder's tree. Lily took his breath away. And when she looked into his eyes just minutes ago, he didn't care what she said to him, but he new there was something other than hatred in those beautiful emerald eyes of hers. He smiled smugly to himself. Maybe this year might not be too bad…
As she sunk into her favourite chair by the fire, Lily fell into deep thought. She didn't know what had made her feel this way. James wasn't acting any different than last year, or the year before, or was he?
No. She was probably just nervous about him staring at her so intensively that she felt uneasy. But that was never a problem before...
Lily walked over to the little bar set up at the other side of the Heads Common room. She sighed as she made herself some hot chocolate with cream and sprinkled some 'hundreds and thousands' on top. She sat back down on her armchair and picked up her favourite book and started reading. But her mind was smothered with thoughts about James. How his jet black hair fell so carelessly into his eyes, how his - aahh! She couldn't believe it!
Was Lily Evans falling for James Potter?
A/N: I know it's short, but I just needed an in-between chapter to get into the story.
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