Chapter 3:
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Disclaimer: I don't think I put this in my other chapters oops. This applies to the entire story, nothing belongs to me I'm just playing with this magnificent world JK Rowling has set up for me. It's like I'm the puppeteer but I'm using her puppets…
Chapter 3: Hoggy Warty Hogwarts
"I wanted to thank you again, Mrs. Johnson, for letting me stay at your house." Lily said to her friend Kate's mother.
"It was a pleasure Lily. You girls better get on the train!" She said as she hugged her daughter.
"Bye mum. Come on Lily, let's go get a compartment with Leah and Sammy." Kate said as she tossed her blonde hair over her shoulder.
The two girls walked onto the train and immediately found two of their dorm mates, Leah Sanders and Sammy Koch. Leah was a tall girl, about 5'8" with short black hair and piercing blue eyes; Sammy on the other hand was barely 5 feet with long brown hair and brown eyes.
The girls hugged and immediately began to chatter about their summers.
"Guys, I've got a problem." Lily started.
"What's wrong Lils?" Leah asked with concern.
"Well I sort of kissed James over the summer…" Lily started.
She told the girls the entire story, and said,
"And now it's totally awkward between us because we never talked about it! To make everything worse we're going to be working together a lot this year because we're head boy and girl! Shit! That reminds me I've got to get to the prefect meeting… I'll be back soon!" Lily said as she dashed out of the room.
"Padfoot, you've got to get out of the prefects compartment, Lily is not going to be happy when she sees you here." James told his best friend.
"Yes well, I know that things are awkward between you two so I thought I'd break the ice with my charming err charms!" Sirius said brightly.
"Hmm, I actually think you'd make it worse." James said as he ushered his best friend out of the prefects' compartment.
James sat nervously for about five minutes waiting for Lily to arrive. He had no idea what he was going to say to her, would they ignore the kiss they shared? But how could they! He'd felt so much from that one simple gesture… but what if Lily didn't feel the same way. James thought to himself.
"Err Hi…" Lily said when she walked into the prefects compartment.
"Hey…" James said, not able to look Lily in the eyes.
After a moment of neither of them looking at each other nor speaking, Lily said, "The prefects should be here soon…"
"Yeah." James agreed.
And then the two stopped talking all together, it was far too awkward. It was weird that they couldn't talk like they used to. Before, they couldn't shut up around each other talking about anything and everything, but now, they were dancing around each other. Luckily for them, the prefects entered the compartment and Lily and James began explaining the duties that the prefects were to perform.
When the meeting was over, Lily and James walked out of the room silently and in opposite directions.
When Lily got back to her friend's compartment, Sammy asked,
"So how was it?"
"That has got to be the most awkward experience of my life!" Lily burst out, her eyes brimming with tears.
"Oh sweetie, I'm sure it wasn't that bad." Kate said soothingly as she rested a hand on Lily's back.
"Yes it was!" James and I couldn't even have a conversation! I mean we've always been able to talk and it's all my fault! If I could've controlled myself and not kissed him we'd be fine!" Lily sniffled.
"Lils, just talk to him about it, I'm sure he's just as upset as you are, and you'll feel better." Leah added.
"I can't just talk to him though! I'm too afraid!" Lily admitted to her friends.
"Afraid of what? It's James, your best friend! You've known him your entire life and I'm not going to sit back and watch you ruin a perfectly good friendship because you were too scared! Jesus Lily, are you a Gryffindor or not?" Sammy barked. For a girl who only stood at 5 feet, Sammy could be intimidating.
"Well I'm not feeling very brave right now." Lily muttered.
"Just give it time Lils, everything will work out." Kate soothed.
"And it was so awkward, I mean it was so uncomfortable in that room!" James said as he finished telling the marauders about his situation with Lily.
"Well Prongs, there's only one thing to do." Sirius said with ease.
"And that is?" James asked.
"Go snog another girl." Sirius replied.
"Sirius! That's your cure for everything." Remus said as he rolled his eyes.
"Yeah? Well it works!" Sirius replied.
"As nice as snogging another girl sounds, I don't think that's going to help." James said sadly, putting his head in his hands in a defeated manner.
"Well why don't you try talking to her?" Peter asked.
"That's what I was going to say." Remus told James.
"But I can't talk to her!" James exclaimed in frustration.
"Well then write her a letter." Sirius said.
"Yeah because that's personal." Peter muttered.
"I don't want to think about Lily right now. How about a game of exploding snap?" James asked his friends. The remainder of the train ride was spent playing games and eating candy.
The train finally pulled into Hogsmede and everyone exited it. Lily and her friends were going to find a compartment when Hagrid's voice boomed, "Lily yer need ter ride in the carriage with the head boy!"
"Oh right! Thanks Hagrid." she said with a smile. Deep down, her insides were twisting into tighter and tighter knots.
"Well I'd better go get into my carriage… bye guys." Lily said miserably to her friends as she walked over to where James was standing, having just said good bye to the marauders.
The two silently stepped into the carriage, neither speaking, nor looking the other in the eye.
James coughed, Lily cleared her throat, but other than that, the ride to the castle was silent.
After all of the new first years were sorted, and everyone had been fed and watered, Dumbeldore stood to make his start of the year speech.
Lily wasn't paying attention to what he was saying, her mind too focused on her situation with James, and James, well, he was watching Sirius try to balance a spoon on his noise. Sirius was failing miserably.
"I'd like the new head boy and girl, James Potter and Lily Evans to stand up please." Dumbeldore requested. Lily and James were both startled but stood up immediately.
"Well that's all I have to say, follow the prefects to your common rooms, they know the passwords, Lily, James, I'd like a word." Dumbeldore said.
Everyone was getting up from the Great Hall and going to their dorms, so it took Lily and James a few minutes to maneuver their way over to Dumbeldore.
"Hello professor." Lily said sweetly.
"Hey Professor." Said James.
"I'd like a quick word, we can talk as I show you to your new dormitory." Dumbeldore said with a smile and a twinkle in his eyes.
As the walked, Dumbeldore said, "I was hoping to hold a Halloween Ball this year, and I wanted you two to plan it, the prefects can help decorate of course, but I would rather not have anyone know about it right away, it would be a nice surprise. Ah, here we are!" Dumbeldore said as they reached a portrait of a nun and a monk playing cards. "The password is 'awkward' but feel free to change it." Dumbeldore said with a smile.
He walked through the portrait hole and into their common room. It was smaller than Gryffindor's but had a small kitchenette in one corner.
"I believe that these quarters will make it easy for Miss Evans to sleep in your bed at night Mr. Potter." Dumbeldore said with a twinkle in his eye.
Lily turned red and James began to splutter utter nonsense. Dumbeldore only smiled and said, "I'll leave you to it. Good night!" and he turned on his heel and walked out of the common room leaving Lily and James alone.
"Well, I'm off to bed." James said, and he almost galloped up the stairs to his bedroom.
Lily followed into her own room. She sighed. This was going to be a long year if she and James couldn't even look at each other without getting flustered.
The next day the sky was grey and looked ready to down pour at any moment. When Lily noticed this, she sighed in defeat. She wouldn't be getting any sleep, not with how things were between her and James at the moment…
"What's wrong Lils?" Kate asked as she sat down next to Lily in the Great Hall.
"It's going to rain." Lily muttered
"Well it's not the end of the world, plants need rain to grow and we need rain to give us water to drink and if it didn't rain our entire ecosystem would be thrown off!" Leah said from across the table.
"Shut up." Lily said grumpily, putting her face in her hands and resting them on the table.
"Hey Lilykins what's up?" Sirius said as he sauntered over to Lily. Lily groaned to herself. She was not in the mood to talk to Sirius.
"Piss off Black." She muttered, not bothering to look up.
"Ooh, is your little lovers spat with James getting you down?" Sirius asked, purposely provoking Lily.
"SIRIUS! LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!" Lily finally yelled, looking up and glaring at him.
"Oh I see, womanly troubles." Sirius said in a sing-song voice.
"Black, I am in no mood for your childish behavior, as head girl I have the privilege of giving you detention and you are about three centimeter's away from getting a detention! Now leave me the fuck alone!" Lily said in a sinister voice, her eyes narrowed.
"Geeze Evans, you really can't take a joke! Lighten up." Sirius said as he walked to the other side of the table where James, Remus, and Peter were sitting. James looked miserable and was banging his head against the table the entire time Sirius was talking to Lily.
"He's just going to make it worse isn't he!" James said urgently to Remus as they watched him interrogate Lily.
"Well then you should go over there and stop him." Remus said as he spooned some cereal into his mouth.
"No it's too weird, I can't go over there." James said and resumed hitting his head on the table.
When Sirius returned, he said, "Well it looks like Lily is in just as much pain as you are. If you two weren't so damn stubborn then you could be the perfect little duo again. Personally, I like you better all angsty and woe is me, but I know you'd be happier being happy-go-lucky." Sirius said as he took a huge bite of toast.
"Sirius, just shut up okay?" James said as he rubbed his temples.
"Fine Mr. Head boy." Sirius muttered and served himself some eggs.
That night, Lily sat awake in bed listening to the raging storm outside. She couldn't sleep; not without James, but of course she couldn't go to him. Lily took to pacing around her bedroom, clutching a stuffed bunny rabbit that had once been James. She'd even put on a shirt he'd left at her house in hopes that his smell would help her sleep but she wasn't that lucky.
That night Lily didn't sleep a wink, and it showed the next day in all of her classes. By her third class of the day, Lily was dozing off, something she never did, and something she shouldn't do because she was head girl.
"Ms. Evans!" McGonagall's voice barked sharply.
Lily's eyes fluttered open and looked around her. She was in the transfiguration classroom.
"Sorry professor, I had trouble sleeping last night." Lily muttered. McGonagall's nostrils flared.
"Don't let it happen again." McGonagal said sharply as she resumed her lesson.
Lily had to struggle to stay awake in all of her other classes, but she managed it. By 11:00 she was ready to collapse, but Merlin was against her. At that precise moment a thunderstorm decided to start up again. Lily hoped that she'd be too tired to think about the thunderstorm but as soon as her head touched the pillow a large clap of thunder followed by a blinding flash of lightning sent Lily screaming shrilly. She jumped out of bed and ran into James' room, and jumped into his bed with him in it.
He woke with a start.
"Lily?" He asked groggily.
"James! Let's just forget about everything okay? It was stupid, please can everything just go back to the way it was?" Lily said as she stared sobbing. "Please James! This has been the worst week of my life I've missed you so much." Lily cried harder.
"Shh. It's ok, we can go back to how we were. Shh don't worry Lils everything's fine, I missed you too." James confided.
James' words soothed Lily, and within seconds she was fast asleep, her head lying on James' chest.
James was glad to have his best friend back, but at the same time he was upset that she wanted everything to go back to the way it was before their kiss. He had felt something really powerful when he kissed her, and he wanted to feel it again. It took that one kiss to let James know that he had feelings for Lily, but he'd settle for being her friend, it was better than not having her at all.
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