A/N: Hey! Thank you so much for all of your lovely reviews, I love them, so keep 'em coming please! I hope you like this chapter, not nearly as dramatic as the last one and a little funny I think… Oh by the way, I made a mistake, it was supposed to be a couples costume ball… oops… Oh and also, has anyone picked up on the dates I've been using?
Well that's all
P.S. I would've had this up earlier, but Fanfiction is being a pain and won't let me log in
Kristin
Chapter 6
The next morning Lily woke early. After changing into a casual outfit, as it was Saturday and she didn't have to wear her uniform, she went to James' room and found the bed empty. She sighed and decided he must've slept in the boy's dormitory the night before. When she got to the boy's dormitory, she found James' bed empty, and the rest of the boys sound asleep, not uncommon, for it was 6 AM on a Saturday and after a dance that lasted late into the night.
Now, none of this mattered to Lily as she muttered to herself about stupid boys who slept until all hours of the day, so she proceeded to wake up her least favorite marauder, Sirius Black. Normally, Lily was a very considerate girl, but Sirius had pranked her many times in the past, and she wasn't thinking clearly for she was very upset about the James fiasco, so she took the pillow from James' bed and beat Sirius over the head with it. The poor boy woke with a start, looking around frantically for what had slapped him.
"What do you want at 6 AM Evans?" Sirius questioned sleepily.
"I want you to tell me where James is." Lily said with a dead serious tone.
"Did you check his bed Evans, I mean that's where most people who aren't crazed lunatics are right now." Sirius responded.
"Yes I did you dimwit!" Lily retorted, getting angry.
"And he wasn't there?" Sirius questioned, with a yawn.
"Would I have woken you if he was?" Lily questioned in agitation.
"Well I don't know, you are a raving lunatic and you don't like me, so yeah!" Sirius said.
"Black, get up and help me find him!" Lily hissed at him.
"No. I saved your ass last night with the crowd surfing stunt I pulled, and by the way Snape squeezed my ass! I am now officially scared for life, so if you wouldn't mind thanking me, apologizing for waking me at this ungodly hour, shutting my hangings, and leaving, I'd appreciate it." Sirius said quickly as he rolled over and shut his eyes.
Lily sighed. Sirius was right, she did owe him for last night. "Thank you for last night Sirius" Lily said stiffly. "I'm going now, you can close your own hangings." Lily said as she turned and walked out of the boy's dormitory.
Lily spent the next three hours searching the castle for James, she didn't even stop for breakfast, although she did stop in the Great Hall many times, in hopes that James was in there, but he wasn't.
Lily finally went outside in hopes of finding him running around the grounds, but he wasn't. She sighed in defeat and began walking towards Hagrid's hut in hopes that maybe James had gone to help the crazy man with one of his many animals. Lily walked across the Quidditch pitch to get to his house, when she saw a flash of something flying in the air. She would know that unruly black hair, and those wire rim glasses anywhere.
"James!" She cried out loudly, he didn't look towards her so she tried again. Finally, she charmed her voice to become louder, and yelled to James. That got his attention.
"Come down here!" Lily bellowed. He looked at her and instead of flying towards her, he continued flying, higher and higher until all she could see was what looked like a bird.
Lily huffed, as she charmed her voice back to normal once more. Screaming at him wasn't going to do it, she had to do something drastic, so she went over to the broom shed, took out a school broom, and shakily got onto it and flew to where James was.
James stopped flying when he saw Lily mount her broom and start soaring towards him. She hated flying! It scared her to go so fast at such high heights, and yet, here she was her fierce stubbornness shining through, doing anything just so she could talk to him!
"James, I want to talk to you!" Lily said desperately. James noticed she was shaking slightly, and her grip on the broom was deadly.
"Lily, I have nothing more to say to you, I told you everything last night." James said as he started to fly away from her.
"Stop moving." Lily said fiercely, her eyes blazing with red-hot anger. James stopped short. "I'm on a bloody broom! You know how much I hate flying. You will not move and you will listen to me, is that clear?" Lily asked in a commanding tone.
James only nodded.
"Good. Look, James I know I acted terribly after I kissed you over the summer but I was afraid. Yes, I felt something, but I was so scared of destroying our friendship! I was afraid of losing you, but now that I've pretty much lost you, what else is there to lose? You deserve the truth, and I owe it to myself to come clean, so here it is. I love having you as a friend, I love laughing with you, I love catching crayfish with you, I love how I know everything about you, I even love storms with you! I love the way you kissed me, but most of all I love you! And not in a friendly way either. And that's the truth." Lily finished, breathing hard.
Neither noticed that their brooms had gradually started to fall towards the ground, and when Lily finished her speech, their feet touched solid ground.
James had remained silent during Lily's entire speech, and at the end, said, "I love you too."
The two got off of their brooms, and suddenly it began to rain. James reached for Lily's arm and pulled her towards him, his lips crashing on top of her own. It took Lily only a second to respond. She wrapped her arms around James' neck, and his went around her waist. Their bodies were pressed close together, and it seemed that they stayed connected by the lips for far longer than was healthy, for very little oxygen was going to either of their brains. When the two pulled away, they were completely soaked, the rain had turned into a full-fledged storm, and moments later a rumble of thunder was heard, and a flash of lightning was seen.
"Let's get back to the castle." James said, knowing how Lily felt about thunderstorms
"Okay." Lily replied, gripping James' hand.
When the two finally got inside, James asked nervously,
"So, what are we now?"
"I was hoping you might want to be my boyfriend." Lily replied earnestly.
"Only if you'd be my girlfriend." James responded with a wolfish smile.
Lily laughed, and replied, "of course". She kissed him again. It felt so good to finally be with James. So many people had seen the inevitable before either one had even considered it, but they were together now, and they'd never felt so content. They were just right together, like two pieces of a puzzle that fit together to make a whole.
The two walked back to the Heads common room together, their hands entwined, talking animatedly, and smiling at everyone they passed in the hallways. Rumors would be flying before long, why were the Head boy and girl soaked from head to foot, holding hands, and so cheerful? The day before they'd been in the worst fight known to Hogwarts.
The two changed and met in the common room.
"I didn't eat breakfast yet and I'm starving!" Lily told James with enthusiasm.
"I didn't eat either, let's go down to the Great Hall, we've got another twenty minutes before breakfast is closed." James said as he grabbed Lily's hand and walked down to the Great Hall.
When they got to the Great Hall, each piled their plates with food and ate as though they hadn't eaten in ages. Neither could keep the large smiles off of their faces, and people were staring at them, whispering to each other about this turn of events. About five minutes later, Sirius sauntered into the Great Hall, having fallen back to sleep immediately after Lily left him.
"You found him Lily." Sirius stated obviously.
"Yep." Lily replied with a giant grin plastered across her face.
"Good for you." Sirius replied somewhat uncertainly. The manic grin that Lily was giving him was rather scary.
"Lily, I know I told you that only lunatics wake up at 6 AM, but I didn't actually think you would take it to heart…" Sirius said with a grin.
"I'm too happy to even be mean to you Black." Lily responded a grin still on her face.
"Did you put a cheering charm on her mate?" Sirius asked James.
"Nope." James replied, a large grin spreading across his own face.
"Am I dreaming?" Sirius asked uncertainly. The looks on Lily and James' faces were very odd and scary.
James pinched Sirius. "Ouch! Jesus James what was that for?" Sirius asked angrily.
"Nope, not dreaming." Lily confirmed.
"Well then, what are you two so happy about?" Sirius asked. "Last night you hated each other."
"We're in love." Lily said with a sigh, and moved her body closer to James'.
" Cool! Can I be best man at the wedding? Ooh and will you name your first born after me? Ooh can I be the baby's godfather? I shot best man and godfather!" Sirius shouted in excitement.
"Umm, we've only just started going out, please stop planning our wedding, and no my first born will not be named Sirius." Lily told Sirius.
"Yup." James answered as he took a big bite out of his French toast.
"You guys are such party poopers." Sirius said as he sulked. Suddenly, his face lit up and he jumped onto the table.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I know you are all wondering about Lily Evans and James Potter, after that fight they had last night you wouldn't expect to see them together, correct? Well I have the great fortune of informing you that they have worked out their differences, and have begun dating, they are in love! If anyone had a bet that James and Lily would get together November first 1977, you were correct and should begin collecting your money. Please congratulate the happy couple, I will have a box that you can put baby name suggestions in. Thank you." and then Sirius hopped off of the table, took a swig of pumpkin juice, patted James on the back, and left the Great Hall.
"Why would people bet about when we'd get together?" James asked Lily.
"No idea, did you know about it?" She questioned.
"Nope." Replied James. "Are you done eating yet?" He asked.
"Yeah, let's go." Lily replied. She grabbed James' and the two began walking out of the Great Hall.
The days went by, and soon, the entire school knew that the inevitable had happened, Lily Evans and James Potter were a couple. Their friends had taken the news well, but instead of congratulating the two, they rolled their eyes and muttered about it being ruddy time.
One night, Lily was sitting in the Heads common room, reading a NEWT level Charms book so that she would be ahead on the work. Next to her sat a bottle of butterbeer, her favorite drink in the whole world. She had been slowly savoring it, as it was the last bottle left from her last visit to Hogsmede. James suddenly walked into the room, his broom in hand, and still in his quidditch robes.
"Hey Lils." He said as a placed a soft kiss on his girlfriend's lips. It felt so good to call Lily his girlfriend he thought to himself.
Lily smiled against his lips and pulled him closer to her, deepening the kiss. He moaned, allowing her to slip her tongue into his mouth. James pulled away moments later so the two could catch their breath.
"How was practice?" Lily asked with interest.
"Oh, not too bad. Is that butterbeer?" James asked excitedly.
"It's mine." Lily answered possessively, as she grabbed hold of the bottle.
"Could I have a sip? I love butterbeer." James asked eagerly.
"Umm…" Lily started. "I don't like to share drinks, germs and backwash, you know…" Lily finished lamely.
James narrowed his eyes at her.
"What? You think making out doesn't entail any of that? Kissing is backwash, just more pleasurable. You just don't want to share your drink!" James exclaimed.
"Jammmes!" Lily whined. "I got it first so I get to drink it, it's only fair." Lily reasoned.
"Hmmm." James responded. Then, without warning, he lunged at Lily and pinned her under his weight, then he began tickling her mercilessly. Lily was very ticklish, and James knew it.
"Fine!" Lily gasped between giggles. "You can have a sip, but just one."
James got up, smirking. "Thank you." He took the bottle of butterbeer, and took a large gulp.
"JAMES! That was a huge amount of liquid you consumed! I said a sip, you took a gulp, so not fair." Lily said in indignation.
"I'll buy you two butterbeers on Saturday, okay?" James asked Lily sweetly.
"Okay, but two right?" Lily asked, sulking a little.
"If you let me finish this one, I'll buy you a twelve pack and I won't drink a single one." James bribed.
Lily weighed her options, finish the backwashed butterbeer she had here, or get 12 fresh ones in two days… hmm?
"It's a deal." Lily told him with a smile.
James grinned. "I think we need to seal the deal, any ideas?" He asked with a smirk.
"Well, we could shake on it…" Lily replied.
"How about if we kiss?" James asked brightly.
"Even better." Lily smiled as James pressed his lips to hers. It didn't take long for the two to become consumed with the kiss, James' hands began traveling under Lily's shirt towards her breasts, and finally reaching his destination, fondling her breasts. Lily's hands were doing a little exploring of their own. She had pushed James' quidditch robes off of his shoulders and was busy pulling his shirt out of his pants; she wanted it off. Her boyfriend had a beautiful stomach, and she wanted to admire it as much as she could, and did. She pulled his shirt over his head and ran her hands over his hard abs. James unclasped Lily's bra, and cupped her full breasts in his hands. She moaned, and reached for the bulge that had started to form in James' pants, and began rubbing him through the material. The couple hadn't gone any farther than this just a little touching and heavy make out sessions. Both could tell their relationship wasn't ready for sex quite yet, and both were content to wait.
After a while, Lily pulled away panting.
"We should go to bed." She whispered.
James glanced at his watch, it was a little after midnight and they had class first thing in the morning.
"Yeah, you're right." James replied reluctantly. "Come on." James said, climbing off of Lily and offering his hand to help her up.
"James, what if I stayed with you tonight?" Lily questioned.
"Why is it supposed to storm?" James asked.
"No, but I thought it might be nice. If you don't want to--" Lily was cut off by James' lips on her own.
"I'd love to. Come on, you can borrow some of my clothes." Then, the two went into James' room and into his bed.
They snuggled together before falling asleep. When they awoke the next morning, they had identical looks of happiness on their faces. The really were in love.
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