Chained for life

Chapter 4

The next morning James had quite a different start to the previous day. He and Lily lay back to back with the linked hands over their heads, and this day not under the same blanket. James turned a bit and saw that Lily was awake. She had not yet noticed that James was awake.

James yawned and stretched, and Lily turned to face him.

"Morning," she said smiling.

"Morning my little Lily-flower"

Lilys smile disappeared. James looked alarmed at what he said.

"Oh sorry Lily I didn't mean to. It just slipped out."

Lily nodded, and then smiled. "Let's go out and have some fun!"

James grinned and got up. Half an hour later they entered the kitchen and saw Sirius and Lizzie eating late breakfast and talking. Lizzie looked up and smiled at the smiling Lily and yawning James.

"Good morning you two," she said.

Both Lily and James mumbled a 'Good morning' and sat down at the table.

"Wanna go to the beach today?" Sirius asked. "…since you weren't in the mood yesterday."

James looked at Lily who looked down at her bread with jam. "What do you think?" he asked her and shoved her slightly.

She looked up and swallowed. "Sure… When are we going?" she asked and looked at Lizzie.

"Half an hour?" she asked.

"Yeah, okay."

"Fine." James said and grabbed some bread.

Both James and Lily made their way up stairs to their room and put of appropriate clothing. Lily put on a light pink strapless dress (she had to wear a lot of these now) and James just put on another pair of board shorts. But just as he was about to grab a top

"You do realise you can't put that on right?"

James didn't but he wouldn't let the almighty Lily know that.

"I was just moving it; gees I cant do anything without you guessing what im going to do can me?

Lily looked a little put off and was about to cross her arms when James grabbed her chained arm and swung her around. They were inches apart. James and Lily were looking at each other when the door suddenly burst open.

"And where are the two love birds…" Sirius trailed off as he saw the two standing where they were. After getting over the initial shock a grin spread over his face.

"Well I see when I'm interrupted and not needed Lizzie and I will just wait down stairs." And with that he closed the door. James looked back at Lily grinning and Lily just looked away and stepped back.

"Ah, um, let's getting going then."

"Sure lets just get some towels."

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The beach was a fun affair and James and Lily. They got along quite well and woke the next day similar to the other. Lily and Lizzie asked James and Sirius if they wanted to go the mall. They agreed to go, but regretted it just as they entered the centre. Lily and Lizzie had to try almost every possible shoe in the shoe-shop and James and Sirius couldn't do anything about it. Then Lily and Lizzie dragged them into a shop for Dresses. They both groaned knowing they would be in here for ages. Sirius raced to the chairs and got comfortable while James was pulled around the shop. After that Lily and Lizzie had to look at several binki's. All James and Sirius had to do was carry the bags, and there were more and more for each store. At last they fell down in two chairs at a little kiosk which served ice-cream.

"What do you want girls?" James asked them. "It's on me."

Lily looked at him a few seconds. "Sorbet," she said.

James looked at the menu. "There're ten different sorbets. Which one do you want?"

Lily leaned a little over to James and looked at the menu. James smelled her perfume and smiled, before looking up at Lizzie.

"And what about you?"

"Strawberry," she said and smiled, while looking at James with a gaze he did not like.

"And you?" James looked at Sirius.

"Lemon."

James looked back at Lily. Her eyes were still searching the menu.

"Decided yet?"

Lily bit her lower lip. "I think I'm going with the mango…" she said hesitating.

"Great," James said and smiled.

They sat for a few more minutes before a low girl with blonde hair came over to ask what they wanted.

"Umm… A Strawberry, Lemon sorbet, mango sorbet and chocolate.. All big."

"Uh James do you seriously think I could eat that much?," Lily said.

"Then just leave the rest," James said to Lily before looking at the waitress. "That's all."

"Okay, thank you," the waitress said and left.

"I could totally get a date with her you know." Sirius said while he cocked his head and watched her back. He had just been talking about how he had a date with some girl from the beach.

"Have you ever considered trying to be with the same girl for more than a week?" Lizzie asked Sirius.

"Never," Sirius said simply. "What would be fun about that?"

Lizzie opened her mouth to reply, but James stopped her with his hand. "Don't. I've tried, but it's impossible."

Lizzie didn't seem like she wanted to let it go, but did. She just had one last comment, "It's great to be in a relationship."

James knew that Lizzie liked to be in a relationship and was nothing like Sirius. If they started a discussion like that, they would probably never stop.

"Lizzie's right," he said after some seconds. "But just let it go."

Sirius didn't answer; he was busy looking into Lizzie's shopping bags. The waitress came back with the ice and James paid her.

"How can you buy that much stuff?" Sirius asked out of nowhere.

"How can we not?" Lizzie asked him back. "We need it."

Sirius just rolled his eyes and went back to his almost finished ice-cream.

"So what should we do for the rest of the day when we get back?" Lily asked after some time.

"I'm going on a date," Sirius said and smiled. "So it will only be the three of you."

"Uh!" Lizzie exclaimed and looked at Lily. "Let's do some girl stuff!"

"Like what?" Lily asked.

"I don't know… Paint our toenails and do facemasks?"

"Yeah. It would be fu-"

"No way!" James cut her off. "I'm not going to stand a whole day with make-up and perfume! And gossip! And boy-talk! It will be hell!"

"Stop that. We're not that bad." Lizzie said.

"Right," James snorted.

Lily sighed and slowly shook her head. "We are not that bad… We could paint James's toenails too! And give him a make-over!" she added with a glint in her eye.

"No you couldn't!" James said while pulling his feet up under him.

The two girls laughed, and Sirius looked at James with a mischievous smile.

"You would be finished as my friend if that happened," he said to James.

"I wouldn't let that happen."

"We're two. You're one. We can just force it on you," Lizzie said.

"That would be an idea," Lily said, smiling mischievously.

"I have to take a picture of that and show it to the school paper" Sirius grinned.

James shot him a warning look.

"Maybe we should make tracks and go home?"

"Yeah…" replied James getting up and picking up Lily's bags and they started to walk towards the bus stop to get home. The bus trip was uneventful and it wasn't until Sirius left for his date did Lily and Lizzie start their girls night. James soon found out what they meant.

"Okay so lollies, chocolate, popcorn, ice cream and movies" Lily recited, more to herself than anyone else. James and Lizzy just stood there watching knowing not to interrupt her when she was in planning mood.

"Are you guys going to help or do I have to do everything myself?!" Lily asked suddenly catching Lizzie and James off guard.

"Lily we are just waiting for you instructions since we thought your best at this" replied Lizzie quickly. Lily seemed to like this, she smiled and both Lizzy and James let out a breath of relief. They went for a walk to the shops just at the end of the street and got the needed things and got home and cooked the popcorn and what not. They put the movie on and sat on the couch waiting for it to start.

"So what are we watching girls?" James asked

"Just a girly movie" Lily said shortly

"Popcorn?" Lizzie asked from the armchair she sat in.

"Sure," Lily said and shrugged.

Lizzie handed her the popcorn bowl.

After twenty minutes it was very clear to James, that it wasn't a movie that he would ever like. He almost dozed off and could hear Lily and Lizzie talking, but not really hear what they were saying. He blinked a couple of times to make his view more clear. I would be embarrassing if he felt asleep now, it was only around eight.

Lily moved a bit next to James, and pushed herself a bit down at the same time as she leaned against James. And when she rested her head against his shoulder too, his heart skipped a beat. He tried to make his heart beat more silently, but it seamed out of control. He what was going on. Because deep inside he wished Lily had feelings for him, but he was sure she hadn't, and he had a hard time figuring out what Lily meant with this. It could be nothing, but it also could be everything. At that second he wished he had listened more that time when he was twelve and his father had talked to him about stuff like this. He slowly breathed in the smell of Lily.

"What am I doing" James muttered to himself, without knowing he had spoken aloud.

"Huh?" Lily turned her head and looked at him.

"Never mind" he quickly said and looked at the TV again.

Lily sent James's head a confused look.
He could see in the corner of his eye that Lily once again turned her head to the TV and watched the movie.

After some time James had almost fallen asleep. He shook his head slightly. He could hear Lily and Lizzie talking again and the movie where running on the TV. He pushed himself slightly down in the couch so he almost laid in it with his feet on the table. Lily had pulled her legs and feet up at the couch and now almost lay there, resting against James.

What did Lily mean by lying like this with him? James could not figure out if all girls were like that or just Lily, or if she had started to have feelings for him; the last thing probably being mostly wishful thinking. Maybe he was just thinking too much about it…

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