1Chapter 11:

Oh, and just a little note, well a change I've made. In the second chapter I said that Lily's mom was mean or well Lily didn't like her very much. Well, I'm changing her to a very loving and caring mother so get used to it! SO yeah, in the future when I mention Lily's mother, it isn't the mean old woman I described in chapter two. She's nice, well as nice as any other mother is (in fact, I'm basing her off of my own mother, who is EXTREMELY talkative and outgoing...Lily's father is shy and quiet like herself). Yeah, just a note.

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Dear Mum, Dad...and Petunia. Me, along with James Potter (remember, the boy I told you about whose head boy with me?) have been nominated to be delegates to go to a neighboring country (you know sort of like exchange students) to represent Hogwarts in the National Endeavor for Magical Cooperation. I, however, need to acquire your permission (written on paper is preferred Dumbledore said, though I can't think of any other way you could contact me...) to attend this once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-like event. Can I go, PLEASE? I've never wanted anything more then to go in my entire life! Well...almost anything...but we wont go into that! Again, PLEASE? I would love you forever (not that I already don't, of course!) and cannot, at the present, think of any sort of bribe to perhaps influence your answer. Send back an answer (hopefully a yes!) as soon as you can! I am in a complete state of anxiousness!

My love to you, as always,

Lily

Lily folded her letter, picked up a long stick-like glass instrument with a small cup on the end that had been suspended on a rack over the common room fire and was full of melted, silver envelope wax (that greatly resembled unicorn blood they had studied in Care of Magical Creatures), and poured a small amount on the tip of the pointed crease on her letter. She wordlessly picked up her stamp (that consisted of a lily intertwined with two vines) and pressed it down upon the wax for five seconds, creating a metallic masterpiece. She pulled it away, masterly not spilling or trailing a single drop and laid it on an empty end table next to her for the wax to dry. She sighed in exhaustion and leaned back into the soft, color-fading cushions of the couch she was occupying, rubbing her sore and tired eyes. Just hours ago she had been in James' arms, staring out into wet nothingness across the magnificent Hogwarts ground that, at the time, had acquired a misty-gray glow, satisfying her conscious and sinus' beautifully. James... just his name made her feel bubbly inside. She couldn't help it, though; she was in love. And thinking it wasn't enough. She had to tell him.

"James!" She yelled, making her way up the boy's staircase.

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"James!" a female voice shouted up the stairs. James' head snapped up from his Herbology book. That was Lily's voice. He grinned. She was coming to see him. That simple concept made him want to jump off his bed and whoop as loud as he could, scoop her up into his arms and ride away with her along the horizon.

"James!" She yelled again, flinging the door open and running inside into his arms. They stayed like that for a few seconds until she let go and look strait into his eyes.

"James..." she started hesitantly, then building up the courage, "James...do you...well, do you love me?" She asked, staring at her shoes while her cheeks flushed. James gaped at her for the longest time. Lily took this for a bad sign, still not looking him in the eye.

"Lils, of course!" And he swooped down and kissed her. She opened her mouth for entry and he immediately conveyed to her wishes. They kissed, still in each others arms, until he picked her up and carried her to his bed.

(EW! All you perverts, its not what you think!)

He pulled away from her and sat up against his headboard; Lily maneuvered herself into his lap, as she had done earlier.

"I'm glad...cause I love you too."

"Well, that's vital if I'm going to propose, isn't it?"

"What!" she whipped her head around looking at his small grin.

"Not yet." He said gently. "But when we graduate I fully intend to make you permanently mine. Then I wont have to get permission to get in your pants."

"James!" She yelled disapprovingly but nonetheless squealed and threw her arms around his neck. "I say yes! Yes! I don't care about waiting for a ring! Oh I wish we could get married now..."

"Oh, believe me, you wont be this determined once you start living with me...just ask Sirius." James replied laughing. She gave him a quick kiss before exiting his dormitory, stopping to give him one, last loving look before she skipped down the stairs to inform her friends of her new 'discovery'.

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After informing her friends of James' 'proposal' they each squealed simultaneously and hugged her multiple times.

"Oh Lily! I'm so jealous!" Jenny yelled, hugging Lily again, who didn't realize she was positively beaming. "Stupid Sirius...so thick that Snape would propose to me before him..." She huffed.

"I'm sorry, but did I just hear my name and Snape's in the same sentence?" Came a mock outraged cry from behind the girls and Sirius wrapped his arms around Jenny's waist, staring at the girls with raised eyebrows.

"Just saying how Snape's going to propose to her before you." Aphrodite smirked. Sirius' mouth dropped in the fraction of a second after her statement. Jenny was blushing embarrassedly.

"WHAT?" he roared, releasing his grip on Jenny's waist and spinning her around to face him. His brow was furrowed and he had a dangerous glint in his eyes. "She's kidding right?" Jenny pushed him away.

"So what if she's not?" she shot back. His eyes widened.

"There's no way...you're a Gryffindor—"

"Why would that change anything?" She yelled, her face contorted in a glare. His resembled the same. Lily and Aphrodite slowly back away, not wanting to interfere on Jenny and Sirius' first true fight. "You've heard Aphy! Inter-house relationships are encouraged!"

"I can't believe I'm having THIS fight with YOU of all people! Snape wouldn't give you a second glance!"

"I BEG YOUR PARDON!" Jenny was internally grateful that the spot were they were arguing, next to the oak front doors, was deserted of any other students.

"I forbid you to any fraternizing with the slytherins!" He had reached for her wrists and were holding them in a vice-grip, making sure she stared into his eyes as he spoke.

"You can't order me around! I don't belong to you!" She tried to free herself from her grip but realized too late that he was much stronger then her. All of a sudden, he waved his wand at the front doors and they swung open. He dragged Jenny's unwilling body outside, amid many yells and protests.

"I hate you! You're insufferable! You're a complete prick! All you care about is yourself and anything else that concerns you! Your more like your father then I thought!" She realized she had gone too far. He immediately dropped her arms and they fell limp at her sides.

"I..." He whispered menacingly, "am nothing like my father..." and with that he turned around and ran towards the Quidditch stadium.

"Sirius! I'm sorry!" she yelled, her previous feelings neutralized after what she had said and done horribly wrong. She ran after him and eventually, and she noticed that as he realized she was following him he slowed down a bit, as though unwilling to go on, caught up with him. He hung his head as she intertwined her fingers through his. She faced him, not at all hesitant, and stared directly into his downcast eyes softly placing her hand on his cheek. "I didn't mean that...you know I didn't. So stop sulking and kiss me you fool." He looked away and muttered derisively, "Funny how we're having a fight about you marrying Snivellous. I am a fool." He paused for a few seconds then whispered, "A fool in love..." And he leaned down and kissed her, deeply and for several seconds. They kept kissing for several minutes, only breathing for a second before closing the gap between their mouths again.

"Argh...I'm so glad Aphy and Remus are staying for the I.E.M.C. We've obviously proved that we can't be in each other's company too long before either snogging or arguing." Jenny said laughing as she rested her forehead against his, both of them smiling serenely.

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"Aphy! Jen! He sent me another gift! Another one! Look at them!" Lily ran, grinning, into the Great hall during breakfast the next morning. She stuck her hands out in front of he, spreading her fingers out wide. Adorning her small hands were silk sky blue gloves.

"Lily, they're gorgeous!"

"Those would match your eyes brilliantly Aphy!"

"Jenny! They're Lily's, not mine! So, are they from him?" Jenny and Aphrodite regarded Lily with suggestive knowing expression, Jen complete with wriggling eyebrows. Lily laughed outright at them and sat down at the table.

"If you think these are pretty, you should see the rest of it upstairs."

"How many gloves did he get you?"

"No! He got me matching robes, slippers, and a golden locket with a sapphire set in the middle." Jenny gaped at lily, then turned to her right and smacked Sirius in the back of the head.

"OUCH! Jenny, what the bloody heck was that for!"

"How come you don't get me expensive presents!"

"Cause I'm not trying to win you! I've already got you! Not like Prongs over—mph!" For James had just thrown his hand over Sirius' mouth.

"Pardon?"

"Ignore Sirius..." James said nervously laughing, "he hasn't had his pills today." Sirius, whose eyes and nose were only visible, glared at James.

"The card said that he had heard that I was nominated to be one of the delegates and that he wished he was going with me." She sighed dreamily, "He said it was most likely cold so thats why got me the complete robe and all. Oh! I almost forgot, he got me a hat too."

"A hat?"

"Yep! It's really cute...on the whole, if I wear it it'll look like I attend beaubatons. I never thought blue was my color...but I guess it is becoming of me, isn't it?" She said brightly, inspecting her new gloves with a perky smile. James couldn't help beaming.

"So how many gifts does this make?" Aphy asked, reaching for a piece of toast and the marmalade.

"Four."

"No James, Five."

"Nope. The flowers, rose necklace, emerald ring, and now this blue outfit."

"Your forgetting the amethyst necklace."

"I never gave–I mean, what amethyst necklace?"

"The one that Peter tried to steal."

"I said I was sorry!"

"Wormtail, shove off, we're having a conversation here." said Sirius. Peter leaned back, folding his arms with an ugly look on his face.

"Oh, fine, don't talk to me then."

"Thank you..." Jenny whispered, rolling her eyes as she did. Peter glared at her through slits of brown.

"I'm not hungry anymore." and with that he left the table. And when he wasn't in hearing distance Jenny exclaimed, "Finally!"

"Jen, don't be rude...ah what the heck, he was getting on my nerves as well." Just then a brown speckled Owl landed on the table and stuck its leg out towards Lily. She read the name of the sender and an apprehensive clouded look crossed her features. "It's from Mum and Dad..." she muttered, standing up from the table and exiting the Great hall. About two minutes later, she returned squealing, with a huge grin on her face and knocked James to the ground as she jumped up and hugged him. Attempting to climb off of him, she stumbled her way back onto her feet.

"They said yes! They said yes! OH JAMES! THEY SAID YES!" She hugged everyone in the vicinity, even a few disgusted looking Slytherins. James silently thanked Merlin that Snape was not there at present. Lily, grabbing onto Jenny's and Aphrodite's arms just above the elbow pulled them towards the direction of Gryffindor Tower. "You two must help me pack!" was her feeble excuse.

"Oh, Lily, Jenny, I forgot to tell you, your ball gown's arrived this morning. They're on my bed, you mustn't forget them in your packing Lily." Aphy stated with a wink.

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HA! I told you Lily would go! And nobody believed me...ok, everyone did cause what would be the point of mentioning it and putting it in a freaking chapter that Dumbledore specifically asked them so why wouldn't she? Oh well, just trying to take up space you know. Like all other authors...ok, I need to stop lying. I'm sorry, I've just eating a whole bag of skittles. The BIG ones.

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