A.N. I promised more, and due to the lovely feedback I got I'm going to update earlier than I thought! I really do appreciate it.

The World's Worst Hangover- Chapter two

After seeing James leave the room I realised that I was going to have to run back upstairs to Alice in order to beg her to make me look vaguely presentable for tonight, and in the incredibly rough state I was in it was almost definitely going to take all day.

"Alice?" I called up the stairs, "How much do you have planned for today?"

"Nothing much," she called down.

"Good," I said as I wandered into the room and collapsed on my bed, "because I think I've just done something stupidly brilliant," the look of intense worry was hilarious

"You haven't hexed Potter again have you?" She asked remembering the last time I hexed James (he was very green for at least a week).

"Nope, although it does involve potter," I hinted smugly.

"You've kissed him?" She asked stunned.

"No, well not yet anyw-"

"Not YET?" she shrieked.

"Alice, I may have asked him to be my date for Slughorn's party tonight, it must have been the alcohol talking, I have no idea what I've done, its madness, I look terrible. HELP ME!" I wailed. Alice took one look at me.

"Get in the bath,"

"What?" I asked.

"Get in the bath, stay in there for a long time, was you hair a bit, relax. I'm going to stay out here and work on altering one of your dresses a bit," She replied calmly whilst shoving me into the bathroom.

I ran a bath, filled it with tons of bubbles and got in. Alice was right; this was nice everything just seemed to go ahh. I thought of tonight but suddenly that didn't seem so awful anymore, James was… Nice? He was definitely less disgusting now than he had been in the past. He seemed more mature (or about as mature as any of those marauders could get). I yawned. Wow was I that sleepy? I'll just shut my eyes I thought.

I was having a nice dream, I was swimming in a beautiful lake, but hang on, everything was getting colder… My eyes flicked open. Damn, how long had I been in the bath? Alice would be wondering what happened to me. Hurriedly I climbed out of the bath, twisted my hair up into a towel and threw on my fluffy dressing gown.

"I'm so sorry Alice, I dosed off, totally not my fault. I'm wide awake now," I said rushing into the room.

"Don't worry Lil, conjuring your dress has been difficult but Cinderella you shall go to the ball!" she said with smile, she obviously remembered one of the muggle fairy stories I'd shared with her back in our first year although she had said the name sounded like a disease… As she bought out the creation I grinned, it was beautiful, Alice had so much talent in making clothes and I had suggested that she went into that line of business but she always refused. It was an olive green dress with flecks of gold all over it so that it shimmered in the light. It was short, just above the knee, but not too short, I did not want James getting any ideas into his imaginative head. I was too busy admiring Alice's work gobsmacked by her attention to detail that I didn't hear her asking me if it was ok. When I finally became attentive of her worried tone it took me several minutes to calm her down promising her that it was beautiful and that I loved it.

Hours later I emerged from our room feeling very pleased with the way I looked. Alice had worked her magic on me and now not only did I look better than this morning I felt better too. As James walked down the stair of the boy's dorms to meet me in the common room, he did a double take and his jawed dropped. I really did enjoy surprising him, he never saw it coming!

"Lily, you look, you look, you, you… you… wow," he said his tongue tying in knots.

"Thank you James, now shut your mouth before something flies in there, you might end up with a snitch in your mouth!" I said teasing him, and then I don't know what possessed me to do it, but I HUGGED him!