Chapter 3
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It was finally the last day of lessons.
As soon as the last bell rang, there was an eruption throughout the castle.
Dinner that night was the loudest it had been all year, students talking excitedly about the break.
"I cant believe you're gonna be here all alone" Charli told me.
"I'll be fine." I told her, piling corn onto my plate.
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The common room that night was even louder than the great hall at dinner. You had to shout just so the person sitting 5 inches away from you could hear what you were trying to say.
Slowly, as the night went on, the common room emptied out, finally leaving only me, Charli, Gabby, and James Potter and his friends.
"So who's all staying at Hogwarts?" James asked Sirius, stuffing some Honeydukes chocolate into his mouth.
Sirius, who had just done the same thing, shrugged.
"Remus do you know?" James said, although it was hardly understandable as he still had his mouth full of chocolate.
"What?" Remus asked.
James took a huge gulp, "Do you know who's all staying at Hogwarts over break besides me and Sirius?"
"Not that many. About 10 slytherins, a few ravenclaws and hufflepuffs, and 5 gryffindors coutning you two" Remus told them.
"Who from gryffindor?" Sirius asked.
"A couple first years and Lily Evans" Remus said.
"Lily Evans?" James asked.
My heart stopped.
"Yeah. Lily Evans. You know her. She's the one who never says anything" Sirius told him.
"Oh."
I stood up.
"Where are you going Lily?" Gabby asked.
"Bed. I'm kind of tired." I told them and than darted off.
I arrived in my dormitory where the other 7th year Gryffindor Girls were sleeping and collapsed onto my bed, my heart sinking as I thought about what James had said.
He hardly even knows who i am. How can I get him to like me?
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I woke up the next morning to find the dormitory empty. I stood up and stretched before heading down to the common room.
I was surprised to find it empty except for James.
"Morning Lily" James said as I entered the common room. I looked at him and he smiled.
It was than I remembered I was still in my pajamas.
I blushed as I took a seat by the fire.
"Where is everybody?" I asked.
"They already left to go home. It's just us and a couple of loser first years." James told me.
"They're not losers" I practically whispered.
"What?" James asked.
"They're not losers" I said, loud enough so he could hear me.
"Matter of opinion I guess," James said, putting down his copy of the Daily Prophet. "Hey want to go get some breakfast?"
My heart started pounding. Unable to find my voice, I nodded.
"Cool. I'll go wake up Sirius. The bloke was still out cold when I woke up." James said and headed up to the dormitory.
I stood glued to the spot for a couple minutes before realizing that I should go change. I sprinted up the stairs to my dormitory and closed hte door behind me. JAMES POTTER JUST TALKED TO ME.
I quickly threw on a pair of jeans and a shirt and headed back down the common room where James and Sirius were waiting, Sirius looking extremely grumpy.
"Ready?" James asked.
I nodded.
The three of us headed down to the Great Hall where there were only a few other people there from the other houses. We sat down at the Gryffindor table and began putting food on our plates.
"Sirius why aren't you eating? You always eat like a pig" James said.
Sirius glared at James, "you woke me up at 9:00" Sirius moaned.
James laughed.
"It's not funny Prongs!" Sirius yawned, laying his head on the table and instantly started snoring.
James turned to face me, shaking his head.
"Sirius isn't a morning person." James told me, taking a bite of bacon.
"I gathered that much" I told him.
"So, why didn't you go home for Christmas?" James asked me.
"My parents and sister are going skiing" I said.
"Not much of a skiier?" James asked.
I shook my head.
"Yeah me neither. My parents were going skiing in Italy for the holidays." James said.
"Do you ski?" I asked him, pouring syrup onto my pancakes.
James laughed, "No. I'm more of a quidditch kind of guy"
I smiled.
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When me and James had finished breakfast and woke Sirius up, we headed up to the common room.
"Want to play chess?" James asked Sirius.
"Sure" Sirius said.
We reached the common room, James grabbed his chess board and I got my book that Gabby had given me and read as James and Sirius played chess.
"Whatcha reading Lily?" James asked.
"Just a book" I said.
"I see that. What's it about?" James asked.
"A biography on George the Great" I blushed. We had studied him in 6th year History of Magic and I had found him fascinating.
"Didn't we learn about him in History of Magic?" Sirius asked, staring at the book.
I nodded.
"So why are you reading a book about him?"
I shrugged.
James and Sirius went back to their game as I continued reading.
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After dinner, James, Sirius, and I sat in the common room playing exploding snap.
"I'm hungry" Sirius said.
"Me too" James replied.
"Want to sneak down to the kitchens?" Sirius asked.
James face lit up, "sure. Want to come Lily?"
"We'll get in trouble" I said.
"So?" Sirius answered.
"You want to get in trouble?" I asked. Although I knew the answer. James and Sirius loved to cause trouble.
"There's nothing wrong with a little excitment. Come on, take a risk once in a while" Sirius told me.
I sighed, "fine."
Sirius's face lit up, "Are we all gonna fit under the cloak James?"
I looked at James, "What cloak?"
James glared at Sirius, "Nothing. Come on, let's go"
Me and Sirius followed James out of the common room and crept down the stairs towards the kitchen. Once we reached the basement, I followed James and Sirius towards a painting of a large fruit bowl. I stopped behidn James and Sirius and watched as James lifted his finger and tickled the tiny pear. After a couple seconds, the pear turned into a door knob. James turned the knob and stepped into the ktichen, which was full of house elves making christmas dinner.
Almost as soon as the door closed, several house elves ran up and gave us cookies and pastries and hot chocolate. Our arms loaded down with sweets and cups of hot chocolate, we headed back up to Gryffindor tower.
"Are they always like that?" I asked as we sat down in chairs in the Gryffindor common room, dropping all the food onto the table.
James nodded, as his mouth was full of sugar cookie.
"They'll give you anything" Sirius said, sticking a piece of cake into his mouth.
Once we had finished all the food, we headed upstairs to our seperate dormitories and went to sleep.
A/N: Merry christmas eve! So here's the third chapter of this story. The next chapter is Christmas. Read and Review please! 1234 if you have too.
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Emma