Losing Lily
Chapter 2
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Lily looked at her watch impatiently; it was half past seven, where the heck was Remus? They were supposed to have started on their charms project half an hour ago!
"Sorry I'm late," said Remus as he took a seat next to her, "I had to prevent James and Sirius from blowing up the school."
"That's not a surprise," Lily said as she opened her textbook to page 324. "Is there ever a time when they aren't making mischief?"
"Yes," said Remus as he defended his friends, "They never pull pranks while they're asleep."
"Wow, I'm impressed," she teased, "Now I was thinking we could do our charms project on whether or not weight affects the wingardium leviosa charm. What do you think?"
"That sounds great," said Lupin as he gave a rather "wolfish" grin.
The rest of the evening passed as the two Gryffindors laughed and joked while they worked on their project. After several hours the project was finished and the two got up to go to their dormitories.
"Good night," said Lily as she headed up the staircase to her dorm.
"Goodnight," said Remus as he headed up the stairs.
Man is she pretty. Her green eyes- whoa… James loves Lily, remember? What kind of friend would I be if I went out with her? A very bad one that's what I would be. She is off limits.
The next morning at the Great Hall Remus and Sirius were discussing quidditch while James was wondering if Lily would sit with them again.
Who knows? Maybe she'll talk to me again. She seemed to like when I answered that question in D.A.D.A. correctly. Maybe she likes know-it-alls. James thought to himself.
"Hello, Marauders," said Lily as she took a seat in-between Remus and James.
"Hello, Lily," James said in the most charming voice he could muster.
"Look," Lily said flatly, "if you're going to ask me out again I'll leave."
"No, no," James said quickly, "we wouldn't upset the Lily Evans!"
"Don't push your luck," Lily said, but not in a very threatening voice.
"So," said Sirius as he crammed more than the average person could into his mouth, "howth the charmths project going?"
"Great!" Lily said as she put a piece of toast onto her plate.
"Yeah," Remus said, "we're already finished!"
"Wow," said Sirius, "James and I haven't even started yet!"
"That's a shocker," Lily said.
"Well, we were j-just a-about to start," mumbled James.
"Really?" said Lily, "What is your project about?"
"Um, w-we haven't r-really decided yet," James murmured.
"I see," Lily said.
After breakfast Lily got up to go to Muggle Studies, leaving the four Marauders by themselves.
"Well, I'm gonna take a walk," James said after checking his schedule. He didn't have anything for the next hour.
James got up from the table and headed out to the castle grounds. It was sunny outside and lots of other students were out there too. He saw Jacob, Diana, Tara, and…
"Severus Snape," murmured James under his breath.
"Hello, Potter," said Snape coldly as he walked towards James.
"Hello, Snape," James said as he glared at him.
Take it easy James. Remember the bet. You wouldn't want purple and orange hair. Besides I have Padfoot's makeover all thought out.
"Don't you have some class to fail, or some detention to get to?" Snape said, "Or a girlfriend to get to? Oh, wait you don't have one because the one girl you like hates you."
"Shut up, Snape," (he didn't consider this as treating Snape badly because he could have been doing something much worse)
"Oh, did I hurt your feelings" he said sarcastically, "I'm sorry, Potty"
"You, better shut your mouth, Snape," James said.
"Or what? You're gonna tell on me? You really are pathetic!"
Deep breath, James. Remember the bet, remember the be-
"Whatcha doin Pottey? Talking to yourself? You must be crazier than I thought you were. Of course I always knew you were crazy."
"SHUT UP, SNAPE!" James yelled.
"Why? What are you going to do?" Snape said.
"LEVICORPUS!" James yelled at the top of his lungs (which frightened several first years).
Immediately Snape rose by his ankle into the air.
"Put me down!" shrieked Snape. "PUT ME DOWN NOW!"
"Well if you say so," James replied, and with a flick of his wrist Snape fell with a crash to the ground.
Snape quickly got up and ran off, probably to tell a teacher.
Well there goes the bet. At least I like the color orange. Besides, it was worth it. That weasel got what was coming to him.
James got up and decided to head back to the school. It was time for Muggle Studies anyways.
"Hey," Sirius Black said, "did you have a good walk?"
"No," James said.
"What happened?" Sirius asked.
"Let's just say you won the bet," James said.
"Really?" Sirius said. "I'll dye your hair tonight in the common room."
"Oh," James said, "Great."
That night in the common room all the Marauders and Lily (she couldn't resist watching) crowded around James to watch Sirius dye his hair.
"Okay," said Sirius. "I'll give you a choice: do you want purple hair with orange streaks, or orange hair with purple streaks?"
"I guess I'll have dark purple hair with orange streaks, it's less noticeable," James grumbled.
"Alrighty!" Sirius said. "Let's get this party started!"
"Okay," James said uncertainly as he closed his eyes. "Let's get this over with."
"Oh my God!" Lily squealed.
"What is it?!?" James said nervously.
"Have a look at your new do' James!" Sirius cried.
"Oh my gosh," James whispered as he looked in the mirror. "Oh my gosh."
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Author's Note: Wooh! There's chapter 2! Again, this is NOT my story. The chapters are kinda short. Maybe I'll talk to Taylor about that. So anyways, review.
