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'Well, I guess I'll see you around more often, now that we're friends.

James stopped in an awkward position.

He was about to kiss Lily but he never made it.

Lily had drawn herself away.

James quickly corrected his aspect.

'I guess we will.'

'Well, I'm off to find my friends. Bye James.'

'Bye Lily.'

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On a cool night, some time during the middle of November, Lily had just finished her transfiguration homework and James sat there sucking on the tip of his quill staring down hard at his nearly completed charms homework.

'Err…James.'

'Hmm?' He replied not looking up.

'I think you need a rest with that charms homework.'

'Hmmm I think I do too…'

'Ok, well I think that we should discuss some of the things we do as head.'

'Well what did you have in mind?'

'Well, seeing as this is our last year at Hogwarts, I was thinking maybe seventh should have some kind of ball. You, know…seeing this is our last year here…I wouldn't mind having some fun…'

'Wicked…she's wants a ball…maybe she is truly interested in me now…'

'I thought maybe we could have it held on Halloween. What do you think?'

'Uhh…yeah that's a good idea…but what about a Christmas Ball?' 'James you idiot! You're meant to agree with he mate, AGREE with her!'

'Hmm…good idea James…so, tomorrow I'll ask Dumbledore and McGonagall for permission and then we can come back and ONCE you have finished all you homework, we'll start making plans.'

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The next evening, James and Lily discussed plans for the ball.

'So, let's look back over the list. What do we have?'

'Well, we have a couple of tables for a combined dinner, we have the twelve usual Christmas trees but this time we'll have white, glistening snow on it...'

'What food do we have?'

'All you care about is food… I dunno…you have the list…'

'Ok…lemme see…oh, here we go! We have…Fizzing Whizzbees, Cockroach Clusters, Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, cauldron cakes, Chocolate Frogs-''

'Uhhhhh James?'

'Hmm?'

'Get on with the food list, not your shopping list.'

'Oh sorry.' He stuffed that bit of parchment into his pocket and read out the real Food list.

'Hmmm well that seems to be in order…do you think that there's anything that we missed out on?'

'Yup!'

'We did? I thought we had everything covered.'

'Well we missed out on one minor part.'

'What?'

'Cockroach juice.'

'What?'

'You know, the juice of a cockroach.'

'…'

'I've tasted it before. I was dared to drink it. I caught a cockroach, Padfoot dared me to drink the juice. So I squashed it between my palms and all the juice came out. I dared Padfoot to eat the cockroach and he agreed so I gave that part to him on on the count of three he-''

'Shut up James!' Lily laughed.

'He popped it in his mouth-''

'I SAID SHUT UP!'

'AND HE CHEWED IT THEN HE SWALLOWED IT AND THEN HE SMILED AND YOU COULD SEE BITS OF THE COCKROACH'S LEGS INBETWEEN HIS TEETH. THEN -''

Lily threw a quill (a/n don't ask me how she threw such a light object) and pressed her hands to her ears. 'I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LALALA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LALALA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!'

James yelled even louder over Lily's yells. 'AND THEN I LICKED ALL THE JUICE OF THE COCKROACH'S JUICE OF MY PALMS AND LICKED MY LIPS SO NOT A DROP WAS LEFT. THEN I WIPED-''

'MR POTTER! MISS EVANS! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?'

Lily and James fell silent.

'I uhh… was just telling Lily a story.'

'And you needed to shout? I have the impression that Lily is not deaf. Well that is what I thought when I always recall Miss Evans takes notes in my class.'

'Umm, we're story Professor. It will never happen again.'

'I should hope not. Goodnight.'

'Good night Professor.'

When McGonagall left the Common room Lily and James burst out laughing.

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This chapter's short 'n' sweet!

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