Chapter 12: Over the Moon
"JAMSY POO!" a voice rung through the corridor on the way to breakfast, making everyone stop and turn to see who they were calling too.
"This should be interested" Isabel said, rubbing her hands together at the sight of the caller "What?" she asked, after seeing the look Lily was giving her "I flirted with Remus, the least I can do is watch a girl crash and burn so I know I'm not alone!"
Lily sighed, seeing that they weren't going anywhere so she stood back and leaned against the wall, waiting for the following events to take place.
"Jamie, why didn't you stop when I called your name?" Megan pouted, once catching up to him and hanging of his arm.
"Here we go!" Isabel whispered, waiting for the big bang.
"I'm sorry my dearest, I didn't hear you. I'm so sorry, will you forgive me?" James asked her, giving her his best puppy dog eyes. Three jaws dropped whilst the other students, once seeing there wasn't anything exciting about to happen, turned back to what or where they were going.
"What?" Isabel exclaimed, her mouth opening and closing like a goldfish, "Lily, did you put something extra into the potion?"
"No! It was supposed to have worn off as soon he had woken up!" Lily answered, sliding down the wall until she heard the soft 'thud' of her bottom hitting the cold, marble floor.
"Maybe it was something in his drink that mixed with the potion that made it last longer," Isabel said thoughtfully, joining Lily on the floor.
"Uh um hmm," was a sound made from behind them. They looked up and found Sirius standing there and surprisingly he wasn't alone.
"What do you too want? And what is HE doing here?" Isabel snapped at the two boys.
"Well, I'm guessing all the flirting has worn off after you spiked the drink" Remus retorted, prodding Sirius to sit down with him on the ground to join the girls.
"Yes, I guess it has," Isabel said sweetly, crossing her arms across her body.
"Remus, Isabel, please be quiet, you're hurting my head" Lily complained, rubbing her temples with two fingers.
"Well, you'd be please to know that Remus is now on you're side," Sirius said happily, proud with himself.
"Why would we be happy he's on our side?" Isabel asked Sirius in disgust. The person in question looking confused.
"Izzy, why wouldn't we? Its one less person on James's side," Lily cut in front of Remus who was about to answer back.
"So how and why did you get him over on our side?" Lily asked Sirius who was sitting across from her.
"Well, when James woke up this morning, we told him what happened and that just made him angrier at you but then I fought for your case saying that you were actually fifteen," Sirius paused, looking at the three of them.
"Well? Did you get him to believe you?" Lily asked Sirius, but it was Remus who answered.
"Yes, but he didn't care. He just cares about getting back at you for spiking his drink by doing that," he nodded his head in James and Megan's direction.
"You mean he's doing that of his own free will?" Lily gasped, her head swinging to face James and Megan walking around the corner, Megan laughing at something James said.
"That's one way of putting it," Sirius said, drumming his fingers on the ground.
"I can't believe he's being this awful, after the wonderful summer we had!" Lily said, hitting her head against the wall behind her.
"Well," Sirius said slowly and the others looked up at him.
"What Black?"
"You could always give him a taste of his own medicine."
"Don't you remember the potion? Isn't that a taste of his own medicine?" Isabel snapped.
"No, I haven't forgotten," Sirius said calmly, "I just think, since he is breaking you're heart, why don't you break his?"
"Black, I'm not going out with you," Lily joked and Sirius pretended to pout.
"No," Remus said, "Not Sirius, but we think you should go out with another seventh year. Someone who doesn't care about your age, so that when James sees you with him, he'll get jealous.
"Okay," Lily said slowly "But who would be the guy? I'm not going out with a Slytherin,"
"How bout you think about it, and we will meet again, so that we can help you with it?" Sirius said, standing up and stretching.
"You know, I can get a guy to like me on my own," Lily said, standing up as well.
"Yes, but can you guarantee that James and Megan will be near by you when you're all lovey dovey?" Remus asked, raising his eyebrow.
"Fine, we'll meet in the library tonight after dinner," Lily said, linking arms with Isabel and began to walk off when they heard,
"The library? What's a library?" before they heard the sound of a book hitting the person in the back of the head. They laughed.
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"What took you guys so long? I let you sleep in for five minutes and you're about half an hour late!" Melody exclaimed when her friends finally arrived at the Gryffindor table.
"We saw James," Lily stated, sitting down and helping herself to so pumpkin juice.
"Oh."
"And he has decided to continue going out with Megan."
"Oh."
"But we came up with a plan on how to get him back."
"Oh?"
"Yeah, Lily has to find another seventh year guy to go out with. Trouble is, we haven't found one," Isabel said sadly, taking the jug of pumpkin juice Lily passed her.
"Well…" Melody said thoughtfully and the other two looked up.
"What?"
"You could always try Imogen's brother, my cousin in Ravenclaw. He's in seventh year."
"Is he hot?"
"He's my cousin! I don't know if he is, I don't look at him like that. But he isn't ugly if that's what you mean."
"Where is he?" Lily asked standing up from where she was sitting and scanning the Ravenclaw table for someone she didn't know what he looked like.
"He's over there, near Davies," Melody answered, spreading honey on her toast.
"Who's Davies?" Lily asked before there was a shriek from Isabel.
"Oh my god, he's hot!"
"Really! Where?" Lily squealed, standing on her chair to see if she could see better.
"There! He's the guy passing the toast to that black haired girl!" Isabel exclaimed and Lily shrieked.
"Oh my God, he is hot!" Lily squealed and they started jumping up and down.
"Uh guys, you might want to sit down unless you actually want him to see you screaming about him," Melody stated and they instantly sat down.
"Why haven't I seen you're cousin before?" Isabel accused her.
"He's new, like Lily. He just moved back from Australia," she explained simply, checking her watch for the time.
"He's so dreamy," Lily sighed, placing one elbow on the table, in her bowl of porridge and rested her head on her hands.
"Ew," Melody said, standing up and picking her bag up from the floor, "Come on."
"Where, it's Saturday?" Isabel replied, without taking her eyes off him.
"Well, do you want to sit there and just stare at the guy, or come with me so we can work out how you can get him to go out with you, and if you're lucky, I might even tell you his name," Melody bribed and Lily jumped up immediately, the porridge unsticking itself from her elbow and plopped down onto the table.
"That," Isabel said, pointing to her elbow, "is disgusting. Before we do anything, you need to wash it off"
"Scourgify," Lily commanded, pointing her wand at her elbow and the porridge vanished.
"Ready?" she asked them questioningly. Isabel instantly stood up too and they all headed outside into the early winter sun. The walked across the grounds, crossed between the greenhouses until they had weaved themselves in an undetectable way towards the lake.
"So what's his name?" Lily asked finally, the words gushing out of her mouth as they walked around the deserted lake.
"Jesse, Jesse Harvey," Melody answered and the girls sighed.
"So, how am I going to go out with him?" Lily asked her too friends
"Don't worry, you're his type," Melody smiled, and Lily grinned.
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"Oi, Harvey!"
The gorgeous brunette turned its shaggy head in the direction that his name was called from.
"Oh hey cousin, sis!" he said smiling, greeting Melody and Imogen.
"Hey Jesse," Melody said once reaching them while Imogen grunted,
"You call me 'sis' one more time and you won't know what hit you"
"So what do I owe the pleasure of seeing my two favourite girls?" he said, smiling the smile that made all the girls swoon. Not that he tried of course.
"Well, I just wanted to see how you were going at Hogwarts," Melody said, shifting her wait from one foot to the other. Jesse just stared down at her.
"What do you want?"
"Well, there's this new girl in my grade called Lily Evans and now she's quite a good friend of mine annnnnd," she paused. Jesse nodded for her to go on, "And she has the BIGGEST crush on you."
Jesse smiled again, but this time in a sort of shy way because of the thought that a girl had a crush on him.
"Really? What's she like?"
"See for yourself" Melody gestured over the balcony to the Entrance Hall. Jesse looked down. He soon spotted the pretty red head, laughing in the middle of a group of people and then entered the Great Hall.
"The one in the middle?" he asked without taking his eyes off her.
"Yes."
"The red head?"
"Yes."
"She's pretty cute."
"Uh ha."
"You think I should ask her out?"
"If you want."
"I think I will."
"Good, she'll be over the moon."
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"Hi."
Lily swung around after hearing that voice near her ear and come face to face with Jesse.
"Hi," she replied shyly.
"So, I was wondering..." He started, looking down at his feet before looking back up into her green eyes and continuing, "I was wondering if you would like to go out some time?"
Lily smiled. This amazingly hot guy, who just happened to be one of her best friend's cousins, actually asked her out! Oh, and of course he was a seventh year as well!
"Of course!"
He smiled too.
"Tomorrow night, seven thirty, Room of Requirement?"
"Where?" Lily asked, puzzled. She had never heard of such a place.
"How about I just pick you up at the Gryffindor common room?"
"I'd like that."
"Great."
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The next day took forever to get through for Lily. She couldn't wait for her first date with Jesse, it seemed like it was just a dream. But she always thought about the fact that she was only going out with Jesse to get to James, but what's a little payback without some fun?
Finally, at six o clock, it was time to get ready. She decided not to go full out, but a little nicer then plain casual. She ended up wearing an emerald green halter top with a black pleated skirt and black baby doll shoes.
Jesse arrived right on seven o clock. He was wearing jeans and a button down top and was carrying one white lily. She smiled upon seeing it.
"Nice," she said as he handed it to her. He smiled.
"I thought so. You ready?"
"Yes."
He took her hand and led her up to the seventh floor. He walked passed the same piece of wall three times; Lily thought he was looking for a leaver of some sort, until she saw a door appear out of the wall. Jesse took the handle and opened it like the perfect butler.
"Why thank you," Lily giggled and walked passed him into the room and gasped. Inside, in the middle of the room, was a small, table for two, with three candlesticks giving the room a pleasant glow. A house elf in a tux stood next to the wine cooler, which had a bottle of Butterbeer inside it.
"Oh my God," Lily whispered, the romance overwhelming her.
"Would Miss Evans like to sit down?" the house elf squeaked, pulling back the chair next to him and Lily sat down. Jesse walked over to the other chair but didn't sit down. Instead, he picked up the bottle of Butterbeer and poured some into each of their wine glasses.
"Thanks," Lily gazed into his blue eyes and soon became lost in them. She eventually brought herself to pull her eyes away.
"So tell me about your self," Lily asked him, realizing she barley knew anything about her hansom stranger.
"Well, my family moved us to Australia when I was about seven years old. They soon found out that I took after my dad's side of the family when I turned eleven. So they shipped me off to Mestiere, the Wizarding School in Australia. Two years later my sister Imogen joined me. Two years after Imogen started, my youngest sister turned eleven, but she was the rouge one that decided to follow in mum's footsteps but all was good. But at the end of my 6th year, my youngest sister got diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, which is a type of muggle disease."
At this point, a gasp had finally emerged from Lily's lips and she hastily brought her hands to her mouth to try and cover it up. He just shook his head sadly.
"We moved back to England so she could attend a specialist hospital and we were taken to Hogwarts. And here we are. So, how about you?"
Lily recounted her life to him, minus the last summer, to him and realized it was quite short and quite uneventful. Jesse listened and hung off every word she said. The house elf had come back and placed a salad in front of both of them. They continued talking all through the salad and well through the main course.
They talked about anything and everything, from favourite ice cream flavour to who their favourite Quidditch team was. As Lily didn't have one for the later, he convinced her that the Red Phoenixes (which was the Australian national Quidditch team) was the best and Lily was more than happy to agree. By the time dessert came along, they still hadn't run out of things to talk about.
"What do you plan on being, after you leave Hogwarts, I mean?" Lily asked him, spooning some chocolate moose into her mouth.
"I really want to be a healer, to be able to cure people from all sorts of diseases and broken bones. What about you?"
"Truthfully, I have no idea. But I do know at some point I want to have a family, possibly a large one," Lily answered, just before the clock behind them chimed nine o clock.
"I'd better get you back before Pringle does his duties" Jesse sighed, standing up from the table, walking around to Lily and offering her his arm. She took it and he lead her towards the door. With his other hand, he quietly shut the door, then walked off hand in hand with Lily.
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This carried on for the next two months, making James spitting chips with rage but Lily didn't seem to care anymore. She was over that scumbag and in love with a new man, one that didn't care about her age, one who didn't think it was a big deal, one she knew that genuinely loved her.
Her friends all seemed happy for her, as they had never really liked James in the first place. Melody couldn't be happier, seeing her friend and her cousin and she often joked about her becoming official family.
Isabel and Remus seemed to be at each other's throats for some reason, but no one knew why and Isabel wasn't ready to elaborate.
On the weekend before Christmas break, Lily and Jesse were huddled up on their favourite red couch in the Ravenclaw common room.
"Oooooh this is so comfortable, I don't think I will move from this spot again!" Lily announced, resting her head on Jesse's shoulder and he laughed.
"Hopefully you won't have to anytime soon," he said, stroking Lily's head and she soon fell asleep.
Then the storm hit.
A/N: Yes, I had to stop it there! There will only be one more chapter of this story, maybe two. I know this story is a LOT shorter than my last, but these chapters are a lot longer. Ummm, thanks to: Secret world, blondewivbrains, WhiteCamellia, orangeokapi13, crazylily, BrazilianPrincess, Mrs Claire Potter, blueholly, EmeraldLily06, Artemis-Bell, Penelope Richmond, Lil Enchantress, potterlady4691, Sunny Sammy, Isolde Eris, Lexy Granger and Zhangie!