Another One For Lily
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Lily, James, Sirius, Remus and Julia sat around a circular table covered in parchment and books in the school library. They were all looking down at their homework trying to finish it. Some concentrating harder than others...
"How long until Peter actually does drool all over Glinda." Lily looked up from her work at Sirius's comment and over at the small boy sitting next to Glinda. She chuckled a bit.
"Lay off Sirius. You're just jealous because Glinda wouldn't go out with you." Lily replied again returning her attention to Potions homework.
"I don't know what she sees in him..." He joked shaking his head.
"Come on Peter's a nice boy." Julia said now distracted by their conversation.
"Well I'm not sure what she sees in him. But I don't think Peters sees much in her." James added. "She's rather cruel."
"Peter doesn't see anything in her. He can just see down her shirt." Remus added.
"Probably only reason he's over there." James said smiling and returning to his work.
Lily rolled her eyes but didn't look up from her book. "No Peter wouldn't do that. Only you two would do that." She said to Sirius and James.
"Hey Remus came up with the idea." Sirius pointed out.
Lily frowned. "That's just because I hang around you guys to much." Remus replied.
"See." Lily said. "Remus would never go out with a girl just for her looks."
"Though looks help eh Moony?" James said nudging Remus in the side.
"No but you wouldn't go out with a girl just because she was pretty." Lily said to Remus.
"Yes he would." Sirius said. "Any guy would go out with a girl if she was hott."
Remus shook his head still grinning. "Sorry guys but Lily's right."
"As usual." Lily teased.
James poked his tongue out at her as Remus continued, "I wouldn't go out with a total dud no matter how hott she was."
"I would." Sirius said which caused Lily and Julia to roll her eyes.
"Then what kind of girl is hott? Like what's your definition?" Julia asked amused that Sirius would be stupid enough to say that in front of two girls.
"Well...I don't know..." Sirius said. "You two are hott."
Both girls had identical shocked/amused expressions on their face. "Oh, so you would date both of us."
James shook his head with a small smile crossing his face seeing the trap Sirius was talking himself into.
"Not at the same time." Sirius replied.
"And you would only date us because we were hott?" Julia questioned.
"I-Well...no." Sirius frowned finally getting where he had just put himself. "But you two are different because you're my mates and I wouldn't mess around with you two."
"Good answer..." James muttered as he looked at the two girls.
Lily shrugged satisfied. Most people had learned not to always take Sirius seriously. He tended to blurt out whatever he was thinking whether he really meant it or not.
"Oh I give up." Sirius said pushing his Transfiguration homework aside. "That's bloody impossible."
Lily tilted her head to look at the homework assignment. "No you were doing fine until you got here." She said pointing a quill at the paper. "If you're transfiguring something that has a metal element you have to square this number before you divide..." Lily continued to walk Sirius through the step as James's eyes wandered back over to Glinda and Peter.
Peter was evidently staring right down Glinda's shirt which seemed to be making her slightly unconformable as she shifted in her chair. James chuckled and looked over to Remus who was already watching them slightly disgusted by his bluntness. "Juls." James whispered and nodded over to the two in the back of the library. Julia grimaced.
"You have got to teach him how to act around women. You're pretty suave at that kind of thing. He could learn a thing or two from you." Julia said.
James laughed. "Yeah maybe he'll need some tutoring..."
"Well that wasn't so hard." Sirius set setting his now finished Transfiguration homework down.
"Your welcome Sirius." Lily said sitting back up in her seat.
James sighed bored of doing homework. "What do you say we call it quits for now. I think we've all finished most of our homework and genius over here," He said nodding to Sirius. "Even had a major break through." He joked grinning at the still stunned boy that he had actually been able to finish a Transfiguration assignment.
James laughed and packed up his stuff. "I'm going to play quidditch." He said heading towards the door.
"Can I come?" Lily asked standing up as well. James raised an eyebrow at her.
"Have you ever played before?" He asked her.
Lily shook her head, "No but you can teach me." She said smiling. "That is if you're up for a challenge."
James chuckled. "Sure, it'll be fun. Any of you coming?" He asked the others.
"I'll watch but I'm not in a mood to play." Julia said. Sirius and Remus decided to join as well though but just watch.
"You're just afraid that I'll kick your arses." Lily joked as the group left the library.
After reaching the field, Julia, Remus and Sirius assembled themselves in the stands while Lily and James headed towards the field.
"Good luck Lily." Julia said.
"Yeah go easy on her." Sirius added jokingly.
Lily stuck her tongue out at him and continued onto the field. After James got an extra broom for Lily and some balls, they walked over to the center of the quidditch field.
"Do you remember how to fly?" He asked her.
Though she hadn't been on a broom since first year in Flying lessons, she had a good memory. "Of course I do Potter." She said mounting her broom and pushing off with her feet rather shakily.
"Wow Evans that was an amazing takeoff." James teased sarcastically.
"Shut up Potter. I can't help it if I'm rubbish at this." Lily said smiling.
"Alright lets fly around the pitch a bit to make sure you can handle the flying part of quidditch before we start with the quaffle." James joked and luckily he was much faster on his broom then Lily or her would have been shoved off his broom by her.
They slowly made their way around the pitch. Every few feet made Lily feel more confident about flying as she got better at it. "You make it seem like you have to be all great and mighty to play Quidditch but this is a piece of cake." Lily said after making it half way around.
"Yeah but what happens during a game when someone does this to you?" James asked as the swerved towards Lily abruptly but just in time pulled away before hitting her.
Lily gasped and swerved her broom away from him nearly hitting the stands. "James!" She breathed. "Do you want me to fall off?"
James laughed. "See it's harder than it looks."
Lily rolled her eyes and mocked him. James merely laughed and grabbed the quaffle. He tossed the quaffle over at her lightly.
Lily squealed and dodged the on coming quaffle. "What the bloody hell Potter?" Lily asked after the quaffle went by her.
James laughed and went to retrieve the ball. "You were supposed to catch it."
Lily let out a sigh. "Okay I'm rubbish at chaser but I'll be good at beater."
"Why's that?" James asked. "Beaters are usually a big more bulkier than you."
"Size doesn't matter. Besides it's just like batting in softball." She replied.
"Batting in softball?" He asked. Being pureblood he wasn't familiar with many Mugggle sports.
"It's a game I'm fairly good at. A part of the game is trying to bat at a ball kind of like a bludger except smaller and faster." She said kicking the ball box open and sending a bludger out of it.
"Sounds easy enough." James said.
Lily shook her head. "Not as easy as it sounds. There's a lot more to it than hitting a ball. Over the summer I'll teach you how to play a real sport." She joked and smacked the bludger clear across the field.
"Impressive." James said watching the bludger circle around and come back to them.
"Well look at this. Lily Evans playing quidditch?" A voice came from the edge of the quidditch pitch.
Lily turned her head to see the 7th year Hufflepuff, Connor Shelly, leaning up against the gate. She smiled and waved to him. "I sure am and kicking some butt at it too." She said hitting the bludger with all her strength again.
"Hey Connor." James said not taking his eyes off the bludger.
"Potter." Connor greeted with a nod.
"What brings you out here?" Lily asked him trying to start a conversation.
"Oi can't a guy walk around a castle a bit without being interrogated?" Connor joked. "Nah actually I was looking for you."
"Me?" Lily asked letting James have a whack at the bludger.
"No I was talking to the goal post. Yeah you." Connor teased.
"Ha very funny." Lily replied sarcastically.
"Can I talk to you for a second Lils?" Connor asked looking at James and then her again.
"Uh…" Lily turned to James. "Do you mind?"
"Nah, go ahead." James replied.
"It'll only be a second." Lily said and landed next to Connor as gracefully as she could.
"You and James are still just friends right?" Connor asked her in a hushed voice.
"Of course why?" Lily replied her brow furrowed. She leaned her broom up against the gate surrounding the pitch and pulled herself over it.
"Oh good…" Connor muttered. "Well Lils," Connor took a deep breath and continued. "Would you like to go with me for tea tomorrow at Puddifoot's?" He asked.
Lily smiled. "Like as a date?" She said though she already knew the answer; just wanted to clarify.
"Well yeah." Connor looked over at her with his big blue eyes. "I mean if you want to."
"Sure, it'll be fun." Lily replied smiling.
"Really? Alright cool." Connor said looking a great deal more relieved. "So I'll meet you in front of the castle say around noon?"
Lily nodded. "Sounds like a plan."
"See you then." Connor said turning and heading back to the castle.
Lily was no stranger to being asked out or guys liking her but each time one asked her out she was always happier after. It's a good feeling to know that people out there care for you and enjoy your company.
"What'd he want?" James asked curiously.
"He wanted to go out with me on Saturday." Lily replied trying to hide her smile.
"And you said yes." James said.
"Well yeah."
"Oh,"
"Are you going to hog the bludger or can I have a go?" Lily asked grinning.
"Try not to hurt yourself." James joked tossing the club to her. He forced a smile. He wasn't happy about Lily's decision to go out with Connor. Not only because he wanted Lily for himself but also Connor was two years older than Lily and he had a suspicion Connor only had one thing on his mind.
"Watch where you swing that thing." James said after Lily took a whack at the bludger just a foot away from James.
Lily laughed. "Sorry,"
One might think that after spending 5 years with someone the love for them might wear off especially if only one side was doing the loving. But that wasn't the case for James. Every more second, every more smile, laugh, joke, and every more fight he had with Lily, he only could love her more.
A/N And there's chapter 3! I finally got Microsoft word to work again so there are not as many errors in this though again my grammar isn't very good. I'll go back to the first two chapters and edit them again with spell check so they won't be as dreadful.
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