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After a hard day, Lily finally retreated to her room. She finally had time to mull over her feelings. She couldn't like James, could she? She had always hated his arrogance and how over-inflated his ego was. But maybe there was a good side too him. She lay on her bed, staring at the ceiling for quite some time before Alice came in, asking her if she was going to accompany her, Remus and Peter to dinner.
'Sorry, Alice, but I don't feel like eating right now,' And she genuinely didn't. Her head was all over the place and she just needed some time to chill out.
'Oh, Ok. Should I save you a seat? Or bring some food with me when I come back?' Alice was very gentle when she saw Lily like this.
'Nah, I'll be fine. I promise,' She sat up and smiled a weak smile at Alice, who grinned back and left.
Three hours had passed, all of which Lily had spent studying and doing her homework. She hadn't noticed she was hungry until now. She started to grab all the books, parchment and quills scattered all over a common room table but stopped when she heard a sound. She whipped around and applied the Lumos charm non-verbally. Yes! She thought. No! Why is it always him? She was face to face with none other than James Potter.
'Potter!,' She hissed, 'What are you doing here?'
'I could ask you the same question,' He whispered back, 'Why are we whispering?'
Lily shrugged and had resumed packing up when her stomach decided to give a rather loud growl. She went beetroot red and looked over at James to see if he had noticed. He had.
'Come with me, I want to show you something,' His voice was calm and rather soothing,and the redhead was very taken aback. He started walking towards the portrait hole and she followed. He stopped abruptly at the door and Lily crashed into him.
'Watch where you're going Lily!' He said. He was trying to take something out of his pocket, but not succeeding, 'Hold my wand.'
Lily took the wand that was practically forced into her hand, and tried to shine the light on James' pocket.
'There,' He said, finally pulling a large piece of cloth out of his pocket. He took his wand off Lily and flung the cloth over his body. Lily could no longer see him.
'Potter?' She asked, genuinely confused.
'Yes?' Came a voice from where James was previously standing.
'Where are you?'
'Oh! Sorry, I forgot you didn't know…' Without warning, his hand came out of nowhere and dragged Lily towards him. 'This is my invisibility cloak,'
Lily didn't say anything, she just gawked. James didn't want to waste time, so he put his hand on the small of Lily's back and gently pushed her through the portrait hole. They walked through the corridors and ended up in the entrance hall. Lily, still gawking, asked where they were going. James just put a finger to his lips and kept walking.
'Why are we in the Hufflepuff corridor?' Lily whispered, having finally stopped gawking. James didn't say anything until they stopped in frond of a painting of a fruit bowl.
'We're going to get you some food,' He replied, tickling the pear. As Lily watched, transfixed, the pear transformed into a door handle. James turned it and the secret door swung open. He took the cloak off and smiled.
'Master Potter, what can I get for you?' To Lily's surprise, a house elf came up to James and started fussing over him. He put a hand up to ask them to wait and asked Lily, 'What do you want to eat?'
'Anything - I'm starving!' She exclaimed as she sat down at one of the many tables. The house elves brought her a plate of leftover food from dinner. 'Thank you,' She said with a smile.
'Lily! Where have you been? I've been looking all over for you! It's almost midnight!' Alice was right on Lily's case as she walked into their dorm.
'Eating,' Lily replied. She didn't want to tell Alice that she had had a surprisingly wonderful time with James Potter.
'Where? With who? I told you I could have brought you some food!' Alice wasn't giving up easily.
'I can't tell you,' Lily mumbled. Alice was shocked. Lily usually told her everything, 'I'm going to bed. I'm really tired. I'll talk to you in the morning'
Lily pushed past Alice and climbed into her bed, still in her robes, and fell sound asleep.
A/N: Another Chapter done! Sorry it took so long to upload... I've been quite busy. If you have any constructive criticism, plot ideas or anything, please tell me and I'll use the ideas in the future!