Disclaimer: Sorry to say that I do not own Harry Potter or these characters though all of their friends and dates I have full ownership of and I also own the basic plot of this story, but I'm not sure if that's a good thing.

A/N: Before the story starts I just want to say a huge thanks to Sarena678 who has reviewed every chapter I have written so far. Your reviews have kept me writing this story so thank you so much :) Your reviews make my day!

Kristian

Lily's eyes flickered open to the sound of her chatting room mates. She looked around to see her costume from the previous night hanging up and all her memories of the ball came flooding back to her. She lifted her head off her tearstained pillow and clambered out of bed and over to the bathroom pulling her pajama trousers up as she went. She walked in and locked the door behind her steadying herself by putting her weight onto the sink and then looking up into the shiny mirror to see a pale faced redhead with make-up smudged right down her face starring back at her. Just the sight of her self caused her eyes to swim with sorrowful tears. She dried her damp face with a pink towel to the left of the sink and washed off all the make-up she couldn't be bothered to remove last night. She brushed her teeth and her hair and pulled on her school robes before waving her wand and styling her hair into a plaited bun at the top of her head with a side fringe falling down and covering her right eye.

She pulled on her long black robes stretching all her limbs ready for the day to come. She quickly rubbed some sleep out of her eyes and exited the bathroom quietly closing the door behind her careful not to disturb Beth who was still sleeping. Maya was waiting for her by the door with her bag over her shoulder, her arms folded leaning up against the wall.

"You ready Lils?" She asked.

"Just a second." Answered Lily walking over to her bed and sitting down to put on her black pumps and then slinging her bag over her left shoulder. "What do we have now?"

"Potions, with Kristian. He's so yummy." Smiled Beth.

"Yeah well lucky you, he's your partner. I, on the other hand, am stuck with Sirius bloody Black." Moaned Lily.

"Clearly Mercury was in the 7th house on the day of partner allocation, this would have caused you, a Gemini, severe bad luck since Mercury would have come into conflict with Venus." Explained Maya.

"Oh don't start that Divination crap on me." Snapped Lily.

"But you know that it is real since I am a true seer."

"Maybe, but that doesn't mean that planets and houses control my luck."

"Anyway your situation isn't that bad."

"Hark do my ears deceive me!"

"Well he's a pain in the arse to you but to me he's bloody hot!"

"Ew……Beth!"

"You can't deny it."

"Oh yes I can."

"And he's great in bed, I mean…."

"Ok, you can stop right now."

"Oh come on you can't tell me that you're still a virgin."

"Yuh-hu!"

"Oh my god! You mean that you and James never……….."

"No!"

"Not ever."

"No."

"Ever thought about……"

"No."

"And he's never…….."

"No."

"And you're sure you've never ever……"

"Yes I'm sure."

"You're weird."

"On the contrary Beth, I'm the sane one."

They pushed open the old wooden door leading to the dungeons and they descended the steep stairs down to their classroom. They walked through a stone arch and into a dimly lit room to take their seats next to their partners.

"Oh, looks like Kristian isn't here. Bad luck." Joked Lily.

"Shut-up." Said Beth taking her usual seat in front of Lily.

Lily began to unpack her note books, text books and quills, pulling them all out of her bag and placing them neatly on her desk. As she looked up to set up her cauldron she saw Sirius walking in hand in hand with the latest 'love of his life', Sarah. What happened to Misty, the girl he was at the ball last night with, Lily didn't know nor did she really want to know.

"Hello Lily." Said Sirius detaching himself from the girl and sitting down next to her.

"Shut-up." Lily answered simply.

"Ok then." He said awkwardly. "Look I'm really sorry…."

"Shut-up."

"I didn't mean to. I honestly didn't know he'd treat you like that. If I did I wouldn't have………"

"I don't want to talk about it." Said Lily tears stinging in her eyes.

"I take full blame; you have no idea how guilty I feel. And then what he did to you at the ball it was…….."

"Can we please change the subject of conversation?"

"It's sick and I can't believe it's my fault; you're lucky James…….."

"Shut-up!" Shouted Lily suddenly rising out of her seat.

"But Lily………….."

"No Sirius!" She shouted a single tear rolling down her rosy cheeks. She quickly swept all of her things into her arms and ran out of the classroom.

She raced up the stairs to the dungeon door forcing it open and continuing on her way not bothering to look where she was going. She began to walk faster and faster as she sobbed harder and harder. She felt like her insides had disappeared and she was falling at 100 miles per hour. She could feel her heart pounding in her ears. She felt like her air way was covered by a layer of cling film chocking the life out of her. Her vision was blurry and the sight was awash with tears. Her legs were numb to her and yet they were carrying her somewhere that she was unsure of. Her head was streaming with many thoughts and she felt like her brain was about to explode, then the next thing she knew she was on the floor her books and papers everywhere imaginable.

"Oh I am so sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going." Came a soft male voice. "Are you ok?"

"Do I look like I'm ok?" Snapped Lily getting up. "No! I am not ok! Does that answer your…………Oh, hi Kristian." She finished lamely.

"I really am very sorry, I didn't mean to………"

"No, its ok, really, I'm fine."

"You're sure."

"Yeah, I'm great."

"You look like you've been crying."

"No, no. I'm ok. It's just allergies, you know hay fever."

"It's Autumn."

"Did I say hay fever I mean………erm………"

"I see."

"Well since you're being so inquisitive is it ok if I ask you a question?"

"What?"

"Why aren't you in class?"

"Why aren't you?"

"It seems we're on the same boat here."

"It would seem so."

"Well I've got to go to the hospital wing. I've got a bit of a headache."

"Ok then. See you later Lily."

"Bye."

Lily smiled softly as Kristian turned away and she felt a warm eruption of butterfly's flying up from her stomach and circling her tingling heart. She quickly picked up all her things and walked off to the hospital wing.

"Oh for gods sake, not you again Lily." Said Madame Campbell as Lily walked in. "This isn't your dorm you know. You spend more time in here than that Carrie Abbott and she isn't half clumsy. So come on, tell me, what have you done now?"

"Nothing, I just have a bit of a headache."

"You look like you've been crying."

"No. My eyes were watering, I have allergies."

Madame Campbell obviously didn't believe her but she did not press the matter any further. She bent down and reached into a cupboard pulling out a small bottle of clear liquid.

"Here." She said handing it to Lily. "This should get rid of the headache and the allergies, if, in fact, there are any. Now run along your next lesson should be starting soon.

"Thanks Miss." Sid Lily taking the bottle and leaving to go to Defense Against The Dark Arts.

Their teacher, Professor Robinson, had been ill lately and so for the past two weeks they had been putting up with their substitute teacher, Professor Maxi, who was completely and utterly useless. They had spent their last few lessons revising simple spells that they had mastered in first year where as they should have been learning new, more advanced spells. And this lesson was no different; they spent the long two hour session revising shield charms and non-verbal spells and no matter how many times they did it successfully Professor Maxi would insist that they were doing it wrong. So all in all it wasn't a very productive lesson.

The boredom finally ended at 1:00 when the awful lesson finished, much to the delight of every student in the room. Lily swept all her things into her bag quickly checking her timetable to see that it was time for her one hour lunch break.

She walked down to the great hall alone and sat next to Remus who was eating with only one hand because his other arm seemed to be glued around Maya's shoulder.

"Hey guys." Said Lily sitting down and promptly spreading a slice of toast with butter and jam.

"Hi Lily." They said in unison.

"Well Remus I have to go." Said Maya pouting and kissing him on the cheek. "My Ancient Runes class starts in 5 minutes. Bye. Bye Lily."

"Bye Maya. I'll see you later." Said Remus.

"Bye." Smiled Lily taking a bite out of her toast. "So you really like her." Said Lily to Remus.

"Yeah, she's great. I've wanted to ask her out for ages but never had the guts."

"Really, 'cause she's liked you since like first year."

"Really, why didn't she say?"

"Girl code."

"What?"

"Well as stupid as it may sound I also used to have like a massive crush on you. Remember this was ages ago. And it's like there's an unspoken agreement between girls that you can't date your friends crush. We just couldn't do that to each other."

"You used to have a crush on me!"

"Used to, not anymore."

"Oh really, because I know I'm basically irresistible." Joked Remus.

"Shut-up Remus. That's the last time I ever tell you anything."

"I'm crushed. Well it's just as well you didn't do anything about your little crush because if you did I think James just might have killed me."

"He always treated me like I was his were as I could do whatever I liked, I was never his property I only belonged to me."

"Do you still miss him?"

"Yeah."

"How much?"

"More than words can say. Does he still miss me?"

"It's pretty obvious. He loved you so much that I think he'll always miss you."

"I want him back." Said Lily beginning to cry.

"Why don't you give him another chance?" Said Remus giving Lily a hug.

"Because I know in my heart that I just need to get over him."

"Well you know that he'll always be there for you."

"After how I've treated him, I doubt it."

"Well I don't."

"Thanks Remus."

"Well I have to go. I have Arithmaty, don't want to be late, it's only the best subject there is." Said Remus standing up and walking away. "Bye."

"Bye Remus."

"Hello Lily." Came an oh so familiar voice.

"Oh no." Groaned Lily.

"Boy are you gonna love me." Grinned Sirius.

"I wouldn't bet on that."

"I got you a date."

"SIRIUS I……………!"

"With Kristian."

"Keep talking."

"Well I realize that your last two dates weren't exactly good so I thought long and hard about who to ask and I came to him. He's really nice, used to date your friend Alice, and I saw you talking to him earlier so at the very least you must like him as a friend."

"Ok then." Sighed Lily. "When and where am I meeting him?"

"5:00 the teachers entrance to the Quidditch pitch stands."

"Ok then. I have to go. I've got to get to transfiguration; I'm already falling behind because I've been in the hospital wing so much. Bye Sirius."

"Bye Lily."

For the first time in her life Lily was finding Transfiguration exceedingly difficult and it didn't help that everyone else seemed to be managing the task with ease. After one long hour of trying very hard to cast the spell she finally did it although it was quite a feeble result and the lesson ended with Professor McGonagall telling her to 'practice it to perfection' for homework.

She then walked lazily off to History Of Magic, one of her favorite subjects, though Professor Binns did seem to suck a lot of the fun out of it, and was convinced that Lily's name was Belinda Frangingham, but that didn't stop the fact that Lily found it a fascinating and interesting subject.

By the time all of Lily's lessons had finished and she had returned to her dorm, considering the fact that it would take her fifteen minutes to walk down to their meeting place, she only had half an hour to get ready for her date.

She quickly pulled on some white skinny jeans and a bright emerald green vest top that matched her eyes and her necklace. It was a short silver chain with a big emerald heart on the end rimmed with diamonds with a silver plated back. James had given it to her when they first started going out and she hadn't taken it off since they broke up, she opened it up and looked down at the picture inside of James hugging her so tight she couldn't breathe, she looked back and reminisced of that time, a time when she was happy and as she did a single tear rolled down her cheek. She quickly wiped it away and she pulled on a long sleeved, white zip up jumper and tied her long, straight hair up into a high, tight pony tail. She quickly did her make-up and as she rushed out the door she grabbed her small, green handbag with a silver clasp.

Lily walked across the freshly cut grass in her plain white flip-flops towards the Quidditch stands where she could see Kristian waiting in the distance.

"Hey Kristian." Said Lily as she arrived.

"Hi Lily." He replied. "How's your head?"

"Excuse me?"

"Your head, you had a headache earlier."

"Oh right, its fine, completely gone."

"Good to hear, this quick recovery was clearly the work of god."

"Or the work of Madame Campbell." Muttered Lily.

"I was praying for you."

"Erm………ok then. So what do you want to do?"

"Well Professor Sprite said that there's a whole bunch of new animals for the Care Of Magical Creatures lessons, I was wondering if you'd like to go and see them."

"Cool, lead the way."

"Lily before we go I must say that this date with you is truly a god sent gift and I believe that it was the power of Christ that brought us together."

"Or the power of Sirius Black." Said Lily under her breath as Kristian began to walk and she followed.

They arrived at the pens where the animals stayed ready to be studied by the classes. The first thing they came to were Unicorns of pearl white and their young of soft silver.

"Their beautiful." Said Lily in admiration.

"It's amazing what god can do, the fact that he made all this is astonishing, he truly is an awesome god."

"Right." Said Lily awkwardly.

"I mean look around you and he made it all. He made the sun and moon, the night and day, the light and darkness."

"You know when you roll all that into one it's basically the same thing."

"But not to god only to the inferior human mind. For god can see far more than we can and I can see further that you for I have created a true spiritual connection with the lord and he tells me all he sees and it is amazing."

"Ok Kristian lets move on."

They walked on a little to the next pen where Lily saw a bunch of Knarls nesting in the tree branches.

"I love these creatures." Announced Lily.

"I love all of gods' creatures just as he does."

"Right. I just adore their camouflaging, it's just perfect if I didn't know what we were supposed to be looking at I wouldn't be able to see them and that's just pure genius."

"Gods genius that's what it is. The camouflage system was a gift from god because he loved them, everyone has a gift from him because he loves everyone and everything and I am lucky I have two gifts one is my faith and the other is you."

"I'm pretty sure I didn't come from god though." Said Lily to herself but so that Kristian couldn't hear.

They then moved on onto the next pen where they saw a baby hippogriff.

"Aw……..he's so cute. Though I hate the fact that he's been taken away from his mother." Said Lily as she laid eyes on the young creature.

"It may seem harsh but its all part of gods plan and god has a plan for everyone even the smallest of creatures."

"Ok then moving on." Said Lily getting more and more annoyed by Kristians abnormal faith by the second.

They moved on to the next pen where Lily saw a crowd of about 10 extremely ugly red creatures with spikes sticking out like a mohican down its back and a sickly arrangement of small purple and orange dots all over its body. They had massive pointed teeth and were all drooling at the mouth and all had massive round eyes of either shocking pink or lime green.

"What are those?" Said Lily in alarm.

"Their Konkouclous. Wonderful aren't they."

"Their disgusting. Their most foul things I've ever seen."

"But in gods eyes everything is beautiful that's why he made them and they are perfect the way they are. God wanted…………………."

"JESUS CHRIST KRISTIAN!" Shouted Lily for she could not take his ramblings any longer.

"Gasp! Blaspheme!" Gasped Kristian in shock pointing an accusing finger at Lily who was beginning to back away towards the castle.

"I don't bloody care about blaspheme!"

"You swore." Said Kristian still shocked his eyes widening.

"Oh for god's sake!" She screamed.

"Commandment number 3: You shall not use god's name in vein."

"I'll do whatever I damn well please!"

"How dare you."

"You and your god are so annoying. You can't go five shitty seconds without mentioning him."

"Ummmmmmm! You said the 'S' word."

"Oh for fucks sake!" Exclaimed Lily.

"Devil I along with the power of god command you to leave this innocent woman!" Yelled Kristian at Lily although obviously not addressing her.

"You're insane." Said Lily and she stormed off to the castle leaving Kristian alone in shock and distress.

She rushed up to her dorm and closed the door behind her and collapsed onto her bed.

"So how was your date with Kristian?" Asked Beth coming over and sitting next to Lily.

"Terrible." She replied.

"Really! But he's such a hottie."

"Yeah but he's obsessed with god and he acts like a three year old. He's bloody annoying."

"What do you mean?"

"Well at everything I said he'd somehow throw god into the mix. I couldn't go five seconds without hearing that word."

"And…….."

"Well apparently I'm a gift from god to him and I really didn't like being treated like a possession."

"Oh."

"And when I said bloody he was shocked that I had apparently swore."

"But Bloody's not swearing!"

"I know."

"Go on."

"When I said Jesus Christ he accused me of blaspheme."

"Who cares?"

"That's exactly what I said."

"What else?"

"When I said oh my god he read out a commandment from the Bible to me."

"Ok so he's a little weird."

"No! He's a lot weird! Just as I was about to go he commanded the devil to leave my body which confirmed my theory of him being completely and utterly insane."

"So it wasn't that great then."

"Not really."

"But you can't deny that he's good looking."

"No but after seeing the side of him that I saw today I dot think I'll ever look at him like that again."

"So basically……"

"He just wasn't as perfect as he looked."

"Nobody's perfect."

Beth left the room leaving Lily all alone on her bed as tears began to roll down her cheeks.

"James was."

A/N: IF YOU COULD GIVE ME SOME IDEAS OF DATES AND/OR ANNOYING HABBITS THAT WOULD BE GREAT. You can choose some sort of prize for doing so because I really need your help! I have some ideas but not yet enough for the whole story. Well I really hope you liked it. Sorry it took so long but I've been busy doping holiday stuff. Next chapter another one of James's lovely dates. Nothing left to say but PLEASE REVIEW!