"Alice! Please stop talking about Frank for 3 seconds. Dumbledore is about to start his speech!
Alice huffed, but kept quiet while everyone settled down and only soft whispers around the room were audible.
"We have a fantastic year ahead of us students. The dark times outside our castles walls are only a worry. No one could get past our enchantments so have precaution always, but mostly during Hogsmeade visits or train trips home for the holidays. Now I would like to congratulate our 2 new head students. These pupils were chosen with great expectations and great responsibility in their midst. Both come from Gryffindor House, James Potter and Lily Evans! A round of applause please. The Captains of Quidditch House teams are Amos Diggory from Hufflepuff, Gregory Yaxley from Slytherin, James Potter from Gyffindor, and Ken Chang from Ravenclaw. No, let the feast…Begin!" Finished the headmaster.
"Oh Lily! You will be perfect this year! Just think of all the alone time you and James will get!"
Squealed Mary.
"I miss Frank. I have been worried sick ever since he started Aurer training! He has been shot with curses and jinxes, I don't know what I would do without him!" said Alice. Her and Frank had been going out for 3 years. When she was a 3rd year and her was a 4th. They were practically soul mates. They fought like an old couple in love with their crazy ways to show it. One second they were just simply talking about breadsticks, the second they were on top of each other making out. Lily had always been a tad jealous of them. She wanted that so badly. And now she had it.
"Lily could you please tear your freakin' eyes away from Prongs and pass me the chicken legs?" asked Sirius annoyed.
"Oh. Right. Here you go Black. Hey James! Come here for a moment." Lily said to James down the table. He was sitting with the Quidditch team talking about new strategies for the coming season.
"Coming love!" yelled James. He excused himself and made his way down to her.
"Yes?" he asked with his devilish grin.
"Meet me in 20 minutes on the Astronomy Tower. We have to talk a bit." Whispered Lily into his ear.
"Uhhh.. o..okay." he gulped. This was it. She saw him ignoring her and now she has had it with him. He thought he was being so well. He loved her, he kissed her, he pretty much worshiped the ground she walked on. And she was dumping him.
"Padfoot. She's ending it. I think I may cry. I can't do this. She is going to tear me to little pieces and spit on me." James said fastly and nervously. Like he was going to have a meltdown right there in the great hall.
"Get a grip man! You are a man right? Because right now I see a sissy. And sissies aren't Marauders. Sissy's are sissies." Sirius said with force.
"Yeah you're right. I'm a Marauder and I am a man. Ok. I'm ready to go. Woo! Woo! Woo!" he punched the air thrice.
He sat with Sirius the rest of the 20 minutes until he had to meet Lily. He had his mind going a mile a minute and was about to explode.
"Ok Prongs. It's go time. I swear to God if you cry I will disown you as a human." Said Sirius.
"See you later Padfoot!" screamed James as he ran down the hall. He was already 3 minutes late. It would take him 7 minutes to the Tower, 4 minutes up the stairs and a 30 second pep talk before he walked in.
"Ready. Set. GO!" he screamed at himself.
He was quite fit from Quidditch so running and the stairs weren't a problem. He reached the door and he froze to the floor.
"I am going to friggin' pee the pants. I am going to cry, sob, curl up into a ball, and die all in a 20 second period. Ok. Let's do this." James whispered to himself for his own pep talk.
He walked in to see Lily standing at the edge of the tower. Her back turned to him with her wavy red hair blowing to the left from the wind. He could feel her chill goose bumps on her ivory skin.
"Lily?" James asked slowly.
"James? I thought you would never come. I wanted to talk to you a bit about us."
"Ok Lil. I know what's about to go down. You're going to say some horse crap about your feelings for me that have disappeared because you don't feel special anymore now that summer is over and I have whole new responsibilities. You can't take the pressure so you want to end it for the both of us to grow as people. Well, then. Say it." Said James without blinking because if he did, he would be in tears.
"What on earth are you talking about? I love you! Forever and always! Why would you think I was some selfish witch to do that to someone I want to love until the end life as itself?" She asked walking slowly towards him with a tear dripping down her cheek.
"Do you want to end it? Was I too needy? Oh Shi-"
James grabbed her by the waist into a passionate kiss. He didn't stop until every inch of breath was gone. He sucked in and held her so close it was like they were one person.
"I would never think you were needy. You think asking me to help carry your school bags from Diagon Ally was needy? I have been in love with you since the second I saw you in your compartment first year reading your silly muggle book. You had a cream bow in your hair and were the prettiest girl I had ever laid eyes on. The moment we left your compartment, I knew that you were mine. Always mine. I love you and will be anything you need. If you're a bird I'm a bird right?" said James.
He had remembered last summer when Lily made him watch a muggle movie, the Notebook, her favorite romance film.
"You remembered!" she whispered. He dried her tears and kissed her again. They stayed up there until dawn and realized that classes were starting tomorrow and as Heads, they couldn't be breaking the rules. As they snuck down the tower and back to the common room, James asked, "Lily, what were you going to ask me about last night at dinner?"
"Oh. Uhh… well. I wanted to ask you how you felt about a dance this year. I had thought about having a Yule ball at Christmas, but Hogwarts wasn't a host school. So I was thinking a costume party at Halloween."
"That sounds like so much fun. I cannot wait." Replied James.
"I would have to ask Dumbledore and everything, but I wanted to decorate the Great hall like a really festive, but still scary, muggle Halloween Party. Like with fake blood and bats. We could ask the ghosts to bring their friends and everyone would have a date and we could go as a couple costume."
"I can't wait love. How about something sexy, like, Superman and Mary Jane!" Said James.
"James, first of all, it's Superman and Wonder Women and Spiderman and his girlfriend Mary Jane. And second of all no one that wasn't a muggleborn would know what we were. We will think about it babe. Now goodnight. Get some rest for 2 hours." Said Lily.
"Wait. You need a goodnight kiss." Said James. He grabbed her and kissed her more romantically and kissed her like a gentleman.
"Nowww…. Goodnight." Said James.
"Night love." Whispered Lily in his ear, then ran up the girls' staircase.