I Hate Everything about You
Chapter Nineteen: Together
The great hall was frozen; a hushed silence fell across the room until every eye was trained on the couple entering from the doors, their hands dangerously close to touching.
"No bloody way!" A loudmouth Hufflepuff said breaking silence and causing the great hall to all clear their throats as the small Hufflepuff boy blushed deeply.
James blushed a deep crimson to the roots of his dark hair, while Lily walked confidently over to the Gryffindor table, plopping down beside Sirius as James slid into the seat next to her.
"Finally!" Sirius exclaimed giving James a slap on the back and wrapping his arm around Lily in a friendly hug. "I thought you two were going to dance around each other forever!"
"Lily, why didn't you tell me?" Hestia asked her eyes bright as she leaned around a bouncing Sirius to see Lily clearly.
"It just sorta happened last night…sorry," Lily smiled brightly as people all down the table seemed to give their congratulations. The auburn haired girl soaked in the attention with a bright smile, while every word seemed to make James' face burn an even brighter red.
"Are you going to the winter dance together?" Hestia asked Lily but the Head girl only shrugged to say she didn't know and turned to talk to bright eyed girl farther down the table.
Whom exclaimed loudly, "aww, and today's Christmas Eve…how romantic!"
"I'm happy for you," Remus said quietly giving James a small secretive smile.
Someone at the Ravenclaw table wolf whistled and James was seconds away from running out of the Great Hall when Lily grabbed his hand under the table, lacing their fingers together as she turned to speak with Peter across the table.
James took a deep breath, relaxing as best he could under all the stares.
He knew as long as Lily's hand was wrapped in his, everything would be okay.
Class was almost as bad as the Great Hall, kids didn't pay attention to the teacher they openly stared as Lily and James sat next to each other. Even Lily was getting tiered of the attention and by Defense against the Dark Arts she was absolutely fed up.
"Hey, we aren't some bloody freak show! Stop staring!" she yelled in the middle of class making every child stare opened mouthed before quickly averting their eyes. The professor sent Lily a thankful glance before continuing on with the lesson.
When the day was finally over the two retreated to their common room, they sat in amiable silence as they both completed their homework, the setting sun through the window set everything in the room on fire.
"Your hair looks like gold…" James mumbled to himself as he watched her bent over her Astronomy homework.
"What?" She said looking up catching him staring.
"Nothing…" He blushed as Lily smiled and they went back to their homework.
James got up to start the fire when the sun had set and Lily got up and stretched across the couch, sinking into the cushions. James plopped down onto the arm chair with a sigh, glad to be done with his Potions essay.
"James…what are you doing?" Lily asked with a small grin.
"Sitting?" he said slowly, his honey eyes confused.
"Alone?" she said smiling watching him blush for the twelfth million time that day.
"Oh…erm, well…" he trailed off awkwardly.
"Come here," Lily said patting the space behind her sitting up to make room.
James pushed his glasses up on his nose before standing slowly and sliding into the space behind Lily as she lay back down, their bodies fitting together like puzzle pieces. He draped his arm across her waist and she twined their fingers together, laying her head back on his chest with a content sigh.
At first James was tense but soon he melted into the couch and the feeling of Lily's body against his own.
They watched the fire dance for what seemed like hours just content being with each other. When James felt Lily's breath deepen like she was on the verge of sleep he swooped his head and gave her a soft kiss on the arch of her neck.
She sighed, and turned to him sleep dancing in her eyes but she arched up to give him a quick kiss before laying back the way she was.
"Lily?" he asked softly his chest rumbling against her.
"mhmmm?" she hummed back sleepily.
"Would you go to the winter dance with me?" he asked softly, his breath against her hair.
She reached up and threaded her fingers into his soft hair before turning once more and kissing him slowly, whispering a soft, "yes," against his lips.
She turned back again, sleeping pulling her under and she wouldn't be anywhere else. James smiled as he pulled her closer to him, breathing in her heavily sweet scent of Vanilla and Gardenias smiling as he too closed his eyes and whispered into her hair,
"Happy Christmas," before letting sleep pull him under.
Together, wrapped in each others arms as they slept.
A/M: Aww who loves awkward James? me! Yumm. :] You'll be happy to know that I've also finished the last chapter so I will put that up in about 2 or 3 days...then it'll be over. :/