AN: Hey guys! As promised I've uploaded Chapter 38 today. I'm as surprised as you are. Please leave your suggestions and ideas in a review or you can PM if you want. Thank you for reading and please review!
The weeks were flying by exceptionally fast for James. With his duties as Head and Quidditch Captain in addition to all his N.E.W.T's work he was sure he'd go insane by the Holidays. But keeping up with all his school work wasn't half as tough as Keeping himself from asking Lily out. James had been on his best behaviour around her, hoping to change the way she looked at him and he was glad to say they had formed a friendship of sorts.
Lily had actually started acting in a civil manner towards him and for the first time in his school life she didn't give him a look laced with anger or hatred. Although it ached him not be able to express his true feelings for the red head he knew it would hurt ten times more if he ruined their friendship by opening his big mouth. And that was a risk he was not willing to take.
What made controlling himself even tougher as if it wasn't a Herculean task already was that as Heads, Lily and James were forced to spend a lot of time together. Every night they had to patrol the corridors and make sure there weren't any students out of bed. They would often find some lost First Years who would have to be escorted back to their common room, a couple snogging in a broom cupboard who would flush and become flustered at being caught or some troublemakers, not unlike James had been, trying to devise and test some new prank. James would often catch himself looking at Lily on awe and would have to mentally scold himself for it.
'No', he would think. 'Get a hold of yourself! You need to move on, you can't let her string you along.' Even if Lily had no clue that's what she was doing.
Before James could register how the time had passed, it was almost Halloween. Even if James had a choice, he wouldn't go home for the break and miss being in the beautifully haunting castle. Professor Mcgonagall had left it to the prefects just like every year, to plan the Senior Halloween Ball. It was annual ball that was held for fourth years and older. The school would've conducted it during Christmas but the castle is close to deserted at that time.
Lily and James had organised a prefect meeting to distribute duties. some were in charge of decorations, some for ensuring the house elves made the right food and most stationed around the school to make sure nobody who wasn't supposed to be there entered the Hall. James had taken it upon himself to make a chart of the duties and when he handed Lily the parchment with his untidy scrawl on it, he felt his chest swell up with pride at the impressed look on her face.
He was willing to change himself for her, something he never thought he would do for anybody but Lily was worth it. He hated that she had this effect on him and although he wasn't where he wanted to be with Lily, he was glad to be closer to her than ever before. And for that he was thankful.
AN: PLEASE READ. I know this was a filler, I just wanted to show how James changed himself for Lily and even though he wasn't her boyfriend he was glad just to be friendly with her. I also wanted to tell you how much he was hurting on the inside because of it. I hope you guys liked it and the next chapter should be up early next week (sunday or monday) because that's when I get back and I won't be taking my laptop with me. I don't know how I'll survive. As always, thanks for reading and please review! (just leave a tiny comment, they make me so happy :D)