Okay so this is a 7,000 word chap and it took quite a while, but it's done. Here's the thing I have a hell of a lot of exams coming up this month and these chapters take up quite a bit of time to do, I have no problem still writing them but I need more reviews so I know that my time isn't being wasted.
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Chapter 9- Food fights, balls and truths.
Another month past for the group of sixth years and November changed to December bringing the arrival of the end of term, end of exams and most of all christmas.
Lily, Amy, James and Remus all sat on the Gryffindor table eating their lunch.
"Amy, how much money are you taking to Hogsmede?" Lily asked. It was time for the annual christmas trip to Hogsmede and even though they got to go every weekend the first christmas one always seemed to excite everybody more.
"I've got quite a bit of money saved up actually and I think I'm taking most of it, especially since I need to buy a dress. Amy said referring to the upcoming christmas ball in 2 weeks time. Amy quickly thought back to when Remus had asked her to the ball.
It was the night after their last exam, which had been theory defence against the dark arts. Remus had written her a letter and magically, because of the staircase, put it on her bed. As she opened it all it had said was 'Meet me where you said it first.' Instinctively Amy thought about the Quidditch stands where she had said I love you for the first time.
As she made her way down, keeping her chin tucked in her scarf to get rid of the cold, she kept thinking about what Remus wanted and why he was being cryptic in his note.
Finally she made it to the stands and saw Remus sitting and then launched up when he saw her and smiled that smile that made her knees weak.
"You worked it out." Remus said to her as though he was worried that she might have gone somewhere else. Amy nodded and then beamed as Remus handed her a single red tulip (her favourite)
"What's all this then?" Amy said while pulling the flower to her nose and taking a deep breath. "Why so secretive?" Amy finished with a raised eyebrow.
Remus smiled at her and then shook his head. "I know you'll probably think that I'm over exaggerating but I just want everything to be perfect for you and I just wanted to ask if you wanted to go to the ball with me." Remus said the last bit in a short breath as if she wouldn't go with him.
Amy laughed at his nervousness and then smiled admiring at how romantic her boyfriend was/ Leaning forward she gave him a feather light kiss on his lips and then her face exploded into a full blown grin as the excitement of going to the ball crept in.
"Of course I will Remus, who else am I going to go with." Amy reassured him and Remus breathed a sigh of relief and pulled her to his body kissing her with everything he had before leading her back to the great hall, talking and laughing like a young couple should do. The fears of the outside world not getting them.
"Ames? Amy?" Lily called and snapped her fingers in front of Amy's to bring her attention back to the great hall.
"Hmm, yeah?" Amy said still slightly dazed from her romantic flashback.
"I asked if you know where you were getting your dress from." Lily said again but more slowly as if she were talking to a child and of course to make the scene more fitting Amy stuck her tongue out.
"I'm not sure I think we all just said that we were going to have a look around everywhere." Amy informed Lily and she nodded, just as, and in true marauder form, Olivia walked in walking on top of the Gryffindor table singing 'Man I feel like a women' by Shania Twain Sirius, Frank and Alice trailing behind her but walking on the floor like normal people, except they didn't look like normal people as they held their stomachs and broke down in hysterics at Olivia's performance.
When Olivia's song closed to an end the whole hall who had been laughing broke down in applause and wolf whistles and Olivia with no shame or embarrassment bowed at her enthusiastic audience. One of the many things Lily loved about her best friend was her ability to be as confident as she was.
When the applause finally died down and Dumbledore had commented on Olivia's outstanding performance Olivia still walking on the table came over to the group and sat down in a seat next to Sirius who high fived her then kissed her cheek and whispered in her, something that made her giggle and Lily decided there and then that she didn't want to know.
"What the hell was that all about?" Amy asked a smile on her face.
Alice managed to slow her coughs down that had resulted from too much laughing. Frank patted her on the back a few times so she could breathe again and explain to Amy.
"Well basically some up himself Hufflepuff asshole dared Olivia to do it and well we all know Olivia does every dare known to man and well I guess he's a little shown up." Alice said laughing again and pointed to the Hufflepuff table where some guy now sat with a red faced scowl which reddened even more when Olivia winked and blew him a kiss causing the group to laugh again.
They all sat talking as they ate, for once they had a peaceful quiet lunch now sibling rivalry, no fights just simply friends sitting and joking around. When they had all finished Olivia stood up,
"Come on then you sexy girlies, we need to go get ready to get our groove on and then go do my favourite activity... Shopping." Olivia said sarcastically everyone knowing that she loathed shopping unless it was with her boys and it included chocolate or prank equipment.
The rest of the girls got up and said goodbye to their boyfriends and Lily said goodbye to James. These things had become a regular occurrence as well as the fact that Lily now called him by his name and not Potter or other profanities. All the girls had noticed it and talked about it with each other and how they were going to approach the subject.
"Promise me that if I'm not back at the three broom sticks 2 hours after we leave, come looking for my body because I probably died of boredom." Olivia pouted to Sirius while she had her arms around his neck.
Sirius laughed and kissed her promising to collect her body. As she turned her slapped her behind and she turned back to glare at him and promised retribution later. The whole group groaned as Sirius winked at her and Olivia returned the favour.
Each of the girls stood at the end of their bed taking out various items of clothing that they wanted to wear one minute and then not the next.
"Okay I seriously have nothing to wear." Alice complained as she chucked a dress out of the way and rose up with her hands on her hips.
"I second that." Olivia sighed.
"Third it!" Lily and Amy said at the same time and then each girl called out their jinxes. This is what Olivia loved most about Hogwarts, when she could be with her friends and have crazy conversations like normal teenagers who weren't living in a war where they could possibly die. This is what made her want to fight. So she could keep this best part of her life.
Finally the girls had decided on their outfits and were now working on their hair and makeup. As it was said earlier the girls had been deciding the best way to approach the James topic with Lily and of course with Olivia the way forward was to barge straight in and take no prisoners.
"So Sherlock what going on with Jamsie boy then?" Olivia asked raising her eyebrow at Lily through the mirror from where she was doing her lip gloss.
Lily looked up quickly from where she had been painting her nails an emerald green colour.
"Wh-What are you talking about?" Lily stammered clearly uncomfortable with the situation she was now in.
"Oh come off it Lils we all know, we can see the way you look at him, it's the way I look at Frank and Olivia at Sirius and Amy at Remus." Alice said sitting down next to Lily and also began to paint her nails a blue a pink colour.
"Time for me to steal your line Sherly old pal but somebody's in like." Olivia waggled her eyebrows and spun around in a circle repeating the words that Lily had said to her on the train when they had been talking about her and Sirius.
Suddenly Olivia, still spinning around with her arms out like an aeroplane, began belting out 'true love' By pink.
"Jesus Christ you crazy girl what is it with you and singing about situations?" Amy asked dragging Olivia back to her bed. Everybody knew that Olivia had a thing with singing how she felt or about things that seemed to fit with a topic, they didn't know why but guessed since Sirius knew and wouldn't tell it was something to do with her home life.
"We're just friends guy's really." Lily said and all the action in the dorm seemed to come to a standstill.
"Oh. My. God." Alice breathed and all the girls squealed at Lily's revelation and Lily looked at them confused not knowing what all her friends knew. She was indeed in Like with James Potter
All the boys looked up from where they had been playing exploding snap when they heard Olivia's voice from upstairs. The all shook their heads at her crazy antics.
Finally after an hour of smack talk during exploding snap the girls started coming down and it was safe to say so did the boy's jaws.
Alice appeared first and she was wearing dark blue jeggings and a loose Aztec print t-shirt ,that still managed to cling to her curves even though it was designed to be baggy, She wore a simple jacket coat over the top and a pair of white lace up ankle boots. She walked up to Frank who immediately pulled her to him and kissed her.
Olivia came down next wearing light blue high waisted jeans and her Guns 'N' Roses shirt that clung to her body, with a light denim jacket and her always there converse. Olivia walked straight over to Sirius and he whispered down into her ear how good she looked and of course that he loved her. The two of them couldn't have a conversation without telling the other that they loved them. Olivia leaned forward to kiss him and then turned in his arms with her back to his chest while his arms went around her waist and they watched the other couples greet all the while Sirius whispered innocent and not so innocent words into her ear.
Amy was the next down and she was wearing a simple cream knitted jumper dress, a denim jacket and black leggings which were topped off with knee black heeled boots. Remus smiled as she reached him and kissed her,
"You look stunning Amy." Remus said honesty blazing in his every feature.
"You're not looking so bad yourself." Amy replied blushing. Looking at his outfit which consisted of jeans and a shirt. Boys were so lucky they didn't have to go through the stresses of outfits they just threw on some jeans and a shirt or in some cases like Sirius and Frank a polo shirt.
Lily was the last to come down and James thought he would pass out from lack of oxygen to his brain. Breathe James. He heard a voice that sounded a lot like Olivia's in his head.
Lily was dressed in a green and black button down dress. She like other girls had a denim jacket to protect her from the cold outside. She also wore skin coloured tights and flat black pumps. Lily looked slightly lost as all the other girls were standing with their boyfriends and she didn't know whether to go up to James or not. She didn't have to think about it for much longer as James came over to her.
"Lily you look... beautiful." James said struggling to think of a word that described how amazing she really did look.
"Um thanks James." Lily said and blushed. James's eyes widened. She was blushing because he had given her a compliment!
They were both just looking at each other when suddenly Olivia once again broke into her 'True Love' and walked over to the portrait hole looking behind her and waggling her finger at Sirius who laughed and shook his head at Olivia and followed her picking her up and slinging her over his shoulder, followed by a playful slap on her ass and the group took that as their signal to leave.
The Hogsmede streets were alive with the sounds of excited first years, and girls shrieking about things they saw in shop windows and wanted.
The group arrived all jumped out of the carriages in a relative squeeze. It felt good to finally stand up considering they had been sitting down for half an hour in a carriage made for five and there were eight of them. To say it had been a squeeze was an understatement but thanks to the marauders many jokes and Olivia's constant singing and humming there wasn't a moment of silence and never any awkwardness.
"Okay so I guess girls are going dress shopping and boys are going prank shopping, so we'll split and meet at the three broomsticks in two hours?" Alice asked and everyone agreed.
The marauders walked off in one direction and Olivia subtly tried to follow not letting go of Sirius' hand.
"Olivianna Collins! You are a girl!" Lily shouted over to her. Olivia cringed and sighed knowing she had no choice but to endure the hours of shopping.
"Sorry baby."Sirius said sincerely and the other boys who had tried to smuggle her away from the torture apologised too.
"Gentleman." Olivia said lifting her head in fake determination. "It's been a pleasure pranking with you." Olivia said in her most posh voice and curtsied while the boys bowed.
"You were a brilliant comrade Shadow." Remus piped in and the boys nodded in agreement.
The girls all rolled their eyes.
"Come on Olivia you're not on the Titanic!" Alice said pulling her away.
"MY HEART WILL GO ON AND ON!" Olivia sang at the top of her voice and laughed blowing a kiss to Sirius as they pulled her around the corner.
"Prongs mate that was the perfect opportunity!" Frank exclaimed spreading his arms and then playfully hitting James on the shoulder.
James groaned and ran both hands through his hair and scrunched his eyes closed.
"Ahh screw this!" He said finally and ran off in the direction the girls went, with the boys all shouting and whistling after him.
"Lily!" James shouted as he rounded the corner and saw the girls about to enter the shop.
Lily turned to face him and then back at the girls who smiled and almost ran inside so that Lily was left on her own. As she walked up to James he could see the faint blush on her cheeks and normally pale neck.
"James? Are you okay?" Lily asked somewhat nervously wringing her hands together.
"I know you've probably already been asked, hell I bet loads of people have, but since we've been getting along I just wondered if maybe you would go to the ball with me?... as you know friends." James finished his on the spot speech and breathed out a deep breath.
Lily stood shocked just looking at him unsure of what to say.
"You don't have to say yes, I mean you're probably already going with someone else. Don't worry about it." James said and started to turn.
"No!" Lily said quickly and grabbed his arm to turn him back round.
"I was just shocked, I wasn't saying no... I would like to go with you, it will be... fun." Lily said gulping but smiling at the same time.
"Really?" James said not really believing it and his eyes considerably widened.
"Yeah I mean we're friends now right?" Lily said questingly and James nodded his head so fast that he looked like a bobble head.
"Okay well, I guess you can go and get a dress now." James commented and pointed to the shop where the three other girls were unashamedly looking straight at them through a window.
"Yeah I should probably go in now." Lily said and to her complete surprise James leant forward and kissed her cheek before turning around sharply to walk back to the boys with the biggest grin on his face. Leaving Lily open mouthed staring after him.
Finally she turned back to the shop and thankfully the girls were no longer at the window and walked in through the door only to meet a wall of grinning girls.
"Spill it Sherlock." Olivia Said grinning ear to ear. Brilliant.
Two hours later exhausted but satisfied the girls opened the doors to the three broomsticks and walked inside to see the marauders already sitting down on a table at the back.
The girls walked over to the table and all the boys beamed.
"Shadow you survived!" Remus exclaimed. Olivia threw her bags on the floor and collapsed in a seat next to Sirius and groaned.
"Boy's the goddess of pranking has returned me to you." Olivia said pointing to the ceiling, referring to the 'Goddess'
"Amen to that!" Sirius said and toasted his drink upwards with the other marauders all copying and downing the rest of their drinks.
"Right who wants what?" Frank asked.
The boys walked over to the bar and ordered again and this time for the girls as well. The girls stayed sitting at the two tables which had been pushed together.
"So is everybody happy with their dress and accessories?" Amy asked wanting to double check as she knew that there was not another Hogsmede visit until after the ball.
The girls all mumbled their yes' and then silenced as a shadow crossed over the table. They all looked up into the face of Malfoy, Snape and their Slytherin cronies.
"Ahh Snivellous, Lucy and Voldy followers what did we do to have the pleasure of your oh so pure bloody amazingness." Olivia said over dramatically smiling as she bowed her head to them. As she raised her head the grin was gone.
"No seriously what the hell do you want?" Olivia said all traces of humour gone.
"Just coming to check on our favourite Gryffindor girls." Malfoy winked and all the girls regarded him with disgust.
"You do realise our boyfriends are right over there don't you dumb ass." Alice said stealing some of Olivia's confidence to use as her own so they didn't see how intimidated they made her.
"Lily doesn't have a boyfriend." Snape pointed out for the first time and Malfoy scoffed.
"Well she is a mudblood." Malfoy said as though that was a simple answer.
It seemed as if on cue the girls all stood up and found themselves in a faceoff with four boys towering over them reaching over or just at six foot.
"You best shut your mouth." Amy growled and everybody was momentarily surprised as her usually calm demeanour slipped away.
"Or what?" One of the wannabes sneered and leaned towards Amy and she glared at him.
"Back off." Olivia threatened him.
"You girls are so fun to wind up." Tweedledum who was standing in front of Alice said laughing.
"Go back to following Voldemort like a lost puppy." Lily said aiming her comment at Snape and briefly she saw pain flicker through his eyes.
Malfoy slammed his fist down on the table making the empty glasses fall and shatter and the restaurant went silent also grabbing the marauders attention. They forgot about the drinks and began to quickly make their way over to get their girlfriends away from the danger.
"Seriously Malfoy get the hell away." Olivia said moving forward slightly this time. Sirius' eyes widened and he moved even quicker so that Malfoy couldn't hurt her.
"Oi! Get away from them." James said pulling Lily behind him, the other boy's pulled up similar positions so that they were in the direct line of fire rather that the girls.
"We were just having a conversation with your oh so precious blood traitor, mudblood and co." Malfoy smirked and James flung around and grabbed the nearest thing he could find, which happened to be a plate of spaghetti and flung it straight into Malfoy's' face. Plate included.
The whole restaurant if possible delved into even more silence, it seemed as though no –one was breathing. But then someone shouted from the back.
"FOOD FIGHT!" And all hell broke loose.
After about five minutes of food being thrown it seemed that the fight was at its peak. The marauders were all up on the tables throwing everything and anything they could get their hands on, ranging from mash potatoes to ice cream.
Lily, Alice and Amy were all kneeling under the table gathering up the food to pass up to the marauders. A strategy that allowed the girls to remain clean and the marauders to make mischief.
Olivia looked down at her t-shirt which Malfoy had now covered in vanilla ice cream.
"Bitch! This is a new t-shirt." Olivia yelled over to him and threw a bread roll which smacked him in the head causing his to lose his balance and slip on some type of food substance on the floor.
James watched as Snape tried to manoeuvre himself out of the restaurant but James took his aim and threw a handful of potatoes at him at the same time Sirius threw spaghetti in the same direction. Effectively covering his face in food.
James and Sirius high fived and grinned, laughing when they saw Malfoy fall over from Olivia's throw. Suddenly the doors burst open and McGonagall walked in and used her wand to stop everybody and clean up.
"Everybody out!" She shouted and pointed to the door where everyone now begrudgingly began to leave.
The group walked in couples down the street all laughing about the food fight but not mentioning what had happened before, not wanting to put another dampener on the day especially after something so funny had happened.
"Did you get a dress?" Sirius asked as he draped his arm around Olivia's shoulders.
"Yes, and before you ask no I'm not showing you." Olivia laughed and tapped his nose.
"No fun." Sirius pouted and Olivia nudged him in the wind before leaning up and kissing him.
They all spent the rest of the day together going into different shops and the boys spoilt the girls, buying them almost everything they saw and liked, even though they never even asked for it.
At one point they had all split up and attempted to buy christmas presents. However by attempted it means they failed considering that each person was spying around the shops to see if they could see another person and what they were buying.
Finally the time came to return back to the carriages and be on their way back to Hogwarts. Squished up once more in the carriage the atmosphere seemed very relaxed as though everything was finally coming together.
The carriage came to a stop outside Hogwarts and students began filing out. James stepped out first and then offered his hand to Lily who came out after him. She smiled and took his hand gratefully and stepped onto the ground and James still had hold of her hand.
"Come on lovebirds." Sirius shouted and Lily let go of James' hand blushing and smiled before walking back over to the girls who were grinning and nudging each other.
"Thanks Pads." James said scowling at Sirius who smirked at him.
"Blame yourself mate, I can get you back for all the times you interrupted me and Liv." James punched his shoulder and Sirius returned the favour and they began to play fight the whole way back to Hogwarts.
The two weeks leading up to the ball past by quickly in a flurry of excitement and before they knew it the girls were standing up in their dorm rooms getting ready.
"Lil can you pass the makeup box." Alice called across the room from where she was wiping her face with a wipe in front of the mirror.
Lily got up and passed it to her then sat next to her and painted her toes a green colour to match her dress.
Olivia bounded in from the bathroom where she had been having a shower, still clad in her towel she ran straight over to Lily and hugged her laughing when Lily squealed about her being wet.
"How come you're so excited Watson?" Lily asked looking at Olivia suspiciously and she beamed.
"It's my first ball being with Sirius." Olivia said still smiling and Alice cocked her head to the side.
"But I thought you went together in third year?" Olivia nodded, remembering when she and Sirius had gone together and everybody had thought they were a couple.
"Yeah we did but that was just as friends, now we're together, in fact we are all together with boys so get your lazy asses up and rave with me lovely ladies." Olivia smiled and started dancing.
"I'm not together with a boy?" lily said confused and Amy looked over at her.
"Oh please, Lily you and James are basically dating." Lily blushed and looked down.
"Come on Lils you know you wanna dance." Alice raised her eyebrows and held her hand out to Lily who took it and they all danced their way around the dormitory to finish getting ready.
The boys all stood at the entrance to the great hall just at the bottom of the stairs where they were meeting their dates.
"Why do girls need so long to get ready?" James asked looking at his watch.
"So they can look like that." They turned to where Remus was looking at the top of the stairs case open mouthed as four figures came into their view, however there was only one in each boys eye's.
Amy was wearing a strapless red dress that was tight at the top up until her mid thighs where it then ruffled out into scrunched up layers. The top outline of the dress was covered in crystals which continued down the right side of her dress. She was wearing gold high heels with criss cross straps which held darker gold sequins.
Lily was dressed in green. Her dress was one shouldered, tightly fitted down her body, coming out only slightly as it got to the bottom part. The shoulder strap was decorated by a flower, crystals and sequins. The material seemed to slide horizontally over her body. On her feet she wore black heels with a strap going up the middle of her foot and connecting with an ankle strap.
Olivia came down next in a figure hugging strapless blue dress. The material stretched horizontally over the top half of the dress before coming into material that fell straight the rest of the way to the floor. The outline of the neckline was covered in blue and white sequins which followed a trail down her stomach, thin at the top and sparser in the middle before coming together again. She wore a pair of Silver heels which also like Lily had a middle strap which held a chain of gems up to the ankle strap.
Finally Alice was in a baby pink strapless dress. The top half of the dressed was covered in silver crystals and as the material reached her hips it became pink lace which flowed out slightly and down to the floor, with another layer of pink silk like material underneath the lace. Underneath you could make out a pair of black strappy high heels that peaked out as she lifted her dress to get down the stairs.
Each boy stood staring at their girl, all wondering how they had gotten so lucky. It was safe to say that they were gobsmacked.
James reached forward as Lily reached the bottom of the stairs and stretched out his hand towards her. Lily gently placed her hand in his and smiled stepping off the last step.
"Lily... I can't even put words together at how beautiful you look." James said still staring at her intensely.
"Thank you. Your quite dashing if I do say so myself Mr. Potter." Lily teased and they walked arm in arm to the hall, following in the footsteps of Amy, Alice, Frank and Remus, leaving behind Sirius and Olivia.
"You are... so... just so..." Sirius started and Olivia cocked her head to the side in amusement.
"Let's try this way." Sirius said giving up and pulled Olivia to him for a long hard yet passionate kiss that seemed to go on for eternity.
They broke apart and Sirius still had his hands cupped around her face looking in her eyes, wanting her to know that he had put all his feelings and thoughts about how beautiful she looked into that kiss and by the look on Olivia's face he had delivered.
"Whoa. Dude I have to dress myself up like this more often." Olivia said breathless but smiling.
"Words didn't feel like enough to tell you how beautiful you are and how lucky I am to have you as mine." Sirius said proudly and skimmed his hand down her side, making her shiver, and grabbed her hand, leaning his head down and kissing her knuckles.
"Milady, Shall I escort you to tonight's festivities." Sirius bowed and put on a posh accent. Olivia rolled her eyes but played along anyway,
"Why yes kind sir, that would be much obliged... okay enough of that I'm sounding like my mother." Olivia pulled a disgusted face and Sirius laughed, taking her arm and looping it through his leading her into the great hall.
The ball was in full swing even in its early hours as Sirius and Olivia entered. They looked around quickly and saw that their group was over to the side at the drinks table. They made their way over weaving through the already dancing couples, though they were mainly third years who were excited about their first ball.
"What held you two up?" Alice asked suspiciously.
"Snogging." Olivia and Sirius said matter of factly at the same time and then grinned at each other. The group shook their heads, laughing at how open their two friends were about their relationship.
They sat drinking punch for a little while and sang along with songs until the need to get up and dance got too much.
"Dance with me?" Frank asked looking down at Alice who in his eyes looked absolutely breathtaking. She nodded enthusiastically and took his hand, using her free one to lift up her dress as they made their way over to the dance floor.
One by one the couples made their way over and took up a spot on the floor as a slow song came on.
Frank looked down into the eyes of Alice who was looking at him with rapt interest as he had her arms around her waist and hers locked around his neck.
"What?" He asked amused.
"Nothing, just admiring the view." Alice winked and then narrowed her eyes.
"How in the world did you all manage to dress up so smartly?" Alice asked in confusion knowing that there was no way in hell that any of the marauders owned a suit.
Frank smirked "Mrs. P helped us out a little" He shrugged and Alice laughed,
"Well she did a mighty fine job." She approved and then grew serious as Frank leant down to kiss her.
"I love you." He whispered.
Momentarily Alice was shocked and her eyes widened before she relaxed and leaned forward to brush his lips with her own.
"I love you too." She admitted on a breath and then Frank completely closed the gap cupping the back of her head to deepen the kiss, opening her mouth with his tongue and gliding it in effortlessly.
They broke apart breathing heavily but refused to move even an inch from each other as they continued to dance to the music.
Amy kept her head directly over Remus' heart with one of her hands next to her head on his chest and the other on the back of his neck playing with the tips of his hair.
"You need a haircut." Amy commented and felt Remus breath out a laugh in her hair.
"Are you offering your services?" He commented and she snorted in a completely non lady like way
"Only if you want to end up half bald." Amy admitted knowing that her experience with cutting hair had resulted in her brother having a bald patch.
"I'm sure we can work out some arrangement where you get rewarded... via yours truly of course." Remus said in true marauder fashion, tilting her shocked face up and kissing her lips gently.
"Remus! I didn't know you had that sort of stuff in your head." Amy said laughing at Remus, loving this new side of him and was grateful that he was so close to her that he could act this way.
"Well when you hang out with...them." Remus said pointing over to where Sirius and Olivia were dancing so close they could pass for one person and Sirius was whispering in her ear and kissing her neck making her giggle.
"You tend to become slightly dirty minded." Remus finished and wrapped his arm around her waist again loving the way she laughed, the way she smiled, loving her.
Olivia was enjoying just standing and dancing with Sirius. When she felt someone else presence, she turned her head to look round and saw Clayton Walker standing behind her. He was the leader of one of her fan clubs and was the stalker type that was way to obsessed.
Sirius of course being the possessive over protective boyfriend pulled her flush against his body and glared at the boy.
It wasn't as though Sirius had any competition I mean Clayton wasn't anything for the eyes to behold. His squinted eyes and overly large facial features particularly his lips, which much resembled a fish of some sort.
"Get lost Walker." Sirius said pulling Olivia even tighter against him.
"I just want to dance with her." Clayton replied in his annoying nasal voice.
"Absolutely no way in hell." Sirius growled, but Clayton didn't move. Instead being the idiot he was he reached out to grab Olivia who in the heat of the moment waved her hand thinking of the first spell that came into her head.
"Flishka" Olivia whispered in her mind. The spell shot out of her hands and hit Clayton in the face, transforming the whole of his face into a goldfish complete with bubbles coming out of his mouth every time he opened it to talk.
People in close proximity laughed as Clayton ran off to find a mirror and the counter curse, not that there was one, he would just have to wait 24 hours.
Sirius relaxed once he was out of sight and then drew his hand up for a high five.
"Good one babe." Sirius approved and then dragged Olivia back into their earlier position and began to dance again, however this time to a more upbeat song, which resulted in them more grinding in to each other rather than dancing. Not that it seemed either of them minded.
Lily stood over by the drinks table still along with James who was sat down on the chair next to her having not worked up the courage to ask her to dance. Well you're a bit of a dick then aren't you? His inner Olivia said to him.
James sighed running a hand through his untamed hair and braced his hands on his knees to push himself up.
"Lils do you wann-"James started but Lily cut him off.
"Come outside with me." Lily blurted out quickly.
"Um. Sure... okay." James stammered confused.
He watched her as she pulled a vial out of her clutch bag and smiled at him holding out her hand. He took it and let her pull him out of the back entrance and over the grounds.
Lily took James down to the tree covered area just next to black lake her heart hammering all the way down. Was she really about to do this. YES! Her three girlfriends shouted into her head. Guess I am.
Lily stopped facing the lake and then turned to face James taking a deep breath.
"Lily what's going on?" James asked confused as why they had come all the way down here. "What's that?" He continued eyeing the vial of clear liquid that she held in her hand.
Lily unscrewed the cap and gestured to it,
"This is a truth serum that I brewed earlier, let's just say I'm making up for our dare and I- well I just need to tell you something." Lily said and then drank the contents and James' eyes widened.
"Okay so here's the thing. We've been getting along now for a little while and I guess that the reason that I wanted to become friends with you was so that I could make up for all the years I pushed you away. At first yes I did hate you, I thought that it was just some game when you kept asking me out, then in 5th year I saw different sides of you especially after what happened with Olivia and Liam and I guess I liked that. Then we had our talk in the common room and I found myself telling you things that I have only ever told Olivia and I felt comfortable doing it. I guess that now what I'm trying to say is that maybe I do feel more than friendship for you." Lily finished and took a deep breath, dragging in the air that had been taking during her long speech.
James just stood there staring at her and then blinked.
"Lily I- I can't even believe this." James said a hint of a smile on his face, he seemed reserved though as if he didn't want it to be a dream. Having dreams like this had happened to him in the past and when he had woken up his mood had not been the best kind.
"I'm not joking James it's true." Lily said leaning forward to more his hair out of his eyes.
"It's too bad you had to use a potion to do it though." James said and Lily beamed.
"That's the best part, it was water James, everything I just said came straight from me, I only said it was a potion because I needed to you to honestly believe me, and I want to be with." Lily said and James; face split from his grin.
"If you'll still have me, after all the rejection I put you through." Lily said and lowered her head in shame.
James out his finger underneath her chin and tilted her face up to meet his.
"I've spent six years waiting for this moment and nothing's going to stop me being with you. Ever." James said and then lowered his head and let their lips touch for the first time.
Lily let out a breathy moan as their lips connected and instantly her arms went around her neck and ran her hands through his hair feeling the unruly hair that she had longed to touch for a while now. Their tongues touched gently at first and then more passionate and James backed Lily up against the tree one hand on her hip and the other buried deep in her fire like hair.
They broke away and Lily looked up into those hazel eyes that now seemed to captivate her.
"That was so much better than I ever thought it would be." James closed his eyes in bliss and lily kissed his lips gently.
"I'm so sorry I made you wait." Lily said guiltily and James smiled
"No, don't be it just makes the time we have now so much more special." Lily smiled and realised what she had been missing and pulled his head down to hers again.
Just as the kiss was about to become more passionate, they heard hollers, whistles and whoops from behind them. They broke apart to see their group staring at them beaming ear to ear. Each of the couples stood together in some way or form, touching even if it was in the most subtle way.
They all delved into silence for a split second before the girls ran forward to Lily squealing and pulling her from James and into a big group hug, which the boys then joined, each standing behind their girl that meant more than life and surrounded by their friends. Nothing could be better than being a teenager in love and in friendship.