Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ He's nothing to me ( Chapter 1 )
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By: makoto_mai 
Non Anime: Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Romance | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 01.05.2007 | Updated On: 01.06.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.4K | Visits: 262 | Status: Work In Progress
Non Anime: Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Romance | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 01.05.2007 | Updated On: 01.06.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.4K | Visits: 262 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: The title ‘Harry Potter’ belongs to J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers. The theme ‘Breathless’ belongs to R.J. Lange and Andrea Corr from The Corrs. I do not own anything in this life…well perhaps some characters on this story and some neurons left, so don’t sue me, I’m in bankruptcy!
Authors Notes: Well, my first fic based on Harry Potter. Originally it was a songfic, that’s why it’s name is ‘Breathless’, but then I started having ideas and it became a story, it won’t be long though, just a few chapters. Alright, is Marauder’s era, Lily and James mainly, eventually the song will be involved in the story, don’t worry, so…enjoy!
Summary: The hunter becomes the hunted! This is what happens when James’s brilliant plan…backfires at him!
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Breathless
Chapter I – He’s Nothing to me!
Outside the day was dying, but that did nothing to stop the happy students who were celebrating the end of the final exams. Everybody, well almost, were outside…some playing, others trying to win against the Womping Willow, and some others throwing things to the Giant Squid. Inside, a Lillian Evans was in the library, an open book on the table while she dozed off…thinking.
For quite a while Potter had been ignoring her. He had suddenly changed; from nagging her 24/7 to being completely oblivious to her persona and she was puzzled, she was beginning to miss all the ‘Evans! That uniform suits you well, would you like to go out with me?’ or ‘You know, Evans, you look good, but you could look better with me by your side’ and so on. He would always say those things with a wink, a laugh or a grin; but now all he gave her were blank expressions, but come to think of it…WHY WAS SHE WORRYING?!, wasn’t that what she wanted since first year?, for him to stop his futile attempts to make her ‘fall’ for him?, YES! She was better without him butting in every second! He was an air-head, a fool, he was stupid Potter.
While she was sitting there with a fiery look on her pretty green eyes, ‘Stupid Potter’ came into the library and passed in front of her table…without giving her a glance; she looked at him and thought “Now that’s two surprises”. First, James Potter was in the library, and second, Sirius Black wasn’t with him. Lily heard a voice outside and stretched herself to look through the open doors…and there he was, in all his glory, with his jet black hair falling loosely down his neck and his bangs covering his handsome face and dressed with only the school pants and shirt, with almost all the buttons undone, showing off his well built chest. Next to him was Peter.
“Well, one surprise…” she murmured feeling tired and bored. Now it was like she didn’t even exist. Oh well, every change was for the better…or so she wanted to think. Lily sighed heavily supporting her head on her hand looking in the direction were Potter had disappeared and thought that he was taking too long…did he got lost in all the corridors the library has? After all he never came here, should she go and rescue him? And when she was ready to stand up, ‘Stupid Potter’ came out of the corridors with a single book…and boy he looked good!
His school pants rested loosely on his hips, his white shirt was open and underneath he wore a grey t-shirt, his tie was nowhere to be found and hi-……here we go again…he was JUST Potter, NOTHING more….idiot Potter, with his idiot messed up hair that fell on his face and made you want to put it aside to look into those hazel eyes…oh crap…she sighed while pounding her head on the table, receiving a strange look from the librarian.
That evening, the Great Hall was overflowing with students ready to taste their last meal in the castle for the school-year. Lily sat between two of her friends, almost listening to them talking, her brain was overworking, she was thinking that she should face it already…she liked James. She looked his way instinctively, he was laughing about something Sirius was saying, and she loved the way his face lighted up when he laughed.
The noise in the Great Hall ceased when Dumbledore stood asking for attention and started giving them his end-of-year speech. He talked about the Quidditch games, re-announced the Cup Winner and James received flatteries and cheering from the other houses, except Slytherin of course, being the best Chaser ever of the Gryffindor Team; and then announced the Winner House…Ravenclaw; it would have been Gryffindor, but with all the fights with Slytherin, both houses had lost many points in the final count. After all that he told everybody to ‘dig in’ and so they all did.
Lily saw her food appear in her plate, she wasn’t hungry, but she forced herself to eat. Taking her fork, she started picking pieces of food, her friends were talking about some handsome boys, Lily only half-listened, but when she heard ‘James’ in their conversation she gave them all her attention.
“…Well of course! Although he looks like he’s never met a hairbrush” they all laughed “isn’t Lily?”
“Uhm…yeah…”
“Are you alright? You always have something to say of him, and you are not eating your food”
“I have a headache, that’s all, don’t worry” she said and the girls resumed their talking while she played with her food. A laugh, then a ‘watch it!’ and Lily glanced at the quartet; Remus were lecturing Sirius, while Peter laughed his eyes out and James…James was oblivious to everything and playing with his food.
It was strange to see him that way, he looked depressed. Sirius said something to him, but James seemed not to pay attention to his friend, then Lily concentrated and read their lips.
“You thinking about that again?” said Sirius putting an arm around James’ shoulders.
“What can I do Paddie?” he answered with a sad smile gracing his lips.
“Don’t tell me you’re regretting it, desperate situations require desperate measures!” he exclaimed making James laugh, always trust Sirius to make you feel better.
Lily smiled seeing this, although she didn’t understand what were they talking about, after all, as Remus always assured her, Sirius wasn’t a bad person; underneath that careless front a warm heart resided. She looked at the Marauders then back at her ‘friends’…they were so different. Thinking back, she never truly hated the Marauders, she had been manipulated by her friends; they had done some awful things, that’s true, but nobody came out harmed…well, except Snape.
Soon, supper ended and Dumbledore spoke once again. He talked about the dark times, the Dark Lord, that they must unite and so many other things that left her thinking, even more!
Morning came bright as any other summer day. The Prefects were working with the lower grades students, to take them to the giant doors of the castle for the carriages to take them to the Hogsmeade Station. Lily was developing a migraine, she really loved kids, but this moment she wanted to kill them! They weren’t paying any attention to the prefects, and to think she still had to take care of them on the ride back. When the kids finally left it was time for the older students to take the carriages. From that moment on, everything went smoothly; the kids behaved themselves on the train…maybe because she threatened them with hexing them. In King’s Cross, Mr. and Mrs. Evans received her with kisses and hugs, as always, and then her summer began.
She wasn’t too happy really, to have to stand Petunia with her insults, it wasn’t nice, but she busied herself, helping her mother on the kitchen and going to the public library near her house. Two months later an owl came with two letters; one with the list of books and material she needed for her last year at Hogwarts and another with a badge with a large HG, she read the letter and squealed. She’d been made Head Girl!
“What happened, why are you screaming?!” said Mrs. Evans looking all around to see if there were a mouse or a spider “Where is it?!”
“Look Mum! I’m Head Girl!” said Lily showing her badge to her mother.
“Oh! That’s….nice?”
“Of course! It’s brilliant!”
That night, the house of Evans celebrated; oblivious to the celebration being held at the house of Potter, for James had been made Head Boy.
September soon came, and Lily passed through the wall on platform 9 ¾ to see the bustling students talking and saying good-bye to their parents, so she proceeded to do the same with hers. After two choking hugs and kisses, Lily made her way to the wagon dragging her trunk with difficulty; she was so engrossed in her task that she did not see when she collided hard with something…or someone.
“Are you okay?” said a manly voice behind her. She was going to spat at him when she saw the source of the voice. In front of her stood James Potter dressed in muggle clothes, a warm smile on his lips and a glint in his eyes.
“Uhm…yes, sorry” she stuttered while fighting a blush. When she was about to leave, she stumbled on her own trunk and fell in the outstretched arms of James.
“I never knew you’re clumsy” he said chuckling making Lily to look up with a frown, but when she realized their closeness…his lips were so close, she just needed to stretch her neck to kiss him.
“What are you doing?” said James amusedly moving slightly away to see into her eyes, she blushed furiously; then, he moved closer and spoke to her ear “Were you trying to kiss me?”
Lily was about to have a heart attack, but so did James, she could feel his heart beating fast and his trembling hands on her back. She was so concentrated on him, and he on her that they didn’t notice the group of spectators that were gathering until a ‘kiss her already!’ could be heard. With that they broke apart, blushing madly, and stepped into the wagon…to the prefect’s compartment.
“Really Potter, you’re a git! And why are you following me?” she said with a frown but not daring to look at him in the face.
“Thank you for the compliment and I could ask the same thing” he said casually.
“Wait…where are you going?”
“Prefect’s compartment”
“Why? You have nothing to do there” she said looking at him skeptically.
“Yes, I do have” he stated taking his Head Boy badge out of his pocket.
“No!” she yelled with a horrified expression on her pretty face “You can’t!”
“Yes, are you Head Girl?” life seemed so beautiful to James right now, he was going to have a whole year with Lily near to him, Head Boy & Girl were supposed to take care of prefect’s rounds, the preparations and decorations of balls, if there were any that year, and also, preparations for the graduation ceremony…so, Lily and James would be spending a plenty of time together, and that made him happy.
When the train started moving, every prefect made their way to the compartment where the Head Boy and Girl waited. When the prefects stepped in nobody was surprised to see Lily Evans in there, but when James Potter stepped out of a little sub-compartment, everybody gasped.
“What are you doing here?!” A tall boy from Ravenclaw said.
“The same as you” James said fixing his robe and showing his Head Boy badge, he was going to enjoy this so much.
“Potter…Head Boy?” said a girl from Hufflepff.
“What was Dumbledore thinking?” another girl, from Ravenclaw, said.
“He has totally lost it…” said the Slytherin’s.
“Okay, people, I know is unbelievable, but we cannot judge Professor Dumbledore’s decisions.” Lily said glaring at the Slytherin’s.
“Well then…shall we start?” asked a thin girl from Gryffindor.
And so the day went, rounds, a few lectures, disbelieving gasps for James and cheering and jokes from the Marauders. At last, the train arrived at Hogsmeade Station and the first years went with the Prefects while the Head Boy and Girl supervised the older students. At the start-of-year feast, and after the sorting of the first years, Dumbledore spoke; he presented the new additions on the staff, a new teacher for Defence Against The Dark Arts and announced the Head Boy and Girl of that year.
The smile in James’ face couldn’t be wider when he saw Lily’s expression, she was freaking out! Her eyes were wide, her cheeks were red and she was playing with her sleeve; thank God Dumbledore didn’t made her make a speech, he though she could die any minute.
After the feast, Lily went to her room and collapsed on her bed…what a tiring day. First James, then the students and then the Headmaster…really, what was Dumbledore thinking when he made James Head Boy; the git had no discipline to teach, he was a prankster, in his past years he, along with Sirius, had broken a zillion school rules, what would he teach to the younger minds? How to throw dungbombs without being busted?!...but no, she would not let him do that, she was going to change that part of him, of course she would!
“A-Are you alright…Lily?”
“Her eyes are on fire…I’m scared…”
“She’s thinking about Potter, don’t fret.” Hannah Owens, a black-haired and very pale girl, said while she opened her trunk to change her clothes.
“Shut up, Hannah!” Lily yelled throwing her pillow.
After several weeks, the fifth and seventh graders were stressing out already for their O.W.L’s and N.E.W.T’s, meaning the library was full, so Lily preferred the calm of the common room in the night. She was re-reading her essay for Ancient Runes, when James stepped into the room, ready to go out.
“You’re still up?”
“Yes, I’m studying” she said looking at her muggle watch. “What are you doing up at this hour?”
“Hungry…you want something from the kitchens?” he said matter-of-factly.
“You are impossible, you shouldn’t be doing this, you’re Head Boy now”
“You want something or not?” he looked at her angry face, which suddenly reddened at the growling of her stomach, she had skipped supper. He laughed.
“Don’t laugh…C-Can I come with you?” she said taking her parchments and books to put them on her book bag.
“Sure, come here” he gestured for her to come close to him, when she did he took out the cloak to put it above them.
“I knew it was something like this…” she murmured “An invisibility cloak” she continued as he chuckled. This closeness was killing him though, she was standing next to him, her hair smelling like fruits, and he wanted to hug her so much. Some may think James just fancied Lily, but only Sirius knew the deepness of his feelings for the red-haired girl.
They stepped out of the common room, walked down the corridors, avoiding the Caretaker, until they came face to face with a painting of a bowl of fruits. James tickled the pear and they entered the kitchens, in an instant, a bunch of house elves were at their service. After a much needed meal, and a great conversation, the two Gryffindors left the kitchens with smiles on their faces and warm feelings on their chests; Lily was getting to know more and more about this man by her side…wow, how things have changed, a few days ago, James was a ‘boy’, now he was a ‘man’…a man she loved each day.
“Well, you’ve been escorted safely milady” said James making a knightly reverence after walking Lily at the bottom to the girl’s staircase.
“Why thank you my brave knight” she said laughing lightly; he had been so great, so different from the prankster she knew, he was more mature now.
“Well…Good night Lily…” he wanted to kiss her, but what would she do? Probably smack him in the cheek ‘It’s now or never’ he thought, and so he lifted a hand to her face and caressed her lips with his thumb coming closer until his lips touched hers.
It was just a touch, allowing her to deepen the kiss if she wanted, and she did, putting her arms around his neck and caressing his hair. It was like she had imagined, despite the unruliness his hair was soft, and like silk…and Dear Merlin what a good kisser he was! It was all like a dream for them, but soon the dream ended, for a gasp alerted then that someone was looking at them.
“Oh…my…God…” said Hannah looking at them with a wide grin on her face.
“Ha-Hannah!”
“Well…uhm…Good Night” said James winking at Lily and weaving at Hannah while going for the boy’s staircase.
“My, my…and here I was worried you were over-stressing yourself with your books.”
“It’s…It’s not what you think!”
“Oh? Was he examining your throat?” said the girl very amused looking at how Lily’s lips worked but no sound came out “Come on, Lily, don’t be shy…tell me, is he a good kisser?”
“Oh Hannah, you don’t know how…” said Lily, blushing still, following her friend to their room. Hannah was the only one of her roommates that was not a totally airhead, and Lily appreciated that.
The next day, Lily was coming late, she had overslept and when she came down to the common room James was waiting for her. He would have gone up to her room, but the girl’s staircase was jinxed to not let any boy up, so he waited. When she saw him, her face became red instantly…as his. She’d never saw him like that before, his face red, his hand moving through his hair more than ever and he was neatly dressed; his pants on the right position, his shirt inside them, his tie well made and he was wearing the pullover, it could be seen underneath his robes…and when he spoke, he stuttered.
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A.N: This is the first chapter. I wrote this in 2005 I think...Recently I was reading this thing again and found that it had A LOT of errors in the grammar so I’m fixing it. I hope you like it!
makoto_mai
Authors Notes: Well, my first fic based on Harry Potter. Originally it was a songfic, that’s why it’s name is ‘Breathless’, but then I started having ideas and it became a story, it won’t be long though, just a few chapters. Alright, is Marauder’s era, Lily and James mainly, eventually the song will be involved in the story, don’t worry, so…enjoy!
Summary: The hunter becomes the hunted! This is what happens when James’s brilliant plan…backfires at him!
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Breathless
Chapter I – He’s Nothing to me!
Outside the day was dying, but that did nothing to stop the happy students who were celebrating the end of the final exams. Everybody, well almost, were outside…some playing, others trying to win against the Womping Willow, and some others throwing things to the Giant Squid. Inside, a Lillian Evans was in the library, an open book on the table while she dozed off…thinking.
For quite a while Potter had been ignoring her. He had suddenly changed; from nagging her 24/7 to being completely oblivious to her persona and she was puzzled, she was beginning to miss all the ‘Evans! That uniform suits you well, would you like to go out with me?’ or ‘You know, Evans, you look good, but you could look better with me by your side’ and so on. He would always say those things with a wink, a laugh or a grin; but now all he gave her were blank expressions, but come to think of it…WHY WAS SHE WORRYING?!, wasn’t that what she wanted since first year?, for him to stop his futile attempts to make her ‘fall’ for him?, YES! She was better without him butting in every second! He was an air-head, a fool, he was stupid Potter.
While she was sitting there with a fiery look on her pretty green eyes, ‘Stupid Potter’ came into the library and passed in front of her table…without giving her a glance; she looked at him and thought “Now that’s two surprises”. First, James Potter was in the library, and second, Sirius Black wasn’t with him. Lily heard a voice outside and stretched herself to look through the open doors…and there he was, in all his glory, with his jet black hair falling loosely down his neck and his bangs covering his handsome face and dressed with only the school pants and shirt, with almost all the buttons undone, showing off his well built chest. Next to him was Peter.
“Well, one surprise…” she murmured feeling tired and bored. Now it was like she didn’t even exist. Oh well, every change was for the better…or so she wanted to think. Lily sighed heavily supporting her head on her hand looking in the direction were Potter had disappeared and thought that he was taking too long…did he got lost in all the corridors the library has? After all he never came here, should she go and rescue him? And when she was ready to stand up, ‘Stupid Potter’ came out of the corridors with a single book…and boy he looked good!
His school pants rested loosely on his hips, his white shirt was open and underneath he wore a grey t-shirt, his tie was nowhere to be found and hi-……here we go again…he was JUST Potter, NOTHING more….idiot Potter, with his idiot messed up hair that fell on his face and made you want to put it aside to look into those hazel eyes…oh crap…she sighed while pounding her head on the table, receiving a strange look from the librarian.
That evening, the Great Hall was overflowing with students ready to taste their last meal in the castle for the school-year. Lily sat between two of her friends, almost listening to them talking, her brain was overworking, she was thinking that she should face it already…she liked James. She looked his way instinctively, he was laughing about something Sirius was saying, and she loved the way his face lighted up when he laughed.
The noise in the Great Hall ceased when Dumbledore stood asking for attention and started giving them his end-of-year speech. He talked about the Quidditch games, re-announced the Cup Winner and James received flatteries and cheering from the other houses, except Slytherin of course, being the best Chaser ever of the Gryffindor Team; and then announced the Winner House…Ravenclaw; it would have been Gryffindor, but with all the fights with Slytherin, both houses had lost many points in the final count. After all that he told everybody to ‘dig in’ and so they all did.
Lily saw her food appear in her plate, she wasn’t hungry, but she forced herself to eat. Taking her fork, she started picking pieces of food, her friends were talking about some handsome boys, Lily only half-listened, but when she heard ‘James’ in their conversation she gave them all her attention.
“…Well of course! Although he looks like he’s never met a hairbrush” they all laughed “isn’t Lily?”
“Uhm…yeah…”
“Are you alright? You always have something to say of him, and you are not eating your food”
“I have a headache, that’s all, don’t worry” she said and the girls resumed their talking while she played with her food. A laugh, then a ‘watch it!’ and Lily glanced at the quartet; Remus were lecturing Sirius, while Peter laughed his eyes out and James…James was oblivious to everything and playing with his food.
It was strange to see him that way, he looked depressed. Sirius said something to him, but James seemed not to pay attention to his friend, then Lily concentrated and read their lips.
“You thinking about that again?” said Sirius putting an arm around James’ shoulders.
“What can I do Paddie?” he answered with a sad smile gracing his lips.
“Don’t tell me you’re regretting it, desperate situations require desperate measures!” he exclaimed making James laugh, always trust Sirius to make you feel better.
Lily smiled seeing this, although she didn’t understand what were they talking about, after all, as Remus always assured her, Sirius wasn’t a bad person; underneath that careless front a warm heart resided. She looked at the Marauders then back at her ‘friends’…they were so different. Thinking back, she never truly hated the Marauders, she had been manipulated by her friends; they had done some awful things, that’s true, but nobody came out harmed…well, except Snape.
Soon, supper ended and Dumbledore spoke once again. He talked about the dark times, the Dark Lord, that they must unite and so many other things that left her thinking, even more!
Morning came bright as any other summer day. The Prefects were working with the lower grades students, to take them to the giant doors of the castle for the carriages to take them to the Hogsmeade Station. Lily was developing a migraine, she really loved kids, but this moment she wanted to kill them! They weren’t paying any attention to the prefects, and to think she still had to take care of them on the ride back. When the kids finally left it was time for the older students to take the carriages. From that moment on, everything went smoothly; the kids behaved themselves on the train…maybe because she threatened them with hexing them. In King’s Cross, Mr. and Mrs. Evans received her with kisses and hugs, as always, and then her summer began.
She wasn’t too happy really, to have to stand Petunia with her insults, it wasn’t nice, but she busied herself, helping her mother on the kitchen and going to the public library near her house. Two months later an owl came with two letters; one with the list of books and material she needed for her last year at Hogwarts and another with a badge with a large HG, she read the letter and squealed. She’d been made Head Girl!
“What happened, why are you screaming?!” said Mrs. Evans looking all around to see if there were a mouse or a spider “Where is it?!”
“Look Mum! I’m Head Girl!” said Lily showing her badge to her mother.
“Oh! That’s….nice?”
“Of course! It’s brilliant!”
That night, the house of Evans celebrated; oblivious to the celebration being held at the house of Potter, for James had been made Head Boy.
September soon came, and Lily passed through the wall on platform 9 ¾ to see the bustling students talking and saying good-bye to their parents, so she proceeded to do the same with hers. After two choking hugs and kisses, Lily made her way to the wagon dragging her trunk with difficulty; she was so engrossed in her task that she did not see when she collided hard with something…or someone.
“Are you okay?” said a manly voice behind her. She was going to spat at him when she saw the source of the voice. In front of her stood James Potter dressed in muggle clothes, a warm smile on his lips and a glint in his eyes.
“Uhm…yes, sorry” she stuttered while fighting a blush. When she was about to leave, she stumbled on her own trunk and fell in the outstretched arms of James.
“I never knew you’re clumsy” he said chuckling making Lily to look up with a frown, but when she realized their closeness…his lips were so close, she just needed to stretch her neck to kiss him.
“What are you doing?” said James amusedly moving slightly away to see into her eyes, she blushed furiously; then, he moved closer and spoke to her ear “Were you trying to kiss me?”
Lily was about to have a heart attack, but so did James, she could feel his heart beating fast and his trembling hands on her back. She was so concentrated on him, and he on her that they didn’t notice the group of spectators that were gathering until a ‘kiss her already!’ could be heard. With that they broke apart, blushing madly, and stepped into the wagon…to the prefect’s compartment.
“Really Potter, you’re a git! And why are you following me?” she said with a frown but not daring to look at him in the face.
“Thank you for the compliment and I could ask the same thing” he said casually.
“Wait…where are you going?”
“Prefect’s compartment”
“Why? You have nothing to do there” she said looking at him skeptically.
“Yes, I do have” he stated taking his Head Boy badge out of his pocket.
“No!” she yelled with a horrified expression on her pretty face “You can’t!”
“Yes, are you Head Girl?” life seemed so beautiful to James right now, he was going to have a whole year with Lily near to him, Head Boy & Girl were supposed to take care of prefect’s rounds, the preparations and decorations of balls, if there were any that year, and also, preparations for the graduation ceremony…so, Lily and James would be spending a plenty of time together, and that made him happy.
When the train started moving, every prefect made their way to the compartment where the Head Boy and Girl waited. When the prefects stepped in nobody was surprised to see Lily Evans in there, but when James Potter stepped out of a little sub-compartment, everybody gasped.
“What are you doing here?!” A tall boy from Ravenclaw said.
“The same as you” James said fixing his robe and showing his Head Boy badge, he was going to enjoy this so much.
“Potter…Head Boy?” said a girl from Hufflepff.
“What was Dumbledore thinking?” another girl, from Ravenclaw, said.
“He has totally lost it…” said the Slytherin’s.
“Okay, people, I know is unbelievable, but we cannot judge Professor Dumbledore’s decisions.” Lily said glaring at the Slytherin’s.
“Well then…shall we start?” asked a thin girl from Gryffindor.
And so the day went, rounds, a few lectures, disbelieving gasps for James and cheering and jokes from the Marauders. At last, the train arrived at Hogsmeade Station and the first years went with the Prefects while the Head Boy and Girl supervised the older students. At the start-of-year feast, and after the sorting of the first years, Dumbledore spoke; he presented the new additions on the staff, a new teacher for Defence Against The Dark Arts and announced the Head Boy and Girl of that year.
The smile in James’ face couldn’t be wider when he saw Lily’s expression, she was freaking out! Her eyes were wide, her cheeks were red and she was playing with her sleeve; thank God Dumbledore didn’t made her make a speech, he though she could die any minute.
After the feast, Lily went to her room and collapsed on her bed…what a tiring day. First James, then the students and then the Headmaster…really, what was Dumbledore thinking when he made James Head Boy; the git had no discipline to teach, he was a prankster, in his past years he, along with Sirius, had broken a zillion school rules, what would he teach to the younger minds? How to throw dungbombs without being busted?!...but no, she would not let him do that, she was going to change that part of him, of course she would!
“A-Are you alright…Lily?”
“Her eyes are on fire…I’m scared…”
“She’s thinking about Potter, don’t fret.” Hannah Owens, a black-haired and very pale girl, said while she opened her trunk to change her clothes.
“Shut up, Hannah!” Lily yelled throwing her pillow.
After several weeks, the fifth and seventh graders were stressing out already for their O.W.L’s and N.E.W.T’s, meaning the library was full, so Lily preferred the calm of the common room in the night. She was re-reading her essay for Ancient Runes, when James stepped into the room, ready to go out.
“You’re still up?”
“Yes, I’m studying” she said looking at her muggle watch. “What are you doing up at this hour?”
“Hungry…you want something from the kitchens?” he said matter-of-factly.
“You are impossible, you shouldn’t be doing this, you’re Head Boy now”
“You want something or not?” he looked at her angry face, which suddenly reddened at the growling of her stomach, she had skipped supper. He laughed.
“Don’t laugh…C-Can I come with you?” she said taking her parchments and books to put them on her book bag.
“Sure, come here” he gestured for her to come close to him, when she did he took out the cloak to put it above them.
“I knew it was something like this…” she murmured “An invisibility cloak” she continued as he chuckled. This closeness was killing him though, she was standing next to him, her hair smelling like fruits, and he wanted to hug her so much. Some may think James just fancied Lily, but only Sirius knew the deepness of his feelings for the red-haired girl.
They stepped out of the common room, walked down the corridors, avoiding the Caretaker, until they came face to face with a painting of a bowl of fruits. James tickled the pear and they entered the kitchens, in an instant, a bunch of house elves were at their service. After a much needed meal, and a great conversation, the two Gryffindors left the kitchens with smiles on their faces and warm feelings on their chests; Lily was getting to know more and more about this man by her side…wow, how things have changed, a few days ago, James was a ‘boy’, now he was a ‘man’…a man she loved each day.
“Well, you’ve been escorted safely milady” said James making a knightly reverence after walking Lily at the bottom to the girl’s staircase.
“Why thank you my brave knight” she said laughing lightly; he had been so great, so different from the prankster she knew, he was more mature now.
“Well…Good night Lily…” he wanted to kiss her, but what would she do? Probably smack him in the cheek ‘It’s now or never’ he thought, and so he lifted a hand to her face and caressed her lips with his thumb coming closer until his lips touched hers.
It was just a touch, allowing her to deepen the kiss if she wanted, and she did, putting her arms around his neck and caressing his hair. It was like she had imagined, despite the unruliness his hair was soft, and like silk…and Dear Merlin what a good kisser he was! It was all like a dream for them, but soon the dream ended, for a gasp alerted then that someone was looking at them.
“Oh…my…God…” said Hannah looking at them with a wide grin on her face.
“Ha-Hannah!”
“Well…uhm…Good Night” said James winking at Lily and weaving at Hannah while going for the boy’s staircase.
“My, my…and here I was worried you were over-stressing yourself with your books.”
“It’s…It’s not what you think!”
“Oh? Was he examining your throat?” said the girl very amused looking at how Lily’s lips worked but no sound came out “Come on, Lily, don’t be shy…tell me, is he a good kisser?”
“Oh Hannah, you don’t know how…” said Lily, blushing still, following her friend to their room. Hannah was the only one of her roommates that was not a totally airhead, and Lily appreciated that.
The next day, Lily was coming late, she had overslept and when she came down to the common room James was waiting for her. He would have gone up to her room, but the girl’s staircase was jinxed to not let any boy up, so he waited. When she saw him, her face became red instantly…as his. She’d never saw him like that before, his face red, his hand moving through his hair more than ever and he was neatly dressed; his pants on the right position, his shirt inside them, his tie well made and he was wearing the pullover, it could be seen underneath his robes…and when he spoke, he stuttered.
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A.N: This is the first chapter. I wrote this in 2005 I think...Recently I was reading this thing again and found that it had A LOT of errors in the grammar so I’m fixing it. I hope you like it!
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