Jily; Hogwarts: A Love Story (First in Marauder's Trilogy)

09

"I was thinking for this full moon, we could give Remus chocolate before and after the transformation." James whispered, making Remus' eyes light up.

"I approve." Remus whispered back.

"Where are you guys heading?" James asked after they had finalized a plan.

"Since only 4 days are left till this year ends, I'm going to help Padfoot plan an 'End of the year' party." Remus replied.

"Nice! Can't wait. But I can wait. I have to talk to Evans so we can sort out the—"

James bumped into something causing that something to fall on top him as they both tumbled to the ground. More specifically, that something was Lily Evans. Lily was walking with her nose literally in the transfiguration book. Just like James, she wasn't really paying attention to anything around her causing both of them to crash.

The book had fallen behind Lily and Remus was hurrying away to pick it up as if she had dropped a priceless treasure. On the other hand however, both James and Lily were furiously blushing because it was the second time over this month that their lips were only a centimeter away from each other. Lily's eyes couldn't help but flit to James' lips reminding her of the cupboard and it seemed that James was getting flashbacks to.

Being a quidditch player, James had fallen a lot. He was constantly getting hurt because Fortescue enjoyed scaring him. Due to that, when they fell, he had instinctively wrapped his arms around Lily's waist and Lily had her arms wrapped around his neck. Just as both of their brains were going crazy deciding what to do next, Apollyon Pringle's booming voice yelled, ordering them to break apart or he would hang them by their ankles.

Lily got up off James, trying hard to subside the blush, she helped James up and noticed he was doing the same.

"Why In Merlin did you have to bump into me? You're supposed to look ahead when you're walking." Lily whispered.

"Well, I could say the same for you Evans." He whispered back as they started walking towards the ground and Sirius and Remus were heading towards the Gryffindor common room.

"I was actually finding you and thought that on the way, I could study, with four days left, everyone's going to be looking to have fun—"

"Like normal people," James interrupted.

"Well you won't! You'll have the quidditch match against slytherin," Lily turned towards James. "We have to finish the list."

"Ok, that makes sense, we're going to do the 'say yes to everything' today?" James asked, "You have to say yes..." he added with a grin.

Lily visibly groaned and said, "Yes. This is hard enough already."

"Ok, then let's get started!" He said with an evil grin on his face. "Get me some ice cream. Ooh! A chocolate flavor! From the kitchens!" He exclaimed, looking like a little toddler who's been told that they get to choose what's for dinner.

"Ok." Lily replied.

"I believe, the word you're looking for miss Evans, is 'yes'"

With the help of sheer memory (and a certain map) James led Lily to the kitchens where they found Flimpey the house-elf. Flimpey had been a constant friend of the 'Marauders' for the past 5 years and was willing to give them anything, ranging from crumpets to chicken soup.

"Hi Flimpey!" James greeted Flimpey with a wave, "Meet Lily Evans."

Word Count: 600 words