Marauders

Part 16 - The Party Pt2

Sirius, Remus, Peter and I sat at one of the tables watching Lily and James waltz around the dance floor, Sirius and I got up to go get drinks for the four of us. When we arrived back at the table I asked, "do you think they will actually start dating, or will this be it?" "the boys thought about this question before Remus answered "if Lily likes James then I assume it will happen eventually" "exactly, I mean it is obvious that James liked Lily cause he keeps asking her out" added Sirius. "does she like him?" Peter asked me directly, "I think so, I mean she's dancing with him and she is fully aware she is." I answered. "well then, we just have to wait it out" Sirius said. "meanwhile, I think food is the best option" Peter piped up. We all laughed and headed over to the food table.

Meanwhile with James and Lily

They were waltzing around and suddenly James' smile turned into a puzzled look "wait, Lily?" he said both questioningly and shocked. "the one and only" answered Lily with a smile. "hi, James" she said still smiling. "but why did you want to dance, if you knew it was me?" James asked. "I have a secret" she said motioning for him to come closer, "I like you; I've liked you for a while" she whispered. James face changed to shock, "b-but w-why did you not say yes when I asked you out then? He questioned. "I don't know, I guess I was scared that you didn't like me anymore and you were just doing it for fun" she admitted. "I still like you, I've always liked you" he answered with a smile. "would you like to go out with me, Lily Evans" he asked for the last time. "I'd love to" she smiled. "you look beautiful by the way" I said. Again, Lily smiled. They continued to dance together smiling the whole time.

Back with Ivy and the others

"OK so, how long do you think it will take" I asked. They all shook their heads and shrugged, because who knew after all it was Lily and James. We laughed and continued to eat until a Slytherin boy who I recognised from when I broke his nose a couple days ago came over to us at the table or more specifically, he came over to me, I smiled to myself recognising him as he came over knowing exactly what he was going to ask and just as I was expecting he spoke the 5 words I dread the most. "would you like to dance?" he said holding out his hand. I heard the boys attempting but failing to hold in their laughter, they must have recognised him to probably from the bruised and sore face. "one question, who did that to your face?" I asked hiding my urge to smile. "oh, right some 7th years came up to me and punched me, but I beat them up and they ran off like babies." He answered bravely. "what and interesting story, but it is exactly that isn't it? Just a story" I said firmly. I could hear the boys giggling behind me as I stood up and walked closer to the Slytherin, who at this point looked puzzled and if I must say rather scared. "you see, I heard a different version of that story, I heard that a 5th year did that to you. and a girl at that." I smiled deviously as I finished my sentence. "OK, fine it was a 5th year and it was a girl but I beat her up." He admitted. "your still lying to me" I said. "funny, I seemed to remember that she beat you and your 2 friends up. I also remember that you were the ones that ran off like babies." I smiled and chuckled. At this point James and Lily had heard the commotion and headed over as well as a group of Slytherins including the other two boys I beat up. "w-w-what are you talking about?" he said with a small laugh clearly trying to hide his fear. "I'm talking about how 3 Slytherin boys, one being you started a fight with a 5th year and lost, you may ask how I know that. The answer being the 5th year you tried to beat up was, in facts. Me." I chuckled and walked back to my seat which I was rather far away from now as I head being stepping closer to the Slytherin boy who had been stepping back as I did so. I heard the silence that had fallen over the entire hall erupt into heckles and laughter as everyone realised what had just happened. The boys, including James congratulated me and laughed with me as I watched the boy back away into the crowd.

For the rest of the night, I stayed with my friends and James and Lily told us the good news of how they were dating now. Peter had both reluctantly handed me 5 galleons as we had made a bet earlier and I had won because I had bet that they would be together by the end of the week.

At the end of term everything was going well, James and Lily were together, Gryffindor had won both the house and Quidditch cup, the Slytherins left us alone and we had all our classes together. It was all perfect, even though my parents were dead, and my adoptive parents had disowned me, I was as happy as I could be, that was until the new term started and things started to get confusing as the world of dating fell on my shoulders.