Accio Evans

Chapter 14: Breakfast

Recap: Lily and James enter the Great Hall as couple for the first time, everyone is delighted, students and teachers alike. Money exchanges hands, including within the Marauders and between the Professors; Severus Snape feels nauseous and storms out the Great Hall to avoid it all. Sirius notices and wants revenge for his attack on James – which the others have forgotten in the midst of it all. Hestia tries to stop him but he follows Snape, and she follows Sirius. On the brink of a dual, Snape reveals that Regulus has become a death eater and Sirius walks away to be comforted by Hestia before leaving on his own.

The sun streamed through a gap in the curtains, leaving a thin layer on the early Saturday morning sunshine across Lily Evans' bed. Stretching awake, a smile spread across her face, most unusual considering the early hour! But she couldn't remember a day when she'd felt more elated, it was hard to feel grumpy when she remembered James Potter's lop sided grin, or the way he'd get nervous around her and play unconscious with his hair, or the way he'd kiss her... it was not even 24 hours since she's finally given in to the butterflies swimming around her stomach and decided being James Potter's girlfriend might not be so bad after all, and she couldn't wipe that stupid grin from her face.

Tip toeing from her bed to bathroom as quietly as she could, she inwardly cringed as the door squeaked loudly before clicking shut, staying silent for a moment longer she didn't hear any of her dorm mates stir and sighed that she'd thankfully not woken them, Hestia's reaction at being woken so early on weekend morning but would not be one she dared to see.

Casting a quick a silencing charm, she turned the dial on the shower and it roared to life. Even the scalding water couldn't wash away the grin that was still plastered across her face.

Once she was clean and her hair had been dried with a flick of her wand, she wrapped one of her pink fluffy towels around herself and vainly attempting to squeeze around the door without it creaking but to no avail. Alice rolled over, but none of her other friends stirred. She dressed as quickly and quietly as she could, pulling on her favourite jeans, red sweater, followed by black ankle boots and made her way across the dorm, closing the door behind her with a faint click.

Descending the stairs, Lily was surprised to find another student up and awake sat in the common room. As she came to the bottom she noticed it was a boy absently filling in the crossword at the back of the Daily Prophet, at the sound of her footsteps, the boys head span round and she was staring back into the grinning face of James Potter. Hair stuck at mad angles and his glasses slightly askew, he dropped the paper onto the table and made light work o crossing the common room to greet her.

"Morning sunshine." He chimed, kissing her cheek lightly. "Wasn't expecting you for at least another hour." He added, his eyes scanning over the watch on his left wrist. "I assumed as you weren't a morning person I'd be able to finish my crossword! Speaking of the crossword, fon't suppose you know the drummer's last name from the Mermaid Watch do you? Five letters?" he questioned, a small smirk unfurling across his lips.

"Queen." She replied with an eyebrow raised. "Who doesn't know that?!" she teased, playfully shoving his shoulder.

"Hey!" James protested "I haven't listened to them in ages! They're last album was pants! What are you doing awake this early anyway?" he asked, taking her hand and making their way slowly across the common room.

"I was hungry." Lily answered with a blatant lie and her cheeks flushed slightly. James noticed and grinned.

"Well I guess we'd better go get food then!" he answered, pushing open the portrait hole and followed her through.

Taking their usual seats at the Gryffindor table, Lily and James began to help themselves to toast, sausages, bacon and porridge, whatever they felt like. Buttering two slices of brown toast Lily cast a glance around the Hall; only three other students were up at this time on a Saturday morning. Two students from Ravenclaw were animatedly chatting as one ate a bacon sandwich, the other spooned cereal into his mouth whilst simultaneously scanning a textbook propped open against the milk jug.