Helloooooooo everybody!
On to my 11th ficcy, this is another short one i'm afraid 4 chapters I predict.
I hope you enjoy it, and remember things may not always be as straight foreward as the seem!
Luv ya
Jessie xxx
Summary- With only three chances to prove yourself, how would you go about it? How can you make someone realise that you're the one they need?
Disclaimer- I own none of the characters which I am borrowing!
Three shots
Getting a chance or three
A dusky September morning Lily Evans sat at her desk in the front row of Transfiguration. She was one of those girls every one envies, pretty, smart and popular, yet the nicest person you've ever met. Or so James Potter believed.
For six years the current head boy had been more then infatuated with the red head before him. He couldn't see her faults. And day after day night after night he pinned and pinned for her. Every time he asked her out she said no. Every attempt he tried to impress her she threw it back in his face, every look she gave him, told him how much she despised him.
Now at the desk he was occupying for the seventh year running, he had finally given up hope, his mates had persuaded him to pursue someone whom he could get. She was the only one he couldn't, but yet she was the only one he wanted.
In growing up as an only child, he had always gotten what he wanted. Lily was so different, so wild yet tame at the same time. But she wouldn't even give him a chance. James' getting over her phase didn't seem to be going too well. The desk he was occupying (after a number of cleaning spells in the summer holidays) was now once more covered in Lily's initials.
James' best mate, Sirius Black, nudged him and scowled. He had never been fond of Lily. Apparently to him she was a stuck up know it all. Or maybe she had just gotten him in trouble too many times before. You see Lily wasn't too fond of school rule breakers and James and Sirius just happened to be the biggest of them all. James sighed and went back to scribbling again.
hem hem Came from in front of James. He looked up to find none other then Professor McGonagall.
"Mr Potter, please do not deface school property. It took me a whole week of the summer holidays to get rid of last years marks on this desk alone. And I would prefer you paid attention it is a very important year this year. You have your NEWTS and I often find that the seventh year often moulds you into the man you will become. In fact this year I think that you and Mr Black should be separated." Both James and Sirius went to argue, but their professor silenced her with a glance. "Mr Potter will you please swap seats with Miss Evans at the front." James almost died on the spot. She couldn't do this to him? Could she? Surely she could read the initials on his desk. As he gathered his quills, James swore the professor smiled and winked at him.
Sirius was almost laughing out loud, seeming to have forgotten his hate for the girl whom would be seated beside him, and merely amused by the fact his friend would be in deep when Lily saw the desk.
No one could have guessed Lily's reaction to it though.
Lily came and sat next to Sirius and when she glanced down she began to laugh. Sirius looked at her confused.
"What's so funny?" He said more curious then annoyed.
"You guys sure are persistent with your pranks." She sighed.
"What do you mean?" He asked more confused then he had been before.
"Potter, he's been trying to get me to go out with him for ages. What prank could be so good that you guys are this persistent?" She laughed. Sirius looked at her weirdly, and then very slowly spoke.
"Lily, this isn't a prank. James has liked you since the first year. You think he wants to go out with you to prank you?" Lily looked at him strangely, and then turned to where James sat. James' head was crouched over his work, not like he was concentrating, more like he was hiding. He turned round quickly and glanced at her, then when he noticed she saw, he turned back blushing. Lily gulped. She looked again to where her name had been written and carved all over the desk.
J.P. 4 L.E.
Lily and James
L.E.
J.P. & L.E. forever.
The carvings became more curvaceous, bigger and bolder along the table.
"Yeah, that's what he did today. And it's the first day back. Imagine what that desk was like before summer holidays." Sirius said. "You thought it was just a prank before, by getting head boy position I think he's shown he can be serious. Just give him a chance. Please Evans for me. This way you'll either fall in love and live happily ever after or if not at least I wont have to hear him pinning after you every day."
"I dunno?"
"Go on Lily just one chance."
"Black I will do you a deal, you leave me alone and I will consider giving Potter a chance." She stated.
"Geez, how noble of you Evans." Sirius mocked.
"Well, point against Potter, his choice in company is undesirable." She said turning to her desk and transfiguring the frog which had been placed before her into a paper weight and back again.
"Honey, lose the frog, your prince is here." Lily looked up to find Jeremiah Young from Ravenclaw.
"Get stuffed young." Lily growled. What was it with boys today!
It was as if the seventh year males had lost control of their hormones or something. Every ten minutes someone would come up to her hitting on her. It may not have been weird had she been Francis Galahad, most popular girl at school. But she wasn't she was Lily Evans the only girl in the entire seventh year whom had never been asked out before, save for the pathetic attempts of which she thought James Potter was mocking her.
In actual fact, what she hadn't known was she was one of the most sought after girls in the school. The reason no one had ever attempted asking her out before was the fact it was known that James Potter liked the red head. And it did not do well to go against James Potter, you could well be in for a prank or worse, his mummy could fire your mummy. The minister of magic's only child could do that.
Back to her maiden name, Millicent Bagnold, mother of James Potter was well loved throughout the wizarding community and she alone had control over the wizarding country.
Eventually Lily agreed with Sirius to give James 3 shots. In secret she would set James 3 tests, if he passed all three she would go out with him. James of course wouldn't know she was testing him.
Although the first thing Sirius did when lily agreed to his terms was run off to tell James.
"Mate switching us in transfiguration was the best thing McGonagall could've done for you!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Why" James asked confused.
"Because Prongsie, I have got none other then Lily Evans to give you a chance!"
"How?" James said stunned.
"Just my magical charm. Now here's the deal, you my friend will be put through 3 tests by her- Merlin only knows what they will be. The thing is you're not supposed to know. So pretend you don't."
Meanwhile Lily laid across the couch I the heads common room relaxing and writing in her diary.
Dear Diary,
Today I decided to give James potter 3 shots to impress me. I don't know why? I think I've seen him change this term. As head boy, I've seen him gradually become more responsible. I thought he'd just shirt all his duties onto me, but know he has actually taken a leading role in this partnership. I am actually impressed. I never believed I would see the day that I was IMPRESSED by JAMES POTTER!
I'm not to sure what Potter's first task will be, I want to test how much I can trust him, how much he is willing to commit and if he can put his money where his mouth is.
I'll be sure to update this soon,
Lily xxx
Lily sighed as she placed her diary on the small table next to her. Why did she ever say she'd give James a chance? She didn't need this not in her NEWT year. Tiredly Lily grabbed a text book and began to revise. Two hours later and she had finished, she packed her text books back into her bag and left for her dormitory.
The second the tapestry closed, out of thin air James and Sirius appeared. Sirius took out a small mirror and said into it- "Coast clear." And minutes later Remus and Peter appeared through the tapestry.
"Damn Prongs you choose the girl who's THAT into her studies? NO THANK YOU!" Look she left a book. She wrote a bit in it. What was it?" Sirius picked the small red book up examining it. He opened it and grinned widely. "Prongs I am holding in my hands Lily Evans' DIARY! You could use this you know."
"Sirius put it down." James warned.
"Ohhhh, you're in here. Wow you're in here a lot!"
"Give me that!" James said grabbing at the diary.
"James you will never get a shot with this girl if she catches you reading her diary." Remus advised.
"But how will she ever find out?" Peter asked.
"FINALLY! Someone who's talking my language!" Sirius commented.
"Well if it's alright with you guys I think I'll go with moony right now."
"Your choice dude. Anyway far too much time has been wasted on this book worm."
The boys went on goofing around and planning ways in which to cause a riot.
It wasn't till the guys had all left James in the heads room that he remembered the small red book.
He couldn't take it, the temptation in his seventeen year olds mind was too strong. To be able to read what went through the mind of the girl he had sought after for so long was too much to spare.
So he did it… he picked the book up… then he read it… then he dusted away the finger prints and placed it exactly where it had been before… then he left, in his mind forming plans and plots to win the affection of Lily Evans. The girl of his dreams.
Only a tiny portion of his brain questioned what if? Could she? No he wasn't feeling guilty… was he?
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