Every Entry
Disclaimer: Everything you recognize is JKR's.
A/N: Please review ^^
Wh00t! Four chapters in two days and I didn't even have them prewritten!
I'll post the next chapter tomorrow or the day after.
I've become a review hog. xD
I want 18 reviews before I post the next chapter. I think it will be the last.
Everything in bold is what's written in Lily's journal.
-x-
Chapter three
October 10th
Dear Diary,
I am utterly devastated. I am getting an Acceptable in Transfiguration.
James frowned. How was that devastating? At least she was in N.E.W.T level Transfiguration class. Most people didn't even get that far. Evans really was hard on herself.
Me! Lily Evans and acceptable don't go well together. In fact, they don't go together at all. It wouldn't have been so terrible if everyone else was having trouble but it's only me!
Even Pettigrew managed to transfigure his eyebrow on his second try.
James grinned. Actually, that was all Remus' doing.
I'm humiliated. If it weren't for all the textbook work we do, I'd be getting Poor! It's just, Transfiguration is really complicated. It's not like me to give up, but it's hopeless for me to try harder. I just can't get it. McGonagall actually suggested I get Potter to tutor me. Hah! As if I'd ask him for a favour. Pompous ass that he is.
James grinned down at the paper. If he had to use a word to describe his arse, it wouldn't be pompous. Cute, firm even, but not pompous.
I decided to read all our old transfiguration books, so I could brush up on everything. I didn't have the books from previous years with me, so I decided to investigate around the Library. Madame Pince was in a jolly mood, buttering something about getting new books.
She didn't even scold anyone for breathing too loudly. Must have been a load of new books, then.
I sat at my usual table, the one close to the Charms section. I've read all the books in the Charms section. If the Library is getting new books, I hope there are some charm ones.
I want to apply it to my future career, charms. Right now, I'm rooting for two things; either an Auror or maybe a Healer. If only I could raise my Transfiguration mark. Maybe I'll ask Remus for help.
He's been sort of shy around me ever since I found him with Hazel. Melody and I haven't let her hear the end of it either.
I'm starving. Better go. Dinner started a couple of minutes ago. With luck, Potter and Black have already shovelled down their fill and will leave soon.
xoxo Lily.
That was it? That was her big secret? Somehow, James didn't think so. He had to finish reading it soon though. He didn't know how long he had before Lily did something drastic to find it. He flipped through the rest of the pages, counting how many more entries there were. There were only a handful more. As James went back, trying to find the entry he had been reading, one caught his eye.
October 21st
Dear Diary,
I am infuriated! How dare he? What right did he have to touch me? I could just knee him where it counts. First he had the impertinence to tell everyone, including my friends that I was flirting with him while we were studying together and then he had the gall to go and do THAT!
Sorry, I'm scratching my quill so hard into the paper that it's getting ripped. I guess I should go back and explain.
First off, sorry I haven't written for so long. Things have been incredibly frenzied around lately, what with Halloween coming up, and Dumbledore insisting on a Masquerade Ball of sorts for Christmas.
Now, one thing at a time. Dumbledore, being in love with everything muggle, decided that Hogwarts was going to experiment with a Masquerade Ball. And guess who got stuck with the preparations?
James Potter and I. That's right. I know Remus is the other Gryffindor prefect, but he was sick again so Potter volunteered to step in for him. I swear he did it just to annoy the hell out of me.
We were in charge of the decorations. Every idea I had was shot down by him, and all of his ideas started with the word, "Dungbombs" or "Us, Marauders."
Secondly, Potter and I got paired up for Potions. Usually, I would've been able to talk Slughorn out of pairing me up with a Marauder, but it seems he's caught the matchmaker bug from Dumbledore.
He insisted I be partners with "the strapping young man." Strapping young man, my foot! Then to top it off, we couldn't study in the common room, because the nights I was free, James had Quidditch and I had rounds on other nights.
So, we met up in the Library, and somehow ended up sitting in a secluded area. He was hitting on me the entire time. I have never heard so many obtuse remarks from the same person!
Then, he had the nerve to go back to his friends and tell them that I was hitting on him! And that's not even the worst of it!
I was most probably suffering from Confusion Charms we'd been practising earlier and I dragged him to the nearest cupboard. I was confronting him about openly lying right in front me, when he kissed me! He bloody kissed me!
I don't know what it was that prompted me to slap him. I mean, it wasn't a bad kiss altogether. My insides were churning at the beginning, and I felt as if the food I'd eaten was doing jumping jacks in my stomach.
I also felt light. Like I could float. Maybe since I didn't have an explanation for those things, I slapped him. He just… froze. I stomped out of there, and straight up here. I haven't told a soul. I hope he doesn't.
But, knowing the sodding bloke, he'll probably announce it to the whole school somehow. There is one thing though; James Potter is an amazing kisser. If he weren't so… narcissistic, I'd love to kiss him again.
xoxo Lily.
P.S. Remind me to burn this page.
Well, well, well. Was this her big secret? James smirked. He had known he was a good kisser, but to get Evans to admit it… well, well, well. He would never let her hear the end of it.
-x-
A/N: No, that was not the last entry. This one is probably more exciting for some people than the other one will be. I'll have it up tomorrow or the day after. Most probably tomorrow, since I can't wait to get this fic finished. I'm so excited ^^ My first ever completed fic, lol.
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