The 27th March, James' birthday.
𝕴 stirred from my sleep beside the messy haired boy, moving my head up slightly and cuddling my body into him more. I fluttered my eyes open, viewing him as he slept peacefully. His messy hair falling all over the pillow, sticking up in all sorts of directions. The soft breaths escaping his mouth as his lips were slightly parted. I felt him hold of me increase as he kept his eyes closed, our legs fully tangled together. He nuzzled his head against mine, flitting his eyes open, even though he wouldn't be able to see me. I reached down for his glasses, fixing them on his face, watching the smile form on his lips.
"Happy Birthday, James" I whispered, gazing into his pretty hazel eyes.
"Mhm, thank you, love" He mumbled in a raspy morning voice, staring back at me, a smirk displayed on his face, "You know what I want for my birthday?"
"What do you want for your birthday?" I teased, knowing exactly what he wanted.
"A kiss" He mumbled, flickering his eyes down to my lips.
"Morning breath" I reminded him.
"Yeah, but you've got morning breath, I have morning breath so it cancels out, right? And its my birthday..." He reasoned, edging closer and closer to me. I rolled my eyes, smiling at him. I kissed his cheek, playing with him. He sighed, moving his head back away from me.
I leaned forward, reluctantly attaching my lips to his, feeling him melt into it and pull my body closer to his. I pulled back, resting my forehead on his, "That was a one time thing"
"You loved it" He claimed, rubbing our noses together affectionately, "You can't lie to me, Elody"
"One time thing" I repeated, pecking his lips again sweetly.
"As long as you kiss me more when we don't have morning breath"
"We'll see" I hummed.
"Happy Birthday Prongs!" The three boys chorused, drawing back the curtains on us, Peter ruffling his hair.
"Why can we never surprise anyone?!" Sirius cried, pointing to the two of us already being awake.
"We surprised you on your birthday, you screamed" Remus recalled, laughing at the memory.
"That's because I had a rat and stag on me, licking my face"
"Still screamed, Pads"
"Engraved in my mind forever" I chirped, remembering the day vividly, "We did a-"
"Birthday pile on!" Sirius yelled, diving on top of the two of us followed by Remus and Peter. We laughed, getting squished by the three boys.
There was a knock at the door, the girls all entering with a cake in their hands for the boy, pausing when they saw our position on James' bed.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Marlene snorted, "Let me join"
"No, no, no, no" James and I rushed out, grunting when yet another body collapsed on top of us, Mary taking a photograph of us, shaking her head at our antics. They eventually climbed off us, gathering around the bed. We sat up, him keeping his arm snaked around my waist, as a few small presents landed on the bed in front of us.
He grinned beginning to open them, thanking everyone for his new quidditch equipment and the pair of antlers Sirius gifted him as a joke, much to the bewilderment of the girls. They left shortly after, the boys going down to the common room when they were ready, as it was a Saturday we had no classes, leaving James and I alone.
"What's wrong, Lunes?" He questioned, the both of us led down in his bed still. I looked away, turning over and reaching under his bed, handing him a small gift just from me.
"I-um couldn't get anything more but I saved up and Minnie helped me charm it. It's a snitch, I know you're not a seeker but you can still practice with it and-" He cut me off my rambling crashing his lips on to mine, taking me by surprise. He cupped my face with his hands, still holding me when he pulled back, gazing deeply into my eyes.
"I love it, thank you" He whispered, a full smile on his face. He grabbed my hand, lacing our fingers together.
"You do? I just I-"
"I love it" He repeated sincerely, grabbing my chin with his free hand gently and kissing my lips again, butterflies fluttering around my stomach.
"Okay" I murmured when he pulled away again, "I'll leave you to get ready"
"Okay, Lunes" He mumbled, before I stood up, walking away and realising my hand was still intertwined with his. His hand fit so perfectly in mine, like it belonged there that I completely forgot. I turned around again to face him, our hands joined in the middle of us, a crooked grin on his face. I shook my head at him, smiling before walking out, letting our fingertips brush until the very last moment.
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The rest of the day we spent as a group together, preparing for the party we were going to have in the common room later in the evening for him. I got ready with the girls wearing a black dress, straightening my blonde hair and applying natural makeup to my face. Around nine we decided to head down to the common room, knowing people would start to arrive for the party. Our parties have become quite famous in the castle now, people from all houses coming, well not necessarily Slytherins although there were a few of them.
I spotted the boys all gathered in the corner of the common room, laughing and talking together, eyeing everyone in the room. I made my way over, placing my finger to my lips to the other boys and wrapping my arms around him from behind. He chuckled, placing his hands over mine before spinning around to face me. His eyes scanned my appearance, a smirk on his face making a blush rise to my cheeks. The other boys took that as their queue to leave us, his arms draping around my waist, mine going around his neck.
"How is my birthday boy feeling?"
"Brilliant, you uh I-I y-you...Godric you're beautiful" He spluttered, breathing out the last part, my heart fluttering at his words. All of my life people told me I was beautiful and pretty and I didn't believe them because I was ugly and scarred, but coming from him meant so much more to me.
"You don't look too bad yourself" I teased, staring up at him as he stared down.
"Don't worry, Elody, I know what's going through your mind, pretty hazel eyes, dreamy hair, hot athletic body-"
"It was attractive" I corrected him, watching his smirk only grow.
"You've been thinking about it... my hot, attractive, athletic body"
"I don't recall hot being in there"
"I added it in"
"Did you now?"
"Yep"
"Interesting"
"You don't think i'm hot?"
"I never said that, I simply said the girls used the word attractive"
"I don't care about what word the girls used, I care about what word you think" He whispered.
"I'm a girl"
"I'm aware"
"As you should be, i'd be concerned if you weren't" I replied, "Are you going to kiss me?"
"Do you want me to kiss you?"
"I want you to want to kiss me" I mumbled, the two of us drowning out the music, only focusing on each other in the moment.
"I want to kiss you" He responded quietly, craning his head down as I leaned my head up, "I'm going to kiss you now"
"You don't have to tell me, just do it" I muttered, our lips inches apart from each other, my heart beating quicker in my chest.
"I was just letting you-" I cut him off, pressing my lips on to his, allowing them to move perfectly together when he immediately kissed me back, squeezing his arms so my body can further into his.
"Did you just high five Sirius?" I mumbled against his lips, feeling the boy's presence behind us.
"No, why would I do that when I'm kissing you?" He returned, keeping his lips against mine, lightly brushing before he fully joined them again, our noses pressed up against each other.
"You high fived him" I concluded when we finally drew back. I wasn't stupid I felt it and heard it, I also heard Sirius' cheering.
"Yeah, I did" He admitted proudly, "It's a pretty big achievement when your girl is the prettiest one in the room"
I looked down, feeling myself grow hotter and hotter with red cheeks. I heard him laugh at me to which I swatted him with my arm, removing my hands from his neck and over to Sirius who was dancing with some girl now.
"Hey, M" He greeted, sending the other girl away and spinning me around instead, his eyes focusing on something behind me. Or someone. My eyes finding James' watching him raise an eyebrow at me for dancing with Sirius instead of him.
"Am I the prettiest girl in the room?"
"One hundred percent" He responded instantly, "Am I the prettiest boy in the room?"
"James would have me saying him and you would have me saying someone else so i'll go with you. Definitely the prettiest boy in the room"
"Yeah? Who would I be saying if it wasn't me? I'm breath taking" He inquired, twirling me around again.
"We both know the answer to that one. Maybe its the person you're staring at behind me" I murmured, feeling him change directions so now I was facing my brother and he was facing James.
"Prongs? Oh no I wouldn't say him, i'm prettier than him by far"
"Whatever you say, Padfoot" I muttered, leaving him and moving over to my brother, sitting on his lap and leaning back into his chest.
"Hey, El" He laughed, wrapping his arms around me, pulling me closer, "He's not going to be happy"
"He shouldn't have laughed at me" I replied, the both of us staring in the direction of the bespectacled boy as he chatted with some random people, a glass of fire whiskey in his hand. He peered over to me every couple of seconds, probably not even listening to what the people were saying to him.
"Godric he's so in love with you, El" My brother chortled, watching him continuously look in our direction, itching to get away from the other people.
"Shut up" I grumbled, averting my eyes away from him. We both loved each other before we were together, being in love is different and terrifying. Really terrifying.
"Who's that girl and why is she touching James' arm?" Lily asked me, sitting down on the couch, my eyes shooting towards them, noticing James edging away from the brown haired girl as she wouldn't let go of him, staring up into his eyes. Oh fuck no. Who does this bitch think she is?
"Never take a werewolves property" Remus voiced, noticing my frustration, "Don't be too harsh, El!"
"Erm, i'm very happy with my girlfriend thank you, please could you let go" I heard James mutter trying to take his arm out of her grasp.
"And who is your girlfriend? Little Melody Lupin? I'm prettier than she is, I can give you what you want" She purred, my anger levels rising.
"Who the fuck do you think you are?!" James and I growled together, both extremely angry by her comment for different reasons. He snatched his arm out of her grasp, everyone pausing to look at the scene.
"Aren't you like a third year, who even are you?" James asked, confused, watching her cheeks grow redder and redder.
"You had a tongue two minutes ago when you were bitching about me, answer the fucking question" I ordered, James draping his arm around my waist pulling him into me.
"You have anger issues, Lupin"
We both burst out laughing, everyone watching baffled. Anger issues? I definitely had anger issues, I was a werewolf. I stopped laughing, pulling my hand back and punching her in the face, people whistling and gasping.
"Who's the pretty one now?" I cooed, crouching down to her on the floor as she held her face, a bruise forming, "Stay the fuck away from what's mine"
"Alright everyone, back to partying!" Sirius announced, throwing the girl out of the common room, the group gathering around us.
"That was fucking hot, if you don't lay one on her right now, Potter, i'll do it myself" Marlene declared, her eyes wide from my actions.
"Who was that bitch?"
"Emmeline Forest" Peter informed us, "Ravenclaw in the fourth year, apparently she's been after Prongs for a long while"
"She's obviously not very wise then, taking what belongs to a werewolf" Remus commented, looking down at my hand, biting his lip to prevent himself from laughing.
"Prongs? Hey Prongs!" Sirius called, snapping his fingers in front of his face to try and grab his attention as he stared down at me.
"Let me see your hand" He ordered, coming out of his trance and taking my hand into his to inspect it. The group deciding to head away from us to give us a moment, Remus dragging Sirius and Lily dragging Peter away.
"It's fine" I waved him off, taking it out his grasp and gazing up at him, "Sorry about that, might have just ruined your birthday" I bit my lip, averting my eyes away.
"That was the hottest thing i've ever seen" He whispered in my ear, sending chills down my spine, "I'm yours"
"You're mine" I stated, feeling extremely protective over him, "I'm yours"
"You're mine" He repeated, butterflies dancing wildly in my stomach when he attached our lips together again, pouring everything we felt for each other in to that kiss, Sirius giving me a high five this time behind his back, making us both laugh when we finally drew back.
Happy Birthday My James Potter.
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