sitting, waiting, wishing [OPEN]

[Lily Evans]

Lily sat at the empty Gryffindor table wishing she hadn't overslept. Usually Lily would wake at the crack of dawn, but she had been up all night finishing an essay for Transfiguration - which she didn't actually have to finish last night since it was Saturday - and hadn't woken up until a little before lunch. She had thought she might just wait until lunch, that way she wouldn't be one of the only ones there, but her stomach couldn't wait, and so she found herself sitting at the empty table in the nearly empty hall.

She looked around, seeing a few others who still looked asleep, but no one she knew. She kept her eye on the door, just in case a familiar face would walk through. Lily tried to always keep herself in a possitive attitude, so in her mind she decided that someone she knew could walk in at any moment.[/color][/font]

[Noelle Thomas]

She told herself millions of times to get an alarm clock. Had she? NOPE! She always woke up except for that occasional time. One of those times was today. The fifth year ran down the hall way hurriedly. She was a prefect too. A prefect should not oversleep...well according to her mother anyway.

Noelle Thomas was never one to be late. She was a brunette but was considered blonde for how many stupid things she has done in her past. She's walked into cars and walked into doors. She smiled as she walked into the Great Hall. For being late she didn't look that bad. Her hair was straightened and she had no make up on. Her robes and skirt and shirt were nicely done. She thought she looked okay...well for being late.

Noelle noticed that someone was at the Gryffindor table and saw that it was none other than Lily Evans. Noelle walked up and took a seat across from her. "Lily Evans right?" she asked, being to the point.

[Lily Evans]

Lily noticed the fifth year - a prefect like her - enter the great hall with relief. Even if she didn't really know her, at least she would have someone else at her table to talk with. Lily wasn't the most talkative person in the world, but the silence was begining to kill her.

"Right." Lily replied, trying to think of this younger girls name. She was almost positive it started with an N, but besides that she had no idea. Lily really did have issues with names, for she knew she'd heard the name at least once before, probably more like a few times, but she just couldn't pin it down. Finally, she decided she might as well ask for it. "And what's your name?" she asked in the least rude way she could think of.[/color][/font]

[Noelle Thomas]

"Noelle. Noelle Thomas." she said with a smile. Noelle took a sip of pumpkin juice from her goblet and smiled again. She seemed to smile too much lately. "Any way, whats up?" she asked Lily. She found that she always said that when she couldn't think of something else to say. Noelle turned for a moment and saw her stupid brother across the way. "Arrogant git." she whispered. She did hate her brother...well Mike anway. She could deal with Brian, Dustin, and Josh.

[Lily Evans]

Noelle, that was her name. At least Lily got the first letter right. "Well, you must be quiet about this, but I overslept." Lily said with a small smile. She loved jokes, no matter how small they were. She heard Noelle whisper something under her breath that sounded a lot like what she'd say if James Potter had been walking by at that moment.

"Who's he?" she asked, interested.[/color][/font]

[James Potter]

James sighed, yawning a bit as he made his way to his normal seat at the Gryffindor table. He tried to keep in Lily's view until his friends came. One of these days he'd get her to pay attention to him. How was it possible that such a girl could ignore HIM? Everybody loved him as far as he could tell. and yet for some reason she couldn't stand him and that bothered him. Perhaps something was wrong with. That was all he could think of.

Mental? Emotional? Weird? Noooo she couldn't posisbly be any of those things or else he wouldn't be weirdly attracted to her as he was. He smiled nonetheless and waved at her, making a point to mess with his hair yet again as he sat down casually with his dinner.

[Noelle Thomas]

"I overslept too." she said nodding. She hd to laugh though. "Oh well." she said shrugging. She heard her next question and smiled a little. "My brother. Mike, who is in Slytherin." she said. She pointed him out. He had black hair and brown eyes. "My other brothers are in Gryffindor." she said with another smile and noticed James. "Hello James." she said to him.

[Lily Evans]

"Siblings." Lily replied sort of knowing what she meant. Lily had a sister, and although she wasn't a witch, if she had received a letter as well Lily was positive Petunia would have ended up in Slytherin. She'd also probably be muttering things whenever she saw Petunia, she already does in the summer.

Then Lily noticed James walk in. Of course he was late, and of course he looks as though he was still in bed. And of course he messes his hair up even more before he sits down. Pathetic. Though, the messy hair was rather cute. Okay, Lily thought, I did not just think that James Potter, arrogant git extraodinaire, and full time bully was cute. That's just not possible.

Lily looked away as he waved, worried about her mental abilities. She could be rather rude when she was with the right person, and James was the right person.[/color][/font]

[Noelle Thomas]

Noelle noticed that Lily ignored James' wave. She didn't comment. One Lily and James were a year older than her, none of her buisness. Two, she knew that James could be an arrogant git sometimes. "Yeah, I have four in Gryffindor, and him in Slytherin." she said sighing. How could five of them get into Gryffindor and Mike be the one who went into Slytherin?

[James Potter]

James sat down anyway, digging in eagerly to his food. He kept an eye on the lovely Lily despite himself. Of course she had known he had come in because her very pretty friend had waved at him. She didn't have any excuse. just to spite Lily he waved back at her with an assured smirk, ruffling his hair yet again because he could. He edged towards the other girl in hopes that it would bother Lily enough. This tactic always seemed to make the target jealous, incredibly jealous. It should be fun at least for him.

"Hey...sorry Lils is being so bloody rude and all. What was your name again? I know I've seen you around but it's terrible of me to forget it."

[Lily Evans]

Lily was a little surprised. Five brothers? That was a little too many, at least in Lily's opinion. She was about to say something to keep the conversation going, Lily did prefer speaking to silence. But, just then James started talking to Noelle. He did it one purpose, just to annoy her. At least that's what Lily thought.

"And sorry Jamie is such a git." Lily muttered. She may have prefered conversation to silence, but the silence seemed quite nice compared to talking to James.[/color][/font]

[Noelle Thomas]

Noelle giggled quietly to herself. "I have three brothers in Gryffindor I mean, one sister." she said to her. She noticed James come and talk to her. "I'm Noelle. I think you might know my brother, he's in your year. The name Brian ring any bells?" she said to James. She buttered a piece of toast before nibbling on it.

[James Potter]

He was grinning again and trying to ignore Lily's remark. Ugh..Jamie was such a stupid nickname anyway. He'd much rather be referred to as incredibly sexy and worthwhile. "I'm NOT Jamie. Though I don't mind you giving me any pet names, Lily dear." He winked playfully at her knowing that she would probably strangle him in a minute.

"I think I HAVE heard of a brian but I don't think we've ever spoken. But if he's related to you I'm sure he's a fair enough person."

[Lily Evans]

Lily's eyes filled with anger at James. Why, oh why did he have to be able to think of a comeback? She had called him Jamie to offend him, and then he went and turned it around into her giving him a pet name. Yah, right! Lily was revolted by the thought.

"Well, your head may be bloody huge, but your brain's smaller than my owls, what other names are you supposed to get?" She knew that one would get him, and was quite proud of herself. Though, she didn't want Noelle to think she acted like that all the time or anything. She would hate to make someone who actually seemed pretty nice think of her as a bitch or something.[/color][/font]

[James Potter]

James shook his head. Of course he wouldn't let her get to him .He found it exhilirating actually, her clear hatred for him. It made him want her even more. People normally didn't treat him like dirt which he certainly deserved most of the time but she did. There was something to that and he was going to get to the surface. He would come out victorious as usual and she wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Would she?

"Ah but you forget, Evans, my head can still fit through the door. Snivellus is the bloke who can't seem to keep one foot in front of the other. And I'd prefer to have names like..hmm let's say, Sex God and Incredibly Handsome to be on the top of the list."