TO LOVE OR TO HATE - C PAGE 53! IMP!!!!!! - Page 5

i so badly wanna post the nxt chap as it is a lot of fun and suspense...but i dont want 2 rush it all now then after a while i would have 2 make u ppl w8 4 weeks as i might get bz with scul work!!!!!!!!!

i am doing my 10th so there may be times i wont be able 2 rite... so i am doing all the riting now so i wont hv 2 kip u w8ing 😉 😛 😆

No vaish it's the same case here, so everyone will be as busy as you once school starts full josh...

Now is the time coz all of us also can keep up with the story you know!

And you can also put your ten chapters as time goes, then say" End of part I"

And after your 4 weeks you can say "To love or to hate part II"

Please post as big chapters as you want!!!

We will all be waiting here for them 😉

Cheers!

-Sam

Most of us also r in 10th... Me, Mallika, Manshi, Alia, etc....

So we know the plight 😆

thnx sam for the idea... will think abt it...

hey waiting for more.. do write soon

take ur own tym. i'he saved all da chpts. i e-mailed them 2 my frends, and they just luuved it. my frends & i r eagerly waiting. 😉 😃

since i'm in 9th, i don't know how 10th is, but i guess both standards r equally hard

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sry haan i was in banglore and mum sed no more of net centre for me 😭
now im beating myself up for not persuading her more 😃😆
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CHAPTER 5 - BEFORE THE WORLD CUP

James showed Lily up to her room. She seemed delighted at the size of the room. She thanked him generously and said that she thought he was not bad after all. He felt a familiar but cannot-reason-with pleasure that he had been feeling lately when Lily was around. He shook off the feeling and left the room to give her some time to freshen up.

*~*

Potter sure is nice at times. Like today when he forgot all that I had yelled at him and helped me here and decided to take me to the world cup. No hard feelings, he had said. He does look cute when he is up to something. Oh MY God!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I just say that potter looked cute???????????????? No I take that back! Potter may seem nice but no way… I just thought that because of Sirius and Monica heavily hinting that we both might be a pair. Potter is a prat and no one can change that.., she thought as she tried to convince herself of the fact.

*~*

The 4 of them were sitting in James' room as it was the biggest room among the four of theirs. James was telling them the plan to leave.

"As dad works in the ministry we have special access from home. Dad got an authorization for a portkey. So we will all be leaving after lunch tomorrow and be back in about 5 days. The match is 3 days from when we go there. But we need to settle down in the campsite a little and all that – Sirius listen here!" James snapped at Sirius who had been nuzzling Monica and not paying any notice to what James was saying.

"Sorry mate got carried away!" replied Sirius grinning sheepishly.

"Alright!" said James tolling his eyes at Sirius.

"Do you know who all we will be meeting there?" asked Lily.

"My family will definitely be there. Boy, won't they be mad to see me with another family when they are right there." Sirius had told them what had happened during the holidays.

"Narcissa and Bellatrix will be there?"

"Yes Mon."

"Oh!" she sounded a little worried. Sirius noticed that and kissed her on the forehead, "Don't fret sweetie, they can't do anything to you, not while I am around. And since you seem down I think we should go somewhere private and cheer up." He said wiggling his eyebrows at her. She laughed as he pulled her out of the door.

There was an uncomfortable silence in the room once they had left. James cleared his throat to say something first.

"They really make a cute pair don't they?" said lily looking at the door after them. James was taken aback as he did not expect her to speak first.

"Yes. He really does like her a lot. Strange for Sirius though. He has never liked anyone this much before."

"Monica likes him a lot too. She has always liked him and I am glad to see her dream come true." James kept quiet. He was looking at her, at the way she looked when she spoke dreamily of things. She turned her eyes to face his and his heart started beating just a little faster. She was sitting on the edge of his bed near the window so her hair was being blown all over her face. Her emerald eyes just lit up against her lily white skin. He did not know what to do because he was not thinking straight. He was just admiring the way she looked and how her pink dress complimented everything about her. One strand of her hair was troubling her eye and she was struggling to get it off. James without really thinking what he was doing leaned across and brushed it off her face. Reality hit him when lily looked up at him confused. He jumped up from there.

"Oh! Lily… I … umm… have to go now… sorry… about… what…umm … see you later…" mumbling this he just left the room as soon as possible. Lily also got up and went to her own room, staring after James.

*~*

Lily was sitting in her room with a book in hand but not actually reading it.

Why am I feeling so strange? I love reading books, especially classics. Then why am I not able to read this book? She looked at the book she was holding – Pride and Prejudice. One of her all time favorite classics. Somehow she did not feel like reading it now. I keep on thinking about Potter since this morning. What is it that is so different from the normal times at school? I mean he still is the same proud, arrogant, loves-to-boast-about-himself, girls-love-me, I-am-the-best, I-can-hex-anyone, bully Potter. Then why do I feel that something has changed? He has not behaved even one bit arrogantly since I came. Oh for gods sake you came only this morning and there was really no chance at all for him to boast Lily, she told herself, then is it just the strangeness of being with him other than at school? I guess that is it. It just feels different to be with him in the holidays. She convinced herself of this fact and went back to her book. But she could not ignore the nagging feeling that told her that the matter was something else.

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James was zooming through the air on his broomstick thinking furiously as he cut through the air. Why did I do that? Why am I admiring her recently? She hates me. And I have always been irritated by her. We have always been on the touchy edge. I guess it feels odd that now we are actually able to have a decent conversation without it ending in an argument. But still that doesn't explain why I had to go and push her hair off her face. Do I like her? Am I beginning to fancy Evans? It can't be. It will never work out. No way. There must be some other explanation. James abandoned his thought track and zoomed downwards willing himself to forget it.

*~*

Monica pushed Sirius away from her and sat down in the flower garden.

"You look really pretty in the midst of all these flowers Mon." She just blushed and looked up at him.

"You don't look so bad yourself." She teased.

"Really?" he asked flopping down beside her grinning widely.

"Don't do that!" groaned Monica.

"What? I am not even touching you!" he replied astonished.

"Don't grin like that! Every time you do that I just want to cuddle you like a teddy bear." She moaned looking at him. He grinned even wider. She groaned and gave in pulling him into a kiss. When they came apart –

"I have never known anyone have so much power over me as you have had in the past 1 week Mon. It is always girls who fall for me and I take it for granted but for the first time I have fallen helpless to a girl. And that is you." He whispered her ear. She blushed and tried to get up. He pulled her down and grinned suggestively at her. They kissed again.

"Likewise Sirius, you are so adorable and cute and unpredictable and mischievous and I love your pranks …"

"You mean you don't think they are like bullying other people? Like Lily does."

"Not all of them. I mean hexing the Slytherins when you pass them in the corridor just because you don't like them or because you can do it is so not cool. This is the same thing Lily and I have against James too."

"You want me to give up hexing the Slytherins all together to be with you? That is impossible. The rivalry has set in and they are doing their share back. It is just that they are not so quick or clever. But they will be from this year especially my family. They will be against me and James. We cannot help it. Though taking them unawares is very funny. Though I will stop that if you don't want me to do it." He added hastily. He looked so reproachfully at her. Like a puppy dog, thought Monica.

"Forget it!" she said.

"What?"

"Forget it. Lily can have a grudge against it but she does not know or understand the history between Slytherin and Gryffindor or your family status. She can bear a grudge against James if she wants to. Though James might not take to it as lightly as he used to I guess."

"Why not?"

"Don't tell me you haven't noticed."

"Noticed what?"

"Oh my god you boys are so clueless."

"About what?" asked Sirius sitting up straight.

"Did you notice the way he looked at her when he was helping her up because of his bad ankle?"

"No… I was looking at you that time."

"Sirius… be serious."

"I am Sirius, seriously." Monica rolled her eyes at his bad joke.

"Well I think we both need to watch out for our friends from now on… look like they are experiencing the first peeks of romance."

"James and Lily? No way!"

"We will just have to wait and see."

"Until then I don't think we should waste more time over someone else's romance when we have our own to tend to."

*~*

They were all assembled in the living room, ready to leave for the campsite. They each had a small bag with them with just the necessities for 5 days. Mr. Potter was giving them information.

"While I am taking you people, you are under my responsibility and if anything happens to you, I am answerable to your parents. As you all very well know this wizard Voldemort, better known as You-now-Who now is striking at all public places. The world cup gathering is an ideal place for him with so many different people around. So I want the four of you to stick together at all times. Never go anywhere alone. Stick in pairs at least. And don't wander of far away from the campsite. Understood all of you?"

They all nodded their heads. Lily was feeling slightly nervous because of the extra security. She looked up as Mrs. Potter came in with a basket of food and a lampshade. Mr. Potter turned the lampshade into a portkey and at the count of three they all touched it. They were off to the world cup.