"Ladies and gentlemen…..welcome! Welcome to the semi-final of the four hundred and twenty World Cup!" The commentator's voice boomed across the stadium. People erupted into cheers and waved their flags around.
"I can't believe you regretted to come here, earlier!" Arabella shouted thought the cheers.
" I can't believe it either" Lily confessed. I didn't know that I would miss this!"
"And now ladies and gentlemen, kindly welcome- the Bulgarian National Quidditch team. I give you Vortimid ! Avonavi !Fargoz !Iksvel !Vonahcluv ! Voklov ! Aaaaaaand- Murk !" A wild applause from Bulgarian supporters.
"And now, please greet-The England National Quidditch Team!" yelled the commentator. "Presenting-William! Paltrow! Lucas! Wales! Jones! Columbus! Aaaaaaand- Potter!
Lily pressed her Omnioculars hard against her eyes. She still could hear the loud cheer Arabella was giving England, but she couldn't keep her eyes away from James Potter. He was hovering a few meters away from the Top Box, he looked focus yet nervous.
Potter flew in through the middle of the Quidditch field and waited like, everyone else, for the referee.
A small and skinny, gray-haired woman, strode into the pitch. A silver whistle was protruding in her lips, and she was carrying a large wooden crate under one arm, her broomstick under the other. The referee mounted her broomstick and kicked the crate open-four balls burst into the air: the scarlet Quaffle, the two black bludgers and the miniscule, winged golden snitch.
After timeless hours, the match was still in play England was leading with the scores of 520-480. The Bulgarians were 40 points behind, every score that would be in the hoops, will count.
Lily tapped her foot impatiently, "Come on, Potter get the bloody snitch!" muttered under her breath.
"Anxious, to see Potter again, Lily!" Arabella heard her.
"Why would I want to see him again?"
"Because Bones is going to introduce you to him!"
"What?" Lily shrieked.
"Why would Bones buy you a ticket then! I don't think he likes you that much, after you quit so many jobs. The only reason he gave you a ticket, because he wants you to start your job right away!" Arabella answered.
"I hope your wrong, Bella! I don't think the clothes that I'm wearing right now, is appropriate for the first day on the job" Lily told her as she glanced at herself. She was wearing a tight black V-neck sweater, white skirt that didn't really reach to her knees, black knee socks and matching shoes.
"I'm sure James wouldn't mind! Come on Lily, watch the game" Arabella told her as she shoved her Omnioculars back to her eyes.
But Lily couldn't go back to the game, all she could do was think about the future meeting she would have with James Potter.
Suddenly all those thoughts about James Potter washed away as she saw a golden snitch zoomed in front of her face. Wide eyed, she tugged Arabella's robes nervously. Arabella turned around and gasped at the snitch, which was still in front of her face.
Lily's eyes grew even wider when she saw Potter and the Bulgarian seeker, Murk, flying right at her. Lily quickly shut her eyes and waited what would happen next for her.
As Lily guessed it, her chair did fly backwards. Her head hit the ground pretty hard, making every part of her body ached.
But, she never expected someone on top of her. She slowly opened her eyes and saw James Potter staring down at her.
She felt herself blush, but never broke their gaze. He grinned at her as he saw her blush then took his left hand and slowly caressed her left cheek.
She was sent back to reality, when she felt something struggling under her skirt. She was Lily Evans again, as James Potter first meet her.
"So?"
"So, what?" James asked softly, too softly.
She knew that he was about to kiss her, so she sent him back to reality by saying.
"Potter, did you catch the bloody snitch or not?"
It worked, he sat up and found that his right hand was under Lily's skirt, it must have got there when he fell on her. He took his hand out and found the struggling snitch in his hand.
He stood up and waved it around as the commentator's voice boomed across the stadium by saying.
"James Potter caught the snitch, England made it to the finals! England and the Irish team would be competing for the World Cup, in exactly four weeks from now! Get your tickets soon, I know it's going to be a rough game!"
James looked down to help the same mysterious woman get up to her feet and then he would beg her name. But, as he looked down, the woman was gone.
Lily Evans stood up and ran out of the Top Box as fast as she could. But someone grabbed her hand and stopped her.
She turned around and in relief, that she found that Colin Bones that stopped her.
"Hold up, Ms. Evans! You will have the chance of meeting Mr. Potter today, meet me beside the statue of the World Cup, so you wouldn't get in trouble with bodyguards!" he told her.
Lily nodded, showing that she understood and continued running off the Top Box. She ran into to a place, where she only knew it would be empty- the restroom. She barged in and began pacing up and down the restroom and was beginning to mutter to herself.
"Get a hold of yourself Evans! I'm sure he had a good explanation on why he had his hand under your skirt and if he does- it better be a good one!"
"Face it Lily! You enjoyed being in that position earlier! Didn't you?" Said a little voice inside her head.
For some strange reason, she couldn't answer that. Part of her- more like the whole of her- really liked being really close to him. The weight on top of her body, the smell of him and when stroked he stroked her cheek, all she wanted to do was shut her eyes and feel his warm strong hand. But nooo, all she was gaze at his lovely hazel eyes.
She stopped, stood in front of the mirror and began rubbing her temples, telling herself to get a hold of herself and that she barely knows the guy.
Suddenly she heard a crowd full of noisy women making their way in the restroom. She took one more glance at herself in the mirror, took a deep breath and exited the restroom.
As she arrived at the statue she found Colin Bones already there waiting for her. When she reached him, he quickly grabbed her arm, flashed a photo I.D. of himself to a bodyguard and they easily went through.
"The England team takes a while to celebrate their victory! So, we might wait for a while!"
As they reached the England team's locker room, they found a mob of photographers and reporters outside the locker room door.
"We might as well stay out here, if we go in there right now that mob will attack us full of questions after" Colin Bones said wisely.
It took at least an hour for some of the England team to come out and face the media.
When one of the lead chasers, Lucas, was being interviewed. One of the reporters asked
"When will James Potter come out?"
"I think James is trying to drown himself. He kept mumbling something about the same mysterious woman he meet, and saying that she slipped through him again….." Then Lucas walked off while the media followed her, wanting to know to know James Potter and the mysterious woman. While Lucas answered that question, Lily couldn't help but blush and think that she was the mysterious woman.
"And Lucas. I think that's about all of them. Come on Ms. Evans, let's meet your new boss!" Mr. Bones said cheerily.
They went though the bodyguards and stepped into the locker room, finding it empty but could still hear water running from the showers.
"I do hope, he really didn't drown himself" he whispered to Lily and then called James. "Mr. Potter, oh Mr. Potter! It's me Colin Bones, I'm here to introduce you to your new personal assistant."
The running of the water stopped, they heard someone coming out of the showers and sure enough slowly walking towards them.
James reached them wearing nothing but a white towel around his waist and a shorter matching towel around his neck, which he was cleaning his face with.
He stopped walking and cleaning when he saw Lily, he stared at her for a while and then gave her his trademark smile. Then he walked closer to them still with a smile on his face.
"Ah, Mr. Potter! I had to say congratulations, that was a marvelous catch you caught there, earlier!"
"Thank you" he said still looking at Lily.
"Ah, Mr. Potter!" Colin Bones said as he followed his gaze and found that he was looking at Lily.
"Meet your new assistant. Evans. Lily Evans!"
Lily rolled her eyes as she saw James smile grew even wider.