Chess

"Hey Lily."

She ignored him.

"Hey Lily."

She ignored him.

"Hey Lily."

Her ignorance prevailed.

"Hey Lily."

With an irritable jerk she glared at him. "What, Potter?"

"Wanna play chess?"

"No... I... wait..." she smiled slightly but forced it away. "I suppose."

He beamed. "Great. But just to let you know, I've never lost a game before. Being beat by you would be like, the downfall of me. But considering the last time we played I had all my players and you didn't have any..."

"Do you want me to play or not?"

"Yeah, yeah," he said quickly.

He sat opposite her at the coffee table and they started to play. They moved back and forth, every once and awhile taking one of the other's players, James taking Lily's more often than not. Okay, he took hers every single time.

Frustrated, she decided it was time to put her plan in action.

"What do you say we make a little wager?" she asked, making her voice and soft and seductive as she could without being to obvious.

"Er... sure, I guess," he said smiling. "But you better have the money, Lils, cause you're going nowhere fast..."

"Ten galleons," she said.

His eyes widened. "You're on."

They took a couple more turns each and Lily started to rub his leg with her hand. His eyes widened again in shock then he forced himself to look relaxed and grinned. "Come around, have you?"

She smiled a small, sexy smile at him and he stammered, "Castle to E-e-e-5."

The castle moved to the designated spot and Lily smiled to herself. "Pawn to E5," she said, watching the tiny pawn beat down his castle. He bit his lip and looked at her, so locked her eyes on his for a moment. Not daring to look away he said "Bishop to D-d-6."

Lily took his bishop as well, marvelling her own talent. He didn't seem to notice, probably more concerned with her leg running up and down his, when he stuttered a placement to his pawn.

Unable to hide her broad grin any longer, Lily moved her bishop to his King's place - James looked at her and down at the board speechlessly.

She held out her hand and he dropped the coins into her palm as she stood up and walked away.

"You tricked me, didn't you? You distracted me! I call a rematch!"

She shot him one last fake, seductive smile, gave him a sarcastic wave, jingled the coins in her pocket and left through the portrait hole.