"You egotistical prat! Get out of my life!" Lily Evans screamed as she shoved past a grinning James Potter.
"Come on, Evans, I know you love me," he said, his grin spreading.
"Shut up!" Lily screamed, "I can't take this anymore!"
James cocked his eyebrow, "Aw, can't take what? My irresistible charming good-looks?"
"Y-You, Ugh!" she threw her hands up and pointed her wand threateningly at James, "God I hate you!" She screamed as she lowered her wand and stormed out of the Head dormitories.
Sirius Black was sitting on the couch watching the 'couple' fight and was finding it highly amusing, and Lily's best friend, Jamie, was sitting next to Sirius, in silent shock of Lily's outburst.
"Um, I'm going to follow the red-head," Jamie said before running out of the dormitory after Lily. "Lily!" she called after her.
Lily, red-faced with anger, turned around to face Jamie, her green eyes flaming with fury. "I hate him, I HATE him!" She told Jamie angrily.
"Alright, alright, don't need to bring it out on me," Jamie said.
Lily took a deep breath, "I'm not ever going back there again, not with Potter there," she practically spit when she referred to James.
"Well, you can't in my dorms," Jamie said, jokingly, "It's nice when you're not around."
Lily smacked her arm, "Shut up."
"Okay," Jamie responded.
After dinner"Damn," Lily muttered.
"What?" Jamie asked.
"I left my Herbology book in my dormitory, do you have yours?" Lily asked Jamie hopefully.
She shook her head, "After Puking Pruett puked on it, I decided to give it to Professor Hutton."
Lily frowned, "Can you get it for me, then?"
Jamie rolled her eyes, "No."
"Fine," Lily snapped before getting up from the lounge chair she was sitting on and stormed off toward the Head's dormitory.
After Jamie made sure Lily was gone, she got up and followed her. At the portrait of two men playing chess (The Head's Dormitory Portrait Hole) she met Sirius Black there.
"You ready?" he asked.
She nodded, and murmured the Sealing Charm on the Portrait Hole…
Lily crept past James's door and safely in her own dorm. She scanned the spacious room for her Herbology book. Once she spotted it she grabbed it off the small, wooden end table and dashed back out to the Head's Common Room, where Potter was sitting.
"Ah, Evans! Just the lady I was hoping to see," He grinned.
"Shut up, Potter," Lily snapped as she walked to the portrait hole. It didn't open.
"That, Evans, is why I was hoping to see you. Apparently the portrait hole as been sealed shut."
"What?!" Lily screeched rounding on James.
"The portrait hole," James said, pronouncing his words slowly, "has sealed itself shut."
"Portrait holes don't just seal themselves shut," Lily said, then paused, "You did this! Part if your little scheme to get me to go out with you."
"Please, don't get full on yourself, Evans, your head may end up the same size as mine, which you so put it, is the size on a watermelon on steroids," James replied, grinning.
Lily let out a yell and threw her Herbology book at his head. And much to James's dismay she had good aim.
Jamie and Sirius jumped back as they heard Lily's piercing yell through the portrait.
Jamie chewed on her lip, "Maybe we shouldn't have done this, they'll literally eat each other alive."
"But at least if they eat each other alive, then they'll have to interact with each other while they are eating, and that's our goal; interaction," Sirius replied with a cheeky grin.
Jamie lightly smacked his shoulder, "But then, even if they interact, then they won't be alive for a result for the interaction."
Sirius hit her back, "But still, if they interact, then they'll stop eating each other."
Jamie hit him back, a little harder this time, "But then, they'll each show up with a missing limb."
Sirius smacked her, harder then before, "So? All the fighting will end."
Jamie huffed and smacked his head, with the book (Hogwarts, a History) she happened to be carrying, "I'm undoing it!" she snapped as she pulled out her wand.
"Expelliarmus!" Sirius yelled, "No, you're not," as he caught her wand.
"Give it to me, Black!"
"No."
"I'm going to kill you!"
Sirius raised an eyebrow, "Then I'll eat you alive."
She stared at him for a moment.
"See?" Sirius asked, "There's interaction."
"Give it up, Evans," James told her, lounging on a couch, "You've tried to undo it with everything you know, it's not working."
"Well, maybe if you got off your fat arse and helped me, we would be out of here," She hissed back at him.
"Evans. We. Are. Stuck. Period. The only way we could get ourselves out is if someone undid it. Outside."
"How would you know so much it?" Lily snapped.
"Because," James said, sitting up, "It's a Sealing Charm, a brain like yourself should have figured it out already."
"A Sealing Charm?" Lily asked herself, she paused for a minute then yelled, "Dammit!" and threw the nearest thing to her at James, and ran to her dormitory.
James ducked, just as the object was about to hit him then thought, 'Damn, the cute ones always need Anger Management.'
Lily slammed her dormitory door shut, fuming. As she jumped on her large bed, a piece of parchment caught her eye. She picked it up and it read:
Lily.
Don't get mad at me, but this was for the best. You and James need to sort things out, this is the only way. Food will be delivered to you don't worry. Think of it this way, it's Friday, you have the entire weekend to do your homework with no stupid distraction like you would get if you weren't locked in there.
Jamie
PS the spell will undo itself once you and James start interacting like normal people.
Lily cursed and ripped the parchment to shreds…
Meanwhile
James hated himself. He hated the 'monster' that went inside of him, controlling his every move, every time Lily Evans walked in, making him act like an arrogant git. If only Lily had known that what James felt for her was real, not the just the cute unimportant 'puppy love' as Sirius put it. What James had felt for Lily Evans was real.
He stood up, and kicking the leg of the couch in frustration. He looked at Lily's closed door, 'Damn you, Lily Evans,' he thought before going into his own dormitory.
"I'm tired, the screaming has seemed to die down, so I'm going to bed," Jamie said, as she stood up from the ground in front of the Head's Dormitories.
"Come on, you're just sore you're losing," Sirius said, referring to the game of 'War' they were playing.
Jamie glared at him, "Well, I would be winning if you weren't looking at your card before putting it down, and changing it with your wand."
"Are you accusing me of cheating?" Sirius asked, also getting up.
"Yes, I am," Jamie replied.
"I do not cheat," Sirius said before adding, "besides on exams and such."
"Right," Jamie said, raising her eyebrow, "I'm going to bed."
"Let me walk you," Sirius said hurriedly.
"I'm perfectly capable of walking myself, thank you."
"Well, it's after curfew, and Filch is lurking around," Sirius said, pointing at his watch.
"Fine," Jamie snapped.
Sirius charmed the cards that were scattered on the floor in a pile and stuffed them in his pocked, "Milady," he said, offering her his arm.
"No need to be all charming on me, Sirius, we're long over," Jamie told him.
They had dated for seven months in fifth year, but Sirius had broken it off, claiming that he didn't want a serious relationship (no pun intended).
Sirius dropped his arm, "Jamie… I'm really sorry about that."
Jamie bit her lip and looked away, "It was a long time ago."
Sirius nodded, and then stood still for a moment before pushing Jamie into the nearest broom closet.
"What are you doing?" Jamie hissed as the door creaked shut behind them.
Sirius put his finger to his lips, motioning for her to be quiet.
She shut her mouth as she heard faint footsteps going past them. She shifted her body, to adjust to the small space they were in, by accidentally pushing her body closer to Sirius. She bit her lip, and stepped back, pushing her back to the wall. He looked at her with his beautiful gray eyes.
"You okay?" he whispered in her ear.
She shuddered and nodded.
Sirius paused for a moment before telling Jamie, "All clear."
He grabbed her hand and led her out of the cramped closet.
Lily hadn't even known she had fallen asleep until she woke up, shreds of the parchment in her hand. She creaked open her dormitory door and found Potter on the couch, a book open and propped up on a pillow, a silver tray of food next to him.
He glanced up when he saw her, "Here," he said, pushing the silver tray toward her.
"Thanks."
"Are you through yelling?" James asked, glancing up from his book.
She shrugged, "For now."
He smiled.
Lily broke off a piece of bread from the tray, and stuffed it in her mouth. When she swallowed she said, "Jamie left me a note."
He looked surprised, "You have it?"
She sheepishly shook her head, "I was sort of mad, here's what's left of it," and she handed over the shredded pieces of Jamie's letter.
He grinned, "You're a violent one, aren't you?"
Lily blushed lightly, "I guess."
"What did the note say?" James asked.
"Um, how she did this, probably with one of your mates, because you and I need to interact more, or something, and the spell will undo itself once we start interacting like normal people," Lily said.
"Okay," James thought for a moment, "we're interacting normally right now, why don't you go check the hole."
Lily jumped up and walked over, and tried pushing it open, "No, it's not working."
"Maybe you're just too weak," James said, trying for once to be helpful.
Lily took it the wrong way, "I'm too weak? Well, your too pig-headed," she said coolly.
"It wasn't meant as an insult, Evans," James said.
"Really? Because it sure as hell sounded like one," she said before running back into her dorm.
A/N:
a little into Sirius/Jamie's (ex) relationship. Please leave a review