Chapter 1
"I'm sorry."
"I'm not interested."
"I'm sorry!"
"Save your breath"
It was night-time. Lily, who was wearing a dressing gown, stood with her arms folded in front of the portrait of the Fat Lady, at the entrance to Gryffindor Tower.
"I only came out because Mary told me you were threatening to sleep here."
"I was. I would have done. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just –"
"Slipped out?" There was no pity in Lily's voice. "It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends – you see, you don't even deny it! You don't even deny that's what you're all aiming to be! You can't wait to join You-Know-Who, can you?"
He opened his mouth, but closed it without speaking.
"I can't pretend anymore. You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine."
"No – listen, I didn't mean –"
"– to call me Mudblood? But you call every one of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?"
He struggled on the verge of speech, but with a contemptuous look she turned and climbed back through the portrait hole…
Lily stormed through the portrait hole, her entire face flaming as bright as her hair. She was headed straight for the girls' dormitories when an annoyingly familiar voice stopped her.
"Alright Evans?" James Potter said to her with a smirk.
"Shove off Potter I'm not in the mood!"
"I will if you go out with me Evans, go on just one little date?" he was full on grinning now, really enjoying, making her feel awkward and flustered. Lily stopped for a moment before staring up at James with a look of absolute loathing.
"Prongs, mate I think you picked the wrong time." Muttered Sirius as he took in the look on Lily's face. Lily ignored Sirius's comment and walked slowly towards James. He began backing away, matching her pace, until her knocked into one of the desks in the common room. Bracing his hands on the edge of the table, he gulped. Lily was going to kill him this time. Everyone in the common room seemed to sense this as all conversation came to a halt. All eyes were on them.
"You! James Potter are the most obnoxious, self-centred excuse for a human being I have ever had the misfortune to meet! If you think that I will ever! Ever say yes to you… You are seriously deluded." Her voice got scary calm towards the end and with that she turned on her heel and glided up the stairs towards her dormitory.
The silence, that followed Lily's departure, was deafening.
"Fine! You win! Take your stupid gold and piss off." Shouted Sirius, shoving a bag of galleons at Peter.
"Well mate, you should be glad you got away without any physical damage this time." Remus chuckled, from his spot on the couch by the fire, his head buried in a book the entire time." At this the whole common room burst out into uncontainable laughter.