Chapter 1

Lily's POV

OKAY BREATH! I told myself calmly as the situation unfolded inside my head.

For the past hour all I had been doing was transfiguration homework when all of a sudden there was a flurry of movement in my peripheral vision. I glanced up quickly to find a fuming head boy storming down the stairs to the common room where I was sitting quietly. James stops short in front of me with a sweaty Remus, who looks like he had just been chasing after someone, and Sirius trailing behind him.

As I waited patiently to see what my boyfriend was so angry about Remus cut James off before he could say a word and dragged him to a corner where he looked like he was frantically trying to reason with James. Now agitated I tried to make eye contact with Sirius but he couldn't or wouldn't meet my eye and pretended to be interested in a piece of fluff that was dangling from his robe.

My homework, long since abandoned, fell like leaves from a tree and scattered on the ground when he slammed his fist onto my table, causing me to cower the slightest bit as James towered over me like a vengeful giant.

"You…you..." James tried to grasp the words he wanted to say and came up with the one I never thought he'd ever say to me. By this time I had realized that I was the cause of his rage.

"SLUT!" he half shouted, attracting curious stares from other Gryffindor members, who had been watching the scene play out; they were probably worrying about which place would be the best for hiding, because when James and I have fights no one comes near us with a ten foot pole if they value their own safety.

By now only the three marauders and I were left in the common room. Shocked and wounded by his accusation and downright publicity I shot out of my chair causing it to topple over but I hardly noticed as I turned my death glare onto the dishevelled head boy who was also equally giving me his own vehement glare.

"What are you talking about! How dare you accuse me of being a slut!" I spluttered incredulously.

"Don't even try to deny it, at least have the decency to own up to your mistakes if you want me to have the least bit of respect for you!"

"How can I fess up to something when I have no idea what the hell is going; you haven't told me anything accept from barging in here with wild allegations AND MAY I REMIND THAT THIS IS YOUR GIRLFRIEND YOU ARE SPEAKING TO HERE!" With every word my voice grew higher until I was almost screeching at him.

"Oh yeah, about that… we're over." James said simply before stalking off with Remus and Sirius.

Crushed and utterly heartbroken I sank to the floor with tears flowing freely from my eyes as I raked my brain to find out what on earth I had done to lose the kind, affectionate, funny, sexy guy I had been dating for a year. Head bowed and arms wrapped tightly around my knees to the point of it hurting I rocked on my backside crying like rivers were drying up.

James' POV

I couldn't believe it. I couldn't bloody believe that this was happening to me. I had always told myself that I had deserved Lily and she was the best thing that had ever happened to me; on countless occasions I would be reminded by Sirius on how lucky I was to have smart, sassy, beautifully short tempered Lily Evans as my girlfriend and that I should never let her go.

I always thought I would be the one to screw up in our relationship and she would finally get fed up of my carelessness and lack of regard for other people that she would just leave. I never thought in a million moons that Lily would be the one to have caused our inevitable end. Never did I think that she would do something so damn hurtfulthat it would make my soul and heart crack into thousands of pieces.

Lily never seemed like the type to sleep around.

Guess I was wrong.

So here's how it went down.

Cue me sitting on my bed putting on my jumper before meeting Lily in the common room. Enter Moony with soul crushing news. How do I know its soul crushing news? Because:

Remus says, "We need to talk."

When I started laughing Remus' seriousness I looked at Sirius and thought 'Oh shit'; Padfoot wasn't laughing (he is NEVER serious about anything)

When asked if lily was hurt Remus replied with, "It's not what someone did to her it's what she has done to you."

"Okay… you guys wanna tell me what's up with the grave faces?" I asked nervously and I mentally prepared myself for bad news.

"I'm sorry James, I didn't want to be the one to tell you this, but Lily isn't the girl you think she is nor is she the girl who she said she was," Remus replied solemnly.

"You're kinda scaring me Remus. Did Alice say Evans was with some guy because that was only…" I was cut off by Sirius before I got the chance to finish.

"She's sleeping with other guy James! Jesus! All that babbling and anyone would think you're a teenage girl." He insulted me half-heartedly

Now you might think, how could you think this of your girlfriend and why aren't you defending her? Well the reason is that whenever my best friends tell me something they are always right and I trust them to always be brutally honest with me.

"Who told you?" Was all that I said.

They weren't the least bit surprised at the fact that I believed them instantly. Remus and Sirius had accepted long ago that I would also value their opinions higher than anyone else'.

"Peter found out in potions class and told us almost immediately."

"Do you know who the guy that slept with Lily is?" I asked almost pleadingly silently to not say the name of who I thought it was or otherwise I might just kill him in his sleep.

Sirius grimaced sympathetically.