Rose-Monday

"Hey Lily!"

James run after his girlfriend. It was late in the evening at the 6th February 1978. Both just left the great hall. Lily because she was angry and James because he was trying to becalm her. When both reached the middle of the entrance hall Lily stopped suddenly and turned back to him.

"What do you want?"

She looked grimly and mad at him. She thought: If he does not say sorry in ten seconds…

James laid both his arms at his hips and wheezed. After he was again able to speak he swore: "I really didn't recognise you." Lily just stared at him, not believing his words. "I didn't wanted to hurt you… I…" Lily just passed the number eight, she was about to open her mouth, when James did the same.

"I am sorry, I...", he said.

Lily closed her mouth abruptly and all the anger she had disappeared and left sadness behind. This where the exact same words the boyfriend of her best friend used last year. He admitted to her, that he had lied to her for a long time. Lily know very well, that James didn't use this words with this knowledge, that's why she does not blamed him for using them. But she was very mad at him because he dared to hug an other girl.

"You didn't recognise me?", asked Lily with new anger. She garbed him by the shoulders and continued: "I am your girlfriend! Just because I was wearing a mask, you pass me and go to another girl?" She let go his shoulders and ended in a sad way: "The mask did not even concealed the whole face. My eyes were perfectly visible." She looked into his eyes and asked:

"Tell me how you could not recognise me?"

He tried to take her hand, but she didn't let this happen. "I don't know, really!", he answered and begged with his eyes for forgivingness.

"Please forgive me!", he whispered.

Lily looked at him with a mixture between anger and love. She was deeply disappointed and sad, but on the other hand he never lied to her. So he really maybe did not recognise her.

Right now the door to the great hall opened and two people came straight to her and James. One of them she know as Stefan Vogel, an English-German student from Ravenclaw. He moved to the island seven years ago. Albus Dumbledore organized this Rose-Monday party as some kind of understanding other nations thing. She liked this idea until James did this to her.

When she turned back to James he was looking to the floor and awaiting her judging.

"I think I need some time… We will speak than!"

She turned away and started to go upstairs. James followed her with his eyes and when she reached the first floor he called after her: "But we are still a couple, aren't we?" Either she didn't heard him or she chooses not to reply, for she didn't stopped.

With much bad feelings he left the castle and went to the lake. Why this had to happen, both of them where so happy recently.

He hoped that their love would be true enough, so this would not destroy it.