Summary: On the day Lily recieves the best news of her life, she catches her boyfriend cheating, and her two best friends ditch her for him. Lily flees the castle without looking back. Now its summer and the boys are in for the shock of their lives. L/J OOC AU

Rating: T

Pairing: Lily/James

Authors note: This idea for this fic has been floating around in my head for the past few months. Now I finally have the time to write for it. Just to warn you, it does NOT follow any of the plot lines that we have been lead to believe. I do in fact know what really happened, I am just choosing to ignore it for this fic. Anyway, onto the fic.


Dedication This chapter is dedicated to Corey, beloved brother and uncle. He will always be dearly missed and we will never forget you. You are forever in our hearts. April 21st 1988 - Saturday October 27th 2007

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, and am clearly not making any money off of this. So don't sue.

Chapter One:

Lily Evans grinned happily as she ran in the direction of the Gryffindor Common Room. Having just returned to Hogwarts for her sixth year, today was her lucky day; she had a wonderful boyfriend of six months and two very best friends. On top of all that she had just recieved the best news of her life; she had just been awarded a recording contract with one of the best muggle companies in the business! After two years of hard work, recording demo's and playing small gigs, she finally had a contract! Abolutely nothing could ruin this day for her.

"Where's the fire?" Alice, one of Lily's good friends called out to her as she ran past.

"I have to find James, Remus and Sirus!" Lily smiled, flashing her straight white teeth. "I have the best news ever!"

Alice, grinned, curious to what the news could possibly be, and watched as Lily happily yelled the password to the portrait of the Fat Lady before disappearing into the Gryffindor Common Room.

As Lily entered the room, she glanced about wildly, looking for a sign of her boyfriend or one of their two best friends. 'They must be in their dormitory,' she thought, smiling as she walked over to the boys staircase. She climbed quickly, stopping for a brief second upon reaching the door that clearly stated 'Sixth Year Boys, Home of the sexy Mauraders'. Rolling her eyes slightly Lily pushed the door open and stepped into the room.

Lily's hand flew to her mouth as she observed Chelsea, a tramp in their same year, stradling a shirtless James Potter as the two made out heavily. As if sensing they were not alone, James broke off the kiss and glanced around the room to see what had interrupted them, Chelsea having moved on to kissing his neck.

"Lily!" James cried, wide-eyed as he spotted her standing there, apalled. "This isn't what it looks like." He quickly pushed Chelsea off him, where she landed on the mattress, and made his way to Lily. He reached to touch her arm slowly, and, seeing the tears start to flow from her eyes, quickly moved closer to her, as though to comfort her.

"Don't touch me!" Lily yelled through her tears, jerking her arm away from him. "You don't get to touch me after what you did!"

"It didn't mean anything!" James said quietly as Chelsea left the room, sneaking around them. "I never meant to hurt you."

"Well guess what James Potter," Lily said through her tears, "You did!" She turned to flee from the room, wanting to get as far away from him and the image of them together as humanly possible. Desperately, James dove for her, his arms locking around her tiny waist.

"Please don't leave me!" he cried, tears now rolling down his face quickly. "I'll do anything if you don't leave me... I love you!"

"You should have thought about that before you cheated on me," Lily said quietly, sniffling, as she pushed him away. Once she was free, Lily quickly turned and ran down the stairs and out of the common room. She ran as quickly as she could, not paying attention to where she was going as the tears came down her face with increasing speed.

Turning a corner, she ran straight into a muscled chest; the person she ran into quickly reached out to steady her before she fell to the ground.

Glancing up to see who had saved her from falling, she couldn't help but feel relieved at the sight of the familiar face. "Sirius," she said with a sob, throwing her arms around him tightly and holding him to her. Sirius in turn wrapped his arms around her as well, hesitant as he saw her pain. "What's wrong Lil?" He asked quietly as he rubbed her back slowly in effort to calm her down. Lily didn't bother to answer, just continued to cry in his arms, her face buried in his chest. Sirius cast a worried glance to Remus, who stood staring in shock at the duo from Sirius' other side.

After a few minutes, Lily pulled away, her tear-stained face and red nose a sign of her grief.

"What happened Lily?" Remus asked, softly coming closer to the two.

"Yeah!" Sirius continued, "Whose ass am I kicking?"

"I caught J-James cheating on me," Lily said quietly, stumbling over the words slightly as the image of the scene in the bedroom came to mind.

"That doesn't sound like James," Remus frowned, pulling Lily into a quick hug.

"Are you sure it was him?" Sirius added, sharing a secret glance at Remus over Lily's head.

"I know what James looks like!" Lily replied misreably, somewhat shocked that they'd even had to ask. "It was him alright."

Sirius and Remus shared another quick look. "But James loves you," Remus said, "I'm sure he didn't mean to cheat on you."

"So that makes it okay? What was it - 'an accident'?" Lily yelled, stricken. "He's allowed to cheat on me because he didn't mean to?"

"Of course not, Lily." Sirius said. "But this is James were talking about; what else can you expect - he's the school player, it's in his nature; part of who he is."

Lily choked down a sob and turned to Remus with a questioning look in her eyes. "What am I suppose to do now?" She asked, her voice breaking.

"Try and forgive him," Remus said hopefully, his eyes shining.

"I can't just forgive him for this!" Lily replied, "He broke my heart!" She paused for a few moments before adding, "Actually, it was more like he ripped out my heart, tore it to shreds and danced on it a few times!"

"If you can't forgive him, how are we all suppose to hang out?" Sirius asked, frowning and furrowing his brow as he contemplated the idea of having to pick a side. "We love both of you, but you'll both be at each others throats if you don't forgive him!"

"And if I can't forgive him?" Lily whispered, tears starting to pool in her beautiful emerald eyes again, a tear already trailing it's way down her cheek. "Then what?"

"Please, just forgive him." Remus said, unwilling to answer her question because he had no real answer for it. Without her forgiveness, there would be no friendship between all of them.

"I can't!" Lily yelled, "And if you were really my friends you wouldn't expect me to!"

"We can't help it!" Sirius cried, "We don't want to have to choose between you two!"

She gave a short, cynical laugh. "No one asked you to choose!" Lily yelled "We already know what the answer would be anyway!"

"We've known James longer," Remus said, trying to appease her. "Please just forgive him so we don't have to choose.."

"You already did!" Lily yelled, taking off running, now in the direction of the Gryfindor common room. Her heart broke for the second time as she not only lost the love of her life, but her two best friends in succession.

"Lily!" Sirius called out, as the two boys took off after her. While usually they were faster than the redhead, her headstart and emotion made her quickly disapeared from sight.

"She probably went to the girls dormitory, " Remus said, huffing slightly as the two stepped into the empty common room.

"We should probably give her some time to cool down." Sirius added, "It's getting late anyway."

"You're both wrong," Lily said softly from behind them from where she'd been crouching behind a red-and-gold sofa. Both boys froze upon hearing her voice and turned slightly to face her. They saw that while she had stopped crying, her eyes were swollen and blood shot, her nose red, with cheeks to match. "I have a question for you, and I want an honest answer."

"Okay," Both boys said in unison, although somewhat hesitantly.

"Did you know James was cheating on me?" The question came out fast, as though Lily wasn't sure she wanted to know the answer.

"No," Sirus said quickly. "We thought he might be thinking about it, but we never thought he'd actually go through with it." The last part was said wearily, as though he knew it would only spur her rage at James on.

"And you didn't think to tell me?" Lily asked, shock clearly written on her face. "Some friends you are!" She added on bitterly, wiping her eyes with the back of her hand.

"James is our friend," Remus said, taking a slow step toward her. "We couldn't betray him like that."

Lily backed away from Remus, tears beginning to form again. "I thought I was your friend too," She whispered, her voice barely audible. "I guess I thought wrong." With that said, Lily darted up the stairs to the girls dormitory. 'If I don't have James and the boys anymore,' she thought as she ran up the stairs, 'at least I'll still have my music.'

The next morning the three boys stood silently waiting at the bottom of the girls stairs for Lily to come down.

"I think she's coming," James said solemnly as they heard someone climbing down the stairs. All three boys fell silent as Alice came into sight, an ice-cold expression plastered upon her face. Glaring, Alice passed them without a word, nose in air.

"Alice," Sirius said, "Where's Lily?"

"She's not here," she replied coldly.

"Oh," James said. "Did she already go down to the Great Hall?"

"No." The answer was blunt, and to the point, and James noticed that Alice especially refused to look at him.

"Well, where the hell is she?" James asked desperately, "We really need to talk to her."

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Alice replied cockily, "Before I forget, this is for you." Reaching into her robes, Alice pulled out a peice of parchment. After handing it to James' outstreached hand she continued on her way.

Wordlessly, James read the parchment. He handed it over to Sirius once he had finished, tears threatening to fall.

Sirius took the parchment carefully as he began to read what he recognised as Lily's handwritting, half disguised by tear stains, and despite the fact that it was even messier than usual.

I've left the castle, as you're probably aware by now. And no, I do not plan on coming back. There is nothing left for me here now. Where I've gone is none of your concern, if you didn't care about me enough to not let me go then you certainly don't care enough to know where I went. And don't bother asking Alice where I went, she doesn't know either. I thought I could trust all three of you, I guess I was really wrong all along. Please don't look for me. I never want to see you again.

Lily.

Well, what do you all think? Should I continue? If people want me to continue, I will. If people don't I won't. I haven't really done the Harry Potter thing all that much, so it will take me a few chapters to get the hang of it. I've been rewatching the movies and some British shows to try and get the language down. It was a bit odd to be writing for something other than Gilmore Girls. But I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon.

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