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CHAPTER 2

"Everything We Do Has Consequences"

"I think I'm being hunted."

"Uh…"

"I'm being serious." Marlene quickly caught onto what she said and shook her head. "No pun intended."

Sirius rolled his eyes.

The two were currently walking from the Great Hall, having just eaten lunch, now heading towards the Gryffindor common room for free time. Marlene had asked if Sirius would walk back with her, since both of their friend groups stayed longer.

The two Gryffindor Chasers had just turned a corner when Marlene continued. "You know when I tricked Creepy Callie into leaving the compartment yesterday?"

Sirius looked down at the blonde, confusion written over his handsome face. "Yeah?"

"You know Kimberlee Rose, her older sister?" When Sirius still looked confused, Marlene continued. "Hufflepuff Seeker, sixth year, blonde, huge rack, total slut."

"Ah, Kimmy." Sirius smirked suggestively. "She sure was great."

"I'm just gonna ignore that," Marlene scrunched her nose up in disgust. "But all day today, I've noticed her sending me glares. Even when I confronted her about it she just glared and walked away. I asked Bertram Aubrey and he told me that Kimberlee has a death wish. I think Callie told her what I did and she's going all protective-sister."

"That's ridiculous," Sirius rolled his eyes. "Kimberlee wouldn't despise you just because you messed with her sister."

"I don't know, when younger siblings are messed with, the older one always steps in to help."

"I don't do that with Regulus." Sirius commented casually.

"That's because you hate each other."

"The truth."

"Anyway, I swear Kimberlee is hunting me! But could you blame me? It's Creepy Callie we're talking about!"

"What did you say about my sister?" A cold voice shouted behind the pair.

Tensing, Marlene grabbed Sirius hand who couldn't help but smirk. "Wow, you were right." He mumbled, glancing behind him. "And she's got a cup. I wonder how she's gonna murder you with that."

"Prat. Stay with me."

"Oh, I gladly will. Chick fights are my favorite."

The two turned around, watching as the Hufflepuff marched up. Marlene tightened her grip around Sirius' hand but she held her chin high and defiantly met Kimberlee's glare.

"This is for manipulating my sister!" In one fluid motion, Kimberlee poured a glass of pumpkin juice all over Marlene's uniform. Marlene gasped as the cold liquid traveled down her body, sending shivers throughout her body. Her black robes immediately began to stain and her white button-up grew transparent because of the drink, revealing her black bra.

Marlene furiously wiped the liquid off of her face and looked down at her uniform, groaning. "This was new."

"The entire uniform or just that bra?" Sirius asked, smirking at Marlene's glare.

"You idiot." Marlene laughed, momentarily forgetting about the girl in front of her, as she ran a hand through her now sticky blonde hair.

"Don't ever mistreat my sister, you hear me?" Kimberlee shouted, gaining the Gryffindors attention.

"It's not our fault she's a complete creep obsessed with James." Marlene didn't realize she had said it until the words left her mouth. Gasping, Marlene's eyes grew wide and she looked up at Sirius, whose mouth fell open. "Did I just say that?" Marlene whispered as Sirius chuckled.

"You did, McKinnon. Now I get to see a chick fight." Right after Sirius had said those words, Marlene was tackled to the ground.

Kimberlee screamed as she blindly threw a punch towards Marlene. The Gryffindor quickly dodged it and tried pushing her off with a grunt but failed. While she did so, Kimberlee grabbed a fistful of Marlene's hair, tugging harshly. The two began to roll around on the stone floor, both trying to gain dominance in the fight. Marlene kicked Kimberlee in the shin but soon received a hard scratch on her arm. Curse words were being thrown between the two girls as a crowd gathered, watching the fight curiously. Most of them were laughing, some looked disappointed, while first years looked absolutely horrified.

"Alright, alright," Sirius finally spoke as he gathered Marlene in his arms, pulling her off of Kimberlee with ease. He set her behind him and quickly grabbed Kimberlee's arms, holding her in place. "I can't believe I'm stopping this. Oh, and Professor McGonagall saw the whole thing."

"She didn't," Marlene groaned.

"McKinnon! Rose!" Professor McGonagall's voice confirmed Marlene's worrying doubt. "My office. Now!"

"Well?"

Marlene sighed, meeting up with Sirius just outside McGonagall's office. Her uniform was still stained brown and her hair was sticky, clinging to her neck and forehead. But despite all of that, she remained absolutely beautiful to Sirius, who would definitely keep that to himself. "I have detention during free time today."

Sirius raised his eyebrows. "That's 2 hours."

"And 15 points were taken from Gryffindor."

"Wow, McKinnon."

"But, Kimberlee got 20 deducted for Hufflepuff since she started the fight so there's that."

"Weren't you the reason this thing started?"

"Shhh," Marlene placed a hand on her thin pink lips and winked up at Sirius. "Anyway, I have to go back, shower, and change."

"Need any help?"

"Funny." Marlene rolled her eyes, although her cheeks turned pink. "Tell my friends where I am, alright? I have only 10 minutes before I have to go back to McGonagall's."

Sirius nodded as the two walked up to the Fat Lady. When Marlene gave the password, the pair walked into the common room and soon took their separate ways. Sirius watched as the small blonde took the steps to girls dormitory two at a time, humming quietly to herself.

With a smile, Sirius turned and walked back out, in search for her friends.

Olivia Hudson tapped her fingers gently against the spines of the many books she passed. The sixth year was currently in the library in search for a novel she wanted to reread. She had just entered the last aisle in her search when a deep voice broke her thoughts.

"Well, if it isn't Lovely Livie."

Rolling her eyes, Olivia smiled towards the black-haired boy. "James." The girl looked up towards the top shelf, peering for Pride and Prejudice. She slowly made her way further into the aisle, her eyes glued at the books, as the handsome boy followed after her.

"What are you looking for?" James asked, leaning against the shelf with his hands in his pockets. He eyed the pretty girl curiously.

"It's a muggle book. Called Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen." Olivia answered but soon blinked. She looked towards James, who was smirking, and raised an eyebrow. "You want something."

"Oh, I want a lot of things, Lovely Livie." James responded, a glint of amusement in his hazel eyes.

Shaking her head, Olivia continued searching. "Alright, James. What do you want with me?"

"What I want to know is why are you in this horrendous place, looking for a pointless book, when you could be out, enjoying life?"

"And what is your idea of enjoying life?"

"I can name a few." James winked and stood up straight.

Olivia blushed and pushed James playfully. "Wanker." She turned back to the shelf, her green eyes hoping to find the book soon. After all, she's been searching for over 10 minutes. This shelf was her last resort.

"Alright, alright." James reached up and pulled a book out of it's place, giving it to the teenager. Olivia furrowed her eyebrows as her small hands took the book silently. When her eyes read the title, the witch smiled. Pride and Prejudice. "You owe me." With one last crooked smile, the Quidditch Captain sauntered out of the aisle. He was almost around the corner when Olivia caught up to him. Together they checked out the book and exited the library.

"So," Olivia ran a hand through her curled black hair, that was cut in a long-bob, and glanced up towards the tall wizard. "If, I said if, I were to hang out with you… What would we do?"

They had reached the stairs. He gestured towards the one that went down. Olivia had two options: take the other stairs and go up to the common room where she could start her book, or take the stairs with James, heading out into the courtyard. She eyed him curiously, clutching onto her book. "It's up to you, Olivia. We can do whatever you want." James smirked.

"We can't hang out." Olivia stated with a shrug.

James raised an eyebrow. "And why's that?"

"Because I'm Lily's friend. Isn't there, like… supposed to be some rule? To not be friends with your friend's enemies?"

"Well, I'm not much of rule follower, Olivia." James gestured towards the stairs. "C'mon. I'm sure Lily won't mind. I'm good company, after all."

"You're not self-centered at all." Olivia rolled her eyes. She bit down on her lip as her heart picked up in speed. Lily said she didn't mind it when Marlene told her she hung out with James and the situation is the same thing, right? And it's not like they dated. I'm not breaking any unspoken rules. We're just hanging out. Olivia pushed down the slight guilt that gnawed at her stomach. It's fine. Lily won't mind. She'll be completely fine with this.

Smiling, Olivia put the book in her bag that was slung over her shoulder. "Fine." She stated simply and followed James down the stairs and into the courtyard.

"I saw James and Olivia out in the courtyard."

"So?"

"They looked like they were having fun," Mary groaned and leaned her head against the table in front of her. "Why do we have to be here for our free time? Marlene's in detention and it feels like we're in detention too. Let's go out and join them."

Looking up from her book, Lily raised an eyebrow. "What were they doing?"

"Playing exploding snap. I heard them talking about going to the Quidditch pitch later, too. Can we go? I hate the library; it smells like old lady and nerds in here,"

Lily sighed. "You can go. I need to finish this."

"What? It's not even the third day! C'mon, Lils. Live a little. Enjoy life!"

"I am enjoying life. With this," Lily held up Sense and Sensibility.

"Boring." Mary sighed and stood up. "Fine, do what makes you happy. When you change your mind, and realize how much fun you could be having, I'll be with James and Olivia."

Biting down on her lip, Lily watched her friend skip off to find the other sixth years. She's absolutely happy, sitting here, reading. It's peaceful and relaxing. She doesn't need to go outside in the cold with her friends. It's fine. Plus, Potter's there, why would she want to go out anyway? Why would she want to join in on all the fun?

"Lily," A soft voice interrupted her thoughts.

The redhead looked up and immediately closed her book. Her lungs squeezed up in anger as she quickly threw her book in her bookbag. Tears stung her eyes as she gathered everything she needed with shaking hands. "I don't want to talk to you."

"But, Lily-"

"No, Sev." Lily quickly stood up. "I have to meet my friends, anyway." With a glance towards the Slytherin, who was watching her, Lily turned and quickly walked out of the library.

"I think I have an answer to the problem."

"What problem?"

"Why Peter can't get a date."

Peter rolled his eyes at Sirius, who was smirking. "Git. I can too get a date."

"Really?" Sirius looked towards Remus who shrugged. "How?"

Just then, a girl turned the corner, practically skipping. Her brown hair brushed past her shoulders at her fast walking and a gorgeous smile was on her lips.

"Wow, fate works in mysterious ways." Sirius shoved Peter towards Mary Macdonald. "Now's your chance, Wormtail."

"Oh, hey guys! You headed out to the courtyard too?" Mary waved to the three Marauders.

"Courtyard?" Remus spoke up.

"James and Olivia are out there playing exploding snap."

"And he didn't invite us." Sirius shook his head and placed his hands on his hips, in mock disapproval. "Well, Wormtail, this'll have to wait. Let's go join our todger friend."

"That cheeky boy," Sirius smirked, watching James a few feet away. "Man, even I haven't scored Olivia." With a sigh, Sirius started walking towards the two. "Challenge accepted."

Rolling his eyes, Remus grabbed Sirius' arm. "You're seriously not going to just take Olivia away from James, are you?"

"Yeah, why?"

"That's rude!"

"Well, we can let her pick."

"She's more of a Potter, girl. She's told me." Mary spoke up.

"Crap."

"Hey, Prongs." Peter spoke up for the group once they reached the two who were in the middle of the courtyard. Olivia was giggling and pointing towards James, who had just lost the recent game of exploding snap. Smoke covered his arms at the explosion from one of the cards and he pretended to glare towards the girl in front of him. Pulling out a cloth from her robes, Olivia wiped off the smoke, still giggling adorably.

"Hey, guys." James looked towards his friends, a smile growing on his lips. "Where have you been?"

"We could ask the same about you." Sirius winked, nodding towards Olivia who had just started up a conversation with Mary.

James smirked and shrugged. "Oh well, you know… "

"Playing the field." The two boys shared a look, Remus rolled his eyes, and Peter laughed.

"Anyway," Mary looked towards James. "Can we join you?"

James nodded. "'Course."

As the six teenagers started a new game of exploding snap, a seventh one watched from the entrance a few yards away. She clutched her bag nervously and chewed on her bottom lip. The redhead eyed each of the members, watching how James smiled towards Olivia who blushed back, how Remus shared a rare, genuine laugh with Peter, and how Mary nearly shoved Sirius after he told her something (inappropriate, presumably). Lily pulled some of her hair behind her shoulders and took a deep breath.

It really did look like a lot of fun. And she would have joined them, any other day. But after that encounter with Snape, Lily suddenly felt like going back to her dormitory and sleeping. The witch hadn't planned on speaking with Snape. In fact, she planned on not even looking towards him. But now that he actually had the guts to talk to her, Lily wasn't so sure. She didn't want to talk with him, that's for sure. She still needed time to think. She still needed time to heal from what happened last year.

Lily looked behind her shoulder, making sure no one was behind her. She needed to be alone. She didn't want to risk another encounter with Snape, which now seemed even more likely after he had just walked up to her a few minutes ago. So, with a sigh, the witch turned, ignoring the group's laughter, and headed up to the dormitory.

Lily even managed to convince herself that this is what she wanted.

She assumed that was the reason her heart was feeling so hollow. That Snape was the reason her heart was aching so much. But, at the time, Lily didn't know that her heart was aching for an entirely different reason.

Chapter songs:

James/Lily - River by Bishop Briggs.

Everyone - Something New by The Score.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Sorry that there wasn't any James/Lily encounter in this chapter. Trust me, there's one in the next one. Please review! The next chapter will be posted very soon!

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