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Rebound

Chapter Three

The portrait swung open to reveal an empty common room. Lily let out a breath she didn't even know she was holding as she stepped inside and looked around. It was like a mini version of the Gryffindor common room. She spied two doors, one with a sign reading "head boy", the other "head girl." She made her way toward the room that way evidently meant for her.

Inside it was quite simply laid out. A double bed, wardrobes, desks, the usual bedroom furniture. And another door that she supposed led to the bathroom. Her trunk was already there. So without wasting anytime she began to dress for bed, "Because in case Potter does turn up, I don't want to have to see him," she muttered to herself.

Having changed into her pyjamas Lily made her way to the bathroom and stepped inside. It was massive! I was a slightly smaller version of the prefects bathroom, "And all for me she though," as she took the room in, and then did a double take. "You have got to be fucking kidding me!" she groaned, and made her way over to the door opposite her that had just caught her attention. She flung it open. "FOR FUCK SAKE!" she screamed.

Through the door was another bedroom, almost identical to her own, with one difference. The trunk lying in it had the initials "J.P" stamped upon it. She slammed the door shut and marched back through the bathroom to her bedroom, collapsing on her bed.

She lay their fuming, and thinking of all the things she wanted to yell at Dumbledore at this current moment for being mental enough to make Potter head boy. She was just contemplating how good it would feel to trash his office in revenge when she heard voices coming from the common room. Getting up she made her way over to the door, having a sudden desire to eavesdrop on who she could only assume was Potter and his fellow retards, "Maybe I'll find out something I can blackmail them with to leave me alone she thought."

Straining to listen she heard the muffled but recognisable tones of Sirius Black, "... some place you get here Prongs. And all for you and Red! I'm kind of jealous, well if it wasn't for the fact you have to be head boy to get it." Lily smiled trying to imagine Black with any form of responsibility.

"Well Prongs," that was definitely Remus' voice, "Do you think you can cope living in such close proximity to Lily without you two killing each other?"

"Or jumping each other's bones?" Sirius put it. Lily pulled a face at the thought of doing anything to Potter that didn't involve causing bodily harm.

"Merlin this year is going to be hard!" groaned a voice Lily had learned to despise, Potter's. "Seriously how am I going to cope? Especially when she brings that twat Anderson back here!"

"You could tell her, the truth about him. Then you wouldn't have to worry." Said a new voice, Pettigrew's. Lily was getting very intrigued now straining to heard better.

"Merlin Wormtail keep your voice down! Evan's could still be awake!" Potter snapped. "Plus how do you think that conversation would go? Do you think she would even listen if I told her? Probably accuse me of lying in order to get with her." He sighed, "Imagine how she'd react if I was the one to tell her that pretty much the whole school knows her boyfriends been fucking that Jones slag all summer."

Lily froze. She did not just hear that. Potter did not just say that Terry was sleeping with Hestia AND practically the whole school knows it. Lily could feel her heart racing, and tried taking deep breaths. Potter had to be lying. This had to be a set up. She caught a few more words of what Potter was saying.

"Yeah she would react so well if I told her that I saw them getting it on at that ministry party my parents dragged me too."

Lily snapped. This had to be some huge sick joke. She flung open the door as hard as she could and glared at the four boys standing in front of her. She could hear one of them mutter something that sounded like "Shit." But she wasn't paying attention, she was focusing solely on James Potter.

"How much did you hear?" He stuttered, obviously nervous of the girl in front of him who was trembling with anger.

"YOU... YOU... YOU FUCKING BASTARD POTTER!" she yelled. All four boys stepped back. "I NEVER THOUGHT YOU WOULD SINK SO FUCKING LOW! WHAT IN MERLIN'S NAME DO YOU THINK YOU ARE PLAYING AT SPREADING CRAP LIKE THAT ABOUT!" she took a deep breath.

James decided to use this moment to plead his case, "Evans, I didn't I..."

"SHUT UP! JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!" she stepped forward, slapped James hard around the face and ran into her room yelling, "TERRY'S TEN TIMES MORE A MAN THEN YOU'LL EVEN BE!" before slamming the door shut. She could hear the Potter trying to speak to her through the closed door. But she didn't care. She just buried her face in her hands and cried.

The problem was she was pretty sure she was crying because what James had said made sense. Terry was being distant, Hestia was all over him, HELL she even told Alice she found a guy over the summer! And then there was Terry's reaction to what James had said on the train.

"No! No it cant be true, he loves me!" she told herself, but she couldn't help but think it was more like trying to convince herself.