I stretched my arms up to the ceiling, wiggling my aching fingers. How Professor Binns expected students to be able to focus on so many goblin wars everyday was beyond me.
I collapsed in a heap back onto the table, engaging in a staring contest with my essay. The last paragraph was the thing that had killed me, and made my hand start complaining of "unbearable pain."
Outside the window was quite dreary. It was a rainy day, so it should not have been that hard to focus on Zendel the Zealous and his tactics to bring his army up to par, but somehow the rain was becoming the best distraction. There was not even any thunder or lightening, just a never ending sheet of rain, pounding on the window.
Madame Pince brought me out of the small day dream as she snapped her wand in front of the drowsy face of Sirius Black. "There will be no sleeping in my library!" She said harshly. As she turned around, Sirius' face contorted as he mimicked her. The librarian whirled around, but Sirius was too quick for her. That charming smile that said 'Yeah, I was making fun of you but you didn't catch me now, did you?" struck his face.
Pince's eyes narrowed in his direction, and she slowly moved away again. Remus was trying very hard not to laugh, pressing his hand into his mouth. Peter was very busy with his carrots. But James was no where in sight.
Thinking of James brought the memories back from a few nights ago. "Just…just tell Potter to stay away from you." My hand clenched tightly into a fist, that heated flash of anger returning.
How dare he! Thinking he can just control my life. He has no right. I had never forgiven the boy since the incident in fifth year, and he had never made a move to apologize. Then all of the sudden he just decides to put in his little opinion.
Like it mattered to me.
But it was not exactly the fact that he had tried to tell me what to do, but the fact that he had brought James into the situation. I could easily write off what he said about me, I had gotten used to that over the years, but the way he had said James' name…it just made me want to go hunt him down and maybe pull a whole goblin warfare tactic on him.
Sure, James had not acted that great to Snape before, but he had dropped the act a few years ago.
This whole situation put in me in a weird position, where I wanted to defend James. He was not all that bad.
But then again, you didn't think that either just a few years ago.
I froze at that thought, my fingers freezing in mid air as I had started reaching for my paper again. Did I have any more right to be James' friend from how I had acted to him in the previous years?
My brow creased at this thought. Where was all of this coming from? I tried to shake the thoughts from my head, but they were clinging to the back of my brain, making if even harder to focus on my essay than before.
It was like I had just opened Pandora's Box at the back of my head. Damn it Pandora.
"Lily?"
My staring contest that had turned into glaring at my still unfinished essay was interrupted by the voice above my head. I shot by head backwards to see James smiling at me from behind me, leaning on the back of my chair.
"You okay?" He asked, his smile questioning my sanity. I looked at my essay, then back up at James.
"Um…" The thoughts became louder as he looked down at me with that quizzical brow. I nodded at him, my ability to speak temporarily disappearing.
He shot me another one of those smiles before he made his way over to his friends, whistling a tune under his breath.
I pushed away the thoughts again as I watched him walk away. He slammed a book down on the table, making Madame Pince glare again from over her Daily Prophet. James just winked at her, and fell back into his chair. He opened the book called "Goblins and Their War Games" and his eyes started skimming the page, unimpressed.
My head cocked to one side as I saw the title, and looking back at my forlornly short essay, it was a book I needed.
Damn it Potter.
A/N: I should really be working on homework, but…well this just kind of popped into my head, and I had to update it! I'm just really getting back in the mood of this story, so forgive me guys!
I'm on a Lily and James roll right now!
