The Silver Stag Chapter 4, a harry potter fanfic

A/N: This chapter is really long and I hope you like it, but I just kept writing and writing. I am also extremely sorry about not updating. I really have no excuse. I also had the material to post, I don't know why I didn't. I have been playing volleyball and I am so extremely busy with that, hanging with my friends, and school. But my middle school made a volleyball team and tomorrow we have to go down to help them practice but before practice we are allowed to go visit our old teachers so I'm gunna go visit my old band teacher because I miss him so much. Also, my best friend that is going to prep-school is going to be coming home for the first time this weekend and I miss him so much it hurts, I cant wait to see him.

I don't remember walking back to the dormitory and climbing into bed but when I woke up in the morning to the sun shining in my eyes. I got out of bed and noticed that I was in my dormitory.

As I put on my bathrobe and walked out to the bathroom where I brushed my teeth I remembered what happened last night and tears came to my eyes.

I heard a bellowing laugh from the common room. I washed my mouth out and went to my room to put some clothes on. It is Saturday so I quickly put on a soccer shirt that I got for playing for my Muggle school team and some sweatpants from my favorite Muggle store. I put my long, straight, bright red hair into a high pony tail and walked downstairs.

"Check mate!" I heard someone yell as I got to the bottom of the stairs. I went over to the mini refrigerator that was powered by magic and got out some pumpkin juice and poured a glass.

"Hey, Lily." James' voice came from the floor by the coffee table and I looked up. In the common room were Alice, Marlene, Mary, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Frank and James. Remus and James had just finished a game of Wizard Chess that Remus had won.

"Hi," My voice cracked and I cleared my throat before taking a sip of the pumpkin juice and walking over to sit on the couch next to Marlene. She wrapped her arm around me and I wrested my head on her shoulder, a friendly gesture.

"Hey, girl, how did you sleep?" Marlene asked and then for the first time she looked down at me. "Omigod, Lily! What happened to your face?" As she said it everyone turned their heads toward me and they all gasped.

"Oh, nothing." The subject was dropped.

I could tell that they were trying to keep from asking me what had happened last night so I put them out of their misery.

"Jacob and I broke up, guys."

"Oh, well maybe you just weren't his type, Lily; I mean he wasn't really your type either." I could hear in Alice's voice that she thought that he broke up with me.

I started playing with the tips of my pony tail, something I always did whenever I had my hair up.

"I-I broke up with him, its ok guys, really." There was a moment of silence and I really wanted to change the subject. "What are we doing today?" I pulled away from Marlene and pulled my legs up so I was sitting criss-cross of the couch.

"Er," James looked at me skeptically. "we were just planning to hang around, but Lily, is your face ok?" James pointed to right under my eye. I touched my eye and it was sore. I quickly walked to the bathroom and looked in the mirror; all around my eyes was black, my cheek was swollen and there was a cut on my lip. I tried to put makeup on my face to cover it but I was interrupted.

"Did he do that to you?" James' voice caught me off guard and I turned around to see him. His words came out in a dangerous whisper. I nodded. His hands clenched into fists and he closed his eyes while taking a deep breath.

"Don't worry; his face shouldn't be clean either." I smiled at him. He opened his eyes and laughed.

"I hope you hurt him." He said before leaving the bathroom. I took a deep breath and walked out.

"Do you guys want to go down to breakfast?" Sirius asked once I got out from the bathroom. Everyone nodded and we started walking down.

The day outside was warm, as it was still September. While we were walking down we separated into our own little groups and James and I started walking together.

"I'm really excited to Quidditch to start. I am holding tryouts next week and only two of our players graduated last year so I think we will still be a pretty good team," Then he started to raise his voice. "As long as our star beater doesn't get detention on the day of the Championship game then we will be fine this year." I giggled to myself as I knew that he was talking loudly so Sirius could hear him because Sirius was the star beater that he was talking about.

By then we had made it down to the Dining Hall and we sat in our usual spots; Marlene on my left, Alice on my right, Frank next to Alice, Mary on the other side of Marlene, James across from me, Sirius on his right, Remus on his left and Peter next to Sirus so he was across from Frank.

I grabbed some strawberry covered waffles and poured some maple syrup on them and started eating it. I didn't realize how hungry I was until the food was in my mouth.

"Did you guys finish the History of Magic homework that in due on Monday?" I had asked when I finished one waffle.

Everyone nodded except Sirius who had a terrified look on his face.

"We had History of Magic Homework?"

"Yes, Sirius, we had to write twelve centimeters of parchment of what we remembered from fifth year about Giant Wars." James told Sirius. James changing his attitude hasn't just gotten me to like him but it had also made the teachers like him because he does his homework and actually tries in classes, but he is still on McGonagall's bad side because hes a Marauder and he still does plenty of pranks.

"Lily?" I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around. It was Jacob. My stomach dropped and I heard James growl. I stood up, not being able to believe that he was confronting me.

"Hey, nice shiner you got there." James said while chewing on bacon.

"Very funny, Potter." Jacob hissed.

James snickered to himself.

"What do you want?" There was venom in my voice. He flinched.

"I, er, just wanted to say sorry." He stuffed his hands in his pockets awkwardly.

I huffed in surprise. Tears welled up in my eyes and I took a deep breath. I looked at James. He slightly nodded and I turned back to Jacob.

"Sorry? Sorry is all you can say? Well, I have something to say to you. Look at my face, Jacob. Look at it!" I didn't realize I was yelling until after I gave a moment for Jacob to look at my face, I could tell that he was looking at my black eye, swollen cheek, and split lip. "You did this to me last night, after trying to get me to shag you. I want you to feel guilty about what you did to me. I will let the tears fall in front of the whole school so you can feel guilty about how much you hurt me. Look me in the eye, Jacob. No matter how many times you say sorry, it will never be ok that you abused your girlfriend—"

"I had had a little bit to drink, you cant blame m—"He interrupted me and I scoffed.

"Just because you were drunk doesn't make it ok." I looked over to the Hufflepuff table and looked Jocelyn in the eye. "You can have him all you want; I don't want someone who beats his girlfriend for not shagging him."

When I finished talking Jocelyn stood up and walked over to where Jacob and I stood. As she walked over here I looked around the Great Hall and noticed that it was silent and every head was turned towards me. I looked over at the Slytherin table out of habit and saw Snape looking at me with sympathy mixed with hate towards Jacob.

I looked back at Jocelyn walking over to us and I looked at James. I knew what was coming and he was getting ready to jump out of his seat and walk out of the Great Hall with me.

Jocelyn marched right up to Jacob, took his face in her bony hands and kissed him right on the lips.

I crossed my arms and put all my weight into my right foot, waiting for them to be done.

After a couple seconds Jocelyn let go of his face, put his arm around her neck, put her arm around his waist and molded to his muscular figure.

"Just to let you know, we have had snogging sessions once a week sense you guys started dating." She smiled at me cruelly. I don't honestly see what guys see in her. Yes, she is skinny but she is the type of person that is too skinny and had no muscle. Her being so skinny causes her to have no boobs but she tries to flaunt them. Her hair is always straight but you can tell that it is naturally curly because you can see the creases in her hair where she straightens it. Her hair is all black and she is Hispanic. She wears too much eyeliner so it makes her look like a slut, but it fits her just fine.

"Great to hear that. The bitch and the ass who hits his girlfriend, you guys would make a perfect couple." My voice cracked at the end of the sentence. I could tell that James knew it was the time to leave because I heard clatter of glasses hitting together and then a warm arm wrap around my waist. I ducked my head down, holding the tears that were threatening to spill over in my eyes and walked out of the Great Hall.

I didn't really know where we were going but I was letting James lead the way.

"Cinderella." I heard his deep voice speak. Suddenly, I collapsed under my own weight and I fell to the ground. I felt James' arms wrap under my knees and around my neck and he picked me up. We walked over to the love seat that was across from the couch and he sat down. I curled up in his lap and he let me cry for the next three days.

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"Lily, you need to get up." I felt someone shake my shoulders. I grunted and rolled over.

It was Tuesday. James had let me skip classes yesterday but he made me promise that I would go today. I only said yes because I had no classes with Jacob and all my classes with James today.

I hadn't realized until then that James is the best friend that I could have asked for. It had only been a week sense we got to school but now that he was acting how he really is, we have bonded. All weekend we just sat on the love seat and we talked, sometimes, randomly a wave of sorrow would hit me and I would go back to crying for thirty minutes. But, James would never let me go. The only time that he did was when either of us had to take a shower, go to the bathroom or when he got so hungry that his stomach sounded like a monster and I made him go get us food. He even changed the password to our common room so our friends could not come in; he even ignored Sirius when he wanted to hang out. I should be very grateful.

"Come on, Lily, we have to go to classes. I even let you sleep in and get no breakfast. Classes start in thirty minutes." He shook my shoulder slightly. I let my eyes flutter open.

I groaned and rolled out of my bed. He chuckled a little as I landed face first on the ground with a loud thump. I lifted my head from the ground and pushed myself up.

"Good morning, Sleepy Head." I looked up, the brightness from the sun outside my window caused me to squint my eyes but I could tell that he was smiling just from the way he was talking.

"James, I want to thank you for staying with me for the past couple days." I sat on my bed, feeling embarrassed.

"There is no need to be thankful; the pleasure was all mine, my lady." He bowed and I laughed at his silliness.

After we got past out jokes I walked to the bathroom and looked in the mirror; my lip was all healed, the swelling in my cheek had gone down to normal and the bruise around my eye had turned to a yellowish-green. I put my messy mane that I call hair into a messy bun, brushed my teeth and went back to my room to get dressed. I don't remember walking back to the dormitory and climbing into bed but when I woke up in the morning to the sun shining in my eyes. I got out of bed and noticed that I was in my dormitory.