A lot of you guys asked for a sequel to the Jealousy chapter and here it is! As per usual, thanks to everyone who's read, favourited, alerted and reviewed so far! Big hug to the reviewers from the last chapter; Neko-chan2604, The Honor Lord, bloodyhell-ronald and Lovewriting12.

Jealousy part II

He's staring at her again.

James gritted his teeth and narrowed his eyes at the stupid Hufflepuff tosser who was chatting with Lily at the other end of the corridor. He did not know why (he's lying; he did and he hated it) it got to him, but it just did. James was perfectly fine with being her friend, but there was always going to be some sort of reminder that that was all he was to her at the moment. A friend. Friends laugh. Friends talk. Friends hug. Friends certainly do not lean as close as David McCollum was doing at this very moment. The prat was practically brushing noses with her!

A hand suddenly dropped down on James' shoulder, and momentarily jerked him out of his Hufflepuff hating. He looked up to see Sirius grinning down at him. It was evident that his best friend knew of the current mood he was in and he knew exactly why he was in the mood.

"Well aren't they lovely," quipped Sirius as he leaned against the wall and crossed his arms across his chest, mimicking James' posture.

"Charming," the other boy all but snarled. His hands clenched into fists when he saw the other boy lean in even closer (really now, James though, that was rather inappropriate behaviour in a corridor. Think of the children) and said something that caused Lily to blush.

If James had been paying more attention to his surroundings, he would have noticed Sirius' less than silent laughter beside him as the latter recognised the similarities between this exchange and the one that occurred during the last charms class.

"Honestly," hissed James. "He's just being a smarmy bastard. He doesn't want anything else besides to get in her knickers."

"And how do you know that?" asked Sirius, not even bothering to hide his amusement any more.

"Well it's obvious, isn't it?" scoffed James, further narrowing his eyes.

Sirius hummed noncommittally. Maybe, depending on how he feels, he might share the talk he had with Lily yesterday in class with James later. He watched as Lily threw her head back, laughing and saw that James looked just about ready to draw his wand.

For a pair of brilliant people, they wear rather thick, Sirius deduced as Lily continued laughing with the boy and James continued glaring. Honestly, they weren't even trying to hide it anymore, what with the Barberry fiasco yesterday and now this. Sirius watched as the blonde haired boy reached out to brush a lock of hair from Lily's face, causing her blush to darken. He glanced back at James, whose glare had gotten more intense while his knuckles were turning white from how hard he clenched them.

"Heard him talking about her the other day," Sirius said lightly.

"Is that so," said James, who was now close to going up and throttling the boy.

"Yeah; I think he was saying something about asking her to Hogsmeade," he replied grinning at James. The boy turned to glare at his supposed best friend.

"I hate you, you know that," James said lightly, hitting Sirius in the stomach. "Moony is a much better friend sometimes."

Sirius grinned once more.

"That's because Moony has tact. All of think the same thing," he remarked cleverly, dancing out of the way of James' oncoming fist.

"Mangy mutt."

"Sulking shrew."

"Oi! Now that was uncalled for!"

"No it wasn't," he said happily, still grinning manically at James. "It's true and you know it."

"Well I can't do anything about it, now can I?" James replied exasperatedly.

"Your words, not mine," Sirius said quickly, raising his hands. "All I'm saying is that if you can't do anything- or more appropriately won't do anything about it- then you shouldn't be plotting to murder someone who is."

James glared at him. "That's it; you've been denoted. Moony is my best mate now."

"Good to know."

"Fuck you, Padfoot."

"I think you much rather do that to Evans." This time James did manage to hit him.

"Have I told you that I hate you?"

"Yes."

"Good. It's true."

"You know what else is true?" asked Sirius, taking a good step back while rubbing his sore arm. "The fact that McCollum likes Evans and is about to ask her out."

James' gaze- glare, really- returned to the pair and sure enough McCollum was still there, smiling flirtatiously at Lily. Something within James snapped and before either he or Sirius realized, he was already halfway down the hall.

The closer he got, the louder the laugher and harder his jaw clenched.

"Evans!" James said happily, looping an arm casually around her shoulders.

Lily jumped in surprise and looked up at him. Once realising who it was, she relaxed and a small smile appeared on her face. "Hello James," she greeted easily.

"Evans," he said again, this time grinning back down at her.

"Potter," acknowledged McCollum.

The grin slid off his face, and it was all James could do to not glare at the prat. "McCollum."

"If you don't mind, I was in the middle of a con-"

"Terribly sorry, McCollum," James said loudly, speaking over the boy. "I'm afraid I have to speak to Miss Evans about some super important and top secret Head duties."

"But I-" protested David, frowning.

"Important!" James reminded him, gently pulling Lily away.

"I'll talk to you later, David!" Lily called apologetically over her shoulder as she allowed herself to be towed along by James.

Sirius was laughing loudly as he watched James pull Lily through the throngs of people- and more importantly, far away from David McCollum. The pair stopped in front of him, and he laughed even harder. Lily regarded him curiously and then looked back at James. Finally, it dawned upon her.

"There isn't any Head business to talk about, now is there?" she asked sceptically, retracting her hand from James'.

"Is that what he said?" snorted Sirius, his eyes glittering with mirth. "I guess everyone needs their excuses."

"Excuses?" she asked, confused.

"Prongs here is looking out for your virtue, Evans," Sirius said solemnly, even as his lips twitched, struggling to hold back the laughter that was surely dying to burst from his mouth.

Lily turned around and stared at James who was, for his part, looking slightly abashed.

"I can explain," he ventured quickly.

"Save it," Lily snapped. "I don't want to hear it." And with that, she turned and left, leaving a laughing Sirius and frustrated James in her wake.

Tumblr is having a Jily week starting from tomorrow, which means tonnes and tonnes are jily fics and other lovely things, so if you're on tumblr, you guys should probably look in to that. Another good thing about jily week is that I'm writing about four things for it, which means about four new Moments chapters. So yay.

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