Something That Needs To Be Done
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"Lily...Hey Lilyy... LILY!" Marlene took the red-headed girl sitting beside her at the Gryffindor table by the shoulder and violently shook her out of her daze.
"Here I am telling you about the really random and epic story of the Arab man whose goat was living in my house without my knowledge, and you are sitting there like I'm inflicting some kind of mind-numbing torture on you, the kind that makes you go so
still that you forget you are a human and you refuse to believe your apparent existence... I read about it in a book..." Marlene waved her hands in a manner implying that this dialogue wasn't totally befuddling to her best-est friend in the whole
world.
"What kinds of things do you know..." Lily looked at her suspiciously, thinking of possibilities ranging from police academy to prisons. Marlene snapped her fingers in front of Lily's mildly concerned and deeply suspicious eyes.
"You're completely missing the point! Wait...were you thinking about that greasy snake Snape again?" She asked suddenly. Lily looked guilty.
"Ummm...no?...Look, Marlene I know you're concerned, but I can't help myself okay. I know it seems like I'm letting myself being trodden on and crushed by a DUDE-"
"Yes! It's un-feminist!" Marlene interrupted, not sure where lily was going with this, but sure that these words will impact her.
"-Ughh will you listen to me?" Lily said, slightly annoyed. She took a deep breath.
"Look, you know me. I'm the fiery red-head who's not afraid of hexing anyone that tries to hurt her or anyone else. Who guys are afraid of asking out because they fear they'll mess up in a way that'll make me set them on fire or something. But it's not
like that Marlene. I know myself,too. I know I can't bear to leave things like this, even with someone who hurt my feelings with the cruelest insult in the handbook. I've already covered snape in boils to get my revenge - note to self: that was an
awesome spell and I'm gonna have to write it down- but I also know that I would never hold such a long grudge to anyone. And I'm DEFINITELY not gonna be affected by the words of someone who doesn't mean anything to me now."
"Well, NOW maybe, but he was your best friend back then Lils, even though I don't like to admit it, and those words cut you back then and you know it. I'm
Just saying: no need to pick at the scar." Marlene said, doubting that Lily was as non-chalant as she seemed, but wanting to be reassured all the same.
"Sticks and stones, Mar, sticks and stones. There is no scar, because all I need to do is set my affairs straight in such a way, that when I leave school, I have no fears or regrets or even memories that I'm gonna remember as anything but good. Because
we're going out in a terrifying world, and we're gonna need these memories to not forget the reason for which we are fighting, and will be fighting for probably our whole lives. And so, I need to talk to him, at least one last time, and find out if
he was worth this long speech. He seems sorry and I need to know that he knows what he did to me, and then we can both move on with the lives we have chosen." Lily explained, out of breath and very emotional.
"Ohhh Lils...I didn't know you felt that way. It's okay, you don't have to convince me. It's something you just have to do." Marlene said, reassured and on the verge of jumping on her best friend and hugging the shit out of her.
"It's something I just have to do..." Lily mumbled, realising it was.
"Ohh Sirius. That feels so good. Ah yeahhhh." Claudia, a girl from Ravenclaw, moaned, relishing the kisses that the esteemed Sirius Black was planting on her neck. Sirius was only kind of enjoying himself, he liked and respected Claudia as a girl, but
he was just not feeling "it" as a girlfriend. But obviously he had to fulfil the 3-date rule which his best mates had implemented on his love life. It's was just a simple law that stated that Sirius Black has to go on at least 3 dates with any girl
of his choosing when he chooses her (which meant when he kissed her in the Great Hall and asked for a dinner date) before he dumps her and moves on to the next girl. This was so he had the chance to get to know her before breaking up with her after
the first night.
"BANG! BANG!" Somebody suddenly rammed at the door of their dorm, and yelled out,"SIRIUS BLACK I know you're in there so come out! James needs you!"
Sirius, although feeling bad for leaving Claudia, jumped up at once and bowed to the disappointed girl on the bed in front of him.
"Sorry, m'lady. But my bro needs me and it's my duty. I'll see you later okay."
And with that he opened the door to a very out-of-breath and flushed Remus.
"What wrong? Who has caught him now? I TOLD him not to use the invisibility cloak with more than 2 people in the daylight!" He ranted.
"No...no..." Remus panted. "Dude...he was checking the map for that..." He looked inside to see a very curious Claudia sitting on Sirius's bed half-naked. "...umm thing we were planning and he saw... Well..." He trailed off, looking in the
distance sadly.
"What? Remus, what?!" Sirius asked seriously. (Lol)
"...he saw Lily trying to find Severus Snape."
A/N: Thank you guys so much for sticking with me and reading this! This is just an expositional chapter because I know that just like me, you guys don't believe that Lily would ever let a guy hurt her and see another sunrise! But this needed to be done with Snape so I wanted it to be justified Whyy. Rate and Review please!
/Yours with coffee and late-night writing,
Anushka
