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Chapter 7: A Breakout of Breakups

Lily

On September first Lily, Albus, Scorpius, and James boarded the Hogwarts express.

"This is my last time doing this!" James sighed sadly. "I'm going to miss Hogwarts."

"The train hasn't even started moving yet!" Albus said. "Stop being all dramatic."

James scowled. "Watch it! I can do magic any time I want now!"

"Not unless you want mum to murder you!" Albus retorted.

Lily sighed. "Do you guys understand what compromising is? James, you're sad. Understandable. Albus, you don't get sentiment. Believable. You're both right in your own way."

James and Albus starred. "You should have been a Hufflepuff." Albus stated.

"No thank you!" Lily huffed. "I am perfectly happy in Slytherin where I belong."

Scorpius, Albus, and James gaped at her. That was the first time she'd said she was happy and belonged in Slytherin. Albus had been hoping she was loyal to Gryffindor. James had been worried that she wasn't happy and, he hated to admit but, he wanted her to like Gryffindor. Scorpius had wanted Lily to belong with him meaning in Slytherin. He was delighted that she felt that way.

"What are you lot starring at? You're acting like I just did something like... bring someone back to life. Something extraordinary like that." Lily grumbled hating to be the center of attention.

"Nothing." The three of them said as they clambered onto the train.

Lily rolled her eyes and followed them. She was met by a sobbing Annie.

"Ann? What's wrong!?" Lily asked alarmed.

Annie threw herself onto Lily sobbing.

"Timmy- boy- mad- broke up- me!" was all Lily could distinguish through from Annie's sobs. She was relieved that James and Albus had gone to join their respective girlfriends.

"Tim broke up with you!?" Scorpius exclaimed.

Annie began to sob harder and Scorpius looked embarrassed. "Come on." Lily said. "Let's get you to a compartment."

Scorpius and Lily helped Annie into a compartment and Scorpius locked the door.

"Shh. Calm down Annie. Its ok. Tell us what happened." Lily soothed. Once Annie had calmed down a little she began to tell them what happened.

"I was over at Timmy's house this summer and we were going to walk down to a park near his house for a picnic. So we did and he went back to go get something. While he was gone this boy wandered over to where I was sitting." Annie wiped the tears out of her blue eyes. "He told me he was Timmy's friend and asked if he could sit with me. I said yes and we were talking. Then, Timmy came back and saw us sitting there."

"He thought you were cheating on him!?" Lily asked making Annie jump.

She shook her head causing her brown hair to flop. "No, nothing like that. He asked me who the guy was and I said he said he was Tim's friend. Tim said he wasn't and he asked the guy what he was doing. And then, and then, the guy said. 'Nothing. Just making out with this bird here.'"

Lily gasped.

"The guy scampered after Tim punched him but, Tim and I got into a fight. I told him it wasn't true and he believed me. Or I thought so. Even though he said he trusted me he kind of distanced himself from me then. And today," she gasped as tears spilled out of her eyes again. "Today, I was talking to another guy and he comes up and says, 'Are you making out with him too?' and so we started yelling at each other and I was telling him it wasn't true and he just kept yelling that I was cheating and then, he said he didn't want me anymore. He said he couldn't have a cheating hag as a girlfriend." she sobbed.

"Oh, Annie!" Lily said wrapping her arms around her sobbing friend.

"Why the hell did Timmy do that?" Scorpius asked.

"I don't know!" she sobbed. "I miss him! I love him!"

Lily pursed her lips. At that moment, Timmy strolled into the compartment.

Lily glared at him and Annie started sobbing harder.

"Oh." he said nervously. "You're here."

"Tim? Can I talk to you?" Scorpius asked.

The two boys walked outside while Lily comforted Annie.

Timmy and Scorpius came back in ten minutes and Tim said he wanted to talk to Annie.

"What did you say to him?" Lily asked as soon as they left.

Scorpius shrugged. "I just said he should apologize to Annie and atleast try to be friends."

Lily raised her eyebrows. "And he listened?"

"It took some persuasion."

A little while later both of them walked in. Annie still looked heart broken and angry but, she had a small, sad, smile.

The train ride after that was uneventful. In the following weeks Annie and Timmy began a tentive friendship but, Annie was hanging around Lily and Scorpius more often and Timmy was seen quite often with a few Ravenclaw boys.

The beging of the year was as normal as a year at Hogwarts could be. The four went to classes, took exams, and spent their free time playing quiditch or some other leisurely activity.

However, it seemed like a bad fall for romance all around. There had been a record number of break ups. Apart from Annie and Timmy, Polly Goldstein dumped Kyle McLaggen, her brother was caught cheating on his girlfriend, and Albus had come to dinner heartbroken one day saying Lavender had just dumped him for Kyle McLaggen. Parent-like teachers such as Professor Longbottom and Professor Vector, the arithmancy teacher, could be seen comforting heartbroken students almost every day.

It seemed the only couples that were unaffected by the sudden amount of break ups were James and Patricia and Lily and Frank. All four of those people were very happy about it.

This changed on a cold October day a week before Halloween. James and Patricia came storming into the Great Hall screaming at each other at the top of their voices.

"I KEEP TELLING YOU I DIDN"T THROW THE BLOODY QUAFFLE AT HIM ON PURPOSE!" James roared.

"I WAS THERE I SAW YOU THROW IT!" Patricia yelled back tears streaming down her face.

"I DID NOT! WHY DO YOU CARE ANYWAY!" James shouted. The whole hall had turned to watch them now. "ARE YOU CHEATING ON ME OR SOMETHING!?"

"OH? SO YOU DON'T TRUST ME!?" Patricia challenged.

"WELL, YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T TRUST ME!"

"BECAUSE YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT HOW I FEEL!"

James ran his hand through his mop of black hair. "Trisha, of course I care how you feel!" he said. He was not yelling anymore. "I love you." It looked like everything was going to settle.

"Do you? Really!?" Patricia said disbelievingly. "IF YOU DID THEN YOU WOULD TRUST ME ENOUGH TO KNOW I'D NEVER CHEAT ON YOU!"

"PATRICIA! YOUR THE ONE WHO DOESN'T TRUST ME! I WOULD NEVER HURT YOUR FRIEND ON PURPOSE!"

"OH? SO THE QUAFFLE JUST FLEW OUT OF YOUR HAND AND HIT MAX ON THE HEAD!?"

"THE BLOODY QUAFFLE SLIPPED AND FELL ON BLOODY MAX CORNER'S HEAD!" James yelled desperately trying to make her understand.

"THAT IS NOT WHAT MAX SAID WHEN I ASKED HIM!"

"WELL YOU SEEM TO TRUST MAX CORNER MORE THEN YOU TRUST YOUR BOYFRIEND!"

At this point, poor Max Corner had sunk as low as he possibly could embarrassed that what was considered the school's best couple, was fighting because of him.

"MAYBE I DO!"

"WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY!?"

"MAYBE WE'RE NOT MEANT TO BE TOGETHER!" Patricia screamed. There was an echoing silence across the hall. Patricia and James had always seemed like the best couple. Perfect together. They had always been the couple that people in rocky relationships envied and here, here was Patricia Jackson and James Potter seeming so insecure about each other and on the verge of breaking up.

"You, you want to break up with me?" James asked looking lost.

"I GUESS I DO!"

James looked like he was going to cry but, instead he yelled right back at her. "WELL, FINE! YOU GO AND DO GOD KNOWS WHAT WITH MAX BLOODY CORNER! SEE IF I CARE."

Patricia huffed and stomped out of the hall. James dragged himself over to where Albus was sitting with the rest of the family, Lily, Scorpius, and Annie, who had come to join them, and put his head in his hands.

"James?" Lily asked quietly. "Are you ok." she was amazed when James shook his head. James was always ok. He was never sad for a long time and he was definitely never not ok.

"I- I can't believe she did that. I thought she loved me too." he croaked.

It took a while to comfort James as everyone was still in a stunned silence at what had just happened. Professor McGonagall, who had taken a liking to James, barked at prying students to mind their own business while Professor Longbottom, the Potter kids' godfather, escorted James out of the hall.


"Blimey." Scorpius muttered as they passed a desolate James and a sobbing Patricia in the hall the next day. "I thought they were inseparable."

"Me too." Lily replied sadly. She had never seen James so desolate and sad. "Well, here's my class." she turned and walked into Transfiguration.


Scorpius

Scorpius ran his fingers through his already crumpled blonde hair. It was 6AM but, he just couldn't sleep. Ever since the trial he had been having nightmares which mostly consisted of the various beatings he had gotten from his 'father'. Instead of attempting to go back to sleep, Scorpius decided to take advantage of the deserted common room and work on his homework. He opened his bag and began searching for a handy little quill Lily had given him on his birthday the year before. The quill would proof read essays and cross out any false facts. Of course, sometimes it didn't work and would cross out everything but, usually it was quite useful. Then he remembered he had left that in his potions kit which he had forgotten in the dungeon. "I'll go get it later then." he thought. "May as well put up a notice though."

ATTENTION!: LOST POTIONS KIT

LAST SEEN IN POTIOS DUNGEON

IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO SCORPIUS H. MALFOY DORMITORY 6: Slytherin

THANK YOU.

Underneath was a picture of the missing kit. He walked over to the notice board and pinned it up next to a sheet containing the Hogsmeade dates. That is when he noticed a bright orange flier.

HALLOWEEN DANCE!

This year Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is holding its first ever Halloween dance. Any students in years 3-7 may come.

You may or may not have a date.

WEAR COSTUMES!

Food and Drink provided

If this dance is a success, it will become an annual Hogwarts tradition.

Hope to see you there!

Headmistress Susan Bones.

Scorpius didn't know what to think. The Halloween dance sounded like fun but, it was a chance for Lily to stop distancing herself from Frank. Scorpius shook himself. "Lily is happy with him. I want her to be happy. I must except that she and Frank are a couple. One of the only to make it through the Break Out of Break Ups."

That is when Lily came down yawning. "Hey Scorpi." she yawned. "More nightmares?"

Scorpius ignored her question and pointed out the flier to her. Lily's face lit up. "Oooh! That looks fun!"

Scorpius nodded. "It does doesn't it?"

"So, who are you asking?" Lily asked.

Scorpius blushed. "No one."

"Oh come on Scorpi!" Lily pleaded. "You have never asked a girl out!"

"That is not true." Scorpius protested. "I've asked them. They just haven't accepted!" This was perfectly true. Scorpius had asked out a lot of girls but, none of them were interested in 'death eater spawn'.

Lily pouted. "Well yeah but..." She could not come with a retort.

Scorpius smiled triumphantly. "HA! I have beaten the unbeatable Lily Potter!"

"Oh?" Lily challenged. "I could say something but, it wouldn't be very nice."

"Mmmhmmm." Scorpius rolled his eyes. "Then what were you going to say?"

"That the girls you asked have a point."

Scorpius scowled. "Fine. I didn't beat you."

This time Lily smiled triumphantly. "There is a reason I'm unbeatable."

"Hi guys." Annie came down the stairs yawning. "What are you guys doing up so early?"

"What are you doing up this early?" Scorpius asked.

Annie shrugged. "Couldn't sleep."

"I always wake up early." Lily said.

"I couldn't sleep either." Scorpius admitted.

"Look Ann! There's going to be a Halloween dance!" Lily excitedly pointed out the flier.

"COOL!" Annie exclaimed. "And you don't need a date! YES!"

She was not ready to have another boyfriend. She'd been asked. Of course she had. She was nothing short of beautiful. Annie had short brown hair that fell in perfect waves with slight curls at the bottom. Her eyes that had once been blue were now a mysterious blue-grey color that were both intimidating and calm. Her pale face was dotted with freckles and she had the second prettiest smile Scorpius had ever seen. Lily had the prettiest of course.

Everyone had thought Timmy and Annie were perfect for each other. Timmy had the light brown curls that matched Annie's waves so well. Tim's blue eyes looked perfect next to Annie's and they both had the same crooked smile. Scorpius couldn't believe they had broken up. He was not as surprised as he was about James's breakup with Patricia though.

"Of course you'll be going with Frank right?" Annie asked Lily.

Lily's eyes lit up. "Yeah! I'm going to go tell him."

"Will he be awake yet!?" Scorpius asked.

"Of course he will!" Lily chirped. "Frank likes to wake up early." With that she ran out of the room still in her pajamas.

"It's so cute how happy she is with him." Annie said slightly wistfully.


Lily

"FRANKIE!" Lily screamed running down to where he was sitting under a tree. "FRANKIE!"

"Lily!" he laughed. "You're still in your pajamas."

Lily shrugged. "Whatever. Look!" she shoved the flier under his nose.

"That looks fun. Will you do me the honor of being my date?"

Lily giggled. "Of course I will!"

"When is it?"

Lily rolled her eyes. "It can't be on Halloween can it?"

He smiled. "That is in a week with the notices aren't they?"

Lily nodded. "See you there!" Then, she ran back to the school smiling.

"I can't wait!" she screamed running up the stairs into her dorm. She did not notice Scorpius and Annie's amused looks.

The next two days all the school could talk about was the upcoming dance. Rumors were being swapped about who was going with who and what different people would dress as. Lily, Annie, Timmy, and Scorpius had taken advantage of the Hogsmeade weekend and gone into town to buy costumes.

Lily had bought a long renaissance gown that was deep blue with sparkling green stars and a matching head dress. The headdress was a simple flowered circlet with pale blue lace coming from the back. There was an awkward moment when Annie and Timmy had both come out of the changing room. Annie was dressed as medieval damsel and Timmy a knight. The poster advertising the costumes had shown the damsel swooning into the knights arms. They had both blushed and hurried back. Timmy had reappeared in a tin man costume which he bought. Annie had settled on a costume that matched her feisty personality. A black cat. She looked extremely cat like in it flashing her crooked grin all over the place. Scorpius had just grabbed the first thing he had seen which happened to be a costume that was supposed to be a "Dementor". All it was long black robes and a long black cloak. Scorpius bought it anyway.

Albus had already asked a pretty girl named Sabrina Peterson. She was a red head. Lily remembered her dad had said, "All Potter guys seem to marry red heads. You'll find yours." in a letter to James after his break up with Patricia. Lily had begun to persuade James to ask someone out. She wasn't surprised to hear Patricia was going to the dance with Max. This seemed to fill James with determination so, he asked a shy, red-headed girl named Emma Clarkson. They seemed to be getting along quite well. Albus had asked Sabrina out months before so, he knew her pretty well but, James and Emma, they were getting comfortable fast.


Lily ran into Frank's arms. "Why aren't you wearing a costume." she pouted.

"I couldn't find one. Besides. I think you look pretty enough for both of us."

Lily glowed.

The dance was indescribable. There was food, drinks, people in colorful costumes, and loud music. People were all over the Great Hall dancing and laughing. Outside there were decorations strung around everywhere and benches set out through the courtyard for tired dancers.

"You tired?" Frank asked. Lily had been dancing with him almost all night.

"Yeah." she breathed.

"Let's go get something to drink." Frank suggested. The two of them settled on a bench outside by some rose bushes to drink their ice cold pumpkin juice. Lily smiled as she looked across the courtyard to see James and Emma almost hidden in some bushes. James whispered something to her and she smiled. He kissed her. Lily was happy her brother had finally bounced back from his break up. She was shaken from her world of thought by Frankie shaking her.

"I want to show you something." he said.

"Ok."

Frank lead Lily back into the castle but it wasn't into the Great Hall. He lead her into a small...

"Frank this is a broom closet."

"I know." he said. "Now kiss me."

Lily's eyes widened. "No."

"Why not!" he yelled making her jump back.

"I want my first kiss to be with someone I know I'm going to be with for a long time."

Frank glared at her and then... he hit her.

"FRANK!" Lily screamed running towards the door. Frank shot a quick spell at the door that locked it.

"I DESERVE SOME THING MORE THEN THIS!" Frank yelled a mad light in his eyes. "DO SOMETHING WITH ME! OR LET ME USE YOU FOR MY ENTERTAINMENT!"

"I'M THIRTEEN!"

"ALMOST FOURTEEN!"

"LET ME OUT!"

"NO!"

Lily whipped out her wand and did something Frank did not expect her to be able to do. "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" A glowing silver mare came out of her wand.

Frank suddenly realized what she was doing and jumped at her. "HELP!" she screamed. The mare turned and cantered out of the closet.


Scorpius

Scorpius was sitting with Albus, Sabrina, Timmy, Annie, James, and Emma when the mare cantered into the courtyard where they were sitting.

"A mare?" James said worriedly.

"Isn't that Lily's patronus?" Albus said. He was answered when Lily's voice screamed desperately from the mare.

"HELP!"

James immediately jumped to his feet and dug an old piece of parchment from his robes.

"Where is she? Where is she?" Albus said.

Scorpius had jumped to his feet without knowing he had. "How are we going to find her!" he yelled.

"This way!" James said running off.

"How does he-? Never mind." he said sprinting after him. Albus, Annie, Timmy, Sabrina, and Emma brought up the rear. They followed James through the castle and stopped outside "A broom closet!" Scorpius exclaimed. "Why is she in a broom closet?"

James threw open the door to find his sister on the floor with his god brother standing, shirtless, over her his hand raised.

Lily let out a relived sob and through herself into James's arms sobbing into his shoulder.

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING TO MY SISTER?" James roared.

Frank just punched him. Soon there was a full out brawl in the middle of the corridor. James, Albus, Timmy, and Scorpius against Frank, who was bigger than all of them and the same size as James.

Out of the corner of his eye Scorpius saw Emma, Sabrina, and Annie help Lily out of the corridor.


Lily

"Lily! Lily what happened?" Annie asked even though Lily kept crying harder.

"He- he- tried to force me too- kiss him and...I wouldn't so, he hit me and..." here Lily started sobbing so hard that the other three girls couldn't hear a word she was saying.

"Lily," Emma said slowly. "He didn't try to force you to... how do I put this?"

"Have sex with you." Sabrina said bluntly but kindly.

Lily nodded and gasped through her sobs "I didn't. He hit me!"

All three girls wrapped their arms around her. It was an odd sight. Four girls, two Slytherins and two Gryfindors all hugging in the middle of the Gryffindor common room which was empty. Emma had brought them to. This was the sight James, Albus, and an uncomfortable Scorpius walked in on.

"Lils." James said. "What happened?"

Emma took them all aside and explained. James scowl became deeper with every word until she looked just plain scary. "I AM GOING TO KILL HIM!" James and Albus roared at the same time.

"Didn't we all ready?" Scorpius pointed out. That is when Lily noticed all of their bruises.

"You didn't have to. You'll get in trouble." she said quietly.

James pulled her into a hug. "We already did though because we wanted to. We didn't get into trouble because we were caught by Uncle Neville who is furious at Frank."

"It's all going to be fine Lils." Albus said joining his brother.

Lily felt Scorpius's arms wrap around her too and realized there was one person missing. "Where is Timmy?"

James chewed his lip. "He bit off a bit more than he could chew. He's in the Hospital Wing but, don't worry he's fine."

Annie immediately jumped to her feet and almost automatically ran down to the Hospital Wing.

Lily smiled. "They have to get back together."

"Speaking of getting back together. You are not doing that with that jerk. Right?" Emma asked.

"Of course I'm not." Lily said sadly.

She got to her feet. "I want revenge."

"Very Slytherin of you." Scorpius said. "Speaking of that. We should get back to our common room. I would rather not be beat up by a gang of anti-Slytherin Gryffindors."

"Yeah." Lily said faintly. "We should go." She gave her brothers each a hug and followed Scorpius out of the common room.

As soon as they were out she turned to him. "Can we stay in the Room of Requirement?"

"I don't know." he answered uncertainly. "Your brothers won't be able to find you."

"I know. Please?"

He smiled. "Fine let's get our things and go."


Scorpius

Lily and Scorpius sat in the Room of Requirement on their beds.

"How are we going to get revenge on him?"

"We could play a song!" Lily said excitedly.

"What?"

"A song to him. I know a really good muggle song for it!"

"How would we play it?"

"In a way no one but him would know it was me. Most people didn't know we were dating."

"How could we do that?" Scorpius asked his friend. "And you never told me you liked music!"

She smiled. "I forgot. But, I don't know how we can play it!"

Then it hit Scorpius. "You sing it."

"No."

"Ok. We'll think of it later." Scorpius decided.

"Yes. Maybe Tim and Ann will have some suggestions. They are pretty good at that type of stuff."

Scorpius nodded. "I hope they get back together."

"Me too." Lily yawned.

Scorpius opened his mouth to say something but, he realized Lily had fallen asleep. He smiled. "Good night Red."

Authors Note: I finally finished! Sorry it took a while.

I have some questions for you!

1) Do you guys have an idea of how Lily can get the song to Frank in front of everyone without singing it? I want to save the singing for later.

2) Which song should I use?

A) I knew you were trouble by: Taylor Swift

B) Begging on your knees by: Victoria Justice

I personally prefer the Taylor Swift one but, tell me what you guys think!

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