Severus Snape stood in front of me.
I went off instinct and grabbed my wand out of my cloak pocket and stood up. He looked at my regretfully. He turned his head from side to side to see if anyone was watching. "What do you want, Snape?"
"I'm only talking to you because my friends aren't so happy that I am in detention," he said.
"I don't think you are supposed to tell the person you are talking to that," Lily said. "Why talk to me if you don't want to?"
"I want to," he retorted. "I came here to apologize--"
"I'm not accepting it!" I raged. "You have fooled me too many times and this time it was the last! I have pitied you my whole life and now I know I don't have to! You ruined it for yourself!"
"Is that what you think?" he muttered. "You think I have fooled you?"
"You have! I know you have! But I'm not falling for it anymore. Go with your Death Eater thugs. I'm through with you." I said and started off towards the entrance to the castle.
"You are wrong, Lily!" he shouted almost out of earshot. "You'll regret this! I know you will!"
I didn't reply. I wouldn't regret this and I wouldn't let myself regret this. He had passed the limit a long time ago and I just let him cross it even more. He couldn't change it no matter what he did . . .
I only skipped Potions, which didn't make professor Slughorn too happy. I went straight to Transfiguration and the rest of my classes avoiding any socialization until . . .
"Hey Evans!" an oddly familiar voice called.
Great. Potter. Hi Potter! Can I kill you? You seem to be the one who is starting all of my problems lately. Can I kill you? "Hi Potter," I muttered.
"What's got you under the dirt?" he said optimistically. "It's a beautiful day!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah . . ."
"Look, I have to go to Divination but do you want to catch up later?"
"What?"
"I mean do you want to get to tutoring later?"
"Sure, yeah," I said and headed for Defense Against the Dark Arts. Great, more dead bodies.
Inferi is my least favorite thing to learn about – it even tops off dementors! If I could pick the lessons I would take, I'd easily avoid this. The details the book describes – it makes a shiver go up your back, not to mention what they look like! Thank Merlin it was my last class of the day. I rushed out of the class as soon as it was over.
The common room was full of students doing their homework except two people -- Alice and Frank. They were nowhere to be seen or one of them was avoiding me and took her boyfriend along with her. My suspicions were still high about what they were doing. What were they doing? What are they doing? The questions gathering in my head distracted me from the noisy common room.
"Uh . . . Lily? Come back down to earth please." Said James looking down at me. "Lily?" he waved a hand in front of my face. I didn't look up. "Lily . . .? Your parents died."
"What?!" I shouted standing up. "When? Tell me!"
James started laughing and pointed at my face. "Got you!"
"JAMES POTTER!" I raged. I was about to smack his arm but he motioned a truce flag.
"You weren't saying anything! What else was I suppose to do?" he said. "You weren't paying attention to me . . ."
I stuck out my tongue like a little kid and started packing my homework up. Getting work done was going to be pointless with him around. He watched me intently as I gathered my things – I could feel his eyes boring through my back. "Are you going to keep staring at me all day?" I said, my back turned from him.
"Sorry," he muttered running his hands through his hair. I turned around as he messed up his hair.
"You do know that is really annoying," I sighed. He always had to mess up his hair even though it was messy already.
"What is?" he asked slowly lowering his hand as if he knew what was annoying me.
"You – When you mess up your hair." I said lamely. Why was he making me so nervous?
"Really? I thought it was my presence that annoyed you. Well I can check that off the list of 'used to be's'." he pretended to have a piece of paper and check it off.
"Har har," I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes. "If you keep that up you'll have to uncheck it."
"Do you want to get on with the tutoring?"
I ignored him. "Do you want to go somewhere?"
"Like on a date?" he asked eagerly. "Because I know plenty of --"
"No, you idiot," I said. "As friends,"
"You consider me as a friend?" he said looking down at me slowly.
"Not yet," I said looking away from his beautiful – I mean hazel eyes. "I just didn't know what else to say."
"What a cold heart you have," he laughed. "But in due time that will change,"
"Change? Cold heart? Do you know me?" I said. "So you said you had a place to take me. Where is it?"
"C'mon, I'll show you," he said and tried to grab my hand. I resisted but still followed. He led me out of the common room and out into the school.
Yeah, yeah I know I promised to get this up earlier today but I got carried away in other things. This is a short chapter but that is mostly because I didn't want to mix it with the next chapter or then the chapter would be sorta long. I'm going to be starting the next one right after this so it'll be up tomorrow morning (depends on how late I get up). Please review!!!!! :D
