"Okay." Marlene said sighing.

I was surprised. I figured she would put up more of a fight then this. "Really, Marly? You're actually going to tell us?"

She grimaced. "Yeah, I suppose it's high time. I mean, I never really filled you in did I?"

We shook our heads. Marlene and Black had dated last year after almost a year of flirting. They lasted far longer then expected: a total 6 months. Which doesn't sound like a crazy serious relationship in the real world, but it's most of the 9-month school year. It had ended mid February right on Valentines Day. It was so sudden to the three of us. It was amazingly cliché, and horrifying at the same time.


I sat down across from Mary that morning. The Great Hall was alight with giggles and the room was almost a sickly red and pink hue.

"Morning, Mary!" I called happily as I sat down. I didn't have a boyfriend, of course, a certain Black-haired-speckled-boy made sure of that. But I did love the feeling Valentines Day gave off. I loved being able to show my affections to my friends if not to a lover.

Mary pursed her lips at me, displeased. She had broken up with her boyfriend a few weeks before. He was a little on the aggressive side and Mary had decided to get out of the relationship before he got violent. We whole-heartedly agreed. He was a Hufflepuff: Not much going there anyway.

I felt a pat on top of my head, and I turned to see Robbie plop down next to me, smiling.

"Good morning, Robbie!" chimed, enjoying how Mary grimaced at my tone.

I quickly dug in to my beacon and eggs. They were pink and red and the eggs were in the shape of a heart. 'Okay, that's getting a little extreme. Glad I'm not a boy, or I'd be embarrassed to eat it.'

Speaking of boys…

"Hello, my love."

I groaned. There goes my morning. "Get lost-"

"-In your eyes? Most assuredly, I could." Potter chuckled at his 'cleverness'.

I rolled my eyes and returned to massacring my beacon.

He sat down next to me.

I ignored him.

He coughed.

"What?" I asked placing my fork down. He obviously wasn't leaving.

"I wanted to give you these." He pulled out a bouquet of Sunflowers.

I pursed my lips. "Why would I want those." I always hated being mean to him when he did something that I would love any other boy to do for me. Just not him. But, like a dog, you have to be consistent or they'll never be trained.

He smiled, never fazed. "Because they're your favorite. And don't worry. You don't have to give me anything!" He laughed, because he knew that I never would. My lips twitched because I found that truth humorous for some reason.

"…Also, it's to apologize for setting your skirt on fire in Potions the other day." He actually looked sheepish.

I allowed myself a toothless smile, "Well, They are my favorite." I frowned, wondering how he knew that. 'He'll never tell you anyway, Lils, so don't bother asking.' "So…okay, here." I held out my arms for them.

He grinned at me and handed over the bouquet. "Wait." He said before I had set them on the table. He removed one and clipped off the flower, so only a few inches of green stem were left with it. "Here." He placed it behind my ear and I tried not to get too repulsed by his hand being so near to me.

"There." He sat back. He got up and went back to his friends.

"Ugh." I set the flowers down. I hated when I let him do things like that. I hated when he was that close to me. I just…hated-well, I didn't hate him. I just strongly disliked everything about him.

Mary tried to stifle what had better not have been laughter with her hands. I glared at her.

"You have to admit." She said smiling with her eyes, "that was pretty cute."

" 'That was pretty cute'." I mocked before picking up my fork again.

Someone sat down very slowly next to Mary. Almost gingerly.

"Oh," I said looking up next to Mary. "Hello Marlene!"

"Hi." She said faintly. Looking down at the table.

"What's the matter?" Mary asked, concerned. It wasn't like Marlene to be down on a day were she was sure to get attention.

Her mouth just grimaced and she didn't answer.

I looked questioningly at Mary but before she could respond with an equally puzzled look a cold voice greeted us.

"Marlene." Sirius Black was looking down at his girlfriend with amazingly deep loathing for a boy supposedly in love. "A word." It wasn't a question.

This seemed to spark some life back into her.

"Anything you have to say to me, you can say in front of my friends."

I shook my head rapidly, in my head repeating 'Go! Go! Go! Please don't do this here. AWKWARD!'

Black smiled almost evilly. "Oh, so you really want your friends to hear about what a cheating whore you are?"

It was so shocking that I couldn't even gasp air. I didn't want to move. Poor Mary was sitting in front of Black with her back to him and was staring straight ahead. Robbie had a hand across her mouth.

"EXCUSE ME?" Marlene shouted, jumping up. She now had the whole hall's attention. Great. "I've done nothing wrong! You just got what you deserved! Don't like it do you? Taste of your own medicine?"

"What the bloody hell are you on about?" Black roared. "I don't know where in your sick, twisted, little mind you thought what you did was okay! Because it wasn't, Marlene! I didn't date you so that I could date the WHORE of Hogwarts!"

SMACK!

Black stood stock still. His face turned to the left from the force of her slap.

"You." Marlene panted, " You shouldn't have done it first." She reached her arm back as if to snap it again at Black's face when Potter, coming out of no where, stepped in front of Black while Remus grabbed her retracted arm.

"Enough." Remus said.

She turned and glared at Remus a moment before bursting into tears. She started past Black and Potter when Black grabbed her arm.

"We're done, Bitch."

She promptly ran away. Us, of course, following after her.


"Well," Marlene started pulling at her wavy brown hair, "I'm sure you remember that day?"

I smirked, "clear as a bell."

"Okay, um. Well, let's back track just a little bit." She bit her lip, "God I don't even know where to start! Okay, Do you remember, Merlin I know this was a long time ago, on the train home for Christmas Holiday Sirius and I got into a…spat?"

I briefly had a quick memory flash of Marlene and Sirius gesturing wildly inside a compartment. Us, being on the outside, couldn't hear the argument.

"Sure." Mary muttered, pulling at a loose thread on my pillow.

I swatted her hand away, not wanting her to ruin it. "Go on."

Marlene huffed, "Well, I was trying to get him, last minute, to change his mind about spending the entire holiday at James's house-"

"Mansion." Mary corrected.

"Right." Marlene frowned. "And, I knew it was hopeless but I was feeling as if…well, as if there was something going on there. That there was another reason other then 'visiting mama and Papa Potts'"

I raised an eyebrow questioningly.

Marlene coughed, "Sirius lives with James, and that's what he calls Mr. and Mrs. Potter."

"Oh."

"So, I felt as if I was missing out on something…I don't know…major? They were whispering more often and looking around guiltily-"

"You think he was going to cheat on you?" Mary asked.

Marlene pursed her lips. "Yeah, I guess. But I just…didn't like me not knowing." She smiled, "Well, it's not like I'm known for keeping to myself."

"Yeah, You're pretty nosey, not gonna lie." I kidded her.

She smiled, "So, He stayed at James's the entire holiday and ever since then, I was suspicious. It's not easy dating Sirius Black, you know." She shrugged, "Girls are always all over him and I just didn't like not being there to…discourage them." She giggled. "I was a little possessive."

"It's all okay-"

"Well, it gets worse." She interrupts. "So finally on February…I don't remember… a few days before Valentines Day, I…" She wet her bottom lip with her tongue, nervous. "I kinda…stalked him?" she closed one eye and peeked at us, expecting the worst.

Mary snorted. "Really?"

"Hush." I chastised. "Continue, Marls."

She blushed, "Well, I caught him looking at a piece of paper, a note maybe, and he laughed to himself and went outside onto the grounds. I didn't dare follow, you know, but I waited." Her eyes had a far away look to them. "So, He finally came back up to the tower. I had come back here: I was too tired of waiting for him. And he looked disheveled and, well…sexed up."

That's when I got it. "That's what you meant by 'You shouldn't have done it first'!" I blew out a breath. "But wait, why was he calling you a…whore?" Then, all of the sudden, I didn't need her to tell me. I had pieced it all together. "…Oh."

Marlene had a humorless smile on her face, "Yeah, 'Oh'."

"Wait." Mary said, behind. "I don't know what you're talking about. Why did he call you a whore?"

Marlene grimaced, "Because I was so mad at him for cheating on me that I wanted revenge. I gave him a 'taste of his own medicine', if you will."

Mary's eyes widened, "OhmyMerlin! What did you do? Sleep with someone else?"

Marlene rolled her eyes. "I was mad, not drunk. But yeah, I snogged…and a little more, with Dan Durswish."

I closed my eyes in understanding, "Ah, his sister is in-"

"Slytherin."

"And she's hooking up with-"

"Regulus."

"Who then told-"

"Sirius." Marlene finished for me, somewhat drearily.

"But," Mary asked confused. "If he cheated on you too, and first,…why was he saying that you were the one that was wrong? Where does he get off getting mad?"

"That." Marlene grumbled. "Is why we've never gotten along since."

There was silence for a little while as we all absorbed this and ate our chocolate. Marlene, I could tell, was already a little lighter looking. The poor girl was probably afraid we ditch her if we ever found out what she did. And at that time, she needed friends more then ever.

After about 10 minutes of silent eating Marlene turned to me.

"Okay, Lils-lils-bo-bills" She rhymed, "I do believe it's high time you kept up your end of the bargain-!"

There was a huge rumble outside of out dressing room door. It sounded like it came from down in the common room.

We all looked at each other, then dashed downstairs to see what had caused the ruckus.

I groaned when I saw the mess. 'Of course, they would do this.' But then I instantly brightened. "Oh well, girls!" I said lazily over the yelling drifting up towards us, pulling out my wand to reverse the Common room disaster. "Guess I'll have to take a rain-check?" I smirked evilly. 'That turned out better then expected.'

"Thank you, James Potter!" I called out blindly into the thick smoke that was spewing in all directions.

"No problem, Lily!" came the coughing reply.

I laughed.


A/N: Yay! So you found out more! But remember, this story comes up in a more significant way LATER!

Oh! I thought I'd share this: If you want to see the images in my head of these people (Lily, marlene, Mary, Sirius, James, etc.) Just go to my profile and I have links to their pictures on there! (be warned: they're all beautiful people. Because no one wants to read about or picture ugly people doing these things. It's just no fun.)

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