Don't Let Your Guard Down
chapter 25
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"He didn't do it!" Sirius cried out, rushing into Lily and James's common room.
Gigi and Kacie looked up. "What?"
"Oh," Sirius said. "Where's Lily?"
"In her room."
"Doing what?"
"Having a huge party and making out with her new boyfriend," Gigi said sarcastically. "What do you think she's doing?"
"Homework?"
"She hasn't done homework for two weeks," Kacie said. "And what's with this 'he didn't do it' stuff?"
"Nothing," Sirius said quickly. Sirius walked past the two girls and knocked on Lily's door.
"Go away!" Lily called out.
"I'm gonna pretend that's how you say come in," Sirius said, entering the room.
"Don't you knock?" Lily cried out.
"I did."
Lily paused. "Oh yeah." Lily sighed. "I haven't seen you for two weeks. What the hell are you doing here?"
"He didn't do it," he said.
"Who didn't do what?" Lily asked tiredly.
"It wasn't James who had sex on that couch and that bra didn't belong to a girl James is involved with," Sirius said.
"Sirius, I don't want to talk to you about this okay?" Lily said. "In fact, I don't want to talk to you at all." Sirius ran his hands through his hair and opened his mouth to speak but Lily cut him off. "Stop doing that! Stop running your hands through your hair! You're not cool!"
Sirius looked at her, obviously stunned. "What's wrong?"
Lily got off her bed and threw her books down. "You don't look cool when you do that, the girls don't like it, and you have a girlfriend, so stop trying to impress people!"
"Do you want me to bring James in here so you can yell at the person you really want to yell at?" Sirius asked.
Lily sighed and sat back down. "I can't be around you," she said quietly.
"Because I'm so irresistible?" Sirius said, flashing a grin.
Lily gave him a look and glanced down at her hands. "You remind me of him."
"I understand," Sirius said. "But the bra belongs to Lucie."
"Say what?" Lily asked.
"Remus was in our room, Peter was in the astronomy tower, and you and James were in Hogsmeade," Sirius said with a shrug. "This was the only place I could think of to go so Lucie and I were in here about a week ago."
"You had sex on my common room couch!" Lily shrieked.
"No, no!" Sirius cried out. "We were just fooling around! No sex."
Lily laughed evilly. "You expect me to believe that?"
Sirius hesitated. "You're right, that didn't sound like me," Sirius claimed. "But I'm being serious. We were just fooling around and…well…yeah, the bra belongs to Lucie."
"Let me get this straight," Lily said. "I broke up with James because of you? James and I aren't together because of you? I've been miserable for the past two weeks because of you?"
"Hey! Don't forget about Lucie…" Sirius said slowly.
Lily threw her hands up in frustration. "Okay, now I definitely can't be around you," Lily said.
"Because I'm irresistible right?" Sirius said.
"No because you are a complete jerk!" Lily cried out.
"An irresistible jerk!" Sirius shouted over his shoulder as Lily pushed him out of her room.
"I couldn't help overhearing," Gigi said.
"Yes you could," Sirius said.
Gigi paused. "Well that's true," Gigi said.
"What exactly did you overhear?" Sirius asked, placing his hands on his hips.
"Everything," Gigi said. Kacie hit her on the shoulder. "Okay, only the last few minutes of it." Kacie slapped her again. "Okay, only the last thing you said." She turned to Kacie. "Happy?"
"Well I suppose in general, I'm a happy person but-" Kacie started.
"Shut up."
Sirius ignored Kacie and Gigi's banter and turned to Gigi. "So basically all you heard was that I'm an irresistible jerk?" Gigi nodded. "Giliba, you already knew that."
"Jerk…yes. Irresistible…ha!" Gigi exclaimed.
"Get out!" Lily shouted, poking her head out of her bedroom door.
"As much as we love you Black, Lily wants you to-" Gigi started.
"You don't love me."
Gigi paused. "Oh right. Then it makes it easier to say get out," Gigi said with a smirk. "Wow, it's so nice that finally someone else wants you gone."
Sirius gave her a smug look and sauntered out of there. Kacie turned to Gigi. "Don't you wanna know why she's so angry at Sirius?"
Gigi thought about it. "WAIT BLACK…GET BACK HERE!"
Kacie smirked. "I have a feeling that is the only time you will ever be saying that."
"Hey Kace?" Gigi questioned.
"Yeah?"
"Shut up."
Sirius poked his head back into the room. "You called?"
"Why is Lily angry at you?"
"Like I'd tell you," Sirius snapped.
"Oh c'mon!"
"No."
Gigi gave him her puppy eyes and pouted her lips. "Pleeeeease?"
Sirius smiled wide. "Get on your knees and beg and then maybe I'll tell you."
Gigi narrowed her eyebrows and tightened her lips. "You're loving this, aren't you?"
"Not particularly," Sirius said with a shrug. "But do you mind if I go get my tape recorder? And the guys for witnesses? And-"
"GET OUT!" Lily screamed.
Gigi laughed. "And I'm loving this."
"Okay, fun moment over," Sirius pouted, exiting the room.
Kacie turned to Gigi. "You didn't find out what he did to Lily."
"Damnit!"
"Calm down," Kacie explained.
"I'm the worst person ever!" Lily cried out.
"Breathe," Kacie said.
"No wonder he hates me!" Lily burst out.
"Sit!" Kacie commanded.
Lily started pacing and turned to Kacie. "You can't talk to me like I'm a dog."
"Stay!" Kacie ruled.
Lily looked at Kacie and sat down on the couch. "Fine…but I want a treat."
Kacie laughed. "Look Lils, he'll understand. It's his fault he's best friends with such a pig."
Lily leaned back on the couch. "I hate myself."
"To be fair, I bet James hates you too," Kacie said. Lily glared at her. "Damn, I bet you wish you had a helpful friend right now."
"Okay, I discovered all the girls the bra does not belong to," Remus said, entering the room. "Oh…hi Lily."
Lily looked from her two girl friends to Remus. "Do I even want to know?"
"Um…forget it, never mind," Remus said quickly, starting to leave.
"Remus!" Kacie called out. "We know who the bra belongs to."
"What?" Remus exclaimed. "I've been going around asking girls if they owned a pink lacy bra, getting slapped across the face eleven times, and completely embarrassing myself for nothing?"
"You did what?" Lily cried out. "So you're the guy every Gryffindor girl is calling a pervert and is plotting to kill."
"Wow," Remus said. "Girls really hate being bluntly asked if they own a pink lacy bra."
"The bra belongs to Sirius," Kacie said.
Remus paused. "So all this time, I should have been asking the boys if they owned a pink bra." Remus paused again. "Wait…Sirius owns a bra? I thought he was a guy. I mean all the girls seem to love him." Remus looked around. "Where's Gigi when you need to ask her a question?"
The girls laughed as Remus continued talking. "So what do you mean it belongs to Sirius?" Remus asked, sitting down on the arm of the couch
"More correctly, it belongs to Lucie," Lily mumbled, not even looking up.
Remus's mouth dropped open. "Lucie? Sirius's Lucie? Sirius and Lucie on this couch?" Remus looked down and immediately jumped up. "Ew!"
"They were just fooling around, they didn't have sex," Lily muttered.
Remus burst out laughing and couldn't stop laughing until he saw the serious look on Lily's face. "Oh my god, you're serious. But Sirius not having sex with a girl is like…Peter having sex with a girl!"
"So you didn't know this?" Kacie asked.
"If I knew about this, do you honestly think I'd go around school asking any girl who passes my way—okay any girl who passes my way who's a C-cup—if they own a misplaced lacy pink bra?"
"How do you tell from just looking at a girl if they're a C-cup?" Kacie asked.
"I'm a guy. I just know these things," he replied.
Both girls gave him a look.
"Okay, Sirius taught me," he laughed. "Oh, and if you two ever need to know how to swallow an entire chocolate cake whole, I can help you with that, too."
Both girls laughed.
Remus stopped to think. "So…does James know the bra belongs to Lucie?"
Remus and Kacie slowly turned to Lily. Lily groaned and looked down at her hands. "No."
"Are you gonna, oh I don't know, tell him?" Remus asked.
"No, I was hoping that if I yelled at him enough for cheating on me he'd start to believe it," Lily said, biting the fingernail of her thumb.
"That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard," Remus said.
"Even dumber than asking every girl that goes to this school if she owns a pink lacy bra?" Lily retorted.
"Touché," Remus said.
"Hey guys, have you seen Remus?" Sirius asked, walking into the room.
"Nope, haven't seen him at all," Remus responded with a laugh.
"Oh, hey," Sirius said.
"So what's wrong with your bed?" Remus asked, cutting to the chase.
Sirius sighed and turned to Lily. "You told him?"
"Actually, Kacie told him," Lily said.
"So you told her?" Sirius corrected.
"Oh of course I told her," Lily said with a growl.
"So…you still mad at me?" Sirius asked cautiously.
"I'm not mad. Just annoyed that this had to happen."
"Did I mention that I was sorry?" Sirius asked.
"No, actually you never said that," Lily said.
"Oh," Sirius said. "Are you sure? Because when I came to tell you that truth, I'm pretty sure a sorry slipped in."
"No Sirius, it never slipped in," Lily said.
"Oh," Sirius said. "Are you totally sure? Because-"
"All you said was that you are irresistible," Lily said.
"In Sirius talk, that's 'I'm sorry,'" Remus noted.
Sirius pointed to Remus. "That's true!" Lily just gave him a blank stare. "I'm sorry…for everything."
"It's fine," Lily mumbled. "Now, can everyone leave the room so I could be alone?"
"You want us to find James and tell him to come here?" Remus asked. Lily looked up at glared at him. "I'll take that as a no."
"You know what you should do," Sirius said.
"What?" Lily asked with a sigh.
"Go to the kitchens."
"Why?" Lily questioned.
"Because you're hungry," Sirius said with a shrug.
"No I'm not," Lily said.
"Oh, well Remus is," Sirius said.
"No I'm not," Remus said. Sirius kicked him. "OW! Oh, yeah…I'm hungry."
"But look, he's hurt," Sirius said. "He can't walk down himself."
Lily got up. "Fine, I'll get you food. Partly because I want to take a walk. But mostly because I want to get away from all you lunatics."
When Lily was gone, Remus turned to Sirius. "Okay, tell me why you sent Lily to the kitchens and why you had to kick me to make her do so."
"There's no real reason," Sirius said with a shrug. "Besides the fact that I saw James walk to the kitchens right before I came in here."
"You are evil," Kacie said and then grinned. "I like that."
"Yes, it's one of my greater qualities," Sirius bragged.
"Do those qualities include how to tell the bra size of a girl just by looking at her and eating a chocolate cake whole?" Kacie snickered.
Sirius turned to Remus and gasped. "You told her about that? That was mentioned in secret!"
"Sirius, you screamed it out in a bar while you were drunk," Remus pointed out. "That's not so secret."
"Clearly we have different views on what secret means," Sirius pouted.
"And clearly one of us is an idiot," Remus snickered. "And I'm talking about the guy who caused a break-up because of his sexual activity on a couch that wasn't in his common room."
Sirius paused. "Any chance that could be you?"
"Nope."
"Well I sent her to the kitchens! I'm fixing it!"
"Sending her to the kitchens in hopes she'll run into James in order for you to avoid confrontation is taking the easy way out," Remus pointed out.
"In an attempt to fix it!"
"You coward."
"I may be a coward but at least all the Gryffindor girls aren't after me," Sirius snickered. "I'm assuming that's why you're hiding out here?"
"Of course," Remus admitted with a laugh. "Those girls can be vicious!"
"I know. I'm one of them," Kacie chuckled. "By the way, I think there's a wanted poster in the Gryffindor commons room with your head on it. Just warning you."
Remus scowled and turned to Sirius. "I blame you!"
"And that's my cue to leave," he said sheepishly.
Later that night, Sirius sauntered into the Gryffindor commons room where Remus, Peter, and Kacie were sitting in the middle of the room on one of the couches.
"Hey guys, what's up?" he asked, grabbing a pillow and sitting in the floor in front of them.
They all exchanged looks.
"Hm, my guess is something's wrong," Sirius claimed.
"Well…Lily didn't end up going to the kitchens," Kacie explained.
"Yeah, she didn't end up running into James," Remus continued.
"And I haven't eaten since breakfast," Peter added.
They all stared at him.
"Okay, that has nothing to do with Lily and James but I'm hungry and just thought I'd add it in."
They all rolled their eyes. "So what's your next plan, Sirius?" Remus asked
"Hm…okay, we need to figure out a way to get them in the same room together at the same time," Sirius contemplated.
"Or," Remus interjected. "You could, oh I don't know, tell James yourself!"
"Hmm," Sirius thought out loud. "Okay, we'll call that Plan B."
"No! Sirius, this is your fault and you need to tell him!" Remus argued.
"It's almost as if you want me to die," Sirius said sadly.
"Well if you don't tell James soon, I'm gonna kill you!" Remus cried.
"Okay, now I'm sure you want me to die."
"Sirius, what happens when he finds out the truth from someone else? He'll hate you even more."
"I disagree."
"You just hate confrontation."
"Yes I do," Sirius laughed.
Remus gave him a look. "Sirius, if-"
"Oh look it's Lily!" Sirius cried out, giving Remus a look of warning.
Lily walked over to them and took a seat beside Sirius. "Hey guys. Thank God it's Friday."
"Yeah," they all chorused.
Lily gave them a strange look. "Lemme guess. You were talking about me and James."
"Now what would give you an idea like that?" Kacie cried.
"We would never do such a thing!" Peter agreed.
"We weren't talking about you guys, we swear!" Remus urged.
"James who?" Sirius snickered.
Lily gave them all a look.
"Okay, so maybe we were talking about you a little," Remus admitted.
"Yeah, your name may have come up," Sirius said with a shrug.
"And perhaps James's name was mentioned," Kacie said.
"And that shirt doesn't match your shoes," Peter said.
They all gave him a look.
"Just thought I'd add that in, too," Peter said with a sheepish grin.
Lily ignored Peter altogether. "Well I haven't figured out what to do yet, so don't ask me," Lily warned.
"Of course!" they all chorused again.
They all sat there in silence for what felt like eternity before Sirius spoke up. "So what are you gonna do, Lily?"
"SIRIUS!" they all shouted.
"I feel ganged up on," he pouted.
Kacie smacked him with a pillow.
"OW!"
"You deserved that," she pointed out.
"Yeah I probably did," he responded. He paused. "What did I do?"
Kacie smacked him again.
"OW!"
"I think…I think I just need to be by myself, guys," Lily sighed. "I'll find you later."
"You sure you don't need a friend?" Kacie asked just to make sure.
"Yeah, I'm sure," she replied. "But thanks."
Once she had left, with a rather defected look on her face, the remaining friends all exchanged sympathetic glances.
"So…does Giliba know?" Sirius asked cautiously after a long moment of silence.
"About what?" Kacie asked.
"About the bra being Lucie's," he explained.
"Oh my God, I don't think she does!" Kacie exclaimed. "She's been so busy with Jesse she hasn't been around lately. She still thinks James cheated on Lily!"
Sirius tried to ignore the part about Jesse and said, "You'd think Lily would have told her about it by now."
"Well it's not like she'd know who Lucie is," Kacie muttered.
"What do you mean?" Sirius inquired further.
"Well, Gigi doesn't exactly know that you two are…er…in a relationship," Kacie explained.
"What? Why? It's been almost a month now! How could she not know?"
"Well, like I said, she's been spending so much time with Jesse and…well, it hasn't come up," Kacie said with a shrug.
"Why haven't you told her?" he asked curiously.
"Well it's not exactly something you just briefly mention in a conversation," Kacie pointed out. "'Hey, Gigi, how's your day, how's Jesse, by the way Sirius has a girlfriend, and have you done the Transfiguration essay yet?'"
"Well I figured her friends are friends with my friends. It would slip or come up," Sirius said and then he paused. "And have you done the Transfiguration essay yet?"
"Why do you care so much?" Kacie asked curiously.
"Because it's due tomorrow and I haven't started it," Sirius said.
Kacie gave him a look. "Why do you care so much about Gigi?"
"I don't care. This is Giliba we're talking about. I could care less."
Kacie shrugged. "You're awfully curious for someone who doesn't care."
"Am not," he argued.
"Whatever you say," Kacie snickered, rolling her eyes and giving Remus an all-knowing look.
"I didn't realize you knew how to sneak into Hogsmeade," Gigi said to Jesse, tightening her hand around his hand.
Jesse grinned. "There's so much you have to learn about me."
"I know enough," Gigi said. "You know how to sneak into the kitchens. You know how to sneak into Hogsmeade. And you're dating me. You're a pretty smart guy."
Jesse smiled and kissed Gigi on the lips and soon after they were seated at a table. Jesse reached over and placed his hand on Gigi's who smiled at him. She laced her fingers between his and said, "So I haven't seen my friends much recently…I blame you."
Jesse laughed. "You make it seem as if I kidnap you from them every night."
"You pretty much do!" Gigi cried out with a laugh. "It's either hang out with you or hang out with them discussing whether pink nail polish is better than red nail polish. Which is a stupid discussion…because everyone knows the red nail polish is better!"
Jesse grinned at her and Gigi returned the smile. "Plus when I'm with you, I get to snog someone," Gigi teased.
"I have no objection to you snogging the girls," Jesse said with a teasing smirk. Gigi flicked a little bit of water at him from her water cup which resulted in him flicking water back which resulted in the waiter giving them a nasty look as he came to ask them for their drink order.
"I'll have a-" Gigi stopped mid sentence.
"Gi?" Jesse asked.
"Water's fine with me," Gigi said distractedly, not taking her eyes off a certain person. She couldn't believe her eyes; in fact, she had to rub them twice to make sure she was seeing things right.
"Gi? You okay? You seem distracted…" Jesse said.
Gigi was staring at Sirius wrapping his arms around some girl's neck and kissing her.
"Gillian!" Jesse cried out.
That snapped Gigi out of it. "Huh?"
"Do you want any bread?"
Gigi looked back at him. "I'll be right back."
"Is that a yes?" Jesse called out after her, utterly confused.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Gigi hissed, pulling Sirius by his arm and bringing him away from the girl and out of the restaurant so Jesse wouldn't see them talking.
"Yes, hi, I'm good, how are you?" Sirius asked. Gigi glared at him. "Not in the mood for small talk?"
"What are you doing here?" Gigi repeated.
It took a few seconds for it to dawn on Sirius. "Whoa…are you also eating here?"
Gigi nodded furiously. "So you have to leaveleave."
"Oh really?" Sirius asked, giving an evil smirk. "I noticed on the door that it said no shirt, no service. But no where on the door did it say, if Giliba is eating here, Sirius has to leave."
"Who the hell are you with?" Gigi said, ignoring Sirius's snide comment. "Since when have you brought a girl to a nice restaurant? Your policy was always, why spend so much money when you can go straight to bed. And a quality meal to you is eating bread and water by the lake."
"Are you done reprimanding me?" Sirius asked, putting his hands on his hips.
"No," Gigi said. "I didn't even realize you knew how to dress nicely. Is that a tie I see you wearing? Did you have to dig through all your sex clothes to get to it? Or did you steal it from Remus?" Gigi sighed. "Okay…now I'm done."
"I'm with my girlfriend."
Gigi choked on air and started coughing, not understanding what he just said. "Wha-what?"
Sirius said it slowly. "Girl…friend. It's a friend who's a girl…a friend you're pretty close with…one-"
"I know what a girlfriend is," Gigi snapped. "I just didn't realize you did. You've never had a girlfriend in your life! You always choked on the word and yelled at the other guys when they used the word around you! You-"
"Okay, let's not start reprimanding me again," Sirius said tiredly. "Can I get back to my girlfriend now?"
Gigi nodded weakly and Sirius walked past her. Gigi quickly turned around. "How long have you been together?"
"A month," Sirius said.
Gigi took a deep breath and leaned against the wall outside the restaurant. When she could walk again, she went back to her table. "Sorry," she mumbled to Jesse.
"What happened? Where did you go?"
"I just saw someone-" Gigi paused. "-someone I used to know." Gigi turned her head slightly to get a glimpse of Sirius giving his girlfriend a kiss on the cheek and Gigi couldn't understand why all of a sudden she had got a funny feeling in the pit of her stomach.
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OoOoOoOoOoO Gigi found out Sirius has a girlfriend...how will she react? And what about James and Lily? Will she talk to him and will he forgive her? Or will Sirius get the guts to tell James what happened. and what's with Remus and his girlfriend?
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