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Chapter 34.

Days passed quickly until it was the beginning of April and I was six months pregnant. My bump was bigger than ever, I got tired so easy it was ridiculous, the baby's kicks were harder than before, and my pregnancy cravings were getting more disgusting by the day. Last week, I ate pickled onions. One, I hate pickled things, two, I hate onions. Well, I did, now I crave them like nobody's business.

Work load at school had picked up to follow with exams in June. The teachers were kicking our arses, especially the seventh years who were about to do their N.E.W.T.S., Freddie and Carly were being disgustingly cute, calling each other by pet names and eskimo kissing at the dinner table. Most of us couldn't sit with them anymore and opted to be further down the table, not that they noticed, they were too engrossed with each other.

Lily hadn't told anyone about her and Zabini. She kept promising Rose she would tell people but never did. She was scared, I got that, however, it was getting harder to hide it from James. I felt awful for keeping it from him, especially when he mentioned his sister and how she'd been acting strange lately. I played it off as teenage girl problems and awkwardly tried to change the conversation to Quidditch or homework, the only things I could think of to distract him. I was almost desperate to tell him but held off for Lily.

One day while some of us were saw around the Gryffindor fire doing homework, I felt someone stand beside me. I looked up to see Lily staring at various members of her family with a determined air.

Oh uh.

"Guys, I need to tell you something," she stated strongly. Most looked up to give her their attentions while others kept working, assuming it wasn't going to be important. She cleared her throat and I opened my mouth to tell her it wasn't the best of times, she beat me to it. "I'm dating Blaise Zabini, have been since Christmas...I'm telling you now because I don't want to hide it anymore."

There was silence among us. Even the people around the common room not involved with us listened in.

"What?" Albus spluttered.

"You heard me," Lily replied.

"But… why?"

"Because I like him, Albus," she answered in a patronizing tone. "Why else?"

"No. No way," James shook his head and slammed his quill down. He raked his fingers through his hair. "What the hell are you thinking, Lily?"

"I'm thinking I like him…maybe even love him and I don't want to hide it anymore."

"Love him? You're fifteen for Merlin's sake! How can you love him?"

"Age is a number, James," she snapped. "I know how I feel. I'm not ten anymore."

"But—but you can't!"

"Why?"

"He's the enemy! He's a Slytherin, he's on the Quidditch team…he doesn't like bacon!"

"What?"

"I don't know I ran out of things to say," James growled. "The point is I forbid you from seeing him!"

"You forbid me?"

"Yes."

Lily broke down into hysterical laughter. Tears ran down her cheeks from laughing so hard and her face turned bright red. "Oh, James, you can't do that as much as you like to think you can."

James glared. "I'll write to dad."

"I'll write to mum."

He gasped. "You wouldn't."

"Try me."

"I have to agree with James, Lily," Albus spoke up after getting over the shock. "Zabini isn't to be trusted."

"You don't even know him!"

"We know enough," Louis said. "And we don't like it."

Lily bloomed bright red and if she was a cartoon, smoke would have come from her ears. "Well you know what? You can all fuck off. I want to be with him, he wants to be with me, and there's nothing you can do to stop that. I don't care what you think."

"He's a Slytherin."

"It's fine, I was kidding myself thinking you'd try to accept this," she spat. "You're all arseholes, you know that? You're my family, you should love whoever I love!"

"Not when that person is Zabini!"

Lily glared full force at Albus. He flinched. "You inconsiderate plebs! I would never forbid you from dating someone I didn't like! Hell, I always supported you and Natalia, James, and I hated her!"

"But he's the enemy, Lily, Natalia's just a bit of a bitch."

Lily sniffed and threw a scowl at Louis. "Rose accepted it, why can't you lot? In fact, even Callie and Coco accepted it and they aren't even family!"

Oh no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

Albus and James turned to me with hurt expressions while Louis turned too looked to Coco who was trying to hide behind Ethan.

"You knew?" James questioned me.

"Well, yeah, kind of—"

"How long?" Albus asked.

"About two weeks," I answered. "I'm sorry, I said I would keep it a secret for her for a while."

"Why? She's our sister!"

"I know, but Lily wasn't ready to tell you and I didn't want to upset her."

Guilt was drowning me. I had lied to them and I hated it. I was sorry that they were hurt, but by the way they were acting I wasn't sorry for keeping it from them. Lily was right, they didn't accept it. They hadn't even tried and she was their sister. I wasn't about to say this though because I was in enough shit already.

"Well that's just brilliant," Albus muttered. "My best friend knows who my baby sister is snogging before I do."

"I'm fifteen, hardly a baby."

Albus ignored this. "And you two," he turned to Rose and Coco. "Don't think I've forgotten about you two. I need a few minutes to have a panic attack before I shout at you all so rest for a bit."

I gave my attention back to James. He looked at me and then briskly exited the common room. I sighed and set my things on the coffee table. He was furious with me, of course he was. I would have been furious at him if he had hid something about Coco. In my pregnant state I couldn't run, so I walked around for an hour until I found him on some stairs in a hallway. Biting my lip, I walked down them until I was at the stair he was sat on.

"James," I said softly. "I'm sorry I've upset you."

He sighed. "You should have told me."

"I know," I mumbled, resting my head on my palms. "But you shouldn't have been such a git to Lily."

"What?" he scoffed.

"She's your sister, James," I responded. "She's young and this is her first boyfriend. You not supporting her must have really hurt."

"She's dating a Slytherin."

"Scorpius is a Slytherin," I said rather defensively. Given, most Slytherin's were a little…off but some were nice. "He's a good guy and he hangs out with Zabini sometimes. He has to be okay to hang out with Scorpius, Scorp doesn't like boring people."

He clicked his knuckles angrily. "She's my little sister. I don't want her dating some guy that could hurt her."

"You don't know him, James," I reminded him. "He could be your best friend."

He shook his head. "Doubt it."

"Okay, that was too far," I snorted. "Give him a chance. Not for him but for your sister. She deserves for you to give him a chance."

"She hid it from me."

I groaned and slapped his arm. "Stop being such an idiot. She hid it from you because she knew you'd act like a prat, which you did by the way. Not only that but Lily needs your support. Some people aren't going to be happy with their relationship and she could use her family. Zabini's parents aren't exactly going to be planning the wedding, are they?"

"Urgh, wedding."

"Shut up, James. Are you going to be nicer to your sister?" I snapped.

"Yes," he whined. "I was an arse, okay? Are you happy now?"

"Yeah."

"When did you get so smart anyway?" he questioned.

I hit him again, harder this time and he yelped. "I know what it's like to have to support a siblings through something you don't want to," I admitted. "It's hard, I know. You do it because you love them and you want to help them."

He stared at me. "Your mum?"

"Yeah."

"Thought so."

I fiddled with the end of my jumper and gulped. When I turned back to James to tell him to get his arse back to the common room to apologize to Lily, he was already staring at me. Our eyes connected and I felt myself lean in. When I felt his breath on my face, my stomach dropped, memories of the night my bump was made coming back. The way his hands slid along my skin and how his lips had mine swollen for days.

Suddenly, someone laughed brightly. I jumped away from James and rose to my feet as Carly and Freddie started up the stairs. I waved uncomfortably at them and James stood, too. I stepped away from him, the close proximity too much.

"What are you doing here?" Carly asked.

I cleared my throat. "Talking," I answered quickly.

We all stared at each other and then James spoke, "So guess what?"

"What?"

"Lily's been snogging Blaise Zabini for four months."

"WHAT?"

After calming Freddie down we arrived back the common room. My head was spinning from James and I's almost kiss. What would have happened if Freddie and Carly hadn't interrupted? I didn't know if what I thought was good or bad. Did I want to kiss James? I didn't have the answer. However, there must have been something inside me that wanted to kiss him, after all I had leaned in.

A headache brewed in the front of my head as Rose went to get Lily from her dorm. I leaned against the wall as the redhead came down with a defiant glare and red, puffy eyes. The guys apologized and Lily accepted them with a nod, refusing to hug them and then leaving to go back to her dorm. I bit my lip at James and Albus' hurt faces. I was starting to hope this baby was a boy. James would never be able to handle a teenage girl.

This thought made me feel even worse. The fact that I was thinking that far into the future, and even that I was thinking about my future and my baby was in it made me feel nauseous. I was starting to think about my baby in my life without calculating the thought beforehand. I was taking the baby into my life and it made me feel a mix of strong and weak.

"Will you come and give this letter with me?" Coco asked. "It's for dad about the Easter holidays."

"Sure."

I walked with her to the Astronomy tower, ignoring James' gaze as we walked past him. She handed the letter to Lionel, who squawked and whined for about thirty seconds before flying off, and then we headed back.

It happened in a flash.

One second I was taking careful steps down the stone stairs and the next I tripped over my ankle and fell forward. Instinctively, I twisted myself onto my back to protect my bump. I heard Coco scream my name, I grasped my bump with my heads for extra protection and tensed. Then something smacked against my head and everything went black.

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