Authors note: Ok I'm getting back into this whole stride although this story is going completely topsy-turvy
on me and I had NO idea whatsoever that it was going to turn out like this. I seriously can't control it.
My fingers are doing the typing and I've no idea what's going on at all. Ah well. At least they're making
it exciting, eh? anyway review and let me know what you guys think!

"So what's going to happen with you and Sirius now?" Lily asked Arabella, later that evening.

"To be honest I don't know," Arabella said. The two of them had had a blazing row just about an hour or so after the two boys had left the room. "Actually I don't really know what was happening between us anyway. I mean he never actually ASKED me to go out with him. Whether he took it for granted that we were or whether he just doesn't want to I don't know. . . . " she trailed off. "I expect we'll patch things up sooner or later." Lily nodded and pondered over Arabella's words.

"Did you guys hear?" Peter gasped, running into the room.

"Hear what?" Lily, Arabella and Leah demanded simultaneously.

"James and Jamie are having a HUGE row down outside the library. It's absolute pandemonium!" The girls jumped off their beds and fired down the stirs like a bunch of eager puppies, Peter following them. Pushing their way through the gathering crowd, the girls recognized Jamie's musical voice. Although it didn't sound very musical at that moment.

"You just can't handle it that the tables are turned," she was saying. "Oh it's fine for the mighty James Potter to two time even three time girls but it's a different story when someone's doing it to him." James stared at her, looking very close to tears.

(A/N I don't know what you guys think of boy's crying but I find it quite weird actually. I'm not being sexist at all because what I mean by crying is crying over the opposite sex or something - unless they've been going with them for an awful long time - I have loads of friends who are boys and I've never once seen any of them cry over a girl which might be the reason why I find it odd. I mean us girls do it all the time. At least some of us do but what about lads? They're seen as girly if they do! Mean I know! Anyway back to the point at hand James crying: What DO you guys think of it? Jeez, I've read back over this and realized that I have a VERY long-winded way of saying I don't think boys are girly if they cry but I DO think it's weird. Ok I'll shut-up now!)

Lily looked at James' face, at her friends, at Jamie and back to her friends again. Without thinking she barged in between James and Jamie.

"Shut-UP you little slut!" she spat at Jamie. Who do you think you are screaming at a guy for loving you?! You just have no heart Jamie Mitchell and I hope that you're famous boyfriend realizes that you're just dating him because he's exactly that. Famous. James deserves a lot more than you, you little trollop. Why don't you just go back out on the streets like the hooker you are. It's where you belong. The was a gasp echoing from the top to bottom of the room. Jamie sneered at her.

"Lily. . . ." James said, only to be interrupted by Jamie.

"Oh really?" she asked. "Who do you think would be better for him? You? At least I'm not a sex-starved tramp running around like I own the school, leading on about a million hopeful guys, knowing that they'll never have a chance with you."

"Jamie, What. . . ." Again James was interrupted, only this time by Lily.

"Well, at least I don't SLEEP with the million guys who run after me. And you know what? Maybe I would be better for him. Anyone would be better for him than you. And I don't even know why I'm talking to you. You're not worth my breath OR my time." She gave Jamie one last disgusted look before turning and walking away from her. A pathway formed as Lily walked through the crowd back up to the dorm.

"Lily!" squealed Arabella. "You were brilliant!" Lily gave her a half smile from her position by the window. "This is fantastic! You two are the talk of the school, you coming out tops of course.

"Have the rumors started yet?" Lily interrupted Arabella's long speech about what exactly happened after Lily disappeared to the dorm.

"What rumors?" Arabella asked, cluelessly.

"You know the one's about how me and James were having an illicit affair this whole time and THAT'S why I was so uptight about the whole thing. You know how this school works as well as I do, Bella."

"Actually I did hear a good one about how you and James had been secretly going out before he dumped you for Jamie and you were so vicious towards her because you're desperately, madly in love with him still and couldn't stand to see him getting hurt no matter how badly he hurt you," Arabella admitted. Lily shrugged.

"I should have figured," she said, banging her head against the wall. "Why couldn't I just have stayed out of the whole thing?!"

"Because you're madly in love with James?" suggested Arabella. "Well madly in like with him anyway," she corrected, ignoring Lily's well-aimed glares. Leah burst into the room.

"Lily you were brilliant," she gasped. Lily groaned.

"What rumor did you hear?" she asked. Leah grinned sheepishly.

"That you and James were head-over-heels until Jamie put him under a curse to love her instead and that he finally fought it today and confronted her. You, realizing what was going on, forgave him instantly and, too, decided to confront Jamie. According to the rumor you and James are now passionately making up in the grounds somewhere."

"Ooh that's good too," Arabella said and proceeded to tell Leah the one she had heard. Lily groaned again and slipped out of the room, unnoticed by her two
friends who were laughing and squealing over possible rumors that would be heard over the next few days. .