Authors Notes: Well, Well, Well

Authors Notes: Well, Well, Well. Aren't all my readers just amazed? Aly (BlueEyes ..whatever) Anyway…Aly, t he girl who took FOREVER on getting the second chapter up….is now on her SEVENTH! Whoa, Its true guys! My Honors English teacher would be so proud that I'm, for once, not procrastinating! Don't you all just love my Authors notes? I just babble, and go on and on and on about nothing. Welcome to my insanity. It never ceases to increase! Heh. Anyway, like you care about this. I love my reviewers so much. I'm not kidding…I love all of you and all of your constant support *smiles* And Cheeky Witch? YOU ROCK! I'm on your favs list! Ah!

D is for Doesn't belong to me

I is for I don't own the Harry Potter characters

S is for Sue, which is what you shouldn't do to me, since they aren't mine!

C is for Cash, which is something I don't have so suing me is stupid.

L is for Love of writing, which is the only reason I write this stuff.

A is for Aly, which is my name, and you shouldn't sue me.

I is for Ice cream, which I will buy you if you don't sue me.

M is for Money, which I don't have in case you want to sue me.

E is for Explain to me why you would sue me for something I never said was mine

R is for Rowlings, as in JKRowlings…the one who wrote the Harry Potter books and

Is the only writer making money for it! OKAY!

Omgosh.. I have no life…that only took me five minutes……I'm such a loser….I have got to go….do something…get away from writing for awhile. Oye.

Chapter Seven ~ NeverExpected

James stared at Lily cautiously. Someone was going to hurt her? But who? And since when did he believe that crazy old Professor Carmel. He wanted to go to her, hold her, tell her he'd never hurt her like the rest. The truth is, he never loved any of those girls. Dating them was just his protection. He never got too close. He never really connected with any of them. Partly, because his subconscious knew he wanted Lily, and it wasn't about love. He was too young, but here was James Potter in his 6th year, actually loving someone. Why couldn't she just love him back?

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The common room erupted with applause when James walked in. Everyone stood up and clapped. He had risked his life for the game, and since Snape had purposely injured hi m….Snape had been banished from 3 games. He smiled and looked around, everyone was standing and cheering, except…Lily. She was sitting comfortably at a table, a muggle headset on listening to a….CD? (james didn't know!) Her red hair hung over one of her shoulders as she diligently worked on her homework. Her head bobbed up and down incesstantly and was singing quietly to herself. She hadn't even noticed him walk in, although James seriously doubted she would have stood anyway.

He noticed her quickly glance up to see him, approaching her table. She shut her books distractedly and pushed herself past him. James sadly shook his head and was pulled into a massive party celebrating his courage. Before he knew it people were shoving butterbeers in his face and questioning him on everything…the entire time he plastered on a smile to appease everyone, but he stared at Lily's delicate figured hauling books and felt like doing nothing but crawling into bed.

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Lily awoke the next afternoon yawning idly. It was a Saturday, and she hadn't slept well. She kept seeing the green on her hands…now so dim no one could see it but her, because she knew where to look. She pulled a muggle t-shirt and jeans out of her trunk and looked out the window. It was sunny but, the dark, black ominous clouds whispered "run…run…run" She closed her eyes and walked down into the Great Hall. She could hardly believe she had tossed and turned until noon.

The Great Hall was full of loud rowdy students and Lily was thankful for the distracting noise as she talked to Jenny and Felicia…Mystie was once again off chasing an older Hufflepuff. Lily was glad that the noise was drowning out her troubled thoughts. Jenny and Felicia were laughing with her and soon enough Lily felt rather lighthearted. Her friends pulled her aside.

"Lils….we're sneaking off to Hogsmeade, go with us…we'll go hang out at the Three Broomsticks.It'll be fun, just the three of us again." Jenny said ginning.

"Okay!" Lily said wihtout missing a beat. She was finally in a good mood and she wished for it to last for awhile longer.

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The Three Broomsticks was alive, almost beating like a heart with all the different types of withces and wizards. The three girls sat on high stools and a table, laughing merrily at almost anything. Several newly graduated wizards were talking to them, and the three all giggled. Lily couldn't help but smile, it felt so good to have male attention without pressure. James wasn't even on her mind, except whenever the wizard with the brown eyes that she mistaked for james smiled at her, and except when one of the graduates said his name was Joseph and she kept calling him James…ugh! James wasn't on her mind…that much. It was only every other second that was devoted to him. When the three felt they had had far to many butterbeers, they skipped home singing loudly until Felicia screeched "REMUS!"

It took awhile for the other two girls to stop singing and skipping to realize that Felicia had rushed into the doors of the nearest young wizards club. They walked in still giggling and singing softly. Sirius and Remus walked over, Remus scooping Felicia up into his arms and looking at Sirius who was making small talk with Lily while his arm found itself around Jenny's waist.

Lily peered around Sirius and saw James, kissing, passionately kissing an older girl. Her hair was silvery looking and she had a perfect framed body. Her arms hung loosely around James neck and James hands were on her knees. Lily felt herself falling….falling…falling…about to hit the floor.

I know I let you down
Again and again
I know I never really treated you right
I've paid the price
I'm still paying for it every day


No Lily…be strong.

Sirius followed Lily's stare to James and sighed. Why couldn't one of them just break? It didn't make any sense. They were both dying. They needed each other. Lily and James….What Sirius had always found foolish now made perfect sense. He had heard McGonangall and Dumbledore talking about the two of them one day, when he was in McGonagalls office…which he wasn't supposed to be.

"Minerva, they will stop the fighting soon enough. Its already planned out for those two."

"Albus, since when were you a romantic? Those two HATE each other. Loathe." She laughed nervously.

"Trust me, they will find the love under all that hate. They just have to peel away the layers of hate to find that love in their hearts." He laughed and Sirius was pretty sure Dumbledore had kissed her on the cheek and strode out. Dumbledore bounced out of his office still laughing.. "hello sirius." He grinned, not even looking at him.

"How does he DO that?!" Sirius thought when he was about to leave. Then McGonagall had stumbled out, slightly blushed holding her cheek. Sirius chuckled and had run off The Great Hall for lunch, not even thinking of it then. Now. Now it all made perfect sense. Lily and James, it was meant to be.

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James didn't know what he was doing. He wanted to push this ….thing…away from him. She was an excellent kisser, but his heart was torturing him with thoughts of Lily. Gala, was this girls name. She confidently had strode over to him on the dance floor and intrigued him into a dance. But how they ended up kissing ….he couldn't figure out. His heart just kept screaming LILY, and he felt that if he didn't distract himself with something else, {the physical attention he was getting from Gala} he would explode. So that was all this girl was. A distraction from Lily. He felt like screaming. He felt like sobbing. He felt like pleading with Lily, but he knew it would be futile.

Cause I waiting for tonight

And waiting for tommorow

I'm somewhere in between

What is real and just a dream

When he had finally pushed away from Gala, his eyes idly looked around the room for Sirius and Remus. He felt nothing with Gala. Nothing. He was quite bored really. Then he spotted her. Lily. Her perfect wavy hair was shining in the light of the dancing room. She was staring right back at him. Her eyes….what was that? Hurt. She was hurt. He couldn't make his legs stop, he ran to her.

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