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CHAPTER 8
(A/N this is far!!!)
Lily glanced at the paper. She started reading.
NEW CHASERS:
POTTER, JAMES
EVANS, LILY
There was her name! Right there! Lily was in shock.
"YEAH!!!!" She screamed and hugged James until he choked. "You jerk you saw my name and didn't even say anything!!" But really she was too happy to care. James was laughing at her reaction, and they left to go find their friends, both really happy about how things had ended up.
"Sierra! Jimena!" Lily screamed into the girls' dorms. They came screaming right back.
"You/ I made it!" They all screamed together. There was a lot of hugging and screaming and laughing they were all extremely happy.
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The boys reacted a bit differently.
"Yo, Sirius!" James called and sat by his friends. (Remus and Peter were there too.)
"Hey, heard you made the team."
"Yeah, saw that you did too." They were acting all calm and then-.
"YAY!!" They screamed and jumped around, also laughing and screaming, but no hugging….that was weird.
They calmed a bit and sat on the couch in the common room. "When's practice start, this Wednesday. Right?"
"Yeah, I think so." James told Sirius.
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The girls were all still smiling, Catty and Vanessa came in a while later, both just as happy as the others.
"Lily you are so lucky! And not just because you are on the Quidditch team, but because who's ON the quidditch team." Catty informed Lily, but Lily had no idea what she was talking about.
"What? Who?"
"Do I have to explain everything?" Jimena joked, and then got her pushed of the bed the five of them had been sitting on.
"Lil, you are on the team, with all the hottest guys in Gryffindor!" Sierra informed her also.
"Really? Who? Not Sirius…Or worse JAMES!!" Lily screeched, and laughed at Jimena's offended look.
"Yes them, and there's that Robert Saratoga guy, and the Captain Jack Brown." Vanessa started naming.
"Oh and don't forget, Billius Weasley, seventh year, his red hair is so…attractive!" Catty laughed. Lily cringed…She was a red head, and for some reason she thought boys with read hair…was…to put it lightly: Not very charming.
"There's also that boy the other beater, Ralph Patil another sixth year. He's dreamy!" Jimena giggled. Lily moaned.
"What?" Sierra asked, Lily looked really nervous.
"I'm the only bloody girl on the TEAM!" Lily screeched.
"You are so lucky." Vanessa pouted.
"Oh Lils don't worry, its not uncommon to have a girl on the team, it's just this year the girls weren't as good as normal, I guess." Sierra explained.
"Mindy was really good, but she didn't make it because that whole seeker thing." Lily told them, she wanted to go tell Mindy, but she didn't want to gloat.
"Lily, your bad luck, is my dream!" Catty shouted. They started laughing.
"Hey, Lily I just remembered, where WERE you last night?" Jimena asked, they all stared at her expectantly.
"Err, you are going to be soo jealous when I tell you this…" Lily told them, she started it off perfectly. "I spent the night sleeping with James on top of me." Their jaws dropped to the floor, and Lily burst into giggles, they actually believed her!
"You're not serious are you?" Jimena asked, in fact she was jealous.
"Yes, but not in the way you are all thinking!" She tried to stop laughing. "I was really mad at James so I decided to play that prank early…" Lily told them what happened, conveniently leaving out that morning's conversation. She told them about the spider, she also conveniently left out the beginning of her getting stuck with the boys' conversation and the fact that they changed into their pajamas' while she was in the room. (A/N that was a confusing sentence to write! I don't think it went right.)
"Lily! That is-." Jimena cut Sierra off.
"The funniest thing I ever heard!" And they were all laughing again. They got up to leave wiping tears from their eyes; it was a VERY good day.
They got into the common room and some one called to Lily. "Hey Lily, have fun last night?" Sirius called, apparently James had told him.
"Oh yeah, a ton of fun." She said with sarcasm.
"So was he on top of you the-." Sirius started to ask.
"That's NOT how it went!" She yelled and turned red, James went pink.
"So excited about Quidditch practice?" Sierra asked, conveniently changing the subject. They talked about Quidditch for a long time. Lily and James were making sure never to get in a fight with Sirius, so he wouldn't let a bludgers hit them during practice on 'accident'. Don't know exactly how that came up in the conversation.
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Practice on Wednesday came quickly, and Lily felt very alone, being the only girl. So she begged Sierra and Jimena to come and at least watch, since it was her first practice.
It was actually quite fun, Lily, James and Jack made a really great team of Chasers. Billius thankfully was keeping away most of their shots, but when the back up keeper went up and tried they pelted the quaffles at him non stop. They were very good at the sport. Sirius and Ralph unfortunately, were both real clowns, they kept waiting until last minute to get the bludgers away.
As you could probably guess, there were a few Quaffles thrown at the two boys.
Although the first practice was real fun, it wasn't true the next practices and so on until the game. Jack Brown really wanted them to win, desperately. He would have them practice in all kinds of weather. (A/N think Oliver Wood! But less cute hee hee!)
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It was a week until Halloween and they had just come back to the common room soaking wet. It was pouring down rain. Lily wasn't being as nice to James as normal; every time they got into a fight he would never apologize it made her very, very mad. Unfortunately they had started fighting all the time. They weren't awful fights, it was just the fact that normally someone apologizes to make everything better, and James never would. When it was truly Lily's fault she would apologize and he would accept, but never did James say sorry to her, not once.
"James, when a bludgers is heading towards your team mate, and you are free at hand, and mouth, do tell them to LOOK OUT!" Lily was screaming at James. She'd gotten hit in the head with a bludger, and James had laughed at her, so she was very pissed at the moment.
"I didn't know you hadn't seen it or I would have said something!" James defended himself.
Lily threw up her hands in defeat and ran up to her dorms to get dry again. Not to mention she had a splitting headache, and that was the cause for the end of practice early. The boys treated Lily like a princess on the Team, or more likely a queen, she had a strong throw and it got dangerous out there when she was mad, just ask Robert Saratoga, he's made fun of beating out Mindy and the next second: "Hey Lily you knocked him out!"
Lily couldn't help it, she had been feeling edgy that day, Petunia had sent her letters accusing her of making their dog disappear all the way from Hogwarts. Lily had been quite stumped. Lily worried for her sanity (Petunia's).
Sierra and Sirius broke up and the end of September, Jimena had started dating James, and Lily was going out with, a 3rd year, a friend of Mindy's from Ravenclaw. He was so sweet, they'd been going out for two weeks.
Lily entered her dorm and found Jimena and Sierra doing their homework, usually they had done it in the common room at this time, to be with the boys, but they'd stopped ever since Sierra and Sirius broke up, they were still friends, but it wasn't as fun. Jimena was only their because she was supporting her friend.
"James, no offense Jimena, but he is so-." Lily was ready to burst with anger.
"Adorable?" Jimena said grinning slightly.
"No! He might think he's my friend, but he sure isn't very good at it! DOES he ever apologize to you after you have an argument that was his fault in the first place?" Lily turned to her friends waiting for their answers.
"Yeah, I don't know why he's that way with you. Maybe he does it to annoy you." Jimena said.
"He apologizes to me too, but if you think about it Lily, you get into fights with him as much as Snape does!" Jimena said.
"I give up! He's just out to get me or something, to make my life miserable!" Lily moaned and then fell to her bed, very confused.
Lily was surprised that James apologized to anyone, he certainly didn't get close the words when Lily was around. Her thoughts were about to get complicated when an unwanted visitor came to the door.
"STEVEN GET OUT!" The three girls screamed at the same time to Sierra's little brother.
"Excusez Moi, for wanting to see my darling sister." Steven said and took a seat on Lily's bed where she immediately pushed him off.
"What do you want Stevey." Sierra said using is most-hated nick name. He glared at her.
"I just wanted to tell you that your presence is wanted by four charming second years, and Lily you are wanted at the Great Hall by a stupid third year by the name of Marvin Scalora!" Steven laughed.
"There's nothing wrong with the name Marvin!" Lily yelled and threw a pillow at him on her way down to the great hall. (A/N I truly like that name! don't make fun!)
"Later messenger boy!" She heard Jimena say, and then out came Steven with a flower coming out of his head, giggles could be heard from her dorm.
"Nice look." She smirked at Steven, he was a nice kid, but a little bit nosy.
Lily's thoughts led to her boyfriend, Marvin, she really liked him, but no one else in Gryffindor, at least on the quidditch team did. He was a beater on the Ravenclaw team, and that match was coming up in two weeks, Lily was worried, she didn't want to fight against her boyfriend, it wouldn't do well on her relationship.
"Hey Sirius, Remus, Peter." She said as she got to the common room. Remus grinned at her, with that knowing look, she stopped liking Remus the moment she met Marvin. They were a lot a like, but Marvin, didn't drag have James with him almost everywhere with him.
"Hey! Where's my hey?" James demanded, Lily glared and stocked off out the portrait hole, to see Marvin.
She got to the Great Hall and met Marvin, who smiled and they went for a pleasant walk and went to talk. They talked about Quidditch, then the topic came up…
"Lily, what are we going to do about the match with Ravenclaw versus Gryffindor?" Marvin asked, he looked truly worried.
"I've been worrying about that myself, just play our best, and don't worry I'll be supportive when you lose." Lily smile at him.
"And I'll be your shoulder to cry on when Ravenclaw beats your butts!" He said laughing.
"Hey I don't cry over a game!" She said with mock anger. "I think, all we can do is when we're up on our brooms is just pretend we aren't boyfriend and girlfriend." Lily suggested.
"Yeah, I guess, but is it okay if I'm worried if Sirius hits you with a bludger?" He grinned again.
"Or if YOU get hit with a bludger!" She teased.
"Yeah right." He said.
"Hey, everyone can get hit!"
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The day of the game came up and Lily had told Marvin good luck and he did the same to her, then they went to their different locker rooms.
"Team today, we are going to kick some Ravenclaw Ass!" Jack shouted at the team.
"Some cute ass, Jack." Lily said laughing at their shocked faces. Only James and Sirius knew she was dating Marvin.
"Lillian here has the hots for Marvin Scalora!" Sirius shouted out to the rest of the team.
"Not just the hots Sirius, I have HIM!" She grinned wickedly, the team was mildly upset that she was dating Marvin, James however…err, very against it.
They were getting ready to head out to the Quidditch Pitch when James walked over to her.
"I can't believe you're dating Marvin! Did you know last year, he made us lose the game because he teamed up with the other bludger guy to hit our seeker!" James hissed.
"Just shows that he has strategy James, calm down, we'll beat them!" Lily smiled she didn't feel like arguing.
"How can you be so sure?" James muttered low enough so Lily couldn't here him.
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The Ravenclaw team was already out on the field and they were calling out the Gryffindor team.
"HERE COMES THE GRYFFINDOR TEAM: BLACK, PATIL, SARATOGA, WEASLEY, BROWN, EVANS THE ONLY GIRL ON THE TEAM I MIGHT ADD AND POTTER!!" Mindy's friend Allan was doing the commentating.
Lily walked out onto the field and the nervousness finally took over. Jack shook hands with the Ravenclaw captain, Chris Perkins. She and Marvin waved slightly trying not to get caught. They weren't sneaky enough.
The two teams glared at their team mate who dared go out with the 'enemy'. Sirius grinned slightly, but she knew he was a bit upset, now that they were on the field.
Soon they were up in the air, she James and Jack were passing like crazy and making several points, but so were the Ravenclaws. The score was 90-80 in favor of Gryffindor. Robert was looking furiously for the snitch, but it seemed to have disappeared.
The game was going normal, until they were on the Ravenclaw end of the pitch, and James started acting all weird. Like something was going wrong. She flew a bit closer to him, while still trying to catch the quaffle.
"James! Pay attention to the game!" He only looked at her, his eyes full of…worry?
Lily stole the Quaffle from one of the Ravenclaw Chasers and flew up quickly running from the three chasers on her tail. She was at least 60ft in the air, but that wasn't the problem, the problem was a bludger, which had just been hit by her boyfriend, was heading straight at her. Sirius and Ralph were busy with the other one that kept attacking James and Jack. Robert was on the other end of the field searching for the snitch.
She took off with the Quaffle and raced for her life away from the bludger, but it wouldn't leave her alone! She went all the way to the other end of the field, scored and the bludger was still after her, and James and Jack were still getting attacked by the other one. Lily was frantic, it was so close. She tried to lose it she raced up high in the air 80ft, but it hit the end of her broom where the bristles were and flipped her over.
Lily hung there dangling by her legs, not knowing what else to do. She tried to get back on, but then the bludger hit her on the back of her head she got really dizzy. She could feel herself losing her grip…
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James looked at Lily; she was in trouble he'd known from the start. When he saw the bludger hit her broom, he tried to get to her, he just had to. Something inside of him pulled him towards her.
Then James did something very brave and very stupid, he got as close as he could to Lily and by then the game had stopped since something was obviously going wrong. Lily got hit again by the bludger for the third time, this time smack on the knees, she lost her grip.
That's when James did the very brave, very stupid thing that he couldn't control, he was at least 3 feet away from Lily at the same level of height. Lily started to fall, but James grabbed hold with his knees to his broom and caught her by her foot.
The two twelve year olds were hanging like trapeze stars, but it was much more dangerous. Lily thank God, was quite small, and James could hold her but, that bludger wouldn't leave HER alone! It got her once more right near his hand; he almost dropped her, but held on tightly.
"Lily!" He screamed as she started to slip, where were his team mates? He looked for them, but then he noticed exactly how high they were. It was a serious death drop he noticed under all the pressure his broom kept going higher. Then James' grip started to slip.
His teammates were apparently blocked by a force field, James tried not to notice. He focused on Lily, no matter how hard he tried every time he almost had her in a better hold so he could get her on his broom she was hit by a bludger.
Then he got an idea. He knew it was his only chance, but he didn't know if he could do it.
He let Lily go.
(A/N should I stop? Nah! I couldn't do that to myself. This goes with the flow you know! I'm scared!!!)
He definitely heard a scream, Lily? No it was the crowd. James swung up on his broom, and dove for Lily, who was falling speedily, with that damn bludger still belting her. She had turned quite black and blue.
James reached out with his hand to grab her, he was too far away, she was going to hit the ground, he still had time they were still 50 ft in the air! A gold flash of light came from James' hand and struck Lily on her hand and she seemed to slow, and then he managed to grab hold her hand, slow him self down and pull her up to safety. It was as if something had puller her towards him, magic? (A/N few!)
The crowd and his team mates were cheering. James held Lily as best he could with out dropping or hurting her any worse, but the bludger was still after her. Her landed on the ground and covered lily up with himself and took at least seven blows before someone could restrain the VERY cursed bludger. James by then had already passed out on top of Lily. (A/N I know, that's sososo sweet!)
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Lily woke up in the hospital wing and next to her was James Potter, sleeping on the bed to her right. How did I get here? She thought. She couldn't remember…The Quidditch Match, the bludger, and she remembered James jumping on her? No that wasn't right. James fell? No she fell…She was trying to piece it all together when she heard James moan in his sleep.
Their sores had been healed, so Lily had no clue what had really happened to her. For all she knew she and James had both fainted on the field, but that didn't sound right at all.
"James." She whispered. He blinked his eyes a few times.
"Hey Lils…Do you remember why your in here?" He asked sitting up.
"No, I hope you do."
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"Well, Lily from what I remember." Which was absolutely everything before he himself was knocked out. "This bludger went insane and attacked you like nothing I've ever seen!" He didn't want to tell her he'd saved her…again. It was a bit embarrassing he didn't know why, he never would have saved anyone else, but with Lily, he couldn't hold back.
"So what happened to you?" Lily asked innocently, for once.
"It got me too." He said vaguely. He knew she'd find out what really happened anyway, but he didn't feel like telling her.
"Oh, well did we win?" She said noticing his lack of wanting to talk about it.
"Nah, they rescheduled it."
"Why they've never done it before-." Just then Madam Pomfrey walked in and checked up on them, mumbling something about dangerous sports, and poor little girls, and a stupid heroic boy. Lily raised an eye brow at James, but he looked away.
Lily knew something was going on, but James obviously didn't want to talk about it, since when had that stopped her?
"James, will you tell me exactly what happened? I trust you to give me the whole truth." James gulped, he wasn't being truthful with anyone, only the other Marauders, and he didn't feel like telling Lily about that.
James sighed. "All right, but don't make fun of me, it was just a spur of the moment thing you know?" He explained how he saved her, feeling himself going redder and redder he felt weird telling her about it for some odd reason. "I couldn't help it; it was as if something-something controlled me for a minute, and the force field and the gold light thing. I am just as clueless as you about it!" He said trying to laugh it off. Then something clicked in James' head.
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Weird Lily thought he couldn't be- no of course he wasn't. This was James! The guy she was constantly fighting with not some protector guy, plus she could take care of herself.
"Don't worry about it too much James, probably some panic magic reaction thingy. And for god's sake stop saving my life!" She said laughing a bit.
"Two times in such a short while, Lily you really need a body guard." There was an awkward silence between them. Thankfully, Sierra and Jimena came into save her, and so did the Marauders, they were all really concerned for Lily.
"Lily! Are you okay? We were so worried!" The Sierra said while her and Jimena sat by her bed.
"James! Are you crazy? That was so awesome!" Sirius said, not too fazed that his best-friend was almost murdered by a bludger.
"Hey, James, what was that gold beam thing? And that whole force field? No one could get up to you guys!" Remus asked him.
"I don't know, I've been wondering about it myself." They looked at Lily hoping she had an answer, she didn't.
For the rest of the time they spent, with James retelling the story to their friends. Remus looked almost happy about it…
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The two of them both got to go back to school for Monday classes, since they had only been in the Hospital Wing for a few hours. It was later Sunday night and James and Remus decided to go down to the common room and talk.
"Moony, what am I going to do? Do you really think Lily could be the…erm…person?" James asked, when they were sitting on the couch.
"Um," Remus shrugged, but Lily woke bolt up right in bed.
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Lily woke up she had just had an image of Remus talking to James, and she knew they were talking about her, and her curse. She jumped out of bed and practically ran down the stairs.
"Remus!" Lily hissed. "What are you guys doing out of bed?"
"Just talking Lils, don't worry we aren't planning anything to do to you or your friends, Sirius isn't here to help!" James said, covering up for Remus.
"Yeah, Lily we're just talking." Remus tried to hide the look of guilt in his eyes.
"Well, as long as your not talking about me, that's okay." She said more as a warning then anything, with that, she went up to bed.
"Hey, Moony what was that all about?" James asked, knowing something was going on.
"Uh, nothing, I don't know." Remus said and changed the subject to quidditch.
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Marvin and come to visit Lily at the Hospital Wing, he kept blaming himself for what had happened. The poor guy he was so guilty. Lily thought to herself. Marvin had become quite attached to her, unfortunately for Lily. He was sending her letters during class, and whenever they were apart. And when they were together, he insisted on holding her hand…and sometimes kissing her! But Lily like him enough, THAT wasn't the problem.
Four words (or names) were the problem: Sirius, Remus, James, and Peter! They wouldn't leave her alone about the situation. In those precious moments in the hall way when Marvin wasn't around, they would tease and tease! She was getting very annoyed.
"Oh Lily, can I hold your hand?" Sirius mocked on bended knee.
"Sirius, shut up!" Lily shouted, it was the 15th time that morning!
"Hey Lily, how well does he snog?" James mocked too.
Sirius, Remus and Peter, got a kick out of that one. They were rolling on the floor with laughter, but Lily had been expecting this.
When they recovered, she got them good. "He's actually quite good!" Now it was her turn to laugh. James was in complete shock.
"Wh-What?!" James bellowed. Lily was just as shocked as he was.
"Well, it's true!" She said grinning, they deserved it, and then she turned and left with them in complete silence.
Then of course with perfect timing appeared Marvin to take her arm, and walk her to lunch.
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James looked at Lily, and for some unknown reason, he got really, really pissed at what she had said.
"Do you think she's serious?" Remus asked finally, breaking the silence.
"No, Sirius is Sirius." James offered, trying to throw off the anger.
"Not again guys!" Peter laughed. And they too headed off to lunch in the Great Hall.
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The year went on, nothing much happened, unless you count the fact that James and Lily had only gotten meaner to each other. Nothing could shut them up! Lily continued to go out with Marvin, and James and Jimena did too. Sirius and Sierra got back together a few times, at the end of the year on the train home, they had broken up, again.
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They boarded the train, and found a compartment for themselves. The seating arrangement had some problems, considering James and Jimena wanted to sit together, and Sierra and Sirius wanted nothing to do with the other at the moment. And Lily wouldn't sit by James.
"Guys, we're just sitting! Try and sit with out killing each other!" Peter finally yelled. They ignored him.
"Sierra you sit by James and Jimena on that side, and Lily, Remus, and Peter sit on that side!" Sirius said finally.
"I don't have to do whatever you tell me!" Sierra yelled, apparently something about Sirius being to bossy had caused them to break up before. "YOU sit by James and Jimena!"
"SHUT UP EVERYONE!" Lily screamed. This had been going on long enough. With that Lily left, to sit with none other than Marvin. "Jimena, Sierra I'll owl you with Socrates!" She called down the corridor.
"Hey Marvin, Mindy." Lily greeted and they let her sit with them. Mindy had friends from all the other houses, except Slytherin, but who could blame her?
"My compartment was getting a bit cramped, so I came in here, to be with my favorite third years." She said smiling, happy to be away from her fighting friends.
"James?" Mindy said understanding her completely. Lily nodded.
"Why don't you just tell him to leave you alone?" Marvin offered.
"I try, but it's so hard, I don't know, I wish we could go back to how things were in first year, when we first met. But, he just won't EVER apologize! Plus lately he has to be better then me at EVERYTHING!" Lily told the rest of the compartment. "And I don't think being friends, with the other Marauders would hold up well with us not speaking, and we wouldn't be friends anymore. It just gets complicated, having friends with stupid friends."
"Well, changing the subject, who do you think will be keeper next year on the Quidditch team?" Mindy asked.
"Hum, probably that first year Eleanor Rockfield. Or maybe Samuel Wobblesby, he's so adorable!" Winnie Williams perked up.
"I really can't say since I'm taken!" Lily told them stifling a laugh.
"Aw, Lils don't embarrass me in front of my friends!" He said in mock horror.
"Hey they're my friends too!"
They had been talking for a while when like little puppy dogs came Sierra and Jimena, begging her to come into their compartment, to save them from the guys.
"Well…"Lily started to say.
"Puh lease?" Jimena begged with puppy dog eyes.
"Allll right." She finally gave in. "But I'm not sitting by James."
"Lil-." Sierra started to say.
"I won't until he apologizes!"
"Well that's never then, he thinks your too full of yourself to be apologized to." Jimena told her.
"Figures, he always puts it on me!" She was quiet when they got to the compartment, and didn't say much, so different from the year before. In fact no one said anything they were all very quiet. All thinking the same thing.
What was happening to their friendship? Everyone was good with their same sex friends, but the opposite was the trouble…
"What's with Lily? She's been so bitchy lately."
"What's with James, why won't he just say SORRY?"
"Sirius, he should learn to be less bossy!"
"Sierra, that girl is Insane!"
"Lily should hurry up and tell him about the curse, maybe he's leave her alone!"
"James is so cute, but why can't he and Lily get along!"
"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!" (Well most everyone!)
They got off the train and stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
"Err, maybe we should all meet at someone's house!" Jimena perked up.
"Yeah, me and Sierra could go to your house again." Lily put in.
"Remus, James, and Pete could come to my house!" Sirius suggested.
"Maybe we could meet up some-." They all shook their heads as Jimena tried to bring the friends together.
"Oh, there's the muggles!" Lily said and ran off to meet her parents. "BYE!" She shouted, and that was the last word from Lily. The rest of them left too, all feeling the feeling that their friendship was doomed.
(A/N that's a happy note huh? Well get used to it! Hee hee! Well that was REALLY long! But I hope you liked it! I was going to put it up earlier, but yeah right! Review please!!!!!)
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CHAPTER 8
(A/N this is far!!!)
Lily glanced at the paper. She started reading.
NEW CHASERS:
POTTER, JAMES
EVANS, LILY
There was her name! Right there! Lily was in shock.
"YEAH!!!!" She screamed and hugged James until he choked. "You jerk you saw my name and didn't even say anything!!" But really she was too happy to care. James was laughing at her reaction, and they left to go find their friends, both really happy about how things had ended up.
"Sierra! Jimena!" Lily screamed into the girls' dorms. They came screaming right back.
"You/ I made it!" They all screamed together. There was a lot of hugging and screaming and laughing they were all extremely happy.
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The boys reacted a bit differently.
"Yo, Sirius!" James called and sat by his friends. (Remus and Peter were there too.)
"Hey, heard you made the team."
"Yeah, saw that you did too." They were acting all calm and then-.
"YAY!!" They screamed and jumped around, also laughing and screaming, but no hugging….that was weird.
They calmed a bit and sat on the couch in the common room. "When's practice start, this Wednesday. Right?"
"Yeah, I think so." James told Sirius.
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The girls were all still smiling, Catty and Vanessa came in a while later, both just as happy as the others.
"Lily you are so lucky! And not just because you are on the Quidditch team, but because who's ON the quidditch team." Catty informed Lily, but Lily had no idea what she was talking about.
"What? Who?"
"Do I have to explain everything?" Jimena joked, and then got her pushed of the bed the five of them had been sitting on.
"Lil, you are on the team, with all the hottest guys in Gryffindor!" Sierra informed her also.
"Really? Who? Not Sirius…Or worse JAMES!!" Lily screeched, and laughed at Jimena's offended look.
"Yes them, and there's that Robert Saratoga guy, and the Captain Jack Brown." Vanessa started naming.
"Oh and don't forget, Billius Weasley, seventh year, his red hair is so…attractive!" Catty laughed. Lily cringed…She was a red head, and for some reason she thought boys with read hair…was…to put it lightly: Not very charming.
"There's also that boy the other beater, Ralph Patil another sixth year. He's dreamy!" Jimena giggled. Lily moaned.
"What?" Sierra asked, Lily looked really nervous.
"I'm the only bloody girl on the TEAM!" Lily screeched.
"You are so lucky." Vanessa pouted.
"Oh Lils don't worry, its not uncommon to have a girl on the team, it's just this year the girls weren't as good as normal, I guess." Sierra explained.
"Mindy was really good, but she didn't make it because that whole seeker thing." Lily told them, she wanted to go tell Mindy, but she didn't want to gloat.
"Lily, your bad luck, is my dream!" Catty shouted. They started laughing.
"Hey, Lily I just remembered, where WERE you last night?" Jimena asked, they all stared at her expectantly.
"Err, you are going to be soo jealous when I tell you this…" Lily told them, she started it off perfectly. "I spent the night sleeping with James on top of me." Their jaws dropped to the floor, and Lily burst into giggles, they actually believed her!
"You're not serious are you?" Jimena asked, in fact she was jealous.
"Yes, but not in the way you are all thinking!" She tried to stop laughing. "I was really mad at James so I decided to play that prank early…" Lily told them what happened, conveniently leaving out that morning's conversation. She told them about the spider, she also conveniently left out the beginning of her getting stuck with the boys' conversation and the fact that they changed into their pajamas' while she was in the room. (A/N that was a confusing sentence to write! I don't think it went right.)
"Lily! That is-." Jimena cut Sierra off.
"The funniest thing I ever heard!" And they were all laughing again. They got up to leave wiping tears from their eyes; it was a VERY good day.
They got into the common room and some one called to Lily. "Hey Lily, have fun last night?" Sirius called, apparently James had told him.
"Oh yeah, a ton of fun." She said with sarcasm.
"So was he on top of you the-." Sirius started to ask.
"That's NOT how it went!" She yelled and turned red, James went pink.
"So excited about Quidditch practice?" Sierra asked, conveniently changing the subject. They talked about Quidditch for a long time. Lily and James were making sure never to get in a fight with Sirius, so he wouldn't let a bludgers hit them during practice on 'accident'. Don't know exactly how that came up in the conversation.
*~*~*~*~*
Practice on Wednesday came quickly, and Lily felt very alone, being the only girl. So she begged Sierra and Jimena to come and at least watch, since it was her first practice.
It was actually quite fun, Lily, James and Jack made a really great team of Chasers. Billius thankfully was keeping away most of their shots, but when the back up keeper went up and tried they pelted the quaffles at him non stop. They were very good at the sport. Sirius and Ralph unfortunately, were both real clowns, they kept waiting until last minute to get the bludgers away.
As you could probably guess, there were a few Quaffles thrown at the two boys.
Although the first practice was real fun, it wasn't true the next practices and so on until the game. Jack Brown really wanted them to win, desperately. He would have them practice in all kinds of weather. (A/N think Oliver Wood! But less cute hee hee!)
*~*~*~*~*
It was a week until Halloween and they had just come back to the common room soaking wet. It was pouring down rain. Lily wasn't being as nice to James as normal; every time they got into a fight he would never apologize it made her very, very mad. Unfortunately they had started fighting all the time. They weren't awful fights, it was just the fact that normally someone apologizes to make everything better, and James never would. When it was truly Lily's fault she would apologize and he would accept, but never did James say sorry to her, not once.
"James, when a bludgers is heading towards your team mate, and you are free at hand, and mouth, do tell them to LOOK OUT!" Lily was screaming at James. She'd gotten hit in the head with a bludger, and James had laughed at her, so she was very pissed at the moment.
"I didn't know you hadn't seen it or I would have said something!" James defended himself.
Lily threw up her hands in defeat and ran up to her dorms to get dry again. Not to mention she had a splitting headache, and that was the cause for the end of practice early. The boys treated Lily like a princess on the Team, or more likely a queen, she had a strong throw and it got dangerous out there when she was mad, just ask Robert Saratoga, he's made fun of beating out Mindy and the next second: "Hey Lily you knocked him out!"
Lily couldn't help it, she had been feeling edgy that day, Petunia had sent her letters accusing her of making their dog disappear all the way from Hogwarts. Lily had been quite stumped. Lily worried for her sanity (Petunia's).
Sierra and Sirius broke up and the end of September, Jimena had started dating James, and Lily was going out with, a 3rd year, a friend of Mindy's from Ravenclaw. He was so sweet, they'd been going out for two weeks.
Lily entered her dorm and found Jimena and Sierra doing their homework, usually they had done it in the common room at this time, to be with the boys, but they'd stopped ever since Sierra and Sirius broke up, they were still friends, but it wasn't as fun. Jimena was only their because she was supporting her friend.
"James, no offense Jimena, but he is so-." Lily was ready to burst with anger.
"Adorable?" Jimena said grinning slightly.
"No! He might think he's my friend, but he sure isn't very good at it! DOES he ever apologize to you after you have an argument that was his fault in the first place?" Lily turned to her friends waiting for their answers.
"Yeah, I don't know why he's that way with you. Maybe he does it to annoy you." Jimena said.
"He apologizes to me too, but if you think about it Lily, you get into fights with him as much as Snape does!" Jimena said.
"I give up! He's just out to get me or something, to make my life miserable!" Lily moaned and then fell to her bed, very confused.
Lily was surprised that James apologized to anyone, he certainly didn't get close the words when Lily was around. Her thoughts were about to get complicated when an unwanted visitor came to the door.
"STEVEN GET OUT!" The three girls screamed at the same time to Sierra's little brother.
"Excusez Moi, for wanting to see my darling sister." Steven said and took a seat on Lily's bed where she immediately pushed him off.
"What do you want Stevey." Sierra said using is most-hated nick name. He glared at her.
"I just wanted to tell you that your presence is wanted by four charming second years, and Lily you are wanted at the Great Hall by a stupid third year by the name of Marvin Scalora!" Steven laughed.
"There's nothing wrong with the name Marvin!" Lily yelled and threw a pillow at him on her way down to the great hall. (A/N I truly like that name! don't make fun!)
"Later messenger boy!" She heard Jimena say, and then out came Steven with a flower coming out of his head, giggles could be heard from her dorm.
"Nice look." She smirked at Steven, he was a nice kid, but a little bit nosy.
Lily's thoughts led to her boyfriend, Marvin, she really liked him, but no one else in Gryffindor, at least on the quidditch team did. He was a beater on the Ravenclaw team, and that match was coming up in two weeks, Lily was worried, she didn't want to fight against her boyfriend, it wouldn't do well on her relationship.
"Hey Sirius, Remus, Peter." She said as she got to the common room. Remus grinned at her, with that knowing look, she stopped liking Remus the moment she met Marvin. They were a lot a like, but Marvin, didn't drag have James with him almost everywhere with him.
"Hey! Where's my hey?" James demanded, Lily glared and stocked off out the portrait hole, to see Marvin.
She got to the Great Hall and met Marvin, who smiled and they went for a pleasant walk and went to talk. They talked about Quidditch, then the topic came up…
"Lily, what are we going to do about the match with Ravenclaw versus Gryffindor?" Marvin asked, he looked truly worried.
"I've been worrying about that myself, just play our best, and don't worry I'll be supportive when you lose." Lily smile at him.
"And I'll be your shoulder to cry on when Ravenclaw beats your butts!" He said laughing.
"Hey I don't cry over a game!" She said with mock anger. "I think, all we can do is when we're up on our brooms is just pretend we aren't boyfriend and girlfriend." Lily suggested.
"Yeah, I guess, but is it okay if I'm worried if Sirius hits you with a bludger?" He grinned again.
"Or if YOU get hit with a bludger!" She teased.
"Yeah right." He said.
"Hey, everyone can get hit!"
*~*~*~*~*
The day of the game came up and Lily had told Marvin good luck and he did the same to her, then they went to their different locker rooms.
"Team today, we are going to kick some Ravenclaw Ass!" Jack shouted at the team.
"Some cute ass, Jack." Lily said laughing at their shocked faces. Only James and Sirius knew she was dating Marvin.
"Lillian here has the hots for Marvin Scalora!" Sirius shouted out to the rest of the team.
"Not just the hots Sirius, I have HIM!" She grinned wickedly, the team was mildly upset that she was dating Marvin, James however…err, very against it.
They were getting ready to head out to the Quidditch Pitch when James walked over to her.
"I can't believe you're dating Marvin! Did you know last year, he made us lose the game because he teamed up with the other bludger guy to hit our seeker!" James hissed.
"Just shows that he has strategy James, calm down, we'll beat them!" Lily smiled she didn't feel like arguing.
"How can you be so sure?" James muttered low enough so Lily couldn't here him.
*~*~*~*~*
The Ravenclaw team was already out on the field and they were calling out the Gryffindor team.
"HERE COMES THE GRYFFINDOR TEAM: BLACK, PATIL, SARATOGA, WEASLEY, BROWN, EVANS THE ONLY GIRL ON THE TEAM I MIGHT ADD AND POTTER!!" Mindy's friend Allan was doing the commentating.
Lily walked out onto the field and the nervousness finally took over. Jack shook hands with the Ravenclaw captain, Chris Perkins. She and Marvin waved slightly trying not to get caught. They weren't sneaky enough.
The two teams glared at their team mate who dared go out with the 'enemy'. Sirius grinned slightly, but she knew he was a bit upset, now that they were on the field.
Soon they were up in the air, she James and Jack were passing like crazy and making several points, but so were the Ravenclaws. The score was 90-80 in favor of Gryffindor. Robert was looking furiously for the snitch, but it seemed to have disappeared.
The game was going normal, until they were on the Ravenclaw end of the pitch, and James started acting all weird. Like something was going wrong. She flew a bit closer to him, while still trying to catch the quaffle.
"James! Pay attention to the game!" He only looked at her, his eyes full of…worry?
Lily stole the Quaffle from one of the Ravenclaw Chasers and flew up quickly running from the three chasers on her tail. She was at least 60ft in the air, but that wasn't the problem, the problem was a bludger, which had just been hit by her boyfriend, was heading straight at her. Sirius and Ralph were busy with the other one that kept attacking James and Jack. Robert was on the other end of the field searching for the snitch.
She took off with the Quaffle and raced for her life away from the bludger, but it wouldn't leave her alone! She went all the way to the other end of the field, scored and the bludger was still after her, and James and Jack were still getting attacked by the other one. Lily was frantic, it was so close. She tried to lose it she raced up high in the air 80ft, but it hit the end of her broom where the bristles were and flipped her over.
Lily hung there dangling by her legs, not knowing what else to do. She tried to get back on, but then the bludger hit her on the back of her head she got really dizzy. She could feel herself losing her grip…
*~*~*~*~*
James looked at Lily; she was in trouble he'd known from the start. When he saw the bludger hit her broom, he tried to get to her, he just had to. Something inside of him pulled him towards her.
Then James did something very brave and very stupid, he got as close as he could to Lily and by then the game had stopped since something was obviously going wrong. Lily got hit again by the bludger for the third time, this time smack on the knees, she lost her grip.
That's when James did the very brave, very stupid thing that he couldn't control, he was at least 3 feet away from Lily at the same level of height. Lily started to fall, but James grabbed hold with his knees to his broom and caught her by her foot.
The two twelve year olds were hanging like trapeze stars, but it was much more dangerous. Lily thank God, was quite small, and James could hold her but, that bludger wouldn't leave HER alone! It got her once more right near his hand; he almost dropped her, but held on tightly.
"Lily!" He screamed as she started to slip, where were his team mates? He looked for them, but then he noticed exactly how high they were. It was a serious death drop he noticed under all the pressure his broom kept going higher. Then James' grip started to slip.
His teammates were apparently blocked by a force field, James tried not to notice. He focused on Lily, no matter how hard he tried every time he almost had her in a better hold so he could get her on his broom she was hit by a bludger.
Then he got an idea. He knew it was his only chance, but he didn't know if he could do it.
He let Lily go.
(A/N should I stop? Nah! I couldn't do that to myself. This goes with the flow you know! I'm scared!!!)
He definitely heard a scream, Lily? No it was the crowd. James swung up on his broom, and dove for Lily, who was falling speedily, with that damn bludger still belting her. She had turned quite black and blue.
James reached out with his hand to grab her, he was too far away, she was going to hit the ground, he still had time they were still 50 ft in the air! A gold flash of light came from James' hand and struck Lily on her hand and she seemed to slow, and then he managed to grab hold her hand, slow him self down and pull her up to safety. It was as if something had puller her towards him, magic? (A/N few!)
The crowd and his team mates were cheering. James held Lily as best he could with out dropping or hurting her any worse, but the bludger was still after her. Her landed on the ground and covered lily up with himself and took at least seven blows before someone could restrain the VERY cursed bludger. James by then had already passed out on top of Lily. (A/N I know, that's sososo sweet!)
*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up in the hospital wing and next to her was James Potter, sleeping on the bed to her right. How did I get here? She thought. She couldn't remember…The Quidditch Match, the bludger, and she remembered James jumping on her? No that wasn't right. James fell? No she fell…She was trying to piece it all together when she heard James moan in his sleep.
Their sores had been healed, so Lily had no clue what had really happened to her. For all she knew she and James had both fainted on the field, but that didn't sound right at all.
"James." She whispered. He blinked his eyes a few times.
"Hey Lils…Do you remember why your in here?" He asked sitting up.
"No, I hope you do."
*~*~*~*~*
"Well, Lily from what I remember." Which was absolutely everything before he himself was knocked out. "This bludger went insane and attacked you like nothing I've ever seen!" He didn't want to tell her he'd saved her…again. It was a bit embarrassing he didn't know why, he never would have saved anyone else, but with Lily, he couldn't hold back.
"So what happened to you?" Lily asked innocently, for once.
"It got me too." He said vaguely. He knew she'd find out what really happened anyway, but he didn't feel like telling her.
"Oh, well did we win?" She said noticing his lack of wanting to talk about it.
"Nah, they rescheduled it."
"Why they've never done it before-." Just then Madam Pomfrey walked in and checked up on them, mumbling something about dangerous sports, and poor little girls, and a stupid heroic boy. Lily raised an eye brow at James, but he looked away.
Lily knew something was going on, but James obviously didn't want to talk about it, since when had that stopped her?
"James, will you tell me exactly what happened? I trust you to give me the whole truth." James gulped, he wasn't being truthful with anyone, only the other Marauders, and he didn't feel like telling Lily about that.
James sighed. "All right, but don't make fun of me, it was just a spur of the moment thing you know?" He explained how he saved her, feeling himself going redder and redder he felt weird telling her about it for some odd reason. "I couldn't help it; it was as if something-something controlled me for a minute, and the force field and the gold light thing. I am just as clueless as you about it!" He said trying to laugh it off. Then something clicked in James' head.
*~*~*~*~*
Weird Lily thought he couldn't be- no of course he wasn't. This was James! The guy she was constantly fighting with not some protector guy, plus she could take care of herself.
"Don't worry about it too much James, probably some panic magic reaction thingy. And for god's sake stop saving my life!" She said laughing a bit.
"Two times in such a short while, Lily you really need a body guard." There was an awkward silence between them. Thankfully, Sierra and Jimena came into save her, and so did the Marauders, they were all really concerned for Lily.
"Lily! Are you okay? We were so worried!" The Sierra said while her and Jimena sat by her bed.
"James! Are you crazy? That was so awesome!" Sirius said, not too fazed that his best-friend was almost murdered by a bludger.
"Hey, James, what was that gold beam thing? And that whole force field? No one could get up to you guys!" Remus asked him.
"I don't know, I've been wondering about it myself." They looked at Lily hoping she had an answer, she didn't.
For the rest of the time they spent, with James retelling the story to their friends. Remus looked almost happy about it…
*~*~*~*~*
The two of them both got to go back to school for Monday classes, since they had only been in the Hospital Wing for a few hours. It was later Sunday night and James and Remus decided to go down to the common room and talk.
"Moony, what am I going to do? Do you really think Lily could be the…erm…person?" James asked, when they were sitting on the couch.
"Um," Remus shrugged, but Lily woke bolt up right in bed.
*~*~*~*~*
Lily woke up she had just had an image of Remus talking to James, and she knew they were talking about her, and her curse. She jumped out of bed and practically ran down the stairs.
"Remus!" Lily hissed. "What are you guys doing out of bed?"
"Just talking Lils, don't worry we aren't planning anything to do to you or your friends, Sirius isn't here to help!" James said, covering up for Remus.
"Yeah, Lily we're just talking." Remus tried to hide the look of guilt in his eyes.
"Well, as long as your not talking about me, that's okay." She said more as a warning then anything, with that, she went up to bed.
"Hey, Moony what was that all about?" James asked, knowing something was going on.
"Uh, nothing, I don't know." Remus said and changed the subject to quidditch.
*~*~*~*~*
Marvin and come to visit Lily at the Hospital Wing, he kept blaming himself for what had happened. The poor guy he was so guilty. Lily thought to herself. Marvin had become quite attached to her, unfortunately for Lily. He was sending her letters during class, and whenever they were apart. And when they were together, he insisted on holding her hand…and sometimes kissing her! But Lily like him enough, THAT wasn't the problem.
Four words (or names) were the problem: Sirius, Remus, James, and Peter! They wouldn't leave her alone about the situation. In those precious moments in the hall way when Marvin wasn't around, they would tease and tease! She was getting very annoyed.
"Oh Lily, can I hold your hand?" Sirius mocked on bended knee.
"Sirius, shut up!" Lily shouted, it was the 15th time that morning!
"Hey Lily, how well does he snog?" James mocked too.
Sirius, Remus and Peter, got a kick out of that one. They were rolling on the floor with laughter, but Lily had been expecting this.
When they recovered, she got them good. "He's actually quite good!" Now it was her turn to laugh. James was in complete shock.
"Wh-What?!" James bellowed. Lily was just as shocked as he was.
"Well, it's true!" She said grinning, they deserved it, and then she turned and left with them in complete silence.
Then of course with perfect timing appeared Marvin to take her arm, and walk her to lunch.
*~*~*~*~*
James looked at Lily, and for some unknown reason, he got really, really pissed at what she had said.
"Do you think she's serious?" Remus asked finally, breaking the silence.
"No, Sirius is Sirius." James offered, trying to throw off the anger.
"Not again guys!" Peter laughed. And they too headed off to lunch in the Great Hall.
*~*~*~*~*
The year went on, nothing much happened, unless you count the fact that James and Lily had only gotten meaner to each other. Nothing could shut them up! Lily continued to go out with Marvin, and James and Jimena did too. Sirius and Sierra got back together a few times, at the end of the year on the train home, they had broken up, again.
*~*~*~*~*
They boarded the train, and found a compartment for themselves. The seating arrangement had some problems, considering James and Jimena wanted to sit together, and Sierra and Sirius wanted nothing to do with the other at the moment. And Lily wouldn't sit by James.
"Guys, we're just sitting! Try and sit with out killing each other!" Peter finally yelled. They ignored him.
"Sierra you sit by James and Jimena on that side, and Lily, Remus, and Peter sit on that side!" Sirius said finally.
"I don't have to do whatever you tell me!" Sierra yelled, apparently something about Sirius being to bossy had caused them to break up before. "YOU sit by James and Jimena!"
"SHUT UP EVERYONE!" Lily screamed. This had been going on long enough. With that Lily left, to sit with none other than Marvin. "Jimena, Sierra I'll owl you with Socrates!" She called down the corridor.
"Hey Marvin, Mindy." Lily greeted and they let her sit with them. Mindy had friends from all the other houses, except Slytherin, but who could blame her?
"My compartment was getting a bit cramped, so I came in here, to be with my favorite third years." She said smiling, happy to be away from her fighting friends.
"James?" Mindy said understanding her completely. Lily nodded.
"Why don't you just tell him to leave you alone?" Marvin offered.
"I try, but it's so hard, I don't know, I wish we could go back to how things were in first year, when we first met. But, he just won't EVER apologize! Plus lately he has to be better then me at EVERYTHING!" Lily told the rest of the compartment. "And I don't think being friends, with the other Marauders would hold up well with us not speaking, and we wouldn't be friends anymore. It just gets complicated, having friends with stupid friends."
"Well, changing the subject, who do you think will be keeper next year on the Quidditch team?" Mindy asked.
"Hum, probably that first year Eleanor Rockfield. Or maybe Samuel Wobblesby, he's so adorable!" Winnie Williams perked up.
"I really can't say since I'm taken!" Lily told them stifling a laugh.
"Aw, Lils don't embarrass me in front of my friends!" He said in mock horror.
"Hey they're my friends too!"
They had been talking for a while when like little puppy dogs came Sierra and Jimena, begging her to come into their compartment, to save them from the guys.
"Well…"Lily started to say.
"Puh lease?" Jimena begged with puppy dog eyes.
"Allll right." She finally gave in. "But I'm not sitting by James."
"Lil-." Sierra started to say.
"I won't until he apologizes!"
"Well that's never then, he thinks your too full of yourself to be apologized to." Jimena told her.
"Figures, he always puts it on me!" She was quiet when they got to the compartment, and didn't say much, so different from the year before. In fact no one said anything they were all very quiet. All thinking the same thing.
What was happening to their friendship? Everyone was good with their same sex friends, but the opposite was the trouble…
"What's with Lily? She's been so bitchy lately."
"What's with James, why won't he just say SORRY?"
"Sirius, he should learn to be less bossy!"
"Sierra, that girl is Insane!"
"Lily should hurry up and tell him about the curse, maybe he's leave her alone!"
"James is so cute, but why can't he and Lily get along!"
"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!" (Well most everyone!)
They got off the train and stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
"Err, maybe we should all meet at someone's house!" Jimena perked up.
"Yeah, me and Sierra could go to your house again." Lily put in.
"Remus, James, and Pete could come to my house!" Sirius suggested.
"Maybe we could meet up some-." They all shook their heads as Jimena tried to bring the friends together.
"Oh, there's the muggles!" Lily said and ran off to meet her parents. "BYE!" She shouted, and that was the last word from Lily. The rest of them left too, all feeling the feeling that their friendship was doomed.
(A/N that's a happy note huh? Well get used to it! Hee hee! Well that was REALLY long! But I hope you liked it! I was going to put it up earlier, but yeah right! Review please!!!!!)