A/N: Two things- I know this chapter is short, but there's a reason, which probably will be explained to you by the ending of the chapter, if you just read it. Second, I have a spin-off! Yes, yes, yes.. A spin-off. If you haven't read it, check it out. It's called Gilded, and it DOES have some Gilded Lily references in there, so you might find it amusing..
"Did you know that when a gorilla likes a female he goes up and pees on her?" Coco asked Lily as they sat on some bridge they had conjured up over the Great Lake. Their feet dangled in the water, and they sat there eating apples.
"For once, I'm glad James chose his more 'subtle' ways of doing things." Lily said with a giggle.
"So this is what the school goddesses do in their spare time? Dress in flannel, denim, pigtails and eat apples?" A voice half-sneered behind them. "And the subject matter! Oh goodness, my poor ears are burning!"
"Severus!" Lily exclaimed, jumping up.
"Yes, yes, it's me. I know how you've missed me so! Especially since you've gone through two boys already." Severus half-sneered again. His face softened. "I told you it was him."
"What do you mean, I've gone through two? James and I haven't even started yet, yet alone finished! And, do you have any hard feelings?" Lily asked wearily. Coco looked on with wide eyes.
"Of course I have hard feelings. You were the light of my life. I just wanted to warn you that lover boy is coming this way, so.. Can you tell me something?"
"What?" Lily wondered with large eyes.
"Um.. Why was it him?" He asked after a moment.
"You weren't my type." Lily explained, not looking at him and running her foot through the water.
"Why not?" He asked in surprise.
"You're cynical. You're horrible. You don't know how to love, how to observe the tiny things in life that make them so precious.. I can not believe I am having this conversation with you..." Lily muttered, looking up. Severus was gone.
"Hey, there, darlin'." James said, slipping next to his pretty girlfriend and giving her a peck on the cheek.
"I've always thought people saying, 'Hey, there!' try to make me feel inadequate." Lily thought aloud.
"Well, then, let's start over. Hello, darling." James said, kissing her on the cheek again. Lily giggled. "How is your Saturday?"
"Quite lovely, actually. Haven't lifted a finger all day." Lily informed him. "And of course, I've been spending the day being a little girl and eating apples with my best friend and then, there is you."
James pretended to be flattered. "The goddess of a goddess Lily Evans has complimented me.. Oh the gods reward me with too much."
"Then stop being a ham, James." Coco muttered. "Speaking of goddesses, how is the Greek one doing?"
James looked at her with a great expression of confusion on her face.
"She means Aphrodite, you idiot." Lily explained. "Boys are so daft."
Coco nodded and James shrugged.
"Is this how the royal court acts in the absence of the most amusing members?" A voice behind them asked. The three looked beyond the bridge and saw Remus, Sirius, Peter, Munguldus and Ronan standing there with Clarisse, Mia, Leola, Jennifer and Diana. Lily jumped up instantly.
"May I present to you the Duke of York with his sister?" Lily asked in an overly snooty voice. Sirius and Diana stepped forward. "And the Countess and Count of Devon?" Remus and Clarisse sat down. "And the three Ladies of Edinburgh with their three brothers, the Lords of Edinburgh?"
"Today is a lazy Saturday." Diana announced, sitting down and removing her shoes.
"Today is a silly Saturday." Remus whined.
"Today is a day for Lily and James to make out." Lily said, pushing her palms up towards the sky. James began to tickle her, and the rest of the group groaned.
"The Ice Queen and the Pranks King.. Who would have thunk?" Sirius said in his Gary-Stu voice.
"Shut up, Sirius.." James murmured, then proceeding to kiss his girlfriend on the cheek.
Lily flashed him a crazy smile, and exchanged a look with Coco. The two of them stood up, and did cannonballs into the lake.
Remus, Munguldus, James and Sirius rushed forward, dropping to their knees to insure the girls were alright.
"Are you okay?" Remus asked quietly as they surfaced.
They had mischief in their eyes.
"Uh-oh." Sirius muttered.
"Uh-oh? What's uh-oh? Huh?" Munguldus panicked, looking around wildly. He looked back at the girls. "Uh-oh."
Before they could get away, the five boys toppled in with the help of Lily and Coco's hands.
Clarisse, Mia, Leola, Jennifer, Ronan, Peter, and Diana started to laugh their heads off, but they too were soon covered in lake muck.
"I'm cold." Lily pouted.
"Well, you were the one who jumped into the lake in the middle of November." James reasoned.
"Why do you have to be so logical?" Lily asked, wrapping herself up in his jacket. Which he was still wearing. Sort of.
"That, Princess, is why you love me." James explained.
"I thought it was the hair." Lily whispered teasingly, looking up at him.
"You said my hair was preppy!" James exclaimed.
"When it's all straight and stuff." Lily said.
"You are fighting a losing battle, here.." James whispered. They found the back door to Rosmerta's and sat down on the back step, letting the warm light flow over them.
"Whatever James." Lily whispered, falling asleep slowly on his chest. James leaned back into the doorframe.
"I have the most fun with you, Princess.." James whispered to his half-awake girlfriend.
"You know what? I love you James.." Lily whispered, finally falling asleep.
James looked at her in awe. Closing his eyes, he kissed the top of her head after a moment, he replied, "I love you, too, Princess.."
Severus Snape was relatively happy. He was in the top ten places in his class, he was relatively popular, he was playing Quidditch, he was being spoiled, and he had a wonderful new girlfriend.. Rich, refined, beautiful, charming, intelligent, talented and athletic Aphrodite St. Clair.
She was alright, he supposed. She had almost every personality trait his previous girlfriend, the light of his life, Lily Evans, had had, but she missed one. The fact that she just wasn't Lily Evans.
He was happy, though.
Why he was walking down the back alleyways of Hogsmeade, he didn't know. He supposed that Lily had told him that he needed to see what real people were like, and it was rather charming, if you didn't remember that the cute little candles in the windows could possibly set the place on fire, and the adorable little cooks that the children were baking were probably horrible.
She had actually called him cynical. She had been cynical, but that was before.. Well, before James.
Severus shoved his hands in his pockets and turned a corner. Light poured out onto the dirt path, some people sweeping their stoops off, some children playing as dusk took over the sky. He walked a little further and looked out onto the plain field ahead of him.
Some cloth rubbed against another piece of cloth, the noise making Severus perk up and turn. It was a little farther down the path that a mysterious lump slept on the stoop.
Walking over to investigate, he saw that the stoop belonged to Madam Rosmerta's kitchen. And the lump was definitely a Gryffindor.
Severus hovered over the lump, which turned out to be two lumps combined into one.
"I love you, too, Princess." The brunette lump whispered.
And the redheaded lump cuddled closer.
Severus sadly walked back to the castle.