The Damsels of Distress- Chapter 11
"Who is it?"

Disclaimer: I don't own it. Nah duh, right? Oh yeah, I'm really J.K. Rowling, and after all my eminent success I have decided to have fun pretending to be a 15 year old obsessed HP freak, who's writing is mediocre at best. I request all those who believe that to go jump off a bridge, and do humanity a favor.

A/N: I toiled away at this chapter, I had it half-way typed once and then my whole computer crashed and I lost everything.(Katie, you've heard me complain about my piece o' junk computer.) I am retyping it now. I worked really hard to make this satisfying whoever is reading it. I wrote more than I have ever wrote in my life. If one single person asks me to make my chapters longer, I will have a emotional breakdown, and go into hiding, never to write again.

A/N: Sorry, I sounded really morbid in the previous A/N.

Dedicated: To Alicia/Sue, who I am sure everyone in HP fandom will miss. I am adding this after finding out that Antisocial Butterfly has been deleted. I am so sad.
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The next morning Lily woke up tired, nut resolute. She would just have to tell James how she felt about him, it was as simple as that. She was Lily Evans, and she prided herself on being brave, and doing the things others couldn't. It was a simple matter. Girls tell boys they like them everyday. Girls told James they like him a hundred times a day. No big deal. Suffice it to say, Lily was terrified. Lily was always used to being the calm one of the group. If she wanted something,she worked hard, she got it. End of story. This time it just didn't seem that simple anymore. How could she tell someone else how she felt, when she didn't even understand what she felt. She struggled to recall exactly when James went from an annoying Jerk with a few good ideas, to annoying Jerk with a few good ideas who she was in love with. Life used to be so simple, the ultimate goal was to beat James, Easy. While that goal was still definately important, it wasn't the main goal anymore. Now her ultimate goal was: Be with James. This goal was suffiently more difficult. Lily was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't notice when Iris called her name five times, nor did she notice when Channing waved her hand in front of her face. Only did she emerge from her thoughts when Channing smacked her over the head with a pillow.
"Ow," was the unintelligent reply that action recieved.
"So what's going on?" asked Iris in a concerned voice.
"What makes you think something is wrong?" asked Lily absentmindedly, still staring blankly at the wall where her gaze was fixed on a small crack.
"Well, us calling your name over and over with no reply kinda tipped us off, and there is the fact that you're staring at the wall."
"Oh, Sorry. Guess I just got a little distracted."
"You think?" was Channing's sarcastic reply. "Oh, I thought you were trying to use your x-ray vision to burn a hole in the wall."
"Ha. Ha. What time is it?" asked Lily finally looking somewhere other than the said wall.
"About 10:45," replied Iris, glancing at her watch.
"Oh my God! We're late for classes," exclaimed Lily jumping off the bed and making a mad dash around the room, gathering clothes to wear.
"Uh huh, you see we would be late for class, but shockingly enough it's a Saturday. Even more shockingly we don't have classes on Saturdays.
"Oh," Lily said stopping mid-run and dropping her clothes on the floor.
"She's acting like me when I think about Remus," exclaimed Iris. "She's in love."
"NO I'M NOT," Lily said, a little too fast, and a little too loud to be convincing.
"Your right Iris, I don't know how we missed it before. Our dear Lily has fell for one of those awful boys she claimed she didn't need."
"Ah, but the question is who," Iris said in a mystic voice that rivaled the Divination Professor.
"I am not in love with anyone," Lily replied hotly, wanting this discussion over right then.
"You can deny it, but eventually we'll find out. You'll make a mistake and blush when your talking to him, or deny it too quickly when we suggest it. We will find out, and when we do we'll tell the whole school," proclaimed Channing, while Lily put her head in her hands and made the sound a person makes when they know their life is about to be ruined.
Lily looked helplessly at Iris, "You wouldn't do that, would you? You're not corrupted yet are you?"
"Oh yeah Lily, " commented Iris easily looking at her nails. "Paybacks a bitch, isn't it? You had better just hope she doesn't get Sirius involved in this! The two of them start working together, and you wil have *every* secret you have had revealed before it's over with."
"Sirius... Sound like a plan, thanks Iris. I didn't think of recruiting him before. He would be perfect this cause," Channing got a evil grin on her face as she said this.
"Iris," said Lily slowly in a low and throaty voice. "Your dead." Iris made a mad dash for the door after Lily said this. She was followed closely by Lily, who grabbed her wand off the dresser as she went by, unknowingly leaving Channing to snoop for clues as to who Lily was infatuated with.
Lily chased Iris down the stairs, into the crowded common room. "Remus! Hide me! SHE'S GOING TO KILL MEEEE!" screamed Iris, diving behind the couch that James and Remus were sitting on.
"What did you do?" asked James, noting to himself that neither of them had changed out of thier night-clothes. He also noted the fact that Lily wore a tank top and a **very** short pair of shorts to sleep in. Lily walked calmly behind the couch, and pointed her wand at Iris.
"Maybe I won't kill you," she said slowly, emphasizing every syllable. "I might just hex you to the point of sickness." Fortunately for Iris, Channing chose this moment to come bounding down the steps.
"How in the world am I supposed to read your diary and find out whoever it is your in LOVE with, if you don't have a diary?" complained Channing.
"Lily's in love with someone? I don't believe it!" exclaimed Remus.
" I bet I know who it is," sing-songed Sirius. Lily muttered a liplocking spell and he couldn't open his mouth. When he started trying to convey his guess with hand gestures,
she did a full body bind.
"Anyone else waht to join Sirius on the floor?" Lily asked. They all immediately shut thier mouths, sat down, and looked at the wall, not daring to make a peep. Satisfied, Lily went to her dorm to change, and then proceeded to go to the astronomy tower to think. Once the others were sure of her departure, they undid the binds on Sirius.
"Wow, you must have really hit a nerve for her to go off that bad," observed James.
"She knows, that I know, who she likes," explained Sirius with a smug grin on his face.
"Fine then Mr. I-know-everything, who is it?" asked Channing.
Sirius grinned, "It's James."


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