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~Lily

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Just Another Heartbreak
Chapter 3: A Return to Hogwarts



Lily stood watching her reflection in the window above the sink. She reached into the murky water to find another pot and began cleaning it, the task wasn't the most pleasant thing in the world, but it gave her time to think. She knew she didn't want Josh back, or did she? He was all she could think about today, James hadn't crossed her mind at all, and the normally bubbly Lily Evans was sullen and thoughtful.

"How could this happen? He had promised he wasn't like the other guys she had dated, that he wouldn't break her heart. Nevertheless, he had. What was it about her? Was she too easy? Did she love too quickly? What was it?" Lily wanted to throw the plates across the room and watch them shatter into a million different places just like her heart was. "God dammit!" She held back the tears and continued washing the dishes. "Was she really that hard to love? Would anyone ever have the patience to love her?" The ringing phone interrupted her thoughts.

"Hello?"

"Lily!"

"Hey mum, what's up?"

"How would you like to go to Singapore?"

"When?" She asked, although she doubted she'd be able to go.

"Until the middle of January?"

"I can't. school remember?" Lily reminded her mother.

"Oh. I'm so sorry honey."

"Its fine," Lily was used to missing out on family vacations because of her school schedule, "You go without me."

"Is it really ok, hun?"

"Yeah mum don't worry. I'm sure Dumbledore won't mind if I come back early."

"Great! I promise this summer we'll go somewhere just for you, bye Lils!"

"Bye." Lily sighed and began writing a note requesting to come back early from the holidays, Dumbledore would understand, he always did.

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Lily gathered up some Floo powder in her palm and bade one last goodbye to her family.

"Be good Lils!"

"I'm sorry again."

"I'm not."

"Petunia! You give your sister a proper goodbye! You may not see her for another six months!"

"Bye." Petunia muttered, but under her breath she muttered, "Never come back." If their mother heard, she took no notice.

"Bye! I'll see you soon!" Lily hugged everyone again and threw the Floo into the fire, and stepping into the fire yelled "Dumbledore's Office" and as gone.

"For moments after she was gone Petunia stared at where her sister had been standing and with one final shudder, left.

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Lily was welcomed into the Gryffindor common room by the silence alone. She sighed and brought her trunk upstairs into her room and began unpacking her clothes.

"You're back early" a voice startled her from the doorway.

"James! You scared the hell out of me!" Lily exclaimed, laughing

"I get that a lot."

"I can see that. What are you doing in a girls dormitory?" She bantered, not glancing up from her trunk and the clothes inside as James made himself comfortable on the bed nearest him.

"Oh you know, the usual."

"And that would be?"

"Making myself comfortable."

"Who said you may?"

"I did."

"That explains it." Lily grinned levitating a pillow at his head.

"Hey! That's not nice!" James retorted with all the pillows in the room retaliating against Lily. The air was soon filled with flying pillows with Lily and James collapsed on top of each other, breathless.

"You know James, you aren't the lightest person on earth."

"I thank you for that compliment."

"Most people would take that as their cue to remove themselves from sitting on top of me."

"I'm not most people."

"So I've noticed, now please get the hell off me or die." Lily smiled sweetly.

"Yes ma'am." James teased back, and obligingly rolled onto the other part of the bed.

"Guess what?"

"What?"

"I still know someone who likes you."

"Besides the entire population of this school?"

"Don't flatter yourself. It's not becoming" "Actually you're not far off the mark."

"Do I know this person?"

"Yep"

"Is she here over the holidays?"

"Maybe." "Is it just me or is he getting closer to me every second?"

"I think so too, but then again, I'm you. Did you brush your teeth this morning?"

"Thanks for the encouragement. Did I?"

"If I knew do you really think I'd ask?"

"You never know. Why am I talking to myself?"

"I dunno. You're the one doing it."

"You're me, therefore you're doing it too."

Lily's thoughts were interrupted by James's lips closing over hers.

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