Note: Okay, I don't think that this is my best chapter, so I'm sort of
thinking that it's going to suck big time . . . if you guys could like give
me suggestions for this chapter I'd really appreciate it. And also, I won't
be able to have the edited chapters up for a few weeks. Hope you enjoy!
Mistress del Mare
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Chapter 34 - Quidditch Season
The next month passed quicker than Lily imagined it would. But she found that between schoolwork, helping Kayla with her wedding, training James, Kayla, Aria, Sirius and Remus, and Quidditch practices, she didn't have much free time to even consider the day.
It seemed like Ravenclaws first match just sort of . . . snuck up on her. The first game of the season was Gryffindors vs. Slytherin, and Gryffindor won the match by ten points. The next game to be played was Ravenclaw against Hufflepuff, which Lily was confident that they'd win because well because it was Hufflepuff!
She was right. The score was 280-100 in Ravenclaws favor.
Soon the last game of the season was set. Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw. The teams had a month and a half to prepare.
One particular morning, the guys decided to go back to what they used to do before Lily and James broke up and headed towards the Ravenclaw table, leaving a scowling Peter to walk alone towards the Gryffindor table.
By now, everyone already knew that James and Lily had broken up, and were a bit startled to see the guys walking over towards the Ravenclaw table. Sirius sat next to Kayla-who was opposite of Lily-facing the Slytherins, who was next to Aria, to whom Remus sat next to. Leaving the only vacant spot open next to Lily.
Lily narrowed her eyes in suspicion. 'What are they trying to do?' she wondered as she saw James hesitate to sit down from the corner of her eye. Lily sighed. "I don't bite James." She snapped, irritated.
James smiled at her sheepishly and sat down next to her before he started to pile his plate with food. Lily looked at his plate and shook her head. It looked like one big glob of mush to her, and utterly disgusting. Lily rolled her eyes before she looked down at her plate of eggs and bacon.
She knew what her friends were trying to do. They were trying to make her and James talk and get back together. They had been trying such ploys as this one for the past four months. Ever since Quidditch season had started. It had been almost seven months exactly since they had broken up, and they barely even talked. 'So much for our wizard promise not to let this come between our friendship.' She thought sourly.
She did have to admit though that she did miss him. She missed being able to rest her head on his shoulder in the mornings when she was particularly tired, she missed being able to hold him, she missed his teasing smile, she missed the way he used to always look at her with that smile that he only wore for her. She missed him. Plain and simple. And she still loved him.
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(James' Point of View)
I sit down with a guilty expression. I can't deny that I've been trying to stay away from her since that day in the secret room when Sirius and Kayla told us the good news. I have been trying to give her time. Time to heal. Time to know what she wants. But I'm starting to get impatient. How am I supposed to know how long I have to wait?
And if I have to watch another boy walk up and ask her out, I'm going to have to cut their head off. They should know that she is someone else's property. Mine. They're lucky that she keeps on refusing too. I'm positive that if she was to accept an invitation that I'd simply have to kill the bastard.
I'm forever studying her in classes, the way she impatiently brushes away her hair that falls out of her high ponytail, or the way her graceful hands twirl her quill in her fingers when she's listening to a teacher, or the way she nibbles on her lower lip when she's thinking-and it always makes me want to jump up out of my chair and nibble on those lips myself-I just can't stop looking at her. I don't think that I'll ever be able to either. I love her. Even when I'm not with her, I'd still die for her.
Why is it that love always has to hurt? Somehow, you always end up hurt somewhere along the line when you fall in love. And that pain in your heart is the worse pain that you can imagine. Or at least it is for me.
Sometimes, when I'm laying in my bed thinking while everyone else is sleeping, I imagine that pain just taking over my body and making my life so much easier by making me hollow. Empty. Then I wouldn't have the energy to cry over Lily at night. Or the energy to care what she does. But that feeling, that clenching around the heart-it doesn't go away, and it doesn't fully consume you either. It just grows and grows and grows until you feel like there is nothing left in the world to live for except knowing that your loved one is happy. It takes over your body until just enough of your sanity is left to let you know how bad it hurts every time you see her smile at someone else, every time you see her exhausted face, and every time she looks like she dead on her feet.
It's driving me mad. Whenever I start thinking that the feeling is going to go away, it just gets stronger. I don't think that I can wait much longer. I think that I just need to start talking to her again. Maybe that will help this feeling. Maybe not, but I have to try. Anything is better than this pain I'm feeling in my heart whenever I hear her name or see her.
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(Normal View)
James turned towards Lily. "How's the Quidditch training going?" he asked.
Lily gaped at James. She definitely was NOT expecting him to talk to her! "It's going okay." She managed to stutter out in a small voice.
James raised an eyebrow at her. "Well, your team is going to have to do better than 'okay' to beat us Gryffindors," he taunted.
Lily was practically glowering at him. 'How dare he insult my team!' her mind cried out in outrage. "Oh, we'll beat you alright." She told him acidly. "Believe me, we'll beat you, and then you'll have to eat your words James Potter!" she yelled at him, causing everyone to stop what they were doing at look in their way. Lily stood up and stalked out of the Great Hall in a huff. 'The nerve of that man! He doesn't talk to me in almost six months, and when he does it's an insult!' she fumed.
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Ever since that day, Lily worked her team harder and longer. She was not going to let James Potter beat her.
The chasers learned new techniques, the beaters learned better aim, the seeker learned how to accomplish a higher speed, and the Keeper learned how protect the goals better. By the time the last match came up, every single Ravenclaw player was ready to kill Lily Evans. But they knew that if they lost this that she would never in a million years let them live it down.
"Today we are here to witness the last Quidditch game of the season! Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw!" screeched the announcer, a fourth year Hufflepuff guy by the name Andrew Jennings. "And starting with the Gryffindor team we have . . . Black, Figgs, Bodean, Williams, McMain, Spinnet, and the Gryffindor Captain, James Potter!"
After the Gryffindor team had done their rounds over the field, Andrew continued on; "And for the Ravenclaw team we have, Cameron, Galley, Williams, Quincey, Davis, Winterly, and the Ravenclaw Captain, Lily Evans!"
When the announcer started to call off the Ravenclaw team, Lily's heart began to beat a little faster.
Sure, she had played many games against James before, but that was when they had been friends. Now it felt as if she had more at stake than she usually did. It felt as if she just ihadi to win this game, that she IhadI to show James that she could posses enough passion in her to win this. She wanted to show James that she fought for her passions, but she doubted that he would know what this game was about to her without her telling him.
Lily took a deep breath and flew up into the sky and around the pitch once before settling into her position.
"Shake hands now." Madame Hooch told the Captains.
James grinned at Lily and shook her hand.
Lily glowered at him and shook her hand. When the whistle blew to begin the game, Lily lost thought of everything else except getting the Quaffle into the hoops. (Sirius is a beater as is Kayla, Aria is a chaser, as is Lily, and James is a Seeker. Remus doesn't play because it is too hard to play on the days of his illness.)
(A/N: okay, I don't know how to describe a quidditch match, so I'm not going to try, but if one of you guys would like to do so, you may email it to me at mymonkeygurl21@aol.com. )
Lily saw James do a nosedive out from the corner of her eyes and prayed to God that Michelle Winterly, the Ravenclaw Seeker, was on James' tail. For some reason, Lily just IknewI that James had spotted the snitch.
Lily managed to trick the Keeper into thinking that she was going to feint left, when she was really going to just shoot a straight shot and threw the Quaffle into the hoops, scoring another 20 points for her team.
As the Quaffle came back into the pit of Chasers, Madame Hooch blew her whistle, declaring Ravenclaw the winner by 10 points!
Lily closed her eyes and allowed herself to have a small smile before she landed to accept the Quidditch trophy.
James smiled as he saw Lily bask in her triumph. While still a little disappointed that he hadn't gotten the snitch first, he couldn't help but smile at the look of pure delight on Lily's face.
"Soon Lily Evans . . . Soon." James whispered as he exited the field to go take a shower.
Mistress del Mare
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Chapter 34 - Quidditch Season
The next month passed quicker than Lily imagined it would. But she found that between schoolwork, helping Kayla with her wedding, training James, Kayla, Aria, Sirius and Remus, and Quidditch practices, she didn't have much free time to even consider the day.
It seemed like Ravenclaws first match just sort of . . . snuck up on her. The first game of the season was Gryffindors vs. Slytherin, and Gryffindor won the match by ten points. The next game to be played was Ravenclaw against Hufflepuff, which Lily was confident that they'd win because well because it was Hufflepuff!
She was right. The score was 280-100 in Ravenclaws favor.
Soon the last game of the season was set. Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw. The teams had a month and a half to prepare.
One particular morning, the guys decided to go back to what they used to do before Lily and James broke up and headed towards the Ravenclaw table, leaving a scowling Peter to walk alone towards the Gryffindor table.
By now, everyone already knew that James and Lily had broken up, and were a bit startled to see the guys walking over towards the Ravenclaw table. Sirius sat next to Kayla-who was opposite of Lily-facing the Slytherins, who was next to Aria, to whom Remus sat next to. Leaving the only vacant spot open next to Lily.
Lily narrowed her eyes in suspicion. 'What are they trying to do?' she wondered as she saw James hesitate to sit down from the corner of her eye. Lily sighed. "I don't bite James." She snapped, irritated.
James smiled at her sheepishly and sat down next to her before he started to pile his plate with food. Lily looked at his plate and shook her head. It looked like one big glob of mush to her, and utterly disgusting. Lily rolled her eyes before she looked down at her plate of eggs and bacon.
She knew what her friends were trying to do. They were trying to make her and James talk and get back together. They had been trying such ploys as this one for the past four months. Ever since Quidditch season had started. It had been almost seven months exactly since they had broken up, and they barely even talked. 'So much for our wizard promise not to let this come between our friendship.' She thought sourly.
She did have to admit though that she did miss him. She missed being able to rest her head on his shoulder in the mornings when she was particularly tired, she missed being able to hold him, she missed his teasing smile, she missed the way he used to always look at her with that smile that he only wore for her. She missed him. Plain and simple. And she still loved him.
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(James' Point of View)
I sit down with a guilty expression. I can't deny that I've been trying to stay away from her since that day in the secret room when Sirius and Kayla told us the good news. I have been trying to give her time. Time to heal. Time to know what she wants. But I'm starting to get impatient. How am I supposed to know how long I have to wait?
And if I have to watch another boy walk up and ask her out, I'm going to have to cut their head off. They should know that she is someone else's property. Mine. They're lucky that she keeps on refusing too. I'm positive that if she was to accept an invitation that I'd simply have to kill the bastard.
I'm forever studying her in classes, the way she impatiently brushes away her hair that falls out of her high ponytail, or the way her graceful hands twirl her quill in her fingers when she's listening to a teacher, or the way she nibbles on her lower lip when she's thinking-and it always makes me want to jump up out of my chair and nibble on those lips myself-I just can't stop looking at her. I don't think that I'll ever be able to either. I love her. Even when I'm not with her, I'd still die for her.
Why is it that love always has to hurt? Somehow, you always end up hurt somewhere along the line when you fall in love. And that pain in your heart is the worse pain that you can imagine. Or at least it is for me.
Sometimes, when I'm laying in my bed thinking while everyone else is sleeping, I imagine that pain just taking over my body and making my life so much easier by making me hollow. Empty. Then I wouldn't have the energy to cry over Lily at night. Or the energy to care what she does. But that feeling, that clenching around the heart-it doesn't go away, and it doesn't fully consume you either. It just grows and grows and grows until you feel like there is nothing left in the world to live for except knowing that your loved one is happy. It takes over your body until just enough of your sanity is left to let you know how bad it hurts every time you see her smile at someone else, every time you see her exhausted face, and every time she looks like she dead on her feet.
It's driving me mad. Whenever I start thinking that the feeling is going to go away, it just gets stronger. I don't think that I can wait much longer. I think that I just need to start talking to her again. Maybe that will help this feeling. Maybe not, but I have to try. Anything is better than this pain I'm feeling in my heart whenever I hear her name or see her.
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(Normal View)
James turned towards Lily. "How's the Quidditch training going?" he asked.
Lily gaped at James. She definitely was NOT expecting him to talk to her! "It's going okay." She managed to stutter out in a small voice.
James raised an eyebrow at her. "Well, your team is going to have to do better than 'okay' to beat us Gryffindors," he taunted.
Lily was practically glowering at him. 'How dare he insult my team!' her mind cried out in outrage. "Oh, we'll beat you alright." She told him acidly. "Believe me, we'll beat you, and then you'll have to eat your words James Potter!" she yelled at him, causing everyone to stop what they were doing at look in their way. Lily stood up and stalked out of the Great Hall in a huff. 'The nerve of that man! He doesn't talk to me in almost six months, and when he does it's an insult!' she fumed.
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Ever since that day, Lily worked her team harder and longer. She was not going to let James Potter beat her.
The chasers learned new techniques, the beaters learned better aim, the seeker learned how to accomplish a higher speed, and the Keeper learned how protect the goals better. By the time the last match came up, every single Ravenclaw player was ready to kill Lily Evans. But they knew that if they lost this that she would never in a million years let them live it down.
"Today we are here to witness the last Quidditch game of the season! Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw!" screeched the announcer, a fourth year Hufflepuff guy by the name Andrew Jennings. "And starting with the Gryffindor team we have . . . Black, Figgs, Bodean, Williams, McMain, Spinnet, and the Gryffindor Captain, James Potter!"
After the Gryffindor team had done their rounds over the field, Andrew continued on; "And for the Ravenclaw team we have, Cameron, Galley, Williams, Quincey, Davis, Winterly, and the Ravenclaw Captain, Lily Evans!"
When the announcer started to call off the Ravenclaw team, Lily's heart began to beat a little faster.
Sure, she had played many games against James before, but that was when they had been friends. Now it felt as if she had more at stake than she usually did. It felt as if she just ihadi to win this game, that she IhadI to show James that she could posses enough passion in her to win this. She wanted to show James that she fought for her passions, but she doubted that he would know what this game was about to her without her telling him.
Lily took a deep breath and flew up into the sky and around the pitch once before settling into her position.
"Shake hands now." Madame Hooch told the Captains.
James grinned at Lily and shook her hand.
Lily glowered at him and shook her hand. When the whistle blew to begin the game, Lily lost thought of everything else except getting the Quaffle into the hoops. (Sirius is a beater as is Kayla, Aria is a chaser, as is Lily, and James is a Seeker. Remus doesn't play because it is too hard to play on the days of his illness.)
(A/N: okay, I don't know how to describe a quidditch match, so I'm not going to try, but if one of you guys would like to do so, you may email it to me at mymonkeygurl21@aol.com. )
Lily saw James do a nosedive out from the corner of her eyes and prayed to God that Michelle Winterly, the Ravenclaw Seeker, was on James' tail. For some reason, Lily just IknewI that James had spotted the snitch.
Lily managed to trick the Keeper into thinking that she was going to feint left, when she was really going to just shoot a straight shot and threw the Quaffle into the hoops, scoring another 20 points for her team.
As the Quaffle came back into the pit of Chasers, Madame Hooch blew her whistle, declaring Ravenclaw the winner by 10 points!
Lily closed her eyes and allowed herself to have a small smile before she landed to accept the Quidditch trophy.
James smiled as he saw Lily bask in her triumph. While still a little disappointed that he hadn't gotten the snitch first, he couldn't help but smile at the look of pure delight on Lily's face.
"Soon Lily Evans . . . Soon." James whispered as he exited the field to go take a shower.