Love, Lily-Chapter 9

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Lily woke up the next morning, and sneezed. She frowned and bit her lip. 'Oh well,' she thought to herself, and got dressed for classes. She headed to the Great Hall, waving cheerily to the Fat Lady and Nearly Headless Nick. She took her usual seat at the Gryffindor eating table. Arabella looked up.

"Where were you last night?" she questioned. Lily thought for a moment, and chose her answer wisely.

"Oh, I was out," she simply answered. Arabella seemed satisfied with this answer, and turned back to her eggs. Lily poured syrup over her pancakes, and ate daintily, when she remembered she forgot her Transfiguration textbook, so she and Arabella jogged quickly up the stairs, to the common room. They rushed past the common room and entered the dorm area. Lily sat on her bed, and fiddled with her trunk lock. With luck, she got it open and fished out her book. Just then, Arabella gasped; her eyes lit up with excitement.

"Lily you were out with JAMES last night!" Arabella almost shouted, emphasizing the James, excitingly. She wiggled her eyebrows.

"J-James who, Bella?" Lily played dumb. Bella rolled her eyes. Lily saw that she was holding up his green cloak.

"Oh, um yeah, that..." Lily said quickly, looking for an excuse. But she looked at her watch, and saw it was almost time for first classes. She rushed out of the dorms, and walked into the common room. Taking notice of something extraordinary.

James Potter.

With a girl.

On his lap.

Lily gasped. James looked up and his jaw dropped, shoving the blonde girl off his lap. Lily ran out the common room in tears, and Arabella followed, with a well chosen 'Tisk, tisk.' James got up and started to run after them, but they were out of sight. He sighed, picked up his books, and walked the halls to the Transfiguration classroom.

Lily sat down at her Transfiguration desk, sniffling. 'Just as I was starting to like him!' Lily thought in rage. 'Bastard!' Arabella sat down next to her breathing heavily.

"Well, at least we know you can run, Lilybells. There, there," Arabella tried to comfort her friend. James sat next to them, but Lily huffily picked up her books and moved to the back of the room. James gave a hurt look, and turned back to Professor McGonagall.

At the end of the school day, the Gryffindor sixth years shuffled out of the Greenhouses lazily, in the sunny, April day. Lily walked quickly, trying to avoid her friends. She reached her dorm, and laid on her bed, pulling out a book, Belle Prater's Boy. She pretended the read, as all the sixth year girls came bustling into the room. Arabella bounced onto the bed, knocking the book down from her pale hands.

"Lily, it's almost time for dinner!" Arabella announced. Lily gingerly picked up her book and continued to pretend to read. Lily sneezed. Arabella looked up.

"You're catching a cold!" she exclaimed. Lily vigorously shook her head no.

"No I'm not, its just this dusty book," she said for an excuse. Arabella shrugged, sighed, and walked out of the dorm, leaving Lily in peace, to think about James. 'How could he do this? I trusted him! I hate him!' she raged on, again. 'It's not fair! I will never trust him again, as long as I live!' Lily screamed at herself. She got a headache very quickly, and laid on her stomach, sniffling into her pillow. She sneezed again, and headed down for dinner. 'A body can't starve.' she thought.

"Our peachy princess is back!" Sirius shouted as Lily fought her way through the crowds to the Gryffindor table. She sat down, and food appeared on her plate.

"Lily, do you know who Claudia Abbott is?" Sirius asked, his eyes sparkling. Lily shook her head no. Sirius pointed.

"James's new girlfriend. Gross," Sirius told her. Lily's eyes shone with rage, and James saw it.

"No she is NOT!" James tried to contradict, but before he finished, Lily ran up from the table and gave Amos the biggest kiss of his life. She ran up to the common room with a 'humph' as James stared, his jaw dropped. Amos smiled proudly, and walked over to him.

"Knew she'd come back, didn't you Potter?" Amos bragged. James got up, smirked at Amos, and punched him square in the jaw.

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Lily rinsed out her mouth, again, with mouth rinse for the sixth time. She had done something completely revolting, but it served that Potter right, going with that Claudia Abbott! 'Serves me right,' she thought. 'Never should have fell for that innocent act he does.' And so, for the next few weeks, the Gryffindor tower was like being in hell.

Lily sat, doing her studying for the next exam she would have in Charms. James had a frustrated look on his face. Sirius was trying to burp the alphabet, Remus was studying astronomy, and Arabella was painting her nails. Lily sighed happily as she finished her work, and went to pick up a bottle of nail polisher. She finally chose a green color, and painted her nails in stripes of red and green. She sat off for her dormitory, saying that she "needed time to think."

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"Lily, forgive me, I swear, I didn't bring it on." James Potter said, trailing off.

"JAMES POTTER!" She screamed at him. "Yes you did! How can you say you didn't?! You're awful!"

"I know I am Lily, please forgive me!" James begged, putting on a puppy dog face. Lily closed her eyes.

"James, I can't. I just can't. I'm sorry. I know I'm not pretty as any other regular girl you would date, and I don't even see why you took me out there the other day." She said with a sneeze. James handed her a tissue. "But all I know is that you and Claudia are very happy, and I don't want to break that up. Goodbye," Lily said, turning around and about to head in the other direction. James pulled her toward him hard.

"I'm sorry," he said once more, and pulled her into a deep kiss. Lily felt electricity run through her and let all go, kissing him back. They finally had to break for air, and Lily was glad for that, because she was turning a blue color.

"I'm sorry too," she said, and they walked up to the common room, hand-in-hand.

"FINALLY!" Sirius shouted once they came in. "We've been waiting for you to get back together."

"You mean you've known why she's been mad at me all this time?"

"Yeah."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I thought I'd let you figure it out."

"SIRIUS!" Sirius fell to the ground after being tackled. James got up and Sirius and him laughed.

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James blew up at his hair. It was a warm, sunny day, but he was inside. Looking for the Invisibility Cloak.

"Someone must have...took it!" James said.

"Impossible, that's bloody impossible!" Sirius said. "Damn it, I'll find that cloak!"

"We've looked everywhere. It's gone Sirius," James concluded. Sirius pouted.

"That cloak served us well," Sirius said.

"Yes," James agreed, bowing his head. Neither noticed Lily behind them.

"A bit overly dramatic, I'd say. But overall performance, a ten," she teased them. They turned around.

"What?" they said together. Lily giggled. A dark look clouded James's face.

"Don't start that again," he said.

"What?" Lily asked.

"That...giggling!" James said disgustedly. Lily sneezed.