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Chapter 8
Sirius and Remus ran into James room without knocking. They found him sitting at his desk, looking at a picture of him and Lily.
"James! James!" they called.
"Yeah?" he asked carelessly.
"Lily's hurt!" Remus lied.
James stood up, knocking over his chair. "Where is she?"
"Here," Sirius said, leading him out of the room. Remus notice that James was so worried, that he forgot to take his wand with him. He snuck it into his robes' pocket. Then he followed Sirius and James.
"Where is she??" James asked.
"Here!" Sirius pushed James into the bathroom and locked the door magically.
"Sirius? What the hell is going on? Where's Lily?"
"James, all your questions will be answered later. Just wait. You'll thank us later," Remus said.
"I'll thank you if you let me out and explain to me what's going on!"
Meanwhile, Lily and Mrs. Potter just came home. Peter went up to Mrs. Potter and asked her to teach him how to cook, just to distract her. Bella waited until Mrs. Potter was gone, turned to Lily and said, "Lily, you've got to come! James' in trouble!"
"Where?" Lily asked alarmed.
"Come!" And Bella dragged Lily to the bathroom.
"In here?" Lily asked.
"Yes, there." Bella quickly opened the door and shoved Lily inside. Lily fell on top of James, who was sitting on the floor. She got up right away, and said, "James! Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, are you?"
"Yeah…oh my gosh…." Lily just realized what was going on.
"What?"
"We've fallen for their old trick again!" Then she went to the door. "BELLA!! LET ME OUT OF HERE!!"
"NO!" Bella yelled back. "NOT UNTIL YOU AND JAMES HAVE SORT OUT YOUR PROBLEMS!!"
"Bella!" Lily kept on banging on the door, until James came and pulled her back.
"It's no use," he said.
"You're right." And they just sat down on the floor in silence.
"Lily," James said. "Why did you break up with me?"
Lily looked up at him in surprise. She stood up and said, "I told you why."
"You told me everything but the truth," James said, standing up too. "What's wrong, Lily?"
"Nothing's wrong, James. What I said was the truth, believe it or not. I don't love you anymore. I don't have anymore feelings for you except friendship."
James placed his hands on her arms and pulled her closer. He kissed her passionately. Lily was enjoying this. This…this was the kiss that she longed for. But she remembered why she broke up with him and pulled away.
"Don't…James…don't do that," she said.
"Lily, did that mean nothing to you?" he asked.
Lily turned the other way. "Yes. That meant nothing."
James spun her around and held onto her arm fiercely. "Lily, look at me straight in the eye and tell me that you don't love me anymore."
She couldn't. "Please don't make me, James. Please." Tears start to spill from Lily's eyes.
"You can't. So you still love me."
"I don't love you!"
"Yes, you do, Lily! I know you do. I love you too."
"I don't love you, James! I hate you!"
James stood there shocked. Did Lily just said what he thought she said? "Why do you hate me, Lily?" he asked quietly.
"Because, James…because…"
"Because you can't deal with the fact that you love me?"
"No…I don't love you, James…I can't love you…" Then Lily realized what she just said and start pounding on the door again. James went over and pulled her away from the door.
"You can't?"
"I-I…I can't…I can't love you, James."
"Why not!?"
"Because…because I'll hurt you…"
"How can you hurt me??"
Lily took a deep breath. "Do you remember that letter Petunia gave me? Well, that was a letter from my mum…she was going to leave my father…she stopped loving him…"
"I'm sorry, Lily, but I don't see how this effects us…"
"James, do you know how alike my mum and I are? I'm afraid that one day, I'll stop loving you, leave you, and hurt you!"
"Lily that's crazy! You and your mum are two totally different people! Besides, can't you see that you're hurting me now?"
"Better now than later."
"No. I love you, Lily, and you love me. You will never stop loving me, because I'll die before I let that happen."
"James, I--"
But she never got to finished. Because James kissed her, sweetly and meaningfully.
"Does that mean anything?" he asked, looking deeply into her eyes.
"Yes. It meant a lot!" And she jumped into James arms, hugging him tightly. "Oh, James…" she said. "You haven't a clue how much I missed you these pass few days."
"I do," James said. "Because I missed you too."
Outside, Bella, Remus, and Sirius were leaning against the door listening. "Yes!" they all said, slapping each other high-fives for a job well done. Remus unlocked the door, and Lily and James emerged, hand-in-hand.
"Now, James…" Sirius began pompously. "We just got you your girlfriend back. Don't you want to say something?"
"Yes, I do," James said, letting go of Lily's hand. "You never learned, do you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, do you remember what happened last time when you did the same thing to us?"
"Erm…uh oh…" and he began to run, James on his tail.
"Is everything okay between you and James?" Bella asked.
"Yes, everything's fine. Thank you, Bella. And thank you, Remus," Lily said gratefully.
"No problem, Lily," Remus said. "Just glad that you and James are back together."
"Yeah," Bella agreed. "Oh, but Lily…"
"Yes?"
"Promise me you and James won't break up again. I can't go through this anymore."
Lily laughed. "Don't worry."
Just then, Sirius and James came back. Sirius had floppy rabbit ears, a fluffy pink tail, a penguin body, and an extra head.
At this site, everybody burst out laughing.
"Oh yeah," Sirius said sarcastically. "Laugh all you want. Ha-ha."
"Oh, Sirius," Bella said, trying to contain her laughter. "Don't worry. I still think you're cute."
"Thank you. I know my baby still loves me."
"Yeah…I think you're cute…in a penguin-ish way!" And everybody laughed again.
"Hey!" Sirius cried, as he tried to chase Bella, in his penguin body.
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