Chapter 3: Just Missed the Train

As the weeks passed for the upcoming Ball, Lily and Amos got closer. They were the most cutest couple in the school, and James didn't like it one bit.

I've been trying to get her since our 4th year and she always says no, thought James. And the first time Diggory asks her, she just says yes! James didn't know why he liked Lily, he just did. No other girl compared to her. Whenever he was around her, he just felt like he had to prove something to her.

James was sitting with the Marauders, eating dinner. Ella was with them too. Lily was down at the other end of the table, sitting with her usual group of giggling girls and Diggory. James was fed up with watching Lily all over Amos. He winced every time he saw them kiss each other. Watching them was a major loss for his ego.

"I'm sick of this," James said. "I'm going to be in the dormitory if you need me." He stood up and walked out of the Great Hall.

"He really does like her, doesn't he?" Ella asked.

"Yeah, he sure does, the poor guy," Remus answered.

James walked up to the portrait of the Fat Lady and gave her the password.

"Why so glum?" she asked.

James ignored her. He walked through the common room into the step leading up to the dormitories. He opened the door to the 7th dorm. It was a pig sty. Clothes everywhere, scattered parchment, broken quills. I was a wonder the guys could find anything. But James knew exactly where the thing he was looking for was located. He bent down to the floor, looked under his bed, and there it was. A muggle thing called a CD. He heard that Lily's favorite music artist was a muggle singer called Kelly Clarkson and he wanted to give it a shot so he bought it at a muggle mall. It was pretty good music in James's opinion. He liked most of her songs, but his absolute favorite was once called "Just Missed the Train." It was a very depressing song about a person being too late to tell the person he loved that he loved her. James loved the emotion Kelly sang with. Right now, that song was the perfect song to play.

He walked to a large mess of clothes on one side of the room. He threw some clothes off and there was a table with a wizard stereo on it. James popped in the CD, said a spell to play the muggle item, and lay down on his bed.


We're over baby
The time has come
To make a little bit more room
I've hung around you
It's getting tough
I think I'm gonna break down soon
Cuz I remember
Crying in the park
It was getting dark
Suddenly I looked up
You were my sky

So go on
And sleep darlin
Why don't you pretend we were just a dream
It's cool baby
It doesn't matter anyway
Well I'm so sorry
Down to the station a little too late
Such a shame
Just missed the train
Just missed the train

Yeah. James "got to the station a little too late" to tell Lily the way she made him feel. James "missed the train." He missed the chance to tell Lily everything. He missed the chance to ever be with her.

Be quiet angel
Don't make a sound
Just save it for a rainy day
Oh can't you see me
I'm such a mess
Just trying hard to find my way
You remember wasting all the time
We were feeling fine
But we couldn't walk the line
We were all right

So go on
And sleep darlin
Why don't you pretend we were just a dream
It's cool baby
It doesn't matter anyway
Well I'm so sorry
Got to the station a little too late
Such a shame
Just missed the train

Oh why let strangers pass us by
Didn't anyone see we were so damn in love
And we would've made it on time

Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

So sleep darlin
Why don't you pretend we were just a dream
It's cool baby
It doesn't matter anyway
Well I'm so sorry
Got to the station a little too late
And sleep darlin
Why don't you pretend we were just a dream
It's cool baby
It doesn't matter anyway
Well I'm so sorry
Got to the station a little too late
Such a shame
Just missed the train

James felt so bad after listening to the song. His heart was broken. For the first time in his life, he could actually relate to the song. He fell asleep, listening to the song over and over again.

***

Lily was walking back to the Gryffindor Common Room by herself. It was pretty late, and she shouldn't have been out. She and Amos had a little snogging session in an empty classroom earlier that night. Amos had to go his separate way to his own Common Room.

Lily was so happy she was with Amos. He made her happy and cheerful all the time and she loved this feeling.

When Lily went into her dorm, everyone was already asleep. Ella wasn't in her bed. 'Ah well,' Lily thought. 'She's probably off with Sirius.' It was 1 A.M.

Lily got dressed into her pajamas and lay on her bed.

She was beginning to think that she loved Amos.

***

James woke up in the darkness of the light. He turned his head to see the alarm clock. It was 1:15 A.M. James was starving; he needed to get food. He got up and looked around. His other three friends were peacefully sleeping. He got his invisibility cloak and put it over himself, then exited the room. He ambled through the corridors walking quickly to the kitchens to ask food from the house-elves. He passed a corridor of empty classrooms and suddenly passed one that wasn't empty. He walked to the door to get a closer look.

It was two people snogging. James tried to get a look of the two people.

It was Amos. But it wasn't Lily with him, it was Ella.

James wasn't so hungry anymore.