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Chapter six: The Betrayal

Three week had went by since James had kissed Lily. Neither of them were ready to face each other. James was angry, he couldn't believe that Lily trusted that prat Thatcher. Lily had turned against not just James, but her dorm mates and some of the badgering underclassmen in her house. Every time James caught a glimpse of Lily and Mikel together, he had to fight back his urge to hex him.

James had more self control than some. Sirius and December had made it a personal goal to make Mikel Thatcher suffer. December preferred to embarrass him with foolishness charms, or mind slip spells. Sirius, like stripping his pants down in the hallways, or hexing him with jelly legs in between classes. He had even cursed him with a shaking spell, and forced him to miss several quidditch practices.

Lily stayed true, she wouldn't listen to reason from anyone. She wasn't on speaking terms with December. The only reason she talked to Beth was because she had promised not to ever bring up Mikel's name. Dreamy had even started shaking her finger at Lily or rolling her eyes when she entered the room.

As far as the Maunders, Lily pretended they didn't even exist. She would flash cold glares at Peter, Remus and Sirius. And, she just plain ignored James. While several people had witnessed the now legendary Potter/Evans kiss, she was quite content pretending it never happened.

"So, hear of any new kisses today?" December asked Beth sarcastically.

"December," Beth warned.

Lily flashed December the coldest look she could muster. She then rolled her eyes and looked back down at her transfiguration homework.

"I heard Thatcher forgot his own name in herbology today," December jeered.

Dreamy gave a slight laugh.

"Just shut-up," Lily snapped.

"Why, am I offending you," she asked sternly.

"Your mere presence offends me," Lily responded. She was usually pretty good at ignoring December's taunt, but today she just didn't have the patients.

"Well, I can't help you with that problem," she said casually. She sat next to Beth on the couch.

Lily wished she would leave, three weeks ago December was one of her best friends in the world, now, she couldn't stand her.

"So, Beth did you hear about the new hex, you know who, put on the liar?" December teased. Beth gave December a pitiful look, she hated being in the middle of this. " He fell flat on his face, and his ink splattered all over his homework," December laughed.

"That's it! One more word and I'll," Lily started.

"What, give me detention?" December finished, "for what, exercising my right to speak!"

Lily snatched her books up and stormed out of the Gryffindor common room. It was apparent she wasn't going to get any studying done in there.

Lily was heading to the Library, she was anxious to find a quite corner so she could get some work done. She had reached her favorite spot when her boyfriend suddenly appeared at the library entrance.

"I was hoping to find you here," he said. He had a depressed look on his face, which was still covered in acne. Lily had a feeling Sirius was responsible for it not healing properly.

"What's wrong?" Lily asked with concern.

"I've been booted from Hufflepuff's Quidditch team," he said flatly. "Missed too many practices."

Lily felt her face fluster, "I'll get even with Sirius and December," she spat.

Mikel gave her a friendly smile, "now, now, my little redhead, that's not very Head Girlish."

"I don't understand why they won't leave you alone!" Lily whined.

"It's all that stupid prat Potter's fault," he accused. "He's egging them on."

Lily stroked his hair carefully, "I love you," she whispered.

It was the first time she had actually spoken these words to him, he looked at her, tears were building in his eyes. He bent down and gave her a kiss.

They heard the librarian clear her throat, and they both blushed.

"I've really got to get some of this homework done," she said sincerely.

"I understand, I'll see you soon," he kissed her on the top of the forehead and disappeared.

She was in the library almost all day, and when she felt she had completed a successful amount of work, she gathered her things and got ready to leave. That's when she heard a greasy voice over her shoulder.

"Feeling better Evans," Snape sneered.

"Don't talk to me," Lily said quickly, fear filling her voice.

"Your lucky, if that stupid git Potter hadn't saved you, than we might have accomplished our goal," he said wildly.

She felt her head beginning to swim, "Potter didn't save me, what the hell are you playing at!"

"Shhh..." motioned the librarian.

"I guess it must have been his twin, terrible image, two Potters," Snape shuttered at the thought.

He shot her a sadistic grin and walked away. Snape was lying, he had to be lying. He was the master at mind games, he had heard the rumors and now was playing with her mind. There had been several occasions that Lily could have swore Snape had read her mind, this was all it was. For the first time since her kiss with James, she felt something she didn't want to feel, doubt.

Lily didn't know what to believe, part of her wanted to trust Mikel, the other part of her knew he wasn't true. She walked back to the common room in silence, she didn't even realize where her feet were leading her. The majority of the students were in the Great Hall eating dinner, but Lily wasn't hungry. She muttered the password, and entered a now foreign house common room. She found a seat by the fire, and sat down to reflect on what was going through her mind.

She wasn't sure how long Remus Lupin had been sitting next to her, but she suddenly jumped when he asked what was wrong.

"Nothing," she muttered. For some reason she didn't feel like being cold to him anymore.

"I know you don't trust us, but trust your heart," Lupin said seriously.

He patted her leg and left. She stared up at him as he left, she wanted to yelled out, to stop him. She had so many questions, and she needed to talk to somebody, anybody. He disappeared and Lily found herself staring into the fire once again. The flames burned her eyes, but she was enchanted by the dancing flames.

December, Beth and Dreamy came through the portrait.

"Leave her alone," Beth begged.

December just grinned, and shouted, "no snogging tonight, Evans!"

Lily looked up at her, she wanted to say something, anything. Suddenly her eyes welled up with tears and she broke down completely.

Beth ran over to her and tried to offer some comfort. "It's okay, let it out..."

Lily finally got a hold of herself, she looked over at December and whispered, "I'm so sorry, can you ever forgive me?"

December now had tears in her eyes, it was the first time any of them could ever remember December crying, "Oh Lils, what took you so long, I hated being mean to you!"

"How could I be such and idiot?" Lily cried.

"Lily, he's deceptive, it wasn't your fault," Beth offered.

"What made you finally come to your senses?" December asked, now joining Beth in comforting Lily.

"I listened to my heart," she replied. "I guess I always knew I shouldn't trust him, I just didn't want to believe he'd lie to me."

Lily was sobbing uncontrollably, she felt like someone had just reached into her chest and ripped her heart out.

"What did he have to say for himself?" December asked.

Lily wiped her eyes, "I haven't confronted him yet."

"Lils, can I do it for you?" December asked hopeful.

Lily considered it for a second then said, "no, this is something I need to do myself."

December gave a frown but nodded. Lily couldn't stop crying, she felt so betrayed. She had just told Mikel that she loved him. Why had she done that? Did she love him?

So many questions were racing through her mind, she didn't have a clue what she was going to say to him.

"Come on, lets get you upstairs and into bed," Beth said in a motherly voice.

Lily felt Dreamy and Beth helping her off the couch. Dreamy didn't say a word, she just gave a sympatric smile. She was at the base of the stairs leading up to her dorm, she turned around to see where December was, and her eyes met with those of James Potter.

She wanted to run, but she felt like she was frozen. She hadn't even thought about what she was going to say to James. If she owed anybody an apology, it was him. Beth tugged gently at Lily's robe and she obediently responded by starting up the stairs. She felt James eyes upon her until she disappeared behind her dormitory door.

Lily cried herself to sleep that night, December, Beth and Dreamy took turns stroking her back and trying to comfort her sobs.

"Is she asleep?" Beth whispered over towards Dreamy. Dreamy just nodded.

"I'll kill that bloody bastard," December swore.

"She really cared about him," Beth said as she stared at Lily's sleeping form.

December sneered, "she can only blame herself, we tried to warn her."

"How can you be so insensitive?" Beth spat at December. December had a smug grin on her face, "trust me, I'm going to be a hero tomorrow after I get done with Thatcher."

Beth gave her a worried look, but December just winked and crawled into her own bed.

The next morning, Lily felt a pain twigging in her chest. She was an early riser, but this morning, she didn't want to get up. Her face was burning and her puffy eyes were throbbing in protest of her tears. She couldn't remember her head ever hurting so much.

"Morning sunshine," December said brightly. "I got up early to go get you some coffee, McGonagall's special."

Lily smiled, it wasn't characteristic for December to wake up any earlier than she had to.

It was a terrible Monday morning, Lily didn't want to leave the sanctuary of her dorm room, but a higher caused forced her to face the day.

"I don't even want to see him," she sniffled.

"My offer to dump him for ya still stands," December offered.

"What if I can't dump him?" Lily asked, worry filling her voice.

"Then I will!" December interjected.

Lily cracked a smile, she was glad December was being friendly to her again.

The four dorm mates slowly got ready and prepared to face what appeared to be an eventful day.

Lily wasn't four steps out the portrait when a voice she was dreading to hear said, "Lily, where in the world have you been, I've been worried sick!"

He tried to pull her into a hug, but she backed away swiftly.

"Keep away from me," she warned. She felt the tears building, but she was determined to fight them back.

Mikel's expression suddenly became anxious and worried. "Lily, what's wrong?"

"You know damn well what's wrong!" she spat.

She was glaring at him with such anger, he had betrayed her.

"Did I do something to make you mad?" he asked stupidly.

"Idiot," December muttered.

"How could you lie to me?" Lily asked him coldly.

"I didn't lie, it was James Potter that lied," he argued.

"Stop playing games! I know the truth," Lily cried.

"Lily, you said you loved me," he said, hurt now apparent on his face. "I don't want to lose you over this."

"I was never really yours to lose, was I?" Lily asked him shaking her head.

Lily turned and started to walk away, she was done, she had nothing more to say.

"So are you dumping me," Mikel called after her.

"Good observation, dumbass," December said hatefully at him.

"Lily wait, Lily we can work this out," he yelled after her. "WHAT THE HELL?"

Lily stopped and looked behind her to see what he was cursing about. She almost fell over at what she saw.

December had done the master of all hexes on Mikel. His hair was glowing bright green, and not just the hair on his head. The bright green hair was growing at an alarming rate, suddenly the ends of the hairs sprouted heads and thousands of Venus fly traps were snapping their jaws.

Sirius joined in the fun, and jinxed Mikel's cloths off. He ran screaming and naked through the hallways.

Lily almost felt sorry for him, almost.