Hey you guys! Thanx for the reviews! Ummm…I was wondering…do you guys want Arabella and Remus to be a couple, or Arabella to get together with Sirius (with her and Remus still friends)??? I need opinions on what you guys think should happen…I LOVE you all to bits for reading…but I'd love you just that extra bit more if you'd review…lol…ok, on with the story!!! Enjoy!!!
Lily grunted as her racket came in contact with the tennis ball. She was feeling absolutely exhausted. After the day she'd had, she had a right to! She hit the ball even harder as she thought about the goings-on of her day. First, she'd awoken to find Bella and Remus making out on Bella's bed! Really! Was a bed the right place to be making out? It was the right place for other activities, but not for making out! Then, she gone down to breakfast and caught James and 'Narcissa', she could only assume that was her name as that was what James had been repeating during their make-out session. She hadn't felt too hungry after that. You know, watching two people swap spit isn't quite as enjoyable as some people make it out to be.
Her racket slipped from her grip and tumbled to the floor and, moments later, so did Lily. She slumped against the tennis wall and closed her eyes. God! What a day! First, it's 'Make-Out Monday' or something…and then, James won't stop grilling me about 'Cissa'! What did I do? She slowly stood up and grabbed her tennis racket and three balls. Her overhand serve was so powerful that she barely had time to lower her racket before the ball was hurtling back at her. Just imagine it's James' head! It worked too. She whacked the ball with all her might and sent it flying back at the wall. Take that! And that! And that! With every hit, she imagined James' face getting more and more pained until finally she stopped because she had no energy left.
She collected her things and headed to the showers. As she worked her way inside, as the tennis courts were outside, she heard kissing noises. Oh god! Not again! I don't have the energy to deal with him right now! She silently prayed that it wasn't James and rounded the corner. She sighed in relief when she saw Arabella and Remus there, snogging like there was no tomorrow. Lily made a gagging noise and Bella looked up, startled.
"Oh. Hey Lils. I thought you were Sirius. I was gonna jump out of my skin!" Bella said, and then clamped a hand over her mouth, obviously thinking that she'd said too much.
"What? What are you talking about? What if I was Sirius? Why would you care?" Lily questioned carefully.
"Nothing. Of course, nothing! Why would I care if you were Sirius?" Bella laughed airily, although it was quite obvious that it was fake and forced.
Remus stared hard at her, and finally shook his head before leaning his head in and continuing the snog session.
Lily shook her head, picked up her bag from where she'd dropped it in exhaustion, and sauntered off to the showers, where she had yet another nasty shock. There was James Potter, in the shower room, making out with 'Cissa'. Lily gave a frustrated half scream, and backed out of the enclosed space, suddenly feeling claustrophobic.
James looked up, glared at her and proceeded to nibble on 'Cissa's' neck.
Lily blinked a few times, as though not quite sure of what she had seen, and hurried up to the mansion while resolving to shower inside. Urgh! Potter's so annoying! Is he just waiting for me to do this?! Lily rubbed her eyes tiredly, and grunted loudly as a massive mass (to her) slammed into her side, sending her sprawling into the wall.
"Oops. Sorry Lil." Sirius grinned sheepishly at her.
"Where were you going in such a hurry?" Lily asked, rubbing her ribs where the corner of the hall table had slammed into her. There's gonna be a big bruise there! Damn Siri! Awww…you can't stay mad at him for long…
He smiled slyly. "Wouldn't you like to know!"
"C'mon! I deserve to at least know to what do I owe the pleasure of this, erm, confrontation to!" Lily racked her brains for what she could say to back that up.
"Smooth, Lil. I was just going to meet-"
Lily held up her hand to stop him. "What you do in your own bedroom is no concern of mine…I mean, on your own free time."
He pouted. "I was gonna say that I was off to meet James to play a little Quidditch."
She snickered. "He's currently busy playing a riveting game of 'tonsil Quidditch' with 'Cissa'."
"Ugh! He promised he'd stop for a half an hour so we could get some practice time in." Sirius snapped.
"I'll practice with you, Siri." She offered, rubbing her eyes wearily, but grinning mischievously at him all the while.
"Alright. Let's go…but drop that smelly, smelly bag off first." Sirius wafted his hand through the air in front of him as though to ward off any imposing smells.
"You know you like it!" Lily teased but nonetheless headed to her room to drop her stuff off.
"Yeap! Smelly girls just turn me on!" Sirius rolled his eyes.
She came bouncing down the stairs and grabbed his arm to pull him to the Pitch faster.
"Geez Lil. You'd think I'd offered to help you by how eager you are."
"Aaahhh, shut up!" Lily shoved him as hard as she could and he stumbled slightly but that's it.
He looked at her with mock pity in his eyes. "Aww, Lily. Is that all you can do? The girl I knew in Hogwarts was stronger than that."
"Shut up! I'm tired! I've been up since dawn, and all day it's been 'annoy-the-hell-out-of-Lily' day. I don't know what's more annoying…Potter's face, or catching 'Cissa' plastered to it every 10 minutes." Lily groaned.
"Well, at least it's every 10 minutes. It could have been every 5 minutes." Sirius pointed out.
"What an, erm, interesting way of looking at it. Only you would look at it that way…" Lily trailed off.
"Yep! Only me!" Sirius repeated happily.
"Siri, only you can make me laugh hysterically after the day I've just had." She stated, completely breaking down into fits of laughter, and snorts.
Sirius looked at her weirdly and went to grab a few brooms from the broom shed.
"Wait! I brought my own broom." Lily called after him. He turned back to her and nodded. She took out her wand, and muttered, "Accio Silver Arrow." And 15 seconds later, her broom was in her hand and she was preparing to mount it.
When Sirius came out again, she was already flying around with a blissful expression on her face. He shook his head, mounted his broom, and kicked off.
"Oof!" He cried as Lily elbowed him in the stomach after catching him trying to sneak up behind her. "What was that for?"
"Siri, you know you should never mess with me. I'm much too clever for you!" Lily teased.
"However true that may be," Sirius started, and Lily gave a snort, "you have no right to rub it in my face." He finished very, erm, diplomatically.
Lily rubbed her eyes, and said, "Well? Are you gonna let the balls out or what?"
When Sirius headed down to the ground, Lily spotted two figures, entangled in each other's arms, coming down to the Pitch. She called to Sirius. "I think Potter's here, and he's brought someone."
"Great. We can all three practice." Sirius yelled back.
"Oh no! I'm not playing anything with Potter!" Lily hissed venomously.
"C'mon Lil! Do it for your old pal Siri." Sirius grinned cheekily at her.
"No. Get it through-"
"I'll let you call me Siri-Poo for a whole day…" Sirius offered.
"Well, alright, but I'm not playing on his team…got it?" Lily sighed and then added, "Siri-Poo!"
"I didn't actually expect you to accept my offer…" Sirius stuck out his bottom lip.
"Yeah, well…" Lily smiled evilly and flew off.
James and 'Cissa' were already at the Pitch, and James had stopped for a final snog before having to fly off. When he finally unglued his face from Narcissa's, he looked up and a look of horror played on his face.
"Siri! What's she doing here?!" He bellowed so that the whole population of Hogwarts might have heard.
"She's playing with us. Lilykins here agreed to help me practice while your face was glued to her." He gestured to the blonde standing behind James.
"Well, I'm back now, so she can leave." James said simply.
Lily fumed and landed on the ground a few meters away from him. "Siri had to bribe me to stay and play with you two…if it were up to me, I'd have been long gone by the time you and your whore arrived!" She growled.
"Back off, Evans!" James warned, while 'Cissa' gave a loud, 'hey!'
"Hey!" Lily mocked her. Then she turned her attention back to James. "Oooh. Were you giving me a warning? I'm shaking in my trakkies!"
"Evans…I'm telling you to hold off on the insults to Cissa. Or else!" He said in a low voice.
"Or else what, Potter?" Lily faked her curiosity.
"Keep the insults coming and you'll find out." He said, before making to turn away.
"Alright, I will. You and your pathetic excuse for a human being, oh I'm sorry…you're both pathetic excuses for human beings!" She laughed inwardly at the shocked expression on 'Cissa's' face. Probably shocked that someone doesn't think her pretty. Doesn't even matter if it's a girl or a boy. She burst out laughing at that.
James turned slowly and glared at her so intensely that she thought he was going blind and trying to locate where she was standing. "Evans, as I recall, you were the one the was infatuated with me back in Hogwarts. Is this your revenge for all those years?"
"All those years of what?" Lily sneered.
"All those years of everybody thinking you were a pathetic nobody, who posed as an athlete." James smirked. "Not even I liked you back then…still don't, in fact. I made you think we were friends…probably because we had to work together as Head Boy/Head Girl. Everybody talked behind your back Evans. At least, all the people I hung out with."
Lily turned huge, hurt eyes to Sirius who came to her side in a second. He glared at James and said, "That's not true. Lily was one of my best friends in Hogwarts, and I never talked behind her back. I sincerely doubt that anyone else did either."
"Yeah, right! Sirius, I know you didn't talk about her behind her back, and neither did Remus, but that was only because he was in love with her best friend. Everybody talked about her behind her back!" And he started listing names. "See, Evans? You were just as hated back then as you are now!" James sneered in her face.
That was the last straw for Lily. She stalked up to him, drew her fist back, and punched him with all of her strength. He staggered back, and eventually tripped over 'Cissa's' stunned countenance.
"God Evans! You're even more hot-tempered than everyone says you are!" James yelled in a nasally voice after sitting up. He was clutching his nose and sneering at her. She lost it then. She walked right up to him, and gave him a good, sound kick in the side. He grunted and fell over again. By the time he had gotten back up, she had flown off and Sirius was packing up all of the Quidditch materials.
"What are you doing? We haven't practiced yet!" James said as he got up.
"Practice yourself!" Sirius said, and turned and glared at him.
"What's with you?" James asked.
"What's with me? What the hell is your problem? What could have caused you to tell her those complete and utter lies back there?! And you know that what she said was true! Even I can tell. The way you've been acting…she was right James." Sirius said rather coldly and flew off to find Lily.
Hey….i'm SOOO sorry that I haven't updated for forever, but I've been busy….i went on vacation. I started writing this chapter before I went on vacation, and finished it after. I'm sorry, I didn't have enough time. Ok, so you know what to do right? REVIEW and I'll try to update faster than before. But I've got another HP fic out…it's still a Lily and James, so check it out. It's called 'Lily and James' Troubled Lives'. It's old and I have half the story all typed out, so I should be able to update that one quicker…till next time, REVIEW and TAH!!!!!!!!!!!!