Ok so I'm pretty sure I fixed all of my screw ups and now the website finally updated it to show the changes so if you're still confused just re-read all the chapters I posted recently
Part of this chapter is in Alana's point of view, that short girl with the curly brown hair that was part of that group of Britney's friends. I know she's not a main character or anything, but it's important to the story to have it in her point of view lol.
This is my longest, and most dramatic chapter yet. There's A LOT of tears and crying and stuff but that's ok because that's what makes a story good.
Please review! I haven't gotten any on the last few chapters I did.
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"Lily! You're a wreck! You need to get back with him, he didn't do anything wrong! How many times have we gone over this? Britney must have tricked him or something, you know you love him!" Rebecca yelled exasperatedly, she was sick and tired of this bullshit.
It had been about a month and a half, and Lily and James still weren't speaking. James had chased Lily, begging for her forgiveness every single time he had seen her since that day, but she just continued to ignore him, hiding the tears as best she could. The truth was, she hadn't properly eaten or slept since the breakup, she had not smiled once, and couldn't do so much as look at him without feeling like she just wanted to die.
"I do NOT love him!" Lily yelled back, angrily wiping her tears. "That's not why I'm crying!"
"Oh yeah," Rebecca said sarcastically. "You just happen to randomly break down in the middle of a wizard chess game on what would be your three month anniversary, but of course it's not because of him."
"I don't love him and he certainly doesn't love me. There's nothing between us, and I'm not upset because of him. I was just thinking about…about my parents that's all."
"HE DOESN'T LOVE YOU? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" Rebecca cried incredulously. "Have you not looked at him lately? He hasn't so much as kissed a single girl since you two broke up. He walks around all the time with his eyes puffy and red, constantly on the verge of tears. He won't talk to anybody, not even Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Hmm, Mr. tough guy, Playboy extraordinaire, always the center of attention; not dating, not talking, and actually crying in front of other people. Yeah Lil', that sounds real normal to me. I'm sure he's just completely destroying the reputation he's been building up for the past six years just for the fun of it; he's not upset about your breakup at all."
Lily tried to hide the fresh wave of tears streaming down her face.
Rebecca saw Lily begin to cry again and rolled her eyes. "Ok, I know I'm not being much of a best friend right now, but this is entirely your fault. You're the one causing yourself all this pain." She got up and walked down to the crowded and noisy common room.
She spotted James sitting on a couch all alone staring into space, so she sat down next to him.
"Hey," she said sitting down next to him.
"Hey," he said miserably, still staring at whatever he was looking at. She followed his gaze, and saw Remus and Katie sitting together at the back of the common room. There were books spread out in front of them, but Rebecca was pretty sure that they were only pretending to be doing homework. Remus kept grinning and whispering things in Katie's ear, and she would giggle and kiss him. Suddenly Remus picked her up off her chair and sat her on his lap, and they began snogging.
Rebecca made a mental note to beat the shit out of Remus. She was sure Remus didn't know James was there, because Remus wouldn't ever intentionally hurt him like that, but Rebecca thought he still should have been more careful.
"Oh, James, don't," she pleaded as she saw James' eyes well up again.
"I'm sorry, I just can't help it." He said, hot tears once again spilling down his face. "I just miss her so much, I can't live without her." He got up and walked to his dorm, Rebecca following him.
Lily, who had followed Rebecca out of the dorm and was now crouched behind the back of the couch, listening, began to cry again for the 100th time that day. She hated seeing him like this, and was just about to run to him and say she forgave him, but her conscience kicked in.
"It's just an act, she told herself. He doesn't love you; he's just going to hurt you again. Get yourself under control Lily," she thought to herself.
She got up and went back to her dormitory, where she laid down on her bed and once more began to cry.
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Alana bit her lip, watching James run up the stairs. By betraying Britney she was risking losing her place as one of the most popular sixth years at Hogwarts, but she really couldn't stand seeing James like this. They weren't best friends or anything, but James had helped her out once when Malfoy and his gang had been teasing her. She owed him this; she couldn't let his life be ruined because Britney was an evil bitch.
Alana made up her mind as the memory of Malfoy taunting her, and James coming to her rescue played through her head. She walked up the stairs to James' dormitory, and pushed open the door. James was lying face down on his bed, and Rebecca was standing over him pleading for him to just talk to her.
"Er, excuse me…" Alana said tentatively.
Rebecca whipped around and James lifted his tear-streaked face off of his pillow for a minute, but groaned when he saw it wasn't Lily.
He knew that it wasn't her voice but he didn't really think any girl but Becca and Lily would come into the boy's dorm.
"I'm a friend of Britney's…well not anymore but I used to be," she added seeing Rebecca's eyes flash dangerously. "I know what happened with Britney and James and I'm really sorry I didn't tell you before but I was scared of her. But now I've come to my senses and I think you need to know."
James sat straight up and as Alana hesitated, he screamed, "Well? What are you waiting for? TELL US!"
Alana explained all about Britney's plan with the Polyjuice potion, and when she was finished, Rebecca screamed, "I'LL KILL HER!"
James jumped up and dragged Alana over to the Girls' dorms, Rebecca following them. "Please tell Lily for me?" he pleaded to Alana. "She won't believe Becca or me if we tell her but she might believe you.
Alana nodded and went into Lily's dorm, James eavesdropping through the door.
"Lily!" he heard Becca yell excitedly, "This is Alana, Britney's EX-friend. She's just been to tell us what really happened with James and Britney! And you're going to listen to her right now and forgive him.
James heard Lily groan, and shout back. "Becca when are you going to give this up? He cheated on me, we're over, stop trying to make excuses for him!"
James heart fell as he heard footsteps walking towards him, which meant that Lily was leaving and wasn't going to listen to them. Suddenly, his eyes widened as he heard Rebecca scream "PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" and a loud thud.
James burst in through the door of the dormitory.
"Becca!" he shouted, "Why'd you do that?"
Rebecca shrugged. "It's the only thing I could think of. Now we can tell her anything and she'll have to listen because she can't move a muscle.
James grinned. "Can't move a muscle, eh?" he said, walking towards Lily. He bent down and gave her the kiss he had been longing to give her for the past six weeks. He broke away and whispered into her ear, "I love you Lily Evans."
"James!" Rebecca said warningly, pulling him away from her. "Don't piss her off even more, let her hear Alana out first."
"Right," James said excitedly, glad that this whole mess was finally about to be solved, and that he would be back with the girl he loved in only a few minutes. "Start talking, Alana!"
Alana walked slowly over to Lily and began to explain. James made sure Alana admitted every single detail before he finally muttered the counter curse. Lily slowly stood up, rubbing her back, as James eagerly said, "So how about it baby? You forgive me?"
He had been expecting her to throw her arms around him and sob into his shoulder that she was sorry and she still loved him, or at least her saying she needed time to think about it, or even a simple "yes". What he didn't expect was for her to raise her hand and slap him hard across the face…
"It's bad enough that you're a filthy, lying, scumbag. Now you've gone and gotten everybody else to take your side and lie for you and hurt other people just for your own happiness? I HATE YOU!"
James felt like his heart had been ripped out of his chest. "You know what, Lily?" he stammered, a fresh batch of white-hot tears threatening to spill out of his eyes. "FUCK YOU. You're not worth this misery. You've ruined my life, and all my friend's lives. Your fucking pathetic, you know that?"
Lily looked like she too had just been slapped in the face. James hesitated for a minute, deeply regretting hurting her like that, but anger coursed through his body and he began to shout some more.
"I have no fucking idea why you're doing this; you must be touched in the head or something. You know as well as the rest of us that this wasn't my fault, and that I did NOTHING wrong. You know damn well how much I love you with all my heart and soul. I'll move on, but you…you never will. You're going to have to live the rest of your life knowing that you finally found true love, but ran away because you were scared. You turned me down for six fucking years because you were afraid I would do to you exactly what you're doing to me right now! Come and find me when you finally pull that stick out of you're ass and maybe we can talk. But until then, we're through."
He stormed out of the room and slammed the door. Alana, looking stunned, got up and followed him out.
"He's a really good actor, with all that crying and stuff," Lily said, trying to laugh as though nothing had happened. "Of course, we all knew that; he'd never have been able to get all those girls into bed if he wasn't…"
"YOU'RE UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!" Rebecca roared in frustration. "James is right, you can really be an uptight bitch. All this misery and pain you're feeling, it's entirely YOUR fault. So either do something about it or go through it all alone because I'm not going to be there when you need me anymore if you continue on like this."
Rebecca jumped onto her bed and threw the curtains shut around her.
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James sat in the common room, staring absentmindedly out of the window. "Nice one Potter," he thought miserably, "any remaining chance you had with her is now gone for good." The common room was empty, which was highly unusual for a rainy Saturday morning. He turned his gaze to the quidditch pitch, thinking vaguely that what he needed right now was a game of Quidditch to clear his mind.
"Wait a minute…" he said to himself. "THE MATCH AGAINST SLYTHERIN!" he jumped up, and sprinted down to the change room, where he hurtled through the door. He hurriedly threw on his robes, and grabbed his broom. He hopped on and soared through the air through the pitch, over to where the two teams were lining up.
"Prongs!" Sirius shouted, "Where the hell were you? The game's starting!"
"Fight with Evans," James said through gritted teeth, "I'll explain later."
Madam Pomfrey blew the whistle and thew the quaffle into the air, and as always James was the first to grab it. He soared up the pitch, passing at the last minute to Remus, who threw it to Allie, who scored. Ten minutes later, Gryffindor was up by 60 points, but it was due to Allie and Remus' spectacular performances. James, whose head was clearly not in the game, was not playing even close to his usual standard.
James caught the quaffle, and began to zoom once more up the pitch. "Prongs, watch out!" Remus screamed, and James looked up just in time to duck a bludger heading straight for his face. He hadn't counted on a second one being sent at the back of his head at that exact moment, so it smashed into his skull just as one of the Slytherin beaters sent the first bludger back at James. It hit him right in the chest, and the combined force of the two bludgers knocked him out. He slipped from his broom and fell fifty feet to the ground.
"James!" Sirius screamed, speeding up to try to catch him before he hit the ground, but it was too late. He and Remus landed next to James and began to shake him, willing him to wakeup.
"Please don't be dead," Sirius mumbled, shaking him harder, as Remus began to tremble and looked as though he was about to pass out.
The rest of the Gryffindor team, as well as all the people in the stands, had formed a circle around them. The only people who hadn't rushed to the aid of James were the Slytherin team, who all remained in the air congratulating Snape and Malfoy, the two Slytherin beaters, on their splendid performance.
Dumbledore, accompanied by Madam Pomfrey and Professor McGonagall, had pushed through the crowd, followed closely by the rest of the staff.
Madam Pomfrey immediately bent down and began checking James for his pulse and heart beat. "He's alive, Albus, but only just," she muttered to Dumbledore. "He needs to be brought to the castle right now."
Professor Dumbledore conjured a stretcher, and Sirius lifted James' lifeless, bleeding body onto it."
"MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!" Dumbledore roared at the crowd, who immediately parted to let them through.
Dumbledore, followed by Professor McGonagall, Sirius, and Remus, levitated the stretcher up to the castle, while Madam Pomfrey walked beside it, muttering healing spells.
When they got up to the front steps and opened the doors, they saw Lily and Rebecca walking down the marble staircase, obviously heading down to the match. Lily froze on the stairs at the scene before her. When what she was seeing finally registered in her head, she screamed and ran over to him.
"JAMES!" she yelled, fighting tooth and nail to break free of Sirius, who had grabbed her as she tried to run over to James. "What happened? He's not d-dead"
"No, Ms. Evans, he is still alive. He was gravely injured during his quidditch match. I want the four of you to return to your common room. You are to wait there until we come and call for you," Dumbledore said to Lily, Sirius, Rebecca, and Remus.
Sirius picked up Lily, who had collapsed on the floor sobbing, and walked up the marble staircase followed by Rebecca, and Remus.