Important Authors Note at the end of this Chapter!
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CHAPTER 5- Drinking, Puking, and Being Rejected.
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Later that night, James tries to remove a shot glass from Lily's hand.
"Maybe you should let me have it."
Lily is fierce in her refusal to let go
"I want another one" She said, her breath smelt of alcohol.
Lucius enters, grabbing James by the shoulder, distracting him from his task.
"My man" He says.
As James turns, Lily breaks free and dives into the sea of dancing people in the middle of the room.
"It's about time." James said annoyed.
"A deal's a deal." He said, peeling off some bills. " So, how'd you do it?"
"Do what?" James asked, confused.
"Get her to act like a human' He said, nodding behind James.
A very drunken Lily jumps up onto the bar and starts dancing by herself. She lets loose, hair flying.
"She's almost burlesque."
Others form the crowd are clapping and cheering her on.
She swings her head around banging it on a light hanging from the rack above the bar. She to sway, then goes
down as James rushes over to catch her.
The others clap, thinking this is a wonderful finale. James sets her down on her feet, holding her up
"Okay?" He asks
"I'm fine. I'm…" She tries to push him away, but staggers when she does he grabs her again, bracing her.
"You're not okay."
"I just need to lie down for awhile." She said, closing her eyes.
"Uh, uh. You lie down and you'll go to sleep."
" I know, just let me sleep."
"What if you have a concussion? My dog went to sleep with a concussion and woke up a vegetable. Not that
I could tell the
difference..." He started, but stopped as she tried to sit on the floor of the Tower.
" Okay, I'll just sleep but stay awake, okay?" She said groggily.
He pulls her back to him.
"C'mon, let's walk."
As James walks Lily through the dining room, Remus grabs
his arm.
"We need to talk."
"Remus, I'm a little busy." James said, struggling to keep hold of Lily.
"It's off. The whole thing."
Lily slides down to the floor and James struggles to get her back on her feet.
"What 're you talking about?" He grunted,
"She fancies to Lucius, not me"
James doesn't have time for this.
"Remus -- do you like the girl?"
"Sure."
"Then, go get her," He said impatiently.
James continues walking an oblivious Lily to the roof.. Remus stands there, unsure how to make use of this
advice.
James marches Lily around the roof., holding her up
" This is so patronizing." She said.
"Leave it to you to use big words when you're shitfaced."
"Why 're you doing this?" She asked.
" I told you " James said
"You don't care if I die"
" Sure, I do"
" Why?"
" Because then I'd have to start taking out girls who like me." James said, smirking.
"Like you could find one."
"See that? Who needs affection when I've got blind hatred?"
"Just let me sit down." She pleaded.
He walks her over to the swing that was set up on the roof, mostly for romantic couples, and plops her down in a swing,
moving her hands to hang onto the chains.
"How's that?" He asks.
She sits and looks at him for a moment with a smile. Then falls over backward.
" Jesus. You're like a weeble" James said, rushing to right her, then starts pushing her on the swing to keep her
entertained.
"Why'd you let him get to you?" He asked
"Who? "
"Malfoy."
"I hate him." Lily said, glaring at the ground.
" I know. It'd have to be a pretty big deal to get you to mainline tequila. You don't seem like the type."
"Hey man. . . You don ' t think I can be "cool"? You don't think I can be "laid back" like everyone else?" Lily asked,
holding up a drunken head.
" I thought you were above all that." He asked, slightly sarcastic.
"You know what they say." She said, letting her head fall back down.
He stops the swing
"No. What do they say?" He asked, turning to her.
Lily is asleep, her head resting against the swing's chains.
" Shit!"
He drags her to her feet and starts singing loudly.
"Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells! Wake up, damn it!"
He sits her down on the ground and shakes her like a rag doll.
"Lily! Wake up!"
"What?" She asks, waking up.
He sighs with relief.
" I thought you were..."
They share some meaningful eye contact. And then she pukes on his robes.
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Lily washes her face in the girls lavatory and grabs a mint, practically swallowing it.
A knock sounds at the door
"Go away"
Violet opens the door and looks at her sister with the smuggest of all possible grins.
"Dinner taste better on the way out?"
Lily gives her a "don't even start" look.
"I don't get you. You act like you're too good for any of this, and then you go totally apeshit when you get here."
"You're welcome." She said pushing past her and leaving the bathroom.
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Violet and April walk down stairs after the party, Lucius catches up to them.
"A bunch of us are going to Slytherine Common Room. Wanna come?"
April looks at Violet, who wears a pained expression. She looks at her watch.
"I have to be back in twenty minutes."
"I don't have to be home 'til two." April said eagerly.
"Then, c'mon." Lucius said, "Maybe next time –" He added to Violet.
They head back into the party, leaving an astonished Violet
Remus exits the party and stops when he sees Violet standing alone.
"Have fun tonight?" He asked, slightly accusingly.
"Tonz."
He starts to walk on
"Remus?"
He stops. She gives him a helpless smile.
"Do you think you could walk me to the Common Room?"
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Lily and James are walking toward the Common Room, Lily's arm is slung over James' shoulder in attempt to stay upright.
She looks over at him.
"When you were gone last year -- where were you?" She asked, her words slightly slurred.
" Busy." James grunted.
"Were you in jail?"
"Maybe."
"No, you weren't" She said accusingly.
"Then why'd you ask?"
"Why'd you lie?"
He doesn't answer, but instead, frowns and continues walking.
"I should do this." Lily said suddenly.
"Do what?" James asked, confused.
"Start a band."
"Start a band?" He repeated, wondering where that had come from.
"My father wouldn't approve of that that." She added sarcastically.
"You don't strike me as the type that would ask permission." James said.
She turns to look at him.
"Oh, so now you think you know me?"
"I'm gettin' there."
"The only thing people know about me is that I'm "scary"." She said, her voice losing its venom.
He turns to look at her -- she looks anything but scary right now. He tries to hide his smile.
" Yeah -- well, I'm no picnic myself."
They eye each other, sharing a moment of connection, realizing they're both created the same exterior for themselves.
James pulls into the common room and shuts portrait. He looks at her.
"So what ' s up with your dad? He a pain in the ass?"
" He just wants me to be someone I'm not."
"Who?"
"Violet."
"No offense, but you're sister is without. I know everyone likes her and all, but ..."
Lily stares at him with new admiration.
"You know -- you're not as vile as I thought you were."
She leans drunkenly toward him.
Their faces grow closer...then James turns away.
"So, I'll see you in class."
Lily stares at him, pissed. Then walks angry up the girl's dorms stairs, slamming the door shut behind her.
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Violet and Remus walk in silence. He finally breaks it.
"I looked for you back at the party, but you always seemed to be "occupied"."
" I was?" Violet asked, in faux-innocence.
"You never wanted to go out with me, did you?"
Violet bites her lip. " Well, no..." She said reluctantly.
"Then that's all you had to say."
"But…"
"You always been this selfish?"
Violet thinks a minute.
They walk into the Common Room.
"Just because you're beautiful, doesn't mean you can treat people like they don't matter."
She looks at him for a moment -- then grabs his face and gives him a kiss on the lips. He draws back in surprise,
then kisses her back. She smiles, then walks up the stairs without another word.
Remus grins and walks up his own staircase.
"And I'm back in the saddle." He said, smiling.
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The next day Lily sits at her desk, burying her face in a book as the others enter. The White Rastas are first.
"Lily, my lady, you sway to the rhythm of my heart."
He grabs her hand and kisses it as she pulls it away.
Kenny, a cowboy, enters, high-fiving Derek with newfound friendliness.
"Yippe kai-aye, bra." He said, then turned to Lily "Dance for me, cowgirl."
He sits next to Derek
"Okay, now tell me again why he didn't shoot the deputy?" He asked Derek
"Because the deputy meant him no harm, my friend. It was only the sheriff that was the oppressor."
Lucius saunters in and takes his seat.
" Lily, babe, you were on fire."
Professor Krevy enters and sits at her desk.
"Well now, did everyone have a good weekend?"
"Maybe we should ask Potter." Lucius said.
James enters, late, and slinks to his desk. Lily looks up, down and around, everywhere but at James.
Professor Krevy tries to remember what she's supposed to talk about.
"Okay then. Well." She pauses. "Oh, yes."
She clears her throat.
"I'd like you all to write your own version of Shakespeare's Sonnet #141."
Everyone groans.
"Any form you'd like." She continued. "Rhyme, no rhyme, whatever. I'd like to see you elaborate on his theme,
however. Let's read it aloud, shall we? Anyone?"
The class is frozen in apathy.
"Derek?"
Professor Krevy hands him the sonnet. He shifts uncomfortably in his seat. Then grins.
Derek reads, in his Rasta stoner drawl.
"In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes/ For they in thee a thousand errors note/ But 'tis my heart that loves what
they despise/ Who in despite of view is pleas 'd to dote."
In the back of the room Kenny raises his hand
"Professor Krevy, can I get the bathroom pass? Damn if Shakespeare don't act as a laxative on my person."
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Lily and Macey scrape the peanuts out of their sauce, they were currently in Hogsmade. They were at a muggle type restaurant,
owned by the Figg's. Their Squib daughter, Abrella, ran it.
"You went to the party? I thought we were officially opposed to suburban social activity." Macey said.
"I didn't have a choice."
"You didn't have a choice? Where's Lily and what have you done with her?" She said, eyeing Lily oddly.
"I did Violet a favor and it backfired."
"You didn't…"
" I got drunk. I puked. I got rejected. It was big fun." She said sarcasticly.
James enters, walking to the counter to order. He sees Lily and smiles.
" Hey" He called.
She gathers her things and bolts out the door. James looks at Macey, who shrugs and follows Lily.
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Remus and Peter flank James at his table in Potions.
"So you got cozy with she who stings?" Peter asks
" No - I've got a sweet-payin' job that I'm about to lose." James said, chopping up some beetle legs.
"What'd you do to her?" Remus asked
"I don't know. " James said, then paused. "I decided not to nail her when she was too drunk to remember it."
Peter and Remus look at each other in realization, then turn back to James.
"You realize this puts the whole operation in peril." Remus stated
"No shit. She won't even look at me." James said, sighing.
"Why can't you just tell her you're sorry?' Remus asks
James's expression says that this is not a possibility. Peter makes a time out sign with his hands.
" I'm on it." He said.
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Later that day Macey is sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room. She stares at a picture of William Shakespeare, then sighing,
ties her silk scarf tightly around her neck, in an attempt to cut off her air supply.
Peter walks up.
"Hey there. Tired of breathing?"
"Hi." She said, shyly loosening the scarf.
"Cool picture. You a fan?" He asked, eyeing the picture that was in her lap.
"Yeah. I guess."
Peter rocks forwards on his toes, then back on his heels, his hands in his robe pockets. "Very hip Muggle that one."
"You think?" Macey asks, eyeing the picture as well.
"Oh yeah."
She looks at him suspiciously "Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart, courage to make ' B love known?"
Peter thinks for a minute. "Macbeth, right?"
"Right." Macey replied, happily stunned.
"Lily a fan, too?"
"Yeah..." She said, confused.
He leans in close to her, conspiratorially. "So, listen... I have this friend…"
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Remus sits next to James on the bleachers as they watch Lily's practice.
"She hates you with the fire of a thousand suns. That's a direct quote." Remus said
"She just needs time to cool off I'll give it a day."
A buldger flies at them from the field, narrowly missing their heads.
" Maybe two." James commented, looking at Remus. "You makin' any headway?"
"She kissed me." Remus said, smiling smugly.
"Where?" James asked, raising his eyebrows.
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April rounds the corner and enters the Library, heading strait for a shelf. Lucius stands talking to two fellow Slytherines in the
next row. The guys don't see her.
"Don't talk to me about the sweetest date. That little mudblood Violet is gonna be prone and proven on prom night.
Six virgins in a row." The guys chortle, April keeps looking for her book, unfazed.
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After History of Magic class clears, Lucius and James are talking.
"I don't know, Malfoy. ..the ball, I mean,-the flowers, and that's a lot of galleons for the dress robes—"
"Enough, I know." Lucius sneered, pulling out his coin sack and handing it to James. "Take it."
James does, with a smile, as he walks past Lucius and into the corridor.
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Lily and Macey deface a ball flier on the notice board.
"Can you even imagine? Who the hell would go to this a bastion of commercial excess?" Lily said, tearing the flier.
"Well, I guess we're not, since we don't have dates." Macey sighed.
"Listen to you! You sound like Violet."
" Okay, okay, we won't go. It's not like I have a dress anyway." Macey said, defeated.
"You ' re looking at this from the wrong perspective. We're making a statement."Lily said, walking away from the board.
"Oh, good. Something new and different for us." She said sarcastically, following Lily.
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CHAPTER 5- Drinking, Puking, and Being Rejected.
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Later that night, James tries to remove a shot glass from Lily's hand.
"Maybe you should let me have it."
Lily is fierce in her refusal to let go
"I want another one" She said, her breath smelt of alcohol.
Lucius enters, grabbing James by the shoulder, distracting him from his task.
"My man" He says.
As James turns, Lily breaks free and dives into the sea of dancing people in the middle of the room.
"It's about time." James said annoyed.
"A deal's a deal." He said, peeling off some bills. " So, how'd you do it?"
"Do what?" James asked, confused.
"Get her to act like a human' He said, nodding behind James.
A very drunken Lily jumps up onto the bar and starts dancing by herself. She lets loose, hair flying.
"She's almost burlesque."
Others form the crowd are clapping and cheering her on.
She swings her head around banging it on a light hanging from the rack above the bar. She to sway, then goes
down as James rushes over to catch her.
The others clap, thinking this is a wonderful finale. James sets her down on her feet, holding her up
"Okay?" He asks
"I'm fine. I'm…" She tries to push him away, but staggers when she does he grabs her again, bracing her.
"You're not okay."
"I just need to lie down for awhile." She said, closing her eyes.
"Uh, uh. You lie down and you'll go to sleep."
" I know, just let me sleep."
"What if you have a concussion? My dog went to sleep with a concussion and woke up a vegetable. Not that
I could tell the
difference..." He started, but stopped as she tried to sit on the floor of the Tower.
" Okay, I'll just sleep but stay awake, okay?" She said groggily.
He pulls her back to him.
"C'mon, let's walk."
As James walks Lily through the dining room, Remus grabs
his arm.
"We need to talk."
"Remus, I'm a little busy." James said, struggling to keep hold of Lily.
"It's off. The whole thing."
Lily slides down to the floor and James struggles to get her back on her feet.
"What 're you talking about?" He grunted,
"She fancies to Lucius, not me"
James doesn't have time for this.
"Remus -- do you like the girl?"
"Sure."
"Then, go get her," He said impatiently.
James continues walking an oblivious Lily to the roof.. Remus stands there, unsure how to make use of this
advice.
James marches Lily around the roof., holding her up
" This is so patronizing." She said.
"Leave it to you to use big words when you're shitfaced."
"Why 're you doing this?" She asked.
" I told you " James said
"You don't care if I die"
" Sure, I do"
" Why?"
" Because then I'd have to start taking out girls who like me." James said, smirking.
"Like you could find one."
"See that? Who needs affection when I've got blind hatred?"
"Just let me sit down." She pleaded.
He walks her over to the swing that was set up on the roof, mostly for romantic couples, and plops her down in a swing,
moving her hands to hang onto the chains.
"How's that?" He asks.
She sits and looks at him for a moment with a smile. Then falls over backward.
" Jesus. You're like a weeble" James said, rushing to right her, then starts pushing her on the swing to keep her
entertained.
"Why'd you let him get to you?" He asked
"Who? "
"Malfoy."
"I hate him." Lily said, glaring at the ground.
" I know. It'd have to be a pretty big deal to get you to mainline tequila. You don't seem like the type."
"Hey man. . . You don ' t think I can be "cool"? You don't think I can be "laid back" like everyone else?" Lily asked,
holding up a drunken head.
" I thought you were above all that." He asked, slightly sarcastic.
"You know what they say." She said, letting her head fall back down.
He stops the swing
"No. What do they say?" He asked, turning to her.
Lily is asleep, her head resting against the swing's chains.
" Shit!"
He drags her to her feet and starts singing loudly.
"Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells! Wake up, damn it!"
He sits her down on the ground and shakes her like a rag doll.
"Lily! Wake up!"
"What?" She asks, waking up.
He sighs with relief.
" I thought you were..."
They share some meaningful eye contact. And then she pukes on his robes.
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Lily washes her face in the girls lavatory and grabs a mint, practically swallowing it.
A knock sounds at the door
"Go away"
Violet opens the door and looks at her sister with the smuggest of all possible grins.
"Dinner taste better on the way out?"
Lily gives her a "don't even start" look.
"I don't get you. You act like you're too good for any of this, and then you go totally apeshit when you get here."
"You're welcome." She said pushing past her and leaving the bathroom.
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Violet and April walk down stairs after the party, Lucius catches up to them.
"A bunch of us are going to Slytherine Common Room. Wanna come?"
April looks at Violet, who wears a pained expression. She looks at her watch.
"I have to be back in twenty minutes."
"I don't have to be home 'til two." April said eagerly.
"Then, c'mon." Lucius said, "Maybe next time –" He added to Violet.
They head back into the party, leaving an astonished Violet
Remus exits the party and stops when he sees Violet standing alone.
"Have fun tonight?" He asked, slightly accusingly.
"Tonz."
He starts to walk on
"Remus?"
He stops. She gives him a helpless smile.
"Do you think you could walk me to the Common Room?"
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Lily and James are walking toward the Common Room, Lily's arm is slung over James' shoulder in attempt to stay upright.
She looks over at him.
"When you were gone last year -- where were you?" She asked, her words slightly slurred.
" Busy." James grunted.
"Were you in jail?"
"Maybe."
"No, you weren't" She said accusingly.
"Then why'd you ask?"
"Why'd you lie?"
He doesn't answer, but instead, frowns and continues walking.
"I should do this." Lily said suddenly.
"Do what?" James asked, confused.
"Start a band."
"Start a band?" He repeated, wondering where that had come from.
"My father wouldn't approve of that that." She added sarcastically.
"You don't strike me as the type that would ask permission." James said.
She turns to look at him.
"Oh, so now you think you know me?"
"I'm gettin' there."
"The only thing people know about me is that I'm "scary"." She said, her voice losing its venom.
He turns to look at her -- she looks anything but scary right now. He tries to hide his smile.
" Yeah -- well, I'm no picnic myself."
They eye each other, sharing a moment of connection, realizing they're both created the same exterior for themselves.
James pulls into the common room and shuts portrait. He looks at her.
"So what ' s up with your dad? He a pain in the ass?"
" He just wants me to be someone I'm not."
"Who?"
"Violet."
"No offense, but you're sister is without. I know everyone likes her and all, but ..."
Lily stares at him with new admiration.
"You know -- you're not as vile as I thought you were."
She leans drunkenly toward him.
Their faces grow closer...then James turns away.
"So, I'll see you in class."
Lily stares at him, pissed. Then walks angry up the girl's dorms stairs, slamming the door shut behind her.
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Violet and Remus walk in silence. He finally breaks it.
"I looked for you back at the party, but you always seemed to be "occupied"."
" I was?" Violet asked, in faux-innocence.
"You never wanted to go out with me, did you?"
Violet bites her lip. " Well, no..." She said reluctantly.
"Then that's all you had to say."
"But…"
"You always been this selfish?"
Violet thinks a minute.
They walk into the Common Room.
"Just because you're beautiful, doesn't mean you can treat people like they don't matter."
She looks at him for a moment -- then grabs his face and gives him a kiss on the lips. He draws back in surprise,
then kisses her back. She smiles, then walks up the stairs without another word.
Remus grins and walks up his own staircase.
"And I'm back in the saddle." He said, smiling.
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The next day Lily sits at her desk, burying her face in a book as the others enter. The White Rastas are first.
"Lily, my lady, you sway to the rhythm of my heart."
He grabs her hand and kisses it as she pulls it away.
Kenny, a cowboy, enters, high-fiving Derek with newfound friendliness.
"Yippe kai-aye, bra." He said, then turned to Lily "Dance for me, cowgirl."
He sits next to Derek
"Okay, now tell me again why he didn't shoot the deputy?" He asked Derek
"Because the deputy meant him no harm, my friend. It was only the sheriff that was the oppressor."
Lucius saunters in and takes his seat.
" Lily, babe, you were on fire."
Professor Krevy enters and sits at her desk.
"Well now, did everyone have a good weekend?"
"Maybe we should ask Potter." Lucius said.
James enters, late, and slinks to his desk. Lily looks up, down and around, everywhere but at James.
Professor Krevy tries to remember what she's supposed to talk about.
"Okay then. Well." She pauses. "Oh, yes."
She clears her throat.
"I'd like you all to write your own version of Shakespeare's Sonnet #141."
Everyone groans.
"Any form you'd like." She continued. "Rhyme, no rhyme, whatever. I'd like to see you elaborate on his theme,
however. Let's read it aloud, shall we? Anyone?"
The class is frozen in apathy.
"Derek?"
Professor Krevy hands him the sonnet. He shifts uncomfortably in his seat. Then grins.
Derek reads, in his Rasta stoner drawl.
"In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes/ For they in thee a thousand errors note/ But 'tis my heart that loves what
they despise/ Who in despite of view is pleas 'd to dote."
In the back of the room Kenny raises his hand
"Professor Krevy, can I get the bathroom pass? Damn if Shakespeare don't act as a laxative on my person."
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Lily and Macey scrape the peanuts out of their sauce, they were currently in Hogsmade. They were at a muggle type restaurant,
owned by the Figg's. Their Squib daughter, Abrella, ran it.
"You went to the party? I thought we were officially opposed to suburban social activity." Macey said.
"I didn't have a choice."
"You didn't have a choice? Where's Lily and what have you done with her?" She said, eyeing Lily oddly.
"I did Violet a favor and it backfired."
"You didn't…"
" I got drunk. I puked. I got rejected. It was big fun." She said sarcasticly.
James enters, walking to the counter to order. He sees Lily and smiles.
" Hey" He called.
She gathers her things and bolts out the door. James looks at Macey, who shrugs and follows Lily.
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Remus and Peter flank James at his table in Potions.
"So you got cozy with she who stings?" Peter asks
" No - I've got a sweet-payin' job that I'm about to lose." James said, chopping up some beetle legs.
"What'd you do to her?" Remus asked
"I don't know. " James said, then paused. "I decided not to nail her when she was too drunk to remember it."
Peter and Remus look at each other in realization, then turn back to James.
"You realize this puts the whole operation in peril." Remus stated
"No shit. She won't even look at me." James said, sighing.
"Why can't you just tell her you're sorry?' Remus asks
James's expression says that this is not a possibility. Peter makes a time out sign with his hands.
" I'm on it." He said.
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Later that day Macey is sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room. She stares at a picture of William Shakespeare, then sighing,
ties her silk scarf tightly around her neck, in an attempt to cut off her air supply.
Peter walks up.
"Hey there. Tired of breathing?"
"Hi." She said, shyly loosening the scarf.
"Cool picture. You a fan?" He asked, eyeing the picture that was in her lap.
"Yeah. I guess."
Peter rocks forwards on his toes, then back on his heels, his hands in his robe pockets. "Very hip Muggle that one."
"You think?" Macey asks, eyeing the picture as well.
"Oh yeah."
She looks at him suspiciously "Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart, courage to make ' B love known?"
Peter thinks for a minute. "Macbeth, right?"
"Right." Macey replied, happily stunned.
"Lily a fan, too?"
"Yeah..." She said, confused.
He leans in close to her, conspiratorially. "So, listen... I have this friend…"
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Remus sits next to James on the bleachers as they watch Lily's practice.
"She hates you with the fire of a thousand suns. That's a direct quote." Remus said
"She just needs time to cool off I'll give it a day."
A buldger flies at them from the field, narrowly missing their heads.
" Maybe two." James commented, looking at Remus. "You makin' any headway?"
"She kissed me." Remus said, smiling smugly.
"Where?" James asked, raising his eyebrows.
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April rounds the corner and enters the Library, heading strait for a shelf. Lucius stands talking to two fellow Slytherines in the
next row. The guys don't see her.
"Don't talk to me about the sweetest date. That little mudblood Violet is gonna be prone and proven on prom night.
Six virgins in a row." The guys chortle, April keeps looking for her book, unfazed.
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After History of Magic class clears, Lucius and James are talking.
"I don't know, Malfoy. ..the ball, I mean,-the flowers, and that's a lot of galleons for the dress robes—"
"Enough, I know." Lucius sneered, pulling out his coin sack and handing it to James. "Take it."
James does, with a smile, as he walks past Lucius and into the corridor.
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Lily and Macey deface a ball flier on the notice board.
"Can you even imagine? Who the hell would go to this a bastion of commercial excess?" Lily said, tearing the flier.
"Well, I guess we're not, since we don't have dates." Macey sighed.
"Listen to you! You sound like Violet."
" Okay, okay, we won't go. It's not like I have a dress anyway." Macey said, defeated.
"You ' re looking at this from the wrong perspective. We're making a statement."Lily said, walking away from the board.
"Oh, good. Something new and different for us." She said sarcastically, following Lily.
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I know, this one's shorter than the rest, don't kill me!! Please review, I think I'm going to start doing what I see others do, demand a certin amount of reviews before I will post another chapter. Lets start off with a minimum of 5 reviews, 5 is all I'm asking. Thanks ~~~Mystery.