CHAPTER 3 OF MY OPAL
BY BLONDEMOMO
'Reasons'
Disclaimer: Naughty me! I haven't put one in here yet!! Let us see…hmm. Everything you recognize is the lucky J.K. Rowling's and everything you don't recognize is MINE! (i.e. plot and some characters to come)
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Quote of the chapter, a new thing: Just Keep Holdin' On. Better Days are Coming Just as This One is Surely Gone. –Save Ferris (band)
CHAPTER THREE
BACK IN PARIS
Lily kept glancing at her watch as she lay on her bed. Her mind kept wandering back to yesterday when she was in the bathtub. She kept thinking of her reasons to break up with him, such as…
Flashback
"Hey Lily," a 6th year James called out. It was snowing so hard outside that he had to shout and he was only a few yards away.
"Hey yourself," she answered coyly. She loved to play hard to get…well didn't every girl at Hogwarts?
"Want to come inside? Lets go get some rumchocolate. It'll be nice by the fire!" James suggested every 7th years favorite drink…rumchocolate. It was hot cocoa, with just the tiniest bit of Firewhiskey to warm you up.
"Naughty James!" she laughed and took his offered arm and proceeded to go to the castle. On the way everyone looked at them curiously, like they didn't know what was going on. Lily thought it was just that they were a very popular couple. Didn't everyone want to look at A Hogwarts Prom King and Queen?
But that wasn't the reason she soon found out. There was another girl. Drucilla, a Ravenclaw, was also his girlfriend.
Fast Forward One Week
From the inside of a broom closet:
"James, you know you really should break up with Lily before you start kissing me," Dru was earnestly giggling.
"Yeah," he answered, "But I like secrets very, very much," with a few kisses up and down her neck.
Lily needed to hang up her broom after a Quiddich match (The Griffs had won Ravenclaw without Potter who had an awful broken arm, or so she thought), so she opened the shed door. Potter and Dru were snogging against all the brooms.
"Oh, really, Potter, two? Now you are lacking!! I though it was more like five or six? Tut tut! Well, now it's down to one, you scum, because you have gone and lost me. Not that I care or anything. Tootles! Have a nice life!"
And with that she graciously walked off with her chin in the air leaving a very un-multitaskable James in the middle of a snoggfest.
End Flashback
'Men are so not able to multitask. They can hardly eat and breathe at the same time.' Lily thought.
She decided to check the time again, knowing it was only around 11 am. Correction: 11:04 am.
She thought about why would James like to marry her. He could hardly kiss Lily and not scope out other girls over her shoulder. She didn't like to hang around in one place for very long. They would never have one home. He came from a long list of proud Purebloods, while she was Muggle-born. He couldn't even say he loved her until the beginning of 7th year. And they had dated on-and-off since 3rd year. What would he like to marry her for? She might never know.
*reporter voice* Back at the Headquarters of Hoggie Warts
James was still sitting catatonically in the corner of the room. He should have been getting ready and putting on his finest scarlet and gold robes, putting more gel in his hair than Snape, and more cologne than old men in department stores wear!
But alas, he could not get his mind of this red haired lass! Sirius obviously didn't think Lily would take off like that. She would love to hang around, stick with her friends, and get awards! Sirius had gone off to keep looking, along with the rest of the school, and left James here. Sirius thought she had gone last minute shopping for today in Hogsmeade. Two teachers were already down there seeing if that was true. But James knew, somehow. They'd never find her, ever again.
'What do I see in her?' he thought. What made him want to propose so soon, so young? Love, for one thing, compassion, acceptance, her forgiveness, and this spark in his heart that would flame up every time he saw her. He saw in her a confident, strong young woman that he loved more than anything. Now he had made her go away. But he had made her! (a/n: *horrified look * NOT MY JAMESIE POO!*) He should do something about it! James stood up.
"I will!" he said aloud, though a few laughed at his randomness while he couldn't have cared less.
Remus turned his nose up from a book, "You will what, mate?" He said in a sexy accent. (A/n: a girl can dream, can't she?)
"I'm going to find my Lily Val. And I am not coming back until I do!"
James first ran up to the owlery, which was very nearly empty because everyone was picking up their owl to take it home for the summer. He scratched a note to her on a piece of parchment in his pocket. He didn't know where this note was going since owls didn't use addresses, and them tied it to the barn owl's leg.
"Take this to Lily Pot---mean Evans," he whispered to the owl.
"HOO! HOO!" it replied and ran off through the window.
OUI, THIS IS BACK IN PAREE!
An owl scratched at the scummy window with the mold chipping off with every peck. It really wanted to get this to her, and FAST!
She recognized James calligraphy on the front immediately.
The note read:
Lily~
My love, have I caused you to leave? No. I know the answer to that. Everyone is so worried; they can't find you. Professor Dumbledore has called in experts. Where are you? Give me sign you are here. I love you.
Yours forever,
James
Tears ran down Lily's face. Never. She would never go back she swore to herself. He said he loved her, hadn't he? Only for today, til he found someone else. The Corps would start in 2 months and then she would be free to do what she wanted to do; travel, help people, and make a difference. But if she went back into the Wizarding World she would be a nobody for a very long time training for the Ministry of Magic. She was going to be happy in her own way.
She got up and decided right then that she would do her life in her own way, and make her own happiness.
She picked up the French Newspaper; looked under the Want Ads and found exactly what she was looking for, "CAFÉ FOR SALE"
Perfect!
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