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Chapter 7
Head Duties
Lily and James walked in silence around the school. The atmosphere between them was very awkward and neither one made a sound. They had to patrol the corridors looking for people out of bed.
Finally, Lily spoke "Should we… split up for a while? To get it done faster, it's getting late."
James stopped walking to look at Lily. He seemed to want to say something, but couldn't get the words out. This was not like James. Lily waited for him to speak, but when he did it was only to say.
"Whatever, your choice."
"Ok… shall we meet back here in about an hour?" Lily suggested.
Suddenly, James looked flustered.
"Lily, I… Yeah, Yeah, see you in an hour"
"Are you ok Potter, you seem kinda… I dunno, not yourself tonight. Is there something you want to say to me?" James paused. He didn't know whether he should say anything, but at last he said.
"Um…. Lily…I'm really sorry that I might have been…Um…Not very nice to you since we've been at Hogwarts. I didn't mean it. I just always was, and I couldn't stop it." Lily stood in silence.
There had to be something wrong with him. Lily thought James Potter didn't just start acting nice for no reason. They decided to go off in different directions.
Lily walked down the charms corridor. Why did he apologise? It wasn't like him; he was always to mean and horrible to her. It wasn't right. James Potter was the popular guy. Always surrounded by girls. He didn't think of anyone apart from himself. He was a stuck up, arrogant show off and he deserved everything that was coming to him.
She thought about it more. Maybe he wasn't all that bad. Maybe he didn't mean to say all of those things. Maybe they just slipped out. Maybe he couldn't help it.
He could be nice when he wanted to. Like just now and over the summer. He might have just grown up at last. She didn't know what to think.
She walked down the corridor, looking in the moonlit classrooms, all silent and still. She walked up some stairs and into the defence against the dark arts corridor.
She stopped when she heard giggles and bangs coming from a broom cupboard. She knocked on the door and it went silent. She knocked again and then walked away. She stopped at the end of the corridor and saw Kate Thompson come out looking flustered. Adjusting her fishnet tights and straightening her PVC skirt. She really was a slut. Amos Diggory shortly followed her. A Hufflepuff seventh year. Lily found it hard not to laugh. Amos, and James, Sirius and Remus were the only guys in the year that hadn't been with Kate. Now there were only three guys left and Kate would probably try everything she could to break her personal record from last year.
Lily walked on, looking round the corners for any other last stragglers. She went into a classroom and was closing the door when she felt a hand cover her mouth. She tried to scream but the hand was too tight. She kicked and pushed, but he was too strong. He backed her up against a wall and forced his mouth upon hers. She tried to struggle but nothing worked.
She heard footsteps coming closer. Soon they would be in this corridor and someone would save her.
James Potter had just started walking up the defence against the dark arts corridor. He looked in all the broom cupboards and classrooms but found no one. He turned the corner and saw two figures kissing against the wall.
He stopped, trying to see whom it was. The moon shone through the window and he saw a flash of red hair. James cleared his throat. The guy turned around. Snape, and he was with…
LILY?
OH MY GOD! HE WAS WITH LILY!
SNAPE AND LILY!
He wanted to be wrong, he really did. But he wasn't. He'd just stumbled across Snape and Lily making out on the defence against the dark arts corridor. And after he'd just apologised and everything.
He ran. He didn't care where. He just ran. How could she do this to him? He'd just told her that… wait! He forgot to tell her that he liked her! DAMN! If only he'd told her that he like her he would have chosen him over Snape!
HOW COULD ANYONE CHOOSE SNAPE OVER HIM? DOES SHE THINK STRAIGHT? IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH HER?
James is the successful captain of the Quidditch team, who has never lost a match since he's been on the team. Severus Snape is the freaky Slytherin loner that no one likes! James is popular! Snape is not! It's wrong and sick that Snape should be chosen over him!
James burst in through the Gryffindor common room, where Remus and Sirius were playing chess.
"James? What's wrong?" Sirius asked, going over to his friend. James ignored him and went to his dormitory. Remus and Sirius went after him, but James had drawn the curtains around his bed and put a sealing charm on it. Remus and Sirius decided it was best to leave him alone for awhile and went back into the common room.
OH MY GOD! THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN DID IT? JAMES SAW SNAPE FORCING HIMSELF ON ME AND NOW HE THINKS THAT WE'RE TOGETHER!
"JAMES! JAMES! WAIT!" he didn't stop though. She looked at Snape. Yep! Still as disgusting and greasy as ever. She pushed him away and ran after James.
"LILY? LILY? WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" Snape yelled after her. Lily ran. Ran as fast as she could. James saw Lily and Snape and Lily couldn't think of anythng worse than her and Snape.
How fast does he run? I've lost him completely! Oh this is hopeless! What am I going to do? She thought as she walked into the girls' toilet to talk to Moaning Myrtle. Lily liked Myrtle, she couldn't see what all the fuss was about, and she was quite nice really. Sure she floods a few toilets and isn't that pretty and is a ghost! But that doesn't mean anything!
"Hey Myrtle" Lily said, sitting down on the floor by the sinks. Noticing a little snake carved into one of the taps.
"Hi Lily! What's wrong? You seem really upset! It's Thompson and Howe again, isn't it? Ignore them Lil! You're way better than them!" she said, gliding next to Lily. She wished it were as simple as that. She could cope with that. But this was ten times worse!
"No, it's not them Myrtle" she said glumly.
"Is it a boy?" she asked. It was a well-known fact that Myrtle had never had a boyfriend, dead or alive and always enjoyed listening to other people's problems.
"You could say that, yeah"
"What happened, you can tell Myrtle!"
"Well, this guy has always been horrible to me and now, well tonight he apologised to me. I started to think about how nice he's been lately. And then this other guy, who I really hate, started to kiss me in the corridor. And I didn't want to but he was like way stronger than I was. Then the first guy came back and he saw the other guy kissing me and now he thinks we're together and he'll probably spread rumours or something when it's not true!" she started crying. Life was so not fair.
Myrtle thought for a moment before saying, "well, if it does start a rumour then I'll tell you because I'll hear about it first and also try and tell the first boy, what was his name? James Potter?"
"Yes, HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT? I DIDN'T TELL YOU HIS NAME!"
"You talk about him a lot so I just guessed" Myrtle shrugged. Myrtle was nice. She had her faults, like tantrums, but when it came down to it she was a kind person. Lily took her advice and planned to tell James the truth. She then left Myrtle and walked back up to the common room.
"Pepper up" she said to the fat lady.
"Are you all right Lily?" she asked Lily and Lily nodded and went through the portrait hole. James wasn't in the common room so she went straight up to bed. She lay on my bed, with her face on the pillow and cried. It was a good job that Katie, Vicky, Sarah Chadwick and Anna Haigh, my dorm mates, were all asleep. She couldn't deal with any more pressure right now.
She must have fallen asleep because she awoke the next morning with red puffy eyes and was still in her robes. No one questioned her, so she was all right. She didn't want to go to breakfast, but the others forced her. Lily noticed that James wasn't there and ate her breakfast in silence, before going back up to the common room where she found James.
Lily walked in the common room where James was sat doing his transfiguration homework. He was good at transfiguration and always got the highest mark. He got up to leave but Lily said
"James, wait" he paused and turned back around, glaring at her.
"Why should I? Evans! So how long will it be before I get the pleasure of calling you Snape?" he said with lots of sarcasm that Kate and Robyn would be proud of.
"Never! I'm not going out with him! Believe me!" she pleaded.
"Why should I? I saw the love letters! I saw you two last night. Though I wish I never had because it's permanently damaged and scarred my mind. I'll have nightmares for weeks! Ugh! He's so greasy and disgusting! How could you choose him over me?" he paused and then realised what he'd said and darted into the boys' dormitory.
I never had the chance to choose him, thought Lily. He never even told me that he liked me! What was I supposed to do? Guess? Or maybe wait for one of his friends to tell me? I wonder how long he's liked me? I mean he's never shown it before. Except one time in fifth year when he asked her out and she'd told him that she'd rather go out with the giant squid! Or something along those lines!
He'd have nightmares for weeks? What about me! He didn't have that…THING! All over him! I shiver at the mere thought and suggestion. Why was life so cruel? Why do the worst things always happen to me?
Lily sat by the fire, which was now out and cried again. And this is how she was when Vicky and Katie found her. Curled up in the chair crying her eyes out. They knew that Lily wouldn't tell them what was wrong, she never did. She always kept things to herself. It was one of Lily's flaws. They sat at either side of her and comforted her.
Lily was glad that she had friends like that. They really cared for her and she appreciated it greatly. She sat for ages crying her eyes out until she was all cried out. She took a deep breath, dried her eyes and suggested going to herbology.
James didn't care what anyone said. He wasn't going to lessons today. He didn't want to see her face making his view untidy. Snape? Really? How could anyone in his or her right mind like him? Maybe she… maybe she was telling the truth when she said she wasn't going out with him? Maybe she…. No! Anyone would say that if they had the misfortune to go out with Snivellus!
He didn't think about it for any longer and decided to go and fly his broomstick outside to clear his head. He didn't go to lessons that day and he really didn't care. Life was unfair.
