A/N: Sorry, sorry, sorry! Writers block is horrible! Oh, I feel so bad for not updating in forever- really I do. Those of you who are still with me on this, you have endurance! Lol, thanks to all of you!
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Chapter 15- Foolish Arguments
James' eyes ran over the words until he felt himself going cross-eyed. No, this is impossible. Lily wouldn't- couldn't- He jumped up from his bed, ignored the fact that he had on only boxers, and ran out of the dorm in a fury. He left three very confused Marauders behind.
As he entered the common room, he ignored the people still awake who were staring at him, and stomped over to Lily and Mary, who were bent over mountains of homework assignments.
Lily looked up and grinned. "Hello James. May I help you?" Mary snickered.
James had a million things that ran through his mind that he wanted to say, but it seemed that his mouth wasn't communicating with his brain. He wordlessly held the letter up.
Lily's emerald eyes stared at it, and her mouth dropped open. She took a deep breath, moving her glance and staring at his face. "James…I never meant to hurt you. Really, I was going to tell you and-"
"Oh really? You were going to just come out one day and tell me that you're getting married?!"
Lily blushed as the whole common room looked over with confused expressions. Not only was he yelling- the Head Boy was also half naked in front of the Head Girl. "James- please- keep it down a bit. Let's talk about this quietly and I'm sure that we can-"
"Can what? Plan your wedding?"
Mary was smiling and trying to cover it up with her essay parchment.
Lily flinched. "You're taking this all the wrong way. You don't understand-"
"No! I don't understand! I guess I never did understand!"
Lily leapt up from her chair and threw her homework down. "Fine! If that's the way you want to talk about it, then come on! Let's yell and scream at one another!"
Now some students were coming down the stairs, rubbing sleepy eyes with bewildered expressions. Mary scooted a little farther away, still watching over the top of her homework and finding it somewhat amusing.
"I don't know what you want me to tell you- what I can say that'll make it better! Now you know! So let's go from there." Lily was saying.
James scowled. "I can't believe you! It's- it's cheating, that's what it is!"
"Cheating, James? Cheating? You're the one who totally used me! How do I know that you still aren't? That all the moping around wasn't staged?"
James stared at her, his eyes wide. "I…Lily! We're talking about you and this- this engagement! Not me!"
"But why not talk about you? You list all of my faults- how can I ignore yours?" She asked stiffly, looking smug.
He was becoming even angrier. And he couldn't think of a comeback. "You- you are not going to win this argument!"
Lily rolled her eyes. "What does it matter who wins, James? I thought it all meant something more to you- you know- more than a game? But I guess not." She turned away, gathering up her things and walking towards the stairs.
"Yeah- I guess not! It's over, Lily, and this time you'd better believe it!" he yelled after her.
She disappeared around the corner. James stood in the middle of the common room, glaring at all the people watching him, and folded his arms across his chest. Suddenly, Lily showed up at the top of the stairs again. "What do you mean I better believe it? Are you mad?! Who followed who around?" she paused. "I was ready to leave you alone forever. Now I guess I can!" She stayed there, staring at him and he was staring at her.
The Marauders approached and stopped at the top of the steps, looking back and forth between them before shaking their heads and grinning. They proceeded to turn around and walk back up the stairs.
Sirius nudged Remus and said, "Of course they'll be back together by next week…" they grinned and Peter nodded.
Meanwhile, James walked up to Lily slowly, not taking his eyes away from hers. He stopped in front of her and poked her a few times. "You are so infuriating." He said, and then walked past her and up the stairs to his dorm.
Lily glared at the students in the common room, whose eyes were as wide as possible and some with mouths open. "Oh- go stare at something else. There's nothing to look at here." She muttered, walking back down to Mary and scowling at her laughing friend.
"You are not making me appreciate you right now."
"I'm sorry- but you two are so funny! Really, Lily, you should have told him that you don't want anything to do with your fiancé. It might have made a difference, you know…"
"Well maybe I didn't want it to! We're finished, and that's that."
"Uh-huh." Mary said, her aqua eyes filled with tears of laughter as she watched her red-headed friend in a fury.
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Lily woke up the next morning with an extremely bad headache and barely made it to the bathroom, where she took a couple aspirins.
"What's wrong, Lils?" Mary leaned against the door frame, smiling.
Lily rubbed her temple. "Nothing. Just a headache."
"I guess I shouldn't ask where the headache's from…or who." She mumbled, smiling and stumbling back out into the dorm to put on a fresh robe.
Lily scowled into her mirror. "I can already see that today doesn't agree with me."
"Oh Lily, it won't be that bad! I'll make it fun!" Mary's voice floated back to her.
"Damn…I didn't mean for her to hear that." She mumbled to herself.
"You forget- I have good hearing!"
"Darn you!"
"I think someone is a little grumpy this morning."
"You would be too, thank you very much. But seeing as you find it so amusing…"
"I don't find the situation amusing, Lils. I find the way you two are handling it amusing- it's like two little kids squabbling over who gets the last cookie."
"It is not!"
Mary grinned.
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"Prongs? Are you getting up today, or what?"
James grumbled something inaudibly and threw his covers back. "Does it matter?"
Remus and Sirius gave him an identical strange look. Peter was busy trying to find his favorite pair of socks. "Er- something wrong or…"
James glowered at them and jumped out of bed. "No! Nothing at all is wrong!" he slammed the door to the bathroom.
"Strange, strange little man…" Remus mumbled to Sirius.
"I
wonder how Lily's handling it." Sirius replied.
"Oh, who knows. She's probably
being all logical about it and-"
James came out of the bathroom with his toothbrush in his mouth, and attempted to say around it, "Frankly, I don't care how she's handling it! There's nothing to handle!" but it came out more like, "Frumbe, I don car ho sh hanming et! Tharnotbthandm!"
The others simply stared at him.
"Time for breakfast!" Sirius announced, parading out the door.
All throughout the meal, James' and Lily's friends were amused, and annoyed all the same, to find that the two of them were glaring at each other and paying no mind to their plates of food.
Although, Sirius didn't mind much. He simply ate James' food. Remus grinned at Mary, who didn't know him very well and only gave him a small, entertained smile in return.
Lily suddenly threw down her fork, gave James a last scowl, and stomped away quickly. "What?" Mary yelled after her. "Did he send you a telepathic insult?" She winked at the Marauders and ran after Lily.
"I just don't understand how someone can be so cocky, and so insufferable, and so- so stupid!" she was mumbling to herself.
Mary walked beside her. "Well, Lily. I don't understand how the two of you can be so obviously absorbed in each other, and yet you can't even sit down to talk it out like adults."
Lily stopped walking and glowering, and turned to look at her raven-haired friend. "Oh, Mary- what am I going to do?"
Mary smiled and gave her a hug. "You already know what to do. And I already know it will happen."
"I just don't think it's worth it. I'll just get even more involved with him to become disappointed, because there's no way out of my mum's ideas and-"
"Oh there's a way out." Mary's eyes twinkled. "There's always a way out. It just might take some time to find it."
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A/N: I'm sorry it was so short- I'm having a bit of trouble coming up with any good ideas. I hope I didn't bore you too much!
