A/N: Yep. I really think I would get more reviews if I actually updated sometimes. Anywho....I'm really really really really really really really sorry about that. But here's the second chapter. I'm hoping to get more out soon too.

Disclaimer: See Previous Chapter. And I don't own the song in this either... Britney Spears does.

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Life Doesn't Always Go My Way ~ Chapter 2

I used to think I had the answers to everything

But now I know

That life doesn't always go my way

Feels like I'm caught in the middle

That's when I realize

I'm not a girl, not yet a woman

All I need is time, a moment that is mine

While I'm in between

I'm not a girl

So ooook? My absolute BEST friend in the world just gave up her boyfriend for me. And I love him...so does she. But she say he likes me. It should be easy now.... shouldn't it? He asks me out, I say yes, we get married and live happily ever after. It's like fairy tale. But that'd never happen, right?

So you'd never believe this. He actually did come up to me and ask me to go out with him. It went like this...

"Hey Lils?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I talke to you?"

"Yeah... sure."

"Will... um... well..." he took a deep breath.

"Yes?"

"Well you see... I like you... a lot. Will you go out with me?"

I smiled brightly. "Of course."

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So yeah. you didn't actually believe that did you? I hope not. I mean come on.... ok this was one of my dreams once but come on. Life isn't that easy... trust me. I know.

But really... what if he would have actually asked me out? What would have I said? Sure, I promised Lib I'd say yes, but that doesn't mean I actually would. I mean come on. I couldn't do that to her. I don't care what she said because she wasn't and isn't over him. And she's obviously starting to realize I'm trying my hardest to ignore him.

Unfortunately, more people did notice my behavior and started looking at me weird. Come on... I mean, it isn't my fault I fell in love with my best guy friend, who just happened to be going out with my BESTEST BEST friend, in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD. Then, she broke up with him (mind you she did love him, just not quite as much as me) for me. All for me. I know she'll have other boyfriends and stuff but come on... what if she never falls in love again? Do you know what kind of guilt that would leave me with?

Whether you do or not, it would leave me with guilt. I mean......come on.....(ok...you'd think, me being one of the top student at Hogwarts, besides James of course, I would start think of better saying then "I mean" and "Come on") Anyway.... it isn't often you and your best friend love the same guy and she gives him up for you and then her life is ruined. OK... maybe it is. BUT I DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!

As I was saying, I think Libby's catching on to me. She's been watching me look at James quite a lot. Then one day she came up to me.

"LILY MARIE CHARITY FAITH EVANS..." (Hey! My parents named me... so not my fault.)

"What?" I asked her.

"You PROMISED. You can't go back on that."

"I'm not... he hasn't asked me."

"Well... you've been ignoring him, walking away from him. And I think, he thinks, your mad at him."

"Why'd I be mad at him?"

"Well, I never told him why I broke up with him... and I think, he thinks, it his fault and that your mad at him because of it."

"Oh...." I was speechless. Libby had won again.

"At least come talk to him with me."

"Fine."

We walked into the common room and I think I would describe it as my worst moment ever. There was James.... kissing Alicia, some Hufflepuff girl. Suddenly, I got overly mad and Libby could tell. She looked worried. (She always says I look scary when I'm mad.)

"JAMES POTTER! Save it for somewhere else, at some other time, and maybe it should be somewhere a little MORE private." I yelled, using my hand to emphasize what I was saying. I always did that.

He looked surprised that I was yelling but I kept going, I didn't care.

"10 points from Gryffindor for bringing another person from another house into the common room. Good-bye Alicia."

She got up and left. This made James mad.

"What' wrong with you?"

"What do you mean 'What's wrong with me`?"

"You never used to care who I was with, or where I was, you'd just laugh at me."

"That was then, this is now."

"What's with you?" You've been ignoring me for a couple of WEEKS and now your yelling at me. You've changed."

"Gee, I'm sorry." I started in a baby voice. And then it changed to yelling. " I FORGOT THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO LIVE MY LIFE, AROUND YOURS."

"Your IMPOSSIBLE! You always, prance around like your better than everyone else here and that you know everything, and you act like no one else has any feelings. Well let me tell you something, your NOT BETTER THAN ANYONE. Sometimes I even think some of the SLYTHERINS are better than you, at least they're pureblood. I don't even know why I was ever your friend."

Now you could say....I was more than mad. He was almost calling me a mudblood. I was definitely more than mad.

"And I don't know why I was yours. 'Cuz your just ANNOYING."

"Maybe we just shouldn't be friends anymore then."

"Fine with me. I'll be better that way."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"FINE!" I screamed at the top the top of my lungs into his face. This was stupid.

"FINE!" He screamed and stomped up the dormitory steps.

"What a PRAT!" I said to Libby, making sure it was loud enough for James to here. Then I pulled her up to the girls dormitory and slammed the door as hard as I possibly could.

"I HATE JAMES POTTER!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Wow... I wasn't expecting to EVER hear myself say that.

"Lily....?"

"Yeah Lib... I know...we NEED to talk."