CHAPTER NINE

ACCUSATIONS

James looked up and saw his very distraught friend staring back at him. How could I have done this he asked himself when he saw the look on Sirius's face. James realized that he still had his arm around Lily's shoulders, and he quickly dropped it. Sirius was still just standing there. It was way to much for James to bear. He still couldn't believe that he had done this to his two best friends. He looked over at Lily and she looked just as worried as he did.

"Hello Sirius. I hope you had a lovely Christmas," she blurtted out before she had time to think about anything. Which was very bad, considering how stupid she was sounding.

"Well, it was very nice until about a minute ago," said Sirius coldly.

"Listen, Sirius I can explain-" James started, but Sirius cut him off.

"No, no, no need to explain. I understand this perfectly. I was gone over break, and I caught you making out with my girlfriend. So, how long has this been going on? I'm happy my parents let me go to Hogwarts early so that I could catch you two, or I bet I would have never found out." he said,

"No, Sirius that's not what happened. We were having dinner and then-" said Lily.

"And then you cheated on me with my best friend. Well, at least I don't have to worry about you hurting me anymore. It's over," said Sirius. "Oh, I picked this up or you on the way here. Merry Christmas."

With that Sirius thrust a large present at Lily. She opened it and found a beautiful snowy owl in a gold cage. The owl had a letter in it's beak. Lily opened it and read it.

Dear Lily,
It's so hard being apart from you all of this time. I miss you so much, I wish I could just apparate into Hogwarts and kiss you. I love you with all of my heart. I wanted to get you something else for Christmas, so I got you this owl. His name is Prince, and I want you to have him so that when we are apart, our letters can bring us closer together.
Love,
Sirius.

This was just too much for Lily to handle. She burst into tears that blotted the letter. She wanted to just erase the last twenty-four hours of her life to just have not happened. She never wanted to hurt Sirius. But then, somewhere in the back of her mind she thought that she really wouldn't want those times to go away. Because then she would never have gotten to be with James. She pulled him into a tight hug and cried on his shoulder for hours until finally she cried herself to sleep.

***

"Did you hear about Lily and Sirius?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, they broke up."

"What?"

"Well, she was cheating on him for his best friend!"

Lily prentended not to hear as people gossiped about her in the hallways. It was not really a suprise to her, she and James were the most popular people in school and both very wanted by many. She knew that it would cause quite a stir if she and James had a relationship right now. They were currently "friends with privelages." She knew that she didn't want a relationship now. It would be too hard. She finished walking to the common room, and walked towards the boys dorms. James was now one of the only people that would listen to her and make her feel better. Sirius was now dating Nancy, Remus and Peter had taken Sirius's side, and Jamie was spending so much time around Fredrick that she barely ever saw Lily. Lily saw James sitting on his bed and fell into his arms, weeping softly. James stroked her hair.

"It's ok, Lil. It'll all be ok," he said and kissed the top of her forehead. Lily looked into his eyes.

"Will it be? Sirius hates me, and it's all my fault. Right now he's probably in some little known room of the school with Nancy." said Lily.

"Do you want to be the one in that room?" said James.

"No, but I don't want him to hate me."

"Why don't you want him to be in that room?"

"Because...because...becasue I would rather be here with you." said Lily. James looked at her and smiled, then gave her a soft, sweet kiss on the lips.

"It's ok Lily, I'm here now." he said and then he kissed again.

***

Sirius took his lips off of Nancy's and looked at her for awhile. She was pretty, fun and nice, although she was not even close to as beautiful as Lily. But Lily had chosen James over him, and there was no way that he could forgive them.

"Hey," said Nancy in her soft voice. Sirius fell out of his daydream.

"Hey baby. Have I told you I love you today," he said.

"No," said Nancy.

"Well, I love you."

"I love you more."

"No I love you more."

"I'm glad that you aren't still mad about Lily. It was time for you to get over her."

"How could I not get over her when I saw you?"

"Good question. But wouldn't you like to take advantage of this rather dark room?"

"Definatly," said Sirius and started kissing her again. When they finished she rested her head against his shoulder and he bent down and whispered in her ear. "I love you Lily."

"What did you just say?" asked Nancy, looking up.

"I love your little dress. It's almost as pretty as you are." said Sirius. Nancy looked up and him skepticly. "Oh, you don't believe me. Well, I'll just have to prove it to you then," he said, and this kissed her again.

A/N-Here is more mushyness for all of you people out there. Hope you really like it. I'm soooo sorry about the gibberish chapter. I have no idea how that happened. Well, it works now. As always, please read and review.

Disclaimer-I'm not J.K. Rowling. Really, I'm just writing a fan fic about her stories. but I'm definattly not her. Please don't sue me!