Title: Life's a Bitch

Chapter 10: Plan in Action

It has been over a month since James and Lily spoke. They only talked to each other when it was necessary, like when they had to do projects for classes or when they were partnered up.

And every time they were partnered up, James always tried to be nice and start a nice conversation, but Lily would end it with one word; leaving James in defeat.

It hurt Lily a lot to James trying so hard, but Lily just didn't want James to be in her business. He should know that, he knows that she is adopted, and it took her almost 6 years to tell him and the Marauders.

It's going to take a while for her to tell him more, he's just going to either wait or move on. Which from the looks right now, he was going to wait.

The 'third person' was very happy to see that James and Lily are not friends anymore.

This is going to make my plan a lot simpler and it's going to go even better. He thought evilly. This was going just the way he wanted it to.

Fettie and the other two Marauders, minus Peter who went back home to help his sick mother, is really torn between the two. They are actually feeling bad for James because he's always trying but fails. Fettie is always trying to convince Lily to forgive James, but since Lily's so stubborn she won't.

The Marauders didn't hate Lily, but she was starting to get on their nerves and Fettie didn't blame them. If she had a friend who was trying to make the guy that she likes try and forgive her and he didn't she won't want to speak to him either.

It is killing the Marauders and Fettie to see James always mopeing around the common room.

James has given Lily a lot of gifts, from cards to chocolate, from 1-10 items at a time. Lily either sent them back or gave them to other students or she has Fettie eat them.

Today James had tried to talk to Lily again but failed, usually James leaves with a determined countenance on his face but today he actually looked really sad and disappointed.

Lily is tossing and turning on her bed, trying to get some sleep, but she just couldn't get that sad countenance out of her mind when she told James to piss off.

After 2 hours of tossing and turning, Lily decided to workout {train} her self tired so she could sleep, but ended up all sweaty and having to take a shower and still not be able to sleep. So she decided to the common room and read.

Lily grabbed a book off the nightstand by her bed, put on a robe and walk silently to the common room. Once she entered the Common Room the torches automatically lit up. Lily sat down on her favorite couch, plopped open the book and began to read.

After a while she fell asleep.

~James POV~

James is restless and unable to sleep, so he got out of bed and walked out to the Common Room. He sat down on the couch nearest the warm fire.

James sat there thinking for a moment about a certain red head that has been on his mind since, well since she had stopped talking to him. He was starting to realize over the last month how much Lily has meant to him and how much he misses her.

How she would always help him with his charms homework and how she would always put her hair back up when even one piece fell out of the loose bun she always has her hair up in. Come to think of it, he hadn't seen Lily's hair down since, well since..he didn't even remember the last time he saw her hair down.

Just as James was thinking about Lily, she walked down. James quickly jumped under the couch and waited.

He watched as Lily plopped her book open and began to read. Lily looked around and started to read out loud. James took a little peak at the cover to see what the book was called, Cinderella.

"Once upon a time."

Her voice was like the beautiful sound of harp to his ears. He hadn't heard her talk like this in a month. Every time she talked to him she would either be saying it rudely or yelling at him.

After a while, she eventually fell asleep and James was able to get out from under the couch and stretch his feet.

James quietly and slowly walked over to Lily, he stared at her for a while and then he reached over to Lily's scrunchie and pulled it out letting her hair tumble down the right side of her arm.

Wow it was auburn light wavy curls. He ran his fingers through it and it felt like silk and it smelled like watermelons. After a couple of minutes of standing there running his hands through her hair, he conjured a blanket, covered Lily and went back up to his dorm.

~A week later~

Yes that is what I must do to lure her there. After the Quidditch match it is then!

A week later, a Quidditch match was held; Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff. Blah, Blah, Blah; Gryffindor won so they threw their usual victory party.

All the Gryffindors were there, music, food, drinks, and jokes the courtesy of the Marauders.

Lily was really happy that they won, but she had a lot of studying to do. She told Fettie that she needed was going to train, so she couldn't go to the party, but Fettie started to complain to her and beg her to go to the party.

"Oh come one Lily, don't be a party pooper."

"I will be if I go. I mean look the Marauders don't like me which would result in them not being very happy with me there."

"Lillian Marie Evans! I cannot believe you are breaking our line!"

"What do you mean?"

"Remember when we were younger, we always played pranks and jokes and messed with Luis and the guys before we came to Hogwarts. Remember that the five of us, promised that we would always play pranks, and tell jokes and never be embarrassed by what we do or how we dressed or out mistakes. Remember? We promised our friends, are you going to go back on your word?"

Lily looked at Fettie defeated. She really did promise her muggle friends that she had that. But that was before my mother died, Lily thought stubbornly.

"Well things changed Fettie. I can't always keep my promises anymore. It's getting hard to keep that promise since we came here. We didn't get to play pranks and jokes anymore, at least not with the Marauders around. They're going to think our jokes and pranks were harmless."

Fettie tuned Lily after Lily said, 'Well things changed Fettie'. Fettie knew exactly what Lily meant. After Lily's mother dead, her father made Lily and Petunia move to a far away house because at the old house was where he dumped the body of Lily's mother into the lake. And since they moved away, Lily and Fettie were just slightly able to keep in contact and Lily could call the guys or see them and it broke Lily's heart.

She was really close to them. And just like that, she was separated from them.

Fettie sighed, "Alright Lil, if you don't want to attend then you don't have to. Have fun training." Fettie walked through the portrait without Lily and entered the party.

Lily sighed and went through the portrait and went straight to her dorm and got to studying.

Lily was trying to write her Transfiguration essay but she couldn't, all she wrote was her name. All of the sudden, Lily collapsed and started to cry.

"God mom I miss you so much. Why did you leave?"

Lily got up, locked the door with all the charms she knew, put the silence charm on the room and screamed, but not scream as girl scream but as a frustration and anger scream.

After a while she got up and started to train with loud music and everything, screaming as she punched and everything but as hard as she tried she couldn't get the feeling of guilt and sadness and frustration and stress and everything that she has bottled up inside her away.

As Lily punched the bag more, she found that it only got her madder so she decided to go out to the party and try to relax.

When she went down she saw Sirius pouring alcohol into the drinks. Lily's eyes widened and ran over to him and pushed him out of the way, took the bowl of punch and ran out of the common room. No one really took notice of this; Sirius put alcohol in the other drinks so everyone was wasted except for three people, but they didn't notice because they were busy laughing.

Lily didn't really know what she was doing but she heard people say that if you feel bad then you could just drink and all of the feelings just go away. So Lily drank, she drank the whole thing.

Around the corner the 'third' person was watching Lily closely. When he thought that Lily was well wasted, he went over to her and picked her up.

Lily was too wasted to do anything.

The third person carried Lily to a near by closet and.. (Figure it out yourself)

~Back to the party~

James, Fettie and Remus were the ones who weren't wasted. Fettie looked around and gulped. I guess Lily choose the right choice of not coming down here. Everyone's acting like a fool. I should go and train with her and also do that thing that I can't stand, apologize.

"Hey guys, I have to go and tell Lily something, I'll be right back."

The guys just nodded and continued their stupid conversation. Quidditch.

Fettie walked up to the dorm to find that the door was open; Lily's training door was opened. Fettie immediately sensed something was wrong because Lily would not be this careless.

Fettie ran into Lily's training room and searched for her, calling her name and everything but no response.

"Damn you Lily. God, you're going to get yourself fucked up."

Fettie ran back to Remus and James.

"Guys, Lily's gone."

"What?" James asked.

"Lily is gone! I know that you don't like her much right now but please at least help me find her. She could really get her self hurt at the state she's in right now."

"What happened?" Remus asked.

"I can't tell you guys, Lily has to be the one to tell you guys."

"Alright."

The three of them split up and searched for Lily.

James was walking down the closest corridor to the common room and heard a muffled scream and someone saying shut up bitch; this is going to less painful if you just hold still. It was Snape!

~!~! CLIFFY! Ha. Sorry you guys, I hate reading stories like this, but hey I've never done it to you guys yet at least I don't think so. Well anyways this is only one. Sorry.

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~AtwistedAngel13~

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