Chapter 6: Bitches and Snitches
Part 1: The Rest of the Night
Cami took another shot of her drink and watched Lily go stumbling over her
own feet, she scoffed. She hated how some people let other people ruin the
rest of ones evening. Really shattered the mood for her.
She couldn't understand how Lily could let someone just get to her, she was
usually so tough and stuff, but then she thought again. That was how Lily
portrayed herself in front of Kaleb, the tough cool one. Without him she
was an awkward vulnerable twit.
She scoffed again, "Pitiful."
"What is?" Ash asked putting her drinks down.
"Well tell me this love, how do the both of us end up dateless?" She asked
pulling a strand of her hair out.
Ash shrugged nonchalant, "I had a date but I guess I lost him."
Cami looked around, "C'mon love, I'm fetching us some pieces of meat."
Ash scrunched up her nose, "You make it sound like a meal."
Cami smiled slyly and pointed at two guys and said, "More like dessert."
"How long have we been dancing?" James yelled over the music.
Joseline did a spin and yelled back, "For awhile now, probably an hour or
so."
James stopped on his tracks and looked for the spot where he and Lily had
been sitting what felt like a few moments ago.
"I have to go." James announced.
Joseline stopped and looked over at him and whined, "No you don't! Your
girlfriend never showed up!"
James pushed her away irately, "That was my girlfriend...well something
sort of like it..."
Joseline pulled him into a long kiss and that made him even more irritated.
"Look, I really have to go."
He left her there by herself and walked to the place where he last saw
Lily. He walked past Ash and Cami who looked like they were talking to guys
in their mid twenties. Cami looked over at him and excused herself from the
guy she was talking to.
"Who do you bloody think you are?" Cami pointed a finger at him; he noticed
that she had a bunch of multi-colored rings on, all metallic.
He shrugged at her.
"What gave you the frapping' idea to leave Lily by herself and get up and
leave?" Cami said pushing him back.
James felt the guilt pound into him. "Where is she?"
"She left, forget your chances now." Cami said punching his arm. "Their
gone, gone like a bird with wings."
"Someone's had too much to drink."
"Certainly, not I." Cami said walking back to where she was.
"Who are you?" Lily asked when they were far from Cami's sight. "I'm really
not that drunk so bugger off; I don't need a horn dog taking me home."
"Oh no you're not drunk, there goes my night." Jay sneered sarcastically,
"For your information sweetheart, I don't take drunken girls and rape them,
that's not my thing."
Lily started walking home, "Whatever, go away."
"I will as soon as I get there."
"Will you go away?"
"There's only one way to Hogwarts sweetheart." Jay snapped shoving past
her.
Lily rolled her eyes and sat down.
"What are you doing?" Jay asked.
"Bugger off."
"I'm not going to leave you."
"Leave or I'll kick your arse."
"Fine whatever that's the last time I try to help one of Cami's friends."
"Sirius, I'm going to head out, okay?" James told his friend, leaning
against the wall with one hand in his hair and the other in his pocket.
Sirius immediately stopped talking to Star and looked over at him, "Are you
bloody serious?"
"No you're Sirius." James grinned at him; it's been so long since any of
them used that cheesy phrase.
"Shut up!" Sirius snapped sighing irately, "Are you expecting me to go
with?"
James shrugged, "Whatever you want, but I'm leaving now."
Sirius shrugged it off too, "Bye mate, visit Moony when you get back."
"Are you kidding me?" James exclaimed. "It's bloody late, I'm hitting the
sack."
Lily sat on the floor hoping someone she knew would come back to take her
home, she regretted telling Jay to sod off but it had to be done. She
sighed.
She let her hair down so it could cover her back, she would kill for a
sweater at the moment.
"What are you doing out here in the cold?" asked a soft voice shyly.
Lily looked up and met warm black eyes staring
"Of course I'm cold Severus, I'm sitting at night in the middle of
October." Lily said staring at him, she remembered the first day of this
year, and he tried pulling a stunt to get her to give him CPR in the train,
which James so kindly pointed out was a hoax.
Severus ignored her again, "Would you like me to walk you back?"
Lily looked as he offered his coat as well; she nodded and reached out her
hand so he could help her up, "Thank you."
"So are you and Potter...together?" he asked not looking at her. "Not that
it's my business."
"No, we're not." Lily said smiling. "Do you always walk like that?"
Severus stared at her confused, "Like what?"
"Like that." She imitated his walk by putting her arms in her pockets and
hunching low.
Severus' mouth twitch, "Well I have only one walk, take it or leave it."
Lily smiled at him, her emerald green eyes twinkled, "So what were you
doing out tonight?"
Severus shrugged.
"So secretive." Lily teased, she looked at him blushed. "Are you always
this bashful?"
"Are you always this inquisitive?"
"You're smart."
Severus snorted, "You have no idea."
Lily didn't know what was going over her; she was just so intrigued by
Severus. She liked his whole figure and his way of being, she didn't have
to play mind games with him like she did with James.
"Let's get ice cream."
"It's too cold for ice cream." He said looking at her like he's never seen
a member of the opposite sex before.
"It's never to cold for ice cream!" Lily announced taking his hand, as he
blushed madly. "I swear you are so fragile."
"No I'm not." he blushed redder, if possible. He looked around, it was
already fall so he knew there was no flower to pick up to give to her. Not
that he would but it would nice for the whole idea. He looked at her run to
an ice cream parlor. Odd, he thought, why would an ice cream parlor be open
at this time of the day.
"What do you want?" Lily asked him, her voice like music flowing in his
ear.
"Umm...strawberry."
"We'll have a double scoop strawberry-("Hey, I never said-") Shh Sevvy,
with chocolate sprinkles on top. Yea the one that changes your tongue
colors. I'll take a double scoop of mint chip with the same sprinkles.
Thank you."
"Eat much?" Severus joked. "How do you do it?"
"Do what?"
"Come off looking so sweet and innocent, but really isn't." Severus took
his hands out of his pocket.
"It's a gift." she said slyly.
Severus watched her eyes twinkle, those eyes never stopped twinkling to
him. He saw their glow where ever he went. He could stare into them for
hours not knowing whether he should look away or speak to her.
"Sev, whatever happened?" Lily asked sadly taking a lick of her ice cream.
"What?" Severus asked fawning confusement.
"We used to be friends, back in 3rd year."
"Kaleb." he announced bitterly. "Quite alright though, we all have lives to
live, people to meet, places to go etc."
Lily stared at him, "So you haven't missed me?"
He looked at her and gave her a sheepish shrug, Lily frowned
disappointedly.
"Well I have to be heading back now. "Lily said feeling a little
embarrassed.
Severus looked at her quickly, "No, come on."
"Huh?"
"Come on." He hand gestured her towards him.
Part 2: James Thoughts
James woke up with a start this morning, it was nearly noon and he had to go visit Moony and apologize to Lily, though he doubted it would do any good. Whatever, he didn't need her. Though, he admitted, he was enjoying himself a little bit more with Lily. He got up took a trip to the loo and went downstairs still in his knickers and a black t-shirt with a pair of shoes. He put his robe over his head and run a hand through his untidy hair with the other fixing his glasses securely on his nose. No one to be in the common room, to his surprise. He took a look around, searching for familiar faces but none. "Is anybody here?" he asked loudly. "Stop yelling!" snapped a familiar voice from the other side of the couch. James jumped and took a look down, all he was a violet head sticking out through a cluster of pillows. He looked at the sight disgusted, Lena was covered in hickey marks all over her neck and chest, her lips were big and swollen and her voice was low and raspy. James scoffed, "Guess there's no one important here, best be on my way." "Ta-ta." Lena groaned. "Slag." James muttered as he slammed the portrait door close. He walked down to breakfast to be cornered by Peter and Sirius. "Hey Prongs, hows it going?" Peter asked his voice cracking. "Well it was going good." James replied sarcastically. "What a sense of humor he has! Doesn't he just want to make you wet your pants?" Sirius said laughing, falsely."Not in the perverted way though, you're not that funny Prongs." James stopped mid-step and noticed that Sirius and Remus were trying to block him from going to eat breakfast, "Okay, whats going on?" Peter looked at Sirius, for he did nothing or said nothing without approval, "N-Nothing Prongsey pal." James looked straight in Sirius' eyes,"Padfoot, why does Wormtail sound like he's going to shit himself?" Sirius couldn't lie to his friend like that, after taking him in like that, "Okay mate, how close were you and Lily?" "We were getting to be good mates, screwed up our date thingy yesterday. Ah well though, nothing an apology can't fix." James said airily waving a hand aside. "Well just guess how much you screwed up yesterday." Sirius pointed at a certain red-head sitting next to a pale skinny hooked nose Slytherin. It took seconds for the vision to sink in, James just stood there awestruck. "Is that--?" "Yep it's Snivelly, alright." Sirius nodded, glaring at the Slytherin. James clenched his jaw and his hands tightened into fists, tightening around his wand. "You shouldn't be that angry Prongs, I mean after all she wasn't your girlfriend and you don't date anyways." Sirius said in a practical tone. "I mean I would love to go bash Snivelly and curse him to make him spew but... you don't have a reason." James glared at him and snapped, "She was my friend first!" Sirius snorted, "You expect that to be a reason?" "Whose side are you on Padfoot?" "Yours, but aren't you overreacting?" Sirius said trying not to laugh in his friends face. "Don't tell me 'bout overreacting, Sirius." James snarled glaring back at Severus. Sirius could be sympathetic but he never laid down after an insult, he didn't care if the person was dying, he would always recoil. "What's that s'pose to mean?" he snapped at James, glaring. "I mean, you're telling me about overreacting when you just can't get over the fact that I don't want to go out with any of those dull what's-her- names you set me up with." James completely forgot about Severus and was now taking his anger out on his best mate. "Well excuse me mate for trying to spend time with my best friend but at least I'm not the bloke who lost a girl to a Slytherin." James glared at Sirius, at the moment; he wanted to hit every part of his body. Instead he walked away, from the scene and his friend. "Mr. Lupin is not well; no you may not see him Mr. Potter!" Madam Pomfrey snapped at him savagely. "He is not ready for visitors!" "According to who?" James asked hotly. "To me." "Poppy, the boy has been here long enough and I think he is homesick; it's about time he gets a few visitors." said a very eerie mystic voice from behind. "B-B-But Albus, have you seen the boy? I don't think he's in any state to accept visits." Madam Pomfry huffed stubbornly. "Poppy." Professor Dumbledore said sternly. "James, you may go in." James smiled at Dumbledore and then left. He walked in to a very scary sight, Remus eyes looked sunken in and empty, his usual nice light brown eyes were now a dark shade of gray, his skin was a nasty shade of skimmed milk, he looked as if he could barely even lift his head and after all that he still managed to greet James with all smiles. "H-Hey Moony." James said nervously sitting on the chair next to Remus. "Do I look that bad?" Remus inquired croakily, running a bony hand through his straight hair. "I reckon I need a hair cut as well, look mate, it covers practically my eyes. But I'm sure the ladies wouldn't mind it." James couldn't even muster a laugh at his friends joke, "Are you alright??" Remus sighed, "I'm not dead, nor am I dying so you have nothing to worry 'bout mate." "What happened?" James asked carefully. "How come your not at the-" "Shack?" Remus asked quietly. James nodded. "I don't know. I slept for like two days and I woke up last night, been up since then." "Sounds...thrilling." James remarked. "What happened?" Remus thought for a moment, "Well I had a bloody thick head ache and Lena's half muggle so I asked her for muggle aspirin and she gave me this...bottle and I just took a whole bunch. It's not like she gave me directions." "You just took them like that?" James asked angriliy. "I thought you had more sense than that Remus! You don't do that!" "I know that now Prongs." Remus croaked. "Calm down. Gawd, whats gotten into you?" "Sorry," he sighed. "Just had another row with Sirius." "Bout?" "Well actually, I was just angry with Lily and took it out with him. It was an accident." Remus furrowed his eyebrows, "I have missed a lot. Whats up with Lily?" James mumbled, "I saw her with Snivellus and it felt weird." "Are you sure you don't like her Prongs?" Remus asked curiously, in truth he wondered that as well. "I-I-I don't know, I'm not sure." James admitted, he always thought it was easier to talk to Remus. "Well you should figure that out first, or just forget about being angry at her, because you have no right." Suddenly there was an open to the door and Cami, Ash and Andrea came in. Remus blushed and looked down, James reckoned he fancied Cami. "Hey Remmy." Ash and Cami said loudly with loud-pitched girly voices. He smiled. "Love us, we brought you food." Ash said handing him a large block of chocolate. "Before you kneel and praise me--us-- for it, we also brought you--dum, dum, and dum dum--a whole bunch of wizard cards. We would have brought you chocolate frogs, but we decided one large block of chocolate was enough." Cami said handing him a bag of wizard cards. "Wow you guys are great." "Love, you look beat, honestly." Cami said putting a hand on his forehead. Andrea quietly walked over to James side and gently leaned on him. "Not talking to Remus?" Andrea shrugged, "Hes busy, he doesn't care if I'm here or not. Do me a favor, love, give him this for me? I have to go see Star." "Sure thing." "Wow Remmy, you look funny pale, if you were older and fatter and had a mustache, you'd look like a pedophile Nazi." Ash said going into a fit of giggles, seeing that no one thought it very funny she shrugged. "He does." Andrea snorted, "Bye." "Bye." Cami and Ash stayed for an other fifteen minutes talking to Remus about stuff that didn't interest James enough to join in. "Ooh and Lily has herself a new friend. "Ash nudged Cami who grinned evilly. "Replaced Kaleb, has she?" Cami asked rhetorically. "Weird and I thought they were like...glued together or something...inseperable, yea know?" Ash stated. "Goes to show, love, seperation can happen to anyone." Cami announced adding a dramatic edge to her words. "Cami, hold me!" "Gerroff me!" Cami shoved. Remus looked like his old self for awhile. "Well we have to go Remmy, dear, but please go to the Quidditch game." Ash grinned. "We'll be waiting." Remus looked around the room, "Where's Andy?" James furrowed his brows, Andrea was either called Drea or Drew, and this was a first. "Umm...she left a while ago." Remus' face dropped, "Oh. I wanted to talk to her." James didn't think twice about his expression, Remus hated to be rude. "She left you this." He handed him a chocolate frog, with the chocolate and everything. "Lily, wait up!" James said running towards her in the corridor. "Whats going on?" Lily crossed her arms, "With what?" "With you." "Nothing." she shrugged and started walking again. "Are you and Snape-" "That is my business." she snapped. He noticed Lily was wearing darker shades in clothing. "Are you alright?" "I'm fine, you?" Lily asked, her mood seemed to be on a rubber band. "Hows Joseline?" "I don't know." He replied honestly. Lily snorted, "Why don't you go follow her around instead of stalking me, huh?" "Are you mad at me?" "You do catch on quick." "I'm sorry." "For what?" Lily asked, she took a look at her watch. "James,I have to go, okay? I'm already late. Can we talk about this later? We'll talk in the common room. Bye." "Bye." James could handle feeling this way, the question was, why was he feeling this way? So neglected and rejected. He had no one to tell or turn to. He sat in the lounge and walked Kaleb walk by, he looked so different without Lily by his side. She added color and glow, he blended in without her. "Hey." James said getting up approaching him. Kaleb turned around and arched an eyebrow, "Hello." "Just felt like saying hello, haven't seen you in the common room lately." "That's because I have a personal life, which is to remain that way." He drawled. "Why do care?" James shrugged, "Its weird, I'm used to seeing Lily around you." Kalebs eyes softened and he looked down with guilt. "Oh..."Kaleb put his hands in his pockets. "How-" James shrugged, "Ask Severus, that seems to be her new best friend." A flash passed through his eyes, "Snape?" James nodded, his plan was passing by perfectly. "Okay, well Potter, I'm already late for a date, I'll talk to Lily later." Lena entered the common room and stared between Kaleb and James suspiciously, she glared at Kaleb mercilessly. "Hi precious." Kaleb winked at her at his way out. "Lena, I need to talk to you." "Why would you need to talk to little ol' me?" Lena asked without a trace of nervousness. "Well we're playing quidditch tomorrow, and I have a head ache, do you have anything for it?" Lena shook her head, "Last time I gave one of you blokes aspirin you got landed in the wing, nope I've learned my lesson." Part Two: Lily and Severus "Lily, we're all going out tonight, fancy coming with?" asked one of Severus' friends, Sidney Reynolds, Ravenclaw. Lily shook her head, "I can't, and I have to finish my report for Binns." Sid shrugged, "No problem, you can bring it with, its not like we're going to go party." Lily raised her eyebrows, "Where are we going?" "You'll have to see, coming with or not?" Sid asked impatiently. Lily felt so feeble standing next to Sidney, she was intimidating with her flashy brown eyes and she was a head taller than her, not to mention prettier. "Alright, I'll go." Sidney smiled accomplished, "Okay good." She took a long stare at Lily's eyes. "You should stop wearing glasses, they hide the glow of your eyes." Lily scoffed, "I would prefer brown eyes." "Why would you want them to be brown?" she snapped. "I like brown eyes. They're original." "How would they be original if everyone has them?" "They just are!" Lily snapped. "Okay okay, Sid, stop being a bitch." Severus said pulling Lily away from his group of friends. Lucious, Sidney, Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Rasephael Lestrange. "Can we leave?" Lily asked in a whisper. "I just want to hang out with you, I don't like all this group of people." "I'll tell you what, you go ahead and leave, let me finish this last hit and I'll meet you over there by the library, don't be late. You know I hate it when people are late." Lily nodded and left. She kicked the floor, she didn't like being ditched for his stupid friends. She couldn't stand them! There was Luscious the perv, Sid with the personality of an angry mop, Narcissa and Bellatrix the bicycles and Rasephael the tag-a-long. The worse part was he ditched her for...she hated this part...for damn drugs. She scoffed. She walked in the castle and was practically pushed down by Cami, Star, Ash and Cyd Charrise. "What the-"Cami said haulting. "Get out of the way, love." "Why are you in such a hurry man? Did the queen die or something?" Lily said staggering down. "Nah that would suck, what would be the point of anarchy?" Cyd cried out over the angry yells of Ash. "I HATE HER!" Ash announched. "And her stupid hickarse name!" "What is she ranting about Cami, love?" "Well Lily, dearest, you missed a fanbloodytastic row between her and Elissa Farmer from Hufflepuff." Cami said arranging her hair in a neat bun, which didn't go with the rest if her wardrobe. "The sixth year?("Yea.")Stars friend?("Yes.")The one with the crush on Sirius?" "YES!" They all cried. "What happened?" Lily asked trying not to laugh at Ash pulling her hair. Cami snickered, "Walk faster, dearie. Well she was spreading rumors between Star, Ash and Sirius. Making a love triangle sort of thing. Make a good soap opera, I think. This bloke is bloody crazy man, saying stuff 'bout Ash and the manslut in the sack. Kinky stuff too." Star glared at Cami. "Though none true." Cami added. "I'm going to kill her! The whole damn school bloody thinks so too!" Ash yelled red in the face. "There she is!" Star pointed walking by the North Tower. She was a rather small thing. "Hey bitch!" Cami yelled. "Run!" Elissa turned around her eyes widened when she saw Ash only feet away from her. "Hey Elissa, why don't me and you have a little chat bout the time I hit the sack with Sirius? It slipped my mind, can you please remind me?" Ash said under gritted teeth. Elissa smiled, but her eyes showed fear and whole lot of it, "How can you forget Ash, you told me it was the best first time ever, couldn't have done it better. Your just mad I snitched." Her group of friends laughed like screeching banshees. "Cyd, you take the one to the left, I'll take the blonde one, cause she's annoying the hell out of me." Cami said making the one she was referring to blush. "Why did you lie to me?" Star asked, she was not as confrontational as Ash and Cami. Elissa blushed, "I-I-I didn't, Star look-see the traitor!" Ash lung at her. "Time to throw in the war paint!" Cami announced. Lily watched all of it awed. Ash punched and kicked while Elissa laid there like a dead body, with blood and bruises. "THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME YOU EVER SAY SHIT ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK!THE LAST!" Ash yelled. "Miss Harris! What have you done?!" shrieked Professor McGonagal, breaking through the crowd of yelling girls. Lily escaped through the back without being caught by McGonagall. A/N-Took a long bloody time, don't you think? Okay note to Sid, if you don't like this chapter ITS YOUR FAULT!I don't like being rushed and I work bad under pressure, next time you pressure me I'm going to make your character suffer from a horrible pot conspiracy against her.
James woke up with a start this morning, it was nearly noon and he had to go visit Moony and apologize to Lily, though he doubted it would do any good. Whatever, he didn't need her. Though, he admitted, he was enjoying himself a little bit more with Lily. He got up took a trip to the loo and went downstairs still in his knickers and a black t-shirt with a pair of shoes. He put his robe over his head and run a hand through his untidy hair with the other fixing his glasses securely on his nose. No one to be in the common room, to his surprise. He took a look around, searching for familiar faces but none. "Is anybody here?" he asked loudly. "Stop yelling!" snapped a familiar voice from the other side of the couch. James jumped and took a look down, all he was a violet head sticking out through a cluster of pillows. He looked at the sight disgusted, Lena was covered in hickey marks all over her neck and chest, her lips were big and swollen and her voice was low and raspy. James scoffed, "Guess there's no one important here, best be on my way." "Ta-ta." Lena groaned. "Slag." James muttered as he slammed the portrait door close. He walked down to breakfast to be cornered by Peter and Sirius. "Hey Prongs, hows it going?" Peter asked his voice cracking. "Well it was going good." James replied sarcastically. "What a sense of humor he has! Doesn't he just want to make you wet your pants?" Sirius said laughing, falsely."Not in the perverted way though, you're not that funny Prongs." James stopped mid-step and noticed that Sirius and Remus were trying to block him from going to eat breakfast, "Okay, whats going on?" Peter looked at Sirius, for he did nothing or said nothing without approval, "N-Nothing Prongsey pal." James looked straight in Sirius' eyes,"Padfoot, why does Wormtail sound like he's going to shit himself?" Sirius couldn't lie to his friend like that, after taking him in like that, "Okay mate, how close were you and Lily?" "We were getting to be good mates, screwed up our date thingy yesterday. Ah well though, nothing an apology can't fix." James said airily waving a hand aside. "Well just guess how much you screwed up yesterday." Sirius pointed at a certain red-head sitting next to a pale skinny hooked nose Slytherin. It took seconds for the vision to sink in, James just stood there awestruck. "Is that--?" "Yep it's Snivelly, alright." Sirius nodded, glaring at the Slytherin. James clenched his jaw and his hands tightened into fists, tightening around his wand. "You shouldn't be that angry Prongs, I mean after all she wasn't your girlfriend and you don't date anyways." Sirius said in a practical tone. "I mean I would love to go bash Snivelly and curse him to make him spew but... you don't have a reason." James glared at him and snapped, "She was my friend first!" Sirius snorted, "You expect that to be a reason?" "Whose side are you on Padfoot?" "Yours, but aren't you overreacting?" Sirius said trying not to laugh in his friends face. "Don't tell me 'bout overreacting, Sirius." James snarled glaring back at Severus. Sirius could be sympathetic but he never laid down after an insult, he didn't care if the person was dying, he would always recoil. "What's that s'pose to mean?" he snapped at James, glaring. "I mean, you're telling me about overreacting when you just can't get over the fact that I don't want to go out with any of those dull what's-her- names you set me up with." James completely forgot about Severus and was now taking his anger out on his best mate. "Well excuse me mate for trying to spend time with my best friend but at least I'm not the bloke who lost a girl to a Slytherin." James glared at Sirius, at the moment; he wanted to hit every part of his body. Instead he walked away, from the scene and his friend. "Mr. Lupin is not well; no you may not see him Mr. Potter!" Madam Pomfrey snapped at him savagely. "He is not ready for visitors!" "According to who?" James asked hotly. "To me." "Poppy, the boy has been here long enough and I think he is homesick; it's about time he gets a few visitors." said a very eerie mystic voice from behind. "B-B-But Albus, have you seen the boy? I don't think he's in any state to accept visits." Madam Pomfry huffed stubbornly. "Poppy." Professor Dumbledore said sternly. "James, you may go in." James smiled at Dumbledore and then left. He walked in to a very scary sight, Remus eyes looked sunken in and empty, his usual nice light brown eyes were now a dark shade of gray, his skin was a nasty shade of skimmed milk, he looked as if he could barely even lift his head and after all that he still managed to greet James with all smiles. "H-Hey Moony." James said nervously sitting on the chair next to Remus. "Do I look that bad?" Remus inquired croakily, running a bony hand through his straight hair. "I reckon I need a hair cut as well, look mate, it covers practically my eyes. But I'm sure the ladies wouldn't mind it." James couldn't even muster a laugh at his friends joke, "Are you alright??" Remus sighed, "I'm not dead, nor am I dying so you have nothing to worry 'bout mate." "What happened?" James asked carefully. "How come your not at the-" "Shack?" Remus asked quietly. James nodded. "I don't know. I slept for like two days and I woke up last night, been up since then." "Sounds...thrilling." James remarked. "What happened?" Remus thought for a moment, "Well I had a bloody thick head ache and Lena's half muggle so I asked her for muggle aspirin and she gave me this...bottle and I just took a whole bunch. It's not like she gave me directions." "You just took them like that?" James asked angriliy. "I thought you had more sense than that Remus! You don't do that!" "I know that now Prongs." Remus croaked. "Calm down. Gawd, whats gotten into you?" "Sorry," he sighed. "Just had another row with Sirius." "Bout?" "Well actually, I was just angry with Lily and took it out with him. It was an accident." Remus furrowed his eyebrows, "I have missed a lot. Whats up with Lily?" James mumbled, "I saw her with Snivellus and it felt weird." "Are you sure you don't like her Prongs?" Remus asked curiously, in truth he wondered that as well. "I-I-I don't know, I'm not sure." James admitted, he always thought it was easier to talk to Remus. "Well you should figure that out first, or just forget about being angry at her, because you have no right." Suddenly there was an open to the door and Cami, Ash and Andrea came in. Remus blushed and looked down, James reckoned he fancied Cami. "Hey Remmy." Ash and Cami said loudly with loud-pitched girly voices. He smiled. "Love us, we brought you food." Ash said handing him a large block of chocolate. "Before you kneel and praise me--us-- for it, we also brought you--dum, dum, and dum dum--a whole bunch of wizard cards. We would have brought you chocolate frogs, but we decided one large block of chocolate was enough." Cami said handing him a bag of wizard cards. "Wow you guys are great." "Love, you look beat, honestly." Cami said putting a hand on his forehead. Andrea quietly walked over to James side and gently leaned on him. "Not talking to Remus?" Andrea shrugged, "Hes busy, he doesn't care if I'm here or not. Do me a favor, love, give him this for me? I have to go see Star." "Sure thing." "Wow Remmy, you look funny pale, if you were older and fatter and had a mustache, you'd look like a pedophile Nazi." Ash said going into a fit of giggles, seeing that no one thought it very funny she shrugged. "He does." Andrea snorted, "Bye." "Bye." Cami and Ash stayed for an other fifteen minutes talking to Remus about stuff that didn't interest James enough to join in. "Ooh and Lily has herself a new friend. "Ash nudged Cami who grinned evilly. "Replaced Kaleb, has she?" Cami asked rhetorically. "Weird and I thought they were like...glued together or something...inseperable, yea know?" Ash stated. "Goes to show, love, seperation can happen to anyone." Cami announced adding a dramatic edge to her words. "Cami, hold me!" "Gerroff me!" Cami shoved. Remus looked like his old self for awhile. "Well we have to go Remmy, dear, but please go to the Quidditch game." Ash grinned. "We'll be waiting." Remus looked around the room, "Where's Andy?" James furrowed his brows, Andrea was either called Drea or Drew, and this was a first. "Umm...she left a while ago." Remus' face dropped, "Oh. I wanted to talk to her." James didn't think twice about his expression, Remus hated to be rude. "She left you this." He handed him a chocolate frog, with the chocolate and everything. "Lily, wait up!" James said running towards her in the corridor. "Whats going on?" Lily crossed her arms, "With what?" "With you." "Nothing." she shrugged and started walking again. "Are you and Snape-" "That is my business." she snapped. He noticed Lily was wearing darker shades in clothing. "Are you alright?" "I'm fine, you?" Lily asked, her mood seemed to be on a rubber band. "Hows Joseline?" "I don't know." He replied honestly. Lily snorted, "Why don't you go follow her around instead of stalking me, huh?" "Are you mad at me?" "You do catch on quick." "I'm sorry." "For what?" Lily asked, she took a look at her watch. "James,I have to go, okay? I'm already late. Can we talk about this later? We'll talk in the common room. Bye." "Bye." James could handle feeling this way, the question was, why was he feeling this way? So neglected and rejected. He had no one to tell or turn to. He sat in the lounge and walked Kaleb walk by, he looked so different without Lily by his side. She added color and glow, he blended in without her. "Hey." James said getting up approaching him. Kaleb turned around and arched an eyebrow, "Hello." "Just felt like saying hello, haven't seen you in the common room lately." "That's because I have a personal life, which is to remain that way." He drawled. "Why do care?" James shrugged, "Its weird, I'm used to seeing Lily around you." Kalebs eyes softened and he looked down with guilt. "Oh..."Kaleb put his hands in his pockets. "How-" James shrugged, "Ask Severus, that seems to be her new best friend." A flash passed through his eyes, "Snape?" James nodded, his plan was passing by perfectly. "Okay, well Potter, I'm already late for a date, I'll talk to Lily later." Lena entered the common room and stared between Kaleb and James suspiciously, she glared at Kaleb mercilessly. "Hi precious." Kaleb winked at her at his way out. "Lena, I need to talk to you." "Why would you need to talk to little ol' me?" Lena asked without a trace of nervousness. "Well we're playing quidditch tomorrow, and I have a head ache, do you have anything for it?" Lena shook her head, "Last time I gave one of you blokes aspirin you got landed in the wing, nope I've learned my lesson." Part Two: Lily and Severus "Lily, we're all going out tonight, fancy coming with?" asked one of Severus' friends, Sidney Reynolds, Ravenclaw. Lily shook her head, "I can't, and I have to finish my report for Binns." Sid shrugged, "No problem, you can bring it with, its not like we're going to go party." Lily raised her eyebrows, "Where are we going?" "You'll have to see, coming with or not?" Sid asked impatiently. Lily felt so feeble standing next to Sidney, she was intimidating with her flashy brown eyes and she was a head taller than her, not to mention prettier. "Alright, I'll go." Sidney smiled accomplished, "Okay good." She took a long stare at Lily's eyes. "You should stop wearing glasses, they hide the glow of your eyes." Lily scoffed, "I would prefer brown eyes." "Why would you want them to be brown?" she snapped. "I like brown eyes. They're original." "How would they be original if everyone has them?" "They just are!" Lily snapped. "Okay okay, Sid, stop being a bitch." Severus said pulling Lily away from his group of friends. Lucious, Sidney, Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Rasephael Lestrange. "Can we leave?" Lily asked in a whisper. "I just want to hang out with you, I don't like all this group of people." "I'll tell you what, you go ahead and leave, let me finish this last hit and I'll meet you over there by the library, don't be late. You know I hate it when people are late." Lily nodded and left. She kicked the floor, she didn't like being ditched for his stupid friends. She couldn't stand them! There was Luscious the perv, Sid with the personality of an angry mop, Narcissa and Bellatrix the bicycles and Rasephael the tag-a-long. The worse part was he ditched her for...she hated this part...for damn drugs. She scoffed. She walked in the castle and was practically pushed down by Cami, Star, Ash and Cyd Charrise. "What the-"Cami said haulting. "Get out of the way, love." "Why are you in such a hurry man? Did the queen die or something?" Lily said staggering down. "Nah that would suck, what would be the point of anarchy?" Cyd cried out over the angry yells of Ash. "I HATE HER!" Ash announched. "And her stupid hickarse name!" "What is she ranting about Cami, love?" "Well Lily, dearest, you missed a fanbloodytastic row between her and Elissa Farmer from Hufflepuff." Cami said arranging her hair in a neat bun, which didn't go with the rest if her wardrobe. "The sixth year?("Yea.")Stars friend?("Yes.")The one with the crush on Sirius?" "YES!" They all cried. "What happened?" Lily asked trying not to laugh at Ash pulling her hair. Cami snickered, "Walk faster, dearie. Well she was spreading rumors between Star, Ash and Sirius. Making a love triangle sort of thing. Make a good soap opera, I think. This bloke is bloody crazy man, saying stuff 'bout Ash and the manslut in the sack. Kinky stuff too." Star glared at Cami. "Though none true." Cami added. "I'm going to kill her! The whole damn school bloody thinks so too!" Ash yelled red in the face. "There she is!" Star pointed walking by the North Tower. She was a rather small thing. "Hey bitch!" Cami yelled. "Run!" Elissa turned around her eyes widened when she saw Ash only feet away from her. "Hey Elissa, why don't me and you have a little chat bout the time I hit the sack with Sirius? It slipped my mind, can you please remind me?" Ash said under gritted teeth. Elissa smiled, but her eyes showed fear and whole lot of it, "How can you forget Ash, you told me it was the best first time ever, couldn't have done it better. Your just mad I snitched." Her group of friends laughed like screeching banshees. "Cyd, you take the one to the left, I'll take the blonde one, cause she's annoying the hell out of me." Cami said making the one she was referring to blush. "Why did you lie to me?" Star asked, she was not as confrontational as Ash and Cami. Elissa blushed, "I-I-I didn't, Star look-see the traitor!" Ash lung at her. "Time to throw in the war paint!" Cami announced. Lily watched all of it awed. Ash punched and kicked while Elissa laid there like a dead body, with blood and bruises. "THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME YOU EVER SAY SHIT ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK!THE LAST!" Ash yelled. "Miss Harris! What have you done?!" shrieked Professor McGonagal, breaking through the crowd of yelling girls. Lily escaped through the back without being caught by McGonagall. A/N-Took a long bloody time, don't you think? Okay note to Sid, if you don't like this chapter ITS YOUR FAULT!I don't like being rushed and I work bad under pressure, next time you pressure me I'm going to make your character suffer from a horrible pot conspiracy against her.