Like Magic

A/n: You guys are the greatest! I swear I keep writing chapters because everytime I read a review, which you guys are just awesome about giving me, I want to right more! But there's individual notes at the end of this chapter, so read and enjoy! And- just so you guys know, this chapter is my um, least favorite. It might be boring, but PAY ATTENTION! There is a crap load of important stuff in here, thanks again mates!

-Chapter Five: Back Into the Groove of Things –


I admit, I was in half shock at Mandi. I almost got angry, but figured she didn't know what she was talking about, poor Mandi.

"Taking all of what back?" Marla asked me concerned. I grinned.

"It's nothing, Potter's getting over me, 'finally'." I said walking ahead. I mean really, what did I care if Potter dated Katie, that was better for me, right? I walked into the Great Hall and took a seat beside Sirius, catching his and Remus' converstaion.

"She is so your type Padfoot." Remus said nodding towards a very pretty blonde at the Hufflepuff table. Sirius shook his head.

"Why does everyone think they know my 'type'?" He asked, slightly agitated. Mandi sat across from him.

"Because we do mate, skinny bimbo blondes." She said shoveling food on her plate. Sirius groaned.

"I happen to like all types of girls! I'm not like dear old Prongs!" Sirius motioned towards James, who was talking to a well, a pretty red head. I snorted into my pumpkin juice. The girl glared at me.

"James! Mate! Introduce us." Remus said grinning. Peter laughed as he noticed the girl's hair color, as did Mandi and Marla.

"This, my friends, is ... um," he looked embarrased. "Layla." The girl said grinning. "I'm a sixth year." She said shaking everyone's hand. But mine. She looked me up and down and continued talking to James.

"What the hell did I do?" I asked Sirius under my breath. He laughed.

"It's more the fact that you're here Lilykins, she knows James fancies you." He said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. I shook my head.

"Obiviously, he fancies her." I told him nodding my head in that direction. Just then James and Layla stood, she was in a fit of giggles.

"I'm afraid I'll have to catch you guys later, me and miss Layla are going to take a walk." He winked at the guys and left, food fell out of Peter's mouth.

"Bloody hell." He swore. Remus laughed. "What's up mate?"

"What is James doing? He just spent the whole night begging Lily to give him a chance, then he goes off with some, air head and it's like he's ..." Peter stopped realizing half the Gryffindor table was listening to him. Sirius nodded.

"Back into the groove of things?" He offered to Peter. Peter nodded. And Sirius turned to face me.

"Sorry Lily, it's just, James 'kills' himself over you. And I almost mean that literally. He really needs to stop pursuing you." He put his hand on my shoulder and I hugged him.

"This is the best day of my life! Potter has a new girlfriend! Wahoo!" I yelled and realized I was standing and half the hall was looking at me. I blushed and sat down. Mandi looked at me.

"I take it you're minorly excited then?" She laughed. I just nodded and finished eating, but I couldn't help but feel a pinch in my stomach, and I was sure it wasn't happiness.

"Wait," I started staring at Sirius, "what about Katie Wood?" He just laughed. "She didn't go anywhere babe." He told me as I flushed with anger.

I decided to got to the Gryffindor common room with the crew, I didn't really feel like being alone. I sat down by the fire, with book in hand. Remus and Peter went into a deep game of Wizards' Chess and Sirius and Mandi sat down over a game of Exploding Snap. Marla looked like she was working on something for charms.

"Hey Padfoot!" I looked up to see Peter telling Sirius about a girl who walked in. She definitely wasn't his type. I knew this girl, she was a year younger than us, and well ... just wasn't stupid enough for Sirius. I liked her quite a lot. Sirius shook his head.

"You're off your rocker." He said grinning. "But," Remus cut in. "you just got through telling us about we didn't know your type Padfoot, maybe you should give her a try." He held back a laugh.

"You want me to ask her out? Fine." We all watched with awe as Sirius made his way across the room to where the girl was sitting.

"Hey Jessie." He said flashing her his famous smile. She looked up and smiled back.

"Hey mate." She said laying her book down. I observed Jessie. She was quite pretty. She had long blonde hair, with red highlites. Under her Hogwarts' robes you could see black pants and hot pink shirt. I guess the word for her would be, 'soft punk'. She 'really' wasn't Sirius' type.

"Whatcha reading?" He asked her lifting up the book. He grinned. "The Hobbit, muggle book." She told him blushing.

"So, Jess, I was wondering if you'd like to go to Hogsmeade with me next trip?" He raised as very attractive eyebrow. She laughed.

"You're kidding! Sirius I am so not your type." She was smiling, and I heard Remus and Peter hold back laughter. Jessie's smile fell.

"You're not kidding." She said simply. Sirius sat back. "Well I wasn't, but if you're going to say no I could save myself the embarrasment ..." He stood up to leave but Jessie grabbed his arm.

"No, wait. Of course I'll go Sirius." She smiled at him and he beamed, almost skipping back over to our corner of the common room.

"Some one is in a jolly good mood." Marla laughed and Sirius sat back down smiling.

"I thought she would turn me down!" he told us with sigh and Mandi shook her head.

"Oh! That would have been horrible! The end of the world as we know it!" She said sarcastically and with a somewhat forced laughed. I looked at her, yes I would be talking to her later. Sirius and her were play fighting when I saw it.

Mandi had 3 bruises on her arm, they looked pretty bad too. Then I remembered seeing the bruises on her back, the day before.

"Mandi?" she stopped and looked at me, grinning, "Yes m'dear?" She replied. I laughed. "Come with me to the bathroom." I told her standing. Peter laughed. Sirius grinned.

"Does wittle Lily need help on the potty?" he asked in a baby voice. I flipped him off.

"Yay! I'm Lily's potty buddy!" And with that Mandi grabbed my hand and led me upstairs.

"What's up babe?" She asked me as we lock the bathroom door. I stared at her.

"YoulikeSirius?" I asked rather fast. She stared at me still grinning. "What? I don't speak Lily language." She laughed. I gave a small smile. "Do you like Sirius?" I asked slowly watching her eyes with interest. She stared at me for a few seconds before erupting into laughter. She put her hand on her side.

"Me!? Like Sirius!?" She was crying from laughing so hard. I just shrugged. "No, sorry darling, I sure as 'hell' do not." She told me wiping her eyes. I just nodded and she turned to leave. "Wait!" I stopped her.

"yes?" she asked still wiping her eyes and breathing hard.

"Who keeps hurting you?" I asked slowly, her smile vanished. "No one ..." She said slowly, too slowly.

"Bull shit." I told her, my eyes not leaving hers. She sighed. "Ok, ok." She looked at me and sat down.

"You know who Greg Davis is right?" She asked and I nodded slowly. "Well we started dating, no, we started randomly snogging over the summer, and well he gets a bit wild sometimes." She told me, smiling a little. I know my mouth fell open.

"Wild? No Mandi- he 'hurts' you." I told her grabbing her arm and showing her the bruises. She shook her head.

"He doesn't mean too, he just is a little forceful sometimes." Mandi told me. "And please lets leave it at that." And she walked out. I just felt she was lieing, maybe it was the fact she was attempting not to cry. I followed her and was surprised when Marla was piled with Remus and Sirius sitting on a chair and James was in Peter's face.

"Stay out of it Wormtail!" He yelled. Peter was shaking, I don't if from anger or fear.

"You're so bloody confusing James! Don't you think she has feelings too?" He yelled back. It was quite a scene. The whole common room had their eyes on the two, I saw Layla leaning against the wall, her face scowling.

"Well she doesn't care about MY feelings! So I'm MOVING ON Peter, so stay out of it!" James yelled again. I walked off the last step and it sounded as if my step echoed. All eyes turned to me. Peter and James flushed and James walked out. The girls were all glaring at me. I sat by Marla.

"What'd I do?" I whispered to her. She gave me a small smile.

"Nothing, hun . Just Marauders being stupid." She patted my back and I stood slowly. "I think, I'm going to go to bed." I kissed all my friends on the cheek and walked out. I arrived in the front of the fairy.

"Light bulb," I said impaitiently, the fairy looked scared. "Sorry miss, just a warning, Mr. Potter seems a tad bit upset, I'd watch out if I was you." She said innocently. I rolled my eyes. "Light bulb" I said forcefully.

James was lying on the couch, looking at the ceiling. I acted as if he wasn't there and made my way to my room.

"Evans," He said and I flinched inwardly. No more Lily? Wait- I don't care. Stupid bloody Potter. "What?" I snapped turning around.

"What I said last night, you can forget it if you want. I know you hate me." He said sitting up and looking me in the eyes. My head swirled.

"Fine." I said and reached for the handle to my door. "if you want." He repeated and I stopped. I looked at him.

"Obviously, Potter," I almost spat out his name. "you don't seem to care, so if you don't why should I?" I asked him walking towards him. He shrugged.

"Whatever." He told me lying back down. I let out an agitated cry and opened my door and slammed it. I pretended like I didn't hear him say 'Lily' quietly, for the seventh time.

The next few days passed quite uneventfully. Me and James didn't speak, James and Peter made up. Sirius and Jessie seemed to be spending a lot of time together, as did James and Layla. And I still couldn't help but notice the new bruises turning up on Mandi.

"Life, is fucked." I gasped as Remus sat down at the table. I immediately felt a pang of sorrow for him. He looked like hell. He was scratched and looked extremly tired, and I remember the full moon had been the night before.

"It'll be all right." Mandi said patting his hand.

"This from a girl who has no problems ..." He spat. Mandi looked taken back and I scowled at Remus. "I'm sorry Mandi, I didn't mean it. I'm just so-" Mandi held upa hand to stop him and she smiled.

"You're fine mate." She said. Marla skipped in rather excited. I grimaced, everyone was so perky, minus Remus of course.

"What are you so giddy about? They make a new broom model or something?" Mandi asked grinning. "I resent that." Marla said laughing. "No no, its so much better!" She said almost wetting herself from excitement.

"What's better than a new broom model!?" I asked in mock excitement. She stuck her tongue out at me. "First quidditch game of the season! Next weekened!! Ohhh I'm so excited!!" She said.

"Don't piss yourself." Sirius said sitting down. I laughed. "It's just Hufflepuff and Slytherin." He said shoveling food into his mouth.

"But still, it's quidditch!!" Marla said in a singsong voice.

"You're so much like James it's scary." Sirius said grinning and shaking his head.

"Now I resent that." James said sitting down grinning at Marla who flipped him off.

Classes seemed to have passed rather quickly that week. And not much can be said about transfiguration, or charms. Even though I hated to admit it, divination had been the most intriguing. Everytime time Professor Hicks would ask James or Sirius a question, every one's head would turn to them, awaiting their answer.

They were basking in the attention they got. But I still didn't understand how they were so good at it. I remembered a coversation between James and Remus I had heard.

"It's not like I'm a seer, I just ... 'see' stuff." James had told his friend. Remus laughed.

"No, that doesn't sound like seer powers at all." He said sarcastically.

"I don't know mate." Peter said entering the talk. James shrugged and walked off, catching up with Sirius and their fan-clubs.

Yes, everyone was definitely back in the groove of things.

A/n: AH! I LOVE YOU GUYS! I thought it was quite funny, how half you were like "Oh poor Lily!" and the other half is like "Man, Lily's a bitch." And indeed, she is a bitch ... but for a reason! Lol. She won't ALWAYS be one, I promise!

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