Chapter 5:

James's Confrontation

::RECAP:: He takes a deep breath before asking quietly, "Will you be my girlfriend?"

"I would love to be," I respond and give him a hug as relief sweeps over his face.

"WHAT?!?" a voice from behind yells. "You'll be that wimp's girlfriend before you'll be mine?!"

I whip around and bolt up. "POTTER!" ::RECAP::

I am lost for words. He must have followed me out of the Great Hall. "You- you..." Blood is pounding in my ears making me tremble with fury. "YOU CREEP! EVESDROPPER! Why can't you just leave me alone!," I finally manage to spit out. By now a small crowd has turned to see me screaming a the git. I turn back around give Amos a small peck on the cheek and whisper, "I'll see you later." Pasting the scowl back on my face with ease, I march up, slap Potter across the cheek and stomp off leaving him standing there stunned with a hand print on his head.

"You deserve it," Amos growled hexing him. I wander back into the Great Hall feeling much better now, but my face is draining back to the original white it was this morning. Alice and Beth are gone, presumably to the library or grounds, leaving me alone to smile at what I did.

:: Background information not from Lily's view::

After getting a bystander to take the Jelly Legs Curse off, James went searching for one of his good friends: Remus. But he was angry. Finding him in the library, Potter dragged him out. "What the hell did you tell that little (he called Lily something that made Remus's eyes pop) last night?!?"

"I old her the same thing that I told you: try and be more tolerant. By the way, you're face is all red."

James gave him the eye and put his hand to his cheek. "SHE hit me."

"Lily?!" Remus asked. He nodded. "What happened?"

"I, uh, heh heh, followed her out of the Great Hall this morning and caught her accepting to date that ugly Diggory boy from Hufflepuff!"

"And..." Remus raised his eyebrows considering Amos Diggory was one of the most attractive guys in school. Not to mention one of the nicest and most considerate.

"And," James blushed as much as a boy can, "and I kind of yelled at her."

"Well there you go. Perhaps maybe you deserved it."

"But I..." he tried to defend himself, failing miserably. "You know Lily better than I do. If you tell me I deserve it, than I do. But how can I not?"

"Maybe you Should act like Amos. I know this is hard for you but if you really want her, it's the only way."

::END::

The following day, Monday, is our first day of lessons. Even with a good night's sleep, I still feel ill, and this morning at breakfast Potter, once again, didn't look like his normal, cocky self. He didn't even look at me or let alone say anything when Amos sat down to eat breakfast with us.

Amos, being concerned with my health asks in the hallway on the way to potions with the Hufflepuffs asks, "Are you feeling all right? You don't look well. Perhaps Professor Moklin (the teacher at the time) will let you go to the Hospital Wing."

"No, no. I'm fine," I put up a smile trying to hide that I am really feeling sicker by the second. As soon as I step into the dungeons class is held in, the nasty burning feeling engulfs me throat and I throw up all over the floor. Getting me up to Madam Pomfrey truly is task considering that I can't stop. I kneel by sink with My friends, boyfriend, and teacher by my side while a fellow student ran to go get another staff member to help. Professor McGonagoll walks in and helps me to my feet and we quickly tread up all the many steps of stairs to the hospital wing by which time I had nothing else to bring up. Collapsing on the bed, I feint.

A/N: A very, very short chapter, I know but, I wanted to update! I promise the next one will be better!

•Erin

Reviewer Responses for all Chapters accept 1:

songwithoutwordz- I'm glad you like it!

BikerBoyz1229- Thank you so, so, so MUCH! You don't know how much it means to me for you to say that! It was the goal of this!

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Brynne- Hi! I hope to see you soon! Thanks for the review!

RainSeaker- Wow. Thank you so much! I made you cry? That's a first! Usually people cry only when they look at me! (Just Kidding) You like my poem? Really? I have a bunch of them here in a story called Harry and the Thestral: Daily Poems. Unfortunately it has become too much work and I have stopped for the moment. I can never thank you enough for you review though!

Moonlizard- I don't know if a boy would or not. James and Lily hated each other in school and end up getting married... so you never know! Thanks for the review!

Green sea- Remus IS one of James's friends. He was just tired of their fighting and gave Potter the same talk. I hope that clears thing up a bit. And about the misspellings. One of my friends was borrowing OotP at the time and I couldn't look it up. Thanks for the review!