Wow sorry I took so lon, there was goignto be one chapter but seeign as though this is jsut half of it i figured i would make two chapters out of it.
So thanks for reading and i hope enjoy!
Luv ya
Sasha
Chapter 9—Will you go out with me?
Shocked was nothing to describe what Lily felt when James Potter came up to her. She was seriously expecting that he might hex her not what had just come out of his mouth and she knew she was gaping at him. In fact she knew that all of her friends were gapping with her.
'Did you hear what I just said?' James asked a little off balance because four girls were looking at him as if he was going mad.
Also he had expected her to answer right away not stand there staring at him like that. 'I asked you to go out with me.' He repeated.
Lily just looked at him at first. She had heard even when he repeated the question but it seemed that she was in so much shock that she couldn't seem to get out what she wanted to say.
'Uh this is a joke right?' she squeaked out.
'No its not.' James replied getting slightly irritated. Matt and Sirius who were not too far away coughed slightly. Okay so they thought it was funny but seriously it was NOT.
'Okay then the answer is … well no.' She said then looked at him scornfully. 'Potter I would not go out with you if you were that last person on this bloody planet. And just so you know Renee, you is by the way your girlfriend is my friend but just be happy that I am not going to tell her what fat headed pig you really are.' She said haughtily.
But James just grinned. 'We'll see Evans. That's all I'm saying.'
Lily didn't know what to do except turn around and leave. That boy was the most confusing human she had ever met. She had no idea what was going on in his head. What was he thinking asking her to go anywhere with him? It had to have been a trick.
'Lily, that was sure unexpected from what we thought he would do to you.' Steffi said confirming that she wasn't the only one how thought this was madness. Jess was just there with a strange look on her face though while Anna was still mid boggled.
'I think that he would have tried to pay me back when I had accepted. Well ha! I would never even consider the remote possibility of ever going out with him for anything.'
But yards away James was still grinning to Matt and Sirius.
'But James if you don't like her why ask her out?' Sirius asked for what seemed like the hundredth time. And why does your hand keep flying to your hair when you see her? Sirius had also wanted to ask but decided to keep quiet on that one.
'Because Padfoot I know that from the moment she says yes that I have won this little game we have played with each other for the past four years.' He informed them.
'I suppose but James this is playing with fire and I mean literally.' Sirius said thinking of her faming red hair.
'Relax okay. I have this all under control.'
Blowing out harsh breath Sirius and Matt gave up and walked with James outside to herbology. It was two weeks after the farting incident that James asked Lily. He was going to try one more time before they left for Christmas holidays.
The only thing was he could never seem to see her. He would catch a glimpse of her one place then when he turned there she was nowhere to be seen. So he ended up going home for Christmas with out asking her again. No matter he would soon.
Lily on the other hand did even want to leave to chance that she would run into him in the corridor or anywhere else. She as far away from him in class and dodges him every time she saw him. She really didn't need this aggravation but what could she do really. She had no earthly clue as to why he wanted to ask her out.
Her only reason was that he planned to make her pay by embarrassing her somehow. She would turn him down if it were the last thing she ever did.
'Come on Evans you know you want me why deny it?' James Potter called after Lily during the Christmas holidays where she had been in Diagon Alley with Jessie and Sasha. Dragging both of them along as she called out to him.
'Potter I would never go out with you. How many times do I have to tell you that?'
'Forever it seems.' Sasha said once they had gotten out of his earshot.
'He is a bloody menace. You two should not have talked me into coming here with you.' She groaned but each of them took one of her arms and tucked it into the crook of theirs.
'Lily cut the lad some slack. He probably never had a girl tell him no before and is invigorated by the challenge.' Sasha reasoned.
'I highly doubt that.' Lily said then stuck out her tongue to catch a snowflake. 'I mean really, before he hadn't known that I would have said no. I still think its some kind of scheme to get even with me. He knows I did it. I see the challenge in his eyes every time.' She finished.
'Okay, yeah well what I think is don't think about it. Renee will find out sooner or later what a stupid bastard he is and she'll dump him meanwhile ignore him. He really isn't worth you getting worked up over.' Jessie said.
'I know, I know…but blimey he is just so infuriating.' Lily said before she blew out a frustrated breath.
'Did you notice his hand in his hair again?' Jessie asked then giggled.
'I know what is up with that?' Sasha asked.
'Probably stroking his head that is his ego.' Lily said as though she was saying a report and the other two girls burst out laughing.
James thought it was pure luck that had him standing there at the same time Lily Evans and her friends came out of a shop in Diagon Alley. He was there with Sirius who had needed a bit of cheering up. Last night through a winter's rain Sirius had landed on his doorstep.
He was wet from the rain and the little bit of snow that was falling. All his things or rather all of the possession he could carry was with him and James didn't have to ask to figure out what had happened.
Sirius had left home permanently. Whenever Sirius and James had talked about his life at home he had always brought up the idea of leaving it behind. There was nothing for him there. His mother had let him have it a couple of times too and even though Sirius temper caused him to want lash out at her physically as well he knew he couldn't. That was his mother after all.
Well only by blood anyway. She treated Regulas far more like a son than she did him. Not that he minded at times. He far more preferred to be forgotten than remembered. James grandparents, mainly his grandmother hugged the day lights out of Sirius. She gave him dry clothes and hugged him. She gave him food and hugged him.
He asked for seconds please and she hugged him some more. After a while all the hugging and eating was getting a tad bit boring. He nearly fell asleep in his chair while waiting for Sirius to finish tell Norma everything that happened. Afterwards though he was struck with an idea.
He knew his grandmother would have preferred him not to go to Diagon Alley alone therefore he told her Sirius needed some cheering up so he was going to buy the biggest possible size pack of Bearty Botts beans for him. That went over well and just now he couldn't believe his luck with Lily Evans ploughing smack dab into him.
Okay so almost ploughing into him. After all she had stopped before he had the pleasure of helping her off him.
He had barely noticed Sirius roll his eyes. Let his friend think this was a waste of time he really didn't care.
Sirius really and truly wanted to laugh when James hand flew to his head but what could he do really he just held it down while the three girls passed. But when he had looked away one of her friend gave him a slight glare that eh should have returned but didn't when Evans spun both girls around and dragged them off.
He sighed. Alas he couldn't. But he really was enjoying himself though. No matter she wasn't the hottest girl in the year, wearing all those ridiculous clothes; she really had a brain that was something. He thought as he remembered what she had just worn. He really hadn't seen her in anything else other than school clothes and sweatshirts in school.
An over grown sweatshirt and jeans that should have belonged to someone bigger than her five-foot and about six inch frame. It really was no wonder she hadn't had a boyfriend, well at least a public one anyway. He really didn't know what eh was going to do if she ever said yes to his invitation.
'James mate, haven't you stared after them enough? Lets go.' Sirius said as he pulled at him to go to the food place.
'I'm coming Sirius.' James said as he got the last look of them crossing the street.
'Thanks for lending me your mother's clothes Sash.' Lily said as she tugged them off and pulled on her now dry clothes.
'No problem but they were too big on you. It wasn't as though anything of yours could have fit me anyway.' Lily said then laughed. 'Who told you to be so short?'
Sasha scowled at her. 'He ha, very funny.'
'I know.' Lily said and Sasha threw a pillow at her.
They were all spending a couple days at Sash's at Oxford. Her cousin that had come up from Trinidad was there. David was still asleep and Vidya was out with Sarah. The two of them hit it off really and Sasha was angry with that. She had claimed Sarah would corrupt her well-meaning cousin.
In Lily's opinion David really was fetching but she wasn't attracted to him. Too bad too because he had already asked her out. She wanted to go out with him but he was leaving in a couple days. It wouldn't really make much sense. Sash's younger brother was still sleeping too so they won't be bothered by the boys anytime soon.
'Have you seen my big hoop earrings Jess?' Sasha called from her bathroom.
'Sorry Hon I haven't.'
'Damn I wanted to wear them to drop Lily off.' She muttered coming back in. Lily would be going home in a couple of hours. The girls spent the rest of the time talking while waiting for Sash's parents to get home to drop Lily off. Lily was going to cut her long hair but she also wasn't going to tell her friends.
She wanted to see their reactions when they saw her on the train. Her seriously straight red hair was past her butt in length. It was getting to tiresome to keep tying it or plaiting it. It made her look like a geek of sorts, not that their was anything wrong with looking like a geek she reminded herself two days later in the hair salon.
The hairdresser's name was Brittney and she was a bubbly young woman who explained the different things she could do with her hair but the only think Lily wanted was to get rid of her straight hair. She was wavy and she wanted at least half of it cut.
After an hour or two Lily went back home with her head feeling much lighter.
'James do you know sitting here is a waste of time?' Sirius complained at ten on the night of January twenty-second.
'Of course I do Sirius but McGonangal banished us here to work out that assignment. We haven't done so in two days and its due tomorrow I can't be bothered to defy her just before lunch.' James muttered as he flipped through some pages in the large leather bound book that was in front of him. They were in the library late. They had just arrived in the library
Sirius sighed. 'Yes I suppose so but let's hurry before the library starts giving me a headache.'
'Fine.' James replied and they worked for about two minutes when James saw a book on the shelf that he need and reached for it. It was when he was looking over that he saw fluffy pink-slippered feet. When his eyes travelled up he had to admit he liked what he saw.
Long legs. He really didn't know before that he was a leg person but these were some of the best legs he had ever seen. He had to bend further in his chair to see her more and it was a girl. No bloke in the right mind or genes would have smooth, shapely legs like those and he just looked at them.
He bent back slightly and looked further upwards. Nice butt too. He tilted his chair as far back as he could without toppling over and kept on looking. He saw up till her red hair that was in waves along the middle of her back and frowned temporarily.
Nah couldn't be. He thought after all he really only knew of a couple red headed girls and he knew none of them could ever be like this girl he was seeing. Finally he looked up. He had to see who was this great bodies girl was. When he finally saw her face after a few seconds, she was still tiptoeing reaching for a book he screamed fairly loudly and fall over backwards.
He landed harshly on his back on head. His ego suffered a severe bruise as well and Sirius started to laugh hysterically.
'Prongs having a nice snooze?' Sirius asked. It was plain he hadn't known James was ogling Lily Evans and had thought that he had fallen because he had fallen asleep.
Oh good bloody hell! Lily Evans? He thought and looked back to where she was standing. No one was there. Since there was a lot of noise emanating from their area the Librarian looked in on them and gave them a warning. The library was closing for fifth years and up in five minutes so they had to leave anyway.
'Sirius that is not funny and I wasn't sleeping.' James argued when Sirius continued laughing even after they left the library with the texts in their hands.
'Oh sure you weren't I suppose falling off your chair is something you perfected?'
James sighed. He wasn't about to tell his friend that he had looked upon legs that had piqued his interest they way nothing else had and he sure wasn't going to mention that the one who did that was Lily Evans, his enemy, the bane of his existence and the person he had been asking out for the past three months.
He couldn't get that image out of his head. He never saw her like a girl, a real girl before and in a "hot" way as well. He shuddered. No way it was probably a lapse in judgement. And it probably was just a figment of his imagination.
There really was no way he would ever think of Evans like that. Not in this millennia or the next. He really should stop asking her out just to antagonize her and prove he was superior to her. She would never even agree to that.
From what he had seen of her these past few years she never backed down yet he knew if he backed down he was in for it from the guys. He shuddered to think what Sirius would have said if he knew he suffered a insane flash momentarily. He really would have been suffering through hours of ribbing from him and well he didn't think he could take that.
Renee still hadn't questioned why he was asking Lily Evans out because she like everyone else thought it was joke. She even told him so. She had said though that it should not get out of hand because Lily Evans was also her friend and that she didn't want things to go haywire.
He was so caught up in explaining everything to himself he hadn't realised that they had reached the Gryffindor tower already and of course Sirius had to tell everyone that James fell flat on his butt because he fell asleep. Of course now James didn't bother to deny these allegations because it was better than admitting the truth. No one will know of his momentary lapse in sanity.
Except him.
Lily could not believe she had just went though half of the school in shorts and bunny slippers. What if someone had seen her? What if an adorably cute, hot boy had seen her? Oh Merlin what if James Potter had seen her. That would have been the worse part of it all.
But no one had seen her. She went to the library got a book, hid herself half way for the librarian not to notice her nightly wear and made a beeline for the Ravenclaw tower. She knew she should have changed but oh no Jessie had just shoved her out the door when she was elected to go outside and get the book.
'There you go!' Lily exclaimed when finished climbing the staircase that led to their rooms and dropped the book on Sash's bed.
It was the girl's birthday and they were going to streak her hair red and purple. They wanted something that would last only a day or so. 'Hey its not everyday a girl turns fifteen.' She had exclaimed but there was no way in Hades that her mother would have let her keep the rocker hair she saw some muggle girls with.
She had opted for temporary ones, just to be wild once and of course they soundproofed the door so no noise would bring the older prefects to the dorm.
'Why are we doing this so late in the night again?' Anna asked as she stifled a yawn.
'Maybe because she hadn't made up her mind until a few minutes ago?' Hannah said. 'Honestly Sash you have to go for the gold ring sometimes.'
The rest of the night was filled with laughter and fun. They ended up dying Hannah's hair pink with only a few strands of blonde peaking through. Anna stuck with bright red while Steffi picked streaks of black, Jessie chose yellow and Lily settled with Blue. By four in the morning all of them were very colourful and tired. They were really going to have to keep their eyes open for classes the next day.
James watched as Severus Snape shuffled past them with a fierce look on his face. Old Snivelous was really working the grime and Greece into his scalp nowadays. What got James angrier as every month had passed was that the bloody Slytherin always followed them more.
Where they were going, what they were doing? He was far more interested in Remus's activities than anyone else's and Sirius had begun to suspect that Snivelus was beginning to suspect Moony's disappearances every month.
His presence had already begun to wear thin. There was only so much they could take. They had half feared that he would indeed put two and two together and figure out that Remus wasn't what he seemed. That he changed, his form and his soul one night a month. They of course did everything to stop him from coming near them.
They had recently—just after Christmas anyway—picked up the notion of hexing him anywhere he followed them too. Was it their fault that he had not back down and stuck to cursing them back in some curses that weren't taught at school? No it wasn't and James supposed that him and Sirius who was now getting read the riot act by McGonagal was their fault?
It was really early in the morning too. He and Sirius just stood there though but hardly paid any attention to what their teacher was saying. So what? They were going to be in detention for two days. Good old Mac had caught them aiming a potentially harmless—okay harmfull curse at Snape just before the start of her own class.
It was then after this lecture that he saw all the Ravenclaw girls—what he thought o be Ravenclaw girls—make their way to their seats. He was shocked to say the least. He had near seen something so, well he couldn't find a word to describe it. He had hardly recognised them if that was an indication.
They all say down and acted as though their hair wasn't the least bit odd. He had to admit though they looked good. It suited them, sort of. McGonagal just stared interestedly at them and went on with sorting her papers. Wasn't she going to say anything to them? Wasn't there some kind of rule that existed so that girls' hair has to remain one specific colour? It was discrimination.
He saw a strange look appear in Matt's eyes and he didn't know what to make of it. He looked in the direction his friend was gazing at and saw it was focused on the multi-coloured girls. He looked over as well and his gaze automatically found the figure of Lily Evans. Always in uniform or stupid clothes he had never seen her look the way she did last night and he couldn't get the image out of his brain.
It was as though it was imprinted there and although she was fully clothed at the moment his mind rushed back to last night when he saw a lot of leg, which ended with bunny slippers so that's how he was seeing her. He was going mental. He had to be. He was not going to think of Lily Evans in any kind of capacity other than a stuck up little princess who will follow the rules to the end of her existence. The class was called to order and McGonagal started teaching. His gaze kept flicking back and forth. Between the teacher and a blue hair witch who looked really—no he was not going to say it. She did not look nice she looked stupid. It was a stupid thing to do with your hair and that was it. After class however none of the other boys seemed to think it was stupid. In fact even Sirius was a traitor.
'Why don't one of you two girls consider going out with me.' He said putting his arms round both Sasha and Stefi's shoulders and by the absolute disgust he saw there he highly doubted Sirius would be going out with any one of them.
The entire way to the great hall all James could think about was what happened last night. Darn it he needed to keep his mind focused on other things. Things that were important and Lily Evans was not important.
Matt looked on venomously at all of the Ravenclaw boys as well as Sirius and Peter who had surrounded the six girls. When they walked out of class for lunch they were basically mobbed by more boys. This was getting a tad bit annoying. This feeling he would get every time he saw her.
Sirius was asking them out one at a time and well Peter was watching him. The thing was at least James and Remus was with him as they made their way to the great hall behind the stupid prats. Of course James seemed preoccupied with scowling at something. He didn't bother to even ask Lily out this time around but as Matt looked other was doing that enough for all the boys in school.
Matt glanced in her direction again and something stirred in his stomach. There was no way he could be feeling this. He told himself again. In the pass few months he had been having unexpected and unwelcomed thoughts about a girl that he should not have feelings for. Well it wasn't as unwelcomed as he really wanted it to be and he knew he needed to stop but it was just that he couldn't.
He had a freaking girlfriend. There was no way he would cheat on a girl through thoughts and if he was honest at all with himself stupid little fantasies that should not occur. If he had to fantasize the subject should at least be his girlfriend and not some blued eyed girl in Ravenclaw.
It was driving him bonkers. It really was and he knew the time came for him to break up with Kit. She sensed something was up with him for a while now. He mentioned the Ravenclaw girls too much, even though he refrained from talking about this fantasy girl by name. Just general things though a girl probably knew when a bloke is thinking of another girl right there in front of her. Well now he knew what he had to do. Question was how was he going to do it and not mess everything up?
Taking out his little snitch James began letting it go and catching it. He got the thing from his grandfather at Christmas and now James found out that it actually helps him think. To bad Snape had to come and mess up his concentration. Matt, Remus, Peter and Sirius were there with him outside walking in the snow.
All of them had begun talking about Remus and his other half. Matt learned the truth not too long ago but he opted to remain the way he was. Not that he didn't want to. It was just that there was a curse in his family. They couldn't transform themselves in any kind of form. And boy did he regret it. James couldn't blame him. There was a certain freedom of becoming animagi.
They hadn't even started talking about what they were going to do at the next full moon when they heard a snap of a twig behind them. Turning James heard Sirius mutter, 'Snivelly.'
Oh great, again. Sirius loved getting McGonangal and the other teachers riled up to give them detentions but he had had enough of getting them because of this twit. It was getting way to annoying. They couldn't go anywhere on the ground with out Snape coming after them. He was either alone or with this short ugly bloke that Sirius didn't know the name off.
One of these days he was going to get Snape for always prowling in the background trying to get information on them. Sirius knew since he moved out of his mother's house that his tempter was always sky high these days and he thought he could control it and he did. Every time.
The only exception was when Snape was around then he depended on his friends to keep him grounded. It was hard to because it was like adding fuel to the flame. He personally couldn't stand the bloke. He somehow represented everything his family was.
Dark.
Everyone knew that Slytherins preferred dark magic but although they knew few actually believed it. Well he knew first hand that they do and it brought out a bad side of him. A side that was rarely or if ever seen by his closest friends.
When he had gotten out of Grimwauld Place that night the only place he could think to go was James's. Hearing his mother's cackle, old high pitched voice screaming at him to "get back here" so she could probably curse him to the next millennium all he wanted to do was get away. He really wanted to use his wand on her himself but he knew he couldn't
So two hours later, thanking his uncle in mind profusely for leaving his gold for him he ended up on James front steps. He had had nowhere else to go. All because of the empty darkness. The darkness that his family helped to create.
The others probably had their own reason for hating Snape but him? Having had dark magic shovelled down your throat for most of your life and hating it made him hate Snape even more, the Slytherins even more. They represented everything he hated. He was very glad that his brother went to school in Bulgaria. Durmstrang, he wouldn't go there if they paid him. Just for the spite of it Sirius took out his wand, turned and blasted him.
'The leg locker curse, not bad. Lets go.' James said after they stopped and glanced at Snape who fell to the ground.
Shrugging Sirius followed. 'Lets go see Hagrid.' Peter said and the others agreed. Seeing Hagrid usually cheered him up—but only to a certain degree and his mind darkened again.
Matt crossed the common room; he had to talk to Kit. He couldn't do this anymore. He still liked her yeah, she was a great girl but he wasn't attracted to her. He should have known that for a while now instead of continuing this.
Bright blue eyes flashed through his mind again. Just like it always did these past few weeks.
'Kit?' he called and the girl looked up and smiled at him. She was sitting with her twin sister and one of her friends Kristi.
'Yes Matthew?'
'Could I talk to you for a few minutes?'
'Yeah sure.'
By the time she came over he was already settled in a couch that was as far away from everyone as he could possibly find. Three minutes later Matt told her everything. The truth he held nothing back and he told her about his change of feelings and he even told her that he seemed to be falling for someone else.
'Who is she?' Kit asked when he was finished but Matt knew she figured it out.
'I—you already know.'
'Yes I suppose I do.' She said quietly. 'Does she know?'
Matthew shook his head. He was pretty sure the girl had no idea he was falling of her like this. They talked, really talked once and although they hadn't really conversed alone again he couldn't help but fall for her.
He was sorry he only recognised his change of feelings two and a half months ago. Then today seeing her surrounded by all those boys made him so insanely jealous he didn't know what to do. Since her last break up she hadn't dated anyone since. He could help be glad about that.
But thinking about it like that but it also made him feel that he had lost out on so much time. He didn't even have any idea if she felt the same way he did. He didn't even know where she lived. He himself had moved to England from Australia, he visited home a lot but now he was staying with his bother in a flat.
His parents allowed him to stay with his brother until he finishes school but he still had to go visit for at least a month over the summer. That evening at dinner he watched her laugh. He liked her laugh and really he liked everything about her. She was smart and really funny to be around. She is so random in her conversations you couldn't help but laugh.
Most of all she liked his accent and told him so at least four times. The first time she told him so was the night she broke up with her boyfriend. He may have been a very good friend of his but it was harsh to break up with her like that. Sure he understood now but still it wasn't the same.
Matt chose not to approach her as yet. He had just broken up with Kit and it was only in respect for her that he wasn't approaching his blue eyes. By the end of January James had at least asked Lily out three times and each time would be the time he himself was going to ask [I] his [/I] girl out.
By the time the second week of February rolled around his hands were itching. He really could keep it in any longer. He had passed her numerous times in the hall and talked to her and her friend a good few times as well. He was actually the only one of the Gryffindor boys that they really talked to, or at least had a decent conversation with.
'Hey can I talk to you for a second?' he asked bravely. At least he thought he felt brave at the time. He really just didn't want to mess this up.
She smiled. 'Sure Matthew.'
'Listen Jessie I really like you a lot and I was wondering if you'd go to the next Hogsmede weekend with me?' He asked before his bravery ran out.
'I'd like that.' She said and smiled a little wider.
'Really?' he asked still not to sure if she agreed to go out with him.
'Yeah. I think so. I'll see you later okay?'
'Yeah sure.' He said.
But before she left she walked up to him, leaned in close to his ear and whispered, 'and just so you know I like you a lot too,' kissed his cheek quickly and turned and ran to catch up with the other girls who were a little ahead of them waiting for her. The only thoughts that were registered in his mind at the moment were the one where she told him she liked him too.
Jessie laughed as she met up with the girls up the corridor. They saw her leaned into him but she was sure they didn't know what was going on. Well at least she thought they didn't.
'O-ho, so you just got asked out?' Stefi asked outrageously and Jessie stared at her. After a couple of seconds Stefi giggled. 'Sorry Hun but seriously he did ask u out didn't he?'
'Uh yeah he did but how—'
'—Did we know?' Sasha said finishing the question.
'Yes!' Jessie exclaimed.
'Well Hun we've noticed the two of you.' Lily said smugly.
'Lily did most of the noticing but…' Sasha continued.
'We started to see it too.' Finished Anna.
While they were talking Jessie had to look from one of them to the other. And swivelled her head back and forth.
'No guys seriously one of you talk. I'm getting a bloody headache just looking at you.'
'Okay well since about well I think it was November I got the idea in my head that the two of you liked one another but I couldn't exactly see it because he had a girlfriend. When he broke up with her though I told them about my theory and since then we were studying the two of you very closely.' Lily said choosing to be the spokesperson.
'Okay in other words you were spying on me?' Jessie asked. She really had to fight not to laugh. They went through so much to find out that.
Well it would have been seriously embarrassing if they knew that the first thing that drew her to Matthew was his Australian accent. Her friends knew about her obsession with accents but she didn't want them to judge her by it.
Sure she liked accents but she had gotten to know Matthew as well and he was one of the best boys in the school. The most fascinating thing was he looked terribly hot in his Quidditch uniform. She had no problem picturing him as a fireman. That there were his outward attractions but she also liked him because he was nice. Really nice and ever since her relationship with Remus fell out she found this intense pull towards Matt and had always concluded it to be nothing important.
When he had asked to talk to her. She had been hoping in the back of her mind that he would ask her out. She had been waiting it really talk to him ever since he broke up with Kit. Months ago she would have considered herself to be a calm, rational person. She really had never experienced jealousy in he life. Not even with Remus who had been around his ex-girlfriend Lacey a lot. But every time she saw him and Kit together it burned. The impulse to strangle her was there but she knew the girl was nice. It was just that she couldn't help herself. Sighing she and her friends walked towards their next class.
