Chapter Five
The Chapter That Has No Suitable Name
LAST TIMEDenna leaves to go on her big first date with Matt… but he tries to take advantage of her. By the end of the night, he leaves mad, and she is left confused and sad. Dylan and Vanessa hooked up FINALLY, but there is something siriusly getting in the way of their future. Lily and Jackson hook up, and James is (gasp) jealous? Hmm… On with chapter 5…
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"Denna where have you been?" Lily asked with a worried tone as Denna slumped onto her bed at 3 in the morning.
"Around." She snapped, as she got into her bed and pulled the covers over her head, with her dress and shoes still on.
"What happened to you?" Caydence asked quietly as she got up to go sit on the edge of Denna's bed.
"Nothing happened to me, Caydence. I want to go to fucking sleep! So will everyone just shut up and leave me alone!?!" She half-screamed.
Caydence looked at Lily wide-eyed and Maleah just shrugged. Vanessa was asleep and obviously didn't care much to awake and notice her friends' disturbed state.
"Gladly." Caydence said rudely and got off the bed to return to her own pillow. The lights were turned out and not another word was uttered until they woke up the next morning.
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"Do you think we should wake her up for breakfast?" Maleah asked as she rolled out of her bed to the floor with a thump.
Caydence laughed and helped her off the ground.
"She's already in the shower," Lily said, while rubbing her eyes. "She might need more of that spray stuff though, I think that it'll wash off pretty easy."
"Hey Lily?" Denna said as she poked her head out of the bathroom, "do you have anymore of that spray?"
"No I'm afraid I don't." She said with a serious tone, Denna's eyes growing wide with panic.
"Are you kidding me?" She asked, as Lily laughed and handed her the bottle.
"Thanks!" She said as she shut the door.
"Why is she showering before breakfast? On a Sunday?" Caydence asked while putting her hair into a high ponytail.
"I'm not exactly sure…" Maleah said, unbraiding her now crimpy hair.
"What do you think was wrong last night?" Lily asked as she played with her hair.
"I don't have any idea." Caydence answered. "She looks to be alright now though."
"Yeah. I think we should just leave it alone for now." Lily said back, and Maleah nodded in response.
"Leave what alone?" Vanessa said, finally waking up.
"Nothing." All three girls said in unison, as Vanessa rolled her eyes.
"Whatever."
Denna popped out of the bathroom a few minutes later, fully dressed with make-up on and her hair blown out perfectly.
Lily just shook her head in confusion as she headed down to the Great Hall for some food.
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"I swear to you, she is obsessing over me!" Sirius said to the rest of the Gryffindor 5th years, them all nodding in unison. He shoved more toast in his mouth and shook his head. Girlfriends were over definitely rated.
"So what are we supposed to do about it Padfoot?" Cam asked as Sirius leaned forward.
"I was at my cousin's muggle friends house once, and in this picture box thing, there was something called a 'floatercade.'" Dylan leaned back skeptically, as Sirius went on.
"They were 'floating' in their cars, around this other car, protecting it from something. I think we should do that."
"But we don't have cars." Peter said, speaking up for the first time.
Sirius rolled his eyes and shot back, "No kidding Wormtail? Honestly, I thought that we did. Well that puts a damper on my plans I guess. Oh, wait, how about we think OUTSIDE the box, and maybe we will get somewhere."
"So Sirius, what you are thinking here, tell me if I'm incorrect, is that we just kind of guard you all day, like a defense force. We walk with you so she can't touch you." James said, waiting for a response.
"Exactly Prongs. That is what we will do." Sirius said, the rest of the boys nodding in agreement, as they clinked their juices together in a ceremonial gesture.
"Nice of you ladies to finally join us." Jackson said, scooting over for Lily.
"Yeah, well, we woke up late." Caydence said, squeezing between James and Dylan. Vanessa took a seat next to Sirius, as Dylan just looked down at his plate. Lily noticed this, and wondered what all had happened last night.
Denna situated herself in a spot where she could clearly see Matt, who was across the table, six seats over. Maleah was a few seats down next to Tyson and his friends.
"You're looking good Den," Cam said, as she laughed and flipped her hair in an overdone way. She then focused her gaze back to Matt.
Cam exchanged a look with Lily, as she shrugged in response.
"Aren't you going to eat?" Lily asked Denna, who was scooting the eggs in patterns across her plate.
"I'm not too hungry." She said, as she noticed Matt get up and walk over to their part of the table. "Pretend I just said something really funny!" She whispered.
"Hahahahaha," Lily said, wondering what the hell was going on.
"Yeah, I know! I was like, Cameron, what are you thinking?" Denna said with a sweetly fake voice. Cam looked at them in confusion.
"Jamie, Sirius, Dylan, we ready for the big game next week with Ravenclaw?" Matt said, grabbing their shoulders and squeezing. Sirius winced and James just rolled his eyes.
"Right-o, Matt. We will be ready." Sirius said in a monotone voice, as Matt nodded and walked away, without so much as a glance in Denna's direction.
"What a prick." Dylan said, as Denna began stabbing the food on her plate.
"No kidding. I hate that asshole." Sirius said grumpily.
"Denna I thought you weren't hungry?" Lily asked.
"I spoke too soon." She answered angrily as she forced forkfuls of food into her mouth.
Caydence also noticed her odd behavior, and made eye contact with Lily. Lily looked back and shrugged. They had no idea what was going on.
"Excuse me." Denna said quietly as she got out of her seat and walked briskly out of the hall, Lily and Caydence following closely behind. Maleah noticed their sudden absence from her seat down the table, and excused herself to follow. Vanessa stayed at her seat, too absorbed in her own problems to notice anyone else's.
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"Denna! What is going on?!" Maleah shouted to her once they got out of the hall.
Denna whipped around to notice her three friends running after her.
"Nothing." She said, shaking her head.
"Quit lying, ok, its pissing me off. Just tell us what's going on!" Lily said, putting her hands on her hips.
"Nothing is going on Lily! Just leave me alone, I'm a big girl I can handle myself!" She turned on her heel and started to walk away from them. The three girls looked at each other, at a loss of what to do.
"What's going on between you and Matt." Caydence asked, more as a statement than a question.
Denna stopped in her tracks and crossed her arms in front of her. "What are you talking about." She said as she turned to face them once again.
"You are so excited for this big date last night, and you come home late in a really bad mood, your face all puffy and stuff. Then this morning, you take a shower and spend time actually getting ready for breakfast, and you act all psycho, telling me to laugh at a joke or something, and when he walks away you get all pissed and leave again." Lily interjected, as Denna closed her eyes and dropped her head.
"Come on guys let's go back to the room," Maleah said as she grabbed Denna around the shoulders and led her up the stairs, Caydence and Lily following in silence.
"So what happened?" Caydence asked once they shut the door to their room and began crowding around Denna's bed.
"I don't know!" She began, tears coming immediately. "We were having a good time and all, and then he wanted to leave the banquet. So he takes me to this room and we start kissing and stuff, and he undid my dress and we were just kissing, but then he took off my bra, and I didn't want to, but I kept on kissing because it wasn't that big of a deal. But then he started to try and go further, and…"
"Did he rape you!?!" Caydence asked with the ignorance of an 8 year old.
"No he did not rape me, Caydence." Denna snapped.
"Well then what happened?" Lily asked.
"I said no," she said, hanging her head.
"Well, that's good!" Maleah said, not understanding what was so bad.
"No, its not! He got all mad at me, and just left me there! And now he won't even talk to me! I should have just let him do whatever, then he would still like me, and I,"
"Denna, shut up." Lily said, getting mad. "You did the right thing! Don't let this asshole make you feel this way! I know what you are going through, and I mean, you were right in stopping. If he's a decent person, he will understand. I mean, he's probably just not used to being with a girl that has actual morals."
"I know I did the right thing, I just, I just wish that he still liked me!"
"I'm sure he still likes you, his ego is probably just bruised because you're probably the first girl that has said no." Maleah said, the rest of the girls nodding in agreement.
"Everything's fine Den, don't worry about it." Lily said, Denna nodding.
"On the bright side," Lily remembered, "I did accidentally stumble on Vanessa and Dylan last night."
"Oh my God, are you serious?" Denna said, forgetting about her tumultuous relationships and focusing in on someone else's for a minute.
"Yeah!" Lily laughed, but remembered how Dylan was acting that morning. "But, I think I'm gonna go have a chat with Dylan right now. Do you think your ok Den?"
"I'm fine." Denna said honestly.
"Ok, I will talk to you guys later." Lily said as she grabbed a sweater and walked out the door in search of Dylan.
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"Ok boys, so we know what we are doing, correct?" Sirius asked, Cam, Jackson and James nodding in response.
"Well then, we see Sydney, and what do we do?" Sirius asked as James' hand rose.
"Yes, James."
"We quickly get you out of her radius and deny, deny, deny."
"Right!" Sirius said, clapping his hands together. The group got quiet as they heard the clicking of shoes coming down the hall. James shoved Sirius into a closet and then stood in front of it, whistling.
"Come on guys," he whispered to Jackson and Cam, "be nonchalant with me!" The three 5th years began whistling and tapping their feet, looking around the hall.
"Hey guys!!!" Sydney said as she walked up towards them. She started looking around them, in search of something.
The boys said their "hullos" and started whistling again.
"You haven't seen Sirius, have you?" She asked suspiciously.
"Sirius? No." Cam said.
"Really?"
"Yeah." Jackson nodded, and elbowed James to come up with a story.
"He's looking for you, or at least he was 5 minutes ago." James said, a relieved look spreading across Sydney's face.
"Oh! He just can't get enough of me, I mean, he's always looking for me, or with me or something. It almost gets suffocating! But I just love him so much, I don't mind a whole lot." She said, as the boys nodded. "Well I guess I will just go back to my room, he's sure to find me there!" She waved as she left, the boys letting out a sigh of relief.
Sirius opened the door to the closet and shook his head. "See? She is crazy!"
"Sirius! Close the door, she's coming back!" Cam said as he heard footsteps coming from the direction she just went.
The boys began whistling again, trying not to look at her.
"What are you doing?" Lily asked, the three boys startled from the sound of her voice.
"Oh! Lily!" James said, opening the closet door, Sirius popping out.
"We're hiding Sirius from his girlfriend." Jackson said, Sirius nodding fervently.
"Sirius has a girlfriend?"
"A crazy ass psycho bitch girlfriend, let me tell you!" He said in an exasperated tone. "She follows me everywhere! I mean, I know I'm hot, but give a brother some space!"
"First of all, you are not 'a brother' and second of all… you're weird." She said, laughing at the panicked look on Sirius' face when he talked about his girlfriend.
"Anyways," she continued, "have any of you seen Dylan?"
"He was headed towards the lake last time I saw him." Cam said, as Lily nodded her thanks and bounded down the hall.
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"Hey Dylan." Lily said quietly as she sat down next to the 16-year-old boy.
"Hey Lily." He replied as he stared out into the lake.
"How are you?" She asked, prodding for an actual response.
"Fine." He muttered.
"You don't look it." She countered honestly, in hopes of him confiding in her.
"Are you saying that I look bad?" He asked, trying to make a joke.
"No, you are just as hot as ever. I'm just saying that today you haven't been your usual happy self."
"Oh."
"So are you going to tell me what's wrong?" He shook his head, not looking her in the eye.
"No."
"Dylan!" She exclaimed, and he looked back at her wearily.
"What, Lily?" He asked, emotionally drained from the feelings that were running through him.
"Why won't you tell me what's wrong?" She half yelled, frustrated that he wouldn't trust her.
"Why do you care so much about other peoples personal lives?" He asked squarely, as she sat in silence for a moment.
"Because," she started, "I don't like to see people going through pain, especially if I could do something to help them out."
"I see." He nodded, "well. I guess I'm just having girl problems."
"Vanessa?"
"You could say that." He shook his head and went on. "I just, I just like her so incredibly much. I have for a really long time. And I let Denna know about it, and she tells me that maybe something could work out between us. I was so happy when I heard that, I mean, you don't even know. Ever since I've transferred here, I have liked Vanessa Headon. She's the one who first talked to me, the one who sat by me in Potions."
"And then I got a chance to be with her. And somehow, I blew it. I fucking blew my only chance with her. I don't even know what I did, I just, messed up. And it pisses me off so bad to think that I could have had it, and now I can't. I can't even explain it."
"What happened? When I saw you two, everything seemed fine?" Lily asked, confused.
"You saw us?" He asked surprised, but at the same time laughing. She nodded and he continued. "Well, I don't really know to tell you the truth. One minute, we are kissing… and stuff. And the next minute she was just not into it. And she got up and left, and hasn't said a word to me since."
"Sounds like Vanessa alright…" Lily sighed, shaking her head.
"Are you serious?" He asked, as she nodded her head. As she continued, Jackson ventured out on the lawn towards them to see what was going on, but Lily and Dylan were too involved with their conversation to notice the eavesdropper.
"No offense Dylan, but Vanessa is kind of a bitch. I mean, I love the girl to death, but she is so self-centered, and only cares about number one. I take that back, she also cares for Sirius. I don't know what the hold is that he has over her, but she's in love with him, and he could care less about her."
"Really." He answered, mentally kicking himself for falling for her so hard. Jackson shook his head along with Dylan, from the secrecy of a conveniently placed tree.
"I'm really sorry Dylan. I mean, there's nothing I can do to change the fact that you like her, and its not like your gonna stop liking her overnight. I just want you to know, that its not you. At all. She is incapable of having a relationship with anyone, even Sirius. She was raised dysfunctionally, therefore, she is dysfunctional. I'm sorry to be the one telling you this. I really am." She looked into his eyes and saw nothing but hurt. The girl he has loved from afar, not only doesn't love him back, but is a HUGE disappointment. Lily kissed him on the cheek and she put her arm around him with her head on his shoulder. Jackson's eyes got wide as he shook his head, this time for himself. He couldn't believe his eyes, did Lily really not like him at all?
"Fuck this." He said to himself, and turned back up to the castle.
"You know, I really do love you Lily. You are a great friend. Bad with timing, but a pretty good friend." She laughed as he went on. "Seriously Lil, you could have mentioned this 'Vanessa is a huge whore' thing during the whole time you were busy setting me up for disappointment…"
"I know! But I really didn't think she'd do you this way, I mean, she's a little on the loose side, but she usually has… what's the word I'm searching for… manners." She laughed again as he nodded. They sat for a few minutes looking into the lake, Lily thinking about nothing in particular, and Dylan thinking of Vanessa. No matter what he heard about her, he couldn't stop liking her. There was something about her.
"Come on, let's go get some pudding from the kitchens," she said, as they brushed themselves off and walked the long way up to the castle, his arm around her. Jackson looked on and swore at them from his dorm room window.
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"Caydence. We really need to invest in a love life. We are the most pathetic two people ever created." Cam said as he settled into his usual seat in the common room. The "dodging Sirius' girlfriend" game got old fast, partially because it was kind of stupid, but mostly because while Jackson had left to go find Lily, Cam and James had let there guard down and Sydney found Sirius. They figured they had better escape before Sirius had the chance to wring their necks.
"Oh, cousin… I'm one step ahead of you." She smiled and he leaned forward.
"What?" He snapped, as she shook her head and laughed.
"I have, a prospect."
"Do tell?" He leaned back and crossed his arms, wondering who this 'prospect' could be.
"No I'm afraid I have to keep that to myself…" She said as she stood up, "for now."
"Caydence! You can't just leave me hanging like this!" He called after her, but she didn't turn around to reply.
"What the fuck is going on here?" He asked himself as he sunk into the chair, his head in his hands. He sprung up suddenly, startling the 2nd year next to him with his quick change in posture.
"I mean, I'm a reasonably good looking guy, wouldn't you say?" He asked her, her eyes widening and her head nodding feverishly. "Hell, scratch that," he continued, "I'm pretty damn hot. To most, you would think… Right?"
She nodded again nervously as he went on.
"Well then why are these boners like Sirius, don't get me wrong I love the guy, getting all these girls? For Christ's sake, even Peter has a girlfriend. Granted she's a bit below my standards…" He slapped his hands on his thighs and got up.
"I'm going to go get me a girlfriend. Yep. A hot one." He decided, as he looked at the girl he was having a one sided conversation with. "And you, thank you for your looks and nods of encouragement. They meant a lot." And with that he bounded off out the portrait hole and off into the corridors in search of a girl. The 2nd year, left with plenty to tell her friends.
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"What are you two doing?" James asked, as he walked into the kitchen and found Lily and Dylan on the counter eating some pudding.
"What does it look like?" Lily said with a smart-ass tone, as Dylan glanced around for a look at the time.
"It looks like I better go before I'm late for my meeting with Professor McGonagall." Dylan answered as he hopped down from the counter and bounded out the door. He ran into Denna on his way out, slapped her a high five and kept on running to his destination.
"Where was he running off to?" Denna asked as she joined the silent pudding eaters. James had stolen the chocolate from Lily, but she had moved on to a nice tasting butterscotch.
"Meeting with McGonagall, I think its about his transfer papers for Quidditch or something," Lily said as Denna and James nodded. Dylan had transferred from Noxwood, the only wizarding school in America in the middle of their fourth year.
"What's he been so depressed about?" Denna asked, digging in to the pistachio pudding that had been yet untouched by the other pudding eaters.
James' face contorted at the green pudding being consumed, as Lily explained.
"It seems that he has fallen hard for Vanessa, and she hasn't really been receptive." She started, as Denna broke in.
"What? I set them up! What happened?"
"You set him up with that bitch?" James said angrily, as Lily and Denna looked at him with surprise.
"Do you not like Vanessa?" Denna asked, as James scoffed.
"I hate that girl." He said venomously, "all of us do. All of us except Dylan I guess. Sirius just leads her on, I don't even know why he bones her, she's dirty. I guess he just does it out of boredom or something. It's nasty and wrong either way."
"Are you serious?" Lily asked, as James went on.
"Yes! She's ugly and fat and a bitch and she thinks she's hot, and she is defenitly not hot in any way shape or form. She thinks that just because she's a slut that anyone will do her. Ugh. She's so gross."
"Vanessa is not ugly or fat!!!" Denna said, sticking up for her friend.
"I guess that's a matter of personal opinion now isn't it." James said snidely.
"So you guys really don't like her?" Lily asked again.
"No Lil, I fucking love the girl. Can't you tell by the way I go on about her like this? When I say 'fat ugly bitch' I really mean 'hot, sweet girl.'" He said sarcastically. "I do not like that stupid bitch and if she ever says one more stupid asshole remark to me I swear," he shook his head, as Lily and Denna looked at each other.
"Did you know this?" Lily asked Denna as Denna shook her head and shrugged.
"And why are you eating that nasty green shit?" James asked as he knocked the pistachio pudding out of her hand. Denna's jaw dropped as she picked it back up and began eating it by the heaping spoonful.
"You see James, pistachio pudding and clams are perfectly normal. But lettuce… ooo its weird." Lily said, bringing up the fact that Denna hates lettuce, but she loves clams, as Denna raised her eyebrows.
"Mmm, clams. That sounds so good." She said as she rubbed her stomach.
"You are so fucking weird." James said shaking his head and hopping off the counter. "I'm out ladies."
"Bye Jamie," Lily said, as Denna waved with a mouth full of green pudding.
"Oh, by the way Lil, you might want to go check on Jackson. He seems to think you are cheating on him or something." James shrugged, as Lily looked at Denna confused.
"Come on, I've got to go take a shower anyway, lets just head back." Denna said as she set down her pudding and followed James out the door.
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"So what's this I hear about you saying that I'm cheating on you?" Lily asked as she walked into the boy's dorm, standing over Jackson's life less form.
"What about it." He said, his voice muffled from being face down in the pillow.
"Well for one, I don't know why you think this, and two, its pretty hard to cheat on someone you're not even going out with…" She said, hands on her hips as he rolled over to face her.
"I didn't think that you were cheating on me, because you're right, we aren't going out."
"Well then what is James talking about?" She asked as Jackson shrugged.
"I saw you and Dylan out by the lake."
"So?" She said, as he looked at her.
"Do you like him or something?" He asked with an accusing tone.
"I had my arm around him, Jackson. Nothing else. Oh, and I kissed him on the cheek. Big deal."
"Well," he started as she rolled her eyes.
"Damn it Jackson, he's my friend and he was hurting! What am I supposed to do, pat him on the shoulder and say 'buck up dude'?" she asked as he laughed.
"No I guess not."
"Are you still thinking that I don't like you?" She asked sweetly as he shrugged, baiting her to do something about it.
"Well maybe I can change your mind?" She said softly as she began kissing him hard on the mouth pushing him deep into his bed. He ran his fingers through her hair as the door opened.
"Ooo, sorry for interrupting." James said as he quickly shut the door and leaned against it from the other side. He closed his eyes and shook his head. Normally he would have stayed in the room for a bit, just to bug Jackson. But he couldn't bear to watch Lily and him mess around. It made him feel weird.
He needed something to get his mind off of Lily, because the feelings he was having were starting to freak him out.
"Perfect." He said to himself as he spotted his ex, Kate, sitting down by the fire. She was always up for a little bit of fun. He walked down to her and engulfed her in a hug from behind.
"Hey baby…" he whispered in her ear as she turned around and smiled. He whispered something else as she nodded and he led her out the portrait hole to a secluded closet in the 5th floor corridor.
"Easy." He thought to himself as they closed the broom closet door. "Way too easy…"
Believe it or not, this chapter has been done for a few weeks, except for that last part when James walks in on Jackson and Lily. For some reason I just couldn't bring myself to write that part… This chapter is pretty freaking long tho, I didn't notice until now. Not a lot happens but I guess its just one of those transition chapters. Its leading up to stuff, have faith in that. Anyway, I hope you are all having a great summer, and that you are enjoying the story. If you are confused about ANYTHING, leave it in a review and I will get right back to you. the next chapter should be out by July I'd think… so not too far away. Hmmm lets see. In the next chapter, Matt finally talks to Denna, Remus returns, Lily notices James acting weird (finally!) and Cam finds himself a lady! Caydence has a boy, and he will be revealed, and Maleah is going to fall further into love with boring old Tyson… Vanessa and Dylan are not going anywhere, and there will be more adventures with Sirius! I just love Sirius, don't you?Have you all seen the new movie? I HAVENT YET!!! OMG I really want to see it I just haven't had time, its nuts. And I cant wait for the next book to come out, but it probably wont come until like 2015. Oh well I guess. Anyways, have a good AND SAFE summer and I love you all!
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