Chapter 19

Confruntations

Lily looked up at him, then did a double take, she was looking up to Severus, somehow,

amazingly, he had grown several inches in the past couple of months. His hair was also much less

greesy than before, although he was now slouching. His height, if possiible, made him more

akward than before. He acted like he was trying to hide from everyone, his nose still ran, and he

was still skinny. Other than his height, he looked the same. He could do with a haircut. Lily

waited for him to start talking. She looked at her watch pointedly, tapping her toe slightly.

"Just give me two seconds. I want to apologize." He pushed his hair off his face. "I was

terrible to you, I love you Lily. I'm lost without you. Please, take me back."

"One. Two. Sorry, times up, you failed to convince me that that would be a wise thing. I

mean, after all, your so desirable, much too good for a stupid mudblood like me." She flicked

her hair over her shoulder, pivoting and walking in the other direction.

"Wait, Lily!" Snape snatched her wrist.

"Get away from me Severus," she hissed his name like it was a poison. "You better get your

hands off, wouldn't want to contaminate them with a filthy mudblood like me."

"Lily, I said I was sorry, what else do you want?"

"For you to get your grubby, greasy hands off of me. Get away Snape, I warn you." She

reached for her wand, but he got to his first.

"Expeliarmus. Not this time Lily." He threw her wand away from him, he bent forward,

apparently to kiss her, but to Lily it looked more like he was attacking her with his lips, that or

trying to suck a leech offf of her face.

"Get away from her." Lily tore away, scooping up her wand from the floor as Holly covered

Snape with her wand. "Hah, this is a hoot, is the little veela going to fight now?"

"I may be pretty, but that doesn't make me a smarmy, stupid, git, does it?" Before he could

reply Severus was surrounded by Janette, Alice and Caroline. "Not to mention, you're

outnumbered five to one."

"I will have you Lily, mark my words, you will be mine." He turned and slunk off down the

corridor. Holly was about to send a curse after him, but Lily stopped her.

"Leave him."

"Lily, he attacked you, let me get him? Please?"

"He is such a pig, I can't believe you dated him. Think of all those kisses wasted."

"Relax Caroline, its fine. He's all talk."

"Maybe, but it's creepy talk. I don't like him, he's such a womanizer. Did you hear him, he

thought Holly couldn't fight just because she was a girl." The girls could all tell that Janette was

about to go off on a feminist tangent.

"What time is it? How late are we for History of Magic?"

"Ten minutes early, actually."

"Good, lets go to the common room and sit by the fire, I thought we were late. What time

is it?" Lily looked at her watch, but realized that the hands were not moving. Oh well, time to get

a new watch obviously. "So Caroline, are you and Ben still together?"

"What do you mean still? It's only been like, a week since I told you. Did you hear

something? Is he going to dump me?"

"Of course not, at least, I haven't heard anything. Why, is everything okay between you

two?"

"Yeah, he's coming to my house for Christmas, remember? My parents want to meet him."

"So you told them about him?"

"Of course. They would have been furious if they had found out from someone else, so I

wrote the a letter telling them that I was dating Ben a while ago. Actually, they knew before

you."

"Way to rub it in."

"Well, if you want to know if he still likes you, why don't you ask Maryanne, seeing as she

obviously knows everything about everyone elses love life."

"Oh, Reeta was telling me about that, you two were brawling right?'

"Yup."

"Who won?"

"What do you think?"

"You?"

"Well, I was on top when they pulled us apart and if you think me scrapes are bad, you

should see her."

"What scrapes?"

"Exactly." The girls all laughed.

"Don't listen to anything she says, she's just an idiot who has no life of her own so she feels

the need to critisize everyone elses."

"Were you two sleeping together though?"

"Janette!!! I had hoped you knew me better than that. Of course not." Before a fight could

start the bell rang again, signalling that it was time to head for History of Magic.