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Chapter 9

Lily awoke groggily the next morning. She looked at her clock. 'Late for breakfast' is what it showed. She groaned and walked out of bed and straight into the bathroom, she didn't feel like eating breakfast anyway. Her mouth felt like cotton and tasted like beer.

'Hmm, I don't remember drinking any beer…hang on I don't remember much really. I must've drunk a bit too much.'

She brushed her teeth twice try to get the god-awful taste out of her mouth. She then had a shower, washing away the scent of the club. After spending long enough scrubbing she dried herself up and brushed her teeth three more times.

"Uegh, why does this taste never leave?" she pleaded to no one in particular.

She walked back into her room to get dressed and looked at herself in the mirror. The only aspect that gave away her lack of sleep last night was her eyes being heavy and bloodshot.

Ten minutes later she was walking down into the dungeons for potions and everything seemed as right as rain.

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James awoke feeling great. He had a major hang over but he always took that as a sign that he had had a good night, he put on his glasses and looked at the time.

'Aww, shit! No time for a shower, oh well!' He ripped back his curtains happily then regretted the sudden movement as his head swam.

He bustled around his room thinking of last night when he found he couldn't remember a thing. His eyes fell on Sirius and suddenly images flashed through his mind.

'Sirius…he upset Roxie…what did he?…oh shit…he slept with some other chick… Roxie wasn't happy…she cried...I took her to her staircase…er…blank…how did I get to my room?'

He shook away the thoughts of Roxie and Sirius and frowned, Sirius was in for an arse kicking today for being such an idiot. 'But I may as well let him sleep right now. He still looks fucked.'

James sighed and shook his head, he made his way down the boys' staircase with an annoying nagging in the back of his head. Something crucial had happened last night, he just couldn't remember.

"Oh well, maybe it'll come to me later." He said as he exited through the portrait.

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Roxie lay awake. She had been awake since dawn and hadn't really been asleep for long before that. She couldn't get the image of Sirius out of her mind. She had remembered everything from last night, the guy she was dancing with to tease Sirius, the way she had thrown up in the alley, the pain and longing she had felt after she had caught him, and then the pleading look on his face.

She sighed, 'dear brain of mine, what the fucking hell am I supposed to do? I guess it's a little bit my fault for leading him on but… the way he…it was payback? How could he even think of doing that to me?'

'Maybe because you've been rejecting him for about three years now he got tired of it.' Replied the voice in her head.

'Yeah, well, he always went with all the other girls, what was I supposed to do?'

'Maybe act on your feelings and not your pride? What would you have done if you were in Sirius's position?'

'Oh fuck off conscience, you suck.'

'Only cause you know I'm right.'

That snapped Roxie out of her reverie, since when did consciences talk back like that? "Dude, I must still be drunk…what time is it? Late, right, I'll just clean up and make my way down to potions…why am I talking to myself? This is mad, I'm mad… Fuck."

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Sirius heard James wake up and shut his eyes pretending to be asleep. To be truthful he hadn't slept one wink that night, all he had managed to do was think about Roxie and how much he had hurt her just by coming to a drunken conclusion. The way her eyes had widened in horror, then filled with hurt and betrayal, the way she had run to escape from him…

"Mmmmffff," he groaned and rolled over, "why am I such a dickhead?"

He looked at his clock. 'Should be in first period.'

He groaned again, double potions with Monoghen. There was no way he was going to get up for that.

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Lily was sitting in Potions next to Roxie. She had tried to talk to her about last night but Monoghen shot them nasty glares every time one of them went to open their mouth. So instead Lily shot her a sympathetic look which promised that they would talk about it later.

She was setting up her cauldron making sure it was perfectly balanced above the flame and that she had all of her utensils out in perfect order.

She then looked to the board at the instructions that Monoghen had put up. They were making a particularly nasty potion that would cause temporary blindness to anyone who drank it until they had drunk the antidote.

She started cutting and chopping, slicing and grinding all of her ingredients. She always paid meticulous attention to this part of potions, in fact, she was sure she was more careful doing this then she ever was in any other lesson. She was so absorbed in fact, that she didn't hear anything above her cauldron bubbling away, even when James came into the class and the professor started shouting at him.

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James walked into potions with a distant sense of dread fast approaching with every step. He just couldn't understand it. 'Oh, hey! I'll see Lily in Potions! Lily? Oh no…'

The Kiss, The Talk, The Everything, it all came flooding back, and for once in his life he was scared of seeing her. His breathing quickened as panic started to settle in.

"Shit, bollocks, shit, bollocks, arse, knickers, bastard!!" he closed the gap between himself and the door to the classroom cursing the whole way. He was about to reach for the handle to let himself in when he paused, took a deep breath to calm himself and lastly fixed his expression to look like it was just any normal day. He then opened the door and let himself into the classroom.

"POTTER! YOU'RE LATE! WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS LATE TO MY CLASS?! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR NEWT'S YEAR!! ARE YOU SO ABOVE EVERYONE ELSE THAT YOU FEEL YOU CAN JUST WALTZ IN HERE AND PRODUCE A PERFECT BLINDNESS POTION?? WELL DO YOU??? ANSWER ME BOY!!"

Monoghen ranted and raved on, the vein in his temple becoming more and more prominent. James had to try to stifle a laugh. If there was anything as enjoyable as a prank it was trying to see who could make Monoghen go the most purple. It was a game he and Sirius had played since first year.

He glanced around the class noting that everyone was watching the scene with laughter in their eyes. The Gryffindors were watching out of hilarity and the Slytherins out of maliciousness. Even Roxie was here and watching the scene with a trace of amusement in her eyes but then his gaze wandered upon a familiar red head. Lily. She hadn't even turned around. James looked at the back of her head longingly, willing her to turn around, to smile, catch his eye, and acknowledge his presence…anything to show that she noticed him. Nothing. He walked dejectedly to his seat and started to set everything up.

But then a determined memory echoed "I…I said that I don't hate you and I…miss you."

"What did you just say?"

 

"James! I…I don't hate you…I never really have…in fact these past couple of weeks I…I've missed you."

His lips started to tingle as he remembered the kiss. And Oh! What a kiss it was! He remembered the pure rush of emotion he had felt on both his and Lily's part. It was then that he knew, it was then he realised that she had feelings for him. All he had to do was try to get her to admit it.

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