Name : What No One Knew

By: Softballsweeti11

Disclaimer: Hey guys…you know I'm sorry about that last lawyer comment, right, RIGHT? AHHHH!!!! RUN!!!! Oh yeah, I don't own.

(lawyers stop running and brush lint off suits with smug faces)

Summary: (Set in the marauders' 7th year) Marauders- Peter, Remus, Sirius, and James, but there was another, one other, Head Girl and James's best friend, Lily Evans. And though James doesn't realize, Lily is desperately in love with him, though he remains oblivious to her secret pine for him. Britney, James' girlfriend on the other hand, has definitely noticed this. Being the wench she is, she of course retaliates.

AN: Just so everyone knows, this chappie is going to be kind of a songfic because I LOVE Evanescence!!!!!

To: Heavenly Queen of Darkness- how do you know she won't cheat on him? MUH HA HA!!! By the way, nice pen name!

Chapter Seven

Everybody's Fool

Dear Britney,

Meet me in the Great Hall at 12:00 am tonight.

Love,

James

Dear Terry,

Meet me in the Great Hall at 12:00am tonight.

Love,

Your Secret Admirer

perfect by nature
icons of self indulgence
just what we all need
more lies about a world that

never was and never will be
have you no shame don't you see me
you know you've got everybody fooled

look here she comes now
bow down and stare in wonder
oh how we love you
no flaws when you're pretending
but now I know she

never was and never will be
you don't know how you've betrayed me
and somehow you've got everybody fooled

without the mask where will you hide
can't find yourself lost in your lie

I know the truth now
I know who you are
and I don't love you anymore

it never was and never will be
you don't know how you've betrayed me
and somehow you've got everybody fooled

it never was and never will be
you're not real and you can't save me
somehow now you're everybody's fool

The Great Hall- 12:01 am

Two hands clapped over her face.

"Guess who?" a deep voice said behind her.

"James?" Britney said excited.

"No…Terry…" he said confused.

"What are you doing here?" Britney asked.

"You mean you aren't my secr-hey, where did that come from?" A giant bunch of mistletoe mysteriously appeared over their heads.

"What-"Britney was cut off by Terry kissing her on the lips sweetly.

"You do know you're really beautiful?" he asked.

Britney responded to that by leaning up and kissing Terry.

"Do you want to go to the Astronomy Tower?" He asked between kisses.

"You know it." She choked out.

The giant bunch of mistletoe was hoisted up by Sirius. Stage one-complete.

Gryffindor common room- 12:25 am

"James, where are you going?" Lily asked what appeared to be thin air half-interested, while reading her science fiction book, The Village, for the second time.

"Damnit" James said as he stepped out from underneath his invisibility cloak.

"So where are you going?" Lily repeated.

"Astronomy Tower and I'm late! Britney hates when I'm late!"

"Well, we wouldn't want to keep Britney waiting do we?" Lily asked glaring. James missed the sarcasm, and threw on the cloak.

"You should go to sleep, it is late," he said.

"No, I think I'll go to the hideaway," she said, dog folding her page and walking out the portrait hole without saying goodbye.

James stared into space for a second then donned his invisibility cloak and walked out the portrait hole after whispering the password, (Count Dracula) and sending the Fat Lady running to the next portrait in fright.

Astronomy Tower, 12:35 am

Britney and terry were snogging on the window seat when the door opened seemingly by itself and then closed almost right away accompanied by a loud thumping. Terry and Britney didn't notice anything, too engaged in their own activities. James had walked up the stairs to the Astronomy Tower with a spring in his step and high spirits, but those spirits were crushed and grinded in to the ground when he opened the door to see Britney and Terry kissing the daylights out of each other. He slammed the door and ran down the and to the hideaway, looking for solitude, forgetting Lily was there.

He dashed in.

"James! What's wrong?" she asked, but James was in no state to explain what had happened.

"Shh… its okay…everything's going to be alright…don't worry" she continued to hug and comfort her depressed best friend. He fell asleep after a while. Lily watched him sleep for a few minutes then quietly levitated him and put him into his bed. He looks so handsome, she thought. Before she knew what she was doing, she bent over and kissed him on the lips.

"Goodnight James," she whispered to him as she slept. She turned to leave. "Goodnight Lily," he said. She ran down the boy's dormitory stairs and ran up to her dorm, collapsing on her four-poster, crying. News had traveled fast about Britney and terry and Britney's betrayal to James. No one would talk to them. The Marauders were friends of everyone. (Except those bloody Slytherins!)

The next day Lily did everything in her power to avoid James, even though James was trying to find her. At night, Lily had finally relaxed, thinking she had escaped James for the day, but she was wrong, James was determined to talk to her, and James usually got his way. . . . . .

Something knocked on the dormitory window. Thinking it was an owl, she opened the window lazily, when she opened it though, a boy flew in on his Shooting Arrow and before Lily could yell, clamped one of his hands over her tiny mouth.

"It's me, don't scream!" James said. He moved his hand.

"What are you doing here?" Lily asked.

"We need to talk," he said, "But not in here, let's go to the hideaway." He finished.

He grabbed Lily (she protested, but lost, after all, James was strong after a life of quidditch) and put her on the broomstick and flew out the open window.

At the hideaway

James sat on a couch by the fire; Lily sat on the other side, two feet away.

"We need to talk," he repeated.

"About what?" Lily asked, knowing what was coming.

"The kiss," James said, not meeting her eyes. Lily's bright emerald orbs glazed over with condensed sadness. (A/N for those who don't know, that means tears.)

"I'll understand if you don't want to be my friend anymore. Bye James." Lily ran out the entrance, she couldn't hold back the salty droplets which now were flooding down her cheeks as she ran.

It took a few seconds for what happened to sink in for James. Then realization set in. He loved Lily. He always had. He remembered she had just left. He ran after her, but she was no where to be found. He resolved to talk to her tomorrow.

For the second time in a short period of time, Lily Evans fell onto her bed sobbing; only this time, her sobs were heard. Her roommates came and sat by her, attempting to comfort her but getting no response except more sobs and a "GO AWAY!" They obliged. Lily cried until she could cry no more.

The next morning she got up extremely early, went to breakfast before all other students, and then slipped away to her first class, where she sat in the very front of the class between two Ravenclaws. She left her class before James could catch up to her. And so it went on for the rest of the day, and the next and the next, on the fourth day, she took a risk and went to the library. She was reading Hogwarts, A History when the cold voice of Bellatrix Black and her doomsday posse were heard.

"Hello mudblood, why are you all by yourself," Bellatrix drawled. "Where's your boyfriend, Potter?" Lily clenched her fists. "Ooh! Touched a nerve, have we?" Lily bit her lip and gave a small cry. "Aww…maybe Potter will kiss your boo-boo." Lily punched her in the face. She staggered, then pulled her wand out and pointed it at Lily, her posse did the same. Lily had no time to draw hers. This is not good, she thought.

"You'll pay for that, bitch!" Bellatrix snarled.

"Go to Hell." Was Lily's response.

"Avada K-" Several beams of light hit Bellatrix and her cronies before she could finish. But three people managed to hit Lily with a stunner at the same time, before Bellatrix's lackeys all fell in turn. Lily was just able to see her rescuer's muscular body before she was hit. She slipped into unconscious before she could see who it was.

A/N: I AM SOOOO EVIL TO LEAVE IT HERE, but oh well. So who do you think the rescuer was? Find out in the next chapter of…What No One Knew