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Chapter Six
James was sitting on the edge of the quidditch pitch after practice one day, looking over his potions book as he was buffing his broom. He suddenly heard a female voice from behind him.
"Hey, Potter ol' pal!" he turned to see Nancy walking happily towards him.
"Hey there, Nancy. What's going on?" he said cheerfully.
"Nothing. Just got out of Divinations class." She said, rolling her eyes as she took a seat next to him on the ground. "What a snore, huh?"
"Oh, yeah." James said in agreement.
"Watcha doin?" she asked.
"Well, I'm going over some Potions stuff, but after that I was going to do some practicing."
"Really?" she said with a sparkle in her eye. "Can you take me flying with you?"
"Sure." he sighed, then closed his book, and threw the rag on the ground. Then he stood and took her hands. "Now, I don't want to scare you, but I do fly pretty fast." It was his normal line that you used on all the girls he took flying. He looked at Nancy, and he felt his heart skip a beat. Yes, the deep lavender color of her eyes was pretty, but there was nothing compared to Lily's emerald green.
"James, you can fly me as fast as you want." she said in a low voice. A wicked smile covered her face and she squeezed his hand as she mounted the broom, leaning back on him seductively.
Padfoot's gonna love this, James thought. With a sense of distaste and regret, he wrapped his arms around her waist and pushed off the ground.
For the next few minutes James sped, dove and swerved enough to make himself sick. But Nancy was laughing and screaming like it was a roller-coaster ride. They stopped suddenly when they heard someone yelling at them from below. James almost started singing the 'Halleluiah' chorus.
"Hey, Sirius baby!" Nancy said, waving at him as they hovered to the ground. Before James could say hello, an obviously mad Sirius started yelling.
"Don't 'baby' me, baby! I had a suspicion that you were cheating on me, but with my own best friend?"
Nancy gasped. "So you have been following me!" she said as she got off the broom.
"No, actually, I was coming out here to play some quidditch with James here. But it's a good thing I came out here early so I can see what a cheating ho you really are!"
"Sirius, you don't really think that I'd-"
James' words were stopped short when Sirius' clenched fist met with James' jaw. He fell over backwards, onto the grass.
"I'll deal with you later, Potter. You just stay down there, you back-stabbing bastard!"
James leaned up on his elbows, gasping and hurting, then looking up at him in surprise. What the hell is going on?
"Now you," he said turning back to Nancy.
"Sirius, let me explain. We were just flying! There's nothing to get all-"
"No, Nancy! You know his reputation with flying the girls around, making out with them for one night then hanging them out to dry. You knew that and you still-"
"So what are you saying Sirius? You don't trust him? Or you don't trust me?" Suddenly her eyes got big. "Oh no. We're not breaking up, are we?"
"No, I don't trust Potter, heck no, I don't trust you, and you better believe that we are breaking up. We're through."
Fake tears welled up in her eyes. "I always thought you were over-possessive and that maybe I am a little un-trustworthy, but I thought that we could work this out, Sirius!" she said in a shaky voice.
"No way." he said simply. "Betray the trust of Sirius Black, you've lost your chance, there's no coming back." Nancy burst into bitter sobs then turned and ran towards the school.
"That's right, you better run!" Sirius called after her. James was still laying on the ground in utter shock. Then Sirius turned and looked at him with a smile.
"That was a pretty good poem. Made it up off the top of my head."
James blinked, still rubbing his jaw. "Huh?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, mate. I hope I didn't belt you too bad. I just wanted to make it believable. You know, my break-up with Nancy and all."
"What?!" James said. "Ok Pad. You need to explain somethings to me. I'm totally lost."
"I couldn't take it anymore!" Sirius said, offering James a hand up. "I needed a reason to break up with her and you made it way too easy. She was way too ditzy for me. She was pretty, and hell of a kisser, but just way too spacey."
"Never would've guessed she was blonde the way she was feeling me up." James laughed.
"No!" Sirius laughed too. "What a ho bag..."
"Well, glad I could be of service, old friend. Just not pleased with the casualties." James said, rubbing his swollen jaw with a smile. "You know, I'm glad I'm not on your bad side."
"I'm sorry, mate. Really I am. Maybe we'll have Madam Pomfrey put some ice on it." Sirius said, patting his back as they sat on the ground.
"Maybe we're just not ready for women yet." James said with a laugh.
"None of us will ever be ready for women, Prongs!" he said, and they both laughed.
"Sirius, you know I didn't have any intentions to-"
"Hey, no worries. I understand. I know you've got your sights on someone else. he said winking at James.
"Yeah, too bad she hates me." Neither one said anything for a moment then he smiled.
"Yeah, that is too bad." Sirius laughed.
"You know what? It's not that we're not ready for them. It's just that the ladies aren't quite ready to handle us yet."
"That's a much better analogy, Prongs." Sirius said, smiling. Remus and Peter cam running up suddenly. "Hey guys." Remus said. "You ready?"
"Yes sir, I am. I came out here to whip Potter's tail in Quidditch, so let's get going!"
"You forget so easily, Mr. Padfoot, who made the quidditch team and who didn't."
"He called me a cheating ho!" Nancy was bawling all over her pillow, with Lily and Jenny trying to calm her down by rubbing her back and smoothing her hair. "And did you see them at dinner? Laughing and joking around, best friends after five minutes! 'Betray the trust of Sirius Black' my butt! What a load of bull!"
Lily didn't speak, only let her friend fume, get out all her ridiculous emotions, hoping she would realize the truth. She really wasn't a ho, but she couldn't keep a boyfriend for over a few weeks. She was easily distracted, no mater how 'in love' she had been a week earlier. So this whole traumatic life experience she was going through happened once a month. And Lily, being the good friend that she was, had to help her through it.
"You're not a ho." said Jenny, Nancy's other best friend. "You're a great girl and it's his loss if he can't see that." Jenny looked up at Lily and shrugged her shoulders, then they shared a mutual smile. Lily liked Jenny. Not her best friend, but a good friend. She was averagely pretty with pale blue eyes and short blond hair, good grades, nice to everyone, just an all around nice girl. And she knew how to handle Nancy when she got too dramatic, for which Lily was grateful.
"You know what?" Nancy said, sitting up and surprising Lily. "I'm not going to let him get to me. I'm not going to let either one of them get to me. They're both stupid prats that will never grow up. And both of them may be irresistibly good looking," she paused while Jenny nodded in humble agreement and Lily just rolled her eyes, "But if there's one thing I've learned through this experience, it's that looks aren't everything."
Wow, Lily thought. This was a change.
"From this day forward," she said raising her right hand, "I will never date another Marauder."
Jenny then raised her hand. "Amen." Then they both turned to Lily.
"What? Listen, no matter how many times James Potter asks me out - trust me. I'm not going to falter."
"We'll see," Nancy said with a smile.
"Well, I'm proud of you, Nance." Jenny said patting her on the back. "Not letting this one bad relationship ruin your-"
"Of course not!" Nancy exclaimed. "There's too many other hot guys out there!"
Lily raised her eyebrows. "Huh?"
"How about that guy in my Muggle Studies? He's way adorable..."
I take back the surprise, Lily thought. Then, winking at Jenny, they both whacked Nancy with pillows.
A/N: Okay, that's all for now.
-kicks WB hard-
I'm so upset with them! I was soooo close to being finished, and now all of my WB board readers are on an evil cliffy for the 'Grand Finale' until who knows when (I'm trying to repost as fast as I can, honestly) I really wanted to start posting "Daring Destiny" and "She will be loved" (which probably won't be till next year, kids - sorry!) but I don't have much of either of them written. So we'll all just have to wait.
CURSE YOU, WB!!!!
-please blame WB for all delays-
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