Chapter Fifteen

Get Over It

Now, if Lainie had been smart, she would not have done what she did. She would have just ignored him and dumped him. But she was to self control as Sirius was to modesty. So she marched up to him, with her two friends trailing after her.

"Alex" she said in an icy tone which didn't convey the fury that was building up inside her. He looked up and, as Lily and Livvy noted with satisfaction, he nearly seemed to shrink.

"Look, Lainie, I didn't mean for things to go like this." He said, apolegetically.

"Look, Alex, I really don't want to hear. It makes the fact that you publically cheated on me even worse"

"No really. I didn't want to hurt you." He said, pleadingly.

"Well, it's a bit late for that. Couldn't you have just dumped me, couldn't you have thought of my feelings once. Is all you care about sex?" She shrieked at him, flying off the handle. Lily and Livvy grabbed her and dragged her down the corriodor so at least she would have some dignity.

"God Lainie, I'm so sorry." Lily said.

"No, you're not. You never liked him. No one did. Truth is neither did I. I didn't really know why I was going out with him. I just got taken for a fucking bad ride." Lainie said, staring resolutlely straight ahead,

"What so you didn't like him either." Livvy echoed, not believing her for one second but going along with it.

"That's about the long and short of it. Now who's going to go in and get ice cream?" Lainie asked, shortly.

When everyone had been informed and had duly insulted Alex. Everyone had wandered off to bed and Lainie was left alone in the common room. She curled up on a couch. How could she have let him do that to her? She was always wondering why she let him, she actually had never liked him, well she had, but still. Why was she so stupid, couldn't she see. Everyone else could. James, Sirius, everyone. Couldn't they have saved her from this. She felt tears prick her eyes. What an idiot people will think she was, her boyfriend cheated on her, publicly. She just felt stupid. The tears began to dribble and she hastily wiped her eyes. She looked up and saw Sirius there, watching her. He looked at her, then sat down beside her. "Bastard" he said. That did it. Her tears flowed down her face, despite all her futile efforts.

"I feel so stupid" she said, in between sniffs. He put his arms around her and she leant into his chest. She shut her eyes and leant against him, while he stroked her hair. It was really comforting, she took a few shaky breaths and let them out. Then she closed her eyes.

"I just don't know why it happened to me. Why did he cheat on me?" she said, finishing with a sigh.

"It's alright" he said, stroking her hair "He's an idiot to cheat on you"

The next morning, Lainie woke up feeling aggressive. She had a dream about playing Alex in muggle soccer on brooms in Diagon Alley. She had a shower and got into her gear. She heard voices coming up the stairs. Must be the others coming to get me for the game, she thought. She grabbed her broom and marched out the door and down the stairs, past her shocked friends. They knew what must have happened. Having gotten over being hurt, Lainie was now angry, and hell, they pitied whoever came in her way on her way to victory.

She marched down the halls, ignoring all the looks cast her way. She arrived in the changing rooms and began to stretch. It was empty. Just as she was beginning to jog on the spot furiously, James and Sirius arrived.

"Woah, someone moved on from the hurt stage quickly" James said, quite startled by the energy and anger radiating from her.

"Yip and don't get in my way. " she said determinedly as she moved onto stretches.

And she continued to warm up in such a fury that the rest of the team dared not speak to her till it was time for the pep talk.

"Right team, we can do this. We have the best team possible. Our chasers are the best. Our beaters can't be beaten. Our keeper can stop everything. And the seeker"s not half bad either. We can win. We have the skill, we have the moves and we can do this. And if you don't win I think Lainie will castrate you." He said, indicating at the all male team, who all laughed.

"Right, lets go." He said and they walked out of the changing rooms.

Lainie kicked off and flew out. She circled the pitch, swooping in and out of the stands. She felt great, she smiled at Professor McGonagall, (the new teacher) who was clapping and looking up at her. She swooped up next to James and they raced the length of the pitch and did synchronized loop the loops. They flew down to do the toss.

James turned to her and offered his hand to her. She shook it and they caught each other's eyes. Then she went down to start the game.

She glared at the Slytherin chasers as her, Jack and Sam lined up opposite them. Above them Sirius whispered to James "Do you think it's wise to let her loose upon them" "She's going to make us win. I know she will" James said confidently.

The game started, with Gryffindor in possession of the quaffle and flying in an arrowhead formation. They dodged the defense and scored. Lainie felt good and she, Jack and Sam were working really well. This time though, she was on her own, they had been picked off by the defense. She rolled to dodge a bludger and faked and then scored. The crowd cheered but she was still frowning. She wasn't going to celebrate till she had won. The score was eighty to twenty. She had to keep going. She caught the ball from Matt, the keeper and began to fly up the pitch. A chaser came up and tried to push her off course but she wasn't going to budge, she pushed him back. They shoved each other for a while then he pulled out and went into her. The impact nearly knocked her off her broom. He had pulled out again but she wasn't going to fall for it twice. She dived down and he went in to hit her, he lost his balance and nearly fell off. She went ahead and faked out the keeper and scored. As she was defending the quaffle, she saw a blur streak past her. It was James in pursuit of the snitch. He pulled into a sharp dive and reached out and grabbed it. The stands erupted into cheers, all of Gryffindor went crazy.

Lainie flew down to where James was standing and threw her arms round him. Much to her surprise he swept her up and spun her round. The rest of the team hit them and them were all jumping up and down in a great big group.

They made their way up to the podium and Proffessor Dippet presented James with the cup which he held above head and the crowd roared. Then he gave it to Lainie who lifted it up. "Miss Robinson, can we take a picture for the daily prophet" a reporter called from the side of the podium. "Sure" she screamed. James and Sirius lifted her up on their shoulders and she looked out over the seething crowd and saw Alex up in the stands looking really sour. She felt so much better, not completely over it but it was a start.

When she saw Livvy and Lily, they screamed and ran towards each other. They hugged each other so hard they tripped over each others feet and collapsed still laughing on the ground.

When they arrived in the common room and climbed through the portrait hole, the whole quidditch team and Lily and Livvy. Their jaws dropped, the whole house was standing there and there was a massive banner which said "Gryffindor Rocks".

They were all too shocked to speak and wandered upstairs to get changed because as Lainie said "they would probably spoil the food if they didn't". Lainie was just putting on a top when Lily burst in.

"Right, put on a skirt. Surely for once you can look like a girl." Lainie was in too much of a good mood to argue. She emerged down the stairs wearing a pink skirt and a white sleeveless top with a lace collar at Lily's request. She walked down the stairs amidst wolf whistles and cat calls. "It was all her idea" she laughed pointing at Lily who took a bow.

She got something to eat and drink and was just talking to Peter about the match when Lily came and dragged Lainie out to dance. They began to dance like wild things and even Lainie who didn't usually like dancing was dancing wildly to Micheal Jackson. Lainie excused herself and went to get a drink. She started talking to Sirius and was about to go out and dance when the song changed to a slow one. She returned to her spot.

"James got lucky tonight, look, he's dancing with Lily" she pointed out.

"Yip, he going to be happy tonight" Sirius said. The were both watching the dancing while leaning against the food table. James had noticed both of them and he whispered to Lily "I'm just going to help those two". He was about to leave the dance floor when he turned around and caught her by the hand, "Come one, I think I'm going to need a hand to convince them" He lead her off to where those two were standing. Lily was trying to ignore the fact that she was very flattered that James had taken her with him.

James and Lily walked up to them standing side by side. "Hey James. What do you want." Lainie said abruptly. "That's not very nice" James said "You must want something or else you would still be dancing with Lily" Lainie said reasonably while Sirius snickered. "Well, don't you think Sirius should have asked you to dance by now" Lily said while Sirius turned red and stopped snickering.

"No, no one should be submitted to the torture of dancing with me" Lainie said. "Lainie, it's not torture for anyone. Come on, I'll dance with you for a while then we can swap." James said leading the protesting girl out onto the dance floor. They began to dance next to Sirius and Lily. Lainie whispered to James "Don't make Sirius dance with me. He doesn't have to." "Don't be stupid Lainie, he obviously likes you" James said as he grabbed Sirius by the scruff of the shirt and swapped places with him before the furiously blushing Lainie had time to respond. Lainie placed her arms around Sirius neck and looked into his dark, trusting eyes. "You don't have to dance with me, just because James made you." She said, she hated to think that he was being made to dance with her. "He didn't make me" Sirius said looking straight back at her. That seemed to answer all her queries. He pulled her closer and they began to dance.So they danced the night away, James couldn't quite believing his luck and Lainie feeling a lot better. Oh and Lily, Sirius, Livvy Remus and the rest were all feeling pretty all right too.

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