Chapter 18: Strike Three; James' Third Mistake

A/N: Yeah... lol thanks for the reviews. I'm making James mess up again, very nice of me, huh? Well... I've got bad news: After this summer I'm not posting ever again. I don't have a compatible server for ff.net... unless you'd rather read a story that's a whole paragraph. Let me know, I guess.

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Strike Three; James' Third Mistake

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I swear that Transfigurations gets more boring every time I go to it. McGonagall's given us extra homework... I do it half heartedly now. She's up in the front of the class now, reviewing for N.E.W.T's that are three months away. I'm in the middle of the room next to Dorcas and John, playing with my quill and pretending I'm taking notes.

"He's staring at you," whispered John.

"Huh?" I looked up questioningly. He grinned and pointed towards James. When I looked over at my ex I saw him look away quickly. I rolled my eyes and continued to look at my quill.

"Something's very off with this class," said Professor McGonagall walking through the aisles.

I threw my quill on my parchment, picked it back up, and continued with that patterned for a while. McGonagall elevated my quill of the desk, making me look up at her.

"Miss Evans, so nice of you to pay attention."

I looked down at the parchment, and heard the class turn in their seats to look at me. I felt my face burn with embarrassment, but I let it slide. I had half the mind to tell McGonagall that her class is boring and that nobody pays attention. Yeah, that's how bad my weeks been.

"So this is the distraction, is it? The Head Boy and Girl are not close enough to hold hands under the table during lessons? Nor are they able to kiss when they think the Professors aren't looking? Or maybe it's because they can't whisper cute comments in each other's ears?"

How did she know about that!? Out of the corner of my eye I saw Sirius friendly hit James in the ribs. I looked up and caught his eye. I remember those times when James and I had done that... it was bad though. I had to think about James now and all we used to have. All the memories came flooding back. Oh bugger.

"Thought just as much," said Professor McGonagall shaking her head.

(Flash Back)

"Copy the notes off the board," said McGonagall sitting down at her desk and writing on her parchment.

"Note taking... my favourite," said James sarcastically. I smiled and took his hand in mine.

He grinned moving his chair closer to mine. "I'll copy from Remus," he whispered into my ear, wrapping his arms around my waist.

I looked towards McGonagall. "I hope she doesn't see," I whispered back.

"She won't," said James assuringly, kissing me on the lips.

"Why are we kissing here?" I asked in between a kiss.

"You prefer we don't?"

"We could get in trouble," I said resting my head on his shoulder.

"Later then?" he asked quietly.

"Sure, love."

"Brilliant," he said leaning over to kiss me again.

"I love you."

"I love you, too."

(End)

What a load of bullocks it all was. It meant nothing. He pulled it all out of his arse. And it makes me so mad for believing him. How could I, even for just one second believe that he really loved me? How could I ever think that he could love me?

I held my head in my hands and tried not to cry again. When the bell rang I ran as fast as I could out of the classroom and towards the empty D.A.D.A class. When I got in I sat down in my normal seat. Usually James, Sirius and I would sit there. But now Dorcas does, so I took James' seat. When they walked in behind me, James spotted me and ran over. Today we had a free class, but everyone always ended up going to the D.A.D.A class... the teacher (if he was there) never gave a bleeding damn about what we did. He happened to not be there to witness James and I squabble.

"You're in my seat," he said coldly.

"I don't see your name on it," I said just as coldly.

"Sure about that?" he said and at that moment I felt a burn in the back of my seat, stinging my lower back. I turned around and saw that the seat now read:

PROPERTY OF JAMES POTTER

"Look there! My name is on it," grinned James.

I turned to look at the seat. I muttered something under my breath and now a golden-brown light shone off the chair. Underneath what he had embarked I put:

THE ENORMOUS POMPOUS ASS

Everyone around us laughed in amusement, and I stared up a James with a look that was a mixture of triumph and taunting.

"So I'm a pompous ass now?" he asked.

I stood up, "No, you're a liar."

"What did I lie about?" he asked, his voice softening.

"'I love you, Lily. I'll always love you. We'll make this relationship work, Lils,'" I said, making my voice sound like his.

"I wasn't lying," he said quietly.

"And I was when I said that I would never cheat on you—?"

"Remus saw—"

"I've already told you Remus saw wrong! If you listened to my story you'd know that I was right and Dorcas saw too—"

"Because you've had plenty of time to talk over a plan with her, huh Lil?"

"I—"

"Mate," said Sirius. "Dorcas told me the whole story. She didn't get any of it from Lily!"

"Take her side then—"

"I never cheated on you!" I said in exasperation. "Why should it matter?! I knew better than to fall for you!"

"Excuse me?" said James.

"I should have known you were lying; that you were making it all up. I knew that you'd try something like this! Make me fall for you, then you would spread rumours after you had gotten a good snog from me—"

"You obviously don't know me very well—"

"Because you know every other girl that comes along!" I yelled, knowing exactly what I had just said was what James had said to me before.

He stepped closer, "You believe that?"

"Why shouldn't I?" I asked, moving closer to where we were a little more than three inches apart. "You believe that I'm easy—"

"You're obviously not—"

"Sorry I wasn't just another score," I said looking up and him and crossing my arms.

"Don't you believe that I love you?"

"You don't believe that I loved you."

"You don't love me anymore?" he asked quietly.

I through a hex his way that made him land on the floor. Surprising myself and calmly but quickly walked over to his side and lifted his head off of the floor.

"Drat..." I said quietly. "Didn't hurt him bad enough."

What he had done next caught me off guard completely. He leaned up and captured my lips for a hard kiss. His hands immediately went to my hips and pulled me off my feet and closer to him. I pushed my hands on his chest and pushed him away.

"HOW CAN I LOVE YOU WHEN YOU ALWAYS DO THAT?!" I yelled pushing him onto the floor again.

"Most girls like to be kissed—"

"Most guys don't kiss someone after they get hexed by them."

James looked up at me, then propped himself up on his elbows. "Fine."

"Fine what?"

"Tell me what happened Hogsmeade weekend."

"You already know."

"Sure I do," he said rolling his eyes and sitting next to me on the floor.

"I know you followed Prewett and I into the hall when I told him off for asking me out... for doing what he did at Hogsmeade... you were there when I told him I loved you and only you."

James was silent for a moment. I laughed, getting off of the floor again.

"I get it. It doesn't matter. What I say doesn't mean a single bloody thing does it James?"

"I never said that!" he yelled, getting onto his feet.

"You never said anything."

"Lily—"

"What Remus?"

"Can I talk to you?" he asked quietly, looking at the floor nervously.

"No."

"Lil—"

"I said no! Don't you think you've done enough?" I said loudly. "Don't you think I've gone through enough already?"

I made through the door but everyone was ready to follow.

"No! Just stop! Leave me alone. I don't want to deal with this right now. I don't want to deal with anything right now. This is not what I sighed up for when I fell for James Potter. And I'm not waiting around for him to mess up again!"

I slammed the door behind me and walked down the corridor towards the main stair case. I just wanted this week to end.

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A/N: Don't really like the chapter, but that's what you get. Review please. I think I should get them back together soon... perhaps... oh I just had a good idea! Okay... lol now I know what I'm doing! Review please!

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