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It Was Meant To Be
Epilogue
"Um…Lily? Will you go to the Christmas Ball with me?" asked James, his eyes lowered toward the ground and his leg twitching in his nervousness. He bit his lip and looked up at Lily to receive his answer.
Surprised to find her smiling, he looked at her curiously. Last year, when he asked her to the Halloween ball, she had a furious look on her face as she slapped him across the cheek. She had then proceeded to stomp away. James had been aware that something like that would happen, but he hadn't expected this!
Lily didn't know it, but James had loved her since first year. He had asked her out every week since third, but had always been turned down. She always said that he was a git with a big head who didn't respect women. How would she know that he wouldn't cheat on her with fifty other women?
But the turn down to the Halloween ball had really affected him for some reason. He had decided to change. It was the only way he could gain her trust. He knew that all the other girls were just distractions from Lily, and to gain her, he would even leave them.
And that's just what he did. To his surprise, it did him good! He discovered that with no girls to keep company, he had time for schoolwork and Quidditch, and discovered talents in both things. At school, he began to do exceedingly well and passed all his exams with high marks. He even managed to get all O's on his O.W.L's!
Remus had worked with him all the way through and although Sirius resented at first, he too began to catch on. Peter had stayed the same the whole time; he always failed. Slowly, he ended up drifting away, and soon was a Marauder no more. The remaining friends had been thinking that it was a good riddance.
All in all, looking at James, you could see that he had changed a lot. He had been prefect, and even Head Boy! And sure enough, Lily noticed, being Head Girl and all.
That's how she came to consider James's offer of escorting her to the ball. She continued to smile at him and then nodded, her eyes twinkling, and watched as an interesting combination of feeling crossed her date's face. First nervousness, then hopefulness, defeat, and finally, happiness.
He looked back at her with a smile. "Really?" he managed softly.
Lily frowned. Why was he so surprised? Then she smiled again. She knew it was her own fault that James thought she would decline once again. "Of course," she replied.
James let out a whoop of joy. He really had become a better person. Then out of sheer excitement, he bent his head, and kissed Lily on the lips. Suddenly, realizing what he had done, he looked back at her. She was still smiling! More to James's surprise, she stood on her toes and kissed him right back!
They pulled away and stared at each other. Lily thought about how she had fallen so hard for James throughout the past year. Her smile turned into a full-fledged grin as she looked into his dazzling hazel eyes. She really did love her. She could tell by just looking at the expression of pure happiness gracing his face.
Loud applause filled the Gryffindor common room. The new couple had completely forgotten that other people were in the room!
Blushing, James and Lily bade each other good night and went to their dormitories for the night. As each turned away from each other, they thought about how lucky they were to be dating the other. All was good for the time being. (A/N: note,TIME BEING :))
Lily finished applying her make up and hurried to the common room. It was the night of the ball and she was late! James was probably waiting for her.
The beautiful head girl entered the common room and found James…although not in a way she liked at all.
Lily stared at her boyfriend and the president of his fan club. She watched as the space between them decreased at a rapid speed. Just as Tanya's face was about to touch James's, she cried out. "YOU STUPID, IDIOT, GOOD FOR NOTHING SNOB! I KNEW IT WAS ALL TOO GOOD TO LAST! It was all just too good to last," she ended whispering, with a sob. Lily spun around and ran up to her dormitories, and heard James following her. "I HATE YOU," she cried one last time, before slamming the door in his face, which had a look of horror pasted onto it.
For the rest of her seventh year, Lily avoided James. It pained her to know that she still loved him with all her heart, while he didn't care at all. James had tried to speak to her many times, but she just couldn't bring herself to do so. She simply wasn't ready to talk to a traitor.
So that's how it went for the rest of Lily's days at Hogwarts. It soon came the time for graduation, and Lily still hadn't spoken to James. Every time he approached her, she called him a git and move away.
After the ceremony, Lily and James had to go upon the stage that had been set up in the Great Hall and shake hand, in order to say farewell after a year of hard working together. At first, Lily hesitated, but eventually stepped onto the stage when Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, called the Heads up. She briefly connected her hand with James, but didn't release him in time to not feel the squeeze he gave her. She looked up at him and saw sorrow in his eyes. She turned away quickly, before her emotions rose, always telling herself that her ex-boyfriend deserved what he got.
And that's how she left Hogwarts – with a broken heart. She still couldn't believe what James had done to her, and she prayed to God that she would never see him again.
A/N: There's the starting of my new fic! Don't worry; Foresight of the Initial Elements had not been abandoned. As I wrote chapter three, it is currently being looked over by IndiChiki90, who will make any necessary changes. Because of Exams, we have both been very busy, so please don't be mad about the lack of updates. Anyway, as you see, this will be a post Hogwarts fic., and rest assured, the story will become interesting. It will probably be a two or three part story, although the genre's will very. In other words not all of them will be purely romance or purely action/adventure. Well, you know the drill! Get to it! Oh come on…you can't have forgotten already! Alright! Alright! I'll tell you! See that adorable little button on the bottom left-hand corner of this page? Just click that and type any comments you have for the epilogue. Please review!
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