A/N:

I am the evilest of all evils! Shoot me now! I am writing this out of anger... because the people reviewing to 'A Different Approach' were complaining that the THREE CHAPTERS I UPLOADED AT ONCE were too short for them! After an absence of like 2 months and now a huge load of about 6 chapters THEY SHOULD STOP COMPLAINING! Therefore I have decided to please my Sarah and write my chapter of this, which will take me some time and ignore 'A different Approach' for at least a week! That'll show 'em!

(Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...bonjour! – Sarah)

Chapter 23- 23 is my favorite number...and it's an evil odd number, how odd!

Each of the girls sat and thought up ideas to distract Lily from her bubbling anger.

"What about..." began Renee, "...no" she said, deciding she didn't want to feel Amanda's wrath for suggesting something stupid.

"Well how about we dig into these sandwiches...?" suggest Chloe, looking nervously at Amanda and Lily in case that was not such a good idea.

"That's a great idea!" said Amanda, and Chloe looked slightly surprised but grinned victoriously at Renee.

"Yes, that's a very good idea" said Amanda and as Lily opened her mouth to speak, she added "I don't want to hear that you don't want to eat, Lily. Take a sandwich and move that mouth!" in an orderly voice.

Lily shut her mouth and picked up a sandwich with disinterest as Renee and Chloe tucked into the sandwiches at a high speed and began to look through the red book and whisper with each other.

"So, do you want to go to classes after lunch, Lils?" asked Amanda tenderly as Lily nibbled daintily at the edge of her sandwich.

"I don't know, I'll see how I feel" she said quietly, not looking up at her friend.

"You know you can't avoid him forever." she said quietly,

"I thought I could trust him..." Lily began, before she muted herself with a ham and tomato sandwich.

Knowing that Lily would talk when she was ready, Amanda made a soothing noise and turned her attention to her own sandwich.

xxx

Sirius managed to drag James to class, bribing him with the promise that they'd go and search for Lily and her gang if they had not surfaced by lunch time. James begrudgingly followed him to History of Magic and plonked himself in the very back of the classroom to think over his options.

He knew Lily was mad. He'd known Lily a long time and he'd seen her angry a lot and he knew when to give her space. But he'd never seen her that angry, never. He loved her with all of his heart, and he knew he'd stuffed up big time. But now he didn't know what he could do about it.

The best way to get through a long and boring History of Magic class is to keep your mind on something else, so for James that lesson was the shortest History of Magic he'd ever sat through. And he still hadn't come up with any ideas to show Lily he wasn't the tool he was currently resembling.

As he walked out the door, a very bedraggled Remus walked ahead of him, cutting him off at the door and forcing his way out before James. All of James' anger at himself boiled up and he was ready to aim it all at Remus when the boy turned around and looked at him with a sly smile.

"I hear you stuffed up again, James; way to go!" he taunted, and then walked off quickly before James could retort.

"Stupid werewolf!" muttered James angrily under his breath just as Sirius caught up with him.

"Come on James, we have potions with the Slytherins now, cheer up! He laughed, grabbing onto his friends jumper with quick reflexes just before James turned to run off in the other direction.

"I know you too well, buddy," laughed Sirius as he dragged James down towards the potions classroom.

xxx

The girls were now resting in the shade, with the exception of Renee who stated that she would make the most of whatever weak sun she could find and was now lying a little bit away from the rest of the group with her legs in the slight sunlight.

"You'll never tan in this light Renee, give up!" tutted Chloe who was munching on a peach, licking at its furry skin.

Renee just gave her a look that said 'we'll just see about that' and lay back down.

Lily gave a slight giggle at her friends antics and then looked back down at her nails as she filed them with a file she'd found in the manicure kit that Chloe had 'accio-ed' a little while before.

"I can't believe it!" she whispered after a little while of silence, a tear slowly made it's way down her cheek. "I tried to do something nice and seductive for him and he goes and tells his friends I'm some easy slut who will sleep with him after everything we've been through!" she said, only a little bit louder.

Chloe gasped and her furry peach fell from her mouth, Amanda just shook her head at her idiot friend and turned to Lily.

"He called you an easy slut?" she asked tentatively, putting her hand on lily's knee.

"No," she whimpered, with more tears falling down her cheeks. "But that's what his friends are going to think!"

With that Renee sat up very abruptly and scoffed loudly. "Don't be a nincompoop, Lily!" she said, causing her to receive a stern look from the very unusually mature Amanda, which she chose to ignore. "Everyone in Gryffindor loves you Lily, and even if they were told that you'd 'done-the-dirty' with every guy in Slytherin they would still have the utmost level of respect for you. Especially those boys which that noodle-brain known as James calls his friends; they love you to death! The only people that love you more are our good selves and young James." She said, smiling at her own intelligence and lying back down in the sun.

The group sat in silence, thinking over what Renee had just said and the fact that it had made complete sense and after a few minutes, Lily was the first one to speak.

"You're right! You're all right!" she said, jumping up onto her feet and dusting herself down. "I have to talk to him about this and see what the hell was going through his mind when he said those stupid things!" she said with strong conviction. "Avoiding him wont help anyone!" then she thought for a few more minutes, while the rest of the girls stood up and waited for her next outburst.

"Actually" she began, with an almost evil glint in her big green eyes, "I think that talking to him will just be too easy. He needs to pay! If he loves me like he says he does, then he will come to me and explain himself." She looked at her friends for reassurance and they all nodded fiercely.

"And until then I will act like nothing is wrong. He is to think that apart from my slight anger this morning, his stupidity hasn't upset me in the slightest. I will ignore him completely and act as if I'm as happy as ever. That will cut him so deeply; he knows me too well so he'll know I'm putting it on, but it'll still be painful because he'll know I'm faking it just to hurt him." She said, looking determined not to cry she turned on her heel and headed back towards the school.

xxx

Just before class began, Lily, Amanda, Renee and Chloe walked into the classroom with an air of confidence and sat down in the row behind James and his friends. Lily avoided James' gaze as he turned around and looked at her to see if she was okay. All signs of tears had gone from her face and she looked neat and composed. Inside her stomach was going crazy as she saw James and she just wanted to break down there and cry her eyes out. But she sat up straight and took the notes from the board, not looking at James once and always avoiding his eye when he turned to look at her.

When they'd taken notes on strengthening solutions down from the board, they arose from their seats and paired up to start making a weak version of a strengthening solution. Amanda skipped over to be at Sirius' side and Renee and Chloe were already walking over to a bench to work together. Lily began to panic slightly as the whole class paired up around her; all excluding him. Usually she and James would work together, but that arrangement simply didn't suit her today. In utter desperation she looked around for Remus, but he was already getting his ingredients together with Severus Snape. She turned around to look for a partner and came face-to-face with James.

"Hi Lily..." he stammered, looking down at the ground.

A/n:

wow! Having days off school is really good for writing! Lol, I should really be doing all the math homework I have due tomorrow but I thought I'd please Sarah by finishing this now! Wow! It's pretty long too, aren't you all so proud? Now I shall go and work on a chapter of A Difference Approach! Okay well have fun! I love y'all! xoxoxoxox

I fucked up the formatting on the first one, so this is the replaced and all together better version! Although it will take hours to get up so a lot of people will have read the confusing version already. Sigh. Damn my stupidity :( - Sarah