What happened next…

Disclaimer: J.K Rowling wrote the books not me. I don't own anything. Except the characters I made up.

Summary: James likes Lily but are his feelings returned? Will Lily ever give in and go out with the marauder or is them even being friends asking too much? These two questions can only lead to confusion, fun, and much more. Rated m for later chapters. R and R.

Author's Notes: Hiya. I am so sorry I haven't posted in so long. You all probably think I am such a terrible author. I am really sorry. Thanks to everyone for my reviews. I won't say names but thanks to everyone. This new chapter is probably one of my favourites. I put a lot of feeling into it. I hope you all like it. Read on…

Chapter 11

The next three weeks was spent much like this, having fun, the couples got closer and Lily kept her friendship with James the same. Everyday the group spent time with each other, swimming or playing quiddich or going into London.

One day the boys had decided to stay at home while the girls went into town at night to go to a club. The girls thought it was strange that the boys didn't want to come but when Peter suddenly turned up in afternoon of that day they just left it as they didn't really want him coming clubbing with them anyway.

The next day the girls were horribly hung over and when they went down to breakfast the boys didn't look much better, they had bags under their eyes and Remus looked as though he had been beaten up.

"What's up?" Amaryllis said worried going over to Remus and feeling his forehead. "Are you ill?"'

"Um… yeah. I feel a bit under the weather, I think I will go up to bed. Don't come up, I will probably be sleeping." He said to Amaryllis, she found this really strange but left him to it. He other boys didn't look as bad as Remus did but Cressida still fussed over Sirius.

"Are you okay Sirius? Do you ant me to get you anything?" Cressida asked him.

"No I'm fine," he said quite sharply.

"Okay, well you look awful, just ask me if you want anything," Cressida said brightly obviously not noticing Sirius' tone.

"Just leave it Cressida, I just don't want to be fussed over." Sirius said getting up from the table and going to his room.

"Okay, you go have a strop." Cressida called behind him. "Moody boy." She obviously didn't think he was really mad, just tired. The others nodded. They had never seen Sirius be grumpy about anything it was strange. James looked best out of all of them. Peter didn't look at all different, he just looked a bit tired.

He soon got up though and claimed he had to leave. He had only come for the one night. He scuttled away and the girls sat down at the table. They tucked into breakfast and thought nothing else of the marauders strange conditions.

Another week passed, Sirius was strangely distant even to Cressida but she just gave him his space, she wasn't a clingy girlfriend. The other boys were all quite quiet.

They spent the week chilling out and not doing much and when Friday night came they all decided to go out as a group. Sirius though didn't want to come. They all left at about eight in the evening and went to a bar. They got there and started dancing but Cressida wasn't having fun. She was starting to worry about Sirius, he wasn't himself. Something was up.

"Guys," She called to her friends over the music. "I am going home. I need to talk to Sirius." Then she grabbed her bag and left the bar. Her friends didn't have time to question it before she was gone. She stood on the pavement and flagged down a taxi. It had begun to rain quite hard so she hurried into a taxi and she told the driver the address and he drove her there. When they arrived the driver looked sceptically at the house.

"Are you sure this is the right place love?" he asked.

"Yeah quite sure," she said and waited by the door until he had driven away. Then she got her wand out and tapped the door as James had taught them.

She crept into the house and walked upstairs expecting Sirius to be in his room. She wobbled up the stairs, she had worn ridiculously high heels tonight, the ones she had bought from Selfridges on the second day in James' house. She walked along to the corridor towards Sirius' room. She knew it well having spent a good few nights in it since first having sex with Sirius. She opened the door quietly and looked inside. She heard a noise coming from Sirius' bed and looked over to it.

She stopped breathing. Her chest hurt from the strain and her legs became tiff and unable to move. She could see him, he was lying on the bed he was barely moving except for kissing the girl kneeling over him. She had streaked blonde hair and wasn't wearing a top. Cressida couldn't watch anymore she turned her head away and walked out.

Sirius not even noticing her entering or leaving. Cressida walked down the stairs and through the kitchen. She needed to get out the house so she walked down the garden path barely able to put one foot in front of the other. It was still raining and drops or rain were merging with the tears that were now dripping down her face.

Meanwhile the other had moved from the pub onto a club and was dancing on the floor. Lily was dancing with James and Remus was with Amaryllis. They were having a great time, the music was great and they had all had a few drinks and were buzzing from the effects. James couldn't keep his eyes off Lily, she was wearing a strapless red dress that rose up her thigh when she danced. Her shoes had straps that wrapped up her legs.

They were extremely sexy and James wanted to be the one to take them off at the end of the night. James was a confident dancer and he put his hands on Lily's waist as they danced. He was standing behind her and they were both moving to the music and when the music slowed down Lily turned to look at James, she put her arms around his neck and his were draped over her waist still.

They swayed to the music keeping eye contact the whole time. James leaned into Lily and she moved into James letting him tilt his head toward her. Their lips touched just slightly before a drunken man bumped into them and they broke apart. Remus and Amaryllis came up to them at this point and asked them if they were ready to come home.

It was about midnight and they were beginning to get tired. Lily quickly agreed still buzzing from the kiss and not knowing how to feel about it.

They got a taxi together and went back to the manor. Lily went in search of Cressida and she wasn't in her room. Lily assumed she was with Sirius so she went back downstairs to join the others who were getting a snack before going to bed. She entered the kitchen and Sirius was sitting in there with them.

"Hey Sirius, is Cressida in your room?" Lily asked.

"No why? Isn't she with you guys?" Sirius asked his eyes not showing his worried feelings.

"No she came home at half eight to check on you, didn't she come back?" Lily asked. Lily felt a slight tugging on the skirt of her dress, she looked down and an elf was standing there.

"Excuse me miss but me saw the blonde girl come home, she went upstairs then into the garden miss. I hopes that helps miss," The elf said before scurrying away. Lily looked at Sirius and he shrugged.

"I'll go look for her," he said quickly, getting up and going outside into the rain in search of Cressida. He knew. She had seen him. How much she saw he didn't know. He had to find her. He checked the pool house, the willow tree all the way around path. He finally knew where she would be.

He should have known. The first place he should have looked, the quiddich pitch. He ran until he got there. He ran straight into the pitch and looked around.

There in the middle of the pitch was a small ball and he knew it was her. He wiped the rain off his face and called out.

"Cressida!" He walked slowly towards her. The minute she heard him call her she tensed up. She stood up and looked at him. She was soaked through and red eyes from crying and scratch marks all up her arms where she had obviously been scratching herself.

"Don't come near me," Cressida whispered harshly. She stared at him with eyes so dead it looked like Cressida no longer inhabited her body.

"Cressida please, we need to talk," Sirius said.

"Talk, okay lets talk, what could you possibly say that will not make me feel like my heart has been ripped out." Cressida croaked tears bursting from the corners of her eyes.

"Cressida please, I love you," Sirius said quietly. This made Cressida look up angrily.

"You love me! You love me! How can you say that to me! You don't know what love is. I loved you, I would have done anything for you, I would have killed for you! You betrayed me. You slept with some cheap whore instead of being faithful to me. You promised me Sirius," She wiped away her tears.

"I'm sorry, I got scared. I loved you so much; I have never loved anything in my whole life. I hate my family; sometimes I even think I don't love the marauders. I thought I was dead inside. Until you came. I couldn't live without you. I felt like you were part of me. But that's not me. I don't have feelings. I thought it was just a stupid fling, but I knew deep down it wasn't. I thought if I had someone else it wouldn't make a difference because I feel for you isn't real. But it is Cressida. I love you. I really love you. I'm so sorry." Sirius had broken into tears as well at this point.

"You got scared, do you think I even care anymore. You promised me Sirius, right here in this quiddich pitch that you would never hurt me. But you did. You hurt me so bad. I wish I was dead right now." Cressida cried out.

"You don't mean that, we love each other Sid. Always will. We're meant to be together. I'm sorry I didn't realise it at first. But we are. We're meant to be, please just give me another chance." He pleaded.

"Another chance, how can I. I can't even look at you. You make me sick. I never want to see you again Sirius and if you even come near me I swear you'll regret it." Cressida said bitterly practically spitting the words out. She shakily took a few steps towards the exit of the stadium.

"I really did love you Sirius, you obviously didn't feel like I did Sirius because I would never ever have dreamed have hurting you. You're just a scared little boy Sirius, and one day you're going to grow up and realise what you did and I just hope you feel as much pain as I do right now." Cressida lastly said before walking out of the stadium leaving Sirius. He collapsed down into the mud sitting with his head in his hands weeping.

Cressida strolled into the kitchen and her friends were sitting there. When they saw the state of here they rushed forward and grabbed her as she just collapsed into their arms. Remus looked on in shock. She cried like a little girl into Lily's shoulder. Lily and Amaryllis took their friend upstairs.

They didn't even know what had happened but they knew something big had and she needed their help. They took her to her bedroom and into the bathroom. They took her wet clothes off and put ran a bath for her. They treated her like an invalid and put her in the bath. She sat in a ball, her legs pulled up to her chest shaking through her tears. Lily stroked her hair.

"What happened honey?" Lily asked gently. "Did something happen?" Cressida looked up at Lily.

"He really hurt me, I saw him, with her. They were… they were…" She was I such hysterics that she couldn't talk anymore. She didn't need to. Her friends got the picture. They got her washed up and into her pyjamas. She was just getting into bed when she started talking again.

"I need to leave. Tomorrow. I need to go home. I can't stay here. You can stay but I need to get home. I don't care what my parents think." Cressida said. She lay onto her pillow and fell asleep from sheer exhaustion. Lily and Amaryllis stayed for a while before leaving the room and closing the door behind them. They talked in hushed voices.

"I think we both know what happened," Lily said frowning.

"I can't believe Sirius would do that to her, god, I thought he was okay, I was so wrong," Amaryllis said.

"I'm going to take her home tomorrow, we'll stay there the rest for the summer probably. You can stay here if you want, I don't want to and Remus to be affected.

"Lily I can't leave Sid now when she needs us most. I'll come to. Remus will have to manage without me," Amaryllis said firmly.

"Okay, night." Lily said heading off into her room. Neither girl slept well as they both were worrying about Cressida. She had never been so upset ever. Boys were always a joke to her, she had obviously been deeply in love with Sirius and he had let her down.

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