Chapter 17

Making up

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Over the next month, Lilly's time was spent trying to think of ways to apologize and Tom's time was spent, thinking up ways to get back at her, but not hurting her physically of course.

James and Lilly had decided that they should spend less time with each other, after the incident in her bedroom a month ago they knew it was time to take some time off.

That day after Tom and James had, had a nasty fight and both stormed out of the room, Nyla had come in, a couple hours later. Lilly had, had to endure the whole night of Nyla ranting about Sirius' 'size' and other information Lilly was not in the mood to hear.

In the end, Lilly had fallen asleep to the sound of Nyla's squeals and jittery giggles.

Interestingly enough, Nyla was not to be very happy in a month's time when she left the hospital in tears and had screamed bloody murder at Sirius and his little swimmers getting her pregnant for the whole common room to hear.

What made the situation worse was that he had been very proud of himself and then Nyla had come running to her, Lilly, for comfort and caring.

Of all the people in the world, Lilly had not been the right person to choose at that moment in time, she was snappy, moody, and on her period. The worst time to confront a girl about your problems.

That was yesterday, she had lost her best friend that day and since then nothing had been looking up. Lilly knew she should have been there for her friend when she was in a time of need but she was just so annoyed, why did everything choose to go wrong when her life was going down the toilet?, everything was always copying her, first her followers, then her friends and now life!

Lilly sighed as she put down her journal and looked across the room and into the vanity. Her eyes were puffy and red and her hair was a mess. Nobody was talking to her anymore, not Nyla, not Tom, not even James.

Lilly sighed and walked down stairs to where everyone was crowding in the common room. Nyla and James were across the room talking when Lilly came down the stairs. Both teens stopped talking and looked up at her sadly.

A tear ran down her cheek but she quickly pushed it away and walked through the common room and out the door. James sighed and looked up at Nyla.

"I can't do it anymore, I have to talk to her, she looked so sad, and- and I miss her!" James said tears in his eyes. Nyla glared at him angrily.

"James! Why would you want to talk to her again? She's just a selfish Bit-"

"NYLA!" James shouted standing abruptly from his seat and gaining an audience. "Don't you DARE talk about Lilly that way!" Nyla's eyes were now very wide and her face very timid.

She then broke down into tears and began to nod. "You're right!" Nyla wailed, "I miss her too!" James bent down to hug her but she pushed him away.

"I'm fine." She said wiping at the tears, "it's just pregnancy hormones." James nodded and Nyla stood up.

"Let's go find her shall we?" Nyla asked smiling James nodded and the two began to head to the library.

They slowly walked towards the table in the back here Lilly usually sat when she needed to be alone. When the two teens had almost made it around the bookshelf, they heard light sobs.

James looked at Nyla and swallowed hard. "Let me go first." He said, Nyla nodded and James slowly rounded the corner.

"Lilly?" he whispered. Lilly's red hair flew in all directions as her head shot up from its lowered position. James smiled lightly at her and Lilly quickly jumped up and ran to him jumping in his arms.

"Oh James, I've missed you so much!" she sobbed. James rapped his arms around her petite body as he felt her legs tighten around his waist.

"I've missed you Lilly." He whispered back. Lilly pulled her head off his shoulders and looked into his eyes. James leaned in but instead of catching her lips, he kissed her forehead.

Lilly looked slightly upset but she continued to cling to him never the less. She rested her head on his shoulder and sighed.

"Lilly sweetheart, you might want to stand on the ground now, if someone walked in on this they would assume things, and I don't think you want things to get any worse."

Lilly sighed again. "Let them talk, I'm just happy you're back." She then unwrapped her legs from around his waist and stood on the ground. "B-but what about Nyla?" She asked quietly. James pushed some red hair behind her ear and smiled.

"What about her?" Lilly looked down at the ground, licking her lips nervously.

"Did she not come too?" She asked sadly, looking back up into James' eyes. James smiled, and led her back over to the table.

"Why did she get mad at you in the first place?" He asked curiously.

Lilly's eyes welled up in tears. "It was awful! I was grumpy that day, and everything was going wrong, and I was on my period and that is when she chose to come to me. I know I should have been there for her, but, I have always thought about other people and so for once, I just wanted to think about myself. I know that's selfish, but I NEVER think about myself!"

James quietly shushed her and pulled her head onto his chest. "I'm sure things will get better." He reasoned.

"No they won't." She bawled. "She hates me."

"No I don't." Said Nyla suddenly. Lilly looked up and her face broke into a huge smile. She jumped to her feet and ran over to her closest friend, flinging her arms around her and beginning to wail once more.

"I'm so sorry Nyla, I should have been there for you, but I've just been having such a hard time recently. I know that's not an excuse but..." Nyla shook her head and silenced her.

"I am sorry. I shouldn't have freaked out on you, I knew what you were going threw and I decided not to respect that and shove my own problems on you when you had and still have enough of your own."

"Now you have two heavy burdens lifted from your shoulders." Said James, smiling at her once again.

"Now," said Nyla, stroking her friend's hair, "Let's get you cleaned up before tea shall we?"

Later on that evening, Lilly, Nyla and James all walked down to the common room, discussing what had been happening since they had last talked. So far, nothing to new had happened with Nyla that

Lilly did not know; they had only been away from each other for a day after all. However, she had, had a check up with the matron about the baby; it was fine.

James, however, had, had lots happening. He had had a massive fight with Sirius about how he should not boast about getting a teenage girl pregnant. He had also had many arguments with Riddle about how he should back off and leave Lilly alone. At this Lilly blushed. In the end of the fight with Sirius, he had been able to convince him to at least help Nyla with the baby seeing as it had been he who had helped to create it.

Lilly sighed at all of the information and sat down at the Gryffindor table feeling completely refreshed, well, that is until Tom walked into the hall with that Spanish girl Lorena draped all over him. She scowled into her salad bowl and then grabbed her juice and drank it heavily.

"He's come in hasn't he?" asked Nyla, sympathetically. Lilly shook her head sourly and began stuffing the salad leaves into her mouth.

James leaned over the table and grabbed hold of her hand. Lilly looked up and smiled softly at him. "Would you two mind if I took a short walk? I think the cool breeze would do me some good."

"Of course not." Said James brightly, "You deserve some fresh air, and some times alone, just to sort things out, right?" Lilly nodded her head thankfully and stood up, quickly exiting the slowly filling hall.

Lilly sighed into the wind as she stepped outside. She headed towards the lake where she stripped her feet of their garments and dipped them into the cool dark blue liquid.

"You could get ill from doing that." She heard a deep musky voice say from behind her. Her head immediately swivel around, for she could recognize that voice miles away, her heart had memorized it from the second she had met him.

Tom sat down beside her, but instead of sticking his feet into the chilly water, he tucked them under his bum and looked at her with his piercing green eyes.

Lilly mentally slapped her self as her eyes darted to his pools of green. She groaned as she swam in them and searched his soul longingly.

"We haven't spoken in ages." She heard him say. Her gaze suddenly went unfocused and then came back to gaze on his softly chiselled face. She smiled lightly.

"No, I suppose we haven't." She commented lightly. Tom gazed at her hair and began to play teasingly with the ends. Lilly sighed and pulled softly at her hair.

Tom looked up at her and raised his eyebrows. "What did you wish to talk to me about?" Lilly asked quietly. Tom looked puzzled for a moment, and then shifted on his bum as he realized his feet were becoming quiet numb.

"Well, I suppose I've been wondering what is happening with us." He said simply. It was now Lilly's turn to raise her eyebrows at him.

"I didn't think anything was ever going on with us." She replied coolly. Tom looked at her, a stony look crossing his features.

"Don't give me that load of hippogriff sh (Remember, I don't swear) you know there is something between us, you just don't want to admit it because I'm an 'evil' Slytherin and you have your little Potty boy friend." Lilly stood up feeling completely out raged.

"How dare you talk about James that way, and how dare you talk about us that way. Talking as if you know what I'm feeling, how do you know I wasn't just in it for the kissing?" She asked stubbornly.

Tom stood up, towering over her and he began stroking her cheek. "Because you're not like that, you're kind and sweet and you would never play with a boy's heart." Lilly reached up and held onto his hand. It was not rough and coarse like some boys' hands, but it was not soft either. There was no real word for it; it was just… perfect.

"I hate you, you know that don't you?" She asked softly. Tom smirked at her and nodded.

"I hate you too." He said before bending his head low and capturing her lips in a soft kiss. She smiled on his lips and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"I don't understand this." He said almost laughing. "I've known you for what, half a year? And I feel like I've known you for the longest time." Lilly smiled at him and agreed.

"Lilly..." He began. He then stopped to think about what he was about to say. She looked up into his worried face and creased her perfectly shaped eyebrows.

"What's the matter?" She asked carefully. Tom looked at her and took a deep breath.

"I do believe I've fallen in love with you Lillian Marie Evans." He said softly. Lilly's heart thumped painfully in her chest at the idea of him being in love with her. She had never heard a boy say he loved her, save James when he was in fourth year, and he said it everyday when she did not want to hear it. The idea was exciting, but at the same time quiet terrifying, there were after all no books on what to do when someone is told such a thing, if there had been, she would have read up on it by now.

Tom searched her eyes for a response, when he found nothing, his face dropped as well as his hands. Lilly linked her hand with his and smiled lightly up at him.

"I do believe I've fallen for you Thomas Marvolo Riddle." Tom looked at her and smiled one of his rare, but true smiles. He took her hand and kissed it.

"Would you do me the honours of being my faithful and ONLY girlfriend?" Lily laughed lightly and nodded.

"Only if you shall be my faithful and ONLY boyfriend." Lilly said smugly. Tom linked his fingers in between hers and smiled.

"Always and forever." He whispered.

James and Nyla watched from the doorway. Nyla looked towards her new friend and cringed at his look. Tears were welling up in his eyes and his bottom lip was trembling pitifully.

"James?" She asked softly. "Are you crying?" James quickly wiped at his eyes and grinned.

"It's nothing, just kind of a painful thing to watch." Nyla nodded understandingly.

"Come on, let's go in side and have a biscuit shall we? We can morn over all of the awful things in life and all of the morons causing them." James laughed at her idea and they both turned and walked back into the school.

Later on that night Lilly was on her rounds, it had been such a hectic day! She had made friends with Nyla and James again, gained an amazing boyfriend and caught three pairs of couples out late doing 'things.'

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After rounds, Lilly lazily climbed into be and fell into a peaceful sleep, things were finally beginning to go right.

"LILLY!" She heard Nyla screech. Bolting up in her bed, she slapped her hand over her eyes as the blinding light came blazing through her opened hangings.

"NYLA!" She whined, falling back onto her bed and throwing her pillow over her head to block out the sun. It had been two weeks now since she and Tom had begun dating, but the school still had not become quiet accustomed to the idea.

"Oh come now Lilly, stop whinging, it's a beautiful day, and you're still lying in your bed life a worm. Get up, besides, don't you want to come with me to see if the baby is a boy or a girl?" She asked mirthfully.

At that, Lilly leapt out of bed and began rushing around the room for her shower stuff. "I won't be a moment." She called from inside of the toilet. Nyla heard the water began to hum against the curtains of the shower and then she heard Lilly quickly splashing the water over her body.

Seconds late, Lilly came dashing out the toilet door, clad in only a red towel. She began searching around and muttering to herself.

"Curses!" She yelled. Nyla snorted in amusement and held up Lilly's wand.

"You little witch!" Lilly scolded, snatching her wand from the blond girls out stretched hand.

"That I am." Nyla teased, "Hurry up now; get your hair dried and change, we 'aven't got all day after all!" She then slapped her friend on the bum playfully who shrieked in protest and then she ran from the room and down the stone stairwell.

Moments later, Lilly came charging down the staircase to find Nyla, James and Sirius patiently waiting.

"Ah, I see daddy dearest has decided to show up." Lilly sneered. Sirius gave her a foul look and then quirked one eyebrow.

"I want to see what the baby is too you know; it's mine as well after all." Lilly nodded in agreement and the all left the common room and headed towards the hospital wing.

Shortly after Madam Pomfrey had taken the test she came out looking more disapproving then she had when she had discovered that Nyla was pregnant and announced that the baby was to be a girl.

Sirius could not have looked happier. "I've always wanted a girl." He admitted.

He then looked down at the floor blushing, a light pink. "I was wondering Nyla, could we perhaps call them baby, Samera?" James looked quiet surprised at this.

"That's my mum's name." He announced. Sirius smiled at his friend and nodded.

"She's always been like a mother to me, and so, I wanted to name the baby in her memory." James' mum had died shortly before his 6th year and James and Sirius had been left with James' father, Craig. Craig was a good man, but he just was not very good around the house, especially after his wife had died.

Nyla smiled and nodded. "Samera is a beautiful name. Samera Portina Black." Sirius wrinkled up his nose but nodded, he had, after all, chosen the babies first name.

James wiped at his eyes furiously as memories of his mum swept into his head. He missed her dearly; nothing had been the same since she had died. His father and the two boys had done a fine job of keeping the house up, but it just was not the same.

James' mother had been an Auror and was killed in an attack by a rising dark lord who preferred to be called 'Lord Voldomort.' James scowled at the thought and then looked up just in time to see Nyla rubbing her stomach and mumbling the baby's name.

"Samera." She sang happily. James then turned and began to walk from the room.

"Where are you going James?" Lilly asked suddenly. He turned to her and smiled,

"I thought I'd get a head start on studying for our exams."

Lilly's face broke into a wide grin. "Mind if I join you?" James motioned for her to follow. The two said good-bye to Nyla and Sirius and then headed out the door and towards the library.

My goodiesness, well, that was a strange turn of event's, I know things are moving quiet fast now, but I have a lot of ideas and I don't wanna make you guys wait for the end. On the other hand, do you want to? ;) Hmm, maybe I just will not finish. No, I will not torcher you guys like that, after all, I know how much you people just LOVE my writing! looks at fingernails in admiration course, who can blame you? I am just sooo talented. Oh no wait, I did not mean it, come Baaaackk! begins to sob into sleeve ok, now that, that is done with. R&R plzum! You know ya wanna ;) I will give you a cherry. Ok, I am going now.