The Extraordinary Things- rainbowfairy

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Chapter 4- 69 what…?

By now Lily and James had re-entered their friends' compartment to find all four of them lying on the ground in hysterics. The compartment was still dark with the windows' curtains drawn and the lights completely out, but the situation was not as bad as Lily and James had anticipated.

"Ok, what the hell is going on here?" shouted James suspiciously while looking down at his friends then shouting "Lumos" to illuminate the compartment.

"Oh please! Whatever you were doing couldn't have been that funny!" countered Lily while raising her eye brows at the group.

Suddenly Holly sat up and pointed to a large black coloured board that was resting on one of compartment benches. On this board was glittery and golden cursive writing, similar to the styles of Daphne and Sirius. At the top of the board read in even larger cursive "69 Ways to Liven The Last Year of Freedom".

"69 what…?" Lily spoke confusedly while squinting at the board

"69 Ways to Liven the Last Year of Freedom!" replied Daphne grinning proudly

"But it isn't our last year." James replied flatly before pausing slightly and saying "Oh well sounds good to me!"

Lily looked at the others in disbelief.

"It may not be our last year and we may not have any big exams at the end of the year, but we have NEWTS next year people! I don't know about you, but I actually want to pass!" Lily replied a matter of fact like manner.

"Loosen up Lily," whispered Holly

Everyone looked at Holly in disbelief.

"Holly! I thought you'd be on my side" whinged Lily

"Aww! Is poor widdle Lily feeling unloved because all she wants to do is study all day?" mimicked James "How…um…boring?"

Lily was absolutely offended by what James had said and her face seethed with anger.

"I AM NOT BORING!" she fumed

"Yes you bloody well are!" James shot back exasperated "You don't even want to have some fucking harmless fun with your friends!"

"WELL EXCUSE ME! WHO SAID I WOULDN'T WANT TO HAVE FUN WITH MY FRIENDS AND YOU HAVEN'T EVEN READ THE BLOODY BOARD ANYWAY!"

"YES I BLOODY WELL HAVE! AND YOU WOULDN'T DO HALF OF THE STUFF ON IT ANYWAY YOU PRUDE!"

"PRUDE! I'M NOT A FUCKING PRUDE YOU ARSEHOLE!"

"That was rather emphatic denial Evans!" spluttered James sarcastically "It just shows your denial even more!"

Lily looked at James with pure hatred. She had never hated someone so much in her life ever at this very moment.

"Just because I wouldn't do anything with you it doesn't make me a prude" Lily spat defiantly.

The compartment was silent and the remainder of the gang looked at Lily stunned, but all didn't dare to mutter a word. James meanwhile looked at Lily with absolute embarrassment and so much anger due to his crushed masculine pride he could have exploded on the spot. The argument had gotten personal- too personal in fact and now both parties were hurt not just in a trivial way. Lily and James's friends had suspicions about what had happened the year before between them, but none actually knew how serious it was.

"You fucking bitch!" raged James throwing his arms around in an incensed fashion "What the fuck makes you think I would ever want to get with you? Could you get any more fucking delusional woman? I've never wanted to get with you! Why would I when every single other chick in the school wants me? Every single fucking hotter chick than you wants me! Seriously Lily you're so fucking jealous of every other non-psycho hot chicks at Hogwarts! Why else would you make up a lie like that?"

Lily's cheeks burned from embarrassment as James stormed out of the compartment. His pride had been absolutely crushed by Lily's words. James wasn't used to rejection and his ego couldn't accept it. Lily eyes had now begun to well with hot salty tears. She couldn't believe he could say something that malicious to her. What the hell was happening? Lily's head was racing. James and she had been fighting since the beginning of the day. He had just pulled her down so badly that every ounce of her body was aching. She couldn't be in the compartment with her friends anymore. She was too humiliated. She ran out of the compartment with her eyes streaming with tears.

Daphne, Sirius, Remus and Holly stared at each other for a while. They were absolutely stunned by what had just happened. James had tried to make a move on Lily last year and James was denying it so profusely that he had cut Lily to pieces. This couldn't go on. Remus eventually got up and ran after James and Holly eventually went after Lily. Daphne and Sirius just sat on the ground of the compartment absolutely stunned. They were all lost for words.

"James?" yelled Remus as he started searching the corridors for James.

James was leaning against the door of a compartment probably 30m away from his own. He didn't seem to be angry anymore and he in fact seemed to be back to his normal self as he was once again chatting up a couple of girls. This time it was a couple of third year petit brunette identical twins.

"So my beautiful babes…how about we go and find somewhere private?" James spoke seductively.

"Anything for you Jamesie!" they squeaked as the clung on to each of his arms eagerly.

"That's quite enough!" Remus spoke to James as he placed his arm on his back to lead him away.

"What are you doing Lupin? Can't you see that I'm busy?" James spoke agitatedly

"You've had your fun James and we need to talk and you better become before I tell these lovely ladies how small your…"

"SHUT UP LUPIN! Alright I'll come!"

"I knew that'd work!"

"Don't sound so smug about it!"

"I wasn't!"

Remus led James into the heart of the train and James was evidently becoming more and more irritated by this. James honestly thought he hadn't done anything wrong. In his opinion the bitch deserved it! After all, since when did she think that she had the right to crush him like that?

"What's going on James?" Remus asked directly.

"What do you mean?" replied James, obviously playing dumb.

"Cut the crap Potter, what's happening with you and Lily?"

"Nothing at all Lupin!"

"I'm not stupid James and I'm not here to judge you. What's going on?"

"You saw"

"I did. Why have you been at each others necks since we've gotten here?"

"We haven't."

"You know what I mean. Did you come on to Lily last year?"

James shot Remus a look of disgust.

"What makes you say that?"

Remus rolled his eyes.

"By what Lily just said and the way you've been acting towards each other, obviously."

"I didn't come on to her."

"Lily doesn't lie. Don't deny to 'save' your masculinity, James because you're less of a man if you do."

"Maybe, I did."

"What happened?"

"She didn't want it. She said she didn't want to ruin our friendship" James mimicked in a girly tone.

"Then why are you ruining it now?"

"Because she's psycho?"

"She's not psycho James and I know she's hurt you, but do you still fancy her James?"

"HELL NO!"

"Then why are you going out of your way to hurt her?"

"Because she's provoking me?"

"You've also been provoking her, so can you just stop all this crap? You've both hurt each other and just because you've chosen not to be with each other, it doesn't mean that you have to both make each other upset?"

"I'm not upset. I don't know why she should be. The girl needs to get over herself."

"Think what you like James, but please don't inflict that view on the rest of the group."

"I won't, now can I get back to those hot brunettes?"

"No! I think you should apologize to Lily now"

"What? NO!"

"Did you listen to anything I said?"

"Yes, but she doesn't deserve an apology!"

Remus was about to give up reasoning.

"Fine! Can we just go back now! Just be civil to her, that's all I want!"

"Fine! You don't have to sound so agitated. Let's go!"

Holly had chased Lily into an empty compartment about 40m away. Lily had flung herself on to a bench and had begun to cry in persistent sobs. Holly soon sat next to her and pulled her in her arms.

"It's ok Lils," Holly spoke soothingly

"No it's not Holly! Did you hear what he said?" Lily shouted angrily through sobs.

"We all did Lils and it wasn't fair, but please Lily, what happened last year?"

"He came on to me and I was scared. I didn't want to ruin our friendship, so I told him no."

"Was that the best decision for you really, Lily?"

"Yes it was, think about what would have happened if we got together then broke up? Everything would be hell!"

"Don't you think everything's hell now?"

Lily stopped sobbing, but now whimpered quietly for a few moments.

"He provoked me."

"You also provoked him, but that's still no excuse for what he said."

"I hate him"

"You have every right to, but Lily, although this may sound a bit farfetched now but do you still fancy James?"

Lily choked back a new bout of tears.

"Yes Holly, I'm pretty sure I do and I can't deny it!"

"Oh Lily, and the bastard hurt you so badly too!"

"I don't know what to do. I don't want to feel like this"

"No one wants you to sweetie!"

"So what do I do?"

"You can stop trying to kill boy to start with. You're not going to get anywhere by fighting him all the time."

"Excuse me? He's the one that started it all!"

"You both did, now can we stop this and go back to the others?"

"Not if he's there!"

Holly started to get annoyed.

"It doesn't matter if he's there or not, can you just be civil to him? I don't think that would be hard seeing that you like him and all!"

"Don't bring it up Hols! I'm pissed about it already! Ok, I'll try we can go back"

Holly smiled, jumped up, grabbed Lily's hand and led her back to their compartment.

When the girls arrived back at the compartment, Remus and James were already there sitting in a corner. Lily and James exchanged heated glances but made nothing of it. Their four friends were aware of this tension, but decided not to make things awkward further. Suddenly Daphne looking at Sirius looked up all of a sudden and spoke.

"Right, where were we? Yes, that's right the list. Well you see the plan is that we all sign a pact saying that we'll all fulfil the list as the year progresses and if anyone refuses to do anything there will be consequences."

"What type of consequences? I haven't even read the whole list yet." Lily replied suspiciously.

"Never you mind Miss Evans," laughed Sirius while holding out a quill to Lily

"Um. So what exactly are we signing" asked James

"I hereby declare that I insert name agree to uphold to the conditions set out by this pact and agree to severe consequences if I don't agree to fulfil any of these conditions" sang Daphne flamboyantly

"So you basically have to sign at the bottom of the list under that statement" said Sirius

"Am I the only one who hasn't actually read this pact thing?" Lily asked slightly unsure of this

"James hasn't read it" replied Remus

At that realisation Lily suddenly felt a painful pang in the pit of her stomach. By agreeing to this list she would have to be doing personal things with James. Alright she hadn't read any of the list but she could only imagine what her friends meant by having fun. They were teenagers after all. The one thing Lily was mainly worried about was the fact that things with James could get worse because of this pact.

Lily looked over at James with her face full of anguish. Holly noticed and led Lily towards the board.

"Don't worry about him Lily," she said encouragingly "And you never know, this may help things go back to the way they were."

Lily nodded at this still slightly unsure, but signed the bottom of the pact.

Meanwhile James was having similar concerns. He didn't want to have to do things with Lily of all people! She was a prude in his opinion and her attitude really sucked! It's not if she wanted to do things with him anyway. Then James thought about what Remus said.

"This could be the perfect revenge!" he though twisting Remus's words.

"James" called Sirius from across the room "Are you signing or what?"

James went to the board with a broad smirk across his face.

"Yes," he thought smugly "This could be the perfect pay back."

James signed and went back to sit next to Remus.

"Alright everyone," called Daphne firmly "First pact meeting will be at Friday night at 8pm and the venue has yet to be specified. The activities will be decided through truth or dare most likely."

"So I guess you're not telling us what we're doing?" sighed Lily disappointed.

"You guessed right Lily," laughed Sirius "You'll just have to wait and see."

AN: So yes my lovelies, that's the end of chapter four finally!

I promised my friend Sally that I'd update so here it is and it's not after a year or so either. Love you Sally!

I'll try and continue sooner, I hope!

Excuse the gayness of this chapter. I had some trouble ending it.

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