Here's chapter fifteen, its mostly dialogue with the characters, not much action in this one. I think its the second to last chapter. I really hate Amy in this chapter...reminds me of some people...

Chapter fifteen

Lily woke up the next morning to find her dormitory empty save Alice, who was sleeping peacefully in her bed, mouth slightly open.

Bridget, she needed to talk to Bridget... Or did she? Lily certainly didn't want to, but it wasn't the type of thing a person could merely ignore and go on as if nothing had happened.

Lily had tossed and turned all night, reliving that same day over and over and over again. Questions engulfed her mind and overwhelmed her senses. What was she supposed to do now and what did she want to do?

Lily flinched as Alice rolled over on her bed and moaned slightly and one second later Lily gave a little shriek of surprise as Amy came bursting in, smiling brightly with brilliantly red cheeks.

"I was just outside," she gasped. "With James!"

"Keep it down Amy," Lily said quietly, not looking at her friend and instead rummaging through her trunk trying to find some socks. "Or you'll wake Alice."

"Sorry," Amy whispered, still grinning widely. "But I'm just so happy! Things are going great with James!"

Two things then happened to Lily: the first was that strange swoop in her stomach she now seemed to get whenever she heard or saw James and the second was a vivid image of what she had seen Amy and Dom doing the night before in the deserted corridor. Lily sat back down on her bed looking down at the floor. "Are they?" she asked calmly.

"Oh yes, I don't know if there's a luckier girl than me out there."

"Mmm," Lily muttered.

"Yeah! Oh I really do wish you and Dom had what James and I have!"

"But we do Amy," Lily said, the corners of her mouth suddenly twisting upward mischievously and she stood up slowly before facing Amy. "You cheated on James and Dom cheated on me. Our relationships are about the same wouldn't you say?"

There was a silence; neither of the girls spoke and the only sound that could be heard was the soft chirping of the birds outside.

Finally Amy opened her mouth and said, "Oh, didn't know you knew about that."

"So what's the deal Amy?" Lily asked. "You yell at me and accuse me of snogging your boyfriend, 'the one you love so dearly' and then you go and kiss my boyfriend and all you have to say is, 'Oh! Didn't know you knew about that Lily!' You don't have any morals do you?"

"Yeah, well serves you right Lily," Amy glared. "Let's just call it a little payback for when you snogged James behind my back."

"You did this for revenge?" Lily asked raising her eyebrows. "I thought we'd agreed that I hadn't done anything."

Amy snorted. "Yeah right. I know the truth and you don't have to admit anything, don't worry."

"For revenge Amy?" Lily repeated.

"Serves you right," Amy said again, crossing her arms and smiling at Lily.

Lily smiled back. "No Amy. No, it serves you right."

"I think you're a little confused Lily," Amy said, pulling off her scarf and tossing it into her trunk. "Now you know not to mess with my boyfriend. I hope you've learned you're lesson."

"Listen Amy," Lily said without a trace of anger in her voice. "I was going to break up with Dom anyway."

"Sure, you say that now."

"And - you didn't let me finish - and now your relationship is in jeopardy because of what you did."

Amy laughed humourlessly. "Yeah, like James is really going to find out."

"He is," Lily said, no longer smiling.

Amy looked up from her trunk at Lily. "You're not going to tell him," she said angrily. "Don't forget the power I have over you. I can make your life miserable and as you know I've already started."

"You don't know anything about my life!" Lily hissed. "You don't know and you don't care. You've never cared. All you care about it yourself! You didn't even bother to ask what I was doing with James!"

"I didn't need to ask what you were doing with him," Amy snarled. "I could figure that out for myself!"

"It was lunch with Hagrid," Lily spelled out. "Lunch with Hagrid. He invited the both of us. You can ask Hagrid if you like."

"Lily," Amy sighed. "I'm not stupid. No one goes over to Hagrids for lunch, or any other meal. It's just not healthy."

"Well I didn't want to be rude," Lily said. "Which is something you desperately need to work on."

"You know Evans," Amy said angrily folding up her coat. "You've really been bugging me this year."

Lily's stomach clenched; she had heard this before.

"And I wish you would just leave me and my flawless love life out of you life."

"And you know, I wish you would get out of my life," Lily said surging. "You have to tell James about this because if you don't - "

"Then what?" Amy taunted. "You know I'm not going to let you go near him."

"Well for your information the two of us have been seeing a lot of each other lately," Lily told her. "We are head girl and head boy after all. You can't watch him all the time. And I'm not planning to tell him because it should be you who does."

"I'm not telling him," Amy said looking as though Lily was crazy and had just suggested they go and give Peeves a monstrous supply of dungbombs for Christmas. "What good could happen if I did?"

"If you don't tell him, I will," Lily said pulling out a charms book from her trunk. "And I'll know if you haven't. I'll tell James this evening if you don't."

"No you won't!" Amy cried fiercely. "You won't have a chance to tell him because he's going to be spending the day with me!" Amy picked up her hat, gave Lily a filthy look, and stormed out of the room in a huff.

Lily looked away from the door and at Alice who was still sleeping serenely. She was indeed a very heavy sleeper. Lily glanced at the clock resting beside Alice's calm form and saw it was almost nine.

Lily quickly got dressed and headed down to the common room; she was going to find Dom.

The common room was nearly empty and Lily suddenly remembered that it was the first day of the holidays. Most of the people in her year went home for Christmas as they were living in a time of fear. Voldemort was still going on strong and it appeared he would be for a very long time. Lily always stayed at the school for her parents knew that there was no safer place.

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"Lily!"

Lily, recognizing the voice, closed her eyes and tried to prepare her mind for what she had to do next. She stopped on the stairs and turned to face Dom.

"Oh, hi," she replied quietly.

"Hi," Dom grinned and leaned in towards Lily. Lily jumped back.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Kissing you?" Dom looked at her questionably. "What's up?"

"You and Amy, Dom," Lily said with no real emotion in her voice. "I saw you two last night you disgusting - "

"She tricked me Lily!" Dom blurted out, putting his hands on Lily's shoulders and looking her deep in the eyes. "It wasn't of my own free will, you've - "

"Get off me," Lily pushed his hands away from her before whipping out her wand. "And don't touch me again or I'll hex you. Sorry Dom, but we can't see each other anymore."

Dom didn't say anything, but looked at her sadly. "W - what?"

"Don't you dare look at me for help or try to convince me to change my mind," Lily said flatly. "You've cheated on me and that's it. I never did like your quidditch as well anyways. Sorry and - wait - no, I shouldn't be the one apologizing. It's you."

There was a pause.

"Fine," Lily said, putting her wand back in her pocket. "Don't say anything. Goodbye." And she turned on her heel and continued down the steps.

"No Lily!" Dom suddenly screamed and ran down after her. "No! I'm telling you I didn't mean it! I'm sorry! This can't be it. We were having so much fun and - "

Lily didn't turn back and kept walking, picking up her pace.

"No Lily please! I can change. I'm really sorry I - " he faltered, painfully watching her go. "Fine! Leave! You'll only regret it!"

Lily turned a corner and she was out of his sight. Dom didn't follow any further.

Lily felt strange and got the feeling that she should have been more upset at this. Though that was the reason for the relationship to end in the first place.

Instead of feeling heartbroken, Lily felt as if a huge weight had been lifted off her chest and she would have felt very happy except for the fact there were a few more things lying on her chest that would be slightly harder to get rid of.

"Lily!"

Lily yelped and fell over backwards. She groaned and looked up, seeing Remus looking over at her with a worried expression upon his face.

"Sorry," he apologized holding out his hand for Lily to take. "Didn't mean to startle you."

"S'alright," Lily mumbled getting up. "Have - have you seen James?"

Remus shook his head. "Sorry. He was gone before I woke up. I think he's with - "

"Amy," Lily finished. "Yes, I know. If you see him can you tell him I'm looking for him?"

"Sure," Remus said. "Listen, I - um - heard about Bridget and - I'm - I'm really sorry..."

Lily's eye's widened in shock. "You - you heard about her? Everything? H - how?"

Now Remus looked at her curiously. "Blimey Lily, the whole school knows. Peeves was blurting it out everywhere."

"What?" Lily ran a hand through her hair trying to think. "How did he find out?"

"Myrtle told him I think."

"And how did Myrtle find out?"

Remus shrugged.

Then it came to her. The bathroom where Bridget had told her everything... That was Moaning Myrtle's bathroom... Lily hadn't given it a second thought, too caught up in the fact she was about to hear everything...

"Then - then what happened to Bridget?" Lily asked.

"I don't know," Remus said. "I saw her at breakfast and when Peeves came in and she heard what he was yelling she ran off. Dumbledore was trying to find you and see if you knew anything about this... It's - it's true isn't it? That she's a death eater I mean."

"No," Lily shook her head. "She wasn't... but she might be now..." She sighed in frustration. "Everything's changing for the worst this year!"

"Voldemort's getting stronger."

Lily looked at Remus intently. "Have you heard of the order of the phoenix?"

Remus nodded. "Yes."

"I'm joining as soon as I leave the school," Lily said louder than was necessary.

"Same here," Remus told her. "James, Peter, and Sirius are too."

"Brilliant idea of Dumbledores," Lily said.

"You're not scared of death?"

Lily eyed him strongly. "'Course I am. But what I fear most is anyone I care about dying. That outweighs everything. Now listen, if you run into James - "

"Tell him you're looking for him, right," Remus finished. "Yeah, don't worry."

"Ok, thanks."

"No problem."

"Well, um, I'll see you later I guess," Lily waved.

"Bye."

They parted and went their separate ways; Remus to the library, and Lily towards the great hall.

It wasn't long however, before she ran into another familiar face; one that she was not particularly fond of anymore and one that she was starting to like more and more.

"Hi Amy," she said smoothly. She turned to the person beside her. "Hi James."

James smiled while Amy scowled.

"We were just about to head outside, right James?"

"Er - right..."

"Deeply apologetic about your boyfriend cheating on you," Amy said slyly. "Too bad eh? Come on James, why have you stopped walking?"

James was looking at Lily as though seeing her in a whole new light. "Dominic what?"

"Cheated on her James, now can we please go?" Amy said impatiently tugging on his hand.

"I'm sorry Lily," James said ignoring Amy.

Lily shrugged. "Doesn't matter. Listen I'd better get going. Amy looks a little agitated at my being here so I'll see you later. How about tonight just before dinner?"

"Yeah ok - "

"James is spending the day with me Lily," Amy growled.

"Head duty," Lily replied smiling. "Sorry Amy, can't be avoided." And with that she turned on her heel and walked off, her hopes slightly rising. What was in that look James had just given her less than a few seconds ago?

Lily could tell by the strange feelings she got whenever she was near James were to do with some crush or other. But did she really like him in that way, or was it just to get back at Amy? Something in Lily's heart told her it was more than that.

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Lily never met James just before dinner. She didn't see hide nor hair of him until very late that night.

It was after midnight and everyone else had gone off to bed; Lily sat alone in the common room by the fire waiting for him and Amy to come through the portrait hole. Had Amy told him what she'd done? No, thought Lily, she wouldn't have.

When Lily heard the familiar sound of the portrait hole creaking open she leapt out of her seat and hid behind one of the sofa's, eyeing the two of them closely.

She saw then exchange one short kiss - there was that rush in her body again, jealousy? - and then part, Amy going up to her dormitory and James clambering up the stairs to his.

Lily jumped out from behind her hiding place and followed James up the stairs, catching up to him just as his hand touched the doorknob.

"Boo," she said quietly.

"Lily?" James looked very surprised. "Oh, listen I'm really really sorry about not coming to meet you... Amy kept me tied up... But - you know - I think I'm - "

Lily waited.

"Breaking up with her..."

"She told you then?" Lily asked surprised. "That she kissed Dom?"

"I - what?" James looked at her puzzled. "No... no she didn't tell me..."

There was an awkward silence.

Lily cleared her throat, "Well now you know... Did - did you want to know?"

"Well it will certainly be much easier to break up with her," James said slowly running a hand through his hair. Lily cringed.

"And I thought you'd gone out of that habit."

"I have!" James defended immediately dropping his hand. "Oh and I wanted to tell you - sorry about Bridget..."

"Mmm... I'd rather not talk about it actually..." Lily said.

"Right, sorry," James apologized.

Another pause. The only sound was that of the crackling flames in the fireplace; Lily could see their orange glow reflecting off of James's round glasses.

"I think you'll want to move back a bit," James said quietly.

"What?" Lily looked at him curiously. "Why?"

"We're under the mistletoe," James pointed up to the ceiling which was supporting a small bouquet.

"That's a fern James," Lily said craning her neck upwards. "Do you need new glasses or something?"

"Maybe," James frowned and took off his glasses, observing the lenses.

"We could pretend it was mistletoe," Lily said before she could stop herself and regretted it almost immediately after.

James dropped his glasses in shock. "W - what?"

"I - I said... were you just pretending that it was mistletoe...?" Lily finished lamely.

"That's not what you said. No, it was - "

"Maybe you need a hearing aid too," Lily said, bending down and picking up his glasses. She tapped them once with her wand and muttered, "Reparo!" before handing them back to James.

He took them out of her hands and looked at her inquiringly. "I know you just said - "

"That that's a fern," Lily nodded up at the ceiling. "And then commented on you needing a hearing aid as well as new glasses. Glad we got that all cleared up. I've got to go to bed now. Goodnight!" She then started to turn around, but Lily felt James catch her on her elbow.

Lily noticed James's eyes had a lot more power over her mind when he wasn't wearing his glasses. Lily's stomach clenched. Oh no, was he preforming legilimency on her? That couldn't be good.

Lily's heart started beating faster and faster as James got nearer and nearer. She knew what was going to happen and she didn't feel she had enough will power to prevent it. There was nothing between the two of them now...

Well, almost nothing.

They were about three inches apart before Lily heard a cry that could have made her ears shrivel up with its shrillness and malice.

"Hey!"

Hope you liked that, its not my favorite chapter but there you go.

I saw goblet of fire. After the third movie I had lost all hope for a good harry potter movie and this one converted me. It was awesome! I absolutely adore neville in this movie and cho and harry were so so so cute. I really do wish Hermione and Krum get together in the seventh book but I know its her and Ron... shudders it just feels like incest! So would Harry and Hermione for that matter.

The next chapter should be out in a couple of days like always and i'll ask you kindly to review and add in anything you'd want to see in the last chapter.

Classical music is underrated!