Too Many Problems

"Lily please!"

"I'm going to fail, James!"

"No you won't! I promise!"

"How would you know?"

"Because. If you get so tensed up like you are then you're going to fail. Look at me. I'm not studying. Lily you're smart and you shouldn't be doing this."

"Yeah right. You never have to study for anything! You just know everything! That's why you have a high grade in all your subjects. The only way for me to get high grades is by studying! So let me study!"

"No! I know you! Or at least I've known you for seven years! You're going to be staying up late at night every day and you're going to stress yourself out! I'm not letting that happen!"

"What does it matter to you? I like it better this way! I know I won't fail!"

"You're going to get bags under your eyes. You will look horrible. You will always be stressed. And we're not going to have any fun! You're going to stress yourself all throughout Christmas and you're going to miss out on everything!"

"So what if I get bags under my eyes? So what if I look ugly? Are you going to break up with me?"

"That's not what—"

"No you're going to break up with me if I look ugly isn't it. Cause the famous James Potter can't have an ugly looking girlfriend. Of course not! It will ruin his reputation!"

"What are you talking about?"

At this point Remus shook his head dreading the next event. The things NEWTS can do to couples like these two.

"You know what I'm talking about. Just like you know me, I know you!" Lily yelled.

James closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Lily you don't know what you are talking about. I think you've had too much to study."

"I know exactly what I'm talking about Potter! You don't want me to study because I will get bags under my eyes and look all depressed! Then I won't be 'pretty' and you'll break up with me!"

"Evans you're twisting everything I said!"

"I'm not twisting anything!"

"Just shut up! You have no idea what your saying! You should hear yourself!"

"I can hear myself clearly! In case you haven't noticed, I'm yelling at you!" Lily's eyes flashed.

"Maybe you two should do this some—"

"Stay out of this!" Both Lily and James yelled.

They were standing in the middle of the hallway, unaware of the scared first years trying to get past them without being glared at or hexed on accident.

Remus looked around nervously and smiled at the younger children.

Lily and James continued their fight all the way to their common room.

"I don't care if you look ugly!" James yelled getting VERY irritated with this mad woman.

"How can you not care? What kind of a boyfriend are you? You are supposed to care! You are supposed— Pig Latin!— to tell me when I look bad before I step out so everyone can see me!" Lily said including the password to their common room in the middle.

"That's not what I meant! Why do you keep twisting my words? And besides if I told you you looked bad you would get mad at me just like you are now!"

"I would not!"

"Would too!"

"Would not!"

"Would too!"

"Would not!"

"Would too!"

"Would not!"

"Evans will you please just shut up and calm down!"

"Don't you dare tell me to shut up! You shut up!"

"Oh so now you can tell me to shut up but I can't tell you to shut up!"

"Shut up! I just did it again!" Lily said smirking.

"Shut up!" James said returning the nasty smirk.

"Shut up!" Lily yelled back.

"SHUT UP!" Remus yelled putting the silencing charm on them.

"Now both of you listen! You are fighting over…I don't even know what you're fighting over! But I can tell you it's something very PATHETIC! And unless you stop right this second I can show you many other spells we've learnt!" Remus said red with all the yelling.

He cautiously took the charm off of them.

Lily and James stared at each other. They looked as if they were about to burst or blow up. Remus was praying neither would happen.

But then Lily turned around and stomped up her stairs and slammed her door.

James stared at her door.

"It's okay Prongs. Give her time to think." Remus said sitting on a couch.

James dropped on the same couch and put a hand to his head and groaned.

"What have I done?"

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"I twisted everything he said. I don't know why I'm so scared. I'm just used to James being that kind of guy who looks only for beauty and always has a different girl each week. I feel like he's going to do the same to me. And then everyone tells me I'm different but he used to tell his girlfriends that too." Lily said tears streaming down her face.

Kate rolled her eyes. She had had enough of them fighting. In fact Kate was even hoping it would stop after they got together. Guess not.

"Now he's really going to break up with me."

"Lily please. He's not going to break up with you."

"Yes he is."

"No. He's not."

"Yes…he is."

"No Lily. He's not."

"Yes he is!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"Lily!"

"What!"

"Oh my gosh Lily shut up." Kate said frustrated.

"Why does everyone keep telling me to shut up?"

"Because Lils! You may be smart but you sure are one hell of an arguer."

Lily raised an eyebrow.

"You argue on everything!"

"I do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"See! You're even arguing ON arguing! You can't get any lower!"

"Then how do I stop arguing?" Lily asked finally giving up.

"You just accept the fact."

"What fact?"

"THE fact! Whatever the fact is!"

"My head hurts Kate."

"I don't blame you. You've had way too much to study."

Lily glared at Kate.

"Let the rest of today go. Tomorrow you can apologize to James. And please Lils, do us all a favor and don't start studying until there are at least one or two months left until the NEWTs!" Kate said.

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"I just didn't want her to study so early! She looks miserable and she misses out on all the fun! It's her last year and I don't want her to waste it by staring at a bunch of thick books all day long!" James said throwing his hands up in the air.

"It's okay. She was tired, and you know how girls get when they're tired." Remus said.

"So what if you guys misunderstood each other. That may happen a lot but you can always make up." Peter said.

"Yeah but sometimes I'm just worried she might not want to make up." James said.

"You never give up do you?" Remus asked smiling.

James shrugged and smiled back.

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"Lily I need to talk to you but you can't tell anyone this." Kate said in a soft and quiet voice.

"Kate I'm your best friend. I'm going to tell the whole world." Lily said sarcastically.

Kate looked at her worriedly. Apparently she didn't take notice of the sarcasm.

"Kate I was being sarcastic." Lily said after a minute.

"Oh. But seriously, you can't tell a soul. Especially…Tori." Kate said hesitating before saying the last word.

Lily frowned.

"But Tori's also our best friend. Why can't we tell her?" Lily asked.

"Because. It's…well it sorta has to do with her." Kate said fiddling her thumbs.

"Okay…I promise I won't tell Tori. But if it has to do with her you may want to talk to her too."

Kate hesitated again.

"I know. But, do you remember the night you had detention?" Kate said not having to specify which detention, for Lily has only had one in her life.

After seeing Lily nod, Kate went on.

"Well, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep. So I just laid in bed awake, you know, counting sheep."

At this, Lily smiled.

"Anyways, while I was, well, counting sheep, the door opened very quietly. Of course, I got scared and grabbed my wand. Or at least something shaped like my wand. It was a little hard to see in the dark. Then, the figure walked over to a bed, and that's when I found out it was Tori."

"How did you know it was Tori? Wasn't it dark?" Lily asked.

"Well yeah, but the moon was shining directly on her. Anyways, she got into her bed and went back to sleep. And the next morning she didn't say anything about it, so I figured she was keeping something from me." Kate finished.

"Well, maybe she went out to the common room while you were asleep because she forgot something." Lily suggested.

Kate shook her head.

"No. Because she wasn't in her bed when I went to bed. Her bed was neatly made. And it stayed that way until she came back. She never entered the room before that Lily." Kate said.

"We should ask her. But not now. There's too much going on for me. I don't want another person mad at me." Lily said putting her hand up to her head.

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Lily walked out of her room, ready for dinner. Midway on the stairs, she froze. James was standing in the middle of the common room.

Hearing some footsteps, James turned around to face Lily. The redhead immediately turned around and headed back upstairs.

James opened his mouth to say something, but closed it one he heard the door to her room shut. He sighed, and walked out of the common room.

"What's up with her?" asked Birdy.

James turned around, startled, then shrugged.

"We heard the fight." Yirdy said sadly.

"Pity it had to be during our nap time." Birdy said shaking his head.

James looked at him oddly, and then opened his mouth to say something.

"Don't ask. You don't want to know." Yirdy said quickly cutting him off.

James closed his mouth, nodded, and headed down the hall to dinner. It seems nobody was letting him speak today.

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James entered the Great Hall and took a seat next to Sirius and Peter.

"What's up with you?" He asked looking at Sirius's depressed face.

Sirius looked up and glared at the table next to them. James followed in the same direction and found what Sirius was looking at. Tori and Amos were sitting together, smiling.

James shook his head.

"He broke up with Megan and asked Tori to the dance. But it was too late." Peter said filling him in on the news.

James frowned. "What dance?"

"The Christmas ball for seventh years." Peter said.

"Already?" He asked turning to Sirius.

"Padfoot, we still have a long time to go until that ball. Why ask her so early?" James said.

Sirius glared at him. "If I asked her too early, then why am I too late?"

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"Remus, what do you think it meant?" Kate asked worridly, sitting next to him on the couch.

"What do I think what meant?" Remus asked looking up from his book.

Kate frowned. "Remus! The vision!" She said in a hushed voice.

"Well I don't know. Maybe you should talk to Dumbledore. But don't worry about it too much. We don't know those people." Remus said trying to read.

"I'm not telling Dumbledore. I don't want him to get into this especially since I don't even know too much about it. And I told you, I didn't get a clear view of the people but I know I knew them because I was there with them!" Kate said getting frustrated Remus was more interested in his book than this.

"Did you also…?"

"No! At least I don't think I did. No green flash came towards me. And besides I was outside the house! But I don't get why I didn't go in there to help them. I felt like I knew something was going to happen, but I couldn't move. And then, they…they…died. The guy tried to save her. But they both…" Kate said getting teary eyed.

"Kate, please don't cry." Remus said brushing his lips against hers.

"It's just so sad. I mean they had a child. A baby. I heard it! And I could hear the mother yelling, trying to save the baby. I bet you anything it was that Voldy guy." Kate said crossing her arms and glaring into the burning flames of fire.

"Voldy?"

"Voldemort! Remus you're totally out of it today!"

"I'm sorry. This book is really good." Remus said apologetically.

"Remus you can't tell anyone about this. It stays between you and me. You're the only one I can talk to about this stuff. I hate explaining things all over again so I'm not telling anyone who doesn't know about this…weirdness going on with me."

"Kate nobody knows except for us."

"That's why you're the only person I can talk to! But you're not even listening!" The blonde haired girl stood up.

Remus closed this book and hesitated.

"Okay I am really sorry. I promise to listen now." He said smiling.

Kate scowled. "There's nothing to talk about now. I just said everything."

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Sorry it keeps taking sooooooooo long to write these. Since school started I've been really busy. REVIEW!