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"Mates, Dates, and Emotional Outbreaks"
Alice wiped away a tear that had just escaped her eye, brushed her cheeks making sure it wasn't wet anymore, and sniffled a little. Alice released herself from the comforting hug of Lily.
"You okay?" Allie asked, seeing her surface.
She nodded, but she knew her heart was still broken and would take a long time to heal.
"That's good to hear," Lily said.
"I guess," Alice whispered.
"Cheer up, Alice," Allie said.
"Yeah, everything is going to be okay," Lily said hugging her tightly again.
Alice buried her head into Lily shoulder.
"He has a girlfriend," she mumbled in Lily's shirt.
"He's happy with her and he loves her," she cried, again tears welled up in her eyes and she tried so hard to keep them in, but it was impossible.
Allie came over and wrapped her arms around Alice just like Lily.
"You'll get over him," Allie said.
Alice shook her head in defeat. "No I won't."
"I'm a fool. I told him I liked him!" she cried. Alice pushed herself away from her friends.
"I told him I like him!" a desperate voice seeking for comfort came out of her mouth. She knew she was a mess her brown hair was everywhere, her eyes where swollen, and she was red in the face, but she didn't care, not anymore.
Allie and Lily looked at each other.
"And you know what he told me?" she asked them, "He told me I was sweet and all, but he doesn't like me!"
She screamed! Allie and Lily watch Alice scream, yell, throw things, and jump up and down. They knew well enough to leave Alice alone when she was this upset. She needed to get all her emotions out into the open.
Finally, Alice fell to the floor crying. Her legs curled up underneath her. She sat there letting her tears run down her face, not bothering to wipe them away. Alice sat there no longer caring that she was clearly a mess, as well as, making a fool of herself.
"It hurts so much," she told them. "It hurts so damn much."
"It won't go away, it won't leave me," Alice cried.
Lily and Allie wanted to do something, to take her pain and throw it away, but they knew only Alice could chose to forget everything and move on. They wanted to go over and hug her, to never let go, but Alice had to do this alone. She had to be strong and face the pain, but they knew she needed her friends there to support her decisions, no matter how crazy.
"I don't want to be here anymore."
"I don't want to feel anymore!" ranted Alice.
"No one deserves this," she cried, "it's too painful to describe."
"My heart feels like it was ripped out and thrown carelessly onto the ground! Like I have no worth, no meaning, and it hurts."
She looked up from where she had fallen, staring up at her friends' worried faces, and she came to a decision.
"I need to be alone," she told them, "to think."
Lily and Allie looked at her and then hesitantly nodded. Alice still crying got up shaking and ran out the room. Lily and Allie got up to watch her run down the Common Room trying to hide the fact that she was crying to the few students indoor.
Sirius, however, didn't miss the fact that when she came down Alice's face was red and eyes swollen. He watched her run out the Common Room and when the portrait slammed shut he slowly lifted his gaze to meet Lily and Allie's worried faces.
"She'll be okay," Sirius said sincerely, "I promise."
Lily didn't know why, but she trusted him. She felt Allie loosen up besides her and knew that Sirius' words comforted her too. Lily smiled weakly at him.
"I hope so."
A couple of days past, Lily and Allie didn't see much of Alice. She ate with them, but she rarely spoke. She was like a ghost passing in and out of places without being seen or heard. The only one she looked willing and wishing to talk to was Sirius, and this made Lily and Allie worry.
"I'm scared for her," said Lily.
"Me too," Allie agreed. "She might go and do something crazy."
Lily nodded. They continue eating in silence. They were both thinking of ways to cheer their friend up, to maybe brighten up her day a little bit. They wanted to see her smile again, the smile they all missed.
At dinner Alice came walking towards Lily and Allie and sat down. She poured herself a cup of pumpkin juice, took a plate of food, and began to eat. Lily watched her almost like she was scared Alice would break down at any minute, but she didn't.
Alice looked up from her plate.
"I asked Sirius out."
Allie spit her juice out and exclaimed, "You what!"
Lily looked at Alice like she just grew two extra heads.
"I asked him out," she said simply and sipped her juice.
"Why?"
"I'm moving on."
"By going out with one of the biggest womanizers in this school?" Allie said skeptically.
"I'm playing the field."
"You never played the field," Lily commented.
"Yeah, but now I am," she said, "Why not start with Sirius?"
Allie groaned and banged her head against the table.
"You're going to get hurt!"
"No I'm not," she stated and got up to leave.
Allie turned to Lily.
"What is she getting herself into?" Allie cried in despair.
"We just have to trust her," said Lily.
"I have to go talk to someone," Allie said getting up from her seat.
As she was walking out of the Great Hall Lily told her, "Don't doing anything you'll regret later."
"I never do," was the response Allie's response.
"Black?"
"Yes?"
"We need to talk," Allie said.
"About?"
"You hurt a hair on Alice's head I'll make sure you'll never have another date in your life."
"No need to threaten me."
"And why should I trust you?"
"Because I know what she's going through."
"Potter, we have to have a meeting."
"Sure," he said, "name the place and time."
"Tonight at 7, in the Head's Common Room."
"Fine with me."
James walked away from Lily who was watching his retreating back.
"Don't be late, Potter!"
"Wouldn't dream of it, Evans!"
Lily smiled.
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