EXPANSION OF EGO

"We're been best friends a long time, haven't we Lily?" James asked, his arm around Lily.

Lily nodded. "Ever since first year."

"Now we're in fifth…"

"Yeah."

"So Lily, we've always gotten along really well, so why don't we, you know, go out?"

Lily raised an eyebrow.
"Because we're best friends, and I don't want to be your flavor of the week only to be tossed aside when you're through with me."

"Oh." Said James, withdrawing his arm, "But what if I wouldn't do that? What if I really like you and don't want to just mess around."

Lily was starting to get frustrated.

"James, I'm your best friend! I know how you are with girls! You say that with every single girl you date! You say they're special and that you are going to be serious in dating them, but where are they now? Where? In the girls bathrooms crying that you dumped them! All of them!"

James reddened at the thought of all his ex-girlfriends huddled together crying all because of him.
Then, he thought about how it was he who had asked each one of those girls out, and they had all said yes. All of them… he must be some sort of god! Realization dawned on him, and his ego grew three times larger right then.

"Well they all went out with me, why shouldn't you?"

"Maybe because you're being a prat right now!" Lily stormed out of the room.

"Oh, it's on." James muttered to the silence, "It's on."