A/N: Thank you to my reviewers, I appreciate it. Here's the next chapter.
Disclaimer: "I'd like to thank my fans, who supported me even though I am not J.K. Rowling and do not own Harry Potter.
Dedication: To Shannon, Bobbi and Lyndon: Thanks for being great friends
When classes started up the following Monday, I did not like it. For one, that meant that I didn't get much time to spend with David. Sure, we sat at the same table while we did homework, but that isn't the same thing as talking.
Another thing: Homework. The teachers seemed to decide to give us twice as much homework as they had done previously, so on Tuesday evening I was hunched over my Transfiguration essay. I had been working on it for almost two hours and I still wasn't done. It was almost midnight and I still had to master a spell for charms to. I yawned and put down my quill. I hated homework. Especially since I didn't have David working next to me. Finally I gave up and went to bed.
The next morning, during History of Magic, all I did was daydream about David, and when I would be seeing him next. Tess was passing notes with Tucker, so she didn't notice me daydreaming. For once, I was glad. When class was over, I hurried to lunch to see him. Except he wasn't there. I ate my lunch quickly and went to look for him. I found him in the common room. With Alex.
I heard them yelling at each other before I even got to the portrait hole. I went in and found the two of them in a rather nasty fight. There was quite a few swear words, and from what I could see, they were fighting until death. I knew that they were fighting because of me, and I was feeling guilty. I sat there and watched them for a few minutes, not knowing what to do.
It was David who finally noticed I was standing there. He had won the fight, though by very little. He leaned over to kiss me, but I backed away. For one thing, David's nose was bleeding, he had two black eyes, and there was quite a bruise in his cheek. Also, I couldn't believe that he had fought like that with Alex. When we were little and girls used to tease me about stuff, David would have to hold me back from going to beat the crap out of them. "Fighting is never the answer." He would tell me. Now here he was, being the world's biggest hypocrite.
He seemed to realize what I was thinking. He used some spell to make his face clean, and he healed his nose. Then he said, "I know that I always told you that fighting is never the answer, but he was calling you these horrible names, and I had to teach him not to mess around with my girl." He told me, but I was still hesitant. He could tell.
He stepped forward, and whispered in my ear, "I love you Lily. I always have. If I were to give up my no-fighting rule for you, I think that's a good thing." I thought about what he said. The only part that I had heard was "I love you." I didn't say anything back, so he leaned over and kissed me. It was a very long kiss, longer then any of the ones we had been sharing lately. I ran my hands through his hair. It was soft.
We stopped kissing for a second to go sit on the couch, were we continued to kiss for quite a long time. Make-out is actually a better word for it. It was two when I finally realized that we should be in lessons. I pointed this out to David, and he smiled at me. "It'll be okay if we miss one lesson, don't worry." He whispered to me, and he sorta laid down on the couch. I lay down sorta on top of him, sorta to the side. I put my head on his chest and listened to his heart. I was so tired…
"Where were you?"
I blinked my eyes open. I looked around and I realized were I was. I was laying with David on a couch in the common room. I looked up and saw David was asleep. I realized that I must have fallen asleep on him after we were done making out. I got off of him, careful not wake him, and followed Tess, who had woken me up, out of the common room.
We went to the library, where Tess drilled me on what happened. Then she told me that she had seen Alex storming out of the common room. "What happened? I noticed that David's face was kind of bruised up to." She said, and I told her about the fight. She squealed.
"That's so cute! He wanted to protect you." She informed me, and I laughed. She told me that we had no homework for the class I missed, so I went and looked for a book that I needed for some of my homework. After borrowing a quill and some paper from Tess, I began my homework.
We worked for about an hour, and then we went to Dinner. We were leaving the dining hall when Alex came in, looking rather angry. I went over to talk to him; I wanted to set things straight. "Alex-" I began, but he cut me off.
"No need to explain, Lily. I see how it is. You never liked me in the first place; you only got with me to make David Jealous. I loved you, even though we were together for such a short time. Now go fuck your boyfriend, you little slut." He said to me in a very angry tone.
I was stung. I can't believe that he would call me that, if he loved me. I could feel tears roll down my cheek. Him calling me that seemed to bring back every horrible thought about the rape. In the beginning, I had thought that to. I thought I was dirty, I was a slut. Now apparently he thought that to.
I ran all the way up to my dorm crying. A lot of people looked at me on the way up, but I didn't care. I think I ran past David, but I'm not sure; my eyes were blurred from the tears. I ran and through myself onto my bed, still crying. No one came up to see me, but I knew that Tess would be up soon.
I tried to stop crying and think about why what Alex had said and why it bothered me so much. I tried to tell myself that he is just some lame boy with nothing better to do, but I couldn't shake the thought out of my mind. Now, David's face flashed through my mind. I was positive that he thought that I was a slut to.
Tess came up around half an hour later. "Why were you so upset about what Alex said to you?" She asked me, and I told her I didn't know. She nodded, then told me, "He looked rather guilty once you ran off. Oh, and David is like super worried about you. He is afraid that you are going to break up with him or something. Tucker is trying to tell him that everything is all right."
A fresh wave of tears overcame me when she said David's name. It was rather painful to think about him. His face kept popping into my mind; I couldn't push it out. Tess saw that I was crying again, and she hugged me. "It's okay, Lil. It really is." She whispered, but I kept on crying.
I avoided David all week. He noticed, and I think that he was really hurt by it. He kept coming up to talk to me, but I made some excuse to get away. But on Saturday, I could no longer ignore him. We had a Quiditch match against Ravenclaw. I wanted to beat them more then anything.
That morning in the locker rooms, David tried to talk to me, but I just waved him off. He looked so disappointed, and I couldn't blame him. He had tried to talk to me all week, but I wouldn't let him. When we walked out onto the field, he had a determined look on his face. He wanted to win, badly.
The game started out fairly well. We pulled ahead by five goals. Then, after half an hour, the other team pulled ahead by three goals. As fair as I could see, our chasers were getting tired. The ball was being passed back and forth a lot, and Slytherin didn't appear to be getting tired at all. When they pulled ahead by two more goals, I knew that I had to catch the snitch soon.
I looked even harder for the snitch, and after a few minutes I spotted it. I zoomed as fast I could after it, but the Slytherin keeper was closer. His broom wasn't as fast as mind, but I went as fast as I could toward him; I was gaining on him steadily. I reached out, we were even, I went ahead by the slightest bit, but I got there first. I grabbed the snitch; we won.
I flew to the ground, feeling very euphoric. I was grinning as my teammates grinned around me. The rest of the school was spilling onto the field. Alex walked up to me, and said something very quietly in my ear: "Slut." I wasn't grinning anymore. I was doing the opposite. I was crying now. I turned around and ran to the lockers.
As I was running, I heard David calling from behind me, "Lils! Wait!" But I didn't wait. I kept running until I got to the locker rooms. I sat on the bench and panted, I had run pretty far. I wasn't crying anymore, but I was still close to it. My hormones seemed to be extremely out of whack lately.
A second later David burst into the locker room. He spotted me, then rushed over to me. I opened my mouth to say I had to go, but David beat me. "No, you don't have anywhere to go. I want to know why you have been ignoring me, Lils. Please tell me." He said, a note of pleading in his voice. He never pleads with anyone.
I looked into his eyes, and I saw hurt, anger and fear. Next thing I knew I was pouring everything about Alex to David. I was crying again, but this time it was on David's shoulder. He looked very shocked, and rather angry. He hugged me so tight that I knew I was safe. When I was done crying, he pulled away from me and looked at me.
"You know, today, and earlier this week, when I saw you crying… I felt…horrible. If the world isn't right for you, it isn't right for me either. You shouldn't let him bother you. I love you, and that's all that matters. I was so scared that you were going to break up with me, Lils. Please don't do that to me again." He whispered in my ear. Lils. He had never called me that before. I liked it.
I hugged him again, and this time I looked up and kissed him. He was surprised, but he kissed me back. As we were kissing, the rest of the team filed in to change. We broke off, embarrassed. I blushed, and hurried to change out of my Quiditch robes. I could feel Sirius and James staring at me, but I ignored them. Everything was right between David and me again.
That night, when I went up to my dorm, I saw Kelsey laying on her bed. I hadn't talked to her much lately. She had one hand on her swollen abdomen, and she was staring at the ceiling. "I found out if the baby is a boy or a girl." She informed me, still staring at the ceiling. I looked at her, waiting for her to say.
A/N: Muhahaha! Cliffhangers! Yes, yes, I know you hate them, but I like them. This isn't the best cliffhanger ever, but still, it's a cliffhanger nevertheless. PLEASE REVIEW! You have no idea how much it would mean to me. Thanks to my reviewer for the last chapter, you made my day better.
