Chapter 5: The Fifth note

"Why don't we ask Professor McGonagall?" Hailey suggested. "She did tell you she saw him place it on your chair."

"Don't be ridiculous, Hail! She won't say a word…" Jenny said. "Even if I saw him, I wouldn't tell Lily."

"Are you saying that you know who he is?" Lily asked.

"No, I'm just saying…" She laughed at Lily's alertness when it comes to the 'guy's' identity. "But I wish I do know who he is so I can have the satisfaction of knowing you guys don't know who he is and I do…" She joked.

"I didn't know you can be mean, Jen." Lily laughed.

"Anyway, what's our next class, again?" Katie asked. "I sort of forgot…"

"No wonder…" Lily said. "Next stop would be History of Magic.."

"Arggh!" Hailey, Katie and even Jenny said.

"Whoah!" Lily said, taken aback. "Jen? Are you all right?"

"Hey, I do have the right to get bored right?" Jen said, with a laugh. "That teacher is bloody boring."

Lily just laughed at the weirdness that invaded her friend's mind. "I don't know about you guys, but even if I do hate the subject, I wouldn't want to miss it. I'm the head girl! So please, move it!"

As they entered the room, they noticed that the majority's attention was transfixed at a certain direction. Not knowing what was wrong, being the head girl that she was, she went her way towards the direction, only to find a tulip on her chair. Looking around, she asked them the thing that she wanted to ask far too long now.

"Did any of you see who placed this on my chair?" She hoped to all the gods that someone saw the stranger, but like herself, everybody that was present was clueless. She beckoned her friends over as she was dying to read what the fifth note was. As they were seated, Lily read it together with the rest of the notes.

The distance between us was quite far, but the figure of you and him holding hands was a clear sight. (1)

From where I was standing, both of you were having a good time… (2)Holding hands…

Walking with comfortable silence…Knowing nothing about a man hurting—watching with tears drowning his eyes. (3)

His longing for someone…
His love—he knows he could never have. (4)

And then, what seemed like a dream, the reality of you and him was no longer—it was finally over. (5)

"Was he referring to Geoff?" Hailey asked.

"Obviously, he was…" Katie said, eyeing Lily for her reaction.

"I did have the same feeling about your break up with Geoff, Lils, no offense. But he was a real jerk!" Jen voiced out. "I was like 'finally!'"

"Me too…" Hailey voiced out. "Although he is good looking, he was so not for you!"

"Are you sure nobody saw who put this here?" Lily asked her classmates. She looked at them, but no one seemed to know. Her eyes landed on Sirius Black as he was continuously throwing chocolate frog wrappers on James Potter. She looked at him and was annoyed to see that he was not giving her any kind of attention. She eyed him closely and noticed that his eyes were focused on a parchment. He would occasionally glance up to glare at Sirius then scratch out some things on his parchment.

"Lils?" Jen asked, as she traced Lily's stare. "Why are you glaring at James?"

"Nothing…" She replied as she slumped onto her chair.

"Does that bother you?" Jen cleverly asked, looking at James.

"No." She said, with a tone that clearly stated it was the end of their conversation.