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A/N: To my reviewers…thanks so much for your feedback and response to my question. I really appreciate it. Spring break this week so I am going to try and get these chapters out to you a.s.a.p.

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Chapter 3: The Secrets are Unveiled

When the bell finally signaled the end of class, Lily glanced over her plans and stood up, bumping into Sirius.

"Damn, Black," Lily said rubbing her head, "Could I get a chance to breathe before you come over here and smother me."

Sirius rolled his eyes and led her out of the classroom along with James.

"Well guys," Lily began, "What's so important that needs to be discussed?"

"Well…" James started, "I don't want you to get mad at me for telling you this, but…"

"Hey baby," a male voice said from behind them.

James turned around and saw Chris standing there holding Lily from the back.

"Hey Chris," she said smiling, "what class do you have now?"

"I have Potions with you baby."

"We'll sit together," Lily told him, "just let me finish talking to Potter."

"Don't worry about it Evans," James said coolly, "it was just about the Head's meeting. I can talk to you about it later."

"You sure," Lily asked, surprised by James's tone.

"Yeah," James replied, "I'm positive."

Lily shrugged and walked into the classroom with Chris right at her side. She took a seat at the table with Remus and Alex.

Potions class went by as uneventful. They spent most of the time in silence because the potion they were given was very difficult and complicated. By the end of the class, Lily was the only one to have gotten the potion closest to being correct. She scored ten house points for it.

"Chris," Lily started, "Are you going to walk me to class or do you have somewhere to be?"

"Actually," Chris said looking around, "I have to run to Muggle Studies since it's my favorite class. I don't want to be late."

Chris gave her a quick kiss before she could react. She watched him run off, the opposite way that the classroom for Muggle Studies was in. Then she also remembered, Wait. I have Muggle Studies next…

She shook her head and was walking away when James came up next to her, "Lily, that is what I need to talk to you about."

Lily looked at him, completely bewildered, not understand what he was talking about, "Potter, what are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about that loser that you're dating," James said while walking faster.

"My boyfriend is not a loser, Potter," Lily said through gritted teeth, "he hasn't done anything wrong. Just because you're jealous because I'm with him doesn't mean you have to go and make things up."

James stopped right in front of the door and stared at her, "Low blow, Evans."

"Well Potter, you deserved it," Lily said.

"Evans, you have no idea what you're talking about," James said through gritted teeth, "Your marvelous boyfriend is going around snogging Cassandra while you aren't looking. Yesterday, when I went on patrol, I caught them both under the table in the Great Hall going at it. Do you see him in this classroom right now, Evans? He was lying about his class. He ran off into the other part of the building. Are you going to take all of this into consideration and then still say that I'm the one at wrong?"

Lily was shocked. Could it really be true? But Chris really liked her. And he seemed like a really sincere guy. Could she really believe James?

"Potter, I'll find out what's really going out. If I find out that you're telling me this to make it all harder, I will come after you. Mark my words, Potter," Lily said. Then she stormed into the classroom and took a seat next to Alex.

"Lils, what's wrong?"

"Alex, you'll never guess what Potter just told me," Lily said.

"What did he say?" Alexandra asked.

"He told me he saw Chris cheating on me last night and that Chris is cheating on me right now too because right after Potions he told me he had Muggle Studies and he ran the other way and he isn't in here," Lily told her.

"Maybe he got confused about his schedule," Alex offered.

"I hope that's it."

Alex patted her friend on the back, "Lily, don't stress it. It's only been a day and a half. If he really is cheating on you, we'll find out, and then I promise we will punish him appropriately."

Lily nodded and took notes in the beginning. Then though, she started getting restless and couldn't forget about the things that James had said to her. About a half hour into class Lily asked to be excused because of cramps. Professor White gave her permission to go to the hospital wing. She grabbed her book and left the classroom.

In all actuality, Lily had no intention of going to the hospital wing. She was going to look for Chris. She headed in the direction that she had seen him walk. After walking for about seven minutes, she heard a loud clash in one of the empty classrooms. She opened the door and what she saw completely shocked her. Chris had Cassandra up against the wall and was snogging her senseless.

Lily steadied her voice and said, "Christopher Cantore. You need to explain to me exactly what is going on."

Cassandra jumped and Chris looked up, startled.

"Cassandra," Lily said, "You need to leave now."

"Oh and are you going to make me," Cassandra asked.

"Right now I'm armed and you aren't. If you don't want to walk out of here with boils all over your face then I suggest you leave," Lily told her.

"Evans, you have a good point," Cassandra said while walking to the door, "just know, I'm not afraid of you."

"Good for you," Lily replied coolly, "Would you like a bloody cookie?"

Cassandra gave her a smirk and left the room.

Lily turned to Chris, "What the bloody hell is your explanation for that?"

"Lily, calm down."

"How are you going to tell me to calm down when I walk in on that," Lily said throwing a book. It narrowly missed his head.

"Lily, stop," Chris said while walking closer to her.

"You have no right to tell me to stop, Chris," Lily said.

Chris quickly stepped up to her and took a hold of her wrist while slamming her against the wall with his body. Lily winced in pain and struggled under his weight, but she couldn't free herself. She tried to kick him but he stepped on her foot and she winced again.

"Lily," Chris said while squeezing her wrists, "now listen to me and listen to me very carefully. I don't want there to be any misunderstandings."

About half an hour later James was at lunch with everyone. There was still no sign of Lily since she left class. Alexandra had gone to the hospital wing to see it Lily was there. The nurse had said she hadn't seen Lily. Five minutes ago Chris had walked into the Great Hall, but there was no still no Lily. He had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach.

"Prongs," Sirius said with a mouthful of food, "Wasn't Evans supposed to go have lunch with Cantore outside today?"

James thought back to breakfast that morning. Sirius was right.

"Yeah Padfoot she was, only look who's sitting right there," James said indicating that Chris was sitting at his table.

"Oh," Sirius said, "maybe she's waiting for him outside."

Melissa got up from the table, "Maybe the best thing to go do would be to look and stop going back and forth about it." Melissa had been mad that Alex had let Lily go without her telling anyone where she was going.

As Melissa went to look outside Alex stood up, "I'm going up to the dorm for awhile. I'll see you guys in time for transfiguration."

"Moony, Prongs," Sirius said, "I have some business to attend to with this gorgeous Ravenclaw. I will see you all in class."

Sirius nodded at them and walked out into the Great Hall.

Two seconds later Melissa got back and confirmed she had had no such luck in finding Lily. She stayed with Remus and James for the rest of lunch and they all chatted quietly about what James had seen Chris doing.

Lily had been crying and hiding in a broom cupboard when the door had opened and Sirius's face popped in with a girl standing behind him. He had taken one look at her, and had closed the door. Then two seconds later the door had opened again and the girl was gone. He climbed into the broom cupboard and sat across from her.

"Lily," he started. She sniffled. "Lily, what happened to you?"

"Don't worry about it Black, it's none of your business. Why do you care?"

"Look at you. I bet if you could see yourself you wouldn't be telling me not to worry. Plus, my best mate happens to be in love with you and I don't consider you an enemy, so I genuinely care. Tell me who did this to you," Sirius said to her.

Lily didn't meet his eyes, "Who said anyone did anything to me Black? Maybe I'm just a little clumsy."

"First off, if it was only that then you wouldn't be sitting in here crying your eyes out, you would have gone to the nurse, and no one can hurt themselves that badly no matter how clumsy they are while walking up to the nurse."

"How would you know?"

Sirius tried to catch her eye, "Ok Ms. Evans, can you tell me what you did to get hurt this badly…Don't answer that, I know you can't. If you could you would have already gone to the nurse, but she wouldn't have believed it.

"Lily, just tell me what happened. I want to help you. If you don't want me to tell anyone then I won't. I swear to you on my life that I won't. I have an idea of what happened, so just tell me. You can trust me, I promise."

Lily sniffled, "I can't tell you because if I do then he might find out and if he finds out then I'll be dead. I will literally be dead."

Sirius waited for her to say more, but she didn't, "Did Chris do this to you? I give you my word on my life that I won't tell a soul or ghost or anybody."

Lily just simply nodded and cried harder. Sirius held her until she calmed down a little, "Just tell me what happened, Lily. I won't tell."

"I went to go see where he was, and I saw him and Cassandra snogging in a classroom. I went in and made her leave and then I started yelling at him and throwing things. The next thing I knew he had grabbed my wrists and had slammed me against a wall. Then I tried to kick him and he stepped on my toe. I punched him in the face and he started hitting me and just kept going. I got really scared so I stopped. He was hurting me so much. He told me that if I broke up with him he would make my life hell, and he told me that if I told anyone he would kill me. I ran away before he could touch me again and I've been in here since. I can't go out there because people can't see me like this," Lily told him while sobbing.

"I have a plan," Sirius told her, "I am going to go get something and then I can take you to the nurse. I'll give her a story. She'll be able to fix you right up."

Lily nodded and Sirius left and was then back in five minutes. He had an invisibility cloak. She was about to ask him about it but he said, "Not now. Some other time maybe."

He carried her up to the hospital wing to the nurse. He told her some story about being on the skating rink and falling really hard on her face and that he tried to pull her up and that's how she had bruises on her wrists. The nurse seemed to believe it and she fixed Lily right up.

Once the nurse was done, Sirius and her walked down to class.

"Sirius," Lily began, "I wante-"

Sirius just looked and her and said, "I'm about to have a heartattack. You just called me by my first name. It's a bloody miracle."

Lily playfully slapped his arm, "ok then, Black, I wanted to thank you. Thank you so much. You really helped me out today."

"Anytime, Evans. I'm here for you and you have my word. Just try to stay out of trouble, because we're going to be running out of excuses soon."

"I'll walk you to class, Black, but then I'm off."

"Off to where," Sirius asked skeptically.

"I have permission from the nurse to just stay in bed today. I think that's what I'm going to do."

"Then take this," Sirius said to her handing her the cloak, "I don't want you in anymore trouble today. I'll tell everyone the same story we told the nurse. That way we can keep things straight."

Lily took the cloak from Sirius and went to her room. She would leave in time for defense lessons. Otherwise, she would just rest for the rest of the time."

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