Dating the Enemy
Disclaimer: I really wish I owned Harry Potter, but sadly, I'm a 13-year-old loser who sits here and writes Fan fiction for fun. I don't own ANYTHING. NOTHING! Ok, I do own Brigette Cleremont and Victoria Michaels but that's it!
P.S. No flaming what so ever!
Chapter 6— Twisted Hogsmeade
"HOGSMEADE!" Shrieked Brigette and Victoria on Saturday morning, pouncing on Lily. "Up and at 'em!"
Lily groaned. "No!"
Brigette walked over to the hangings and tore them open, revealing bright September sun.
That didn't faze Lily as she continued to sleep.
"Get UP!" Brigette snapped.
"Noo." Lily whined, pulling the covers over her head.
"YES!" Brigette snatched the covers down.
A pillow was pelted at Brigette, courtesy of Lily. "Oh come on, Brigette." She groaned. "It's Saturday! Let me sleep."
"Forget it, Brigette." Victoria remarked. "She'll never get up."
Brigette sighed in frustration, looking around the room, trying to find something to wake her friend up
She finally spotted pitcher of water that just happened to be sitting near Lily's nightstands.
Smirking, Brigette made eye contact with Victoria and tilted her head towards the pitcher. Victoria smirked, lifted the pitcher in the air with her wand and let it float over Lily's head. After all, desperate times call for desperate measures!
Letting it hover for a few seconds Brigette jerked her wand down and the pitcher poured water all over Lily's head.
"BRIGETTE!"
Cackling, the two girls enjoyed the sopping wet Lily, glaring at them.
"Your shower is done." Victoria said cheerfully. "Now, dry yourselves off and get some clothes on! It's time for Hogsmeade."
Lily cracked her knuckles threateningly. "You did NOT just want to do that."
"Oh yes I did. Now, MOVE IT!"
Grumbling angrily, Lily had no choice but to follow Brigette's instructions and get dressed.
--
James Potter was definitely not having a good morning. (James invited the Marauders to the Heads Room)
First off, that prat, Cody Bayer stole his Lily from him! Who did he think he was anyway? Stealing Lily from him! Lily was rightfully his! Cody had no right to waltz up to Lily, give her a dazzling smile and sweep her off her feet like that! James had tried that numerous times and all he got was a scowl and a curt reply.
"This isn't going according to plan!" He raged. "Lily was supposed to fall in love with me the first day! It's already been two weeks!"
Remus snorted. "Tough luck."
Sirius, who was busy counting a list, turned to James and muttered, "Tough luck."
"I just said that." Remus snapped.
Sirius shrugged and continued counting. "Eighty two." He muttered.
"What in the hell is that for?" Remus asked.
"How many girls are begging me to go to Hogsmeade with them." Sirius sounded pleased. "Damn, two weeks back to school and girls are already throwing themselves at my feet!"
"Who are you taking then?" Remus asked.
Sirius frowned and looked at the list. "Loraine Danielson. That hottie in our Muggle Studies class."
James glared at his two friends. "Hello? Guys? Attention BACK to me!"
Sirius and Remus stopped talking and looked at a pissed James.
"What?"
"What am I supposed to do about Bayer?"
Sirius shrugged. "Honestly, leave it alone. Maybe Lily will get sick of him and go straight to you."
Remus stared at Sirius. "Did you just say something practical?"
Sirius looked up in surprise. "I'm sorry, did you just say something?"
Remus rolled his eyes.
James groaned. "Well, what am I supposed to do? What if Lily doesn't get sick of Bayer? What if she falls madly in love with him and he proposes to her and they get marred and have little kids and—"
"Silencio." Remus said, pointing his wand at James so that no sound came out of his mouth. "James, please stop being a prat. Lily just might fall for you."
Sirius snorted. "Or, like Prongs said, she could fall madly in love with Bayer."
Remus glared at Sirius. "You're not helping the situation!"
Sirius shrugged. "Can you keep this spell on Prongsie? I like it when he's not yelling."
James glared.
--
"Let's go girlies!"
Victoria, who was busy blow-drying her hair in Lily's bathroom, glared at Brigette. "Don't CALL me that!"
"What do you want me to call you then?" Brigette snorted. "Boy?"
Victoria scowled.
Lily poked her head into the bathroom. "Hey, have any of you guys seen my necklace?"
"Which one?" Brigette shouted over the high-pitched whine of the blow dryer.
"The brown, green and white bead one!"
"Second drawer near my bed." Brigette shouted. "Whoops guess I borrowed it on accident!"
Lily rolled her eyes and left the bathroom.
Smiling Brigette turned back to her favorite hobby; bulling Victoria.
"Honestly, did you have to wear jeans?" Brigette asked.
Victoria turned off the blow dryer. "What are you talking about?"
"You always wear jeans." Brigette explained. "Why don't you wear a skirt?"
Victoria made a face. "Victoria Michaels doesn't wear skirts. Besides, I don't own one."
"You could borrow one of mine."
Victoria laughed as she ran a brush through her hair. "Very funny."
"I'm serious!"
"How very—er—sweet of you—but no. Besides, I'm five inches taller than you and two inches wider."
Brigette frowned. "Do you always have to rub it in that I'm short and petite?"
Brigette was quite short at five one and was extremely skinny.
Victoria nodded. "Yes."
Brigette put her hands on her hips. "Could you at least change out of your shirt?"
"Change out of my shir—Brigette, you made me wear this shirt!"
Victoria was wearing dark wash jeans with a blue blazer. A white lacy cami peeked out from underneath the blazer. The outfit was something that Victoria would definitely not wear. Usually Victoria would throw a T-shirt and faded jeans on but today, Brigette put her foot down.
"Yes," Brigette said critically, "but now I think we need to change it again."
"You're mental." Victoria muttered, leaving the bathroom.
"You're putting on make up too!" Brigette shouted as Victoria left.
As the door shut, Brigette heard a moan of protest.
--
Five minutes later, the three girls were nearly ready.
Lily was busy parting her hair (wanting to make sure she looked good for Cody!) while Victoria and Brigette were arguing again about make up.
"It subtly enhances the face, Vicky!"
"It hides who you really are!"
"Don't you want to look pretty for Ryan?"
"Make up is for girls who are insecure about their real looks so they paint themselves up to make them seem prettier!" (A/N: My best friend, Alaina, thought of that one. Hope it didn't offend anybody who likes to wear make up!)
Lily rolled her eyes as she took one last look at her appearance. She was wearing a short-sleeved green shirt (that matched her eyes) with some battered blue jeans.
"Ryan likes me for who I am!"
"He'd like you more if you wore make up!"
"Guys!" Lily interrupted. "Can't you two shut up for three seconds?"
"Sorry Lils but if Victoria would just wear make up we wouldn't have this problem."
"If Brigette wouldn't stop pestering me, I wouldn't be arguing with her!" Victoria glared at Brigette.
Lily sighed. She always wondered how two very different people like Brigette and Victoria could be best friends. They were always arguing about one thing or another.
"Do you guys want to get a move on?" She asked. "I'd like to meet Cody!"
Brigette squealed. "I can't wait to meet James!"
Behind Brigette's back, Victoria was making retching sounds.
Lily raised her eyebrows. "He's just going to break your heart Brigette."
Brigette winked slyly. "You never know."
Walking over the mirror, Brigette took one last look at her outfit. "Do you think my outfit's too conservative?" She asked, looking at her ensemble. She was wearing a ruffled light blue mini skirt with a blue tank top layered beneath a white one. Her white blonde hair was in a long braid down her back with some pieces framing her face.
She looked like a French prostitute.
Lily and Victoria decided on saying nothing. It was pointless arguing with Brigette Cleremont anyway.
--
Five minutes later, the trio left the Heads Room to see their respectable dates (besides Victoria and Lily's) waiting for them.
Brigette, spying James, squealed and ran over to him. "Hi Jamie!" She cooed, planting a kiss on his cheek.
"Hi Brigette." James said in a voice loud enough for Lily to hear. Then he whispered into Brigette's ear. "Do you always have to do that?"
"Do you want to pull this off?" Brigette hissed.
Lily and Victoria walked down the marble steps, passing by James and Brigette and Sirius and the Gryffindor idiot Loraine Danielson.
"I can't WAIT to meet Cody." Lily squealed. "I'm SO excited."
Victoria smiled. "First time I heard you this excited in a long time."
--
Reaching the Great Hall, Lily and Victoria spotted their dates and ran over to them.
"Hi Lily." Cody Bayer said, smiling at her. "You ready to go?"
"You bet I am." Lily smiled.
Walking towards the door where Filch, the caretaker was, they checked their names and left, but not before Filch 'talked' to the Marauders.
"I'm keeping an eye on you three." Filch growled at James, Sirius and Remus. "No more funny stuff! The last time it took me two hours to clean up the mess of the Dungbombs!"
Sirius put a look of great surprise on his face. "Now Filthy Filch," he said, "do you honestly think that I, Sirius Black would dare break the rules?"
James and Remus sniggered while Filch glared at Sirius. "No more funny stuff! Or we'll be going to Dumbledore's office."
Sirius saluted Filch. "Ay Filthy Filch!"
"And another thing!" Filch raged as they left. "Stop calling me that!"
"As you wish," Sirius shouted before muttering, "Filthy Filch."
--
"Do you want to go to the Three Broomsticks first?" Cody asked Lily as they reached the village.
Lily nodded. "Sure. And after, where would you want to go?"
"Quidditch Emporium?" Cody asked.
Lily rolled her eyes. "I shouldn't have asked."
The two walked into the already crowded Three Broomsticks where they saw the pretty Madam Rosmerta serving some warlocks.
"Shall I get the drinks?" Cody asked, turning quite red.
Lily nodded. "If you don't mind."
"I don't." Cody walked over to the bar to order two Butterbeers.
As Lily found a booth to sit in, she heard a tinkling noise coming from the door.
Not bothering to turn her head to see whom it was Lily stared dreamily into space until there was a cry of, "Hey guys! Evans' is here!"
Shit.
James Potter in the flesh.
Trying her hardest not to say anything, Lily ignored James as he slid into the booth with Brigette at his side.
"Hi, Evans!"
Lily couldn't ignore him. He was just too annoying.
"Potter."
Brigette frowned. This wasn't going according to plan! If this kept going, Brigette would be James' 'girlfriend' for the rest of the year!
"Uh, Lils?" Brigette asked.
"Hmm?"
"Will you stop calling him Potter? Can you at least call him James?"
Lily groaned. "Brigette—"
"Please?"
Lily sighed. "Fine."
James grinned at Brigette. 'Thanks," he mouthed.
Brigette winked and shoved James out of the booth.
"Hey!"
"That's for not offering to buy drinks. Now MOVE!"
Grumbling, James left.
Brigette smiled and turned to Lily. "That's how you boss around a man."
"Cliché." Lily smiled.
The door opened again and this time there was a cry of, "Lily! Brigette! What ARE you doing HERE?"
It was Sirius and Loraine Danielson.
"Scuse us," Sirius said, squeezing past Brigette.
"Ugh, Black—next time, don't try and get your ass in my face." Brigette put on a revolted look.
"Oh please, you know you like my arse." Sirius wiggled it playfully.
"In your dreams." Brigette snorted.
Loraine, who was clearly jealous of Brigette, stuck out her chest and said, "Don't be stealing my boyfriend Cleremont!"
"Oh please," Brigette said, flicking some imaginary lint off her shoulder. "If I wanted to steal Sirius, I would have already."
Lily sighed in exasperation and looked to see where Cody had gone. She could see his brown head in line behind fifty other people.
This could take a while.
--
The bell tinkled again and to Lily's dismay, Sirius cried, "Hey Remus! Over here!"
Remus Lupin, with his date, Ashlynn Martinez looked at the slightly crowded table.
"That's okay; me and Ashlynn can find another table."
Thank you Remus! Lily thought. She liked Remus but she wanted to spend some alone time with Cody. Bad enough that Pott—er—James and Sirius were sitting with them!
"Nonsense!" Sirius exclaimed, "Sit down! Lily won't mind!" He turned towards Lily. "Do you?"
Lily opened her mouth to say something but Sirius cut her off. "Didn't think so. Sit down Remus! You too Ashlynn!"
As the two slid into the booth, Loraine turned to Sirius, a hurt expression on her face.
"Sirius!" She whined. "How could you remember that Ravenclaw's name—but you can't remember mine?"
"I know your name!" Sirius insisted.
"Oh yeah?" Loraine crossed her arms and slouched in her chair. "Prove it!"
Lily buried her face in her arms.
"It's Laura!" Sirius exclaimed.
"No!"
"Lisa? Lana? Laurie? Lucy? It starts with an 'L'!"
"It's Loraine." She huffed. "Loraine Marie Danielson!"
"Oh, I knew that Loraine." Sirius said, putting an arm around the pretty brunette. "I was just messing with your hair.
Lily and Brigette snorted.
Loraine, on the other hand, bought it completely.
"Oh that's good!" She squealed hugging Sirius then her blue eyes went wide. "Is my hair messed up? Ehmagawd! I'll be back!"
Dashing out she barely missed Victoria Michaels, who was coming in.
"Watch where you're going!" She snapped as Ryan Armstrong led her.
"Heyy!" Brigette waved frantically. "Vicky! Over here!"
Lily groaned.
"Hey everybody!" Victoria smiled as she pulled Ryan over to the table. "Let's sit here, Ryan!"
Ryan muttered something about another table but Victoria wouldn't hear of it.
"No! Let's sit—here." She jerked Ryan into the booth. "I had to go to Quidditch Emporium with you. I want to sit here."
Ryan said nothing but Lily could tell he was miffed.
"Here you go Lily! A Butterbee—jeez, a lot can happen when somebody's gone."
Lily turned around to see a shocked Cody standing in front of the booth with two tankards full of hot butterbeer.
"Bayer!" Sirius said in a forced happy voice. "Pull up a seat! C'mon! Sit down!"
Cody obeyed and sat down next to Lily, giving her the butterbeer.
"Thanks." She smiled.
Cody gave her a wide smile as Sirius gave a wicked smile. This was going all according to plan. Now all they needed to do was for James to show up and...
"Next time you get the butterbeers Brigette!"
Right on time.
James, looking disgruntled slid a butterbeer at Brigette who smiled. "Thanks Jamie." She cooed.
James slid into the booth, next to Sirius.
Sirius slightly nudged James. "Bayer's here." He muttered. "Execute Plan A."
James nodded.
"Oy! Bayer! Can I see you outside for a moment? I need to show you something for Quidditch!"
Lily shot a sharp look at James. "He's a Ravenclaw James." She explained. "Why would you want to show him something?"
James gave her a heart-stopping grin. "Can't a Gryffindor show his hospitality to our guest?"
Lily couldn't argue with that.
"Fine." She muttered.
Cody scooted past her and exited the Three Broomsticks.
Without Lily noticing, Brigette, Victoria, Sirius and Remus exchanged triumphant looks.
Looks like everything was going perfectly...
--
Outside, everything was going differently.
"We're going to Quidditch Emporium? Right Potter?" Cody asked.
James nodded. "Yeah. We are."
"Uh okay then." Cody was a little uncertain.
Five minutes later James whirled on Cody.
"What the—"
"Listen Bayer." James growled. "You stay away from Lily?"
"What?"
"You heard me," James took a threatening step forward. "You stay away from Lily."
Cody got over his initial shock and stood his ground. "Why should I? Lily is the most wonderful person I've ever met!"
"I—said—stay—away." James said with a maniac glint in his eyes.
"Why do you even care? You're with Cleremont!"
James blinked. Damn, Bayer was good...
"Lily is Brigette's best friend." James hissed. "And I think she can do better than you."
"Who? You?" Cody challenged.
James raised his fists. "Listen Bayer. You drop Lily and I promise no harm will come to you. If you don't drop Lily, then I suggest you better start watching your back."
Cody swallowed nervously and to James' satisfaction, he looked a bit scared.
"Fine." He muttered. "I'll drop Lily."
James nodded, pleased. "Good choice Bayer. Oh and one more thing—you can't tell Lily. Unless you want to breathe through a machine, I suggest you keep your mouth shut."
Cody nodded.
"Good. Now, be a gentleman and go break Lily's heart." James turned on his foot and left, a smirk on his face.
Glad that was over with.
--
When he returned to the Three Broomsticks, he saw Sirius and Victoria guzzling down Butterbeers with the others (besides Lily) cheering.
"Must you always have a competition?" Lily asked, revolted.
A napkin was thrown at her.
"I'm back!" James said, sliding in next to Brigette who was wildly cheering on Victoria.
"Where's Cody?" Lily asked, looking around to see where the brown-haired, green-eyed boy went.
"Oh," James smirked and winked at Brigette to show that the job was done. "He left."
"Left?" Lily gasped.
James nodded.
The door opened again to reveal an upset Cody Bayer. "Look Lily," he said apologetically. "I can't be with you."
"Why?" Lily asked, hurt in her eyes.
"I just realized that I can't have a girlfriend right now." Cody said looking at James nervously who was nodding.
Lily sighed and spun on James. "Did you make him do this?" She snarled. "Like you did to Andrew Sullivan?"
James shook his head. "No Lily," he said lying to her. "This time I didn't do anything."
"He didn't." Cody sighed. "We were at Quidditch Emporium when I told him I shouldn't be going out with you."
Cody was really hating this right now. He really liked Lily.
"I'm really sorry Lily."
Lily spun away. "Go away Cody."
"Like I said," Cody said, glaring at James. "I'm really sorry."
Cody exited.
A silence filled the table as everybody looked at Lily who looked miserable.
Even Sirius and Victoria had the decency to stop their contest and look (for the fate of James' sake) upset.
"I'm really sorry Lily." Victoria said, patting Lily's hand. "Maybe he wasn't the one."
Lily sighed. "Yeah." She stood up quickly. "If you'll excuse me, I'm going to leave."
"Okay Lily." Brigette said in concern. "Go back to Hogwarts, find a picture of Cody and hex the picture. It'll make you feel a lot better. I always use that technique when I'm dumped."
"How would you know?" Victoria asked in surprise as Lily left. "You have never been dumped!"
Brigette scowled. "I know that," she hissed. "I was doing that for Lily's sake!"
"Scuse me." James said, leaping out the door to go and find Lily. Maybe now she'd go out with him!
Once James left there was silence until there was a sound of high heels coming back and a cry of, "Sirius! How's my hair now? It's not all messed up? Is it?"
--
Outside of the Three Broomsticks, Lily found a bench and sat down, staring moodily at the ground.
She thought he was the one. She thought that Cody would at least dump her after the second or third date! She thought that he was sweet and better than James Potter! At least James had the decency to dump girls after the second date!
"Lily!"
Speak of the devil.
"Lily!"
She looked up to see James Potter jogging up to her.
"Lo Pott—James."
"Hi." James looked hesitantly at the bench. "Mind if I sit?"
"Help yourself." Lily grumbled.
James sat down and said, "Beautiful day, isn't it?"
No response.
"I mean, it's the perfect end of September weather. Not too hot, not too cold, and the leaves are just starting to come off the trees. My cousin, Janine lives in the United States and she says that in New York it never get this—"
"No offense," Lily interrupted. "But I don't feel like talking about weather right now."
"Right." James said, rumpling his hair. "Sorry."
Even though Lily was mad, she couldn't help but get annoyed at James. He was such a prat.
"Look Lily," James said awkwardly. "Cody's a git for breaking up with you. I mean look at Sirius! At least he has the girl for a day before getting bored with her! I'm just saying is—that was real pathetic of Bayer."
"I agree."
James struggled for something to say. "Also, I don't know why anybody would break up with you." He burst out. "You're sweet, beautiful, funny, caring, smart, gorgeous, amazing, cute—"
Lily couldn't help but smile. "That's real nice of you but please stop."
"Thank god. I ran out of things to say. I was going to start making up words."
Lily rolled her eyes.
"Look," James said, trying to get to the point. "I know we got on the wrong foot back in first year."
"Obviously." Lily muttered.
"But I want everything to change." James continued.
"I'm not going out with you," Lily said, her temper rising. "I'm not going to be some scarlet woman who dates her best friend's boyfriend."
"No, no, no!" James quickly cut in. "What I was trying to say was I want us to change. As in, start over and be friends. You know, put the past behind us and start over. What do you say?"
Lily thought of it. Was James Potter actually offering to be friends?
"Fine James." She said, turning towards him. "I'll start over."
James grinned. "Great!"
"But," Lily warned. "If you ask me out I'll break it off. Kapish?"
James inwardly groaned but put on a bright smile. "Promise."
"Okay then." Lily said, sticking out her hand for James to shake. "Hi, I'm Lily Evans."
"I'm James Potter. Nice to meet you." James said, shaking Lily's hand.
All in all, not one of your normal Hogsmeade trips.
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Hey everybody! I'm baack!
Sorry it took so long to post this. I KNOW I said weekend but I kind of forgot—yes forgot—to finish writing this. I hope this 23-page chapter will make it up. Grins.
Next Chapter should be up by the weekend.
--Greekchic.
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