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Chapter 13—vanished like a Puff of Smoke

Previously on Dating the Enemy

Just as Lily was about to pull away, there was a, "What the hell is going on?"

Letting go of James, Lily looked at an angry Brigette Cleremont. "What do you wa—?" Lily started but was cut off as Brigette's fist went flying towards Lily's face!

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Luckily, Lily saw the punch coming, so she was able to duck.

"What the hell?" James demanded, looking shocked.

Looking up to see if the coast was clear, Lily saw a livid Brigette staring at her, her face bright red, her hands clenched and held up.

"You bitch!" Brigette screamed. "How DARE you hug my boyfriend! You—you scarlet woman!"

Lily was insulted. "Me? A scarlet woman?"

"Yes you!" Brigette screamed again, looking quite mad.

"And how am I a scarlet woman? I'm not like a whore who has a boyfriend for one week and then dumps him!"

Brigette took a step towards Lily. "You shouldn't have hugged James!" She screamed again. "James is MINE and no one else's!"

"So what? Why can't I hug James? He's MY friend."

"You're a liar! The only reason why you hugged James is because you like him!"

James' mouth fell open, as Lily turned slightly red.

"You like me?" James felt a bit giddy. "You actually have a crush on me?"

"And it's your entire fault!" Brigette yelled.

"Au contraire Brigette." A voice cut in smoothly.

Whirling around, Lily and Brigette saw Victoria standing there. She had her arms crossed and she was slightly smiling, but her brown eyes were as cold as ice.

"What do you mean?" Brigette snapped.

"You heard me," Victoria said. "Au contraire."

"Yes, yes, I know what that means." She snapped. "Why did you say that?"

"It's not all Lily's fault. It's some, but not all."

"What in the hell do you mean?" Brigette yelled her face beet red. "It is so her fault! If she hadn't decided to crush on MY boyfriend, then we wouldn't be in this mess wouldn't we?"

"Yes, true." Victoria said slowly. "But, do you remember something on the Hogwarts Express?"

James groaned as he too, remembered. "Shit." He muttered

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On the other side of the pitch, were Sirius and Remus, who were pointedly arguing about something.

"She's not my snog buddy Sirius."

"Yes she is. You're always disappearing with her and returning cheerful."

"I like spending time with her."

"Yeah right." Sirius snorted. "Ashlynn Martinez is your snog buddy."

"YOU BITCH!" Shouted a voice so loud that even Sirius and Remus could hear.

"Oh shit." Sirius said, slightly afraid. "That sounded like—"

"Brigette."

"At least I'm not a whore!" Shouted another loud voice.

"Crap." Remus moaned. "That sounded like Lily."

The two boys looked at each other.

"Oh shit."

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"No!" Brigette shouted. "I don't. And I don't f-in' care either! All I know is that this here witch," she pointed a shaking finger at Lily, "Is stealing my boyfriend!"

"Go to hell Cleremont!" Lily shouted, on the verge of tears. "I did NOTHING to you. You just decided to start hating me!"

"You so DID something!" Brigette shrieked. "I read in your diary that you were flirting with James!"

"What?" Victoria snapped.

"Exactly!" Brigette nodded her head. "Even Vicky agrees with me! You shouldn't be—"

"You read her fudging diary?"

"Oh for god's sakes!" Brigette snapped, throwing her perfectly manicured hands in the air. "So what if I did? I had every right to."

"Ooh, really?" Lily shouted angrily. "Yeah, the priss decided to go through my diary because she felt she had every right to."

"EVANS!" Brigette screamed. "I HATE YOU!"

"And I hate you!" Lily shouted, even though she knew she did not mean it.

"Good!" Brigette shouted, tearing away from near Victoria and going towards Lily.

Even though Brigette was at least five inches shorter than Lily, she made up for it in yelling.

"Because as of now!" Brigette shouted, extremely close to Lily's face. "I don't even know who Lily Evans is!"

SLAP.

There was a gasp from Victoria and the crowd behind her as Lily's trained slapping hand made contact with Brigette's face.

Time seemed to freeze as everybody goggled at the two ex-best friends. Lily's face was bright red and she was shaking with anger. Brigette's face had the perfect expression of somebody in shock. A red hand mark was forming on her pale skin.

"That's for you Brigette." Lily spat. "That's for the turmoil you've put me through the last few weeks. That's for the seven years of friendship that you've decided to throw away because of James Potter." She jerked a finger towards James, who was staring at the two with an open mouth.

Even Sirius and Remus, who arrived just before Lily slapped Brigette, were speechless (which was saying something for Sirius) and they had the expression of a person who had never seen a girl slap another girl before.

Turning on her heel, Lily hurried back towards the castle, shaking with suppressed anger. Tears formed again in her eyes and this time, Lily did not try to bottle them up. Instead, she let them flow down her cheeks like a waterfall.

She heard whispers from behind her and turned slightly around to see a stunned Victoria and a disdainful Brigette. Lily, however, knew that Brigette was in a lot of pain right now. Her cheek was bright red and her eyes held the look of pain and anger. Lily's eyes also sought out James, Remus and Sirius, who were looking as if they had seen McGonagall kiss Professor Dumbledore. Mouths open, eyes wide.

Lily, however, did not care. All she knew was that her friendship with Brigette was ruined—like a flick of a wand. One moment it was there and the next second it vanished like a puff of smoke.

Screwing up her remaining bit of energy, Lily ran up to the castle, sobs racking in her chest.

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Back at the Pitch, there was only silence.

Silence and some slight coughing in between.

Finally, somebody got to their senses and decided to shoo the crowd away.

Now who do you think it was?

"All right everybody!" Victoria shouted, her voice breaking a little. "Fight's over! Everybody get the HELL away!"

Silently, the crowd left, without another sound.

After the last first year student left, Victoria turned towards the four.

She walked slowly towards Brigette, trying to calm herself down.

"You disgust me." She snarled towards Brigette.

Ignoring the hurt look on Brigette's face, Victoria moved towards the Marauders, who finally had the decency to shut their mouths.

"And you three—" Victoria said deadly, her voice raising a few decibels at every word she was saying, "should be ashamed of yourselves!"

The three boys hung their heads like little children who just got a scolding from their mother.

"I don't know why we even agreed to this!" Victoria raged. "It's all our faults!"

"No," Brigette muttered. "It's Lily's."

"YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH." Victoria roared. "Because of us," Victoria jabbed a finger at each of them, "Brigette and Lily will never be friends again! Because of this stupid little plan that James came up with, Brigette and Lily not despise—no wait—hate each other! And don't even say that it's one persons fault because it's all of ours! We ALL played a part in this and we ALL have to pay the consequences."

"Brigette—" Victoria turned towards her friend. "What you did—I don't know if Lily can ever forgive you."

"I don't care!" Brigette sneered, laughing like a maniac. "Want to know why? I'm SICK of Evans always trying to act like Peace Maker. I'm SICK of everybody paying attention to Evans only! I'm also SICK of the way that everybody sides with Evans! I mean, what am I? Chopped liver? I'm an effing person too!"

Victoria turned away and looked at the three boys.

"James," she said quietly. "You need to explain to Lily why this entire thing happened."

"But," James said, "She's hate me."

"You know James," Victoria stated, cocking her head and crossing her arms. "If this was another time I would have cared. But right now, I don't give a damn."

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Wiping her eyes away with a piece of toilet paper, Lily surveyed herself in the mirror.

God, she looked like crap.

However, she didn't bother to fix herself up.

Why bother?

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Walking in from outside was James Potter.

He was angry.

No, angry wasn't even to begin with.

He was pissed.

It was all his fault anyway that Brigette and Lily were fighting.

Why oh why did he think of that idea anyway?

However, there was a bright side to this.

Lily Evans had a crush on him.

That made James chipper but then, when he realized he had to tell Lily why Brigette went out with him in the first place, she would hate him and tell him that she doesn't like him anymore.

It was a win, lose situation in his case.

"Jamie! Oh Jamie!"

Speak of the devil.

He felt a small body come towards him. He felt that person slip their arm between his arm.

Brigette.

James grit his teeth but said nothing, pointedly looking away.

"Can you believe what that witch Evans said?" Brigette seethed. "And even slapping my perfect face!"

James looked down and saw that Brigette's left cheek store bore the imprint of a slap mark. Remembering all the times Lily slapped him on the cheek made him slightly chuckle.

However, that chuckle evaporated quickly as more anger and a new emotion—annoyance spread through his body as he looked at the diminutive girl.

"And calling me a whore." Brigette gossiped. "I mean, who does she think she is?"

James could not take it anymore. He jerked his arm away in a flash.

"Jamie—what—?" Brigette was definitely confused.

"I can't take this anymore! Brigette, I need to think this over. This whole dilemma over."

"C'mon, Jamie." Brigette said soothingly. "It's not your fault that Evans and I aren't friends anymore. It was bound to happen anyway. It's all her fault."

"NO!" James glared at Brigette. "No! It's not Lily's fault! It's mine! And I'm going to figure out what I'm going to have to do!"

"But Jamie—" Brigette started.

It was no use James was already running down the hall towards the Heads Room, thoughts buzzing through his head like bees.

He will not break up with me. Brigette said confidently to herself. James wouldn't break up with me.

Or would he?

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There! Ha ha! A new record! 2 days!

Well, looks like James finally realizes that Lily likes him, but Brigette is putting up a good fight.

To one of my anonymous reviewers, yes, Lily will be told it's wrong to steal someone else's boyfriend.

Well, Chapter 14 should be up in a few days to maybe a week!

Until next week!

--Greekchic.