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Chapter 14—James' Decision
Previously on Dating the Enemy
"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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Lily,
Meet me in the Room of Requirement at 3:30 p.m. sharp. I need to talk to you.
--James.
Brigette,
Meet me in the Room of Requirement at 3:30 sharp. I need to talk to you.
--James.
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"Is everything set?" Victoria whispered to James, Sirius and Remus.
"Crystal." Remus replied.
"Crystal? Crystal Jamison? Where? I dated her in third year!" Sirius looked frantically around.
Victoria smacked him upside his head. "No you idiot! Not Crystal Jamison! Crystal as in crystal clear! As in, you get the damn thing I've been explaining for the past five minutes."
"Oh." Sirius said, as if he got it. (A/N: Yeah right.)
"Okay," Victoria said a gleam in her brown orbs. "Let's execute Plan A."
"And if Plan A fails?" Remus asked attentively.
"We'll cross that bridge when we get there." Victoria said. "Okay? Break. Let's go."
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Lily was curled up on her bed with a Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice when she heard something rustling near her door.
Lily frowned. She had gotten to the part when Mr. Collins told Elizabeth he wanted to marry her. In addition, it was a very good part of the story! Not to mention funny!
Marking her page, Lily stood up and looked at the door. She saw a slip of paper there and read it carefully.
Looking at the clock, she realized she only had ten minutes to get to the Room of Requirement. Also, she didn't want to be late!
Slipping on her shoes, Lily raced out of the Heads Room, the note tucked in her hand.
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On the other side of the school, in a completely different tower, lay Brigette Cleremont.
Brigette was rearranging her make up in color, which she always did when she was angry or nervous.
Right now, Brigette was nervous as hell.
She didn't like the way her boyfriend looked when she latched onto his arm. James looked as if he'd rather be kissing the Giant Squid.
Preposterous, Brigette thought to herself as she replaced her foundation with her bronzer. James would always want to kiss me. After all, I'm the hottest girl at Hogwarts.
As she started to rearrange her lipstick, she heard a rustling by the door.
Confused, Brigette stood up and noticed a slip of parchment lying on the ground.
Quickly, she snatched the letter and stood up, reading it.
Once she was done, her blue eyes lit up and she raced to her wardrobe, picking out a light blue polo dress that reached mid thigh and paired it off with a silver belt that went around her tiny waist. Slipping on some light blue cowboy boots, she applied her make up and let her hair fly loose. After all, this was James we are talking about!
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Since Victoria had no idea, where the Room of Requirement was, the Marauders decided to show her.
"Nice," Victoria mused as she stepped inside the room where it had been magically transformed into a comfortable area to sit. "Very nice. I give you boys' credit."
"For what?" Sirius asked.
Victoria rolled her eyes in exasperation. "Forget I asked."
James, on the meantime, puffed out his chest. "This place comes very useful." He boasted.
"Okay hot shot." Victoria lashed back. "Stop being so arrogant and get to the chase. So, how are Lily and Brigette gonna get in this place?"
"Easy, all they got to do is—they do know where the Room of Requirement is, right?"
Victoria thought for a moment. "Yeah, they do. Brigette comes here when she wants some 'quality time' with her boyfriends and doesn't want to use the Astronomy Tower or the broom cupboards, and Lily comes here for some quiet reading time." Victoria smoothed her brown ponytail and said, "Surprisingly, they never told me about it!"
Sirius and Remus chuckled.
"Anyway," James said. "If they know what this place is, then they'll know how to get in."
"Yes Poindexter, but I don't."
"All they got to do is walk several times around and think to them I need to see the room in which James Potter is in and a door will automatically open, revealing us."
"Is it foolproof?" Remus asked.
"Yes." James said proudly.
"Let's hope this won't end up like your first 'foolproof' plan." Victoria said sarcastically. "Or else, everything will be fudged up."
"How come you never say the other word?" Sirius asked curiously.
"Because," Victoria snapped. "That's a very rude word."
"Bull! You say every other word in the book!"
"Oh piss off." Victoria stated sourly, sitting down in the seat nearest to her.
Sirius opened his mouth to retaliate but James shushed him.
"I think I hear someone coming!"
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The person that James heard was Lily.
"Wonder what James wants." Lily muttered to herself.
Truth be told, she was a bit angry with James but it was not as bad as it had been years ago. In addition, it was not as bad as how much she hated Brigette.
Reaching the seventh floor (A/N: Is that the floor? I keep forgetting which floor the Room of Requirement is) Lily passed a bit of blank wall and thought to herself, I need to see what James wants. I need to see what James wants.
She said that seven more times and soon a door appeared.
Seizing it, she opened the door and stepped inside as a voice said:
"Welcome Lily."
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"Ugh." Brigette whined as she stumbled a bit. "These boots suck."
Brigette was having a slight—ah—problem right now. That problem was that her way too cute light blue cowboy boots (that cost a little bit less than Victoria's Cartier watch) kept digging in the stone of the floor, making her stumble.
Brigette loved these boots but if it kept doing this, she would have to toss them. Too bad, they were voted 'Must Have Boots' in December's issue of Witch Weekly.
Finally, Brigette decided to stand on her tiptoes and walk. It wasn't comfortable and it made her dress ride up a little bit so that the upper part of her thigh was showing in the back but at least she wasn't stumbling.
Slipping her dress down a little bit she imagined James' reaction when he saw how hot she looked. He would probably drop his jaw in shock, his eyes would widen and he would forget about stupid little Lily Evans. After all, hotter girls get the hotter guys and Lily Evans was so NOT hot.
Brigette also wondered why James wanted to see her. Not to mention why he was so urgent to see her too. Maybe he wanted to tell her that he chose her over Lily and he was going to propose marriage to her!
Ehmagawd! Brigette thought excitedly. Maybe he'll ask me to marry him! Ohmigod I would become Mrs. James Potter!
Yes, that was the reason James wanted to see her. He was going to propose to her.
With that happy thought in her head, Brigette skipped off to the Room of Requirement, her happiness increasing as she reached the seventh floor.
Once she reached the seventh floor, Brigette thought the question to get inside the Room of Requirement.
Finally, the door appeared.
Nearly bouncing with excitement, Brigette looked at her left ring finger and imagined a huge glittering diamond engagement ring sitting there, basking in glory.
When I leave this room, Brigette thought as she put her manicured hand on the door, I will be engaged to the hottest boy at Hogwarts.
Brigette twisted the doorknob of the door and stepped inside to see five people.
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What the hell?
Lily furrowed her eyebrows as she heard the door start to twist open.
Who wants to come in?
To her shock and horror, the door opened to reveal an ecstatic Brigette Cleremont.
Lily watched as Brigette's face went from happiness, to shock, to jealousy, to anger in three seconds.
"What the hell is she doing here?" Brigette asked angrily.
"I could ask you the same damn question!" Lily shouted. "What are you doing here?"
"James sent me a note." Brigette said nastily. "He wanted to meet me."
"You must be confused." Lily said, rolling her eyes. "James sent me a note, telling me that he wanted to meet me. There was no mention of you."
"Jamie!" Brigette shouted, looking over to James, who was watching the greetings. "What's this all about?"
James leaned in towards Victoria. "You said that they wouldn't corner me!" He hissed.
"Shut up and wait." Victoria hissed back, her hands clasped behind her back, clearly enjoying all of this. "This takes time."
"JAMES!" The two angry girls shouted.
James sighed and rumpled his hair.
"Oh will you please stop doing that!" Lily said in exasperation. "That gets so annoying sometimes!"
"No it doesn't!" Brigette shouted angrily. "It looks hot and sexy when he does that. Go on Jamie. Rumple your hair."
"FYI, he looks retarded when he does that. His hair's already messed up as it is."
"Don't even say anything Evans. He's MY boyfriend."
"I am?" James asked lightly.
"Of course you are!" Brigette shouted, wondering if he had lost his sanity. "You asked me out!"
Watching nearby was Sirius and Remus. Sirius started choking and Remus had to slap him on the back a few times. "Shut up." Remus hissed.
"I'm sorry!" Sirius wheezed. "That was so funny!"
Remus scooted away from Sirius, wondering if he belonged to a mental facility.
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"Of course you asked me out!" Brigette shouted, near hysterics. "Remember? On the train?"
"I don't remember that." James said. "Do you Victoria?"
Victoria shook her head. "Sorry Bree. I don't."
"Sirius? Remus?" James called. "Do you remember me asking Brigette out on the train?"
Remus shook his head apologetically. "Sorry Brigette. He didn't."
"Err—what's with Blackie?" Victoria asked, pointing to a hysterically laughing Sirius.
"I'll get back to you on that one." Remus said. "He's lost his marbles."
"Obviously." Victoria muttered.
"YES YOU DID!" Brigette shouted. "You did so ask me out! It was after Evans left the compartment to use the bathroom!"
"No," James said, cutting his eyes towards Lily, who was watching James in confusion. "Remember? That was when I told you about my plan."
"What plan?" Lily cut in sharply.
James winced and sat down in the armchair that had strategically been placed. "It was a plan made at the beginning of the year."
"I figured that much out myself." Lily said coldly. "Now, tell me what the plan was."
"It's a plan." Sirius piped up, finally able to stop laughing.
"SHUT UP!" Lily screamed.
Sirius froze, not able to say anything. He had never heard Lily scream like that before.
"The plan was." Victoria cut in. "James would date Brigette to make you jealous enough to admit you liked him. Once you admitted it, Brigette was supposed to break up with James. Unfortunately," Victoria looked at Brigette who glared back, "It backfired. Brigette ended up liking James."
Lily's eyes widened in horror.
"You're telling me," she whispered deadly. "That the only reason why Brigette and I aren't friends anymore is because of you guys?"
They all winced.
"Especially you!" Lily pointed a finger at Victoria. "You! You're supposed to be my best friend!"
"I am your fudging best friend!" Victoria shouted, close to Lily's face. "I was just so sick of you always shouting at James! For god's sakes Lily, it was getting so old! Every day, every fudging day you would rant and rave about him. Potter this or Potter that. We were SICK of it! This seemed like the only way for you to admit you like James! Yes, what we did was wrong but if we didn't interfere any time soon we would have to hear the same shit for the rest of the damn year!"
Lily stepped backwards in shock. Victoria never raised her voice in anger at her. Never.
Brigette, on the other hand, was enjoying this immensely. About time, that Evans gets what she deserves.
However, Lily recovered quickly and lashed, "Well, you could have at least told me what was going on!"
"Really?" Victoria laughed coldly. "I should have told you? Really now? Oh, how great that would have sounded." She put on an impersonation of someone dumb. "Hey Lily, guess what? The only reason why James is dating Brigette is for you to get jealous! I mean," Victoria dropped her shoulders so that they slumped. "It was going so well—so well. You were starting to like James and everything was going hunky dory. Unfortunately, when a certain someone realized that you were starting to like James, that person got overprotective."
Victoria took her gaze away from Lily and turned to Brigette, whose legs were crossed and she had a smirk on her face.
"Oh yeah, Brigette," Victoria said nastily, "just sit there and smirk like it's not your fault!"
"My fault?" Brigette shrieked, dropping her pose and standing up. "How is it my fault?"
"I'll tell you why Brigette." Victoria shouted. "Because you decided to start liking James when Lily did! And when you found out, you became a heartless cold bitch and did everything in your power to make sure that those two would never know!"
Brigette opened her mouth to speak but Victoria cut her off. "If you just bowed down when you realized that Lily liked James this would have never happened!"
"I started to like James!" Brigette shouted. "What's wrong with that?"
"The problem is—" Victoria started but suddenly, no sound was coming out of her mouth.
"I think," Remus, said quietly, his wand out, "that we have heard too much Victoria and not enough James. After all, this all started with James, not Victoria."
Victoria was mouthing foul things to Remus.
"I love you too Victoria, but this is James' problem, not yours."
Victoria scowled and a small slate appeared on the table. Snatching it, Victoria scribbled something on it and held it up for Remus to read.
He chuckled. "Unfortunately Victoria, I won't piss off. No, I will stay right here and wait until this is over. Then, I'll take the spell off you."
Victoria scowled again and sat down in the armchair, glaring daggers at Remus.
"Me?" James asked. "But—Victoria was doing such a good job!"
Victoria smirked.
"She may have," Remus remarked, "But as I clearly told Victoria, this isn't her problem it's yours, Brigette's and Lily's."
James sighed and gave Remus an exasperated look. "Remind me to kill you after this."
"I will." Sirius piped up.
James sighed again and looked at the two furious girls in front of him. He never imagined this would ever happen. If only he did know it would happen, he would never have offered to do it.
"Look," James said, "I never meant to hurt anybody else's feelings but I liked you a lot Lily. This is the reason why I thought of this plan. I thought it would make you jealous enough to like me."
Lily softened slightly. "James—" She started.
"No, no." James held out his hand, signaling Lily to be quiet. "I don't want to hear it."
"But you like me more." Brigette insisted. "You even told me so. C'mon James, dump this cheap piece of shit and come back with me. We'll be so much happier."
James glanced at Brigette. "Brigette, I never told you that I liked you more. I always liked Lily. Ever since first year she has been the only girl of my thoughts."
Lily smiled.
"But you can change!" Brigette spluttered. "I mean, what does that girl," she jerked a finger towards an indignant Lily, "Have to offer that I don't? I can do everything twice as better as her!"
"This is another reason why I like Lily." James said angrily. "Lily does not boast like you do. I'll tell you right now, Brigette. You're a terrible girlfriend."
Brigette's jaw dropped in shock and Lily grinned.
"What?" Brigette snapped.
"Don't take it wrong," James said, "You taught me some things too. Like always offer a girl to buy her drinks at the Three Broomsticks unless you want to get kicked on your ass."
Lily giggled softly. "I forgot about that. That was funny."
"Of course it was," Brigette snapped. "I thought of it. Everything's funny when I do it."
"Why are you being so arrogant?" Lily asked, the small smile changing into a frown.
"Oh, don't even start with me." Brigette sneered.
"Huh?"
"Acting like Miss Polly Pure, trying to act like a total angel cause you want me to forget everything that has happened and let go of James so you can have him. Well, newsflash, honey, I'm not like that and I'm so NOT going to do that! James is MINE and he always will be!"
Lily jumped up. "First off Cleremont," She started, "I'm NOT acting like an angel just so I can get James—I'm doing this because I want to be friends again. As much as you want to forget, we have a history together. We've been best friends since Day one. Remember? It was the first night at Hogwarts. I was homesick and you heard me and decided to make me feel better."
Brigette did remember.
Flashback.
Cry. Sniffle. Sniffle. Cry.
A young girl with short pale blonde hair and pale blue eyes awoke with a start. Somebody was crying.
Cry. Sniffle.
The young girl, named Brigette Cleremont, threw back the covers and looked at the alarm clock.
Midnight.
Brigette stepped out of bed and followed the sound of crying to the bed next to her.
Careful not to wake up the two other girls in her dormitory, some tomboy named Victoria and some annoying girl named Mandy, Brigette tiptoed to the bed and opened the hangings.
She was surprised to see a red haired girl huddled in her bed, crying to herself.
"Hello?" Brigette asked.
The girl looked shocked. "Oh!" She whispered. "I'm sorry! I hope I didn't wake you."
"You didn't." Brigette lied. "I was up too. Why are you crying?"
"I'm homesick." The red haired girl said softly. "I've never been away from home for this long."
"One day?" Brigette asked, confused.
"No, ten months. We don't go back home til June."
"You haven't?" Brigette asked, shocked. "You've never been away from home for this long?"
"The longest was only for one week at Camp Penbrook and I didn't even last one night."
"Wow." Brigette whistled.
"I know," the girl smiled, wiping away her tears. "You must think I'm a baby."
"Actually no." Brigette replied. "The first time I went away from home I cried like a baby."
"Where did you go?"
"My parents sent me to France for a year when I was eight cause Maman and Papa needed some 'alone time' without a kid."
The girl's eyes went wide. "Really?" She breathed.
Brigette nodded. "Yeah, but I don't care. I like France better than England. By the way, what's your name?"
"I'm Lily. Lily Evans." The girl said shyly.
"I'm Brigette Cleremont. I'm sure we'll be fast friends."
End Flashback.
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Brigette slightly smiled at the memory and Lily, who saw that small smile, grinned. "See Brigette? I told you that you couldn't forget our past."
Suddenly, that smile was wiped off Brigette's face as a scowl replaced it.
"I don't care." Brigette growled. "I—don't—care. All I know is that you are a threat to me and my boyfriend! Stay the hell away from James and away from me!"
Lily stepped back in horror. "I can't believe it." She whispered in shock. "After all these years you're going to throw away OUR friendship just because of some irresistible looking guy?"
James looked quite pleased when he heard Lily say that.
"Yup." Brigette flipped her hair back and her eyes flashed. "James is unlike any other guy I've ever met. He's smart, funny, cute, ooh, soo cute, likeable, talented, athletic—"
"We get the point, Brigette." Sirius called, looking quite disgusted at all the compliments she said about James.
"Whatever, anyway—you see? He's this perfect guy and I knew from the moment he asked me out, we'd be together forever."
"For the last time, Brigette." Sirius said, shaking his head. "James didn't ask you out! It was all part of the plan."
"Yes, he did!" Brigette shouted.
"No, he didn't." Lily retorted.
"Yes, he did!"
"No, he didn't!"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"YE—" Brigette started to say but was cut off by James.
"SHUT UP!" He roared.
Absolute silence.
"I need to think about this." He said, rubbing his temples with his fingers. "I'll get back to you."
James left the room.
"Bitch!" Brigette screamed.
"Whore!" Lily yelled.
"You lousy biased—" Brigette started to say furiously but she found she couldn't say another word.
"That's ENOUGH!" Remus roared. "We'll find out about the rest of this tomorrow! Now, go back to your dorms!"
"Err—what about the spell?"
"Oh yeah."
Remus lifted the charm but before Lily and Brigette could continue screaming Remus lifted his wand threateningly.
"If I hear any more insults coming from your mouths," he warned, moving his wand back and forth. "I'll keep this charm on you for two days. You hear?"
Lily and Brigette sent each other death glares. "Yes Dad."
"Good, now go back to your common rooms! And don't think I won't hear you if you whisper!"
It was true. Since Remus was a werewolf, he had excellent hearing and it came in handy.
Scowling the two girls left the room in stony silence.
A heavy pause followed as Remus, Sirius and Victoria sat there.
"Well, that went well." Remus said lightly, stretching. "C'mon, it's time to go back to our dorms. James will probably be thinking hard and we don't want to disturb him."
"I agree." Sirius said, wincing. "Remember the last time when he was thinking hard and we disturbed him?"
"Uh, we turns to you. I didn't disturb him, you did. And besides, you make an excellent candelabrum."
Sirius scowled. "Thanks for showing support best friend."
"You're quite welcome. Now, let's go."
As the two boys turned to leave, Remus felt a tapping on his shoulder. Turning around he saw a scowling Victoria standing in front of him with the slate.
Dipstick, aren't you forgetting to take the charm off me?
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Yay! Chapter 14 is done! Yay! Ah, the secret is out and Brigette still won't let go.
I bet you guys are wondering who James will pick. Well, I'm not telling you for know. Hehe. Everything will be in the next chapter.
Hope there was enough Sirius and Remus in this!
Until next week!
--Greekchic.
