"Why did you do it?"
Lily blinked. "I'm sorry, why did I do what?"
James sat down on a warm bench out side of The Three Broomsticks. He plucked a daisy from the little patch of flowers next to the wooden seat, and twirled it around in his fingers. Lily sat down next to him. "If you mean, why did I go out with Siriu—" she started.
"What the hell did you think I meant, Evans? Why did you wear that pair of drawers today? Of course I meant why did you go out with Sirius!" James said, intensifying the speed of his daisy-twirling.
"Well I'm sorry Potter, but I have the right to go out with whomever I please! It's a free world." Lily said, adjusting her skirt. The whole 'underwear' thing was a joke, wasn't it?
"You're always accusing me of being insensitive, and now you go out with my best friend? Well, I mean… he's not my best friend anymore, but, you know what I mean."
Lily rolled her eyes. "No, I don't know what you mean. Because if he's not your best friend, then why would you give a damn about if he goes out with me or not?"
James let out a cold laugh. "You don't even know it, Evans." He muttered almost inaudibly.
"What did you say?"
James jerked his head up. "Nothing. I said nothing."
"Don't give me that, Potter. I know you said something, more specifically, something about me. You said my name. Say it again."
"Evans."
"Not my name, you moron! Say what you said before."
James plucked a petal off of the flower. "I said, you don't even know it. The story. You don't know the whole story. You don't even know why Sirius asked you out."
Lily chuckled. "James, James, James. I'm Head Girl, top student, teacher's pet. I'm not an idiot. Of course I know that Sirius doesn't actually like me."
"Then why did you even agree to it?"
Because I'm head over heels for you! Because I wanted to make you jealous! Because he's your best friend! Because… But instead, all that came out was "I. Errh…" and Lily looked nervously at James.
She found he wasn't even listening to her, or looking at her. She also found that he had dropped the daisy from his hand and was gawking at something, something that made Lily follow his gaze and gasp.
Because at that exact moment, Elena and Sirius had decided to walk out of The Three Broomsticks; Sirius put his arm around Elena's waist, and then he whispered in her ear, and then she giggled, and then they kissed.
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There was an awkward silence for a second or two.
"I'm sorry, but what the hell just happened?" James exclaimed angrily, yet fascinated by the fact that Sirius and Elena had still not spotted them sitting on the bench just feet away.
"Honestly, what did we miss in the whole three minutes we were out here?" Lily added.
James stormed over to the couple. "What the fuck is this?"
Sirius quickly removed his arm from Elena's waist, startled. "Nothing happened, Prongsie." He said, somewhat mockingly.
"Oh yeah so I guess you just tripped and your mouth landed on hers."
"Okay, James," Elena said. "We thought you had left. After all, you did say you were going to go."
Lily had not gone over there, she was still seated on the bench. She definitely did not want to be a part of whatever was going to come out of that.
"What is… this, though?" James repeated.
"This is nothing." Elena said hastily.
"No," Sirius laughed. "This, this, my friend, is me proving to you my point."
James looked crestfallen. Sirius was right. He could get anyone. Sirius was better than him. Wait, better than him in what? It had been such a stupid argument, James couldn't even remember how it started.
"Okay."
"What did you say, James?" Sirius smirked.
"I said, okay. Okay! You win." He answered. "You win, you win…" he trailed off, walking away and toward the castle.
"See you around, Prongsie." Sirius called after him smugly. James put up his finger in return, not looking back.
"What's going on?" Elena questioned, looking from Lily on the bench, to James shuffling down the hill, to Sirius with his arm around her again.
"Don't really know yet."
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Lily watched as James made his way slowly but surely farther away from them. She found herself feeling sorry for him. How could anyone do something like that to their best friend? Then she realized that she was thinking about James' sorrow, instead of what should have been hers. Her date had just kissed someone else… But then she remembered that she didn't care about Sirius. The only reason she had gone out with him was to make James jealous. She felt terrible about that, now. She had to make things right.
She glanced down at the battered up daisy and its petals he had plucked laying by themselves, separated from the daisy. She took out her wand, muttered a charm, and the petals reattached themselves to the daisy. If only fixing real life problems was as easy as mending a daisy.
Author's Note
Hope you enjoyed that. Read on for the ending. :)
