Disclaimer: Still not mine and won't EVER be mine.
Chapter 9—Breaking up isn't hard to do
James fell asleep fitfully. He couldn't concentrate and how could he? He kept thinking of that girl he danced with.
"Miss Cinderella," the voice inside his head kept echoing those exact words.
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"Prongs. PRONGS! Merlin, can this boy sleep. Wake up you oaf!"
James shot up like a rocket and his head collided with something hard.
"OY!"
A searing pain shot through the top of James' head as he struggled to leave the realm of sleep.
"Wuzzgoinon?" He asked sleepily.
"Well," remarked an amused voice, "You hit Sirius square on the jaw."
James squinted and could barely make out the fuzzy outline of Remus Lupin.
"Moony?" James asked his tongue feeling like lead.
"Yes, it's me."
James found his glasses and put them on to find a silently laughing Remus and a fallen Sirius.
"What happened to him?" James asked.
"Did you hear what I said?" Remus looked at James.
James shook his head.
"Sirius, being an idiot, leaned over you to wake you up. You woke up so fast that Sirius couldn't withdraw and your head hit his jaw quite hard."
"Ooh." James said sympathetically. "Does it hurt?"
Sirius stopped his writhing and glared at James.
Remus, watching on, said in amusement, "If Sirius could talk right now, he would be saying, 'Of course it hurts you asshole'!"
James snickered as he got out of bed.
"I'm gonna find her." He announced as he hunted for some jeans.
"Who?" Remus asked.
"Miss Cinderella!" James said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Come again?" Sirius asked weakly. His jaw did hurt.
"MISS CINDERELLA!" James roared.
"We know what you said, dumbass." Remus replied scathingly, "We meant, 'who in the world is she'?"
"Oh."
"Well?" Remus asked. "You just can't explode out of nowhere 'I'm gonna find her' and not tell us who the person is."
"She's the girl I was dancing with at the Halloween Ball."
"You mean Kellie?" Sirius asked, his voice getting stronger as the throbbing in his jaw subsided. "I wouldn't exactly call Kellie a 'Cinderella'."
"No, it was the girl in the green I was dancing with that called herself 'Miss Cinderella'."
"Which girl in green?" Remus asked.
James stared at them as if they lost their minds. "That girl in green that I was dancing with for most of the night."
Remus shook his head. "Sorry mate, but I don't recall you dancing with any girl in green. I was too busy chasing after Sirius."
"You were?" Sirius asked in surprise, getting off the floor.
Remus nodded. "You were sugar high."
"I was?" Sirius again asked in surprise.
Remus goggled at Sirius. "Do you even remember what happened yesterday night?"
"Yeah—I was dressed up as a dog—I saw Morgan—I saw the candy—I ate the candy—and that's about it."
Remus groaned. "Well, to say the least, you were sugar high."
Sirius grinned. "Glad to see I livened up the party."
"Morgan wasn't too happy." Remus said.
Sirius made a face. "Man, I'm getting sick of her clucking over me like she's my mother! I'm going to ditch her and probably go after Annie Swanson. The only thing Morgan was good at was—"
"Sirius," Remus warned. "Nothing dirty."
"What?" Sirius asked the picture of innocence. "I was going to say that the only thing Morgan was good at was snogging."
That comment gave James an idea.
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Breakfast was a chaotic mess.
People were chatting about the ball and girls were whispering about their dates.
"—I got stuck with Patrick Croden. What a nightmare."
"Beats dancing with Josh Westlake—I thought I was going to die."
Sitting in the middle of the Gryffindor table, however, was Kellie Crosby along with Marissa and Morgan.
"Sirius didn't dance with me at all," Morgan pouted, stirring around a bowl of porridge. "It's like he doesn't even notice me anymore."
"Then dump him." Marissa urged.
"I can't!" Morgan's eyes went wide with shock. "He's one of the most popular boys in our school! Besides, he loves me."
"If he loves you so much, then why is he flirting with Annie Swanson?"
Morgan's eyes went wide with shock. "He is so NOT!" She cried.
Kellie rolled her eyes and pointed towards the Ravenclaw table where Sirius was sitting. "He so is."
Morgan jumped up from the table and ran over towards the Ravenclaw table.
Marissa looked at her best friend start yelling at Sirius and looked at Kellie. "Shouldn't we go help? After all, he IS Morgan's boyfriend."
Kellie took a sip of water (she never had milk or anything because it was too fattening), "Nope."
"Why?"
"It's not my problem." Kellie replied. "It's not my fault that Morgan's boyfriend is the player of the school. If he wants to break up with her, then there is nothing I can do. She should have chosen someone more like my Jamie. He's so loyal to me."
Marissa opened her mouth to argue but knew it wasn't worth it.
She watched Morgan yell at Sirius for a moment before he said something. Morgan burst into tears and ran out of the Great Hall just as Lily Evans, Tessa Monterey, Erica Monterey and the remaining Marauders entered.
Kellie, watching James, smirked and said, "He just broke up with Morgan. Pity. As I've said—she should have picked someone more like Jamie."
Marissa said nothing but eyed Lily Evans. Something wasn't right with her. The minute Lily had seen herself standing by James; she turned bright red and angled herself so that she wasn't facing him.
A smarter person would have concluded that Lily was hiding something but to Marissa, it was nothing.
Remus and James walked to their usual spots at the Gryffindor table and sat down next to their girlfriends.
"Hi Remy." Marissa said, giving Remus a kiss on his cheek. "Didn't you miss me? I missed you."
"Hi Kellie." James muttered.
Kellie, however, said nothing. Memories of the night before came back and she remembered James dancing with that idiot green dressed girl.
"Well," Kellie said sourly, crossing her arms. "Who was she?"
"Who was who?" James asked.
"That girl in the green!" Kellie hissed. "That girl you were wrapped around for half the night!"
"Oh," James said reaching for some toast.
"I said, 'Who was she'?" Kellie asked again, but angrier.
James spread some butter on his toast and didn't answer.
"Well?" Kellie struggled to keep her anger in check.
James put down his toast and looked at Kellie straight in the eye. "Kellie, I think we need to break up."
Kellie heard a sharp intake of breath from Remus and a giggle from Marissa. She felt like she was floating—as if she were in a bad dream.
"I'm sorry," Kellie said, "I didn't hear you."
"I said, I think we need to break up."
"But why?" Kellie tried to grasp the concept of these words. Nobody EVER broke up with Kellie Crosby! It was unheard of!
"Because—" James started to say something but Kellie cut him off.
"I know why! It's because of that cheap girl in the green dress from yesterday night! What are you doing James? What does that whore have that I don't?"
Kellie's voice had raised a few octaves and talking started to halt as everybody stared at Kellie.
"Kellie—"
"No!" Kellie shouted. "No! Who is this girl anyway? Who is the girl James? What's her name?"
In her rage, she never noticed an extremely embarrassed and horrified Lily Evans slip out of the Great Hall. Maybe if Kellie had paid attention, she would have realized that the mysterious girl was Lily.
"I don't know," James said softly.
However, Kellie never heard him as she continued to rage on. "I mean, what does that girl have that I can't give you? I'm a hundred times better than all the girls in this damn school put together!"
"Kellie," James said in a tone to quiet her down. "You don't understand. I love that girl."
Kellie's mouth opened in shock as the world went dizzy. Love? No.
"Liar," Kellie managed to spit out. "You don't love her. You just met the girl last night!"
"True, but I feel like I've known her forever."
Kellie gave a snort of disgust. "Do you know how stupid you sound, 'I feel like I've known her forever.' How could you love her, James? You barely know her!"
James frowned and picked up his toast. "I love whoever she is and I will find her."
As he turned to leave, Kellie shouted. "Well, what's her name?"
James' posture stiffened as he said, "I don't know."
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Harry grinned triumphantly as he leaned back in his chair. "About time Dad breaks up with that—SHI—OOT!"
Harry careened backwards and fell with a resounding crash onto the floor.
Ginny started to laugh hysterically, the book slipping from her grasp.
Harry, rubbing his backside, glared at Ginny, "That wasn't very funny."
"Yes it was!" Ginny gasped weakly, holding her sides.
His pride hurt, Harry flipped the chair over and sat back down in it.
"You may continue." He said grimly.
Giggling slightly, Ginny regained her composure, picked up the book and flipped to the page.
"Chapter Ten..."
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Yes, this is a little later than usual but I got it up.
To all my Dating the Enemy reviewers, your pleading has finally persuaded me to write an Epilogue for my story. The Last and FINAL chapter of DtE is up.
And YaY! School ended last Friday which means i can devote my time to this story! Woot. Expect much faster updates! Hint, if you read Summer of Love during the first 9 chapters, you know what i am talking about.
Until next week!
--Greekchic