Someday You'll Care

Started: December 15, 2004

Finished: December 22, 2004

Posted: December 31, 2004

Chapter Seven

Christmas Ball and Jealous Lies

The days since the incident in the bathroom had led to James avoiding Lily. He wouldn't even talk to her at the Head Meetings. It was always, "ask her" or "can you tell her?" To say the least that was something, that Lily had thought she would like, but to tell the truth, she had found it quite lonely.

Cherrie and Beth couldn't help her, they didn't know how. Jena on the other hand had helped her a bit, but not that much. Telling her that James wasn't worth missing was pointless, because Lily had no idea why she was 'missing' him. Gee, some help Jena was…Got to love her though.

Lily didn't understand how James could be all over her one minute (literally) and then the next not want anything to do with her. It didn't make a lick of sense. She was really starting to doubt her sanity. It was something she wondered if she had ever had in the first place. Maybe she wasn't really all that sane, so what?

The Christmas Ball leered closer with each day, and yet Lily found herself without a date. She didn't know if she really even wanted to go. What was the point, getting dressed up for a couple of hours and then taking it off, and never wearing it again?

"Hey, Lily".

Lily didn't look up but she knew who it was. Her newest crush and the hottest guy on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. Andreios Rossellini, he was the usual tall, dark, and handsome type of man, and that was probably why she liked him. Because, subconsciously, he looked like James, but she wouldn't admit it.

"Hey, Andreios, what can I do for you?"

"You can go to the ball with me", he said, leaning against a book case. Lily snapped her book shut and looked at him. She looked calm and composed, but inside she was jumping for joy. 'Breathe, Lily, breathe', she chanted to herself.

"Sure…I'd love to" good, not to fast and not to slow. He had no idea that she wanted to jump him and screw him in the library. That could wait for some time. It would take some time, but for him she could wait. At least she hoped she could.

Andreios smiled at her, kissed her on the cheek and walked out of the library. Lily finally collected herself, and sat down with what you would call a dumb smile, that was about the only thing she could do at this time.

James was not in a good mood, no far from it. Actually, if you wanted the truth, he was feeling murderous. It wasn't his fault, for once in his life it wasn't his fault. He was jealous, yes he would admit it, he was jealous, because somebody had gotten to Lily before he had. James didn't understand what Andreios had that he didn't.

Oh, well he didn't care…

Or he wasn't supposed to care, anyway.

James glanced around the Head's Room; Lily had just come in and was sitting at the desk in the back of the room. James stood up, he was looking for some irritation, and Lily was just the person he could irritate. Walking over to the table as quietly as possible he stood behind. Lightly putting his hand on her shoulder, he leaned down.

"Evans…" he hissed, Lily jumped around and stared at him through wide eyes.

"Potter?" Lily said, waiting for him to continue acting as if she hadn't just jumped about four feet into the air.

"Evans" James mocked, his tone teasing.

"What do you want, Potter?" Lily snapped, as she started packing her things.

"What's the rush, Evans?" James asked mockingly, He knew she didn't want to be in a room alone with him, any more then she wanted to date him.

"You have a date to the Ball?" James asked he knew the answer; he just wanted to tease her about it.

"Yes…why do you want to know?" Lily said cautiously. James pulled a face and stared at her pityingly.

"Oh, nothing, It's just the Andreios has a habit of standing up his dates. Don't know why he does it, I just reckon he thinks it's funny", James smirked, as he hid his face. Lily's face, however, clouded over with something akin to loathing. Could that be directed at him?

"I don't believe you, Potter", she said stiffly.

"I didn't ask you to; I just thought you might want to know".

James pulled her to his chest and leaned down to her ear, "You'll never make it to that Ball without crying first, Evans, One way or another; something is bound to go wrong. That my dear is what life is all about".

Lily pushed him away with a cry and stormed up the stairs, leaving James to ponder what he had just done. He smiled gleefully; he was messing up her love life. Oh, the joy of women!

"James! I can't believe you told her that!" Remus cried. He started pacing around the room. James smirked, and regarded him with vague amusement.

"It was funny to watch, Remus. You should have seen her face; I've never seen so much loathing on one person before in my life". This was all highly amusing to James, and Remus was getting tired of Lily crying in the Hallways.

Remus knew that he couldn't really kill James, that was illegal and Remus didn't think that his parents would like it very much. Neither, would Lily, come to think of it.

"I think you're just jealous", Remus concluded. James spit out his butterbeer and looked at him as if he had grown an extra head.

"Remus, are you on something?" James asked.

Remus shook his head, chuckling silently.

"That's what I thought, James".

"What?!"

Lily sighed; she seemed to be doing that a lot these days. That was the habit she picked up from stress. It was all Potter's fault!

"Beth, if you don't shut up I'm going to shove something up your arse!" Lily snapped loudly.

"Well, what's shoved up your butt?" Beth asked obviously offended. Lily sighed (again).

"No, wait don't answer that, I already have a hunch", Beth said after seeing the look on Lily's face.

"What did he say?"

"The normal stuff. You know, my love life being shit and that something awful was going to happen to me", Lily said nonchalantly. Beth stared at her, her blue eyes widened, she pushed her reddish brown hair out of her face. She was still staring at Lily.

"That is not the normal stuff", Beth finally said. Lily shrugged her shoulders and glanced down the table.

"It is now".

Beth sighed, she couldn't understand why Lily let him do this to her. If it had been two months ago, Lily would have killed him and gladly admitted it. She wasn't the type of person to let people walk all over her, and especially not James Potter. He was not an exception to this rule. Beth finally realized that Lily was changing and James had the upper hand. Lily was falling in love with him, but she would never admit it.

Contrary, to what people thought of Beth, she was smart, and she could figure things out. She also knew, that James had his plan all figured out. James, was a typical teenage boy, always chasing after girls, and then when he was bored they were gone like last week's trash. Lily was a challenge. People often chased after things they couldn't have. That was what he had been doing. Had being the keyword. He had fallen for her. He wanted to show her what he had gone through. That was what James Potter's motive was. Of course, she could simply be wrong, and all James wanted to do was fuck her, but that doubtful.

"Lily, I think you should ignore him". Lily stared at her. Ignore James? What was she smoking? Lily, couldn't just ignore him, he wouldn't let her. Not unless he was the one ignoring her. Sure, ignore him, like that was going to happen.

"What?" Beth asked, raising her hands in defense at the glare Lily was shooting her.

"I can't just ignore him", Lily snapped.

"Why not?"

"Because, he won't let me", Lily said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Lily shook her head again firmly told her that this conversation was over. Lily would never admit it; she just didn't want to ignore him.

"Hey, Prongs what are we doing for the next full moon?" Sirius asked. James smirked and stared at his friend.

"The same thing we do every full moon", James answered an exasperate edge to his voice. Sirius nodded and looked at James, he smiled slightly.

"What is wrong with you? You sound like your cat died".

"I don't have a cat, Sirius".

"It's an expression, James".

"Oh, I knew that".

"I'm sure you did".

"Whatever, it's nothing—just girl problems. I can't understand them".

"Nobody can mate. Don't feel so left out. I've been fucking them for going on three years, and I still can't explain how they work".

James looked at his friend. He shook his head; Sirius was about the most tactless person you could ever meet. Sirius smirked at him. James shook his head, what did he do to deserve such a stupid friend? Oh, well Sirius was the best kind of friend he could ever have. Now, all James needed to do was screw up Lily's date…

Author's Notes: It sucks, I know this but you can get over it. Trust me this story does have a plot, I promise. I'll get to the plot…Read and Review!

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