Chapter 10: Walking in

James sat on the sofa of the common room, a week into November, watching Remus and Sirius play wizard's chess. For that whole week, James tried to talk to Lily, but couldn't get near her without her snapping at him. She always seemed to have an excuse. Though, this really wasn't any change to before Halloween, he still knew that he kissed Lily, and she didn't slap him, yell at him, or curse him. So, what was he supposed to do?

"Stop it," Remus muttered.

"What?" James asked.

"Stop thinking about Lily, it's annoying and I can't concentrate," Sirius snapped, looking over the chess board. "Now I'm going to lose because of you. And, I bet twenty galleons," Sirius said.

James sighed. "It's just," Remus and Sirius rolled their eyes, "Do you think she's mad? Or should I talk to her?"

"Do something that'll make you look like an arse," Sirius said smiling, Remus moved his queen.

"Check," he said.

"What?" Sirius asked alarmed. He looked down at his king, and moved it quickly.

"Check," Remus said bored, he crossed his arms over his chest.

Sirius looked around the bored quickly, and moved his king again.

"Checkmate," Remus muttered. "I'd like my twenty galleons by tonight at the latest," Remus pulled out his wand and the game bored and chesspieces packed themselves up.

Sirius glared angrily at Remus.

James opened his mouth to continue on with the Lily conversation when Remus cut him off. "Ask Britney, or Alice," he answered.

The sound of the portrait hole opening could be heard, as Peter came in hurrying to where the three Marauders sat.

"Guess what I heard some girls talk about in the hallway," Peter said happily and sat down.

"Are you stalking girls again?" James asked Peter.

Peter frowned but didn't respond. "Dom and Britney broke up. Something I knew Padfoot would like," Peter said content with himself.

Sirius didn't look up at Peter at all instead just stared at the packed up chess board.

"So when did they break up and why?" James asked, he didn't really seem interested but asked the questions for Sirius' sake. Just so Sirius wouldn't seem so desperate to hear what happened. But, Sirius wasn't even paying attention.

"They broke up yesterday and why . . . well everyone is saying because Britney cheated on him, but, I heard one of Dom's friends say it was because of Padfoot," Peter said.

Sirius looked up. "My fault?" Sirius snapped. "They broke up because of me?"

"You kissed her," James said.

"No, I didn't. I almost, but I didn't," Sirius said.

"Remus?" came Alice's voice. Remus looked at her. "I was wondering if you wrote notes down for history of magic, because none of us did except Lily, and we don't know where she is," Alice said.

"Sure, I'll get them for you," Remus got up and left.

There was silence for a moment when James spoke up. "Alice," Alice nodded. "How's Evans?"

"Well, she's ok, I guess," Alice said, shifting her feet uncomfortably, and quickly glancing up the dormitory stairs for Remus to save her from this conversation.

"Nothing at all?" James asked again.

"If you're wondering about your little date on Saturday, she hasn't said much about it, except probably to Britney," Alice said thoughtfully. "She was sort of angry yesterday, but today she seems more… tense."

Remus came down the stairs with the notes. "Here," he said smiling.

"Thank you," Alice said smiling in return, as she hurried up the stairs.

The bell rang, signaling that it was the end of the class for the day. Students started packing up, over Professor Flitwick's shouts about their homework assignment. They all exited out of the room indifferent packs and split up as they headed off to their own common rooms to drop of their bags and go to dinner.

The four marauders walked down a corridor to the main entrance stairs for dinner. James stopped.

"What?" Peter asked.

James didn't answer, but he whipped his wand out and directed it at a suit of armor. Remus looked at the suit of armor, then looked at James.

"Come out Snivellus!" James shouted. Sirius quickly whipped out his wand. Snape came from behind the armor sneering. "Attacking people from behind is unfair," James said.

Snape had his wand out pointing it at Sirius and James.

"So then he said that I'm too hard to please and that I would never find anyone who would put up with my crap," Daisy said quickly. Britney nodded. Daisy was frowning as her and Britney walked down the corridor to dinner.

"Well, that's interesting, Dom said something similar to me, except his was a tad nicer," Britney smiled.

They stopped walking. There was a huge crowd of people blocking the hallway, and shouts were heard on the other side of the people.

"Shut up Evans!" James' voice could be heard.

"She can't last that long without hating him, huh?" Daisy asked.

"I thought she figured this out." Britney said, and she moved in through the crowd. "Excuse me," she said, pushing past someone. Dom turned around and opened his mouth to say something, but Britneyglared.Dom shook his head angrily. Britney moved to the front of the crowd. Daisy came up beside her and scowled.

James and Lily both had their wands outstretched at each other glaring, nothing new. Britney rolled her eyes.

"You know what Potter you can't be normal for one day! Your head is too far up your arse it'll take years to get it out!" Lily yelled.

"That's original! Can't you think of anything else to say Evans?" James shouted.

Sirius was leaning against the wall looking quite bored. Remus stood there watching the scene in front of him with little interest. Peter seemed to leave for dinner already. People were too scared to get to dinner, which would cause them to go in between James and Lily, which might cause them to snap. They were some of the best wizards in the school and being caught in one of their curses wouldn't be fun.

"Throw meat out and maybe they'll go for it," Tess said beside Britney. She looked and saw Tess and Alice standing there. Tess looked quite annoyed. Alice was just frowning.

"I'm starving," Alice muttered.

"How about we throw Britney out?" Tess suggested. Britney quickly looked at Tess and glared.

"That wouldn't work," said Remus' voice. Him and Sirius were standing beside the four girls, watching James and Lily shout at each other.

"Let's just ignore them and go for dinner," Sirius said.

"How long have you been waiting here?" Daisy asked.

"About twenty minutes," Sirius said.

"And all we have to do is ignore them?" Alice said.

Sirius nodded. Sirius then just walked in between the two. Everyone seemed to be surprised that all they had to do in the first place was ignore them. Everyone followed quickly to dinner.

James sat in the common room fuming. He was so mad at Evans. She just came in between his fight with Snivellus, as if she was wanted there. She had to make it like it was her business to stop the fight.

"If you don't stop I'm going to curse you," Peter said. James looked at Peter angrily. Britney came walking down the dormitory stairs and walked over to James.

"Aw is Jamie mad?" Britney pouted sitting down beside James.

"Shut it," James muttered.

"If it makes you feel better Lillian is mad too," Britney said leaning against James' shoulder.

"If you're deprived, go find Sirius, he'll give you some." James said moving away from Britney.

"Ok, I'd never do anything with you, and Sirius is the reason why Dom and I broke up," Britney said quietly. She sat up properly and crossed her legs. "But I think it's safe to say you and Lily will never be," Britney giggled.

James got up angrily and headed out the common room.

"I'm kidding!" Britney called out after him smiling. She rolled her eyes and got up to follow James. "Your quite sensitive tonight," Britney said catching up to James, grabbing his arm and pulling him back.

James stood in front of Britney not looking at her.

"Brooding, doesn't suit you," she said. Britney grabbed him and started shaking him.

"Britney, what the hell?" James yelled.

"Snap out of it, you're being a geek," Britney said letting go of him and smiling.

"There's nothing for me to snap out of," James said continuing to walk. "Your being annoying today, shouldn't you be with Evans?" James asked quickening his pace.

"I'm actually heading to the kitchens right now," Britney said, now skipping alongside James who obviously wanted to lose her.

"Ok, Britney," James stopped. "As nice as this conversation is, could you please go bother someone else," James snapped angrily.

Britney's brow furrowed. "Fine, if you're going to be an arse about it," Britney said as she walked away from James.

James scowled and turned back to the common room.

Britney walked down the corridor with the food from the kitchens to bring up to Lily. She looked in the bag where all the sweets were and pulled out a muffin. She bit into it when she heard frantic whispering. Britney put the rest of her muffin in the bag. The whispering seemed to be coming from a classroom. Britney put her ear to the door, she heard a familiar voice. She opened the door and immediately froze.

"Er, sorry, I'm really sorry, I didn't know, I didn't think," Britney said quickly to try and cover up for walking in on Sirius and a girl.

The girl was pulling her pants on, while Sirius was just in his boxers, smiling.

"I'll leave," Britney said turning around.

"No," said the girl. "Stay, he'll get bored in a few minutes, if he's alone," she snapped and glared at Sirius, who grinned at her, she left the classroom angry.

"Quite convenient that you walked in at this particular time," Sirius said, sitting on one of the desks.

"Er," Britney mumbled and scratching her head. "I sit there and er –" Sirius quickly stood up from the desk, and looked as if he was holding back laughter.

"What are you doing wandering around at this time of the night?" Sirius asked.

"Getting food," Britney said uneasily holding up the bag to show Sirius, who nodded in understanding.

He walked over to Britney who backed away slightly. Britney started. "You know, if you keep doing this to me, I'm going to have to -" Sirius put his hand on her neck, he leaned in and rested his forehead on hers and was about ready to kiss her.

"Oh, figures," said a male voice. Britney pushed Sirius away, and licked her lips out of pure nervousness.

Dom stood there glaring at the two of them.

"Hi," Britney croaked, she swallowed hard.

"Look and he's half naked for you too," Dom said crossing his arms over his chest.

"It's not what it looks like," Britney said quickly. "It's not well, -"

"It looks like you were kissing," Dom cut in.

"Nothing happened," Britney said. "Nothing," she reassured.

Sirius stood there and rolled his eyes, he moved over to his clothes and pulled them on.

"What, are you two done shagging?" Dom asked.

"Shut up," Britney said. "You're being a jerk," she snapped.

"How am I being a jerk?" Dom said his voice getting loud.

"All you're doing is assuming!" Britney defended.

"Well, I'm sorry I'm not suspicious if I see my girlfriend kissing another guy," Dom snapped.

"We weren't kissing and you wanted a break, so we're on one!" Britney shouted and she pushed past Dom and headed out the door.

Sirius stood nervously, pulling his shirt over his head. Dom stared at Sirius hard.

"Look," Sirius said pointing to the bag Britney once had. "She left her bag, maybe you should return it," Sirius said.

Dom didn't say anything or move.

"Ok, then I will," Sirius said moving towards the bag, but Dom picked it up.

"Stay away, Black," Dom said quietly, and he too left the classroom.

Sirius sighed.

"Britney did you get the food?" Lily asked, sitting in her bed under the covers. Britney sat down on her bed.

"Shit," Britney muttered. "I forgot it."

"Where?" Lily asked. "You've been gone for a long time, it shouldn't have taken you that long," Lily said getting out of her bed.

Their dormitory door was opened. Dom entered with the bag outstretched in his hand holding it out to Britney.

"What are you doing here?" Britney snapped, grabbing the bag from Dom and placing it on her bed.

"I'm returning your bag," Dom said.

"Thank you," Britney said shortly. "Now crawl back into your hole where you came from," Britney said pushing Dom out the door, and closing it when Dom stopped the door from closing all the way with his hand pushing against the door.

"I'm sorry," he said.

"Yeah, well I'm sorry too," Britney said. "Jackass," she said and slamming the door in his face.

"That was nice," Lily said.

There was a knock at the door.

Britney opened it quickly, "What?" she snapped. Dom looked at her pleadingly. He moved in and kissed her.

A/N: Happy easter! I still never got my 32 reviews so i won't update again till i get those reviews. Hope you have a safe and happy holiday:D

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