Chapter 20: Never Get Tired of Running
"Who's that guy Evans is with?" James asked turning to Sirius, who was watching a girl while she adjusted her bra.
"What?" Sirius asked still watching the girl; she was really having a hard time getting it comfortable.
"Look," James said trying to pull Sirius's attention from the girl.
"Wait Prongs, I'm busy," Sirius said pushing James away. They were standing under the birch tree with their jackets and scarves and hats and gloves on. They just had a brand new snowfall the night before and people were enjoying their Sunday afternoon outside, instead of doing homework.
"What's more important then this?" James asked Sirius. James looked to where Sirius was looking. The girl's hands were down her jacket, with a very uncomfortable look on her face. James stared with Sirius for another few moments. "Padfoot!" James snapped, finally punching Sirius in the arm.
Sirius put a hand to where James punched his arm. "Prongs! Girl adjusting bra! Hello!" Sirius said looking at James outraged.
"Evans making out with boy! Hello!" James said glaring at Sirius. Sirius looked over to where James' full attention was. "Who is that?" James asked impatiently, pointing to a guy who had his tongue shoved down Lily Evans' throat.
Sirius frowned and was analyzing the boy. "Judging by his snogging skills . . . He's a Ravenclaw 7th Year." Sirius said with a smile.
James gave him a weird look, Sirius just shrugged. "Well, what's his name?" James asked Sirius. Sirius raised his eyebrows. He saw Britney walking with Dom towards Lily and the boy.
"HEY BRITNEY!" Sirius shouted waving at Britney. Britney turned and scowled.
"WHAT?" she shouted back holding onto Dom's hand. Her and Dom had stopped walking and were staring at Sirius and James who were about one hundred feet away.
"COME OVER HERE!" Sirius shouted even louder then before, making James wince. Britney gave Dom a quick glance before leading Dom over to James and Sirius.
"What?" Britney asked glaring at Sirius.
"Who's that guy making out with Lily?" Sirius asked, James put his gloved hands to his face and groaned.
"Aw, James do you want to know?" Britney cooed looking over at James who slowly removed his hands from his face.
"No," he said quietly.
"He's her boyfriend," Britney answered simply. She was ignoring the glares that Dom was shooting at Sirius, who was completely ignoring Dom.
"What's his name?" Sirius asked. Britney looked skeptical to say anything but let out a sigh.
"He's a Ravenclaw 7th year," Britney started, Sirius shot James an 'I told you so look'. "He's Dom's friend. Dom introduced them." Britney said giving Dom a small smile. "His name is Angel and-" She was cut off by James and Sirius bursting out laughing.
Dom was glaring at both of them now. James and Sirius were bent over clutching their stomachs.
"What's so funny?" Britney asked.
"Angel?" James choked, and he and Sirius went back to laughing uncontrollably.
"I think it's a cute name," Britney said giving them both weird looks.
Sirius and James looked at each other again and continued their laughing.
Britney rolled her eyes and walked away with Dom. It took another few minutes before James and Sirius calmed down. James looked up to see Britney, Dom, Lily and Angel walking at the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
"Let's follow them," James said, elbowing Sirius who was looking around for the girl who was adjusting her bra earlier. James let out a groan. "To bad I don't have my cloak."
Sirius grinned and pulled the cloak from his pocket. "Never fear! Sirius is here!" Sirius threw the cloak over the two of them, and followed the two couples.
Angel threw his long blond hair that fell to his shoulders out of his face. "So, Lily, would you come with me to the next Hogsmede." He asked smiling at her.
Sirius snorted. "Look at his ridiculous hair," Sirius stifled a laugh. James gave Sirius a weird look, and stared at Sirius's own long hair, which was about the same length as Angels.
Lily gave Angel a sweet smile. "Yeah, I'd love too," Lily moved closer to Angel and linked her arm with his.
James glared at the back of Angel's head. Britney looked behind her to see footsteps mysteriously appearing out of thin air. Britney frowned. Dom pulled Britney closer to him and put his arm around her shoulders.
"What's up?" he asked with a smile. Britney shook her head.
"Nothing," She said quietly. Dom gave her a suspicious look. He stopped walking to let Lily and Angel was them.
"Go on ahead of us, we'll catch up," Dom said to them, they nodded and continued to walk.
Under the cloak, James started to walk but Sirius pulled him back.
"We have to follow Evans," James snapped, glaring at Sirius.
"Hold on," Sirius whispered quickly. James glared at his best friend.
Dom trudged away with Britney's hand in his own hand. They went slightly into the woods with Sirius and James shuffling to them. Britney glanced behind her to see footprints moving through the snow slowly. Britney glared at the footprints.
"We need to talk," Dom said, Britney turned her attention to Dom. Britney frowned at him. She nodded slowly. She looked was watching the footprints stop behind Dom. "Ok, well I know, we've been having some tough times with out relationship this year." Dom said holding onto Britney's hands tightly. "But you need to tell me something, so I know your mine."
Britney was still looking at the footprints, waiting for them to move again. She barely heard a thing Dom had just said to her. "Uh huh." She muttered.
"You and Sirius . . . that's what I need to talk to you about. You seem distracted." He moved his head in front of Britney's face so he could get her looking at him. Britney looked up at him.
"No," She said slowly. Dom gave her a weird look.
"No what?" Dom asked curiously.
Britney shook her head and bit her lower lip. "Go on," she said. She glanced quickly at the footprints which seemed to move a few steps to the left.
"Ok, when we broke up, something happened between you and Sirius, right?" Dom asked.
Britney slowly returned her gaze to Dom. "What do you mean?" Britney asked defensively.
"Did you and Sirius have sex?" Dom said slowly and clearly. Britney jumped slightly and pulled her hands away from Dom.
"What?" She shrieked.
"See! You seem tense! So I have every right to believe that you have being Sirius behind my back!" Dom said raising his voice.
"Please, don't say your accusing me of cheating on you or something," Britney said in a dangerous tone.
"I am accusing you," Dom said after a while of silence. Britney gaped at him and she took a few steps backward.
"Wow," Britney muttered.
"Just tell me, so I can kill him," Dom said watching Britney carefully. Dom grabbed Britney's hand. "Tell me."
Under the cloak James was looking at Sirius incredulously, Sirius was watching Britney and Dom carefully. "You had sex with Britney, didn't you?" James said to Sirius. Sirius shut him up with a look. "Well, tell me later," James answered quickly. "I'm going to go follow Angel," James snorted at the name. James pulled the cloak off of him, and started to walk away from Sirius, who was under the cloak still.
Britney looked at the footprints again, and she saw James walking away from nowhere. Her eyes widened.
"I knew it!" Britney snapped, pulling her hands from Dom and walking quickly to James. James cursed himself silently for being so stupid.
"Potter! What the bloody hell are you doing here?" Dom snapped following Britney, who was storming over to James.
"I knew it was you and your stupid cloak!" Britney said walking right up to James and glaring at him.
"Look, Britney, I can't talk right now," James snapped, he was looking through the forbidden forest to see if Lily was still walking along the edge with Angel. He saw them quite a ways away. James put his hand on Britney's shoulder. "Yell at me all you want later," James started sprinting through the Forbidden Forest. James turned around to see Britney gaping at him. "Sirius is under the cloak too!" James yelled back. "Have fun!" He started running away when he heard Britney screaming in the distance.
James slowed down and hid behind a tree when he caught up to Lily and Angel.
"You are so beautiful," Angel said brushing Lily's hair out of her face.
"Thank you," Lily said shyly. James was glaring daggers at the back of Angel's head. Angel conjured some flowers out of nowhere and handed the beautiful yellow, pink, purple, blue flowers to Lily. "These are so beautiful," she murmured. She leaned up at kissed Angel lightly on the lips.
James couldn't handle it anymore. He stepped out from behind the large tree and started walking up to Lily from behind. Angel snapped his attention towards James Potter, and looked at him curiously. James put his hand over Lily's eyes.
"Guess who," James muttered in her ear. He said it in a very different slightly more mature voice. Lily put a hand to the hand that was covering her eyes, knowing very well that it was James. Lily yanked his hand away from her eyes, and pulled his arm behind his back.
"I should have guessed you would follow me!" she yelled at James, who was wincing at the pain Lily was causing his arm.
"Evans!" James whined. "Let got!"
"Whatever gave you the idea-?"
"Stop Evans!" James struggled trying to get free.
During this whole, screaming match that they had started up, with Lily screaming in James' ear and James screaming at Lily and trying to get out of her surprisingly strong grip, Angel stood their stunned at the insults and lung capacity they both had. The flowers he had given Lily were discarded in the snow.
"Get lost you egotistical arse-face!" Lily shouted in James' ear, making him jump slightly.
"I can't when you have me in the devil grip!" James snapped just as loud as Lily.
"I wouldn't have put you in the 'devil grip' if you hadn't snuck up behind me and being so idiotic and urgh-" Lily said leaving her sentence unfinished.
"Running out of insults Evans? Or do you not want to repeat your same old insults!" James said laughing now.
Lily let go and pushed James away. "You're so annoying!" She said, letting out a frustrated scream.
"Isn't she so cute when she yells at me?" James asked Angel who was standing there shell shocked. Lily whipped out her wand and pointed it at James. "Oh, so you wanna play it this way Evans?" James asked, pulling out his own wand.
"Uh, Lily," Angel said slowly.
"What?" Lily snapped wrathfully.
"Maybe you should lay off James Potter," Angel said quietly.
Lily glared at James. Sirius started bounding towards Lily from behind and he jumped on her back causing her to fall with Sirius on top of her. Dom was running towards Sirius who was on top of Lily, with his wand raised. James looked at Sirius lying on top of Lily, showing no sign of getting up.
"GET BACK HERE BLACK!" Dom yelled getting nearer and nearer. Sirius slowly got up and pulled out his wand lazily, standing beside James.
"Sirius you imbecile!" Lily shouted getting up, covered in snow.
"SIRIUS!" James looked to see Britney running behind Dom. Sirius made a funny 'whoops' face to James. James shook his head confused.
Dom stopped quickly in front of James and Sirius.
"Potter you better get step aside so I can kill your friend," Dom whispered angrily.
"POTTER!" Lily said impatiently brushing off the snow. Britney ran right up beside Lily with her wand out too.
James and Sirius looked at each other, seeing as they were being cornered by three very angry people glaring at them.
"Whoa," James muttered under all the glares.
Sirius put his wand slowly in his pocket. He then grabbed James' jacket collar and started pulling him into a run, sprinting as fast as he could in the snow, tripping slightly, James started running beside Sirius as they ran back up towards the castle, passing Hagrid with a laugh. Hagrid looked curiously after James and Sirius, and jumped slightly as Dom, Lily and Britney chased them about twenty feet behind the two mischievous Marauders.
A/N: Thank you for the reviews! I will try to update again soon! I'm still trying to catch up in school, my work load has been insane.
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