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They're in: Seventh Year
Recap: She kissed him sloppily and James pulled back. "What's wrong, pookie?" Marcy attempted to pout.
"Erm-this is my bad side, sit on my other side so you can see my good side," James answered. He was only kissing Marcy so that Lily would see and get jealous, the sooner the better.
"Okay!" She shifted to his other side and kissed him again, this time missing his mouth and kissing only his upper lip.
He took a quick peek at Lily and she was glaring daggers at the couple and he quickly shut his eyes.
Whatever he did, it was for Lily and only for her.
Chapter Twenty: Reconciliation in a Big Way
How gross. It made Lily scrunch her nose up in disgust just thinking about The Kiss. It was nasty really; she was all over James, doing her best imitation of trying to be cute. Except it didn't quite work on Marcy.
Guys probably only got with Marcy because she was so easy. A horrifying thought occurred to Lily: What if the only reason James was going out with Marcy was to get laid? Gosh, they had been together for two weeks now, surely things had happened between them.
What did it matter to her anyway? He got over her quickly; he just wanted Lily to have sex with him in the first place, right?
Crazy thoughts rushed through Lily's head as she tried to find an explanation of why James was going out with Marcy.
ABC.
"She's gross!" James exclaimed, when Sirius asked about Marcy in the dorm room. It was ritual for the boys to have a night of eating candy and talking on the last day of every month. "She's a bloody horrible kisser, too!"
Sirius grinned, "Anything for Lily, right?"
"She'd better come around soon because I don't know how much of Marcy I can handle," James grumbled. "She's pressuring me to have sex! Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?"
Remus frowned, "She's easy. Everyone knows that. Something tells me that you should have chosen a different girl, this one seems to want to do everything fast."
"Tell me about it," James replied. "I can't wait till we're done."
"What makes you think that Lily still likes you anyway?" Peter asked.
James looked at him. "I don't know, but I sure hope that she does. I'm miserable without her."
ABC.
"Oof!" James was grabbed and pushed into an empty class room he happened to be standing by. "Oy, what's going on?" he called out.
"We," a voice responded, reaching for his robes, "are going to have some fun!" The door closed and James felt around for a light switch.
"Lumos," he said and he was face to face with his girlfriend. James groaned inwardly. Marcy giggled and pulled his robes off. "What are you doing?" James said as he tried to get his robes back on.
It was too late; Marcy had flung his robes across the room.
ABC.
Lily heard a thump and the class room door close with a snap. Stupid lovebirds, Lily thought as she walked by.
ABC.
"I told you, we're going to have some fun. You seem so uptight, let me help you with that," she murmured as she tried to unbuckle his belt. She pushed him up against the wall next to the door.
"I am not uptight; I need to get to class!" James said, trying to get away. She pushed him back against the wall with a thump.
"Just stay and you will forget all about class." Marcy gave up with his belt and started to unbutton his shirt.
ABC.
Lily heard several bumps and didn't think that those were normal sounds coming from there, unless they liked it rough. If it was a normal couple in there, the sounds would have been much different.
Eyes opening wide, she thought perhaps someone was beating up a student. Lily knew that she was already late to class, but she couldn't just walk by and let them do that to another student. She turned around and walked toward the door.
ABC.
"Marcy, stop!" James protested, he really did not want to do this, but he couldn't exactly use force to stop her.
He felt her cold hands find their way under his shirt and feeling his body.
ABC.
Lily turned the doorknob and opened the door. She heard all sounds cease.
ABC.
The door was open. Someone caught them. Both James and Marcy froze. James was relieved that he wouldn't have to deal with Marcy. But his relief disappeared when he saw who had caught them.
ABC.
Lily's eyes looked from James's robes across the room, to where Marcy's hands were, and to James's exposed torso.
"Lily!" It was too late, she was already running away. Tears were streaming down Lily's face as ran down the halls trying to get the image of James and Marcy out of her mind; but it was just too much. James had broken her heart without having any remorse.
Panting, Lily stopped as she turned a corner. She leaned against the wall and closed her eyes. Oh, this was so horrible, how was she ever going to get over James?
ABC.
"Lily!" James yelled again. He pushed Marcy's hands away forcefully and grabbed her shoulders. "I do not want to do anything with you Marcy. In fact, we're done." He quickly buttoned his shirt as he dashed from the classroom, leaving his forgotten cloak behind.
He ran after Lily, wondering where she had gone. He felt so guilty, the look on her face when she saw the two of them together. James's plan had gone too far. It wasn't my fault though, James thought angrily, it wasn't my idea to go into that classroom and I certainly did not want Lily to see me like that.
He hoped that she had not gone far.
Turning a corner at full force, he ran into someone and both fell with a thump on the ground.
"I'm sorry-" he began, but stopped as he realized that it was Lily.
ABC.
Someone ran into Lily knocking her to the ground and the person falling on top of her. "I'm sorry-" he began. His face was blurred because of the unfallen tears in Lily's eyes, but she could recognize his unkempt hair and his concerned voice anywhere.
It was James.
Lily tried to push him off her, but he wouldn't budge. "Get off me!" she cried, furiously driving her hands at his chest, but his chest was strong and she doubted that it hurt at all. "Get off!" she repeated, hoping that he would come back to his senses and quit ogling at her.
ABC.
James quickly got up and pulled Lily up as well. He hugged her tight and murmured in her ear, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
Lily thrashed a little against him but when she realized he would not let her go she quit protesting but did not hug him back. "What are you doing, James?"
He didn't answer, just held her more tightly.
"Oh, James, why did you do that? Could you really get over me that fast?" Lily whispered, hurt evident in every word she spoke.
"No! I just wanted to make you jealous; I wanted you to want me like I wanted you. I need you, Lily. I love you."
"That was definitely the wrong way to go about it then!" Lily said fiercely, this time successfully pushing him away.
"I know, I don't know what I was thinking, I'm sorry, Lily," James said helplessly.
Lily looked him in the eyes and tried to find a lie in them. She couldn't. "Do you like her?" she asked quietly.
"No, I don't. She's the most annoying girl ever. Please Lily, forgive me."
"I don't know if I can, James, you broke my heart."
A glimmer of hope. Her heart had been his after all. He knew that she liked him after all, maybe even more than like.
"I'll put it back together then," he said as he walked up to Lily and pulled her close to him.
"How?" she whispered, letting herself be pulled to him.
James put his finger under Lily's chin and gently lifted her head so that she was looking at him. "Like this," he responded and pressed his lips to hers. Lily responded by kissing James back, so happy that she was finally kissing him.
Lily's arms found their way around James's neck and James's arms were somehow around Lily's waist, as if he were afraid to let her go.
After they finally broke apart, Lily rested her head against James's chest. "James?" she whispered, her eyes still closed.
"Hmm?" he responded, afraid that if he spoke any actual words then the moment would be ruined.
"I love you."
James's eyes opened quickly. Had he just heard right? Yes, Lily just said that she loved him. "I love you, too."
A/N: There's the long awaited kiss! Anyway, thanks to those who have reviewed chapter 19: lilalex13, moony07, Whitelight72, futurePOTUS, ReadingRobyn, Animals are my LIFE, sumdea, Emrisah, CASOCCERCHIC02, Annabelle, and tyismyjuggalo (x2).
ReadingRobyn: Lily isn't cutting again, she was just tempted to, she almost did but she didn't. Thanks for your ideas but I pretty much have it all planned out :
Emrisah: Wow! Hope you had fun in France, I know I had fun in Argentina.
Well I came back about a week ago, but I haven't been able to update because I've had a lot of laundry to do and people to catch up with. But here's your update and the next one definitely will NOT take as long. holds up right hand Scout's honor. :
