A storm of emotions raged though Lily Evans as she swiftly strutted though the hallway. Whether it was guilt or vehemence she didn't know but regardless she was going to have a 'nice little chat' with Snape.
"Knut," she pronounced it the door of their flat.
Straight for the hall she went, turning into Snape's room. She locked the door behind her and turned to face a vacant room. Sure enough, Snape's packing process had already began, the potions guiro sat on his knees, placing a book into a gigantic trunk.
"I'm sorry, I didn't give you permission for your entry," he told her, "I might be leaving, but it's still my room at the moment."
"Yes, as I am aware. Look, I-" she paused to reclaim her thoughts, "-What are you doing?"
"It's called packing."
"No, I mean… what for? We had one fight? Over a misunderstanding?"
"You would think after finding out my replacement your would be doing back flips," he sneered.
"Your replacement? James? I don't want him living with me!" she shuddered at the thought.
"Oh, I see…" she became hopeful for a second before – "You don't want James, so now let's be nice to Snape!"
"NO! Why are you being so freaking suborn!"
"Why? Why? I-" he hid his face in his palms, "Evans, gimme five reasons why I should agree to stay."
She took a deep breath, "You're witty, smart, awesome, charming, caring… you're brilliant! You're warming. Inspirational. I totally look up to you, I would love to have the brain power you do, I love you-"
"What?"
"I-I- LOVE YOU… R - UM ."
In Lily's (somewhat cheesy) mind now Snape would have kissed her. It would have started out delicately, but soon passion would grow and leave both of them wheezy and longing for breath. However, in reality a smirk on Snape's face began to cultivate and soon-
"You have a funny way for showing that."
He motioned her to the door, "Please," she begged, "Consider!"
"Fine," he took a deep breath, "I'll do it."
Lily had to bite her tongue, stick her hands in her pockets and close her eyes to prevent herself from attacking him.
"But Li- Evans," he said before she cheerfully went off, "Let it be known that I'm not doing this for you – 'head boy' looks good on career applications."
"Of course."
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"What do you mean you don't need my tutoring services anymore!" exclaimed a beat-faced James after potions class the following Monday.
"I don't see what is not to be understood, James," she replied, "My grades are up and are higher then yours."
"… And you're blowing me off from Head Boy!"
"Oh, I had nothing to do with Snape's decision to carry-out his position."
"Hm," the ravened-haired boy paused, not quite sure of why he was mad at the redhead at this point, "Well, do you to stop by the Gryffindor common room today and hangout?"
"Can't. Homework," she briefly stated, "Bye."
She found herself once again hastily though the Hogwarts hallways and entering the Heads' common room. Lily would have liked that things would have started back up with her and Snape after their chat, but luck wasn't on Lily's side and Snape wasn't where near wanting to have any contact with her and spent all his time in his room.
She flung her jacket onto the bed and changed out of her skirt and into a pair of sweats before knocking on Snape's door.
"Hey!" she told him from the hallway, "Get your butt out of your room and come into the den – we've got to talk."
The door of Snape's room opened a crack, "Pardon me?"
"You heard me, den, now, talk."
Slowly Snape door began to pry open until his room was fully exposed and he stepped out to join her in the den on the couch.
"So," she started awkwardly, "Some Halloween we had together this year, huh?"
He groaned, "Do we really have to talk about this?"
"Yes," she snapped, "Because it's driving me up the wall. You won't talk to me, sit beside me… I thought we had cleared this up but I guess I had misjudged."
"Okay," he said, his voice rising slightly, "I thought we were going to have a lovely evening together. I left, you're gone. The end."
"I was pressured, everyone was starring at us, I felt as if I was doing something shameful when really I wasn't," she explained, "I really had no meaning of ditching you. I really wanted to go with you. I loved you. I still do, and I would like you to hear me out."
"Hm."
"We should have stayed home, I just wasn't ready to make things public and I think we rushed into things. I found it hard to pace things because I was… I don't know… lost in things… in you, but I was kind of in this denial thing where I felt as I should still hold onto James. I became sick over it," she paused, "Do you understand?"
"Well… kind of."
"I – I just want things to be the same. Can you forgive me?"
He sighed, "I'm not sure things can be the same, and I can forgive, but I can't forget."
"Look, I'm not saying let's pick back up where we left off but could you at least call me Lily instead of Evans?"
"Maybe."
"You're really annoying me at this point, Severus."
"Am I now?" he asked while smirking.
"You know what?" she said growing more annoyed by the minute, "I poured my heart and soul out to you right now… and you don't even attempt to be somewhat considerate of that! It's like you can't just be wrong for once and forgive me! So I don't have time for this. When you're ready come and get me."
With this Lily stormed off into her bedroom.
Snape shouted as the door slammed, "That's right, you go off and gloat… Lily."
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A/N – Oh, wow. You all deserve an explanation. First, exams. Then, nothing in the Harry Potter world was happening at slowly started to look for another fandom to worship. I ended up coming across a band called Panic! At the Disco around March 2006 and started updating this less and less I have been part of that fandom ever since. Suddenly I remembered you guys and was like, "Oh, shit, I should update." Then, my computer broke down and the file I had for this chapter was gone. So, here we are, about 2 months later with an actual update which I am truly proud of. I will update again, not sure when seeing how school is starting up again and I've got another fandom to juggle now but I WILL update. –Jeni
Oh and thank you for ALL the replies, lets do some for this update, ok?
