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I'm currently doing "Wizard of Oz" and it's driving me insane. I can't wait for it to be over because it's seriously just a pain in the rear. I basically just sit there for an hour and a half doing nothing - waiting for the foursome to get to Oz. Our Dorothy sucks - the understudy's good. But the actual Dorothy is never hear. The play currently sucks. I'm just really frustrated and a bit stressed with school coming back. I have tests all over the place this week. So I can only post one chapter. Sorry!
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Chapter Five

The sunlight hit Lily's eyes and she immediately awoke. She turned to see that it was 11:30 in the morning. She sat up to see if Elizabeth or Alexis were still asleep. Elizabeth's bed was empty, she leaned a bit to the right and saw that a lump in Alexis' bed. The very loud snore that just escaped Alexis confirmed Lily's guess.

Lily threw off the covers and yawned as she rubbed her head. She walked into the bathroom and looked up into the mirror. She squinted at her reflection. She never wore her hair out of her face. She liked wearing her hair in a bun. You could see her face, and most of all, her eyes seemed to pop more. She took a quick shower, brushed her teeth and put on her robes. Her wet, dark red hair made her collar soaking wet. She walked out of the bathroom and saw Alexis was asleep. Lily thought it was incredible for her to sleep so long. Lily put her wet hair into a bun and walked downstairs into the Gryffindor Common Room. There was a small crowd of girls talking. She caught sight of Elizabeth on the same couch where she had the encounter with James early that morning. She smiled and walked over to the couch, plopping down next to her. Elizabeth turned to her with a smile on her face. Her long, blonde hair in a braid on one side.

"Good morning, Lily! How did you sleep?"

"Wonderfully, Elizabeth! How about yourself?"

"Perfectly."

"So…have you had breakfast yet?" Elizabeth turned to Lily with a look of astonishment.

"Are you joking? Of course I've had breakfast! It's time for lunch now!"

"Do you think we should leave Alexis though?"

"Do you even know Alexis Nicholson? She'll be dead until one." Elizabeth said. Lily laughed. The two of them got up to leave.

"I apologize for kind of keeping you awake. I'm sure you were exhausted with that appalling encounter with Potter." Elizabeth said.

"I don't mind. You need someone to talk to about your guy. Seeing as I'm the only one. I'm guessing that either Alexis is too tired or doesn't care?" Elizabeth smiled at that.

"That's pretty much it!"

Lily and Elizabeth walked through the doors to the Great Hall. They walked over to the Gryffindor table with the rest of the fifth years that hadn't arrived back from their morning exams yet. Lily sat next to Babette and Shannon. Elizabeth sat right across from Lily, next to an empty seat and then Molly, who was next to her boyfriend, Arthur Weasley. Molly was studying from her Transfiguration book, but looked up at Lily and Elizabeth with a smile.

"Hello girls!" Molly greeted cheerfully.

"Hello Molly…Arthur…Babette." Lily greeted in return. She grabbed a plate and a meal of spaghetti and garlic bread automatically appeared. She grabbed her fork and happy started twirling her spaghetti.

"So Lily…what exactly happened with you and Potter last night?" Lily immediately stopped twirling. Elizabeth choked on her garlic bread with a slight smile on her face. Lily looked up at Elizabeth, glaring.

"What did you say?" Lily asked, her face turning red. Elizabeth held up her hands.

"Hey now, it wasn't me." Elizabeth defended.

"It wasn't," Babette shook her head, "It was Potter himself."

"What exactly did Potter say, Babette?" Lily said with a slight smile, tearing her bread into quarters.

"Just that you two 'had an interesting time last night'." Babette said with a giggle.

"Anything in particular?"

"What do you mean?"

"Did he mention anything that went on?"

"He just mentioned that you and he –"

"PRAY TELL, WHERE IS POTTER NOW?" Lily exclaimed, immediately getting out of her chair.

"Lily, calm down…" Elizabeth said calmly.

"I'll see you later." Lily told Elizabeth.

Lily stomped out of the Great Hall. Where does he get the nerve to say things such as that about me? Lily thought angrily. She went up all the changing staircases and finally arrived at the Gryffindor Common Room. The Common Room was completely deserted. Lily knew that James would be there any minute. For the time being, she would wait. Lily plopped herself down on the couch. Lily was steaming. She knew that James would say something. There was nothing to say, though! She went downstairs when he was there…big deal! That did not give him any right to go around to people and say things that were false. Lily then pictured again how good James looked the night before. I was blushing like Elizabeth would be if Remus said she was pretty, Lily thought. And that was a lot of blushing. She was beside herself. Just because he looked really good last night didn't mean that he wasn't a complete and total jerk. She couldn't stand him. That was a fact.

There was a moving noise coming from the hole leading into the Common Room. Lily stood up and turned to the hole. Sure enough, James came through – all alone. He turned and smirked at the sight of Lily.

"Hello there, Evans." Lily wished it were dark because she felt like she needed to blush so badly. But she had to be stubborn.

"Shut up, you pompous git." Lily spat. James, for the first time ever, wiped the smirk off his face.

"What did you just call me?"

"You heard me. You're a terrible person. You think you can say things that aren't true – things that are in you fantasies. Your fantasies are false, Potter. And whether you like it or not, they will never come true."

James gave a somewhat puzzling look. He was frowning, like he was angry, but Lily could clearly tell that he was a bit hurt. Her thoughts flashed back to what Remus said. What was it again? Lily thought. "Oh I see, James. He's liked you since he met you, you know." That was it. Was Remus right? Or was it some kind of bet that maybe James could get Lily to like him by the end of Hogwarts? With James a member of the Marauders, who knew?

"Fantasies?" was all that James could choke out of himself.

"Yes, you idiot, fantasies. You're so obnoxious! I wish you would leave me alone! All you do is make me miserable! Honestly – your presence makes me miserable," that's when the next words dropped out of Lily's mouth before she even made sense of it, "Why can't you just be like Remus?"

Lily wanted to cover her mouth. Did she honestly just say that? What does that mean? Do I like Remus or something? Lily thought. James' gorgeous hazel eyes were wide and full of anger.

"Remus? You want – you want me to be more like Remus?" James croaked.

Once Lily heard them aloud again, they made total sense. Last night, Remus made her feel much better. She was smiling and laughing, just enjoying herself. Yet, he didn't have any feelings for her. Did she have feelings for him? She didn't really know. All she knew was that the main guy who had a crush on her, James, was a jerk.

"You heard me. I didn't spend last night – romancing with you or anything. I distinctly remember just a short conversation with you. You know who I spent most of my night with? Remus. Yes, Remus Lupin. Even though you, Black and that ridiculous Pettigrew don't make much of him, he's a great person. You will be lucky if you can measure to be half as good as him. He made me feel happy. When I'm around you, I feel complete and utter hate. I just wish that you would leave me alone. But you won't, and it's really pissing me off. Don't you understand? I can't stand you, Potter. I heard you liked me quite a bit. I seriously doubt it. I don't care if you're hurt by this reality check. I can assure you of one thing though. I will NEVER…" the words hit James like a ton of bricks, "…never…care for you."

James was wanting so badly for her to see his hurt. But he knew he had to cover it up, acting like it was just an everyday thing. He gave her his usual smirk. Seeing it, made Lily more angry than ever. She took the Daily Prophet and threw it at his face. At that, she walked up the staircase to her dorm. At the top of the stairs stood Alexis. She looked pretty. Her hair was parted on the side, the smaller side up in a clip. She even, as Lily could tell, had a small bit of make-up on her face. However, she was not smiling. Lily smiled at her, though.

"Alexis, you look gorgeous today!" Alexis didn't reply, Lily gave her a puzzled look.

"Alexis, what's going on?" After a long pause, Alexis spoke.

"You better no do that to Elizabeth. Do you hear me, Lily? Don't you dare."

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about Remus, Lily. I'm talking about that speech that you just gave Potter. Sure he can be a real ass, Lily. But that was really harsh. Yesterday's small speech, sticking up for Snape…you know…telling Potter how arrogant he is? That was fine – it was necessary. But that one you just gave was way overboard."

"Alexis…it's just Potter. He was smiling when I was finished."

"Guys are pretty good at covering emotions, Lily."

With that, Alexis went down the stairs, at a fast rate. Lily felt like she needed to explain herself. She started to follow Alexis down the steps.

"Alexis…listen to me about the Remus thing…"

Alexis reach the bottom of the stair and kept moving. Lily stayed on the bottom stair. She was about to explain herself when she realized what Alexis was doing. James was lying on the couch. Alexis strode over to him.

"Get up, Potter."

"What the – "

"Get up now."

James got up with the most confused look Lily had ever seen. All of a sudden Alexis kissed James. And it wasn't a peck or anything. It was a long and involved kiss. Lily's mouth was wide open. When Alexis let go, she smirked at Lily and walked out. James stared after her and then turned to Lily, whose mouth was still wide open. James smirked at Lily and sat back on the couch. Lily went upstairs and fell back asleep on her bed.