Chapter 4
Lily turned down a dark alley one night a few days later, her low-cut shirt and short skirt failing to block out the chilly winds running down the alley. Her high-heels clicked against the pavement rhythmically, her face a moon in the dark.
Suddenly, the sound of a cigarette falling came from a few feet away. "I can keep you warm," a voice suddenly came from the shadows, it's owner's dark intentions dripping from his every word.
"James, is that you?" Lily asked, rubbing the goose-bumps now visible up and down are arms and legs as she began taking slow steps backward, keeping her hand on the wall as if she could run to it for protection.
"Forget about James," the voice said, a figure emerging from against a building wall. "You've got me."
"Get awa—" Lily began, but the voice's owner, a thirty-something year old man, had locked his lips with Lily's, pushing her into the nearest wall. The redheaded girl kept her mouth shut despite the tongue she could feel licking her lips, trying to squirm out of the man's reach. Nonetheless, he was reaching under her shirt when a voice came from just a few feet away.
"Lily, is that you?" Immediately, the man and Lily turned to face Sirius Black and James Potter, their eyes both shining in the moonlight.
"Yes, thank G-d," Lily gasped, trying to push the man away from her, but his hands seemed glued on her waist.
Quickly analyzing the situation, James took a few steps forward until he was only a few inches away from the man. "Get your hands off of her," James whispered darkly, his eyes flickering dangerously behind his glasses with jealousy.
The man contemplated his next action for a moment, eyeing James's arm muscles skeptically. Finally, he let Lily go, pushing past Sirius as he walked away. As soon as he was out of earshot, Sirius exclaimed jokingly, "Technically, I'm an older guy as well, Lily, if that's what you're looking for in a man."
"Shut up, Sirius," James ordered angrily before Lily could say anything.
"James, you're just jealous of how Lily is checking me out," Sirius countered, grinning playfully. Immediately, James's head spun around to Lily, who'd only been glaring at Sirius.
"I need to go," Lily muttered, turning her eyes to the ground. "Thanks for… yeah." As quickly as she could, she paced out of the alleyway, her high heels clicking on the pavement in a harsh-sounding rhythm.
"Can't you take in any serious issues without making a joke?" James spit out as soon as Lily had turned a corner into the shadows.
"Can't you take in any serious issues without forcing all your anger on me?" Sirius retorted, anger boiling throughout his body.
"You don't get anything, Sirius, nothing!" James said, his voice rising.
"Like you get my family? James, you don't know where I'm coming from."
"I get your family, Padfoot. I just don't get why, if you hate your family so much, you think about them so often that they affect half the things that happen to you!" James was yelling now, his arms flying around in emphasis of what he was saying.
"James, you think everything is so simple. If you like someone, you think about them a lot, if you hate someone, you forget they exist… or hang them from a tree in their underwear."
"Whatever," James responded quietly, walking past Sirius angrily.
thank you so much for all the reviews you guys have been giving me! i've been having so much fun writing this, and it really makes me feel all happy when you say you enjoy reading it. i forget this person's username, but they said they were hoping for longer chapters, so the next chapter (i wrote it a few hours ago.) has 861 words, which is like a record for me. anyway, thank you so, so much for the reviews. i really appreciate them.
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