Disclaimer – I would be an excellent liar if I said I owned Harry Potter
Author's notes – first of all Steve S. Haynes is indescribable. Second of all, I bought a horse and her name is Annie. Her show name is Never Forever. She is a chestnut quarter horse mare. Third of all I have a new kitten. His name is Mufasa and he is jet black. Last of all, you have my deepest apologies for taking forever to update.
I'm also going to start doing this thing where I leave clips from the chapter before so that is shall refresh your memory of what happened before.
Date chapter started: Sunday, October 16, 2005
Date chapter ended: Saturday, December 17, 2005
Date chapter updated: Saturday, December 17, 2005
"Wait, when did it happen again?"
Gerni
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"Hey Chloe wait," Remus shouted just as Chloe made it to the girls' dormitory stairs.
Remus made his way over to Chloe and pulled her up close to him. "I forgot to give you a present in return," Remus said and pulled Chloe into a kiss, the whole time drawing circles with his fingers on the small of her back.
"Kinky," Remus whispered under his breath, as they pulled apart.
Chapter 8 – I hate you, you hate me
"That was lovely and I have to…you know...umm...get back to my friends… because they are probably wondering…erm…where I am. So let's try this again sometime," Chloe mumbled, playing with her hands nervously. She started to go, without turning around, and tripped over a chair in the room, falling to the floor. She quickly jumped back up and ran back up to her dormitory where Eva and Paige were waiting for all the details.
Chloe scrambled into the room and dropped to the floor in giggles. Eva and Paige were sitting on the bed flipping through magazines, until they peered over at Chloe laughing on the floor.
"Care to share the gory details?" Eva asked as she joined Chloe on the floor.
Paige was right behind her, "Speak. Now."
"It worked," Chloe got out as she calmed down from giddy excitement. "Everything worked. It was wonderful. It was beautiful. I cannot believe it. Pinch me. Am I dreaming?"
Eva and Paige pinched Chloe and were rewarded with Chloe rubbing her arm, "Ouchie. I didn't mean for you to actually do it. Oh what am I talking about? Thank you guys!" Chloe yelled and pulled Eva and Paige into a death-gripping hug.
"You're welcome," Paige said.
"Yeah, if you don't cut off our oxygen and kill us first," Eva said.
"Oops sorry. I guess I am just so excited. It was an amazing kiss," and that was what continued to go on for the next hour with Chloe, Eva and Paige.
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(Back a couple minutes to see what Remus is up to.)
Remus watched as Chloe darted back up to her dormitory. He had only had one taste and now he knew he wanted more, much more. His whole body was screaming for her. He had never really been a boy very keen on sex but suddenly that was all he wanted. He bit his finger to make sure that everything was ok. Everything was normal so he decided that this was probably some sort of late puberty issue he was experiencing. He hadn't seen Sirius around lately so he decided he'd go get James' opinion.
Remus had seen James pass through the common room about a half an hour ago and head up to the dormitory. Remus made his was up the all too familiar stairway to his dormitory. The door was closed when he go to it and there was no sound coming from the room. Remus pushed the door open lightly and peered around the door. The lights were out and he saw James' limp figure lying on his bed. Remus made his way over to James and heard the soft breaths of a sleeping person.
Remus was going to turn, but then he noticed something he had never seen, a small streak down James' face. It could not be a tear. James did not cry, but as Remus looking closer he knew that it was definitely a tear and that was that. Something had happened since lunch. Remus knew, but he didn't know what. He decided to go in search of Sirius.
Remus didn't have to look far; he found Sirius stuffing more ice cream than he had ever seen into his mouth. Sirius looked sullen and upset. He just continued to relentlessly shove food into his mouth without even saying hello to Remus when he sat down.
"Sirius, about James," Remus began.
"Stop talking right now," Sirius said, looking even worse than before.
Remus ignored Sirius' comment, "I found him, asleep, in the middle of the day. That is not like James. To top that off, I found a tear on his cheek." Remus paused them yelled, "A damn tear, Sirius! James does not cry!"
Sirius cringed and stopped eating, "Shit, shit, shit!"
"What did you do Sirius?" Remus asked.
"He knows. Oh-my-god he knows, Remus. He fucking knows. Oh shit," Sirius continued to moan.
"He knows what? Tell me Sirius," Remus demanded.
"Holy shit! I cannot believe this," Sirius continued to mumble.
Remus grabbed Sirius' head and put a hand over his mouth to shut him up, "You tell me right now what is going on."
And then it all came out in one quick breath, "Lily is playing James."
"She's cheating on him? Lily wouldn't do that," Remus replied right away.
"No, she is toying with him and then she is going to break his heart. He knows about it. He is devastated. I know it. This is my entire fault. Goddamnit," Sirius continued to go on.
"Shut up Sirius. Tell me it all from the beginning," Remus replied and Sirius took a deep breath and began.
"It all began on the train ride. Lily and her friends decided to play this game where they date prats and then break their hearts. Well Lily got assigned to James and now she is pretending to like him for three weeks and be all lovely dovey and then bam; she is going to dump him and break his heart," Sirius finished and then looked at Remus, "We need a plan."
"And that would be…" Remus said, gesturing for Sirius to continue.
They sat in silence for about three seconds until Sirius shouted, "I've got it." So they had a plan, now all the needed was for James to play it out with them because that was the only way then could make it work.
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(Back to Lily after she has had her conversation with Sirius.)
Lily wandered the hall absentmindedly for a while until she decided to just go back to her dormitory because her scramble of thoughts wasn't getting anywhere. Then again if in the last hour you had just learned how to operate a secret map, told your boyfriend's best friend that you were going to break your boyfriend's heart, had an argument with that same friend and then been kissed by him, even if it was only on the cheek, then you would be going crazy too.
Lily trudged up to Gryffindor tower and made her way through the portrait of the fat lady. Lily passed through the common room and headed straight to the girls' dormitories. She made her way up the stairs and to her room. She found Chloe talking and talking, on and on, with Paige and Eva sitting on the floor across from her, trying to look as interested as possible.
"What's going on?" Lily asked suspiciously.
"I kissed Remus!" Chloe shouted on top of her lungs.
"One-hundred fifty one," Paige said.
"One-hundred fifty one what?" Lily asked.
"That was the one-hundred and fifty first time Chloe said that she kissed Remus," Eva answered blandly.
"That's because he did kiss me," Chloe said beaming.
"One-hundred fifty two," Paige said and went back to playing with the rug.
"Guys I would love to talk about Remus and numbers and kissing, but I have a huge problem on my hands and I feel like crap," Lily said, raising her hand to her forehead as a headache began to come on.
"Oh honey," Paige said as she got up and guided Lily to her bed.
Chloe stopped talking and stood up, as well as Eva. Eva got some Advil off the bedside table and handed it to Lily as Chloe fetched a glass of water.
"Tell us what happened," Eva said as Lily swallowed the pills.
Lily began from the beginning, starting with her leaving the great hall to talk to Sirius. She spilled the beans on how she had told him all about the plan and that he wanted her to break it off with James to save him from the pain. When Lily had finally finished spitting out the awful tale, she muttered, "I feel like suck a dumb bitch. This isn't the real me, is it? I don't really break hearts and talk with Sirius Black in broom closets? I am going insane. What am I going to do? Just tell me and I'll do it. Someone needs to fix everything; I've made a complete mess out of it."
"Honey, just calm down," Paige soothed.
"It's all right Lils," Eva encouraged.
"I'm so sorry darling. We'll help you sort it out," Chloe comforted as well.
"Guys, I know he is mean, but I still feel absolutely awful about what I am doing. Should I break up with him?" Lily asked.
Her friends went silent for they were all pondering the matter; was a bit of humor really worth the suffering of another person? Did they really have the heart to tell Lily to go screw James Potter because he deserved to land in the crapper? Despite the fact that he had all made them cry and upset out of their mind from petty comments and actions, they didn't want to hurt him.
"I think you should follow Sirius' advice," Chloe finally said.
"I agree," whispered Eva
"What they said," Paige agreed as Lily looked to her for her opinion.
"How should I do it?" Lily asked.
"I say learn how to do it from the master, in other words the one and only Sirius Black," Paige suggested.
"Go find him," Eva began.
"He knows James the best," Chloe added.
"Thanks guys," Lily said as she wiped away the tears she had begun to cry without even realizing it.
Lily hugged them and then left the room. She walked down the stairs and found herself in the common room. She figured the most sensible place to find Sirius would be his room and so she made her way to the boys' dormitories. Lily came to the room she knew belonged to the infamous marauders and she opened the door, becoming enveloped in darkness. She lightly dimmed on the lights to fill the room with a faint glow. The room appeared to be empty and she almost left until she noticed someone stir on one of the beds. He had messy black hair and was lying in the bed she remembered to have belonged to James.
Lily quietly closed the door behind her, making sure she didn't wake the sleeping boy. She crept over to his bed and lowered herself to the floor. Sure enough, it was James and he was sleeping in the middle of the day. Lily sat there in silence for a few moments, but just as she decided she should leave, the door flung open and the lights were switched on.
"Jamsie! We have this excellent," Sirius shouted, but stopped mid-sentence as he noticed James on the bed and Lily kneeling besides him.
James stirred and opened his eyes, coming face to face with Lily. Then, to top it all off, an owl flew in the cracked window and, making himself comfortable on one of the three beds, took a nice bathroom break.
"Evans," James snarled at Lily, "How nice of you to pay me a visit."
Then it all hit Lily at once; James knew about the plan, otherwise she would not have been referred to as Evans. Sirius must have told him even though he promised not to. Why did she even think to trust that lying pile of rat scum?
"Sirius you dickweed! I trusted you and you betrayed me!" Lily screamed, jumping to her feet. She shoved past Sirius with the most force she could muster and ran down the hall screaming in agitation.
There was silence for a good minute and then James jumped right to it, "You weren't planning on telling me, were you Padfoot? You were just going to let me rot in hell and fall madly in love with that girl, weren't you? Just goes to show how much our friendship really means. You'd rather make bargains about the likes of me with my enemies." With that, James had jumped up, punched Sirius in the face and jogged out of the room, fuming with anger.
"Goddamnit!" Sirius yelled, grapping is nose.
"Siri-" Remus began.
"What? Do you hate me too now?" Sirius snapped.
"No, now just shut up you twit and get a hold on yourself. We need to figure out what to do next," Remus said.
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Author's Notes – Sorry about the fact that this was such a short chapter, I would have made it longer, but I figured you wouldn't want to wait another month for me to finally update and I figured this was good ending point for the chapter. I hope you liked it lots and I am so, so, so, so sorry about taking forever and ever to update
-The oh so psycho one
