Chapter 6:

"And so I came back to my dormitory," said Emily, spreading jam over a piece of toast. After what happened at dawn, she was extremely hungry. Lily stared at her with her mouth wide open the whole story.

"I- I can believe you did that! You're amazing, Ems!" said Lily, her voice filled with admiration.

"Believe it or not, that's the third time I've heard that today," said Emily, blushing furiously.

"Sirius?" Lily guessed.

"He just wouldn't stop saying it!" Said Emily, a little flustered. "He even gave me a kiss on the cheek before he went inside," she looked away, having a hard time keeping the smile off her face.

Lily did not approve of Emily liking Sirius- and possibly the other way round- but she masked her face of disapproval with a smile. They finished eating breakfast and parted their ways; Lily to the dungeons for Potions with the Slytherins, and Emily to Astronomy.

"Are you going to talk to Snape?" Emily asked, distastefully, before they left the great hall.

"Of course I am!" she exclaimed. "Things have been so complicated; I think he needs a friend right now…" Emily rolled her eyes. "And obviously I'm furious with what he did to Sirius!" said Lily, trying to sound believable. Emily gave her a weird look and left.

Of course I care about what he did to Sirius, but isn't it my fault that he's acting like this? These thoughts circled around Lily's head when she accidentally bumped into a tall figure, wearing a Gryffindor scarf, and dropped her books.

"Sorry," said James attempting to pick up her books, but when he saw it was Lily he immediately backed off. Smart guy, thought Lily.

"Sev!" Lily called, trying to Snape's attention.

"Lil? Umm… hi?" said Snape, looking mildly confused and apprehensive.

"Look, Sev, you know I love you, but only as a friend, and I'm sorry for not handling the situation well back then, but… we should move on."

Snape looked relieved. "I agree. I apologize for the springing up the question on you like that… I wasn't myself." Lily let out a relieved laugh, and the two walked into the classroom and took their usual desk in the back of the room.

The teacher had given them a very hard assignment to do and Lily and Snape where totally immersed on what they were doing, when Lily suddenly remembered… She slapped him.

"Ow!" Snape yelped, "What was that for?" he said extremely mad, but when he saw her face he remembered.

"Lil, come on. He's an arrogant idiot! He deserved what he got, and even worse. He was breaking the rules! I had to, Lily," said Snape whining

"You had to tie him up, throw him on the floor, humiliate him and get him expelled!" Said Lily's voice shrill, receiving a few glances at them.

"Snape what you did was pure evil"

"Bu-"

"I don't care!" Said Lily angrily suddenly they heard a bubbling sound. Snape quickly attended to their potion while Lily kept on talking

"Snape he was old, helpless, and weak! I'm not saying what Sirius did was right but you shouldn't have stupefied him multiple times letting his head bleed and then leaving him!"

"Lily! You're overreacting." Said Snape angrily, This was definitely the wrong thing to say because she gave him the silent treatment the rest of the class.

What the pair didn't know was that the story was spread around the whole school, misinterpreted