Chapter 18: See You on the Other Side
I won't give up on us even if the skies get rough, I'm givin' you all my love-I'm still lookin' up. -Jason Mraz "I Won't Give Up"
"What?!" I screamed, trembling and turning to Daivat, energized by James's kiss and the possibility that I might be able to go back.
"Lily, the most powerful wizards can create-sort of an illusion, a hallucination, if you will-"
"I already know!" I rushed, legs giving out. Thankfully, James was there to lend his strong arms. He set me back up straight, resting his forehead on mine and grinning like a mad man.
"James, we all get to go back!" I could barely contain my excitement. I began to hop up and down again, getting the sudden urge to dance around the room and scream my lungs out.
"I wasn't going to let you the first time you came here," Daivat chuckled. "The second time got me thinking. So I tested you, and you passed. You both deserve it," he said earnestly, smiling. "Remember, when you return, your memories of this will fade fast, much faster than a normal memory. James, you won't remember anything, you realize," James's eyes turned a bit sad, and he pulled me into a hug. I rested my head on his shoulder, closing my eyes and breathing in deep. James had kissed me, I registered with shock, a tingle running through my body. But did it mean anything, or was it just in the ecstasy of the moment?
"I'll just...give you two a minute," Daivat slid tactfully out from behind the curtains, smiling.
"I won't remember that you're a hero, no one will, but that doesn't make you any less of one," he murmured into my hair, and I pulled back to look in his eyes. A beautiful compilation of brown, green, blue...overlapping, merging, standing alone, like an intricate spiderweb kaleidoscope. I could spend years looking at his eyes and never tire of them, I thought. Little did I know he was thinking the same. I could spend years looking at them and never figure out what color they were. A sudden stab of loneliness shot through me-I felt like I was leaving him, though in reality I was only going back to him. Getting more time with him.
"James, you're a hero too. No one else I know would have dropped everything to go off adventuring with me," I murmured.
"Evans, you so like me," James broke into a smile, pulling away and doing a goofy victory dance.
"What?!" I spluttered. "I so do not!" I was steadily turning red, and James threw back his head and laughed, narrowly avoiding spinning out of control and knocking into the bed he had recovered on.
"Do too!"
"Do not!"
"Do too!
"Do not!
He grinned, bending over to look at me in the eyes, his face inches away. "Do not!" He said, and I automatically said the opposite-
"Do too!" I protested. I immediately realized what I said, and the smile on my face turned into a look of shock as my jaw dropped, eyebrows shooting up into my hairline. "That-that did not count!" I spluttered, putting my hands on his head and mussing up his hair.
"Hey!" He protested, retaliating by locking his arms around my waist and spinning me until I was dizzy.
"What, I thought you liked it like that?" I teased when he set me down.
"I do," he admitted. "And so do you," he teased, winking devilishly.
"James Potter, I-" I never got the chance to finish my sentence, because then James kissed me. He held me close with one arm, the other arm behind my head. I worked my hands into his hair, kissing him back.
And it was pretty much the best kiss ever.
When we broke apart, both of us were smiling like fools. He kissed down my neck and I let out a little sigh.
"I'm not really leaving, you know," I said softly. "Just coming back."
"I know," he nodded. "And we get to do it all over again!" He grinned. "Don't worry, I mature up a bit somewhere in there," he promised.
"I don't need you too mature up too much, just enough so you don't hex every boy that looks at me twice," I rolled my eyes teasingly. "Remember Marcus? Marcus Blewstry?" James reddened.
"It needed to be done, though I admit I could have merely...turned his hair pink or something."
"That would have been slightly better," I rolled my eyes.
"Here," he walked and picked up the helicopter, the locket, and the key from my bedside table. He made them even smaller than they already were, magically reducing them, and tied them all onto the chain, looping it around my neck. "Remember to tell me, even if I won't believe you," he whispered as Daivat came in.
"Life is the journey," he said cryptically.
"What?" James and I said together, puzzled.
"That is the latin on the locket. And the locket will become dormant as soon as you travel back in time," I nodded, swallowing hard. "Whenever you are ready. You know how it works, do you not? It will not only bring you back in time, it will actually re-do time. But a wonderful flaw is that you are able to keep a single thing that happened the first time around, happen again." I nodded slowly. "I won't try to explain any more than that, you do not need to know the whole complicated story, it would only succeed in frying your brain," he smiled, violet eyes twinkling. "Goodbye, Lily."
"Thank you," I told him, and hugged James. "Thank you," I whispered again, this time into James's ear.
"Twist the time turner-four times should suffice. It knows what you want kept the same, don't worry about that bit," he winked, and I stepped away from James, not letting go of his hand, or dropping his gaze. I squeezed his fingers for support, suddenly a bit afraid. What if something went wrong? Would I end up in the exact second I had left? I closed my eyes and James gripped my hands tighter, sensing my doubt.
"See you on the other side," he whispered bravely.
I began to twist the time turner.
One. Silver mist began to twirl around me, and James's grip was gone from mine. I bit my lip, trying not to cry out. My pajama clothes and hair whipped around me as the wind picked up, obscuring my view. I saw shadowy figures fly by faster than I could focus on them-
Two. I continued to speed up, silver tendrils of mist curling around my legs, my arms. Enveloping me.
Three. Excitement was building in me, my fingers were shaking and my legs felt like they were going to buckle at any second. I was spinning, flying through time-erasing it. Starting over. But one thing-stopping Voldemort-it would still happen.
Four. Suddenly the silver mist retracted, bursting into sparks. I closed my eyes as the time turner turned to powdered sand and slipped through my fingers. My feet met hard ground, and I stumbled, eyes flying open as my palms hit the ground.
"Oof!" I exclaimed, eyes wide as I stared down at the floor, on my hands and knees. I was on the rooftop of Marlene's house in Greece! I shot to my feet, shaking with excitement and exuberance, drinking in the sight around me- same white-washed and painted buildings slanted down-hill toward the sea, merging and overlapping like one big family.
My legs began to pump, and I ran. I practically threw myself down the ladder and skipped the last meter completely, jumping down it. I ran to the door, trembling. I lifted my hand, about to knock-I dismissed the idea. I opened the door slowly.
"-should go to Knockturn alley too, just to make sure. I mean, wouldn't you think that those dodgy people would know where she is, if anyone does? It's been two days, people!" Came James's frantic voice.
"Who knows how much longer she'll be gone? She might need our help right now!" Agreed Marlene.
"Or she could be standing behind you all, waiting to be hugged," everyone in the room turned, a look of pure shock on each of their faces.
"Lily?" Four gasps emitted from around the table.
"In the flesh," I grinned, and was immediately crushed into a hug.
"Lily!" Marlene and Remus reached me first, throwing their arms around me hugging me furiously. I tried not to explode with happiness as I stuttered out a hello. I was amazed-it had worked. It had really worked.
"Where were you?" Marlene shrieked, pulling back but then pulling me into another bone-crushing hug.
"My turn to hug!" Sirius protested, throwing his arms out as I crashed into him and he lifted me off the ground, laughing.
"I don't exactly remember," I said as he set me down. "James!" I positively screamed, launching myself into the arms of James Potter, who held me tighter than ever, spinning me.
"What do you mean, you don't remember?" Remus said, ashen-faced. I didn't want to lie to my friends, but what else was I to say?
"I just-don't," I said, and they all looked at me oddly.
"Where did you get this necklace? Whose clothes are you wearing?" Marlene bombarded, pointing at my apparel. I blinked, remembering the necklace, smiling goofily at the helicopter and looking at James, half-expecting him to get it. I contained my guffaw when he looked just as shocked as the other three.
"You didn't tell my parents I went missing, did you?" I asked, suddenly worried. "Oh my Godric, what do your parents think?" I clamped my hands on my cheeks, looking at Marlene.
"They think you went and visited your parents, don't worry," she calmed me. "And no, no one else knew you were gone." I stood there, smiling like an idiot.
"C'mon Lily, let's go upstairs," Marlene tugged at my arm.
"Alright," I said, staring at James, then Sirius, then Remus. I had missed them all so much. I pulled all three protesting boys (well, James wasn't protesting) into a hug.
"It's only been two days, Lils!" Sirius squirmed.
"I don't care," I laughed, wishing I could tell him how wrong he was. "It feels like it's been years."
It took me a full week to get back into the swing of things, to stop jumping whenever an unexpected noise startled me, to stop grinning goofily into space and thanking everyone and telling them all how amazing they were.
We were swimming before a storm hit-dark clouds were rolling in from the sky, the air warm and full with energy.
"Remus!" I gasped as he came up behind me, dunking me unexpectadly. "I'll get you for that!" I spluttered, diving after him.
"Look out be-looooooow!" Sirius bellowed as he jumped, flailing, from the edge of a boat whose owner we did not know.
"Ahhh!" Marlene and I screamed as we ducked underwater to avoid the blast of water.
I was having the best time of my life, and nothing could change that-
"Hello, boys!" Came a perky voice from the dock several meters away. "And you two," the voice took on a slightly more disdainful tone.
"Who's that again?" I muttered. Her face vaguely rung a bell...oh! I remembered now.
"Hey, Amanda!" I greeted the girl politely, remembering that she was rather shallow and I did not like her. Marlene looked at me, startled. Amanda glared.
"What?" I asked, completely confused.
"That's Agatha," Marlene hissed in my ear, trying to contain her laughter.
"Oh! Sorry, Agatha!" I blushed, ducking under water to avoid being splashed by James.
"Come on it, Aggie! Water's amazing, I promise!" Sirius popped up close to the dock, swimming like a fish, shaking his hair to get the water out like a dog.
"If you insist," Agatha giggled, pulling off her cover-up to reveal the skimpiest white bikini I had ever seen.
"Wow," I winced, slightly hurt as the boys began to completely ignore us, flirting with Agatha.
"Ignore them," Marlene rolled her eyes, kicking back into a backstroke and floating away. "What was that, anyway? You didn't remember Agatha," she looked at me suspiciously. "I still think you should write Dumbledore and tell him..." she trailed off when I gave her a look. They all thought I had somehow been kidnapped by Voldemort, or something equally as sinister. I frowned, trying to remember the last name of Susanna, the woman I had become for...how long was it, again? My frown deepened as I tried to remember. The edges were getting hazy.
" Lazaraith!" I blurted aloud. "That was it!"
"Yeah, okay," Marlene looked at me like I was crazy. The next time we looked over, James and Agatha were nowhere to be seen-Remus and Sirius were jumping off the unmanned boat.
"Let's try that!" I said excitedly to Marlene, pointing to the boat.
"Race you," Marlene grinned, and we took off toward the ladder on the side, laughing and shoving each other.
"Ha!" She proclaimed as she reached the ladder first, shooting up a dripping arm and grabbing a rung.
"Don't fall!" I called up to her as I began to climb behind her. The drop from the top was about six meters, (20 feet) but would be a lot more painful if we fell because Marlene slipped.
"Gee Lily, thanks for the vote of confidence," I could tell she was rolling her eyes, and I grinned. We finally reached the top, Sirius and Remus cheering us on from below.
"You go first," she advised, looking down at the drop.
"C'mon, Lily!" Sirius roared, motioning me down. "I'll be fifty by the time you girls get down here!"
"Fine, but I'm going backwards!" I laughed, turning around.
"Why backwards?" Marlene gasped, stepping up on the edge, preparing to jump with me.
"I'm not really sure," I admitted. Suddenly, a scene from below caught my eye-
Agatha and James locked in an embrace. They were kissing fiercely, passionately, arms locked around each other-it looked like they were wrestling-
"Whoa!" I screamed, foot slipping and losing my balance. I didn't remember falling, but suddenly I was shooting down in the sea, water shooting up my nose.
"Ah!" I coughed and spluttered as I came up, nose throbbing.
"You alright, Lily?" Marlene called down.
"Yeah!" I called back up, blushing red. I still couldn't get the image of James snogging Agatha out of my mind.
I ducked under the water, screaming as loudly as I could where no one could hear me. I had to remind myself-this wasn't mature James. This was sixth-year James. I didn't have him yet, maybe I never would. He wasn't mine, I scolded myself fiercely. I tried not to care, I really did.
But I was ashamed to admit I ignored them both pointedly when they came out from behind the boat, her on his back, both laughing as she whispered in his ear.
"Go Prongsie!" Sirius bellowed, cannon-balling half-way up the ladder as he saw his best mate come back with the girl. Remus looked sideways at me sympathetically. I was crushed.
"What?" I caught him looking at me.
"James can be a bit insensitive," he tried to apologize for his friend.
"I don't even care, he can snog whoever he likes!" I snapped, instantly feeling bad for taking my anger out on Remus. "Sorry," I apologized.
All of the affection I had been starting to grow for James on the mission for Daivat was quickly dissipating-if this kept up, we'd be back to Evans and Potter in no time.
"Quit!" I hissed at James across the table, eyes flashing. He pretended he didn't hear me, kicking me in the ankle yet again. I had refused to be anything more than coolly polite to James for the past two days now, and was absolutely furious with him. Furious for not growing up faster, for being Agatha's boyfriend, for not remembering. There. I said it. I was disappointed I'd shared so much with him, and he didn't remember it. But still, I'd promised him-well, older him-that I'd tell him, and I would. As soon as my anger wore off.
James kicked me again and I retailed quickly, kicking out as hard as I could, and my toes connected with something hard. I smirked into my potatoes with satisfaction.
"Ouch!" Hissed Sirius over the table, eyes watering with pain. "What the hell was that?" He glared at Marlene.
"It wasn't me, Black, you can look at your friend Potter over there, he's been kicking Lily ever since supper started," Marlene snapped, eyes flashing. My spat with James led to Marlene's with Sirius, and Remus-
"Stop fighting, you all!" Remus exploded, banging his fist on the table. The adults' conversation from inside the kitchen stopped for a moment, but resumed once they didn't hear anything else.
We all looked at Remus.
"Can we eat somewhere else, Marlene?" I looked pointedly away from everyone but Marlene, who was sitting beside me. "Somewhere my legs can get a break, and bruise in private," I threw a pointed glare at Potter, who retailed by smiling with a mouthful of steak. "Lovely," I groaned as Sirius shot a grape into his open smile.
"My pleasure," she said coolly, and we took our plates and left.
"Ugh, so bloody-"
"Frustrating, I know! You'd think we were-"
"At a table with two year olds!" We grumbled over each other, walking out into the night to sit on the roof. "Ugh, that Agatha is erasing any progress with growing up that Potter had made, and it's not a good influence with Black, either!" I growled, eyes flashing.
"I think they need to be taught a lesson," Marlene began to grin devilishly.
"What do you mean?" I raised my eyebrow suspiciously as we surreptitiously levitated our dishes up to the roof, making sure no muggle was watching.
"You remember at the beginning of the summer how I told you that James's dad agreed to help us prank the boys if they got too unbearable?" The memory snapped into place and I began to smile as well, cackling loudly once I jumped onto the flat roof.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" I grinned.
"Oh yes, dear Lily."
Marlene went and got Mr. Potter, who gladly followed us up onto the roof. He was in his sixties, but sprung up the ladder as agile as a teenager.
"What's happening, girls?" He rubbed his hands together, a smile alighting on the face that was so like James's. "Time for the pranksters to be out-pranked?"
"Yes!" Marlene and I exclaimed together. "What have you got?" I asked him excitedly, leaning in.
"Well, here's where we start..."
"Night, Potter," I smirked on the way up to the stairs.
"Black," Marlene continued, walking behind me.
"Remus," we said together, hiding our laughs as we began to run, clutching our stomachs, not able to contain it any longer.
"There's something up with those two," we heard Sirius say before we entered our rooms, and burst into guffaws, slamming the door behind us.
"Ooooh, they're going to just love us tomorrow!" Marlene flung herself backward onto her bed, shoulders shaking with silent laughter.
"I know," I said smugly. "Just wait until they get up and try to leave their room!"
I closed my eyes and recounting exactly just what we'd done. Before we knew it we'd fallen into a sleep, mischievous smiles on both of our faces.
"What-argh! JAMES!" Sirius's bellow carried through the walls, waking us up. I looked to Marlene, burying my face in my pillow and positively screaming with laughter. With a few invisible tunnel entrances and an apparation target-hole, not to mention an few muggle tricks, you could do anything.
The Marauders
Sirius started, half awake and half still being chased by Snivelly in a tutu. He batted repeatedly at his nose, finally turning over, face in his pillow and butt in the air, trying to get comfortable. Something was still tickling the back of his head-
He finally got his fingers around it, pulling it down to his face to get a closer-
"What-Argh! JAMES!" He shouted-suddenly, his bed was flying, catapulting him backward to the wall-but not the wall-he went shooting, slipping and screaming down a cream covered slide, now it had covered him with some sort of mush-he was flying up in the air, over the house-he flailed, yelling loudly as a hole in the ceiling appeared and he landed back on his bed, terrified, covered with goo. All too fast for him to think, but his heart was pounding wildly, fingers trembling with the sudden shock. He was wider awake than he'd ever been. And then, much to his dismay, the ceiling began to rain feathers-covering a steaming mad Sirius with the furry bits. James, he thought. Only his best mate could pull such a well-thought out prank.
At the same time, James was also having trouble-he awoke to Sirius's shouts, eyes open and lines blurry. Groaning, he saw Sirius's bed do some sort of weird move, propelling his best friend toward the wall-when the bed came down, Sirius was nowhere to be seen-but James had just caught the tail end of a hole in the wall. He blinked madly, desperately reaching for his glasses, hand roving the table by his bed, knocking down everything and finally coming upon-oh, no.
Another hand was grasping James's, and he was being pulled into, under his night stand, catapulted through the air in his room, and hit some sort of squishy target, being pulled into it, being soaked completely with something, and suddenly, a soaking wet James Potter was rolled through feathers. And then, somehow, he was being forced to apparate-
He coughed, blinking and jamming his glasses onto his face, which somehow managed to stay clutched in his hand. He was shocked, eyes wide-he hadn't even been given the chance to think. The room came into focus-
"AH!" He yelled, jumping back. A figure in the bed above him stirred, and when the lump under the covers moved-
"Agatha?"
"AHHHH!" She screamed, opening her mouth and screaming loudly just as James exclaimed her name. "James? What-how-you-feathers-?!" She shot up, bringing her pillow to her eyes. "I'm not wearing make up! Get out! Out! Out out out! Ugh, you creeper! We're through!" She swatted at him with the pillow, and he was too stunned to move-only one thought in his mind- Sirius. Only he could pull a prank like this. He stomped back to Marlene's house, wide awake, barely even remembering that Agatha had just dumped him. The sun was just rising, and people were already out of their houses-pointing and gasping at James's feather covered body, he gritted his teeth and waved, hoping they wouldn't recognize him with all the feathers. Unfortunately, his face had escaped the feather treatment.
"SIRIUS BLACK!" He bellowed once he opened the door to the house. Sirius thundered down the stairs, appearing at the bottom, coated with feathers as well-
"Sirius-"
"James-
"You-"
"You-"
"Lily and Marlene!" They gasped together, the answer dawning on them. They raced up the staircase, all the way trying to pick their feathers off to no avail.
Back in the room, Remus turned over in his sleep, snoring loudly.
"Quick, they're coming!" I gasped as I began to hear footsteps. Marlene and I threw ourselves back down, and I curled up, bringing the quilt to my chin and closing my eyes, slowing my breathing.
"LILY EVANS!"
"MARLENE MCKINNON!" The boys bellow, and I pretended to open my eyes slowly, yawning and stretching.
"Hello, boys," Marlene announced sleepily as I rubbed my eyes, trying to hold in my laugh.
"What's with the feathers?" I asked, feigning innocence, eyes bugging out at our beautiful masterpiece.
"Don't play innocent!" Sirius growled, pointing a finger.
"He's right, Lils, we should get a picture," Marlene shrugged, and before either boy could react, she levitated her camera we both sidled up to the boys sides, grinning wildly-
"Say cheese!" I screamed with the hilariousness of it all, and the camera flashed just as Sirius took my shoulder and began to muss up my hair.
"Ahh!" I screamed, and Sirius pulled me up, threw me into his arms, bridal style, as James did Marlene.
"Si-Sirius, what are you doing?" I asked, shaking with laughter.
"Water, Prongs?"
"You got it, Pads." Marlene and I screamed in protest, but really both of us were shaking too badly with derisive laughter to really try and struggle.
"Wish I could-have-seen-your face!" I laughed, slapping his arms, tears squeezing out my eyes.
"Get these feathers of me!" He yelled-we were almost to the water, and suddenly I realized that I didn't want to go in!
"No!" I screamed, pounding his arms, still laughing, which probably made it hard to take me seriously. "Put me down! Sirius Black, put me down this instant or you'll never know the removing charm for those feathers!" Sirius only cackled madly.
"You want me to put you down, Lily?" He grinned evilly, walking out onto the dock.
"Yes-but-on-dry land!" I screamed, struggling as the fishermen in the boats laughed at us.
"Sweet revenge!" Sirius yelled as I twisted, screaming until I hit the water a meter down.
"James Potter, I will get you!" Marlene screamed as she was thrown in as well. I suddenly had a stroke of genius-as they were both slapping their knees and generally appreciating their cleverness, I pulled Marlene to me and whispered-"Under the dock! There's a few inches, we can stick out mouths out and breath, and they'll think we've drowned, and we'll get them in here as well!" I said excitedly, tugging her arm. She nodded excitedly and we both submerged. I opened my eyes into the green, murky depths, sun rays shining through ahead of us. Marlene turned to me and I pointed to the dock above. She nodded, hair floating around her face, and we quickly swum up, trying to still our ragged breaths as we put our mouths out of the water, lips just centimeters from the wood. We clutched the cracks between the board with our fingers until we got into a more comfortable position-thankfully, there was more room than we'd thought, and we could tread water, keeping half of our face above water.
"Hey-where'd they go?" James said, their laughter finally dying. I looked to Marlene, holding in my laughter and trying to ignore the gigantic fish swimming around our ankles.
"They were just-just there!" Sirius protested, and their footfalls were extra loud as they pounded above our heads.
"Jump in laddies, they must have drowned!" Roared the fisherman who'd laughed quietly to himself, watching as we'd gone under and knowing what we were doing.
Two splashes followed, and I ducked underwater for a moment, opening my eyes to see the forms of James and Sirius, kicking to stay above water, bubbles trickling up toward the surface from where they had jumped in.
"Lily!" James yelled, going under, facing the opposite way, and probably opened his eyes and Sirius began to shout for Marlene.
I ducked underwater, watching James with my nose plugged so as to save as much air as I possibly could. James turned around under the water, looking panicked-
He yelled something underwater, probably my name, eyebrows shooting up and eyes widening as he grabbed the corner of Sirius's shirt, pulling him down and pointing at us. Marlene had submerged as well and both of us were smiling cheekily and waving at them, hair drifting around our shoulders and heads, pajamas billowing out. We looked at each other and high fived, kicking our way out from under the dock.
"Ha, ha!" Marlene gasped as we put our heads above the water, laughing hysterically at James and Sirius's faces. The feathers still stuck to them, everywhere but their faces, just like we'd planned. They wouldn't lose the feathers for a while-twenty four hours, give or take, depending on the potency of the spell cast.
"That was hilarious!" I said, flinging red strands of hair out of my face.
"No! It was not!" Sirius shouted, spraying us both with water, pushing his palms out toward us. "We though you had drowned!" Sirius pushed forward through the water and tackled Marlene, burying his head on her shoulder and holding her tight. She was too shocked to move, only to wrap her arms back around him and rest her chin on the top of his head, looking at me, shocked, like-what?
James pointedly looked away at me, peeved. And I pointedly looked in the other direction, nose in the air. If he didn't want to talk to me, or even look at me...two could play that game.
Thus, Marlene and Sirius's spat ended, and James and mine reached a whole nother level. Sirius and Marlene walked back to the house together, hands linked and whispering to each other softly, laughing every once in a while. James and I walked behind them, across the road from each other, pointedly not looking toward the other. I firmly crossed my arms over my chest, though it felt rather odd to walk doing so.
Potter, I seethed, was despicable. Trust him to always be after me to lighten up, and when I finally did, and pulled one tiny, little prank, he went into his own little world! He was a hypocrite! And-and whenever a bloke even looked my way, much less tried to ask me out, they would end up in the hospital wing! And James had a girlfriend, and I had the "nerve" to be a tad bit upset about it! Well, I will tell you something, I wasn't upset anymore! I couldn't care less!
"You know, you're really a hypocrite, aren't you?" I snapped, finally looking over to him.
"Me?" He pointed to himself incredulously.
"No! The bloke behind you!" I shouted sarcastically.
"Give me one reason why I'm the hypocrite here! You're the one who blasted me and my best mate through a wall and drenched us in feathers!" He clenched his fist, walking toward me. We stopped in the middle of the path-Sirius and Marlene stopped to watch for a moment as we glared at each other, soaking wet and livid, until Sirius whispered something to her and they continued toward the house.
"I can give you several! Starting with that-statement-right-there!" I poked him in the chest four times to emphasize the last words. "You pull pranks on me for years, and now you get mad because I pull one little-"
"Oh, so that's what this is about?" He rolled his eyes. "It's not about Agatha, is it? Because that's where I ended up, you know," he looked at me, eyes wide and glasses sliding off, down his nose slick with water. I resisted the urge to push them back up.
"What are you talking about, Potter?" I yelled, crossing my arms and scrunching up my nose.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about! You're jealous, and you can't handle it!" He shouted, waving his arms frantically. We were both big on talking with out hands.
"What do you mean, I can't handle it?" I pointed to myself with both hands, flinging them out and gesturing frantically to the rest of the world on the next part, flailing hands causing him to take a step back. "I could care less who you date, Potter, I really could. Does the name Marcus Blewstry ring a bell, any at all in that fricking big head of yours?" I rapped my knuckles on the side of his head. He caught my wrist to stop me from repeating the motion, and wouldn't let go until the third time I tried tugging it out of his grip.
"Hell Evans, I told you I was sorry!" He exclaimed. I had to stop and think about that-the sad thing was, I really couldn't remember if he did or not. It must have shown on my face, and I suddenly shrunk back. James and I were having a shouting match in the middle of the street. I suddenly couldn't look at him anymore, and felt like crying. I whirled around and began to run away, eyes blurring.
"Lily, what-LILY!" He shouted after me, feet pounding.
"Don't follow me!" I yelled in a thick voice, wiping furiously at my eyes. "Just leave me alone!"
A\N: Alright, I didn't have time for any proofreading with this chapter, so sorry for any mistakes. A HUGE thank you to all my readers and reviewers, you make pushing the update button worth it:D