AN: Well, I got a couple reviews and I decided to be nice and update sooner than I thought I would. It's not amazing but I quite like it, I'm disappointed with my ending on this one but I don't want to leave it hanging too long...
The next day Mary came down to breakfast in a thundering temper and seeing Lily kissing Kingsley Shacklebolt and Emeline Vance on Sirius' lap with her tongue down his throat did nothing to help. However it wasn't until he eyes fell on James and the skanky sixth year next to him that had hands all over him while he was just grinning like a blithering idiot that he was. Suddenly Mary just couldn't stand being near him anymore so she stormed off. James looked at the sixth year smiling in a victorious manner at him and realized that his situation was ridiculous: he loved a girl, fancied her best mate and yet was apparently going out with someone for whom he had no feelings. He distractedly grabbed his pumpkin juice and after draining it realized that he was being ridiculous, of course he had feelings for Farsiris Soopurrfishill! She was his girlfriend after all he felt almost no compulsion to follow Mary just as he had the previous night when he saw her storm off.
That afternoon after classes James was walking along a hallway thinking about breaking up with Farsiris, he had no idea why he was with the girl, he fancied Mary for Merlin's sake. Speak of the devil who should come across the corner in a bad mood but the one and only Mary MacDonald. Her hazel eyes shooting down anybody who dared to look into them directly, she towered over most with her 5 feet 9 and her chestnut hair crackled with fury; Needless to say that when she came across James it did nothing to improve her terrible mood. She shot him a glare that would have sent any intelligent man scampering and started to walk past him. James took this to mean three things: she had not forgotten last night, she had seen him with Farsiris and she fancied him. James knew he had to do this now or never.
He spun Mary around and pinned her to a wall and as soon as she took out her wand he snatched it and said, "Even wandless you can hurt me Mary but I think before you do that you owe me an explanation."
Mary trapped between James' strong arms knew it would be too much trouble to try and get out without her wand so instead she chose to go along with his confrontation, "I owe you an explanation Potter? I hope you're joking!"
"I don't believe this a joking moment Mary. And I'd like to know the reason for your reaction last night."
"Potter, you almost had your tongue down Emeline's throat and then yell at me that you fancy me! Honestly you would've thought you'd be smarter than that after years of chasing Lily!"
"What does Lily have to do with this?"
"Everything! How the hell do you think it feels to fancy a guy who's in love with your best friend and is ready to snog the first willing bird and yet claims to fancy you!"
"First of all and for the last time nothing happened with Emeline and nothing was going to, we were just dancing! Don't scoff! Secondly I had absolutely no clue you fancied me and thirdly I love Lily but at the moment I'm not in love with her! There's a difference!"
"Then who are you in love with then James? Farsiris Soopurrfishill the skanky sixth year?"
"I fancy you Mary! I told you goddammit!"
"I can once again hardly breath for your romanticism and sincerity Potter!"
James suddenly reminded of what he had done last night grabbed Mary and kissed her passionately while pinning her up against the wall. Mary responded to the kiss and pulled James closer while giving his tongue entrance to her mouth. James then started kissing down her jawline which seemed to bring her back to her senses and Mary shoved him away glared and said "I have some dignity Potter: I don't make out with other people's boyfriends and right now I'm furious at you for going out with that skank so don't use my feelings for you to get what you want! It's cheap and I won't fall for it twice!"
"Merlin Mary I was just trying to show you how I felt is it that hard for you to get?"
"Put like that yes. Now let me go James and give me my wand." The finality in her tone left no room for discussion.
That night both Mary and James kept replaying both kisses in their heads and couldn't help but think the other was a terrific kisser and that taken out of context they would have been perfect.
The next morning Mary came down in a bad mood but distinctly better than the previous day (snogging the boy you fancy does that to you) when she once again saw Lily and Kingsley talking and kissing while Emeline sitting on Sirius had her tongue down his throat and Farsiris Soopurrfishill all over James who today was gently trying to push her away. Mary then saw something she didn't like one bit, Farsiris' hand "slipped" over James' morning tea and after he drank it he was suddenly much more attentive towards her. James was clearly being fed a weak love potion regularly by his so-called girlfriend. Mary got up and walked over to Sirius and Emeline and yelled, "OI! Black! Get your tongue back in your own mouth I have something important to talk to you about."
"You better have an excellent reason for disrupting my morning snog Mary."
"Emeline would you excuse us please this doesn't concern you."
"If it's about that lap dance thingy you two had going at the dare or dare game than it is my business."
"It's not I don't have that kind of interest in your boyfriend now."
"Emmy, I can handle myself."
"But do you want to? I'll go, I have to eat something anyways."
Sirius turned toward Mary with a raised eyebrow, his manner of inviting her to develop her point.
"I think Farsiris Soopurrfishill is giving James a feeble love potion. I'm not just saying that to justify James' interest in another girl but it just explains all the mood swings and diverging feelings for her over the past two days and I just saw her slip something in his morning tea and suddenly he was much more attentive towards her."
"I believe you, you don't have any reason to come to me with this unless you think it's true and have proof. I have been kind of busy these past two days and probably wouldn't have noticed on my own. I'll go back to the dormitory to grab James' invisibility cloak so I can follow her meanwhile you keep James away from her as long as possible."
"Why don't we do it the other way around, I can follow her anywhere including her dorm and you'll have less trouble keeping James busy as we're not exactly on speaking terms."
"Fine give me five minutes and I'll bring down the cloak and something to help track her down."
AN: Well it's not really a cliffy but I don't have anything to add right this moment, feel free to review however...oh and I'll admit I had fun with the whole Vane and Sooperfishill (superficial) thing, I had to find someone with a name as awesome and appropriate as Romilda Vane...