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Sixth Year Part One
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It was decided! Lily hated Christmas Hols. What was Dumbledore thinking letting everyone go home for Christmas? If they didn't leave for Christmas break they wouldn't lose two precious weeks of school and knowledge. Sure Lily loved every other Christmas Holiday, but she didn't anymore. A girl giggled across the common room and Lily clenched her teeth. The Christmas Hols were the worst. The laugh sounded again and Lily's eyes slid over to the disgusting, in Lily's opinion, new couple. The little bint kept giggling. This was a common room not a brothel and Lily was trying to concentrate. Lily was fuming. Weren't Ravenclaws supposed to be smart? The one over in the corner was acting more slutty than studious. Were other houses even allowed in the Gryffindor common room? "Stop it! Stop! Stop! I'm ticklish!" the Ravenslut, Lily's personal nickname for her, yelled flirtatiously as the boy with her tickled her mercilessly. Lily slammed her quill down on the table as the little tramp giggled again. Honestly no one believed that those flirty giggles were real: fake girls were the worst kind of girl. Lily must have been glaring daggers because Remus noticed from across the room and came over.
"All right, Lily?" Lily jumped a little in her seat and looked over at a smirking Remus.
"Huh … oh yeah, I'm fine. I just can't concentrate with that cow yelling over there." Remus followed her line of vision and frowned. He went to speak but Lily interrupted him. "Is she even allowed in here? Can we kick her out?"
"Aren't you friends with Marlene? I thought you two were like best friends or something."
"Absolutely not! Alice is my best friend. That tart over there is just a backstabbing …" Lily was struggling to find the right word to describe Marlene and when she couldn't settled for, "… slag!"
Remus' eyes widened; he had never heard Lily talk like this. "Wow. Umm … do you want to talk about it?" Remus questioned hesitantly.
Lily glared some more over at Marlene. "No, I'm going to go study up in my room." With one final glare at the couple in the corner Lily stormed off. She hated the Christmas Hols and it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that James started dating Marlene during them!
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Lily sat up in her dorm fuming for over an hour before she was interrupted by Alice. "Lily are you ok? Remus said you were really upset."
Alice looked at her with such honest and open care that Lily immediately felt like sharing. Alice could always get Lily to talk. "Oh Alice it's so horrible! James is dating that stupid Ravenslut. I thought we were friends, but apparently Marlene likes James better than me and stabbed me in the back to get with him."
"Wait, Lily calm down." Lily had worked herself up into an angry red ball. "Is Marlene dating James?" Upon Lily's nod Alice hugged her. "Oh Lily I'm so sorry! I had no idea. Did she know that you liked James?" Again Lily nodded. "Well she's just not a good friend. He'll realize what he's missing out on."
"No he won't. I messed things up too much last year. I should have just said yes when he asked me out. I wanted to but it was too weird. I just realized that I didn't hate him anymore and I was scared. Now he's moved on and my chance is over."
Alice's heart went out to her best friend. Alice hated seeing Lily like this. The poor thing was practically in tears. It was a sign of Lily's strength that Lily wasn't already crying; Alice would have been balling her eyes out by now. "Don't say that Lily. You just have to show him that you like him."
"Yeah, I guess."
"See now cheer up. We'll figure something out."
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It had been two months since James and Marlene had started dating and Lily had yet to decide what to do about it. She had only recently figured out that she liked James and it was hard to go from spurning his every advance to proclaiming her undying love. Worst of all though was the fact that James seemed to genuinely like Marlene. They were always together. It wasn't right. James was supposed to pay attention to her. James was supposed to date her. James was hers, not Marlene's. Marlene could never keep his interest, not in the long run. She could never make him happy. Lily would just have to tell him how she felt.
They were all in the Great Hall when Lily decided she would talk to James. "James, can I talk to you for a second?"
James looked up from his bacon and eggs. "Yeah, sure. What's up?"
"Not here. Can we go outside?"
James looked at his food, then at Lily, then back to his food. "Do we have too? I mean I'm really hungry and if I leave Sirius will eat it all." Lily's face fell. Her James would forget about his food easily for her. It was just more proof that he was over her. She was about to give up when she realized that she couldn't. James and she had a history. Plus if she didn't say this now she never would and then she would regret it for the rest of her life. "C'mon Potter, I dare you."
James smirked before looking up at her. "Don't you think we're a little old for dares, Evans?" He put extra emphasis on her last name. Lily smiled then quickly set her face into a wanna-be passive mask.
"If you're scared you don't have to … because you sound pretty scared to me. I double dog dare you."
"Me? Scared? C'mon. Let's go!" He grabbed her hand and dragged her out of the Great Hall. Once they reached the entry way Lily froze. James was looking at her expectantly but she just couldn't get her mouth to do what she wanted. "Well what did you want to talk about?"
"I … well …" She looked down at the floor and whispered to herself, "You can do this. Just tell him."
"Huh?" James had leaned down closer to her so he could hear what she had said. Her head snapped up when she heard James' voice. The top of her head brushed against his chin as her head snapped up. Lily looked at James, hesitantly reached her hand out and placed it on the back of his neck. She pulled him towards her and kissed him. She couldn't get words out so she decided kissing him was a better option and with the way he was kissing her back kissing him was definitely a better option. Lily moved onto her tip toes as she wrapped her arm around his neck. James simultaneously pulled her towards him and let his arms glide around her waist. This kiss was a lot more passionate than the innocent kiss they shared in second year. They were in the middle of a wonderful snog when they were interrupted.
"James? Lily? How could you!?"
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Marlene was the happiest she had been in her whole life. She was dating James Potter. The same James Potter, who the whole school loved, had gotten over Lily and was with her. Sure Marlene felt a little bad about going out with James when Lily liked him, but Lily had her turn with James. Besides, Lily and James were still really close. Marlene was almost jealous of how close they were. They had all of these inside jokes and seemed to always brighten up when near each other. It was especially hard for Marlene to keep Lily and James apart when she was in a different house. Since the end of sixth year Lily had eaten meals with the Marauders, so Marlene didn't like meal time all that much anymore. She had to sit all the way over at Ravenclaw and watch as Lily joked around with her boyfriend. She wasn't exactly the jealous type, but sometimes she thought that James was only with her because he couldn't get Lily. Needless to say Marlene made sure to glance over to the Gryffindor table every so often to make sure everything was normal. Marlene was about to take a bite of her toast when she froze. James was dragging Lily out of the Great Hall. She couldn't believe it. She sat in her seat waiting for them to come back. They didn't. Marlene got up and headed for the entry way. Once she exited the Great Hall she was hit with the image of her boyfriend snogging Lily Evans quite thoroughly. "James? Lily? How could you?" James and Lily sprung apart. "I can't believe this!" Marlene ran off.
James stared after Marlene. He had just cheated. He had never cheated on anyone before. He saw Lily move out of the corner of his eye and realized that she had tricked him. She hadn't wanted to get together at the end of last year and she still didn't want to. She wasn't even upset that she did this to one of her friends, that she did this to him. She must have known how against cheating he was. He made it pretty obvious. She must have right? It was all too much to take in so James' base emotion, anger, came out. "What the hell was that Evan?"
Lily couldn't believe she had actually made out with a spoken for guy. On top of that, his girlfriend had caught them. The same girlfriend, who use to be her friend, ran off in tears. Lily felt horrible. Marlene may have stabbed Lily in the back, but that didn't mean she deserved to be see her boyfriend with some one else, "I -"
"You what? God Lily I thought she was your friend. I thought I was your friend."
James' reaction just made her feel worse. "You are I just -"
"I didn't expect this from you." James looked at Lily with such disgust and disappointment, she almost cried, and then he ran off after Marlene. Lily had definitely lost… yet James hadn't won either. They were both losers because she couldn't just be happy for him.
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A/N: Ok so I am posting this chapter about four days early becasue I was so excited about it. The next chapter, however, will still be posted the weekend ofter the 25th. A huge thanks to all of my loyal readers and escpecially Riiko Shea, RLD Flame-point Callie-co, and James n Lily r in LOVE who have been with me from the beginning. Naturally the biggest thanks to my wonderful beta who makes sure I'm not sending out garbage!