Chapter 6: Flicka/Lily/Remus/James

Lily woke up to a throbbing headache and a bitter taste in her mouth. She was completely hungover and just another reason why she hated parties. She dragged herself out of bed and into the shower hoping to wash away all memories of that godforsaken party. She turned on the hot water and slid under the hot pressure of the shower. Lily rubbed her eyes and poured shampoo into her palm still cursing what happened. Last night, Lily had come to terms with the fact that she liked James and she went completely off course. She used Remus, hurt Flicka, hurt James, and most importantly hurt herself. For a girl who got O's in every class she couldn't believe she was so stupid. Tears burned Lily's eyes as she began to rub shampoo into her thick red hair.

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Flicka rolled over and felt her head collide with something hard.

"Fuck!" She said rubbing her head and realizing she had just collided with someone's rib cage.

"What the- JAMES?" Flicka cried starting so much that she fell right off the couch and onto the common room floor.

"Flicka?" James asked groggily rubbing his eyes. He looked at Flicka and she looked back at him and they both simultaneously cursed.

"What happened?" Flicka asked confused by waking up on the common room couch, with James Potter no less.

"I think we fell asleep on the couch after the party," James said supplying the most obvious reason.

"We must have been pretty damn wasted," Flicka commented as her head pounded.

"Yea we must've," James agreed in a dazed state. Suddenly, Flicka gasped and blushed.

"James, did we..." She began before biting her lip and dropping off. She couldn't bring herself to finish.

"Have sex?" James sighed sitting up and rubbing his face.

"I don't think so," He said and Flicka sighed in relief.

"Thank Merlin," She breathed and he nodded.

"I mean you're dressed, I'm dressed and I really don't think we did," He elaborated.

"Either way, things are fucked up," Flicka said pulling her knees into her chest and James nodded in agreement.

"Yea, yea they are."

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Lily turned off the shower and wrapped a towel around her deciding to just explain what happened to Flicka and hope for the best. She heard voices outside the bathroom and knew everyone was awake by now, taking a deep breath she walked out.

"Flicka?" Lily said her eyes squeezed shut.

"She's not here," Dani stated as she pulled on her school skirt.

"What?" Lily asked opening her eyes, there was no way Flicka could be at breakfast already.

"She wasn't here all night," Dani said her eyes sparkling with sexual ideas that Lily believed at once. Her remorse over last night quickly turned to anger as she got dressed and fled downstairs. She, of course, was not ready for the sight that greeted her there.

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"Moony bo boony! Did you see how I beat Prongs to the shower this morning? I crushed him," Sirius said walking out of the bathroom dripping wet and being greeted with a harsh look.

"You beat him, Padfoot, because he was not here to race you," Remus said baring his teeth and Sirius's eyebrows shot up.

"He did Lily last night?" Sirius asked.

"No," Remus replied shortly.

"Then who?" Peter asked joining in on the conversation.

"I don't know you guys! I am not a fucking owl," Remus said and stomped off into the bathroom. Sirius shot Peter a questioning look.

"Did we miss something?" Sirius asked looking bewildered.

"I think we did," Peter nodded.

"Huh..." Sirius said shaking his head and beginning to get dressed. He was halfway done and Remus had already emerged from the shower when they heard a loud shriek.

"Was that Lily's scream?" Sirius said looking up from his shirt buttons.

"Yes," Remus said ears pricked.

"I told you James did Lily last night," Sirius said as they raced down stairs to see what Lily was screaming about.

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"What- what happened?" Lily cried staring at Flicka and James. Sirius and Remus tumbled into the common room and their mouths instantly hit the floor when they saw the scene in front of them. James opened his mouth to start a whole string of explanations, but was silenced with one look from Flicka's dark grey eyes.

"Why don't you tell me?" Flicka asked unfurling her slender legs and standing up.

"Why don't you tell me why you danced with Remus? Why did you do it when you know I liked him? You know what though, that's not even why I'm mad. If you really want to dance with Remus than fine, if you like him than fine but you could have at least told me and you could at least stop tricking everyone around you into thinking you're starting to like James! I mean Merlin Lily!" Flicka asked her voice strong. Remus turned a furitive shade of purple at Flicka's words and Sirius's eyes were bouncing between Flicka, Lily, and James.

"I could say the same thing to you Flicka," Lily replied.

"You could, but I'd have an actual answer for you," Flicka said her gaze even.

"What is it then?" Lily said.

"I danced with James's because I was pissed. I was mad at you and I was mad at Remus so I decided I could, at least, have some fun with James, who was obviously heartbroken upon seeing his best friend and the love of his fucking life dancing together. And I wouldn't have if I thought you really and truly liked James, I mean I had suspicions but when I saw you with Remus they all dissapeared. So you want to tell me why you did it now Lily?" Flicka asked knowing full well she was backing Lily into a hole. Lily's green eyes shone with guilt and Flicka turned to Remus.

"Flicka," Remus said once he realized where Flicka's gaze lay. Flicka opened her mouth and looked like she was about to say something and then quickly closed it.

"Forget it," Flicka said and began walking away.

"Flicka wait!" Remus said from the bottom of the girl's dormitories stairs.

"What?" Flicka asked spinning around her jaw clenched. Remus paused thinking carefully about what he was going to say, Flicka was so headstrong it made winning with her hard.

"I'm sorry," Remus said finally and Flicka laughed slightly.

"I'm too," Flicka said and turned around dissapearing up the stairs. Remus sighed turning around and Sirius was clapping at the wonderful soap opera scene that had just occured.

"Wow guys, if this whole wizard thing doesn't work out for us we can be on the... er what's the show called again Lily? Oh right, THE REAL WORLD!" Sirius said clapping loudly. Lily looked around and ran from the common room, James glared at Sirius and Remus and ran upstairs, and Remus just shook his head and stormed through the portrait hall.

"Alrighty then," Sirius shrugged and ran upstairs to finish getting dressed.

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Flicka walked into Charms still fuming over the incident. She had skipped breakfast and grabbed an apple from the kitchens before stomping off to class. She passed over her normal seat in between Lily and May, sped by Remus and plopped down next to Peter.

"Freaking wonderful today is shaping up to be," Flicka murmured to herself as she pulled out her charms textbook.

"Loads of fun, all thanks to stupid Sirius Black and his party ideas," Flicka continued and Peter looked over.

"Excuse me Flicka?" Peter asked under the impression she was speaking to him.

"Nothing Peter, gosh you Marauders are all so self-centered," Flicka snarled at him and he cowered back.

"We are not," Sirius said from the table behind her. Flicka spun around to face him her grey eyes meeting his.

"Don't you even get me started on you Sirius Black, stupid jerk," Flicka said.

"What's wrong Flick? Didn't have your morning anger meds?" Sirius said lazily leaning back in his chair, oblivious to the cause of her bad mood even though he witnessed it.

"You are so stupid!" Flicka said somewhat shocked that his brain waves had hit an all time low.

"Am not," Sirius said sticking out his tongue.

"Are too," Flicka retorted.

"Am not."

"Are too."

"Am not."

"Are too." Sirius opened his mouth to respond when Professor Flitlight hurried over.

"Miss O' Connell, Mr. Black please leave your arguments outside my classroom," He squeaked at them and with one final dirty look Flicka turned around.

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"Alright Moony, according to my ACOGWWODBILWU-o-tron Flicka is a solid 10," Sirius said as the Marauders walked out of the charms classroom.

"What in the name of Merlin is an ACOGWWODBILWU-o-tron?" James asked.

"Anger Calculation Of Girls Who Will One Day Be In Love With Us-o-tron," Sirius stated matter-of-factly.

"Well thanks for the tip Padfoot," Remus said sarcastically as he watched Flicka storm down the corridor.

"Anytime, in fact here's another for you. according to my COHBDWFUACRFI-o-tron your at a 6," Sirius said smiling broadly at the information he was giving out to his best friend.

"What is the COHBDWFUACRFI-o-tron?" James asked again.

"Calculation Of How Badly We Fucked Up And Can Remus Fix It-o-tron," Sirius told him and James nodded knowingly.

"Your bloody ridiculous," Remus said shaking his head.

"That hurts," Sirius pouted. Remus wasn't in the mood to put up with Sirius and quickly stomped away from him.

"What's his problem?" Sirius asked James, who rolled his eyes and followed after Remus.

"Whats his problem?" Sirius asked a miniscule first year who scurried away in fright.

"Fine, I wanted to be by myself anyway," SIrius called after the first year before running after them.

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"Flick, Flick Merlin slow down," Dani panted scurrying after her friend as fast as her knee high- high heeled boots would let her. Flicka stopped and rotated 60 degrees to wait for her friend.

"Yea?" Flicka asked once Dani reached her side.

"We are going to the Room of Requirement right now and you are going to tell me exactly what is going on with you and James and Lily and Remus," Dani instructed.

"There's nothing going on," Flicka said turning away.

"That's a good one," Dani scoffed sarcastically.

"Either way, we have History of Magic," Flicka tried the lame excuse out.

"That's an even better one. Come on Flick, Lily's to upset to even think about telling us how she doesn't approve," Dani reasoned and with a sigh Flicka allowed Dani to drag her off.

Dani paced back in front of the Room of Requirement asking it for a calm place where Flicka could spill it all and after three paces she swung open the door with Flicka following. Dani smiled in satisfaction at the cool room with a soft couch and pumpkin juice. Dani poured to glasses of juice and plopped down on the couch ushering for Flicka to join her.

"So start from the beginning," Dani said once Flicka was sitting comfortably. Flicka heaved a sigh and studied the tops of her blue and white trainers, which Dani always said clashed horribly with the scool uniform.

"Spit it out," Dani pressed on.

"Okay fine. It all started when James asked Lily to dance and she said no, but then Lily decided she wanted to dance with Remus. So, then when I went to get some punch and find Remus to dance I saw them, and James ended up next to me. We both agreed that what they were doing wasn't cool and then I sort of asked him to dance so we were dancing. I know that we stopped after like 10 minutes and then just sat together downing the punch but after that it's all fuzzy. Well, until this morning when I woke up next to him- FULLY CLOTHED- on the couch," Flicka blurted out. Dani's brown eyes were wide as Flicka drew to a close and she heaved a sigh.

"Well this is quite the tiff. However, did you talk to Lily about it? Or Remus? I mean, to hear their side of the story," Dani asked.

"Well, sort of," Flicka said slowly her eyes flickering back down to her shoes.

"Sort of?"

"I didn't really give them a chance to answer, but they both totally looked quilty," Flicka said quickly.

"Aha! Flick, give them a chance to answer alright? Listen to their side, because I know that this is a big misunderstanding," Dani said and Flicka rolled her eyes.

"Don't you roll your eyes at me. I'm right and you know it," Dani scolded, "So talk to them- both!"

"Okay," Flicka said nodding.

"That's my girl," Dani smiled. "Now let's get to that History of Magic class you were so gungho for!"

"Is that code for let's go to History of Magic, and then make-out with Sirius," Flicka asked playfully and Dani smiled glad to see her friend could joke again. She bumped her hip against Flicka's and together they walked out.

A/N: Hey guys, sorry I haven't update in a bit. REVIEWWW REVIEWWW REVIEWWW!!