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Chapter 13: Jealousy and Crushed Hopes

Lily had told Alicia about what had happened on their Exploration Day as soon as they were alone. It was so stupid. The girl, Sammy Everston, whom they liked to call Slutty Putty, was always falling all over Scorpius and lavishing him with kisses across his face, and sitting in his lap. Merlin, it was so disgusting.

At the breakfast table only a week later, Alicia slammed her fork down on the table after having to listen to Slutty Putty's faked moans as she all out snogged Scorpius. "That's it," she said quietly to Lily who had lost her usual reddish-hue, being replaced with a sick green. "I can't let this keep happening! Merlin, just punch her in the face and get it over with, Flower!"

Lily just shook her head and looked at her plate. Soon though, her eyes traveled wistfully upward to where Scorpius was trying to suck Slutty's face off. "Merlin, that's disgusting," she whispered sadly. She didn't know why she always wanted to strangle the girl until she had no use of her lips anymore, but she was constantly resisting the urge.

He couldn't even bother to listen as the girls talked about how gross it was, being too wrapped up in the slut on his lap. Alicia glared at the sickening couple. She stood up and pulled Lily up by the arm with her. She pulled them towards the stone wall, away from any stray students listening. "Okay," she said quietly, "You just have to show Slutty Putty that she's got competition. Make him notice you."

"But how do I do that?" Lily asked with confusion.

Alicia pointed to Rose Weasley at the Hufflepuff table who flipped her hair over her shoulder before leaning in the table and undoubtedly giving the boy across from her a good look down her shirt. "That is what you are going to do."

"But I'm not a slut and I don't want to be, thank you very much!" Lily protested with disgust. Of course, Rose was now snogging the boy senseless. At least she wasn't as horrible as Slutty Putty, although she was very close to it.

Alicia had a devilish grin. "Don't muggles say that you have to fight fire with fire? That's why you'll fight a slut with slutty-ness."

Lily rolled her eyes and unconsciously pulled her blouse up a bit to cover her chest more. "Slutty-ness isn't even a word, doll. Sorry to break it to you, but I am not doing that."

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Even after what she had said, Lily found herself in the evening, hidden in the Room of Requirement with Rose and Alicia. The room had transformed into what seemed like a gigantic girls' room. A vanity took up a large section of one wall and three beds closer to the center of the room. Makeup filled entire drawers and Lily's school uniform was folded neatly in the one spare drawer.

"I still don't see what good this will prove besides the fact that it will show Scorp that if we ever date, I'll cheat on him with some cute guy." Lily sulked to herself in the corner, her arms crossed over her chest as Alicia and Rose debated which color of nail polish she should wear. "When can I go back to the dorm?"

Rose snickered. "You're not. If you stay here, the girls in your dorm will think it's suspicious that you never came in. Then, rumors will fly around the school that you were in some guy's bed, shagging him when, really, you never did. That's how I do it," she said mater-of-factly. "I've apparently shagged different boys seven times and I'm still a virgin."

Lily choked on the water she was drinking and spit it out, spraying the floor. "What? I am not going to make it look like I had sex! My brothers will go ballistic!"

"You are in quite a situation," Alicia said, comparing two shades of red, "with two older, over-protective brothers that will beat the crap out of any boy that so much as touches you. But it's easily fixed. I doubt they'll tell your dad, especially if I ask Albus."

Lily gagged again, even though there was no water this time. "This is just so wrong. Every one of my friends like Albus and James, but this time, he actually likes you!"

The other girls laughed before attacking Lily's hands with dark red nail polish.

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Lily was up an extra hour early so Rose and Alicia could help her get ready. Rose curled her hair with a charm as Alicia applied massive amounts of makeup, it seemed. Lily carefully slipped into her white blouse and was forced to leave two button undone, showing more of her breasts than she was used to. Her skirt was pulled up until it was four inches above her knees and her robe hid the tiny pin that pulled her shirt back to make it look tighter. Lily looked like a Class A slut. When Alicia asked Lily if she could call her Slutty Putty, She smacked the older girl.

Alicia smiled as they walked down to the Great Hall at her pained expression. "You have to be confident for it to work, Flower. If you don't, you'll just be a self-conscious girl in revealing clothes."

Lily tried to nod, still extremely nervous. "Just bask in the knowledge that every guy is going to fall all over you, and you get to piss off a few girls while you're at it," Rose advised. "That's how I did it for the first few times."

Lily nodded again more confidently and lifted her chin. Today, she would beat Slutty Putty's face in, and she would be ecstatic about it. Rosie and Alicia nodded their approval. The older girls went in before her, Alicia saying that she didn't know why Lily was late and Rosie confirming to everyone that Lily wasn't in her room last night.

After five minutes, Lily walked in with a gleaming smirk. She brushed her red curls out of her face and followed Alicia's voice calling to her. The fourth-year made room for her right between her and Scorpius who looked like he was having a hard time getting oxygen to his brain. Her skirt got hiked up another inch as she sat down. Alicia smirked as Scorpius's grey eyes widened and raked over her body.

Lily leaned towards him. "Hey," she breathed, leaving barely any space between them.

His Adam's apple bobbed, making her grin a little wider. "Umm," he stammered, searching for words. "Wow."

Lily giggled and looked down before she covered her mouth with her hand, flashing off her blood red nails. "You're very articulate today aren't you?"

He swallowed again nervously, obviously getting an eyeful of her pink bra showing through her white shirt. His Hufflepuff girlfriend sat down on the other side of him, shooting glares sharper than daggers at Lily. She had to give Slutty Putty credit, though, for quickly coming to her boyfriend's aid.

Lily smirked, knowing that the girl's nickname was well-deserved although she wasn't in the best position to judge at the moment. She was more grotesquely dressed than Lily, which was quite a feat. Her lacy black bra was showing quite clearly, her shirt unbuttoned enough to see it. Her hair was pulled back into a long ponytail, but her red lipstick brought out the curves of her lips. But this was what Lily had been waiting for, why she had taken the role of a slut for the day. She would get to piss off Slutty Putty and knock some sense back into Scorpius.

"Need to mark our territory, do we?" Lily asked cheekily as the couple murmured their greetings and exchanged a kiss.

Slutty Putty turned to her without surprise and retorted, "I only have to mark my territory around sluts like you. Don't come near my boyfriend."

Lily ran her fingers through a surprised Scorpius's hair to irk her. "But aren't you just like me? Why should I do anything for you?"
Sammy glared and tried to smack her hand out of his hair, but Lily pulled it out before they could make contact. "I bet you can't even satisfy him," Lily told her coolly.

"I would satisfy him as often as he wanted me to, if he'd let me." Slutty Putty had fallen right in, her face tinted with red from anger. "I really doubt that you're as good as me."

Lily laughed and rolled her eyes. Scorpius was as red as she usually was which she had thought quite impossible. He meekly asked, "Would you two please keep me out of your conversation?"

Both girls ignored him completely, not even bothering to break eye contact to see him. "I bet you can't take him whole," Lily retorted suddenly.

Scorpius, who had taken a drink of pumpkin juice in the vain hopes of blocking them out, spewed the liquid clear across the table onto Julian Zabini who was laughing too hard to care. Alicia spit her scrambled eggs out and it landed on a Slytherin two seats down from her as she chortled uncontrollably. Scorpius looked like he was trying to sink into the ground, his face more crimson than the Gryffindor banner.

"Excuse me?" Slutty Putty asked with slow venom as if daring Lily to confirm her thoughts.

"His penis," Lily said bluntly, almost as if she didn't care, shocking the group around her. She refused to lose her cool in the situation as she said, "I bet you can't suck it in your mouth whole."

Since the floor didn't seem to be opening up a hole and swallowing him any time soon, Scorpius slouched in his seat, refusing to meet the gaze of anyone laughing around him. His new plan seemed to be to escape underneath the table, as childish as it may seem. Slutty Putty narrowed her eyes to slits and said, "I could take him any time I wanted to. You couldn't."

"Prove it," Lily said, crossing her arms, glaring back coolly, reveling in how red her face had gotten.

Sammy rolled her eyes. "You're just a perv that would like to see a good show."

"Well, I could certainly give a better one than you."

A low rumble went through the table as more and more people were starting to pay attention to them. Alicia wasn't eating anymore for fear of choking and thick tears were running down her face with glee. Slutty Putty switched from defense to offense. "How could you? I've certainly laid more guys in this school than you have. I have more practice."

Lily smirked. "You wouldn't have believed how many times I did it with him last night. I just didn't have time to rest."

Scorpius popped right back up. His eyes were wide than saucers and his jaw looked like it might drop off. Suddenly he was furious, with clenched fists at his side. "Who the hell is 'him'?"

Lily shrugged. "What you don't know won't hurt you." She pushed him to the side slightly to get a better view at Slutty Putty who seemed like she was having a mental breakdown. She smirked again, a little wider this time, knowing that her business was almost finished here. "It felt soo good." She closed her eyes and smiled as though remembering the feelings.

Slutty Putty huffed and stood up. She graced Scorpius with another set of kisses before she retreated to her Hufflepuff table with a glare. A few of the Slytherins whooped and cheered. Julian slapped her shoulder and said, "Now this girl would have made one amazing Slytherin!"

Alicia chuckled as Lily picked up her bag from the table. She grabbed the younger girl's hand and pulled her down close to her. "Don't forget," she whispered in Lily's ear. "After classes at four." Lily nodded, glancing over at the seventh year Gryffindor watching her. She gave a flirtatious smile to him before she left the Great Hall.

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Scorpius had never wanted to beat someone in the face more than he had in the morning. Whoever it was, Scorpius wanted to murder the one that had slept with Lily. Unfortunately, he couldn't spend his time hunting down his Flower to annoy her until she told him because he was helping Alicia with her Charms. She was absolutely horrid at the subject and they came to the library every Friday to study.

What irked him most though was that McLaggen was sitting only a table away, and he hated McLaggen and loved to fantasize of punching him in the face. He was using him as a vision of punching Lily's guy when Lily herself walked in.

She clearly saw them, her eyes slid right over their table, but she locked herself on McLaggen and walked right over to him. From his table, Scorpius watched her walk over to him. She slid onto his table and moved right in front of him, her legs dangling into his lap. Her skirt was hitched up ridiculously high, and he involuntarily crumpled the piece of paper in his hand.

"Hey," Alicia said quietly, fearing the wrath of Madame Pince if she spoke above a whisper. "That was my homework." He handed it back to her, straining to hear what Lily was saying in hushed tones.

"So," she started innocently, "I was wondering if you had a date to go to Hogsmeade. I know it's kind of late, but I was hoping that you still… might like to go with me?"

McLaggen nodded so fast, Scorpius thought his head would nod right off. His eyes were glazed over as he looked up her long, pale legs. Oh, Merlin, he was probably staring at her knickers. They wouldn't be that hard to see with her skirt spread wide open in front of his face.

Scorpius felt like punching the boy in the face. Instead, he turned on Alicia who was also watching and hissed, "Why the hell is she doing this?" She was Lily's best friend; if she didn't know, then he was doomed.

Alicia looked back at him with a level gaze. "The same reason you did it to her. I told you that it wasn't a good idea."

His grey eyes widened. "If you told her I swear I'll—"

"I didn't tell her… but she didn't make me promise, so I can tell you." If there was one thing about Alicia, it was that she wouldn't keep a secret, even for her best friend in the whole world, unless they made her promise not to tell.

"What'd she say?" Scorpius asked desperately as Lily continued flirting with the scum that was about to piss himself. "You have to tell me her exact words!"

Alicia pushed him out of her personal space zone and said, "She likes you. More than a lot. You made her jealous, and now she's getting revenge because you made her jealous. Just because it worked with Julian's parents doesn't mean it's fool-proof. I don't know why you listen to that bloke for advice anyways."

"She…Lily said that she fancies me?" Scorpius asked, trying to see how that knowledge worked together in his brain. It was what he had been planning for the entire time, for her to fancy him. But now that he learned what he wanted to know, he wasn't sure that Alicia was lying to him as some part of the game he and Lily were playing.

"Yes," Alicia said, he could sense her exasperation. "So stop whatever you are bloody doing and tell her that you like her. If you walk up to her right now, she'll just drop McLaggen on the floor and snog you sensless. Just tell her."

But Scorpius was already shaking his head. Lily wasn't stuttering around McLaggen like she did when she was lying. She placed a light kiss on his nose, now sitting full in his lap. He muttered something about finding a sturdy bookcase and she giggled. She was happy. "No, she doesn't like me. She wouldn't have done this if she liked me."

"Yes she does!" She exclaimed as quietly as she could without alerting the couple a table over of their conversation. "She totally pissed off your girlfriend not because she doesn't like you, but because she wants you to like her. She's asking McLaggen out because she wants to attempt to show you that she doesn't seem to need you, but she does. She does, Scorpius. When you're not around, Lily is freaking out about where you are. When you're snogging Slutty Putty, she's fretting that you're going to get hurt when she finds her next victim. And she barely sees it herself. If you show her that you care, she will, too!"

Scorpius only nodded his head again.

And Alicia lost it. "That's it!" She stood up and threw her stuff into her bag. "I'm not talking to either of you until you both admit this to each other!" She stood up and left, slamming the door behind her. Lily looked up with surprise and hurt at her mate obviously mad at her; too, by the glare she received on the way out.

Flower met Scorpius's eyes with the question burning as loud and clear as though she had asked him aloud. He looked away quickly, ignoring the chance Alicia had given him. He just knew that he would get hurt if he asked Lily out. Her tiny hand was intertwined in McLaggen's hair, and her curls were more than slightly ruffled. Her emerald eyes looked to him for guidance. But she didn't need him; he knew that. He shook his head and pulled out his potion's essay.

A soft smack made him discreetly return his eyes to the other table. McLaggen was kissing her neck in swirling patterns. She groaned involuntarily. When he stopped, she opened her eyes and gave that infuriating smirk that she had been using all day. She toyed with his tie, loosening it. "So I was thinking that we might go to the Three Broomsticks… and then I know of this great place we can get some peace and quiet without freezing our butts off… I thought we might spend a little… quality time… with each other…" McLaggen moved forward to snog her again.

The screech of a chair made Scorpius that he had stood up, pushing the chair back with him, but the screech was cut off by a clatter as it fell backwards from the sudden force. He stalked over to Lily who had stood up as soon as she saw him coming. "Double date," he told her angrily, "You and that," he gestured to McLaggen. "And me and Sammy. We meet tomorrow at the Three Broomsticks at ten; don't be late."

"Fine," she said defiantly.

"Fine," he said before scooping up his things and marched out of the door, slamming the door closed behind him. He muttered to himself about showing sluts what he was made of.

"Fine," Lily muttered again to nothing softly.

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Lily tied a dark red ribbon into her ponytail that had golden stripes. Her roommate Stella had awoken early, like almost all of the girls as they squealed over their dates, but agreed to help Lily once again. "I can't believe you're going on a date with Jordan," she said as she picked out eye shadow. "He's four years older than you and everything. And he's so hot."

Lily smiled. "Yep, I can't wait for our date." She ended up wearing a scarlet sweater that was extremely tight with a very low-cut V-neck that her mother made her wear a tank top with. Of course she wasn't wearing the tank top with it, but she wore skinny jeans that revealed every curve of her legs and bum and White fur-lined boots, seeing as it was still fairly chilly.

Stella stepped back and admired the work. "If he doesn't drop dead the moment he sees you, he will when you lean over."

Lily smirked and nodded. "That's exactly what I want."

She and Jordan held hands the whole way there and exchanged a light kiss when they met up. His hand easily swallowed her tiny one, his Quidditch calluses rubbing against her skin. "You know we don't have to go meet that Malfoy and his girlfriend. We could just ditch them." She heard the hopeful note in his voice.

"No," she answered stubbornly, crushing any hopes he had nurtured. "We're going to go meet up with them."

Scorpius and Sammy were already there when they walked in, both on the same side of the cozy booth. Lily and Jordan slipped in the other seat. Most of the greetings were carried out with glares and too-strong handshakes. Four people sharing butterbeers with each other when they really are ready to murder them. How lovely.

Slutty Putty made snide comments that were rather rude, but Lily paid little attention to them, only wanting to irk Scorpius, not bring on another chick fight. When she realized that it was going to get her nowhere, the girl turned to the boy across from her and began flirting with McLaggen who shamelessly returned the flirting. The boyfriend and girlfriend of Sammy and Jordan looked on dully, neither of them really caring. Madame Rosemerta brought them butterbeer after butterbeer as the kids wasted away the day, none of them really wanting to move.

"Hey, Lily?" Lily snapped to attention at the sound of her name after spending twenty minutes trying to determine how many butterbeers it would take for her get drunk. They were less intoxicating than regular wine, but enough of them would give anyone a fuzzy head. Jordan looked at her with his milky brown eyes. Scorpius was swirling his butterbeer around with a straw that he didn't even use, still not paying any attention.

"Yeah?" she asked, wondering if they had asked her some obscure question while she had been in what her father always called Lily Land.

"Will you come with me for a second?" She nodded and they stood up from the booth, leaving their belongings behind. They walked over to a less populated corner, away from the kids chattering about the end of school.

When he turned on her, she wasn't expecting the look she solicited from him. "Lily," he said with a sigh and the sorrowful look. "I—I really like Sammy. And I think she likes me. I mean, you're awesome and everything, but she's amazing."

"She's dating Scorp," Lily said woodenly.

"Not anymore," Jordan answered. Sure enough, when Lily glanced back to their booth, Slutty Putty was in an intense conversation with Scorpius. "We really like each other and we want to… get to know each other better…"

Lily nodded and rolled her eyes. "Whatever. I really don't care, so if you think I'm going to start sobbing, then you can drop dead, McLaggen." They headed back to their bench where Sammy was already picking up her stuff.

Lily slid back into her seat across from Scorpius, and Jordan and Slutty Putty left, generously paying for the numerous butterbeers. Lily took another sip of her drink after their dates left. Her eyes went blank for a moment. The new couple would go to her Uncle George's joke shop and laugh until they cried until they went to find someplace private.

"Stop that." Scorpius's sudden moody snap made her flash back to the present. He had caught the blankness in her stare. "You're not supposed to do that. Just stop it." She crossed her arms without a word. He picked up his jacket. "I'm sick of this place. You wanna go somewhere actually quiet?"

She nodded and followed him out of the door. During one of their other days at Hogsmeade with Alicia and Julian, Lily had convinced them that the Shrieking Shack hadn't been haunted in ages and they snuck into the dilapidated house every time they wanted peace and quiet. It was almost natural as Scorpius and Lily climbed through a large tear in the wire and snuck through one of the smashed windows.

The Shrieking Shack was covered in layers upon layers of dust and most of the furniture was smashed and broken from when Lily's grandfather's friend, Remus Lupin, spent his crazed werewolf days hidden here. Splinters had covered the floor until Lily managed to sweep most of them into the corner along with mountains of dust, but it seemed just as thick s when she first founding. They both sat on a couch after Scorpius muttered a spell to clear the dust. Underneath the grey dust, the fabric of the dust was a faded green.

Lily shivered involuntarily. Scorpius noticed and moved to take off his jacket. "Here, you shouldn't freeze to death."

She pushed it back towards him. "No, I don't need it; I brought my own jacket right—" She reached around for her jacket. "That I left at Madame Rosemerta's…" Scorpius shoved the leather jacket towards her again with a coy smile. She took it gratefully and put it around her shoulders, not bothering to push her arms through the sleeves, seeing as they would be way too big.

"So my girlfriend and your date…" Scorpius said casually, smiling again and stretching his arm against the back of the couch behind Lily. "Who would've thought?"

She nodded and moved closer to him, still cold. It always seemed like this shack was ten degrees colder than outside. He wrapped his arm closer around her. She blushed in response. "Do y-you…." She stopped. "N-never mind…"

He raised a platinum eyebrow. "Do I what?"

She looked right into his eyes, holding his gaze and his every thought. "Why did you date Sammy in the first place?" Lily asked him softly.

He shrugged and dropped his gaze, knowing that he would blurt out whatever she wanted if he had to look at her much longer. Already his heart was thumping painfully. "She seemed…" he sighed and looked at her. "I'm a fifteen-year-old boy, Flower. Do you really think that I liked her for her personality or something?"

Lily flinched, feeling as though he had slapped her. Maybe she would have to keep up the slut act after all, if she ever wanted him to notice her in a romantic light. Did boys only think of what was in their pants? She nodded ruefully.

He grimaced. "Why did you even show interest in McLaggen? I was plotting his death at the table in the Three Broomsticks."

"I d-didn't like him. N-Not a-at all." Oh, why did she have to get all nervous and start stuttering now? She squeezed her eyes shut and mustered her Gryffindor courage. "I-I f-fancy someone e-else."

She swallowed and opened her eyes, barely daring to breath. She couldn't let him walk past her again. She had to do this now. He looked at her cautiously. "Wh-who do you fancy then?"

Her single word was incoherent before she ducked her face into his chest, too fearful of his answer to face him. After almost two minutes of agonizing coaxing she showed her emerald eyes again. "Who do you fancy, Flower?" Scorpius asked more steadily this time

"Y-You."

He swallowed shakily although he wished he could have danced around the Shrieking Shack, screaming like a crazy person. "I-I fancy you, too."

The words made her just as happy, if not more. Words spilled out of her mouth. "I didn't realize I fancied you until you started dating Slutty Putty, but then it was so wrong and I was so frustrated. But Alicia helped me come up with a plan and Rose taught me how to be a good slut, and I just wanted to show you that I could be any kind of girl you would want because I fancy you… more than just a little… But now we can be a couple and—"

"Wait." Scorpius lightly pressed a hand against her mouth. He wasn't smiling and didn't look happy at all. He sighed again. "I'm not ready to do anything like this, though." He cut off her muffled protests, probably about the girlfriend that just dumped him. "What are our parents going to say, Flower? They're mad enough that we're only friends. I'm not going to let us ruin our families over something that will be ruined anyways in a few months. I just can't."

As soon as his hand dropped from her mouth, she stood up. She shrugged out of the jacket and threw it on the spot where she had been sitting. "f-fine." Moisture welled up in her eyes, but she hoped it was too dimly lit for Scorpius to see. Lily turned. "I-I've got t-t-to g-go. S-s-see y-you a-at practice."

She ran out of the Shrieking Shack, wiping her eyes on her sweater sleeve as her eyes went half blank for a moment. She veered off to the local owlery to find Alicia. A tear fell in a puddle, causing it to ripple as she sprinted past.

Whew! Done with half an hour to spare! So sorry about the misleading, but I promise that they get together in the next four or five chapters! Please review I love to hear your criticism! The button below loves you! And wants to give you a cookie! jk