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To love, or not to love
Chapter 7: The Ice Queen
"For gods sake, James! Stop being so grumpy! You'll ruin my snacks!" Sirius yelled at James, when he, for god know what time, made a particular heavy sigh.
"I know that you are upset about the way Lily reacted at the flowers" he continued.
"Everyone has the right to be mad about getting a bewitched exploding-howler from a girl they like. But hey, there are more fishes in the sea mate. Get some o´ them!"
James just gave his friend an annoyed look.
"Just let him sulk" Remus said, lifting his eyes from the enormous book he was reading.
"And by the way, I could have told you that she's allergic to lilies if you'd asked me."
"well, we didn't exactly think of that, Mr Know It All…" Sirius said scowling.
Remus just shook his head, and continued reading.
Suddenly the door to the compartment opened, and two girls came in.
It was Liza Marvings and Gabrielle Sutherland. Both from Ravenclaw, and both very good looking.
"Hey boys" they said in the same time.
"Pretty freaky when they does that, eh?" Sirius whispered to Remus, while fixing his eyes at Liza Marvings´ breasts.
"Hey Gabrielle, Liza" Remus said calmly, kicking Sirius discreetly (but hard!) on his shin, as the raven-haired boy didn't bother to hide his sticky looks at the girls bodies.
"What?" Sirius said.
Remus rolled his eyes.
Gabrielle (the hottest of the two) turned to James, who hadn't uttered a word.
"Hey James" she said sugar-sweet. "Heard about your troubles with love" at that point the two girls made a very high giggle, "that Lily-girl IS a very high tempered one right?" Liza said.
"But you know" this time it was Gabrielle "IF you ever´s going to get over the redhead, then I´m there".
James gave her an ice cold look.
Gabrielle raised her hands "Well, your loss. You're really missing out o´ something here" she turned around, made a wave at Liza, and walked out of the compartment.
"Oi mate. You really fucked it up there, you know that? That was Gabrielle Sutherland you just rejected! And I've heard that she's a wild one" Sirius said calm. "But then… more for the rest of us."
James just continued sulking.
"Wow! Did he really reject you?" Jennie Johnson, one of Gabrielle's countless suck-up friends, said while a little group of girls walked down the passage between the Compartments. "Yeah" she said frustrated. "And I've even almost offered him sex".
"Boys are just so amazingly stupid! I mean, its not like that James Potter is something special right?" Liza said.
Barbara Powers shook her head in irritation. "Did you just heard that Lils? That Gabrielle is just too much!"
Lily didn't bother to answer. "don't care. She can have him."
"Oh, come on Lily! You don't mean that! I know you likes him"
"would you just shut up, please? I hate that prat!"
"If you say it.." Barbara answered with a lifted eyebrow. "Please stop fooling yourself! You keep talking about the guy, you totally ignores him, AND I've seen you blush several times when he declares his eternal love to you!" she said with a certain grin.
"Don't be so damit cocksure Barb! I don't like him! In fact I hate him. He's SO immature! And that's my last words in that case!"
Barb raised her eyebrows. "I´m not sure of that Lils. I´m really not sure…"
And Barbara was right. Kind of.
The rumour about how Lily Evans had rejected James Potter, was soon all over the school. The boys didn't understand it. Why make such a deal out of some guys crush? But the girls… they all had their opinions about the "Potter-Evans" case, and there was a lot of whispering around in the corners. The reason to that, was of cause that most of the girls had a little (or big) crush on James Potter themselves, and couldn't figure out why Lily wouldn't have him.
Envy can be a bad thing, and Lily sure felt that the next few weeks. Where ever she looked, there would be a group of girls whispering, and staring at her. She couldn't see why they made it such a big case, that she didn't like James. After all he was just a normal guy, right? That was, unfortunately for her, refuted when Gryffindor smashed Ravenclaw totally in quidditch with James as the team-captain.
After that the slander about Lily was worse than ever. And of cause she blamed James.
"Oh, I´m SO tired of this! Can't you just forget about her, and go for another girl, that actually WANTS you?" Sirius said very frustrated, one evening at dinner in the Great Hall.
"But I can't!" James said, even more frustrated.
"each morning I tells myself ´James, today is a whole new day. And that's why you can get over Lily Evans, and go back to have a normal life´, but it just isn't working, and before I know of it, I´m doing the weirdest things, to try to talk to her, or even just get close to her".
"Stop that self-pity! I´m loosing my appetite!" Sirius sighed.
Remus, who came walking from the entrance hall, just heard Sirius's words, and lifted an eyebrow.
"The day you loose your appetite, is the day McGonagal runs around the caste naked".
Sirius looked horrified at Remus "EW! NOW I've lost my appetite!".
"Hey guys" Peter Pettigrew said, as he joined them.
"Hey Pete. How's your fingers doing?" Sirius greeted him (Peter had, once again, missed to turn in an important essay about the uses of Dragon blood, and therefore Professor Slughorn gave him an attention; Peter had to peel the scales of a huge amount of fire-fishes. And that wasn't an easy job! Peters fingers was covered in small cuts and blisters.)
"They are fine. I went to the infirmary, and got a really good ointment".
"Mmh. Delicious… some of us are actually trying to eat here!" Sirius said, while helping himself to some pancakes.
"I thought that you've lost your appetite" James said sarcastic.
"Ouch, are we a little snappy today Prongsie?"
James made a rude gesture with his fingers.
Suddenly Remus shushed at the buys; "Shut it guys! I think Dumbledore's trying to catch our attention".
He was right, cause in the same moment, the Headmaster sent a ray of red sparks in the air, and all the student silenced.
"Now. I hope that you've enjoyed jour meal, and that everyone is full, and happy", Dumbledore started. "I know that some of you probably would like to go now to finish homework. Or just to relax, knowing the youth today" he said with a glimpse in his eyes.
"But if I may have some minutes of your spare time, to make a little romantic announcement."
At these words a choir of whispering filled the Great Hall.
"What can it be?" asked Barbara Lily.
"No idea. But it sounds cool" Lily answered mystified. It wasn't normal that Dumbledore made a speech at ordinary school days.
"Maybe he's going to propose to McGonagal" Sirius whispered very loud farther down the table.
The Gryffindors nearby gave a roar of laugher
Dumbledore smiled at the confused students. "The announcement is, that there will be a Ball here at Hogwarts on the February of 14th. And as you all know, that day is a special one."
"Its Valentines Day!" a Hufflepuff student said loud, and then blushed like a tomato when he realised that everyone had heard him.
"Yes Mr Smith. Its on Valentines Day. But that is the meaning, as it's a Valentines Day ball".
The Headmaster was then interrupted of hundreds of girls giggling hysterical.
James and Sirius gave each other a horrified look. They knew that the girls at the school freaked totally out when there was a chance to be seen with one of the two Marauders.
"Thaats not good!" James whispered, as he saw the hungry look in the eyes of the girls sitting at the other side of the table.
"Really not good!"
Then. Another chapter finished. Hope its better than the last one, cause I think it was kind of bad, and hope that I someday will delete it, and put a better one in…
Enjoy (I hope), and Review
Ann