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Lily had her hands cradling the back of her head as she looked up into the darkness above her. She was lying in her bed, trying her hardest to fall asleep, but she just couldn't. She tried counting sheep, reading, and even started to pull out an essay due in two weeks.

Nothing worked.

She kept on thinking back to James. All she could think of were those four words he had said to her last, 'the door's that way.' Lily didn't know why it was bothering her so much. True, it was probably the rudest thing he had ever said to her, but she didn't care for him anymore, so why was it affecting her?

Lily shrugged it off as she pulled back the warmth from her blankets. She got up and quickly pulled a fleece bathrobe over her long pajamas. What Lily needed, was to get away form her room. She needed a place where she could relax without worrying if she was waking up her roommates. So, Lily decided the best place for that would be the kitchens.

As she crept out of the room, and down the stairs, she was surprised to see an empty common room. It just didn't look right; without the masses of people to fill the place. There were no students doing homework, or anyone playing a friendly game of wizards chess. Her surroundings were somewhat spooky; being alone in such a great room.

Lily went through the portrait as soon as her feet would allow it, and was quite surprised to find people at the other side of it, waiting for entrance.

"Who's there?" Lily asked sternly, for she couldn't make out the faces of the two people before her.

"It's Zaynah, and James," came Zaynah's voice.

Lily's eyes opened wide; what could James be doing with a slut like her? "What do you want?"

"I need to take James to his room, or have someone else do it for me," Zaynah answered.

"Why, your room's not good enough for you?" Lily asked bitterly.

"He's fucking drunk off his ass," Zaynah snapped. Lily could feel the death glares penetrating toward her, only imagining the looks Zaynah must be sending her.

"Probably thanks to you," Lily muttered.

"Watch it Evans," Zaynah warned with a tense attitude.

Lily was silent for a moment, and then said, "Well, I can handle this from here. Go back to your own dorm."

"I want to make sure he's alright," Zaynah quickly remarked.

Lily rolled her eyes, and then snapped, "Don't you think you've had enough fun for one night?"

Although Lily couldn't see it, she knew that Zaynah's eyes were fierce. She had touched a nerve, making Zaynah furious with anger.

"We didn't do anything, if that's what you're asking," Zaynah told her.

Lily didn't reply to Zaynah's comment, but instead levitated James off of the ground and into the still open portrait. Once she was back inside the common room, Lily gently placed her ex onto one of the long couches. She stood over him for a moment, just looking down at his features.

"Lily?" he slurred.

She jumped back in shock, not realizing that he was still awake. "What?"

"You are very pretty," he told her.

"And you are very drunk," she responded.

"That I am, but I still know that I love you, even if you don't love me anymore," he responded.

"Stop saying things like that," Lily snapped. She didn't want to hear that from him, she didn't need it at the moment.

"Zaynah's nice," he simply said after a few seconds had passed.

Lily could feel her heart skip a beat, and her entire body froze up. She didn't know why the mention of Zaynah's name would do this; she didn't know why the mention of her name from James' lips would do this.

"I told her that you were mean to me, and she listened to me. She likes me, and I like her…We're good friends," James said while slurring his words almost to a standard of not being able to understand him.

Lily stared at him intently, wanting to know what he would say next. Truth be told, she wanted to know what James and Zaynah had done together. She hadn't believed what Zaynah had told her, and wanted to hear James, himself, say nothing had occurred between the two.

Unfortunately though, Lily wasn't able to hear anymore. James had finally drifted off into a deep slumber, and probably wouldn't wake for hours and hours to come.

…

James awoke to an awful smell that morning, which truly wasn't helping the throbbing he felt in his head.

"Drink this," Remus ordered while shoving a cup in James' direction.

"What is it?" James asked while rubbing his head.

"A potion so that you won't feel or look like you were pissed as hell last night," Remus responded.

James took the cup, and after looking at it for a few more seconds he downed the potion in one gulp. Immediately, James felt as if he was going to be sick. The potion tasted like year old sour milk.

"Feel better now?" Peter asked while glancing at his fellow Marauder.

"That tastes like shit," James mumbled.

"I'm sure it does, which will be reason not to get drunk again," Remus remarked.

"What happened anyways? Lily came up to the dorm late last night and said that you were passed out and drunk on the couch, and we had better come down and get you," Peter told his friend.

James let out a slight groan. His memory was coming back to him immediately. And the mention of Lily's name only brought back why he had gotten so drunk in the first place.

"I'd rather not talk about it," James responded after thinking for quite some time.

"Understandable, but I must add, Lily sure looked pretty damn mad," Remus told his friend.

James gave him a quizzical look, as if to prod him to continue.

"She was muttering something among the lines of 'if it weren't for that slut nothing would have happened'," Remus answered.

"Zaynah?" James asked allowed.

"What about Zaynah?" Peter inquired.

"I was with her last night," James responded.

"Zaynah, wow Prongs, I'm impressed," Remus said with a grin.

"No, you fucking idiot. I didn't sleep with her, and neither of us was planning on it either. We're just friends," James answered.

…

"Would you look at them?" Lily asked while glancing over at the Marauders. Zaynah was sitting with them that morning, instead of at her usual table.

"Who are we looking at?" Scarlett asked.

"Marauders," Lily answered.

"Hmm, interesting… Why is Zaynah sitting with them?" Scarlett asked.

"Probably because she's fucking James," Lily casually replied.

"What?" Scarlett asked. She nearly spat her food at Lily from the shock.

"Yeah, I saw them hanging around each other last night, so I just figured," Lily responded.

"No, he wouldn't do that. Not after you guys just broke up," Scarlett reasoned.

"I bet he would," Lily said while shooting death glares down the table.

…

"James, what's wrong?" Zaynah asked.

"Nothing, just, look at her," he answered while glances over in Lily's direction. "I mean, she's acting like I was nothing to her. You know, sitting there looking perfect, just like she always does."

"Cheer up," Zaynah sympathetically told him.

"I can't," he whined.

"Yes you can, just imagine what your life was like before you started to date her," Zaynah suggested.

"I was head over heels in love with her," James mumbled.

"No, I said think about times before her," she said.

"There was no time before her… Ever since the end of fourth year I thought she was the most beautiful, nicest, smartest, perfect person in the world," he confessed.

She gave him a caring look before saying, "Well, you know what they say: it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all."

"You're not helping," James replied grumpily.

…

"See, look at that, they are so flirting," Lily announced to Scarlett.

"No, they're not. They're just talking," Scarlett told her.

"Yes they are. That is definite flirting action going on," Lily responded.

Scarlett just couldn't see what Lily had been talking about. In fact, it looked just the opposite from what Lily had been trying to say. James looked absolutely miserable. And it appeared that Zaynah was only trying to help him out.

"But you know what?"

"What?" Scarlett asked.

"Two can play at that game."

Scarlett gave her friend a questioning look, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Well, I figure I'll just get a new boyfriend. You know, replace him just like he replaced me. See how he likes it, and when he gets jealous, he'll come running back to me. But I'll just shoo him away, and tell him it's his problem, not mine," Lily said with a determined look in her eyes.

"I'm not so sure that it's a great idea," Scarlett warned.

"Well, I think it is, and that's all that matters," Lily replied.

Author's Note 2: Hey everyone, I want to apologize for not updating in what seems like forever! I do have a good excuse though, it being I've had a lot of school work, and I've been sick for the past few days. Actually, I'm still sick now, but I decided to update this anyways. It's not cool though, because this chapter took me like days to write because I was so preoccupied, and they usually take me an hour to write, and then the next day I go in a edit and post them! Anyways, I hope you liked this chapter! And I can only imagine the reviews that I'm going to get saying that Lily is so stupid in this chapter, and so mean!

Reviewer: I didn't want to put this in the beginning because it would ruin the chapter, but seriously, do you think I would actually make James kiss another girl? If he did, Lily would never ever forgive him. And then there would be no Harry Potter, which would lead to me never writing this story.