Don't Let Your Guard Down
chapter 5
So you finally found out what happened between Gigi and Sirius...will they ever settle their differences? And will James and Lily once again learn how to be nice to each other? And will you review after reading this chapter? (i hope so!)
Disclaimer: you know how this goes. and if you don't...read previous chapters.
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"You're first date is Halloween! That's so romantic!" Kacie squealed. Gigi and Lily gave her an annoyed look. "What? I don't have any guys in my life right now, I have to live my fantasies through you."
"Honey, if you want a real fantasy to come true, you should live them through me," Gigi offered.
"I said fantasy. Not sex dream," Kacie mumbled.
"Ooooh, okay…then yeah, I would live them through Lily," Gigi said. "And since when was Halloween romantic"
"It's a holiday," Kacie said with a shrug.
"Where people dress up as ogres and witches," Gigi said. "But if you're into the whole green warty thing, then yeah it's really romantic."
"Well Ms. Smarty Pants, what day do you call romantic?" Kacie asked.
"Valentine's Day," Gigi said.
"Why? All you get is flowers and candy and cards and…ooh okay, I am starting to see the romance part," Kacie said.
Lily laughed at her friends and walked out of her room, where she bumped right into James and Sirius.
"So Lily, it's Halloween," James noted. "Breaking out the plaid uniform, white knee socks,and putting your hair in pigtails and going as a virgin again?"
"Actually, I was thinking about going as a rich snob…can I borrow your clothes?" Lily snapped.
"You should wear a thong and go as 'hot,'" Sirius said with a grin.
Lily just ignored Sirius and looked at James. "For your information, not like it's any of your business, but I'm going bowling."
James snorted. "Bowling? What respectful teenager goes bowling?"
"I'm not going to sit here and talk to you about the word respectful when you think a respectful teenager is someone who has sex whenever possible," Lily snapped.
"At least I'm satisf-"
"If you know what's good for you, don't finish that sentence," Lily sneered.
"Ja-ames," a high pitched giggly voice called out from James's room.
Lily groaned and turned around to walk back to her roomwhen she heard a knock on the portrait hole.
"Crap," Lily muttered. She turned to James. "Potter, I know we hate each other but if you had any ounce of decency, you wouldn't let him in quite yet."
James opened the door and let him in.
"I knew I should have asked the slut inyour room," Lily mumbled to James. "Hey Geoff."
"Hey Lily, you look pretty," Geoff said.
"She's not even done getting dressed," James muttered.
"Huh?" Geoff asked.
"You should see her in the morning," James said.
Lily glared at James. "Go away Potter."
"It'll be my pleasure," James said, going back into his room.
"Ignore Potter," Lily said.
"Does he have a firstname?" Geoff asked, even though everyone in the school knew who he was.
"Not one that we like to acknowledge," Lily said.
"So is this weird to you?" Geoff asked.
"Bowling? Or being set up with a complete stranger?" Lily asked.
"Hey, I'm not a complete stranger," Geoff said. "I'm nineteen and have blue eyes."
"The mysteries of the world are now solved!" Lily exclaimed with a laugh. "And your eyes are green."
Geoff paused. "Oh yeah."
"You don't seem like the kind of guy who would break the rules and take me off the premises of Hogwarts," Lily said.
Geoff laughed. "Okay, so maybe I am a complete stranger to you."
Lily laughed but cringed when she heard a familiar laugh. She turned to see Nancie and James coming through the door. "Ugh," she muttered.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing," Lily mumbled. "It's just that hell walked through the door."
"Hmm, that's funny," Geoff said, looking at Nancie. "I always thought hell wouldn't look that gorgeous." Lily glared at him. "But then again, James isn't that gorgeous." Lily rolled her eyes, but there was a hint of a smile on her face.
"I'll be right back," Lily said through gritted teeth and then stomped over to James. "What the hell are you doing here Potter?"
"Oh, hey Lily," James said, turning around. "I didn't know you were going bowling."
"Yes you did! I told you," Lily hissed.
"Oh yeah…" James said and then shrugged. "It must have slipped my mind."
"You're here to purposely try and ruin my date," Lily pointed out.
"Not true! For your information, it was Nancie's idea to come here. She's a champion bowler," James said.
"Okay, so how many of these pin thingy's do I have to knock down in order to get a home run?" Nancie asked, coming over to stand next to James.
"Champion bowler huh?" Lily muttered. "More like champion ditz."
"Hey!" James exclaimed. "You can't call her a ditz!"
Lily glared at James. "Who said I was talking about her?" And then Lily walked back over to Geoff.
"You two don't get along much do you?" Geoff asked.
"What gives you thatidea?" Lily asked sarcastically.
"The yelling, glaring, name calling, oh and the vein popping out of your head that says 'I hate James,'" Geoff said. Lily laughed.
"I'm so sorry," Lily apologized.
"Lily, it's okay," Geoff said. "I think after the tenth 'I'm sorry,' I pretty much understand that you're sorry."
"I don't know what got into him."
Geoff smiled at Lily. "I do."
"Huh?" Lily asked.
"He likes you," Geoff said with a shrug.
Lily looked at Geoff and burst out laughing. "Oh believe me, he doesn't like me."
"Why else would he pour soda down my front, trip me, and ignore his date all night long?"
"Because he's mentally unstable," Lily said.
Geoff shook his head. "It's okay if he likes you, I don't reall-"
"He doesn't like me," Lily repeated. "If he liked me, why would he go out with another girl the day after kissing me?" Lily mentally kicked herself for bringing that up.
"So you guys kissed huh?" Geoff asked.
"No," Lily said.
"But you just said-" Geoff said.
"Did I say James was mentally unstable? I meant I am mentally unstable," Lily said.
Geoff rolled his eyes. "So you like him but then he used you so now you hate him."
"That's not completely tr-"
"And James liked you but he thought you hated him because let's face it, everyone in this school knew you had some feud going on, so he went out with another girl, thinking it was what you would want," Geoff said.
"Okay, how do you know that?" Lily asked. "Either you're a stalker or just really intuitive."
"Neither. It's because I'm a guy."
"Ahh, my next guess," Lily said.
"I know how he thinks," Geoff said with a shrug.
"I didn't realize anyone could understand how James thinks. In fact, I didn't realize he could think," Lily joked.
"How about we just call it a night?" Geoff asked. "I mean we can-" but before he could get another word out, Lily reached up and grabbed his neck, bringing her lips to his. When they broke apart Geoff said, "How about I see you tomorrow?" Lily laughed, nodded, and then went into the commons room.
"How was your date?" Gigi asked.
"I hate Potter," Lily said, flopping down on the couch.
"I thought you were on a date with Geoff," Kacie said.
"He just makes me so mad," Lily seethed.
"Geoff or James?" Gigi asked.
"He just comes in there with Nancie by his side and a huge smug smile on his face," Lily muttered.
Gigi and Kacie looked at each other. "James."
Just then James walked in and Gigi immediately got up. "Run James, run!"
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Lily shouted at James.
"Run," Gigi hissed.
Lily just stomped into the room and slammed the door.
James turned to Kacie and Gigi. "Do you think she's mad at me?" he asked sarcastically.
"Noooo," Gigi said rolling her eyes. "Slamming the door doesn't mean she's mad. If she starts yelling at you, then she's mad."
Lily came out of the room. "You are such an asshole Potter!"
James looked over at Gigi who said, "Yup, she's mad."
"What are you talking about, Evans?" James asked innocently.
"You spilled soda all over my date!" Lily cried out.
"That was an accident!" James confirmed.
"You tripped him every chance you got!"
James paused. "That was not an accident."
"None of it was!" Lily burst out. "I told you to leave me alone Potter! And you show up to chaperone my dateWhat the hell is wrong with you?" Lily stomped into her room and slammed the door once again.
Gigi looked up at James. "Yup, she is definitely mad."
"I purposely ruined Lily's date this weekend," James said.
Sirius looked up from his book. "I said do something stupid this weekend. Not something that would get you killed!"
"Who said I'm getting killed?"
"Oh, Lily will kill you," Sirius said.
James groaned and put his head in his hands. "Well to be fair…I didsomething that allows you to mock me for the rest of my life."
Sirius thought about that and grinned. "My strip dance will totally be forgotten!"
James and Sirius went back to listening to the teacher.
Eventually, James turned back to Sirius. "She completely hates me now."
"Shhh, I'm trying to pay attention," Sirius muttered, looking up at the professor.
Remus, Peter, and James all turned to Sirius in awe. "Um…what?"
Sirius looked up and cracked a smile. "Just kidding…but the looks on your faces totally made that worth it."
James hit Sirius over the head. "Did you hear what I said?"
Sirius nodded. "Of course she completely hates you. Haven't we established this already? She's hated you for years. Why are we going through this again?" Sirius looked back at the professor and whispered to James, "Now, stop talking and pay attention."
"I spilled soda on her date, tripped him whenever possible, and even got Nancie to hit on Geoff," James whispered.
"What? Keep talking!" Sirius exclaimed.
James shrugged. "Lily slammed the door and called me an asshole."
"Which seems to be an understatement," Sirius said.
"And now she hates me so much, she's skipping classes we have together so she doesn't have to see me," James said.
"What? Lily's not here?" Sirius asked, glancing over at Lily's empty seat. "Hmm…Lily's not here."
"Did I notjust say that?" James asked.
"I'm sure she isn't skipping because of you," Sirius said.
"This note from Gigi saying 'Lily isn't here in class because she's avoiding you' contradicts that statement Padfoot," James said.
"Maybe Giliba is talking about another Lily," Sirius said with a shrug. James glared at him. "Hey, I'm trying to be positive!"
"I love my life!" Lily exclaimed, skipping into the Great Hall.
"That's nice," Gigi said, obviously not listening to Lily.
"Um, hello?" Lily asked.
"Shh," Gigi exclaimed.
Lily shrugged and kept talking. "Before today, I always thought that I was being punished with the life I was given. I mean, it used to be World than Lily. Now it's Lily, World."
"Hey Lily world? How bout you move your Lily legs before I kick your Lily butt?" Gigi asked.
"Fair enough," Lily said, sitting down. "What's with her?"
"She's eye flirting," Kacie said with a shrug.
"Eye flirting?" Lily questioned.
"She thinks that if she blinks and winks a certain number of times, that will give Freddie the signal to come over and talk to her," Kacie said with a shrug.
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," Lily said.
"Shhh," Gigi hissed.
"We don't need to be quiet if all you're doing is using your eyes, Gi," Kacie said.
Gigi paused. "Oh yeah." Freddie turned back to his friend. "Ugh, you guys officially suck." Gigi stared at Lily intently. "Your eyes are prettier than mine."
Lily glanced over at Freddie. "Freddie's vision sucks. He probably can't see the difference between your mouth and your eyes."
Gigi looked at Lily. "You tell me that now? I spent the last twenty minutes eye flirting with someone who can't see me!"
Kacie rolled her eyes. "Hey, I saw that!" Gigi accused.
"I know. Unlike Freddie, you can see my eyes," Kacie said.
"And it's not your eyes the guys look at Gi," Lily noted. "They usually look a little more south."
Gigi looked down at her chest. "Yeah, but I'm wearing robes. They can't see down south."
The girls laughed and Gigi turned to Lily. "Okay, so why is your life so wonderful?"
"Geoff asked me out again," Lily squealed.
"Even after everything James did?" Kacie asked.
Lily shrugged. "Apparently I'm a really good kisser."
Gigi and Kacie gave her a blank stare. "No really, how'd you get him to ask you out again?"
Lily laughed and dug into her lunch. "Nothing can ruin my mood today."
"Hey guys," James said, as he walked by with all the Marauders.
Lily groaned. "And evidently I'm wrong."
"Are you going to eat that roll?" Sirius asked Lily.
Lily looked up at him. "You mean the one that I just brought up to my mouth?"
"Yeah," Sirius said. Lily rolled her eyes and Sirius waited for her to answer. "No really, are you going to eat that?"
Lily licked the roll.
"Maybe I'll just get my own roll…" Sirius said.
"Good idea," Gigi said. "Oh, and I hear the rolls all the way at the end of the table are best."
"I get the slightest feeling we're not wanted," Remus noted.
"No, no. You're wanted," Gigi said and then looked up at James and Sirius "They're not wanted."
The boys shrugged and went to sit down on the opposite side of the table.
"Blue tank top with black skirt," Gigi offered.
"It's winter!" Lily cried out.
"Oh right," Gigi said. "Blue tank top with jeans."
"It's winter!" Lily repeated.
"Oh, so what do you suggest? Wool underwear and a sweatshirt?" Gigi asked.
"It's more reasonable," Lily muttered.
"Ask the guys," Kacie said. "They know what clothes they like on their girlfriends."
"You mean nothing?" Lily pointed out.
Kacie paused. "Oh come on, they won't say that."
Kacie walked out of Lily's room. "Hey Si, if you were going on a date with Lily, what would you want her to wear?"
Sirius thought about it. "Lingerie."
Kacie walked back in and shrugged. "See, I toldyou he wouldn't say nothing."
"Actually, why bother wearing anything at all?" Sirius shouted to Kacie.
Kacie gave an innocent look. "Spoke too soon."
In the commons room, James turned to Sirius. "Why are they asking your advice on Lily's clothes?"
"I think Lily's going out with some guy," Sirius said with a shrug, not looking up from his book.
"What?" James exclaimed. "What guy?"
"Probably the guy from the other night," Sirius said.
"Even after I…" James trailed off.
Sirius looked up from his book. "After you completely ruined their date?" James looked sheepish. "I guess Lily is one smooth talker."
"You mean one smooth kisser," James muttered.
"That too." Sirius turned to him. "But you're the one who would know that."
James choseto ignore Sirius's comment. "Ugh, how could she go out with this John guy?" James mumbled.
"Geoff," Sirius corrected.
"Him too," James said and then paused. "Wait, she's seeing two guys?" James growled. "What a slut."
"No, she's seeing one guy. His name is Geoff not John," Sirius explained.
"Oh," James said. "She's still a slut."
"James, you've seen up to five girls at once," Sirius said.
"Well that's totally different."
"How?" Sirius asked.
James paused. "I'm a guy."
Remus looked up and frowned. "You mean you're a pig."
James thought about that and shrugged. "Same thing."
James got up and went to Lily's room. He knocked on the door. Kacie opened it a crack. "Yes?"
"Is Lily here?"
Kacie poked her head around the door. "Lily, it's James." Lily shook her head violently back and forth. Kacie turned her head back to James. "She's not here."
"Didn't you just say her name?" James asked.
"What? No," Kacie said quickly.
"Yes you did!"
"I call everyone Lily," Kacie said with a shrug.
"Can't I just-"
"Bye Lily!" Kacie said to James, pushing him out the door and shutting it in his face.
James sighed and trudged back to the commons room. Remus looked up. "Didn't go well?"
James shook his head. "But apparently my name is Lily."
Sirius and Remus exchanged confused looks. "I'm not even going to try understanding."
Back in Lily's room, Kacie shut the door and turned to Lily. "You still content on the whole hating James thing huh?"
"Content is an understatement," Lily muttered.
"Come on, what exactly did he do to you that was so horrible?" Kacie asked.
"Kissed me, then went out with another girl the next night, felt it was okay to do so, showed up on my date last weekend and completely ruined it…on purpose," Lily said. "And then there's the little thing where he's a complete arrogant pig."
Gigi looked up. "Sounds like my kind of guy."
Kacie ignored her and turned to Lily. "And you call that horrible?" Kacie asked sarcastically.
Lily paused. "You're right," Lily said. "Horrible doesn't even begin to describe him."
"It describes Black though," Gigi muttered.
"Am I the only one who doesn'thate a Marauder?" Kacie asked.
"I don't know…Remus took that last piece of bacon at breakfast this morning and you were pretty angry about that," Gigi said.
"Oh yeah," Kacie said. "I hate that guy." Kacie laughed at her sarcasm. "Oooh, red shirt with black pants looks good!"
Lily turned to Gigi for her opinion. Gigi shrugged. "I still say blue tank top and black skirt."
"It's wi-"
"If you say it's winter one more time, I'm gonna kill you and therefore it won't matter whatyou wear on this date," Gigi said.
Lily thought about what to say. "It's freezing outside."
Gigi groaned and threw a pillow at Lily. Lily threw the pillow back at her. "Okay, you guys need to get out or I will never get dressed."
"Geoff will probably like that better," Kacie noted.
"Out!" Lily cried out, pointing to the door.
"That's the last time I help you get dressed," Gigi mumbled as she walked out the door.
"You weren't helping!" Lily cried out after her.
"Just because youdon't want to freeze doesn't mean I wasn't helping," Gigi said.
"Go away!" Lily cried out with a laugh.
Gigi and Kacie plopped down on the ground in the commons room.
"She kicked ya out huh?" Sirius asked.
"No, we decided to leave," Kacie said with a shrug.
"We heard her yell 'out!'" Remus said.
"We were talking about baseball," Gigi said.
"We heard her yell 'go away!'" Sirius noted.
"Oh…" Kacie said. "Then yes, we were kicked out."
"What's the big deal anyway?" James muttered.
"A date to any girl is a big deal," Gigi said.
"Do girls talk about what make up to put on, what clothes to wear, and how to act before going on dates with us?" Sirius asked.
"No," Gigi said. "They talk about how many ways they can kill themselves during the date."
"And we weren't talking about make up ever," Kacie said.
"Hey Gi?" Lily called out from her room. "Do you have my strawberry lip gloss?"
"No!" she cried out. Kacie turned back to the group. "And apparently I have once again spoken too soon."
"Maybe you should just stop speaking altogether," Sirius suggested.
"Maybe you should," Gigi muttered.
It was quiet for a few seconds. "So what's Lily gonna wear?" Sirius asked.
"Wow, you lasted a whole five seconds," Gigi muttered.
"That was five seconds longer than I thought," Remus noted.
"Me too," James added.
"Me three," Kacie said.
"You don't think I can stay quiet?" Sirius asked.
"No," everyone answered in unison.
"I can stay quiet," Sirius protested. Everyone looked at him as he shut his mouth. He looked up to Lily's door. "So really, what's she gonna wear?"
"Who cares," James grumbled.
"Someone's in a good mood," Gigi said sarcastically.
Lily came out just then and everyone turned to look at her. "Well, I'm glad to see you're not wearing wool underwear and a sweatshirt," Gigi said. Lily was wearing a V-neck red top with tiny beads at the top, and casual black pants.
"What do you think?" Lily asked the girls.
"Got a hot date, huh Lily?" Remus asked.
"No…but Geoff does," Lily said with a wink.
"I personally like the idea of wool underwear better," James mumbled.
"And that's why I didn't ask you," Lily said.
"Isn't that top a little revealing?" Sirius asked.
"Why do you care?" Lily wondered. "Your dates usually wear much less than this."
Sirius stopped. "Good point."
There was a knock on the portrait hole and everyone looked up at the entrance way. Lily walked over to it and let Geoff in. Geoff entered to see everyone grinning up at him. He turned to Lily. "Are they always this frightening?"
"No," Lily said. "They're usually worse."
Before anyone could say anything, Lily grabbed Geoff's hand and led him out of the room. It grew quiet until James spoke up, "I don't like him."
"You don't know him," Sirius pointed out.
"All I know is that he doesn't like coke spilled down his front," James said. "And I don't like that."
"James," Gigi said. "No one likes soda spilled down their front."
"Okay that is sooobeside the point," James said. He groaned and got up.
"Where are you going?" Sirius asked.
"I'm going out with Nancie tonight," James said with a shrug. He grabbed a jacket and headed out the door.
Remus looked around the room. "Does anyone else find it weird that the only two people not here are the only two people who live here?"
"Hmmm, that is weird," Gigi said and then turned to the guys. "Why don't you leave?"
"I think he was suggesting that we all leave," Sirius said.
"And I'msuggesting that just you leave," Gigi said.
"Fair enough," Sirius said. "I don't want to be here when James brings Nancie back anyway."
"What makes you think he'll bring her back here?" Kacie asked.
"Because he's a Marauder," Sirius said with a shrug. "It's what we do."
"Hey, there is no we here," Remus said. "It's what youand Jamesdo."
"What about Summer Anston?" Sirius asked.
Remus paused and then turned to the girls. "It's what we do."
"Although I'm not sure that counts," Sirius said. "You were completely wasted."
"That's what happens when I insist that I don't want to drink and you spike my juice…nine times," Remus said.
Sirius thought about that and then burst out laughing. "You were so wasted!"
"So are we leaving?" Kacie asked.
The four of them exchanged looks. "This couch wantsus to sit on it. It's meant to be sat on. It'll be upset if we get up. It will-" Sirius started.
"We can stay here if you just shut up," Remus begged.
It grew quiet for a few seconds. "So Lily's outfit was reallyslutty huh?" Sirius asked.
"Hey, that was my shirt," Gigi argued.
"Oh, then let me rephrase that," Sirius said. "Lily's outfit was definitely slutty."
"Wow, the stars are really bright tonight huh?" Geoff asked.
Lily smiled. "Yeah, they're pretty."
Geoff smiled back at her. "The Quidditch pitch looks so empty."
Lily groaned and Geoff turned to her. "What?"
"Nothing, I just hate Quidditch," Lily said with a shrug.
"Why?"
"Because it's all Potter ever talks about," Lily said. "And after listening to him go on and on about the perfect broom, Quidditch is the last thing I want to talk about."
Geoff shrugged. "Okay, well then what do you think we should talk about?"
"Nothing doing with Quidditch, food, money, pranks, or girls," Lily mumbled.
"Well that leaves us talking about classes…and dirt," Geoff joked.
"We're safer off with dirt. Potter actually does well in his classes," Lily said. "Can you believe that? How can someone as idiotic as him do well?"
"I don't know," Geoff mumbled.
"He probably cheats," Lily said. "God knows he's good at cheating. He cheats on every one of his girlfriends."
"Okay, but Lily?" Geoff asked.
"Or maybe he gets one of his girlfriends to do the homework for him. Although his girlfriends don't have any brains themselves, so he wouldn't be doing well in his classes. Maybe he pays Dumbledore, that's probably how he became Head Boy also."
"Uh Lily?" Geoff asked.
"How does he have time for homework when all he does is hang out with girls?" Lily muttered. "And make my life miserable. And play pranks on…" Lily trailed off thinking about the last time they played a prank. She shook her head to get the thought out of her mind. "Well, whatever."
Geoff turned to Lily. "This isn't working."
"Well no kidding," Lily said. "Potter and I never got along. Everyone knows that we don't work well together but no-"
"No, I'm not talking about you and James," Geoff said. "I'm talking about us."
"Huh?"
"You're still hung up on James," Geoff said calmly.
Lily stopped and turned to Geoff. "Excuse me?"
"Lily, you've spent this whole date talking about James," Geoff said. "It's okay if you still like him, I do-"
"I do not like Potter," Lily insisted.
"Then why do you spend all day talking about him?"
"Because he annoys me so much," Lily said.
"Well, whatever reason it is, we're not working," Geoff said.
"If you don't want to be with me, you didn't have to make up some lame excuse about me liking Potter," Lily said.
"That's not it. You just-"
"Look, it doesn't matter okay?" Lily said. "Have a nice life Geoff." And with that, Lily stomped off in the opposite direction.
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Is Geoff right? Does Lily still like James? And what happens next chapter when James tries to prove to Lily that he doesn't hate her. In fact, he tries to show her that when they decided to be civil towards each other (in previous chapters)that he really was being sincere. Review and I'll post the next chapter! (but i want at least 10, if not 15, reviews!)