Don't Let Your Guard Down
chapter 28
once again, sorry this update is so late but i've been so incredibly busy with camp. but camp ends in two days and then i'll have plenty of free time! (even tho i go back to school in a week).
Disclaimer: blah blah etc etc you get it by now...
"Hey Gi," James said, entering the Gryffindor Commons room. "What are you doing sitting in a corner all by yourself?"
"Homework," Gigi said, looking up with a smile.
James looked at her. "No really…what are you doing?"
Gigi rolled her eyes and closed her book. "What are you doing alone in this corner?"
James sat down on the arm of the chair. "Talking to you."
"Okay…" Gigi said. "But what are you doing alone?"
"Hanging out with you," James said with a grin.
"Don't you have to have my consent to hang out with me?" Gigi teased.
"Well you can sit here and talk with me…or you could go back to your work," James said. "But I must warn you, I am going to hum loudly, flail my arms all about, and get up and dance if you pick the second choice."
Gigi paused to think about it. "So…wanna head down to the lake?"
James laughed. "Damn, I was kind of looking forward to dancing around the room."
"Aw, well you can embarrass me later," Gigi joked.
"No way!" James cried out, lounging around on a branch in a tree. "It was much funnier when Sirius turned you into a pig."
Gigi grinned. "Pink did not suit me."
"But having a snout and a curly cue tail did," James said with a laugh.
"I still think it was funnier when you fell in the lake in our third year," Gigi said.
"I didn't fall," James defended. "You pushed me in."
"That was the funny part," Gigi said, adjusting her back against the tree trunk.
James sat up in the tree and looked down at Gigi. "Can I ask you a question?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I know what you're gonna ask," Gigi said with a sigh.
James broke up a small tree branch and looked down at Gigi. "If you don't let me ask the question, I'll throw this at you."
Gigi rolled her eyes. "Fine, ask the question. But I'm only doing this because I'm having a really good hair day and I don't want twigs to mess it up."
James stared at her hair. "Really? You think today is a good hair day?"
Gigi gave him a look. "For that, I won't let you ask the question."
James chose to ask anyway. "Why can't you and Sirius settle your differences and just get along?"
"I knew you were gonna ask me that," Gigi muttered. Gigi sighed and looked up at James. "James, I know you're best friends with Sirius but-"
"I'm also one of your best friends," James noted.
Gigi gave a slight smile. "You don't understand how much he hurt me James. It seemed more sensible to get mad at him then to get disappointed and upset over the whole thing."
"But what exactly happened?" James asked. "I mean I have a broad sense of what happened but I don't know it from your point of view."
Gigi sighed. "He had sex with someone else right after having sex with me. He couldn't even wait twenty four hours. And yes, I understand you and Black think there's nothing wrong with that-at least you used to think like that. But Black and I were supposed to be good friends. When it happened, I just figured he had changed. I thought he could change."
James fixated on Gigi's expression for a little bit. "You're upset."
"That this tree trunk is uncomfortable? Yeah, I am upset about that," Gigi joked.
"No, you're upset that Sirius finally has changed," James said. "And you had nothing to do with it…but you're right, this tree trunk is uncomfortable."
"What?" Gigi cried out. "That's ridiculous. You need your head examined."
"I'll make an appointment when we get back to the castle," James joked. "But I am totally right."
"First of all, you're crazy. Second of all, your best friend has not changed. One girlfriend for a little over a month doesn't change you. They'll break up, and he'll go back to screwing every thing that fits into a mini skirt," Gigi said.
"No he won't," James said, "Mainly because there are no girls left."
Gigi gave him a look.
"But you didn't need to know that."
Gigi laughed. "Let's not talk about Black."
"Remember the good 'ol days when you were actually able to hang out with Sirius and not bite his head off?" James reminisced.
"Good 'ol days?" Gigi asked with a snort. "Where you guys thought playing bagel hockey was fun and that spitting food at each other was the funniest thing ever?"
James grinned. "You know why we really like bagel hockey?"
Gigi gave him an inquiring look. "Why?"
"Because whenever you played and bent down to retrieve the bagel, we could see down your shirt," James said with a grin.
Gigi gave him an appalled look. "I am never playing bagel hockey with you again!"
"But we won't be able to find a goalie in such short notice!" James cried out.
"And I'm wearing turtlenecks for the rest of my life," Gigi said.
"Sirius is gonna be pissed that I told you that," James said with a smile.
"He's too busy to notice anything," Gigi said. "When his tongue isn't down Lucie's throat, his hand is in the couch trying to find her bra."
"Or his hand is occupied somewhere else," James said with a wink.
Gigi gave him a disgusted look.
"Yeah…that's something else you didn't need to know," James said.
Gigi laughed and started playing with the grass surrounding the tree.
James fidgeted with his thumbs for awhile before asking, "So…how are the other girls doing?"
Gigi smiled at James' lame attempt. "Lily's fine."
"Oh," James said, giving Gigi and awkward smile. "Cool."
"She spends a lot of time throwing darts at a picture of your face," Gigi said.
"Well that's comforting," James said with a nervous laugh.
"That's not a bad thing," Gigi said, glancing up at James's sad face.
"How is throwing darts at my face not a bad thing?" James asked.
"Lily sucks at darts," Gigi said. "She misses your face most of the time."
"Wow, you really suck at this comforting thing," James said.
Gigi conjured up a tub of cookie dough and handed it to him. "Better?"
"No," James said, taking the cookie dough. "You forgot a spoon."
Gigi laughed and conjured up a spoon, throwing it up to James.
Lily stormed into the library and saw Sirius sitting there with a book open. "Sirius," Lily said, marching up to him. "Have you seen Gigi?"
"No," Sirius said.
"Do you know where she is?"
"No."
"Do you have any idea what her schedule is like today?" Lily questioned.
"Why would I know the whereabouts of a girl I hate?" Sirius asked.
"Good point," Lily said and then started walking away. "Do you think she could be in the kitchens?"
"Are you done with these pointless questions?" Sirius asked.
"I just have one more," Lily said.
Sirius looked up and gave her an attentive look.
"What the hell are you doing in a library?" Lily asked.
"Oh looks, there's Giliba!" Sirius cried out jokingly. Lily turned her head and then groaned when she realized Sirius was joking.
"You suck," Lily said and then walked off.
"No I don't," Sirius said. "But according to James, you do!"
Lily crumbled up a piece of parchment and threw it at him and walked off.
She roamed the halls until she came across Peter coming out of a classroom. "Hey Peter, have you seen Gigi?"
Peter jumped, not expecting to see Lily standing there. "Oh hey…no I haven't."
"How come no one knows where she is?" Lily groaned. "Do you know where she could be?"
Peter shrugged. "Sorry, I have no idea."
"Okay," Lily said, walking away. She turned around to face Peter again. "You have lipstick on your mouth."
Peter quickly wiped of his mouth and gave a sheepish grin when Patsy came out of the classroom just then.
Lily just shook head and laughed a little. "I'm gonna go find Remus," Lily said. "I'll talk to you later."
"Remus is in detention," Peter said.
"Hold on," Lily said. "Lemme get this straight. You are snogging some girl in a classroom, Sirius is in a library, and Remus is in detention."
Peter looked at her pondering it over. "Trying to figure out what aliens took over our bodies?"
"Yep."
"Good luck with that."
Lily spent an hour looking in every broom closet, empty classroom, deserted hallway, and the astronomy tower for Gigi, but no such luck. Lily even resorted to asking every single Hogwarts male over the age of sixteen if he had seen Gigi, but no one knew her whereabouts.
"Why exactly are you looking so hard for Gigi?" Sirius asked, coming from behind.
Lily whirled around and eyed Sirius. "What did you do to her?"
"Excuse me?"
"Chop her up and put her into tonight's soup? Throw her off a cliff? Turn her into an ant?" Lily asked fervidly.
"Whoa, you have it all wrong," Sirius said and then he grinned. "I turned her into a spider."
"Sirius!" Lily cried out.
"And then stepped on her," Sirius said.
"SIRIUS!"
"Lily, I'm kidding," Sirius said. "I have no idea where she is. But my question is, why do you care so much where she is?"
"Because I need to find her," Lily said.
"She's probably with Jesse," Sirius said with a shrug.
Being distracted by looking for Gigi, Lily said, "They broke up. She's not with him." And with that, Lily ducked her head into another empty classroom.
"What?" Sirius asked.
Lily looked up and realized what she said. "Oh…nothing. It's not important."
"When?"
"When what?"
Sirius gave her a look.
"A week ago," Lily said.
"Who broke up with who?" Sirius asked.
Lily looked him up and down and then shrugged. "I don't know."
"Why did they break up?"
"I don't know."
"Do you know anything?" Sirius asked frustratingly.
"I know that your questions aren't helping me find Gigi any faster," Lily said, speeding up to look in the next empty classroom.
"Well there's an obvious answer," Sirius said.
"No there's not. If there was an obvious answer, I would have discovered it by now," Lily said.
"James is missing also. She's probably with him," Sirius said with a shrug.
Lily looked at him. "That is an obvious answer."
"Well I can be smart at times," Sirius said with a goofy grin.
"I said obvious answer, not smart answer," Lily said. "Thanks for the help." Lily turned the corner but then whipped around to look at Sirius. "So where's James?"
"I don't know."
"You are no help," Lily said with a pout.
"But you just thanked me for my help!"
"I change my mind," Lily pointed out.
"Well, I'll help you look," Sirius said.
"No," Lily said firmly.
Sirius was taken aback by her harshness. "Why not?"
"Because to you, looking for someone means complaining that you're bored and want chocolate cake," Lily said.
"Oh c'mon that's not true," Sirius said.
Lily gave him a look.
"Okay, it's a little true," Sirius said with a shrug.
Lily gave him another look.
"Okay, it's completely true," Sirius said. There was silence which was filled by him asking, "So…want some chocolate cake?"
"Bye Sirius."
"Is that a no?" Sirius called out after Lily.
"I didn't really lie," Gigi said with a shrug.
"You told us it wasn't working," Lily said.
"And that's the truth."
"You said he said it wasn't working," Kacie reiterated.
Gigi paused. "Oh yeah."
"Why'd you lie?"
Gigi shrugged. "Because I didn't want you guys finding out that I broke up with him. I thought you'd go into a whole speech about how I need to learn how to commit and forget about one night stands with guys whose names I can't even remember."
"We wouldn't say that," Kacie said, opening the door open for Lily and Gigi.
"So…why did you break up with him?" Lily dared to ask.
The girls entered the Great Hall and Lily and Kacie stopped to turn to Gigi to hear the answer.
"It just wasn't working," Gigi said. "I spent all my free time with him. I never got to see you girls."
"You spent all your free time with him because you liked him," Lily noted.
"Well whatever," Gigi said. "That's just-" Gigi trailed off and stared in the direction of the Marauders.
Lily followed her gaze and grinned. "I get it."
"Get what?" Gigi asked, snapping out of her trance.
"Why you really broke up with Jesse," Lily said, darting her eyes at Sirius.
Gigi noticed this and laughed out loud. "Are you kidding me? You think I broke up with Jesse because of…" Gigi couldn't finish her sentence because she was laughing too hard.
"Because of what? Someone care to explain?" Kacie cried out. Lily nudged Kacie and pointed at Sirius. "Ooooh."
"No, no ooooh. There's no ooooh. I didn't break up with Jesse for that ass," Gigi insisted.
"Why not?" Kacie asked. "He has a great ass."
Gigi made a retching noise but turned when there was a lot of commotion coming from the end of the Gryffindor table.
"What are they doing?" Kacie asked, as the three girls wondered over there.
Gigi laughed. "They're having their annual hamburger eating contest."
"How'd you know that?" Lily asked.
"Because they've been having that contest every year since second year," Gigi said with a shrug.
"Hey Gi! Wanna join?" Remus asked, tucking a napkin into his robes.
Gigi shrugged. "Sure, why not."
"What?" Lily asked, obviously surprised.
"What?" Sirius cried out.
"I've watched you guys do it for five years now. How hard can it be?" Gigi asked.
"Hard," James insisted. "Impossible. Dirty."
Gigi gave him a look. "Do I look like someone who minds getting dirty?"
"Take it from me, the answer to that question is no," Sirius whispered to James, which resulted in Gigi throwing a hamburger bun at him.
"Alright, so are we gonna get started or not?" Georgie, a seventh year Ravenclaw, asked.
"We have to get Gigi some hamburgers," James said. "You're seventeen. I think you can wait a few minutes."
"I wanna start!" Sirius whined.
"But apparently he can't," James said.
Gigi turned to Sirius. "If you sit still, Lucie will do anything you want," she said.
"Whoa, I didn't agree to that," Lucie piped up.
"Okay!" Sirius said, and then he placed his hands in his laps and sat quietly.
"Damnit," Lucie mumbled under her breath.
Gigi gave her a cheesy grin. "Oops?"
"Why don't you do anything he wants?" Lucie asked. "I even give you permission."
Lily, Kacie, Remus, Sirius, Peter, James, and Gigi all froze. Lily and Kacie exchanged glances, Sirius looked down at his hands, James nudged Remus, and Peter glanced nervously at the two. Gigi just smiled weakly at Lucie. "I wouldn't even touch him with a ten foot pole," Gigi said with a forced laugh.
Everyone else laughed nervously and went back to prepping for the contest. "So…how many hamburgers are you guys eating?" Kacie asked.
"Only ten," Sirius said with a shrug
"Only ten?" Kacie asked and then made a gagging sound. "If you throw up, you're lucky."
"Why?" James asked with a laugh.
"Because then all those calories won't actually go into you," Kacie said with a smile.
"So, you're not gonna join us Lily?" Remus asked.
"Do I look like the kind of girl to pull my hair back, tuck tons of napkins into my robes, and scarf down nine hamburgers more than I can handle?" Lily asked.
"I don't know," Remus said. "What does that kind of girl look like?"
"Let's get this contest started!" Gigi cried out.
Lily pointed at Gigi. "Like that."
Peter looked up at Kacie who was standing behind him. "And I'm guessing from your calorie comment that you're not participating," Peter said.
Kacie took a carrot from a nearby plate and chomped down on it. "Forget it."
"Since when were girls allowed to participate?" Freddie, a seventh year Hufflepuff, asked.
James glanced up at Gigi "She's not a girl."
"Hey!" Gigi cried out, throwing a few hamburger buns at James.
"Hey, those are my buns!" James cried out. James paused. "In no way did that sound good."
The whole table could hardly hear him over their excessive laughing.
"Okay, all the hamburgers are here," Sirius said. "You guys ready?"
James looked up at Lily for the first time since she's been there. He handed her his wand. "Wanna do the honors?"
Lily smiled at him and nodded. "Of course." Lily put the wand in the air and looked at the seven contributors. "Ready…Set…GO!" Lily let a few sparks fly from James's wand and then placed it back on the table. Lily sat down beside him to watch the contest.
Other Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, Ravenclaws, and even some Slytherins gathered around the table to watch the contest.
"Georgie's gonna puke!"
"But he only had two hamburgers so far!"
"Oh…well then maybe he's not gonna puke, but he's definitely not gonna win."
"Go James!" Lily tried hard not to get upset over the many girls who were cheering James on in their giggly tones and their high pitched voices.
"Go Remus! Come on!"
"Hey, he's got a girlfriend!" Lacey cried out.
"I'm not sure I'd want to take credit for dating that," Kacie joked, glancing over at Remus with tons of hamburgers stuck in his mouth.
"Ugh, this is disgusting," Lily said, putting her roll back in the basket.
"You mean you don't find this attractive?" Lacey asked with a laugh, giving her boyfriend a goofy grin.
"Five galleons says Peter throws up first!"
"Ten says it's Gigi!"
"No way, when it comes to things like this, she's a freak."
"DONE!" Gigi cried out, not caring that pieces of hamburger were ejecting out of her mouth. "And thanks for the freak comment…for some reason, I take that as a compliment."
"NOOOO!" Sirius cried out, hamburger still stuffed in his mouth.
"Ew gross," Lily said as hamburger spewed out of his mouth.
"Ya know," Lucie said, leaning on the bench. "For the past three minutes, I've been trying to figure out what I find so attractive in Sirius."
"Having trouble?"
"Oh yeah."
Lily looked at Sirius. "His ass."
Lucie grinned. "Oh yeah. How could I forget?"
"How could she win?" Georgie asked.
"Well you see Goergie. While you were only on your fifth hamburger, Gigi here was done," Freddie said, swallowing the rest of his hamburger.
"When I said you weren't a girl, I was totally right," James said.
Gigi grinned from ear to ear. "And that boys is how you eat ten hamburgers." She turned to Kacie and Lily. "Remind me never to eat hamburgers again."
"But a Marauder has always won…til now," Remus complained.
"Yeah, mostly because this contest was just between us Marauders the first three years we did it," Sirius said with a laugh, wiping off his mouth and gulping water down.
"You drink any more water Si and you're gonna turn into an ocean," Peter warned
Sirius looked at him as if to take his words in and then shrugged. "Hey Luce, wanna hand me that water pitcher?"
It grew quiet as everyone was digesting and the crowds dispersed. "So…" Sirius said slowly. "Who wants to play bagel hockey."
Remus and Peter turned to Gigi. "I bet you wanna play," Remus said coolly.
"You are not looking down my shirt!" Gigi cried out.
"Damnit!" all four boys yelled.
"Wait…how'd you know?" Sirius asked curiously. James started whistling innocently and twiddling his thumbs.
Sirius, Remus, and Peter turned to James. "You told her?"
James just gave a sheepish grin and stuffed a roll into his mouth. "Can't talk right now, it's impolite to talk with your moth full," James said, stuffing yet another roll in his mouth.
"You just ate nine hamburgers, how can you still be eating?" Kacie asked, sitting down on the table near the others.
James shrugged and took a piece of turkey and put that in his mouth.
Sirius looked around at the group, put his arm around Lucie, and smiled. "Isn't this nice?"
"Almost puking from eating ten hamburgers?" Lily asked.
"No," Sirius said. "All of us hanging out. No yelling matches. No one avoiding each other."
"Are there usually yelling matches and people avoiding each other?" Lacey asked.
Everyone else exchanged glances. Sirius looked at her and reached out his hand and shook Lacey's. "Welcome to the most dysfunctional group ever. I'm Sirius."
"Don't go near him," Kacie whispered. "He'll try to seduce you into bed."
"I will not!" Sirius exclaimed, tightening his grip around Lucie's shoulders.
"Either that or he'll convince you to take your bra off on Lily's couch," Peter said and the whole group laughed…everyone that is, except James and Lily.
Lily stole a quick glance at James and got up. "I have to go." And with that, she was gone.
Sirius sighed. "And the avoiding starts again."
"Who's avoiding who? And why?" Lacey asked.
Sirius turned to Remus. "Don't you tell your girlfriend anything?"
"She knows how much of an idiot you are," Remus said.
"Oh," Sirius said. "Then there isn't much more to tell."
Remus laughed. "I try not to show Lace just how outrageous we all are," Remus said. "I still want her to date me."
Sirius grinned and turned to Lacey. "Yeah, it's probably better that you don't know anything."
"Well, I have a question," Lucie chimed in. She turned to Sirius and Gigi. "Why do you guys hate each other?"
Gigi stopped mid bite and Sirius just stopped moving altogether. James, Kacie, Peter, and Remus looked at each other nervously.
"They hate each other?" Lacey whispered to Remus.
Remus smiled and kissed her. "One of these days we'll stay up and you can ask any questions you want."
Lacey thought about it. "Okay…but that's gonna take more than one day."
Sirius cleared his throat and turned slowly to look at Lucie. "Well…er…it's kinda a long story…"
Gigi looked at Lucie. "You really wanna know the truth?"
"No she doesn't," Sirius said.
Lucie rolled her eyes at Sirius and turned to Gigi. "Yeah, I do."
Gigi gave one last look to Sirius and turned her attention back to Lucie. Gigi gave a fake smile. "He stole the last muffin at breakfast a year and a half ago."
"Don't listen to her! It's not tr-" Sirius stopped and looked at Gigi. "What?"
Gigi just shrugged. "I haven't forgiven you for that."
Lucie gave her a skeptical look and looked suspiciously at Sirius. "That's not what really happened is it?"
Sirius gave her a nervous look. "No," he said with a sigh. "It was a scone, not a muffin."
Lucie just shrugged and jumped off the table. "Alright, I gotta go." She gave Sirius a kiss on the lips and headed out.
"Yeah, I'm gonna go with her. I have homework to do," Lacey said, getting up from the bench.
"Just do what Sirius does when he has homework," Remus said.
"What's that?"
"Don't do it," Remus said.
"That's not true!" Sirius cried out. "I copy Remus."
"No you don't," Remus said.
"Well if you let me, I would," Sirius said with a grin. "And that's why I have James…because he lets me."
"Somehow I don't think that will work," Lacey said with a laugh. She kissed Remus goodbye, and then trudged off.
Sirius pouted. "How come no one takes me seriously?"
No one said anything.
Gigi looked up and noticed that Sirius was waiting for an answer. "Oh, did you actually want us to answer that?"
Sirius grabbed a carrot and threw it at her.
"It's hard to take you seriously when you throw food," James said.
Sirius grinned and threw a carrot at James also.
"As much fun as throwing food is, I hafta go," Remus said. "Someone has to do the homework."
"You just wanna catch up with Lacey and get a few snogs in," Sirius said.
Remus just grinned mysteriously. "Plus, I have Ancient Runes," Remus said.
"Yeah, I have that too," Kacie said, stepping down from the table. "But I'll see you guys later. Hopefully when you're not stuffing yourselves with hamburgers."
"And I'm gonna go and throw up," Peter said, practically running out of the room.
James laughed. "I'm gonna make sure Peter is okay," James said, running after him. Remus and Kacie rolled their eyes, grabbed their books, and headed out.
"Why'd you do that?" Sirius asked, immediately after everyone laughed.
Gigi looked down at her pumpkin juice. "Well it's easy. You take a sip and swallow what you drink. Now you try it."
Sirius rolled his eyes at her. "Why were you nice?"
"Giving you tips on how to drink pumpkin juice classifies as nice?" Gigi asked.
"You were about to tell Lucie what really happened between us and then you stopped and gave her a bullshit story," Sirius said. "Which by the way, was pretty lame."
"Would you have rather me tell her the real story?"
Sirius paused. "Good point. But you could have at least said that you were choking on the muffin and I wouldn't save you. Make it a little more believable."
"Look, it's no big deal," Gigi said, hopping down from the table.
"It is to me." Sirius grabbed Gigi's arm lightly and turned her to him.
"You have a great thing going with Lucie," Gigi said with a shrug. "There's no reason to ruin it with a story of how you used to be."
"Used to be?" Sirius asked, raising an eyebrow. "You don't think I'm still that way?"
"Oh no, I do," Gigi reassured. "But Lucie doesn't."
"Well…thanks," Sirius said.
Gigi pulled her arm back. "Don't make such a big deal out of it." Gigi started walking away but stopped when she heard Sirius speak up.
"Jesse's a lucky guy."
Gigi turned around slowly and stared at Sirius, trying to understand if he was being sincere. She looked up and down and took a step toward him. "He was a lucky guy. We broke up."
Sirius nodded. "Lily told me." Sirius looked at Gigi's expression and she didn't even seem upset that Lily was telling Gigi's business. Sirius grabbed a piece of turkey and sat on the bench, leaning back against the table. "So who broke up with who?"
Gigi looked at him apprehensively. Then, she also took a piece or turkey and sat up on the table. "I broke up with him."
"Why?"
Gigi once again looked at him suspiciously. "Why do you care?"
Sirius placed the turkey in his mouth. "I'm merely wondering."
"It just wasn't working," Gigi said with a shrug. "I wasn't into him as much as he was into me."
"But you spent all your time with him. It was actually kind of sickening how happy you looked when you were with him," Sirius said.
"It wasn't working," Gigi said firmly. "End of story."
"But-"
"No," Gigi cried out. "There's nothing else to say."
"But you really liked him!"
"Look Black, we're not exactly friends so excuse me if I don't want to sit here and talk to you about my love life," Gigi snapped.
"This is just like you," Sirius said, standing up from the bench.
"What is just like me?" Gigi retorted.
"Just when we're having a normal conversation, you go and make it a bad thing," Sirius said.
"A normal conversation?" Gigi asked, letting out a laugh. "We were talking about how screwed up I am when it comes to relationships. Basically you're perfect with Lucie and I can't even keep a guy for two months."
"How did you get that out of what we were talking about?" Sirius asked. "We were merely discussing something that is going on in your life. And I am not perfect with Lucie. I have no idea how to act around her. I have no idea how to be around her."
"Here's some advice," Gigi said, hopping down from the table and taking an apple. "Don't sleep with another girl a day after sleeping with her."
"Giliba!" Sirius cried out with such harshness that Gigi actually stopped walking away and turned to face him. "What I did was a horrible thing, I understand that. And I know that no matter what, you're gonna throw it in my face every time we talk. But don't you understand how sorry I am? How upset I am that things became so screwed up between us, all because of something stupid I did?"
Gigi didn't say anything for what seemed like forever. Finally, she looked up at Sirius and said. "Yes, I liked Jesse. But he's not the one I really want." And with one last look at Sirius, she darted out of the Great Hall.
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