The Forgotten Tale of Lily and James

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Ch4 – Run Your Mouth Off

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James awoke in a positive attitude that morning. He got dressed and zoomed down to breakfast. On his way into the Great Hall, he spotted the seat where Lily was sitting. He gave her a nod of acknowledgement when they made eye contact. He smiled at her confused face and continued to walk towards his friend. He sat across from Remus and instantly filled his plate. "Good morning, Moony!" James said brightly.

Remus grunted and continued to read The Daily Prophet. Then he looked up, and said quite unenthusiastically. "Morning James. What's got you so excited?"

"Mate, you'll never believe this!" He looked like a little boy who just got an ice cream cone. "Last night, I walked into the common room and Lily was passed out on the couch right, so I went over and sat in the chair next to it and I heard her say my name, twice! So then I--"

"James, it's not that I'm not absolutely thrilled for you, I am, really. But I don't want to spend my morning giving you advice on how to talk to Lily again, if you don't even use it!"

"What's got your knickers in a twist? You seem a bit angry."

"Oh, really? I do?" Remus said, in a condescending tone. "I hadn't noticed. Thanks."

"What's your problem, Remus?" James' forceful tone rang through his ears. Remus grumbled and shoved more food in his mouth. James decided to continue the conversation anyway. "You came off worse in a fight with someone, obviously. Someone you're close to." James thought. "It was one of the girls or Sirius. Oh, or Mackenzie now actually. But you're not so close to her yet so it's not her. It's probably not Ellie. You two get along famously most of the time. I know it isn't me. Lily would have made it known if she was fighting with you, or anyone really. She looks quite miserable when someone's mad at her. Which means, that you either had a row with Sirius or Chanel." Sirius walked into the Great Hall with a smile on his face. "Actually seeing as Sirius looks extraordinarily happy, it was Chanel."

"Excellent deductive reasoning, James." Remus glared at him.

"Well what happened with Chanel, mate?"

"Nothing Prongs, please continue to run your bloody mouth off somewhere else because I'm simply—"

Sirius sniggered as he sat down next to Remus. "He caught Chanel lending a hand to Scotty O'Donnell in an empty classroom last night. Lucky bloke. I wish some girl would do that for me sometime." He started loading an assortment of food onto his plate.

"Chanel? With O'Donnell? I didn't know Chanel was that type of girl." James said.

"She's not that type of girl!" Remus said angrily. James raised his eyebrows. "She's not a whore!" Remus' face began to turn pink with embarrassment.

"I know she's not a whore! I only meant I didn't know she gave favors like that."

"Shee whut yoo kod haf if yoo plid yur cads writ, Rimuz?" Sirius said through a mouthful of eggs and toast.

"Have you ever learned manners? Don't talk with your mouth full." James rolled his eyes.

Sirius swallowed. Now he rolled his eyes. "I said, see what you could have if you played your cards right, Remus."

"I don't care about that. It's that she—" Remus was cut off.

"Was with him." James said, it seemed as if he understood. "I know."

"So we'll prank him or something. Remember who you're friends with, Moony. We got your back." Sirius reinforced.

Remus nodded. James smiled. Remus was desperate to change the conversation. He felt awkward. "So, James. How exactly did Lily say your name last night?"

James thought he blew out his eardrum for a moment due to Sirius' hacking cough. It seems as if he almost choked.

"What about last night?!" He spluttered. "Jamsey got lucky? With Lily Evans!"

Now James started to turn pink. Potter's didn't usually blush. "No, Sirius." He coughed. "I heard her say my name while she was sleeping. That's all." He said sheepishly.

"Ah. I see. So how did she say it? Was it like 'James!' like she was in trouble? Was it like 'Mmm, James' like she just snogged you? Or, my personal favorite, did she say it like 'Jaaaaaaammmesssss!!' like she was having a bloody wet dream about you?"

James started at Sirius in shock. He was surprised he was like this so early in the morning. He usually only acted like this before a prank or a full moon.

"What's got you so excited?"

"Answer the question and I'll tell ya." Sirius continued to load the food into his mouth as he muttered something under his breath.

"I don't know, it wasn't really anything special. I suppose it was like the second."

"Ah, Jamsey, that could be a good sign, you know."

"Doubtful." James grumbled. "So, your news?"

"Ah, yeah." Sirius chuckled. There was a rush of students who entered the Great Hall at this moment. Things got very loud. Sirius raised his voice. "I found out what Ellie's real name is!"

"Ellie's name isn't Ellie?" James did not know this.

"No! It's not, I found out from Chanel that---"

"Sirius Black!" Said an angry, very female voice from behind James. A fuming Ellie stood, looking ready to perform a Killing Curse if necessary. "I can't believe you! That's a secret!"

"Come on, Eloise isn't a bad name!"

Eloise looked like she just received a nasty slap in the face. "You prat! I can't--! Ugh, where is my cousin! Ooh this'll serve you right!"

"No! No, no, no! Eloise Vance!" Sirius called after Eloise, who had started to walk away and search for her cousin, who apparently could repay Sirius for the lack of decency he had just given to his friend.

"Why is she trying to find Emmeline?" Remus asked him.

"She's going to try to make her break our date. I asked her to the first Hogsmeade of the year. If Eloise messes this one up for me I'll… oh, I don't know. I'll deal with it as it comes, I suppose."

"Mmhmm. Carpe diem." James mumbled.

Sirius began to mumble incoherently to himself, something about Eloise receiving her regular visit.

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Chanel walked into the Great Hall with only five minutes left for breakfast. She had purposefully done this, in case anyone had heard about her escapades last night, it would seem as if she was walking in nonchalantly because she didn't care. But Lily was the one who saw the shame written on her face and the urgency in her eyes as she approached. Lily gave her a look of slight worry mixed with interest as she sat down. Chanel noticed that Lily, had indeed, noticed her internal suffering."Is it that obvious?"

Lily quickly replied, "Are you alright? What's happened?"

Chanel inwardly groaned. "I did something not very ladylike yesterday, Lily. I so regret it now."

Lily was in the middle of saying, "What did you do?" when Eloise ran over looking disheveled and out of breath. Her hair today was shoulder length and very red, fire engine red actually. It looked quite nice next to the Gryffindor symbol on her robes. Eloise sat down and picked up a waffle and shoved the whole thing into her mouth. Lily stared at her in disgust. Eloise swallowed loudly and said, "So, didja snog O'Donnell last night?"

Lily looked at Chanel, a little shocked. "You snuck out to snog? That is so against the rules!"

Chanel bit her lip. "That's not it, Lily. I—"

Eloise gasped, "Did you go dow—"

Chanel quickly replied, "No! That's even more disgusting!"

Eloise made a hand gesture that could probably be considered obscene and gave her a questioning look. Chanel nodded her head. Lily's eyes widened.

"Wow." Said Eloise.

"And that's not even the worst part!" Chanel whined. She lowered her voice to a whisper, "Remus caught me!"

Chanel looked down the table. Eloise and Lily followed suit. Peter was chatting up some fifth year and Remus was sitting there folding his newspaper as James was talking animatedly. Sirius was shoveling food into his mouth and pretending to listen to James, but looked up and caught her eye. He wiggled his eyebrows. Chanel looked away immediately. "See! He's told Sirius! Everyone will know by lunch!"

Lily and Eloise couldn't think of anything to say as she buried her face in her hands. "I could hide in the library. I do have to finish that Muggle Studies report." Chanel pondered this. "But then everyone will know I really did do it! I can't hide! I have to take it like a man! Well, you know what I mean."

Lily searched for something to say. "Great, Chanel. I think that's best. Don't hide from your problems!"

Eloise snorted. "Just like you, Lily Dearest?" Lily gave her a confused look. "Oh Lily, so young and naïve! Why don't you go talk to James?"

Lily ignored her. People started shuffling out the doors. Lily got up to join them. "Do either of you have a free period today?" They shook their heads no. "Damn. I'll see you later then."

Eloise leaned over towards Chanel. "She's in denial. James Potter's calmed down and she won't accept it!"

Chanel nodded. She needed to talk to Remus.

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Mackenzie Lewis walked down the hallway. She and Remus didn't have a free period together today. But she never knew where he was anyway. He was always disappearing, that boy. She would have to occupy herself by talking to Chelsea.

She walked back to her common room and said the password ("Lunascope.") and entered. She walked up to her room and grabbed her school books that she would need later on and proceeded to exit. She was halfway to the library when her hair began to slip out of its hold in her bobby pins. She decided to take a minute or two to fix it so she would look presentable, so she pushed the bathroom door open with her side and walked in. The bathroom was pretty deserted, only that Williams girl was in there messing around with her hair, she was probably skipping class again. Mackenzie started to fix her own hair when she realized that the girl was attempting to charm her hair, incredibly wrong. Mackenzie rolled her eyes and turned to the girl. "Are you trying to land yourself in the Hospital Wing?"

"Excuse me?"

"The spell you're trying to use is going to give yourself boils. What are you trying to do?" Mackenzie said, clearly miffed about how people simply do not study.

"Glamour my hair blonde. What are you talking about boils?"

The girl looked as if Mackenzie had said she was going to hex her. Mackenzie finished working on her hair and said, "You are saying furnunculus, which will cause you to erupt in boils. The charm to Glamour your hair blonde is fiocrocus."

The girl looked at her strangely, as if she was trying to decide if she should thank Mackenzie for telling her the right charm or punch her for thinking she was so much better than her. Mackenzie repeated slowly, "Fio, crocus. Can you manage?"

And without waiting for a reply, Mackenzie gathered her books and turned on her heel to leave. As the door was closing, she heard the Williams girl say the correct charm. Oh Mackenzie, whatever would people do without you? she thought to herself.

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Chelsea Neptune was sitting in the library and tapping her foot. Amanda Cohen was sitting three seats away from her, she was writing something that had to do with her Prefect duties, but she couldn't read it from this far away. Where was Kenzie? She had something to tell her! Oh, there she was walking in the door, what took her so long?

"My, my. Look what the cat dragged in." Chelsea snapped. "I've been waiting for you for twenty minutes!"

"Chels, you need to calm down." Mackenzie sat down and got settled. She pulled out her Arithmancy textbook and started to skim the pages for answers to her chart. "I got held up, by that Williams girl in our year. Couldn't even Glamour her own hair correctly. Very sad."

"Mm, tragic indeed. Wait, what Williams girl?" Chelsea's attention perked up.

"I don't know," Mackenzie said dismissively. "Her name is something Muggle. Gucci or Gabbana or something." She looked up from her textbook and appeared to be thinking. "Oh, no. It's Chanel. Yes. That's correct. Why?"

Chelsea leaned over the table. And said, "Ooh, I heard something about her this morning!" Mackenzie stopped filling out her chart and looked at Chelsea, both of them bonding over their obvious distaste for the girl. "I heard Veronica telling Sarah this morning that she got caught with Scott, late last night."

Mackenzie's mouth dropped. "Who knows what they could've been doing!"

"Ooh yes, I know. Scandalous isn't it? Actually, isn't that tramp friends with your boyfriend?" Chelsea asked.

"Friends? I wouldn't call it that, ugh, hardly. She just tags along because, well, I suppose she can't take a hint." This seemingly sweet girl thought to herself for a moment before speaking aloud. "What if she tries to seduce my Remus?"

"Oh don't you worry, Kenzie, I'll take care of her. I'll cook up something for me to tell Sirius Black, he'll be sure to tell Remus." Chelsea grinned wickedly. "It'll be so good, he'll have to pass on the information to all his friends. Everyone will think she's such a scarlet woman!"

The girls dissolved into annoying giggles.

Miss Amanda Cohen, who was not far away from the girls while they were planning on sharing vicious and blatantly false rumors about a girl she knew, decided that enough was simply enough. She took out a reprimand form and filled out,

Offender(s): Chelsea Neptune and Mackenzie Lewis

House(s): Ravenclaw

Offense: Rudely and viciously spreading and conspiring to spread false rumors about someone

Date: September 27th, 1977

Points Taken: Fifteen each

Detentions Given: None, only a first warning

Amanda filed the form into the correct folder, as Lily Evans adored proper organization skills, and stood up to scold the girls for inappropriately running their mouths off.

In case you didn't know or understand what Chanel was doing with Scott O'Donnell; she was wacking him off, jacking him off, giving him a wank, giving him a hand job. However you say it. Yeah, Mackenzie's a bitch. I promise there's James and Lily in the next couple chapters. I'm going on vacation for a little while! So this is it for a week or two.