Five Green sparks leapt up and raced down the corridor. They got into the head's corridor before I could get there and they blasted open the door. I was afraid for lily and sprinted the foot between the door and me. When I got inside James was unconscious on the floor and lily was nowhere to be seen.
I freaked. I lost control and ran out the door hoping desperately that she would be in her corridor or that she had slipped in somewhere while I had pulled my head back into the compartment. I couldn't find her anywhere and meanwhile the Sparks were probably doing something awful to potter.
Truth be told I would have enjoyed being there for that, but now I had to find lily. After whipping open compartment door after compartment door I slowly drugged back to my compartment my arms felt heavy and I couldn't lift my head. My lids weighed over my eyes and my legs were barley able to pull me down the corridor.
If lily had been in the room where James was knocked unconscious I didn't want to see what was happening to her. I slid open our compartment door, head hanging so low that I didn't notice there was someone standing behind it.
I didn't even hear the soft breathing, or notice the long red hair blowing in the breeze that had sneaked in the open compartment window. I didn't notice anything until I felt an arm snake around my waist to the small of my back, "you're finally here," a silky, gorgeous voice said.
I looked into lily's sparkling green eyes and my jaw dropped. Why was she here and how had she gotten here? She was wearing a gorgeous dress in a shade of emerald so close to her eye color that her eyes looked godly. They shone and sparkled and mesmerized me. We stayed that way for what felt like a million years. Her arm rested on the small of my back and me, standing slack-jaw, eyes as big as quaffles.
She finally blinked and the spell that held us together was broken. I quickly snapped my jaw shut when I realized it was hanging wide open. She finally began to speak, "Severus, why haven't you talked to me since you called me that stupid word? I don't care how many times you call me mudblood. That word honestly doesn't matter to me. All that matters is that you stop avoiding me, and start remembering that I still exist. You were my best friend Sev! You, were my best friend and you threw it all away because you couldn't stand next to me anymore without attempting to kiss me."
My mouth fell open again as she said those last words. She knew? She knew of my constant obsession and she was still ready to be friends with me? I was so confused.
"Sev, did you ever think that maybe I couldn't stand to be your friend any more either? That every time I saw you I wanted to grab you and kiss you?"
My eyes got wider than I thought they could go. I moved my lips to say something, but before I could her lips were pressed hard against mine. Her fingers were twirling in my hair. I laced my finger together behind her back and then slowly moved them to rest on her hips. A smile broke out on my face and she felt it and knew it was okay, that she could keep going.
I suddenly thought of James, knocked unconscious. I thought of the green sparks coming back into the compartment any minute. I thought about how wrong this was and I finally had the strength to push her away. Shock played across her face taking overher gorgeous eyes.
"What's the matter Sev? Is everything all right?"
"Go," I said in a cold whisper.
"But Sev," she said pleadingly.
"GO!" I shouted my face hot with rage, scared that she might try to stay. I wanted her and if she just tried kissing me one more time I knew that I would melt, that it would be all over.
She looked shocked and moved toward me, but I took a step back. She looked sad and I saw a tear slip down the side of her cheek she made one last attempt, " I guess I'll just go hang out with my boyfriend, you know, James potter?"
My face didn't change. She finally left, mouth wide open and I collapsed into the seat, trying to hold back my tears.