Damn You: Part 4 - Finally! by Cerulean Leader
A/N: Hey guys! 'Cause this hasn't been a while or anything. Finally, my first multi-chapter story finished! I never thought I'd be able to finally complete this since I kept running out of ideas and the stuff I did come up with just sounded really stupid so I didn't put it in. I know it sounds really hurried but I only wrote this within a few minutes 'cause I had an adrenaline rush when I updated my newest story so...
But that is no excuse for my tardiness of not updating this story earlier. I am so sorry, guys.
I just realized that in Part 3, I accidently wrote that James' eyes were brown, but they're actually hazel so sorry about that.
Anyway, enjoy!
James just stared at Lucy in shock, his hazel eyes widening while she walked up to him, motioning to the direction of Gryffindor Tower. "Go tell her, Potter."
He smirked slightly in response, cracking a half-smile. "Don't 'Potter' me, Weasley."
She poked her tongue out at him before turning around to walk away. "Alice deserves to know. You have absolutely no idea how much hurt she's gone through by seeing you with all the other girls you've dated or just used."
His smile dropped almost immediately, looking down at his shoes. The ground had suddenly become very interesting towards him. "I don't know what to say, Lu… Dominique said the same thing to me but I don't know if I can handle losing her as a friend."
"You're going to lose her as a friend anyway if you don't talk to her. Are you really going to be able to handle just casually walking past her in the halls with saying 'hey'?" Lucy asked, her auburn braids coming out from the wind flapping at her and her cousins' hair, even though it just rustled James'.
"…I don't think I could. You're right, I need to talk to her!" he exclaimed, quickly running back towards Gryffindor Tower, pushing past Lucy while she smiled.
"Good luck, Jamie."
Piles of tissues lay upon Alice's messy bed, as she leaned against her bed frame, face buried into her hands as she rocked back and forth to calm herself down. "I shouldn't have told him… I just destroyed the friendship that was most important to me…"
Wiping her eyes, she sighed and tried to blink away the tears. Of all boys, why James? Was she cursed or something?
"Alice, you are so stupid!" she yelled, punching the pillow behind her angrily, eyes still red from crying. A muffled sob was heard as she continued to abuse the pillow, her eyes on the brim of tears as her face scrunched up in an attempt to hold them back.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid!"
She was over James and his playboy ways. Like every other girl he had dated or just used and immediately tossed aside, she now felt as though he had been toying with her feelings since hormones had finally hit them when they had turned thirteen, about a year after they had finally become very good friends, enough to call themselves best friends.
They always had each other's backs, but that was all going to change now. He didn't love her back, let alone even like her in a romantic way. He probably even hated her now, maybe thought she was a freak, a pathetic and foolish girl for falling in love with him.
She thought she was foolish too; thinking that she even had a chance with him.
Alice finally froze from hitting the pillow when the heard the pounding of footsteps outside her door. Someone was hurrying up the concrete staircase up towards her dorm room. She jumped of the bed, and hurried towards the mirror in order to make herself look at least a bit presentable in the seconds she had.
The wooden door was pushed wide open and a boy walked in, looking at her bed before turning towards her. Alice stared at James while he looked at her back, giving her a sheepish grin. "Uh, hi?"
"What do you want?" she asked coldly, moving past him to avoid his gaze and to sit on her bed. She grabbed the pillow she was hitting before and hugged it to her chest, looking down at the floor to not look at him.
"We need to talk."
"No, we don't." she answered, looking up at him. She suddenly felt a wave of confidence enter her, giving her the boost to talk to him. "You don't like me back, it's simple as that and I accept it. I just hope that we can still be friends."
"Of course we can, but—"
"I'm serious, James."
"I know that, so am I!"
She looked up at him in confusion, throwing the pillow aside as she sat up straighter on the mattress. "Wait, what?"
"I shouldn't have run out before, you just caught me by surprise…" he told her, sitting next to her and grabbing her hands in his. "I didn't mean to hurt you at all for all these years, I didn't know or even notice that you liked me. I started to like you back last year but I continued to deny my feelings because I was afraid…"
Her eyes widened slowly as they glanced from their hands and back to his face.
"I really do like you, Alice."
She blinked in surprise, pulling her hands back. "No, you can't." she responded, standing up quickly and stepping backwards towards the door. "You're lying to me."
His own eyes widened, standing up and following her slowly. "I'm not lying, I swear. I have really strong feelings for you… I'm not sure what love feels like but I think I love you too."
"Stop lying to me, James!" she shrieked in response, turning around to face the window. "That's all you've done, lie to me, break my heart and pretend! And you want to do that to me all over again?"
"If I didn't love you, then why would I tell you that I do love you?"
"Because you're a liar!"
"I am not! If I was lying then why would I do this?" he yelled back, looping his arm around her waist and pulling her to him. He glared into her eyes before crashing his mouth onto hers. She gasped in surprise but it was muffled by his lips. Her body soon relaxed, and she melted into the kiss, moving her lips against his before he pulled away for air, breathing heavily while she placed her arms on his chest.
"A-are you sure, James? Are you positive?"
"More than I've ever been in my life, I want you to be my girl. Only you, no other girl. I can't believe it took me this long to realize…" he murmured, resting his forehead against hers.
"Damn you, James Potter." She grinned back.
A/N: I FINALLY FINISHED! WOOHOO! That's one story down, 3 to finish! :D
Word count: 1025
Thanks for reading and reviewing this story, I hope you enjoyed it.
To 'withaballoon'; here's your update. :)
To 'goaliegirl63'; sorry the update took so long but I hope you enjoyed the last part anyway.
To 'WallflowerSoul'; thankyou for keeping tabs for the story, the reviews and just for reading it. :)
Review, please! Even though it's finished, reviews are still appreciated!
~CL
