Chapter 8: Writer's Block

A/N: Hey, I just revised this chapter pretty much completely. I had a bad case of writers block before and the old one sucked so much…….. But, I am confident in it now. If you read the crappy one, you may want to reread the last half.

IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys, I'm a youngish writer so I've tried to keep my writing G-rated, but the characters are fifteen therefore definitely not G rated. I don't want to corrupt anyone so if swearing and sexual innuendo offends you, mail me and I'll keep it G rated. If not the story will start dealing with slightly more mature subject matter.

Disclaimer: JK Rowling's, not mine.

"Ahh this is so d- frustrating!" Lily cried.

"Huh?" Mary asked. Looking across the room from her bed where she was giving Serena a manicure.

Lily was sitting on her bed with a quill and about twenty crunched up pieces of parchment scattered around her. She was trying to finish the story she'd started in the summer, but found it impossible to even write a coherent sentence. It was about two completely opposite people that befriend and come to love each other. A sweet, innocent maiden, and a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks. She had meant it to have a happy ending, but now she was leaning towards having the man fall off a cliff or something equally gruesome. Being struck by lightening sounded good!

"Just my story." She said dismissively, as she started writing the idea down. Nah, that wasn't right.

"You're the only person I know who writes for fun. Seriously, we get enough essays and homework as it is." Mary looked at her friend, amused.

"It's just a hobby…." She crumpled her current piece of parchment although it only contained a jumbled jot note, tossed it onto the floor and pulled out a new one.

"Hey, you're wasting paper!" Winry had just walked in the door. She ran over and grabbed the ball of parchment off the floor and smoothed it out.

Serena and Mary laughed. Lily just looked at her. "After the day I've had the environment is the last thing I'm going to worry about."

"Pardon?" Winry asked, confused

"Oh ya, you don't know. Lily broke up with her boyfriend too today!" Serena giggled.

"What!", Mary, Lily, and Winry all exclaimed at once. Alice and Faolan looked up from the conversation they'd been having, interested.

"Oh, whoops," Serena said, seeming happy to be so in the know. "Winry ditched Brett this afternoon, and Lily ditched that slime ball Snape as well."

"Why!?" The three of them exclaimed in unison again.

"I didn't break up with Sev-" Lily started, but was interrupted by Mary.

"Win, you idiot! Why would you break up with Brett?! You were like the perfect couple! You were so cute together. He comes from a rich family you know…" She said confused.

"No, no we weren't. And what the hell does that have to do with anything?" She shook her head, "More importantly, Lily…."

"We got in a fight about, his 'friends'… and I just sort of walked away…" She seemed sad and even a little embarrassed.

"Good riddens," said Serena, "You didn't need him anyway! Word is Potter-" Winry silenced her with a look.

"You just walked away?" Winry said disbelievingly. "I thought you were supposed to be a Gryfindor!"

"I am." Said Lily defiantly

"You have a good way of showing it," Winry shook her head.

"You don't know the things he said to me, Win!" Lily she cried, pleadingly.

"Yah, she told me all about it. We always knew he was a jackass, and know she does too!" Mary said.

"Lily, I don't want you to take offence of what I'm going to say, or make a big deal of it okay."

"Um, okay," she said bracing herself. Winry was a logical person that gave each of them a reality check every so often. She didn't shy away from the cold hard truth. Like the time Sirius had called Serena a slut. Winry had calmly just said that since Serena has just cheated on him, it was a fair accusation; of course, this was after she'd snuck into the boy's dormitories and turned Sirius completely pink with the word "SCUMBAG" flashing on his forehead.

"Even though I don't know Severus as well as you do, I'm too much of a 'mudblood' for him, no offence, he's a very intelligent person. He weighs his words before he speaks, you know what I mean?" Lily nodded, "I don't know exactly what he said to you, but you should maybe instead of being offended, take it to heart. Try to understand what is was he said, and why he said it. Do you get what I'm saying?" Winry asked, hopefully afraid that she might have hurt Lily.

Suddenly something in Lily clicked. Severus was right. She thought back to what he had said…..

"Oh grow up Lily" Severus cried, "The world isn't divided into death eaters and heroes, like the "amazing Potter". Life isn't just a story, or play that you're staring in. Those you call "aspiring death eaters" are people too. They have good and bad in them just like everyone else in this world. Why can't you just understand..."

"Sev, I do understand," She said quietly.

"Huh?" Serena said confused.

"I have to go do something," Lily said, grabbing her coat, and tying her trainers as she ran out the door. "Thanks Winnie!"

When Lily's footsteps faded away Winry's face broke into a wide grin.

Serena just shook her head. "You….look what you've done! Now she's going to go get back together with the creep!"

"She better!" She and Brett hadn't been right for each other, but she was NOT going to let Lily throw away what she had with Severus that easily. She sat down on her bed and just let the euphoria of her day wash over her.

Xxx

Lily knew where he'd be, the beach tree, their beach tree. It was where he always went to think about things. She doubted he had any peace and quiet in his hole of a dormitory with all his creeper 'friends'. No, she corrected herself they were his friends, just friends. No more mean adjectives. From now on she would accept that. Even if she didn't like them, she still had to respect Severus's wishes, just like he respected hers. She wondered what Sev thought about her friends like Serena and Mary sometimes. Gosh, he was right, she had to grow up.

"Hey Remus!" She said quickly as she ran passed the boy who was standing outside the infirmary.

"Hey Lily" He mumbled nervously. She wondered what was wrong with him. He looked like her was going to be sick or something.

She didn't have time to dwell on it as she just kept running. Curfew was in about ten minutes and as a prefect she figured she better actually follow the rules she enforced.

She started getting a cramp. When did the castle become this big? To distract herself from the stabbing pain in her stomach, she thought about her story. The man, named Seth, was no longer to be doomed to a painful death. He and the maiden, Delilah, were to triumph over all that kept them apart (the usual: families, status, friends, maybe a kidnapping), get married, and live happily ever after. She didn't care if it was a cliché. I was her story.

As she ran across the Entrance Hall and through the great oak doors she looked across the grounds to the beach tree. She looked around the grounds unseeing. Within a few minutes the moon had come up. She heard a howl and shivered. The full moon lit up the grounds. As she'd expected she saw Severus's tall frame silhouetted in the moonlight. She smiled, she was going to sprint across the grounds and apologize and give him a big hug………She stopped short after just one step. She saw a shadow come out from behind the tree. There was someone else with him. A female someone, she noticed squinting. That someone leaned forward and wrapped her arms around Severus and Oh no! It couldn't be! As the shadows lips met the pain she felt was no longer in her stomach, but her heart. She grabbed her chest. It felt as if her heart was shattering into millions of pieces. She started hyperventilating. Her brain froze. She blinked furiously biting back tears she was sure were about to come. How could this happen? she asked herself as she stumbled back into the castle. She couldn't believe it.

Anger suddenly flooded her body. As soon as she got a quill and parchment Seth was going to die, but this time of a more fitting punishment, for he had just cheated on Delilah with some tramp: Gonorrhea

IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A/N: Hey guys, I'm a youngish writer so I've tried to keep my writing G-rated, but the characters are fifteen therefore definitely not G rated. I don't want to corrupt anyone so if swearing and sexual innuendo offends you, mail me and I'll keep it G rated. If not the story will start dealing with slightly more mature subject matter.

So, how'd you like the second draft? Also I know STDs are very serious and I hope I don't offend anyone by using the concept of one so flippantly.

Please review!