"Lily!" Alice yelled when she saw me, it was about one in the morning and she still had me explain everything. Alice is my best mate there is no doubt about that, but all I wanted to do was find James.
"Today, we are going to get new partners!" Professor Slughorn announced and I hoped I would get James so that I could talk to him, "Snape and Lupin, Evans and Black…" after that I just stopped listening.
"Evans," Sirius greeted me coldly.
"Don't do that to me." I said in a tired voice.
"No you don't do that!" he snapped, "James is there for me no matter what, he is my best mate and you hurt him. Even for you that was low, all he ever does is think about you and then you do that?"
"I didn't do a bloody thing, my sister hated that I was happy. So shut the hell up, I love James, okay?" I understood that Sirius was defending James, but I hated that he was judging before knowing anything.
"Lily," his voice was still cold, "he wrote to me every day that you were there and he said that he was so happy that for once you guys weren't fighting, he said that you might actually see that he honestly loved you and that you weren't just a game. Were you just pretending to have a good time with him?"
"I can't pretend to be in love." was all I could manage to whisper as I turned around and walked out of the classroom.
I waited down the hall until class was dismissed and I saw James walk by, "Can I talk to you?" I asked, struggling to keep up pace with him.
He didn't even look at me, he just walked away faster. A week went by and every chance I got I would try to talk to him, but he never listened. We only had two weeks left of school and I knew deep down that after that I would probably never see him again.
I didn't get lucky until the last day of school when everyone was saying there goodbyes, James walked by me. For once I was done playing the hopeless, nice girl, so I grabbed his arm and forced him to spin around. He looked down at me, "What do you want, Evans?" his voice was filled with venom.
I thought about explaining, but then I realized that he wouldn't give me that much time to say my story, "Just thank you for being so nice to me and that I am in love with you." I couldn't stop my voice from saying it quiet. I then walked by him with my head down, there's a quote that I have always loved it's something about how you sometimes runaway, not because you want to, but because you want to know who will come after you. James didn't come after me.