Jeremy – I don't know what to say… You're totally my bitch.
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Chapter 11: Of Reasons We Can't Quite Recall
"Please, Lily, come to dinner?" Elisabeth pleaded. "I can't stand watching you lying there-"
"Then just go!" Lily snapped and put her pillow on her head to shut out the sound of her two best friends talking.
"She hasn't eating anything since yesterday!" Elisabeth sighed and whispered to Aurora. "What are we going to do?"
"Tomorrow is Monday, so she'll have to get up to go to classes then. Maybe we can lure her into the Great Hall to eat something."
"She's starving! She's got to eat now!"
"I can hear you!" Lily cried out. "Get out! Leave me alone!"
With one last worried look towards Lily's bed, Aurora and Elisabeth left the dormitories and the common room to head for dinner. "Maybe we ought to bring her a tray with food or something," Aurora suggested.
"I suppose we'll have to try," Elisabeth said.
They had barely reached the Great Hall when someone behind them called out, "Hey!"
Sirius came out of nowhere, hurried over to Aurora and slid an arm around her waist, ignoring Elisabeth who rolled her eyes and left.
"So, I missed you at lunch, and at breakfast, and at dinner yesterday," Sirius said. "And at-"
"I'm sorry," Aurora apologized, "I've been… busy."
"I figured."
"Well yeah, Lily's sulking in her bed so I'm just here to pick up some food."
"Listen," Sirius bit his lip, "we knew she'd be upset-"
"We?"
"Um, James confided in me? He's my best mate, you know, my brother practically-"
"Right, sorry."
"Anyway. What should he have done? It's not his fault that she turned out to be behind that ad, I don't think she ought to be mad at him."
"You think she's overreacting?!"
"Well, I-"
"I'll tell you why she's reacting like this! She fell in love with someone who turned out to be a fraud!"
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY BEST FRIEND LIKE THAT!" Sirius roared.
"Well it's true!"
"I'll tell you what's true: We're finished." And with that, he spun around and made a move as to head off, but Aurora grabbed his arm.
"Are you breaking up with me?" she asked furiously.
"Maybe I am!"
He spun around and took a few steps towards the Great Hall before Aurora said, "If you leave now, you can never come back."
Sirius stopped again. "I-"
"Listen, Sirius," Aurora interrupted . "I'm sorry I insulted James, I should never have spoken that way about your best friend-"
"No, you shouldn't! But that's not why I'm breaking up with you."
"It's not?"
"No."
"Well then why are you?"
"Well… to be quite serious, all we do is snog and fight. And while the snogging has been very nice indeed, the fighting hasn't been quite as enjoyable. You can't possibly disagree…"
"I'm thinking neither of us is ready for a serious relationship."
"Right you are."
"So… this is it, then?"
"Yup."
"No more snogging."
"I didn't say that…"
"Well then I did!" Aurora exclaimed. "No more snogging. Don't you dare try to seduce me or lure me into whatever broom closet…"
"You declare yourself off limits for me?"
"Yes!"
"Fine, then! And vice versa."
"Fine!"
Elisabeth had just succeeded in getting Lily to eat a tiny baby's portion of meatballs and mashed potatoes when Aurora seemed to blast the door open.
"There you are!" she practically yelled. "Lis, I've been looking everywhere for you. Why didn't you wait for me?!"
"You seemed busy with your pimp- er, sorry, boyfriend," Elisabeth said curtly.
"Oh will you please stop being so jealous," Aurora sneered. "And for the record, we broke up." She threw herself on her bed and drew the curtains.
Elisabeth and Lily's lack of surprise was indicated by their lack of reaction. There was no 'You did WHAT?!', neither did anyone fling the drawings open.
Instead, there was a lame "Did you?" from Elisabeth.
"You don't sound very sad," Aurora said dryly.
"Well, I'm sure the two of you will have it rollin' again by this time tomorrow…"
"Actually, no," Aurora said. "I think we're finished for real this time."
"I'm sorry," Lily spoke – this was the first thing she had said in the past fifteen minutes.
"Why did you break up?"
"Well, we fought. And then we broke up."
"What did you fight about?"
"Um… nothing special."
"Well it had to be something if it was big enough to break up over, hadn't it?"
"Yeah but the thing is that we didn't break up for the same reason as we fought."
Elisabeth groaned. "I don't understand."
"We fought over one thing," Aurora explained, "and that fight led to the breakup, but we broke up because of other reasons… sort of. Well it doesn't matter really. How are you feeling?" she asked, turning to Lily.
Lily shrugged her shoulders. "Humiliated," she said.
"No one knows," Aurora said. "Just the three of us, and the four of them."
"That's not really the problem," Lily said.
"Then what is?"
"I…"
"Yeah?"
"Promise me you won't say anything to anyone."
"Promise," Aurora and Elisabeth said solemnly.
"Not even Sirius."
"We broke up!"
"Not even Remus."
"Hey, we're not-"
"Yeah sure, whatever you say."
"Seriously, we're not-"
"Whatever!" Aurora said stiffly. "I think we're losing track of what Lily was trying to tell us.
"Just swear you won't say anything? Not even to… your mummies."
"I swear!" they repeated, still solemnly.
"I think I might be… er, have fallen in… fallen in… you know. With, him. You know. Pot- er, James."
Author's Note: Mwahaha. Okeydokie. So they are both in love with each other but denies the other's feelings. Or something like that. I am so evil.
I am not very fond of this chapter, I think it sucks but I needed it to move the story forward. And don't ask me why I ever mixed Aurora and Sirius into the story but… oh I don't know. This was what came to me so you'll have to put up with it.
So… do you agree? Or not? And why? Please don't just be nice, tell me what you really think – it helps.
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