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sorry for such the long wait ... school started again , and ive been swamped with homework ..

and ive also just been too busy reading :P

anywho ,,,

this chapter is on the shorter side ... but hopefully i shall update again soon so it wont seem so bad !

its shorter than either of the other chapters ive wrote .. sorry 8P

welll,, i shall stop rambling now !

here ya go ! umm .. enjoy ? 8P

A week had passed since the start of term and the new school year. And yet Lily couldn't seem to stop thinking about 'the incident'. Lily was still confused about the whole thing. So she had started just saying the facts over and over in her head, until she found some sort of meaning to them. She'd been spending so much time dwelling on 'the incident' that she even had a list of things to say to herself inside her head.

It happened on September 1st.

It was after the feast in the Great Hall.

It was inside the Gryffindor Common Room.

The Marauders had been playing Truth or Dare.

James went first.

James chose dare.

Sirius dared him.

James Potter walked over and kissed Lily Evans.

Lily Evans is me.

Lily Evans kissed James Potter back.

Lily Evans is me.

Lily still couldn't believe it all. Why would she have kissed him back? What went on through her head? Well, she knew very well what she was thinking right then. She just preferred not to think about it. She couldn't face the truth of it all. She even considered that maybe she was slightly intoxicated that night. But she knew that that wasn't even a possible excuse. She had kissed James. In complete sobriety. And surely James must have known that. Even if Lily started to hope that he didn't, James always seems to be near and then she finds herself staring at him. And he, of course, just smirks. The foul git. He knows everything. James knows that Lily blushes whenever he looks at her. James knows that Lily kissed him back. James knows that Lily is slowly but surely falling for him. And that Lily can do nothing about it but be left to think about it until she is forced down the path of insanity.

Too late, she thinks, I'm already referring to myself in third person.

Lily sighs, and decides to get out of bed now. She couldn't take anymore thinking without distractions about… 'The incident'. She slowly rises, and takes in her surroundings of the girls dormitory in Gryffindor Tower. To her right, Taylor sleeps peacefully on her stomach with her pillow above her head with her long messy blonde hair slightly hanging over the edge of the bed. Across from Lily sleeps Mia, who is currently curled up in a ball in the middle of her bed. All that's visible is her pudgy leg sticking out from the side of the covers, her black hair tied up into a messy ponytail, and her lightly freckled face from her cheeks up. Next to Mia is Alice Prewett, another Gryffindor girl in their year. Lily realizes she hardly knows her because Alice is always with the fifth year Hufflepuffs anyways… And finally, to Lily's left, is Avery, her bed covers all over the place, and her long blonde curls covering her face.

Lily slowly rises to a standing position, and lazily picks out an outfit for the day: jeans, a white short sleeve shirt, and a thin gray sweater to put overtop. She drags her feet across the floor over the bathroom, and shuts the door. Lily turns on the shower and waits for it to heat up more before stepping into it. Apparently, she was in there longer than she thought because when Lily was dressed, had dried her vibrant red hair with her wand, had added a little bit of eyeliner and mascara to define her green eyes, and had stepped out of the bathroom, nearly everyone had left to go down to breakfast. All except for Taylor, who was still sleeping. Lily walked over to Taylor's bed, and tried to think of a plan, knowing very well she would have major problems waking up Taylor. Taylor did not like getting up in the morning and she deeply valued sleeping in on the weekends. But Taylor also hated missing breakfast… So Lily tried the most practical plan she could think of: douse Taylor in water. So Lily said the incantation, and then allowed the water flowing from the tip of her wand to splash onto Taylor. This got an immediate reaction from the victim.

"What the bloody hell was that?" exclaimed Taylor as she sat up quickly. Too quickly, in fact, because she ended up hitting her head off of one of the posts on her bed. Lily just laughed, which probably wasn't the best thing to do.

"LILY! What the hell? Why did you wake me up?"

"Well…. You were missing breakfast. And I know how mad you would've been if we had let you sleep through it… so I decided to wake you because I figured you being angry about waking up early would be the better alternative then having to listen to you complain about missing breakfast." Lily explained, and then quickly added a, "Sorry."

Taylor sat there for a minute, as if considering all this. Sure, she still looked mad, but at least Taylor was starting to see how reasonable Lily was being. Well, trying to be. Taylor heaved out a great sigh, and got out of bed and stretched, as if telling Lily that she wasn't furious about this, but that she wouldn't let it go either. Lily thought she got lucky with this outcome, and then proceeded to go down to breakfast.

When Lily got there, she found Avery sitting all alone. I wonder where Mia went…? Lily walked over and sat across from her friend and started putting some food onto her plate when Avery spoke.

"What took you so long this morning?"

"I didn't think I took that long… But apparently I did, since when I got out, everyone was gone. Except, for Taylor, of course. But you already knew that."

"Speaking of Taylor, where is she? Is she still sleeping?"

"Nope, I woke her up. She wasn't too happy about it, but when I told her she was missing breakfast she seemed to understand my reasoning."

"Of course she did… And how did you manage to wake her up? It seems to be next to impossible."

"I sprayed her with water." Lily stated bluntly.

At this, Avery burst out laughing. Lily didn't quite see how it was that funny, but she just went along with it. Avery hasn't been getting much sleep lately thanks to all the prefect duties… She had dark circles under her light brown eyes, which made her look in the extremes of tired. Lily feels bad for her friend, but knows she cant really do anything to change Avery's prefect duties.

Now Taylor entered the Great Hall, and even though she had only pulled back her blonde hair and thrown on a pair of jeans with a red short sleeve shirt, she looked amazing. She wasn't wearing any make-up, but her shocking blue eyes still seemed to pop anyways. Her blonde hair was pulled messily into a ponytail, and her side bangs fell in front of her eyes. Her jeans fit just right, and the red shirt hugged her in all the right spots. Taylor was gorgeous, and had pretty much the perfect body since she was very athletic. Lily had to admit, she was kind of jealous of her friend. Lily looked towards the marauders, and noticed that Sirius couldn't take his eyes off of Taylor. Lily smiled a little, because Sirius always gets into shouting matches with Taylor and calls her ugly, yet here he is, staring at her. Lily then realized that this is nothing new, that she's caught him doing this before. Taylor then interrupts Lily's thoughts with a death threat.

"Lily. I swear, if you EVER dump water on me ever again, I will make sure you don't live to see the next day. And I mean that." Taylor grumpily says while loading her plate with pancakes, bacon, and eggs. Lily doesn't reply, because she finds herself consumed with thoughts about 'the incident' creeping back into her mind. No matter what, he always finds a way back into my mind. Always. Lily thinks with slight irritation.

"Padfoot?" James asked, while trying to suppress his laughter.

"Padfoot…? Earth to Padfoot!... PADFOOT!"

"WHAT?"

"You were staring again."

"What?"

"You were staring. Again. At Lowney."

Sirius' face became slightly colored as he processed this information.

"Uh… I… was…?"

"Yup. You were. And Lily noticed too." James couldn't suppress his laughter anymore, and this only made Sirius angry.

"Why are you laughing? What is so funny? You stare at Evans all the time! Me staring at Lowney has no significance whatsoever."

"Yes. I do stare at Lily because I'm in love with her and I'm also checking her out. So may I ask, exactly, why you stare at Lowney?"

"I do NOT stare at her! I stare at her one time and then you suddenly think I stare ALL the time? Sorry Prongs, but I don't have a freaky obsession. Moony believes me, don't you? And so does Wormtail."

"I do…?"

"That's right Wormtail, you do."

"But Moony doesn't."

"Prongs, you aren't Moony! You can't answer for him! He can speak for himself!"

"Honestly Padfoot, I believe Prongs."

"What? WHY?"

"Because Prongs is right. And you are wrong. And Wormtail's opinion doesn't count since he has no idea what's going on anyways."

"Whatever. Like you don't sometimes stare at Brooks."

"That's a completely different story…" Remus fumbles for that one sentence, then makes it very clear he doesn't want to discuss it any further. James just shoots a look at Peter, just in case the dolt decided to pay attention right then to ask something, but this proves to be rather pointless because Peter isn't paying any attention to his friends. He's lost in his daydreams, and they probably have something to do with Mia Shite… Sirius looks like he's about to protest, but then he stops immediately at how Remus just looks away. Finally, Sirius looks to James, and his expression reads something like, Now what? James easily answers Sirius' unspoken question by sparking another conversation.

"Now Padfoot. Why do you stare at Lowney?"

"I DO NOT."

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