CHAPTER: The Midnight Rumble

Severus couldn't sleep; he kept seeing Lily kissing that bloke Wentworth. He hated to admit it but he was jealous, the truth was that he even though he was afraid, he really wanted Lily to kiss him, he wanted her to like him and certainly wanted her to touch him. It was all very unfair. It was like dangling a tall pitcher of water in front of someone who just crossed the Sahara and then denying them a drink. It was very cruel .

He sat up realising that he was quite parched. He pulled the covers from off of his body and got up from the bed and walked to the door. He had been spending so much time at Lily's house he knew how to navigate it in the dark. He walked down he carpeted stairs holding on to the railing. He could hear the sound of the TV as he reached the landing of the stairs. Lily must have been awake. He walked over to the living room and found her with her covers pulled to her neck and her eyes focused on the TV. She didn't notice that he had come in the room.

He turned his attention to the TV to see what she was so intent on watching.

Get your pet rock today... It can: sit, stay, stand, and play dead just like a dog.

"Should I buy you one for your birthday?" he teased.

She looked up at him. "Buy me what?" she asked

"A pet rock, you seem interested?"

She jumped when she realised what she had been watching. "Oh I wasn't watching that." She sat up bringing the sheet with her. "Why are you still up?" she asked him.

"I'm thirsty." He said.

"Yeah, well why don't you go to Melina's to get some water."

"Who?" he asked, taking a seat next her.

She looked at him and rolled her eyes. He could tell that she was till mad at him. "She called you know, on the telephone, asking me a whole bunch of questions about you."

"She did?" he asked trying not to sound too flattered even though he was.

"Yes she said you remind her of Keith Richards."

He had no idea who that was. "Is that a good thing?"

She didn't answer his question; instead she turned to him with a glare in her eyes. " You know she wasn't the only one who called."

"Really?" he said having a strange feeling like he knew where this was going.

"Wentworth called for me..."

"Did he now." He looked away from her and to the TV suddenly gaining interest in the pet rock.

"Yes he did actually and he wanted to know if I would go on a date with him."

He could feel his ears getting hot and his throat felt like it had dropped to his stomach, he couldn't speak.

"And I told him I would."

He got up from the chair like the seat had caught fire. "I forgot I came down here for some water." He walked out of the living room and into the kitchen. He quickly filled up a glass of water and drank it down with one gulp and followed it with another. He walked back into the hallway quickly and back up the stairs without saying another word to Lily.

He went back to bed, laying in the same position he was in before. He was trying to keep himself calm but his heart was beating heavily and had a strong urge to break everything in the room . "Shit," he said to himself. He sat up and quickly. He didn't like how it felt laying down, he thought he was going to get a heart attack.

The door that was closed slowly peered open.

He knew who it was without seeing the person. Lily looked at him from the door way with her arms folded. She switched on the light, closed the door and walked over to him, and sat on the bed. She just sat there with her arms folded glaring at him.

"Severus can I ask you a question?"

From the tone in her voice he knew that he should not refuse. He nodded.

"And don't give me a vague answer for once please." He nodded. "Do you fancy Narcissa Black."

Oh so this was about who he fancied again. "I told you that I don't."

"And do you fancy Alice?" she asked but her voice had changed to a softer tone. He shook his head again.

"And Melina, are you interested her?"

He shook his head. "I don't even know her why would I be interested her."

She sighed and passed her hand through her hair that was out and cascading down her shoulders in loose curls. "Well you certainly seemed interested this afternoon, kissing her the way you did."

Okay he had to admit that he did kiss Melina like a long lost lover but what was it to Lily, why would she care. "Well you should talk, snogging that Worthless...or what ever his name is."

She went pink around the ears. "I only snogged him because I didn't think it would have made sense to snog... well... you in front of everyone, especially Petunia."

"Well we're alone now, what's topping you?"

"Nothing," she said shaking her head.

"Well," he said folding his arms.

He couldn't believe he said that. He couldn't believe what Lily said before. His brain was working over time trying to process the information that Lily just said she wanted kiss him.

He was not prepared for what she did next. She actually leaned in and kissed him. He could remember the exact moment when her lips touched his, it was like he was having an out of body experience. His head was screaming instructions at him but somehow his body was acting on its own. He unfolded his arms and put one hand the small of her back and the other he used to pull her closer to him. He had no idea where all this was coming from.

Before he even realised what he was doing she was totally in the bed and on top of him and his hands were travelling up her back trying to pull the tank top down. They both seemed to be in a trance because her hands were behaving very naughty as well and her lips had moved form his lips to his neck. He was certain that he had died and gone to heaven. It went on and on.

Then, just like that she stopped.

"What...why'd you stop," he asked. He felt like he was rudely kicked out of heaven and sent back to earth.

"Did you hear that?" she whispered, one of her hand still in his sleeping pants.

"No," he said knowing fully well that he did hear a rather loud and obvious toilet flush followed by the closing of a door.

"I think I should go back downstairs."

She looked like she came out of her trance. He jumped off him and began to pull back up her tube top; undoing the progress he had made with it. She turned to him. "Ah... good night," she said and turned around and left the room after flicking the switch.

-o-o-o-o-o-

"Hey Severus, what's that on your neck," Robbie Keane asked.

Severus had seen it there in the morning and a broad smile came on his face. When he woke up he initially thought it was a very very very pleasant dream but after seeing it he knew it wasn't. It was his first ever hickey and he was not going to hide at it, at least not from the guys at work, he had to hide it from Petunia and Lily's parents.

Severus pulled up his large colour on his shirt. "It's nothing," he said.

"Oi guys, Severus got himself a slag tag," he said to the other group of guys who were also lazing around the store not doing anything in particular.

They seemed so excited that he could have sworn that they expected him to share the spoils.

"Who gave it to you?" Dwight asked excited

He shrugged. "My girlfriend, who else."

"You have a girl friend?" Rob asked. "Who?"

Severus was tired of people being surprised at him having a girlfriend. "The girl who I'm always with."

"That's your girl friend," the group of four guys around his age said in unison. "That groovy chick with the red hair?"

"Yesss." He said slowly. They all looked like they thought the world had come to an end.

"Man you need condom." Dwight said excited.

"What's a condom?" he asked looking at the four who all looked scandalised by the question.

NOTE: Okay I liked this chapter, It's a little PG but I'm sure you guys could handle it.

And in case you were wondering; the pet rock is a real toy. I have been looking up things from the 70s that I can use in the fanfic. I'm also trying to make Snape act like a normal teenage boy.