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Chapter 26

Talking, Towers and Flying

Realizing what James had just realized, Lily got up as quick as she could, and turned towards the cauldron to clean up the mess as well as to hide her slight blush.

"I'll go get more ingredients then…" James said awkwardly. She nodded.

Then they pretty much avoided the subject on both their minds for the next 10 or so
minutes.

They worked in an all too awkward, uncomfortable silence, avoiding looking at each other.
James sighed.

"Look Lily, we need to talk."

She turned towards him. "Alright," She sighed.

And she gave him a look that said go on and say something, then.

"Umm, alright… About what happened the other night…Umm..."

"Yes?" She said emotionlessly, in attempt to keep the mix of worry, embarrassment, and slight eagerness out of her voice.

James took her lack of emotion as her basically saying it was a bad thing that shouldn't have happened, and he replied the same way. He was totally confused, and a little hurt. Whatever, he thought.

"Well, we were both drunk and we didn't realize what we were doing, and…" he gulped and sighed, "It shouldn't have happened."

"So you're basically saying it was a mistake." She said, trying to hide her feelings of pain and anger.

"I guess," he said and he looked away. If he looked at her his face might reveal the pain that he was feeling.

"I hate you, James Potter!" She yelled and stomped out of the class room, not caring if Slughorn punished her later. The pain James had given her was far worse than anything he could do.

Everyone in the room turned and stared at James

"Wha'd I do?" he quietly asked the space where Lily had been standing a minute ago. (Wha'd what did)

As soon as she was out of the class room, Lily broke into a run. Tears were welling up in her eyes as she dashed up the stairs. Stair after stair, her footsteps echoed in the silent halls and stair ways loudly.

But all she could hear was the pounding in her head.

She reached her destination, pushing the door to her room open. She ran to the window and charmed it open.

Climbing out on the roof and slumping down to the floor, back leaning against the walls of the school, she let the tears fall freely.

James stared dumb-struck at the spot where Lily had been standing.
The room was silent.
Sirius walked over to James, and put his hand on his shoulder in a friendly way.

"What did you do this time?" he questioned.

"For once, I have absolutely no clue why she hates me." James replied with a look of utter perplexity and hurt on his face.
He turned and walked out of the room.

What did I do? Why is this all so confusing? G-d I can't stand this.

Nothing made sense anymore.

He decided to head to the one place where almost everything made sense to him.

He practically ran out of the school. Headed towards the quidditch pitch and grabbed
his broom. In seconds he was in the air, going so fast everything looked like
a blur to him.

He sighed, and breathed in the cool autumn air.

And he flew, because right now it was one of the only things that could possibly make sense
to him.

"Hey you guys, I'm really starting to worry about Lily and James. I haven't seen them since potions," Lila said

"Yeah, but knowing James, he's probably just circling the quidditch pitch," Sirius replied.

"Yeah, but what about Lily?" Remus questioned.

"It's true, I've been looking for her all day, and I still haven't found her," Rach said with a sigh.

"And neither one of them showed up to any of their classes." Kay added in.

"Does anyone know what happened?" Sirius asked.

"Um…I don't think so, all I saw was Lily storming off, and then James looking really confused and walking out." Lila responded.

"Okay, I'm officially worried." Kay said.

"Do you all want to go look for them?" Remus suggested.

"I think we better." Rach said

"Okay, so you, Sirius, Peter, and Ben go look for James, and us girls will go find Lily." Lila decided.

"Wait, can I finish eating first…please?" Sirius begged with a pout.

"No…first we look for our missing friends, and then you can finish being a glutton.' Rach said, rolling her eyes.

"Fine," He sighed, shoveling the rest of his food into his mouth.

"Come on," Remus said, getting up while whacking Sirius in the head.

Sirius glared, but got up, glancing sadly at his food, he muttered something under his breath that no one could hear.

Except Remus, who had heightened senses due to his furry little problem as Sirius liked to call it.

So Remus smacked him up-side the head…again.

They all got up and headed purposefully out of the hall.

"Meet in the Gryffindor common room in an hour. Hopefully we'll have found them by then," Ben said.

"I really hope so."

An hour later in the Gryffindor common room…

"No luck?" Kay asked

"Absolutely none," Ben sighed.

"Well it's hard to find someone when they don't want to be found. Especially if that person is as smart as James or Lily." Remus sighed sadly.

"So what do we do? It's already 8pm, it's dark out, we don't know where they are, and we don't know what the hell they could possibly be doing." Sirius said.

"Well where did you guys check?" Lila asked.

"We checked the heads dorm, the astronomy tower, the skies, the kitchen, the room of requirement, and as far as we could get in the forbidden forest. What about you?"

"We checked the heads dorm, the astronomy tower, the library, the kitchen, the room of requirement, all her teachers' offices, and the potions room."

"Why would she be in the potions room?" Peter asked incredulously.

"She works whenever she's angry… And you never know, maybe she'd try to make something to blow off James's head with." Rach replied with a sigh.

"So what do we do now?" Lila asked.

Remus looked her right in the eyes and said, "I hate to say it, but we're going to have to wait."

A melancholy and worried look sat upon all of their faces.

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