Calvin let himself into Lily's flat, he was on his lunch break. Lily had told him she would go and tell James about the baby that morning. He wanted to know how it went.
"Lily, the door was open," he called. Then he heard it, it sounded like she was crying. He opened her bedroom door and saw her curled up on her bed, she was sobbing. From what he could see, she had been there a while.
"What's the matter? What happened?" he asked crouching down so he was face to face with Lily. "Did you talk to James?"
"N-no…I-I didn't…" she sobbed.
"Come on calm down and we can talk," he said taking her hands and leading her into the kitchen.
"Are you ready to tell me what happened?" Calvin asked, as he handed Lily a cup of tea. She had calmed down in the few minutes it had taken him to make the tea.
"I was going to go and see James this morning, but before I could this arrived," said Lily handing him a big brown envelope.
"I'm sorry," said Calvin as he scanned the contents of the envelope. "You need to talk to him."
"It's just…I can't believe he filed for divorce. I guess it makes sense, he thinks I'm having your baby…but still divorce…I can't believe I'm getting divorced." Said Lily, even though she found out hours ago, she was still in shock. She had never even thought about her and James getting divorced. It just seemed so final, it was really over.
"I know," said Calvin putting his arm round her. "You need to go and talk to him. He doesn't know the full story. He thinks the baby is mine."
"I know, I know…"
"Go and freshen up and I'll come with you if you want."
"No, no I need to talk to him myself. Thank you though," said Lily getting up and shuffling miserably to the bathroom.
"That idiot doesn't deserve her," Calvin muttered once Lily was out of earshot.
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Lily had gotten James' new address from Sirius and was standing outside his front door. She was so nervous, she didn't know if James would even listen to her. He had filed for divorce, he might not be interested in her or the baby. Either way she had to know. So she took a deep breath and rang the doorbell. It took a few minutes but finally she heard James stumbling around inside. Finally he opened the door, in his boxers obviously hungover, his hair was sticking up at odd angles and he had what looked like a smudged phone number written on his chest.
"Have I come at an inconvenient time, stud?" asked Lily with a little smile on her face.
"Lily…" said James trying to cover his eyes with his hand.
"Yeah…I can come back some other time. I just really need to talk to you…today." Said Lily thinking about chickening out again. "It's important."
"Right…" said James still half asleep.
"Meet me at the park round the corner in half an hour?" she asked knowing she wasn't going to get any sense out of him until he had had a shower and plenty of coffee.
"Okay."
"See you then."
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Half an hour later Lily went to the park like she had said. She immediately spotted James sitting on a bench facing the pond. He was holding a coffee cup, looking down at the grass if she could see his face she would have seen how miserable he was.
"Hi, thanks for coming," said Lily pleasantly as she sat down next to him.
"No problem," said James trying not to look as unhappy as he was. "I assume you got the papers."
"Yeah I got them this morning, but that isn't what I wanted to tell you…I mean I know we have to deal with that as well…but…"
"I meant it yesterday about you and…It's fine really…" said James painfully and all that was running through his mind was that she would have Calvin's baby but she had never wanted his.
"About me being pregnant? I just wanted to…"
"I don't need to know Lily. I told you it's fine…if you're happy. The divorce doesn't have to be messy. I'm happy for you," said James getting up.
"Stop interrupting me, and get back here," Lily demanded when she saw him try to walk away.
"Lily don't…" said James wearily. It was exhaustingly painful trying to be happy for her, it broke his heart but it was Lily…he could and would do anything for her.
"James just look at me for one second," said Lily standing up and unbuttoning her coat. Underneath she as wearing a fitted sweater, that really showed off the bump.
"Huh…" said James looking at it. "That's…big."
"You are such an insensitive oaf at times," said Lily but she didn't sound angry, she sounded more affectionate. She quickly buttoned her coat back up.
"Sorry it's just…" said James trailing off.
"I'm four and a half months pregnant. Calvin is a friend to me nothing more. And the baby is yours…obviously." Said Lily surprisingly calm.
James just gaped at her for a few seconds and then he dropped himself back onto the bench next to her.
"Could you repeat that?" he finally said.
"The baby is yours. I'm sorry I didn't tell you yesterday, I meant to but you just disappeared," said Lily nervous again about his reaction.
James just sat there for another few minutes, not saying anything or moving or even blinking. Lily thought that this meant he wasn't happy about it and was panicking and thinking of a way out.
"I don't want anything from you, I just thought I should tell you." Said Lily. James still didn't say anything or give any indication that he had heard. "Anyway…it's fine really you don't have to be involved with the baby or anything…I'll just be going."
"No," said James gripping onto her arm as she tried to get up. "It's my baby?"
"Yes," said Lily relaxing. At least he was talking now.
"You should have told me sooner," he said. He was such an idiot, why did he have to go and file for divorce. He didn't want a divorce, she was his wife and now she was having his baby and he had just pushed her even further away.
"I know, I'm sorry. I've only just accepted it myself…and then yesterday you thought…and I'm sorry I should have told you."
"How…whoah… I'm sorry I just don't know what…" said James shoving his hands through his hair. "I don't know how to react."
"Yeah it's big I know."
"Yeah…" said James. "What…I mean what do we do?"
"Um…I'm going to have it and past that I don't know."
"Right," said James surprised she even had to say that she was going to have it, why would she want to kill their child.
"I have an appointment for the baby on Tuesday, to find out the due date and run tests to find out if the baby has any conditions we need to know about," said Lily. "You can come if you want, but if you don't then that's fine too."
"What time?"
"Eleven."
"I'll be there."
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