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"I can't do it! I can't do it!" Lily nearly screamed out of heartbreak. How could she have hurt him like this? She was horrible! "How can I tell him after he said that to that little boy? Do you know what he said? He said - "

"I heard" Miranda interrupted quietly.

"What? How? You were all the way up here!"

"Yeah. James never was a quiet man. It seems that heartbreak hasn't changed him much, has it?"

"Oh, he is such a man! Have you seen how beautiful his eyes are up close with the sunset burning a reflection in them? Well, you better not have because that would mean you've witnessed a sunset with him, too. And his arms? They're so… so…" Lily couldn't find the right word for James' arm so she sighed dramatically instead, hugging herself tightly.

"Hot?"

"Exactly!"

"Ah, but have you seen him in boxers?"

"Ooo, no, but I – WHAT? ARE YOU SAYING YOU HAVE? I AM GOING TO KILL YOU, MIRANDA GRISHAM!" Lily was screaming now. Miranda was laughing now. What is going on, Lily fumed.

"Lils, I'm kidding! I haven't seen anything! But you are so possessive it's hilarious! The look on your face!" She made an exaggerated version of an angry, potter-obsessed Lily. When she started shrieking 'Potter's MINE!' and turned her hair bright red, Lily laughed at her, rolling around on her bed as she clutched her sides with laughter.

Later, when they were in the common room, Miranda was still shrieking, hair bright red and Lily was still laughing. They went to sit on the couches to stream about how hot Potter was when they – or rather, Lily – noticed that they were not alone in the common room. Miranda, unfortunately, did not notice the company and kept on doing distorted impressions of 'Lily in Love'.

"Ooo, look at me! I'm Lily and I LOVE Potter! The way his hair blows when he's on his broomstick? Oh!" She did a dramatic sigh. "But have you seen his eyes? They are B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! Beautiful!"

Lily was blushing like mad now. It was not funny anymore. There were people here for Merlin's sake! She flopped down on the couch, but what she flopped on was not couch.

"POTTER!" She screamed.

"That's the spirit, Lily! Let out you feelings for him! Just keep it PG. There are 1st years around, I'm sure."

"No, Miranda! It's Potter!" She yelled, staring into the handsome, but strangely pale face of James Potter. He looked like he might be sick. Lily didn't know why, but she was still sitting on him. Oh, no. Don't kiss him, Lily. She groaned and picked herself up off him. Good girl, Lily.

"Oh, Merlin. S-see you … around, Potter." She stuttered, still trying to contain those inappropriate urges to lunge at him. Miranda stayed behind to flip her hair flirtatiously at Sirius. He gave her a small smile and turned his back on her to talk to James. She frowned and followed Lily after her seduction failure.

" She wants you, Prongs." Sirius stated. James was sitting on the couch starring at his lap where Lily had been sitting. Sirius thought of what Miranda had done to cheer Lily up. "That looked like fun."

His hair was now jet-black and flyaway. He grinned wickedly at James' horrified face.

"Oi, look at me! I'm James and I love Lily Evans! The way her hair floats down her shoulder when she stalks off after telling me she hates me! Oh!" He gave the same dramatic sigh that Miranda had done. " Take a look at those eyes! So pretty and green! Have you seen those hips? The most glori - "

"SHUT UP! Just shut up! Grisham was obviously kidding! Evans doesn't love me! She never will! She hates my guts!" James shouted, his eyes still on his lap.

" She doesn't! She absolutely adores you! Didn't you see her staring into your eyes like you were Brad Crater or Tom Coast?" Sirius exclaimed, wondering for a moment if those were the right names or not. Most likely not.

"Like I was who?"

""Never mind. Muggle actors. Very – how did Mandy put it? Oh, yeah – delicious." Sirius answered, dragging out the last word. "But that's besides the point. She wants you! Did you see the way she stayed in your lap? She groaned at your touch! Groaned, Prongs, GROANED!"

"Yeah, out of disgust."

"No it wasn't! Why are you so set against her liking you?"

James was starting to get angry. His face had turned a bright and violent shade of red and his fists were clenched as he stared Sirius down.

"Because she proved that she hates me, you arrogant little git! Why are you so set on getting us together? Hmm? So you can get closer to Grisham? Well, guess what? If that's all I'm good for then why are we still friends?" James shouted. Of course, James didn't mean it. He was just venting anger. Sirius knew that. James watched the hurt look on Sirius' face. Maybe he didn't know that.

"Is that what you think?" Sirius asked softly. The disappointment was obvious in his voice. "Cause if it is, I'm not sure what you're talking about. We're not friends."

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"Miranda!" Lily screamed loudly as soon as they stopped running. They were three floors up from the Gryffindor common room. The Slytherins were in the dungeons, the Hufflepuffs were two floors up, and the Ravenclaws were on the top floor. All staff rooms were on the second last floor. In short, that meant that Miranda was nowhere near a rescue from the angry Lily. She was going to die alone. What a sorry fate.

"Miranda Anne Grisham!" Lily shouted even louder. Maybe someone would hear? "Potter is so hot! Hot, hot, hot! He feels so good! I want him so badly! Why do I mess up so badly all the time?"

"Lily, I'm sorry! I didn't know Potter was there!" Miranda said in self-defense. Wait? Lily wasn't yelling out of anger. She was yelling out of what might possibly be a craving for a certain James Harold Potter.

"What?" Lily couldn't stop shouting so she shouted that, too.

" Oh, nothing!" Miranda said cheerfully. "I just can't believe that Little Miss Prefect/ Conservative is so into a guy!"

"I don't want to be into him!" She replied hotly. "I just am! Oh, and thanks for getting me into that mess back there."

"Oh, no problem."

"Right."

"Lily?"

"Yeah?"

"What's your favourite thing about Potter?"

"Hmm. I think probably the way he acts when he's not with those idiot friends of his. Did you know he used to tell me he loved me everyday? And he says I have the prettiest eyes he's ever seen. Come to think of it, I can't see why I didn't see it before. He's the sweetest person I've ever met." Lily was thinking out loud. She closed her eyes and remembered that kiss. The feel of his arms holding her close; his warm breath on her neck just before his lips toughed hers; the look of anticipation and happiness in his eyes; the sound of his restrained sigh as she molded into him; even the taste of his lips had been finer that Honeydukes finest chocolate to her. Lily felt the tears slip out from under her eyelids. When they opened, they were filled with new desperation.

"I've got to get him back."

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PS: The Muggle Actors are Tom Cruise ( Tom Coast) and Brad Pitt (Brad Crater).

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