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Chapter 12:Drinking Results In Many Things
"Well," Remus stated moments later once silence had consumed over the small table "This is sufficiently awkward,"
Felicity just gulped down an unladylike amount of Butterbeer in her haste to avoid replying. Remus raised an eyebrow in her direction.
"Lucky for you Butterbeer is non-alcoholic," he muttered as Felicity slammed down her mug on the counter.
"Yes, lucky," she responded in a voice that seemed nearly an octave higher than her usual voice. Remus didn't respond, but continued playing with the condensation rings the bottom of the mugs had created on the wooden table.
"You really trust Black and Potter to go to the bathroom together?" Felicity joked, trying to break the ice. Remus looked up from his condensation masterpiece and Felicity dropped her smile at once.
"You do no why they left to go to the bathroom, don't you?" Remus asked her, giving her a look of incompetence.
"Yes!" Felicity responded defensively, her voice returning to the higher octave "I'm smarter than you give me credit for,"
"Well you could have fooled me," Remus muttered under his breath, returning to his circles.
"Well, you did fool me," Felicity snapped, before raising her glass and taking another large swig.
"Excuse me?" Remus asked her, his hands turning into fists on the table, ruining the perfect circle he had drawn.
"You heard me," Felicity said shrilly before wondering aloud "I wonder if i could get some Firewhisky,"
"So what if it was a dare? I didn't think we were serious or anything. I thought it was just fun," Remus growled across the table as Felicity looked around for the bartender.
"You have the reputation of being the smartest of the Marauders. The other two must be just plain stupid then," Felicity snapped, returning her eyes to Remus. "I really did like you Remus, and to let you in on a bit of a secret, I've liked you ever since you were going out with Claudia. There, I've said it. You were my idea of the perfect guy. I had seen you around Claudia, holding her hand on the way to class, the way you kissed her goodnight. I was jealous of Claudia, yet this year I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. You and Claudia were definitely over and you had said yes to me. The weeks we were going out were one of the best of my life, until I found out that none of it, not a bit, was real. All those kisses goodnight, all the times we held hands walking down the corridor, you were just laughing behind my back to your friends. In the end though, I guess the dare's on me then," Felicity flung back her head and downed the rest of the Butterbeer in one quick swig, slamming the empty mug on the table.
"I'm going to find someone to buy me a Firewhisky," she snapped, pushing her stool back and storming off towards the bar.
-:-
"This is fun," Sirius said as he and James skipped off towards the bathroom, following behind Lily and Jessica who practically bolted from the table.
"We're going to the bathroom Sirius, haven't you done that before?" Jessica asked him, giving him a look.
"Sure I have, just not in pairs. Bags going in with Lily," he smiled, winking at Lily who rolled her eyes.
"You wish Black," she said as James punched him in the arm for that insensitive comment.
"So what happens now," Jessica asked Lily as Sirius rubbed his arm up and down and James smiled like a cat. Lily pointed to the door "we listen,"
All at once there was a scramble to get back to the door first. Sirius was leading but James was catching up so Sirius decided to stick his foot out. And although James was a star Quidditch player, he was useless on his feet and so tripped and fell head first into the door.
"Ha. Now we're even," Sirius said, pushing James's crumpled body away, ignoring his moan of protest and settled himself down in a crouch position.
"Yeah, but unlike you, I didn't deserve my fate," James growled back, kicking Sirius in the butt with his foot , causing Sirius to loose his balance and fall face first into Jessica who had just sat down next to him.
"Urgh Black! Get off me!" She exclaimed, trying to push the massive lump off her.
"Nah, you love it," Sirius whispered in her ear just as she found his arm.
"OWWW!" Sirius yelled and James slapped a hand instantly over the top of his mouth to muffle his boisterous voice.
"God Jessica, you hit like a man!" he exclaimed under his breath when James was kind enough to move his hand.
"Yeah, and you take it like a girl," Jessica retorted, returning her ear to the door. James sniggered and Lily took no notice, straining her ears to hear.
"Someone should invent something to make it easy to eardrops," Lily said once James and Sirius and settled themselves down and placed their ears against the wood.
"Pfft it would never happen. The only people who would invent something like this are people like us and since I'm going to be a star Quidditch player when I leave school, I doubt I will have time to assist the younger generations of earsdroppers," Sirius told Lily, his chest puffing up slightly as he revealed his ambition.
"Sure, a star Quidditch player. Pity you can't lift yourself off the ground," Jessica smirked, causing James to laugh and Sirius's chest to deflate.
"You'll see," Sirius muttered under his breath "One day, you'll see,"
"I'm sure we will see you more than a foot above the ground some day but right now we are either going to hear a break – up or witness a reunion. Twould be easier if you helped," Lily said, raising her voice a little and the small group fell silent.
"I've never been so close to a bathroom and not being allowed to go," Sirius complained moments later and the other three groaned "Seriously Lily, I'm busting! Can't I just go ..."
"Black, if you keep talking I will personally make sure you loose the function to go to the bathroom all together," Jessica snapped, swinging her head around to face Sirius and glaring at him.
"Just think about that Padfoot. If she hits like a man imagine how hard her kicks will be," James muttered to Sirius who winced.
"I guess I can hold on a little longer ..." Sirius said, getting himself comfortable against the door before silence consumed the group once more.
-:-
Remus watched her leave and walk over the bar and immediately strike up a conversation with a wizard around twenty-four. He shook his head and walked over to the door that lead to the bathrooms and pulled, like it said on the handle. Four bodies fell forward through the door.
"Great, he found us. Can I PLEASE go to the bathroom now?" Sirius begged Lily, jumping up immediately.
"Sure, why not," Lily grumbled as Jessica got to her feet and held out her hands to help Lily up.
"We should be going now, see you around Remus," Jessica said, once pulling Lily to her feet and the walked away towards the bar. Remus turned to James who was still sitting on the floor looking guilty.
"You know you have some explaining to do," Remus stated and James nodded, continuing to look guilty. Remus grudgingly held out an arm to James and pulled him to his feet.
"Come on, lets get out of here," Remus growled, walking towards the exit.
"Wait, what about Padfoot?" James asked "He's still in the bathroom,"
"Prongs, you know as well as I do that once Sirius enters a bathroom, it will be a while until he returns," Remus said over his shoulder as he continued to walk towards the door. James grudgingly followed.
-:-
"So how did it go?" Lily asked when she and Jessica found Felicity down near the end of the bar. Felicity turned around to face them.
"Horrible. Plain fucking horrible," she said, stating each individual word. Lily winced. Jessica held your nose.
"I know you've just had a traumatic experience and everything but, no offense, your breath stinks," she said, her voice coming out weird from holding her nose. Felicity shrugged.
"I dunno, its some side affect you get after you've had about two Firewhiskeys,"
"Firewhisky!" Lily shrieked
"Two?" Jessica exclaimed.
"How'd you get your hands onto a Firewhisky?" Lily demanded, grabbing Felicity's shoulders.
"There was some hunk here at the bar and after a bit of flirting he asked me if he could order me a drink and I said Firewhisky and ta da! Firewhisky," Felicity told Lily before hiccupping.
"Who's the guy?" Jessica growled and Felicity managed to keep her balance as she shrugged.
"I dunno, after one of these they all started to look alike. He said he was going to the bathroom but he was probably just using it as an excuse to get away from me. They always make excuses," Felicity grumbled and Lily dropped her shoulders, letting Felicity to drop back onto the bar stool.
"I'm going to find this idiot," Lily told Jessica, turning on her heel and storming away. Jessica turned to Felicity.
"Do you think it would have stopped her if I reminded her that he was the men's bathroom?" she asked. Felicity hiccupped again. "I don't know. She's a very nice girl, except her taste in pajamas. That's awful," Felicity replied, swaying in her seat. Jessica sighed.
"This is going to be fun,"
-:-
Lily pulled the bathroom door back with such force it nearly snapped as she flung herself into the passage way beyond, heading towards the door with the stick man. That door too said pull so indeed she did, only to get blinded upon entering. Every surface of the bathroom had Sirius's face on it.
"What, the hell, did you do? Sirius!" Lily demanded as he turned his head to face her. A closer look at the walls revealed it was not several Siriuses but several reflections of Sirius.
"Hey Lilykins. I've just been redecorating, you like?" he gestured to the walls around him.
"So when you asked to go to the bathroom, you just wanted to redecorate?" Lily asked him in bewildment.
"Gosh no. I really did need to go. It felt good when I did. It was like – "
"Yeah, spare us the details," Lily interrupted "Continue,"
"Anyways, when I came out from the cubical I went straight to the sinks and when I looked up to admire my bone structure and facial features, as usual and I was only given a mirror this size to look at myself in," he took out his wand and drew in a purple smoke a square around twenty centimeters by twenty centimeters.
"Of course, this wouldn't do so I thought I would do the pub a favour and redecorate, with a small fee I might add,"
"And you didn't consider asking the pub owner if you could do it first, and your expecting a payment and considering this is a pub and so usually only drunk men use this bathroom and since men look shit after drinking, the owners were kind enough to only provide minimal reflection," Lily replied raising an eyebrow. Sirius's smile faded and he turned sulky.
"I'll put it back to normal when I'm done, happy?" Lily smiled. "Very,"
"So what are you doing in here? You do remember this is a men's bathroom, not that I'm complaining of course, but usually you have some strange purpose about what you're doing," Sirius asked her, continuing to admire his flawless skin. Lily couldn't resist, she gave him a zit.
"That's not very nice," Sirius growled, taking out his wand and removing the magical zit "No wonder guys don't ask girls about anything they don't know,"
"Some guy bought Felicity two glasses of Firewhisky and I'm going to return the favour. She said he came to the bathroom but she's too drunk to tell the difference between an excuse and a full bladder. Anyone in here with you?"
"No. We were leaning against the door to the bathroom remember? And no ones come in since you guys have left. Sorry love," Sirius told her. Lily gave him her look, "Want another zit?"
"Oh no thank you, that one was quite enough. Now, if you don't mind, I would like to finish my admiration in my wonderful world of me by myself before I am to return it to its former, er, glory,"
Lily shrugged, sticking her wand in the back pocket of her jeans and left the bathroom and returned to Jessica and Felicity. Felicity had obviously collapsed and was relying on Jessica to keep her standing up straight, her mouth made into a loopy grin.
"Did you find him?" she asked Lily drowsily, her head rolling.
"Yeah, he was busy admiring himself in his many mirrors," Lily replied, glad she didn't specify to which guy, yet, she though, she probably could have said anything now and Felicity would be none the wiser.
"Sirius?" Jessica mouthed over the top of Felicity's head which was now rested on her shoulder. Lily nodded and Jessica stifled a laugh.
"Well, we'd better get back to school," Jessica said, pulling one of Felicity's arms around her neck and Lily grabbed the other to add to the support. "Are we going back the way we came?"
"Of course, "Lily said and the left the pub and up the high street to Honeydukes. Jessica pushed the door open with her foot and they heaved Felicity through the door. There was a man behind the counter counting the money in the till and his wife was stacking a load of Fizzing Whizzbees onto the shelves near the exit.
"How are we going to get past her?" Jessica whispered and Lily smiled "Follow me,"
"Excuse me, miss?" Lily asked as she and Jessica approached her, carrying Felicity between them. The woman turned around and once seeing Felicity exclaimed "My, what happened?"
"She had an overload on sugar, our friend has a probable stopping. But now she's gone and made herself sick and we were supposed to walk back and we don't think we could support her and so we were wondering if you had a pepper up potion of some kind?" Lily asked her and Jessica poked Felicity in the stomach to get a realistic groan.
"Of course, I have some upstairs if you don't mind waiting for me to nip up and get it?"
"Oh, no. Thank you, we really appreciate it," Lily told the woman who immediately left and walked upstairs. Together, the two of them heaved Felicity off to the storage room, down the stairs. Jessica pushed the stone slab back to reveal the passage and let herself down. Once she was down there Lily gently dropped Felicity down there, before jumping down herself and dragging the slab back where it belonged. They walked along the passage silently for sometime before Jessica asked Lily
"How'd you know she had pepper up potion upstairs?"
"Coz a while ago Sirius did eat too many sweets and we did have to walk all the way up to school and we couldn't carry him, though if we had to we probably could have managed Felicity. She's a twig,"
At the other end of the passage, Lily opened the statue and exited first, checking the coast was clear before pulling an unconscious Felicity through, followed by Jessica. They managed to get themselves back to Gryffindor tower without getting spotted by any professors, the toughest part climbing up the girl's staircase to their room. Jessica kicked this door wide as well and the dragged Felicity's unconscious over to the bed and they flung her down.
"My back! My poor back," Jessica complained, flinging herself on her bed, groaning. Lily collapsed on her own bed.
"Why couldn't we have got some of that potion for Felicity, then we wouldn't have to drag her all the way back and cause permanent injury to my back," Jessica groaned into her pillow.
"Coz then we wouldn't have been able to get back," Lily replied, "Though I almost wish we did and got caught, then I wouldn't have to deal with this pain,"
"I'm never going to move from this bed. My prince charming can go get lost if he comes to kiss me coz I ain't getting up," Jessica told Lily.
"Nap time?" Lily asked, rolling over onto her back.
"Oh yeah,"
-:-
"So, start," Remus demanded as the exited the pub and headed up the high street.
"Start what?" James asked, stalling his response.
"What that was all about," Remus snapped, stopping in his tracks.
"Nothing," James replied, failing to think of something witty.
"Don't give me any of that 'nothing' crap James. God, just tell me what the hell was going on back there,"
"Nothing, I didn't plan anything. Lily and Jessica went to the bathroom and I just thought that Felicity deserved to tell you her side of the story. That's all, so I dragged Sirius to his second favourite place in the world in order to give you guys the privacy you needed to be forced to talk about what happened and for you to here her side. That's all," James explained, studying Remus's face to gage his reaction.
"That's all?" Remus asked, just to make sure. James nodded.
"So you and Lily and Hamon aren't planning anything to make my life hell?" Remus asked and James shook his head. They stood there in silence for a while, James swearing his bum was freezing off but not wanting to complain, he was already on extremely thin ice as it was.
"I should probably go and drag Sirius's butt out," James said, breaking the awkward silence and turning on his foot back into the pub. As he made his way to the bathroom, he looked over towards the bar and saw Jessica supporting Felicity and talking to Lily. Felicity looked in pretty bad shape too. James pushed through the door and walked over the men's room.
"Time to go Sirius. Admiration time over," James sung upon entering the room, taking out his wand and banishing all the mirrors from the walls and replacing the small twenty centimeter by twenty centimeter mirror in its place above the basin.
"Aww, how come admiration time is always over so soon?" he complained as he made his way to James.
"We need to stop it before head gets bigger than the size of the mirror. Besides, we should be getting home soon," James told him, and lead him out the door and back into the pub. They walked the long way around, not keen to face Lily and Jessica at the moment and exited the door and out into the cold.
"Remus must of left, this is where I left him," James said, shrugging his shoulders, not minding that he didn't have to be under interrogation again.
"He might have gone to meet us in Honeydukes. I love Honeydukes, I must say its my favourite shop. It has food, and a bathroom!" Sirius jabbered as they walked up the high streets to the shop. James opened the door and Sirius pushed past him to get into the shop and headed straight for the row with the brightest sweets imaginable. James sighed and followed him in. Remus wasn't in here either, though James, who wasn't totally convinced Remus had left, opted that they stayed there for a bit. Sirius had no objections, he was happy.
The store door tinkered and James peeked around the side of the row to see if it was Remus, however once seeing a three headed figure he ducked back behind the aisle, not wanting to be seen. The three headed figure walked slowly into the store and James finally made out three different figures – two supporting the third in the middle.
"Hey, isn't that Lily and Jessica?" Sirius asked James with a mouthful, making him jump.
"Shh," James ordered and they sinked back into the aisle.
"Wow, Felicity doesn't look too good," Sirius muttered to James who nodded "I think she's unconscious," Just as they approached the woman, the store door opened again. James peeked around the corner just in time to see it was just Remus and he pulled him into the aisle with them.
"Shh," Sirius ordered before Remus opened his mouth.
"What the hell guys?" he whispered, at least abiding by Sirius's law. James nodded his head in the direction of the three girls, one which was now in conversation with the woman.
"Are they supporting Felicity?" Remus asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, she's unconscious," Sirius supplied, repeating James's discovery.
"She's drunk," Remus stated under his breath.
"What? How do you know she's drunk?" James demanded and Remus shrugged.
"When she stormed off before she said she was off to get some Firewhisky and the next thing I know she's chatting up some guy in his twenties to get him to buy her a drink,"
"Don't blame her," James muttered under his breath.
"What did you –"
"Shut up! Look, their leaving," Sirius said pointing, the girls had successfully gotten rid of the woman and were hobbling down the stairs that lead to the passage.
"We should head down too, before the woman comes back. We might not get another chance," James said, heading off towards the door.
"As long as we don't get spotted," Remus told him, before following him towards the door.
"You think I'm thick? I don't want them to spot us either, you might not make it out," James snapped, storming past Remus and to the top of the stairs where he paused. A few minutes he signaled that it was okay for them to come towards the door.
"They just slid the slab back into place," James told them as he walked down the stairs to the cellar storage space. "We should wait a few minutes before going down coz they would be travelling pretty slowly carrying Felicity,"
The sat down under the stairs to the cellar, just in case one of the owners came down here to get or check on anything. Ten minutes later they were in the passage making their way back home. Dragging their feet, they slowly made their way to the common room, none of them talking. James sunk into an arm chair near the fire and checked his watch. It was just past six, they had been in Hogsmeade for the best part of the afternoon.
"I'm going down to get some dinner," Sirius told them, breaking the long silence and heading out of the common room. Remus stormed off to their room and James heard the door slam shut. He couldn't be bothered moving, so he just sat there. He didn't know how long he sat there, just staring at the fire, watching the different colours flicker. The next thing James knew, the common room was dark, the fire reduced to cinders. He groaned and stretched in his seat and turned to look out the window. The stars were out tonight and they were shinning in the inky black sky. A slight breeze was ruffling the roof of the Forbidden Forest, and everything in the grounds was still and silent.
James stood up and stretched again, before making his way over to the window and he leaded against the sill. He really didn't want to go back to the dorm room, even though there was a high percent chance that Remus and Sirius would be asleep, he didn't feel like seeing either of them right now. James stared back up into the heavens, this time noticing that one star was brighter than the rest tonight. Well, James thought, he had nothing better to do. He crept up the boys' stairs and slipped into his room only long enough to grab his invisibility cloak hanging over the end of his bed before slipping back out again.
James threw the cloak over himself, before pushing the portrait hole open and exiting the common room. Hogwarts at night was how James liked Hogwarts best. Hogwarts by day was great too, he had his admirers, they had an audience for their various pranks and they had individuals to pick a duel with. But Hogwarts at night was mystical. Lit with only the light from the stars, the corridors were deserted and free to explore without prying eyes.
He soon found himself at the bottom of a tower and began climbing, slowly, upwards up the hundred or so stairs, he had never bothered to count, before finally opening the door that revealed the circular classroom at the top, all around the edge were different models of telescopes, collected by the school every couple of years or so when one of the older models broke.
The roof was made of plain glass, which you would never guess from looking at the outside, to make the solar system easier to see. It was up here, during one of the midnight classes he had taken in his second year, where he found his ledge. He didn't know how many students had discovered the ledge, because you couldn't see it. Sirius had dared him to hang out of the window, which, of course he did, his pride big back there as well and he lost his balance. But instead of falling off the tower and to his death, he landed on his ledge, the invisible ledge. It was a few years later that he realized Dumbledore or some other teacher would have put the ledge there, somehow knowing that students would lean out the window.
And so, from then on, it had been his ledge. Sirius didn't know, he had said he had held onto the neck of the gargoyle that hung all around the roof. His ledge had become quite useful, whenever he needed to go somewhere quiet, somewhere where no one else would be when he needed to stew over something or just to day dream he had come here. And this is where he was heading. He walked over to the window and flung it wide and stepped out onto the ledge. He turned around to face the corner where he always sat, but someone else was already there.
"Lily?" he asked when he was able to make out her face "How did you know about this place?"
She smiled "James, please, give me some credit. I was there when Sirius dared you to lean out the window. I saw you loose your balance, and I saw you land on your butt, suspended in mid air. It doesn't take much to add two and two together. I've been coming up here ever since,"
"Do you mind if I sit?" James asked, gesturing to the spot next to her. She shrugged and he sat.
"Do you come up here to think too?" Lily asked him and James nodded "Ever since the incident,"
"I like it, it's really peaceful. It was like my little secret, I had a place to escape to when I couldn't bear to be part of reality,"
"So why did you come up here now? Its not like you had to escape from your dorm," James asked, perhaps with a little accusation in his voice.
"I feel asleep as soon as I came back. Felicity was passed out drunk and between Jessica and I we carried her home. I was so exhausted I fell asleep but when I woke up again it was still dark and I couldn't stand laying in bed so I came up here. We really messed things up today, didn't we? Remus is mad at us and Felicity's heading for a bad hangover," Lily said sadly, bringing her knees into her chest and wrapping her arms around them.
"I think it opened Remus's eyes a little. I don't think he noticed the destruction he left behind, like she was a veela and had no choice but follow after her, not being able to check what he left. He's pretty pissed off at me right now but I think Sirius is opening his eyes to the cause we've been fighting for. Give him a little time and he'll be helping us, he's already not wanting to spend his spare time with Remus,"
"All the same, I feel awful. I just keep thinking about how Felicity must have felt, what Remus could have said to make her feel the need to drink. She wouldn't have gone after that guy to buy her a drink, its like one of Claudia's many rules or something, not being a slut. Not that Claudia abides by her rules but all the same, I just keep feeling responsible. I can't even imagine what Felicity's done, I never gave her a second thought before this year. She's like Remus for years and we never even noticed her, it was just Claudia this, Claudia that. Her dreams were coming true this year and even though I knew her now, I couldn't care less either. But the look on her face when Claudia pulled him in for the kiss in the common room, her whole world shattered and now, I vowed I was going to fix it, but I don't know how to,"
"Lily, it's going to work out. We're gathering an army, we're preparing for battle. Love will pull through," James told her and she stifled a laugh.
"Only a guy would refer love to a war zone,"
"Well, love is a battlefield, though I never realized how bloody," He told her and Lily rolled her eyes.
"This is nothing, you should go to the ladies room-"
"Don't mind if I do,"
"And hear what the girls talk, brag and argue about in there. I've seen many brawls over guys, not that I paid much attention, I washed my hands and I was off. But I just feel like somehow we're losing this one,"
"We haven't lost until we wave the white hanky," James told her and she shrugged "Anyway, its time to plan our next line of attack,"
James had several ideas, most involving a bat of some kind and Remus's head, though Lily refused, she didn't want it to turn into an actual war. The through ideas around, bickered and complained, fought for their ideas (though James always lost), and laughed as they joked.
"I better be Felicity's maid of honor at their wedding," Lily told James "All this I'm going through for her, I deserve to have a honeymoon too,"
"You want to go on their honeymoon? Talk about a third wheel,"
"No, I don't want to go on their honeymoon and get that image out of your head right now! I want THE honeymoon. Hmm, somewhere warm, maybe the Bahamas? I have a thing for islands, maybe Hawaii, or Fiji? As long as there is no active volcano and its warm enough for me to wear my little bikini,"
"You have a bikini? You? Of all people?" James asked in surprise, trying to picture Lily the tomboy in a bikini. No, it wasn't working.
"Sod off, yes I have a bikini. Claudia bought it for me when I had my 'make-up'. Hmmm, since that bitch gave it to me, maybe I should burn it. Now that's a thought, 'Unite Against the Bitch, Burn A Bikini!'" Lily snickered.
"No, your only allowed to burn your bikini if I'm allowed to see you in one first," James told her, grinning. Lily looked at him in surprise.
"What, you haven't pictured me in one yet?"
"Grr, you know my mind too well. And yes I tried, but I failed. I failed miserably. I need inspiration,"
"Go look in one of Sirius many magazines," Lily told him sweetly, and James was shocked.
"How do you know about those?"
"How did I not know about those? He has them all over his room," Lily told him and sighed "You know what, I miss this,"
"Miss what exactly? Being suspended in mid air, just a couple odd stories up on magic that could be decades old? Yeah me too," Lily punched him.
"No THIS. Hanging out with you, joking, talking, chilling,"
"Yeah you got that right, it is chilly" but his smiled faded when he saw that she wasn't smiling "Are you really unhappy? Hanging out, being a girl?"
"I used to be, when it was just me, a bitch, a bimbo and a wannabe. But then I started talking with Jessica and she and I became friends and then, and I'm almost ashamed to say, I'm almost happy that Claudia kissed Remus. I'm allowed to be friends with Jess, whenever Claudia's not around which is pretty much all the time coz she spends her time snogging Remus and Felicity is not a Claudia clone anymore, she has her own identity and, maybe best of all, we became friends again," Lily said, looking up at James.
All of a sudden James had a strange feeling. He had a sudden urge to reach out his hand and place it on Lily's. Why, he thought. Why on earth did I want to touch her hand? But things started moving too fast and his arm actually lifted off the ground. It lifted up and began reaching over to Lily, his arm began stretching out ... No! he told himself, Bad arm! But he couldn't stop his arm. Had his subconscious taken over, held up his conscious mind with men in stocking masks and hand guns? But before he could stop, his hand slowly rested on top of Lily. As soon as he made contact, he almost jumped back in shock. Her hand was icy cold. But his hand remained on top of Lily's icy one and it almost felt, kind of nice. Lily's hand, however, hesitated.
"James, uh..." she began but James drew back his hand immediately. His conscious mind had pressed the red alarm button under the counter and the police and come and taken the sub conscious bandits away.
"Sorry, don't know what happened there," he said shortly sitting on his hands.
"What I meant James was, that, I was glad we were friends again. Just friends," Lily told him slowly.
"Yeah, I know," James told her, standing up on their ledge "Though for just a split second I could swear there was something more. See you in the morning Lily," James said, climbing back through the window, leaving Lily sitting alone on what was now their ledge.
A/N:Hey guys, here's chapter 12! This chapter gets the award for longest chapter I've ever written! Feeling special? You should be nod.
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