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Chapter 3
BANG! Lily kicked the side of her bed in frustration, and flopped down on the mattress the air whooshing out of her lungs as she landed facedown. The day had been so tiring and aggravating that she did not even have the energy to swat the mosquito out of the air that had just flown in front of her face. Her roommate had an unfortunate habit of leaving the window open, so that each morning Lily woke up with a fresh batch of bug bites. Lily had returned to Hogwarts after the incident at Honeydukes, seeking to be alone and finding that the only way she could do that was to tell Severus that she had to go to the bathroom. Lily had never come back from that bathroom trip, and now here she was.
Now sorely regretting her decision to kick the bed, Lily rubbed her foot absentmindedly and reflected on the new problems that today had brought. James Potter, which was definitely one of them popped into her mind first. Why couldn't that boy ever leave her alone? Admittedly he was quite handsome, with that tousled black hair, and that lean muscled body…No! What was she thinking? That James Potter was nothing but a nuisance, and the sooner she could be free of him the better. Still in spite of herself, a light blush had warmed her face while she was thinking about him. Berating herself Lily turned to the second major problem in her life, one that she knew would banish the unwanted blush in mere seconds. Severus. Lily had always known that Severus was a bit creepy, and that his unfortunate habit of stalking her had only grown worse over the years, but now he was really starting to freak her out. The way he looked at her, how he knew her schedule so well, and how he always managed to pop up in all the places that Lily was currently occupying were nothing new, but they had gotten worse and worse. Worst of all though was his obsession with the dark arts. The way he talked about the subject, like a lover addressing his woman, made Lily cringe. The spells that Severus could do were not normal for boys at his age, and quite frankly his extensive knowledge of all things sick and twisted was beginning to scare her. Just the other day, when talking to Lily after an encounter with the marauders, he had threatened to kill both James and Sirius. If this had been an empty threat, Lily would have disapproved but no more than that. As it was though, when he had stated that he was going to kill both those boys, there was not a trace of any compassion, or any feeling at all in those black eyes, and Lily was fully hit with the realization that Severus was all that her friends had described to her and worse. Someone who could talk about murder in such a cold calculating way was not the type of person that Lily wanted to be associated with. Therein lie the problem however, and as much as she might want to, Lily did not know how she was going to break free of Severus. Just then however the door to her dormitory banging open snapped Lily out of her dark reverie and she looked up the see her two roommates come into the dorm laughing and full of energy. "Lily!" Adriana exclaimed seeing her sprawled on the bed, "Come on lazybones, get up! Me and Kate are headed down to the Great hall for dinner, you should come with!" Rolling her eyes at her jubilant and as always oblivious friend, Kate sat on the edge of the bed next to Lily and lowering her voice asked, "You ok?" Lily looked at her friend and seeing that her brow was furrowed in concern, nodded and got off her bed and making her voice as strong as she could said, "Come on lets go."
The three friends reached the great hall, Adriana chatting up a storm the whole way, just as Sirius Black passed into the hall, a girl on each arm and a grin upon his face. Feeling an unexpected flutter at who Lily knew Sirius would be meeting up with in the hall, she and her friends took their seats near the middle of the Gryffindor table. Reaching for some mashed potatoes, Lily felt a familiar pair of eyes on her back coming from the opposite side of the room. Sure enough, glancing out of the corner of her eye Lily saw Severus hunched over a plate of absolutely nothing, alone at the end of his table, predictably staring at Lily's back. After a moment Lily realized for the first time that Severus was not alone at all at the end of his table. Curiously closer than anyone else to "Severus's end of the table" was a brunette girl. Not only was she curiously close to Severus, she was also staring directly at him missing her mouth with half her food as a result. Blinking to make sure it wasn't her imagination Lily decided that the girl must just be spacing out, and turned back around. Only to realize that she had chosen the wrong seat, situated right in front of her was James and the other three marauders. Sirius was flirting rather loudly with the two girls he had with him, Remus was frowning disapprovingly over his soup at him, and Peter was chowing down on some pudding. This left only James who of course was grinning from ear to ear and staring at Lily. "Evans, did you know that I love you?" he asked leaning far too close and breathing on her food. Before Lily could come back with a snarky reply she heard Severus's voice in her head "I'll kill him! I'll kill both of them I swear." Feeling sick all of a sudden Lily simply made a strangled noise and ran out of the Great Hall.