Chapter 3- Bullying Gone Bad

Lily was simply studying on her way to dinner when Peter came running down the hall yelling "Wait for me." It made Lily suspicus, so she followed him. She reached the hallway that lead to the Slytherin common room. She could hear the boys laughing. She thought they might be bullying Severus, so she followed their voices.

She got there and poor Seveus was on the ground with the four boys surronding him. "Oh come on you guys. Can't you just leave him alone for one day?"

They laughed. "Not really." James admitted.

"Figures. Come in Severus, let's go get something to eat." She suggested.

"Awh, isn't that sweet. Do you always have fifth year girls helping you out?" Sirius teased.

That pushed Severus over the edge. He never meant to call Lily what he did. It just slipted out. "No, especially mudbloods like her." He spat.

Lily was taken aback by what he said. Severus had never cared that she was muggleborn before. Severus immeaditly shut up after that. He had a huge crush on Lily. He never wanted to hurt her, ever.

"Fine, I'll just stay away from you." She ran off towards the common room. James looked furious. Not only with Severus, but with himself for letting him call her that.

James went running after her. The rest of the boys looked confused. They knew James fancied Lily a little. Every boy did. But they didn't think it was more than that.

Lily was crying in the common room. Wiping her eyes every few seconds. The tears just wouldn't stop.

"Lily." James walked in. She looked down at the floor not wanting him to see her cry. "I'm so sorry."

She sniffled, wiped her eyes, and stood up. "It's fine James, it wasn't your fault." She began to cry again. James hated seeing her like this. She didn't deserve it.

Seeing Lily cry made him realize just what he had been doing for the past five years. It hurt people. He thought they had just been jokes. But not to the people they were playing them on. He thought for a moment then decided that he shouldn't bully people anymore. It was wrong. And now he was mature enough to realize that.

He would've never thought Lily Evans, of all people, would effect him like this. Sure she was pretty, and sweet. But he never imagined he would fall for her.

"Lily, I really am sorry. I should've never been-"

"James stop, it wasn't your fault. I guess he had always thought of me that way. It just took him a while to realize it." She interupted.

James couldn't think of anything to say. He wasn't going to start defending Severus but, he was almost positive Severus didn't think of her as a mudblood.

The rest of the boys walked in then. Lily went upstairs before they could see her.

"What happened?" Remus asked.

James shook his head. "Nothing, absoloutly nothing." James shrugged upstairs. The rest of the boys just looked at one another totally confused. Did he like her or not. It was so hard to tell.

Lily didn't leave the common room the whole weekend. It hurt to loose your best friend. It was something she had never felt before. This type of pain. Pain of the heart.