I've been dreading writing this chapter, but I hope it's okay. I wrote two versions, and decided on this one. Thanks to everyone reading this :) r&r with your feedback because I'm not sure if I wrote it very well... I love all of you even if you leave after this... And please read all of it including the a/n at the bottom for my reasoning before you stop reading for good... It would mean a lot to me if you just gave it a chance.
Day 5
Lily woke up with a banging headache and throbbing muscles, but happy all the same. Keeping her eyes firmly squeezed shut, she rolled over. Except, there was someone there. In her bed. She gasped and rolled backwards and fell off the bed. She then realised that she wasn't wearing anything.
"Shit!" She shouted and started searching around for some of her clothes. Maybe she could get out before the boy, whoever it was, woke up.
"Lily?" The boy said.
"Bugger." She groaned. "Look, I'm sure that whatever happened last night was really fun but I have a huge hangover and would like to leave. So can you please avert your eyes as I'm not wearing anything."
"Lily, it's okay. I've got my boxers here, look, have the sheets." The boy said and she was promptly covered in the white sheets. She wrapped them around her body and tucked them in tightly. She sat up and started looking for her actual clothes. "Lily, look at me."
"No, I have to find my clothes and go. I don't want to look, because then I can't pretend that the voice I'm hearing is you." She said defiantly, still scrabbling around the floor for her clothes. "Where are we? Are we in your dorm?"
"Lily-
"Do you have a room all to yourself in your common room?"
"Lily-
"How do I get back to the Slytherin common room from here?"
"Lily! Stop babbling!"
"But where am I?" She whined.
"The Room of Requirement." Realisation spread across her face.
"Oh, the party! How drunk were we last night? Well, here are my clothes, so bye." She hurriedly pulled on her underwear, hiding under the sheets.
"Lily, listen to me. I think we need to talk."
"About what, sweetie?" She finally turned to face him and batted her eyelashes.
"Lily, don't play dumb. We both know how clever you are. We need to talk about what happened last night. Lily, look at me. Come sit next to me." Lily pulled a face but obliged. "We obviously drank a lot last night, and I'm not sure where this puts us."
"We need to stay friends. Friends and only friends, because that's what we were before. It can't change anything between us. It was a drunk thing. We shouldn't necessarily regret what happened, I mean, I'm glad that I did this with you instead of a random Hufflepuff or something, after all, I've known you for my whole life." Lily replied truthfully.
"I understand what you mean. I think that's the best way to go too. After all, everyone knows you like Scorpius, and I like this girl in my house." He paused. "Should we tell anyone?" Lily contemplated that for a while.
"Knowing Tally, she will guess something happened and torture me until I say it, but I don't think I will tell anyone else. They will assume the wrong thing." He nodded. "Lorcan, are you okay with this? All of this?"
"Do you know what, yes, I am. I'm fine." Lily smiled and hugged him.
"One thing. You can't tell Lysander. I don't think he will react very well to the fact that his twin brother just slept with his ex girlfriend who he still likes. I have a feeling he might try killing you." They laughed for a while until Lily's stomach rumbled loudly. "I'm hungry. Do you want to get some breakfast with me?" He shook his head.
"People will suspect something if we turn up to the Great Hall together in last night's clothes. See you later, Lils." He kissed her cheek. She was just about to leave when his anxious shout made her turn back. "Lily! Did we... Use... You know... Protection? I don't think we used a..." He coughed nervously. "A condom." He whispered.
"Oh, sweetie, you're so cute. Don't worry, I've been on the contraceptive potion for ages. No worries, you won't become a dad any time soon." She chuckled. "Bye, Lorcan. See ya!" She straightened the hem of her dress and walked out of the room. She didn't bother to put on her shoes, but carried them instead. She sauntered up to a secret passageway down the corridor. Tapping her finger on the same stone four times, a small portion of the wall turned into a door. She pushed it open and descended the stairs that would take her to just outside the Slytherin common room. She needed to change before anything else. She muttered the password and stepped into the cold, dark room. She found the clock and was shocked to find it was only 6:30 in the morning. I guess that explained her racking headache, as well as the hangover, she never was a morning person. She walked into her dorm, grateful to see that everyone was asleep. Or so she thought.
"Well someone had sex last night." A voice broke into Lily's thoughts.
"How can you tell this?" Lily exclaimed in exasperation.
"You have sex hair. Walk up to me." Lily gave her a quizzical look. "Just do it!" She obliged. "You so got laid last night. Who was the boy? Tell me!" Lily rolled her eyes.
"How can you tell that I got laid? Apart from the hair?"
"Your walk. It's changed. You're walking the walk of a girl who's lost her v-card!" Tally used the phrase that the girls had always cringed over. They had heard the phrase in a Muggle film when they were a lot longer. "You look great. You're glowing. The messed up hair makes you look more alive and the colour seems brighter. Like a Muggle supermodel. The sex look suits you. Did it hurt? Do you want a pain relief potion? Here." Tally reached into her bedside drawer and threw her a potion. Lily caught it and drank it quickly. "So who was it?"
"Promise you won't judge? It's all been sorted between us, but don't judge me when I say it."
"It was Lysander! You lost your virginity to Lysander!" Tally gasped.
"No! No way! But... You're close." The penny dropped and Tally gasped.
"No way. No fricking way. No. Lorcan? No way! Lily!" Lily just giggled. "And you agreed to stay friends? He didn't want more?" Lily shook her head. "Oh Salazar. Right, we need to sort you out. Have a shower. You smell of sex. Put extra conditioner in your hair so it's definitely smooth and not all sexed up. Even though it suits you, people will be able to tell it's sex hair. Okay? Be quick, we need to sort out your clothes. We can talk when you're in the shower." Lily nodded. The shower had a thick curtain in which you couldn't see through, and Lily and Tally often had their biggest chats when one was in the shower and the other was doing her makeup and hair for the day. "I remember my first time! My baby girl is all grown up! Making bets on shagging boys and actually losing her virginity! Lily 'save herself for the one' Potter, popping her cherry with her ex boyfriend's twin brother when she was drunk at a party! Oh, I'm proud of you!" Tally had lost her virginity during the summer before she started fourth year. She had this ongoing fuck buddies thing with a boy in Spain. When she had got back to Hogwarts that year, all the boys had noticed that she had changed, meaning she had more than a few fumbles in the dark that year. Then, at the start of fifth year, she realised she had fallen for the boy she had constantly bickered with for as long as she could remember. Dylan. Needless to say, Tally had stopped sleeping around in an effort to make Dylan notice her. Little did she realise that Dylan had had a crush on Tally for as long as they had fought. Lily climbed into the shower and shed her clothes, chucking them over the top of the railing. She heard Tally sit down on the counter and started playing with the taps.
"What's wrong? You seem a bit down." Lily commented, sighing heavily as the steaming water soothed her aching muscles.
"Oh, you know. I haven't been laid all year. There's only so much I can do myself." She teased. Lily laughed.
"Tally! Too much information! So basically, you're jealous that I've been shagged recently and you haven't? Why not just up your game with Dylan? You know he wants you."
"I'm... I'm scared. I don't want it to go wrong." She whispered, but Lily heard.
"Tally. What happened to the girl who could bed any guy she wanted? Just use your charm on him, and he will be in your bed within seconds." Lily teased. She combed the conditioner through her hair and left it in while she washed her body.
"I'm just scared that he won't want me because of that. I've sort of built up a reputation." Lily finished her shower and turned off the water. She reached out of the curtain to pick up a towel and wrapped it round her body.
"Listen. He likes you. He's scared that he won't be as good for you as the boys you've already been with. He's intimidated by the fear of being average. He's too scared to make a move, so you need to make the first move."
"I don't know how to!" She fretted. "Like, if I wanted to just screw him, I would make a few dumb jokes, bat my eyelashes a little and show a bit of boob. But I don't want him to just be a quick shag in a broom cupboard. I want a relationship with him. Whenever I try to flirt with him, I just freeze up." Lily made a noise of sympathy and hugged her. "Look, enough of this, how was it? Was he good? How long was it?" Lily's mouth gaped open for a second, then burst out laughing. "I'm being serious! Was he any good?"
"Well, I'm no expert, and I can't compare to anyone else, but yeah, I would say he was pretty decent. Let's go get dressed." Lily was eager to change the subject. Tally rolled her eyes.
"Well, if things don't work between Dylan and I, I might go for Lorcan. He's a cutie, and I've always thought he was the hotter twin. I prefer unidentical twins, that way you can't get them confused. Oh my GOSH do you remember that time last summer when I was with both of those twins because I thought there was only one? That had to be one of my most embarrassing moments ever!"
"Lily! Where were you last night? We looked for you when the party ended, but you had disappeared." Scorpius greeted her with a hug and a kiss on the forehead.
"Oh, I slept in the Room." She dismissed him lightly.
"Who with?" His eyes narrowed.
"No one!" She exclaimed indignantly.
"You're lying. I know you too well." He poked her.
"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies." She quoted wisely.
"That's not fair! Please tell me. I'll find out somehow!" He threatened.
"You wish!" They were interrupted by Dylan jumping over the back of the sofa and nearly landing on Lily's head. "Dylan! Watch it!"
"Can you help me with the Ancient Runes homework please?" He begged. Lily shook her head. "Pretty please? Pretty please with a cherry on top?" Lily still shook her head. "You suck."
"Not for free!" Lily sang. Scorpius laughed.
"Pray tell, what's your current rate?" He joked. Lily and Tally exchanged glances.
"I believe the current rate is 10 galleons." Lily winked. Tally laughed.
"You're awful, you know that Potter? Getting poor Scorpius' hopes up like that." Tally poked Lily in the ribs.
"Au contraire, my little friend. However, I will state that you would be the one who would be paying me 10 galleons, not Scorpius. I believe that is what was arranged, Natalya?" Lily used Tally's full name to annoy her.
"Sorry, but am I missing something here?" Dylan interrupted the girls' teasing. They shared a look and promptly burst out laughing. Dylan and Scorpius rolled their eyes and sighed. "I'll never understand them." Dylan stated.
"I'm still trying, and I've know Lily for two years longer than you have." Scorpius sighed.
"Why don't we do our revision outside?" Albus suggested. "It's a nice day still. We can watch the sunset." The group agreed with him and packed up their books and left the common room, grateful to be out of the cold, clammy air. Dylan, Albus and Scorpius decided to race outside, leaving Lily and Tally to walk up the staircase calmly like civilised adults instead of the 5-year-olds the boys were acting like. Once they reached the Entrance Hall, they were grateful to see that the boys had managed to get rid of some first years sitting at their favourite spot outside. This spot was situated under a large cherry tree. It was near the shore of the lake and stayed in the shade for most of the day. Lily sat down with her legs stretched out in the sun, soaking up the last hour of sunlight. She had her book placed in her lap, but after the boys had finished a light-hearted wrestle ('could they be any more immature?'), Scorpius had come to sit on top of Lily. She sighed, calling him immature and telling him to go away while she revised, but he refused, instead offering to help. He was even happier to find out that it was Charms that she was revising for. He helped her to understand the topic she had been having trouble with for the past few months.
"You're a great teacher, you know that?" Lily stated truthfully, running her fingers through his platinum blonde hair.
"Oh why thank you." He grinned. "Can you help me with this Potions topic? I know you haven't done the exam or even learnt about it, but can you read through this page and test me on things?" Lily nodded. Scorpius sat up and Lily reluctantly leant her head and shoulders against the tree, with the middle of her back on Scorpius' lap. She sat there testing him on the subject until he was sure he had learnt as much as possible on it.
"What's up? You seem distracted." Lily asked, a look of concern spreading across her face. Scorpius grinned.
"That's a nice bra you're wearing." He said gleefully. Lily hit him on the chest. "Ouch!"
"You deserve it!" She exclaimed, poking him again. She then realised how close they were. She closed her eyes...
"I swear, he leaned in first." Lily exclaimed. "So that's 10 galleons please!"
"Nuh uh! He has to ask you out, that's what the bet was! Anyway, I was watching you, and you leaned in first." Tally said, flicking the pages of her book.
"Okay fine. How about, that didn't count, seeing as we can't decide. But I'm telling you, he leaned in first. Did I tell you what happened? I was testing him on Potions, and he was just looking down my top! The kiss was so perfect though." Lily sighed dreamily. "The best kiss I've ever had. His lips were so soft."
"You've only kissed, like, five boys! Can we sneak down to the kitchens? I'm starving."
"Scorpius is on patrol today, so yeah, he won't tell us off." They walked out of their dorm and out of the common room. "Tally? What if we don't kiss again? What if he realises he doesn't like me in that way?"
"Don't be stupid. The boy adores you."
A/N now I realise that some of you will probably hate me because of this but I first think I should explain. I didn't want her to sleep with Scorpius because then the story would basically have finished right there and it would have escalated too fast. Sleeping with Lorcan will not, I repeat, NOT change anything at all, they were both drunk and as you can see from their conversation and the kiss, Lily still likes Scorpius. I didn't even plan to put the kiss here, but I thought most of my loyal Lily/Scorpius shippers would kick off so I added it in earlier than planned. I want to keep this story realistic and not have anything rushed, so if you guys were hoping for only a week before they got together and everything happened, you will have to be disappointed. Please don't stop reading and please don't hate me!