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Chapter 5- Fire-whisky and other humiliations
Well, that was… interesting. I still can't think why Malfoy would come and talk to me… he wasn't mean, he was… nice. His hair seemed unnaturally blonde just then, almost silvery… what the hell am I writing? It's like I'm saying he's good looking. Well, he is I guess but why should that bother me? I like James, even though he will probably never even think twice about me…
I did hear someone say that Ja-
"Lil?!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS IT WITH ALL THESE INTERUPTIONS?!" I yelled fiercely, "Oh." I grinned, I'm such an idiot. It's Maria.
"Bonjour Mari."
"Are you alright?" She asked. Eh? She seems... worried for me or something. "Where were you? I thought Izz, Alice, you and I had decided to do some homework in the library tonight? Izz is pretty pissed you didn't come."
"Oh yeah." I said nonchalantly. "Sorry, I've had a bit of a hectic day…."
"Anything I can help with?" She asked, plopping down next to me.
I shrugged my shoulders and pursed my lips, trying to think of a way to say what happened.
"Well, it all started when I had to go down to the infirmary to give James those notes from McGonagall. We had a little argument and then the next thing I know we're kissing. And then he pulls this face at me and runs from the scene, I go here and then am here for about a minute before Lucius Malfoy comes and actually talks to me rationally!"
Mari is silent for a moment, I can tell when her brain is at work; her lips start to strain and she begins to chatter her teeth. Also her marble hands begin to pluck at the grass that is when we are outside… I thought she was going to shrug and have no idea what to do, instead she just laughed.
"Come on Lily! Funny story, maybe next time Amos Diggory will give you the 'goose' in the Great Hall. Come, Izz and Alice are waiting."
"What?" I say with forced laughter. "You… you don't believe me?!" I put with a frown. She gives me that nod likes it obvious and in her head I know she's thinking 'DUH'.
"Look, Lil. You're not exactly the brightest broom in the cupboard. James must have millions of girls falling over him, and I doubt he would choose someone dumb and with plain looks."
Whoa. The truth hurts. I know it's true and yet I can feel those evil salt tears creeping over me, blurring my vision so Mari is just like a water drop on a Picasso masterpiece.
I nod my head whilst closing my eyes, hoping that Mari won't see me crying.
It was true though. It did happen, didn't it? Was I just imaging the Malfoy encounter and the James snoggathon? It's seems all too real to be a dream.
Mari pulls me up from the ground and grabs my hand pulling me in the direction of the castle, as we enter the familiar stone corridors I pray to Merlin we don't stumble upon James, but life is never that fair.
It was like the world went into slow motion, Mari and I had just entered the Gryffindor common room, and there he was sat at the couches, a book placed on his knees and his hair in that sexy messy untidy way. His eyes turned to meet mine slowly as we were just going up the stairs to the girl's dorm; there was something in that small smile he gave me. Something I can never put my finger on, I don't know if I should feel intimidated or ecstatic. Ecstatic that we actually shared a secret smiling moment, or intimidated that the smile seemed almost cunning, like a tease- I know something you don't know…
And the slow motion stopped as I came face-to-face with Taylor Hartley coming up to James, a sly smile on her lips and a book clutched tightly to her chest. Her lips start to move and soon James shrugs and allows her to sit next to him, I scoff and hear Mari sigh behind me.
"Lily! Hurry up!" She whined, but then she turned her head to James and she rolled her eyes.
"Honestly Lil." She looked like she was about to leave it and push me up the stairs, but then she looked back at them and gave me that little glare she does when she knows she has lost the fight.
"They've been like that for ages, stealing glances at each other. I wouldn't be surprised if they became an item pretty soon."
We made our way to our room where Izz and Alice were sat grumpily at their beds, at the sound of the door they looked up.
"Well," Alice frowned, "Nice to join us with your presence Lil."
"Where the hell were you?!" Isobel fumed, not taking her eyes off the floor, but I could tell she was annoyed, it wasn't exactly me ruddy fault was it?
"She got caught up checking out James and Taylor." Mari grinned, "She also thinks that James kissed her and then Lucius Malfoy talked to her apparently. But she's all depressed because Taylor was sat right next to him and-"
"Oh cut the crap Maria, we all know who you like." Alice declared nonchalantly, we all rolled our eyes and sighed. Everyone on the whole planet knew that Maria liked Sirius, Mari blushed and glared at Alice, she stifled a giggle.
"Shut it Al! We know you secretly want to bed Frank Longbottom."
Izz looked at Mari with disbelief, "That's probably because she and Frank are pre-engaged…"
Me and Alice started to giggle ferociously, until we were holding onto each other and finding it hard to breath.
….
"Yeah but did you see Taylor? She literally had hitched her skirt so far up you could see almost everything." We were all sat on the floor, feasting on marshmallows and cookie dough Ben and Jerry's ice cream. It was just a normal girl's night, basically bitching about Taylor. =D
"She's a witch Lil, she lives off men." Izz declared, she picked up this podgy pink marshmallow and held it in front of our faces.
"See this?!" She asked, we all shook our heads, "This. This is Taylor."
We were silent for a moment, "So, Taylor is a marshmallow?!" I asked, holding back my laughter. Merlin, Izz is so funny, she tries to be logic but most of the times I think she's just amusing herself, you know one time we were studying Divination and she just randomly said 'Can I bite your nose?' to the book.
"Exactly!" Izz smiled majestically, "She's pink, tasty, and everyone loves her, BUT-"
"She's a marshmallow?!" I asked again.
"BUT," Izz tried again with that dramatic effect. "She may be all sexy and so lusty, but she is full of calories and sugar." She drawled it slowly from her tongue, like it was obvious.
"You're saying that like it's a bad thing?!" Mari chuckled. We looked at her, a bit scared, "I mean the sugar part, not Taylor being lusty and…"
"What I'm trying to say is that Taylor is bad news, she's beautiful, sexy and confident. So is James, face it, they're perfect for each other. An arse and even a bigger arse makes two big arses."
"Cheers to us, may we never be arses!" Alice laughed as she recovered four bottles of fire-whiskey from her bag, Izz gasped.
"Alice! Where the hell did you get these from?!" She asked entranced at the red bottle. Alice shrugged and smiled at us innocently.
"I got them off Frank?" She questioned mischievously as she pulled the cork off one and handed it to me.
"Alice." I said strongly, "We're not of age yet…"
She shrugged and pushed it strongly into my hands, "Live on the wild side. And let's laugh at how Taylor can never drink fire-whisky-"
"Why can't she drink fire-whisky?" Mari asked sceptically, whilst eyeing the fire-whisky dangerously. Izz however had already taken hold of her bottle and had drunk half of the contents already.
"She's just all plastic," I sighed. Alice raised her eyebrows at me, Izz and Mari were now giggling at something un-known, and Alice could hold down her liquor, so had also drunk halfway through her bottle. She eyed it and then gave me that 'look' again before pushing it hardly into my hands again.
I closed my eyes and gulped down, the liqueur burned my throat and I gasped subconsciously, the fire lasted for a few mere seconds until I felt the nice pleasing warmth down in my toes. Alice, Mari and Izz were now grinning at me, "Well, I know why it's called Fire-Whiskey now." I hiccoughed. We all fell into fits of laughter, oh the joys of being drunk.
After two gulps of the fire-whisky and I felt abnormally joyful, I just wanted to feel happier, stand up from the floor and just start singing opera.
'The Phhhaaaannnnnttttooom of the operaaa is here inside your mmmiinndd.'
I felt like James was the Phantom, and I couldn't make him go away, as I thought about him a smile plastered to my face, but then darkened again as I thought about that tramp Taylor.
"What's the matter Lil?!" She asked, I pointed to the pink marshmallow that still lay un-touched by Izzie's bed, we couldn't touch the marshmallow, knowing it was her.
Without thinking and saying any more I gripped hold of another bottle and poured the entire contents in mouth, suddenly it clicked. It felt like I was in Hell; fire aflame in my throat, burning through into my chest. My eyes widened and suddenly I began to panic, I wanted to scream WATER! WATER! But it was like my voice had gone; none of my friends had noticed, they were talking about something clearly interesting. This happened all to fast, I was panicking so much I remember tripping over something and the last thing I saw was the floor coming closer and closer until THUD! Everything went black…
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………James……………………………………………………………….
I still can't ruddy believe I ruddy kissed ruddy Lily! Oh ruddy hell. I am stuck behind the one eyed witch statue because I don't have the guts to face anyone, what if people saw? I'd never be able to live with myself.
"James?!" I heard someone from behind, I froze. But then I recoiled as I knew that voice, Frank.
"Umm, hey Frank." I said laughing slightly, he looked at me strangely and then looked at where I was.
"Uhh, I was hiding." I whisper nonchalantly, Frank raises his eyebrows, I'm dying to laugh but I stifle it. I have such mixed emotions running through my body, part of me just wants to cry and laugh at what happened with Lily. Part of me wants to hide forever, whilst another actually wants to go back up to Lily and kiss her, again. That I assure you will never happen again, I hope.
"Why are you hiding?!"
"SSSHHH!" My heart is pumping loudly, he eyes me sceptically.
"Uhh, I don't want them to hear." I whisper again, he nods his head slowly.
"Riighhtt. So who are they?!" He whispers back. Shoot. Erm, in my mind I'm trying to think, who? Who? Who?
"Erm… I'm hiding from Amos. I… I stole the last of his chocolate frogs."
There was an uncomfortable silence between us and I could tell Frank was dying to laugh. "So, you stole Amos' chocolate frog and now he's chasing you?!"
I nodded my head very enthusiastically; I think Frank sort of recoiled.
"He has this uuhm really big hex he wants to-"
"Oh hey Amos." Frank says coolly. He looks at me and moves his head slightly to the side, standing there is Amos Diggory.
"Err, hey Amos." Oh merlin, what to say? What to say?
"I'm sorry about stealing your chocolate frog before, please don't hex me?!" I said slowly, Amos raised his eyebrows at me and turned to Frank, who just shrugged his shoulders and looked sceptically at me.
I sighed and massaged my temples, oh merlin what the hell am I doing.
"Sorry guys." I whispered. "I'm just a bit…" I fluttered my hand and then Frank and Amos nodded a knowing look on their faces.
"Yeah, I get a bit..." Frank fluttered his arm as well.
"So who are you really hiding from? Taylor?!" Frank's question surprises me.
"Taylor?! Why would I be hiding from her?! Although she does scare me…"
"I heard her talking before, she seemed pretty syked over you.. you know," Amos brought down to a whisper, "obsessed."
"Oh?" I said. Normally I would be a little freaked out and want to stay away from her forver, but Lily is like that too…
Suddenly Amos sniggered, which set off me and Frank. Amos and rank are good, almost good enough to be marauders, but there can only be 3 marauders. Sometime when Peter, Remus and Sirius are away, or ill in this case, I realise just how close Amos, Frank and I become. We share secrets, check out girls and other ordinary boy stuff, I kind of miss it.
"What are you boys laughing at?!" We turned around to see Alice. Alice is Frank's girlfriend, as well as Lily's best friend. I glanced at Amos who pretended to heave as Alice and Frank became all lovey-dovey.
"Ahem hem-hem." Ok, so my fake cough was obvious but at least it stopped them both from sucking down each other's throats….
"There a reason you're here apart from kissing the daylight out of Frank?!" I ask coolly, pretending not to care…
She snorts and moves her hand that was recently placed on Frank's waist.
"Yes as a matter of fact… Have you guys seen Lily?!"
At the sound of her name my face snapped to hers.
"Lily?!" I asked hoarsely, she rolled her eyes and nodded.
"You know, flaming red hair, emerald green eyes. Loves you to bits? Ring a bell?!"
"I think I saw her." Amos said, trust him to spoil the atmosphere, didn't anyone pick up the bad vibes whenever anyone said her name?
"Who? Lily?!" Alice asked hopefully. Right, now I think they're doing it on purpose, of course it would be Li-l... Lily.
"Yeah. I saw her near the black lake not a few moments ago. What you need her for?!"
"Oh nothing really. It's just a study group date, I was told to go and get her. But obviously it looks like she has different plans."
"Hey. Ever wondered that maybe something happened and that's why she just wants to be alone?!" I said hotly. Oh bollocks, as soon as the words came out of mouth I knew they were the wrong thing to say…
"It's not like you know her James." Alice said curiously, she eyed me suspiciously and I just shrugged my shoulders casually.
"Well.. it's Hogwarts aint it? Something always happens. But just trust me, lay off her.."
"And how would you know?!" She asked again.
I gave her a smile, "I'm James Potter."
"Speaking of Hogwarts, I'm off. I have to attend a study date." Amos winked.
I laughed, "Who this time, eh Amos?!" He sniggered and mouthed the words 'Amanda Trayfoul.' Me and Frank whistled as he went away.
"Well, I need to go as well, may as well tell Izz and Mari that we won't be seeing Lily tonight." Alice waved and headed off for the common Room, which left me and Frank grinning silently at each other.
"A chocolate frog hmm?!" He smirked, I gave him my 'innocent' smile as he set off to speak to Dumbledore.
Bored again. Where is everyone when you want fun?
Lily is by the black lake.
Na..
Why not?! *suspicious smile*
Because… I don't want to seem like a stalker and follow her about…
You know you want to… she's by the black lake, all alone.
My mind was silent for a moment, deciding which part of me was going to win..
Fine, you've convinced me, but I'm not going to talk to her…
Fair does Casanova.
I shake my head as I enter the grounds of Hogwarts, leaving the familiar smell of wood to the smell of moss and the pleasant sound of cooing birds.
I look over at the black lake and I can just make out that red flaming hair, it's almost as wild as Arthur Weasely's. And she's also talking to… THAT INSUFFERABLE GIT MALFOY!! As I creep closer and pray to merlin that I'm not found I eavesdrop-
"You're probably wondering why I'm talking to you right?!" He asked with a tint of amusement, I saw Lily smirk and nod her head, "You could say that."
"Yeah you and me both mate." I sighed.
He chuckled and finally turned to look her in the eye, I felt a twinge of jealousy. What was going wrong with me??
"I feel awful about how I have been treating these past years, I have only felt displeasure as I realised how much my words hurt your feelings. I know that you will probably not want to forgive me, but I'm begging anyways. Truce?!" He asked. WOAH!!! LILY DON'T DO IT! IT'S A RUDDY TRAP!!
I was mortified for her, please don't say yes…
"A truce?!" She asked carefully, come on Lil, the evidence is right in front of you, It's Lucuis ruddy Malfoy!, he nodded his head enthusiastically.
"Er, I guess so?!" She asked with a laugh. My world just collapsed.
"Only if you want to though!" He said quickly, I snorted, shoot hope they don't hear that. But come on! Malfoy wanting to befriend a mud-blood, that's hell as not right..
"No! I'm good with a truce." She smiles, damn.
"Great!" He squealed, he got up from the floor and placed out his hand which she gingerly shook.
"Nice seeing you, Lily Evans."
"You too, Lucuis Malfoy." Malfoy smiles once again before turning back to Hogwarts, this can't be right. I steal a glance at Lily, she's smiling and writing something in this small notebook.
"Lil?!" She glances up and starts screaming, but then realises it's one of friends, I silently follow Malfoy but nothing seems suspicious. I sigh and head into the Gryffindor Common Room where I find my favourite seat empty.
Taylor Hartley has been stealing glances at me all night, I'm pretty freaked out. The Gryffindor portrait has just been opened and ahha look who it is, Lily Evans.. *hides face in shame* Oh merlin, she's looking at me... Act cool and collected.
For some strange reason I can feel my mouth pulling into a smile, why the hell am I smiling?? Don't smile, don't smile!! Crap, she meets my eyes and gives me a smile as well… *sigh*
"Hey James."
"Oh, hello Taylor." She has spoken to me so many times that I would be able to pick out her voice in a room full of people, that insane high pitched voice and that ridiculous giggle she does after always saying my name just give me the chills.
"I've been having a bit of trouble with Transfiguration lately and I knew you would be the one to ask, I mean you have always got the highest marks in our end year tests, so could you help me?!"
"Yeah. Sure. Whatever." She beams at me and then sits ever so closely next to me, her knee touching my knee, I shiver, it's a strange feeling, horrible in fact, as she is blabbering on about something I lead my eyes to where the girls dorms are, Lily isn't there anymore. I still can't figure out why I kissed her, maybe it was just a subconscious move, I was raging with hormones and I was feeling mixed emotions. Was it when her lips puckered for just that second when I pushed her to the wall, maybe she was scared? Or confused, girls get confused easily.
"James?!" I turned my head automatically to my side, where Taylor was sat.
"You seem tense." Ooohh, observant much?
"Err, that's probably because I am… sort of, I mea-kind of, not really… Just confused.. hmm, yeah confused. What were you saying?!" I replied hastily. Taylor just shrugged her shoulders and smiled again.
"Now about the Transfiguration.."
"Prrrrrrongs!" Sirius boomed. Oh merlin, thank merlin he is here. I sighed in relief and I swear I heard Taylor sigh in disappointment. I smile and wave both Sirius and Remus forward.
"Err, could you give us a minute, Taylor?!" She smiles and nods her head.
"It's ok, I'll let you three catch up." She gets up from her seat and leaves. THANK MERLIN, I AM FREE! RID OF TAYLOR HARTLEY!!!
"James." Sirius scolds as Taylor is away from hearing, I stare at both in disbelief.
"What the ruddy hell have I done?!" I ask appalled.
"As if you don't know!" Sirius mocked shockingly, "You should be ashamed of yourself."
"You kissed-" Remus started, but Sirius was too worked up and almost screamed-
"Lily and-"
"Me and Padfoot saw, you-"
"Almost completely-"
"Messed up the-"
"Plan, now what the hell are you going to do about it?!
"I don't know." I sigh. "I mean, it happened too quickly, I think I may-"
"Woah!" Sirius spluttered, he always does this when he's confused, he spits as well, which isn't nice, I'll tell you that…
"You're not in love! James Potter, I repeat you are not in love!" I sighed and nodded my head boredily (?), us Marauders had said this now a million times, I am not in love with Lily Evans.
"Oh hell, I ruddy know, ok?!" I whine, but they don't look convinced.
"Hey." Remus said suddenly, he had that funny look on his face, like he has just discovered the cure for all diseases or something.
"What?!" Sirius, Peter and I say in unison, completely frightened of that child giddy smile Remus has plastered on his face.
"I have a plan that just might work…"
"What plan hmm, Moony, enlighten us with your sparkly intelligence…" Sirius mused, he's just jelous because Moony is always the one with good idea, Sirius always steals them..
"Well, since girls get confused easily-"
"Merlin, THANK YOU! Moony, I know right they always get confused, I just-" I stop when I see that death look in Remus' eye.
"after a kiss they essume that the boy likes the girl and will ask her out. BUT, if James begins to set his cards right, and continue to flirt with Taylor, and make fun of Snivellous and that prat Bottler, Lily should hate him by next week."
"Sounds like a plan then!" I cheer, we all laugh but then-
"Oh my god! Somebody help!" Everyone hears this terrified scream coming from the girls dorms. In comes Maria, then Isobel and Alice supporting a bloody Lily. Oh my merlin's beard. Lily's head is bleeding and one of her ankle's look twisted in a weird way.
"Somebody help!" Alice screams and I immediately get up.
DUN DUN DDDDUUUUNNNN :p
Hehehe, as much as I hate cliff-hangers I also love them, if that makes sense, anyways, the next chapter shouldn't be long, please review :D
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