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Jason
It was nearing the end of November and it had been around 2 months since everyone had returned back to school. It had not been the best 2 months of Lily's life she had to admit but she was sure that it could only get better. She sat in her room alone on her large four poster bed engulfed in the latest library book she had checked out 'The Magical Uses of Forest Fungi'. It was a bit of extra reading for her Herbology work because she felt that she always had to stay at least a little ahead of the rest of the class. She had just finished reading about the Kryncairon mushroom as her roommate, Maya, walked in.
"Hey Lily how are you?" She asked.
"Could be better, could be worse." Answered Lily
"Well that just sounds fantastic."
"Doesn't it just."
"So why so depressed?"
"I'm not depressed just tired, why so happy?"
"Things are going so well with Remus. We're so in love."
"Glad to hear it."
"Well I just came up to grab my book me and Remus are going to do our Potions homework together do you want to join us?"
"Yeah sure I have nothing better to do."
They walked down the stairs into the common room and joined Remus on the couch.
"Oh hi Lily what are you doing here?"
"I invited her." Explained May.
"See this is what I mean about making decisions together." Said Remus who was obviously annoyed.
"Don't you raise your voice to me." Said Maya.
"Don't tell me what to do!"
"Why are you shouting?!"
"You shouldn't of invited Lily without asking me."
"Aw Remus, you mean you shouldn't have ………."
"And here we go again with the correction of my grammar. I'll speak how I damn well please you don't control me!"
"Yes I do you belong to me! You are my boyfriend!"
"I am not yours you possessive freak!"
"Gasp! I am not a freak!" she said and ran upstairs away from Remus.
Lily sat there in shock what happened to 'we're so in love'?
"Erm…..Remus why don't you want me here?" Said Lily feeling a little uneasy but curious all the same.
"No it's not that it's just Maya thinks there's something between you and I and so she wanted to monitor, as she put it, our behavior around each other and naturally I wasn't too happy about that."
"Oh ok."
"So you know, she'll now probably think that I'm cheating on her even though it's more than obvious we're just friends."
"You had me worried there. I thought you genuinely didn't want me here."
"Never!" Said Remus putting his arm around shoulders. "I will always want you to be near."
"Thanks." Smiled Lily resting her head on Remus's shoulder.
"I knew it!" Exclaimed Maya emerging from the arch to the stairs to the girls dorms to see Lily wrapped comfortably in Remus's arms.
"Maya it's not what you think." Said Lily.
"Let me explain……" began Remus.
"The sight before me explains it all." Said Maya with extreme venom in her voice before rushing past them.
"Maya wait…………" Said Remus rising out of his seat and grabbing her arm.
"No!" She snapped freeing herself and running out of the portrait hole.
"Come back!" Called Remus after her through the hole and out of the common room.
"Their having problems." Said Lily to the crowd of intrigued onlookers in the common room who returned to their business at Lily's words.
"I told him not to ask her out." Said a voice from next to Lily.
"Excuse me?" Said Lily turning her head slowly to see James sitting on the couch next to her.
"What are you? Death? I said…………….."
"I know what you said you retard."
"Then why did you ask? Doesn't sound like I'm the retarded one if you ask me."
"I mean what did you mean by what you said."
"I mean exactly what came out of my mouth, I told Remus not to ask her out."
"Why? What's wrong with my friend?"
"I think you may find the obvious answer lies before you."
"So what? They had one fight."
"That you've heard of. From what Remus tells me their fights are more than frequent."
"I don't believe you. Maya would tell me if she and Remus were having problems."
"Evidently not."
"I still don't believe it."
"Are you calling my friend a liar?"
"Well yes, I suppose I am."
"I think she's a perfectly truthful and kind person."
"Well do you want to hear what I think about Maya?"
"Not really."
"She's a whore! A slut! A harlot! A sket! The queen of slag's! Anyway I want to say it; anyway you want to hear it; that is what she is!"
"Don't you dare say that about my friend!"
"Why? Hard to hear the truth? She's been dating Remus whilst hitting on Sirius, she hasn't half been sleeping around and don't think she hasn't tried it on with me a few times when we were going out."
"Shut-up! You're lying!"
"No I am not!"
"Stop it!" Lily screamed.
"The bitch is a conniving little ho and deserves nothing but condemnation!"
"Stop it!" Yelled Lily and with sudden venom in her voice said "Now you listen and listen good. My friend may be what she wants and may do as she pleases but none of these words you spoke coincide with what she is and therefore I do not believe a word you have spoken. But I hope you are warned that if you breathe a word or the edge of a word about this false condemnation again I will make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." Lily finished and turned on her heel walking proudly through the portrait hole and out of the common room.
"I look forward to it." Muttered James as she left.
Lily stormed down the hall her eyes bright with fury and each step brought another surge of anger. She cursed under her breath all the way to her History of Magic class. She sat in her normal seat. At the front, in the middle of the row. Best view, best hearing range, and well, basically the best seat as far as Lily was concerned. The classroom slowly filled with Gryffindor and Ravenclaw 7th years who took their seats, unpacked and then sat quietly waiting for the lesson to begin. On Lily's left sat two Ravenclaws little miss know it all Eliza Swan and her know it all boyfriend Josh Stannard, who, rather sickeningly, had once asked Lily out. On her left sat two incredibly stupid Gryffindor gossip queens; Monique Loudon and Stacy Emmes. Their heads were filled with sawdust and fluffy dust bunnies. Their most sophisticated conversation topic was who hooked up in the broom closet last night, their deepest thought was whether their new stilettos matched their black hotpants or would they look better with their nice new blue micro-mini and their biggest worry was the chipped nail varnish on their pinkie. Shallow minded didn't quite cut it for them, Lily was working on developing a new word to describe the horrors of their stupidity; but so far she had not had much luck.
Professor Binns floated into the classroom in a complete daze as per usual and went off into his lecture. It was coming to the end of term in which they were studying the troll and goblin union for rebellion and Lily had to admit that she'd be sad to leave it since she found the topic both enjoyable and fascinating.
She weighed down her parchment and began manically scribbling down notes. She was listening intently to Professor Binns' lecture but she was beginning to get irritated with the insane whispering of the gossip queens flowing through her head. She stopped shortly and looked sharply over at them both at which point they stopped talking and looked up at her as though willing her to say something. Lily held her gaze for a few seconds and then returned to her work as they carried on their conversation.
"Ask her." Lily heard Monique whisper.
"No!" Replied Stacy.
"Go on!"
"I can't!"
"It's easy, go on!"
"If it's so easy then why don't you do it?"
"Fine." Said Monique turning towards Lily. "Lily?"
"Yes?" Said Lily turning towards her feeling annoyed at being disturbed.
"Is it true you're pregnant?"
"What?!" Exclaimed Lily though Professor Binns did not respond.
"You are pregnant aren't you!" Said Stacy peering over Monique's shoulder.
"No!"
"Well that's what you would say isn't it?" Said Stacy.
"But………." Began Lily.
"Ok then." Said Monique. "Is it true that your gay?"
"No!"
"I still think she is." Whispered Monique to Stacy.
"I can still hear you!" Exclaimed Lily.
"Ok then so is it true you're sleeping with Remus?"
"Where did you hear all this?!"
"Maya told us." Said Stacy rather stupidly.
"Stacy!" Exclaimed Monique annoyed at her stupidity.
"Maya!"
"Well yeah….." Began Monique beginning to feel a little uncomfortable 'cause she could see that Lily was really upset.
"Erm Professor Binns?" Said Lily her eyes beginning to water.
"Yes Perkins?"
"I really need to go."
"Why?"
"I feel nauseous; I really need to go to the hospital wing."
"Hmmmm, ok then Toby take your things."
Lily swept her things into her bag and ran off at the speed of light. She felt tears stinging in her eyes, her heart was throbbing and she couldn't feel her legs. Her head was spinning and her stomach was swirling she had no idea where she was going she just wanted to get there fast. She began to run down the stairs her head hung and her hair in her face. She tripped over her own feet in the hurry to get as far away from her classroom as possible and took a horrifically embarrassing tumble all the way to the bottom of the stirs where she landed on her front and pushed herself up to see a tall dark haired boy standing in front of her.
"Oh my god! Are you ok?" He asked holding out his arm and helping her up. "I hope it didn't hurt the baby." He continued touching her stomach. "How far gone are you?"
Lily looked at him with the most confused look on her face. "Oh my god!" She exclaimed.
"What?" The boy asked.
"Erm……I have to go." Said Lily awkwardly before running off in the opposite direction back to her dorm.
She did a casual walk with a few jog steps avoiding the gaze of whispering boys and gossiping girls. She kept herself excluded from the rest of the student body until one girl walked right up to her and stood in front of her.
"Erm hi." Said Lily rather oddly seeing the awkward expression on the girls face.
"Lily I just want to say that you coming out of the closet was just inspirational and so I decided to follow your lead." She said.
"I'm sorry what are you talking about?"
"You telling people that you're gay, how you are so comfortable and confident with what you are is just fantastic and I was wondering if you would like to go out some time?"
"Whoa! I am not gay."
"What?"
"I'm not gay, I'm as straight as any other person."
"And to think I admired you but you've just gone back into denial, that's shameful. I wish Maya had never told me about you." Said the girl tears welling in her eyes before she ran off.
Lily carried on with her journey. She arrived at the Gryffindor common room and climbed through the portrait hole. As she entered the common room heads were turned and all eyes were on her.
"What are you looking at?" Snapped Lily at some poor innocent first year who was looking up at her with wide eyes.
"Erm………." She said beginning to blush.
"I guess you wanted to ask me out, or maybe try to pressure me into admitting my homosexuality. Or are you pondering how far gone I am? Were you going to pat my stomach to see if you could feel the baby? Or did you just want to give me some name suggestions? Well? Come on, spit it out!" Ranted Lily.
"Well actually….." Said the girl shyly "I just wanted to go through the portrait hole and you're in the way."
"Oh." Said Lily blushing slightly and moving out of the way.
"But congrats on coming out of the closet and just to let you know Juliet is a very nice name." Said the girl before exiting the room.
"MAYA!" Screamed Lily at the top of her voice before running up the stairs to her dorm feeling she could not hold in her anger any longer.
She swung open the door violently and slammed it shut behind her. She furiously flung her bag on the floor and stormed through the room.
"MAYA!" She screamed again flinging every door in the dorm open looking for her.
"What is it?" Asked Maya innocently as she entered the dorm.
"How DARE you?" Yelled Lily rounding on her.
"How dare I what?" Replied Maya calmly and in mock innocence.
"You told people I was pregnant! You spread the rumor that I am gay! I'll tell you what, why don't you explain the circumstances to the like 60 billion people who were hoping I would name my child after them. Why don't you let down the three girls who have just asked me out and you can also explain to any further date proposer's I may have that are of the same sex as me! And while you're at it you can kill both of those rumors and any others that you have spread around and than erase all future rumors you were planning to spread from your mind. How could you Maya?" Lily asked in anger and in pain.
"Whoopsies! I guess it just slipped out. Silly me." Said Maya laughing fakely, she was now just mocking Lily's situation outright.
"You Bitch!" Screamed Lily before running towards Maya as if to attack.
"Wait." Said Maya sharply seeing what was coming and holding Lily off.
Lily froze and looked up at her former friends face overtaken by anger.
"What?" She snapped. At this Maya turned as quickly as she could and dashed out the door and down the stairs.
"Come back here you whore!" Screamed Lily running after her.
Lily caught Maya just after the archway to the stairs they had just ran down. She grabbed her arm and whirled her round so that they were facing each other. Lily drew her wand and shot a spell at Maya who reacted almost instantly drawing her own wand and creating a shield. She then threw a spell back at Lily who was just as ready as Maya had been before. Multi-coloured sparks were flying in every direction but both of them seemed to miss their opponent rather a lot. Eventually Lily pocketed her wand, ducked Maya's spell and ran at her head first pushing her to the ground. Maya screamed as she fell and Lily began hitting and kicking her though she began to retaliate as soon as she had fully registered the situation at hand. The whole common room was watching at what was a fully fledged bitch fight became what could be called attempted murder.
Lily suddenly felt two hands on her back struggling to pull her away but Lily was not going down without a fight. She was dragged off Maya still kicking and hitting in her general direction. She looked at the person who was holding her back to see Sirius who quickly swept in between the two girls to keep them apart but they carried on trying to hurt one another hoping they would over come Sirius's unnaturally long arms and get in the odd kick or punch.
"Oh my god what is wrong with you two?!" Exclaimed Sirius. "I don't want to know thanks." Said Sirius seeing that Lily was about to answer.
"But…." She began.
"It was a rhetorical question ok!" Snapped Sirius. "The point is that just the same as any other guy I enjoy a good old fashioned bitch fight; but for gods sake! I was actually afraid that you were going to kill each other." Said Sirius in slight disgust. "Now I think………..Professor McGonagall!" Squeaked Sirius suddenly stepping away from the two girls leaving them free to attack and they were on each other in a second.
"Stop it!" Yelled Professor McGonagall at the top of her voice and casting a spell forcing Maya and Lily apart. "This is absolutely disgraceful. Wizard dueling is one thing but muggle dueling is a whole other level.
"If it makes it any better they started off the wizarding way." Piped up a boy from the far corner who Lily shot a malicious look and made a mental note to kill him later.
"No Perkins it doesn't help so shut-up for once in your life." Snapped Professor McGonagall who was obviously extremely pissed off.
Ha ha! That told him. Thought Lily joyfully.
"You two," Said Professor McGonagall indicating Maya and Lily. "come with me."
Damn it! Thought Lily before walking solemnly off.
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"Never! In all my years have I seen two young girls, and Gryffindor girls at that, make such a spectacle of themselves. You are young ladies, you should act like it. I don't care what she said, I don't care what he did, I wouldn't even care if you almost died, it is no excuse to act like animals as you did. It is not acceptable. And you Lily being head girl and all I thought you knew better and would set a good example. Your behaviour was ridiculous and I am quite frankly disgusted. How dare you! I bet at this moment in time you are both regretting it and shame on you if aren't. Now apologize to me and to each other and get out of my office."
"Sorry Professor McGonagall." They both chanted.
"Sorry Lily." Said Maya more out of forceation than anything else.
"Sorry Maya." Said Lily for much the same reasons.
They both eyed each other evilly as they got up and walked out of the office, one behind the other in silent rage. Lily walked out of the door then stopped beside Remus as Maya walked on.
"So how did it go?" He asked.
"Well she yelled at us but all In all I think we were quite lucky in that, as surprising as it may sound, we didn't actually get a detention."
"Now that is lucky." Said Remus beginning to walk with Lily at his side. "Look I am really sorry about Maya."
"No need to apologize, it's not your fault."
"Yeah but sorry all the same. As you may have guessed I broke up with her."
"And good riddance to her, you can find a much better partner than her, you deserve better."
"Speaking of better partners you know Becky, that Ravenclaw friend of yours."
"Yeah what about her."
"Would you mind, like, setting me up with her." He said blushing slightly.
"I'll see what I can do." Smiled Lily. "Well I have to go this way now, I have Defense Against the Dark Arts."
"Oh wait!" Remus called as Lily began to walk away. " Sirius asked me to give you this." He said handing Lily a piece of parchment.
There on the crumpled scroll was an untidy note:-
Lily Flower,
Will you go on another date?
Lots of puppy love
The stunningly handsome
Sirius Black.
xxx
"Are you in Sirius's next class?" Lily asked.
"Yeah."
"Then tell him if he manages to clear up all these rumors about me then I will. You got that?"
"Yep. Bye." Said Remus walking away and then calling back "Don't forget to talk to Becky."
"I wont." Lily called back walking happily off to DADA secure in the knowledge that although her life may totally suck she would never have to go on one of Sirius Blacks' ridiculous dates ever again.
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Lily arrived at class a few minutes later and took her seat next to Becky.
"Hey." Said Lily smiling.
The tall brunette looked up from her book to face her. Her eyes were wide and her lips broke out into a broad grin.
"Hey how are you?" She asked.
"Could be worse, you?"
"Great; fantastic actually!" She smiled.
"Wow! What put you in such a good mood?"
"Jack Stevens just asked me out." She said her smile broadening.
"and………." Asked Lily quizzically beginning to feel rather sad on Remus's behalf.
"I said yes, we're going to the firework night tomorrow; you know the one to welcome all the newbie's. I can't wait!"
"Oh." Said Lily her voice faltering a considerable amount.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing." Grinned Lily instantly picking up her mood. "Just a bit tiered. Anyway good for you, I hope to see you there."
"Oh; do you have a date?"
"No; but that's hardly upsetting in my mind in fact it's rater the opposite."
"So no date."
"No."
"No male friends of any sort."
"Probably not."
"No James."
"Not even if he was the lat living organisim in the universe."
"Oh come on Lily we all know you still like him."
"What utter crap!"
"Then why the fuck do you still wear that locket he gave you."
"I don't!"
"You're wearing it now!" Exclaimed Becky pointing to Lily's neck.
"It goes with most of my clothes."
"Sure that's why you never take it off; EVER!"
"It is!"
"If you say so."
"Yes I do say so!"
Lily turned away to see a Ravenclaw boy sidling up to her.
"What?!" She snapped with a little more hostility than intended.
"Is it true that you're pregnant?" He burst out.
"I'm going to try and forget what you jus said and count down from five to give you the chance to retreat to the furthest corner of this room before I break your nose."
"Gulp!"
"5…………4…………….3" At this the boys face turned white and he rushed over to the far corner of the room.
"Ohhh! Violent Lily." Joked Becky. "I like it."
"Oh shut-up!"
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Lily went through the rest of the lesson feeling rather awkward. Yeah sure; Jack Stevens was gorgeous and an amazing catch but poor Remus. Lily did not want to be the one to break the news. But what was really bothering her was how did Becky know that she still wore the locket, how did she know why and how many other people knew too?
She arrived at dinner later that day to find that unfortunately the only two spaces left were next to Remus or next to Mathew; a physically repulsive 5th year with the personality of a fish. Naturally she sat next to Remus.
"Hey my little Lily flower. How did it go with Becky?" Asked Remus as Lily sat down and began to fill her plate with food.
Lily's heart skipped a beat and her mind wads racing. She didn't quite know what to say.
"Remus, I've got some bad news" She said carefully.
"What?" Asked Remus a little uneasily.
"Well she's kinda got a boyfriend sort of thing."
"Oh." Said Remus sadly his voice faltering. "Well that's fine."
"Remus I'm so sorry."
"No, don't be; it's not your fault." He said getting up. "Anyway I've got to go; I'll see you later. Bye."
"Bye Remus." Said Lily sadly knowing that she hadn't been very tactful; she should never be the bringer of bad news. She watched him walk sadly away and returned to her dinner.
Within a couple of minutes of her solitude Sirius had turned up and sat next to her beginning to fill his plate with more food than it was humanly possible to eat.
"How do you eat so much and not become the size of a whale?" Asked Lily shocked.
"I do a lot of sports and I have a high metabolism." Said Sirius simply.
"Lucky bastard." Muttered Lily.
"So how about this date."
"I told you not until all these rumors are cleared up which is never going to happen so I am date free."
"I did clear up the rumors."
"I don't believe you."
"Oi you over there." Called Sirius to a 6th year Hufflepuff passing by.
"Yeah." He squeaked.
"Come over here."
The boy sidled over looking rather worried.
"This is Lily Evans."
"That's nice." He said sounding rather perplexed.
"You have no questions you'd like to ask her."
"No."
"Nothing that you've been wondering about her."
"No."
"Nothing interesting you've heard about her at all."
"Nothing."
"You can go now." Said Sirius turning away leaving the boy to walk away. "Told you." He said to Lily.
"I don't believe it, it's only been three hours."
"I know I'm amazing."
"How did you do it?"
"Cast a few spells, punched a couple guys, slept with a handful of girls; you now, the usual."
"You're joking right."
"If only." Said Sirius jokily. "So this date; how about it?"
"Fine."
"Fantastic!" He exclaimed. "His name's Jason and you're going to tomorrows firework night. He'll meet you by the main entrance at 7:45."
"Ok then."
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It was 7:00 on Friday night and Lily was brushing her long red hair enjoying the peacefulness of their room now Maya had left; not the school just their dorm. Beth was putting on her make-up ready for her date with some Slytherin guy called Frazer, which Lily couldn't quite understand since all Slytherin's hated them but oh well.
Lily took her hairbrush and parted are hair right down the middle and began to plait each half. Once she was finished the tied them up with emerald butterfly hair bobbles over small black ties. She slid in a thin green headband with a large sparkly green flower leaning to the right of it through her hair and adjusted it until it sat right.
She pulled out her make-up bag and quickly smoothed over her face with a thin layer of foundation and then covered all her small blemishes with a dot of concealer. She then dusted her eyes with some sparkly green eye shadow and lined her eyes with some deep green eye liner before applying large amounts of black mascara to her eyelashes to make them look less boyish and quickly adding a small layer of lip gloss.
She then got up and adjusted her clothing to sit better. She pulled up her black skinny jeans so that they say on her hips comfortably and she pulled down her green vest top so that she only showed a centimeter of midriff. She picked up her multi-shaded green bangles and pulled them onto her left arm and stuck an emerald ring on the middle finger of her right hand before adjusting her locket so that the clip was at the back and it was sitting right. She then put in her dangly silver earrings and pulled on her black zip up jumper with Lily written on the back in green swirly writing with a picture of a bright white lily to accompany it. Before pulling on her black dolly shoes and waiting for Beth to get ready so that they could walk down together.
Beth quickly applied her lip gloss before picking up her black bag and handing Lily her own green beaded clutch bag that she had almost forgotten before getting up and walking out the door with Lily.
"So what's this Frazer like?" Asked Lily as they exited the common room.
"He's really sweet despite being a Slytherin and just so kind I really like him."
"Hmmmm."
"Look I know he's a Slytherin but don't hold that against him."
"I don't, one of my best friends is a Slytherin remember I just think that you should be careful because he could turn out to be a right bastard."
"Ok then. So what about this guy you're meeting, what's he like?"
"I've never met him."
"Another one of Sirius's blind dates?"
"Unfortunately yes."
"So what house is he in?"
"Hufflepuff."
"What year?"
"7th."
"And what's his name."
"Jason."
"Ohhh, sexy."
"Not very, it's a gay boy's name."
"I suppose."
"So where are you meeting him?"
"Just here." Said Lily pointing to the large double doors of the main entrance.
"Well I'll see you later." Said Beth. "Frazer and I are meeting at the sparkler stall; have a nice time."
"Knowing how well Sirius picks dates I doubt I will."
"Well have fun all the same." Said Beth laughing and walking off.
Lily stood around for a minute or two looking through the crowd to see if she could see someone who looked remotely like they could be called Jason before someone creped up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder taking her by fright.
"Hi I'm Jason." He smiled as Lily turned round.
Oh my god! Thought Lily. He's gorgeous absolutely amazing he was so hot that had the temperature risen any more Lily was sure she would have melted, just as well it was winter. Lily starred at hi in a kind of trance finding herself incapable of speech.
"Erm, hello?" He said waving her hand in front of Lily's face.
"Oh I am so sorry." Said Lily embarrassed. "I was out for a little bit there. Hi I'm Lily."
"Well then Lily would you like to accompany me into the outside world of beautiful explosions and cool little sparkly thingies that if you move fast enough you can write with."
"I'd love to." Said Lily laughing slightly and taking his outstretched hand before walking out into the dark grounds where the fireworks would start soon.
They walked through the herd of students all waiting excitedly for the show to begin.
"Roasted Marshmallow's my dear?" Offered Jason as they reached a line of stalls.
"Why yes thank you kind sir." Said Lily enjoying the joke of talking in old English.
"Erm two sticks of pink roasted marshmallows please." Said Jason. "I love pink, It's like my favorite colour. It's just so pretty." He said doing the gayest hand flick Lily had ever seen. "Don't you think?"
"I really like pink but green's my favorite colour."
"Speaking of green I love your top. 100 cotton right? Fantastic and from over here I can tell that's it using the double cross over latch stitch, the best kind. It's simply fabulous." He said his eyes gleaming and widening as he went on.
Lily thought it was rather odd what he just said but decided to ignore it, he's a great guy so he's a little odd that shouldn't make any difference.
"That's 5 galleons my dear." Said the lady behind the stall handing Jason the marshmallow sticks as he handed over the money.
"Here you go." He said handing Lily he stick and taking back hold of her hand with his free hand.
"So what subjects do you do?" He asked.
"Erm Potions, DADA, History of Magic, Arithmaty, transfiguration, ancient runes and herbology. I'm hoping to become and auror."
"That's so cool. I want to be a healer, saving lives would be just so cool not to mention useful."
"I see what you mean."
"I can't believe I don't remember you from any classes or anything, I'm usually quite good with faces and with your fashion sense I'm pretty sure I would have remembered but apparently not."
"Strange isn't it." Just like you thought Lily but only verbalized the first part. "Oh look there's Becky with her date."
"Hey Lily I thought you said you did have a date." Becky said walking over to them and looking Jason up and down.
"I didn't have at the time. Becky this is Jason, Jason this is Becky."
"Hi." He Said shaking Becky's hand and smiling at her.
"Well Lily, Jason this is Jack."
"Hi" they both said in unison and as strange as it may sound Jason blushed and avoided his gaze.
"Well we better be off." Said Becky. "We want to go and get one of those cool sparkly things. Bye."
They walked off into the distance as Lily watched them and oddly enough so did Jason though he seemed to be focusing on Jack more than anything else.
"Jason are you ok?" Lily asked.
"Yeah why?"
"You just blushed earlier."
"No I didn't." He said in the defensive manor of a young girl trying to hide a crush.
BANG!
"Oh look the fireworks are starting." Said Lily quickly changing the subject.
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They sat and watched the fireworks peacefully for about an hour but that's how long the show lasted. The mix of colours and shapes was amazing and really special and seemed to mesmerize it's audience so you couldn't look away and you feared to blink in case you missed something.
After it finished Lily and Jason walked over to Remus, Sirius and his date Kirsten (don't judge me Becky you did it too).
"Hey Remus." Said Lily kindly smiling at him. "Enjoy the show?"
"Yeah it was great." Said Remus before turning to Jason. "Hey Jason how are you?"
"Fine." He replied.
"Oh you two know each other."
"Yeah we have Ancient Runes together." Said Jason.
"Cool. Look Jason I'll be back in a minute I've just got to go and ask Kirsten something." She said kissing him on the cheek and quickly rushing over to Kirsten and Becky.
"Hey you guys." She said as she arrived. "Where are your dates?"
"Sirius and Jack went to get us hot chocolates. What about yours?" Asked Becky.
"He's talking to Remus."
"So how's it going?" Asked Kirsten.
"Erm…well he's kind of weird. He's nice and all but he's mentioned fashion about 5 times now, he loves pink, he does a gay hand flick and I swear to god he was checking out Jack earlier. How odd is that?"
"Very." Said Becky.
"Hate to break it to you Lil's but it sounds like he's queer."
"Well I just told you he's odd I don't need that re-established."
"You've misunderstood me; I don't mean odd queer I mean gay queer."
"He's not gay!" Said Lily although in her back of her mind she couldn't shift the thought.
"Hi girls." Said Sirius as he and Jack returned and he handed Kirsten her hot chocolate.
"Thanks." She smiled before kissing him on the cheek.
"Hey Lily." Said Sirius. "How's your date going?"
"Great. I'm just going to get back to him, I just needed to ask Becky something about the Defense Against the Dark Arts homework. Bye." She said walking off but she couldn't shake the thought Kirsten had put in her mind.
"I'm back." She said as she arrived next to Jason and took his hand.
"Well I'd better be going. The bands on in a minute and I want to be front row." Said Jason. "Bye."
Jason and Lily began to walk away leaving Remus on his own and began to push through the crowd of students.
"Don't you think Remus is so attractive?" Said Jason seemingly unaware of what he was saying. "I find that whole intellectual thing so sexy; especially on guys."
Ok so he might be gay, just might thought Lily.
"Oh my god!" Screamed Jason girlishly as the band came on "This is Casting Castles. They are so amazing!"
They started playing their first song at what Lily thought was an outrageously loud volume.
"I love them!" Jason screamed over the noise.
The tall male man at the front of the stage drew himself close to the microphone and began to sing.
"OMG! Their lead singer is so fit." Said Jason with the air of a young girl with an unrealistic crush.
Oh my god! Thought Lily he is so gay!
"Erm…..Jason can I talk to you for a minute."
"Yeah sure." Said Jason still looking up at the stage.
"I mean in like private."
"Oh ok." He said looking down at her and leading her to a small secluded bit of the grounds before sitting down on the grass and Lily joined him.
"Ok Jason." Said Lily a little nervous but she knew that something had to be done. "I hate to bring bad news."
"Ok then."
"And you have to appreciate how hard this is for me….."
"Lily just say it, I don't care."
"I think you might be gay."
"What!" He exclaimed. "I'm not………." He laughed flicking his hand in the stereotypical gay way. He suddenly cut off his sentence and looked down at his hand shocked and then looked back up at Lily "Oh my god! I am so gay!"
"I'm so sorry Jason."
"No worries. I don't really care I guess it was just unexpected."
"Are you ok?"
"Of course." Said Jason who really didn't seem to care. "Hey; you wouldn't happen to know if Sirius is single?"
A/N: So that's it, no more no less. Sorry it was so crap, sorry it took so long sorry you suffered from reading it; actually I'm sorry for a lot of things but I didn't make you read it you could have stopped. Well if you were disappointed please tell me why, if you just hated it tell me what was wrong and you know praise is always good too. PLEASE REVIEW! I'll love you forever if you do.
And thanks again to it'sme :) (an anonymous reviewer) for this character idea I really loved it and I've tried to do it justice, though I doubt I have. If you have any ideas for dates please put them forward. Any ideas are welcome.
Cherry328 :)