A/N: The aftermath! So excited!

Disclaimer: Blah blah JK owns it all.

Summary: James is an ass to Lily. She hooks up with Remus Lupin out of drunken curiosity to spite James and her huge crush on him. Too bad curiosity killed the cat.

I made some MORE changes so please re read the first and second chapters. Or the summary. Okay no more changes I promise, enjoy!

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Chapter 3

Hopelessly Screwed Dumbtard

Lily's POV:

"I DID WHAT!" I screamed.

"Lily, shut up!" Faye covered my mouth. "Its like seven in the morning."

"I did what!" I whispered frantically.

"You hooked up with Remus Lupin." Seph answered.

"Yes, I bloody well know that." I said. "I was asking for emphasis."

"Oh." Seph said.

Dumb git.

Hadn't she ever seen one of those overly dramatic films?

"I cant believe myself. Oh God, its all coming back to me." I rested my head in my hands as I sat Indian style on my bed.

"Was he a good kisser?" Faye asked me.

"Faye!" Drew scolded her.

"What?"

"Yes, he was." I moaned unhappily. "He was amazing and we were so into it and oh my god I've completely screwed myself, haven't I?"

Drew nodded.

Well I was hoping she would say "No dear, of course not." But I guess not.

"Thing is I cant really remember how I got to my bed last night." I pondered about it for a while. Then it all really came back to me.

Flashback

"Mmph, Remus?" I said between kisses.

"Mmm?" He could barely open his eyes.

"I--I think, Oh, goodness." He was sucking on my neck with a tenderness and bit of force. It was almost perfect.

He took time to stop and stare at me. "What was it you were going to say?" His lips were an inch away from mine and it took all I had in my drunken body not to kiss him again.

Then my stomach lurched.

"I'm sorry Remus."

"Why?"

"I--I think I'm going to be sick." I covered my mouth and stood and ran away all in about three seconds. A new record.

I ran upstairs as fast I could and bumped into someone. Then I threw up all over that person.

One guess as to who that person was.

I'll give you one.

Right.

James freaking Potter.

What he was doing up near the girls dormitories, I have no clue. But the point was, I'd just thrown up all over him. He looked furious with me.

Honest mistake.

I think he could see I was feeling particularily bad and took me to my room and had me retch into the toilet while he held my hair back. What a good guy. Even drunk, I was surprised.

How romantic.

He used some weird spell to get the vomit off his clothes and then wiped my forehead with his sleeve.

"James, why are you helping me?" I managed to choke out.

He just stared at me. Kind of with mixed emotions. Hey--I didn't blame him, I'd just thrown up on him and he probably felt really sorry for me.

Then I passed out and my head hit the cold hard toilet.

End Flashback

Oh, that's how.

I whimpered and fell onto my back. I covered my face in shame before I said the next thing. "I did it to spite James."

"What? Lily no!" Faye said hysterically. "Why would you do something like that? Remus probably fancies you!"

"Or he probably expects something." Drew remarked.

Thank you, Drew.

"Remus is not like that." Seph stood up for one of her lovely Marauder children.

"And what about Harold?" Drew looked at me with one of those looks that you know you are getting even if you aren't facing the person. You can feel the stare burning into the side of your head.

So I ignored that very complicated part of the problem--my boyfriend.

"I really cant handle all this plus a hangover." I said, pulling my covers up over my face. There was no way I was showing my face around the castle today. It would be so awkward with Remus and especially his friends. They all probably thought I was crazy.

I am. But that's not the point.

"Wait, Remus fancies me?"

Yes, even in this state, I felt flattered. I mean, because--he was good looking and I didn't think I had that kind of potential…

"You so do not deserve to be flattered right now, Lily." Drew stared at me incredulously.

"I need chocolate." I cried, changing the subject. "Or weed. Either would do."

"No!" Faye ripped my covers off.

"Hey." I moaned.

"You are not going to stay in bed baked all day, Lily." She shrieked.

"God, alright alright I'll go to class." I said wearily. "How the hell am I going to deal with this?"

Persephone sat down and rubbed my shoulder. "You'll figure something out."

"I hope so." I sighed.

"Maybe it wont be so bad, Lil." Drew sat down on my bed too. "I don't think anyone even saw you two."

A few hours later…

"Great job, Lil!" Someone yelled and another catcalled horrendously.

"How's the baby?"

Oh yeah, it had been going on like this all day. Catcalls and congratulations left and right.

ALL DAY.

Thanks, Drew. Yeah, pretty much EVERYONE had seen us making out on the floor. And even the Slytherins were bugging me about it. The rumors had spread like wildfire so people who weren't even there were annoying me. That's the Hogwarts way, no?

It was only one p.m. and I'd heard some of the weirdest rumors ever. These were my personal favorites:

1. I'm pregnant with Remus's child.

I know!

I wish.

Just kidding. I'm going to hell for sure.

2. Remus and I are secretly eloping because my parents are trying to kill him.

Well--I don't even know what to say about that one.

So unfair! I don't even--well, I guess I deserved it a bit. Or maybe a lot.

"Oh God." I tried my best to cover my face with my dark red hair as more students walked by me. Not that it would help me look any more inconspicuous, actually.

Walking alone, I sped along the corridors to get to the Common Room as fast as possible. My next class was Charms in an hour so I'd rather stay cooped up in my dorm room away from ridicule than subject myself to it in public.

"You." Victoria Magar, A.K.A. James Potter's current girlfriend stalked up and pushed my stack of books onto the floor from my arms. "You are the reason James and I broke up. You know that don't you?"

Scratch that-- Ex-Girlfriend, now.

I looked down at my books sadly. Did she absolutely have to push them onto the floor? "Er…excuse me? Why?"

"He blamed our break up on you!" She looked like she had tears in her eyes. Oh man, now I felt really bad. I didn't even know this chick and had apparently ruined her life.

"I don't understand. What did I do?"

"He and Remus are competing for your attention, dumbshit." She said acidly, wiping her eye.

"I'm so confused right now. They what?"

Poor me. Ugh, poor Remus.

"You, are a bitch." She flipped her platinum hair over her shoulder. "That's all there is to it. You don't deserve him."

"Victoria! I really didn't mean--" Victoria held her manicured hand up and walked away. "..to break you up." I finished.

Well, great.

She was right, I didn't deserve Remus. Not at all. He was way too sweet for his own good. Well, maybe, if he didn't hate me I could get to like him.

Tucking a strand of hair behind my ear, I sighed. "I give up." I bent down and grabbed the books slowly, feeling miserable.

"Lily?" A soft voice asked from behind.

I whipped around and relief washed over my bones as I saw Faye looming over me. "Thank God its you." I stood up.

"Lets go up to the dorms. Is that where you were headed?"

"Yes," I sigh. "But I was detained by Victoria Magar."

"Why?"

"She said I broke her and James up because they're both competing for my attention."

"WHAT?" Faye looked at me like I was crazy.

Well, thanks.

"I don't know, she's crazy." I said, wishing I hadn't said anything at all.

"Oh." Faye pulled her hair up into a ponytail, letting a few short strands fall in her face. "Screw her."

"Faye! I apparently ruined her life. I'm the bad one."

"No, she was just one of his bimbos anyway. She's a mean girl who lives and breathes James Potter. Bumble cut."

"Like everyone else at this school."

I think she was spending too much time with Drew. I smiled at her gratefully as we made our way through the portrait hole. Here we go.

The Marauders were lounging around two sofas together looking as lazy and astoundingly arrogant as ever. But they looked odd. James and Remus were really far away from each other. Sirius was speaking softly and seriously.

They were probably planning a prank. On Slytherins. Assholes.

See, ordinarily I'd go over and lounge with them. Well, not today!

"Oh no, Faye, they're here! What do I do? Oh God! Fuck, what do I do?" I whispered frantically, wanting to die right then and there. I hid behind her as best I could. Good thing she weighed two pounds and I weighed--well, lets just say it wasn't two pounds.

I never thought I'd have to come face to face with them this quickly, to be truly honest. I'd managed to skip out on breakfast and sit in the back in the dark in Transfiguration.

It might've worked had Professor McGonagall not asked me flat out why I was sitting so far away from my usual seat (front row center). I stammered something inaudible and the Marauders all gave me bewildered looks. I wanted to kill them. My whole class too, actually.

"Christ, Lily. Just ignore them." Faye led the way to the staircases. "And stop cursing so much, you're beginning to sound like Drew."

Well, I could say the same to her, too. That would teach her to give me lip.

I comically shielded myself with my books as I crept by the Marauders behind Faye. I almost got to the staircase when I bumped into Faye, who was standing still. So I straightened up to see Faye smiling and twirling her hair as she popped her hip out to flirt with Gregor Davies.

I looked at her incredulously and smacked her behind with my books.

"Ow, Lily!" Faye rubbed her butt tenderly and gave Gregor a pained smile. "I have to go, Greg. Talk to you at lunch?"

He winked at her and walked off.

Facing me, she apologized. "Sorry, he's really hot."

I rolled my eyes and turned toward the staircase but came face to face with someone. Some boy. My eyes widened as I realized it was none other than my dear friend Remus. Oh shit. I could claw my own eyes out right now rather than see him.

I stealthily ran up the staircase and made my escape.

I didn't care about what he had to say, I couldn't face him. I felt so stupid.

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In History of Magic, I was explaining everything to Drew while Professor Binns droned on.

"What an asshole." She whispered.

"I don't get it. What Victoria said--it just doesn't make any sense."

Drew shrugged. "She's and overdramatic bitch. Get used to it."

I accepted that as an answer.

I was so emotional and agitated by the end of classes that day, I flipped out any time someone talked to me. Unintentionally of course.

"Lily." I heard a familiar voice.

"Remus."

Again?

Icing on the cake, really.

"Hi." He shifted oddly.

"Uh," I was desperately searching for a way to set myself on fire. That sounds harsh, doesn't it? Well after what I went through today, it was nothing.

"Why have you been avoiding me?" He asked flat out.

"Well, Remus, you see--"

"Lily Evans, may I please see you over here for a second, my dear?"

We both turned to see Professor Slughorn coming towards us. I never thought in my life that he would be my savior.

Remus gave me a look that I couldn't decipher and walked away after about forty years.

"Hi Professor." I smiled awkwardly.

"Would you care to join me in my classroom, Ms. Evans?" He asked me seriously. "I have a business favor to ask of you."

"Sure." What the hell, eh?

How much worse could it get?

We walked into his classroom and sitting there was James. Were we like magnetically attached or something? I mean, really.

"Take a seat, Lily." He smiled at me as I awkwardly hovered around the chairs. He really expected me to sit next to James. I felt so ashamed to be around him. Actually Professor, I threw up on him so I don't think he wants to be near me very much.

Just kidding.

I sat down gingerly and took notice of James's flushed cheeks. He was probably playing Quidditch earlier. Awkward…

"I asked you both here today for a large favor."

"What is it, Professor?" James asked.

We both stared at him as he became even more annoyingly jolly than usual.

"I would like the both of you to work together on a holiday project leading up to Christmas. It is typical to pick the two most hardworking students in their year, so I chose you two naturally."

Oh yes, naturally.

He continued. "You will schedule, host, decorate, and plan everything for a Hogwarts Christmas extravaganza. I have good faith in both of you and the Headmaster does as well."

Um, excuse me, WHAT?

That was like…like… three months. Three months of working side by side on something stupid (because all Slughorn's ideas were stupid) so I can embarrass myself some more in front of James? He hated me now. Well--more than usual.

Well, it was obvious that James would say no because he probably didn't want to work with me so I wouldn't throw up on him. Which saddened me a little. Even if that is really selfish of him. I mean, I was drunk. What was I supposed to do, throw up on myself? Ew, never.

"We'll do it." James said and got up to shake Slughorn's hand. And he was gone.

I just sat there, bewildered. Did that really just happen?

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