A/N: Hope you liked the third chapter, I'm having a lot of fun writing this. Finally

Disclaimer: Blah blah JK owns it all.

Summary: Lily's Brilliant Plan to get over her crush: get drunk and hook up with Remus Lupin to spite James Potter

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So, on an important note, I'm very thankful for your concerns and reviews telling me to continue, I thank you for the bit of criticism as well. It all helped immensely. I am deciding to continue with this story and its all thanks to you! I have some really good ideas that explain Remus and James and Lily and their idiotic mannerisms.

Those of you who HATE that Lily and Remus have something right now, you'll understand later, its ALL part of the plan!

Thank you so much!

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Chapter 4

Dumped Girl

Lily's POV:

"Thank you, Professor." I shakily stood and went out the door after James. I stood outside, looking down each hall, deciding to go left. Then I saw him walking a bit quickly. Like he wanted to get away from me.

Well, that's sort of messed up.

I sort of jogged up to him to apologize and stuff. I figured that it was the least I could do.

"James." I finally caught up to him.

He stopped and looked at me. Then I realized how out of breath I was. I had to hold one finger up while I bent, hands on knees, to retrieve my breath. Embarrassing? Why yes, that's my middle name.

I made a mental note to start jogging with Faye and Drew in the morning.

"I just wanted to thank you for helping me last night." I said very quickly.

"It was nothing." He said stiffly and resumed walking.

Er…okay?

I caught up to him again. I mean, I've never been thrown up on before, but you would think someone would get over it by now, right?

"Are you alright, James? I mean--I am sorry about it. Honestly." I tried. As much as I fucking hated him (and loved him), I felt really bad.

He looked at me like he was about to say something. I stared at him, noticing that he looked a bit happier.

"I hope your robes aren't stained." I laughed.

Then his face was rigid and emotionless again. Did he mistake me? What else could I be apologizing for?

James's POV:

"Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?" She asked me, worry in her eyes. Was she really asking me this?

Not go out with Remus please?

Marry me?

"Just try not to vomit on me while we work on this holiday project." I said lightly.

"Oh, right." She sort of winced at my mention of our working together.

Thank the heavens that Sirius was waiting for me at the entrance of the Great Hall because it would have gotten increasingly awkward if we were there alone together.

"James my boy." He came up to me and gave Lily an appraising look as she walked by him into the Great Hall.

So we walked in after her.

It had been uncomfortable with Remus, to say the least. I was a bit pissed with him when everything happened. Okay, well I was really pissed, but that's not the point. We both fancied Lily, but no one knew about my infatuation, and his was all over Hogwarts. For christsakes they thought she was pregnant with his baby.

Over my dead body.

"Where have you been?" Sirius asked me angrily. "That crazy friend of Lily's wont leave me alone."

I looked down the table at Seph. She was eating and when she saw the four of us look at her, she dropped her fork and her mouth hung open. Then I saw Lily close her mouth with her hand and she realized we were all staring at her.

She grimaced and turned to her friends.

Lily's POV:

"Have you even spoken to Harold since this whole thing happened?" Drew asked me AS SOON AS I SAT DOWN.

She didn't waste any time, did she?

Bitch.

"I've been avoiding him all day." I said, mouth full.

"Ew, Lily." Faye recoiled and Seph laughed appreciatively.

"What?" I let my mouth hang open as much as I could allow. What? I know I'm cute.

Drew gave me a disgusted look.

"What? I'm hungry." I chewed loudly, just to piss her off. I was smacking my mouth open and shut noisily and chomping with the gall of a thousand kings. Aye, I could be a real poet. I know you were thinking that.

She looked a bit displeased. "That's not why I'm looking at you."

I swallowed and put my fork down slowly then looked straight at Drew. "I get it, Drew. I'm stupid, I hooked up with someone I wasn't supposed to just to hurt someone else, I'm a BIG bitch." I was breathing heavily, and my friends were just staring at me.

"Calm down, you're acting like we're ganging up on you." Drew said.

"No, Drew." I fumed. "You are ganging up on me. Don't you think I feel bad? Don't you think I understand what's going to happen and what I deserve?"

She just sat there, looking. I picked up my bag and heaved it onto my shoulder.

"Please just leave me alone, I already feel enough like shit." I said quietly and walked towards the entrance of the Great Hall. I was stepping carefully, making sure not to knock into anyone or trip on my grand exit or anything dumb like that that I would most likely do.

I had almost made it, but I was stopped right at the doors. By Harold. Fucking Drew.

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"Hey." I said softly, not looking at his face.

"Lily." He said, concerned. "Are these rumors about you and Remus…are they, you know…"

"Depends on which ones you're talking about," I attempted a smile.

Bad choice.

"Lily, I'm serious. What's going on."

Sensing the ENTIRE school's eyes on us, I decided to steer him out of the Great Hall to chat somewhere quieter. I could have sworn I heard groans from the student body behind us when we left. Nosy bastards.

I situated him at a spot next to a stained glass window so I could jump out in case he tried to kill me. Or I could push him out and make a run for it. But that would make me a murderer. So I guess not.

"You see, I--"

The look on his face was the worst thing I could have anticipated.

"They're true, aren't they?" He asked with venom in his voice. Oh boy.

"Not all of them--"

"You cheated on me, didn't you?" He asked me.

I couldn't say yes. I mean what could I say?

I bit my lip and everything sort of came rushing to me at once. All my emotions in dealing with the rumors, not having James, ruining my relationship with Harold, overwhelmed me.

He grabbed my shoulders and set his face close to mine. "Answer me!"

Aw, shit.

"I'm so sorry, Harold, its because--" He threw me against the wall, pretty hard, I might say.

"You bitch, after everything we've been through, you went and cheated on me with some guy you hardly know?" He was seriously enraged.

I really had no idea what to do next, I was rubbing my shoulder. It hurt from being unnecessarily thrown against the wall. I just looked at him, holding my shoulder.

Then he stopped and the color drained from his face quickly. "Lily. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you. I--I thought--"

We just stared at each other, shock on my face and regret on his.

"I'm sorry Harold. I know I did a really shitty thing." I spoke up finally.

"Yeah, you did." He interrupted.

Not making me feel better, asshole.

"I think we should, er…stop trying to--you know,"

"I would never," He said. "think of staying with you after all this. You have no respect for me and our relationship obviously meant nothing--"

"Harold, no--"

"Shut up Lily. There really isn't anything you can say to make this any better or easier. Just--" He ran a hand through his hair. "Just stay away from me."

And he walked away.

I was just dumped.

I just stood there and leaned against the wall, rubbing my head. This was all turning into such a big nightmare. I didn't think it could get any worse.

But it did.

Out of the Great Hall came the first person I wanted to see.

Not.

It was Drew, looking around for me. She spotted my sorry ass against the wall, red-faced, and miserable. I wasn't crying but I was upset. I felt incredibly worn.

I looked up at her and she came towards me. "I told you that this would happen."

Really now?

"I knew you should have spoken to him earlier--"

"Drew!" I yelled angrily. "Stop! Not right now, cant you see the state I'm in?"

"Well I told you--"

I just stalked away. It was the only way to get away from her without killing her. How could she keep coming at me like that to make me feel guilty? I do! She couldn't leave me alone for a second!

I dashed up to my dorm room, tripped on the way up the stairs and all my books flew forward and hit the wall.

"Dammit." I moaned, pulling myself up and sitting on the top step. I was pulling my books together and shoving into my bag with brutal force. I'm not going to cry, I'm not going to cry.

Oh shit, I'm crying.

"Okay that's enough. Pull yourself together." I just wiped the remainder of my tears away and ran a hand through my hair. "I must have pink, splotchy, ugly cheeks right now."

"You know, Lily, talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity." A male voice came from the bottom of the stairs.

I think I literally jumped up a stair. I looked down to see Sirius Black of all people walking up towards me.

"Er…hi, what exactly are you doing here?" I asked him wearily, hoping all traces of tears were gone by then.

He shrugged, hands in pockets then leaned against the wall a couple of steps down. Standing in his arrogant posture, eyes fixed on the ceiling. I guess I could see why girls fancied him. Sort of.

"Your lovely friend slapped me when I told her to leave you alone." He said simply, rubbing his left cheek.

I looked up at him with raised eyebrows. "Drew hit you?"

He looked at me and nodded.

"Why?"

"Well, I sort of smacked her arse--" He saw my startled face. "I'm just kidding Lily. She was upset that I told her to leave you alone."

"Well, thank you." I said. Crazy bitch. "I'm sorry about that."

"Is she always that crazy?"

I nodded. "She was just mad at me for not confronting my now ex boyfriend about the whole Remus thing." I thought about it for a bit and started thinking aloud. "I don't even know why I did that."

He seemed to perk up at that so I looked at him curiously but it went away as fast as it came.

"I wanted to apologize…" Sirius started.

I was really taken aback. Sirius Black was not one to apologize. To anyone. "For what?" I asked him and he came over and sat next to me on the step.

"I felt kind of guilty for being rude to you. You know, for about five years. But especially lately." He said, frowning at the stair below him.

"Its alright, Sirius," I smiled, feeling very good about myself now. "I never really took offense to it." Okay, I did. But I wanted to be nice.

He smiled back at me and nodded. Then he stood up and walked slowly down the stairs, stopping to turn around one last time. "We should be friends, Lily. I hear a lot about you all the time anyway."

I nodded, feeling happy. But wait--from who?

"Oh, and your friend--" He stopped for a moment to think. "Can you tell Faye that I say never mind?"

It dawned on me. "Are you the one who--"

"Ah ah ah Lily." He held up a finger. "Not a word to anyone."

"Wait," I stood and put my books on a stair. "Why 'never mind'?"

"Good bye, Lily!" He threw over his shoulder.

Holy shit. Sirius Black was the one who fancied Drew? Well I guess it was good that he changed his mind. She hates him.

Too much information to take in, I picked up my things and went into my dorm room and flopped onto my bed. I sat there thinking. I guess it was a good thing that Harold and I broke up, but that was about seven months of nothing, now.

I blew a raspberry in the air as I rolled onto my back, thinking. Well, at least I have a new friend. It could be a way to get closer to James.

I was rudely interrupted when the door burst open and Drew stood there fuming. Aw, fuck. Here it comes again.

"Can you believe that asshole?" She was positively steaming from the ears.

I sat up and looked at her like she was crazy. "Did you forget for a second that you hate me?"

"Oh yeah, sorry about that, didn't mean to make you mad." She brushed me off and that was that. "But really I was just standing there and Sirius comes over and…"

She went on and on about him while I sat there, utterly confused. I gave up and settled with the thought that Drew was basically insane. She was honestly livid with Sirius! What had he done?

"What did he do to you to make you so enraged?" I asked when she took a brief pause.

"He--he told me to calm down and leave you alone."

"And?"

"How DARE he speak to me like that!" She said.

Okay?

I saw Persephone and Faye run up to the door and widen their eyes at Drew's ranting. I shrugged and mouthed "Sirius". Seph started laughing as she recalled whatever had happened down there. Faye smiled, relieved that she wasn't mad at me anymore because she had someone else to bitch about.

They came over and sat with me, consoling me about Harold until it was time to go to Transfiguration. I left first so they could stay and calm Drew.

James's POV:

"Prongs, what are you staring at?" Sirius nudged me while we were in class.

I ruffled my hair and snapped out of my trance. I was staring at the back of Lily's head, naturally. I shook my head at him, hoping he would shut up. Professor McGonagall was teaching us how to turn glow worms into quills and I was having a lot of difficulty. I mean, I'm pretty good at Transfiguration, so what the hell?

I saw Remus hovering over Lily with his helpful demeanor and I almost smashed a glow worm with my fist.

Lily's POV:

"Hi."

Shit, Remus again.

I looked up at him and gave him a pained smile.

He sort of…laughed at me and ran a hand through his sandy hair.

"May I?" He gestured to the empty seat next to me that I was saving for one of my stupid friends. ALL of which were late. They had hell to pay for inadvertently seating me next to Remus Lupin.

"Of course." I said, my mind racing to different ways of turning him down nicely. I mean, I couldn't really say: Sorry Remus, I'm actually in love with your best friend, could you give me a leg up with that?

"I've been trying to talk to you." His eyes bore into the side of my head. "About something important, to explain something to you."

Just kill me. Right now.

Here it is, the 'Lily, I have feelings for you' bit where I have to patiently and sweetly turn him down.

"I did a terrible thing." He stated finally.

"I'm sorry--what?" I asked.

"I know what you've been thinking." He laughed again. Stop laughing at me, damn you. "You think I'm obsessed with you, right?"

"No! Of course not." I laughed awkwardly.

He just looked at me.

I meekly nodded.

"I'm really sorry, Lily. I've been…sort of trying to teach someone a lesson. I really didn't want to drag you into it and USE you, but it was the only thing I could do."

I was befuddled, to say the least. But HAPPY! Remus doesn't fancy me! I could have kissed him. But that was out of the question, obviously.

"Okay good." I saw him look relief and my relief and continued. "I was ready to turn you down, my lad."

He laughed at me and I laughed along. "This is all my fault. But to be completely fair, Lily, I was doing it all to make one of my dimwitted mates take some action."

"Who? And why?" I asked.

"Well, who is the one person I know who used to fancy you?"

"Er…James." My heart fluttered. "But he was just messing about, that's why I always turned him down."

Remus looked surprised. "Why would you think that?"

"I cant take him seriously, Remus." I said, frowning. "He's James Potter. I'm sure he just wanted to see if he could get me." I stammered. Why was he looking at me like that?

"Lily, he wasn't joking with you."

Realization dawned on me. Oh my god, he must have been serious. How was that possible? I could have sworn it was all some big prank or bet against me.

"Well, alright, so he was serious about going after me." I mused. "I'm sure he's gotten over it by now. I mean, he isn't very nice to me."

Remus just smiled at me.

"What?"

"Did I hear a hint of sadness in your tone, Lily?" He asked with a smirk.

Fuck you, finding out my secret.

"No." I said with finality.

"That's why I…did what I did. Nothing would make James realize that he should be nice to you unless drastic action was taken. And, if I'm not mistaken," He went on, "I could help you out with him."

I looked at him.

"If you wanted the help, of course."

Oh, yeah. He knew. Smart asshole.

I ignored him, trying to concentrate on my glow worm. "This is hard."

"Your secret is safe with me." He leaned in and whispered.

Fuck!

I looked at him with a small, wounded smile. I couldn't deny it, he would never believe me now. I gave him a big hug and we heard something crash behind us.

I looked round to see James standing, clutching his wand in his fist, his tray knocked onto the ground. The little glow worms were writhing all over the classroom floor.

He looked absolutely furious and was staring right at us.

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A/N: Again, thanks for the help and encouragement you guys. Do you hate me for leaving you with a cliffhanger?