A/n: Hello readers! I hope you'll like this chapter, it was hard to write. And please, feel free to review!
Chapter 4
"Oi! Potter!"
James and the marauders were leaving potion when Evans called Potter out. The four of them turned around. Sirius and Peter gaped at her, Remus smiled and James looked at her for two seconds then turned back around and continued walking like nothing happened.
Sirius fell on the floor in shock at James reaction.
Isn't he supposed to say something as stupid as "Came back for more, Evans"? What the hell is wrong with him?
Lily too is in shock at Potter's reaction. But the shock quickly changed to anger.
"POTTER! I'm talking to you!" she says running to catch up
James stop close to the moving stair case, letting the angry girl catch up to him.
"What do you want, Evans?"
Lily anger vanished at his tone. His voice sounded so...empty.
"You ignored me yesterday."
"You mean when you were staring at me?" she nodded. "I thought that's what you wanted."
That statement surprised Lily even more. She opened her mouth then closed at least a few times before James turned around and left her there. Lily snaps out of her surprise and quickly climbed the stairs after James.
"You choose to obey me now?"
"Do you want me to stop?" he asks not even glancing at her.
"No! I mean..." she closed her mouth lost for words.
"That's what I thought." He replies and speeds up his walk to get away from her.
She didn't chase after him.
James walked in the common room and went straight to his dorm and flop on his bed. He put his pillow over his head and stayed like this until his three friends walked in.
"What the hell happen?" asks Sirius completely ignoring his friend state.
"Sirius!" reprehended Remus.
"What? You saw Evans standing in front of the fat lady looking blankly at the door. I want answers!"
"James," this time the voice belonged to Peter, "what happened? You're clearly upset about something. We're your friends, you can tell us everything."
James frowns at Peter's words. Usually it's Moony who talks like that.
James wiped his tears away before sitting up and looked at his friends.
Sirius is sitting on his bed; Remus and Peter are on Sirius' bed. They are all staring at him with concern. Sirius broke the silence.
"What happened, Prongs? I never saw you like that, even at Evans rejections."
"It's nothing. Just worried about my mum." He says. It's not really a lie because sense his father death, his mother became unstable.
"Don't worry mate, your house-elves are taking good care of her." Remus gave a small smile. James tried to return it but it came out as a grimace. "You have us, remember? Everything is going to fine." This time, he manages to smile a little.
That night, James couldn't sleep. He's on his back, staring at the ceiling. The snore from the marauders tells him everyone is asleep. Sitting up, he reaches for his glasses and locks at the clock. 01:56 am. Sighting, he makes his way to the door and goes to the common room. He walks to his chair and sits down, not noticing the girl he's thinking about is there watching him from the corner of the room.
What is wrong with him? Something terribly bad most have happened if he decided to leave me alone. Isn't he supposed to...I don't know, chase me to prove some sort of point? Lily thought.
She kept watching Potters every move, trying and failing to find some sort of clue to tell her why he's behaving like this. Lily watched him for a good ten minutes before falling asleep, her head against the chair.
What she didn't notice is that James is not moving. He always moves, if it's his leg, his hand, or even his index finger, something is always moving when it comes to James. But, this time, he's so still. If it weren't for his even breathing, the marauders would have declared him dead.
Another thing that Lily didn't notice; James is watching something burning in the fire. If you look closely, you can barely make out the stunning smile of a woman.
The thing that Lily absolutely should have notice is that one tear running down on his cheek.