"James?" Lily said sleepily.
"Yeah?" He replied, yawning.
"Do you love me, really?" She asked.
"Do you have to ask that again?" He said, annoyed.
"So you don't?"
"No, Lils, I love you more and more each day."
"I love you more." She teased, sitting on his lap.
He didn't reply.
"You're supposed to argue, James." She said coolly.
"Lily, I'm not in the mood for this." He said frustrated, pushing her off of his lap.
"For what?" She snapped, "Me?"
"No-"
She stormed up the stairs and flew into her bed, pulling her covers over her head. "Stupid boys." She muttered angrily.
A few minutes later Lauren and Rebecca joined Lily in bed.
They cried for each other. They knew that through life, death and separation, they'd always be best friends. They'd always be there, whether it was boy problems, school problems, Voldemort problems, they'd always cry for each other. And that's what they were. A pack.
They slept in Lily's bed and they awoke the next day, only to cry for another few hours.
"C'mon." Lauren said, getting up. "We've missed Transfiguration, you know McGonagall's gonna have a shit storm just for that. And Sluggy doesn't want you to miss his class, I'm sure." She said, dragging Lily out of bed.
Lily carelessly threw on her robes, brushed her teeth and headed down to Potions.
"Lily!" James cried, running down the corridor after her.
"What, James?" She asked sadly.
"Look, Lils, you know that I could never be out of the mood for you," He explained, "and after what's happened in the past week, I don't expect things to be just peachy. But one thing I do know, Lily, is that I really care about you and I don't want you hurting."
She looked at him angrily.
"James, you've been an ass these past two weeks." She snapped. "And I don't want to be your mother and keep you in line. I don't want to be embarrassed by you and I don't want to be-" She paused for a second. "Yours."
"You don't want to be `mine?'" He asked, confused.
"You act like I'm just another one of your trophies, James." She burst. "I'm not your trophy! I'm your girlfriend!"
"When did I act like you were a trophy, Lils?"
"Stop calling me that!" She said angrily. "Like that. You make up nicknames for me. And you use me to do your work!"
He snorted.
"You NEVER said not to call you that so I figured it was okay!" He whispered loudly. "And I can do my work on my own so I don't need you for your brains!"
"I don't need you for your company!" She blurted out, immediately covering her mouth afterwards.
"So what, you're- breaking up with me?"
She shrugged.
"Maybe I am." She turned her head away so he couldn't see her eyes filling with tears.
"Lily, I love you." He said seriously, trying to hug her.
She slapped his arm.
"I DON'T WANT YOU TO LOVE ME!" She screamed. "You're James Potter. A prat. You never changed and I wonder how on earth could I have been so BLIND as not to see that. You are a phony." She turned to walk away.
"No, Lily, you're the phony. You said you loved me. You didn't lie about it. I know it, too. Because I love you. But you're still blind because you're convincing yourself that I'm still Potter from three years ago, the boy who always bothered you." He explained. She shook her head. "And you know I'm right. So go on, be right like you always are, but you're going to regret this day. You're going to hurt so bad on the inside. Your heart is cold, Lily. And you make me sick sometimes, the way you pretend to be happy."
She threw her hand to slap him in the face but he caught it quickly.
"Never try to slap a Quidditch player, Lily."
"You take every minute you can to brag." She said with disgust.
He laughed.
"I was just teaching you something."
She stormed into the dungeon and walked over to Lauren, pushed Sirius off of the stool and sat next to Lauren.
"Hey!" He shouted. "I was talking to her!"
"Do you want to talk to my fist?" She asked, annoyed, balling her hands up.
He shook his head and took a seat next to James.
"What's up with her?" He asked James.
"She's been like this since yesterday. And then we broke up."
"YOU BROKE UP?" Sirius screamed.
James nodded miserably and began to brew the potion.
Over the next few days, rumor spread of James and Lily's breakup. Some people said it had to do with why none of the seventh year Gryffindors would associate with Peter, who had begun to hang out with Frank Longbottom, a sixth year.
One evening during rounds- that James and Lily still had to do- the couple- or ex-couple- heard somebody- or some people- talking.
"Now, Pettigrew, you stink, go up into Gryffindor tower and stun them all. Then levitate their bodies down here so we can take care of them."
"B-but L-Lucius, I really don't think I can do this- I'm not as st-strong as you or Severus, I c-can't, it's just-" A familiar voice pleaded.
"Shut up, Pettigrew."
Lily looked at James in shock. He had his wand out and he whispered,
"Lily, go get Dumbledore. Now."
"I can't leave you here by yourself!" She whispered. "Especially since they want to kill us."
"Lily, go now or I will hex you."
"Then hex me, James, because I'm not going to leave you here to fight three wizards who are educated with the dark arts." She argued.
"Fine." He said, pulling out his invisibility cloak and covering them with it. They slowly tiptoed around the corner, and unsurprisingly they saw Malfoy, Snape and Peter standing in the corner, huddled up.
James shot a stunning spell that hit Snape in the back instantly knocking him out.
"What the-"
Lily shot a bat-bogey hex at Malfoy, who used a non-verbal shield spell. He quickly shot a black wisp straight for Lily and James. James pushed Lily out of the way, pulling him out from beneath the cloak.
"So it's Potter!" Malfoy said delightfully. "What a treat!"
"I wish I could say the same, Lucy." James sneered.
Lucius scowled.
"Potter, Potter." He pondered. "Too bad Evans isn't here to save you."
"You keep her out of this!"
"Right now a few of my friends are going to get her so you two can unite." Lucius said excitedly. "You and your mudblood girlfriend."
"Malfoy, at least my girlfriend doesn't look like there's shit under her nose." James shot. Malfoy frowned. "Yep. `Cissy' looks like she's got a gallon of horse dung in front of her face."
Malfoy shot a stunning spell at James, who barely missed it.
"It's because you're in the room, isn't it?" James continued arrogantly. "Or maybe it's because she senses a death eater."
Malfoy shot another spell at James, who unfortunately, wasn't very lucky this time. He fell to the ground unconscious. Malfoy walked over to him, muttered a spell, and went to revive Snape.
Peter ran to James and began to weep over him.
Without thinking, Lily screamed,
"GET AWAY FROM HIM, YOU SCUM!"
Peter nearly jumped out of his skin.
"Evans…" Malfoy said excitedly.
Snape, Malfoy and Peter walked down the hall to search for Lily.
Lily, still under the invisibility cloak, crawled over to James and huddled over his body, crying.
As she cried, the cloak slipped off of her, making her visible again.
"Damn, my wand must've fallen out of my pocket back there." Snape told Malfoy. "I'll be right back."
He walked back around the corner to see Lily.
Quietly and slowly, Snape crept towards his wand. He picked it up and shot a stunning spell at Lily, hitting her straight in the back.
She fell, unconscious, on top of James.
Snape quickly put a memory charm on her and joined Malfoy and Peter to go get the rest of their friends and modify their memories.
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