Trouble (Marauders/Lily)

[Celestina Flamel]

Celestina finally gained the top of the seventh staircase and burst through the portrait of the Fat Lady the moment she could get through and practically collapsed, panting in one of the couches in the common room. It could not be reccomended to run from the grounds to the Gryffindor Common Room all in one stint.. but Celestina had because she needed to find Lily- and quickly..

"Lils?! Are you here?" She exclaimed as she hurried up the stairs towards the dorms, looking around frantically for her friend.

[Lily Evans]

Hearing her name, Lily opened her eyes and streatched, then pulled the covers off of her. She slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes to see Celestina standing there, looking slightly troubled. Immediately, she frowned. "What's wrong?" she asked, standing up and walking over to her.

It was very unusual to find her friend in such a state, she had always seemed to be the happy sort of person. "What's going on?"

[Celestina Flamel]

"I was.. I was.. " Celestina took several deep, composing sort of breaths.. "I swear I didn't mean to see Lily! I swear! I was just .. just walking on the grounds and .. I caught. .Emmeline and James. .shagging!" She finally blurted it out, feeling completely awful, embarrassed, confused, and angry all by turns.

[Lily Evans]

Lily waited for her friend to calm down and watched as she seemed to squirm slightly. But when she finally spoke, Lily's mouth dropped wide open. "Wh-what?" she asked, her voice shaking from shock. A small tear ran down her face as her gaze dropped to the ground. "Oh.. uh... I see." she muttered. "Well, what do you say we go down to breakfast?" she asked, attempting to smile, but failing miserably.

[Celestina Flamel]

"Breakfast?" Celestina shook her head, "No .. no.. I couldn't eat if my life depended on it right now.. Lily I'm sorry I know I mean.. I know you thought maybe if he grew up a little you'd give him a chance.." Celestina hugged her friend gently.. "I just.. thought you should know. .and all."

[Lily Evans]

Lily sort of melted into her friend's hug, but still felt no better. "It's... fine.." she muttered. "Let's just go downstairs. My stomach is yelling at me." she said. At that, she walked to her wardrobe and threw on some clothes.

[Celestina Flamel]

Celestina nodded, still not believing for even a minute that it was 'fine'. However, she just wrapped her arm around Lily's waist and led her downstairs towards the Great Hall, feeling rather protective at this moment.

[Lily Evans]

Lily smiled a little when she felt her friend's arms around her, but continued walking, the grim look eventually creeping back to her pale face. As she reached the great hall, noise filled her ears and she looked around, not seeing James or Emme yet, she smiled lightly and quickly headed to her seat. She was glad thatr they weren't there at the moment.. she might have just broken down then and there.

When she sat down, a large pile of pancakes appeared infront of her, but she did not eat, just picked at the food miserably.

[James Potter]

James had stood at the base of the girl's dormitory stairs for quite some time before he could convince himself to head back up to his own dormitory. Once he got there, he found that sleep seemed very hard to come by, his head swarmed with pleasant thoughts, none of the worries that had caused him to go out originally held any place in his mind. The only way he finally got himself to go to sleep was by thinking that, when he woke up, he would get to be with Lily again. He fell asleep with images of her in his head and had the best night of sleep that he could ever remember.

Now, James was not normally an early riser. Hell, he barely made it to morning classes on time most days. However, he found himself wide awake nearly an hourbefore his first class was set to begin. He got dressed as quickly as he could while still making sure that he looked dashingly handsome, and ran down the stairs. He didn't bother Sirius, Remus, or Peter knowing that they wouldn't appreciate being woken up any earlier than usual. He bounded out of the common room and and took the stairs down to the great hall two at a time.

When he reached the doorway to the great hall his eyes drifted over the sea of people who were chatting about classes and whatnot. His eyes quickly spotted Lily's glowing copper locks and he made his way over towards her, though at a decent pace so as not to look like an idiot. He saw that Celestina was sitting next to her, but ever that girl couldn't ruin such a good morning. In fact, James had decided to put everything that had happened before the previous night behind him. James sat down on the other side of Lily and greeted her cheerily. "Good morning Lily" he said with a smile reminiscent of the ones he had had the previous night. He leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, without thinking twice about it.

[Emmeline Vance]

Fixing her pigtails for what seemed to be the eighth time that morning, Emmeline smiled at the mirror and grabbed her bag before walking the long way down to the Great Hall. Not really caring what people thought of her, she ran down the stairs of the castle. Damn. When did the trip from the Ravenclaw Tower to the ground floor become so long? She laughed thinking about it as she walked into the Great Hall. Tilting her head, she noticed as James sat down. He was up this early? She shrugged and walked over, becoming more confused as he kissed Evans on the cheek. What the hell? When did that become okay? Did she unintentionally get high last night and was currently having hallucinations?

"Hello, James," she said, sitting down next to him, not even bothering with the Ravenclaw's table. She didn't really like them all that much anyway. "Ow, bloody hell," she muttered. Mental note: Never try to take a hot piece of sausage from a plate with your fingers. Rolling her eyes, she sucked on the tip of her finger.[/size]

[Lily Evans]

Lily stared so intently at the pancakes that she could have sworn that she was going to develop heat vision and burn a hole in them. Instead of eating she placed her chin in one hand and picked at her pancakes with her fork. She was in no mood to talk to anyone.

When she felt a soft kiss on her cheek and then heard his voice, she closed her eyes tightly, as if she was in pain... which she was. She felt a burning desire to kiss him back, despite what Celestina had told her, but she denied it. She bit her bottom lip and looked away.

She could have possibly gotten over it, but then, she heard the little whore's voice. She didn't realize it, but she was now bitting her lip so hard it had begun to bleed. After a minute, she began to feel the pain and she stood up, then quickly brought her finger to where she was bleeding from. "Shit!" she muttered. At that, she finally looked at James, then to Emmeline.

"James, don't even bother to come near me..." she told him, trying but failing to hide the hurt in her voice. "Apparently you are just what I always thought you were. A self centered man whore." she flashed a look at Em, then picked up her plate and moved it to the other side of the table so she was sitting all alone. This was probably not the best time for Lily to interact with anyone.

[Celestina Flamel]

Celestina noted that Lily was struggling to hold herself together, and she felt the need to protect her friend. "Let me handle this." She murmured to her, before turned to James and pushing him away.. not hard.. and not in a menacing manner, just away.

"Stay away from her.." Celestina murmured, her eyes showing clear frustration and anger at James' treatment. "She deserves better than a guy who will kiss her and act like he loves her one minute.. and then shag another girl the next.." She said, before turning around to sit down at the table beside Lily and wrapping her arm around her friend again.. "You should eat your pancakes." She said simply, "Then we'll go down and see Slughorn 'kay? I know he wanted to talk to you about your potions essay.. and I bet it was the best in the class again.. you'll see." She said, doing her best to help.

[James Potter]

James noticed that Lily did not seem as affectionate towards him as she had the previous evening. He did a mental 'I told you so,' but pushed that thought from his mind. He hadn't been dreaming last night. He hadn't been imagining her face, it had looked just as happy, just as blissful as he had felt. So what had changed? He was about to ask her what was the matter when Emme sat down on his other side. "Hey" he said in response to her greeting before turning his attention back to Lily. He was taken aback when she suddenly stood up, and even more so by what she said next.

""James, don't even bother to come near me... Apparently you are just what I always thought you were. A self centered man whore."

He couldn't believe this was happening. What was she even talking about? What had he done to deserve this? Clearly someone had spiked her pumpkin juice that morning. The confusion read plainly on his face and he was about to raise a question, but he didn't get the chance. Before he knew Celestina had pushed him. Not hard, it didn't hurt or anything, but honestly... who did she think she was?

"Stay away from her... She deserves better than a guy who will kiss her and act like he loves her one minute.. and then shag another girl the next.."

His jaw hung open. His brain did not immediately jump to remembering what Celestina had seen a day or so ago, so he was still in a state of genuine confusion and it showed in his voice. "I do love her" was the first thing that came out of his mouth. Funny that that sould be the first thing that he said... that he first thought to defend his feelings for her as opposed to the accusations against himself. Sure, he knew that he felt that way, but it was somehow different saying it. "Are you two mental?! I don't even know what you're talking about!" he shouted across the table. Then he turned his attention on Celestina... he didn't like yelling at Lily. "And you! You should think about what you're doing before you go around spreading nasty rumors like that about people!"

[Emmeline Vance]

Nearly choking on a piece of strawberry as Evans called James a manwhore, she coughed softly as she sipped at some pumpkin juice. Even though she hated the stuff. She watched with a highly confused expression as the scene unravelled in front of her. What the bloody hell?

"Stay away from her.."

Emme resisted rolling her eyes. Honestly, who did this girl think she was? She'd been here how long exactly?

"She deserves better than a guy who will kiss her and act like he loves her one minute.. and then shag another girl the next.."

Her heart skipped over several beats. Unlike James, she immeadiately remembered the scene the new girl had walked upon. But Emme's confusion was still there. She wasn't shagging James then. Honestly this girl had issues with seeing things. But, still, even though the comment was quite vague, she looked around the table in search for Sirius. Relieve filled her body as she came to find he wasn't there yet.

"Are you two mental?! I don't even know what you're talking about!"

Emmeline came to a conclusion. Either James was so good at acting he had her fooled, or he was completely forgetful what the other girl saw. Or, there was always the option he could have forgotten shagging her. She didn't want that to be the answer though.

"And you! You should think about what you're doing before you go around spreading nasty rumours like that about people!"

Damn right, Emmeline thought. She suddenly noticed she'd been quiet for far too long. "I'll go, let you lot sort this out amongst yourselves. This obviously doesn't involve me." She stood leave, wondering if saying that was smart or if she just sunk deeper into the hole she seemed to be digging. Emme would have laughed had this not been the situation. It seemed she was digging her self a grave.[/size]

[Lily Evans]

Lily still had been able to hear everything that they were saying and she felt her heart skip a beat when James said that he did infact love her. She looked up from her pancakes for a minute at him, watching as he looked utterly shocked, but not comepletely comfused, so Celestina must have been right about one thing... which made her heart drop again as if it was made of stone. She bit her bottom lip and looked back down at her pancakes.

After he stopped yelling and her friend wrapped her arms around her, she shrugged. "I'm really not that hungry." she said, and at that, her pancakes dissapeared. A small sigh escaped her lips as she let her head hit the table. She foled her arms around it and closed her eyes. Why was she so miserable? Just a few days ago, she wouldn't have cared. Did she really love him?