We Were Bound | james potter

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chapter 17

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you'll only end up hurt
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Faeryn skipped breakfast, much to Kris's enjoyment.

The large group of Gryffindors could be seen glaring at her throughout the entire mealtime, while she laughed and smiled with her friends. She deliberately made it a show to grab one of the blokes and snog them at the table, until one of the prefects separated them.

Lily was fuming, she came to breakfast all happy and giddy. And then when Sirius explained what happened you could practically hold a match to her head and it would burn.

And then all Hell broke loose when Marlene sat down, after discovering the story from Remus in the common room earlier that day.

"I'm gonna— Merlin you have no idea how much I want to murder her right now—! I just heard her saying she doesn't even like girls! What does that mean? That it was all fake the whole time?!" She stabbed her fork forcefully into her food, a loud clang heard across the whole great hall.

And before anyone could stop her, Lily was already marching over to the Ravenclaw table, wand gripped furiously at her side. James followed close behind her in a similar manner, though nowhere near as intimidating as her, no one could be as intimidating as her.

Peter and Remus were hurrying to catch up, and struggled to get a hold of James, who was thrashing against them in an attempt to continue his pursuit to the table. The two didn't even try to subdue Lily, she was a lost cause. They would not be powerful enough for that in a million years.

Rowan's head snapped up at the sound of her girlfriend's name being shouted, and she frantically stood up from her seat and rushed to stand in front of her. She didn't know why her girlfriend was practically bursting at the seams, but she was sure that it would cause havoc if she let her continue.

"Rowan, move," she grumbled.

"No, I won't. What's wrong, anyway?" she asked as she struggled to keep Lily back.

"Kris cheated on Faeryn. And do you want to know the lovely fact we learned this morning?" she asked, finally giving in to Rowan and going slack under her hold.

"Not really but you're going to tell me anyway so—"

"She doesn't even like girls! It was all fake. All of it!" she interrupted.

The relief that Remus, Sirius, and Peter felt when Rowan came to stop Lily was quickly converted to panic when Rowan turned toward Kris with an identical fury to Lily's.

James was standing next to Sirius, who was holding onto his arm to make sure he didn't try anything, and he was smiling when he saw Faeryn's two best friends resume their race to the Ravenclaw table.

"Damnit!" Remus said in a hushed voice, "Wormtail watch James." he grumbled, as he and Sirius rushed in an attempt to stop the two girls.

Peter stood wide-eyed, debating whether to listen to Remus or James, who was begging him to let him go.

"Welch!" roared Lily, Kris's head snapped up with a knowing smirk, which dropped when she saw Lily and Rowan's faces.

The people sitting near Kris watched them with confused expressions and wide eyes at the sight of Lily Evans pointing her wand at someone other than James.

"You just think you're so funny, don't you?" she asked, a horrifying glint in her eyes aimed toward Kris.

"Whatever do you mean, Evans?" she asked, plastering on an innocent smile.