August [j.p]

013- Not my homeland anymore

Like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me
Second, third, and hundredth chances
Balancin' on breaking branches
Those eyes add insult to injury
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exile (feat. Bon Iver)

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James Potter told himself that he didn't care about August Williams.

He told himself that he didn't give a flying fuck about what she was doing.

Were two days enough for her to move on? Was she going out to town and getting drunk like that one night?

He told himself she didn't mean anything to him, yet she invaded his dreams every night.

His heart ached.

His mind spun.

She didn't really mean nothing to him.

"Remus, I think I made a mistake."

"Welcome to the club." Sirius muttered as he absentmindedly flipped through a magazine about motorcycles.

Ever since his most recent fallout with August, Sirius had made it clear he wasn't pleased with James.

"What is it James." Remus sighed.

"Can you-" James stopped "Can you love two people at once?"

"I think you can, James" Remus sat up straighter on the couch.

"As humans we crave love, inherently we can't live without it, so loving two people at once isn't the hard part, to fall in love twice is actually quite easy when you think about it. The tricky part is deciding which person will love you right. In the way you want to be loved."

"Yeah" James buried his face in his hands. "She's never going to forgive me."

"She loves you so much, she'd let you drag her all the way to Hell as long as you were holding her hand, mate." Sirius interrupted. "So stop fucking acting like this is all about you and you're feelings. It has to be one or the other and I have nothing against Lily, but James, is she more than just a childhood crush?"

Sirius shoved his chest lightly, "You have to figure out if a childhood obsession is worth throwing it all away."

"I've seen the way you look at one another and you know what I see? I see two people who are so fucking stupid that they'd throw away infinity."

"You have feelings?" Remus sarcastically exclaimed.

"Shut up."

"You're right Padfoot, I need to see Lily." James rushed to grab his coat and the floo powder

"Yes! Get it" Sirius pumped his fist in the air "Wait! That's not what I was saying."

Sirius raced after James into the dining room only to find it empty.

"Fuck"

"Fuck indeed." Remus echoed.

"Must we always point everything out to him?" Peter asked dubiously.

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"Lily"

"Lily"

Lily Evans was woken up by none other than James Potter standing looking up at her window. Like a scene from some fairytale where the suitor wins the young girl's heart over.

Lily softly smiled to herself before opening the window.

"What James?" She kept a straight face.