lilies *James Potter*

Chapter 12

Liliena had her feet propped up on the couch with the bathroom trash can on the floor next to her for the morning sickness that was now kicked in along with a relevantly new symptom, heartburn.

She was scrolling through her phone with dread as nearly all her socials were blowing up with a photo she was constantly tagged in the same photo along with James's.

It was a clear photo that had her and James hugging outside the shop. Although there were no rumours based on a suspected pregnancy, there were thousands of dating and insults. Mainly on James saying she was too good for him. And they kept coming nonstop.

She hoped that James wouldn't be taking the harsh criticism to heart as she has been long past used to fans and haters (thick-headed fans, as Regulus would call them) picking at her on every flaw they could find.

She keeps her profile on the down-low as she scrolls through the assumptions and hate without a single comment made on her part. She could only hope James didn't say anything himself in the last hours that the photo had gone viral. 

Along with the socials occurring, she had avoided her message inboxes knowing for a fact that true-to-be Barty and Evan would be blowing up her phone once they even spotted the single word read on their shared group messages which she had a no-brainer to block the notifications from all her apps for the time being, which included the messenger one.

A small creak was heard from the hall that led down to the bedrooms. Slowly Regulus emerges stretching his spine with satisfying pops of his bones and hands above his head with his short black curls tossed in a mess. His green and black plaid pyjama bottoms hung loosely on his hips with the string undone and was shirtless with his top-surgery scars on display.

"Good morning." He mumbles sleepily rubbing his eyes.

Liliena looks at him amused.

"It's literally one in the afternoon."

He walks by her flipping her off and entering the kitchen. "Want tea?" He calls out to her.

"Yeah."

Liliena sighed, finally opening her messenger app once the red dot showed the number had gotten above a hundred. Scrolling past Barty's and Evan's contact which were right at the top for most recent, Pandora's was below theirs saying a quick apology from yesterday's events which Liliena won't be holding any anger to her. 

It's always hard to stay mad at her, and Luna included.

That was something everyone in their friend group could agree on without hestiation.

She sends a quick reply to Pandora to not worry about it and moves down her messages. Next was Narcissa who simply pointed out the photo and asked if management was involved along the lines of the white lie that she and James had been dating for a while for public appearance.

She scrolls by Narcissa's with a mental reminder to reply to her later. Clicking on the next message available which came from Minevera, a date and time were listed along with a location for her to have an interview set up with Ellen Degeneres which was eight weeks from the date, meaning she would be about 16 weeks along if she did the math right in her head. 

Somehow Ellen was willing to relocate from her original studio in California to rent a studio in London which she would take advantage of by also having other guest stars around the week of.

Copying the message that contained the date and time along with the address, she exits the message with a quick okay and scrolls down in search of Baby Daddy's contact that she never bothered correcting the contact. She wasn't a fan of weird nicknames for contacts, unlike Evan, Pandora, and Barty. But she luckily had Regulus and Remus on her side so it wasn't unbalanced.