The Breakup Plan •James Potter• |editing|

❁Chapter 15❁

Chapter 15

A sigh tumbled from Nora's lips as she stood at the edge of the stairs in the Gryffindor common room, grumbling curse words under her breath and soon did she scream, "James, hurry up!"

She heard a faint response coming from what she assumed was his dormitory, and with another sigh did she move to sit on the couch, feeling the heat from the fire in front of her, she had to admit that she was rather comfortable.

Wrapped up in her own little world, Nora fails to notice Lily bounding the stairs hurriedly, stopping in her tracks at the sight of the Hufflepuff, and although she was running late to meet her boyfriend, she couldn't help herself as she walked over to the girl, she hadn't had time to apologise for intruding in her space, seeing as Nora had to leave when they were supposed to be studying in the library, and the thought that Nora left because she arrived had entered her mind more than once.

"Hello," Lily whispers, her stomach bubbling with nerves as she sits on the arm chair near the couch that Nora took residence.

Nora's head lifted at the sound of the familiar voice, a small smile decorating her lips as she caught the sight of Lily and soon did she speak, "hello Lily, are you alright?"

Lily took a deep breath, her shoulders slumping after a few moments and soon does she nod, speaking, "I'm sorry, Nora, I just- I feel as though I've been terrible to you, I took away your best friend, I disrespected a place that you made, from scratch, I should add, I couldn't help but think that you left the library because of me, and if you did, I completely understand, I guess you're just a little intimidating, in a way, I really wanted you to like me, Aubrey too, and now I feel as though I just wrecked that, I mean, you and Caden aren't even talking for Christs sake!"

Nora's eyes couldn't help but widen as she stares at Lily, speechless was an understatement really, her mouth had parted so much to the point that she looked like a gaping fish, and only did she snap from her gaze when someone else entered the common room, "are you kidding?!" she laughs ever so slightly, speaking, "Lily you are so amazing, you're so knd and funny, and not to mention that Caden should be honoured to have you as his girlfriend.

It wasn't your fault that the blood twat took you to the tree house, you didn't know, and I know you wouldn't have intentionally done anything malicious, and I would never blame you for something that wasn't your fault, please don't think that I left because of you, I would never, I just really needed to clear my head that day, seeing as Adria made me realise something entirely obvious. As for Caden, it's just hard I suppose, he was the one that said he wouldn't speak to me again, and It really isn't your fault but he's been acting a whole lot different now than before, I feel as though I lost my best friend a long while ago and not a month or so ago!"

"Yes, I heard you and Aubrey saying that one day," Lily sighed, a frown painted across her lips as she turned ever so slightly, she hadn't the faintest idea what the girls meant when she overheard them one day in the library, and she couldn't deny that it bothered her, "what do you mean by that, if you don't mind me asking?

"Well, Aubrey, Caden and I used to have this tradition where we would go to the tree house every Thursday after class, maybe to talk, or to do homework, but we would never miss it, I mean it might be silly but at least we got to really talk every week, maybe about something that bothered us, or to rant about a specific professor, it really helped with anger and frustration, at the start he would miss a week, and then show up another week, and it went on like that, and then he missed two weeks, and then three and then he just stopped showing up, finally said it was stupid, and it was rather awkward with him, because you are so popular, it was odd that you are so calm about it, but it's as though he is letting the attention get to his head!" Nora exclaimed, shaking her head, "I do miss him, I suppose, it's hard to get over a friendship, especially when the person isn't who you remembered them to be."