Oblivious - James Sirius Potter

Pity

A/N: I rewrite the first chapter and add Elizabeth. FOR ALL THE OLD READERS, GO RE-READ THE CHAPTER. I CHANGED A LOT OF THINGS.

"Can you really see me liking a girl?"

James didn't go to practice today. His detention is pretty time consuming. Scraping the floors of the dungeons are the worst possible punishment for James.

He was scraping for hours until a girl appeared.

It wasn't Miraline. It was Elizabeth Kinley, his neighbor. She's holding her books tightly, against her chest. She looked down at James who is on the floor, wearing his uniform messily.

"I thought we did your assignment. Did you lost it? You know i could just tell Professor Slughorn that you actually did the assignment."

"Lizzy, It's okay.." He stopped for a second, and continued, "I gave it to Mira." said James as he stands up and fixed his hair.

"Why would you do that for?" She furrowed her eyebrows, "That's a really stupid thing to do, you know? You don't like her do you?"

"No, no! I just like to mess around with her." said James. "Can you really see me liking a girl?"

"No" she answered simply, although it hurts her heart terribly. How could this boy be even more clueless? Every girl in Ravenclaw had asked about Elizabeth's and James' relationship.

But sadly, it's still true. He never liked a girl before.

They were seen to be close ever since first year. Some of the girls are even jealous of her for being close to James. Which makes her feel happy, somehow. She felt as if she was more valuable than other girls.

+++

James liked to be fancied. He likes getting the free gifts and sweets from girls. But he never give any girl a gift. Except, Elizabeth, that is. He has no choice anyway, If he wants tutor from her, he would have to give her something in return. And he did, he gave her a blue quill. A small gift, but for her it was very precious. It was prove that James cared for her more than any other girl in Hogwarts in her opinion. Although he said repeatedly, that he never ever ever in his life ever liked a girl.

Elizabeth was sure he was telling the truth. Miraline is just a girl he was teasing with, nothing more. Even Jason and Timothy never really thought he really fancied Miraline. He was just messing around, like any other day.

And he is, it feels like he is messing around, just like always.

One thing he knows for sure is that him and Elizabeth are just friends.

+++

Mira still felt bad about what happened to James. But she ignored the urge to go to the dungeons, and just wait for him in the common room. Timothy and Jason finished pranking early, and spend the rest of their time in the common room. It's odd to see them without James around.

Everyone was laughing again, but not as loud as the usual days, when James is joking with them right in the middle. Miraline would never admit it, but she was actually listening to his joke sometimes. Fighting the urge to laugh when she was reading a book about herbology.

When James entered the common room, his friends greeted him happily.

"Bout' time now, eh, mate?" Jason pat his back "How's detention"

"Bit disappointed you lot didn't come and visit." said James as he sit on the couch, "Thank Merlin I have one company"

Miraline is looking at James, waiting for him to look at her so she could apologize without the others noticing. She can't let anybody know he got detention because of her. Some girls could make her life a living hell.

But James didn't feel her eyes on him. He didn't notice. Maybe he was tired from all the scraping, she thought.

"Elizabeth accompanied you?" Timothy asked out of curiosity, with Miraline still listening. Although she was sitting far away from where he is, she could still hear him perfectly. They were always loud. Some days she wished she couldn't hear that noisy voice. But right now she would very much like to hear what he's got to say.

"Yeah, she did. Bring me hot cocoa too." said James, proudly.

That's when Miraline knew James was messing around with her. She stands up, and decided to say her sorry tomorrow, seeing that he's really busy at the moment.

James finally saw Miraline, when she was leaving the room, but he didn't scream her name. He was too tired to, and he thinks that Miraline could use a day or two without teasing.

"You don't really like her do you, James?"

James knew instantly that Jason was talking about Miraline, seeing that his eyes are still looking at the stairs where Miraline just went."I was just playing with her" James answered with a blank face.

But was he, really?