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TEMPORARY FEUD
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JAMES HAD BEEN AVOIDING Sirius ever since he caught the twat pinning Gambit on the wall.

They're bestfriends! James couldn't believe how Sirius would do that to him. The girl he just realized he likes--

He stopped. Looking for Peter as he just told his secret to the girl.

"Peter! What the hell mate?!"
He stormed in their dorms, heads turning to see a fuming James Potter.

Peter trembled slightly,
"You found out, huh?"

"You bet your arse I did. I thought you wouldn't say anything?" the boy was fuming, obviously, one of his trusted friends just gave his secret away. Even if he didn't mention his name.

Siriur and Remus looked at eachother,

"James... James, James, James.. This wouldn't have happened if you would've just talked to Lily and confessed to Gambit."

"Wouldn't that be mean? I mean, I gave Lily the notebook filled with poems, and now I'll tell her I like someone else--her bestfriend for that matter..?"

They stayed up all night talking about how to solve this little issue of theirs.
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Students screamed in the stands as the Quidditch teams appeared on the field.

Gryffindor V.S Slytherin

Gambit had stood next to her friends, lungs hurting as she screamed with all her might.

The teams went out on the field, the captains shaking hands before the whistle blew, starting the match.

"Gryffindor versus Slytherin!
Place your bets now as Sirius Black--gorgeous long hair dare I say--has got the Quaffle! Dodging bludgers left, right, up and down and OOH--smacked by Granger Zabini--"

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Ooh's and ah's echoed around the field as Sirius fell on the ground,

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"The Quaffle is taken by Cassius Beckett, and SCORE! Ten points to Slytherin--James Potter spotted the snitch--he has glasses how does he--Another ten points to Slytherin, looks like Gryffindor is a little behind--OOH! Blocked, gaining ten points for Gryffindor!"

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Deafening screams rang in everyone's ears. Slytherins clapping each time they got a point and booing when Gryffindor bested them.
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"Sirius Black dodged two bludgers! Slytherin--Thirty! James Potter and Regulus Black battling for the snitch, who will catch it--Another ten for Gryffindor--"

The players were playing against the weather, almost sliding off their brooms as frost and snow covered the bristles and ice formed on their handles, and just in time as Gambit blinked,

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"James Potter has caught the snitch! One seventy points in total for Gryffindor! We've all expected that one there, lay down your money wankers--sorry Professor--Gryffindor won!

Mal Jordan, now signing off."

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Everyone cheered for Gryffindor while Slytherin clapped.

Lily and Gambit hugged, jumping up and down as Marlene and Alice joined them.
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James rose his hand up, showing everyone the Golden snitch he had acquired. His eyes meet with Gambit, waving to her while grinning as Lily hadn't noticed it was Gambit, she waved back to him, stopping before she noticed it wasn't her he was looking at.

This was new, she thought, every time he'd win a match he'd smile up at her and blow her kisses. Now he's waving at someone else...

But she smiled as they went down the stands, congratulating the winning team.

"Nice work out there, Potter!"
Dorcas ruffled his hair, holding him in a choke hold.

"What about me?! Almost gotten my arm budged off out there!"
Sirius complained, showing his bruised arm.

"Nothing a little Madame Pomfrey won't fix, off you go now Black! Suggest you get that taken care of before it gets amputated!"
Marlene laughed as Sirius gave her the finger, him and Remus going over to the hospital wing.

"That was so cool! Quidditch is so..."
Gambit couldn't find the right words, she was just too excited to have watched her first ever Quidditch match.

"So...?"

"So cool!"
Her friends laughed, as Marlene squished Gambit's cheeks.
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The people were leaving, but just before Gambit could leave, James stopped her.

"Just for a moment," he grabbed her wrist, leading her behind the stands. "We need to talk.."

"Alright, spit it out, champ!"
Gambit giggled,

"It's about... It's about me--well, you also and as well as Lily, but--" he exhaled, calming himself down.

"Do you remember when.. When we kissed under the mistletoe..?"

The girl tensed up and it wasn't because of the cold,
"Well, who wouldn't remember that..?"
She chuckled anxiously, not knowing where this was going.

"I think... I think I might have feelings--"

"Ah! It seems I've forgotten to... Walk my... Owl! Yes, my owl--"

"You don't have an owl, you've got a cat--"

Gambit protested,
"Shush, Potter. Just because you kissed me under the mistletoe does not mean you'd get feelings for me,"

"It wasn't me who kissed you, it was you who kissed me..!"
James furrowed his eyebrows, having remembered Gambit on her tippy toes as she kissed him.

"Yeah, because you wouldn't let me--"

"Wait.."

A third voice appeared.
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James and Gambit had froze, their heads turned at the same pace to see Marlene with a not so pretty expression.

"That's not a pretty face.."
James said, trying to diffuse the tension.

"I thought it was weird seeing you two run off together, now I know.. You've been secretly seeing eachother behind everyone's back!"
She yelled, pointing a finger at the both of them.

"I--What?! We're not--We're not seeing eachother? Why would we anyway?!"
Gambit retorted, feeling a little heat rather than cold.

"Then what was that kiss you mentioned? Hmm?"

"It was just under a mistletoe, it didn't mean anything--"

"It didn't mean anything to you..?"
James felt pained by this,

"Of course it didn't! James likes Lily, you know that Marlene."

"I don't like Lily anymore, alright?! She's... A great girl, but I just don't feel the same anymore.."

The three stood silent. Gambit sputtering out words to say as Marlene marched off,

"I'm telling Lily--"

"Wait!"

The couple chased after their curly blonde, stomping each step. Their yells attracted the ears and eyes of bystanders as they'd watch the girls have a talk.

"You should've told her!"

"What do you mean I should've--I don't have anything to do with this!"
Gambit defended herself, her patience getting thinner and thinner.

"Of course you do, you're both leading her on..! Can't you see how much that poor girl--"
Marlene stopped herself. Not wanting to expose Lily's feelings in front of the whole school.

James didn't know what to do as the girls grew aggressive. He stood back, feeling his friends come back and ask him what happened.
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"What is it with children and fighting?! Honestly..."
Madame Pomfrey tutted, tending to Gambit's bruised cheek. Applying ointment to scratches and bruises on her arms and body.

Marlene had it worse.

A black eye and a broken nose. Fingers that were jammed hard and a hand print on her face as Gambit slapped her back.

Marlene couldn't hold her anger as Gambit's voice got louder. Slapping the girl across the face, resulting in a fight between them.

Their friends don't know what caused this. All they know they were talking about someone and all hell broke loose.

Sirius had a suspicion that James had something to do with this.