it's another beautiful day at hogsmeade
Title: No Big Deal
Prompt: 033. Too Much
Characters: Lily Evans/James Potter
Rating: PG
Warning: Mention of sex
Word Count: 200
Her eyes lock with his. Her hands are curled into fists at her side.
“It doesn’t matter, Lils,” he says for the hundredth time.
She shakes her head. “Of course it does.”
How can it not matter? It’s four. Four bloody girls he had sex with. How can that not matter? How can he act like nothing happened and everything should stay the same? It’s not the same. Four stupid… her mind struggles for what to call them.
James sighs. “It doesn’t, Lily. What does it now, anyway? I’m marrying you, not them.”
“Ask me.”
He looks up at her with an odd expression. “What?”
“Ask me,” Lily repeats, sure that he knows exactly what she means.
His brow creases in that way she would normally find incredibly endearing. It just grates farther on her nerves now. “But, Lily, you haven’t -.”
She looks him fully in the eye when she lies, “Two,” with a smirk.
James’ eyes instantly narrow. “What?” he says again, obviously unsure of what to do with this new knowledge. He seems to consider it for a moment. “Lils, you -.”
She cuts him off. “It’s not that big of a deal,” her voice echoes dryly.