Disclaimer: these characters do not belong to me! Except Lizzy and Madi.
A/N: Okay! This is only my second fanfic, but I have a feeling it is going to be better than the first! I sure hope so, too...
Chapter 1
Lily's POV:
beep..beep..beep..beep..beep..
It's the middle of the summer, no alarm should wake me up when it is summer...
beep..beep..beep..
Why, in Merlin's name, would an alarm be going off?
Beep..beep..
I moan and turn to slap the alarm, but instead on finding the flat surface of the alarm my arm keeps going and finds the floor first, my body is soon to follow. I groan and try to sit up, but my body is completely entangled in blankets, more blankets, I know, than I fell asleep with on my bed. I squirm and thrash, trying to free myself from the mass of blankets and sheets that encase me, but to no avail.
I hear muffled laughter through the blankets, and I plea for help from the dark, soft, and suffocating prison.
I feel several hands pressing and pulling on the soft blankets, and the laughter of my friends continued to get louder as the blankets loosened and fell from me to the ground.
The blankets finally gave way and I was freed from the colorful mass. I just lay panting on the rugged green carpet of my room.
"You guys are monsters," I say between breaths.
"Love you, too!" Madi sings, smiling over me.
In one swift movement I grab on of the blankets on the ground, trip Madi, and lung at her, covering her face with the turquoise comforter. We wrestle in this manner for about five minutes before we are both out of breath and panting.
"Wow, we should have gotten that on tape!" I hear Lizzy laughing.
"Thank you, so much, for not thinking about that beforehand." I say, trying to sit back up.
"Your welcome!" Madi joked.
I looked at my friends, friends I had missed so much this summer, friends that really knew me, and we shared everything together. We were all witches who went to Hogwarts, a school for witches and wizards, all of us were in the Griffindor seventh year. Our last year at school.
I am muggle born, or some people refer to me as a Mudblood, but those are only people who are not worth your time and effort, and I have been called that hideous name so many times I have grown to ignore it. My friends haven't though.
Madi was still lying on the floor, with my comforter on top of her, only her dark brown hair was poking out. She was my best friend, we were almost exactly the same, but with just the right amount of differences to make us perfect friends.
Lizzy was sitting on my bed, watching the scene with interest that only she could have. Her deep blue eyes seemed to always be taking things in, and she was so smart, and an amazing witch. Her blond hair fell in perfect curls around her face, she seemed like a picture, always so perfect and she never seemed to be embarrassed, and was just about the opposite of me.
Mary seemed to be the connector of all of us. She held us together, and not just our friendship, but each of us individually. She was such a perfect listener and always seemed to know what to do. She was quite shy when around people at school that she didn't know well, but when you get her alone and with people she is really comfortable with, you couldn't get a crazier person if you tried.
And then there was me. The klutz of all klutzes, and everyone knows it, too, the most awkward girl you can find when it comes to boys, and a muggle born, but I must admit, I am good in school, and I am a pretty good cook, if I do say so myself.
"So... how has your summer been up to this point?" Lizzy asked.
"Just plain horrid. Petunia has a fat ugly boyfriend, and might I add that he is just a horrendous character! She avoids me like the plague and when she is near me she is the most awful person on the face of the planet. My parents treat me normally, and try to fend Tunie off, but there is no stopping her, and she just hates them now too. On the bright side, my letter came earlier this week and I'm going to be Head Girl." I end with a smile.
"No way!" Madi jumps up. "Congrats! I knew you would be, just a gut feeling."
I rolled my eye's, "Right. Just like you knew that Lizzy was going to get it? I rather wish you did, you would do a much better job than I would."
"Ya right, you will do wonderfully. I guarantee it. I guessed that you got it when I got my prefect badge this year. It pointed that they needed someone from our year as a prefect, and so I guessed." Lizzy smiled, she had always wanted to be a prefect, and I had always wanted her to be one also.
"Serious? Nice! I didn't even think about how they would get someone else, I guess it makes sense!" I sighed, "I wonder who head boy will be."
"If he's in Griffindor, I'm betting on Remus." Lizzy said casually.
"Agreed." Both Madi and I say together.
"Ya," Mary said. "It's bound to be him."
"What time is it?" I asked Mary, the only girl wearing a watch.
"Half past nine." She said glancing at it.
"Seriously?" Madi jumped to her feet, "We've got to hurry, I promised them we would be in Diagon Alley at ten-thirty!"
"Promised who?" I asked.
"Friends from school, who happens to be my next door neighbor, so we planned it so we could all get together before school starts again." Madi explained.
"Which friend?" I asked skeptically. She would usually just say, unless she was hiding something.
She ignored me though, and started digging through my closet, looking at my muggle clothes.
"This is cute!" She pulled out a light pink tank and held it up to me.
"And way to small!" I said pushing it aside. "Last time I wore it was the summer before our third year."
"Where are the things that fit you then?" Madi asked, looking in the back of the closet.
"Right here." I pick up a t-shirt from the shelf and throw it over the green tank top I am wearing.
"Come on! Can't I pick out what you're wearing?" Madi complains.
"Nope!" I reply as I pick up my navy blue sweat shirt and head down stairs.
"Oh, I'll get you into something cute someday! Just you wait!" She ran ahead of me, followed closely by Mary, while Lizzy caught up to me and we walked into the kitchen to the welcoming sight of breakfast.
There it is! Please tell me if you liked it! or hated it, preferably liked, but I want to know what you think about it! Thanks for reading!
