The nine-year-old girl stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. Her pale blue eyes were focused on her blonde hair. She brought her hand up and touched the golden locks. A frowned formed on her face. Amara didn't always have blonde hair. It used to be the same shade of red that her sister has, but one day it turned blonde. Lily and she had gotten confused for each other by many people when they were younger.

The four-year-old versions of Amara and Lily play in a bored manner with their dolls. Lily kept sneaking glances over at Petunia, who was reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and stared longingly at the book in the older girls hands. Amara, on the other hand, kept sniffing the air as the scent of warm cookies filled the air making her mouth water.

"I'm going to go to the toilet," Amara whispered to Lily. The red-haired girl stood up from her spot on the girl and walked to the dining room, where her grandparents currently were. "Hello." She whispered sweetly. "When are mummy and daddy getting home?" Amara asked. Her grandmother smiled at her.

"They won't be home for another 2 hours." She told her granddaughter. Amara nodded and blinked innocently with a sweet smile.

"May I have a cookie, grandma?" Amara asked. The woman nodded, but her next words annoyed Amara.

"Of course, little Lily."

Amara's facade immediately faded away and an angry frown took over her face. "I'm not Lily. Why am I always Lily, but no one thinks Lily is me? Everyone are big meanie's and... I don't want them to think I'm her!" Amara shouted before storming off to her room.

After that outburst, Amara didn't come out of her room until her parents had finally come back home. Mr. and Mrs. Evans were very surprised when their daughter exited her room with blonde hair. The girl had been ecstatic about it and they didn't have the heart to bring down her mood, so neither of them even questioned it. But Amara hadn't even remembered the incident and assumed that her hair had naturally been that color.

"Amaryllis, hurry up! Mummy said that if we don't go to the playground now then we won't have that much time to play!" Petunia called as she slammed her fist on the door. Amara rolled her eyes and hurriedly tied her hair up. The girl went over to the door and opened it just as her sister raised her fist. "Finally."

"Let's go, Mara!" Lily exclaimed in an enthusiastic tone. The girls had been looking forward to going to the playground since earlier that morning. They all walked out of the house with a wave goodbye to their mother.

"Why don't we just go to the store by ourselves?" Amara asked as she kicked a rock. The girl's tone was dull and she didn't bother hiding the bored expression on her face. Her twin didn't notice the sarcasm that was laced in her voice.

"The store is too far, Mara! Plus we only have Tuney with us for now." Lily explained to her twin. Amara discreetly rolled her eyes and laughed.

"That was sarcasm, Lily," Petunia said. Both blondes laughed at the embarrassed look on Lily's face. Despite their constant arguing, Petunia was closer to Amaryllis. This was secretly an achievement to Amara since it meant that someone preferred her over Lily, not that she'd ever admit it to herself or anyone else.

Petunia and Lily swung back and forth on the swings as they competed on who could go the highest. Amara remained on the ground and searched around for flowers to pick. Her eyes roamed around the area until they stopped on a clump of bushes. The girl's eyebrows furrowed as she saw a slight movement. Amara moved closer to them but spun around when she heard a shriek.

"Lily, don't do it!"

Her twin hadn't listened and jumped from the highest point of the swings. Amara smiled as Lily seemed to fly through the air, and landed very lightly on her feet. This wasn't a rare occurrence, but Petunia would never get over it.

"Mummy told you not to!" Petunia stopped her swing and hopped off with her hands placed on her hips.

"Mum said you're not allowed, Lily!" Amara scolded in a taunting manner.

"But I'm fine, Tuney and Amara, look at this. Watch what I can do," said Lily still giggling. Amara hadn't paid attention since she had seen Lily's magic tricks so many times. Amara just took a seat on the grass and messed with a fallen flower.

"Stop it!" Petunia shrieked once more. Amaryllis winced at the shrillness of her voice. "It's not hurting you," Lily told her older sister. She closed her hand on the blossom and threw it on the ground. Amara frowned as the crumpled blossom slowly floated down. Amara reached out to grab it, not paying attention to her sisters, but the sound of a new voice stopped her.

"It's obvious, isn't it?" A boy asked as he jumped out from behind the bushes beside her. Her eldest sister shrieked, again, and ran back toward the swings. Lily was obviously startled but she remained standing where she was, and Amara stayed calm and collected as though she wasn't even surprised.

"What's obvious?" Lily asked as Amara stared at the boy, and noticed how he had an air of nervous excitement around him. He glanced back over to Petunia and lowered his voice, but not enough to where Amara couldn't hear him. "I know what you are."

"What do you mean?"

"You're... you're a witch." The boy whispered. Amara cringed since she knew that her twin wouldn't react very well to being called that.

"That's not a very nice thing to say to somebody!" Lily shouted. The redhead spun around, her nose high in the air, and stomped over to Petunia. Amara frowned when she realized that Lily had completely forgotten that she was sitting there.

"No!" The boy yelled as he began to run after the girl. Amara sighed, standing up at a slow pace, and casually brushed the dirt off of herself. She walked over to the swings and noticed a conversation going on between all the children.

"Amaryllis, the Snape boy has been spying on us!" Petunia shouted once she spotted her youngest sister. The boy glanced over at the girl as she raised her eyebrows in amusement.

"Haven't been spying," Snape said. Amara saw his flushed cheeks and sweaty eyebrows, her eyes traveled to his overlarge coat, and she wondered why he hadn't taken it off if it was hot. "Wouldn't spy on you two, anyway," Snape added in distaste. "you both are Muggles." His sentence was directed to Petunia and Amaryllis.

Amara hadn't understood the word, but the blonde didn't like that he spat it out like that. Petunia seemed confused yet highly offended.

"Lily and Amaryllis, come on, we're leaving!" Petunia said in a shrill tone. Lily automatically obeyed her sister at once, glaring at Snape, but Amara stayed behind as they began to leave. She removed the hair tie that was on her wrist and handed it out to Snape. The boy looked at it with distaste, but hesitantly took it when he saw the look Amaryllis gave him.

Neither of the children seemed very sociable, and an awkward silence occurred between the two. "What's your name?" Amaryllis asked.

"Severus. Yours?" Amaryllis was about to answer when the sound of two voices stopped her.

"Amaryllis!" Her sisters shouted in unison. She rolled her eyes and waved goodbye to Severus before rushing after her sisters.

"Calm down, I'm coming!"

I do not own harry potter!