Delusional Minds
LD: oh my goodness… I can't believe it! I was finally got off my lazy butt and wrote this!!! Okay, fine, I'm still sitting on my lazy butt, but still, I bothered to write this!!! Kittie, can you believe it?! Anyways, the title's sort of random, I couldn't think of anything so I just put that… probably will change later though!
Kittie: …shut up and get on with the fic already! People don't want to hear your stupid blabbering!
LD: oh shush you! Don't you dare tell me to shut up! I'm the author for crying out loud!
Kittie: and I'm your wake up call. Now get on with it already!
LD: okay! Okay! Anyways, that's Kittie, my little angel who sits on my right shoulder –nudges right shoulder-
Kittie: you better stop that before I get totally ticked off…
LD: you know, for an angel, you're not that angelic.
Kittie: thank you.
LD: -rolls eyes- whatever. This is my first HP fic, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE R+R! I'd very much appreciate it if you do! It's J/L so yeah, hope you like!
Disclaimer: I OWN HP AND ALL OF ITS CHARACTERS!!!!!!! -Kittie whacks her around the head- Oww!!! Okay, fine, I DON'T own HP and all of its characters, happy? -Chokes back tears- although I know I should!!! I never would have killed off Sirius! I never would have killed off Lily and James! I never would have made Voldermort so strong!!! JK is EVIL!!! EVIL I TELL YOU!!! –Kittie whacks her around the head…again- Okay, okay, fine. I'll shut up now. Here's the fic!
Summary: MWPP-L+J have been friends since the first year of Hogwarts, but Lily gradually likes him more than that. When she finally plucks up the courage to tell him, he reveals the truth, making her hate him in every way possible… Set in their 5th year. Will be J/L I promise!
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Chapter One
Lily Evans screamed as she felt ice cold water poured over her head. The next thing she heard was the laughter of her best friends: Arabella Figg and Melissa Laine. They'd been friends ever since their first meeting on the Hogwarts Express when they started school. Lily was amazed and shocked but none the less, pleased when she received her letter telling her she was a witch, and her parents were behind her 100%. Her sister, Petunia, however, did not approve one little bit. She hated it. She called Lily names, took the mick out of her whenever their parents had their backs turned. She often gave Lily the evils, and threatened her night and day. Why? Simple. She was a witch, and Petunia hated anything and everything that had something to do with supernaturalism.
Arabella was the outgoing type who never thought before she spoke or acted, so it was most likely her who thought up the idea. Her shoulder length dark hair and dark eyes made her somewhat mysterious to those who had never met her before, but for those who had, they almost knew her inside out for she loved to gossip and blab about everyone, including herself. If you wanted to find out the current hottest news, or wanted to know who was going out with whom, you'd go to her. She was smart, but no where near as hard working as Lily, whom she usually relied on to copy off if she was too lazy to do her own work. It's a wonder that Lily actually let her, being Lily and all, in fact, it's a wonder they're even friends, seeing as they were nothing alike, but never the less, they were best mates, and nothing was going to change that.
Melissa, however, was more like Lily. Personality-wise, that is. They both concentrated quite a lot on their studies, and were not as outgoing. They tended to keep things to themselves, but never from each other. Melissa was the sort of 'agony aunt' kind that you could go to when you're having problems and such. But unlike Lily, Melissa had always managed to get a boyfriend, whenever and wherever she wanted. She had long hair, past her shoulders, but not as long as Lily's, whose red hair almost dropped down to her waist. Melissa's hair was black and feathered with streaks of fiery red in it which suited her perfectly. She usually had it up in a French plait or something. It depended on which mood she was in. On this particular morning, she had it down.
Lily was dripping wet.
"Oh my g- WHAT was that for?!" She fumed, dripping wet, demanding an answer before she decided how to murder her friends, who still stood their laughing non-stop. It was then that she realised it wasn't only the three of them in the dorm room. There were male voices too, and one which was oh so familiar. Too familiar…Lily thought. Her expression suddenly showed surprise and realisation. "JAMES?!"
"Finally, you're up! Do you know how late you are? Madame Nelson wants that herbology homework in, and-" James started, but didn't have a chance to finish, as Lily had just bolted out of the room – wet pyjamas and all.
"OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW LATE I AM! How could I have overslept?! Why didn't you wake me up sooner?" she yelled up the stairs, whilst grabbing her bag and stuffing all her class work in there at the speed of light.
"Umm… yeah, we're fine, thanks for asking!" Bella called out sarcastically. Lily scowled. She had no time for this. She didn't even have time to realise that it was only 7:30 in the morning, and that it was actually a Saturday.
Lily shot out of the common room faster than a speeding bullet and ran down to herbology.
"Sorry I'm so late, Madame Nelson, I accidentally overslept and-" but she stopped in mid-sentence, as she realised the room was blatantly empty. Lily gasped in shock as reality slapped her in the face – it had been a prank! Why those…Lily thought, as she started back to the common room, ready to blast or hex her room mates into oblivion, further, if she was to be in an even fowler mood then she already was in.
Lily scowled as amused faces turned her way. They were all obviously hiding laughs, but why? What're they looking at? Never seen a person drenched in their pyja- oh no…Lily looked down, dreading the truth, but it was staring her straight in the eyes. She'd been in such a hurry that she'd forgotten to get changed, and dry herself after the water incident. Unfortunately for her, there had been a lot of water in that little glass, and whilst she'd been running, the water had too – down her pyjamas. Now it looked like she had wet herself. Oh no…oh no… why me? Damn those stinking-bratty-good-for-nothings! Call themselves my friends? PAH! Wait till I get my hands on them! Lily thought furiously as she power-walked all the way back to the common room. Thank god she was a prefect, otherwise those pupils would have laughed their heads off right in front of her, and that would have been even more humiliating then it already was! What were they doing up that early anyway? Forget it, Lily couldn't care less anyway. All she wanted to do was get back to her dorm as soon as possible, and bury herself under her covers and never come out again, but she'd deal with her 'friends' first
"Potatoes." Lily said as calmly as possible. She didn't want anyone to think she was upset that she'd been totally humiliated. Thank god I didn't bump into a teacher!
The fat lady swung open, revealing a group of students, including the marauders and her two best friends, laughing uncontrollably. Half of them were using the sofa as support and were clutching their sides because they'd laughed so much. When they saw Lily, they began to laugh harder, if that was at all possible. Lily was just surprised that they weren't afraid of what they'd get as a punishment.
"So, you think this is funny, eh?" Lily questioned, anger blaring visibly in her eyes. "I'll show you what's funny!" And before she could have time to think of the consequences of her actions, an endless chain of hexes had shot out from her wand, aimed at the giggling group on the ground, funnily enough, none of these included James Potter, for he was merely smiling and leaning casually against the wall, watching the sight, and boy was it a sight. (A/N: I'm not going to go into detail with that. You can just imagine some of the things Lily Evans is capable of!) Then she hexed the rest of the people in the room – unsuspecting or not.
Lily breathed, looking at her wand work. Not bad.
"Ehhem." Someone cleared their throat behind her. She spun around. Her eyes widened in shock. Not only had this person managed to stay standing, they were also unhexed, unhurt, undamaged in ANY way!
"James! But- but how? How did you-?" Lily choked. No one had managed to escape her unharmed whilst she was on a hexing rampage, which didn't happen very often, and yet, James had managed it! She looked at him, half impressed, half agitated.
James smirked, and walked towards her, making some of the air around him shimmer. A shield charm… a very strong shield charm! No wonder! Lily grinned. He wasn't her best friend, but he was a great friend, who knew her tricks, and managed to perfect a counter charm for all of them. It was surprising to her that he had that much patience and took such an interest to her, for he certainly didn't show it elsewhere. Figures. If Bella and Liss were like that then there'd be no threatening them. I guess only James had that much patience. Pity it's not half as big as his ego…
"Nice job." He commented.
"Nicer if I got you too. How dare you trick me like that?!" Lily death-glared, but James' smirk never faded. He was used to it, and had been for the past 4 and a half years since they'd been friends. Sure, the first time he saw her eyes blazing, he was practically grovelling for mercy, but not any more.
"Simple. Thought it'd be funny to see you pull something like this. Not every day you get to see Lily Evans, the perfect prefect get in trouble." He answered as his smirk grew as Lily paled, suddenly remembering how much trouble she'd get for this. "It wasn't my idea anyway," James continued, "you should thank Bella and Liss for thinking it up."
Lily opened her mouth to speak but was suddenly cut off by a shrill voice.
"What in heavens is this?!"
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LD: Yay! First chappie done! Please R+R! I'll love you all lots if you do! =D=D Anyways, I think it's okay so far, right? Flames welcome… sorry if I stole your idea but I haven't seen anyone with this kind of prank/summary/fic etc. so yeah. Tell me what you think! Thanks! I'll have more description next chap, I think…depends what mood I'm in.
~3 Always,
~Cryst
AKA LivingDreams
