…Right?

I opened my eyes to the bright light coming in through the Hogwarts windows. Curse those windows. I thought. I really didn't want to face today. After all, would anyone after something like this happened to them? I sat up groggily just to be greeted by the cheery noise of Alice,

"Good morning Lily!" She exclaimed as if the morning was the best creation God had the liberty of giving us.

"Hi, Alice," I told her. I sat up and sighed, I really wasn't looking forward to today.

"Why the sad mood, Lily?" Emma asked. Emmaline Vance, not your usual happy peppy person, but today you couldn't see her happier.

"What do you think?" I asked.

"Oh…" she said, at a loss for words. "Well it could have been worse…I mean at least you didn't like say it…in a bad way…"

"I did," I reminded her.

"Oh…well forget that," she said, putting her arm around my shoulders. "At least it's out in the open now. You don't have to hide forever again."

"I wasn't hiding forever Emma! It just sort of slipped out…" I took in her and Alice's disbelieving faces, "Okay…maybe it had been going on for a while…but only this year! I mean…I hated him!...But then we were both made head students and he started being nice…and he wasn't a complete prat…and his head wasn't so inflatable."

Emma and Alice nodded in agreement.

"I see what you mean," Alice told me. "You did hate him…and to say it out loud is pretty embarrassing…but we can't dwell on this!" She jumped up and pulled me up with her, her round face alight with happiness. "Today is Hogsmede, we shall go to the Three Broomsticks and drink butterbeer and this will all be forgotten."

"And you'll be with us." Emma put her arm around my other side.

"But-"

"No "buts" Lily Evans!" Alice chirped, "Look, what happened to you was embarrassing. But you have to look at the good points. We'll be with you today, he hasn't said anything to you yet, so he probably won't today,"

"And if anyone tries to tease you about it we'll hex them so bad they won't be able to tell their head from their tentacles." Emma added as a last resort to make me laugh…it worked.

"Thanks guys," I hugged them.

"Anytime." Emma grinned brightly.

"Now, time to get ready!" Alice said. Emma and I rolled our eyes as she began to usher us to our beds and throw clothes at us.

As I was getting ready with my friends, and talking about our day to Hogsmede my recent thoughts of skipping the whole day in my room seemed stupid. I mean after all, confessing your love for James Potter right in the middle of the great hall during dinner, because the prat made you so mad at him, with his girlfriend right next to him, wasn't too bad of a thing…right?