ANYTHING BUT THAT: what is the one question that Lily Evans has always been afraid to have asked...?
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Mature: having reached full growth or development (mostly Check) having or showing fully developed mental powers (check) capable of reasoning (check. Unless around Potter) acting sensibly (...not so check) lets face it I am mostly mature for my age. I may have slip ups now and then but hey mature boring 99 of the time. And boring is definitely not how I like to live.
"Lilyyyy!!!!!" my eyes opened to see my best friend of many years Indi jumping on my bed trying to wake me up. "Lily get your lazy arse out of bed now!" She was trying to pull the blankets off me but it didn't work because I was a lot stronger then her. "come on Lils Hogwarts letters are here" I could hear the bribery in her sing song voice but it turned into laughter as I leaped out of bed knocking her on the floor.
"Where are they?" I demanded she held up her hand and I pulled her up of the floor while I pulled her up with one hand she handed me the familiar thick parchment with the other. I looked at the curvy green writing on the front practically dying to know what lay inside. "Come on, come on" I whispered to myself while fighting to release the letter from its case.
"HEAD GIRL" I shouted grabbing Indi into a tight hug and jumping up and down with tears in my eyes. Head girl was something I had worked towards for my 6 completed years at Hogwarts and finally the work had paid out. I released Indi and went back to flicking through my letter. There was a part about making head girl and my duties for September 1st, a list of school books that we'd go shopping for later, and the results of my 6th year exams. I was so absorbed in flicking through the papers I hadn't noticed Indi was stuttering besides me.
"What's up?" I asked. She cracked a smile and thrust her letter into my hand "Oh my god your 7th yr Gryffindor Prefect." This calls for some chocolate. I reached under my bed and pulled out a bag containing my stash of chocolates from honeydukes. Mum had Petunia and I on a diet well according to her it wasn't a diet more of a healthy eating plan. So as expected there wasn't much in my chocolate bag. We gobbled up the chocolate savouring the taste. It was the last chocolate we'd be getting until we went back to school.
Indi has always since we were eleven stayed at my house as often as she could. She hated it at home she had parents that absolutely freaked when they found out she was a witch and they cut her out of the family. They never knew infact that I wasn't a muggle and Indi would never tell them that I was a witch it could make things ten times worse. Indi and I had decided to do our school shopping the day after we got our Hogwarts letters so we had an excuse to get away from my sister Petunia as soon as possible no matter how long it was for.
We were just sitting and chatting when I heard a low rumble. Indi and I started laughing. Her stomach had always let her know when she was hungry and unfortunately that was all of the time. We went downstairs to where mum was watching TV. We told her our fabulous news about our new leadership roles and informed her that we would need to go shopping to get our school stuff.
Mum had insisted upon splashing out and making us pancakes. I gave her a quizzical look. "What you can have a treat to celebrate by. And tomorrow we will go and get your school things."
"Thanks mum" was the response from both me and Indi. After Indi had pretty much moved in with us, my mum had always insisted on her calling her mum and not Rose, or Mrs Evans like she did when we were younger. Quite alike Mum Indi also called my dad, Dad though he was rarely home during the day. We only saw him ever so often when he would take time off from the family owned restaurant to spend time with us or if we'd eat there. However he was at home today and helped mum with making breakfast.
After washing up the dishes Indi and I went for a walk to get out of the house for a bit. We walked down to the abandoned park that used to be so full when we were kids. Kids nowadays just hung around inside sitting on the computer playing games all day. We grabbed our iPods and set them to the same song as we walked towards the park. The both of us had the same music and play lists. Things like this tend happen when you are such close friends we had the same taste in music clothes etc, and we had our colours mine was pink while Indi's was green. While we were walking down the street we started singing aloud. To us we never cared what people thought of us we just did what we wanted.
When we got to the park I pulled my headphones out of my ears. Indi was quick to follow. We just sat on the swings and talked for a while it had become a kind of tradition. We would talk about our other friends, Sarah, Katherine, Alice and Lizzie. The 6 of us were all in Gryffindor. Alice we knew had a soft spot for Frank Longbottom. We had often heard her talking to Lizzie about him.
While Indi and I were talking about our mates and other stuff I got bored so I bent down and picked up a handful of sand from the ground while she wasn't watching I threw it all over her. This was always the start of one of our many fights. People never understood the point of our pillow, snow, water or sand fights but it was just us being kids. We were quite regularly called immature but we didn't really care.
I leaped of the swing and ran away from Indi who was chasing me her hands full of sand. We ran around the park before we got tired and it was Indi who had surrendered. Flopping back on the grass we just talked about what kind of year this one was going to be.
The next day I woke first to mum knocking on the door. Since we were 11 we always woke up early on Diagon Alley days. Mum handed me some muggle money which we would change over when we got to Gringotts bank, and she dropped us off at the station. Living a bit out of London Indi and I always made the best of the train ride with just chatting while we each had one of our headphones in and the volume turned down. It took us a good hour to arrive in the central of London where we made our way to the leaky cauldron. We went through the pub and out into the streets of Diagon Alley. Other then a brief toilet stop our first stop was to Gringotts so Indi could get some money out of her bank and I could get mine changed over. When Indi was disowned from her family her parents left her with enough money to get her through school. She had opened an account at Gringotts in her first year. After that we had to stop for ice-cream straight away. The two of us were addicted to sweets.
We decided on getting all of our school supplies early before the crowds really started to rush in. Face it who would want to be in a confined street trying to buy stuff for school while in the midst of masses of people. After a few hours we had bought everything we needed for the school year all new books, parchments, robes, quills, and although Indi and I still slipped in ordinary muggle pens into our trunks because they were easier to use when re-writing notes or writing long assignments we still had to use the quills and inkpots.
It wasn't too long after we had done our shopping and bought some extra stuff for ourselves we decided to go back out onto the muggle side because it was so busy we couldn't move.
We were walking along the street when Indi pointed out a random shop. "What's in there" she said. I shrugged and followed her through the door. When inside we found that it was an underwear shop. And they actually had some really nice stuff. We decided to try on some new things I needed new undies and pyjamas after making out a selection we both slipped into the change room to try them on.
I tried on the pyjama's first. There was a little night gown that was a bright pink colour. The top over lapped like a wrap around type thing with a hot pink border. There were a few really cute pink embroidered flowers on the bottom left corner. It was a definite. the second pair of Pj's I tried were just a pair of little shorts they were pink and green a def for me and Indi. The top to go was a plain white one with small amounts of pink and green stripes across the chest. They were simple but hot. Both me and Indi got a couple of pairs of Pj's and some matching undies. We had taken a fettish for it like as soon as we started to grow boob's it was just something we had in common. No not the boobs coz funny enough we are both girls but the matching undies.
After paying the lady and exiting the shop we heard a few whistles. I turned around to see none other then the infamous Marauders well James and Sirius, Remus and Peter were nowhere to be seen. We ignored them and walked away when Potter grabbed onto my arm.
"Don't be like that" he said. I replied with a "Like what"
"We haven't seen you in a while no need to ignore us. Just wanted to say hi and see how your hols are going?"
"No need to be rude but we really have to get going" it surprised Potter to see that the comment had not infact come from me as expected but from Indi. I had just remained silent as I walked away.
When we were out of earshot from the guy's I lent over and whispered "thank you" in Indi's ear, just in case. The marauders had ways of hearing everything. They were the real pranksters of the school. Always in detention well more Sirius and James rather then Remus though peter did have a tendency to get caught.
You see earlier when I told you we were talking about other stuff what I really meant was we were talking about these guys. It was common knowledge amongst the Hogwarts students, that they were hot and all but it was also common knowledge that I hated Potter. He had this annoying habit of asking me out all the time. And I don't mean maybe once or twice a week it was more once or twice an hour. Ok so you may be thinking why I won't go out with a hot guy? The answer is simple yet annoying cause I'm scared of going out with people. So I pretend to hate the bastard simple. No one apart from Indi knows this though. Its one thing I have never been able to do go out with a guy.
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