Authors Note: Hey guys! So this is my new story! I want you to know I HAVEN'T given up on my other story, I just have writers block and this has been brewing in my mind for a while now! Please PLEASE review and alert! More to come soon!

Chapter 1: Birthday

Its days like this when I wish the world would just open up and swallow me whole. "Lil! Wake UP! Its your birthday!" I groaned and pulled my pillow over my head, "Mum, go away! It's my birthday- I want to sleep in!"

When the yelling stopped I thought it was safe to come out; boy was I wrong.

"Li li! Wake up up up! Its your birfday!" "Max!" I groaned at my brother, "its birthday!" "No no no sissy! Its birfday! It's YOUR birfday!" he sang as he ran out my door and down the hall. As much as I complain about Max, he really is the cutest little brother ever, especially with his lisp…

I crawled out from under my warm covers and I padded downstairs to the kitchen where mum was busy cooking more food than anyone could possibly EVER eat.

"Happy Birthday sweetheart!" she said as she kissed my head. "Morning mum" I said and then sat down with a plop at the kitchen table and watched her bustle around.

I couldn't love her more, she was always there for me when I needed her but was the complete opposite of me. Which I guess would make sense; my parents adopted me when I was 10.

Strangely, I don't remember anything before them. I mean, I know I have some memories…I just can't access them. I was so lost in thought I didn't even notice the person sneaking up behind me, "HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY LILY KINGSTON!" I screamed and fell sideways out of my chair.

"Holy shit Scorp! What the bloody hell was that for!" I yelled as my best friend laughed his ass off. "Sorry Lil…I just couldn't resist!" I stood up and dusted off my bum and sat back down.

"You had better have a REALLY good present for me or your SO on my list of shitness." "Duh!" he said with his snarky voice that he KNOWS I hate, and produced a present from behind his back. Mum laughed as she watched our shenanigans and dismissed this as impressive present hiding, but I knew better. Before a few seconds ago, he hadn't had a present behind his back.

He used magic to get it there.

Scorpius Malfoy had been my best friend for as long as I could remember.

He was my next door neighbor, my confidant, and my brother. We were so close until he turned 12, about a year after I was adopted. That year, he disappeared. Like, literally. I didn't see him at all except at Christmas break when he would say he had been away at boarding school. As we became closer and closer friends I begged him to tell me where he went to school, why I never saw his other friends, or why he didn't just transfer to my school.

He always used to ruffle my hair and say he would tell me someday. At he did. I was 14 and I had just broken up with my 'boyfriend' (I use to term loosely at that age) and needed someone to talk to. So, I went up the hill to Scorp's house and when no one answered the doorbell I went around to the back.

There in the grass was Scorpius holding a wooden stick. Before my eyes he changed a bright red rose into a parakeet and it flew away into the trees. I was in such a state of shock I didn't know what to do. So me being me, I stormed over and kicked him in the side. I yelled at him for a good 15 minutes and he just started at me, scared out of his wits and not knowing what to say. When I finished my rant I looked him square in the eye and told him to say something.

His words would forever be burned into my mind, "Lily, I'm a wizard."

That was two years ago and I think I've adjusted pretty well.

A few weeks after that event he was showing me how the wand worked and he told me I could try. I repeated the strange words after him and a silvery stag erupted from the tip of the wand. I flew backwards and dropped the wand, making the stag disappear.

Scorp was so confused we went to his parents and confessed everything; me knowing he was a wizard, and what Scorp had let me try to do and how it worked. His parents disappeared for a few days after that and when they came back it was like everything was back to normal, except they asked Scopius to give me magic lessons.

Yeah, like actually teach me magic. We started with his old books from his 1st year and moved on up until I was in sync with him perfectly.

I took the present that he handed me and he whispered, "Open it later" and pulled me up from my chair.

"Hey Mrs. K, were going out. We'll be back later!"

My mum just waved and went back to cooking busily over the stove. Once we got out the back door we took off laughing down the hill and into the woods to our 'secret spot'. We had been coming here since I met him and it had been just our place ever since.

"Ok now can I open it! Please please PLEASE!" I said bounding around in circles like a little girl. "Yes Lil, you can open it now!" I wasted no time in tearing into the package, first pulling out a beautiful silver necklace with a very dainty snake with emerald eyes.

"Oh my gosh…Scorp its beautiful. I put it on and smiled at him, I'll never take it off I promise!" then I pulled out a huge heavily bound book from under where the necklace had been. "Gee….thanks Scorp….my very own…dictionary? Hell, this thing is huge!"

Scorpius scowled at me, "Noooo it's your very own spell book for 5th year Hogwarts students!" I looked at him, "Scorp, I don't think I know nearly enough to be in the same year as you! And I'm not even a witch! AND I don't go to Hogwarts!

Scorpius looked at me and rolled his eyes, "Well I'm making you an honorary witch and Slytherin!"

"Ok Scorp whatever you say" I teased. And then with a plop a giant pile of mud was splattered in his almost white blond hair.

"What the fuck Lil! What was that for!" I laughed, dropped the book on a rock, and ran behind a tree as he picked up his own mud pie, "Scorp, no, don't! It was pay back for this morning!"

He came closer and closer, "No..Scorp…DON'T!" but it was too late.

He disapperated from the spot he was in and ended up next to me, slamming the mud pie down into my redish brown hair. "Gotcha!" he yelled and he pushed me against the tree and drew a mustache with mud on my face. "Scorp you are disgusting! Stop it!" and he did.

It was then I noticed how close we were. His whole body was pressed against mine, pinning me to the tree and his hands were on either side of my head holding it still. Why had I never noticed how his eyes were the perfect mix between blue and green? And since when did he have a six pack of abs…

Scorpius took me out of my inner monologue by stepping back. "Sorry Lil…." He muttered and went over to pick up my book off the rock. I followed behind him, still in a daze, "Its alright, sorry for throwing the mud at you…"

He turned around to look at me with his mouth slightly open like he wanted to say something… and then I let him have it. My final mud pie came crashing down on his head. He laughed and pulled at his hair. "Good one Lil…" he said, a smile returning to his face.

He then pulled out his wand and with a swish we were both squeaky clean again. He took my hand and we trudged back up to his house. He told me he would teach me how to play 'wizard chess' but before we got to the end of the pathway to his house I saw his parents standing on the porch, both with crossed arms. Draco Malfoy motioned for his son to come inside and then he and his wife shut the door.

Scorpius looked at me and shrugged, "Better go see what I've done wrong now…" He handed me my book and wrapped his hands around my waist, "Happy Birthday Lily" he said into my ear and then let me go. "I'll text you later so you can come over and learn to play chess! Keep your phone on!"

and with that he ran up the walkway to his house and shut the large dark door. I carried the book home and was able to smuggle it up to my room without my parents seeing it; I didn't need them asking questions about why my best friend would give me a book on 'Magical Spellmanship for 5th Years'. I laid back on my bed, propped up on some pillows, and opened the book. I kept my phone on the rest of the day, but my 6:00pm he hadn't called or texted yet. I went downstairs for supper and when I came back upstairs to check it again he still hadn't contacted me.

"This so isn't like him" I muttered to myself and I picked up the spell book again. After marking the spells I wanted to learn I went back to some of the other books Scorp had let me borrow. As I flipped through the 'Spellmans book of magical and uncommon charms' a a few clips of a news paper fell out.

I picked it up. Like all magical photos, the people in the clip were moving. It was a man and a woman, dressed for a wedding, holding each other and waving happily.

The caption read, 'Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley married- event of the year!' I moved on to the next one, this one was of the same couple holding a baby boy and smiling at the camera while the baby fussed, it read 'New generation of Potters!' I was now completely confused, who were these 'Potters' and why were their lives so interesting that it was published in the newspaper?

Behind that one was another clip of the 'Potters' and another baby boy reading, the most famous headmasters rolled into one! Albus Severus Potter'. But it was the next one that caught my attention more than the others had, it was a picture of the same smiling family, the two boys older now, and the parents holding a baby girl and smiling as the baby laughed at the camera flash. This ones caption read 'Lily of the land, Potters new baby girl'.

I looked closer at the picture and the mothers face looked at the camera. I inhale sharply, she was me. Well…not ME but an older version of me. "No..." I muttered. "It's not possible, my parents died." Then the last one fell to my floor. I bent down to pick it up and I peered close at the clip. There was an even larger picture this time and a big, bold headline that meant it was clearly the front page news at one time.

"Attempted murder of Lily Potter by Death eaters; Child in Hiding. Is Voldemort still with us?" I shivered, the poor child! She seemed only a few years old! The picture showed the Potter family again, except this time no one was smiling. The mother was crying in the father's arms and the fathers arms were wrapped around a small 10 year old…me. It was me.

I looked closer at the picture in astonishment.

That was a 10 year old version of me. I was so sure I would bet my family's life on it. My family had lied to me. My parents weren't dead. They were very much alive. And they were wizards.

And then my world blew up…literally. My house was suddenly engulfed in fire.

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xoxo- Luna