Breaking Out

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Author's Note - The story starts just before Lily's seventh year at Hogwarts but I may write some short stories of her earlier years. Enjoy and please review!

Chapter 1

Humming as she swept a brush through her long auburn hair Lily Potter smiled at herslef in the mirror. Even if her skin had too many freckles and her hair was already falling back into the waves it had naturally even after the straightening charm Lily knew she looked quite good. A simple glamour charm had paled her skin so that her freckles could barely be seen and she had used makeup to darken her eyes making them seem more mysterious. She was wearing a short red dress over skinny jeans and it was rather low cut and hugged her figure so that she seemed to have curves in all the right places - as long as her father and her brothers didn't see it she would get away with it.

Tonight Lily's friend Samantha Nott - a Slytherin in her year with a wicked sence of humour and a father who let her get away with anything - was holding the biggest party of the summer as a final release before school restarted. Lily was privately celebrating because she had also just become Head Girl at Hogwarts but she hadn't told anyone but her mum yet and that was the way she liked it. Her brothers, Albus and James, would never leave her alone if they knew she was head girl. Lily's first six years at Hogwarts had been quite good. On her first journey she had met five other girls who quickly became her best friends even if they were all in different houses. There was Samantha of course - who loved any excuse to party and would do anything for a dare. She had once been dared to go down to breakast in the great hall at Hogwarts naked and she did. For that she had recieved a whole months detention and many boys following her around hoping she would do it again. Samantha was the complete opposite to Lily on most things but she was the girl Lily was closest to. Annie and Lisa Britt were two muggleborn Hufflepuffs that Lily had also met on the train. They were quieter than Samantha but they were very loyal and liked to help their friends out. Lily's fondest memory of Annie was when Lily had stayed up all night revising in her second year for end of term exams that she had real trouble concentrating in class. Annie had pretended to be sick and asked for Lily to take her to the hospital wing giving Lily the free time to sleep. Lisa had once encouraged first and second years to race and have people bet on them so that the money could be donated to charity. She had raised over a thousand galleons for St Mungos trust for Sick Children. In Ravenclaw there was Freda Lucs and Jemima Lanks - probably the smartest girls in the entire school. There was no problem that they couldn't solve. The two girls had once been double dared by Samantha to tell the arithmancy teacher Professor Franklin that he had very bad body oder and they had done it - just not the way Samantha had expected them to. They had framed some poor first years for it and since then the old proffessors repungent oder had lessened slightly. Lily had had a pretty normal time at Hogwarts compared to that of her father. The worst that had happened to her was a boyfriend who was a lot older than her and wanted a more mature relationship than the thirteen year old girl she had been at the time could give but Lily didn't like to think about that. Her dad would kill her if he ever found out. Now she was a Head Girl.

After a final glance in the mirror Lily swung her dark cloak around her making sure her clothes were completely covered so that if she did happen to run into her over protective father or brothers they could only moan about her makeup. She then snuck out of her bedroom as quietly as she could.

"You took your time!" Samantha Nott greeted her best friend as she led her into the already packed party. The smell of sweat and alcohol was rich in the air as teenagers danced together not caring about house loyalty, grades or anything really.

"You try sneaking out of my father's house. I had to break through about six security charms and then put them back the way I found them!" The friends hugged and the Sammy handed her friend a bottle of a mysterious red liquid.

"This will let you catch up!" She shouted over the music - a new dance tune from one of Freda's favourite bands. "I'm gonna find someone to dance with!" Sammy shouted before disappearing into the crowd.

Several hours and many dances later Lily sat on one of the benches at the edge of the ballroom drinking a tall cool glass of water. She could see Jemima dancing with a Hufflepuff boy named Johnathon. Freda was close by with the twins all dancing together attracting many stares because they were all joking about and not taking themselves half as seriously as most of the other girls in the room. Samantha had disappeared about half an hour before with her on off boyfriend Greg Halls, an ex Slytherin who was now working in the department of magical sport in the ministry.

"So why is the Potterette not dancing with all her little friends this evening?" Lily rolled her eyes as she turned to look at Leo Malfoy the youngest son of Draco malfoy and the bane of Lily's existance.
"Potterette is drinking a glass of water and was having a perfectly pleasant time until you turned up." She glanced at him. "What's wrong? Couldn't find a single person to dance with you?" She taunted.

"No one I haven't danced with before." He paused looking her up and down. "Why don't you dance with me?" His dark eyes sparkled at her, daring her to say yes and as usual he had that aweful cocky smile on his face.

"Not in a million years." With a sigh Malfoy swept his hand through his bright blond hair messing it out of its perfect parting. He looked at her and his eyes darkened. He took a step closer to her till one of his hands rested on the bench close beside her and the other took her drink from her. Lily could feel her breath quicken but didn't understand why. "Are you afraid you might enjoy it?" He whispered so that only she could hear. "Afraid that you might like doing something you precious daddy would disaprove of?"

"Are you challenging me Malfoy?" Lily asked.

"Are you afraid"
"I'm not afraid of anything!" Lily pushed past him and led Leo onto the dance floor. He pulled her back towards him and began to sway with her to the music. Their eyes locked and Lily brought her arms up around his neck. His hands squeezed her hips as his eyes left hers to travel down her body once again.

"So what does daddy think of your outfit tonight?" he asked, whispering in her ear as he pulled her closer.

"What he doesn't know won't hurt him." Malfoy reached up for her hands as the song changed into a latin style rythm and their dancing got faster. "I'm suprised Malfoy, you are actually a decent dancer." Lily told him as he dipped her low after a spin, his hands trailing up her sides as he pulled her upright again.

"You're not so bad yourself." He let out a gasp as her hips moved against his and he spun her around again. "Who would have guessed sweet and innocent Miss potter would dance in such a way"
The music turned to a slow song and lily placed her arms around his neck again and his hands descended to her hips. They both used the time to catch their breath again. His eyes caught hers and they watched each other as they swayed slowly. A tremble ran through Lily as he pulled her closer. He licked his lips and she saw his glance dart down to hers. Lily felt her pulse quicken once again as he lowered his head towards hers. Suddenly the lights went on. Lily blinked and Leo Malfoy quickly let go of her, stepping away as if he could catch something.

"Sorry guys but it has just passed four in the morning so it is about time to go. Goodnight!" Sammy's voice echoed over the room and everyone started to leave.

Lily swore loudly as she stumbled back into the house only just remembering about the security spells moments too late. A loud wail started out and Lily ducked a spell from her auror faher who had expected a dark wizard.

"What in the world are you doing up young lady?" Harry potter demanded after he had readjusted the spells.

"Eh... I was thirsty?" Lily suggested, hugging her cloak to her to make sure her dad didn't see her outfit.

"Why are you wearing our cloak?"

"Er... I was cold?" Lily knew the intant she said it that that had been a stupid thing to say. Her father was stood there in a light tshirt and shorts because of the summer heat. Luckily Harry's face went from angry to worried and he rushe over to put a hand on her forehead.

"You don't seem to have a temperature." he muttered. "Get a drink and go straight to bed. I don't want to hear any excuses"
"Yes dad." she sighed, silently celebrating that she had gotten away with it after all.

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