A/N: I know that I never finished my other Lily story, but I got bored with
it and I've been out of town over Christmas(or Holiday) break. I decided
I'm not going post this story unless I have the next couple of chapters
written so I can post quickly. Thanks for all of you who reviewed my last
story. I really appreciate it. It makes me happy that people like what I
do for fun. Also, others asked about this so I am going to make it clear
now. I don't like Peter, so I decided to make him a year behind because
you always read that he is not as smart, so I assumed him to be younger.
Hope that clears up some confusion.
Disclaimer: Personally I think these are stupid but for those of you who care; Nothing here is mine except Melissa, Chloe(I need her) and all the other people you don't recognize. I am not planning on making any money off of this so don't worry.
Chapter 1- Friends
Friendship is born at the
moment when one person
says to another "What! You too?
I thought that no one but myself"
Lily Evans was standing in the train station between platforms nine and ten. Her parents had just walked away leaving her to find her platform by herself because her stupid sister Petunia had to be home for a date. "Yeah, a date with her mirror because she's so obsessed with herself." Lily smiled.
She looked at her watch and saw that she only had five minutes to get on the platform. She looked around to see if anyone else had luggage as strange as she. The moment she turned around three boys and one girl grabbed her arm and pulled her through a brick wall between platforms nine and ten.
"I couldn't watch you look at that stupid wall any longer." The girl said smiling at Lily. "I'm Chloe. And these are my boys." She said pointing at the three boys that she had come in with. They were busy loading trunks onto the train.
They came over to Lily and Chloe. "I'm Lily Evans. Thanks for grabbing me. I thought that I wouldn't make the train. Come on, let's get on and then you can make your introductions." They ran over to the train and found a compartment that was empty.
"Well, who are you? You know who I am." Lily asked the moment they sat down. "Sirius Black at your service madam. If I can help you in any way, please do tell me." He said as he stood up and kissed Lily's hand. She giggled.
"Excuse him Lily, he's always like that. I'm Remus Lupin by the way. Nice to meet you. Glad we came up on you in the station? I would be." A blond haird boy said who was sitting next to Lily.
"James your turn." Chloe said. He removed himself from Sirius' headlock and went up to Lily and shook her hand, "I'm James Potter. Nice to meet you." Then went back to Sirius.
While the boys were rolling around the floor of the compartment Chloe and Lily got to know eachother better. "What did you mean when you called them 'my boys'"? Lily asked.
"Oh, I've grown up with them. We've lived on the same block for our whole lives. James and I are born on the same day even. It's kinda like we're twins. Sirius has always acted like that. I think that he thinks that he needs to one-up his brother Sklar. But he's in France on Gringotts business. Remus has always been quiet. I think it's because his mother is very sick and he always has to visit her." Chloe said laughing because James had just pinned Sirius to the ground.
Lily smiled to herself. She has never had a real best friend as a child. Only a few aquantinces, but this never bothered her. She always had her mother as her best friend. Now she realized what a treasure a best friend is and she was glad to have four of them and it was only a few hours into a whole year.
The boys had retreated into playing wizards chess when the compartment door slammed open. They all looked up and upon realizing who it was James, Chloe and Sirius jumped up.
"I thought I'd find you scum in here. If I remember right James you owe me ten galleons and you Miss. Rivers owe me a kiss." Said a greasy, long haired boy that stood in the doorway with three of his friends.
"Snape I will never kiss you. And if I do remember correctly that it's not me who owes you the kiss, but your own slimy girlfriend Hanna. So think again." Chloe said. "Thanks for sticking up for me to Chlo' I thought we were friends." James whispered. He walked up to Snape and looked at him for a minute before he shoved him out of the doorway and said, "Snape, you leave me and everyone else alone this year. Promising school was hard enough for both of us on eachothers case then. Watch your back around us because we aren't going to take your crap this year." And then he closed the door.
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Lily followed the throng of eleven year olds into the Great Hall for the sorting ceremony. "My brother said something about getting three of five spells correct, but don't worry, all you have to do it try on a hat." Sirius said to the group. "Welcome to Hogwarts. When I call your name please come up and sit on the stool and be silent." A strict witch called out.
The list started with ADAMS, CHASE and soon arrived to Lily. Sirius had already been made a Gryffindor and as she walked up on stage she said a prayer that she'd make it into Gryffindor. The last thing she saw was James, Chloe and Remus giving her a thumbs up and a warm smile from a wizard she assumed to be Dumbledore only because of his beard.
Soon, a little voice started to speak in her right ear. "You have a beautiful mind young lady. An Evans no doubt. Your grandmother was the same way. I almost put her in Slytherin. You'd do well in there too. But I assume since I put your friend in Gryffindor you want to go there too." "Look Hat, I wanna go in Gryffindor and if you don't put me there I am going to stomp on you." Lily thought. "Fine then. Have it your way, but you could be great.... GRYFFINDOR!!!"
Lily heard the last word and then bounded off the stage and went and sat down by Sirius. "Took a long time to sort you, were you nervous?" Sirius asked. "Shhh, it's Remus' turn! Lily whispered. Remus was made a Gryffindor as well as Chloe, James and a few girls that didn't look interested in becoming friends with Lily. When WRIGHT, ANDREA was made a Ravenclaw Lily realized she was hungry. She looked back toward the table and her mouth dropped with amazement.
The plates had been magically filled with food and Sirius and James were obviously hungry. They were digging into their food like this was the last meal that they'd ever eat. "This is good stuff Lily. You better eat up before we finish it." James said with mashed potatoes in his mouth. Lily picked up her fork and took a bite. James was right. The food was incredible. There were mashed potatoes, and steak, and beans and fruit. There was goblet upon goblet of pumpkin juice and for dessert there were cakes, pies, cookies and fudge.
Lily suddenly had an idea. "Hey Sirius, you like see food?" she asked. "Sea food? I love it. Where is it?" he said looking around the table. Lily said Sirius and he turned to her. She opened her mouth revealing half chewed steak and potatoes. She swallowed and then said "See food. Get it?" Sirius thought Lily's joke was obviously funny because he in return went and did it to half the other Gryffindors at the table.
When Lily was full to bursting the food magically vanished and then everyone looked at Dumbledore. "I see you all are expecting a speech. Prefects, you have the passwords. Please lead your houses to their dorms and answer their questions. Thank you. If you do not know your password please come and get it from the head of your house. Thank you. On further note, some announcements. The girls bathroom on the fourth floor is now out of order because of a certain ghost. The Forbidden Forest is in fact forbidden. Mr. Potter, Mr. Black, Mr. Lupin and Miss. Rivers and the new member of the group Miss. Evans, I apologize to you. I know you were looking forward to it." Dumbledore said looking at the group of Gryffindors. "Also, we will be having visitors at Hogwarts later on this year. You will hear about that later. Quidditch tryouts are next Monday at the Quidditch pitch. Any student over first year is allowed to tryout. Goodnight students. We are glad to have you here. Sleep well. See you in your classes." With that Dumbledore sat down.
The Great Hall burst back into talking. A young boy and girl at the Gryffindor table stood up. "First years this way!" she called. The six new Gryffindors stood up and followed the two out of the Hall. "I am Samantha Davis and this is your other Prefect Simon Page. Please stay close by. We don't want you getting lost on your first night at Hogwarts." She said with a very machine like voice. "Come on Sam, lighten up. Just watch out for Potter and Black, the rest are fine." The boy Simon said.
They led the children up and down passageways and staircases. "Watch out, the staircases move. I suggest that when you have to climb one you go fast." Simon said. After about ten minutes they came to a picture of a very fat lady in a pink, ruffled Victorian dress. Lily screamed when the picture turned to them and asked politely, "Password please?"
"Ickefickle." Samantha said and the portrait swung open revealing a large room with scarlet armchairs and a roaring fire. There were pictures and posters on the wall of the students of Gryffindor and their Quidditch teams. "Hey, James, what's Quidditch?" Lily asked as they were looking around the room. " Oh it's the best sport in the world. A little like muggle umm, oh yeah, soccer." He said offhandedly. "To bed." Samantha said.
She led the girls up the staircase while Simon led the boys. "You're belongings have already been brought up. Pick your beds. I'm in the dorm five doors away. Tomorrow's Sunday. No classes. You can do whatever you want. See you later girls." Samantha said as she walked out of the girls dorm and down to the common room. The girls took this time as a time to get to know each other better. They were fast friends before the night was over. Sure there were other girls in thier dorm, but they were too obsessed with boys and the like so that Chloe and Lily were quite repulsed by their comments about the three boys that just walked in the dorm across the hall.
Simon had led them to the dorm and had given each of them a book. It was titled 101 Ways to Curse your Friends and told them to have fun with the girls and then walked out of the dorm. "Score!" the boys said as they looked through the books.
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Midway through September school was going well for Lily. She'd already had four detentions with Sirius because he always managed to get caught by Mrs. Tibbles, Filchs' cat. They weren't that bad. Cleaning things without magic was not hard for someone who grew up without magic.
Lily and her friends sat around the fire in the Gryffindor common room one night playing Exploding Snap and Wizard's Chess. Lily got rather bored and ran up to her dormitory and came back with a little brown leather book. She plopped herself in a corner and started to write.
September 16
Dear Diary,
I can't believe that it's been only two weeks since I started here at Hogwarts. I can't believe the friends I've made and the things I've learned. Why just today Diary I learned how to make something fly with the spell Wingardium Leviosa. It was so much fun. Charms is my best subject, but I am absolutly horrible in Transfiguration. Thank goodness I always partner with James or Sirius. They are very good at Transfiguration and awful in Charms. It is very comical to watch them in that class.
On to sadder things. I got an owl from Mommy today saying Daddy was killed at work by a client that supposedly came in knowing about me and that I was a witch. Professor Dumbledore told me that there is a Dark Wizard coming to power and that one of his followers must have killed Daddy. He said he'd do the best to protect Mommy and Petunia. If something happened to Petty I don't think I'd be so worried, but if something happened to Mommy, I don't know what I'd do. But now I have to go Diary because Chloe is calling me. It's my turn to play.
Love, Lily
Lily stood up. "James, you were watching. That's personal!" Lily yelled when she saw James standing over her shoulder reading her entry.
"You never told us your dad was killed today. Are you ok?" he asked. Lily looked down to her diary and then back up at James. "Me and Daddy weren't very close, but I do miss him. I think that I will be fine thank you." She answered with her lip trembling. "Come on, it's my turn." She said and went to sit down in the chair across from the chess board.
Later that night after the rest of the girls in her dorm were asleep Lily grabbed her jourmal and padded down the stairs in her slippers. She hadn't been downstairs for five minutes before someone peeked out of the staircase and startled her when he said "Lily?"
She jumped up and turned around only to be standing face to face with James. "I heard someone coming downstairs and I figured that I couldn't sleep either. Besides, I wanted to tell you something." He said softly.
He led her over to a comfy couch and they sat down. "Thanks James, but I said that I was fine. I just wanted some peace and quiet to write in. You can go back-"
"Lily, I know you're not 'fine' no matter what you say. I wanted to tell you that I know what it's like to loose a parent. My mom died when I was nine in a murder by Voldemort to. She was in Diagon Alley buying some new robes for hers and Dad's anniversary. It was the next day. They'd have been married, umm, fifteen years." Lily was sniffling and wiped an unspilled tear from her eye.
"But James, you always talk about how you and your dad are so close and he sounds like a bigger version of Sirius." Lily said. "He is, but my mom and I were close too. Not as close as me and Dad, but pretty close all the same. Whatever you say about you and your dad not being close isn't true cause I have heard you talking about times when you went camping, or fishing and I know it hurts Lil, but please, don't act as if it didn't mean anything to you. I did and I am still hurting from it. You need to cry and miss him. He's not coming back Lily. I thought that Mom would come back, but she didn't."
Lily looked up at James tears running down her face. She brushed them away and then fiercly hugged James. "Thank you so much James. It means a lot to me to have someone care for me as you do. I'm tired, but I don't really want to go to bed. Will you sit here with me for a little? Dad used to do that when I couldn't sleep." Lily said as she lied down on the couch.
James looked at her awkwardly, like he didn't know what to do. His mom used to tell him stories, but he didn't know if he wanted to share that part of him with anyone else. So he decided the safest thing to do was to go and lie down on the couch across from Lily and fell asleep.
Sirius woke up from a deep sleep shocked to find James wasn't asleep in the bed next to him. He crept down the stairs into the common room to be taken aback with the site of the two eleven year old sleeping on the couches. Sirius took this opportunity to wake them up. He tip-toed over to Lily and leaned over close by her face and then licked her cheek.
Her eyes popped open and pierced Sirius gaze. After realizing what had just happened she jumped up and pushed Sirius to the ground. Lily jumped on top of him and pinned him down. James woke up when he heard all the noise. It was quite a shock to wake up from a nice dream to find your best friend being pinned to the ground by a girl. And not just any girl, Lily Evans.
"Let's see how you like being woken up by a lick!" Lily was screaming. She leaned in and pulled a Sirius and licked his cheek. "How would you like being woken up to that you mean, you stupid, you, you idiot!" Lily screamed. To James Sirius looked like he was enjoying this too much so he took the opportunity of silence from Lily to pull her off of Sirius and set her down in a chair. He was grinning and then helped Sirius up.
"You got beat by a girl! You got beat down by a girl!" James was now chanting. Sirius was sitting in a chair the color rising in his cheeks. James had now woken the whole Gryffindor house by his song and everyone was peeking around corners watching the friends in the common room early on a Sunday morning. Realizing it was just some noisy first years they headed back to be for some sleep before they had breakfast.
The next morning Lily and Chloe were woken by none other then Sirius' famous lick. "Gross!" Chloe said as she dragged herself out of bed and into the shower. "Out." Lily ordered the boys as she grabbed her uniform and her robes and headed to the bathroom. When they were done in the shower Lily did Chloe's hair into a braid and then they headed down to the Great Hall.
When they reached their spot at the Gryffindor table they were greeted by flying pancakes, syrup and butter. It looked to Lily that James, Remus and Sirius were in the middle of an avid pancake contest. They each had a pile of fifteen on their pate and who knew how many they'd eaten before the girls had walked down. Frank Longbottom, who had been supervising the contest stopped it when he saw Lily and Chloe come up. "Wanna join?" he asked. "Come on Lil, Chlo', we need some girls, besides you can be on a team." Remus said with a mouth of pancake.
"No thanks. I'll stick to my toast and cereal." Lily said smiling. "I'll join!" Chloe spoke up.
"OK, we are starting over right now!" Frank said. The last thing Lily saw before taking cover under the table was Chloe butter and syruping a pancake and then smashing it into Sirius' face and saying, "That was for your lick this morning! Ha!" and walked out of the Great Hall laughing
Sirius peeled the pancake off of his face and turned to James and Remus and smiled. "She wants me." He shrugged and looked at Lily who was laughing. "What?" he asked. Lily shrugged and walked out to find Chloe.
She was sitting on a bench outside of the Great Hall and when she saw Lily she jumped up. "Am I a genius or what?" she asked. "Hmm, hard one, let's try or what." Lily dodged the punch from her friend, then linked arms and walked down the Charms corridor for their class.
Disclaimer: Personally I think these are stupid but for those of you who care; Nothing here is mine except Melissa, Chloe(I need her) and all the other people you don't recognize. I am not planning on making any money off of this so don't worry.
Chapter 1- Friends
Friendship is born at the
moment when one person
says to another "What! You too?
I thought that no one but myself"
Lily Evans was standing in the train station between platforms nine and ten. Her parents had just walked away leaving her to find her platform by herself because her stupid sister Petunia had to be home for a date. "Yeah, a date with her mirror because she's so obsessed with herself." Lily smiled.
She looked at her watch and saw that she only had five minutes to get on the platform. She looked around to see if anyone else had luggage as strange as she. The moment she turned around three boys and one girl grabbed her arm and pulled her through a brick wall between platforms nine and ten.
"I couldn't watch you look at that stupid wall any longer." The girl said smiling at Lily. "I'm Chloe. And these are my boys." She said pointing at the three boys that she had come in with. They were busy loading trunks onto the train.
They came over to Lily and Chloe. "I'm Lily Evans. Thanks for grabbing me. I thought that I wouldn't make the train. Come on, let's get on and then you can make your introductions." They ran over to the train and found a compartment that was empty.
"Well, who are you? You know who I am." Lily asked the moment they sat down. "Sirius Black at your service madam. If I can help you in any way, please do tell me." He said as he stood up and kissed Lily's hand. She giggled.
"Excuse him Lily, he's always like that. I'm Remus Lupin by the way. Nice to meet you. Glad we came up on you in the station? I would be." A blond haird boy said who was sitting next to Lily.
"James your turn." Chloe said. He removed himself from Sirius' headlock and went up to Lily and shook her hand, "I'm James Potter. Nice to meet you." Then went back to Sirius.
While the boys were rolling around the floor of the compartment Chloe and Lily got to know eachother better. "What did you mean when you called them 'my boys'"? Lily asked.
"Oh, I've grown up with them. We've lived on the same block for our whole lives. James and I are born on the same day even. It's kinda like we're twins. Sirius has always acted like that. I think that he thinks that he needs to one-up his brother Sklar. But he's in France on Gringotts business. Remus has always been quiet. I think it's because his mother is very sick and he always has to visit her." Chloe said laughing because James had just pinned Sirius to the ground.
Lily smiled to herself. She has never had a real best friend as a child. Only a few aquantinces, but this never bothered her. She always had her mother as her best friend. Now she realized what a treasure a best friend is and she was glad to have four of them and it was only a few hours into a whole year.
The boys had retreated into playing wizards chess when the compartment door slammed open. They all looked up and upon realizing who it was James, Chloe and Sirius jumped up.
"I thought I'd find you scum in here. If I remember right James you owe me ten galleons and you Miss. Rivers owe me a kiss." Said a greasy, long haired boy that stood in the doorway with three of his friends.
"Snape I will never kiss you. And if I do remember correctly that it's not me who owes you the kiss, but your own slimy girlfriend Hanna. So think again." Chloe said. "Thanks for sticking up for me to Chlo' I thought we were friends." James whispered. He walked up to Snape and looked at him for a minute before he shoved him out of the doorway and said, "Snape, you leave me and everyone else alone this year. Promising school was hard enough for both of us on eachothers case then. Watch your back around us because we aren't going to take your crap this year." And then he closed the door.
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Lily followed the throng of eleven year olds into the Great Hall for the sorting ceremony. "My brother said something about getting three of five spells correct, but don't worry, all you have to do it try on a hat." Sirius said to the group. "Welcome to Hogwarts. When I call your name please come up and sit on the stool and be silent." A strict witch called out.
The list started with ADAMS, CHASE and soon arrived to Lily. Sirius had already been made a Gryffindor and as she walked up on stage she said a prayer that she'd make it into Gryffindor. The last thing she saw was James, Chloe and Remus giving her a thumbs up and a warm smile from a wizard she assumed to be Dumbledore only because of his beard.
Soon, a little voice started to speak in her right ear. "You have a beautiful mind young lady. An Evans no doubt. Your grandmother was the same way. I almost put her in Slytherin. You'd do well in there too. But I assume since I put your friend in Gryffindor you want to go there too." "Look Hat, I wanna go in Gryffindor and if you don't put me there I am going to stomp on you." Lily thought. "Fine then. Have it your way, but you could be great.... GRYFFINDOR!!!"
Lily heard the last word and then bounded off the stage and went and sat down by Sirius. "Took a long time to sort you, were you nervous?" Sirius asked. "Shhh, it's Remus' turn! Lily whispered. Remus was made a Gryffindor as well as Chloe, James and a few girls that didn't look interested in becoming friends with Lily. When WRIGHT, ANDREA was made a Ravenclaw Lily realized she was hungry. She looked back toward the table and her mouth dropped with amazement.
The plates had been magically filled with food and Sirius and James were obviously hungry. They were digging into their food like this was the last meal that they'd ever eat. "This is good stuff Lily. You better eat up before we finish it." James said with mashed potatoes in his mouth. Lily picked up her fork and took a bite. James was right. The food was incredible. There were mashed potatoes, and steak, and beans and fruit. There was goblet upon goblet of pumpkin juice and for dessert there were cakes, pies, cookies and fudge.
Lily suddenly had an idea. "Hey Sirius, you like see food?" she asked. "Sea food? I love it. Where is it?" he said looking around the table. Lily said Sirius and he turned to her. She opened her mouth revealing half chewed steak and potatoes. She swallowed and then said "See food. Get it?" Sirius thought Lily's joke was obviously funny because he in return went and did it to half the other Gryffindors at the table.
When Lily was full to bursting the food magically vanished and then everyone looked at Dumbledore. "I see you all are expecting a speech. Prefects, you have the passwords. Please lead your houses to their dorms and answer their questions. Thank you. If you do not know your password please come and get it from the head of your house. Thank you. On further note, some announcements. The girls bathroom on the fourth floor is now out of order because of a certain ghost. The Forbidden Forest is in fact forbidden. Mr. Potter, Mr. Black, Mr. Lupin and Miss. Rivers and the new member of the group Miss. Evans, I apologize to you. I know you were looking forward to it." Dumbledore said looking at the group of Gryffindors. "Also, we will be having visitors at Hogwarts later on this year. You will hear about that later. Quidditch tryouts are next Monday at the Quidditch pitch. Any student over first year is allowed to tryout. Goodnight students. We are glad to have you here. Sleep well. See you in your classes." With that Dumbledore sat down.
The Great Hall burst back into talking. A young boy and girl at the Gryffindor table stood up. "First years this way!" she called. The six new Gryffindors stood up and followed the two out of the Hall. "I am Samantha Davis and this is your other Prefect Simon Page. Please stay close by. We don't want you getting lost on your first night at Hogwarts." She said with a very machine like voice. "Come on Sam, lighten up. Just watch out for Potter and Black, the rest are fine." The boy Simon said.
They led the children up and down passageways and staircases. "Watch out, the staircases move. I suggest that when you have to climb one you go fast." Simon said. After about ten minutes they came to a picture of a very fat lady in a pink, ruffled Victorian dress. Lily screamed when the picture turned to them and asked politely, "Password please?"
"Ickefickle." Samantha said and the portrait swung open revealing a large room with scarlet armchairs and a roaring fire. There were pictures and posters on the wall of the students of Gryffindor and their Quidditch teams. "Hey, James, what's Quidditch?" Lily asked as they were looking around the room. " Oh it's the best sport in the world. A little like muggle umm, oh yeah, soccer." He said offhandedly. "To bed." Samantha said.
She led the girls up the staircase while Simon led the boys. "You're belongings have already been brought up. Pick your beds. I'm in the dorm five doors away. Tomorrow's Sunday. No classes. You can do whatever you want. See you later girls." Samantha said as she walked out of the girls dorm and down to the common room. The girls took this time as a time to get to know each other better. They were fast friends before the night was over. Sure there were other girls in thier dorm, but they were too obsessed with boys and the like so that Chloe and Lily were quite repulsed by their comments about the three boys that just walked in the dorm across the hall.
Simon had led them to the dorm and had given each of them a book. It was titled 101 Ways to Curse your Friends and told them to have fun with the girls and then walked out of the dorm. "Score!" the boys said as they looked through the books.
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Midway through September school was going well for Lily. She'd already had four detentions with Sirius because he always managed to get caught by Mrs. Tibbles, Filchs' cat. They weren't that bad. Cleaning things without magic was not hard for someone who grew up without magic.
Lily and her friends sat around the fire in the Gryffindor common room one night playing Exploding Snap and Wizard's Chess. Lily got rather bored and ran up to her dormitory and came back with a little brown leather book. She plopped herself in a corner and started to write.
September 16
Dear Diary,
I can't believe that it's been only two weeks since I started here at Hogwarts. I can't believe the friends I've made and the things I've learned. Why just today Diary I learned how to make something fly with the spell Wingardium Leviosa. It was so much fun. Charms is my best subject, but I am absolutly horrible in Transfiguration. Thank goodness I always partner with James or Sirius. They are very good at Transfiguration and awful in Charms. It is very comical to watch them in that class.
On to sadder things. I got an owl from Mommy today saying Daddy was killed at work by a client that supposedly came in knowing about me and that I was a witch. Professor Dumbledore told me that there is a Dark Wizard coming to power and that one of his followers must have killed Daddy. He said he'd do the best to protect Mommy and Petunia. If something happened to Petty I don't think I'd be so worried, but if something happened to Mommy, I don't know what I'd do. But now I have to go Diary because Chloe is calling me. It's my turn to play.
Love, Lily
Lily stood up. "James, you were watching. That's personal!" Lily yelled when she saw James standing over her shoulder reading her entry.
"You never told us your dad was killed today. Are you ok?" he asked. Lily looked down to her diary and then back up at James. "Me and Daddy weren't very close, but I do miss him. I think that I will be fine thank you." She answered with her lip trembling. "Come on, it's my turn." She said and went to sit down in the chair across from the chess board.
Later that night after the rest of the girls in her dorm were asleep Lily grabbed her jourmal and padded down the stairs in her slippers. She hadn't been downstairs for five minutes before someone peeked out of the staircase and startled her when he said "Lily?"
She jumped up and turned around only to be standing face to face with James. "I heard someone coming downstairs and I figured that I couldn't sleep either. Besides, I wanted to tell you something." He said softly.
He led her over to a comfy couch and they sat down. "Thanks James, but I said that I was fine. I just wanted some peace and quiet to write in. You can go back-"
"Lily, I know you're not 'fine' no matter what you say. I wanted to tell you that I know what it's like to loose a parent. My mom died when I was nine in a murder by Voldemort to. She was in Diagon Alley buying some new robes for hers and Dad's anniversary. It was the next day. They'd have been married, umm, fifteen years." Lily was sniffling and wiped an unspilled tear from her eye.
"But James, you always talk about how you and your dad are so close and he sounds like a bigger version of Sirius." Lily said. "He is, but my mom and I were close too. Not as close as me and Dad, but pretty close all the same. Whatever you say about you and your dad not being close isn't true cause I have heard you talking about times when you went camping, or fishing and I know it hurts Lil, but please, don't act as if it didn't mean anything to you. I did and I am still hurting from it. You need to cry and miss him. He's not coming back Lily. I thought that Mom would come back, but she didn't."
Lily looked up at James tears running down her face. She brushed them away and then fiercly hugged James. "Thank you so much James. It means a lot to me to have someone care for me as you do. I'm tired, but I don't really want to go to bed. Will you sit here with me for a little? Dad used to do that when I couldn't sleep." Lily said as she lied down on the couch.
James looked at her awkwardly, like he didn't know what to do. His mom used to tell him stories, but he didn't know if he wanted to share that part of him with anyone else. So he decided the safest thing to do was to go and lie down on the couch across from Lily and fell asleep.
Sirius woke up from a deep sleep shocked to find James wasn't asleep in the bed next to him. He crept down the stairs into the common room to be taken aback with the site of the two eleven year old sleeping on the couches. Sirius took this opportunity to wake them up. He tip-toed over to Lily and leaned over close by her face and then licked her cheek.
Her eyes popped open and pierced Sirius gaze. After realizing what had just happened she jumped up and pushed Sirius to the ground. Lily jumped on top of him and pinned him down. James woke up when he heard all the noise. It was quite a shock to wake up from a nice dream to find your best friend being pinned to the ground by a girl. And not just any girl, Lily Evans.
"Let's see how you like being woken up by a lick!" Lily was screaming. She leaned in and pulled a Sirius and licked his cheek. "How would you like being woken up to that you mean, you stupid, you, you idiot!" Lily screamed. To James Sirius looked like he was enjoying this too much so he took the opportunity of silence from Lily to pull her off of Sirius and set her down in a chair. He was grinning and then helped Sirius up.
"You got beat by a girl! You got beat down by a girl!" James was now chanting. Sirius was sitting in a chair the color rising in his cheeks. James had now woken the whole Gryffindor house by his song and everyone was peeking around corners watching the friends in the common room early on a Sunday morning. Realizing it was just some noisy first years they headed back to be for some sleep before they had breakfast.
The next morning Lily and Chloe were woken by none other then Sirius' famous lick. "Gross!" Chloe said as she dragged herself out of bed and into the shower. "Out." Lily ordered the boys as she grabbed her uniform and her robes and headed to the bathroom. When they were done in the shower Lily did Chloe's hair into a braid and then they headed down to the Great Hall.
When they reached their spot at the Gryffindor table they were greeted by flying pancakes, syrup and butter. It looked to Lily that James, Remus and Sirius were in the middle of an avid pancake contest. They each had a pile of fifteen on their pate and who knew how many they'd eaten before the girls had walked down. Frank Longbottom, who had been supervising the contest stopped it when he saw Lily and Chloe come up. "Wanna join?" he asked. "Come on Lil, Chlo', we need some girls, besides you can be on a team." Remus said with a mouth of pancake.
"No thanks. I'll stick to my toast and cereal." Lily said smiling. "I'll join!" Chloe spoke up.
"OK, we are starting over right now!" Frank said. The last thing Lily saw before taking cover under the table was Chloe butter and syruping a pancake and then smashing it into Sirius' face and saying, "That was for your lick this morning! Ha!" and walked out of the Great Hall laughing
Sirius peeled the pancake off of his face and turned to James and Remus and smiled. "She wants me." He shrugged and looked at Lily who was laughing. "What?" he asked. Lily shrugged and walked out to find Chloe.
She was sitting on a bench outside of the Great Hall and when she saw Lily she jumped up. "Am I a genius or what?" she asked. "Hmm, hard one, let's try or what." Lily dodged the punch from her friend, then linked arms and walked down the Charms corridor for their class.