A/N: Alrighty - This is Me, Paige, and I get the first chapter. Woo to me. Alyssa and I are co-writing this story and I'm going to be Lily, and Violet is her own character. And..Yeah...Just..Go along with it will yah:P

Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do not own Harry Potter. Woe is Me...

Chapter 1: Troubled Lily

At eleven years old, Lillian Marie Evans was not much of a site to see. Lily looked at herself in the mirror. She wasn't very tall, standing at 5'2. She looked at her auburn hair which was cascading down her shoulders. She scrunched up her nose, and looked at her emerald green eyes. They were undoubtably her best feature. She walked over to her closet and opened it. Slowly, she dressed into a jean skirt and a black tank top. She walked back over to the mirror. She looked at her arm and noticed the big bruise on her left shoulder. She couldn't go out like that.

Lily walked back to her closet, and pulled out a sweater and put it on. It was scorching outside, but she couldn't be seen like that outside.

She heaved a sigh, "Like always - This is as good as its going to get. Nothing is -."

But Lily couldn't finish that statement to herself. She heard a shriek from downstairs.

She mumbled a "Shut up Petunia." and walked down the stairs wondering where that came from.

Petunia Ann Evans, Lily's older sister, didn't look like Lily at all. They hardly looked like sisters. Lily got her hair and eyes from their mother. Petunia got her blonde hair and ice cold blue eyes from their father. Petunia was taller then Lily by far, standing at 5'7, and was 15.

Petunia was down there wailing, "MOTHER! FATHER!"

Their parents came rushing in, "Lily what is going on?"

Lily hated when they did this, always accused her of doing something.

"I didn't do anything! She just started screaming like an idiot!"

"It is her fault! This owl came inside with this letter in its beak!"

Petunia thrust the letter in Lily's face. She held the letter in her hand.

Lily Evans

41 Arrow Lane

Apt. #2

London, England

It was in green handwriting. She flipped it over and it was sealed in a purple crest. She looked over at it.

"How could it be my fault if I have no idea who the bloody hell sent this?"

She regretted saying that a minute later. Lily was smacked across the face. Her hand went up to her cheek, covering the red slap mark on her right cheek. She looked up at her fathers cold blue eyes. He took a step closer and put his face an inch from hers.

"Are you saying this is Petunia's fault? Why cant you be more like Petunia?" he sneered.

His breath hit Lily's face and Lily could clearly smell alcohol.

"That..That's not what I said."

He was going to answer but then the door rang. He went over and answered it. Lily noticed the rest of them weren't looking her way and she took off upstairs to her room and up the stairs as quiet as a mouse.

As she was running up the stairs she heard distinctly, "No Sandra, Lily is a little busy right now."

Curses, Lily thought. Sandra was here, and she was in desperate need to talk to her. She continued to run up the stairs.

She got to her room and locked the door. She pushed her small dresser up against the door too. She knew she was going to get in more trouble for hiding, but she wanted to see what was in this letter by herself.

She peered out her window at Sandra. Sandra looked up right at the perfect moment and Lily gave her an apologetic look. Sandra nodded as if she understood and kept walking.

Lily blocked out the sound of her father banging on her door. She tore open the letter...

HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorcerer, Chief Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confederacy of Wizards)

Dear Miss Evans,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no latter than July 31st.

We also know that you are of no magical blood, and that you are the first in the family. Please write back and send with the owl if you wish to attend. If so, We will find a family to take you to Diagon Alley to get your school things. Take Care.

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

Lily had to read this letter more then once.

"What? Who's cruel joke is this?" Lily said to herself. She heard a loud bang again. Then the banging on the door stopped.

She walked over to her desk and pulled out a sheet of paper.

Dear um...Hogwarts,

Is this a joke? You have to be joking me. Well, if this isn't a joke then I guess I'll do it.

Sincerely,

Lily Evans

Lily heard a soft hoot and looked up. The owl was at her window. She rolled up the letter and looked at the owl.

"So I'm guessing I give this to you?"

The owl hooted again and snatched the letter from her hand and took flight.

She heard loud footsteps coming back up the stairs. She switched her glance toward the door. She saw a blade come through her door.

Her father had resorted to chopping down her door with an axe.

"Bloody Hell..," she mumbled to herself.

Deciding that she'd come back later tonight, she opened her window and crawled down the side of her house. A/n: Its one of those things that you can climb down..its all leave-y I guess you could say. She decided she was going to stay at Sandra's house until later that night.

Later that nightLily snuck back inside her house climbing back up through her window. She laid on her floor and sighed with relief. Her door though, was ruined and chopped to pieces.She sighed and sat up. Her room was totally dark and she couldn't see anything.

"Lily, You've been a bad girl," a voice said.

She turned around, her father was sitting in her room waiting her arrival, with a cigar in one hand and whiskey in the other.He started walking towards her, and Lily crawled into a corner and cowered down low, wrapping her body into a ball.

A/n: Lovely first chapter eh? Next chapter, Alyssa's Chap, you get to meet Violet :)