Chapter One: "Miss Independent"
Kelly Clarkson
Lily Evans, sweet sixteen year old Lily Evans sat in the Great Hall, mindlessly pushing food around her plate. She was 5'5", and with her curly red-auburn hair, she was a potential show-stopper. Lily, although, didn't think so. She had never had a boyfriend in her life. Oh sure, guys asked her out all the time, but none ever were accepted. She didn't want one; she was content with her friends and schoolwork.
Her best friends sat at the Gryffindor table, all eating their breakfast and chatting cheerfully. She sat next to Meredith LaBelle, her best friend. Across from the table, the Marauders sat, bent over a piece of parchment. Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and James Potter all were the resident prank masters at Hogwarts, and undoubtedly plotting something.
Suddenly, Lily felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned her head to see Amos Diggory, a Hufflepuff, standing behind her, looking a little uneasy.
"Yes?" she asked courteously
"Lily, will you go out with me?" he asked, wringing his hands.
All the heads of her friends flew up, as if to ask is she going to finally go out with one of them? Lily shifted her position in her seat, and then stood, a faint mock saddened smile growing.
"I'm sorry Amos, no offense to you, but I'm not really into going out with people. Sorry." She said as she stalked from the Gryffindor table.
"Miss independent," Lily sang softly to herself as she walked confidently to the Great Hall doors, stopping only at the sound of her friend's voice resounding in the now silent hall.
"Miss self sufficient," Meredith sang after her, attracting the attention of all the Marauders, who all joined in singing.
"Miss keep your distance," James sang, a little sadly at his redheaded friend who just wouldn't get close to any guy.
"Miss unafraid, Miss out my way" Remus and Sirius sang.
"Miss 'don't let a man interfere', no" Lily sang to them, trying to emphasize how she just didn't want a guy in her life.
"Miss on her own, Miss almost grown" Meredith shook her head at Lily.
"Miss never let a man help her off her throne" James added.
Lily looked at them all. They were ganging up on her! She was Miss Independent! She didn't need any guy to lean on! She was her own self, and liked it that way. It was just how Lily was. How she always was going to be.
"So, by keeping her heart protected, she'd never ever feel rejected" Sirius sang out loudly.
"Little Miss apprehensive" Peter sang, a little croakily, as he wasn't that great of a singer.
"I said ooh, she fell in love" James added with a grin, trying to jokingly taunt Lily.
"Oh James why you…" she started, but was interrupted by Sirius and Meredith bursting into the chorus loudly from behind them.
"What is this feeling taking over? Thinking no one could open the door? Surprise it's time to feel what's real! What happened to Miss independent? No longer need to be defensive!"
"Goodbye old you when love is true" Lily laughed, lightly pushing James, then turning on her heels, kicking her foot back, her head tilted over her shoulder.
"Miss guarded heart" James goaded again.
"Miss 'play it smart' " Remus added to James' lead.
"Miss 'if you want to use that line you better not start', no" Lily sang back at them, trying not to succumb to their taunting.
"But she miscalculated" Meredith was ganging up on her too!
"Didn't wanna end up jaded" Amos Diggory, who had remained silent through the whole musical quarrel between Lily and her friends, sang out quietly, relating to his own experience with Lily rejecting guys.
"And this Miss decided not to miss out on true love" Peter and Sirius sang together, following the song, trying to get Lily to listen to what they were trying to tell her.
"So, by changing her misconceptions, she went in a new direction?" Lily sang turning slightly to her friends, nearly asking what would happen if she were to change herself.
"And found inside she felt a connection" Meredith sang back, walking over to Lily and guiding her back to the table. All of a sudden, Meredith pushed Lily forward into an unsuspecting James. She landed in his lap.
"She fell in love" James finished the verse, grinning friendly.
Lily stood up rather abruptly, while all her friends sang the chorus together. She began stalking off out of the hall. When they had finished singing, Meredith started to sing out the bridge in her lovely soprano voice.
"When Miss independent walked away"
"No time for love that came her way" James added, wondering if Lily's life would stay true to the song.
"She looked in the mirror and thought today, what happened to Miss 'no longer afraid?' " Lily stopped walking, and sang to herself gently asking what had happened to that little vibrant kid who feared nothing, not even guys.
"It took some time for her to see how beautiful love could truly be." James sang after her, desperately conveying the thought.
"No more talk of 'why can't that be me?' " Amos sang as he eyed James singing to Lily.
"I'm so glad I finally see…" Lily added, swiveling back, running to her friends. Meredith, Remus, Sirius, Peter, and James all hugged her, laughing. They failed to realize that the rest of the Great Hall was watching their musical argument. All of a sudden, they clapped, the whole hall resounding with whoops and hollers of Gryffindors predominately, with Hufflepuffs (for Amos of course) and Ravenclaws (for the hell of it).
"Still Miss Independent?" Amos asked, tapping Lily on the shoulder.
"No," She replied simply.
"Then you'll go out with me?"
"No, sorry," Lily said, and sauntered out of the hall, jokingly blowing a kiss to all the whooping and cheering guys in the hall. The rest of the Marauders and Meredith looked at each other and simultaneously ran after her, Sirius yelling at the crowd:
"THANK YOU! THANK YOU! WE'LL BE HERE ALL YEAR!"
A/N: Hey! The Musical is up! AGAIN! There are more REVISED chapters on their way up, so please read and review! Also, please read "On this Long and Winding Road" by me too!
Oh yeah, and here's the disclaimer:
I don't own, Lil, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Hogwarts, etc. I only own Meredith LaBelle, and my plot. Everything else is owned by JK Rowling and Kelly Clarkson!
Love, Emerald