Chapter 1

"What do you think of this gown Lillian?" an elegant, slightly snotty, woman asked her daughter, who was standing next to her.

The young girl looked at the extravagant gown and frowned slightly. The dress was a golden yellow, and had such a low neckline; the girl thought her breasts might actually fall out of it. In addition, there was so much lace on it; the girl thought she would look rather like a cake then an elegant lady while wearing it.

Thinking quickly of a lie the young girl spoke to her mother in a superior tone, "Oh Mother that would clash terribly with my red hair and green eyes."

Lily Evans, though she did not show it, was slightly worried after saying her comment. For one, the dress would have matched quite well with her dark red wavy hair, and emerald eyes. In addition, Lily had said a comment similar to that one several times today, to each of the gowns her mother had picked out.

Anastasia Evans sighed, for the fourth time that day. "Lillian, the ball is in three days, and you have yet to choose your gown. I have chosen many gowns which would look beautiful on you, and would fit wonderfully for the occasion and you have turned them all down."

"I'm sorry Mother, but I want to look perfect for this ball, and the dresses we have seen, just haven't been up to my standard" Lily lied smoothly.

Truthfully, Lily was dreading the ball tomorrow. Lily would be forced to attend a ball where snobby rich girls danced around and tried to show off as much cleavage and jewels as possible. Lily's Mother always tried to get Lily to show off her perfect body and reveal how much money they had, but Lily always resisted. She had never saw the reason why the woman would walk around looking like they were the richest woman in the world, while perverted men, both old and young, checked them out, and said revolting comments, in a way that made it not rude.

"Fine, perhaps you should continue your dress hunt alone." Lily's mother said walking over to a full-length mirror and checking her hair and makeup. "I'm meeting Jonathans mother for tea."

Lily had to stop herself from cringing. Jonathan, one of most pigheaded, perverted, rude, and snobby boys Lily had ever met, was always trying to get Lily go to bed with him, which of course she refused. The bigger problem was, Lily's mother found Jonathan to be a perfect gentleman, and wanted Lily to start courting with him.

"Alright Mother, have a wonderful time, after I'm done, I'm just going to go straight home," Lily said walking over to her mother, "If that's alright of course."

"That will be splendid Lillian" Lily's mother said kissing her daughter on each of her cheeks.

"Oh" Lily's mother added quickly looking around slightly "but please do it the normal way."

Lily frowned slightly, but quickly changed it to a smile and nodded "of course Mother, have a brilliant time."

Anastasia quickly left the boutique with an air of elegance behind her.

Lily sighed as soon as her mother left and quickly walked over to a couch and stopped herself from showing too much emotion, just as she had always learned to do.

'The normal way!' Lily thought to herself angrily 'does she not realize that our views of normal are no longer the same!'

Nevertheless, Lily could never voice this aloud. While her mother and sister had gone to a private school, which specialized in turning young girls into polite young women, Lily had received a strange letter, which invited her to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Lily, who had been overjoyed to learn that she was a witch, was not able to show how happy she was, because her mother clearly showed how against the whole idea she was.

However, Lily's father Daniel Evans, talked his wife into letting Lily go to Hogwarts, and Lily had spent the last six years at Hogwarts, learning how to be a witch. What upset Lily more then anything about the situation, was that her father was the only one that was proud of the accomplishments Lily made at Hogwarts.

'Mother couldn't even be happy that I had made Head Girl!' Lily thought to herself, but decided to wait until she got home to think of these things.

Lily stood up slowly, smoothed out her navy skirt, and walked over to the lady behind the counter.

"Hello," Lily said with an air of elegance, which she only used when she wanted something that normally she couldn't get, "I was wondering if I could be shown the private dresses."

The woman behind the desk looked up and eyed, the young girl in front of her, but as soon as she saw the enormous diamond earrings Lily was wearing she smiled.

"Of course Miss, please follow me" the woman said smiling, probably the fakest smile Lily had ever seen.

Lily followed the woman behind a door and walked down an elegant hallway to a room that held the most expensive and exclusive dresses in all of London.

"These Miss are the best you will find in all of London, perhaps even in all of England," the woman said still smiling.

"Thank you, is there a way I can get you when I have picked the dress I want to purchase?" Lily asked the woman, still acting superior to her.

"Oh of course Miss, as soon as you have chosen your dress, go behind that curtain and pull the rope, that will signal me to come back here." The woman said showing Lily where the dressing room was.

"Thank you" Lily said smiling and walked around to look at each of the dresses.

It was obvious why these were the most expensive dresses in all of London, they all had fabric, which Lily had never seen, and were covered in gems.

After walking around the room several times, Lily's eye caught sight of a gown that took her breath away. It was silver white, though it looked nothing like a wedding gown. It had diamonds all around the top of the dress, and scattered around the skirt. The dress was strapless which would show Lily's slender shoulders.

Lily quickly took it, walked over to the dressing room, and pulled the rope.

After waiting hardly a minute, the woman came in quickly and walked through the curtains to Lily, who was already in the dress.

"Oh Miss, you have made a beautiful choice!" the woman said enviously.

"Thank you, but I'm sure you can see that the dress will have to be taken in quite a bit and shortened." Lily said showing the woman how loose the dress was.

"Of course!" the woman said and got to work right away and quickly fit the dress to almost seem as a second skin to Lily.

"Oh my!" Lily whispered to herself, as she looked at herself "do you have shoes that come with this?"

"Yes and jewels as well, if you'd like to see them," the woman said already going to get all of the items.

The shoes she showed Lily, matched the dress perfectly and the jewels she showed Lily were, an immense diamond necklace, earrings, and a bracelet.

"This is all perfect!" Lily exclaimed smiling slightly "I'll talk all of it."

"Wonderful" the woman said helping Lily out of the dress.

After purchasing the dress, Lily walked out of the store with a large dress bag and a larger bag, which held the shoes and jewels.

'I'm not going to hold this dress bag all day' Lily thought and walked into a dark alley and pulled out her wand and magically shrunk the dress to fit in the bag with the shoes and jewelry.

Lily then walked out of the alley, and decided to walk around the town, instead of going home.

Lily looked around London and then spotted the place she was looking for.

'The Leaky Cauldron' Lily thought 'perfect.'

Lily walked over to the dingy place and walked in. However, as soon as she walked in, she quickly wished she had operated into Diagon Alley. When she walked in, almost every man in the place turned and checked her out.

It was hardly a secret to anyone that Lily was a gorgeous young woman. Though she was only 5'4, she had long slender legs, which even showed from the, modest, navy skirt she was wearing. Additionally, Lily was a very petite girl, and through her white blouse, all the men could see her perfect, slightly curvy, figure and though not overly big, perfect sized chest.

Lily decided to try to ignore the catcalls, and whistles as she walked through and finally got to the brick wall. Lily quickly set down her bag and pulled out her wand and a magically shrunken robe. She magically fixed the size of the robe and put it on, to cover her figure, and then taped the wall with her wand, opening up Diagon Alley for her.

Lily, who was muggleborn, was still amazed by Diagon Alley and all it had to offer. She walked around slightly astonished for a bit, until she realized she was acting strangely and walked around with authority again.

Lily walked over to the ice cream shop and was about to walk in, when a tall young man walked in front of her.

Normally Lily, would have kept her lady-like stature, but she was slightly hungry, hot, and she knew that it was quite rude for a man to walk in front of a lady, so Lily couldn't control herself.

"Excuse me!" Lily said angrily "I was about to walk in, and you just stood right in front of me. Have you ever heard of manners? Or are you some barbarian!"

James Potter turned around slightly surprised, but when he saw who was speaking he smiled charmingly. "Well Evans, if me wanting to rip off your clothes and shag you senseless means I'm rude and a barbarian then I suppose you have hit the nail right on the head."

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Love, Leah