Jaded!
Chapter One
"Lily" Amy said softly, "Wake up…"
The girl, snuggled into the white sheets, didn't stir.
"Lily!" Amy said less softly. "Wake UP!" she finally screamed." Lily sat straight up almost knocking Amy to the floor.
"Whoa there girl," Amy stood up shaking her blond braids out of her face. Amy Sands was tall, blond, blue-eyed and beautiful. Amy was what every girl wanted to be and she just happened to be Lily Evans' best friend. These two best friends slept next to eachother in the Hogwarts, 6th year, girl's dormitories.
"Whadya want?" Lily groaned, her eyes still closed. If Amy was beautiful Lily was gorgeous, but not blond. Lily, in fact, had beautiful, dark red hair that fell to her shoulders in deeps waves. But, even more remarkable then her hair was her eyes. Her eyes were a bright emerald green that could bore into somebody's mind.
"I want you to get out of bed! It's 8:30!" Amy whined.
Lily's eyes popped open, "8:30! Thanks for waking me up !" she said sarcastically.
"What do you think I just did?"
"I meant earlier, around 8…when we usually get up!" Lily glared.
"If I was awake, I would have gladly done just that!" Amy returned the glare. Lily rolled her eyes and climbed out of bed. Lily shook her red hair and strode to the bathroom.
Amy reached the doors to the Great Hall. Oh great! I can never get these doors open myself! Lily was always here to help me with this, but is she her? Nooo! She sighed.
"Why in the world do they have to make these doors so heavy!" She complained to herself.
"So people like you cant get in" She heard a familiar voice from behind her. She spun around and found herself face to face with James Potter with a wide grin on his face. James Potter was the best-looking guy in all of Hogwarts. On top of that he was captain of the Quidditch team and top boy in his year (6th year). He also just happened to be one of her best friend's worst enemies. Lily despised James and there was no way that Amy was about to be put down by him.
"Go Away, Potter!" Amy snarled.
"Don't you want me to help such a fair maiden as yourself open these doors?" James replied with a smug.
"Alright then, open the doors and then bug off!"
James grabbed the handle and pulled the door open with ease, holding it open for Amy. Amy walked through, muttered a quick thanks and hurried over to the Gryffindor table. She scanned the room quickly and soon spotted Lily. She skipped over to her and plopped her stuff down on the table.
Lily looked up and groaned, "oh no!"
"Thanks!" Amy looked hurt, " I feel loved!"
"No, no! Not you!" Lily said hurriedly, "I was talking about him" Amy spun around and sure enough James Potter had followed her over to where Lily was sitting.
"I thought I told you to bug off!" Amy snarled, "Maybe I was mistaken"
James sat down right next to Lily, "Oh no, you weren't mistaken, I just thought I would come by to see how my best bud, Lils is doin'" Lily rolled her eyes and turned away from James. "Oh, so now I'm getting the cold shoulder now? I guess I've gone down in the world, huh? I used to get at least a 'bug off' or a nasty remark"
Lilt rolled her eyes again, but said nothing.
Amy spoke for her, "Get Lost, Potter"
James stood up, "Fine, if I'm not wanted here I'll just leave!"
"No, you're not wanted here, and we've been trying to get you to go away for the past five minutes!" Lily was getting aggravated.
"She spoke!" James gasped. He stood up and turned to walk to the other end of the table to where his cronies waited to devise another prank to pull on Professor Mcgonagall. Half way there he turned his head and called back to Lily, " If you ever wanna go out sometime, Lils, I'm here!"
"In your dreams!" She called back, and then quickly added, "Ugh! I hope he doesn't dream about that."
"Can't he leave you alone?" Amy questioned. Everyday for the past four years James had asked Lily out and everyday for the past four years Lily had responded with a short, sharp No!
Lily stepped through the portrait hole in to the Gryffindor common roomto run into none other then James Potter and his group of friends. Now, Lily didn't mind the rest of his friends all that much. They were Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew.
Remus was the senseible one of the group. He always had his head on straight and was always the one to stop the others from doing something rash. He had light brown hair and was pretty tall. He had always been very kind to Lily and had stopped James from pulling pranks on her multiple times.
Sirius Black was none other then James' best friend; he was tall with unruly black hair. He was practically James' twin, but for some reason she liked him better then James himself. Maybe because Sirius didn't ask her out everyday and didn't talk to her that much.
Lily never really talked to Peter Pettigrew. But from what she knew about him, she figured that he was never the one who decided what to do. He always followed James, Sirius and Remus around and wasn't nearly as pursued by the ladies as the other three were.
Last of all, was James himself. James was tall with dark hair that stuck out no matter what he did with it, although it didn't help that he messed it up by running his hand through it all the time. He was very arrogant and thought that he could get anything he wanted, according to Lily. He only asks me out everyday because I am the only girl that he cant get.
"Hey there Lily" James Potter greeted her with a smirk. Lily walked right past him.
"H-h-hi Lily" Peter stuttered.
"Hi, Peter! How are you?" Lily smiled at Peter and shot a deadly look in James' direction. James looked crushed.
"F-f-fine" Peter scurried away like a rat. I wonder why he's so shy, Lily wondered. Lily walked over to the table in the corner of the room where Amy was sitting doing her Potions homework.
"Hey Ames!" Lily said cheerfully, "How's it going?"
Amy looked up, "Oh, Hi Lils! Everything fine with me…you seem cheerfull"
"Yes, yes I am!" Lily grinned as she pictured Potter's face when she had said hello to Peter and not him.
"Er…why?"
"I succeeded in making Potter look like a fool" Lily giggled.
Amy rolled her eyes, "Oh of course!" then she grinned. Lily sat down and pulled out her transfiguration homework. Once she had finished the first paragraph she saw a shadow across her parchment. She looked up.
"Potter!" She screeched angrily, "what is your issue?"
"I…umm….I-I…I just…" James stammered.
"Um…Potter? Can you just say what you're gonna say and then leave, I have to get this essay done."
James looked surprised. She said something to me! Something that didn't involve the words bug off! "I need to talk to you!" he blurted out.
Lily just stared at him, "what?"
James sighed and said quietly, "I need to talk to you" then he added, "In private!" Lily looked utterly confused. Why would James want to talk to her…in private? He never said anything to me that he didn't want anyone else to hear!
"Err…alright!" Lily followed James out of the portrait hole and through corridor and up a couple staircases until James was satisfied that no one would hear them.
"What do you want, James?" Lily asked, still confused.
James looked at her like a deer in headlights, "You…you just called me James!"
"That's all you wanted to say?" Lily glared at him. He has something up his sleeve I know it!
"No," James answered quickly, "It's nothing really important or anything, I just wanted to say that I am sorry for everything I've done over the past couple of years and can we just be friends!" James said all of that in one breath and so fast that Lily hardly understood a word.
"WHAT?" Lily asked surprised.
"I said-"He started, but Lily cut him off.
"I heard you, but did you just say that you were sorry?"
James looked down at his feet, "yeah, I guess!"
Lily looked at him hard, "Why?" she asked critically.
James looked up, "well, I guess because im sick of all the arguing we've done in the past few years I just wanted peace between us for once. I was hoping we could be friends."
Lily smiled, "O.K. Then, I forgive you and Yes, we can be friends!" James looked up hopeful, "On one condition," She continued.
"What's that?" James asked.
"That you stop asking me out everyday!"
James blushed. Lily had never seen James blush before and was surprised! Lily stuck out her hand,
"Deal?"
James looked at her small hand, "Deal!" and he took her hand in his and they shook on it!