My Last Promise
Novel/Chapter 1
By HARRiiSAVESlovex3
02/22/07
"There's always a chance that the world will explode and you might just have to go to the afterlife without your precious make-up. Heaven forbid if you have to spend your life after death without black eyeliner."
"Ayden, you can have the bathroom when I'm done," I called. With a rather mean smirk I added, "And now you've messed me up. I'm going to have to start all over again. Sorry."
I heard a rather annoyed groan and a fist pounding on the door before the sound of receding footsteps. I smiled and continued to apply a line of eyeliner and I finished with black mascara. The moment the lock clicked Ayden, my brother, was out of his room and waiting for me to remove myself from the doorway. I smiled sweetly at him.
"Lily, seriously," he said. I moved slowly, just to make him even more angry. "Liliana Nicole…" He was warning me now. I shrugged and wandered into my room.
"Ayden's right you know… you do take forever in the bathroom and you look just as beautiful without make-up." I looked at the boy sitting on my bed. I smiled and threw my arms around him, knocking him off the bed along with myself. He kissed me on the nose and we climbed up.
"Nolan, beautiful without it or not, I'm going to wear make-up if it pleases me," I said. I stuck my tongue out. He reached forward and we hugged. "When did you get here? I swear I wasn't in the bathroom for more than 30 minutes."
He smiled, my stomach flipped. Meet Nolan Sirius Lupin, my best friend of all time and my boyfriend for nearly two years. Despite the fact that we're only fifteen, we're rather serious. Serious in dating however, maturity wise we were like five years old. "Only 5 minutes. Come on, let's go downstairs and make some pancakes."
"Pancakes? There's a whole end-of-the-summer picnic outside," I told him.
"I know, I am just in the mood for pancakes. Plus, Dylan Creevey broke up with Colie today. She's going to want pancakes," he said. I frowned, the smile automatically sliding off my face. "Yeah… said something about how he didn't want to be held up this year."
"When? What? That's pretty ridiculous. I mean… they've been dating for a year!" I exclaimed.
Nolan shrugged. "She shouldn't have dated him anyway. He always gave me the heeby-jeebies. I mean his eyes… They were creepy. Always following you." He spoke with silly hand gestures and in the end I couldn't help but agree.
"Wait, how did you know?" I asked as we wandered toward the stair. I knocked on my younger sister, Molly's, door; she opened it and stomped downstairs. She hated this. Other than Uncle Ron and Aunt Mione's youngest daughter, Alexa, she was the youngest and always got left out of everything.
"She owled me this morning. Maybe if you didn't spend so much time in the bathroom, you'd know. She owled you when I got here," he said. I smacked him on the arm.
"Between you and my brother, I'm never going to want to be in the bathroom again," I told him and we reached the bottom of the stairs. I raced him to the kitchen and we searched through the cupboard. When I found the flour I made my way out of the pantry and I slipped on an egg he'd dropped, throwing the flour everywhere.
I coughed and looked at both myself and then at Nolan. I put my arms up and made a cute face. "Oops!" I laughed. "You look like a ghost!"
"You look paler than usual… but not by that much. However, you're hair has gone from a fiery red to a pale pink," Nolan said with a laugh.
"Yeah? Well you look like you've got gray hair," I told him. He jumped up from where he had fallen and leapt toward me. I stuck my tongue out and ran around the table.
"What is going on in here?" I stopped to look up and Nolan took the opportunity to tackle me to the ground and tickle my insides out. I laughed/coughed so hard I thought I was going to lose my breakfast.
"Colie…" I gasped in between fits of laughter. "We… were making… pancakes."
Enter Nicolette Weasley. My best friend and cousin for life. The only girl I had ever shared my deepest darkest secrets with. Like Colie always did, she put a wry grin on her face, cocked an eyebrow, and said, "Pancakes, huh?" We nodded.
"AYDEN!" I screamed. My brother came running and then he saw the mess.
"What happened to pancakes?"
We all three pointed at the mess on the floor. Ayden swore and then whipped out his wand, the mess was gone in a flash. That was the joy of having a brother who was of age… or had recently come of age. The kid was eager to do magic any chance that he got. Now that it was legal and he couldn't get his wand thrown in the incinerator without doing something seriously, seriously wrong or stupid. He also attempted to whip up pancakes and then ended up having to clean up that too. I sighed.
"Thanks Ayden."
"No problem Lil. Now you three better get up to that tree house and tell Alexa a story before she becomes the next Dark Lord," he said pointing out the kitchen window to the tree house in our backyard.. I groaned and all three shot me looks.
"What? We do this every year. We all climb up into the tree house, which should be a fire hazard and Ayden tells the story of the Dark Lord and our parents. Except Ayden's not telling the story this year, so I'm stuck telling it. Plus, I'm so sick of this story. If we're going to have to tell a story, let's make up something new."
Nicolette gave me a look. "Listen Lily. My boyfriend broke up with me today, I'm not in the mood to be murdered by my bleeding little sister. Could you please just suck it up for one more year. One more bloody year."
I rolled my eyes; drama queen. "Yes, sure. Just for you and your single self."
"Thank you."
I gave her a look, "So you're not upset about the breakup?"
"I was," she chided, "but then I got over it. I realized, that now I can flirt with guys and not feel totally bad about it. Plus, he was a bit of a drag. He never wanted to do anything fun… and I don't know if you all noticed, but he had these really big creepy eyes."
Nolan and I laughed. "Yeah, we noticed. They were always watching you. It was majorly creepy."
We just stood there for an awkward moment before Alexa screamed for us to come outside or we'd be in trouble. "Coming wicked blood sister," Nicolette returned. She rolled her eyes and we wandered outside and up into the tree house. After we'd all successfully managed to find spots that were at least semi-comfortable, I started.
"Fleur Delacour and Bill Weasley, got married the night Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ronald Weasley stole away into the humid summer's air. What they didn't know was that they were being followed, not by Voldemort or his followers, but by Ron's younger sister, Ginny Weasley. A fiery red-head who had been madly in love with childhood.
"Childhood, for all of them, wasn't too far in the past. The Golden Trio were barely sixteen, going on seventeen and Ginny had been fifteen for only a few months at the time. However, they had seen and done more things than most adults had seen or done in a lifetime. They'd all come to the conclusion that age meant nothing, it was experience.
"Together, the Golden Trio, which quickly became a quartet, snuck around using clues left by the great Albus Dumbledore to destroy the Horcruxes that gave Lord Voldemort power. Who was this Lord Voldemort? He was the meanest wizard of them all. He killed people of all kinds, wizards and muggles alike. He and his followers killed anything that stood in their way.
"Harry's parents had once stood in his way and they'd met their demise. However when Voldemort turned his wand on Harry, he couldn't kill the boy. For his parents' love had saved him, but that had been sixteen years ago and now Harry sought vengeance. Not just for his parents, but also for all of Voldemort's victims."
"Stop!" Alexa screamed. "You can't tell it right. Where's Ayden?"
I rolled my eyes. "What in Merlin's name do you care? You're still getting the story. Plus, Ayden's graduating this year, he doesn't have the time to tell little girls stories of the past."
"Lily!" she moaned.
"Just tell the story," Nicolette urged.
"Fine. So anyway, they traveled around for month, avoiding any contact with their family and friends. While the Order was worried, they couldn't drop anything and look for the missing kids. They were fighting a war, that they were losing. They just hoped that the teens were doing something that would really help them out… and that they were.
"After some close calls, the horcruxes were demolished and Harry prepared for one last fight. When suddenly, Voldemort disappeared. Everyone waited, taking the extra time to try and get an advantage, but he never came back. That's how it's been since then.
Some say he died. Some say that he's just waiting until the right moment. Some say that he's training a new Dark Lord… or Lordess to take his place. 'Cos let's be honest, he's got to be old and crumbly by now. "
"Like I said," Alexa chided, "you tell a lame story."
"Get over it," I replied. "You got your story, didn't you?"
"Yeah, but I want Ayden to tell it."
"Then go beg him for it," I said. The little red head rushed down the ladder. "Merlin, she can be so annoying. I swear I'll never be able to comprehend why."
Nolan sniffed the air. "Mm, food. Come on let's go eat before it gets too late," he said.
"What are you talking about?" I asked. "You've just gotten here!"
"I know, but we start school tomorrow."
"Yeah and you know how my mum is about school," Nicolette added. So the trio went off, out of the tree house, and down into the warm, summer air. Together, they tried to make the last day of summer, their best day of summer.
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Started : February 15, 2007
Finished : February 15, 2007
Posted : February 15, 2007
Disclaimer : Don't own Harry Potter.
A/N : I promise the next chapter will be better. Review Please! (