"Lily, stay back here! The river's too deep, I don't think we should risk falling into it," a small boy called to his friend from a good fifteen feet away.
The boy, who looked rather young for his age, shivered slightly and his pale face was turning a light shade of green. He was afraid of the water.
The girl named Lily turned her head pointedly and laughing hard, yelled back to him, - "Oh don't be such a sissy, look! It's not scary at all!"
She had lifted her hands into the air and was now flailing them back and forth like a bird. The harsh, chilly wind was assaulting her weak little figure, forcefully sending the cold water up, spraying the banks, swallowing sturdy gray rocks on them whole. Her dark, long, red hair flapped around her face and her pretty blue sundress clung to her partially wet, slender body / upper thighs, but her smile was unfaltering.
She waved at him cheerfully and lifting her happy face up to the sky, parted her lips to allow the first drops of rain in. Slowly, her eyelids snapped shut, and Lily was lost in the moment.
She was a vision right then. Standing boldly in the wind, so close to the gurgling water… One awkward step would be all that it takes.
The thought of that almost made Severus sick. A storm was undoubtedly coming. She always insisted on dragging him down to look at the water, as if something unworldly was drawing her to it.
A lightning sparked in the sky up ahead. Rain had intensified, and hail started pelting them harder and harder.
Severus wanted to stare at her, to drink in her appearance with drunken-like pleasure, but found himself closing his eyes every few seconds. She was quite stunning, dangerous, mesmerizing - that brave, foolish girl who was standing right in the heart of the on-coming storm. Yet he still looked away. The black-haired boy couldn't help it - his heart was racing with frightening speed, matching the thunder now rolling around the clearing. He would never forgive himself if she were to slip and collapse.
"Come away from the edge of the river! Please! I can't bare to even look at you! Lily-y-y!" His voice was getting desperate. No longer hiding the fear he felt, Severus jumped off the tree log on which he was standing and clumsily ran up the bank, halting an arm's length behind her.
"Lily!" The noise from the wind and the rippling water was drowning their voices away. He knew that she barely heard him.
"I can't really hear you, Severus! What?"- Lily yelled without turning her head for a second.
It was getting hard to make out the sounds; the river was rattling dangerously, the wind all but blew them away. The swiftly materialized wall of flesh-tearing rain extinguished nearly all visibility.
The boy tried again – "Lily, come on, let's get out of here!"
He extended his hand and gripped hopelessly at a lock of her soaked heavy hair. She didn't look at him.
Staring straight ahead of her, Lily let out a cackling laugh – it was a most unnatural sound. The strange noise startled Severus. It nearly chilled the young man to the bone – he stepped back in surprise.
"Lily? What's wrong? Can you answer me?!"
Slowly, as if she were a musical-box figurine, Lily twirled on the spot, finally facing her petrified friend. Her vibrant green eyes sparkled maddeningly. Her lips split in a heart-screeching smile. Launching forward, she threw herself into his arms. Severus yelped and jumped out of the way. She didn't look normal – her hair flapped backwards and forwards; yet her voice had come out just fine -
"Are you scared…Severus?"
"Yes, yes I am." He didn't bother to hide what he felt. All he wanted to do was embrace her, but her frightening form freaked him out too much.
She smiled softly and pushed herself up from the grass.
She whispered, advancing - "Well, then… I got what I was bargaining for"
A/N Yes this is a weird cliffhanger in the first chapter/prologue but I felt like doing one. lol Sorry for those who are irritated by it. Please review this short beginning, I would like to see feedback before I continue))