Chapter 2 - The time of our lives

Severus was enjoying this summer like no one before. He was already old enough to ignore his father's yelling without breaking down and the weather was very nice.

It was a sunny day outside and him and Lily had been spending the day in a nearby lake. He was really disturbed, and pleasantly so, by the way Lily's body had change during the past years. She still had something from the sweet child's face that he had meet six years ago but she have grown several inches and... breasts, and hips, and legs... all beautifully combined.

They were heading back home with their hair dripping and towels in their hands.

"Do you want to come inside for a while?" she offered.

"Yes, of course." Even though he said of course, he rarely accepted that sort of invitations from Lily. He felt somehow weird going into the girl's house with her muggle parents and sister.

They entered the front door and Lily headed upstairs without saying anything, so he quietly followed her. Once they arrived to her room she closed the door and threw the towel on top of her bed. Severus let himself drop onto the floor near the bed.

"You can seat on the chair you know..."

"I like the floor."

"Ok... I'm going to change myself. My room is your room." she said while heading to the bathroom.

Severus looked at the beautiful room around him. It was nicely decorated. It had a very nice shelf attached to one of the walls which was packed with books and some photographs from Hogwarts. He got up to look at them more closely. There was a photo from their first year of them two together, several ones with some Gryffindor girls in Hogsmeade and one in the Gryffindor table where she was sitting next to James Potter, who was putting his arm around her while she tried to move away. Senseless hatred invaded Severus' stomach as she entered the room again.

"Are you looking at the pictures?"

"Yeah... why do you have a picture with Potter?"

"Well..." he could perceive how she blushed and how his chest ached when she did so "You know how the guys are and they were kidding... I don't know."

Severus went back again to sit on the floor. He could not understand how such a pretty and smart girl like Lily could actually have a crush on that douchebag.

"I don't like them you know..."

"I don't like your friends either Severus." she did not normally call him Severus. She was painfully right, she actually had more serious reasons not to like his friends. But it still hurt a lot that she liked a guy whose only purpose in live was to make fun of him. Was he really that unimportant to her?

"Whatever." he said coldly.

She sat on the bed. He remember how some years ago they used to lie together in the grass, very closely and hold hands and everything... but now that they were older and that innocence had been completely lost they could not do those things anymore. Yet he wanted to be sitting on the bed next to her without her thinking that he wanted something else, even though he actually did.

"Lils, you know that..."

"Sev, I don't want to talk about Wizarding World things now." she interrupted him, without knowing that he was not actually going to talk about that. He stayed quiet anyways. "Don't be upset."

"I'm not upset."

"Yes, you are."

"You cannot know."

"Of course I can, I can tell that you are upset."

He did not say anything during a couple of minutes that seemed like hours.

"Do you want to play chess?" she offered, and he nodded.

Playing chess was not something that Severus loved particularly. Lily had no patience at all and he always won, but he still enjoyed anything in her company.

Time has past faster than he expected and Lily has already left to spend a month with her cousin in London. Severus was happy for her, for being able to get away from her problems, something he could not do. It had been four horrible days since she had left, in which the only thing he did was wandering around the house trying not to bump into his father. In fact, he was actually avoiding both of his parents. Her mother looked sadder than usual and that made him feel really bad.

The door of his room opened suddenly making him jump.

"What are you doing kid?" his father shout at him. Severus knew that he was asking if he had been doing magic.

"I'm not doing anything."

"You stupid boy. Do you think you can fool me?" he took Severus by the neck. At first he was afraid but then, a sudden explosion of anger invaded him.

Severus pushed his father back and took his wand into his hand, pointing at the man in front of him.

"You have been asking this for so long!" he shouted.

"Severus!" that was his mother appearing at the door, kneeling next to her husband to help him stand up, who pushed her to a side. "What do you think you are doing?" he said in a very low but reproaching voice. He did not answer.

"You better learn how to control that kid of yours." his father said while leaving the room.

"Severus. You cannot do those things to your father. Did you do some magic?"

"Of course not mum. I'm not that stupid. I am still underage and I'm not going to give up on my studies for him..." being expelled was by far the worst thing that could happen to Severus.

"Well, good. you know he doesn't like it and he still lets you go to the school, so you should be grateful."

"What? You can't be serious mum... what he does to you..."

"Severus, be quiet please." she begged putting her hand over his. He pulled away.

"Leave me alone."

"Ok. I will. But behave please sweetheart." she closed the door behind her.

Stupid woman. How could she put up with him? Severus started hearing loud noises downstairs and his mother's painful cries.

That was it. He could not stand it any longer. He grabbed all his things, which were not much and put them in his trunk. He was leaving that crazy house of horrors. He went downstairs and saw both his parents in the kitchen. He was sitting at the table with a glass of booze. She was cleaning the counter, or pretending to do so.

"Where are you going?" Tobias asked.

"I am going away."

"Good."

"Severus? what do you meaning you are going away?" her mother said turning to face him.

"Do you want to come with me?" he had to say it. His voice came out really coldly and firm, but on the inside he was begging his mum to leave that stupid man and stop suffering once and for all.

"Let him leave! We will be better off." while he said that, tears started running down his mother's cheeks, and Severus knew she was never going to come with him, so he turned around and started heading to the door.

"Severus, please." she said, but he was already out of the door.