Chapter 2: No one ever seems to understand me

Beep Beep Beep

Lily moaned at the sound of her alarm clock setting off at 7 a.m. and absentmindedly chucked a pillow at the muggle contraption. It muffled the niose, slightly, but the alarm continued. Lily grabbed the other pillow on her bed and placed it over her head, hoping to block the sound, but failing miserably. She finnaly admitted defeat and shut the alarm clock off, and started her daily routine.

An hour later Lily was outside her apartment complex, getting into her red sports car ready to head to the diner as she did every morning. She hopped in the car and turned it on. The muggle radio began to play soft classical music and Lily shut it off, not in the mood. She yawned and streatched before pulling the car away from the lot, and drove 5 minutes away to the family resteraunt. She walked inside to see Basils cheery face talking to Mrs. Evans.

"Good morning Lily, dear, whats on your plans for today?" Mrs. Evans asked her daughter as Lily took a seat on a bar stool at the front counter.

"Work, as usual." Lily sighed. "Is there any coffee made? I need caffine."

"Of coarse. Who doesn't have coffee at 8 a.m." Basil smiled and walked into the kitchen.

"In a to-go cup please, I need to go into work." Lily called after Basil. "Is Dad here too? You guys aren't normally here on a regular basis." Lily asked. Mrs. Evans shook her head.

"He was sleeping when I left, I decided to come in today, you know, check up on things." Mrs. Evans smiled and Lily nodded. A white cup was set in front of Lily and she immideatly grabbed it, sipping down some of the brown liquid.

"Mmm, Thanks Basil." Lily smiled. She waved goodbye to her mother and Basil and then exited the Diner, back into her car. She grabbed to open her door when she found an envelope inbetween her windshield and her windshield whiper. Lily grabbed it quickly and tore open the envelope, inside was a folded up parchment. Lily took it out, and began to read it, soon to realize it was the last article for Witch Weekly. Lily moaned and the crumpled parchment and figured she would have to have it re written by someone, on suitible paper so she could fit it in the issue. Lily jumped in her car, tossing the article onto the passengers seat and began to drive to Diagon Alley.

She reached the Leaky Cauldren nearly a half an hour later, parking her car outside, and stepped inside.

"Lily! Please, sit, can I get you a nice firewhiskey?" Joe, the barman grinned a toothy grin.

"Sorry, not today Joe, I have to get into work, maybe afterwards. We all know I'll need one." Lily nodded at the man and continued through the bar out to the back where she tapped the bricks causing them to shuffle and move aside creating a gateway into a busy street inside. Lily smiled and stepped through. Witches and Wizards were hurring around, kids were busy picking out books for the start of term, which was in just a week and a half.

Lily stepped past a group of students pressing their faces against the glass to the broom shop and she could slightly see James in a few of them.

"It's the new comet! 160! Its amazing!" One kid with slick red hair grined wide eyed.

"My dad says it's the best in the industry right now!" Another blonde cried.

"Well my Dad says he's buying me one for start-of-term! I'm only a first year but with this broom, they can't Deny me!" Another boy with dark brown hair grinned. Lily chuckled softly and continued walking, on her way to the Witch Weekly offices.

The next site that made her grin was a young girl peering into the bookstore. She looked only about 10 but she was in awe of some magical book inside the store. The young girl reminded Lily of herself when she first entered the magic world, she crowded around the book store while the rest of the kids were busy eyeing up brooms or chess games or owls.

She passed the girl and turned down a road called "Dagger Terrace" The closest building was the one she needed. She stepped inside to see magazines pilled everywhere and people rushing around magicly copying papers or scratching things with their quills.

"Miss Evans! Thank goodness you're here, do you have the issue?" A slightly plump lady with half circle spectecals at the edge of her nose came running up. Lily nodded and reached into her bad pulling out a magazine.

"Only thing that needs to be added is this—" Lily handed the lasy the parchment she had goten this morning.

"Whats this? Maries again? Oh that girl can never get hers in on time. I swear she'll be replaced soon enough!" The lady rolled her eyes and shuffled off. Lily smiled and walked over to a nearby cubical. She sat down and looked at the gold plate on the desk.

Lily Evans – Chief Editor

She smiled and ran her fingers over it then threw her bag atop the desk. The weight of it shook the contraption a bit, causing a picture frame to fall over. Lily stood it back up and looked at it. In the center was James and her, and to the sides were their best friends. Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. And to Lilys side was Page Geegan. Lily smiled and ran her hand over the picture, she hadn't spoken to any of them, disincluding the meeting with James last night, since the last day of seventh year. This caused a knot in her throat and she looked away, only to notice a a parched letter sitting face down on her desk.

She fixed her eyes on it for a moment, confused on where it had come from, she was nearly posotive it hadn't been there moments before. Lily shook her head telling herself she was just imagining things and picked up the letter.

Lily Evans, stay away from James Potter. Unless you want my wrath, Stay away.

Lily dropped the note immideatly, a bit startled but not frightened. She rubbed her eyes with her palms for a moment and told herself it was probably just her mother or sister playing a joke on her. She smiled slightly wondering why it had startled her and tossed the note into her bag, hopeing to remember to ask her family later. Besides, she was staying away from James Potter, she'd told him she was busy.

Hours later Lily returned to her apartment and opened the door, only to find another note suspended in the air right inside her house. Lily walked around it at first, frightened to touch it. She finnaly got up enough courage to grab the note, and unfold it.

Lily Evans you red haired freak! Just incase you didn't get my last note, I want you to have nothing to do with James Potter!

Lily shuddered this time, two in a day? Her family wouldn't do this… or would they? She gulped and tossed the note into her nearest trash can.

Its just someone playing a Joke, she told herself. Someone who doesn't understand me and decided to tease me, yeah that's it. Its fine