Chapter Two: Temper's Rise

A/N: I think I confused people with my author's note at the end of chapter one. Harry and Ginny will get together, but the girl he's with right now isn't her. That's what I meant when I said the girl is not Ginny. I'm sorry it took so long to update but I didn't think people were actually going to like my story and I know I hate it when people take forever to update so I'll try to go quickly.

Ron and Hermione stayed over night, they and Harry stayed up till four pulling many pranks on people over the phone. Ron decided he liked the phone now, for he had not grasped the concept till that night. It was only 9 when Lily woke them up, though she was well aware that they had only gone to sleep 5 hours ago. Ron groaned and shut the door in her face. Harry could hear his mother laughing on the side of the door. He smiled to himself. He was used to this but Ron wasn't and Hermione didn't have a problem, her parents got her up at 7 when they went to work.

"Come on Ron, get up."

"No, Mione. I need sleep." Harry laughed while Hermione suppressed a giggle.

"Ron, Ms. Potter isn't going to give up." Ron mumbled something Harry nor Hermione could understand.

"Ron! You mother wants you home by 11 o'clock, so get up, nap at your house when you get home!" Lily yelled through the door.

"Ok, ok. I'm getting up," Ron said not moving from his bed, "'course in my house you get to sleep till whenever."

"And be in bed by 12."

"Shut up!" Soon they were engaged in a pillow fight till Harry's glass bottle that had belonged to his father broke. Lily came in to break it up and fix the bottle, she also put an unbreakable spell on it, then gently put back on Harry's shelf.

The trio trudged in to the kitchen behind Lily to find that she had made breakfast already. They devoured the meal, with Lily getting compliments from Ron saying she was almost as good as his mother. Lily laughed and thanked him for the compliment. She also bombarded them with questions about Harry's girlfriend, but she got nothing out of them. She would have to wait the two weeks until she came over.

When the clock finally struck 11, Ron reluctantly went home to the burrow. Hermione hugged Harry and Ms. Potter goodbye then went to her house, which they had connected to the Floo Network because she was a witch.

"Mum, I'm going to send Sirius a letter with Jade," Harry said referring to the bird that he had gotten for his birthday from Sirius when he was 10. Jade was a white owl with a strange slight tint of green, that may have been the reason that Sirius had gotten her, but she was a great owl, she never failed to deliver a letter yet.

Harry went to his room and wrote Sirius a long letter about yesterday and this morning's events then sent Jade off with the letter.

Harry couldn't wait for her to get here. In just two hours she would be here. Writing letters just wasn't enough, and she didn't know how to work a phone, so it was useless to try and explain it. By now his mom had stopped asking Harry about who his girlfriend was, but today she would find out. Harry had sent her a letter and Jade had come back telling him that she would be there in four hours and that was two hours ago. I those two hours Harry had cleaned his room, and most of the house under orders of his mother. Now that he had to wait two hours and he was so anxious, nothing held his interest for more than five minutes. He had tried to build a card house, read a book, listen to the radio, do his homework, plus about twenty other things around the house. Nothing worked, all the while Lily just sat there and worked on her needlepoint that she was learning from a friend. She always tried a variety of muggle things and still did plenty of wizarding world things.

Harry paced around the whole house, making Lily think that she must be important to him if he's that anxious. Usually he was able to sit down and finish whatever he was doing, at least under her supervision, she didn't know about what happened at school. She hoped that she would like this girl, if she was making Harry act like this, she had better be really nice and trustworthy. But then why would Harry be with someone who wasn't? Lily was getting a headache thinking about all this, so she got up and went to get something to take care of it. She had just finished drinking some water to get rid of the nasty taste that the medicine had left when she heard Harry speaking to someone in the kitchen. She quickly left the bathroom to see who this girl was.

Lily walked in to the kitchen and saw Harry talking to a blonde haired girl, she had blue eyes, a pale complexion, and she was wearing a purple skirt with a light pink blouse. She was very pretty, and seemed nice when she greeted Lily. She introduced herself as April Gwellen. Lily nodded and smiled, she looked at Harry and saw that he wasn't as excited as he was before she got here.

"So April, are you in Gryffindor too?"

"Um, no, I'm in Ravenclaw."

"Oh, well, tell me about yourself."

"Hasn't Harry told you anything."

"No, he was having fun with me and wouldn't tell me your name or anything about you, though I wanted to know."

"Oh,"April said, glancing at Harry then back at Lily, "well I'm in Harry's year, and I am the smartest girl in our year, I was on the Quidditch team last year as the Keeper." She went on and on, telling all kinds of things she had done in her life. Lily kept glancing at her son and saw his frown kept deepening. Somehow Lily got the feeling that April wasn't telling the truth, and that being the gentleman she had raised him as Harry was keeping quiet.

"Ok, April, why don't you and Harry go take a walk in our orchid while I make lunch," Lily said cutting in on April as she was telling her about the time she had helped Harry with the Sorcerer's Stone. April frowned upon being interrupted.

"I can make lunch, I'm excellent cook!"

"No dear, that's quite all right," Lily responded, fighting to keep the coldness out of her voice, she didn't think she was successful. April made a offended face and grabbed Harry's hand and pulled him to of the house. Lily breathed a sigh of relief; she didn't think she could hear one more lie about that girl. She could barely wait to speak to Harry alone later.

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"Harry you mother was kinda rude wasn't she?" April asked Harry as the walked through the orchid, Harry remained silent, he wasn't sure what to say.

"Harry?"

"April, why did you lie?"

"Lie? I just stretched the truth," April replied matter-of-factly.

"That's the same thing. Why did you tell my mum that you were on the Quidditch team, and that you helped me with the Sorcerer's Stone? You know that only people in Gryffindor helped me with that. And everyone know Hermione is the cleverest witch in the school. Mum know that, and that she's in my year as she is one of my best friends."
"I was just trying to impress her."

"She doesn't need lies to impress her, she needs the truth," Harry told April bitterness creeping into his voice.

"Harry! I can't believe your acting this way! The truth never gets you anywhere!"

"That's not what I was told! I was brought up telling the truth."

"Oh! So you have always told the truth?"

"Maybe I tell small ones, but I would never tell your mother or father that I helped you learn to fly, to something that you had done by yourself. My mum knew you were lying, that why she was acting the way she was."

"How would she know?"

"Like I haven't told her about all I have done. I told her about how the Ravenclaw keeper was really good in my letter's I mentioned the name about twenty times, it wasn't Gwellen. I told her what happened between Krokens and me in my first year at Hogwarts. She knows all about that. It's pointless to lie."

"Harry! What happened to you? I thought I could depend on you! Why are you acting this way?"

"What? Are trying to say I have changed?"

"Yes, you have."

"Are you sure it's not you that's changed?"

"Me? What are you talking about? I am still the same."

"No your not, you never lied to me in Hogwarts, at least not like you just did in there, why did you say all that in front of me?"

"I… well… you… I don't know." April said now confused.

"I don't know who you are anymore."

"Harry! April! Lunch is ready!" Ms. Potter called, her voice was barely audible, April and Harry were on the edge of the Potter property. Harry turned and walked back to the house, April followed. April now had a angered expression on her face, it matched Harry's, but it was easy to tell they were mad at each other.

"Ms. Potter, can you please excuse me, I would like to freshen up before I go home."

"Leaving so soon?" Lily asked unable to keep the sarcastic comment from coming out of her mouth. If they had been on good terms, she was sure Harry would have jumped to April's defense, but he sat there quietly and Lily was sure he was smirking and trying to hide it as he pushed food around his plate.

"Yes, Lily Potter, I am leaving this hell hole." Lily gasped, anger rising within her. She knew that if she held in what she was feeling, she would snap, though she was sure Harry would find it amusing.

"The only reason this place is like hell is because you have made it out that way in your eyes because you don't like that Harry isn't supporting you when you lie. I suppose you learned to lie from your father, he wasn't very good at lying either." Lily shot back. April face changed so that her features weren't even remotely pretty anymore, she was so angry she just huffed and fled the room through the Floo Network.

After she left it was a few moments before Lily and Harry broke down and laughed. All day they cracked jokes about it, Harry sent letters to Ron, Hermione, and Sirius telling them. He wondered what they would think. Not that he cared; it was over, if she wanted him back, he wasn't going to give her an inch. He couldn't believe he let her walk all over him. He was never going to let another girl do that to him again. Lily laughed to herself when she realized that she made him clean for that little witch, and she didn't mean that she could do magic kind of witch, she meant the other kind.

A/N: sorry it took so long, again I didn't think people were going to like my story. But now that I know I promise I will try and write furiously, but school is going start soon, so I can't make any promises. I know that I hate when people take a long time to update I'll try to be quicker but again I can't make any promises. Oh and don't mind Prongs86's weird comments, she tends to be hyper late at night.