Chapter 3: This is not what I wanted!
A/N: hi thanks for all the reviews I love them and thanks to those who just read my story. Sorry this has taken longer to write than I thought but I recently discovered some bad news to do with a friend and I also have to concentrate a lot on my school work as I have my GCSE'S in May/June. To all those who had ago at guess the question you were all wrong so no round of applause today. Just another quick one any constructive criticism is welcome as I know I'm not the best writer on the planet and never refuse help at bettering my self.
This chapter is dedicated to all those people who review because you are the ones who spur me on to write in this time of stress.
Lily sat humming to herself waiting for the others to return to question her. She was perfectly confident and fine till she saw the group walking back with smirks and evil glints in their eyes. As she saw this Lily started to become worried and as they sat down she decided to check the rules "if I don't want to answer I can do the forfeit right?" she asked no-one in general.
"Ahhh you see Lily you were right to ask the rules, but perhaps James here didn't do a very good job at explaining them. The forfeit is only for the dares." Remus said with hardly any hint of sympathy in his voice. Lily visibly gulped but took the potion from Remus' out stretched hand.
Once again the group waited for it to take effect and then set about asking Lily her first question. The group had decided Amber would ask the questions and James would look after the anti-dote till all the questions were answered. "What is the biggest secret you know?" asked Amber looking excited. Lily visibly relaxed and was about to tell her secret when she suddenly realised that's not what they had asked for. They asked her what was the biggest secret she knew not what her biggest secret was, for her they were different things. At the realization of this her eyes went as wide as planets which only made the rest of the groups Cheshire cat grins grow wider.
Lily knew she couldn't tell what they were asking for. It would completely change the whole dynamic of the group not just the game. Yes to her knowledge she thinks 4 of the people sitting here know but she's only certain of one and she knows he would never forgive her nor would she forgive herself if the answer to their question came out of her mouth.
Lily immediately put her hand over her mouth so as to stop the secret just slipping away. After she had gathered up her self control she removed her hand and slowly opened her mouth while concentrating on say what she wanted to not the secret. "Please don't make me tell you this" she said with pleading in her voice but all she got in return was that she had agreed to play and she had to answer. So Lily decided if they weren't going to do this politely she would have to start getting angry, slowly of course so to give them plenty of warning. "No listen to me I really can't ell you this, its not mine to tell so give me the potion" Lily's voice had an edge to this that the whole group new meant she was getting angry but they also new she wouldn't be able to hold the truth in for too much longer. James told Lily she was not getting the potion till she had answered 5 questions, and although he tried to say it in a calming way it just made her all the more angry that no one was understanding the seriousness of this. "James Potter if don't give me that damn anti-dote I will punch your bloody face in the muggle way so help me god" Lily shouted her threat this time but James didn't take any notice he had heard this sort of threat from lily before and she'd never come through on any of them so James didn't think she would this time but that is were he was wrong. When Lily noticed he was ignoring her she jumped towards him ready to do what ever it took to get the anti-dote from him. Remus had anticipated this and grabbed Lily and turned her round to face him, it was then that he noticed that she had tears in her eyes from concentrating on not spilling whosever secret it was she was keeping. It was then that an idea hit Lily a way to get them to give her the anti-dote. Lily looked into Remus' eyes and said in a calm almost sad voice "Moony make James give me the anti-dote, you don't want me to tell this secret" As soon as lily had finished her sentence Remus let her go and turned to James to him to give her the potion for you see Remus had figured out what it was that Lily was going to spill if she didn't get the anti-dote, the use of his nick name meant Remus knew that Lily's secret she didn't want to tell was about him being a werewolf. And she was right he didn't want her to tell everyone here even if the girls were the only ones who didn't know.
James saw the look in Remus' eyes and put 2 and 2 together from what Lily had said. He handed over the anti-dote to and when Sirus went to protest James just said later in such a tone that nobody else in the room moved till Lily had taken the potion.
As soon as Lily knew she could speak without having to concentrate so much on not say the secret she thanked James then proceeded to tell them she would do the forfeit and answer any other questions they wanted to ask as long as they weren't related to that one. The group agreed that watching her tell Dumbledore he is mad and making her answer some different questions was compensation enough and they wouldn't push her to offer anything else. They got into their huddle again and started to discuss what they were going to ask this time and who would do the asking.
The group reappeared a lot faster this time and sat down. Amber handed Lily the truth serum and she took it. After a minute James asked Lily "Have you ever broken a rule?"
Lily replied immediately with a simple "yes"
James was intrigued by this so next said "explain in detail how you broke your first rule that you can remember.
"ok "said Lily "that's easy, I was seven years old and I loved the rain, always have always will, anyway I also wanted to go out in the rain and just dance about but my mum always told me no because I would catch a cold. So whenever it was raining because she new how much I wanted to go out in it she would find me and make sure I didn't go out in it so most of the time I would just watch from the bay window in are living room. But one day I had had enough of doing what my mum said and since I was seven I decided I was a big girl and could do what I wanted to I put on my Wellingtons which were by the back door and slid out of the lounge unnoticed because my mum was so engrossed in her knitting. So I went outside for the whole storm and just danced, lay down on the ground, dug in the dirt all the usual thing a kid would do. So anyway when the storm had finished my mum turned round to tell me I could go out and play now but found I wasn't there. She ran to the back door where she found me standing in the middle of our garden with this huge grin on, there was this moment where everything seemed perfect and then I sneezed. Well to say my mum was angry would be the understatement of the century. I was immediately taken inside dried of and put to bed without tea. I then heard my mum on the phone outside my room telling my dad what I did. I knew I was in for it then if she had him on his side. When my dad arrived home he came into my room and sat down on my bed with this stern looking on his face. But I was his little girl I knew how to soften him up and all I did was give him this small cheeky smile and he returned it with this huge grin. He asked me what it had felt like if it was worth the getting in trouble and the cold and I told him it was the best thing in the world and however bad the punishment I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. He just stood up kissed me good night and said to tell mum that he had told me off if she asked. After that day I sneaked out at every opportunity I could to dance in the rain and over the years I stopped getting colds from it, I guess I built up a resistance or something. There was that enough detail?" Lily finished her story and everyone was momentarily speechless till padfoot burst out laughing saying something like you broke the rules for rain how Lily-ish. At this Lily just crossed her arms and gave him one of her looks. The laughter died down and James prepared to ask Lily her next question, "Now, I've put questions three and four together to save time, describe and explain, if you have, how you have broken a rule since you've been here at Hogwarts" Lily just looked at him as if to say that was all you could come up with I am so disappointed. However she then went on to give her verbal answer, "well it's the same thing really. You see when I came to Hogwarts I realised that I wouldn't have anyone stopping me from going out into the rain now and I could do it as often as I liked. But then I realised all sorts of things like I couldn't go out after curfew and I couldn't leave classes. This was my first night at Hogwarts, right after the sorting and you might not remember but it wasn't rain then so I decided to cross the bridge of when I would have time to do the homework and go out into the rain when I came to it. What I wasn't to know was that the next night the heavens were going to open and that's when I would encounter my problem. You see I had just finished my homework when curfew struck. And I knew I couldn't break the rules on the first day what if they through me out. So I decided to just sit by the window in the common room and watch the storm form there like I used to."
"Oh shit" said James quietly but not quite enough.
"Yes James you guessed right that was the night you formed the marauders after your first joint prank. That prank which now when I think about it I find funny wasn't funny at the time. Not to me anyway, you got one of the older students to teach you how to levitate objects and you thought it would be incredibly funny to levitate a bucket of water over my head tip it over me then ask me out. I however not finding it funny and not having made any friends to complain about you lot to yet went running out of the common room all the way through the castle out the oak doors and onto the grounds. I found peace in the rain and I spent what seemed like eternity out there. That was until I bumped into something or should I say someone. You might have been wondering how I had got out of the castle unnoticed, well I didn't when I had opened the front doors it had alerted Dumbledore to the fact that a student a first year no less had opened the doors and was on the grounds. Dumbledore rushed outside to find me and when got to the doors he just stopped still (he told me this after you see) and watched to see what I was doing, and then slowly he walked towards me but because I was spinning round with my eyes closed didn't see him and bumped into him. He placed his hand on my shoulder and as I looked up slowly feeling guilty I realised I was going to get sent home, I wasn't going to be allowed to be a witch anymore. But Dumbledore just looked at me kindly and noticing the tears in my eyes gave me a tissue and asked me to walk with him to his office. When we got the he dried me off with a spell and told me to sit down. He then took his seat and just stared at me for a while. I was starting to get scared at the way he was looking at me when he goes that was an impressive bit of magic you did there miss Evans, getting over the shock that he new my name I asked what he meant because I hadn't done any magic. He proceeded to tell me how the front doors were looked at curfew yet I seemed to be outside, well I put him straight and told him that the person who should have looked the doors obviously forgot because they were wide open when I went trough them and I certainly didn't open them. He gave that little chuckle of his and just smiled at me and said he had looked them this evening just before curfew with a powerful locking spell that I had somehow undone. I just stared at him I couldn't comprehend what he was saying. He just chuckled again and told me not to worry that it was probably just my emotions after a stressful first day and in time I would learn how to control my powers. So you're not going to expel me I asked, no not today Miss Evans but try not to make a habit of undoing the spells I have done he said with a half serious tone. I got up to leave and just as I grabbed the door handle he said one more thing, they'll grow up eventually. And that was it I went back to the common room and straight up to my dormitory. I only ever went out after curfew again a few times, when I was very stressed or angry or upset because that was the only time I could open the doors when I wasn't completely in control of my magic." Lily finished her story and looked around everyone was just staring at her in amazement; James gave a low whistle and said "you must have some raw power if you did that one the first day, no wonder you top in almost everything". The others nodded their heads in agreement. "Right said James so for the last question I am going to ask-"
"Why do you hate James?" Sirus cut in. Marlene and Amber high fived each other and Remus and Peter looked very happy with themselves.
Lily thought for a moment considering her answer and James glared at Sirus while mouthing what are you doing? Sirus just mouthed back watch and see! Lily opened her mouth to answer and closed it again, a little while later she opened it again and this time words came out "right first let me finish before anybody says anything ok?" they all nodded in agreement so Lily continued "I don't hate James, I hate the guy I call Potter. You see over the past month I've come to believe they are to very different people. Now if you had asked me why I don't like Potter I would have told you what I have said many times before about him being an egotistical prat, who's a bully and has no respect for authority. But since you asked me why I hate James the answer will have to be I don't hate James but I can't say I like him either, because I don't know him and I never have had the chance to know him but I think I would like the chance to know him. So what do you say?"
A/N if you think this is being posted at a wired time for me that's because I'm ill and of school so decided to finally sit down and type this up. On a more pleasant note I think this is my longest chapter yet even if it's not my best. Anyway have a good day and please review they really do make me want to write and update faster!!!!