A/N: Holy Grilled Cheesus! Two reviews! yay! This is shorter then the last but I felt it ended in just the right spot and I didn't want to drag it out! But I feel all warm inside from the two reviewers! So thank you to AshleyM15 and heeey its just me here! you guys rock! I now get why people write faster when they get reviews!
P.S. I hope you enjoy! (:
"Celeste!" Lily bounded into the compartment she was sharing with her best friend.
"Well hello Lily! What has got you so excited?" Celeste eyed Lily, worried. This was so unlike Lily, she was usually calm and rational, not this red faced girl with emerald eyes lit with excitement that was standing before her.
"James Potter!" Lily sputtered out. She couldn't help herself, she had never had anyone but Celeste defend her. And she rather enjoyed it.
"the bloke who knocked you on your bum?" Celeste questioned Lily, not wanting to think what she already knew. Lily could not like James Potter! She was so sweet and fragile and James was, well James. Lily nodded her head and stared out the window, calming down but the spark never left her eyes.
"Yes," she breathed. "I ran into him again on my way to the meeting. Literally, I smacked right into the fellow, but it appears as though I am the only one who falls to the ground." She looked at Celeste with a big smile on her face, but seeing that Celeste was not as happy as she should be, Lily's face dropped.
"Oh Lily! I didn't mean to hurt your feelings! It's just I know what those boy are like. They mess around with a girl then ditches her when they're done. I just don't want to see my best friend get hurt," Celeste reasoned. She loved seeing Lily this happy but why couldn't she like a boy that would treat her well? Lilly was to kind a soul to see the bad in people. That was Celeste's job. She looked at her friend who had her head leaning against the glass of the window, Lily was so small and her cloths looked to be at least two sizes too big. Celeste loved the fact that Lily was so conservative, not because she wanted to be the hot one of the friends, no, she hated the fact that boys and girls alike made fun of her poor Lily, but because it made her feel more like Celeste's younger sister, who she missed terribly during the year.
Lily fiddled with her ankle socks, rerolling them so they hit the same spot on both her ankles.
"Celeste?" Lily lifted her head from examining her sock to address the pretty brunette across from her.
"yes?"
"Do- do you think I'm pretty?" Lily asked, damning her cheeks for blushing again.
Celeste was taken aback. She did not mean for Lily to feel Celeste did not think she was pretty.
"Lily! You know you're beautiful! Why would you ask a question like that?" Celeste could not help but feel awful. This was her best friend and here she was acting like one of the girls that continually poked fun at the little red head. She should have been more supportive, this was, after all, the first time Lily had expressed any type of interest in a boy. Celeste promised herself she was going to be there for Lily and get her, her man.
"Listen Lily," Celeste spoke before Lily could answer her previous question. "I was being a right git. No, no don't interrupt me!" Celeste warned as Lily was about to cut in. "Lily, I should have been more excited when you told me! I feel completely retched and I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to me again! To make it up to you I'll help you get James. It won't be as easy as you this though, lily!" Celeste warned when Lily ran over and hugged her. "Boys are complex creatures so before we get ahead of ourselves we must do research!" Celeste proclaimed.
"Research?" a smile broke out over Lily's face. "I can do research! It's what I'm best at!" The idea of snooping around made her think of those muggle books she loved so much. "Like Sherlock Holmes?" Lily asked Celeste with a hopeful look.
"Um, yes I suppose?" she was unsure of who this Holmes fellow was but remembering Lily didn't grow up in the wizarding world she figure it was a muggle.
"Oh yay! But wait. What must we find out about James Potter?"
"well we'll ask around and see what everyone says about him and see if he I can trust him with my delicate little Lily."
An idea came to Lily. "Oh! I have rounds with Remus!" seeing the confusion on Celeste's face she elaborated. "Don't you get it? Remus Lupin is one of James's best mates! We will have hours to walk around the castle with nothing to talk about! It will be perfect!" realization crossed Celeste's face, she kissed the top of Lily's head and threw her fist in the air.
"You're brilliant Lily! I knew there was a reason I kept you around!" she winked at her friend and Lily, who normally would take offense to the comment was too excited about the whole thing to actually care.
The girls calmed down from their plans of digging up dirt on the elusive James Potter, Celeste changed to her robes and for the rest of the trip they giggled about their summers, about how Celeste's little sister would try to curl her hair and how Lily, trying to explain to her parents, who were muggles, the game of Quidditch but only confused them more, being as lily had never fully understood it either.
The train came to a sudden stop and both girls looked out the window to see they had arrived at Hogwarts. The sun had gone down by now and above the castle stars and a bright sliver of the moon could be seen. Lily and Celeste smiled at one another and smoothed out their red and gold ties. Just them Remus, James, Sirius and a plump boy with a face that rather resembled a rodent walked in, Lily wondered where he had been on the platform but the thought vanished as she took in the sight of James.
"Ladies." James greeted, smiling at the two. Lily looked at her feet not trusting herself to say something stupid or turning a ghastly shade of red. Lily mumbled her hello but Celeste, being Celeste, spoke up.
"What can Lily and I do for you lads?" she asked
"Well I can think of a couple things," Sirius said, winking at Lily when she looked up in bewilderment. The rodent boy who Lily remembered as Peter snickered. But Celeste didn't let it faze her.
"Oh really Black? Give an example won't you?" Celeste was looking him straight in the eyes and Lily couldn't help but be proud, if not slightly jealous, of her best friend.
Before Sirius could reply back Remus spoke. "Um Lily? We have to go help the first years. Sadly, that means we get to take the boats in." Remus smiled at both girls and both girls were in awe. He never smiled much but when he did it was a shock to the system. He had sandy blonde hair that was not quite as messy as James' but was getting there, lovely blue eyes that seemed tired but genuinely happy and he was tall. Not quite as tall as Sirius who out of the four boys but a good five inches on Peter.
"Oh I must have forgotten! I'm sorry Remus, you had to come all the way back here, and we're going to be late!" Lily fretted as she yanked her already long skirt further and her sweater neck higher. "I don't know what's gotten into me!" Celeste chocked back a laugh peeking at James whiles she Lily's collar. James was staring at Lily as if he couldn't quite understand her, which was completely accurate.
"Don't worry Lily," Remus tried to calm the anxious Lily. "I was distracted too, but when I got out and didn't see you James said we should go looking for you." The way he said it, it was almost as if he knew how Lily felt. She stopped messing with her uniform and stared at Remus.
" Right." Was all she could manage and Celeste's face was contorted from trying to stop smiling at what she had just heard.
"Well it just seems so unlike you to be late and all," James addressed Lily personally and ran his hand through his already disheveled hair, staring at her with a small smiles. Lily was mesmerized and Celeste casually bumped into her to take her out of her trance. She realized she had been staring and quickly looked at her hands.
"oh." Oh? Oh? That's all you could manage? she lectured herself.
"Well," Remus began, sensing Lily's discomfort.
"Yes, yes we should go!" Lily finally said. " I'll see you there Celeste!" with a final hug from her friend she left with Remus. The three boys stayed in the compartment Celeste and Lily shared. Lily felt eyes on her so she turned around to see James staring at her. She quickly turned away.
James Potter was staring after her, and he was the one to suggest looking for her. This seemed like the start of a grand year at Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry.
Another A/N: so what did ya'll think? Now that the journey to Hogwarts it over the real fun starts! So I love Celeste because she is kind of like me (more the way she looks then acts...I guess you could say her personality is what I wish I had haha) ... but the ankle socks on Lily are because I wear them. But I'm really excited to get to develope all the characters but mostly Celeste because she is comeing right from my brain! So I hope you like it as much as I love writting it! Read and Reveiw my loverly's because reviews are to me what Quidditch is to Harry!
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Emily 3
