Amaryllis keeps a blank look on her face as she turns around, making James freeze. Behind him, Sirius and Peter begin laughing, and Remus shakes his head in amusement.
"I hardly even know you, Potter."
Severus rolls his eyes, throwing the shawl at her, and Amaryllis places it on her shoulders while James stares.
"But your... Your not... How can... What?" James spluttered out, Amaryllis feigns confusion.
"Who did you think I was?" She asks, purposefully flipping her red hair. Remus steps forward, pushing a still, gaping James behind him into Sirius' arms.
"I think you broke him, Amaryllis." Remus joked. Behind him, James was trying to express his words to Sirius, but only made vivid hand gestures -mostly with his hair-, while his friends snickered.
"That wasn't my intention." She said, almost uncaringly. Her eyes travelled over to Severus, who was attempting to sneak away. "No, you don't." She grabbed his arm, preventing him from leaving, making Severus mutter curses.
"Your hair looks nice. New look?" Remus asks, his eyes going to the Slytherin who is struggling to get out of the girls -surprisingly strong- grip.
"Actually, this is my original look. Check my birth certificate." She informs him, subtly tightening her hold on Severus. James' eyes widen and he makes disbelieving hand motions to her.
"When did you two start hanging out?" Remus asks, curiously, knowing that they weren't friends. It took a lot of hanging out to be considered her friend, it took him 3 years.
"We're not ha-" Severus' sneer was cut off.
"Lily is at home. She's not feeling too well. She and Severus made plans for today, so she sent the last best thing." Amaryllis lied, gesturing to herself. "Besides," She pulled an unwilling Severus closer to her, linking their arms together. "Severus and I have known each other since we were kids." Remus raises a brow at the 'closeness' of the two.
"Lily?" James asks, finally regaining his voice and moving in front of Remus.
"Yeah, Lily is at home. Very far away from here." Amaryllis says, slowly.
"How do you know she's at home?" James asks, still not connecting the dots. Or maybe he didn't want to.
"They're sisters, you dimwit!" Severus snapped, a headache forming at his enemies idiocy. James opens his mouth, an insult on the tip of his tongue.
"Fraternal twins to be exact," Amaryllis adds, quickly. James dumbfounded stare goes back to her. Amaryllis moves past him with a wave to Remus, dragging Severus along, and going to buy her book. No one notices her hand brushing Sirius' as she does so, his amused eyes trailing after.
"She's my Lily Flowers twin!" James whisper-yells. Sirius and Peter nodded in amusement.
"Technically they're both 'lily flowers'." Remus comments. The other three's gazes snap to him. "I figured you would've connected that they were related to their names. Amaryllis is a type of Lily." Remus explains. James grabs Sirius' hand and uses it to slap him across the face.
"Potter's intelligence decreases by the hour." Snape murmurs, his gaze travelling over to where the Marauders are trying to calm a frantic James.
"Sometimes I wonder why Remus is friends with them, but then I remember how Dorcas and I are friends." Amaryllis whispers, mostly to herself. She reaches into her bag and places a gallon and 2 knuts on the counter. The shopkeeper hands her a book titled 'Most Macabre Monstrosities'. "Let's go." Amaryllis grabbed Severus' hand to drag him out of the shop.
"Lily said to meet her here." Severus hissed, jerking his hand away from hers.
"Yeah, but that is not for another 35 minutes." A smile makes its way to Amaryllis' face as she clutches her bag closer to her. "And there's something that I've been wanting to buy for a while." She mumbles, walking off with Severus reluctantly following her, knowing Lily would be upset if he lost her sister.
Severus' frown deepens when they stop outside of a Quidditch shop. Amaryllis was uncharacteristically giddy, as she darted into the store.
"You want a broom?" Severe scoffs. The girl didn't hear him at all since she was looking at the Shooting Cirrus, which wasn't as new as the Nimbus, but still a good broom. Severus' eyes widened when he saw the price tag. "Who has that many galleons?" Severus mumbled.
"Can I have this one?" Amara asks the lady at the counter. The woman eyes her suspiciously.
"Do you have the money?" She asks, not seeing any parents. Amaryllis nods her head and begins taking out her galleons. The woman shrugs and wraps the broom up.
Amaryllis clutched the broom to her chest. "I've been saving up since first-year." She mumbles to herself -or at least that what it sounds like-. She holds the broom out dramatically, "...At last, my arm is complete, again!"
"Whatever." Severus fussed.
"We were only in there for 15 minutes. Is there anywhere you want to go?" Amara asks. Severus scowl at the girl.
"No." He sneers. Amaryllis shrugs already used to -and not even intimidated by- his attitude. "Let's go get some ice cream." She suggests, pulling at his arm.
"How do you still have money after buying that?" Severus asks, pointing to her broom.
"I saved up both muggle and wizard money." She informs him. "Now let's get ice cream. You may pick whatever you want, except strawberry." She glared at the air -a group of people passing by, shivered-." I despise strawberry."
Severus frowned, briefly remembering the birthday party he attended where there was strawberry cake served. Several times at school the Evans' sent the twins a cake for their birthday, but it was always strawberry, Lily's favourite. Right?
"Lily' s favourite is strawberry. I can see the question forming in your eyes." She mumbles, sounding a lot like Xenophilius for a moment. Several people -Hogwarts students- look at them as they pass by, Amaryllis pulled his hand again. A thought passes through Amaryllis' mind making her laugh to herself.
"What are you laughing at?" Severus asks with a scowl.
"People probably think we're on a date," Amaryllis says, nonchalantly. Severus turns a shade of red and forces his hand out of hers, again.
"I would neve-" Severus' insult was cut short.
"I know your undying love for Lily remains true," Amaryllis mutters. Severus opens his mouth to protest. "Don't try to deny it. The only person who doesn't know you love Lily is Lily." The words put a sour taste in her mouth.
"You infuriate me," Severus grumbled, wishing time would go faster. Amaryllis shrugs and they walk in silence.
"That's probably why Potter is so jealous of you." Amaryllis muses. Severus' gives her a look that says 'Why would he be jealous of me?'.
"You both fancy Lily, but Lily and you are best friends, so it would seem like you have the bigger chance," Amaryllis explains, making Severus scoff.
"That insufferable Gryffindor hates me because I'm Slytherin like he hates all other Slytherins," Severus growls out. Amaryllis sighs, using her free hand to fix her falling flower crown.
"You being Slytherin is just a bonus, Severus." Amaryllis mumbles, stopping as they reached 'Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor'. "Let's go inside." She whispers, going to open the door.
"There's really no need for ice cream. Flourish and Botts is right there." Severus snaps.
Amaryllis rolls her eyes and drags the Slytherin into the ice cream parlour. She walks up to the counter and, kindly, smiles at Florean. "I'll have a-" She pauses looking at the flavours, her eyes widen. "Is that treacle tart? I'll have that."
"Okay, coming right up. What about you, lad?" Florean asks, Severus. The dark haired boy looks from Florean to the ice cream to Amara then back to Florean again, internally debating whether or not he should actually get a -probably poisoned, in his opinion- ice cream.
"I'll have a chocolate and cherry." He mumbles, avoiding Amaryllis' smug gaze.
Amara had made Severus sit down at one of the outside tables with her -someone left a pumpkin and chocolate ice cream at the only remaining table inside-. Amaryllis took her time savouring her own ice cream while Severus glumly ate his own, sending glares to Amara because he secretly enjoyed it. Amara reached into her bag and took out a pair of over-sized, round sunglasses, and placed them on her face.
"The sun was hurting my eyes," Amara explained. It was an unusually sunny day. Severus rolled his onyx eyes and continued eating his ice cream.
"There you two are!" A voice shouts. Amaryllis head turns to see Lily and a green-tinted Dorcas walking towards them, her eyes widen behind the glasses in concern for her friend. "We've been looking for you for a few minutes," Lily says, earning Amara a glare from Severus.
"The candy... it was too much." Dorcas gags, covering her mouth with a free hand. "She ate all the candy while buying new candy," Lily adds.
"Poor Dorcas." Amaryllis teases. The brunette rolls her eyes and sits in the free spot beside Amara, while Lily sits next to Severus.
"What are you two doing? I thought you were just going to be in Flourish & Botts?" Lily asks, curiously. Her green eyes flicker to the wrapped up broom beside Amara. "A broom, Mara? You don't even play Quidditch."
"I actually do." Amara corrects, through gritted teeth. "And I asked Severus to walk with me to go buy it, as a treat I bought him ice cream."
"I'm not a dog," Severus uttered, referring to her saying that the ice cream was a treat for him like a dog's treat for being good. He refrained from telling Lily that her sister forced him to go with her, not that she would believe him if he did.
"Hey, Sniv- Snape. Are you going to eat that?" Dorcas asked, gesturing to his lonesome ice cream cup. The Slytherin pushed the ice cream to her, bored. "Thank you!" She chirped, a smile plastered on her face.
"You just got sick from eating candy." Amaryllis hissed. Dorcas shrugged, a smirk forming on her lips, as she leant closer to Amara.
"We are going to talk about everything that happened today, later on," Dorcas whispered. Amaryllis gave her friend a blank look, which was answered with a smirk. 'Everything.' Dorcas mouths, waggling her eyebrows looking from her to Severus.
"So Mara..." Lily began, snapping Amaryllis' attention to her.
"What happened with the arrogant toerag?"