Parts of a whole
by shana
chapter 6.
POV: Lily, James, Andrea, James
The time until Christmas was pretty boring, unless you count all the stuff James and I did to each other. Yes, I have had countless detentions. The teachers are running out of things for us to do. And do you know what I had to do yesterday? [which was the 23rd of December] Dumbledore made James and me sit in a tree for three hours. Together, on the same branch! And the worst part was that we were stuck there, meaning we couldn't move our butts. Which, may I say, totally sucked, because it was starting to cramp up by the time 11 PM rolled around.
Anyway, today is Christmas Eve. Technically, we are on vacation, but I wrote to Mum and told her about Andi. She said that it would be a good idea to stay at school over break. It would be a good way for me to show my friendship, and the fact remains that Andi has nowhere else to go. (By the way, I convinced her to let me meet her sis, 15 year old Lexi at the Christmas feast.)
And I agreed with mum, except for the fact that James and the gang felt like staying after they found out that we were staying. But, last night Remus backed out saying that his mum was sick, and Sirius and Sarah left without warning with the others on the Hogwarts Express. So, as of now, the only other Gryffindors staying back are James and Zina. Hmmm, I wonder what they'll be doing tonight. Every night. Okay, okay. I won't think about it.
Pretty much all I've been doing is sit in the common room with curse books, looking up good things to put James through. People are starting to think I'm a pretty gutsy first year. I guess I can live with that, right? It's a good rep. Too bad that's what James was called last year. I heard that from some Hufflepuff fifth years.
Andi has found better things to do, such as catch up on all the homework she hasn't done. Maybe I should join her... nah. It seems like she's having fun in the library alone. But for all I know there might be some cute Ravenclaws there. Hey, no one said that just because they hate us we can't look at them!
I dropped the book and shut it. Then, I left the common room and headed toward the library.
And I was right. I found Andi not doing homework, but chatting with some Ravenclaws—third and fourth years, I think. As I walked towards her, I noticed Zina and James sitting close on one of those long armchairs (but not quite a couch) and talking heatedly—more excitedly than passionately, though. By that time, I had met up with Andi. She was quite surprised and stuttered a bit as she introduced me to the Ravenclaw cuties. They were Stefan, Enrique (he preferred Rick), and Jeff. Swedish, Hispanic, and Scottish, I guessed, though you couldn't really tell since they all had English accents.
Stefan seemed quite taken with something off to my left, so I sneaked a peek and managed to catch James and Zina kissing. In the library of all places! I mean, I haven't had much experience (okay, none) but I don't think a public place is that great for that. So, I shifted my attention over to Jeff (the only third year), and found that we had a lot in common. We talked for a long time; so long that we didn't notice Andi, Stefan, and Rick disappear. By the time we looked up, James was standing over us with a very angry expression on his face.
"Jeff," he said.
"James." He looked over at me. "It's been nice meeting you, Lily. Maybe we can sit near each other tonight at dinner."
"Okay. See you tonight!" I watch Jeff walk away and James accosted me. "Let go!" I said. "What did he do to you?"
He let go. "You wouldn't understand. And I don't think it looks good to our house if you are seen talking to a Ravenclaw."
"So? What about Andi?"
"Andrea? She was outside throwing curses at the squid with someone Hispanic."
"Enrique, or Rick—a fourth year Ravenclaw." So it seemed like Stefan had gone off by himself.
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"Is that true? That's good, then. He's in line for Prefect in two years and then Head Boy." I liked Rick; he had tutored me on Charms quite a bit last year.
"And there was one more. Stefan, a fourth year. He was staring at you and Zina and I caught you kissing."
"You what? No, you didn't. What did you say?" I know I was blushing. It had been pretty stupid to kiss Zina in the library.
"You heard me. And if you don't want rumors going around about you two then I suggest you leave me be." She whipped around and left. I assumed she had gone to collect Andi—I mean Andrea and then go to the common room. I had seen the book she had left on a table, and I have the same book. It was complete with countercurses.
I heard someone calling me. "What?" I turned around. Zina was waiting for me by the entrance to the library.
"Are you planning on going to dinner?"
"Yeah."
"Then we'd better leave."
We went to the Great Hall, and I almost forgot about Lily until I saw her talking to Jeff in the middle of the one table Dumbledore had set up since so few of us were staying at the castle over holiday break. I think I glared at her the whole meal, but Andi had noticed before Lily did and she shot me a pleading look for me to stop. And I spent the rest of dinner chatting with Dumbledore and Zina. Afterwards, all of the Gryffindors walked back together, but there was a bit of tension between us all as we rigidly said good night and went up to our dorms. Since I was the only guy who had stayed, I went back down after changing and fell asleep on one of the couches in the common room.
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"Presents!" Lily shouted and woke me up.
"Lily Evans, do you know what time it is?" I said drowsily.
"Yeah. 9:06."
"What! I overslept?" I was fully awake now. Lily started laughing.
"I meant 6:09! Okay? And it's vacation!"
"I knew that. Ooh, presents!"
"Are you deaf?" She looked at me dumbfoundedly.
"No. I heard you earlier." I had. We sat on the floor near our beds then, opening and marveling at each gift we had recieved while talking about everything from homework to guys. I revealed that I thought James was cute. Lily punched me for that one.
"What's this?" Lily held up an ivory colored envelope with her name on it in a flourish. She opened it, and immediately it turned red and started shouting 'MERRY CHRISTMAS LILY EVANS! MERRY CHRISTMAS LILY EVANS! MERRY CHRISTMAS LILY...' She threw it on the floor and ran to the door, shouting, "James Pott—"
But she stopped. Because there he was, laughing out loud. He had heard everything.
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I sprinted down the stairs and back towards the couch I had slept on. I had heard the juiciest secrets while standing there with the Listening charm on. Hey, it was flattering to hear that Andrea—okay, Andi thought I was cute. But some of the stuff Lily said, like a fault with every guy in her classes, that was the best. She found the funniest faults, which were even funnier because they were all true and after thinking for about three seconds I understood why she had included it.
But when she opened the color-changed Howler I had sent her as a gift (and had Zina write the name on it), I had to run for it. Unluckily, the girl can run. And she tackled me just has she got off the last step, yelling, "What is your problem?"
Somehow, I got her off me and Bound her arms together. I noticed that she was wearing an oversized West Ham football jersey and extra-small boxers. But I forgot about that as soon as she started running after me again.
We ran around the common room, while Andi and Zina laughed, until I tripped on some of the gifts that had piled up next to my couch. I had forgotten about them. Then, Zina un-did the ArmBind Lily was in and they all sat on the ground and opened my gifts for me as I watched. Luckily, I didn't get anything embarrassing. Lily looked a bit downcast; she had probably cursed my bed or something up in my dorm room. Ha! Well, at least my gift worked. I have to admit, it was funny until she came after me.
"Okay, let's go to dinner," Andi said. "I mean breakfast."
"Sure, whatever," I replied.
"Wait!" Zina said. She held up a flat gift that was about 30 cm by 20 cm, and was about 3 cm thick.[1ftx8inx1in] She opened it as I wondered what it was. She handed it to me.
It was a sketchbook. One of the really expensive kinds that was leather covered and had side spirals along with a zipper to close it. I looked around and saw Lily staring intently at me. I raised my eyebrows questioningly, and she nodded, a small nod that I wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't staring back at her. I realized that her eyes were emerald green, like when you see photos of islands or something. Real pretty. Okay, ignore that.
Lily had sent me the sketchbook. How did she know I loved to draw, but hadn't since two summers ago? I was still staring at her when Andi dragged me up and towards the portrait hole. I brought the book with me.
"Okay, okay!" I said, gently shaking free and stepping back a bit so I was even with Lily. "Shouldn't you change?" I muttered, unable to think of anything else.
She gasped and ran back, just before calling: "Shouldn't you?"
I was still in boxers and an undershirt.
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wow, this is my fastest moving story ever. i've covered two summers, a whole school year, and another year up until christmas. this is like a record for me!
i changed the POV thing. now there'll just be the people who will b in 1st person in the order that it happens. its a little less cluttering than the I, me= thing.
well, there must be at least 20 reviews, otherwise i wouldn't be posting this. either that or i'm really really bored and just felt like it. can you believe that the day i wrote this, i actually had written the first, second, and 6th [this] chapters? yup, fri the 25th. no school 4 me but school 4 my sis. ha!
well, review! please!
by shana
chapter 6.
POV: Lily, James, Andrea, James
The time until Christmas was pretty boring, unless you count all the stuff James and I did to each other. Yes, I have had countless detentions. The teachers are running out of things for us to do. And do you know what I had to do yesterday? [which was the 23rd of December] Dumbledore made James and me sit in a tree for three hours. Together, on the same branch! And the worst part was that we were stuck there, meaning we couldn't move our butts. Which, may I say, totally sucked, because it was starting to cramp up by the time 11 PM rolled around.
Anyway, today is Christmas Eve. Technically, we are on vacation, but I wrote to Mum and told her about Andi. She said that it would be a good idea to stay at school over break. It would be a good way for me to show my friendship, and the fact remains that Andi has nowhere else to go. (By the way, I convinced her to let me meet her sis, 15 year old Lexi at the Christmas feast.)
And I agreed with mum, except for the fact that James and the gang felt like staying after they found out that we were staying. But, last night Remus backed out saying that his mum was sick, and Sirius and Sarah left without warning with the others on the Hogwarts Express. So, as of now, the only other Gryffindors staying back are James and Zina. Hmmm, I wonder what they'll be doing tonight. Every night. Okay, okay. I won't think about it.
Pretty much all I've been doing is sit in the common room with curse books, looking up good things to put James through. People are starting to think I'm a pretty gutsy first year. I guess I can live with that, right? It's a good rep. Too bad that's what James was called last year. I heard that from some Hufflepuff fifth years.
Andi has found better things to do, such as catch up on all the homework she hasn't done. Maybe I should join her... nah. It seems like she's having fun in the library alone. But for all I know there might be some cute Ravenclaws there. Hey, no one said that just because they hate us we can't look at them!
I dropped the book and shut it. Then, I left the common room and headed toward the library.
And I was right. I found Andi not doing homework, but chatting with some Ravenclaws—third and fourth years, I think. As I walked towards her, I noticed Zina and James sitting close on one of those long armchairs (but not quite a couch) and talking heatedly—more excitedly than passionately, though. By that time, I had met up with Andi. She was quite surprised and stuttered a bit as she introduced me to the Ravenclaw cuties. They were Stefan, Enrique (he preferred Rick), and Jeff. Swedish, Hispanic, and Scottish, I guessed, though you couldn't really tell since they all had English accents.
Stefan seemed quite taken with something off to my left, so I sneaked a peek and managed to catch James and Zina kissing. In the library of all places! I mean, I haven't had much experience (okay, none) but I don't think a public place is that great for that. So, I shifted my attention over to Jeff (the only third year), and found that we had a lot in common. We talked for a long time; so long that we didn't notice Andi, Stefan, and Rick disappear. By the time we looked up, James was standing over us with a very angry expression on his face.
"Jeff," he said.
"James." He looked over at me. "It's been nice meeting you, Lily. Maybe we can sit near each other tonight at dinner."
"Okay. See you tonight!" I watch Jeff walk away and James accosted me. "Let go!" I said. "What did he do to you?"
He let go. "You wouldn't understand. And I don't think it looks good to our house if you are seen talking to a Ravenclaw."
"So? What about Andi?"
"Andrea? She was outside throwing curses at the squid with someone Hispanic."
"Enrique, or Rick—a fourth year Ravenclaw." So it seemed like Stefan had gone off by himself.
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"Is that true? That's good, then. He's in line for Prefect in two years and then Head Boy." I liked Rick; he had tutored me on Charms quite a bit last year.
"And there was one more. Stefan, a fourth year. He was staring at you and Zina and I caught you kissing."
"You what? No, you didn't. What did you say?" I know I was blushing. It had been pretty stupid to kiss Zina in the library.
"You heard me. And if you don't want rumors going around about you two then I suggest you leave me be." She whipped around and left. I assumed she had gone to collect Andi—I mean Andrea and then go to the common room. I had seen the book she had left on a table, and I have the same book. It was complete with countercurses.
I heard someone calling me. "What?" I turned around. Zina was waiting for me by the entrance to the library.
"Are you planning on going to dinner?"
"Yeah."
"Then we'd better leave."
We went to the Great Hall, and I almost forgot about Lily until I saw her talking to Jeff in the middle of the one table Dumbledore had set up since so few of us were staying at the castle over holiday break. I think I glared at her the whole meal, but Andi had noticed before Lily did and she shot me a pleading look for me to stop. And I spent the rest of dinner chatting with Dumbledore and Zina. Afterwards, all of the Gryffindors walked back together, but there was a bit of tension between us all as we rigidly said good night and went up to our dorms. Since I was the only guy who had stayed, I went back down after changing and fell asleep on one of the couches in the common room.
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"Presents!" Lily shouted and woke me up.
"Lily Evans, do you know what time it is?" I said drowsily.
"Yeah. 9:06."
"What! I overslept?" I was fully awake now. Lily started laughing.
"I meant 6:09! Okay? And it's vacation!"
"I knew that. Ooh, presents!"
"Are you deaf?" She looked at me dumbfoundedly.
"No. I heard you earlier." I had. We sat on the floor near our beds then, opening and marveling at each gift we had recieved while talking about everything from homework to guys. I revealed that I thought James was cute. Lily punched me for that one.
"What's this?" Lily held up an ivory colored envelope with her name on it in a flourish. She opened it, and immediately it turned red and started shouting 'MERRY CHRISTMAS LILY EVANS! MERRY CHRISTMAS LILY EVANS! MERRY CHRISTMAS LILY...' She threw it on the floor and ran to the door, shouting, "James Pott—"
But she stopped. Because there he was, laughing out loud. He had heard everything.
**********
I sprinted down the stairs and back towards the couch I had slept on. I had heard the juiciest secrets while standing there with the Listening charm on. Hey, it was flattering to hear that Andrea—okay, Andi thought I was cute. But some of the stuff Lily said, like a fault with every guy in her classes, that was the best. She found the funniest faults, which were even funnier because they were all true and after thinking for about three seconds I understood why she had included it.
But when she opened the color-changed Howler I had sent her as a gift (and had Zina write the name on it), I had to run for it. Unluckily, the girl can run. And she tackled me just has she got off the last step, yelling, "What is your problem?"
Somehow, I got her off me and Bound her arms together. I noticed that she was wearing an oversized West Ham football jersey and extra-small boxers. But I forgot about that as soon as she started running after me again.
We ran around the common room, while Andi and Zina laughed, until I tripped on some of the gifts that had piled up next to my couch. I had forgotten about them. Then, Zina un-did the ArmBind Lily was in and they all sat on the ground and opened my gifts for me as I watched. Luckily, I didn't get anything embarrassing. Lily looked a bit downcast; she had probably cursed my bed or something up in my dorm room. Ha! Well, at least my gift worked. I have to admit, it was funny until she came after me.
"Okay, let's go to dinner," Andi said. "I mean breakfast."
"Sure, whatever," I replied.
"Wait!" Zina said. She held up a flat gift that was about 30 cm by 20 cm, and was about 3 cm thick.[1ftx8inx1in] She opened it as I wondered what it was. She handed it to me.
It was a sketchbook. One of the really expensive kinds that was leather covered and had side spirals along with a zipper to close it. I looked around and saw Lily staring intently at me. I raised my eyebrows questioningly, and she nodded, a small nod that I wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't staring back at her. I realized that her eyes were emerald green, like when you see photos of islands or something. Real pretty. Okay, ignore that.
Lily had sent me the sketchbook. How did she know I loved to draw, but hadn't since two summers ago? I was still staring at her when Andi dragged me up and towards the portrait hole. I brought the book with me.
"Okay, okay!" I said, gently shaking free and stepping back a bit so I was even with Lily. "Shouldn't you change?" I muttered, unable to think of anything else.
She gasped and ran back, just before calling: "Shouldn't you?"
I was still in boxers and an undershirt.
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wow, this is my fastest moving story ever. i've covered two summers, a whole school year, and another year up until christmas. this is like a record for me!
i changed the POV thing. now there'll just be the people who will b in 1st person in the order that it happens. its a little less cluttering than the I, me= thing.
well, there must be at least 20 reviews, otherwise i wouldn't be posting this. either that or i'm really really bored and just felt like it. can you believe that the day i wrote this, i actually had written the first, second, and 6th [this] chapters? yup, fri the 25th. no school 4 me but school 4 my sis. ha!
well, review! please!