Scared of the world
The night dragged on while Lily sat on her bed listening for sounds of the other girls to come into the dorm. But the hours passed and no one came. Lily started to get really nervous. What are they doing?, she thought looking at the door. Finally, when she gathered up her courage, Lily got out of bed and tiptoed to the closed door.
"I always thought this would happen", Lily overheard someone say. "Why her? I mean she was good at too many things", another person seemed to cower at the anger that radiated from the common room. Well whatever Sirius told them, Lily was very mad. She flung the door wide open and everyone fell silent.
"Is anyone going to tell me what the heck is going on?" Lily said as calmly as she could. Arabella detached herself from the crowd. "Come on Lily", Arabella said quietly, and she took Lily into their dormitory.
"Whatever happened between you and Snape is no concern of mine. But you have to tell me on thing;is it true?", Arabella said in a would be calm voice. Of course, Lily knew that Arabella was going to beat Snape up if she heard the right answer.
"Arabella, you must promise not to tell anyone. Out of all the people in that common room only you and Sirius know the actual truth. So please can we go out there and say it's not true?" Lily pleaded. She saw the anger build up in Arabella's eyes. They just stood there staring at each other until Arabella shouted out the door, "SIRIUS! Get your butt in here."
"What?"he asked innocently. "Lily got what she deserved", he said, scared of "Arabella's wrath". "A bad reputation?", Arabella said through clenched teeth."Keep it a secret. Is that understood?" she said with a deadly voice. Sirius gave a small nod and ran from the room.
"When's the next time your gonna see him?", Lily's best friend said with a tone of great satisfaction. Of all the girls Arabella was the only one that could scare a boy. "Tomorrow, 10:30." Lily answered simply. "
"Fine. But don't expect me to be okay with it.",Arabella said walking out the door. What a mess,Lily thought in amazement.
The next morning Lily woke up looking tired but happy. When she entered the common room she found it deserted. Where is everyone? Lily thought in amusement. Then she remembered that it was a Saturday and everyone was having a lie-in.
Forgotten was the promise that was made last night because everyone was enjoying themselves far too much to care about it. So not even noticing Severus's absence from the Great Hall Lily sat down by Arabella.
"Wonderful day, isn't it?" Arabella said politely. "It's cloudy," replied Lily. Looking at the row of Gryffindors Lily realized Snape's absence, and then looked back at smiling table. They did something, Lily thought. And without thinking about what she was doing, Lily ran out of the Great Hall and headed for the dungeons.
A/N: This is probably going to be the best chapter. (Well, with the most dialogue). Anyways, please review. I cannot write all the things I wanted to because my brother is hogging the computer. I will post more soon. R/R!!!!!!!!!! Put me on AuthorAlert.