-^ How Love Came To Be ^-

Chapter 2: The New Student

"Did you hear Lily?" Jeanie asked during breakfast Monday morning. She was munching on a piece of toast.

"Hear what?" Lily asked.

"There's a new 6th year transfer." Jeanie said excitedly, "I wonder which house she'll get into."

"When did you hear this?" Lily asked. She was clearly interested. Hopefully it'll be Gryfinndor so they won't have to share it with Clarissa only, she thought.

"Everyone is talking about it since last night." Jeanie said. She took a sip of her juice and continued talking. "I hope she's in Gryfinndor. I really can't stand having Clarissa in there with us only."

"Me too." Lily said. "When is she coming?"

"Um...I think today-" Jeanie started to say but was stopped when Professor Dumbledore silenced everyone.

"Good morning everyone. I hoped you had a good night's sleep." he said, "I have some good news."

Everyone looked to the person next to them excitedly

"We have a new transfer coming in today." Professor Dumbledore said. "What house will she get in? The Sorting Hat will help her decide."

Then, everyone just started talking at once. Professor Dumbledore had to quiet them down a couple of times.

"Ah, here she is. Katie Eyre." Dumbledore said. "Come here, Katie. The sorting will start now." He had the hat in his hand.

Katie walked over to Professor Dumbledore and he put the hat on her. It was a minute later after she found out she was in GRYFINNDOR. All the Gryfinndors were cheering. Professor Dumbledore told her to go over to their table and ask for her schedule.

"Oh yes! Now it can be the three of us against Clarissa." Jeanie said happily. She grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her to where Katie was standing.

"Hi." Jeanie and Lily said at the exact same time.

"Hi." Katie said. She had brown hair and eyes. Her eyes were admired by everyone she knew. There was just this sparkle whenever you looked into it. She had just moved from the United States. She was nervous about starting at Hogwarts but after meeting the nicest people, she was much more relaxed. She was also a pureblood.

"I'm Lily and this is my friend, Jeanie." Lily introduced.

"Nice to meet you." Katie said.

"We're also sixth years so you'll be staying in our dorm room." Jeanie said.

"That's good. How many people are in a dorm?" Katie asked.

"Well there's usually four but in our room we were the odd ones out so there's only three right now, but with you then we'll have four." Lily said.

"Whose our other roommate?" Katie asked. There was a groan from Jeanie.

"She's an obnoxious, spoiled, and superficial person." Jeanie said.

"The name is Clarissa." Clarissa Huntington said. She had heard every single word that Jeanie said.

Clarissa shot Jeanie a look. Jeanie just shrugged.

"Hi." Katie said. She didn't think she would like Clarissa very much. She was pretty but the tone in her voice made her so unfriendly.

"So, Katie. Want to go check out your new dorm room?" Jeanie asked to break the silence.

"Sure!" Katie said and the three of them went up to the dorm room.

"We'll have to hurry a bit, classes are going to start in 15 minutes." Lily said.

"Wow. It's really nice up here." Katie said in awed while looking around the room. She put her bags down next to her bed and sat down on the soft bed.

"You know what's even better?" Jeanie said in a grin.

"What?"

"We can sneak down to the kitchen late at night and bring up ice cream." Jeanie said.

"I can't wait till we do that." Katie said with a big smile. "You know that guy with the brown hair and eyes that was standing around us before?"

"Um...does he look kind of weary in a way?" Jeanie asked.

"Yes, him. What is his name?" Katie asked.

"Remus Lupin." Lily said. "Why do you want to know?"

"Oh nothing. I was just wondering." Katie said but there was a slight pink on her cheeks.

"Even if you were interested in our dear old Remus, he's taken by that evil Clarissa." Jeanie said.

"They're dating?" Katie asked.

"Oh yes. They've been dating for about two weeks. I didn't think they'll last that long." Lily said.

"But they look so wrong together!" Katie exclaimed.

"Tell us about it." Jeanie said. "Clarissa is such a snob and Remus is such a sweetheart."

"Is Clarissa really that bad?" Katie asked.

"As much as I hate to say it, she is. She uses people to gain popularity. Jeanie and I both think she's using Remus." Lily said. "She'll probably dump Remus once she finds another guy."

"I didn't think she was that bad." Katie said. "Does she have any friends?"

"Um...not really. We don't really like associating with her." Lily replied. "Oh! It's time to go to Charms! We're going to be late if we don't go down now."

"Okay okay, Lily." Jeanie said and told Katie "Lily's favorite subject is Charms. She's never late to that class."

"Charms seems interesting." Katie said as the three of them walked down the stairs.

"It is." Lily said. "I think Professor Flitwick is a great teacher."

"She's only saying that because she's the teacher's pet." Jeanie whispered to Katie.

"What are you saying, Jeanie?" Lily asked.

"Oh nothing. Just telling Katie what a great teacher Flitwick is." Jeanie said. Jeanie and Katie started laughing while Lily looked at them as if they were crazy.

Suddenly, the Marauders popped out of nowhere.

"Heeeey." Sirius said with a grin.

"Hi." The three girls said. Jeanie went over to him and they started to plan some pranks on the Slytherians.

"Hey Lily." James said. Lily gave him a kiss on the lips and they were both smiling like crazy when they broke away.

"Get a room!" Jeanie said. They laughed and walked towards the Charms classroom.

"Remus right?" Katie asked Remus.

"Yes. You're Katie?" Remus asked.

"Yup." Katie said.

"How do you like Hogwarts so far?" Remus asked.

"It's nice. I love the dorm room and Jeanie and Lily have told me about the late night food thing." Katie said with a small laugh.

"That's definitely the best." Remus said with a smile.

Katie felt a slight flutter in her heart when he gave her that smile. She returned it and they were seated next to each other in Charms. Clarissa came in late so she had to sit in the back. Supposedly, she was busy fixing her make up and forgot about class.

Katie had a slight problem doing some of the Charms but Remus was able to help her.

"Thanks." Katie said. "I feel like such a beginner compared to you guys."

"You shouldn't. You're already better than some of the people I know in this class." Remus reassured her.

"I'll have to give most of the credit to my wonderful teacher." Katie said giving him a grin.

Remus blushed. "It's really nothing." he said.

"I owe you one." Katie said.

"It's okay." Remus said.

Meanwhile, Lily and James were busy doing everything except Charms. He was tickling her and she was trying to get back at him.

"Stop." Lily said in between laughs.

"Why should I?" James asked with a grin.

"We haven't started the charm yet and class is going to end soon." Lily said finally able to say something serious.

"Yesiree, teacher." James said.

"Haha. Stop fooling around now or we'll both get in trouble." Lily said with a giggle.

They worked on their charm until Professor Flitwick told them to clean up and they started getting ready to go to their next class.

"Ohmigod." Clarissa suddenly said.

A/N: Yesh Yesh, that was a cliffhanger for all you peoples. That's it for Chapter 2. I shall be posting Chapter 3 soon. I'm not finish writing it and I think it's going to be a pretty long chapter so it might take a couple more days. Now it's time for you to review. :-)

Disclaimer: I own none of the characters except for Clarissa, Jeanie, and Katie Eyre.