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I know this part is mostly filler but it explains somethings and sets the stage for the year ahead.
Lilies Don't Bloom in Winter
Chapter 2- Of Grudges and Gum Balls
"Lily Evans! How could you?" Demanded Eryn, glaring at where her best friend sat, brooding by the window and staring out as the countryside whipped past.
"What do you mean 'how could I', Eryn?" Lily demanded, gritting her teeth. "He said something about my mother!!! I HATE James Potter!"
Eryn stared at her. "James?" She gave a short laugh. "I KNOW you hate him my Lily-glow. I don't even want to know what happened this time to make you slap him!" She sighed. "I was talking about Sirius…"
The redhead shrugged. "Sirius likes pain. He messed with my hair."
"Oh really? I didn't notice." Eryn responded. She flicked a strand of her friend's electric green hair in much the manner James had. "It really doesn't suit you my Lillian darling!" The blonde girl murmured, withdrawing her wand from the pocket of her robes.
"My name is not Lillian." She grumbled, but she submitted to the ministrations of her best friend. Before she knew it, her hair had resumed its shiny red color and her face was once again white, colored only by her artful make-up. Pale brown, shimmering eye shadow was swept over her eye lids and accented by a darker brown over it. Her cheeks were a very pale shade of pink and her lips were only glossed. Her long eye lashes were magicked to stay black through tears and rain. It was simple but very natural on her.
In comparison, Eryn was a supermodel. Her dark blue eyes were set off by her shoulder length golden-blonde hair. Though very few knew it; that hair which was now in tight ringlets was usually very straight. Her own eye shadow was a sparkly, icy blue that fanned out dramatically and incorporated with her dark blue eyeliner. Her own long lashes, naturally blonde, now matched her eyeliner and the blue color seemed to glow. Her lips were a dark crimson and shone with a goldish tinge. Her cheeks shimmered with a silver powder but underneath was a natural pink shade. Despite the fact that it took her more than an hour to do this kind of art on herself, Eryn was perhaps the only person who could pull this kind of 'glamour girl' look off.
To an outsider, it might seem that these two girls would clash terribly personality-wise. On one hand, you had Lily, a fiery, indominatable, emotional, mouthy bitch with a lust for violence. On the other hand, you had Eryn, a vivacious, cool-headed, dramatic, loud beauty with a natural leadership drive. But they never once fought in public. They always were backing one another up and getting each other out of hot water as well as defending each other's reputations against the malicious minds of the jealous-ridden. Usually, it was Lily defending Eryn's reputation and Eryn getting Lily out of trouble for the fights she got into WHILE defending her. By their second year, they had become so close that they could finish one another's sentences. Maybe it was because of this that Eryn had gone to look for her redheaded friend.
Eryn sighed and slumped down in her own seat, staring in defeat at the painting above Lily's head of some old wizard in bright green quidditch robes. The name plate read "Verdi Vaudviel". She sighed again as the rythmic clanking of the wheels soon began to pound into her brain.
It was going to be a very long year.
"James… you might want to do something about that slap mark." Remus commented, dropping Sirius onto the ground in their compartment. The other boy's head made a loud 'thud' but Remus just stepped over him, unconcerned. "If you walk into school with that thing across your face, Vivica is gonna ask questions. And then, you will have to explain to your more than slightly bitchy and totally possessive girlfriend, why you were talking to another girl; especially Lily Evans."
James glared at Remus but sighed, knowing he was right. Taking out his wand, he whispered a charm under his breath and the red mark slowly faded away. "You know, Reemy, if it weren't for you and Peter, I don't think I would have survived this long in a relationship with that bitch."
"You say she's a bitch so often, Jamie… but if you really think that, why do you still go out with her?" Remus looked confused. James gave him a slow smile and then a wink.
"You think I go out with her for her personality?" His smile grew bigger. "There are much better things to go out with a girl for… three much better things…." Remus rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Why did I even ask?"
"Why did you even ask what?" Came a female voice. Remus jerked in surprise but James only smiled.
"Ah! Vivica! Just the beautiful, sexy witch we were discussing!" James grinned at her and batted his long lashes behind his glasses. The brunette before him giggled and jumped at him, landing with a knee on either side of his thighs and her hands pushing him back into the seat. He reached up and twined his hand in her hair then pulled her to him. As their lips met, Remus turned to the two other girls who had entered with her.
"Jeremy! Kerril! How have you been over break?"
The two girls were exact opposites. Jeremy was a tall, pale, thin girl with a long, waterfall of silky, straight hair and fluffy bangs. Her almond shaped eyes were black as well and set in a face that with high cheek bones and a pouty mouth. Kerril had very short blonde hair that was as fake as her 3 inch nails. It was currently up in a ponytail and the longer part was one giant curl. Her eyes were so blue as to almost be white and her skin was a deep bronze. Unlike Jeremy, Kerril had a very voluptuous figure and was only 5'2. Also, Jeremy was a Ravenclaw and Kerril a Hufflepuff. But both were united under the banner that was the sassy bitch, Vivica Inez.
Looking over from where he was studying the two girls, Remus noted that James and his 'magically delicious' girlfriend were still noisily and enthusiastically snogging. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Sirius begin to move. He groaned and rolled over, opening his eyes sleepily.
"Sirius?" Inquired Remus.
"I don't wanna go to school with the Muggles mummy! I told you! The girls don't taste as good!" He mumbled, sitting up slowly.
Jeremy and Kerril looked at him in shock. A snort came from where James and Vivica were playing tongue hockey.
"Excuse me?" Remus looked scandalized.
"You are soooo cute Remy-o." Kerril giggled, plopping down next to him. Jeremy, however, walked over to the barely conscious Sirius and prodded him with the toe of her boot.
"What was that Si?" She asked, lifting one delicate eyebrow.
"I said you're my goddess, Jeremy!" He nodded emphatically, jumping to his feet and pulling her close to him. "I swear! I'll worship you forever. All it takes it three little words."
"What?" Jeremy stared at him for a moment. Then, she stated dryly. "Don't suck these."
Sirius blink at her for a moment. "Can I bite them then?"
SLAP!
He shook his head. "And that was nice. But three OTHER words…"
"Not. A. Chance."
"I HATE James Potter! Got it, Eryn? Hate!" Lily was storming around their small compartment, furiously blowing on her bubble gum. It was continuously snapping, after all, it was Frizzy Wizard's Ever Snapping Bubble Gum. "I just wish… well… I just wish…"
"Is this all about him pushing you in the lake our first year?" Eryn asked slowly, not looking up from where she was redoing her nails in ice blue.
"AND about turning my teeth red and putting a live frog in my soup and turning my robes electric pink and making my underwear glowing the dark and setting my hair on fire and making my potions blow up and-"
"OK! I'm sorry I asked!" Eryn yelled. They stared at each other for a moment and Lily suddenly narrowed her eyes.
"You like Sirius, don't you?"
"What?" Eryn looked at her shocked. "How did you… what makes you think…. when did you… why do you….?" She suddenly sighed resignedly. "How did you know?"
"I'm your best friend… remember?" Lily sighed and slumped down into the chair next to her blonde friend. "Don't waste your time with him Eryn. The headmaster won't be afraid of Voldemort before that ignorant prig notices you."
"Don't be bitter, Lily-glow."
"I'm not bitter… I'm just… resentful!" She snapped, her gum snapping at the same time. It popped the roof of her mouth and she winced, her eyes watering. "And it's not the same thing!"
"Of course not Lily darling." Eryn agreed, throwing her arms around her best friend's shoulders and hugging them tightly. "With you 6 of one never IS half dozen of the other."
Lily glanced at her suspiciously at the edge of her vision." But aren't they the same thing?"
At just that moment, James decided to make his presence known and their compartment door banged open. "Ah! The Lord of Quidditch himself!" Lily muttered under her breath. Eryn elbowed her and smiled at Sirius as he strolled by behind James, arm in arm with Jeremy Doyle, the Ravenclaw seeker. "Fraternizing with the enemy Sirius?" Lily asked with a disdainful sneer.
"Always better than you, Lily my flower." He called back airily.
"OH! Evans…" James had suddenly stopped. On his other side came an indignant sigh. "You wouldn't have happened to see Peter around…. would you?"
"No James. I have not seen Peter." Lily said firmly. The young man looked at her in surprise. "You know, you're actually quite cute when you're being civil…. Oww!"
"Hello Vivica!" Lily called merrily, her eyes twinkling at a glaring James. His feisty brunette girlfriend had stepped on his foot with the heel of her stiletto. "How was your summer?"
"Lily…. It was well, thank you." And with that, she marched James out of the room. But just before they had completely exited the compartment, Lily grinned evilly at Eryn and shot her gum across the room and into the back of James Potter's head. It hit with such a BANG! that both the girls jumped and Remus leapt in front of his current crush, the lovely Kerril Sanders.
The two offenders watched with openmouthed awe as the hair on the head of their house's star Quidditch player caught fire and then began to throw off sparks like a firecracker. With a screech, Vivica began swinging at her boyfriend's head, as if trying to knock it off. Sirius watched with glee and shouted instructions on how to run around and make the flames bigger. Jeremy stared in shock at her own, psychotic boyfriend as he jumped up and down, spun around and laughed insanely with glee.(You see, Sirius was a bit of pyro...) Kerril, at the sight of the fire, had begun screaming something about dying wearing her mother's underwear while Remus had calmly reached into his robes, withdrew his wand and doused the flames with a water charm.
Emerald eyes were suddenly staring into dark brown velvety ones as James whirled on Lily. In a tone so cold that it made winter seem warm, he spoke three words to the smirking redhead that filled Eryn with dread and Sirius with maniacal delight. "This. Is. War."
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