Author's Note: Here's the third chapter. I hope you like it, please review!
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Lily shot up, awakened by the howling of a wolf. Waiting for her eyes to adjust to the darkness, she saw she was the only one awake. It was 3:00 in the morning. "Ugh," Lily grunted as she dragged herself out of bed to the window. The full moon was beautiful, radiating soft light on the school grounds. She heard another howl and searched for the source of the noise. 'Probably the Forbidden Forest,' she thought, and fell back onto her bed.
"Lily, Lily wake up," said one of her roommates as she tried to shake Lily
awake.
"Hmm….what? What time is it?"
"Come on, you already missed breakfast, don't want to miss class do you?"
At this Lily completely woke up, "What? Why didn't you wake me up earlier?"
"Well I did but you tried to kick me in your sleep,"
"Oh, sorry," Lily said as she got up and headed to her closet. She threw on some clothes and a robe and walked down to the common room. There she saw the four boys huddled in a corner. "Hi," she yawned as she walked over.
Remus looked up wearily, "Oh hi, did you sleep well?"
"Actually, I woke up once but that's it. You?"
Remus glanced down to the floor, "lets just say I suffer from a special case of insomnia."
Lily looked at him, confused by his answer, but chose not to mention it. Sirius handed her some food, mumbling something about not seeing her at breakfast.
"Thanks, what's our first class today?"
"Potions, but it doesn't start for another hour," James replied. Lily looked sourly at her roommate, wishing she hadn't woken her up. James's answer seemed to spark interest in Remus.
"Wait, not for another hour? Then why are we sitting here guys? Lets go find another-"
"Detention?" Peter cut in, grumbling at the three other boys.
Lily laughed smugly, "So you got in trouble again?"
The four boys ignored her and Sirius got up. Pulling James and Remus to their feet he said, "Yeah Remus, lets go," referring to Remus's earlier comment. Remus grinned at him and pulled Peter up. James's eyes were sparkling and had a waggish expression on his face.
"Off we go!" James yelled and ran to the portrait. Lily glared at his back as
he ran off. Sirius opened his mouth to say something but she cut him
off.
"Yes yes, very hush-hush. I remember," she said morosely. Sirius put a mock pained look on his face and then grinned. He ran after James with Remus and Peter on his heels. Lily sighed and went to get her books for Potions.
The four boys never showed up for Potions and Lily was in a very bad mood. She glared and snapped at everyone who dared so much as look in her general direction. Samantha Ravenbell, a fellow Gryffindor, tried to engage Lily in a conversation but stopped when Lily purposely put in the wrong ingredients into her cauldron, making it explode into a enormous cloud of purplish fumes. When the professor told Lily to stay after class to clean up the mess, she screamed at the teacher and ended up with a detention. Lily was so mad at the boys for excluding her that she didn't even care.
Later that evening Lily walked into Professor McGonagall's classroom, waiting to be told what her punishment would be. She looked at the other people in the classroom, Remus Lupin, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black.
"So," Lily said angrily, "this is why you weren't in class today." She growled at Sirius when he looked her oddly and snapped, "what are you looking at?!" Sirius looked shocked and decided to stare at the blackboard in front of him. Lily walked to the back of the classroom and sat down, shooting angry looks at the three other boys.
"So, Miss Evans is here? All right, that's everyone. You'll all be cleaning the trophy room under the supervision of Argus Filch," said Professor McGonagall as she looked up from the papers on her desk. Lily was furious at the prospect of working with the boys. Remus was looking at her oddly, wondering why she was in detention.
"So Lily….why are you here?" He gently questioned as they walked over to the trophy room.
"I blew up my cauldron on purpose and yelled at the professor," she replied crudely. James and Sirius stared at her while Peter just grunted something that sounded like 'girls'.
"Why'd you do that?" James asked, bracing himself for a Lily to shriek at him.
"Because….I hate you guys," she said instead.
Sirius looked pained, "why is that? I thought you were our friend?"
Lily stared at him, dumbstruck by his stupidity to not notice what they were doing to her. Then her face contorted to boiling rage. "I can't say. Its very hush-hush," she said, imitating Sirius's voice. He looked at her, confusion written on his face, but then he seemed to understand. He glanced at James who nodded.
"Well, if you really want to know, we found a secret passageway. We're planing to make a map of the school. Plus we like to pull pranks, and secret passageways will help us get away from the crime scene quicker, if you know what I mean," Sirius explained.
Lily stared at him and said, "Everyone already knows you guys are pranksters, why did you feel you needed to keep that from me?" The boys looked at her and Remus shrugged.
"I guess we didn't want other people to know about the passageway." Lily huffed and started to work.
By the end of detention, though, she had made up with the boys and was chattering happily about how much trouble they'd get into by the end of the year. Sirius and James said they were going for a school record of most detentions in one year, and Remus added that hopefully by their seventh year they'd have the most detentions of any student in the past. Lily told them they were crazy but if they ever needed help with charms, she'd be glad to help them. The boys seemed pleased with this and soon they were told that detention was over.
Now that Lily had gotten them to talk to her about their plans, the boys were much more open with her. Over the next several weeks they frequently asked for her help with difficult charms and she was always happy to help. Lily found James looking at her many times, always turning away quickly when she noticed him. She found herself thinking about him often, during class and in her sleep, but pushed these thoughts away.
Lily was eating breakfast one day during the sixth month of the school year. On the other side of the table she saw James looking her way. She raised her head and looked at him.
"Yes?" she asked loudly so that James could hear her.
James realized she was talking to him and his eyes grew wide. Then he turned scarlet and quickly turned his attention to his plate of food, mumbling to himself. Sirius glanced oddly at Lily and then to his best friend. He said something under his breath and started grinning like he'd just seen a pot of pure gold. James whispered something that sounded like 'shut up', and Sirius started laughing. Remus then joined in with the laughter and smiled warmly at Lily. She tried to make a confused expression appear on her face and then began to chew on her bacon. As she thought about what had just happened she tried hard not to let a smile creep up.
She almost screamed when eggs flew by, almost hitting her nose. Instead it hit the fifth year next to her. She looked up and saw Sirius trying to seem innocent, but instead of yelling at him, the fifth year took a spoon full of pudding and flung it at Sirius. Thus began a food fight. Food was being thrown all over the place and some Hufflepuffs had joined also. Fifty points were taken from Gryffindor and twenty from Hufflepuff but no one minded, it had been too much fun. Lily smiled to herself contently. 'Petunia doesn't know what she's missing out on,' she decided as she sat in Professor McGonagall's office along with twenty other students from Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. Lily looked around and thought, 'this school's the best!'
Disclaimer: Once again, I don't own any of this, it's all J. K.
Rowling's
Author's Note: So I hope you enjoyed it so far. Let me know if its good and I'll add more. Thanks!
