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CHAPTER 2

Lily woke up in her dorm and looked around trying to remember where she was, and then it came to her. She was at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She pulled the bed curtains apart and looked around while sitting on the bed.

It was early in the morning 6:00 in the morning to be exact. She sat there for a moment contemplating whether or not to get up or not. She finally got up to take a shower. It took her forever to get fully ready for her first day of school

She played around with her hair trying to get it to look just right, but in the end she just let it hang there. Jimena and Sierra were awake along with the two other girls in their dorm: Catty and Vanessa. (A/N I got a lot of these names from another series of books I'm reading so if you recognize them just smile and laugh!)

She grinned at them all. The anticipation began to grow as they finished getting ready. Then they went down to the common room and looked around. It was cozy in Lily's opinion, just perfect for studying and talking.

Lily looked out the window from the common room and noticed for the first time that it was raining a bit, nothing to be worried about she thought.

They finally decided they'd better get down to breakfast, in a hurry. They tried to find their way down, but wound up getting lost. They finally made it to breakfast. A little late, but they still had enough time to eat and get to class.

They were looking at their schedules when James, Sirius, Remus and Peter came down looking half asleep. They plopped down across from the girls and quickly ate.

The group decided to go to class together, since it turned out that the boys had gotten lost too. Maybe they would have better luck in a large group. The boys looked around trying to memorize the school; Lily kept looking for a room labeled Transfiguration.

They finally found it and came in just in time for class. They all sat down in the seats that were left. Lily ended up next to Jimena, who she ended up partnered with when they had to turn matches into pins. McGonagall gave them stern looks when Jimena's match split in half.

And McGonagall let out a cry when she saw what had happened to James and Sirius' match. It had instead of turning into a pin turned into a miniature broomstick and started flying around McGonagall like a fly. Lily had a feeling the boys had done it on purpose…

Soon class was over and Lily, Jimena, and Sierra were walking towards Defense against the Dark Arts they were just stepping onto a staircase when it started to move. Lily yelped and held on for dear life, Sierra and Jimena started laughing their heads off when Lily screamed and ran off the staircase as soon as it stopped moving.

She was in such a hurry that she crashed right into someone: Professor Dumbledore.

"Excuse me p-Professor I was just o-on my way t-to class." She stuttered, she didn't particularly want to get in trouble on the first day there.

"Just be careful, we don't need any injuries on the first day." He said smiling at her. "Get on to class then."

Lily said good-bye to him and just then Jimena and Sierra caught up to her.

"Did the Professor get you in trouble?" Sierra asked as soon as they'd sat down for class.

"No, he just told me to be careful…" Class started and in walked Professor Darwin. He seemed like a smart person; to Lily he looked like a distinguished professional. Then he started with the lesson. It was about how to tell the difference between boggarts and pesky weskies. Snape seemed very good at this class; Lily had figured he would have been completely stupid.

The class busily took notes for the first half of the class, then after that they found out that they would be starting a research project, that would be in partners. Everyone immediately began looking around for their partner. No one really knew anybody else so they looked for kids in their dorm.

Lily found herself nicely arguing over who was going to be partners with Sierra, with Jimena.

"Please, Lily, let me be her partner! I don't want to be alone…or with a Slytherin." They both looked over at Snape who was looking around for a partner too.

"Jimena, I don't want to be with Snape! He hates me, he calls me mudblood!" Whatever that means Lily thought. " I don't want to put up with that the whole time!"

"Me either!" Jimena shouted back. "Please Lily just this once?" She pleaded with puppy dog eyes.

At that moment Sierra went up to the teacher and politely asked him if they could be in a group of three…He said no. With that Sierra started walking over to Snape since he was the only one left. Lily ran over to her.

"Sierra you don't have to be HIS partner, I will. I don't want to be his partner, but I'd feel so guilty knowing that it was my fault you got stuck with him." Snape just smirked as Lily sat next to him.

Sierra and Jimena mouthed thank you-s at Lily from across the room. Lily just sulked in her seat. This is going to be awful, she thought miserably.

The rest of class was to be spent looking up information on the animal each group was assigned. Lily and Snape's was the boggart. The beginning of the research was okay, Lily and Snape weren't speaking. Lily would have liked the rest of the time to go on just like that, but sadly dreams don't come true.

Lily was looking in her book on boggarts' eating habits when Snape whispered something and turned Lily's quill into a garden snake. Lily's scream filled the room as she threw the small harmless snake at Snape, who was laughing at her.

The next this Lily new she had turned Snape's ugly greasy hair pink, and she didn't know how to reverse the spell. The Gryffindors were laughing at Snape, while Professor Darwin came up to Lily and asked her what was going on.

"He turned my quill into a garden snake!" Lily spat out.

"She turned my hair pink!" Snape snapped back. (A/N ha ha Snape snapped… I like that; I didn't even mean to do that!)

"That is obvious Mr. Snape, now would you please tell me why you turned her quill into a snake?" The Professor asked angrily. Lily smiled at Snape waiting for his answer. Lily might be in trouble, but Snape was in far worse trouble then her.

"Um…Err…I..." Snape searched for an answer that didn't make him sound bad.

"Please give us an answer, Mr. Snape." Darwin said patiently, Lily got a feeling the Professor was enjoying this just a tiny bit.

"Well, Professor, I don't particularly like Lily." Snape said, The Professor did not like that answer at all.

"Class continue what you were doing, Lily join another group," Lily started walking towards Sierra and Jimena. "Preferably one where you will not enjoy yourself, that is your punishment." Darwin looked around for a group. "Join that group." He said pointing to Remus and Peter's group. Lily was happy to be there, but she acted like it was unfair as she walked over to them and sat down.

The Professor left with Snape, probably to punish him, meanwhile Lily started talking to Remus and Peter, and they congratulated her on getting out of trouble, and laughed at Snape's hair. Lily really started to like Remus, and Peter was adorable. (A/N yuck yuck yuck!! I can't believe adorable and peter were in the same sentence!! Ewww!!!) He wasn't the cutest guy around, but Peter turned out to be very considerate of others.

Then they started researching their animal, the flobberworm. It sounded like the most boring animal ever to exist, but it was an easy subject to research. Class was over 15 minutes later, and Lily ran to tell Sierra and Jimena what had really happened with Snape as they walked to lunch.

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"Oh, so now you're working with Remus and Peter?" Sierra asked after a while, of eating quietly.

"Yeah, I really like Remus, he's a sweetie!" Lily said. Sierra and Jimena exchanged looks.

"So do you like him, like him? Or what?" Jimena asked grinning.

"I dunno," Lily thought about it. "Maybe I do, but I don't really know him very well right now, so be quiet here he comes!" Lily tried not to blush as Remus sat down across from them with his friends.(A/N Remus is my favorite! But don't worry this isn't going to be one of those fics where Harry's father isn't who they say he is...)

"Hey Lily, I just wanted to congratulate you on your defeat of Snape!" Sirius said casually to her. "I can't believe you got to him before me and James did!"

Lily blushed a bit, and smiled as she accepted the compliment. "I just hate him, and I don't normally hate people, but he got on my nerves at Diagon Alley." Lily told them what he said to her in Diagon Alley.

"That jerk!" Remus said immediately afterwards.

"I'd like to get my hands on his ugly neck." Sirius added.

"Snape is always doing that to muggleborns…" James added.

Lily looked around at the boys; they were acting like big brothers. In fact they were all taller then her, since she was only an inch shy of five feet.

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After that Lily, Jimena and Sierra began hanging out with the guys. At 11 years old, the guys could still manage to get several girlfriends. And lucky for those girlfriends, Lily, Jimena and Sierra had no feelings towards the guys…Although Lily sort of liked Remus, she never said anything about it to anyone.

James and Lily got along okay, they never said much to each other, since Lily was always flirting (accidentally) with Remus and James with Sierra. Lily and Sirius had a ton of fun together; Lily was always helping him think of new pranks to play on Slytherins, Jimena helped with this too. Peter was always somewhere in the middle, he was the odd man out.

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It was around Christmas time when Lily, Jimena and Sierra were thinking whether or not if they wanted to go home for the break. Lily's thoughts drifted to Petunia and the torture she would get from her, so Lily finally decided to owl her parents to tell them she would be at Hogwarts for Christmas.

Lily looked at the list of people staying at Hogwarts, out of all of her friends Sierra was the only one staying. When Lily to Sierra she was staying at Hogwarts too Sierra had been so relieved. Sierra hated to be alone in the dorms…She was scared of the dark.

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After everyone had left on the Hogwarts express Sierra and Lily sat around the common room, they were the only two Gryffindors staying over the holiday. Lily didn't regret staying with Sierra, not yet anyway. Lily and Sierra had just come down from the Owlery from sending their friends their presents, when they came across something they hadn't expected.

Remus was just going inside the Hospital wing! Lily and Sierra gave each other looks that said what they were thinking. "What's Remus doing here? I thought he was going home."

The two girls finally decided to go in there and ask him.

"Remus! Remus?" Lily called into the room.

"Shh! What are you guys doing here?" Remus said coming up to them. Sierra looked at Lily and rolled her eyes.

"We can ask the same to you!" Sierra said, she sounded hurt.

"I-Err, had to- guys you have to get here before that new nurse Madam Pomfrey gets here! I'll talk to you later!" He said, and with that he shoved them out the door and closed it. The girls didn't know what else to do, but leave since apparently Remus didn't want them to know whatever he was doing at Hogwarts.

Lily and Sierra both were really mad at Remus, but not knowing what else to do since it was getting dark outside they went back to their dorms. They sat on their beds, both trying to figure out what was going on with Remus.

"Well," Sierra said finally. "He does disappear a lot to visit relatives, or something." Sierra put in.

"Yeah, maybe there's something wrong with him…Do you think he's sick?"

"Definitely… I just hope he's not sick of us!" Sierra worried.

"I just didn't think Remus would do something like that…I thought I knew him so well and now…" Lily was annoyed with Remus, keeping secrets from her, he had the right to keep secrets, but she couldn't help feeling betrayed.

Lily and Sierra pondered what could be going on, quietly to themselves. They had been deep in thought for a long time when Lily jumped up from her bed and checked the time. It was only 8 pm. She still had time to get to the library.

"Come on Sierra we're going to the library!"

"On Christmas Eve?!" Sierra was shocked. "But-why?"

"I think Remus is sick with something, some wizard sickness, and since I know nothing about this kind of thing I'm going to the library to get a book on wizarding ailments or something like that."

"Oh." Was all Sierra could say. "Let's get going then, even if it is Christmas Eve.



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"This is so crazy! They're going to get suspicious!" Sierra whined .

"Who?" Lily questioned as they walked towards the library.

"The teachers! And anybody else who happens to see two girls studying on Christmas Eve" Sierra answered impatiently. She wasn't so sure she wanted to know what was wrong with Remus.

"Well, then we aren't going to study in the library! We'll…study in the common room! Now's the perfect time, since everyone is away on holidays…" Lily was determined to find out what was going on…it could be something serious!

"Lily," Sierra said softly. "Are you sure you want to know what's wrong with Remus? You might not like him anymore once you find out."

"Why? Why would that be? He's still the same person no matter what's wrong with him!" Lily fired back angrily, she was surprised Sierra was acting this way…Did she know something Lily didn't?

"Lily there are some things about the Wizarding world that I know about and frankly, you don't! Things that are so sickening, and these people just-." Lily cut her off.

"If you don't want to help that's fine with me! But if there's something wrong with Remus, and if it's serious, which I have a feeling it is, I want to help him! He might need us! Maybe all he really needs are some friends to help him!" Sierra finally gave in and the got to the library found the books they were looking for and went back to the library.

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They ended up staying up until the early morning hours of the day (Christmas) looking up anything that could be related to whatever was wrong with Remus, but since they had so little to start from, it was extremely difficult. They were practically reading every word in the books from everything to chronic itchy feet to pseudo vampire teeth that appear in red lighting.

That's when something caught Lily's eye in the third book that evening. Monthly transitions…Had Remus sickness occurred monthly? She was almost positive. Then she saw it. Werewolves, it fit perfectly with every symptom Remus had…She just need some more proof…She decided not to say anything to Sierra about it. And just started to take notes on werewolves.

"Lily, I'm going to bed now you coming?"

"Yeah sure!" Lily answered too happily.

"Did you find something important?" Sierra asked.

"Um, maybe I have to read up on it some more, and maybe ask Remus some questions, but I don't want to get your hopes up about it so I'll tell you if its true." Sierra shrugged and they quickly went to sleep. The last thing Lily heard Sierra say was "I can't believe I spent Christmas Eve reading about chronic itchy feet…"

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(A/N okay that's the end of that chapter! I kinda liked it… not my best but oh well…I don't really like going through the whole Remus thing when everyone already knows what's wrong…so I'm gonna bring in something to make it all worth while…James will have more of a part soon. NO cliffhangers from me….yet! R/R please!! I'm not exactly getting too many….Thanks to you all who reviewed! Merci beaucoup!)