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even spell right!)
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Chapter 4
Lily went to bed that same night, very worried. Even if Remus did tell her secret, she would still feel bad telling someone his. Maybe if he did tell she could tell Sierra or maybe some of his friends…Those were Lily's last 'real' thoughts, the rest involved something about fly monkeys
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Lily woke up the next morning and was shocked to see Jimena in the room. Then she remembered that everyone was coming home that day, but how did Jimena get there so fast?
"Hey, Jimena, how'd you get here so fast?" Lily asked as she got out of bed.
"Floo." She said simply.
"Who's Floo?" Lily asked innocently, she didn't know who Floo was, but she wanted to ask about that weird name.
"Oh!" Jimena realized her mistake. "Floo is a way wizards travel, through fire places, maybe sometime I can show you." Lily couldn't help but notice that Jimena was holding in laughter. Then she threw a package at Lily.
"What's this?" Lily said looking at it.
"Err, a late Christmas present. I was on vacation over break in Germany, and did get a chance to send anyone any presents."
"Oh thanks! Did you get mine to you?" Lily asked opening it.
"Yeah, thanks by the way." Jimena walked over and sat by Lily who was back on the bed.
"Oh, I love it!" It was a miniature stuffed bunny. "It's very muggle! I'll name it…" She thought for a moment. "Floo!"
"Perfect." Jimena said laughing a bit. "Put Floo down and get ready for lunch!"
"Lunch? Wow I slept in late!" Lily said glancing at her clock, 11:45. Her stomach grumbled. "Okay, I'm going to get my clothes on real quick. I'm starving!" Lily got ready and then she and Jimena raced down the stairs. They were laughing so hard halfway down they had to stop just to regain oxygen.
"You, know-"Lily said catching her breath. "You don't win a race by standing around!" Then she took off with Jimena chasing her.
"Cheater!!" She screamed at Lily. They got to the Great Hall, and tripped over each other and collapsed laughing. Lily then noticing the some people were staring at them, jumped up and so did Jimena.
"Um, let's get to the table!" Jimena said, and they walked with as much dignity as they could to the Gryffindor table.
"We are so lucky most everyone is still gone."
"Yeah, the train won't be here for awhile with everyone else." Lily agreed.
Sierra and Remus were sitting eating already, so Jimena and Lily joined them. Remus gave her a look, was it pity? Or worry? Lily thought, was he thinking of telling Sierra? No he wouldn't, he still doesn't want anyone to know HIS secret.
The four of them decided to go and watch the rest of the Hogwarts students get there by train, Lily wondered why some of them didn't just use the floo thing. It made sense with the muggle borns like her, but other wise, why were the rest coming by train?
"Let's go see how they like our, ahem, greeters." Remus suggested, and they hurried outside, since they had a while to wait they played in the snow for the afternoon. They decided that the snowmen (and women) needed some houses, so…they created some houses held up by magic. They were tall enough for someone who was six foot tall to stand inside.
They were hanging out in the "Snow House" when they saw the students, then they saw the snowballs. They were attacking Snape, and the rest of the Slytherins. They tried not to laugh, they didn't want to get in trouble, but it was too funny.
Snape was dancing around screaming, trying to fight them off, them being the snowballs. Unfortunately, McGonagall undid the charm and they fell dead to the ground.
They went to meet up with James and Sirius and the rest of the Gryffindors. Then Lily remembered what Sierra had asked, they needed to talk, the three of them (Jimena, Sierra and Lily.) They went up to the dorms, after they had talked to James and Sirius for a while.
"So, Sierra I was thinking about the other night…" Lily said when they were sitting around in the dorms.
"Oh, that thing…" Sierra said recalling the conversation.
"Are you gonna ask Jimena?"
"Ask me what?" Jimena said jumping into the conversation.
"Err, let me see how do I put this." Sierra started, but Lily got there first.
"Sierra wants you to flirt with James, so she can flirt with Sirius so he will get the point that she likes him." Lily said with out skipping a beat.
"Uh, that's basically it." Sierra said flatly.
"Um, I guess so. I don't have a problem with it." Jimena said after a minute of thinking.
"Great! Let's put this plan into action, ASAP!" Sierra said happily.
"Sooo, Lily are you going to be flirting with Remus?"
"You know the way we put it, it seems like we're going to the supermarket! Not trying to get guys to like us-oops" Jimena grinned evilly.
"Um, Lily, do you like Remus?"
"Yeah." Lily sighed, no use keeping it from her. Sierra giggled.
"I knew it! For our age I think you are a professional flirter!" Jimena joked.
"Jim!" Lily screeched, and through a pillow half heartedly at Jimena. (A/N what do you think of that nickname? Jim? Oh and don't worry this 'flirting thing will get better, you're gonna laugh at their 'flirting. 11 year olds shouldn't flirt, but then again, I am a big sister…)
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That night, the boys were prepared for the nightly "ritual" as some people called it. (A/N so retarded) Since the three boys were so popular whenever they went down to the common room, they always collected a group of people around their age, okay only girls.
For the first time ever up in the girls dorms, the five (a/n yes five) were actually talking about the boys and how cute they were. Catty was all for Sirius with Sierra, and Vanessa was stuck between James and Remus. It was some serious girl talk. (well maybe not serious.)
"So, Jimena, do you like James or Remus better?" Vanessa asked casually.
"Maybe, James." She decided. Sierra and Lily stared at her.
"O-Oh you like JAMES!" Lily screamed.
"Shut up! He'll hear!" Jimena hissed. The other girls laughed hysterically.
"Jimena, I thought you were all for, and I quote: 'Boys are only my friends and nothing more, me and James just aren't that way?'" Sierra asked expectantly.
"Well, I don't know he's just; I don't know how to explain it." Jimena started to say.
"Cute? Funny? Smart?" Vanessa started naming off things that stood out in his personality.
"Well, yeah, whatever floats your boat!"
"Whatever pickles your frog legs." Lily added.
"Whatever cuts your hair?" Sierra tried.
"Whatever walks your plank!" Jimena giggled.
"Whatever lights your bulb!" Catty put in.
"Where ever is this going?!" Vanessa said putting a stop the to conversation.
"Gee we suck at this." Lily said suppressing her laughter. "Now let's go see what the guys are doing."
"Does my hair look okay?" Sierra asked in a whisper.
"Looks great!" They headed downstairs, where they met up with the guys. And who said none of us were attracted to these guys, Lily thought to herself.
While Jimena and Sierra did what they planned to do, Lily went to talk to Remus privately, they now had a different understanding that was different from everyone else.
"So," Lily started after a few minutes of saying nothing. "How's everything going?"
"Great, Sirius might ask Sierra out tonight."
"Really? I hope so! Sierra likes him a lot!" Lily said, and then they both got quiet and just observed their friends from across the common room.
"Lily, about last night."
"Yeah?"
"I was thinking, I know who it is, you know what I'm saying?" Lily's jaw dropped.
"Why didn't you tell me last night?"
"I couldn't and I still can't. For the same reason I can't now. We are bonded too, me and that other person. I bet right now they are getting the feeling that I'm on the verge of telling." Remus looked away from her again, and watched his friends. "I wish I could tell you, but I can't, but I was wondering if maybe I could tell them who you were, or something…"
"No, absolutely not! I'll tell the whole school if you do, about what you err, are. God, if I knew yesterday that you knew who they were I wouldn't have even told you! Please Remus, don't say anything! Please?" She voice had grown soft.
"Why, don't you want to know who they are?" Remus asked.
"Yes, but then again…no, I don't want to know. I think I'd rather find out on my own, or never at all. If I found out who they were I might think differently, and I want to make my opinion of them on my own, without that stupid 'curse' in my way. Remus, I didn't exactly tell you what the curse part was." She lowered her voice.
"What I told you was just background information, the rest is still unknown to me and to Dumbledore and I assume the other person…" Lily looked at Remus. "Do THEY know?" Remus shook his head sadly. Lily sighed. "Remus," She lightened her voice. "You have got to stop these magical bonding things; they sure do put you in a spot." With that Lily went back to her dorm.
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Remus was thinking the same thing; he had a lot of bonding spells going on between him and other people, never before had he thought of actually breaking it, but he hadn't wanted to get in this mess between these two people. He hadn't even meant to find out about the other person besides Lily. He'd just gotten caught at the beginning of the year at the hospital wing again, but he had kind of been relieved about it, having someone else to share the secret with, and they in turn had told him a secret. Well, at least his secret was safe too.
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It was still early that evening, but Lily went to sleep anyway, she had been dreading the day Dumbledore found out what the 'curse" part was. Curses, she hadn't even believed in them until she came to Hogwarts. She'd found out about the curse when she was seven years old, but she hadn't believed it. Dumbledore had explained the whole background information around Halloween; he'd been doing research on it.
Apparently it was an ancient curse called "Protectus Humanicus" It sounded like something someone would make up, but Professor Dumbledore explained that, that had only been the translation he had come up with. The spell was only cast ever so often, when the planets were farthest away from each other as they could get. Dumbledore was still looking for how the people were chosen, but he hadn't figured it out yet, there weren't very few records left about this curse.
Lily wondered more then ever about who could be the protector, and why they had to protect her. She wondered if she would figure out who they were before she left Hogwarts, because she expected it was someone in the magical world, but then again it could always be some sort of animal…After a while Lily finally fell asleep.
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The rest of January flew by and Lily and Remus had stopped talking about the curse, Remus became a werewolf again on that full moon. This time though, more people knew about it then they had before. He decided not to say anything to any of them about it, he hoped they just kept quiet; he didn't want anymore people finding out. All together he suspected only four people knew about him being a werewolf, but it seemed like a few too many.
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Lily, Sierra, and Jimena were sitting in the common room, talking about boys, once again. It was just such a fun topic they couldn't shutup.
"So, Lily do you hate James?" Sierra said out of no where.
"Why would you say that?" Lily asked.
"Well, out of all of us, you like…never talk to him. He was telling me the other day, that he thought you hated him."
"I don't hate him. Why should I? I kind of thought he hated me. I just don't know him very well; we've never really talked much." Lily had never thought much about her and James. She would go as far to say they were friends, but only because they hung out together with their friends, but never had she had a complete conversation with each other. She'd like him at first, but she figured he liked Sierra or Jimena…
"You should get to know him! You two are so much a like!" Jimena told her.
"We are? I never would have guessed!" Lily was surprised; she thought maybe they didn't get along because they were so different, maybe she was wrong.
"Maybe, we should start getting you two talking." Sierra said, thinking aloud more then anything. "But don't flirt, Jimena wouldn't like it."
"Hey!" Jimena said in fake irritation.
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Although Lily had planned on getting to know James, she didn't, at least not in her first year. It was as if some invisible force kept them away…
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(A/N All right, that's the 4th chapter!! This is the farthest I've ever gotten stuff posted, normally, if I don't get enough reviews I just stop writing…but I decided I don't care. I want to finish it! No matter what!! Read AND REVIEW!!! You can never get too many of those…)
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Chapter 4
Lily went to bed that same night, very worried. Even if Remus did tell her secret, she would still feel bad telling someone his. Maybe if he did tell she could tell Sierra or maybe some of his friends…Those were Lily's last 'real' thoughts, the rest involved something about fly monkeys
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Lily woke up the next morning and was shocked to see Jimena in the room. Then she remembered that everyone was coming home that day, but how did Jimena get there so fast?
"Hey, Jimena, how'd you get here so fast?" Lily asked as she got out of bed.
"Floo." She said simply.
"Who's Floo?" Lily asked innocently, she didn't know who Floo was, but she wanted to ask about that weird name.
"Oh!" Jimena realized her mistake. "Floo is a way wizards travel, through fire places, maybe sometime I can show you." Lily couldn't help but notice that Jimena was holding in laughter. Then she threw a package at Lily.
"What's this?" Lily said looking at it.
"Err, a late Christmas present. I was on vacation over break in Germany, and did get a chance to send anyone any presents."
"Oh thanks! Did you get mine to you?" Lily asked opening it.
"Yeah, thanks by the way." Jimena walked over and sat by Lily who was back on the bed.
"Oh, I love it!" It was a miniature stuffed bunny. "It's very muggle! I'll name it…" She thought for a moment. "Floo!"
"Perfect." Jimena said laughing a bit. "Put Floo down and get ready for lunch!"
"Lunch? Wow I slept in late!" Lily said glancing at her clock, 11:45. Her stomach grumbled. "Okay, I'm going to get my clothes on real quick. I'm starving!" Lily got ready and then she and Jimena raced down the stairs. They were laughing so hard halfway down they had to stop just to regain oxygen.
"You, know-"Lily said catching her breath. "You don't win a race by standing around!" Then she took off with Jimena chasing her.
"Cheater!!" She screamed at Lily. They got to the Great Hall, and tripped over each other and collapsed laughing. Lily then noticing the some people were staring at them, jumped up and so did Jimena.
"Um, let's get to the table!" Jimena said, and they walked with as much dignity as they could to the Gryffindor table.
"We are so lucky most everyone is still gone."
"Yeah, the train won't be here for awhile with everyone else." Lily agreed.
Sierra and Remus were sitting eating already, so Jimena and Lily joined them. Remus gave her a look, was it pity? Or worry? Lily thought, was he thinking of telling Sierra? No he wouldn't, he still doesn't want anyone to know HIS secret.
The four of them decided to go and watch the rest of the Hogwarts students get there by train, Lily wondered why some of them didn't just use the floo thing. It made sense with the muggle borns like her, but other wise, why were the rest coming by train?
"Let's go see how they like our, ahem, greeters." Remus suggested, and they hurried outside, since they had a while to wait they played in the snow for the afternoon. They decided that the snowmen (and women) needed some houses, so…they created some houses held up by magic. They were tall enough for someone who was six foot tall to stand inside.
They were hanging out in the "Snow House" when they saw the students, then they saw the snowballs. They were attacking Snape, and the rest of the Slytherins. They tried not to laugh, they didn't want to get in trouble, but it was too funny.
Snape was dancing around screaming, trying to fight them off, them being the snowballs. Unfortunately, McGonagall undid the charm and they fell dead to the ground.
They went to meet up with James and Sirius and the rest of the Gryffindors. Then Lily remembered what Sierra had asked, they needed to talk, the three of them (Jimena, Sierra and Lily.) They went up to the dorms, after they had talked to James and Sirius for a while.
"So, Sierra I was thinking about the other night…" Lily said when they were sitting around in the dorms.
"Oh, that thing…" Sierra said recalling the conversation.
"Are you gonna ask Jimena?"
"Ask me what?" Jimena said jumping into the conversation.
"Err, let me see how do I put this." Sierra started, but Lily got there first.
"Sierra wants you to flirt with James, so she can flirt with Sirius so he will get the point that she likes him." Lily said with out skipping a beat.
"Uh, that's basically it." Sierra said flatly.
"Um, I guess so. I don't have a problem with it." Jimena said after a minute of thinking.
"Great! Let's put this plan into action, ASAP!" Sierra said happily.
"Sooo, Lily are you going to be flirting with Remus?"
"You know the way we put it, it seems like we're going to the supermarket! Not trying to get guys to like us-oops" Jimena grinned evilly.
"Um, Lily, do you like Remus?"
"Yeah." Lily sighed, no use keeping it from her. Sierra giggled.
"I knew it! For our age I think you are a professional flirter!" Jimena joked.
"Jim!" Lily screeched, and through a pillow half heartedly at Jimena. (A/N what do you think of that nickname? Jim? Oh and don't worry this 'flirting thing will get better, you're gonna laugh at their 'flirting. 11 year olds shouldn't flirt, but then again, I am a big sister…)
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That night, the boys were prepared for the nightly "ritual" as some people called it. (A/N so retarded) Since the three boys were so popular whenever they went down to the common room, they always collected a group of people around their age, okay only girls.
For the first time ever up in the girls dorms, the five (a/n yes five) were actually talking about the boys and how cute they were. Catty was all for Sirius with Sierra, and Vanessa was stuck between James and Remus. It was some serious girl talk. (well maybe not serious.)
"So, Jimena, do you like James or Remus better?" Vanessa asked casually.
"Maybe, James." She decided. Sierra and Lily stared at her.
"O-Oh you like JAMES!" Lily screamed.
"Shut up! He'll hear!" Jimena hissed. The other girls laughed hysterically.
"Jimena, I thought you were all for, and I quote: 'Boys are only my friends and nothing more, me and James just aren't that way?'" Sierra asked expectantly.
"Well, I don't know he's just; I don't know how to explain it." Jimena started to say.
"Cute? Funny? Smart?" Vanessa started naming off things that stood out in his personality.
"Well, yeah, whatever floats your boat!"
"Whatever pickles your frog legs." Lily added.
"Whatever cuts your hair?" Sierra tried.
"Whatever walks your plank!" Jimena giggled.
"Whatever lights your bulb!" Catty put in.
"Where ever is this going?!" Vanessa said putting a stop the to conversation.
"Gee we suck at this." Lily said suppressing her laughter. "Now let's go see what the guys are doing."
"Does my hair look okay?" Sierra asked in a whisper.
"Looks great!" They headed downstairs, where they met up with the guys. And who said none of us were attracted to these guys, Lily thought to herself.
While Jimena and Sierra did what they planned to do, Lily went to talk to Remus privately, they now had a different understanding that was different from everyone else.
"So," Lily started after a few minutes of saying nothing. "How's everything going?"
"Great, Sirius might ask Sierra out tonight."
"Really? I hope so! Sierra likes him a lot!" Lily said, and then they both got quiet and just observed their friends from across the common room.
"Lily, about last night."
"Yeah?"
"I was thinking, I know who it is, you know what I'm saying?" Lily's jaw dropped.
"Why didn't you tell me last night?"
"I couldn't and I still can't. For the same reason I can't now. We are bonded too, me and that other person. I bet right now they are getting the feeling that I'm on the verge of telling." Remus looked away from her again, and watched his friends. "I wish I could tell you, but I can't, but I was wondering if maybe I could tell them who you were, or something…"
"No, absolutely not! I'll tell the whole school if you do, about what you err, are. God, if I knew yesterday that you knew who they were I wouldn't have even told you! Please Remus, don't say anything! Please?" She voice had grown soft.
"Why, don't you want to know who they are?" Remus asked.
"Yes, but then again…no, I don't want to know. I think I'd rather find out on my own, or never at all. If I found out who they were I might think differently, and I want to make my opinion of them on my own, without that stupid 'curse' in my way. Remus, I didn't exactly tell you what the curse part was." She lowered her voice.
"What I told you was just background information, the rest is still unknown to me and to Dumbledore and I assume the other person…" Lily looked at Remus. "Do THEY know?" Remus shook his head sadly. Lily sighed. "Remus," She lightened her voice. "You have got to stop these magical bonding things; they sure do put you in a spot." With that Lily went back to her dorm.
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Remus was thinking the same thing; he had a lot of bonding spells going on between him and other people, never before had he thought of actually breaking it, but he hadn't wanted to get in this mess between these two people. He hadn't even meant to find out about the other person besides Lily. He'd just gotten caught at the beginning of the year at the hospital wing again, but he had kind of been relieved about it, having someone else to share the secret with, and they in turn had told him a secret. Well, at least his secret was safe too.
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It was still early that evening, but Lily went to sleep anyway, she had been dreading the day Dumbledore found out what the 'curse" part was. Curses, she hadn't even believed in them until she came to Hogwarts. She'd found out about the curse when she was seven years old, but she hadn't believed it. Dumbledore had explained the whole background information around Halloween; he'd been doing research on it.
Apparently it was an ancient curse called "Protectus Humanicus" It sounded like something someone would make up, but Professor Dumbledore explained that, that had only been the translation he had come up with. The spell was only cast ever so often, when the planets were farthest away from each other as they could get. Dumbledore was still looking for how the people were chosen, but he hadn't figured it out yet, there weren't very few records left about this curse.
Lily wondered more then ever about who could be the protector, and why they had to protect her. She wondered if she would figure out who they were before she left Hogwarts, because she expected it was someone in the magical world, but then again it could always be some sort of animal…After a while Lily finally fell asleep.
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The rest of January flew by and Lily and Remus had stopped talking about the curse, Remus became a werewolf again on that full moon. This time though, more people knew about it then they had before. He decided not to say anything to any of them about it, he hoped they just kept quiet; he didn't want anymore people finding out. All together he suspected only four people knew about him being a werewolf, but it seemed like a few too many.
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Lily, Sierra, and Jimena were sitting in the common room, talking about boys, once again. It was just such a fun topic they couldn't shutup.
"So, Lily do you hate James?" Sierra said out of no where.
"Why would you say that?" Lily asked.
"Well, out of all of us, you like…never talk to him. He was telling me the other day, that he thought you hated him."
"I don't hate him. Why should I? I kind of thought he hated me. I just don't know him very well; we've never really talked much." Lily had never thought much about her and James. She would go as far to say they were friends, but only because they hung out together with their friends, but never had she had a complete conversation with each other. She'd like him at first, but she figured he liked Sierra or Jimena…
"You should get to know him! You two are so much a like!" Jimena told her.
"We are? I never would have guessed!" Lily was surprised; she thought maybe they didn't get along because they were so different, maybe she was wrong.
"Maybe, we should start getting you two talking." Sierra said, thinking aloud more then anything. "But don't flirt, Jimena wouldn't like it."
"Hey!" Jimena said in fake irritation.
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Although Lily had planned on getting to know James, she didn't, at least not in her first year. It was as if some invisible force kept them away…
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(A/N All right, that's the 4th chapter!! This is the farthest I've ever gotten stuff posted, normally, if I don't get enough reviews I just stop writing…but I decided I don't care. I want to finish it! No matter what!! Read AND REVIEW!!! You can never get too many of those…)