Lily smiled as she opened the tent flap just a crack. The sun was rising, and it was almost her birthday. She was with some of the people she loved most, and nothing could ruin this. Nothing at all.
She put on a pair of sandals to start making breakfast. She stepped on a branch or two (very uncomfortable, by the way) and as she began to boil water over the dieing fire, she found that finally, she felt normal. No longer the little princess on a pedestal.
"Ow!" Lily exclaimed as Sirius rubbed the 'stingy stuff' on her scrape. This day was not going as planned. Already Lily had gotten a scrape, burned her own breakfast, and had completely forgotten some secretive thingy that she would only tell Arabella about at the campsite. After they had pedaled sixty miles away from it. "What could make this day worse?"
"You shouldn't have asked that." Munguldus said as she climbed back on her bike, her knee bandaged.
"Why?" Arabella asked as she took a bite of her apple. Munguldus was so.. Trelawney.
"It's naturally a bad omen." Munguldus said after a few minutes.
"Her day can't be worse. She's really messed up." James said, making Lily wish she had punched him back at the last stop.
"Oh, David! What a surprise!" Lily said half-heartedly. David Morales was on his moped, next to them. James pretended to vomit again and the boys (and Lily) laughed.
"You don't look so good." He said after motioning for them to park.
"Well, it's been a long, long (she dragged this word out, glaring pointedly at James) day." Lily said, growing less patient by the minute.
"See? It's a bad omen." Sirius whispered to Arabella, who looked like Trelawney had just told her that her husband was to be Lucius Malfoy.
"Why did I ever go out with you?" David asked himself aloud. This made the entire group stop laughing and look up.
"I mean, you don't look so glamorous at what, one in the afternoon? What will happen if we have kids or we paint the house or something? You would be a wreck and I'd never be able to show you to my friends!" He exclaimed, again, to himself. Lily's jaw dropped.
"Ex-Excuse me?" She asked slowly. "Could you repeat that?"
"You are hardly what I thought you were." He said.
"So, I'm not the glamorous little perfection that you thought you'd win over with all sorts of gifts, huh? I'm not the trophy you'd shine every now and then and put back on the shelf, huh?" She asked a dangerously low voice.
"Yep, that about sums it up. I think we should see other people." He said, climbing back on his bike and speeding off.
"That has to hurt." Remus said after a few minutes. "Being dumped by somebody you don't even like. Cold."
"What's worse- I didn't even tell him he has an appetite like a zebra!" Lily sputtered angrily.
"A zebra?" James and Munguldus asked cautiously.
"Lily, sweetie, are you alright?" Sirius asked.
"He's really messed my head up." Lily admitted, rubbing her temples. "Can we get back to Hogwarts now?"
"Okay, I'm hot, I'm sweaty, I'm hungry, I'm in pain, and I've been dumped by somebody I didn't even like. In fact, I don't think I knew what I was doing exactly. Now can this day get any worse, Munguldus?" She asked exasperatedly as they climbed up a hill.
"Nope, not that I know of." He said as they passed a sign that they simply ignored out of tiredness.
To Hogwarts Lake: Warning: HUGE DROP TO HOGWARTS LAKE. If You Can Read This, You Are of Magical Blood!!!!
"Finally, we've reached the top." James said, panting.
"Yeah, all we need to do now is bike." Arabella said with a hint of victory in her voice.
And they did.
SPLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"And where were your wonderful prophetic powers then, oh wise one?" Lily snapped as the giant squid took Remus, Sirius and Arabella on their bikes back to shore.
"I'm sorry! I'm not a fully trained prophet!" He exclaimed as the squid came back for their turn.
"What are you going to tell us next, that Lily and I are going to get married and have a kid?" James scoffed. Munguldus looked hit with a bright idea.
"Actually.." He began, but they both turned to snap at him.
"Shut up."
As soon as they got to the castle, Lily was placed in Dumbledore's office to discuss the trip and the rest went off to the tower to set up her birthday party. Dumbledore was quite amused with the story, and very relieved this wasn't the dangerous prophesied journey that possibly awaited them.. Or was it?
"You can never tell with these supposed prophecies. Sometimes you're being spied on throughout your journey, and sometimes you are heartbroken.. But you always learn something. Tell me, Lily. What did you learn?" He asked intently. Lily moved about in her chair, making squishy noises with her wet clothes.
"I suppose the journey has actually been this entire past school term, and the prophecy came late. Or just unannounced." She said with a knowing smile. James was going to love being a prophecy.. Trelawney would openly adore him. "I suppose I've lightened up for everyone, not just my close friends. And not for a reason or a person, just a little of both."
"That's very wise, Lily. Indeed James is a bit of a prophecy. In a way he saved you from being the uptight person you might have been, a la McGonagall, but you aren't any longer. You know how to openly have fun. However, in return you gave James some memories he will never forget. Some memories that will prevent him from ever doing things he won't want to have done if he's sitting in Azkaban."
Arabella popped her head through the doorway. "Lily, we're ready for you."
Lily and Professor Dumbledore smiled as Arabella escorted her out the door to get into her party clothes (translation: Into clothes that aren't soaking wet and return Lily into the glamour mode that a certain Mr. David Morales enjoyed so very, very much.). All Lily could do was smile. And it certainly was a good feeling.