Back in number 5 Sun-Rivers Drive Petunia Evens was staring down at her skeletal fingers. On her ring finger sat a huge red diamond. A malicious smile was spread across her face as the thought of Lily came into her mind.

"Vernon darling." she called sweetly from the kitchen.

"Yes precious." he called back. Petunia finished cleaning the counter before she answered him.

"Well there's a little detail I have left out for a weeks." she hesitated before she said this. Vernon came into the kitchen. His shirt was off exposing his disgusting gut. Petunia gave him an appalled look. She had noticed all the grease on his skin and clothes from working on their car.

"What are those details my sweet." he said ignoring this look. Petunia gave an uneasy glare to Vernon before she motioned him into the living room. Vernon sat down smearing oil along the pearly white couch. Petunia was too worried about what she about to tell him that she didn't take notice to this.

"Vernon you know how I said I was a lonely divorced widow with no family. Well I was lying. I wanted you to feel sorry for me so you would fall in love with me. I knew my looks wouldn't get that far with you." she said this very fast and Vernon wasn't sure if he had caught all of what she had said. He sat there pointing his finger in the air trying to retrace what she had said. After a moment's wait she looked at the look on his face which suggested that he was somewhat cross with her.

"Sweety-kins what are you talking about." Vernon said with his teeth clenched together and spit flying onto his purple face. Petunia decided to tell him straight out.

"Dear I have a sister. She's not ordinary either."

"A sister huh?" he said a little more calmly. "What's she like? What makes her so unusual?"

"She's just not ordinary that's all. She's like those funny people in the cloaks you always yell curse words at." Vernon stared at his newly engaged wife in horror.

"SHE'S A MAGICAL BEING!!!!!!!!!" he boomed through another purple face. The candle on the table shook and the pictures on the walls quivered. Petunia was to irresolute answer that loud outburst. She then spoke, her voce shaking with edginess.

"Yes Vernon she is filthy magic trash. I wanted to tell you sooner, but I felt I would wait until out love grew stronger. I will reassure you that I don't have any feelings towards her. I have hated her and my dead sister Chloe since the day they were born. My mom was so thrilled to have sweet twins. I hated them, they were so annoying and mother favoured them. She's now dead to, went and got herself blown up by an evil wizard." "God rest their dead souls." She said the last line with an insensitive smirk on her face. Vernon looked pleased to see his fiancé with a cold bitter heart. He was now sure that he had picked the perfect wife.

"We'll get married this weekend my love. Then we'll send mail to this trash you call your sister telling her that she has to go find a different place to live because I am moving in, and I don't tolerate magical beings." Vernon said this with a wicked smile on his face as he rubbed his hands together with the look of victory in his eyes.

            Back at Hogwarts Lily sat in her least favourite subject, double potions with Professor Williams. His name describes him perfectly; he was the old, cranky, and boring teacher that taught potions. Sure he knew his stuff, but the class was entirely dull. Lily was trying hard not to fall asleep. She was jotting down notes about wiggentree bark and flubberworm mucus while Professor Williams was explaining the different types of potent formulas. She couldn't believe how boring this class was, out of all the classes she had had that day this one took the award for most monotonous. Lily was just about asleep when Williams shouted "PARTNERS EVERYONE!!!!! CHOP CHOP." he said this whilst clapping his hands. Lily jolted herself awake and looked around the room. Most people had already assembled themselves with partners. She knew she couldn't process this potion by herself. She looked desperately around the room. Her heart sank when she noticed that James Potter hadn't found a partner yet. She was so relieved to see Sirius come up from behind and declare himself James's partner. She was still the only one left with no partner. Williams went to the front of the class and asked who didn't have partners. A sandy haired boy with shining blue eyes spoke up.

"I don't sir." he said with the same melting voice James had had.

"Anyone else?" Professor Williams asked staring around the room. He then came across Lily's hand projected high in the air.

"Ms. Evens is it?" he asked her

"Yes sir." she stammered

"Alright you're with Mr. Lupin." he said. Lily looked over at the boy, and then it hit her. That boy was Remus Lupin one of the four musketeers. She was hesitant to work with him, but his smile made the job easier. He beckoned her towards his cauldron. Lily walked towards him with her hands folded across her front. She listened to her footsteps echoing in the cool dungeon classroom. Everyone was looking at her. She could feel Aydin's envious glare staring towards her. When she had ended her long journey across the class silence was broken and the class began working.

"Hullo." said Remus's soft voice. He held out his hand for her to shake it. Lily stared at his hand for a moment before shaking it. His hand was warm and his grip wasn't too firm. Lily could feel her face turning pink. She swiftly took her hand away and turned to the cauldron. Suddenly she started peeling the wiggentree bark into pieces. Remus watched her hastily chop the ingredients into paste. He then decided he would help her. As Lily was stirring the bubbling lilac liquid Remus added the thawed flubberworm mucus. They both stared into the potion for what seemed like hours. They were surrounded by silence until Remus spoke.

"You're Lily Evens right?"

"Yes." Lily said immediately. She looked at him as he stood there with his hands in his pockets. His blue eyes were twinkling and his sandy blond hair was in his eyes. He wasn't much taller then her, and had a few freckles. Lily was shocked at how good looking he was. She had only hoped that James hadn't said anything about the bathroom incident, but that hope was broken when Remus went to stir the cauldron and spoke while he was doing so.

"I don't want to bring this up, but I just wanted to ask you something--- he was then cut off.

"YOU JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF JAMES HAD SEEN ME NAKED IN THE BATHROOM!!!! YES HE DID. OKAY!!! DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION?" Lily said this with tears leaking out of her eyes. The whole class was staring at her in astonishment. She looked around at the class; Lily then covered her face with her hands and ran out of the classroom. Remus looked around the class. James was staring at him with his mouth half open. Remus could feel his cheeks turning a brilliant red. He then slammed his book on the desk and walked out of the classroom, cursing as he left. Professor Williams looked at the class and casually said "Five points from Gryffindor." Then he went back to checking Snape's potion.

            When Remus entered the Gryffindor common room he was hoping to find Lily, but she was nowhere in sight. Feeling gloomier then he had when he found out he had potions with the Slytherins he went upstairs into the boy's dormitory.

            James was dragging his feet along the crowded corridors. Sirius was right behind him, checking out every female body that happened to walk by him. The two of them finally made it to the Gryffindor common room after they got stuck in a fight between two Ravenclaws. Both of them didn't feel like eating dinner so they climbed the stairs to the dormitory, where they found Remus sitting on his bed with his hands in his hair.

"What was that all about." said Sirius looking interested. Remus fell back onto the soft bed and closed the curtains surrounding his four-poster. James gave Sirius the "don't go there look" and pointed towards the door. James and Sirius found a deserted corner in the common room, and sat down.

"James I demand you tell me what the hell is going on!" shouted Sirius

"It's nothing Sirius." said James turning away

"Well obviously it's not just nothing, because Remus is pretty upset. Plus you saw Lily naked."

"Yeah well I didn't plan on everybody knowing that." said James

"Well how did Remus find out about it?" Sirius said looking confused. "I thought you'd tell me before him. I am supposed to be your best friend."

"Sirius I didn't tell him, Lily made a mistake." James looked at Sirius, who sat there looking at James in envy. James knew what he was about to ask, so before he could ask it James got up and left through the portrait. He wondered through the corridors wondering what to do. He had left for no apparent reason, and was tempted to go back when he saw a bundle of robes on the floor near a secret passage. When he stepped closer, he noticed a tangle of fierce crimson curls. He looked down into the face of Lily, her face was ashen and colour was draining from her lips. She was sprawled on the floor with her eyes closed. James wasn't sure if she was sleeping or unconscious, but by the way she was limply moving under his arms, he assumed she was unconscious. He put his hand against her heart making sure there was a steady pulse. It was somewhat steady, but was slowing down rapidly. James's body was filling with fear. He had no idea what to do. Realizing he still didn't know what was wrong with her, he checked her body for distinct signs of abuse. When he rolled up the sleeves of the robes, he felt a sticky wet stain. When he looked at his hands they were covered in a thick coat of red. Horrified James looked down at the girl in his arms. Her wrists were severely slashed and blood was smoothly flowing from them in a stable pace. Thinking fast, he decided to carry her to the hospital wing.

            "Will she be ok." asked the worried voice of James Potter.

"She'll be fine dear, but she'll need to stay over night so I can keep an eye on her." said Madam Pomfry. It had been an hour since James had found Lily's wilted body, and he was becoming impatient. Her eyes still hadn't opened. Her cuts had been fixed up exceptionally well by Madam Pomfry, but Ms. Pomfry couldn't cure unconsciousness. When Madam Pomfry left Lily's bedside for a moment James was thinking about kissing Lily on the forehead but, just then Dumbledore walked into the room.

"Where's Ms. Evens." he said in a hoarse voice. James pointed to the shape on the bed. Dumbledore glided towards the body and looked around for Poppy. When Poppy arrived in Lily's presence again she was surprised to see Dumbledore.

"Hello Professor." she said glancing at him

"Hello Poppy. What seems to be the problem with Lily?" James looked at them, and decided it would be better if he just left the hospital wing. He left very hurriedly and ran towards the Gryffindor common room. When he got back the common room was still buzzing, and he figured that the feast had just ended, and that when he had found Lily, she must have escaped from dinner. He didn't feel like talking to anyone at the moment, and he felt a bit nauseous so he decided to join Remus in the dorm. He shoved his way through the crowd and dragged himself up the stairs. He didn't even glance towards Remus's bed to see I he was asleep; James simply got dressed into his pyjamas and crawled into bed. His head was spinning with fresh images of Lily on the floor bleeding. The pictures kept running through his head like a film without sound. Her translucent wrists smeared with blood, her pale face, her lips a cold blue. James tried to fall asleep, but those descriptions kept racing by. Soon enough he fell into a deep sleep.