1 Lily's Problem

Chapter 11

Disclaimer: everything you recognise is Rowling's.



It was the day before the ball. Dana was going with Sirius, Kristin with a friend from Rivadavia but Lily, well she was going stag. Some of her Italian friends had asked her to go with them, but Lily had decided to go alone. Although no one knew, Lily had been very hurt by James and Snape so she wanted to stay as far as possible from dates. James knew and felt guilty. And besides, he already had a date for the ball. He was going with Kate.

Remus was going with a pretty girl from Salem's. And Peter... he wasn't going.

Three hours before the ball the girls went up to their dorms.

"Lily, can you please show us your dress? We are dying to see it, PLEASE!!!" Kristin begged.

"no, you will see it in a few hours!!!! It is a surprise!" Lily replied.

"ok, ok, we give up." Dana said raising her hands in defeat.

"so, lets get started."

After having a shower they decided to start with their hair. Dana curled her brown hair. She held some curls back with pink barrettes.

Kristin tied her black hair back in a high ponytail. She curled the end of it.

And Lily straightened her red curls. She had decided to tie it like Kristin but her friends had forbidden her do it. So she just let loose her now straight red hair.

Now, it was make-up time!

Kristin was the one who made their make up.

She chose brown eyeliner for Dana and a dark pink lip-gloss and she also painted her nails pink.

She had some dark blue eyeliner for herself, which made her eyes looked like two deep ponds you could sink into.

She put some black eyeliner on Lily. She used deep red lip-gloss on Lily. She also stuck on the side of lily's left eye, one single diamond of a crystal tattoo.

She also put some golden, Lily asked for that colour, powder on Lily's cheeks.

The last but no least thing were the dresses.

Dana got into her dark pink dress. It finished some inches above her knee. She looked very feminine with her curls all over her shoulders and her pink shade.

Kristin got into hers. She looked amazing. She had a baby blue one which finished three inches below her knee.

" now you." The girls told Lily.

"no" she said simply.

"yes, now! Come one we should be going down by now." Dana said

" yes, it is starting in five minutes." Said Jules coming out of the bathroom. She and Stacy had changed there so that the two groups of friends had privacy.

" you go, I will go in a minute." Lily said.

"well, but hurry!" and the girls went to the common room.



Once alone, Lily quickly got into her dress. It was long sleeved, emerald green with a golden shade. It was tight down to her waist and then it went loose and ended on the floor. The golden glint made her hair look as if it had a kind of magic in it. The green of her dress made her eyes stand out more than usual.

She flipped some strands of hair over her shoulders.

She looked into the mirror. Wow! She was different. Her usual band holding her hair wasn't there, her loose clothes were left forgotten, her glasses were also missing. Now the only thing that had to be change were her braces. She made a spell to take them off and she found white perfect teeth.

Now she found another problem. All her friends had beautiful jewellery on their necks and wrists. She had non.

She was about to open the door to go down when she heard a loud tapping on her window. It was an owl. She let it in and got the box it gave to her. Then the owl flew away.

Lily read the card that was on top of the box.

Dear Lily:

I hope you enjoy this night, just be yourself. The box contains a little present I bought you. There will be another surprise in the ball so keep your eyes open.

Hope you like my present,

Yours,

Firenze

Lily immediately opened the box. When she saw what it contained she couldn't believe her eyes. She found a beautiful necklace inside. It had a golden thick golden chain with a very big green gem. She tried it on. Wow!

Now she was ready.

She went down to the common room. It was empty.

She made her way to the Grate Hall. She could hear the music.

When Lily entered the Hall she saw it was full of people. Full of different colours.

She spotted her friends seated in a round table on a corner.

While she was walking towards them she felt many eyes on her. She heard Things like "who is this girl?" and "why haven't I seen her before" as she went by.

When she got to the table where her friends were, the only ones to recognise her were Dana and Kristin. Non of the boys or Remus' and James' dates did.

WHO is she? Sirius thought.

she looks familiar, what a beauty! Remus thought

who IS she? She is the only girl I know that is as beautiful as Lily. I wonder if she has a boyfriend? James thought.

Kate and Remus' date were thinking on the same lines: this stupid model isn't going to steal our dates

Lily looked at their amazed faces. She didn't understand what was going on.

The first one to speak was Sirius.

"hello gorgeous, I believe we haven't been introduced." He said

" ha, ha, ha, very funny Sirius." Lily said.

"what? Do you know me? Who are you?" he asked

"stop it, it isn't funny." Dana said.

"no really, who ARE you?" Remus asked her.

" stop it! The joke is over." Kristin said annoyed

.

"what joke? Please tell us!" James said.

"you really don't know who I am?" Lily asked them.

the three boys said they didn't.

"no, but your voice sounds rather familiar." Remus said.

"too familiar" James said.



"hello Mr. Black, Potter, Lupin, and Ms. Gonzales (Kristin), Ms. Taylor (Dana)"

Dumbledore greeted them. he turned around.

"Hello Ms. Evans. Well, hope you all enjoy the ball" he said. He left.

The boys stood there, opened mouthed. Had they heard well?

"come Lily, lets go get something to drink." Kristin said.

The girls left.



"I still can't believe that that is Lily, I mean, look at her she is so different." Sirius said.

"yes, so beautifully different" Remus said

James didn't react. He stood there shocked. How could that be Lily?

"STOP drooling over her, WE are your DATES!" Kate said.

"hey? Is there anyone there?" sirius asked, waving a hand past James' eyes.

"James? You are dripping your drink all over!" Kate said.

"yes" he answered.

"you have blond hair."

"yes"

"do you hate quidditch?" Sirius asked, joking.

"yes"

"this is serious. James!!!!!!!" Remus said, worried.

"Do you love Snape?" Sirius asked.

"yes"

Remus and Sirius started laughing.

"no! What?" James said, coming down to earth.

"so, tell us, do you still like Lily?" Remus asked him.

"yes"

"I knew it! I hate you!" kate said. She went running.



"do, what are you going to do about it?" Sirius asked him.

"if she hates me, I can't do anything about it." James said.

"no, not about her, about Lily"

"er...I don't know. I don't want to ruin our friendship again.



The girls were having some coke when Snape with his disgusting friends, approached them.

" Lily. I know you want to be my girlfriend, so lets forget everything that happened and dance with me, I know you want to." He said. All his friends and Snape himself, were staring at her. She had this beautiful golden aura around her, making her look mysterious, beautiful, powerful, they just couldn't tear their eyes from her.

"you are so full of yourself Snape, why in the world would I ever want to dance with a stupid jerk like you? Forget it." She answered, her green eyes blazing.

"don't pretend, you like me, I know it. Don't fight against love, babe. Now lets dance." He said, holding her arm tight, too tight.

"let go, Snape." She hissed.

"now, COME and dance with me." He repeated, his grip tightening on her arm..

"the lady asked you to let go, Snape." James said dangerously. He had seen what was happening and came to her rescue. Little did he knew that she didn't need a rescuer.

"and what are you going to do about it?" Snape said.

"This" he said and tried to punched him but Snape dogged him and one of his friends punched James hard on the nose, leaving him bleeding.

Immediately Remus and Sirius went to hit the boy and they were soon in a fight. Like the durmstrangs and slitherins were more, the left the three gryffindores bleeding on the floor.

Snape turned to meet Lily, a triumphant smile spread across his face. It would soon disappear.

Lily, who had more muscles than many boys put together, punched Snape square in the nose. Two streams of blood came running down his now crooked nose.

"THAT WAS FOR MY FRIENDS." She said to the sobbing boy.

Again she punched him, this time on his jaw.

"THAT WAS FOR ME." She yelled.

" and this, this is for us to be even and just for the pleasure of seeing you in pain." She said simply.

She got near him and raised her knee. It went directly into his masculine parts. Pain was visible on his face.

She turned to see her three friends, even more amazed than before. She made some quick healing spells and their wounds healed.



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