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Lily's New Friend
Chapter 3
"So when are you going to meet me?"
"Lily, why were you talking to him?" Asked Adrian in a very loud whisper pointing over Lily's shoulder to where James was now talking to Sirius.
"Oh, Adrian you know you're just jealous of Lily because he doesn't even know you exist. So Lily what's he like? Is he nice?" asked Fran in one long breath, Lily almost burst out laughing at her friends. They acted as if she had just been talking to some famous rock star.
"Yeah, he is nice, I guess," Lily said with a secret smile to herself. She was so happy, she knew deep down she had just made a great new friend.
Back where James was standing, Sirius came up to him and put his hand on his best friends shoulder.
"So what was all that about?" Sirius asked James. He was shocked because James had never shown any signs of wanting to get to know Lily Evens.
"Oh, well she looked lonely so I thought I might as well go keep her company while getting to know her," said James looking at Sirius with a 'what-are-you-trying-to-imply' look on his face.
"So is she okay, I mean spending more than an hour with you can be awfully painful," said Sirius with mocking concern. They always picked on one another; they were more like brothers than any pair of real siblings. Some people would say that they where twins at heart.
Life went on as normally as it ever did at Hogwarts. It had been a while since Lily and James had become friends. After classes they would often be seen talking to one another. Fran and Adrian were sure that Lily had a bit of a crush on James Potter, but Lily kept up that she did not think anything of him. She did think that his friend, Sirius, was very cute. It was one morning at breakfast that got the whole school talking for all of the following week.
Dumbledore stood up, cleared his throat, and said, "We, the teachers, thought that it would be a good idea to help you get your minds off the current Voldemort situation by holding a Halloween dance."
As soon as Dumbledore sat down a murmur flooded across the great hall. Everyone started talking about the dance that was only a week away.
"Oooh Lily, now you have to come with us this weekend to Hogsmead, you can't stay here when you need dressrobes," said Fran who had been nagging Lily to come to Hogsmead with them but Lily couldn't come. For reasons unknown to Fran and Adrian, she had not wanted to go on this Hogsmead visit with them. Lily had her reasons though she had told James that she would go to the Three Broomsticks with him on Saturday, and she didn't want her friends to make a big deal about it.
"Yes, Lily you must come with us to get dressrobes. Will you Lily?" Asked Adrian.
"Sure," said Lily as she finished off her cereal.
Down the table Sirius looked up at James at the end of the announcement, but he did not get looked back at for James was looking down the table trying to catch Lily's gaze. Sirius looked up at Remus who was looking strangely at James's behavior, and Sirius also looked down to where Lily was sitting and Remus followed his gaze and figured out what was going on. Remus gave a loud cough that was to hide his laugh and when James heard it he looked up at his other best friend with concern in his face.
"Are you alright Remus?" James asked looking at Remus concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Remus said and gave a stern look at Sirius who was about to start laughing at James.
"Oh," James said confused with the way Remus and Sirius where looking at him and the very confused way that Peter was looking at the three of them, "Hey Peter, are you as confused as I am?" James asked giving him a large friendly smile.
"Yep, I have no clue what they are up to but it can't be anything good. For it's these two that we are talking about," Peter said this with a smile to the only friends he had ever had.
They all laughed at this for it was very true.
It had been four days since the announcement, and it was Friday afternoon which the students had off. Lily was very upset; she thought that someone would have asked her to the dance by now. Fran had been asked by a very handsome sixth year Ravenclaw named Bran Aclebee, and Adrian had been asked by her long time crush, John Benet, who was also a sixth year, but he was in Gryffindor.
The only reason that Lily had not been asked to the dance was because Sirius and Remus had been telling all the boys they saw that if anyone asked Lily to the dance that they would get beat up very badly by the Mauraders. Peter went around with them for they had filled him in on the situation, but he really didn't get the point.
Lily was doing a research project for charms, and she wanted to get some more information for her paper. She was on her way down to the library when she ran right into James.
"Oh, sorry Lily, I didn't see you there. Well, I was wondering if you would like to, um, come with…" James started getting very red in the face forcing the words out, and then he stopped because from down the hall there was someone yelling 'James?'
Lily was so happy for a second as she thought that she was finally getting asked to the dance by one of her best friends. This would be so much fun! Then her spirits fell when she heard Sandria's high voice drifting through the corridors.
"James? Jamsie, oh there you are," said Sandria as she was walking up and totally ignored the fact that Lily was standing right there in a conversation with him. Sandria walked up and stood in between Lily and James. She reached her slender arm up and ran her fingers through his hair and down across his cheek, "James, don't you have something to ask me?" he didn't answer he just gave her a confused look so she continued, "Oh, so you thought I hadn't figured it out did you, you know I'm not that stupid. It's not like I am a Hufflepuff or something. I know that you got Sirius, Remus, and Peter to go and tell all the boys that they couldn't ask me because you were going to, but I saw them at it. See you can't fool me, Jamsie! So when are you going to meet me in the common room for the ball tomorrow night?"
At this Lily pushed past James in the corridor and continued to the Library trying not to cry. Even James was just going to blow her off to go with someone prettier. Lily was definitely not ugly at all, but she was not a toothpick. She had always felt that because she was not pencil thin boys would not like her and this dance was starting to make her believe it even more than ever before.
James turned to go after Lily and ask her if she would want to go to the dance with him. He wanted to go with Lily not Sandria, but as he turned a hand grabbed his arm and turned him around. Sandria gave James a peck on the lips and smiled saying, "So when are you going to meet me?"
On the way to the Library a very cute Ravenclaw boy named Samuel Nelson came up to her. He and Lily had spoken a couple of times, and he seemed like a very nice boy.
"Lily, would you, I know that no one's supposed to ask you, but would you like to go to the dance with me?" Samuel asked.
"Oh, yes definitely! I would love to go with you Sam. Um, what do you mean though about not being supposed to ask me to the dance? I never said anything like that to anyone," said Lily.
"Oh, well, Sirius, Remus, and Peter have gone around and told everyone that if they asked you to the dance that they would beat them up," said Sam with a smile that he was not able to hide for he was so happy that she had said yes.
"Okay, well I have to go, but I'll see you tomorrow night at seven o'clock," said Lily and she turned around to go back to the common room to find three soon to be dead boys.
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