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Soon enough, the whole school did know, but her friends didn't tell. Lily gave Professor Dumbledore permission to tell the whole school at once during dinner, so she wouldn't have to repeat the story 100 times over. Dumbledore told the story with detail leaving everything in. Lily was staring at the floor, she knew everyone was looking at her, but no one was looking at her more intensely than James Potter. After the story, she received many sorries, and she grew tired of them.

Within two weeks, Lily was getting to be her normal self. It seems like a rapid recovery, but her mother was a volunteer counselor, and had dealt with related problems. Random people call her mother at every time during the day. All have a different problem, some are suicidal, some hurt themselves, some are pregnant and don't know what to do, and most people have lost a loved one and don't know how to deal with their feelings. In that case, Lily's mother told them they can't hold in their feelings, or it may be released in a negative way. Lily always remembered her mother saying that they should write their feelings in a notebook. And that is exactly what she did.

Lily's emotions were so strong, she filled two notebooks in a week. It calmed her down, and made her feel better. But another huge helper was the support of her friends. They were always by her side, and ready to talk at any time. Yet she still had one question that no one could answer.

Why?

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One day at dinner, Dumbledore rose from his seat.

"Attention, students!" he said. Everyone was quiet at once. "I would like to announce our Christmas Ball that will be held this Friday night at 7:00 sharp. All students 5th year and up may attend. I would like to add that our very own Head Boy and Head Girl will open it this year. I hope all of you can come."

Lily already knew this of course. She had known for about a month now, and she and James were working much better on it together. It was going to be the best ball ever, in her opinion. The whole hall buzzed in excitement, and jealousy from younger students who couldn't attend. Katrina and Amelia were daydreaming at the time, most likely about who they wanted to go with. Lily didn't care. She'd be happy if someone did ask her at all! She didn't look at herself to be pretty, on a scale of 1-10, she thought she'd be a 6 or 7. Not up there, yet not down there.

Katrina, Lily, and Amelia were walking back to the tower, and Amelia and Katrina were chatting about Remus and Sirius, and how's they'd be so perfect for one another. They were almost to the tower when Katrina asked, "You do you want to go with Lily?" Throughout the walk to the tower Lily had been preparing the answer to this question. She knew it would be asked sooner or later.

"Oh, whoever asks first, I guess." was her reply. It wasn't a great one, but still good. Amelia got suspicious.

"You have to go with James!" Lily wasn't surprised by this. She'd been expecting it all along.

"May I ask why?" She suddenly got the feeling someone was watching her.

"Well, you two have been spending sooo much time together....." said Katrina.

"That's because I HAVE to!" Lily answered. She knew she was going to lose this fight, no matter what she said. They reached the painting, still bickering about Lily and James when Lily disappeared.

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Someone was carrying her through the corridors. She tried to scream, but a charm was put on her mouth so she couldn't speak let alone scream. She felt something was over her and her captor. She raised an arm to touch it, and it felt light and almost like liquid, and was soft to the touch. The person who was carrying her was moving quite swiftly, and going through secret passages and paintings. Lily was taken aback by all of the passageways and beautiful paintings she had never seen before. They finally reached a beautiful room. Everything was green, and it looked like an old parlor. There were couches, chairs (all green) elegant walls, beautiful oriental rugs, and even a fireplace, with a fire in it that was green too, shining a beautiful green light throughout the room. She was set down, and the person who took her took off the cloak. It was James, who was grinning like an idiot.

"James, why did you bring me here?" she demanded. He chuckled.

"This is the very heart of the castle," he began, and no one has been in here since Godric Gryffendor himself."

"Then how did you know it was here? And what about the fire?"

"How I knew it was here I will keep to myself (AN: the map!), and the fire has been lit all along."

"So, you're telling me that this fire has been burning here for all this time?!"

"Well, yes." They were silent.

"But besides all that, why did you bring me here?" He smiled. "Sit down on the couch." he said. She did as she was told, because she knew if she didn't, she would most likely be shoved onto it anyway.

"I kidnapped you and brought you to this room to ask you if you would be my date for the ball." Lily was a bit confused.

"Why do you want me? There are LOADS of other girls out there, that are much more, well, suited for this kind of thing than me, and..." she was interrupted by James putting a finger to her lips.

"I want us to be friends, Lily." he said, "That's why."

"Who are you and what have you done to James Potter?" she asked. "You're being polite! Something I'd never expect from James Potter."

"Well, another reason is that we have to open the ball anyway...." said James. Lily grew tense.

"Oh my gosh! I totally forgot that part!" She sighed.

"I guess we should, after all, you are being polite for once and have two perfectly good reasons. Besides, what would have happened if I'd declined?"

"I would have told Snape you fancy him!" he said simply. Lily cringed. Severs Snape was a really creepy guy Lily had the misfortune to know. He had this bizarre obsession about her. He stalked her, and send her numerous love letters, and hundreds on Valentines Day. He actually dragged her into a room once and tried to kiss her, but she punched him out, and he's kinda on a restraining order now. Lily's now under a spell so whenever he makes a move on her again, he hits an invisible barrier between them. It'll throw him to the wall. Lily trusts most everyone else, so this only works on him. She laughed nervously.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot." he said.

"Well, with something like that, I have to go." she said, with a smile on her face. James lit up like a lantern. James escorted her out of the room and back to the tower, to find two nervous wrecks greeting them in the Common Room. Katrina spotted her and jumped out of her seat.

"LILY!!!!!" she exclaimed.

"Where were you, and are you alright?" said Amelia quickly. James had already departed and left for his dorm.

"I'll tell you the story upstairs..." Lily said. She was a bit nervous, she had to tell them since they were so worried, and besides, they would wonder why she was with James at the Ball.

When Lily had finished her story, her friends' eyes were huge.

"Ohhhh, that's sooo romantic!!!" said Amelia.

"Yeah, you're so lucky!" Amelia added.

"So, have you two got dates for the ball?" asked Lily. Both girls blushed.

"Yes." they both said.

"So who?" asked Lily. They were silent.

"Come on, I told you my story." persisted Lily. Amelia sighed.

"Sirius asked me." she said dreamily.

"Remus asked me!" said Katrina.

"That's what I expected." said Lily. "Now if you excuse me, I'd like to go to bed now.". That ended the conversation, and Lily went asleep, dreaming about the ball.

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