Disclaimer: same as last chapter.

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"Where's Lily?" asked James as Bella joined the rest of the group down in the common room.

"She's asleep, but I think she was writing in her diary or something because, she had a quill in her hand. And she was crying. She looked so peaceful that I didn't want to wake her," said Bella "I think she finally said good bye"

The Marauding Jerks, Aurora, Bella and a third year named Ruby were sitting in the armchairs in front of the fire. Bella had invited Ruby to come and sit with them because she had just received a letter from Professor Dumbledore stating that her parents and muggle brother were missing, but weren't presumed dead as they might have simply gone on vacation with out telling anyone. Diamond had simply looked slightly put out about this, and that annoyed her sister so much that it led to Diamond now sporting a sign that read "L" in the middle of her fore head. Her other sisters were in other houses, Sapphire, Emerald and Amethyst were Ravenclaw 1st years. Diamond was in Gryffindor, she was a 5th year who shared the girls dorm but she hung around Chrissie, Maddie and Beccy, well it used to be just Chrissie but everything changes eventually.

Ruby didn't seem that close to her sisters and stayed away from Diamond as much as possible, which is the reason in which she was sitting with her sisters' worst enemies. Diamond hated Aurora, Bella and Lily, because they had the 5th year boys full attention, and were among the most wanted girls in Hogwarts for no apparent reason. They wore no make-up and always had messy hair, but they were down to earth and you could have a conversation about broomsticks with them and get a response that didn't end in "Oh no I broke my nail!" or "Excuse me, I have to go and fix up my hair/make- up/clothes!" Diamond and her little "group" didn't really know anything about broomsticks, but you could ask them anything about the Quidditch Players and get almost 100% correct answers.

Bella, Aurora and Ruby were starting to get sick of the death glares they were receiving from Diamond, Beccy, Chrissie and Maddie, well not so much Beccy, but anyways they went up to their dorm, taking Ruby with them as Ruby's best friend was in some sort of detention. They turned around long enough to see Diamond and her "group" crawling all over the guys chairs, in what they hoped was a seductive way and when they saw James, Remus, Sirius and even Peters' terrified looks, the girls on the stairs almost fell over laughing and gripped the handrail for support. Once they reached the dorm the fell on to Lily's bed forgetting she was asleep and howled with Laughter.

Lily woke up and looked around, she saw her friends rolling on her bed cackling and then saw a girl she had never seen before. Ruby was looking at Lily curiously and vice a versa. Ruby had long Auburn hair and strange eyes, one minute they were red and the next blue. Lily didn't even seem to notice her friends falling off the bed, tears of mirth rolling down their faces but continued to stare curiously at the Girl who wasn't laughing, but merely looked lost.

Finally Aurora got a hold of her self and cleared her throat. "Ah Lily, dear," she said in a clear voice, "Sorry, we seem to have awoken you, are you quite ok? I see you have noticed Ruby, she is trying to keep away from her sister, and you know Diamond? she's the sister. Well anyways her parents are missing and we figured that she might want to hang with us until Sammie gets back..." Aurora had a habit of babbling.

"How are you feeling?" asked Bella softly.

"I'm fine, but rather hungry, lets go and eat!" Lily remarked, and as if to verify that her stomach let out a loud growl, Lily stared to rub her stomach "How embarrassing!"

"Mmmmm food!" Aurie said, pretending to do a Sirius thing and drool. So down the stairs and in to the common room walked the girls, and out of the portrait hole down to dinner. Lily was once again lost in thought but this time she was thinking nothing about her parents. "Oh wow how cute does James look? His eyes look so clear, I wonder if he likes me. 'WHAT?!?' Where did that come from? Ok who ever is listening GET OUT! My thoughts are private! Private I say! Wait a minute how can anyone even be listening to my thoughts? Who would want to? Bella! She can do that cant she?! Ok Bella you've had your fun. please GET OUT!"

"Ok" said Bella out loud

"Ok what?" asked Aurora "I was told to get out so I did. but I know something you don't know about one of our dear friends and who she likes, or at any rate thinks is cute.!"



"Well narrowing down time, I didn't think anything like that, Ruby is with her friend Sammie and LILY!!! IT WAS HER!!! WHO DOES SHE LIKE?!?" yelled for everyone who was listening to hear. And unfortunately for Lily, the Marauding jerks were near by and heard it all.

"Oohhhhh who does the flower like? We promise we won't tell!" Whined Sirius at this point Lily butted in.

"I never said I liked this person just that they were cute"

"Correction, you said 'Wow how cute does muwhhffe ge yor han offa me!"

"Bella shut up!"

"Ha that just proves my theory, it has to be one of them" said Aurora pointing at her brother and his friends.

"Come on . food . Great hall . walk" Lily marched off toward the Great hall

"Bella, we know you can read minds, who is it?"

"I'll give you 3 clues. 1. She knows him really well but would never admit it 2. It is one of you guys and 3. Each of you talk to her and see which one of you makes her blush. That's all I'm saying, come on Aurie" Bella grabbed Aurora's arm and they skipped off down the corridor and joined Lily at the Gryffindor table, Lily was to preoccupied glaring down at her plate to say anything. Well to them anyways but to her plate she said "Hello, Mr plate I would really appreciate you giving.me.food.now" Lily smiled as a cup cake appeared on it.

The guys walked over to where Lily sat smiling at her cupcake and each said "Hey Lily" Lily looked up giggled and without the faintest trace of embarrassment exclaimed, "Look what I gots!" and she held up her cup cake triumphantly.

"What the?" Remus looked at James and Sirius and shrugged, then sat down at the table.

"Students I would like to see Lillian Evans, 'Miss.its LILY' Lily interrupted, James potter and Ruby Walker all from Gryffindor immediately!" Professor MacKay said, or rather she barked. Lily got up and walked up to Ruby and waited for her to get up and then started to talk to her, completely ignoring James, though not entirely on purpose. Lily, Ruby and James walked over to the Professor and she led them to Dumbledore's office, said the password and pushed them inside before slamming the door shut.

"Ahh Children, you have all been called to me, because Voldemort wants you all dead." Dumbledore said in his strange tone.

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