~Author's note~ So here's the second chapter of my story. I hope you like it. Please review!
~Disclaimer~ I wish I owned the world, but I sadly do not. PS: My ugly and stupid sister is looking over my shoulder. Her pen name is Kulang, so if you see her stories, just tell her she's mean. I want to see if anyone will.
Chapter two
Lily looked at the girl who opened the door. "Oh!" she said in surprise. "Hi."
The girl seemed surprised too. "Oh! Hi! Are you our new neighbor? Come on in." She opened the door wider, and Lily wanted to tell her that she shouldn't need permission to enter the house. But as she followed the girl inside, she saw that they whole house had changed. All of the furniture was someone else's, and boxes were all over the floor. Lily shook off the feeling that a painting that hung on the wall was watching her.
"I'm Lily Evans."
The girl stuck out her hand. "Melody Black. Is that food?!" She eyed the covered bowl Lily held.
"It's only my mum's Jell-O. Not too good, mind you."
"Food!" Melody Black yelled, snatching the bowl and unwrapping it. "Yes! Oh thank you Lily! Mum threw out all the food we had, and she and dad have gone shopping."
A boy appeared in the doorway. For a moment, Lily thought he was a girl. He had on a halter top and knee length skirt. "Did someone say food?!" he yelled, barreling into the room. He then saw Lily, who burst into laughter. The boy grinned at her.
"What?" Melody said, after returning from the kitchen with bowls and spoons. "Ack!" she shrieked, seeing the boy. "Sirius! You're wearing my clothes!"
"Um… Yeah..." he laughed weakly. "Funny story, really. My clothes are still packed up, and yours weren't."
Renee put her hand on her head and sighed. "I should have known why you were avoiding me!"
Lily noticed how alike Sirius and Melody looked. Both had black hair, and brown eyes, and were almost the same height.
"You're twins!" she exclaimed. She had never met twins before, although she had seen them around before.
"Yeah," the boy, whom Melody had called Sirius, said. "I'm Sirius. Who're you?"
"I'm Lily," she replied, trying not to laugh at the boy. If he liked to walk around in girl's clothing then who was she to judge him? Besides, she thought, although she felt bad about it afterward. If he decides he hates me, I can always tell everyone that I caught him wearing woman's clothes.
"Why did you come hear so soon?" Lily asked. She realized how rude she sounded, and rephrased it. "I mean, I thought you weren't coming for a few days."
Melody looked down for a moment, and sighed. "My dad got a new job in London, so we had to move sooner." She sighed again, and began to dish the jello into the bowls.
"Yeah!" her brother Sirius said, stomping his foot and watching Melody pour the food. "We didn't even get a chance to say goodbye to Remus."
Remus must be the friend they had to leave behind. And they didn't even get to say goodbye to him. They had to leave their old house for the same reason Sierra had to leave. I guess they kind of feel the way I do, just a bit.
"Yeah. My friend Sierra moved away yesterday. I got to say goodbye to her, but her father found a new job across the countryside."
"I'm sorry," Melody said, handing her a bowl of jello. She and her brother dug into it, and were finished in less than half of a minute. Lily had never seen anyone eat so fast. Not even her sister Petunia, who was notorious around the neighbor hood for being a bit of a pig.
"Are you really that hungry?" Lily asked after they were finished. "When will your parents be back?"
Melody looked at her watch, which was a very strange golden color. "Not for a few hours. Why?"
"And didn't you say that you have no food?"
"Yeah," said Sirius. "Why?"
Lily said, "Well, we can go to the candy store! I'll show you where it is, if you don't know."
"Of course we don't know," the boy replied. "We just moved in this morning."
"And we can't go anyhow!" Melody interrupted, glaring at her brother. "We haven't any money."
"Oh." Lily was disappointed. In a weird sort of way, she had been hoping that one of the kids from her school would see her in town with people other than Sierra. "Are you sure?" Of course they would be sure. What sort of kid would pass up going to a candy store if they had any?"
"Well," Melody said.
"C'mon lil sis, " Sirius pleaded, pouting.
"I'm not your little sister, Sirius, so shut up. And I can't just pull money off a tree!"
Sirius opened his mouth.
"No! I can't pull money out of the air, either. You're stupid. That would be magic and magic doesn't exist."
Lily raised her eyebrows slightly, and wondered what was wrong with them.
"But Melly! I think I know where there… I mean, um, I know where some money that isn't packed up is!"
The girl looked skeptical. "Show me then!"
They left the room and went into the kitchen, of what was now their house. Lily knew that from now on, this wouldn't be Sierra's house, and she couldn't go in anymore. And weren't those children odd? There was an odd feeling about the house now, and Lily didn't like it. Sirius and Melody seemed fun enough, though, although they seemed even stranger than Lily was. Talking about packing money away. Maybe wherever they came from, packing away money meant to put it in the bank.
Melody Black looked sad as she walked up the kitchen stairway, following her brother, Sirius. This staircase was so different, and this house was so small. She thought about the girl, Lily Evans. She seemed nice enough. Maybe Melody would have a new friend soon. She remembered how sad she was when she had had to leave her best friend Renee. Maybe that was how Lily felt. But Renee's family was magical, as her's was. But if Lily was magical, then she hid it well. Usually, there were signs that someone knew about magic. A sort of confidence, and sort of look of secrecy. Still, they were living in a muggle neighborhood, and it might not be good to make any new friends. She could visit her friends by floo, and would see them at Hogwarts. But she might have to explain where she was going to any muggle friends she made. Although that was no illegal by any means-- you could tell your family that you were magical if you were muggle born-- it would be awkward. And with her big-mouthed twin brother, it would be hard to keep a secret.
But Melody wasn't really the type of person who cared about consequences, and Lily seemed nice enough. Not strange as far as she could tell.
She looked up as her brother waved his hand in front of her face. Swatting it away, she said, "What?"
"You were thinking again," he said simply. They had reached the room where Mr. and Ms. Black would be sleeping, towards the back of the house. He walked in, while Melody stood in the doorway watching him.
"What are you doing this time?" she snapped. Sometimes the two got on each other's nerves.
The boy shook his head at her, and pushed his ear length hair back, as a few strands fell into his eyes. Then he opened the bureau, which had already been moved into the room. Melody said OH! And walked in, as Sirius picked up a small bag and held it triumphantly above his head.
"I told you we had muggle money!" he laughed. "I told you!"
"I completely forgot about that!" Melody said, reaching out for it. She scowled at him when he jerked it out of her way and held out above his head and out of her reach.
Melody hated when he did that. Sirius was three inches taller than her now, and was constantly reminding her of it. And he was heavier than she was. Soon she would no longer be able to beat him in a fight.
He poured the money out on the top of the dresser. The money was what their parents saved for special occasions or when they had to do something in the muggle world. Of course, they weren't supposed to take it, but rules such as that had never stopped the two before.
"How much should we take, I wonder?" Sirius asked, turning to his sister.
Melody didn't know how much muggle money was; she didn't even know what you could buy with it. But she wasn't about to tell Sirius that. Then she'd never hear the end of it.
"I think one paper is the same as a sickle," said Melody.
"Well then… I guess this would be enough," Sirius said, pulling out two thin pieces of paper with the number twenty of them.
"Melody?" Lily called up the stairs. "Sirius?"
"Coming!" Melody yelled back, running back down as Sirius scooped the money back into the bag and put it away.
There were so many papers in that bag. Their parents would never notice anything gone.
Lily had gone back to her house while Melody and Sirius had been upstairs, and grabbed five pounds, although her mother had yelled about her wanting to spend that much money on candy. She just wanted Sirius and Melody to think that she was cool. First impressions were the lasting ones, weren't they?
"Oh good," said Sirius as he followed his sister down the stairs. "You're still here."
"Did you get any money?" she asked.
"Yeah," said Melody. "Twenty papers."
"Papers? Oh, pounds. You got twenty pounds? Each?" If these people could afford to buy that much candy, why were they in this place?
"Yeah. Is that enough?" Sirius answered. Lily looked at him, and opened the front door.
"Yah!" she said.
Half a block from Lily's house lived a boy named who went by the name of Ryan. He was the head of the group of children who bullied Lily. He was popular, but not rich or cute.
In fact, most girls found him ugly.
But you don't really care about his appearance, do you? Only the fact that he was horrible to our heroine matters. So on with the story.
Lily hated him completely. But she didn't try to stand up for herself anymore. It didn't do any good.
As she lead Melody and Sirius down her street, telling them how strange it was that they didn't know about any sports, she hoped he wasn't there.
But she didn't really have good luck, and there he was, sitting on his porch. He was shooting rocks at squirrels with a slingshot.
"Oh no," Lily whispered, glaring at him. He hadn't turned around yet, but she knew he knew she was there.
Like he has some sort of Lily sensor, she thought, and although the thought was funny in a way, it made Lily fervently wish that she had taken the long way to the store.
"What?" Sirius asked. Lily had learned that the boy was a joker, and wasn't serious often. Well, he was always Sirius, but… She could tell that he was the sort of person that could be fun to be around. She hoped they would be in the same school the next year. j
"Evans," Ryan snarled, in a low voice that she could hear anyway.
She wished she had the "strange powers" everyone claimed she had at that moment. Maybe if she thought about it had enough, she could set his jacket on fire.
She concentrated hard on it, as Melody said, "Who's that?"
"No one," Lily said, looking at Ryan in disgust. He was nice to everyone except for Lily.
She hurried to get past his house, but suddenly the end of the yard seemed to be hundreds of feet away. Why was he home during the summer? Didn't any people actually go on vacation?
She felt herself blush, and wished she didn't blush so easily.
Suddenly he leapt over the fence and landed in front of her.
"How can someone with your considerable bulk jump around like that?" Lily said, narrowing her eyes and glaring at him. "It's completely disgusting."
Melody looked at her brother curiously, wondering what was going on.
"Watch yourself, Evans. I was just going to say how sorry the IHLE is that Sierra has moved away." Lily snorted. She was willing to bet that "IHLE" stood for I Hate Lily Evans. "After all, it's no fun to pick on someone who won't stand up for themselves."
"Hey!" Sirius intertupted.
"Yeah!" Melody said. "Don't diss on Lily! How would you feel if your best friend moved away?"
"Yeah! You've been bothering me for so long, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So get your bubbly fat out of my way before I have to knock you over. "
"So you've finally decided to act normal, eh?"
Lily shoved past him, and so did Melody, muttering a bad word under her breath. Sirius said something quietly, but Lily didn't hear.
As they walked down the block, Ryan yelled as his jacket burst into flames, and he found himself standing on his hands. Lily laughed to herself as she walked, and so did Sirius, although neither noticed the other one.
~Author's note~ I'm sick again, so this might be the last chapter I write for a few days. I need my rest. But don't worry. As soon as I post up to chapter seven of my story Jaguar Brazil, Book One, I'll update this one. So please review and tell me what you think. I know there are lots of mistakes, but my story can't be perfect. I just noticed how much Lily looks like Likly, which isn't even a word! Haha. I was typing and Likly appeared!
Also: If anyone I know is reading this story please tell me! I don't think anyone I know cares enough to read this! (I don't go by Lyra or Kirjava, if you need a hint. No one even knows about the name Lyra, I don't think. Anywho! Also, I live in Seattle)
If anyone wants to see something funny, get a bunch of kids to watch someone gullible. Then tell that person to bend over and spell RUN. Get it? Are you in? When they bend over? Get it?! Well, I think it's funny. But I have a dirty mind.
Thanks!
~Kir~