What Dreams May Come
Chapter 3: The Things That Remind Us

MomoYome
My apologies!! I'm sick, and I have to stay in bed all day and I can't get more sicker 'cause my asthma won't help it. But, I finished this chapter that I thought I never could! Rock On.

"Okay, Lily, you can't get away forever. Tonight, you have to answer all of our questions about spending the summer with James," Kimmy whispered to Lily as she played with the peas on her plate. Lily blushed thinking that her friend thought that she did things she wasn't supposed to do.

"It's not what you think!" She said as she placed some peas on her mashed potatoes. Lily turned slightly pink. It was an honest answer! Kimmy winked at her and cut up her roast beef.

Lily continued to pile peas on her mashed potatoes and then put some gravy on all of it. She rested her face into her left hand and leaned on James' shoulder. "Get a room," Lily could hear Sirius whisper under his breath to his friend.

"Tiered?" He asked lily putting his arm around her. Lily nodded as she looked at the castle on her plate. She had made a picked fence around the mashed potatoes using her roast beef. James saw her castle and chuckled and smiled at his girlfriend. She could make such pretty picture with her food. She was the type of girl that her parents would tell her to stop playing with her food.

"Yeah, I barely got any sleep last night. And now they'll" She looked at her friends that had been looking at her and James, but suddenly pretended to be all in deep conversation "want to know every detail about the summer," She rolled her eyes in her head. It was going to be an all night affair with her friends involved. Her hands draped at her sides. She wanted sleep badly as she closed her eyes and fell peacefully asleep.

James had noticed that Lily had fallen asleep on his shoulder and smiled as her face looked so calm under her little black hat that rested on her multi colored hair. Her face didn't move. Her lips were slightly parted to breath. James looked at her friends who were all looking at her with disappointment, they wouldn't get to talk to her tonight. "If you want to ask me, I'm sure lily wouldn't mind. "I'll answer all you questions," He said as he patted Lily's head lightly. He stroked her hair and noticed that it was much smoother than the last time he felt it.

"Thanks!" Emi piped up, she was the last friend in their row. She smiled at James. They all thanked him for spending time with giggling thirteen year olds.

Lily sat in front of her mirror. She closed her eyes momentarily and looked back at her flawless complexion. Her cheeks were a tad flushed, but she still looked magnificent. She looked down at all of the make-up that she owned. Arabella had taken her make-up hunting just for this occasion. Arabella was nice. She looked up again. What was so different about her appearance besides her hair being one color? Or the strapless dress? It was that. She touched the mirror where there was a chain with a ring around it. She brought both of her hand around her neck and took it off and threw if on the sink. Who needed it?

She turned on her heel and looked out her window. She was lucky, sure, but why stay around? She could jump and have it all end right now. She opened the window and looked onto the darkening sky. She pulled her head into her dorm. "Don't think about it stupid," She said. Someone knocked on the door very loud. She walked over there and opened it and saw a blood red rose. That was it. Nothing more, nothing less. She sat on her knees and looked at it. She looked for a part that didn't have many thorns and picked it up and examined it. It was beautiful. Just like the ring she was going to put back around her neck.

Lily's eyes opened slowly from her dream. She looked around and saw all the portraits that were looking at her. She notice James' face looking ahead. She was in his arms and he was carrying her up to the Gryffindor common room. She squeezed him tight to let him know that she was awake. "You fell asleep. Don't worry, your friends won't badger you...tonight," He said as he kissed her gently on the nose. She smiled and lowered her eyelids and captured his mouth before he could pull away. He smiled into there soft kiss. "I need to see where I'm going," He told her looking into her dark eyes almost hidden completely by her droopy eyelids.

"Okay," She told him as she grabbed his head and made it face in front of the two. "Not to distract you," She repeated. "Frumpled drisk," James said to the Fat Lady and she let them in. James placed her down by a chair and looked down at her. She was now considerably smaller without those huge combat boots. She was now wearing a pair of modest heels with her school uniform. "Goodnight," She said with her hands cupped in front of her body with her right leg slightly crossed in front of her left. "Love you," She said.

"Good night Lily," He said as he gave her the last kiss of the night. He pulled away slowly and she went back to her feet after standing almost on her toes. She turned around and headed for the stairs to her dorm. Before she got to the first step she threw her hat back and James caught it. She didn't look back at him, but she could tell that he had caught it for her.

James sat in the most comfortable chair in the common room waiting for all of his friends to come back from the feast and Lily's friends to purge him with questions. He yawned and looked at the door, wishing for someone to come in, he was very board. No one to talk to but the wall.

Arabella opened the portrait and saw James dozing off himself in the chair. "Hey sleepy bones!" She yelled as she sat in the chair across from him.

"Hey Bella," He said, his eyes fully open and excited for someone to talk to. "Have a good summer?" He asked her. She grinned at him.

"Probably not as good as yours," She said. "Mine totally sucked radishes. Sirius got all ticked off at you, and I didn't know, so I made the dreadful mistake by telling him that I was in love with him. He looked at me like I had four head," She looked to her left away from James' eyes. James had known that Arabella liked Sirius a lot, ever since they were little.

"Oh, so that probably got him thinking that he'll lose another friend to love." She looked at him keenly in the eye. He knew what she meant. He had been spending less time with him and more with Lily.

"I'm sure he'll cool off." James mentioned to her. "He'll bounce right back and almost forget about your confession," James said.

"I don't want him to forget about me!" She said. "I want him to love me back! I know that you know what it's like to be in love, but being in one way love is dreadful, he hurt my feelings. And now he'll sleep with some person just to prove to me he wasn't affected. I guess that's just the way it goes. Love someone, have them break your heart and fall in love again. It's all a cycle. I'll just fall in love with Sirius every time," She said.

"He loves you," James said. "He has a hard time expressing emotions other than extreme hate." James looked at Bella and she smiled a tiny smile.

Arabella went to her dorm as everyone poured into the common room. "No hiding now James!" The voices sounded from behind his chair. All four of them ready, questions in hand. James rolled his eyes and offered them a seat in front of him.

"All right!" Emi was the first. "Did you shag?" She eyed him closely. He went bright red and jumped up in surprise. He didn't expect it out of her mouth.

"Good God no! She's thirteen! I'd never do that!" He said to Emi.

"So you never want to do that then?" She said writing down his answer, probably for future reference. James thought about his answer.

"I don't know," He said quietly. "And what does this have to do with the summer?" He asked the girls. The four looked at each other.

"Sorry, off topic," Kimmy said. "Next question, did you sleep in the same bed as her?" James looked around the room, why had he agreed to this in the first place? Maybe because you love Lily Evans...James thought to himself. He hoped that they wouldn't ask him too many questions. He wanted to sleep too. But Lily's sleep was more important than his own, he'd just catch up on it in History of Magic, who needed it anyway?

Lily woke up very fresh the next morning, her only worry was that her friends went above and beyond the call of duty trying to protect her. But at least they would protect her if James was to do something harmful to her, not that he ever would in any lifetime. Lily put her small feet into slippers with pink pigs on the front and went into the bathroom. She was the first and only person up for a great deal of time. She quickly showered and all the rainbow assortment of colors came out except for the red highlights. She didn't want her teachers to think that she was all drugged up.

She blow-dried her hair with her ends slightly flipping up and put on her school robs. She wondered again what kind of questions that her friends asked. She giggled at the thought of him turning bright pink if one of them asked if they did it. She remembered for one fleeting second that it might actually happen. But that was behind her now. She walked into her dorm room again and saw all her friends getting up slowly. She walked out the door and into the completely empty common room. She opened the portrait and ran into-

"Good morning James!" She said to him, smiling happily. He half smiled at her and kissed her on the cheek. "How long have you been up?" She asked scooting aside to let him in.

"A couple hours," He said shrugging. "I forgot my books, looks like you did too," He said motioning to her empty hands. Lily looked and finally noticed.

"Oh yeah!" She said smiling at him in gratitude. Her hand brushed over his and he laced his longer fingers through her shorter ones.

"No more Rainbow Brite?" He asked looking over her noticing there was only red in her already red hair. Lily looked up, expressionless.

"Yeah, I'm surprised because no guy ever notices stuff like that," She slightly smiled and cocked her head sideways, some of her hair brushing her pale cheek.

"Lil, I notice everything about you," He kissed her two cheeks and went up to his dormitory while she went to her own. She rushed in, saw her friend and told them she'd see them at breakfast and grabbed her bag and was out.

James was waiting for her, leaning on the hand rail. "Shall we go?" He asked as he held out his arm. Lily giggled and shook her head and hooked her arm to his.

Breakfast was utterly different today. Schedule's were passed around and Lily grabbed one. But also one other paper was passed around. James grabbed this one and read it while Sirius plopped down next to him, looking extremely tiered.

Notice:

October the thirty-first of this year will be the fist annual dance. It will be formal, dress robes are required.

James nudged Lily as she was cutting her pancake stack. "Look at this," He said handing the paper to her. "I've never been to a dance before," He pointed out.

"Well, they've never had dances at Hogwarts before," Lily told James. Lily looked straight up and remembered the eerie dream. It couldn't possibly be? Could it? No, this wasn't a formal dance. Probably like a social. Yeah, that was it.

Lily flipped through the pages of an ancient book she had found after school a few day ago that Madam Prince let her have because it was damaged heavily and it hadn't been checked out in two-hundred and twenty-seven years. It was written in old English and she would find herself flipping though an Old English to English dictionary she checked out especially for reading this book. Her headphones were over her ears as she flipped the page and came to the next chapter. She closed her eyes, sleep was going to take over her. She yawned and rubbed her sleepy eyes. She turned off her tape played and set it aside on her night table. She sat for a second. The dream still as vivid in her mind from when she had first had it. She had tried to convince herself that it was just a dream and that it had some secret meaning that she was yet to find out.

"I'm just not meant to know," She said as she turned her light off and snuggled in her covers of her bed, the sheets smelling of fresh ocean air.

James threw things out of her trunk and all the contents were piled on the floor in back of him. He looked up in frustration. "Damn it," He said, "I knew I packed it," He said as he went on to hunting in his trunk.

"What's bugging you?" Sirius asked. He was up on James' bed flipping through a photo album that James had thrown. "You haven't looked this upset since last year," Sirius looked up from a picture of James and Lily throwing snowballs at each other last Christmas.

"I think I forgot something " He told his friend as he ran his fingers through his hair. James frowned. And this was important. "And I can't mum or dad an owl to send it to me, there in their winter home in Jamaica already," James' parents didn't like the cold.

"Well, maybe you just 'lost' this thing your looking for," Remus suggested over a book that he was reading. James thought about that. It was possible. But it would be extremely hard to find. It was very tiny. James looked at his watch. Quarter after eleven already. It was a very good thing that tomorrow was Friday, this week had been extremely long and he needed some rest. Late night excursions were starting to tier him.