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Italics are thoughts
Just a crush
chapter 3
After that moment when Todd's stretcher was floated out of the Gryfindor dorms. Lily broke down instantly into sobs. How could this of happened??! Why Todd why now?? I don't understand? Lily kept thinking the same thoughts over and over in her head. Megs and Ella noticed that there friend sitting in the middle of the room curled up in a little ball crying. They immediately went and tried to calm her but as soon as they got near she lashed out at them.
" Get away from me. Don't touch me." She said between sobs. " Just leave me alone."
And with that Lily ran toward the portrait door, flung it open, and fled down those millions of stairs and out into the open grounds. She had no idea where she was going, all she wanted to do was run and get as far away from the castle as she could. She ran until her feet couldn't, she then just dropped to the ground, and cried and cried. Eventually she did stop, but that was only when she has cried herself to sleep.
The warm sun came up over the trees like a bird swooping over your head. Lily was lying on the ground with her fiery red hair askew. Her big beautiful eyes slowly fluttered open, revealing a very puffy eyed Lily. She sat up and looked around.
"Where am I?" she asked herself out loud. As she looked around there were trees everywhere. But the were the most peculiar ones. They were all a shade of brownie purple, with huge blood red leaves. They were the most magnificent trees Lily had ever seen in her life. She stood up and touched the trees.
"There warm" she said again aloud.
"G'roff, that tickles." Said the tree. Lily practically flew back with shock.
"You can talk!" she said flabbergasted
"Why of course I can. What did you think I was an ordinary tree?" ask the tree.
"We… well yes. I mean I had no idea." She was cut off.
"Its quite alright darling. My name is Ceril and what might yours be?" asked Ceril with kindness.
"Lily." Replied lily flatly
" And my dear Lily why were you crying for so long last night?" wondered Ceril.
"My….my…m..my… bestfriend was murdered last night. And I just couldn't stay in the castle any longer I just has to be by myself, now I'm out here and I don't know where I am or what to do I'm just so frustrated!" lily rambled.
"oh you poor poor thing. Such a horrible night for you. Well I will help you out; you are here in my wonderful forest of Afroengr ( E-fro- in- ger). This here is the most enchanted forest you will ever find." Ceril said moving one of her branches implying Lily to look around some more.
" How far am I from the castle?" asked Lily
" You are far far away from the castle, as this place can one be reached through a certain door. Which you must have passed through. I will tell you show you where the door is later, but right now you need to rest. I sense that you still need time to recover. Stay here and I will help you." Offered Ceril.
"Thank you Ceril, I don't think I'm ready to face everybody just yet." Lily said lying back down.
" Just sleep for now." Said Ceril, pulling off one of her big red leaves and placing it over Lily as if it were a blanket. And in no time was Lily sleeping.
~~***~~~ Back at the Castle
Everybody was in such shock, they almost forgot that Lily was missing.
"Has anyone seen Lily?" Asked Megs.
"Omg I completely forgot that she ran off last night." Said Ella
"Well maybe she is in your guys dorm." Suggested Remus.
" I'll go check," said Megs getting up to go look in the dorms. A few minutes later she returned. " Nope she wasn't there, everything is as we left it yesterday.
" Don't worry she'll show. I mean Todd was her bestfriend since they were like born." Said Remus.
" I hope so. Just better hope she didn't run into the forbidden forest and get trapped or anything." Said Ella.
"Well if you guys are that worried about her we will just bring out our secret weapon. Show'em Moony!" said James. And with that Remus pulled out the Marauder's Map.
"What is that?" Asked Megs
"It's a map that shows where everybody in the school is." Replied Sirius.
" Oh." Said Megs. " Well where's Lily?"
"Find Lily." Said Remus. The map did sum kind of swirling motion, then stopped. To reveal nothing. "Mmmhmm. That's strange, usually it shows where the person is. Find Lily." He said again, still nothing happened.
"Are you guys sure that, that thing works?" said Ella.
"Positive the only reason why it wouldn't work is if Lily were not any where on school property." Said James
" So what are you saying that Lily is lost somewhere in the forbidden forest." She screamed at James
" Yes. "
"Well get out there and find her!" she screamed again. The guys took no hesitation to go look for her. Then went down the stairs and headed for the forest. When they were a little ways in the changed to their animagi form and let Remus lead since he could smell human blood. Soon enough he went running fast as if on her trail. But before long he smacked dead into something hard and transparent. He changes back to form, as did the others.
" What the hell?" said Remus rubbing his head.
" Whoa what happened?" asked James.
" I don't know I hit something hard, right over there." Said Remus pointing to the spot where is head hit.
James walked over and investigating, He looked like a mime walking with is hands, feeling the air. Not too long after he was groping the air, his hand hit something hard.
" I found it, but theres nothing there. Must be some kind of magic field or something." Said James, as he put his ear to the transparent wall. As he listened, he heard something.
(a/n Well that's my chapter 3 probably not that good since it took me like a year to finally start writing again. I hate moving. And school. Well R/R PLZZ! Merg)