Okay!! Hi People!!!! I suck at summaries, but this story is about Lily Evans and.James Potter, who is a new student in Hogwarts. Lily notice James, as he notices her. Lily deals with feelings she never felt before, but not only for James but for other persons also, the same is for James, who quickly becomes very popular.only because he is very handsome, charming, funny.and strange. Many hormones are in the air.hey they are fifteen years old!!! But the most important of all is that they get to know about each other.or at least what they think.oh crap.read this story, it's much better than my summary. There is a bit of mush in this story, but not much, this story will be more of a.err.a grown up story.it is a PG-13 story!!!

And another thing this chapter consist...ehm...snogging, but not quite * strong *...if you know what I mean...

Oh, I'm also writing another story, it's also about Lily and James. It's called La Nozze di Figaro.!!!!

Oh, all characters belong to J.K Rowling who is soooo adorable, expect for all the characters that you don't recognise! And people don't forget to review.cause that means a lot to me.



VERY IMPORTANT: I just wanted to say that the reason why I want a special number of reviews is because.it's reviews who cheer me up and makes me continue the story. If I write a story and don't get many reviews It makes me think that you didn't like it.and that the story was perhaps a bad story. Then I loose all interest in the story. But when I mean reviews.I'm also expecting flames, though that is very important.how else am I going to know if you didn't like the story for a specific reason. Of reviews I expect both good things and bad things. But I wanted to say thank you to everyone who reviewed ..............thank you so much. You are the best of the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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"Behind The Shell There Is a Flower And a Man"





Chapter 3

"So, if you combine for example the accio spell with the Destrucio spell, the affect will double and not only will the object be moved but also be destroyed in the process." Lily paused to breath, and whirled a curl of red hair around her finger yet another time" But you must also take note that it is very important to know the material of the object, though or else there would be unthinkable consequences."

"Very good Miss. Evans!", Professor Flitwick applauded, quite pleased as he grinned from ear to ear.



Lily flushed a bit, but her eyes remained their position, and that was on the Professor, who stood above the desk repeating what she just said. Charms was her favourite subject indeed, she thought, as she wrote down the most important things when combining spells.

The lesson had started for about fifteen minutes ago, and it was the last lesson of the day, which meant that Lily noticed several boys and girls in the classroom watch tiredly at the clock.

She shrugged her shoulders, and returned to her note book where she had written four ways of combining a floating spell with a sinking spell. Biting her thin feather pencil, she had bought in Diagon Alley, she wrote down a fifth way to do so.

"If you look closer children, you can see that this piece of wood", Professor Binns continued babbling, while a rather rough chop wood was held in the air, a red glow surrounding it " is under the influence of both the Lumos spell, accio spell, and Icile spell, though it doesn't turn on fire or becomes to ice. But-", he shook his head, and pulled up his sleeves" if I would have said those three spell wrong...or would have chosen another object instead of this...it would have flown right back to me and perhaps ending my time here as your Professor...(" why don't you do that?", a slythering boy whispered and a few giggles was heard, but Professor Binns didn't hear it or he just simply choose to ignore it)... why is that?"

Immediately Lily raised her hand, straight up in the air with a grin plastered on her face. Professor Flitwick looked around in the classroom, where a couple of flies buzzed. No one else than Lily interested in answering his question.

He sighed." Ms Evans?",

"Well, as I said before... you have to have the right material... for example you couldn't simply choose water, though it doesn't burn. That is when the spell goes wrong."

" Good, good", Professor Binns coughed" But if-"

He was soon interrupted when a knock was heard on the door.

"Who is it"?", he squinted, raising his wand to open the door.

"It's James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin, Professor", a voice well recognised to Lily was heard behind the closed door. When those three names were said plenty of faces looked up from their desks, and above all female population in the classroom, combed their hair rapidly with their fingers, a few took out their lipsticks...and even fewer didn't care at all.

After a while the huge door was open with a * SLAM *, and in entered the very charming Sirius Black, who waved a hand to every single admire with a quite funny smile dancing on his lips, after him came Remus Lupin who looked quite embarrassed, and at last came James Potter ( observe that at this moment a few sighs was heard), who brushed away his bangs from his eyes, as he glanced at the Professor and walked up to an empty chair next to Sirius.

Lily shook her head in disapproval, her eyes wandering over James, and returning to her notebook, shaking her head even more.

... quite good impression Potter...ugh...I mean James...

"May I ask you why you are late?", asked Professor Flitwick, almost falling forward from the pile of books he was standing on above his desk as he leaned forward, his huge and white moustache pointing out of anger, as the little man knitted his fists.

"We were signing autographs, Professor", Sirius Black admitted honestly, an arm soon hitting the side of his stomach"... I mean, we forgot about the clock"

"I see...", the Professor humbled, his eyelids shrinking into two slits"... and the same thing happened to you-", Professor Flitwick looked down at his folder that was above all the other papers on his desk, which could really use a good cleaning"... Mr. Potter? I'm sure that being new hear is quite...- exhausting"

" He was with us, Professor", Remus Lupin, the brown headed boy with twinkling, nice blue eyes interrupted hastily"...we were showing him around"

" But I presumed that Professor McGonagall already had done that."

Remus swallowed, and remained quiet. He was not quite good at lying like Sirius.

"Well... I had forgotten Professor....ehm... Flitwick...I needed to know where the library was, cause after classes I'm about to-"

"Yes, yes", Professor Flitwick interrupted the boy with the tousled hair which consisted strangely enough straight and slight curly hair, waving away a hand."...I know all that Mr. Potter.", he sighed, muttering something like "Not another"... and returned to the lesson, to everyone's disappointment excepts for Lily.



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"Lily...YOU have to help me with this bloody assignment that Professor Flitwick gave us!", Melissa confessed breathless, when walking out from the classroom"...I didn't hear a thing"

"What a surprise!", Lily responded nicely sarcastic.

Melissa shook her head with a dreamy expression clouding her eyes"... was to busy watching two flies and of course James Potter, when he came in"

Lily sighed tiredly"...James Potter, James Potter", she repeated, resting against the wall." Why is everyone fed up with that name, I myself am growing pretty tired of it"

"Lily!", Melissa spitted out in horror, dropping her bag in the process", How can you say such a thing!?"

Lily shrugged, and turned her gaze to the laughing three boys with the largest attention, who walked out from the classroom with several admirers surrounding them.

James said hastily" See you later!", to a grinning Sirius and I-told-you-so- but-it was-a-good-thing-that-you-did-that-to-that-ugly-slimy-rat-faced- Snape Remus, running away from several students who had been waiting outside charm class and now pondering him with compliments and also excuses to be around him.

"I mean the guy hasn't been here more than four days and already everyone sees him like an Adonis or something", Lily continued, starting walking towards the Gryffindor common room with her eyes glued on a running James"... I thought that he was normal...that's all"

Melissa's eyes bulged out from their socks as her mouth hang open " Excuse me! Lily to earth!", she shouted causing a few Rawenclaws to turn around and look at them"...Hello! James Potter is absolutely like any other boy here... with the exception that he looks extremely fine, behaves very nicely, and so, so, so, so...help me now...so, so?"

"So, like Sirius you mean?", Lily raised her eyebrow"...well except the nice thing and all, and well also the good looking part, and absolutely not normal!"

"I think that Sirius looks cute", Melissa confessed, turning around a corner and quietly saying (" hello") to Bill Weasley who passed by with much hurry"... and he sure was nice today at lunch towards you, when Snape offended you"

"Please!", Lily moaned, lifting up her arms, to let them fall back again"... he just said something utterly ridiculous about Snape. And besides the only reason why Sirius even bothers talking to me is because I'm a prefect"

"Sure bacon Lily!", Melissa protested, griping her friend by the arm." But you should had seen how much he blushed when you kissed him on the cheek yesterday", shriecked Melissa exitedly.

Lily's cheeks flushed pink at the thought of it"...I don't really know what came over me...", she shrugged, wishing to forget that humiliating moment... or was it such a......?"I guess that I was angry... but I don't know why..."

"He looked so cute!", Melissa interrupted, not letting Lily finish what she was about to say...not that Lily did know anyway..." I would have never dared to do so to Sirius! You're so brave!"

"Stop it Mel!", moaned Lily yet another time, her cheeks flushing even redder"... you've said that almost two hundred times this past two days...I'm growing pretty tired of it"

The Fat Lady appeared in front of them suddenly, as an excuse to change subject Lily whispered the password of the week ("Melon balls"), and entered the much crowded common room with bowed head... depressed on the thought what she'd done the day before... not that it was that bad, but anyway...

"You're growing tired of everything these days Lily", mumbled Melissa Faltingboard when they walked upwards the staircase to the girls dormitory."... even * the * group"

Lily sighed, balancing her bag to her other arm"... Mel I've never really liked that BliGH club or something... BUT I do think that it's quite funny watching...but NOT to take action"

"Duh!", Melissa said, opening the door to the girls dormitory, feeling quite insulted"... EFFoGLBIH are the ones who takes action!"

"What ever", Lily spit out, feeling her good mood sink to the level of her shoes. Running to her bed she lumped on it and gazed at the four sized high poster of " Hoydon Image Wiz - Miracle", a spectacular band in Lily's point of view, which hang on the wall beside her bed with pink sheets decorated with golden stars. But looking at the moving poster, with Don Mage the singer, winking at her didn't cheer her up as usual.

"Everything is so dull!", Lily sighed deeply, confessing what she truly felt, as she sat up and took out her books and stuff out from her green, large bag, which she hung around her shoulder when walking to classes.

Melissa had stepped infront of the golden framed mirror, with a lot of cosmetics lying on the floor by her feet, painting perfectly her lips with a sherry pink gloss lipstick, smacking her lips now and then.

"It's because you Lily dear need to change", Melissa Falitingborad simply said, puffing her golden hair up, not even once glazing away from her reflection on the mirror." Honey, you don't do nothing with your hair and your clothes as a matter of fact... and the boys...and advice from me would be...change your attitude", Melissa smacked with her lips again"... no offence, just saying it because I'm Y.O.U.R friend"

"It's perfectly nothing wrong with my clothes", Lily protested, watching her friend with confusion though Melissa Faltingboard wasn't that kind of girl that cared so much about her appearance... well at least not in the forth year,"... and I like having my hair hanging loose... AND as far as the boys- section, let me tell you that BOYS do like ME"

Melissa turned around at last, and looked at Lily with eyes filled of....pity?

"Lily, it's because you are a prefect, and because you are, well a good student and a good friend, but-", Melissa sighed, walking towards the red- headed and tracing her finger along Lily's face. "... when was the last time you were on a date?"

Lily thought for a good moment. This summer she'd spent her vacation with her parents in boring and little Hampshire, in north London, only enjoying the time when Petunia, her older muggle sister, fell from the rowing boat.

No boys in sight indeed, except for the guy who sold ice cream by the lagoon who asked her if she was alone... which she said no to and ran away...and then there was that gang member Nicholas, well gang member not exactly but he did smoke and wore a knife, which he showed Lily when she walked up to the grocery store to buy bread... he had implied that he liked red- heads when walking up to her introducing himself to her with his knife...Lily just ran away yet again... and then there was that one time in London in Diagon alley, where she was going to buy school uniforms though her old ones where now too short by the legs...there had been a guy with a... ehm... strange appearance asking her if she wanted to go out with him...she had ran away.

So no...she hadn't dated...EVER.

"I can't remember actually", Lily implied, pointing our her face"... I'm very bad at remembering things."

"Well Lily I can tell you that you haven't...", Melissa drawled, walking up to the mirror to finish her hair." Not here in Hogwarts as I know"

"And you have?", Lily asked, feeling a sting of yellows.

"You know that I haven't...I mean in HOGWARTS", Melissa closed her eyes, dropping the comb gently on the floor"... but this summer I met a gorgeous guy"

"You didn't owl me that", Lily added, feeling a bit hurt that Melissa, her best friend, hadn't told her this, but she remained her neutral face.

"Well", Melissa turned away"...It slip from my mind"

"Who was he?"

"Oh, just a guy. Not that he means anything now though", Melissa giggled"... Now I have my eyes on another little person..."

"James Potter?", Lily added dully, covering her eyes with her hands, falling down on her bed. " So... are you like...planning to date this Potter", Lily asked carefully, moving her head so her eyes would face the window, where the sun slowly went down over the horizon that consisted of a straight line of tall and green spruces.

"JAMES, Lily, JAMES", Melissa shouted, her face radiating what could be called pain" It's rude to call people by their last name"

"No it's not!", Lily said, covering a laugh with her hand when turning around and looking at Melissa, who faked wiping away some tears.

"Okay, it's not...but the name James is so cute!", Mel shrieked in turn."...but anyway...I have a plan to do so"

"To do what?"

"Date him silly!", Melissa said bewildered"... if everything turns up well though. You don't know what kind of competitors there are, planning to catch James Potter's heart", the blond girl continued, thinking"...Hanneli Diamond, Ohejla Packard, Nordina Finnigan from Ravenclaw, Filippa Ulitimatos, Nancy Sonnland, Tricia Laana...no wait she already has a boyfriend, think it is Frank from Hufflepuff but anyway we have Tony Scrouv, from our own House, and then Sara Toolstood, Malin Medina and Emma Landstrom and Amelia Fompali...and I bet that there are many others!", she sighed"... and it's just typical that every single one of them has to be good- looking!"

"Aren't Amelia and Emma in the Sirius Fan- club", Lily asked thoughtfully, a bit surprised of the many names....so many after one person...

Melissa shook her head", They changed today...really Lily you should have been at the meeting this morning...Gosh, every single girl was talking about James Potter"

Lily shrugged, faking tying her shoes... not looking up. Somehow she felt as if someone had thrown a tremendous rock on her, forcing her to hold it up...

For a minute a flash of hopelessness crossed over Melissa's face, as the girl with now lumped shoulders walked over to the bathroom, almost whispering;" I only hope that I have a chance... hope that I'm pretty enough though..."

Lily didn't answer, and Melissa didn't expect an answer, though both of them were in deep thoughts. With a SLAM the door to the bathroom closed, as Lily walked up to the six feet tall mirror and looked at the blank and smooth glass with the golden frame, with an odd expression on her face.

...do you have to be pretty to be liked...?

Her red hair hung loosely, cascading down her shoulders in many waves of red hair. The green eyes shone brightly, but with a hint of sadness.

Am I pretty...or beautiful?, Lily asked herself, sighing deep, as she concentrated on the lines of her face, her chin, mouth, and cheeks. Her eyelashes, eyebrows...her eyes.

What is beautiful?

Her features where hers...she simply was Lily Evans. If she was beautiful or not she couldn't say, though what is to define by the word beautiful...

is it the same as cute?... Am I cute?

She touched her lips, and brushed away her hair from her face, feeling the softness beneath her fingers. She wrinkled her nose, a few freckles were visible. She fluttered with her eyelashes and pouted out her mouth, pretending to be one of those (Lily hated to admit it...but...) pretty...Hufflepuff girls, like Amelia Fompali, Tina Penati and many others who giggled at everything, but failed.... she looked ridiculous.

She was more comfort being herself...and that was to be Lily Evans.

... I wish that I was beautiful..., she thought sadly...forgetting what a certain person had said in the library late at dawn, though a compliment can easily be forgotten when you self don't believe in it...

"LILY EVANS!", a voice yelled from the door, causing Lily to jump up and bring her hand over her much bumping heart, her thoughts coming back to reality..." I've looked everywhere for you!"

In front of her stood a five feet tall girl, with yet black, and straight hair, almost black and absolutely serious eyes behind long eyelashes decorated by round glasses looking straight at her, as the seventh year Head Girl with crossed arms looked at Lily with great authority.

"Hi Bella", Lily responded warmly, smiling.

Arabella Figg smiled back at the two year younger girl and walked up with her notebook tight pressed to her chest. She had her school uniform still on, though it gave more the impression that she was a Head Girl than with normal clothes, and was quite happy that Lily also wore it. How she loved the colour of grey.... but not more than her precious, absolutely fabulous pets....

"I have to borrow you Lily", Arabella said directly, not sparing any time to greet Lily or say any comment of the day." Important prefect meeting"

"Didn't we have it on Tuesday?", Lily asked questionable, her plans of relaxing by the fire in the common room since she didn't have any homework, vanishing...

Arabella shook her head, and raised her head even more as if she was about to say something with much respect" It's about the boy...you may know him...James Potter... and electing him as a prefect", she said simply, her gaze not wandering away dreamingly as many other girls when that name was said. Arabella was very serious. " Professor McGonagall wanted this to be discussed as soon as possible indeed"

Lily sighed, and turned to her almost empty bag, where she had a simple pencil and a small notebook." Okay"

"But chap, chap Lily!", Arabella frowned, when she saw the prefect suddenly pick up a comb from the floor, as if realising something, and began to brush her rather long red hair." We haven't got all day!"

"Coming", Lily said tightly.

"Where are you going?", a voice asked. It was Melissa, peering out from the bathroom with her head sticking out.

"Prefect meeting", Arabella Figg answered importantly, pointing out her nose.

"I'll be right back", Lily said quickly, as Arabella began to push her towards the door." I'll meet you down in the common room?"

"Okay", Melissa replied simply, glancing at Arabella, very much annoyed".... but I'll be perhaps with you- know- who...if I get the opportunity of course!"

But this Lily didn't hear, though Arabella had already closed the door to the girls dormitory, and was hurrying Lily down the stares, who just wanted to slap this girl on the face to make her calm down!



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"My head hurts", Lily mumbled, when walking down the corridor with only lighted torches guiding her way through the empty Hallways to the Gryffindor common room. The meeting had lasted about one hour, miraculous enough...

They had talked about James Potter, which many agreed to include as a prefect( expect for Serverus Snape and Lucius Malfoy and other Slytherins of course), and about keeping order in the common rooms, which Bill Weasley was eager to talk about... then they had been talking about something quite spectacular that was going to attend in Halloween in Hogwarts... the much talked upcoming ball...or let us say a masquerade ball...

Not that Lily didn't like balls... though she did! But the previous ball, the Yule Ball, she'd attended in her forth year had been a disaster, a totally unforgettable disaster!

She had spent that night in her bed, while her friends had been in the Great Hall, entertaining themselves when dancing, eating...Well having F.U.N! The true was that Lily hadn't had a dress... in some strange of way she'd packed her sister Petunia's dress with green and pink sickening ugly berets and yellow dots instead of her thin, sweet pink, strapless dress, which shimmered in the darkness.

How she'd loathed that night!

And her partner, well Tommy Karlsson, who'd asked her to be his partner, had been very disappointed and had even offered himself to stay with Lily, but luckily Daisy Pilcher, Lily's roommate, hadn't got a partner though hers had been sick at the last moment, as Lily also had proclaimed that she was ...or lied.., and Lily had insisted that those two should go to the dance together instead...

So... she 'd been stuck in her bed all night long, not being able to sleep though the sound from downstairs could be heard, as the music pounded in her head hour after hour...

Lily sighed... what a memory!

Just as she was about to round a corner she noticed a tall, dark shadow in front of her, not noticing that she was behind. The light from the torches weren't quite strong so that Lily could define the person, and she didn't want to make them brighter either. So she continued walking.

But suddenly a pair of hands stick out from nowhere and grabbed that person by the arm, dragging that poor surprised pupil into a classroom, as the door slammed close directly after.

Lily ran desperately to the now closed door, thinking that this must be a sick yoke and hoping that the person was all right.

She fought the urge to just open the door, or just stay outside... but while considering those thoughts a voice was suddenly heard, making Lily's ears peer out like a fox's.

"Jamsy!", a girl's voice drawled." I've been waiting for you"

...oh...it's James... and... ?, Lily thought, insisting herself to walk away... but her feet didn't move. Instead she bend forward... and looked through the enormous keyhole.

...Lily! What are you doing!? Walk away!!! Immediately!!

But Lily couldn't do such a thing... she was too curious to know what was going on...

"I told you that I would be late... You should see the work that Madam what's-her-name gave me... and Hagrid, though he was nicer", a voice that belonged to James mumbled.

"Let's not talk about that now James", the girl whispered desperately.

"What did you-"

But James didn't get the opportunity to finish his sentence though the girl had pressed her lips to his, developing his mouth.

The moon shone in the empty classroom with a few chairs, and showed the girl standing almost in the middle of the room, urgently pressing her body to James, who at first had his eyes opened of surprise...or something else.... but then closing them slowly, and griping the girl by the waist, tightly.

With opened mouth Lily kept staring, what was before her eyes, her head swirling around as if a tornado was stuck in her mind. At first Lily thought that James was going to push the girl away when he took her by the arms, but instead the girl raised her arms, and Lily could see James pushing her pink pullover up, revealing skin....

Lily closed her eyes... pressing her self up.

She couldn't force herself to move, and even worse look through the keyhole again, though it represented something ..... something.... she couldn't name it...

Her heart pounded hard against her chest, her green eyes were large and somehow....empty.....as they kept staring at the door which remained closed, beholding a private moment between two persons. And all that Lily felt at that second was loath for herself... for being so stupid... for being so naiv and THINK that... that... that....that...

....For thinking that this was a yoke, for thinking as a prefect...not as a girl at the age of fifteen...

"Lily!? ." What are you doing here!?", a voice bellowed of surprise, with a tone of rage, as the closed door infront of her opened, making Lily's heart take two leaps.

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For a moment Lily was in lack of words, closing and opening her mouth, as she gazed at a picture of Hogwart's new student, James Potter, glaring furiously at her, his eyes shooting thunders... but Lily could also, though the humiliating moment, catch a hint of embarrassment in James sparkly brown, and normally gently eyes.... though not now....

But as Lily gulped, flushing red, she thought that it should be her who should be embarrassed, as she continued staring at James Potter who took a tentative step forward, his hair even more tussled than normally, and the buttons in his white shirt opened to the middle...

Lily looked away, feeling even more embarrassed, her cheeks burning...

"I...I", she stammered, wishing silently that a huge flock of Hippogriffs would stamp across her and end up with her misery.... or at least let her escape from explaining anything..."...I was just walking by....I mean I, I was going to our common room", she continued, feeling herself shrink and become redder by every second"....I didn't mean to, I mean, I, I, I didn't hear anything"

Idiotic, idiotic Lily! Now he'll think that you DID know what was going on inside there!, she thought, as she gulped yet another time, and observing, in spite of the darkness, that James's face had turned into a slight shade of pink.

Neither one of them saying anything for a second, though for Lily it felt like an eternity as she gazed at James, and he at her.

"I, I have to go...", she continued stammering, backing away from James, whose face was lack of emotion for a second "...they, they are expecting me. Bye!", she said quickly, leaving the boy with raven black hair behind as she ran away as fast as she could, relieved that she got away so fast, and that James hadn't asked her any questions...

But as Lily ran through the empty corridors, her shoes creating small sounds of echoes, she regretted, though the awkward situation that she'd just went through and that she'd never in her life even wanted to experience, that she hadn't got the chance to see who that girl was...not that it did matter anyway...



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"Look, who comes here!", Sirius Black grinned, watching a certain red- headed entering the common room, which was illuminated by soft light from the warming fireplace, crunching from time to time and sweeping a drowsiness that went from eyes to eyes but remained mostly on the few pupils that tiredly worked with their homework...though Sirius and his gang weren't one of those..."Isn't it Lily The Flower?"

"Sod off Black!", Lily snapped angrily at Sirius who smirked delightfully at Remus, who grinned back. Since... Lily, well... had made that terrible accident yesterday, at lunch towards Sirius, the very charming boy( though not in Lily's point of view) had become even more worse than ever, harassing Lily that she liked him... like, like, like an eight year old boy!!!!

"Sweet Lily", Sirius pleaded with enormous puppy eyes, as his fellow admirers from the third year looked at him astonished"...Do not be so rude to poor old me".( "You just dare Lily!", a girl screamed, and ran with tears running along her cheeks, along the staircase that led to the girls dormitories.)

"Shut it", Lily hushed irritated, fighting the urge to smack that smug grin away from the boy's face." Can't you face the truth that people have more important things to do than spend their time with you!", she blurted out to the extremely popular and handsome boy in Hogwarts. But she didn't regret a word... not since she'd already made a fool about herself ten minutes ago...

"Looks that someone is in a bad mood today", Sirius snorted, feeling quite offended as he turned back to the a year younger girl by his side, who with absolutely admiration looked up at him.

Lily ran upwards the whirling staircase, through a small hall, until she reached her dorm which she shared with three other girls; Her best friend Melissa Faltingboard, Franceska Dawnhill- a funny, sometimes nice, and beautiful light footed girl with curly, black hair and a small, always red mouth, and Daisy Pilcher- a sweet and very shy girl, with long chestnut hair that reached to her waist, and grey eyes that shifted to blue when she laughed.

"By Merlin's bear Lily! How long have you been out in the sun today!?", Franceska Dawnhill asked bewildered, and stopped from putting more eye shadow on, as she saw Lily's face crimson red as a boiled crab.

"It's nothing", Lily mumbled silently, walking up to her bed with lumped shoulders. Putting her pillow over her face, laying down on the bed, feeling like... nothing...

After two minutes she looked up, kind of annoyed that Franceska hadn't asked her what was the matter with her... not that she would had said it to her anyway.... or perhaps to anyone, well except Melissa...

"Where are you going?", Lily mumbled, sitting up, the pillow tight pressed to her chest.

"Umm...",Franceska said absently, putting rouge on her cheeks with a patience that could have made anyone insane. After that she brushed her hair yet another time, so that the yet black hair shone brightly and glossy.

"Did I told you that I met a guy during the summer?", Franceska suddenly said instead of answering Lily's question, as she turned in front of the large golden framed mirror next to the small bathroom, inspecting every possible angle.

Lily shook her hair, sighing, as she pulled her grey pullover off, which was apart of the Hogwarts uniform. "You mean the nineteenth guy you met this the summer?"

"No, actually the twentieth, but anyway, he was so gorgeous.", Franceska continued, a dreamy look over he eyes.

"But you say that about all the guys you meet or get together with!", Lily said, grimacing ".you even implied that the Hufflepuff you dated last year- what's his name?- oh yes, Pontus Brown-had the most cutest pimples!"

"But this one was different"

"Is it him you are going to meet? And now?", Lily asked, putting her white night gown on.

"NO it's not him", Franceska implied, as if that was the most obvious thing"... it's another. Well, it's not planned...if you know what I mean"

"And who may that be?", Lily giggled between words, amused by how boy crazy Franceska was, and almost forgetting why she felt so like she did...but almost.

"James Potter", the pretty girl announced simply, painting her lips another time.

But Lily didn't take it that simply... her face went pale, how pale she didn't know, but pale enough, as she gripped her pillow tighter.

"Ja-James Potter", Lily stammered, remembering what she saw earlier, the embarrassment, his face..." You like him too?"

Franceska turned around, and for the first time this day, really observed Lily from head to toe, with a fiery of rivalry burning in her eyes." What? You too?"

"Oh no!", Lily burst out laughing, but instead it sounded like a cracked cough. She was indeed astonished that Franceska had even considered the thought that Lily liked James Potter, seen her like a rival! What a yoke!" I mean...I was...I mean..."

"Tell me!", Franceska demanded, her comb in a tight grip.

Lily swallowed. She didn't want to tell Franceska what she'd seen minutes earlier, she wasn't even sure what she'd seen! Did James already have a girlfriend, or was it just a...?

Lily shook her head, she didn't know anything. She couldn't say something that wasn't true... maybe that girl had been just a fling, nothing in particularly... but the steam in the classroom...it made even Lily's heart bump rapidly.

"Lily!", Franceska repeated, with more energy.

"I mean... just be careful", Lily replied carefully, finally loosing the tight grip on her pink pillow filled with feathers, and covering her sheets over herself, ready to daze away, even if it still was kind of early to go to sleep, and forget about this hole day." James Potter has barely began Hogwarts. No one knows how he really is."

Franceska smiled. Perhaps she was thankful for her friend's concern, or because Lily wasn't a rival after all... in difference from Melissa. The girl with the olive skin shot a last glance at the mirror, and smiled satisfied with what she saw.

"By the way", Franceska drawled thoughtless, as she leaped to the door." Melissa told me to say to you that she wouldn't be in the common room after all"

"And you say that now", Lily frowned.

"I forgot", Franceska implied innocently, opening the door.

"Did she told you where she would be?"

Franceska just waved away a hand and disappeared, closing the door loudly.

Lily snorted, resting her head on her pillow, and putting away her wand on the small night table beside her bed after turning off the light in the circle formed dormitory and drawing the curtains around her swan like bed. She didn't have any strength to worry, and why would she be worried? She'd enough thoughts in her mind already...

Lily sighed and yanked her eyes open, staring at the ceiling.... her eyes goggling at empty air... How could she sleep when her brain refused to obey her, instead gave her million other thoughts to think about?

How pathetic she felt!

The picture of James, kissing that girl... so passionately, but yet gently... how he had closed his eyes, how he had been holding her, his hands on her waist...so many pictures, so many thoughts...

How she wished she'd never seen them! Why couldn't she'd just walked away, instead of peering through that keyhole? Why hadn't she?

What's the matter with me!, Lily argued with herself, feeling warm and restless. I shouldn't be caring! I've seen people snogging before!... but not like that....

Lily closed her eyes, refusing to think about that anymore, forcing her head to knock it off. To let her sleep! To let it be morning, a new day... when everything would be forgotten.

"...but will it?...", she mumbled before dozing off into a restless sleep.

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Lily opened her eyes. The dormitory swam in darkness, preventing Lily from seeing clearly. Her gaze coming into focus after blinking a few times.

"Blimey", she muttered, sitting up with her feet dangling out from the bed." Just when I need to sleep I wake up".

She yawned tiredly, comforting herself that she could take the chance and go to the bathroom, though she didn't need it... but anyway...

Stretching out, she drew the curtains away. The moon shone clear, though it was now hidden by a puffy grey cloud, but then coming out with a great welcome. And that's when Lily saw it. The empty bed beside her.

Melissa hadn't come back.

The other two girls Daisy and Franceska, were sleeping deeply, both of them with white curtains, exactly like Lily's, covering their bed. But Melissa was no where in sight.

Lily, as she stood there, looking at the empty bed that belonged to her friend, felt an overwhelming worry... and strange enough... guilt... develop her hole being.

"...The common room...", she mumbled, as a reverse picture of herself repeating what she'd said to her friend before she went to the prefect meeting. Perhaps she was there after all! At least it was somewhere safe!

Without even realising what she was doing, Lily ran to the door, bare foot, even though she hated walking without shoes, and with her white night gown on, with worried wrinkles on her forehead. When opening the large familiar oak door, she was welcomed by a pitch black darkness, that surrounded her from every direction when she stepped outside.

But she didn't care, she ran in blindness... not even bringing her wand to guide her the way. How she really hoped that Melissa would be down there! How she wished! Her steps were small and fast as she ran down the whirling staircase, the white night gown following her in the air, and when seeing the large and empty common room where the fire already had been put out a long time ago, beneath her, she hissed; " Meli-"... and fell.

Lily felt how her foot had stumbled on the lowest step ladder, causing her to fumble forward on the empty air with nothing to grip on as the panic rose with the light speed... if it wasn't for that soft, but yet hard * thing * that caught her in the middle air... but also fell in the process....

That thing was a person, as the two of them fell hard on the ground with a load * THUD *. Lily had landed above the person, with her head on a chest, and legs spread all over the other person's legs, though Lily's were shorter.

Somehow this was an awkward position, but there was not time to think about that now, though the pain was even more overwhelming.... somehow Lily's left hand had landed beneath a head and it hurt extremely...

"Can you please move away", a voice coughed, not recognised to Lily"...You're choking me!"

Lily's hair was indeed all over the person's face... well and obviously mouth, but Lily couldn't care less...

"My hand hurts", she was able to say through gritted teeth", Move away your head!"

"I can't", the other person spat, through an ocean of red hair." As you see, you are still lying over me!"

"I can't either!", Lily hissed, her face twisted into a mask of pain", You're lying on a part of my night gown!"

"It's not my fault!", the person hissed in turn." I can't even see you!"

Lily raised her head, which almost was exploding of pain, feeling quite shaken, but managed to raise her right arm and take away her hair, which also was clouding her view. She opened her eyes, her face mere inches from the person's, her breath on the face underneath her that looked at her with the same surprised and yet painful eyes.

"You?", she whispered.

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