Whipped Cream

Chapter Three: Trying to Understand

The lithe redhead sneezed loudly, earning a glare from the librarian in the wizard library she was in. Apparently it hadn't been a good idea to slam the book shut, no matter how frustrated she was. Sniffing she took the books to their shelves and left that horrid place. She was never one to enjoy libraries very much, and after that terrible experience with the Hogwarts Librarian, she developed a dislike for such places.

Lily looked at her watch and decided it was already time to go home. She had recently developed an ability durning the summer and was trying desperately to find some clues to what it was. Unfortunately she was nowhere near, and her fantastic friends were no help at all.

Everything that was broken seemed to mend and fix themselves when it came in contact with her. The last time it had happened, 3 days earlier, was the most memorable one yet.

That particular morning Petunia, her older sister, was wearing new jeans with rips on them giving her a look that in her own words 'made her look sexy.'

Lily had laughed while their mother said with a frown, "Isn't it a bit too revealing, dear?"

Petunia smiled and sat down next to Lily. She whispered in her ear 'That's the purpose.'

To her mother she said, "Mom, this is very stylish. And expensive." She added thoughtfully.

"Wouldn't it be better if you bought normal jeans and ripped them yourself?" 7-year-old Cassie said after looking at her sister.

"She does have a point." Lily said smiling. Touching the jeans she continued, "Didn't you add some yourself. It does seem like too many."

Before Petunia could answer, Lily jumped from her chair. 'oops.' She whispered.

Petunia looked down and saw that her precious ripped jeans were normal. No rips.

"It's the third time this week!" getting up from her chair she left the room.

Taking Petunia's dirty dishes, Mrs. Evans said thoughtfully, "Maybe that'll teach her no to buy stuff like that."

Laughing the other two redheads agreed.

So much for revealing, Lily thought as she jumped a few puddles that had formed before her house. Opening the door she found the house deadly quiet compared to the usual noise. Frowning she stepped into the kitchen, only to find her twin brother sitting on the floor a bowl of cereal balanced perfectly on his head.

Smiling evily, she prepared to pounce and make the bowl turn over when he said quite calmly, "You'll clean the mess if you make it fall."

Frustrated she said, "How do you always know!"

Michael smiled and took the bowl off his head. "I dunno, I just do. Besides you make so much noise you make a pack of elephants sound quiet."

Glaring at him half-heartedly she searched for something to eat.

"There's nothing?" she asked dismayed. He just nodded and continued eating his now soggy cereal.

"How come?"

He looked at her oddly, "What do you mean 'How come'? Come on, you're not that dull are you?"

"Oh shut up." The redhead muttered glaring at the boy who seemed unaware.

She left the kitchen and headed to her room when she heard someone enter her house.

"Mom?" she asked loudly.

"Nope, just me." Answered the voice of her sister, Petunia.

"Did you pick up Cassie?" Lily yelled just about to close her bedroom door.

"Cassie?" came her sister's bewlidered voice.

Lily sighed and yelled. "Our sister Cassie. You know the little one. You were supposed to pick her up from her friend's house."

"Ooohh."

Lily waited for the front door bells to sound, meaning that Patunia was leaving, but the sound never came. Frustrated Lily counted to ten and went back down the stairs. Petunia was impossible. Sometimes it took all the self-control she had not to turn Petunia into a stick. Not that there'd been much of a difference anyway.

When she arrived to the Living Room she found her watching TV, her feet propped on their mother's precious coffee table, a phone of her hand.

Lily was about to explode when someone grabbed her from behind and pulled her out of the room.

"Lily, don't." It was Michael. "If you want I'll look for Cassie."

"But that's not the point. She's the one who's supposed to pick her up." Lily said furiously pointing at her sister. "She's not a queen. She doens't deserve any special treatment! She's-"

"-crazy." Michael finished.

"Exactly!" Lily blinked then stepped back. "..What?"

"Well.." he said uncomfortably. "Come I'll tell you on the way."

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It was dark, and Lily could still not digest the earlier news. At first it had seemed absurd that Michael should say Petunia was crazy. Crazy in the sense of insane. In the sense of ... madness.

As he had said on the way to pick up Cassie, "Petunia, it seems, has something wierd going on. She's crazy. She behaves oddly, don't you see? Sometimes she ignores you. Other times she treats you like some sort of freak. And other times like you were best friends. But Cassie is the wierdest of all. You see she sometimes doesn't even remember who Cassie is. Mum and dad think she's just kidding around, because she wants to be an actress. But you can tell she doesn't really know."

Lily had no idea what to say about the subject to she just stared at him. The queerest thing was, it all made sense.

It all made sense because Lily had noticed it before, but had dissmissed it was something her sister was doing on purpose.

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"What are you doing?" a startled Michael asked his blindfolded twin sister.

She merley looked to the direction she assumed he was and shrugged.

"I'm just doing homework."

"Er.. in a blind-fold?"

"It's a charm, to make people blind."

"..why the blind-fold then?" he asked confused.

"Do you want to see my eyes completely white?"

She took the silence as a no, and continued staring into space.

Lily felt him sit down next to her and frowned.

"What are you still doing here?"

"Lily, honey, what's going on." Her mother's voice answered instead.

"Oh! Mum!" She took out her wand and said the reverse incantation, regaining her sight, and removed the blind-fold.

"You're here!"

Mrs. Evans looked at her oddly, "Yes I'm here. Why shouldn't I be? Dinner is ready. Go get Cassie upstairs."

Lily nodded and stood up. She started folding the blindfold as she walked to her sister's room. When she got to Cassie's room she found her painting with black and red paint.

"What are you painting Cassie?" Lily asked kneeling next to her.

Cassie looked at her sister and said, "Evil."

Lily cleared her throat and repeated, "Evil?"

"Yes."

Lily stood up and started to tell her that dinner was ready when Cassie looked at her and spoke in a voice unlike her own. "I know." Her gentle blue eyes now gleaming a deep red.

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A/N: Long time since I uploaded.. sorry.. The next part will be up sooner... If you didn't get it the story is now set in her Fifth Year.. the first two chapters were set in First for a reason.. REVIEW!!

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JK, I own the plot...

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