Whipped Cream

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Chapter Four: When Objects Collide

Looking into her sister's red eyes, Lily's heart skipped a beat. She took a step back, her eyes widening in surprise and fear.

"I know." The strange voice said from her sister. "I know your secret and because of it you'll be mine!" Cassie closed her eyes and opened them. They were blue.

"Lily?" she said weakly. "I don't feel-" she couldn't continued. With a burst of speed she ran to the bathroom. Lily could only look at her sister in shock.

It was second later when she heard her sister groan that her senses came back. She walked quickly to where her sister was besides the toilet and helped her get up.

One question repeated itself on her mind. What had just happened?

***

It was August 31. Cassie's sleepover/birthday party. Her real birthday was September 3rd, but she wanted to celebrate it with Lily in the house. Lily was currently wrapping her sister's present when Michael came storming into her room.

"You forgot didn't you?" Lily said as soon as she saw who it was.

"Actually, no." He said. Lily looked up in surprise. It was common to see Michael forget someone's present, and very rare to see it when he didn't.

"I don't have wrapping paper and since you have enough to make a shop ("hey") I was wondering if you'd lend me some."

Lily rolled her eyes and nodded. She opened a cabinet that was enchanted to expand to any size and took out several rolls of wrapping paper. Each one different and varying in designs from Christmas to Valentine's to Birthday's.

"Take your pick."

He chose a pink one with little clouds, each one with a different castle on top. It was a magical wrapping paper and every once in a while a princess, prince or knight would come out and wave. Sometimes they interacted with each other and started to talk.

"What did you get her?" she asked.

He only smiled at her and left the room.

Lily just shrugged and continued wrapping her gift.

It was a very nice gift, and she was sure Cassie would like it. It was related to Cassie's newest obsession - Fairy Tales, that is. So Lily had ordered a one foot tall princess doll* that could be personalized to look however you wanted. It came with three custom made dresses, and three others that you could personalize. Everything was magical, so it would be easy to choose any design. The doll also talked to you and helped you do things. Lily had ordered it two months ago and it had thankfully arrived just in time.

Adding the final touch to the wrapping - the bow- Lily smiled at the final product.

Perfect! She placed it in her wrapping paper cabinet, and locked it magically.

With that done she went outside to try and peek her brother's present for Cassie.

***

It was now 4 o'clock and the Evans family was preparing for the gift giving. Every birthday, before the party started, the family got together and gave the gifts to the birthday person. They were sitting in the table their gift in their hands. Cassie's face was alight with glee. It was her 8th birthday, only two more fingers and she would complete the second hand.

First was Petunia, she handed Cassie a small box. When Cassie opened it inside lay a princess watch. Cassie smiled hugely; she had wanted that watch since she first saw it on TV. When they were able to calm her down Mr. Evans gave his present. It was a Cinderella backpack with Cinderella notebooks. Everything needed for school was given to her with the Cinderella theme. (Which was of course her favourite fairy tale). Mrs. Evans came next. She gave her clothes with Snow White imprints, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid etc…

Michael was next, he gave her a castle. But not just any castle it was made by him. It was about half the size of Cassie. He had painted it and made it with the help of one of his friends. She stared at the present in disbelief. Michael was not the type of person who spent a lot of time in presents. Except maybe for Lily and their parents, but that was because Lily was his twin and their parents were, well, their parents.

She looked then at Lily's present. It was about the size of her thumb. She took the little box and took off the wrapping paper. In Lily's neat handwriting it said press the button. WARNING... Leave some space.

She placed it in top of the table and pressed the button. The box, as if by magic (and it was), started to grow. It grew and grew and grew until it was a foot long. She opened it and inside was the doll. Her eyes grew wide. She started to pick it up when the doll sat up.

"Careful with the dress." Everyone in the table (minus Lily) gasped at the sight of a talking doll.

The doll walked towards Cassie and extended a hand.

"Hi. I'm The Princess Doll." Numbly Cassie took the doll's little hand and shook it.

Lily looked at Cassie and said, "You can re-program the doll. Change its hair colour, its eye colour everything. Even its personality. But you can only do it once. So you have to be sure about how you want her to be. Inside the box there are 6 dresses. Three will change automatically depending on the personality and style you choose for the doll and the other three will be changeable. You can change them all the time." Cassie stood from her chair and went to hug Lily.

"Thank you." She whispered. Lily smiled happily.

***

Cassie sleepover had started. That gave Lily free time to check over her homework and trunk for any missing thing. She checked her homework, every book, every detail, as quickly as possible. Finally she placed her newly acquired prefect's badge on top of her closed trunk, and turned on the TV.

Just when she found the right movie, she heard the girls scream. Rolling her eyes at the thought of them she reluctantly got up to se what they were up to, taking her wand just in case.

When she opened the door to her sister's room she found them running around the room like trapped mice, giggling and screaming. They noticed her presence in the room and froze. Then as if by an invisible signal they hid.

Under the bed. In the closet. Inside a trunk. Under the desk. Behind the door.

Lily just sighed and told them to keep it down. She then left the room closing the door behind her. Kids.

Instead of heading to her room her feet took her to the living room where she found Michael deep in talk with a girl. Michael had a girlfriend?

Lily smiled evilly at the new discovery and performed a temporary invisibility charm on herself. She sat next to the door and started to eavesdrop.

"-you think we should start the project when?" he was saying.

"I don't know." The girl said smiling. "Do you think they've hooked up during the summer?"

"Nah." He said. "He would've told me. You know Chris can't keep something like that a secret for long."

Lily tuned out for while thinking her brother couldn't be more boring. Boring and dumb. Couldn't he tell the girl liked him? She was blushing as she talked!

Gathering up her courage she silently stood up. She walked to where they were and stopped. Taking a deep breath she took each of their heads and pushed them together. Instead of their mouths connecting - as she had intended- their foreheads did.

"Ouch." The girl said holding her head. "What was that?" But Michael wasn't paying attention to her.

"Lily?!" he said furiously.

"Lily? Michael are you okay?" she said confused. He looked at her and nodded.

"You have to go. I'll call you later. There's something I have to do that I forgot. Let's just hope that my dear sister can run."

The girl looked at him oddly but walked to the door nonetheless. She opened the door and stared at him. He was searching around the room like a blind man. The girl turned around and left. Lily took that opportunity to sneak out the door and run out, just seconds before Michael slammed the door.

Lily ran away towards the corner of the street. Panting and huffing Lily leaned on the fence of a house. Then it started to rain.

Sighing at her bad luck she started walking back to her house. She got there quickly and immediately spotted Michael sitting near his window. He looked furious, pacing back and forth.

Lily walked inside and directly to her room. Her clothes were soaking wet, she would have to dry her hair, and face Michael's wrath. But that didn't matter because the look on his face when she pushed those two together was priceless.

***

Saturday, September 1st 9:46 am

Lily Evans was fast asleep. The night before she had to pack all of her belongings back into her trunk. She had to because her brother in a childish act threw all its contents around the room. She admitted her acts were also childish, but who could resist? They were practically begging to be pushed together.

So her trunk was repacked and her clothes for the day lay on her desk where she had put them the night before.

She was deeply in slumber in a dreamless sleep when she was disturbed. A beautiful black owl came through her open window and landed on the cage in the corner. It stood there perched majestically for a few seconds but then it started hooting loudly.

The owl seeing its owner still sleeping flew towards her and started pecking her.

Lily mumbled some thing about 'burning her parchment if she wasn't left alone,' but woke up.

Groggily she looked around and saw her owl – Shadow – looking curiously at her. She stood up and filled the plate with owl treats. Sitting back in her bed she looked at her watch. Her eyes widening in shock she quickly stood up and headed to the shower. She was going to be late! Taking a quick shower and getting dressed took no time at all; after all she had to do that a lot in school, so she wouldn't be late.

Arriving to the kitchen though, that was another story.

Her father wasn't there. He had gone to work two hours before. And her mother wasn't there either. She now remembered that yesterday she had mentioned something about taking Cassie to the eye doctor.

Michael was still sleeping, he wouldn't wake till it was about 12, and Petunia was at Vernon's as the note on the fridge said.

Panicking she looked around the room, she would be late! She wouldn't make it! How was she going to get to Hogwarts?

Then as if in answer to her question Shadow flew to the kitchen.

Of course! Shadow. She took some paper from the refrigerator's door and started writing a note to Professor McGonagall explaining her problem.

Finishing the note she gave it to Shadow and saw him fly into the sky. What was she supposed to do now? It was already 10:30…

***

Lily couldn't wait until she could apparate. It was the most exciting experience, and way better than floo powder. It always left her covered in soot afterwards. Apparating was different though, and the added excitement of being splinched made it all the more fun. At 11:15 a carrier wizard had arrived to her home. It was common for some students to miss the train, or for those who weren't able to arrive to the train on time, that someone was assigned to take them there. Fourth year down were taken to Hogsmade with floo, but from 5th year up, double apparating was permitted. Double apparating as the wizard has told her was only permitted to specially trained wizards and no one else could try it. Not because they weren't allowed, but because it was physically impossible. The concentration needed by the carrier had to be such that any mistake by that person would result in something worse than splinching in some cases. The two people might even be fused.

The passenger however didn't have to concentrate as much; they only needed to stay focused on the person doing the double apparition.

She was taken from the Hogsmade apparition spot to Hogwarts straight away. The carrier, who was coincidentally also called Michael, took her to Gryffindor Tower. He had been a Gryffindor in his Hogwarts days.

After changing from her muggle clothes to normal robes, she decided to go to the common room to read for a while. However when she got there she saw she wasn't exactly alone.

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A/N: There you go! Chapter four! Aren't you just proud of me? I think this one was pretty long, in my opinion anyway. Chapter five is half-written so it will be posted sooner-I hope. :)

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JK Rowling, otherwise I wouldn't be writing a disclaimer, right?

Sierra Sitruc: Thanks for reviewing! And yes that was a time change, rather abrupt though wasn't it? Anyway, the first two chapters were an introduction of some sort. The real story takes place from 5th year- until I don't know when.. LoL

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