CenterBIt Just Is/B/Center
CenterUThe Meeting/U/Center
CenterIBy: Seeker4Life/I/Center
BA/N:/B Hi! Thanks if you reviewed. Here's the second chapter. It's not as long as the first very screwed up one, (I wasn't sure how everything worked), and hopefully I'll get SOME reviews. Enjoy!
BDisclaimer:/B No, it isn't mine. JK Rowling, the Ibrilliant/I woman that she is, owns it all! Well, but what you don't recognize.
BSummary:/B Well, you just read it, right?
The next morning, Lily woke up and stared around her bedroom, thoroughly aware that this may be the last time that she saw it. It was a bit frightening, really, with her not having any idea where she was going.
ILet's see. Sirius'll be here at nine, and it's ten now, so that's, eleven more hours with my/I family.
B"LILY!"/B Came a screech from three floors down, and was heard as loudly as if the person shouting had been right beside you.
Lily sighed. This was going to be a loooooong day.
~*~
The hours crept by more slowly than Lily would have thought imaginable, and at two o' clock, Samantha called her down once again.
"You are going to go shopping with Petunia. She is going to meet up with a few of her friends, and then you can do whatever you want. Keep your cell phone on and she'll call to tell you when she wants to leave. You are to act like a perfect young lady, and if I hear Bone word/B from Petunia or any of her little girlfriends, you won't step foot out of this house for a month!" She said in a dangerous tone.
Samantha's threats had never really fazed Lily, but she knew better than to provoke her horrible stepmother. At the moment, she was a tad bit more worried about how long she would be gone. Petunia's shopping trips had been known to go on for hours.
II have seven hours to get Petunia to finish her shopping and get back here. I just hope that Sirius will wait if I'm not back yet./I
~*~
"I I/I am going in here. IYou/I are going somewhere else. Are there any breakdowns in communication here, freakazoid?" Petunia had pulled Lily aside from her group of all fake and equally bitchy and rich friends to yell at her.
"Fine. Call when we leave. And, if at Iall/I possible, I don't want to be home until Iafter/I nine, alright?"
"I'll be ready to leave at eight thirty. Be there if you want a ride home." Petunia said smugly.
Lily smiled at her sisters retreating form. IReverse psychology always works. Well, while I'm here, I may as well buy some new clothes for school. Yay! I'm going to school! He, he, he./I
Lily walked into the next store in the huge mall, Marissa's, and looked around. The walls were painted black, and the ceiling had lots of black light fixtures that hung down, with the bulbs dimmed. Sparkles were visible on the paint. Several colored tube lights were on top of the racks and racks of clothes that were on every wall. In the back there was a counter with jewelry and a cash register, but no one was behind it.
Lily walked toward the nearest rack and started flipping through the clothes. There was a selection of some of her favorite styles, but they all seemed too big for her small frame.
"You may want to try that wall. This is for the middle juniors. You are, quite apparently, small." Said a quiet voice from behind Lily, startling her. She whipped around.
A girl that stood at about five foot five, with golden hair that reached around two inches above her elbows and stunning azure eyes met her.
"Uh. thanks." She said, still a small bit unsettled.
"I'm Maxine, but don't Iever/I call me that if you want to live. My friends, which I will consider you until I am convinced otherwise, call me Max. Max Compton."
"Hey Max, I'm Lily Evans, and my friends call me Lily. Tell me Max, do you generally come up to people in stores and introduce yourself?"
"Well, this is my aunt's store, and yes, I do. Now, how about I help you pick out some clothes that actually fit you?"
"Okay?" Lily found herself being dragged over to the opposite wall.
"Now, would you consider your style, with all do respect to these kinds of people, sweet and innocent, or more like, me?" Max questioned, gesturing to her clothes.
She was wearing a pair of tight, low riding jeans, and an equally tight blue spaghetti strap tank top.
"I don't know, I just buy what I like, I guess."
"Well then, let's just pick out what you like." Max turned back to the rack and pulled off a regular black shirt with three quarter length sleeves and a scooped neckline.
"You like? It would look great with a pair of red pants or skirt. Or even with a pair of black pants and gold accessories. Did anyone ever tell you you'd look Igreat/I with gold high lights?"
"Yes and no. I think the shirt would look good with that jean skirt over there, though." Lily said, gesturing to a short, dark denim skirt that had the appearance of being cut off.
"Oh, yeah, and black boots!"
~*~
For the next six hours and fifteen minutes, Lily had bought ten new outfits, complete with shoes and jewelry, gotten all new makeup and a Ilot/I of spa care items, and had her hair highlighted, mixing her crimson with a gold that gave off the impression that her hair sparkled. She had told Max her entire history, leaving out the magic, of course, and learned that Max lived with her aunt because her parents were divorced, and her dad was a CEO of a major company that caused him to travel all the time and her mom was a fashion designer. Her aunt sold Max's mom's line, Marissa, and got a pretty penny off of it, too.
"OhmyGod! I have to be in the parking lot in fifteen minutes!" Lily exclaimed, wondering how in the world she was going to make it with all her bags. She had three from Marissa's, two from Bath and Body Works, one from a jewelry store, and four from a shoe store, ten in all.
"Come on, I'll help you." Lily and Max grabbed all their bags, stashed Max's in Marissa's and flew to the front parking lot. They arrived as Petunia was just getting to the limo.
"Did you buy the entire mall?" Petunia asked rudely, and climbed into the back.
The chauffer took the bags to the back to be loaded into the trunk, and Lily turned to Max.
"This is going to sound so corny," she said to the girl, "But I had Iso/I much fun today."
Max laughed. "Yeah, that was corny, but I had fun too. We'll see each other again some day, Evans."
"See you, Compton." Lily climbed into the limo and sat opposite of Petunia, putting on her headphones and listening to music to drown out her sister's voice.
~*~
Lily arrived at her front door with ten minutes till nine o' clock.
"Rodney, follow me with those, okay?" She addressed the large man carrying her bags.
She made her way through the door and across the foyer, yelling that she was tired and going to bed. She dragged Rodney into the elevator, ran to her room, grabbed the bags, and slammed the door. She opened up one of the bags and grabbed a red tank top, jeans, and a denim jacket, threw them on the bed, and threw the rest of the clothing into her trunk, then pulled the trunk out of the closet. She quickly grabbed a pair of high brown sandals that added three inches to her short stature, threw the rest in the trunk, and grabbed a gold chain and gold hoop earrings, throwing the rest of the new jewelry with the shoes and clothes, along with the things she had packed earlier. She hurriedly shed her current outfit and pulled on the new one, then sprayed herself with some of the new body spray she had picked up, and added a coat of pink lip-gloss. She would have added more makeup but she didn't have time. She threw the rest of the bags, her CD's and Discman, and her journal into the trunk and slammed the lid, pocketing her money and a picture she and Max had had taken that day. Then she turned around.
Lily barely held back a shriek of surprise. Her cousin was floating in mid air, right outside her window! She ran over and opened it.
"Stand back, Lils!" Sirius said cheerfully. She jumped out of the way and Sirius and another boy flew through the window on brooms.
"Sirius, when you said you liked Quidditch, I didn't think you were going to fly to my house!"
"She knows what Quidditch is?" A deep voice asked curiously.
Lily looked over at Sirius's friend. Her heart started to race as soon as her eyes caught sight of the handsome boy in front of her. Easily reaching six feet, probably a couple of inches over, with a muscular body, messy black hair, and eyes hidden behind glasses. He was wearing a pair of baggy jeans, and a tight white t-shirt under a black leather jacket, he looked incredibly out of place in her girly room. Still, he was easily the hottest male she had ever seen in her life.
"Yes, Prongs, she knows what Quidditch is. Lily, this is Prongs." Sirius said.
Lily arched an eyebrow at Sirius, and then looked back at the boy, or 'Prongs' as her cousin had introduced him as.
"Hi, I'm Lily, and you are.?"
"James. James Potter. Nice to meet you Lily Evans." He said with a grin that made her melt.
"You too." She said with a smirk. Her knowledge of guys went as far as the high society bred country club snobs her father allowed her to date. Every single one of them wanted her, and she'd always been able to get to them.
"Well, let's get going then." Sirius said, and then opened his mouth to speak again.
"Hey, Padfoot, hold up. Lily, can I put in my contacts before we leave? Flying from England to Puerto Rico with my glasses on is a bitch. I don't even know why your cousin wouldn't give me two seconds to put them in before we left." He said, throwing Sirius a dirty look.
"It's over there."
"Thanks."
"So, how've you been?" Sirius inquired. "And who did your decorating?"
"I've been good, and Samantha did all this." She gestured to the all around pink-ness of the room.
"This is weird. It's the first time I've ever seen you in person. How about a hug, cuz?" Sirius asked.
Lily grinned and let her cousin give her a big bear hug.
"I never realized how big you were!" She exclaimed. It was true. He was above six feet, just like James.
Speaking of, he'd just walked back into the room.
"Okay, down to business." Sirius stated. "Lily, what do you value more, you or your stuff?"
"Me." Lily said, a bit confused.
"Then I'll take your crap and James'll take you." He said seriously.
"Right. Lily, come 'ere." James directed Lily onto the broom in front of him, and Sirius bewitched her trunk to be small enough to fit in his pocket.
"Here we go!" Her cousin yelled as they soared out the window.
~*~
A few hours later, when it felt like they had been flying forever, they began descending from the clouds. A castle was just visible on top of a high hill. Or was that a mountain?
"Welcome to Hogwarts, Lily Evans." James whispered in her ear.
~*~
IOkay, there it was! Chapter 2! Sorry about all the mistakes in chapter one, I was just getting the hang of all that posting stuff. N E way, I was really busy this week, so I couldn't update earlier, but as soon as I get 8 reviews (I have 3 now, so I want 5 more) I'll post again. So come on, people, what are you waiting for?/I BREVIEW!!!!!/B
BA/N:/B Hi! Thanks if you reviewed. Here's the second chapter. It's not as long as the first very screwed up one, (I wasn't sure how everything worked), and hopefully I'll get SOME reviews. Enjoy!
BDisclaimer:/B No, it isn't mine. JK Rowling, the Ibrilliant/I woman that she is, owns it all! Well, but what you don't recognize.
BSummary:/B Well, you just read it, right?
The next morning, Lily woke up and stared around her bedroom, thoroughly aware that this may be the last time that she saw it. It was a bit frightening, really, with her not having any idea where she was going.
ILet's see. Sirius'll be here at nine, and it's ten now, so that's, eleven more hours with my/I family.
B"LILY!"/B Came a screech from three floors down, and was heard as loudly as if the person shouting had been right beside you.
Lily sighed. This was going to be a loooooong day.
~*~
The hours crept by more slowly than Lily would have thought imaginable, and at two o' clock, Samantha called her down once again.
"You are going to go shopping with Petunia. She is going to meet up with a few of her friends, and then you can do whatever you want. Keep your cell phone on and she'll call to tell you when she wants to leave. You are to act like a perfect young lady, and if I hear Bone word/B from Petunia or any of her little girlfriends, you won't step foot out of this house for a month!" She said in a dangerous tone.
Samantha's threats had never really fazed Lily, but she knew better than to provoke her horrible stepmother. At the moment, she was a tad bit more worried about how long she would be gone. Petunia's shopping trips had been known to go on for hours.
II have seven hours to get Petunia to finish her shopping and get back here. I just hope that Sirius will wait if I'm not back yet./I
~*~
"I I/I am going in here. IYou/I are going somewhere else. Are there any breakdowns in communication here, freakazoid?" Petunia had pulled Lily aside from her group of all fake and equally bitchy and rich friends to yell at her.
"Fine. Call when we leave. And, if at Iall/I possible, I don't want to be home until Iafter/I nine, alright?"
"I'll be ready to leave at eight thirty. Be there if you want a ride home." Petunia said smugly.
Lily smiled at her sisters retreating form. IReverse psychology always works. Well, while I'm here, I may as well buy some new clothes for school. Yay! I'm going to school! He, he, he./I
Lily walked into the next store in the huge mall, Marissa's, and looked around. The walls were painted black, and the ceiling had lots of black light fixtures that hung down, with the bulbs dimmed. Sparkles were visible on the paint. Several colored tube lights were on top of the racks and racks of clothes that were on every wall. In the back there was a counter with jewelry and a cash register, but no one was behind it.
Lily walked toward the nearest rack and started flipping through the clothes. There was a selection of some of her favorite styles, but they all seemed too big for her small frame.
"You may want to try that wall. This is for the middle juniors. You are, quite apparently, small." Said a quiet voice from behind Lily, startling her. She whipped around.
A girl that stood at about five foot five, with golden hair that reached around two inches above her elbows and stunning azure eyes met her.
"Uh. thanks." She said, still a small bit unsettled.
"I'm Maxine, but don't Iever/I call me that if you want to live. My friends, which I will consider you until I am convinced otherwise, call me Max. Max Compton."
"Hey Max, I'm Lily Evans, and my friends call me Lily. Tell me Max, do you generally come up to people in stores and introduce yourself?"
"Well, this is my aunt's store, and yes, I do. Now, how about I help you pick out some clothes that actually fit you?"
"Okay?" Lily found herself being dragged over to the opposite wall.
"Now, would you consider your style, with all do respect to these kinds of people, sweet and innocent, or more like, me?" Max questioned, gesturing to her clothes.
She was wearing a pair of tight, low riding jeans, and an equally tight blue spaghetti strap tank top.
"I don't know, I just buy what I like, I guess."
"Well then, let's just pick out what you like." Max turned back to the rack and pulled off a regular black shirt with three quarter length sleeves and a scooped neckline.
"You like? It would look great with a pair of red pants or skirt. Or even with a pair of black pants and gold accessories. Did anyone ever tell you you'd look Igreat/I with gold high lights?"
"Yes and no. I think the shirt would look good with that jean skirt over there, though." Lily said, gesturing to a short, dark denim skirt that had the appearance of being cut off.
"Oh, yeah, and black boots!"
~*~
For the next six hours and fifteen minutes, Lily had bought ten new outfits, complete with shoes and jewelry, gotten all new makeup and a Ilot/I of spa care items, and had her hair highlighted, mixing her crimson with a gold that gave off the impression that her hair sparkled. She had told Max her entire history, leaving out the magic, of course, and learned that Max lived with her aunt because her parents were divorced, and her dad was a CEO of a major company that caused him to travel all the time and her mom was a fashion designer. Her aunt sold Max's mom's line, Marissa, and got a pretty penny off of it, too.
"OhmyGod! I have to be in the parking lot in fifteen minutes!" Lily exclaimed, wondering how in the world she was going to make it with all her bags. She had three from Marissa's, two from Bath and Body Works, one from a jewelry store, and four from a shoe store, ten in all.
"Come on, I'll help you." Lily and Max grabbed all their bags, stashed Max's in Marissa's and flew to the front parking lot. They arrived as Petunia was just getting to the limo.
"Did you buy the entire mall?" Petunia asked rudely, and climbed into the back.
The chauffer took the bags to the back to be loaded into the trunk, and Lily turned to Max.
"This is going to sound so corny," she said to the girl, "But I had Iso/I much fun today."
Max laughed. "Yeah, that was corny, but I had fun too. We'll see each other again some day, Evans."
"See you, Compton." Lily climbed into the limo and sat opposite of Petunia, putting on her headphones and listening to music to drown out her sister's voice.
~*~
Lily arrived at her front door with ten minutes till nine o' clock.
"Rodney, follow me with those, okay?" She addressed the large man carrying her bags.
She made her way through the door and across the foyer, yelling that she was tired and going to bed. She dragged Rodney into the elevator, ran to her room, grabbed the bags, and slammed the door. She opened up one of the bags and grabbed a red tank top, jeans, and a denim jacket, threw them on the bed, and threw the rest of the clothing into her trunk, then pulled the trunk out of the closet. She quickly grabbed a pair of high brown sandals that added three inches to her short stature, threw the rest in the trunk, and grabbed a gold chain and gold hoop earrings, throwing the rest of the new jewelry with the shoes and clothes, along with the things she had packed earlier. She hurriedly shed her current outfit and pulled on the new one, then sprayed herself with some of the new body spray she had picked up, and added a coat of pink lip-gloss. She would have added more makeup but she didn't have time. She threw the rest of the bags, her CD's and Discman, and her journal into the trunk and slammed the lid, pocketing her money and a picture she and Max had had taken that day. Then she turned around.
Lily barely held back a shriek of surprise. Her cousin was floating in mid air, right outside her window! She ran over and opened it.
"Stand back, Lils!" Sirius said cheerfully. She jumped out of the way and Sirius and another boy flew through the window on brooms.
"Sirius, when you said you liked Quidditch, I didn't think you were going to fly to my house!"
"She knows what Quidditch is?" A deep voice asked curiously.
Lily looked over at Sirius's friend. Her heart started to race as soon as her eyes caught sight of the handsome boy in front of her. Easily reaching six feet, probably a couple of inches over, with a muscular body, messy black hair, and eyes hidden behind glasses. He was wearing a pair of baggy jeans, and a tight white t-shirt under a black leather jacket, he looked incredibly out of place in her girly room. Still, he was easily the hottest male she had ever seen in her life.
"Yes, Prongs, she knows what Quidditch is. Lily, this is Prongs." Sirius said.
Lily arched an eyebrow at Sirius, and then looked back at the boy, or 'Prongs' as her cousin had introduced him as.
"Hi, I'm Lily, and you are.?"
"James. James Potter. Nice to meet you Lily Evans." He said with a grin that made her melt.
"You too." She said with a smirk. Her knowledge of guys went as far as the high society bred country club snobs her father allowed her to date. Every single one of them wanted her, and she'd always been able to get to them.
"Well, let's get going then." Sirius said, and then opened his mouth to speak again.
"Hey, Padfoot, hold up. Lily, can I put in my contacts before we leave? Flying from England to Puerto Rico with my glasses on is a bitch. I don't even know why your cousin wouldn't give me two seconds to put them in before we left." He said, throwing Sirius a dirty look.
"It's over there."
"Thanks."
"So, how've you been?" Sirius inquired. "And who did your decorating?"
"I've been good, and Samantha did all this." She gestured to the all around pink-ness of the room.
"This is weird. It's the first time I've ever seen you in person. How about a hug, cuz?" Sirius asked.
Lily grinned and let her cousin give her a big bear hug.
"I never realized how big you were!" She exclaimed. It was true. He was above six feet, just like James.
Speaking of, he'd just walked back into the room.
"Okay, down to business." Sirius stated. "Lily, what do you value more, you or your stuff?"
"Me." Lily said, a bit confused.
"Then I'll take your crap and James'll take you." He said seriously.
"Right. Lily, come 'ere." James directed Lily onto the broom in front of him, and Sirius bewitched her trunk to be small enough to fit in his pocket.
"Here we go!" Her cousin yelled as they soared out the window.
~*~
A few hours later, when it felt like they had been flying forever, they began descending from the clouds. A castle was just visible on top of a high hill. Or was that a mountain?
"Welcome to Hogwarts, Lily Evans." James whispered in her ear.
~*~
IOkay, there it was! Chapter 2! Sorry about all the mistakes in chapter one, I was just getting the hang of all that posting stuff. N E way, I was really busy this week, so I couldn't update earlier, but as soon as I get 8 reviews (I have 3 now, so I want 5 more) I'll post again. So come on, people, what are you waiting for?/I BREVIEW!!!!!/B