Heeeee! Second chapter already. Aren't ya'll special. LoL.
This chapter is kind of funny in a way. It really shows what Lily will be like in the story. I mean, she won't be like the Lily in 'Snapshots' my other fanfiction. She'll actually be able to refuse James Potter.
Anyway. Here's the chapter.
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Diagon Alley - The Wizarding World
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I could feel James's eyes follow me. He was like a lost puppy, trying to find his rightful owner. I frowned. Why was I always so hard on him? Shaking the thought out of my head, I walked up to the closest, and unoccupied, counter.
"Key?" The goblin asked me.
"Yes." I answered, pulling a tiny golden key out of my pocket. "Number 371."
"Brigknot." The goblin said. "Vault 371. Ms. Evans."
I followed the goblin called Brigknot. He took my key from the goblin that had waited on me. He took me through a door that led off of the lobby hall. Here, the floor wasn't marble, it was stone. The passage way was narrow, and lit by flame torches. Chills went up my spine. I had always hated walking down this hall. As we walked down a sloping part of the passage, to small scale sized railroad track.
The goblin held the door open for me, and soon, we were speeding down the tracks, and deep under London.
Soon, I emerged in the sunlight, my pockets heavier then they had been moments before. The sun shone on my face, the warmth giving me the chills.
I looked around for a familiar face or two. To my demise, James Potter, and Sirius Black stood twenty feet away.
I tried to hide my face with my hands, as I walked past. I don't know which had the x-ray vision, but soon I was engulfed in a big bear hug from Sirius.
"Lily! My Lily!" Sirius greeted, pulling back, his hands on my shoulders. "You look so grown up!" he sniffed. He hugged me again, this time loosely, so I could break free.
"Sirius, get off of me." I hissed, not at all liking it.
"Aww. Lily, dearest, what's wrong?" He asked me.
"Bye." I murmured, walking quickly away from him and James.
"Evans!" Sirius yelled after me.
I walked towards the robe shop, ignoring Sirius all the way. I could feel my curls bounce slightly on my shoulders, as I walked rudely away. I scanned the busy alley, looking from everyone to anyone for any sign of my friends.
"Oh my word!" an old woman chorused. "Look Henry! Its James!"
I felt myself scowl as the lady said 'James'. I didn't know why I hated him so much, but, yeah. He was the type of guy you didn't want in your life. Sure, he was good for a laugh or two, but after a while, he started ebbing at your nerves, and getting under your skin. You just started to hate him for being him.
"Hullo, Mrs. Martin." I heard James say. "How are you?"
"Fine," Mrs. Martin answered him, "how are you dear?"
"Just fine." James answered. "I have to finish getting my school stuff." James said, hugging Mrs. Martin. "Say hello to Bryon, Tanner, [I]and[/I] Michelle for me."
"I will!" she chorused again, hugging James back, and landing a kiss on his cheek. "Michelle will be in her first year now!
"I'll see her around then. Bye, Mrs. Martin!"
"Take care now, you hear!"
James jogged silently up next to me. "Hey." He greeted me.
I just rolled my eyes and kept walking. I kept my gaze lowered, watching my feet step on the different cobblestones with each step I took.
"Too good to say hello?" He asked me.
"Yes." I said, turning my face towards him. "Don't you get it yet?" I asked him.
"Huh?"
"I don't want you near me. It's bad enough I have to deal with you for ten more months of my life, but really. Must you torment me a day early?"
"Look, Lily---"
"James, I don't wanna hear it. I just want you to leave me alone." I looked at him one more time, hoping that I could make him have [I]some[/I] sense.
James stopped, and fell back five steps, as I kept walking on. In a way, I felt bad for being so harsh.. Then again, he was James. The James that never left me alone.
"Lily!" A voice called to me.
"Sarah?" I questioned, turning my head. I saw my friend Sarah running towards me.
Sarah was definitely a very pretty girl, indeed. She had sandy blonde hair, with a few natural beach blonde highlights. Her baby blue eyes sparkled when the right light hit them, and she had a cheeky smile, that showed her pearly white teeth.
"Lily!" Sarah bombarded me with a big giant bear hug, somewhat like Sirius's. "Hey!" She exclaimed. "You look great!"
"Thanks! You do too!" I said back to her.
Sarah linked my arm with hers. We walked down the cobble alley path, and still, towards the robes shop.
"So." Sarah started, looking at me. "How has your summer been?"
"Great! What about yours?"
"Hehe." Sarah snickered, running her free arm/hand through her blonde tresses. "Well. First, me and Jake broke up---"
"[I]Again[/I]?"
"Shut up, anyway we got back together, broke up, got back together, broke up, and then back together, and broke up."
We walked into the shop, and unlinked arms. I greeted the tailor, as she looked up from her paperwork on her desk.
"How may I help you?" she asked.
"I'd like to get five new black robes for school." I answered.
She ushered me towards a stool, and helped me stand on it. "Let me measure you." She said, snapping her fingers. Tape measures automatically appeared, measuring me without the tailor's help.
The tailor had done the same thing to Sarah. She giggled, as the tape measure measured her neck.
We left the shop a matter of forty minutes later. As we walked down the alley path, bags in our hands, Melanie greeted us. Melanie was our friend from Hogwarts. She had unusual strawberry colored hair, with freckles on her nose, and higher cheeks. She was taller then I was, about five foot six. She had laughing hazel eyes, which always seemed to show pleasure.
"Hey!" She had said, as her younger sister Sadie came up behind her. Sadie was in sixth year, and she had strawberry blonde hair, with sparkling blue eyes.
"Hi." Sadie said quietly.
"Chow!" Sarah snickered. She was always the one to joke around.
Sadie smiled slightly, glancing around. I took my gaze from Sadie, and down the alley path. I sighed, and poked Sarah on the shoulder.
"What?" She asked, turning around and facing me.
"Him, and him, and him." I said pointing to James, Sirius, and Remus Lupin. Remus was a friend of James and Sirius's; he was another one of the 'Marauders'.
Peter Pettigrew was also a Marauder, but, he never really showed up for school shopping when his friends did. He always came to late, or came to early. It was a known fact that Peter could never remember anything simple.
"Lily. I don't know why you just don't go out with, James." Melanie said. "He's cute, in a weird arrogant kind of way. Aww, who am I kidding? HE'S REALLY CUTE!"
"As if." I retorted, turning my head to look towards him. "And besides, I'm Headgirl. I'd be lowering my respect by going out with a troublemaker. It'd make me look like I didn't follow rules myself."
"We wouldn't want that." Came James's voice in my ear.
"If you don't leave me alone," I hissed, stepping forward.
"Aww, come on, Lillian."
"Shut up." I muttered, anger soaring through my very veins.
He wrapped his left arm around my waist, and pulled me close to him. "Why won't you go out with me?"
I grabbed him around the wrist, and pulled his arm off me. "Because I'm not a toy."
"Mmm.. Maybe.." James said, nudging my chin with his index finger. "I'll be seeing you."
"Great. I'm definitely not looking forward to it." I muttered as James waved good-bye to me.. "I hate him.."
"But he wuvs you.." Sarah said, in a babyish voice.
"And the pain it brings."
"Wanker.."
"Yes... Yes. I'll grow out of it someday, though." I smiled a cheesy grin, and turned to Sadie. "How are you?"
"Fine.." She answered, staring stupidly after the Marauders.
"Has Sadie got a crush?"
"No." She said stupidly. "Just a friend."
"Puh-lease!" Melanie grinned. "She's been owling Remus all summer! She gets all giddy eyed when she reads his handwriting. She's worse than Sarah and Jake!"
"Uh, Hello! Sarah's standing right here! You're s'pose to insult me when I'm not around, ya know!"
"Sorry.." Melanie said, with no sympathy at all.
"Sure ya are." Sarah said, scanning the crowd, and then to her watch. "I have to leave in ten."
"Why?"
"Traci's birthday dinner.." Sarah's eye twitched a bit.
Traci was her younger sister. Sarah and Traci where only eleven months apart, so that made them in the same year. They where both in seventh year, and Sarah had never hated anyone as much as they had never hated her sister.
"Tell her I said happy birthday!" I said, as Melanie dragged me away from Sarah. "Bye!"
"Bye!" Melanie yelled.
[I][B]*The Next Morning*[/B][/I]
I was panicking! I couldn't find my Headgirl badge anywhere! I had thrown everything out of my trunk, and still couldn't find it.
"Petunia!" I yelled, running out of my bedroom, and down the hall. "Petunia!"
"What do you want, freak?" My sister snapped, as I ran into her room.
"Have you seen my Headgirl badge?"
"Your what badge?"
"Head-girl-badge." I said slowly, waiting impatiently for her answer.
"No." She said simply, shoving me out of her room. "And please, don't come back this time. I told dad we should just up and move, but noooo."
"Snob."
"AM NOT!"
"Ahem. keep thinking that, 'Tunia." I said, hurrying away from her room.
I ran down the stairs, still in search for my badge.
"Dad!" I yelled running into the kitchen, "Dad!"
"We need to go, Lillian!" He said, as he looked away from the coffee pot. "Really!"
"I can't find my Headgirl badge!" I said, as he poured coffee into a thermos.
"Well go look in the bathroom." He said, "I think I took it last night to polish it."
I ran out of the kitchen, and up the stairs. I ran into the bathroom, closest to my dad's bedroom, and found my silver Headgirl badge, sitting on the dark marble counter top. I grinned. Lily Evans, Headgirl of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
This chapter is kind of funny in a way. It really shows what Lily will be like in the story. I mean, she won't be like the Lily in 'Snapshots' my other fanfiction. She'll actually be able to refuse James Potter.
Anyway. Here's the chapter.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Diagon Alley - The Wizarding World
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I could feel James's eyes follow me. He was like a lost puppy, trying to find his rightful owner. I frowned. Why was I always so hard on him? Shaking the thought out of my head, I walked up to the closest, and unoccupied, counter.
"Key?" The goblin asked me.
"Yes." I answered, pulling a tiny golden key out of my pocket. "Number 371."
"Brigknot." The goblin said. "Vault 371. Ms. Evans."
I followed the goblin called Brigknot. He took my key from the goblin that had waited on me. He took me through a door that led off of the lobby hall. Here, the floor wasn't marble, it was stone. The passage way was narrow, and lit by flame torches. Chills went up my spine. I had always hated walking down this hall. As we walked down a sloping part of the passage, to small scale sized railroad track.
The goblin held the door open for me, and soon, we were speeding down the tracks, and deep under London.
Soon, I emerged in the sunlight, my pockets heavier then they had been moments before. The sun shone on my face, the warmth giving me the chills.
I looked around for a familiar face or two. To my demise, James Potter, and Sirius Black stood twenty feet away.
I tried to hide my face with my hands, as I walked past. I don't know which had the x-ray vision, but soon I was engulfed in a big bear hug from Sirius.
"Lily! My Lily!" Sirius greeted, pulling back, his hands on my shoulders. "You look so grown up!" he sniffed. He hugged me again, this time loosely, so I could break free.
"Sirius, get off of me." I hissed, not at all liking it.
"Aww. Lily, dearest, what's wrong?" He asked me.
"Bye." I murmured, walking quickly away from him and James.
"Evans!" Sirius yelled after me.
I walked towards the robe shop, ignoring Sirius all the way. I could feel my curls bounce slightly on my shoulders, as I walked rudely away. I scanned the busy alley, looking from everyone to anyone for any sign of my friends.
"Oh my word!" an old woman chorused. "Look Henry! Its James!"
I felt myself scowl as the lady said 'James'. I didn't know why I hated him so much, but, yeah. He was the type of guy you didn't want in your life. Sure, he was good for a laugh or two, but after a while, he started ebbing at your nerves, and getting under your skin. You just started to hate him for being him.
"Hullo, Mrs. Martin." I heard James say. "How are you?"
"Fine," Mrs. Martin answered him, "how are you dear?"
"Just fine." James answered. "I have to finish getting my school stuff." James said, hugging Mrs. Martin. "Say hello to Bryon, Tanner, [I]and[/I] Michelle for me."
"I will!" she chorused again, hugging James back, and landing a kiss on his cheek. "Michelle will be in her first year now!
"I'll see her around then. Bye, Mrs. Martin!"
"Take care now, you hear!"
James jogged silently up next to me. "Hey." He greeted me.
I just rolled my eyes and kept walking. I kept my gaze lowered, watching my feet step on the different cobblestones with each step I took.
"Too good to say hello?" He asked me.
"Yes." I said, turning my face towards him. "Don't you get it yet?" I asked him.
"Huh?"
"I don't want you near me. It's bad enough I have to deal with you for ten more months of my life, but really. Must you torment me a day early?"
"Look, Lily---"
"James, I don't wanna hear it. I just want you to leave me alone." I looked at him one more time, hoping that I could make him have [I]some[/I] sense.
James stopped, and fell back five steps, as I kept walking on. In a way, I felt bad for being so harsh.. Then again, he was James. The James that never left me alone.
"Lily!" A voice called to me.
"Sarah?" I questioned, turning my head. I saw my friend Sarah running towards me.
Sarah was definitely a very pretty girl, indeed. She had sandy blonde hair, with a few natural beach blonde highlights. Her baby blue eyes sparkled when the right light hit them, and she had a cheeky smile, that showed her pearly white teeth.
"Lily!" Sarah bombarded me with a big giant bear hug, somewhat like Sirius's. "Hey!" She exclaimed. "You look great!"
"Thanks! You do too!" I said back to her.
Sarah linked my arm with hers. We walked down the cobble alley path, and still, towards the robes shop.
"So." Sarah started, looking at me. "How has your summer been?"
"Great! What about yours?"
"Hehe." Sarah snickered, running her free arm/hand through her blonde tresses. "Well. First, me and Jake broke up---"
"[I]Again[/I]?"
"Shut up, anyway we got back together, broke up, got back together, broke up, and then back together, and broke up."
We walked into the shop, and unlinked arms. I greeted the tailor, as she looked up from her paperwork on her desk.
"How may I help you?" she asked.
"I'd like to get five new black robes for school." I answered.
She ushered me towards a stool, and helped me stand on it. "Let me measure you." She said, snapping her fingers. Tape measures automatically appeared, measuring me without the tailor's help.
The tailor had done the same thing to Sarah. She giggled, as the tape measure measured her neck.
We left the shop a matter of forty minutes later. As we walked down the alley path, bags in our hands, Melanie greeted us. Melanie was our friend from Hogwarts. She had unusual strawberry colored hair, with freckles on her nose, and higher cheeks. She was taller then I was, about five foot six. She had laughing hazel eyes, which always seemed to show pleasure.
"Hey!" She had said, as her younger sister Sadie came up behind her. Sadie was in sixth year, and she had strawberry blonde hair, with sparkling blue eyes.
"Hi." Sadie said quietly.
"Chow!" Sarah snickered. She was always the one to joke around.
Sadie smiled slightly, glancing around. I took my gaze from Sadie, and down the alley path. I sighed, and poked Sarah on the shoulder.
"What?" She asked, turning around and facing me.
"Him, and him, and him." I said pointing to James, Sirius, and Remus Lupin. Remus was a friend of James and Sirius's; he was another one of the 'Marauders'.
Peter Pettigrew was also a Marauder, but, he never really showed up for school shopping when his friends did. He always came to late, or came to early. It was a known fact that Peter could never remember anything simple.
"Lily. I don't know why you just don't go out with, James." Melanie said. "He's cute, in a weird arrogant kind of way. Aww, who am I kidding? HE'S REALLY CUTE!"
"As if." I retorted, turning my head to look towards him. "And besides, I'm Headgirl. I'd be lowering my respect by going out with a troublemaker. It'd make me look like I didn't follow rules myself."
"We wouldn't want that." Came James's voice in my ear.
"If you don't leave me alone," I hissed, stepping forward.
"Aww, come on, Lillian."
"Shut up." I muttered, anger soaring through my very veins.
He wrapped his left arm around my waist, and pulled me close to him. "Why won't you go out with me?"
I grabbed him around the wrist, and pulled his arm off me. "Because I'm not a toy."
"Mmm.. Maybe.." James said, nudging my chin with his index finger. "I'll be seeing you."
"Great. I'm definitely not looking forward to it." I muttered as James waved good-bye to me.. "I hate him.."
"But he wuvs you.." Sarah said, in a babyish voice.
"And the pain it brings."
"Wanker.."
"Yes... Yes. I'll grow out of it someday, though." I smiled a cheesy grin, and turned to Sadie. "How are you?"
"Fine.." She answered, staring stupidly after the Marauders.
"Has Sadie got a crush?"
"No." She said stupidly. "Just a friend."
"Puh-lease!" Melanie grinned. "She's been owling Remus all summer! She gets all giddy eyed when she reads his handwriting. She's worse than Sarah and Jake!"
"Uh, Hello! Sarah's standing right here! You're s'pose to insult me when I'm not around, ya know!"
"Sorry.." Melanie said, with no sympathy at all.
"Sure ya are." Sarah said, scanning the crowd, and then to her watch. "I have to leave in ten."
"Why?"
"Traci's birthday dinner.." Sarah's eye twitched a bit.
Traci was her younger sister. Sarah and Traci where only eleven months apart, so that made them in the same year. They where both in seventh year, and Sarah had never hated anyone as much as they had never hated her sister.
"Tell her I said happy birthday!" I said, as Melanie dragged me away from Sarah. "Bye!"
"Bye!" Melanie yelled.
[I][B]*The Next Morning*[/B][/I]
I was panicking! I couldn't find my Headgirl badge anywhere! I had thrown everything out of my trunk, and still couldn't find it.
"Petunia!" I yelled, running out of my bedroom, and down the hall. "Petunia!"
"What do you want, freak?" My sister snapped, as I ran into her room.
"Have you seen my Headgirl badge?"
"Your what badge?"
"Head-girl-badge." I said slowly, waiting impatiently for her answer.
"No." She said simply, shoving me out of her room. "And please, don't come back this time. I told dad we should just up and move, but noooo."
"Snob."
"AM NOT!"
"Ahem. keep thinking that, 'Tunia." I said, hurrying away from her room.
I ran down the stairs, still in search for my badge.
"Dad!" I yelled running into the kitchen, "Dad!"
"We need to go, Lillian!" He said, as he looked away from the coffee pot. "Really!"
"I can't find my Headgirl badge!" I said, as he poured coffee into a thermos.
"Well go look in the bathroom." He said, "I think I took it last night to polish it."
I ran out of the kitchen, and up the stairs. I ran into the bathroom, closest to my dad's bedroom, and found my silver Headgirl badge, sitting on the dark marble counter top. I grinned. Lily Evans, Headgirl of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.