A/N: Thank you everyone who reviewed!
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine except a few people and the plot.
Chapter 8: Tears
"So, what happened between you and James?"
Lily looked up from the book she was reading at Bella. Lily blushed and looked back down at her romance novel, trying to make the tiny book cover her red face.
Bella snatched the book away, flinging it across the library. Open-mouth, Lily and Madame Pince looked at the book across the room in horror.
Madame Pince went started muttering darkly, while glaring at Bella, about how no one cares about book's feelings.
"I. Can't. Believe. You. Did. That! You know how much I hate ruining MY books or for the matter, ANY books at all!" Lily left the part that she had once thrown her Divination book across the Common Room.
"Lily," Bella said trying not to show her annoyance. " It's just a book. Now, I saw you and James dancing yesterday! What happened? Are you guys going out? Did he tell you his' undying love for you? WHAT HAPPENED?"
Lily turned her attention back to Bella, mouth still opened, "I still can't believe you threw my book…"
"LILY!" Bella threw her hands in the air.
"Ok, if you want to know, nothing happened. We just danced. After that, we walked up to the castle in silence! Now, the main question is, what happened to you and Remus?"
"I was hoping you would forget," Bella mumbled, sitting down in the chair next to Lily.
Bella got a dreamy look on her face as she told Lily what happened by the lake. How Remus told her that he liked her since the first year but was too afraid to ask her out. Bella also told Lily that the make up didn't make him realize that he liked her, it was what was inside but Bella told Lily she liked her new look anyways because it gave her more confidence. Then Bella told Lily that after they told each other about their lives, they kissed.
"Wow!" Lily exclaimed once Bella was finished. Lily nudged Bella grinning. Bella blushed in return.
"And it's all thanks to you that we are now officially boyfriend and girlfriend!" Bella said smiling. "Got to run and meet Remus, see you later Lily!"
Bella hugged Lily, then skipped out of the library.
Lily couldn't help but feel a little jealous inside that Bella finally had the guy she wanted but she didn't. What if Bella never talked to her as much because she had Remus?
Lily got up and retrieved her book. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, Lily thought as she left the library, heading towards the Great Hall for breakfast.
But on the way to breakfast something happened to Lily that she would have never thought was possibly.
Humming, Lily stopped abruptly when she heard a faint noise coming from one of the corridors near by. Lily looked suspiciously around and took one step. It came again, but much louder this time.
Lily recognized that sound. Of all the times she did it. When everyone picked on her, her wanting James but knowing that he would never return her feelings, reading sad love stories, any animal dying, and when her parents…died. The sound of crying, but the question was who.
Going to the corridor to her right, Lily opened up every door until she came to the last one. Sucking in her breath, Lily opened the door slowly coming face to face with the last person she thought would ever cry.
Veronica Saunders: Trisha's best friend.
Veronica broke down again once she saw Lily. Slowly, Lily walked next to Veronica and sat down on her knees.
"Ver-Veronica? What's wrong?" Lily was shock at her voice trembling; it didn't sound a thing like her own.
Veronica sobbed more while Lily awkwardly patted her on the back, "My-my parents, they-they died! Lily they died! I never," Veronica started crying more but still continued. "I never thought something like this could happen…thought I had the most perfect life. Friends, parents, only child, looks, and money but now my life isn't perfect! My friends ditched me because they thought I was to stuck up, heck I don't know why they thought that, it's Trisha who's the stuck up one! I have no parents, I wish I had a brother or sister now, my looks don't matter now because James seems to bow every time you enter a room, and you know what? Money can't buy me anything that I've lost!"
Looking at the girl sobbing beside her, Lily couldn't help but feel sorry for her no matter how bad she had once treated her.
"I just wish I had another chance to be me. Someone who wasn't a snub. I regret all the things I've done to you with Trisha because I heard from everyone that you are a very nice person." A little to quickly, Veronica said, "Not that I was asking them or anything. And I want a chance to show you the REAL me, not someone I was acting."
"Veronica, you do have another chance. You just have to prove that you aren't stuck up, rude, annoying, have a big ego, think your all tha-"
"I get the point!" Despite all her tears, Veronica let out a small giggle. "I knew I was like that. Truth be told, I thought everyone liked that, but I guess I was wrong. You forgive me?"
Lily glazed into Veronica's eyes and was in a trance for a while until Veronica shook Lily. Lily stumbled back and looked at Veronica, wide eyed.
"You forgive me?" Veronica repeated.
A long silence, not counting Veronica biting her once perfectly manicured nails nervously, rang through the room.
"I forgive you Veronica." Lily said slowly. "You might have once picked on me, but I'm not going to start picking on you. I don't want ANYONE go through what I did."
"Friends?" Veronica said in a small voice.
"Don't get carried away. Just because I forgave you, doesn't mean we're friends. First, you have to prove to me that you changed, then I'll consider it."
Veronica hugged Lily tightly, making Lily gasp for air. Slowly, Lily hugged her back.
"Lily everything people said about you is true. You really are a nice person."
"So, you have a crush on James too?"
(A/N: Should I leave it here? Nah, I have to reach my stopping point of at least seven pages of Word Process…. I just finished rereading my story and at first it was Trisha I had having her parents die but I don't think Lily would let TRISHA off the hook…Veronica is just scared of Trisha…. do you guys get what I'm saying…I'll shut up now.)
Later that evening, before the first Quidditch match, Veronica had Lily thinking. Was she acting like someone she really wasn't or was she trying to look like someone else?
Starring at the mirror in front of her, Lily took her hair out of its ponytail, letting her straight, shoulder-length, and dark red hair cascade down. Going over to the sink, Lily splashed her face, scrubbing it in an attempt to get the makeup off.
Lily looked in the mirror again and sighed. Something wasn't right…her hair, that was it! Grabbing her wand, Lily pointed it at her hair and muttered a spell. There, now she had her curly, no bangs hair again. This time it wasn't tangled and knotty. Lily only putted some clear lip-gloss on.
Smiling at her reflection, which said, "Much better dear, if you ask me, you look good with or without makeup."
Lily headed down to the Quidditch pitch, running, her hair billowing around her face.
All in all, Lily decided that everyday at Hogwarts got weirder and weirder.
Lily sat down next to Bella, Remus, and Peter. Someone tapped Lily's shoulder making her turn around at Veronica.
"Lily? Do you mind if I sit next to you," Veronica asked in a hopeful voice.
"Not at all," Lily said, making some room for Veronica. Bella looked at Lily as if she was a jar of peanut butter. "Tell you later," Lily mouthed at Bella.
"So," Lily started, turning to Veronica in an attempt to start a conversation. "Who's playing who?"
"Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, oh I just know Gryffindor will win!" Lily knew exactly what Veronica was doing. Trying to forget the sadness of her parents dying. With a start, Lily realized that was she had been doing all along. Her parents wouldn't want her to forget them.
Lily wanted to cry, but thought better of it.
"WELCOME TO THE FIRST MATCH OF THE SEASON, GRYFFINDOR VS. HUFFLEPUFF!"
Lily had to close her ears at Sirius's loud voice. Sirius had been the commenter since the second year and did he get annoying at times.
"AAAAND FOR HUFFLEPUFF, WE HAVE ABOTT AS KEEPER AND CAPTAIN, BROCKLEHURST AND BONES AS BEATERS, CLARK, WILLIAMS, AND SUN AS CHASERS, AND DAVIS AS SEEKER!" The Hufflepuffs whistle and applauded while the Gryffindors and Ravenclaw clapped politely. The Slytherins just booed.
"HERE COMES GRYFFINDOR BABY! CAPTAIN AND SEEKER, LEADING THE WAY IS JAMES POTTER! Lady's out there, he's single! ("Black! I will not tolerate this" came Professor McGonagall's voice in the background while James glared at him.) BEHIND HIM IS WOOD (Oliver's dad's younger brother) PLAYING KEEPER, SANTANA, BURTAN, AND PRAIS AS CHASERS, AND MY COUSIN BLACK AND WHITE AS BEATERS! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLEEEE!" Lily's ears probably went deaf when everyone, minus the Slytherins, screamed and clap, standing up.
As if planned, every Gryffindor started banging their feet on the stands and sang, "We will, we will, rock them, stomp them!"
"Oh my gosh…" Lily muttered as a girl ripped off her t-shirt, throwing it at James. It landed on James's face, blowing around him, since he was riding on his broom around the pitch. Grabbing the t-shirt, James pulled it off, grinning boyish at the girl.
"PATIL! That's 20 points from Ravenclaw!" McGonagall barked. (A/N: In case you are wondering, Parvati and Padma's mom never got married. Think what you want….)
All the Ravenclaws glared at her because they had worked so hard trying to get those points.
"Alright, I want a clean, fair game. Captains shake hands. On the count of three, one two, three!" Madame Hooch lifted up on her broom as all 14 players zoomed up in the sky.
And the game went on for about an hour with the Hufflepuffs…losing badly.
Without any warning what so every, just as James was about to catch the snitch with Davis right beside him, James fell from his broom, about 70 feet from the ground. Davis ended up catching the snitch.
Lily heard nothing, although she knew she was screaming along with everyone else.
Lily wished everything just stopped and it did. Lily looked at a girl in front of her, who had pumpkin juice in front of her, in mid-spit. Not thinking, Lily began running out to the field, jumping over people. When she finally reached the field, Lily started breathing fast, jumping up and down not knowing what to do.
Looking at James who had his eyes closed, hands in front of him, Lily did the first thing that came to her.
Go to the castle.
Running as fast as her legs aloud her go, Lily shouted the password to her bedroom. Frantically, Lily opened her trunk, making it banged on her bed. She looked through everything, not knowing herself, what she wanted. By the time she was done, her trunk was emptied and everything was lying around her room.
Lily ran into the bathroom and in James's room. She went over to his trunk and opened it. Lily gasped at everything she saw.
"Wow," Lily breathed, holding up a piece of parchment.
Hey Lily!
Lily gasped out loud as she reread the words that had formed on it. Just as she was about to put it down, more words appeared.
Padfoot thinks, well knows that Prongs has a thing for-
A line swept through the words and more letters were written.
Lily…. NEVER listen to that retarded…. thing…. yeah.
Lily giggled and decided she'd ask James about that later…oh right! James!
Returning to the matter at hand, Lily threw it across the room and continued looking. She gasped at what she held in her hands.
Letting the silky material slid in her hands, Lily put it on her head. Lily gasped again when she saw her head disappear, looking in a mirror.
"An invisible cloak," Lily whispered, throwing it on all the way and running out of the rooms back to the pitch, slipping a couple of times. When Lily reached the field, her eyes first reached the broom shed. Jogging over to it, Lily grabbed a broom once she reached it. She then headed back to where James was in mid air. Trying to calm her breathing, Lily slowly put a leg over the broom. Lily put the broom front straight up making the broom go, well, straight up. Screaming, Lily made it go even and headed to James unsteady.
Lily never liked flying, heck, she couldn't even handle walking without tripping.
Putting the broomstick in an angle, so James was sitting on it, Lily wrapped her arms around him tightly under his cloak, so no one would see her arms. She made sure the broomstick was unseen.
Lily didn't notice Dumbledore blink in surprise, in the top box.
She concentrated on time going again and almost let go of James at the deafening screams.
"What the?" James mumbled, opening his eyes.
"James," Lily whispered in his ear. "James, it's me Lily. I stopped time when you fell, and went in your room. I got your invisibility cloak so no one can see me and the broom, but they can still see you." Lily giggled nervously.
To everyone in the stands, it looked like James was falling to the ground in slow motion.
"Thank you, Lily, thank you. I thought I was going to die. It's true when they say your whole life passing true your eyes. Thank you, " James repeated saying thank you until Lily lightly set him on the field. Lily luckily got high enough so that she wasn't surrounded by most of the Hogwart's population, as everyone wanted to see if James was ok.
"And Hufflepuff wins," Sirius's voice came through the intercom, dry.
Sighing, Lily flew towards the broom shed and put the broom back. She knew she was never going to fly again. Lily made sure no one was looking and took the cloak off, folding it, and stuffing it in her pocket.
Running back to the crowd gathered around James, Lily heard a second year ask, "What happened?" along with other kids. Lily sighed and decided there was no way she could get to James and headed back to her room to take a nap.
The next morning at breakfast, Lily sat down in the Great Hall for breakfast. Veronica came by and sat down next to Lily.
"So, did the morning owls come yet?" Just as Veronica asked that, hundreds of owls came flying in, dropping letters by surprise students. An owl came by Lily, dropping a letter in her oatmeal. Glaring at the owl, Lily opened the letter.
Lily,
I haven't heard from you in awhile. Would you like to have tea after your morning classes? I'll be waiting at my hut.
Hagrid
Lily smiled to herself and wrote a quick letter back.
Hagrid,
Sure! I would love to have tea with you. Would you mind if I invite my friends, Bella (Lily thought for a second then added more) and Veronica? See you later!
Lily
The whole time Veronica was reading over Lily's shoulder. Veronica gasped once she finished.
"I-I'm your friend?"
"Yeah, you passed my 'test.' I just had to make sure you didn't call me 'Clumsy wusmy Liliums," Lily said smiling at Veronica. Veronica blushed and mumbled an apology, turning back to her food.
"Hey Veronica, when's the next Hogsmead trip? Was it a little after Halloween?" Lily asked getting some new oatmeal.
Veronica nodded while glaring at Trisha on the other side of the table who was flirting with a Ravenclaw by winking at him from the Gryffindor table. At least she was hanging around a good crowd now….
After they finished their breakfast, both girls went to fetch Bella since Ravenclaw and Gryffindor had the first class together: Transfiguration.
Lily dragged her feet to an empty desk in the back and sat down. Professor McGonagall drowned the class on about transfiguring large animals into small school things while Lily decided to write notes to Bella who was sitting on her right.
Lily wrote about what happened to Veronica and slid it across the table. After Bella finished it, she nodded at Lily and put that note in her bag. The class went on, as Lily and Bella wrote on one parchment. About half way through the class, when Bella was giggling what Lily wrote, McGonagall came striving over to their desk and snatched the note out of Bella's hand before Bella got to finish writing.
"Miss Figg and Evans, I do not appreciate you two writing notes in my class. Now, let's just see what you two were writing." McGonagall cleared her throat, adjusting her glasses.
Mrs. Lupin, (Bella and Remus started blushing non stop)
So now u now know y Veronica and I r now friends. A little weird huh?
Mrs. POTTER, (Lily started blushing while James looked at Lily grinning with a curious look)
Yeah, it is a little weird. I mean she used 2 pick on u with Trisha and her other friends and everything.
Mrs. Coping me using the guy u like heading Lupin,
But guess what? She hasn't picked on me once since the day I found her n the classroom! N*e*ways, this class is SOOOOOO BORING! I mean, come on, y do we need 2 no how 2 transfigure a big animal into a school object? It's stupid.
Mrs. I'm so cool, so no 1 can copy my heading Potter,
Yeah, @ least she's not picking on you. I agree w/u on this subject. 1 of these days, McGonagall is going 2 b bald from wearing her hair n such a tight bu-
"That will be 10 points from each house plus a detention for both of you. I can't believe this, from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw out of all houses! See me after class for where your two detentions will be. Now, back to the subject."
James looked at Lily still grinning, but Lily refused to meet his eyes.
That was so embarrassing, Lily concluded.
After receiving their detentions, Lily and Bella cleaning the Great Hall with a tooth pick on Saturday, and after their morning classes, Lily, Bella, and Veronica headed out to Hadrid's.
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"Master, it didn't work… I tried making James fall off his broom at the Quidditch match. I don't know what happened but he landed safely. I'll try my best to come up with another way to destroy him… I promise."
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A/N: So, what does Lily know by reading Veronica's mind? What's up with Veronica and Trisha? What happened between the two? What is a Death Eater going to do to poor James? FIND OUT LATER IN 'WHAT'S THE NEW GIRL'S NAME!' I decided to stop here although I was about to write them in Hagrid's Hut but I'll save that for the next chapter. PLEASE REVIEW! I would like it if you tell me what you liked, thought was funny, ect. You don't have to but it'll help and encourage me more. I'm so sorry this didn't come out for a while. I had it done a loooong time ago but IT WONT LET ME LOG IN! So thank you Lily (my friend) for putting this chapter up… ok that makes it seem like she wrote it but she DIDN'T, I did! Does anyone understand what I'm saying? About Bon's review, I do understand what you mean, but PLEASE if there is something wrong with my story, wait till it's finish and THEN tell me because this was the chapter I was going to make Lily realize that she was caring to much about her looks. ::breathes:: Now REVIEW PEOPLES!
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Disclaimer: Nothing is mine except a few people and the plot.
Chapter 8: Tears
"So, what happened between you and James?"
Lily looked up from the book she was reading at Bella. Lily blushed and looked back down at her romance novel, trying to make the tiny book cover her red face.
Bella snatched the book away, flinging it across the library. Open-mouth, Lily and Madame Pince looked at the book across the room in horror.
Madame Pince went started muttering darkly, while glaring at Bella, about how no one cares about book's feelings.
"I. Can't. Believe. You. Did. That! You know how much I hate ruining MY books or for the matter, ANY books at all!" Lily left the part that she had once thrown her Divination book across the Common Room.
"Lily," Bella said trying not to show her annoyance. " It's just a book. Now, I saw you and James dancing yesterday! What happened? Are you guys going out? Did he tell you his' undying love for you? WHAT HAPPENED?"
Lily turned her attention back to Bella, mouth still opened, "I still can't believe you threw my book…"
"LILY!" Bella threw her hands in the air.
"Ok, if you want to know, nothing happened. We just danced. After that, we walked up to the castle in silence! Now, the main question is, what happened to you and Remus?"
"I was hoping you would forget," Bella mumbled, sitting down in the chair next to Lily.
Bella got a dreamy look on her face as she told Lily what happened by the lake. How Remus told her that he liked her since the first year but was too afraid to ask her out. Bella also told Lily that the make up didn't make him realize that he liked her, it was what was inside but Bella told Lily she liked her new look anyways because it gave her more confidence. Then Bella told Lily that after they told each other about their lives, they kissed.
"Wow!" Lily exclaimed once Bella was finished. Lily nudged Bella grinning. Bella blushed in return.
"And it's all thanks to you that we are now officially boyfriend and girlfriend!" Bella said smiling. "Got to run and meet Remus, see you later Lily!"
Bella hugged Lily, then skipped out of the library.
Lily couldn't help but feel a little jealous inside that Bella finally had the guy she wanted but she didn't. What if Bella never talked to her as much because she had Remus?
Lily got up and retrieved her book. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, Lily thought as she left the library, heading towards the Great Hall for breakfast.
But on the way to breakfast something happened to Lily that she would have never thought was possibly.
Humming, Lily stopped abruptly when she heard a faint noise coming from one of the corridors near by. Lily looked suspiciously around and took one step. It came again, but much louder this time.
Lily recognized that sound. Of all the times she did it. When everyone picked on her, her wanting James but knowing that he would never return her feelings, reading sad love stories, any animal dying, and when her parents…died. The sound of crying, but the question was who.
Going to the corridor to her right, Lily opened up every door until she came to the last one. Sucking in her breath, Lily opened the door slowly coming face to face with the last person she thought would ever cry.
Veronica Saunders: Trisha's best friend.
Veronica broke down again once she saw Lily. Slowly, Lily walked next to Veronica and sat down on her knees.
"Ver-Veronica? What's wrong?" Lily was shock at her voice trembling; it didn't sound a thing like her own.
Veronica sobbed more while Lily awkwardly patted her on the back, "My-my parents, they-they died! Lily they died! I never," Veronica started crying more but still continued. "I never thought something like this could happen…thought I had the most perfect life. Friends, parents, only child, looks, and money but now my life isn't perfect! My friends ditched me because they thought I was to stuck up, heck I don't know why they thought that, it's Trisha who's the stuck up one! I have no parents, I wish I had a brother or sister now, my looks don't matter now because James seems to bow every time you enter a room, and you know what? Money can't buy me anything that I've lost!"
Looking at the girl sobbing beside her, Lily couldn't help but feel sorry for her no matter how bad she had once treated her.
"I just wish I had another chance to be me. Someone who wasn't a snub. I regret all the things I've done to you with Trisha because I heard from everyone that you are a very nice person." A little to quickly, Veronica said, "Not that I was asking them or anything. And I want a chance to show you the REAL me, not someone I was acting."
"Veronica, you do have another chance. You just have to prove that you aren't stuck up, rude, annoying, have a big ego, think your all tha-"
"I get the point!" Despite all her tears, Veronica let out a small giggle. "I knew I was like that. Truth be told, I thought everyone liked that, but I guess I was wrong. You forgive me?"
Lily glazed into Veronica's eyes and was in a trance for a while until Veronica shook Lily. Lily stumbled back and looked at Veronica, wide eyed.
"You forgive me?" Veronica repeated.
A long silence, not counting Veronica biting her once perfectly manicured nails nervously, rang through the room.
"I forgive you Veronica." Lily said slowly. "You might have once picked on me, but I'm not going to start picking on you. I don't want ANYONE go through what I did."
"Friends?" Veronica said in a small voice.
"Don't get carried away. Just because I forgave you, doesn't mean we're friends. First, you have to prove to me that you changed, then I'll consider it."
Veronica hugged Lily tightly, making Lily gasp for air. Slowly, Lily hugged her back.
"Lily everything people said about you is true. You really are a nice person."
"So, you have a crush on James too?"
(A/N: Should I leave it here? Nah, I have to reach my stopping point of at least seven pages of Word Process…. I just finished rereading my story and at first it was Trisha I had having her parents die but I don't think Lily would let TRISHA off the hook…Veronica is just scared of Trisha…. do you guys get what I'm saying…I'll shut up now.)
Later that evening, before the first Quidditch match, Veronica had Lily thinking. Was she acting like someone she really wasn't or was she trying to look like someone else?
Starring at the mirror in front of her, Lily took her hair out of its ponytail, letting her straight, shoulder-length, and dark red hair cascade down. Going over to the sink, Lily splashed her face, scrubbing it in an attempt to get the makeup off.
Lily looked in the mirror again and sighed. Something wasn't right…her hair, that was it! Grabbing her wand, Lily pointed it at her hair and muttered a spell. There, now she had her curly, no bangs hair again. This time it wasn't tangled and knotty. Lily only putted some clear lip-gloss on.
Smiling at her reflection, which said, "Much better dear, if you ask me, you look good with or without makeup."
Lily headed down to the Quidditch pitch, running, her hair billowing around her face.
All in all, Lily decided that everyday at Hogwarts got weirder and weirder.
Lily sat down next to Bella, Remus, and Peter. Someone tapped Lily's shoulder making her turn around at Veronica.
"Lily? Do you mind if I sit next to you," Veronica asked in a hopeful voice.
"Not at all," Lily said, making some room for Veronica. Bella looked at Lily as if she was a jar of peanut butter. "Tell you later," Lily mouthed at Bella.
"So," Lily started, turning to Veronica in an attempt to start a conversation. "Who's playing who?"
"Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, oh I just know Gryffindor will win!" Lily knew exactly what Veronica was doing. Trying to forget the sadness of her parents dying. With a start, Lily realized that was she had been doing all along. Her parents wouldn't want her to forget them.
Lily wanted to cry, but thought better of it.
"WELCOME TO THE FIRST MATCH OF THE SEASON, GRYFFINDOR VS. HUFFLEPUFF!"
Lily had to close her ears at Sirius's loud voice. Sirius had been the commenter since the second year and did he get annoying at times.
"AAAAND FOR HUFFLEPUFF, WE HAVE ABOTT AS KEEPER AND CAPTAIN, BROCKLEHURST AND BONES AS BEATERS, CLARK, WILLIAMS, AND SUN AS CHASERS, AND DAVIS AS SEEKER!" The Hufflepuffs whistle and applauded while the Gryffindors and Ravenclaw clapped politely. The Slytherins just booed.
"HERE COMES GRYFFINDOR BABY! CAPTAIN AND SEEKER, LEADING THE WAY IS JAMES POTTER! Lady's out there, he's single! ("Black! I will not tolerate this" came Professor McGonagall's voice in the background while James glared at him.) BEHIND HIM IS WOOD (Oliver's dad's younger brother) PLAYING KEEPER, SANTANA, BURTAN, AND PRAIS AS CHASERS, AND MY COUSIN BLACK AND WHITE AS BEATERS! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLEEEE!" Lily's ears probably went deaf when everyone, minus the Slytherins, screamed and clap, standing up.
As if planned, every Gryffindor started banging their feet on the stands and sang, "We will, we will, rock them, stomp them!"
"Oh my gosh…" Lily muttered as a girl ripped off her t-shirt, throwing it at James. It landed on James's face, blowing around him, since he was riding on his broom around the pitch. Grabbing the t-shirt, James pulled it off, grinning boyish at the girl.
"PATIL! That's 20 points from Ravenclaw!" McGonagall barked. (A/N: In case you are wondering, Parvati and Padma's mom never got married. Think what you want….)
All the Ravenclaws glared at her because they had worked so hard trying to get those points.
"Alright, I want a clean, fair game. Captains shake hands. On the count of three, one two, three!" Madame Hooch lifted up on her broom as all 14 players zoomed up in the sky.
And the game went on for about an hour with the Hufflepuffs…losing badly.
Without any warning what so every, just as James was about to catch the snitch with Davis right beside him, James fell from his broom, about 70 feet from the ground. Davis ended up catching the snitch.
Lily heard nothing, although she knew she was screaming along with everyone else.
Lily wished everything just stopped and it did. Lily looked at a girl in front of her, who had pumpkin juice in front of her, in mid-spit. Not thinking, Lily began running out to the field, jumping over people. When she finally reached the field, Lily started breathing fast, jumping up and down not knowing what to do.
Looking at James who had his eyes closed, hands in front of him, Lily did the first thing that came to her.
Go to the castle.
Running as fast as her legs aloud her go, Lily shouted the password to her bedroom. Frantically, Lily opened her trunk, making it banged on her bed. She looked through everything, not knowing herself, what she wanted. By the time she was done, her trunk was emptied and everything was lying around her room.
Lily ran into the bathroom and in James's room. She went over to his trunk and opened it. Lily gasped at everything she saw.
"Wow," Lily breathed, holding up a piece of parchment.
Hey Lily!
Lily gasped out loud as she reread the words that had formed on it. Just as she was about to put it down, more words appeared.
Padfoot thinks, well knows that Prongs has a thing for-
A line swept through the words and more letters were written.
Lily…. NEVER listen to that retarded…. thing…. yeah.
Lily giggled and decided she'd ask James about that later…oh right! James!
Returning to the matter at hand, Lily threw it across the room and continued looking. She gasped at what she held in her hands.
Letting the silky material slid in her hands, Lily put it on her head. Lily gasped again when she saw her head disappear, looking in a mirror.
"An invisible cloak," Lily whispered, throwing it on all the way and running out of the rooms back to the pitch, slipping a couple of times. When Lily reached the field, her eyes first reached the broom shed. Jogging over to it, Lily grabbed a broom once she reached it. She then headed back to where James was in mid air. Trying to calm her breathing, Lily slowly put a leg over the broom. Lily put the broom front straight up making the broom go, well, straight up. Screaming, Lily made it go even and headed to James unsteady.
Lily never liked flying, heck, she couldn't even handle walking without tripping.
Putting the broomstick in an angle, so James was sitting on it, Lily wrapped her arms around him tightly under his cloak, so no one would see her arms. She made sure the broomstick was unseen.
Lily didn't notice Dumbledore blink in surprise, in the top box.
She concentrated on time going again and almost let go of James at the deafening screams.
"What the?" James mumbled, opening his eyes.
"James," Lily whispered in his ear. "James, it's me Lily. I stopped time when you fell, and went in your room. I got your invisibility cloak so no one can see me and the broom, but they can still see you." Lily giggled nervously.
To everyone in the stands, it looked like James was falling to the ground in slow motion.
"Thank you, Lily, thank you. I thought I was going to die. It's true when they say your whole life passing true your eyes. Thank you, " James repeated saying thank you until Lily lightly set him on the field. Lily luckily got high enough so that she wasn't surrounded by most of the Hogwart's population, as everyone wanted to see if James was ok.
"And Hufflepuff wins," Sirius's voice came through the intercom, dry.
Sighing, Lily flew towards the broom shed and put the broom back. She knew she was never going to fly again. Lily made sure no one was looking and took the cloak off, folding it, and stuffing it in her pocket.
Running back to the crowd gathered around James, Lily heard a second year ask, "What happened?" along with other kids. Lily sighed and decided there was no way she could get to James and headed back to her room to take a nap.
The next morning at breakfast, Lily sat down in the Great Hall for breakfast. Veronica came by and sat down next to Lily.
"So, did the morning owls come yet?" Just as Veronica asked that, hundreds of owls came flying in, dropping letters by surprise students. An owl came by Lily, dropping a letter in her oatmeal. Glaring at the owl, Lily opened the letter.
Lily,
I haven't heard from you in awhile. Would you like to have tea after your morning classes? I'll be waiting at my hut.
Hagrid
Lily smiled to herself and wrote a quick letter back.
Hagrid,
Sure! I would love to have tea with you. Would you mind if I invite my friends, Bella (Lily thought for a second then added more) and Veronica? See you later!
Lily
The whole time Veronica was reading over Lily's shoulder. Veronica gasped once she finished.
"I-I'm your friend?"
"Yeah, you passed my 'test.' I just had to make sure you didn't call me 'Clumsy wusmy Liliums," Lily said smiling at Veronica. Veronica blushed and mumbled an apology, turning back to her food.
"Hey Veronica, when's the next Hogsmead trip? Was it a little after Halloween?" Lily asked getting some new oatmeal.
Veronica nodded while glaring at Trisha on the other side of the table who was flirting with a Ravenclaw by winking at him from the Gryffindor table. At least she was hanging around a good crowd now….
After they finished their breakfast, both girls went to fetch Bella since Ravenclaw and Gryffindor had the first class together: Transfiguration.
Lily dragged her feet to an empty desk in the back and sat down. Professor McGonagall drowned the class on about transfiguring large animals into small school things while Lily decided to write notes to Bella who was sitting on her right.
Lily wrote about what happened to Veronica and slid it across the table. After Bella finished it, she nodded at Lily and put that note in her bag. The class went on, as Lily and Bella wrote on one parchment. About half way through the class, when Bella was giggling what Lily wrote, McGonagall came striving over to their desk and snatched the note out of Bella's hand before Bella got to finish writing.
"Miss Figg and Evans, I do not appreciate you two writing notes in my class. Now, let's just see what you two were writing." McGonagall cleared her throat, adjusting her glasses.
Mrs. Lupin, (Bella and Remus started blushing non stop)
So now u now know y Veronica and I r now friends. A little weird huh?
Mrs. POTTER, (Lily started blushing while James looked at Lily grinning with a curious look)
Yeah, it is a little weird. I mean she used 2 pick on u with Trisha and her other friends and everything.
Mrs. Coping me using the guy u like heading Lupin,
But guess what? She hasn't picked on me once since the day I found her n the classroom! N*e*ways, this class is SOOOOOO BORING! I mean, come on, y do we need 2 no how 2 transfigure a big animal into a school object? It's stupid.
Mrs. I'm so cool, so no 1 can copy my heading Potter,
Yeah, @ least she's not picking on you. I agree w/u on this subject. 1 of these days, McGonagall is going 2 b bald from wearing her hair n such a tight bu-
"That will be 10 points from each house plus a detention for both of you. I can't believe this, from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw out of all houses! See me after class for where your two detentions will be. Now, back to the subject."
James looked at Lily still grinning, but Lily refused to meet his eyes.
That was so embarrassing, Lily concluded.
After receiving their detentions, Lily and Bella cleaning the Great Hall with a tooth pick on Saturday, and after their morning classes, Lily, Bella, and Veronica headed out to Hadrid's.
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"Master, it didn't work… I tried making James fall off his broom at the Quidditch match. I don't know what happened but he landed safely. I'll try my best to come up with another way to destroy him… I promise."
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A/N: So, what does Lily know by reading Veronica's mind? What's up with Veronica and Trisha? What happened between the two? What is a Death Eater going to do to poor James? FIND OUT LATER IN 'WHAT'S THE NEW GIRL'S NAME!' I decided to stop here although I was about to write them in Hagrid's Hut but I'll save that for the next chapter. PLEASE REVIEW! I would like it if you tell me what you liked, thought was funny, ect. You don't have to but it'll help and encourage me more. I'm so sorry this didn't come out for a while. I had it done a loooong time ago but IT WONT LET ME LOG IN! So thank you Lily (my friend) for putting this chapter up… ok that makes it seem like she wrote it but she DIDN'T, I did! Does anyone understand what I'm saying? About Bon's review, I do understand what you mean, but PLEASE if there is something wrong with my story, wait till it's finish and THEN tell me because this was the chapter I was going to make Lily realize that she was caring to much about her looks. ::breathes:: Now REVIEW PEOPLES!
Wow…I wrote nine…ALMOST ten pages of this story! I'm so proud! Wait I'll write dots so it CAN be ten pages!
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