Well, I honestly don't think that this took that long time. Honestly.
I'm not really used to post new chapters without excusing for being late.
Disclaimer: Well, I don't own anything, all of this is JK Rowling's, everything else belongs to someone else.
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Lily stared at the letter. For a really long time.
"We'd really like an explanation." Ian broke the ice after a while. She thought about it for almost a minute, and decided that the only thing she could do was to tell them the truth and ask them not to tell anybody. Of course it wouldn't work, she knew that all too well. They would act different around her. Not wanting to change with her in the room, not telling the same jokes, not saying the same things. Sooner or later someone would find out. Maybe. But, on the other hand, most people wouldn't think 'Hey, that guy's friends don't tell him all the dirty jokes. Maybe he is a girl.' And she didn't have much of a choice.
"When I was born," She began, almost hesitantly, "I had a twin. A twin named Lily Evans. But she died. And when I was to start school, someone had made a mistake. They thought it was me who died, and my sister who survived, even though it was the other way 'round. So, the first day there, they asked me if I was Lily. I was small and scared, and thought I would get teased if I told them the truth. So I said I was. For two years, everybody thought of me as Lily. Except at home of course. I didn't tell them. They would only make me tell about the mistake. They wouldn't understand. When we moved I got to a new school, where they knew who I was. But I still had some old friends left, and they continued to send letters to Lily Evans, and maybe will even as I stay here at Hogwarts. And I still haven't told them. I don't know why. Maybe because I'm afraid they'll never talk to me again. I know that I am a coward, and that I will have to tell them at some point, but I won't yet, I still want them as my friends."
The boys looked at her, amazed. She was pretty amazed herself. She hadn't planned on lying, but she had, by mistake, said Lily instead of Leo, and continued her story like she had died and Leo lived. It didn't sound too unbelievable. Well maybe it did, but really it wasn't so unbelievable, it had happened to her as Lily. She laughed a little, trying to get the other guys to relax, and to not think about the story. If they thought about the story, maybe they would figure out that it wasn't so. They laughed, too, probably relieved that she wasn't a girl. Which she actually was, even though they didn't know it. And that was how she planned to keep it, for the moment at least.
"But it wasn't very fun, to act like a girl all the time." She told them, cursing herself for not staying silent. Keep lies simple, that was the number one rule when lying. When you have convinced someone, don't tell more. But now she just couldn't be silent. "I remember that one time when I was going to a party, and I was dressed in boys' clothes, as my parents had been at home when I changed. They drove me to the party, and I sat in the girl's garden waiting for them to come to bring me home. I couldn't go inside dressed like a boy, and I couldn't tell my parents I wanted to be dressed in girls' clothes. The next day in school the girl wondered where I had been, and I told her about an aunt that had gotten very ill, so we had to go visit her, and no one answered the phone in her house. No one ever found out. And now after I can laugh about it." They laughed. "When I got sorted here, I was almost sure they would say Lily Evans and not Leonard Evans, but they didn't." Well, that wasn't a lie. "And I learned my lesson. If they had said Lily here I would have told them that I'm Leonard, that I'm a boy." Ooops, that was a real lie. If they had said Lily she would have lived happily ever after as a girl. But she couldn't tell them that. Instead she said: "I'm a Gryffindor, at least I should be brave enough to tell the truth. Not that I had to, but if." No, she couldn't continue now. She would tell them by accident if she didn't stop now. "But I don't want to talk that much about it. You know, I feel. a bit ashamed that I didn't tell right away that I was a boy. And had quite a hard time, having to be completely different persons at home and in school."
The boys were chattering and giggling and talking about what they would do if someone thought they were girls (tell, of course. Lily felt ashamed, but, as she told herself, if she told the truth, she probably wouldn't get to stay at Hogwarts.). Only Joe was silent, looking at Lily very thoughtfully.
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I know, too short. Too bad. Too predictable. You can *tell* me all about it. In a review. Review and tell me *all* about it. Or about something else. Review. Review. Review.
I'm not really used to post new chapters without excusing for being late.
Disclaimer: Well, I don't own anything, all of this is JK Rowling's, everything else belongs to someone else.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Lily stared at the letter. For a really long time.
"We'd really like an explanation." Ian broke the ice after a while. She thought about it for almost a minute, and decided that the only thing she could do was to tell them the truth and ask them not to tell anybody. Of course it wouldn't work, she knew that all too well. They would act different around her. Not wanting to change with her in the room, not telling the same jokes, not saying the same things. Sooner or later someone would find out. Maybe. But, on the other hand, most people wouldn't think 'Hey, that guy's friends don't tell him all the dirty jokes. Maybe he is a girl.' And she didn't have much of a choice.
"When I was born," She began, almost hesitantly, "I had a twin. A twin named Lily Evans. But she died. And when I was to start school, someone had made a mistake. They thought it was me who died, and my sister who survived, even though it was the other way 'round. So, the first day there, they asked me if I was Lily. I was small and scared, and thought I would get teased if I told them the truth. So I said I was. For two years, everybody thought of me as Lily. Except at home of course. I didn't tell them. They would only make me tell about the mistake. They wouldn't understand. When we moved I got to a new school, where they knew who I was. But I still had some old friends left, and they continued to send letters to Lily Evans, and maybe will even as I stay here at Hogwarts. And I still haven't told them. I don't know why. Maybe because I'm afraid they'll never talk to me again. I know that I am a coward, and that I will have to tell them at some point, but I won't yet, I still want them as my friends."
The boys looked at her, amazed. She was pretty amazed herself. She hadn't planned on lying, but she had, by mistake, said Lily instead of Leo, and continued her story like she had died and Leo lived. It didn't sound too unbelievable. Well maybe it did, but really it wasn't so unbelievable, it had happened to her as Lily. She laughed a little, trying to get the other guys to relax, and to not think about the story. If they thought about the story, maybe they would figure out that it wasn't so. They laughed, too, probably relieved that she wasn't a girl. Which she actually was, even though they didn't know it. And that was how she planned to keep it, for the moment at least.
"But it wasn't very fun, to act like a girl all the time." She told them, cursing herself for not staying silent. Keep lies simple, that was the number one rule when lying. When you have convinced someone, don't tell more. But now she just couldn't be silent. "I remember that one time when I was going to a party, and I was dressed in boys' clothes, as my parents had been at home when I changed. They drove me to the party, and I sat in the girl's garden waiting for them to come to bring me home. I couldn't go inside dressed like a boy, and I couldn't tell my parents I wanted to be dressed in girls' clothes. The next day in school the girl wondered where I had been, and I told her about an aunt that had gotten very ill, so we had to go visit her, and no one answered the phone in her house. No one ever found out. And now after I can laugh about it." They laughed. "When I got sorted here, I was almost sure they would say Lily Evans and not Leonard Evans, but they didn't." Well, that wasn't a lie. "And I learned my lesson. If they had said Lily here I would have told them that I'm Leonard, that I'm a boy." Ooops, that was a real lie. If they had said Lily she would have lived happily ever after as a girl. But she couldn't tell them that. Instead she said: "I'm a Gryffindor, at least I should be brave enough to tell the truth. Not that I had to, but if." No, she couldn't continue now. She would tell them by accident if she didn't stop now. "But I don't want to talk that much about it. You know, I feel. a bit ashamed that I didn't tell right away that I was a boy. And had quite a hard time, having to be completely different persons at home and in school."
The boys were chattering and giggling and talking about what they would do if someone thought they were girls (tell, of course. Lily felt ashamed, but, as she told herself, if she told the truth, she probably wouldn't get to stay at Hogwarts.). Only Joe was silent, looking at Lily very thoughtfully.
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I know, too short. Too bad. Too predictable. You can *tell* me all about it. In a review. Review and tell me *all* about it. Or about something else. Review. Review. Review.