Hello everyone. I am so sorry about the wait for this chapter. I have been really busy with school and other stuff. I'm hoping that this chapter will be long, but I don't know. I kind of have no ideas for this chapter, so I am just going to write it and hope you guys like whatever I write. I'm going to write a little note to all my reviewers, so you might have to scroll down a while to get to the story.

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 A/N: Okay, sorry about that.  I hope I got everyone. Here's the chapter.

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          The day of the Valentine's Ball finally arrived and when Lily got down to the common room, everyone was chattering excitedly about it. She looked around for her friends, but couldn't find them. She did find someone else though. James.

          " I wonder why he isn't at breakfast," she thought to herself, "he looks kind of lonely sitting there, maybe I should go talk to him." " Stop," she told herself, "did I just think  to myself that I should go talk to James? I can't believe that I thought that, I hate him."

          James caught Lily staring at him and said, " Have you changed your mind, Evans?  Did you decide that you are going to be my friend again?"

          Lily looked at him and said, "Why would you ask that, Potter?" As she was saying that, Lily pulled out her wand, pointed it at James, and muttered a spell before saying,  "No, I haven't decided to be your friend again.  I was just looking at that horrible wart that seemed to have sprouted and is now growing on your nose ."

          James, looking terrified, ran up to his dorm to look in a mirror. Lily was walking out of the room, when she heard James yell, " EVANS you are going to pay for this." Lily just smiled and walked out of the common room to the Great Hall for breakfast.

          When she got there she found all of her friends were already eating.

"What took you so long Lily?" asked Jenna, "We waited for you, but Sirius here was getting very cranky so we figured we better get some food in him."

          "Hey," said Sirius, "You didn't all have to come with me."

          "No we didn't," say Remus, "but we knew that  if we let you come alone the food would be gone by time we got here." Everyone laughed at this then looked at Lily to see why she was late.

          "I had a little business to take care of," she said to them.

          "What  kind of business?" asked Sirius, " Was it something I would have liked?"

          "Maybe," replied Lily. "I was helping a toad who had a little wart problem."

          "I would have liked that?" said Sirius.

"Oh yeah," said Lily, "you would have loved it."

          "Are you being serious Lily, did you really help a toad?" asked Courtney

          "Hey," said Sirius, "Lily can't be serious because I am."

          They all laughed a  little before Lily said, "That joke is getting old Sirius, and to answer your question Courtney I was helping a toad and he's just walking in here if you want to see him."

          They all turned to see who or what Lily was talking about and everyone, but Sirius burst out laughing. He looked confused and said, "its just James, what's so funny about him?"

          "Look at his nose," said Remus, "He's got a big wart on it."

          Sirius looked at James' nose then burst out laughing. "Did you do that Lily?" he asked

"Yep I did," she replied.

"But how?" asked Sirius, "You've never learned that spell and you've only known you were a witch since August."

"It was simple really," replied Lily, "I looked  it up in a thing called a book, do you know what books are Sirius?"

          "Are they those square things that I should be using in class and to do homework with?" asked Sirius

"Yes they are," said Lily, "very good Sirius, I'm glad you know what a book is, now you just need to learn how to use them."

Everyone started laughing and didn't stop until they heard a voice say, " I know my nose is funny looking but is it so funny that you guys can't stop laughing?"

          Everyone looked up to see James standing there glaring at all of him or her.

"No we weren't laughing at you, Jamie," said Sirius, " We were laughing at a joke Lily was making about me and books, and you should hear it."

          "Hear something that Evans told you?" responded James, "I think not."

"Well," said James, walking away, "since you are all so thrilled with Evans here, I guess I'll leave."

          "You do that Potter," said Lily to his retreating back, " They don't want you here anyway. Besides shouldn't you be looking for a counter curse so you can get that hideous wart off your face?"

James just looked back at Lily and glared before turning around and walking out of the great hall. The rest of their friends stared at each other unsure of what to do. They decided to just sit there and do nothing.

          Lily looked at them and said, "Wasn't that funny?"

"Lily," said Remus, "we know you don't like James right now, but that doesn't mean we can't still like him, so to us that wasn't funny. Sure, at first when we saw him, it was, but you shouldn't be doing stuff like that to him just because you hate him."

          "You're right Remus," said Lily, "I won't hex or curse him anymore, but that won't stop me from hating him, so don't expect a change in that."

          "Oh don't worry Lily," said Remus sarcastically, "I would NEVER want you to stop hating James, just hexing him."

          "Okay," replied Lily, "that's good, because I won't ever stop hating him."

          A few minutes later, the owls started coming in with the mail. Lily's owl dropped a package next to her before stopping to get a drink from Lily's goblet. Lily opened her package to find a bunch of candy and some cookies from her mum and dad. There was also a letter from her sister. This is what it said,

 Dearest Sister (NOT)-

I just thought I would tell you that you are a freak. You, all your friends, and that freak school you go to. At first I thought it was cool, but now it's not. All mum and dad ever talk about is "their precious Lily" and how proud they are that there is a witch in the family. Well I am not proud. Now that you are a witch they don't even care about me, and that makes me mad. I wish you were never born Lily. Life would be so much better. I hope you stay at that freak school with your freak friends forever, because I hate you. Oh and Happy Valentine's Day, I hope you choke on the candy that Mum and Dad sent you.

-Petunia

     When Lily got finished reading Petunia's letter, she was having mixed emotions she wanted to cry, but she wanted to laugh at the same time, but she kept her emotions inside and did neither one of them.

          Dumbledore stood up once all the owls had left and said, "Happy Valentine's Day students. We have a few announcements for you. First, you will only go to your lessons that are before lunch, so you can get ready for the ball tonight." Everyone started talking about how nice that was going to be, but Dumbledore held up a hand and the talking instantly stopped. "Second," he continued, "through out the day,  most of you will be receiving little "messages" from friends and admirers, so do not be alarmed if you get one. These will not be your usual written messages,  they will be… well I won't say now, you'll have to find out, so everyone can go to class now."

          A few minutes later as the group was walking to History of Magic, Eric Wood, one of the Gryffindor Prefects, stopped Lily. He handed her a HUGE bag filled with howler-type envelopes, only they were pink, not red. " What are these?" Lily asked  Eric. "Oh," said Eric, "those are your Valentine Messages, I would suggest you start opening them now, so you don't have to haul that huge thing all day." "Okay," said Lily, "thanks."

          Eric walked off and Lily opened up the bag. "Open one," everyone said at the same time. " Alright," said Lily, pulling one of the pink envelopes out of the bag, "here goes."

          She opened up the envelope and a voice started singing:

Roses are red

Violets are Blue

Lily you're special

Can I go out with you?

 After it was done singing, the envelope burst into lots of little hearts. "Wonder who it's from," said Lily. "Yeah," said Jenna, "you would think that if that person really wanted to go out with you they would tell you their name." "Oh well," said Lily, "it was sweet anyway."

       They had now reached the History of Magic classroom. They all took a seat and Lily started opening another envelope. It started singing like the other one, only this time it was a different voice and a different message:

Lily Evans-

I think you are pretty

And smart and neat

I love the way

You always smell sweet

Your long auburn hair

And your emerald green eyes

Are enough to make all the girls

Glare in despise

I wish you would have

Picked me for the ball

But as, you should know

You can't win 'em all

I hope that you will

Save one dance for me

As you're out on the floor

As you should be

I could go on forever

Talking about you

But I must turn this in

It's past time to be due

Lily glanced around the classroom and noticed that everyone but Professor Binns was looking at her. Binns was still talking on about the History of Hogwarts, he hadn't even noticed that anything was going on around him.

          Lily took out a piece of parchment and scribbled a note to the girls who took it read it. They kept writing back to each other until the class ended. This is what it ended up saying:

Wasn't that the sweetest thing you guys have ever heard?

Yes, it was Lily, we wonder whom it's from though.

I don't know, but it was so romantic. Too bad they weren't written notes. We could have looked to see if it was familiar writing.

Yeah we could have. They did say some things that might give us clues, though. Like the part where he said,  I wish you had picked me for the ball. Think about it Lily, who would that be.

Well, it would have to be Sirius or Potter.  I hope it wasn't Potter though, I can't imagine him being a romantic like that.

Then we'll just have to find out who it really was. We'll do it tonight at the ball

Okay sounds good. Oh the bell's going to ring soon we better wrap this up.

Okay, we'll talk about this later, while we are getting ready for the ball.

Well class ended and since History of magic was the Gryffindor first year's only morning class that day, they were done with school. They went and had lunch then went back to the Common Room. The girls left the boys in the common room and went to their dorm.

~The girls Dormitory- 1:00~

Since it was only 1:00 and the dance didn't start until 7:00, the girls decided to finish listening to Lily's Valentine messages. Luckily they were all short like the first one or they would have been listening to them for hours. By the time they were finished listening to the messages, it was 3:30.

          "Oh no," said Courtney, "we only have three and a half hours to get ready for the ball, we better hurry."

          "Don't worry Court," said Lily, "three and a half hours is plenty of time to get ready."

          Lily took her bag that used to have Valentines in it and threw it on her bed. She noticed that a letter fell out of it. "Oh well," she thought to her, "I can listen to it later."

          As the girls did their hair and put on their makeup they talked about who could have sent Lily the long Valentine message.

          "Well our only two options are Sirius and James," said Allison, "since you picked Remus to go with you."

          "Yes, I know that," said Lily, "but I wish I knew which one it was."

          "I say you don't worry about it Lily," said Jenna, "if the person wants you to find out it was them, then they will let you, so let's drop it and worry about it later."

          "Jenna's right," said Courtney, "I'm sure you'll know who this mystery man is by the end of the ball."

          "You guys are right," said Lily, "I probably will find out tonight. Thanks."

"No problem," they said in unison, "now lets get you beautiful."

          Three hours later the girls were all ready and were just putting on shoes or jewelry.

          Lily was looking for her Necklace she had gotten from Remus for Christmas when she found something she hadn't expected. It was the necklace that James had given her for Christmas. She had taken it off the day that she had ended her friendship with James.

"I don't know why I didn't just throw this away or get rid of it," she thought to herself, "I mean I hate James now don't I?" She turned it over and saw the inscription James had put on it, Lily and James: friends forever. "Friends forever," thought Lily, "yeah right."

"Oh here it is," she thought, pulling out the necklace she was looking for.  She put it on and turned to her friends, "How do I look?" she asked

"Beautiful," said Jenna

"Like an angel," replied Courtney

The other girls said that she was a knockout and Remus was not going to regret coming with her.

Lily looked at herself in the mirror and had to agree with her friends. She looked absolutely stunning in the dress her parents had given her for Christmas, and her hair looked beautiful, hanging down in long elegant curls, she had very little makeup on, just eye shadow and mascara, but she didn't need makeup, she was a natural beauty.

          "Well, this is it girls," she told her friends, "are you ready to go make some men stare?"

          "Yeah," they all said at once, "let's go."

When they walked down the stairs every male eye in the room looked up at them and stared. The girls started blushing when some of the guys started catcalling. Many of the guys' dates were hitting them so they would stop looking at the group of first years. I mean, how often do sixteen or seventeen year olds stare at eleven year olds like that? Hardly ever.

Lily walked over to Remus and he said, "Wow Lily, you look gorgeous, you've got every guy in the room staring at you."

Lily laughed and said, "What can I say, I'm a guy magnet. You don't look too bad yourself Remus."

"Thanks, Lily" said Remus, "should we go now?"

"Yes we shall," said Lily taking Remus' arm.

Neither of them noticed the boy sitting in the corner of the common room looking at them as they left. "She looked beautiful," thought the boy to himself,  "I shouldn't be thinking about her when I have my own date that I have to pick up." He got up from his seat in the corner and left for the Ravenclaw common room to pick up his date for the ball.

The ball started with a feast then they cleared away the tables and started the dancing.

Lily and Remus were having a wonderful time until Lily spotted Potter with his date.

"Don't let him see me," she said to Remus, " I don't want him to spoil my fun."

"Well it's a little late for that Lily," said Remus, "they are walking over here right now."

"Oh great," thought Lily to herself, "just what I need, Potter spoiling my fun."

James and his date walked over to them and James asked, "are you two having a good time?"

"Yes we are Potter," said Lily, "or we were until you came along."

"Evans," said James, "I didn't come over to fight, I just wanted to introduce you to my date, Melissa Burbank."

Melissa said hello to Remus and Lily. They said hello back and it was over.

"Well that went better than I expected it would," Remus told Lily.

"I guess it did," said Lily and they continued dancing.

The dance was almost over when Sirius came over to where Lily and Remus were drinking punch and asked if Lily would dance with him. She said okay and they went to the dance floor.

"Lily," Sirus began, "that," but Lily cut him off by saying, "that Valentine was from you, wasn't it?"

"Sirius looked at her with a surprised look and said, "Yeah it was, how did you know?"

"Just a guess," she told him, "but I'm glad it was you and not James."

"Me too," thought Sirius to himself, "me too."

When the dance ended Remus walked Lily back to the common room and to her dorm.

Lily hugged Remus and said, "I had a great time tonight, thanks for bringing me."

"No, Lily," said Remus, "thank YOU for coming WITH me. Good night."

"Goodnight," responded Lily.

When she walked into her dorm, she saw that all of her friends were back and already in bed, asleep. She got ready for bed, then noticed the one last Valentine still sitting there, waiting to be opened.

          "I don't want to wake anyone up," she thought to herself, "so I'll open it tomorrow while they are at breakfast."  So She put it under her pillow and drifted off to sleep.

Well there it was. I hope you all liked it. I know that ball wasn't very detailed but by the time I got to it, I was tired of typing and just wanted to finish this chapter. I also know I never told you who Jenna, Courtney, Allison, or Mckel was going to the ball with. I figured you could all pick someone in your heads that they went with, and you can pick what they were wearing, too. Anyway, I hope you will all review. Bye

-Katie

Oh, before I go, I just did a spelling and grammar check, but I wasn't really paying attention to some of the things, so if you find anything that seems weird, I'm sorry. Please forgive me.