A/N:- I have a HUUUUGE apology to make, I kinda forgot to add a chapter between Inhibitum Pregnatus and Jenny and Contraception. The chapter I missed out is called Loss of Changs so before you read this chapter please read that chapter, it's when they actually find out that Jenny has died. I'M SO SORRY, I miss labelled the chapters, PLEASE READ LOSS OF CHANGS BEFORE THIS ONE!!!!!
Going to the great hall turned out to be the worst thing that Lily could do. Not only did people keep coming up to her to say sorry about Jenny but many of the students were whispering rumours to themselves and a few people came up to Lily to ask her about it. Lily was finding it very difficult to keep her tears at bay.
"Ignore them." James said, putting a comforting arm around Lily.
"It's just getting too much, I can't cope with this." Lily said. April frowned, she didn't like seeing Lily like that. Lily was April's role model, she was smart, beautiful, popular and so strong but seeing Lily get so agitated and close to tears made April feel like she'd been really selfish. Lily ate a piece of Shepard's pie but it tasted like cardboard, like everything else she had eaten while she was in the great hall. The pumpkin juice had no taste at all everything just look so depressing.
"Hey, Evans, is it true that you cut your wrists last night?" asked a concerned Hufflepuff sixth year girl.
"Where do people get these things from?" growled Sirius.
"Detention." James said, he had handed out so many detentions already and another wouldn't hurt. The Hufflepuff scowled and walked off. Lily got up and grabbed James' cloak as she got up. It was lying on the bench between them.
"Lily." James said following her out of the hall. Lily pulled the cloak over her and ran up to the Gryffindor common room. James hesitated slightly and then gave up and headed back to dinner.
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"We will always remember how much Jenny cared for the people she loved. She had a bigger heart than most people and would do anything for her friends and family."
"Except let me copy her homework" April muttered so quietly only Lily heard. A smile played across Lily's face as she remembered all the small playful arguments they had all had over the past few years, trying to get April to do her own work.
"So we say goodbye to Jenny Chang, beloved daughter, adored sister and a much loved friend." The person conducting the funeral stepped away and went to Mr. And Mrs. Chang. "I am very sorry for your loss, in these hard times all I can offer is my support. She was too young to be killed in such a horrid way." Mrs. Chang nodded and pulled Lee closer to her. Lily felt like being sick. Being at the funeral meant that Jenny was really gone. James and Sirius wasn't allowed to come with them so April and Lily were trying to support each other. People started going to Jenny's parents to offer their cosolences but to Lily and April it seemed like they didn't want them, they just wanted to be left on their own. Lily and April went up to the coffin that lay at the front of the room surrounded by flowers. Lily clutched a small box and April had a couple of photos in her hand.
April touched the smooth wooden surface of the wooden box and ran her hand along it. The dark brown polished box was what Jenny was going to live in for the rest of time. She turned to Lily who took her want out.
"Alohamora" Lily barely managed to say as she pointed the wand at a small lock on the coffin. The lock gave a soft click and Lily looked at April. "Together?" she asked. April nodded.
"Together." April Confirmed. Both the girls pushed the lid up and saw Jenny's lifeless body lying peacefully in the coffin. Behind them Jenny's dad was going to go to them to tell them to stop it but Jenny's brother and mum stopped him.
"She looks so peaceful." April said touching Jenny's cold cheek. Lily looked into the small box she held in her hand. There was a long slender wand inside, the wand had belonged to Jenny. Jenny had left it in the dormitory on the night of the ball, Lily had found it while sorting through Jenny's things with April. Lily took out the wand and placed it at one of Jenny's hands. Lily half expected Jenny to get up and smiled at them saying everything was a joke but Jenny didn't.
"Just so you're armed in the afterlife." Lily whispered. Lily looked at April. April looked at the photos. They were all the photos that Lily and April could find that they vaguely remembered Jenny liking. April placed them by her head and leant over and kissed her cold forehead.
"We love you." April said to the lifeless corpse. Lily and April stood there for a few more minutes just staring at their dead friend. They were about to close the lid when Lee joined them.
"Dad's really angry." Lee muttered after a while. "He didn't want to see Jenny's body."
"We did." Lily said. April and Lily lowered the lid and put a spell on it to lock the lid down. Lily and April both felt slightly better having seen Jenny and said their final goodbyes. Lily thought that if she had been to her parent's funeral she would feel the same but she didn't. Lily and April turned to go and had started for the door when they heard s soft voice behind them.
"Jenny would be pleased with what you did, even if my husband wasn't." said Mrs. Chang behind them. Lily and April turned to look at her. "I sometimes think that you two were more her family then we were, she never stopped talking about you, how you, Lily, were the smartest girl she'd ever known, and April, that you were the best hearted person she'd met. She cared about you a lot you know." April and Lily could just mange small smiles. "I want you to know that you will always be welcome to ask for our help, should you ever need it." Mrs. Chang said.
"Thank you" was all Lily could say. April looked like she was on the verge of tears again.
"Would you mind taking Lee back to school." Mrs. Chang said. April shook her head.
"We'll wait outside." April said. Mrs. Chang gave them a smile and turned to get Lee.
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Lily sat on the sofa in the empty common room. She crossed her arms and rested them on April's legs. April was lying on the sofa with her legs over Lily's. April was actually reading for a change and Lily was staring into the fire.
"You know I feel slightly better." Lily said.
"I don't" April said. Both of them felt a lot better after the funeral. Jenny's death had finally sunk in and they had said their goodbyes to their best friend. They both felt something coming over them that made them happy about the fact that Jenny had moved on to a better place.
"You said earlier that you felt better." Lily said.
"Well, I do but I don't at the same time." April said. "I think some of Jenny has come into me" April sat up slightly, "I mean I'm reading!" Lily laughed and pushed April over and sighed.
"I'll be glad when we get back to lessons." Lily said.
"Lessons start next week." April said, her head going back into her book.
"Yeah." Lily said slightly depressed, "I've just thought of a very depressing idea."
"What's that?" April asked. She sounded as though she was half concentrating.
"I'm going to have my eighteenth birthday without Jenny." Lily said. April put her book down and looked at Lily and took her hand.
"Oh, Lily" April said. She sat up again and put a hand on Lily's head. "You know what Jenny would say don't you?"
"What?" Lily asked looking at April.
"Well, more like do. She'd get on a broom and play quidditch." April said grinning. Lily smiled
