° - Christmas Holidays - °
It had been two weeks since the fight, two weeks in which Lily and James hadn't spoken to each other. Lily just stalked past whenever James was around, and he tried in vain not to notice she was there. Their friends were getting sick of chasing them around, so they decided to leave it, leave it as it was.
But then, along came an eventful night in the common room.the night that Lily and James started talking to each other again. Much to Jen's disappointment, he didn't kiss her. And Sirius was siriusly going to rip his hair out if they graduated from Hogwarts with Lily and James not engaged or something.
[That night in the Common Room]
Lily sat in an armchair, one leg raised to her chest and her head resting on her knee. Her hair was framing her tired face as she sank back into the couch, a small yawn escaping her lips. She felt awful, again. She just couldn't forget how mean she had been to James...and that look on his face, as if she had just broken his heart or something. She wanted to apologise, but she was feeling too embarrassed. She just hoped that soon enough, she would stop being a chicken and apologize.
The common room was quiet, real quiet since she was the only one in it, reading her Charms textbook. But she couldn't concentrate with this feeling of guilt that plagued her so much. She heard someone enter the common room and turned to see James. He didn't.well, he tried really hard not to look at her and plopped down in an armchair away from her.
Lily couldn't take it anymore, she turned to him and started to muster up the courage to open her mouth and say something. 'You can do it...just say something...'
"James?" she said, turning her head towards him slightly.
"Yes?" he said flatly, turning to look at her.
Her, the girl who would most likely never be his. Her, the girl who made him feel guilty. Her, the girl who made him trip and turn into a clutz whenever he saw her. Her, the girl he loved.
He felt so bad, and so hurt right now.
Lily sighed and got up. She walked over to him and sat down in the armchair facing him.
"James, we need to talk." She said quietly.
He nodded.
"About our fight." She said again, twitching slightly.
"Sorry," they said at the same time as they looked at each other. They both smiled slightly.
"I didn't mean what I said..." Lily said quietly, looking away. "I really didn't, I was just angry James. I don't want you to.die...or anything." she said smiling slightly. "And I'm sorry I slapped you...and called you all those names."
James smiled and waved his hand as if to dismiss it.
"Forgotten." He said. "And I'm sorry for what I said, I didn't mean it." He said and shook his head slightly.
Lily stared at him. Maybe he really did change. She just realized how sincere he sounded when he apologized, and how he had stopped asking her out almost once everyday. He had stopped picking on people and he had been so much nicer to her. Almost too nice. And she had been so stupid as to ignore his efforts.
"You know, James, you really did change this year..." she said softly.
"I did?" he said, perking up slightly.
"Yes," she said and nodded, "You did. You're nicer. And you actually think. And you stopped bullying people. And you developed feelings. And.you're more caring and less arrogant," she finished and smiled.
James grinned from ear to ear, "I changed for you, you know!"
Lily fidgeted with a string on her robes and blushed slightly. "Thanks, James," she said and stood up, trying not to let him notice she was blushing. "I'm tired now, so.see you tomorrow," she said and got up to leave.
"Bye Lily," he said as he watched her disappear into the girls dormitories.
James smiled to himself and soon walked into the boys dormitories.
[Next morning - Saturday- Snowing!]
Lily woke up the next morning and started singing very loudly about the snow outside so the rest of her dorm-mates would wake up.
Dyane Izburn woke up laughing, trying to tell Lily how bad she sounded as she smoothed her shiny black hair.
Serena Malders continued to sleep, her dark blue eyes shut and her light brown hair covering her face.
Melanie and Malorie Faux, who both had silver-blonde hair and big green eyes, were laughing too and all the laughter woke Kathy up.
Jen continued to sleep.but she wasn't sleeping anymore when every girl in the dorm tipped a glass of ice cold water over her.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"RUN!" Lily said and all the girls ran out of the dorm, all dressed in their muggle clothes.
Lily was still laughing when she fell backwards on a couch. She was wearing a flowing black skirt that reached her knees with warm white tights under it. She had put on a ¾ sleeved tight rainbow tie-dyed top with a thick denim jacket over it to keep her warm. A white scarf was tied around her neck. Her red hair was in a high ponytail with some strands framing her face. She also had ear muffs on. They were purple and fuzzy.
Kathy was telling all of the girls to be quiet so they wouldn't wake up the rest of the house.
Kathy's chocolate brown hair was loose, with a striped headband in it and she was wearing a very warm, dark purple wool sweater. And black velvet pants. Jen soon came down, just as the other girls in the dorm were leaving the common room.
"That was mean!" she said and pouted. Jen's curls were in a high ponytail and she was wearing a dark pink long-sleeved t-shirt and faded jeans and her high-top shoes. She was wearing a white jacket over her t-shirt.
"What was mean?" came Sirius' voice as he appeared in the common room with Remus. Sirius was wearing an oversized dark blue sweater and jeans, Remus a white t-shirt with a black jacket over it and jeans.
"They woke me up with water," Jen said and rolled her eyes.
Sirius sniggered, "Even that wouldn't wake James up."
Remus laughed slightly, "We tried to wake him and Peter up with water, but no use!"
"I know what could wake him up!" Jen said, a mad glint in her eye.
"What?" all the others said in unison.
"Tell him he's just been kicked off the Gryffindor team!" Jen laughed, her eyes twinkling.
"Oooh, brilliant!" Sirius said and ran back to the dorms.
"So how has your morning been so far?" Remus asked the girls.
"Fine," Lily said cheerfully.
"Funny..." Kathy said and grinned.
"Frustrating," Jen said, shooting a glare at Kathy and Lily.
Suddenly a loud, sputtering, "WHAAAAAAT?!" could be heard from the boys' dormitories. James came tearing down from the dorms, making to leave. He was already dressed in a huge red sweater and black jeans.
Lily grabbed his arm before the mess could leave the common room.
"Hey, wait! It was a joke!" she said and laughed.
James blinked, "It was?"
Remus nodded, "So we could get you to wake up."
"Funny joke," James said sarcastically.
Sirius came down the stairs soon, still laughing.
"Let's go outside before it stops snowing!" Lily said, practically jumping off the couch. She started dragging her friends out. Then the Marauders followed with Peter still half-asleep.
[Outside]
Lily squealed as she stepped outside with all her friends, it was so cold out. So could, but so beautiful. The scene was amazing. All the trees were covered in snow, and the castle was too. The sun was shining on the frozen lake, and it all looked magnificent.
"Its so beautiful," Lily said and smiled, bending down to make a snowball. But too late.
SPLAT!
James had thrown a snowball at her and at Jen. Bad idea.
Lily fell forward slightly, from surprise and Jen shrieked and jumped. Lily whirled around and threw the snowball she had made at James, then Jen threw one at him. He fell, but he was laughing.
Jen was threw a snowball at Remus, Sirius was chasing Kathy around, who was shrieking about not wanting to get hit with a snowball, and Lily and James were both laughing. Weird scene.
James stood up, then offered Lily his hand to pull her up, and she took it and let him pull her to her feet. There was a weird, devilish smile on her face and her hand was behind her back. Half a second later James's face was covered in snow. Lily ran away laughing, and James was sputtering and brushing snow off his face and cleaning his glasses.
Jen had gotten herself and Remus involved in a snowball fight with Amos Diggory, The Faux twins, and 2 more Ravenclaws she had just met.
Kathy was having a conversation with Sirius about why she hated snow, and she was standing about two feet away from him, afraid he might throw a snowball at her.
"Come back here!" James yelled after Lily and took off after her at full speed, grinning.
Lily was running as fast as she could, but James was catching up pretty fast. She got a thought and stopped, turning around so he nearly rammed into her.
"Wait...what are you going to do if you do catch me anyway?", she asked, a smile on her face as if daring him to do anything.
James's eyes were twinkling, that odd look when he was up to something, and he had a mischevious smile on his face. "I heard you were ticklish, Evans." He said and grinned madly.
"I am not!" she lied, taking a step backwards. She had a vague idea of what he was planning to do.
"Well, I'm afraid I am going to have to find out!" he said.
She shrieked as James 's hands found their way on to her - and began tickling mercilessly. He was standing behind her with his arms around her waist, and she was laughing and trying to get away from him.
"Let.me...go..." she said through fits of laughter and squirming.
"Surrender!" he laughed, tickling her even more.
"Ne-ver..." she said and tried to get his hands off between giggles.
"Oooh, lookie!" Jen said, poking Remus. "It's so cu-HEY!" she yelled as someone hit her with a snowball she pointed to James and Lily.
Remus grinned, and threw another one at her.
Sirius and Kathy were making a snowman, with Kathy squealing and jumping back everytime Sirius made a move like he was going to hit her with a snowball. They were making a snowwoman, too. Kathy had her camera with her, and took a picture of James tickling Lily.
"AH.Get.OFF.!" Lily wailed through her laughter. James was laughing too, and had to let her go because he was shaking with laughter.
"You should have seen your face, Evans, when I said I was going to find out for myself..." he said and copied the horrified face.
SPLAT.
Another snowball to the face from Lily, and she tackled him this time too.
"HAH!" she said, sitting on his stomach and flicking his nose evilly.
"Come now, Lil-OW!" he yelled as she flicked his nose.
"Heeheee..." she said and smiled innocently. She poked his eye next.
"Eva-OW!" he yelped again, and poked her back. She poked him again then took his glasses off his face and jumped off him, laughing. She wondered what he would look like without his glasses.
He stood up, and blinked, "Lily.everything is sort of blurry..." he said, reaching his hands out.
Lily smiled. James looked cute without his glasses. She grinned and poked him from the back.
"Lily," he nearly whined, "Where are you?" he said, whirling around. And she was standing there, laughing slightly. She looked weird through his eyes without glasses. It was almost just red and green, that he could see. She put his glasses on his nose again.
"Hey Evans, don't steal my glasses, it's not nice," he said and pouted, although he couldn't stop grinning.
"Yeah, whatever," she said laughing, sounding a little Irish.
"Aren't you from England, Evans?" he asked, an eyebrow raised.
"My mum is Irish, it explains the red hair too," she said as they walked over to Kathy and Sirius.
"What are you doing?" Lily asked them. "We're making a snow couple, see snowman and snowwoman!" Kathy said and nodded, suppressing her laughter.
Sirius grinned slightly and waved to Lily and James foolishly, "Hello," he said, and stood behind the snow couple. "All done," he said and Kathy took a picture of him with the snow couple.
"Now, let's go get Jen and Remus, we have decided that we are all going to Hogsmeade," Kathy said and Sirius nodded.
Lily raised an eyebrow, "We? Heh...okay then, let's go," she said and they all walked over to Jen and Remus, and pulled them out of the snow ball fight.
"We're going to Hogsmeade!" Kathy announced. "Great!" Jen said, then looked sad, "I don't want to leave for the Christmas Holidays...it means I have to deal with my step mom," she said and scowled. "Stupid witch-hater," she mumbled but then put on a confident smile and looked around at all of them, "Well, let's go!" she said and they all headed off into the castle to get dry. And warm.
[20 minutes later!]
"Argh, Kathy, stop fussing, we're leaving. See, we're all getting up!" Remus said and stood up, she was trying to tip him off his chair. All of the others stood up and yawned slightly.
"Bah, let's go before we all fall asleep or something!" Sirius said and ushered all of them out of the common room.
[Hogsmeade]
"Okay, so we're here!" Lily said and grinned. She was standing next to Remus and Sirius, facing Jen, Kathy and James.
She loved Hogsmeade. There was always the sound of people pushing past each other, shop-keepers yelling to each other, people laughing and the light was shining on the snow-covered shops, making them look nice.
Lily grinned and practically skipped across the path that lead to a new store that had opened. "Hey, where to, Lils?" Jen asked and grinned, "to that new store I hope?"
"Yep!" Lily said, and Kathy smiled happily, holding her camera. "Ah...what do they sell there again?"
"Necklaces, rings, bracelets. But all with magic on them, so they're not normal things.and there's some other junk too!" Lily said as the walked into the store. Lily looked at the store in amazement. There were necklaces, dangling off hangers everywhere, along with bracelets and rings, some were even floating. There were books, special types of ink, air chimes and strange looking things. The shop was dimly lit and had an eerie feeling to it. The shopkeeper was a witch with straight black hair and bright gray eyes. Thin, young and pale, she was adorned with rings, bracelets and necklaces.
"Ah, I see you have come across my store, welcome, welcome, how can I help you?" she said in a Scottish accent.
"Oh, we're just going to look, thank you," Kathy said politely and smiled. Lily walked over to Jen, who was looking at a shiny silver ring with a stone exactly the color of her eyes on it. "Excuse me," she said to the witch, "can you please tell me about this ring?" Jen asked, holding up the ring, an eyebrow risen.
"That one, yes, that one is a special ring my dear. That ring stops night mares, it was said that thousands of years ago, that tiny stone was part of a huge rock, a huge rock known as 'Seramthenis'. The stone was believed to curse away bad luck and dreams, dear.but you ought to be careful." The witch said, smiling.
"Yeah, right." Jen said, distractedly. She was staring at the ring, and it was glowing slightly. "How much is this?" she asked. "A Galleon." The witch answered. Jen nodded and bought the ring, then wore it.
Lily was examining a pair of earrings. They were rubies and they had a tiny emerald stone in them. "Could you please tell me about these earrings?" Lily asked the witch.
"Those earrings belonged to a witch, around 20 years ago. A very powerful witch," The shopkeeper said, examining them.
"Alright then, I'll buy them," Lily smiled and paid for them.
Kathy was staring at a bracelet, a silver chain bracelet with a small, shiny purple diamond hanging off it. She tried it on and smiled, it looked really nice.
"That bracelet attracts attention," the witch said, "it just turns heads sometimes."
Kathy nodded like she believed the witch and bought the bracelet. The Marauders were all mumbling quietly, huddled around a book. It was a horoscope book and they were trying to figure out what it meant, since it was all written in such a complicated way.
The girls laughed, and pulled them out.
"Ah, the light is hurting my eyes, because it was so dark in there!" Jen laughed.
"Heh...where to now?" Lily said, shivering slightly. "Let's go to 'The Three Broomsticks'!" Remus said. "Yeah, I'm freezing!" Sirius agreed.
"Okay...", James said, and the others nodded, all setting off towards the pub.
[The Three Broomsticks]
"Argh, Jen, give me my butterbeer", Kathy said, struggling to reach her arm over the table - she was sitting at the one end of the table and the butterbeers were at the other end.
Jen laughed and passed Kathy her butterbeer. She took a long sip of her own and smiled. Lily stared at her jug.
"Are you lot positive there's nothing in it?" she asked testily, raising both eyebrows.
They all groaned, it was the hundredth time that day that she had asked, "YES!" they all bellowed. She took a sip and smiled slightly, "Alright, I believe you."
Jen rolled her eyes and yawned lightly, "Tiredness..." she said and grinned.
"Okay, question!" Sirius said loudly, "Who is leaving tomorrow, and who isn't?" he asked, looking at all of them.
"Leaving," they all said at once. Sirius laughed.
"I'm going to my apartment, and the rest of you?"
"I'm going to Jen's place," Lily said.
"Me too!" Kathy said.
"I'm going home," Remus and James said.
"Oh okay.I'll send all of you your Christmas presents with my owl!" Sirius said and smiled.
"Same," the girls said.
James and Remus nodded.
"Shouldn't we be leaving now?" Lily said after 25 minutes.
"Yes, we should." Jen said, and Kathy stood up, all of the others following suit.
They all paid for their drinks and walked out of the pub talking.
[The Next Morning - After Breakfast]
"And be sure to study for the N.E.W.T.'s, and make notes, and read the books, and do the assignments," Lily and Remus were lecturing their friends the next morning in the common room before the Leaving Feast.
"Alriiight, alright!" Sirius said and frowned. "Lily is going to be with us anyway, so it isn't like we have much of a choice!" Kathy whined, "You're so lucky!" she said and kicked Sirius, James and Peter jokingly.
"Promise you'll write, all of you!" James said and grinned.
"Promise!" they all chorused.
[On the train ride back to Kings Cross Station]
"No, Jen, I'm not telling you what I got you!" Lily said and yawned, her head falling onto Kathy's shoulder. Jen frowned.
"Don't you want it to be a surprise?" Remus said and grinned. "Yeah, don't you?" Sirius said and poked her.
"Arrgh, go away!" she said and stuck her tongue out. James laughed at her immature behaviour.
"Lily, wake up, we need to go patrol the corridors," he said, nudging her lightly.
She stood up and walked out, with him following her.
"HEY! YOU! DON'T!" Lily yelled to a Fifth Year Hufflepuff boy who was about to plant a dungbomb. He muttered something and scuttled away. Lily frowned and shook her head, walking around a corner and bumping straight into someone. She stumbled backwards and felt herself fall as the person she had bumped into pushed her down forcefully.
Lily looked up and saw Bellatrix Black, her sister Narcissa, a girl with curly black hair and ugly sneer she was sure was called Melodia King, a girl with dark brown hair she knew was Kelsey and another girl with bright orange hair that she didn't know.
"Eurgh! Watch were you're going, you filthy little mudblood!" Bellatrix screeched, dusting off herself as if Lily had just climbed out of a sewer. Narcissa was glaring at Lily down her pinched nose. The other three girls were jeering at her. She felt slightly intimidated as she backed up a little and stood up, putting on a confident look.
"Wash out your mouth," she told Bellatrix calmly, her eyes slightly narrowed in warning. She didn't even look at the other four girls.
The girl with bright orange here, who was particularly large in sized, pushed Lily, making her stumble back slightly. All the other girls laughed.
"And who's going to make her?" the curly-haired girl said in her girly voice, pulling out her wand.
"Not you, I hope?" Kelsey said and sneered. She laughed and glared at Lily.
"Don't touch her," Narcissa said, "I don't want your filth on my sister! You are a disgrace to the wizarding world anyway," she said and smirked.
Lily glared at all of them and stood up again, "I think we have different opinions about what is a disgrace, Narcissa,"
Bellatrix threw her head back and laughed, her black hair falling into her eyes, "She wouldn't dare touch me! And shut up Evans, you are a piece of dirt anyway."
"Or would she?" the orange haired girl said and kicked Lily.
"Hmm...maybe she's too ugly to do that," Kelsey said, "After all, she DOES look like her hair is on fire. And her eyes are the color of that green sludge in sewers."
"And she's pathetic. Little mudblood coming into the wizarding world, thinking she actually matters," Melodia sneered.
Lily felt tears stinging her eyes, she backed up a little, but glared all the while.
"Oh look, she's going to cry, little poor baby mudblood," Bellatrix taunted.
"And if you don't shut up, you will be crying soon." Jen said, stepping next to Lily. She looked so angry it wasn't even funny, and when Jen was angry, God help whoever was on the receiving end on one of her slaps...
Bellatrix pretended to shudder, "Oh, that's so damn scary, I'm so scared!" she said, her cronies all started to laugh.
"You should be," said Kathy's voice, and she appeared on the other side of Lily. She was furious.
"Really, now, why would I be scared of Miss Mudblo..." Bellatrix started, but was cut short by Kathy shrieking "How dare you?!" and next thing she knew, Jen's hand flew across her face, and both of them grabbed Lily and turned around, storming back to the compartment. Lily dropped into a seat by the corner and raised her legs to her chest, and let the tears spill from her eyes.
Jen sat in front of her, and Kathy next to her, both of them trying to say comforting things to her, and trying to show her they weren't angry anymore, even though they were. Sirius and Remus looked utterly confused, and Peter was sleeping.
"What happened to her?" Sirius asked, moving over to where the girls and Lily were with Remus.
"Did someone annoy her?" Remus asked.
"It was Bellatrix and her gang!" Jen said furiously, slamming her fist on the seat next to Lily. "They...they were calling her mudblood and other foul names like themselves!" she nearly yelled.
Kathy wiped away a tear from her eyes. They were tears of anger. Kathy hated the injustices made against Muggle-born people. She was so angry right now, why did people like to ruin other people's happiness all the time with their stuck up attitudes?
Lily just sobbed, and hid her face; she wouldn't let anyone talk to her. Thirty seconds later, James walked in, and noticed that Sirius wasn't in the compartment anymore, Remus was trying to talk to Lily, and Jen and Kathy had left with Sirius, to 'talk' to Bellatrix about her attitude.
"Remus, what happened to her?" James's said, sounding very concerned as he sat next to Lily.
"It was Bellatrix, Bellatrix and her gang, they were taunting Lily..." Remus said, and James was angry. He hugged Lily, and surprisingly, she didn't push him off.
She was still hiding her face with her hands.
"Its okay, Lily, you shouldn't let them get to you, they only go around annoying people because they have insecurities and because they think they are higher than most people," Remus and James were telling her just as Sirius, Jen and Kathy walked in.
"We told her and her stupid friends to back off," Jen said and smiled slightly confidently.
Lily finally revealed her face, and pulled away from James.
"Thanks..." she mumbled. "I shouldn't have let them get to me, I know, but it's not fair." She said and rubbed one of her eyes.
Jen put an arm around her shoulders, "I know, but they were bullying you, what was that, five or four on one?" Kathy spat.
Lily shrugged and smiled weakly, "I'm fine, really I am." she insisted.
"Okay then," Jen said and Kathy smiled. Sirius sat down, looking glum. He had been yelling at his cousins, and he didn't feel bad for doing it, but it was just the fact that they were from the same family that made him feel embarrassed.
James smiled at Lily and she smiled back. "I'll patrol the corridors, Lily, you can stay here," he said, standing up, and walked out before she had a chance to protest. "Thanks!" she called out after him.
Lily didn't know why, but she suddenly felt like she had started to have feelings for him. She also didn't know if that was good or bad. What was she going to do?
A/N: HEY READERS! I am so, so sorry I haven't updated in such a long time! But school work and writers block took over! I HATED IT! But then I just knew that I had to update, that I really wanted to. So I opened word, and sat there for an hour till I came up with some ideas! Hehe! Again, I'm sorry. TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY! OCTOBER 13! WEE!
It had been two weeks since the fight, two weeks in which Lily and James hadn't spoken to each other. Lily just stalked past whenever James was around, and he tried in vain not to notice she was there. Their friends were getting sick of chasing them around, so they decided to leave it, leave it as it was.
But then, along came an eventful night in the common room.the night that Lily and James started talking to each other again. Much to Jen's disappointment, he didn't kiss her. And Sirius was siriusly going to rip his hair out if they graduated from Hogwarts with Lily and James not engaged or something.
[That night in the Common Room]
Lily sat in an armchair, one leg raised to her chest and her head resting on her knee. Her hair was framing her tired face as she sank back into the couch, a small yawn escaping her lips. She felt awful, again. She just couldn't forget how mean she had been to James...and that look on his face, as if she had just broken his heart or something. She wanted to apologise, but she was feeling too embarrassed. She just hoped that soon enough, she would stop being a chicken and apologize.
The common room was quiet, real quiet since she was the only one in it, reading her Charms textbook. But she couldn't concentrate with this feeling of guilt that plagued her so much. She heard someone enter the common room and turned to see James. He didn't.well, he tried really hard not to look at her and plopped down in an armchair away from her.
Lily couldn't take it anymore, she turned to him and started to muster up the courage to open her mouth and say something. 'You can do it...just say something...'
"James?" she said, turning her head towards him slightly.
"Yes?" he said flatly, turning to look at her.
Her, the girl who would most likely never be his. Her, the girl who made him feel guilty. Her, the girl who made him trip and turn into a clutz whenever he saw her. Her, the girl he loved.
He felt so bad, and so hurt right now.
Lily sighed and got up. She walked over to him and sat down in the armchair facing him.
"James, we need to talk." She said quietly.
He nodded.
"About our fight." She said again, twitching slightly.
"Sorry," they said at the same time as they looked at each other. They both smiled slightly.
"I didn't mean what I said..." Lily said quietly, looking away. "I really didn't, I was just angry James. I don't want you to.die...or anything." she said smiling slightly. "And I'm sorry I slapped you...and called you all those names."
James smiled and waved his hand as if to dismiss it.
"Forgotten." He said. "And I'm sorry for what I said, I didn't mean it." He said and shook his head slightly.
Lily stared at him. Maybe he really did change. She just realized how sincere he sounded when he apologized, and how he had stopped asking her out almost once everyday. He had stopped picking on people and he had been so much nicer to her. Almost too nice. And she had been so stupid as to ignore his efforts.
"You know, James, you really did change this year..." she said softly.
"I did?" he said, perking up slightly.
"Yes," she said and nodded, "You did. You're nicer. And you actually think. And you stopped bullying people. And you developed feelings. And.you're more caring and less arrogant," she finished and smiled.
James grinned from ear to ear, "I changed for you, you know!"
Lily fidgeted with a string on her robes and blushed slightly. "Thanks, James," she said and stood up, trying not to let him notice she was blushing. "I'm tired now, so.see you tomorrow," she said and got up to leave.
"Bye Lily," he said as he watched her disappear into the girls dormitories.
James smiled to himself and soon walked into the boys dormitories.
[Next morning - Saturday- Snowing!]
Lily woke up the next morning and started singing very loudly about the snow outside so the rest of her dorm-mates would wake up.
Dyane Izburn woke up laughing, trying to tell Lily how bad she sounded as she smoothed her shiny black hair.
Serena Malders continued to sleep, her dark blue eyes shut and her light brown hair covering her face.
Melanie and Malorie Faux, who both had silver-blonde hair and big green eyes, were laughing too and all the laughter woke Kathy up.
Jen continued to sleep.but she wasn't sleeping anymore when every girl in the dorm tipped a glass of ice cold water over her.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"RUN!" Lily said and all the girls ran out of the dorm, all dressed in their muggle clothes.
Lily was still laughing when she fell backwards on a couch. She was wearing a flowing black skirt that reached her knees with warm white tights under it. She had put on a ¾ sleeved tight rainbow tie-dyed top with a thick denim jacket over it to keep her warm. A white scarf was tied around her neck. Her red hair was in a high ponytail with some strands framing her face. She also had ear muffs on. They were purple and fuzzy.
Kathy was telling all of the girls to be quiet so they wouldn't wake up the rest of the house.
Kathy's chocolate brown hair was loose, with a striped headband in it and she was wearing a very warm, dark purple wool sweater. And black velvet pants. Jen soon came down, just as the other girls in the dorm were leaving the common room.
"That was mean!" she said and pouted. Jen's curls were in a high ponytail and she was wearing a dark pink long-sleeved t-shirt and faded jeans and her high-top shoes. She was wearing a white jacket over her t-shirt.
"What was mean?" came Sirius' voice as he appeared in the common room with Remus. Sirius was wearing an oversized dark blue sweater and jeans, Remus a white t-shirt with a black jacket over it and jeans.
"They woke me up with water," Jen said and rolled her eyes.
Sirius sniggered, "Even that wouldn't wake James up."
Remus laughed slightly, "We tried to wake him and Peter up with water, but no use!"
"I know what could wake him up!" Jen said, a mad glint in her eye.
"What?" all the others said in unison.
"Tell him he's just been kicked off the Gryffindor team!" Jen laughed, her eyes twinkling.
"Oooh, brilliant!" Sirius said and ran back to the dorms.
"So how has your morning been so far?" Remus asked the girls.
"Fine," Lily said cheerfully.
"Funny..." Kathy said and grinned.
"Frustrating," Jen said, shooting a glare at Kathy and Lily.
Suddenly a loud, sputtering, "WHAAAAAAT?!" could be heard from the boys' dormitories. James came tearing down from the dorms, making to leave. He was already dressed in a huge red sweater and black jeans.
Lily grabbed his arm before the mess could leave the common room.
"Hey, wait! It was a joke!" she said and laughed.
James blinked, "It was?"
Remus nodded, "So we could get you to wake up."
"Funny joke," James said sarcastically.
Sirius came down the stairs soon, still laughing.
"Let's go outside before it stops snowing!" Lily said, practically jumping off the couch. She started dragging her friends out. Then the Marauders followed with Peter still half-asleep.
[Outside]
Lily squealed as she stepped outside with all her friends, it was so cold out. So could, but so beautiful. The scene was amazing. All the trees were covered in snow, and the castle was too. The sun was shining on the frozen lake, and it all looked magnificent.
"Its so beautiful," Lily said and smiled, bending down to make a snowball. But too late.
SPLAT!
James had thrown a snowball at her and at Jen. Bad idea.
Lily fell forward slightly, from surprise and Jen shrieked and jumped. Lily whirled around and threw the snowball she had made at James, then Jen threw one at him. He fell, but he was laughing.
Jen was threw a snowball at Remus, Sirius was chasing Kathy around, who was shrieking about not wanting to get hit with a snowball, and Lily and James were both laughing. Weird scene.
James stood up, then offered Lily his hand to pull her up, and she took it and let him pull her to her feet. There was a weird, devilish smile on her face and her hand was behind her back. Half a second later James's face was covered in snow. Lily ran away laughing, and James was sputtering and brushing snow off his face and cleaning his glasses.
Jen had gotten herself and Remus involved in a snowball fight with Amos Diggory, The Faux twins, and 2 more Ravenclaws she had just met.
Kathy was having a conversation with Sirius about why she hated snow, and she was standing about two feet away from him, afraid he might throw a snowball at her.
"Come back here!" James yelled after Lily and took off after her at full speed, grinning.
Lily was running as fast as she could, but James was catching up pretty fast. She got a thought and stopped, turning around so he nearly rammed into her.
"Wait...what are you going to do if you do catch me anyway?", she asked, a smile on her face as if daring him to do anything.
James's eyes were twinkling, that odd look when he was up to something, and he had a mischevious smile on his face. "I heard you were ticklish, Evans." He said and grinned madly.
"I am not!" she lied, taking a step backwards. She had a vague idea of what he was planning to do.
"Well, I'm afraid I am going to have to find out!" he said.
She shrieked as James 's hands found their way on to her - and began tickling mercilessly. He was standing behind her with his arms around her waist, and she was laughing and trying to get away from him.
"Let.me...go..." she said through fits of laughter and squirming.
"Surrender!" he laughed, tickling her even more.
"Ne-ver..." she said and tried to get his hands off between giggles.
"Oooh, lookie!" Jen said, poking Remus. "It's so cu-HEY!" she yelled as someone hit her with a snowball she pointed to James and Lily.
Remus grinned, and threw another one at her.
Sirius and Kathy were making a snowman, with Kathy squealing and jumping back everytime Sirius made a move like he was going to hit her with a snowball. They were making a snowwoman, too. Kathy had her camera with her, and took a picture of James tickling Lily.
"AH.Get.OFF.!" Lily wailed through her laughter. James was laughing too, and had to let her go because he was shaking with laughter.
"You should have seen your face, Evans, when I said I was going to find out for myself..." he said and copied the horrified face.
SPLAT.
Another snowball to the face from Lily, and she tackled him this time too.
"HAH!" she said, sitting on his stomach and flicking his nose evilly.
"Come now, Lil-OW!" he yelled as she flicked his nose.
"Heeheee..." she said and smiled innocently. She poked his eye next.
"Eva-OW!" he yelped again, and poked her back. She poked him again then took his glasses off his face and jumped off him, laughing. She wondered what he would look like without his glasses.
He stood up, and blinked, "Lily.everything is sort of blurry..." he said, reaching his hands out.
Lily smiled. James looked cute without his glasses. She grinned and poked him from the back.
"Lily," he nearly whined, "Where are you?" he said, whirling around. And she was standing there, laughing slightly. She looked weird through his eyes without glasses. It was almost just red and green, that he could see. She put his glasses on his nose again.
"Hey Evans, don't steal my glasses, it's not nice," he said and pouted, although he couldn't stop grinning.
"Yeah, whatever," she said laughing, sounding a little Irish.
"Aren't you from England, Evans?" he asked, an eyebrow raised.
"My mum is Irish, it explains the red hair too," she said as they walked over to Kathy and Sirius.
"What are you doing?" Lily asked them. "We're making a snow couple, see snowman and snowwoman!" Kathy said and nodded, suppressing her laughter.
Sirius grinned slightly and waved to Lily and James foolishly, "Hello," he said, and stood behind the snow couple. "All done," he said and Kathy took a picture of him with the snow couple.
"Now, let's go get Jen and Remus, we have decided that we are all going to Hogsmeade," Kathy said and Sirius nodded.
Lily raised an eyebrow, "We? Heh...okay then, let's go," she said and they all walked over to Jen and Remus, and pulled them out of the snow ball fight.
"We're going to Hogsmeade!" Kathy announced. "Great!" Jen said, then looked sad, "I don't want to leave for the Christmas Holidays...it means I have to deal with my step mom," she said and scowled. "Stupid witch-hater," she mumbled but then put on a confident smile and looked around at all of them, "Well, let's go!" she said and they all headed off into the castle to get dry. And warm.
[20 minutes later!]
"Argh, Kathy, stop fussing, we're leaving. See, we're all getting up!" Remus said and stood up, she was trying to tip him off his chair. All of the others stood up and yawned slightly.
"Bah, let's go before we all fall asleep or something!" Sirius said and ushered all of them out of the common room.
[Hogsmeade]
"Okay, so we're here!" Lily said and grinned. She was standing next to Remus and Sirius, facing Jen, Kathy and James.
She loved Hogsmeade. There was always the sound of people pushing past each other, shop-keepers yelling to each other, people laughing and the light was shining on the snow-covered shops, making them look nice.
Lily grinned and practically skipped across the path that lead to a new store that had opened. "Hey, where to, Lils?" Jen asked and grinned, "to that new store I hope?"
"Yep!" Lily said, and Kathy smiled happily, holding her camera. "Ah...what do they sell there again?"
"Necklaces, rings, bracelets. But all with magic on them, so they're not normal things.and there's some other junk too!" Lily said as the walked into the store. Lily looked at the store in amazement. There were necklaces, dangling off hangers everywhere, along with bracelets and rings, some were even floating. There were books, special types of ink, air chimes and strange looking things. The shop was dimly lit and had an eerie feeling to it. The shopkeeper was a witch with straight black hair and bright gray eyes. Thin, young and pale, she was adorned with rings, bracelets and necklaces.
"Ah, I see you have come across my store, welcome, welcome, how can I help you?" she said in a Scottish accent.
"Oh, we're just going to look, thank you," Kathy said politely and smiled. Lily walked over to Jen, who was looking at a shiny silver ring with a stone exactly the color of her eyes on it. "Excuse me," she said to the witch, "can you please tell me about this ring?" Jen asked, holding up the ring, an eyebrow risen.
"That one, yes, that one is a special ring my dear. That ring stops night mares, it was said that thousands of years ago, that tiny stone was part of a huge rock, a huge rock known as 'Seramthenis'. The stone was believed to curse away bad luck and dreams, dear.but you ought to be careful." The witch said, smiling.
"Yeah, right." Jen said, distractedly. She was staring at the ring, and it was glowing slightly. "How much is this?" she asked. "A Galleon." The witch answered. Jen nodded and bought the ring, then wore it.
Lily was examining a pair of earrings. They were rubies and they had a tiny emerald stone in them. "Could you please tell me about these earrings?" Lily asked the witch.
"Those earrings belonged to a witch, around 20 years ago. A very powerful witch," The shopkeeper said, examining them.
"Alright then, I'll buy them," Lily smiled and paid for them.
Kathy was staring at a bracelet, a silver chain bracelet with a small, shiny purple diamond hanging off it. She tried it on and smiled, it looked really nice.
"That bracelet attracts attention," the witch said, "it just turns heads sometimes."
Kathy nodded like she believed the witch and bought the bracelet. The Marauders were all mumbling quietly, huddled around a book. It was a horoscope book and they were trying to figure out what it meant, since it was all written in such a complicated way.
The girls laughed, and pulled them out.
"Ah, the light is hurting my eyes, because it was so dark in there!" Jen laughed.
"Heh...where to now?" Lily said, shivering slightly. "Let's go to 'The Three Broomsticks'!" Remus said. "Yeah, I'm freezing!" Sirius agreed.
"Okay...", James said, and the others nodded, all setting off towards the pub.
[The Three Broomsticks]
"Argh, Jen, give me my butterbeer", Kathy said, struggling to reach her arm over the table - she was sitting at the one end of the table and the butterbeers were at the other end.
Jen laughed and passed Kathy her butterbeer. She took a long sip of her own and smiled. Lily stared at her jug.
"Are you lot positive there's nothing in it?" she asked testily, raising both eyebrows.
They all groaned, it was the hundredth time that day that she had asked, "YES!" they all bellowed. She took a sip and smiled slightly, "Alright, I believe you."
Jen rolled her eyes and yawned lightly, "Tiredness..." she said and grinned.
"Okay, question!" Sirius said loudly, "Who is leaving tomorrow, and who isn't?" he asked, looking at all of them.
"Leaving," they all said at once. Sirius laughed.
"I'm going to my apartment, and the rest of you?"
"I'm going to Jen's place," Lily said.
"Me too!" Kathy said.
"I'm going home," Remus and James said.
"Oh okay.I'll send all of you your Christmas presents with my owl!" Sirius said and smiled.
"Same," the girls said.
James and Remus nodded.
"Shouldn't we be leaving now?" Lily said after 25 minutes.
"Yes, we should." Jen said, and Kathy stood up, all of the others following suit.
They all paid for their drinks and walked out of the pub talking.
[The Next Morning - After Breakfast]
"And be sure to study for the N.E.W.T.'s, and make notes, and read the books, and do the assignments," Lily and Remus were lecturing their friends the next morning in the common room before the Leaving Feast.
"Alriiight, alright!" Sirius said and frowned. "Lily is going to be with us anyway, so it isn't like we have much of a choice!" Kathy whined, "You're so lucky!" she said and kicked Sirius, James and Peter jokingly.
"Promise you'll write, all of you!" James said and grinned.
"Promise!" they all chorused.
[On the train ride back to Kings Cross Station]
"No, Jen, I'm not telling you what I got you!" Lily said and yawned, her head falling onto Kathy's shoulder. Jen frowned.
"Don't you want it to be a surprise?" Remus said and grinned. "Yeah, don't you?" Sirius said and poked her.
"Arrgh, go away!" she said and stuck her tongue out. James laughed at her immature behaviour.
"Lily, wake up, we need to go patrol the corridors," he said, nudging her lightly.
She stood up and walked out, with him following her.
"HEY! YOU! DON'T!" Lily yelled to a Fifth Year Hufflepuff boy who was about to plant a dungbomb. He muttered something and scuttled away. Lily frowned and shook her head, walking around a corner and bumping straight into someone. She stumbled backwards and felt herself fall as the person she had bumped into pushed her down forcefully.
Lily looked up and saw Bellatrix Black, her sister Narcissa, a girl with curly black hair and ugly sneer she was sure was called Melodia King, a girl with dark brown hair she knew was Kelsey and another girl with bright orange hair that she didn't know.
"Eurgh! Watch were you're going, you filthy little mudblood!" Bellatrix screeched, dusting off herself as if Lily had just climbed out of a sewer. Narcissa was glaring at Lily down her pinched nose. The other three girls were jeering at her. She felt slightly intimidated as she backed up a little and stood up, putting on a confident look.
"Wash out your mouth," she told Bellatrix calmly, her eyes slightly narrowed in warning. She didn't even look at the other four girls.
The girl with bright orange here, who was particularly large in sized, pushed Lily, making her stumble back slightly. All the other girls laughed.
"And who's going to make her?" the curly-haired girl said in her girly voice, pulling out her wand.
"Not you, I hope?" Kelsey said and sneered. She laughed and glared at Lily.
"Don't touch her," Narcissa said, "I don't want your filth on my sister! You are a disgrace to the wizarding world anyway," she said and smirked.
Lily glared at all of them and stood up again, "I think we have different opinions about what is a disgrace, Narcissa,"
Bellatrix threw her head back and laughed, her black hair falling into her eyes, "She wouldn't dare touch me! And shut up Evans, you are a piece of dirt anyway."
"Or would she?" the orange haired girl said and kicked Lily.
"Hmm...maybe she's too ugly to do that," Kelsey said, "After all, she DOES look like her hair is on fire. And her eyes are the color of that green sludge in sewers."
"And she's pathetic. Little mudblood coming into the wizarding world, thinking she actually matters," Melodia sneered.
Lily felt tears stinging her eyes, she backed up a little, but glared all the while.
"Oh look, she's going to cry, little poor baby mudblood," Bellatrix taunted.
"And if you don't shut up, you will be crying soon." Jen said, stepping next to Lily. She looked so angry it wasn't even funny, and when Jen was angry, God help whoever was on the receiving end on one of her slaps...
Bellatrix pretended to shudder, "Oh, that's so damn scary, I'm so scared!" she said, her cronies all started to laugh.
"You should be," said Kathy's voice, and she appeared on the other side of Lily. She was furious.
"Really, now, why would I be scared of Miss Mudblo..." Bellatrix started, but was cut short by Kathy shrieking "How dare you?!" and next thing she knew, Jen's hand flew across her face, and both of them grabbed Lily and turned around, storming back to the compartment. Lily dropped into a seat by the corner and raised her legs to her chest, and let the tears spill from her eyes.
Jen sat in front of her, and Kathy next to her, both of them trying to say comforting things to her, and trying to show her they weren't angry anymore, even though they were. Sirius and Remus looked utterly confused, and Peter was sleeping.
"What happened to her?" Sirius asked, moving over to where the girls and Lily were with Remus.
"Did someone annoy her?" Remus asked.
"It was Bellatrix and her gang!" Jen said furiously, slamming her fist on the seat next to Lily. "They...they were calling her mudblood and other foul names like themselves!" she nearly yelled.
Kathy wiped away a tear from her eyes. They were tears of anger. Kathy hated the injustices made against Muggle-born people. She was so angry right now, why did people like to ruin other people's happiness all the time with their stuck up attitudes?
Lily just sobbed, and hid her face; she wouldn't let anyone talk to her. Thirty seconds later, James walked in, and noticed that Sirius wasn't in the compartment anymore, Remus was trying to talk to Lily, and Jen and Kathy had left with Sirius, to 'talk' to Bellatrix about her attitude.
"Remus, what happened to her?" James's said, sounding very concerned as he sat next to Lily.
"It was Bellatrix, Bellatrix and her gang, they were taunting Lily..." Remus said, and James was angry. He hugged Lily, and surprisingly, she didn't push him off.
She was still hiding her face with her hands.
"Its okay, Lily, you shouldn't let them get to you, they only go around annoying people because they have insecurities and because they think they are higher than most people," Remus and James were telling her just as Sirius, Jen and Kathy walked in.
"We told her and her stupid friends to back off," Jen said and smiled slightly confidently.
Lily finally revealed her face, and pulled away from James.
"Thanks..." she mumbled. "I shouldn't have let them get to me, I know, but it's not fair." She said and rubbed one of her eyes.
Jen put an arm around her shoulders, "I know, but they were bullying you, what was that, five or four on one?" Kathy spat.
Lily shrugged and smiled weakly, "I'm fine, really I am." she insisted.
"Okay then," Jen said and Kathy smiled. Sirius sat down, looking glum. He had been yelling at his cousins, and he didn't feel bad for doing it, but it was just the fact that they were from the same family that made him feel embarrassed.
James smiled at Lily and she smiled back. "I'll patrol the corridors, Lily, you can stay here," he said, standing up, and walked out before she had a chance to protest. "Thanks!" she called out after him.
Lily didn't know why, but she suddenly felt like she had started to have feelings for him. She also didn't know if that was good or bad. What was she going to do?
A/N: HEY READERS! I am so, so sorry I haven't updated in such a long time! But school work and writers block took over! I HATED IT! But then I just knew that I had to update, that I really wanted to. So I opened word, and sat there for an hour till I came up with some ideas! Hehe! Again, I'm sorry. TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY! OCTOBER 13! WEE!