Disclaimer: Okay you guys this is going to be short since I don't have a
lot of writing time since school's started now. All Harry Potter characters
are property of Ms. JK Rowling. I am merely borrowing them for my story
Chapter 5~ Shaky Trust
The next day Lily was awoken by the sound of cheerful humming. She lazily opened her eyes, but quickly pulled the covers over her head as if it were natural reflex. The sun had shone right into her eyes and she grumpily peeked her head out to look at the clock on the wall.
6:37am the clock read. Lily wondered who on EARTH was up so early when all of the sudden she was being shaken by someone. Lily didn't bother to see who it was. She didn't care, it was WAY too early for her to care!
'Maybe if I just lay here they'll think I'm asleep and go away' Lily thought. And so she lay in her bed pretending to be asleep while this person continued to try and wake her up.
Had Lily been sitting up she probably would have had an eye twitch form waking up so early. She just continued to lay there. All of the sudden the shaking stopped and Lily relaxed. Ten minutes later that horrible Shaking was BACK!!!
Lily, who had almost gotten back to sleep, in reflex reached her hand up quickly flung it in the air accidentally hitting whoever was trying to wake her in the face. "Ouch! Hey I was just trying to ask you if you wanted to go down to breakfast with me."
Lily's eyes shot open. "Oh I'm soooooo sorry!" It had been Leida trying to wake her up the whole time. "I'm really sorry Leida I didn't know it was you and I'm not used to getting up THIS early." Lily really was sorry. After all, besides Anton and Darren, Leida was the only friend she had so far.
"Oh that's okay." Leida giggled a bit, "I have a little sister who does the same thing when I try to wake her up." Lily laughed along with Leida for a while before Leida asked once again if Lily'd like to come down to breakfast with her.
Lily looked at the clock it was about 7:10 now and Lily figured that she would have been getting up by now anyway. "Sure why not. Just let me get ready for school." Lily took a quick shower and slipped on her school uniform before she gathered her things for class and they headed to breakfast.
When they walked into the Great Hall one of the first things Lily saw was a bright smile being flashed her way. She turned her head to see who it was and found that it was James Potter, the boy with the messy hair from the sorting.
Lily looked at the boy questioningly before he opened his mouth and said, "Good Morning, Lily Evans isn't it?" Lily just blinked for a few seconds before replying "Oh yeah, and um you're James Potter..right?" Lily was hoping she was right it'd be terribly embarrassing if she didn't know his name after he'd known hers.
"Yep that'd be me!" He flashed Lily another smile and Lily couldn't help but blush slightly. 'He's totally flirting with me!' she thought. She hadn't even noticed Leida giggling beside her until she started pulling on Lily's arm to sit down.
After sitting down Lily looked in front of her. There he was sitting there in front of her. It was Anton with a smirk plastered on his face he'd apparently saw the whole James incident.
Lily took a moment to really look at how much her child hood friend had changed. She'd already noticed before that he'd begun to fill out his form, but there were other things about him she hadn't noticed before.
His light blue eyes were relaxed and full of wonder and interest now. Before they'd been wide open and extremely cautious and lighthearted. His hair which used to be cut in a short style was now falling into his eyes.
And his smile seemed different. Before it had made Lily smile and laugh along with whatever he was smiling about, but now ....it was a totally different feeling she'd never felt towards Anton before.
"Already getting involved with boys eh Lils?" Anton continued to smirk while Lily snapped out of her thoughts and registered what he said. Once she had she continued to blush even more. "Shut up." She said as she flicked a piece of toast at him. He just dodged it and laughed.
"Well what did you expect Lily? Have you seen yourself in the mirror lately?" Anton continued to chuckle but Lily just sat there. Lily hadn't noticed the changes in her, but then she figured that since she saw all these changes in Anton he was bound to see some in her as well.
Lily just rolled her eyes at him. He just seemed different. Lily just went back to eating her toast when she heard Leida whisper in her ear, "What do you think of him?" she sounded a bit dazed if you asked Lily.
Lily looked up to find her friend staring over at the quiet boy named Remus and smirked. "Got a thing for quiet boys eh?" Lily looked towards Leida to find her blushing. "Well, I talked to him in the hall a bit and he seems nice.he's kinda cute too." At this Lily just smiled even more.
Lily looked around her searching for anyone she'd seen the night before. She saw that girl from the boat. Elizabeth, Lily believed her name was, as well as that other girl from the boat Vanessa. Lily wasn't really paying attention until her eyes landed on a girl she remembered as April Mills.
Lily remembered because the hat had said that her sorting was a surprise. Lily turned to Anton and rolled her eyes when she heard him talking about Quidditch. She decided to get his attention by flicking another piece of toast at him. It landed in his hair and Lily could see the corner of his mouth twitch slightly as he was getting it out. "Yes?!" he asked sounding slightly annoyed. Lily hung her head at bit; she hadn't meant to make Anton mad at her.
Anton sighed a bit when he saw her do this. "Look I didn't mean to sound snappy okay?" Lily smiled a little and straightened back up. "Just don't throw it in my hair next time okay?" he smirked and Lily could tell that all had been forgiven.
"Well I was wondering..." Anton raised his eyebrow; "Yes?" he asked giving her look telling her to just spit it out already! "Well that girl April Mills..why was her sorting considered surprising?" Anton leaned back in his chair.
"Well it's mostly because of her family. Her mother's side of the family has been in Slytherin for ages. And her father's side has all either been in Slytherin or Ravenclaw. Her Dad was the first in their family to be in Gryffindor."
Lily still didn't understand. "Why does that all matter?" Lily was quite confused and couldn't see why everyone would find it unusual that April hadn't followed in the same steps as her family.
Anton sighed at her question. "Things work a little differently as far as expectations in the magical world." Lily just looked at him still confused. "Things that that are usually just assumed; people just assume that since most of her family was in Slytherin that she should be too."
Lily thought about it before she realized how terrible it must be to automatically be judged like that. "Well at least the sorting hat seems to fairly judge." She said. "Yeah I guess so. The sorting hat looks more at a person's thoughts and wishes rather than their name though."
"Yeah I guess you're right." Lily continued to look around the room and was about to ask if the four boys, James, Remus, Peter, and Sirius, had always known each other when Professor McGonagall came around with schedules.
Lily looked at her schedule and saw that they had first period with the Hufflepuffs in Herbiology. That didn't sound too bad to Lily. She'd skimmed over their Herbiology book and it looked like it might be interesting.
Lily looked over at Leida who was looking quite happy about their first class. "You like Herbiology?" Lily asked. "Yeah, I LOVE it!" she said. "I used to look at pictures of the different plants when I was little." She smiled at Lily. "Well let's head out I wanna make sure we get a good seat!"
And with that Leida pulled Lily, who still had half a piece of toast in her mouth, out through the doors of the school and over to Greenhouse 1. Lily paused once they were inside. Everything looked really different. There was so much variety in the room!
There where some plants that were so colorful Lily felt like she was looking into a rainbow. But then there were other plants that just looked like dirt that had been molded into a plant-like state. There was even a plant that looked like a gigantic version of a Venus flytrap!
Leida pulled Lily into the seat beside her and told her a bit about a few plants while they waited for the professor to come in.
After class was over Lily decided that it seemed fairly easy for now. Really all you had to do was listen very carefully to what the Professor said. But when she said listen she really wasn't kidding! One of the four boys that were always together, James, hadn't listened carefully enough and had later been sent to the hospital wing with a cut hand.
Lily looked at her schedule and found that next up was Transfiguration. Lily was just a little more excited about this class. The ability to change something into something else sounded like it would be really cool.
When they walked into the classroom Lily was surprised to see a cat sitting on the Professor's desk. Lily couldn't help it; she walked up to the kitty and started petting it and scratching it behind the ears.
That's when she realized how much she missed her own cat and wished that Malico could have come with her. Sure she had Nuruku but he could just be so Moody sometimes! Malico had a BIT of an attitude as well, but his was just a part of his personality.
Lily stopped petting the cat which actually seemed to be smiling and sat down next to Leida. Lily looked at her schedule again and saw that they had this class with the Ravenclaws.
Elizabeth Hotaru walked in the room. Lily had wanted to say Hi too her she seemed like she would be pretty nice, but when she saw that she was reading she decided not to interrupt.
And then they entered, those four boys that just seemed to be joined at the hip. Lily couldn't help but stare at them. They all really were fairly good looking for their age. Peter looked like he would have been quite the cutie if he'd just loose the baby fat.
Remus seemed nice and all, but one Lily's now best friend had a crush on him and two he was just a little too shy for Lily's taste. The two that really caught her attention were the two that seemed to be joined together the most.
James Potter and Sirius Black were both very charming. As Lily looked around the room she noticed that she wasn't the only one who'd been staring. Several girls were already sighing themselves to death and some on the verge of drooling!
Lily just shook her head and watched as the two boys took a seat next to each other. The whole class was silent for a while but all were looking around curiously for the Professor. Suddenly, the cat that had been on the desk before hopped over near a chalkboard and sat in a chair next to it.
The cat let out a meow and just as suddenly changed into their own Professor McGonagall! Lily was so shocked and suddenly felt quite embarrassed for having earlier scratched her Professor behind the ears and even petting her!
Professor McGonagall chuckled at their stunned faces and said, "Several of the young ladies in our class came and gave me a very nice welcome." The Professor smiled and Lily was happy to hear that she hadn't been the only one to be fooled.
That day in class they were all supposed to try and turn a match into a needle. Lily wasn't having too much luck but at least, unlike Leida, she hadn't set her match on fire. James Potter was the first to successfully complete his assignment, followed, of course, by Sirius, and Remus.
By the end of class Lily had managed to basically change her match into a metal stick! It wasn't sharp and wasn't quite a needle but Lily was happy with it as a first try.
Lily looked back at her schedule and happily smiled. It was time for Charms with the Slytherins. Lily wasn't too sure how happy she was about that Slytherin part from what Anton had told her but at least it was Charms and Lily was excited about that.
Lily had been waiting to go to Charms class ever since she had been to Diagon Alley. Lily looked curiously around the room and wondered why there were books on top of the teacher's chair. However, not wanting another cat incident to happen, Lily decided to leave the books alone.
Lily once again found herself searching around the room for familiar faces. She noticed that the other blonde girl from the boat, Vanessa, was in this class as well as that boy Severus Snape. Lily smiled when she saw him. She didn't know why but she was interested in what he was like. He seemed shy and quiet but looked intelligent all the same. Maybe Lily would find a crush in this quiet boy like Leida did in Remus.
Lily stopped looking around when she heard a wand tapping on the desk she was surprised to see what looked almost like a small little dwarf standing on the books and tapping his wand. "Now class," he began in a peppy cheerful voice that seemed to make the Slytherins twitch.
"Quiet down won't you?!" he asked with a little more force so that his voice almost squeaked. The rest of the class finally looked up at the short little man with shoulder length dusty white hair which had been pulled back into a small ponytail at the back of his wizard's cap.
"Now then, I am your Charms teacher Professor Flitwick and today we will be practicing the hand motion for a levitation spell." The professor picked up his little wand and with graceful movements and a hushed word or two caused some of the books on his desk to levitate.
All of the students stared in mixed expressions of excitement, awe and interest, they were all eager to try the spell but as first years they weren't too sure of themselves.
"Right then, now I don't want all of you to be trying the full spell today; because today I just want you to practice the hand motions. Just get out your wands it's a simple swish and flick movement" The students rustled about with their wands
Lily held her wand in her hand watching the professor carefully she consulted the extra Charms book she'd picked up in Diagon Alley and as soon as the Professor was done explaining and gave them the go ahead Lily started practicing right away.
It took Lily a while before she noticed that a few people were staring at her with expressions of awe. Lily was a little nervous..was she doing something wrong, but when the professor came over and complemented her she knew that she must have been doing well and blushed.
"Very nice Miss Evans! If the whole class has gotten this fairly well by tomorrow then we might be starting practice with actual levitation items." The professor looked like he was pleased and excited with his first year students and Lily left the classroom, for lunch, in a good mood.
Lily walked with Leida, who didn't do NEARLY as well in Charms as Lily, to Lunch. The two girls sat side by side when Lily noticed that April Mills was sitting near them. Lily wondered about her. She just seemed so quiet and secretive, but she did very well in all the classes they had, had already.
Lily decided that she would talk to this April girl later after class in their dormitories. That's when she heard the sound of wings. She was surprised to see about 5 owls enter the Great hall. All the students started whispering and sending curios glances. Everyone knew that the post had already come this morning.
Then as a few students gasped Lily decided to look at the owls more closely. Lily now noticed that every single one of them was either black or gray and that they all held black envelopes.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Yes I remember that day. The day with the black and gray owls that looked so ominous. I know that I wasn't sure about why they were there at the time, but I would soon know what those owls meant and it wouldn't be the last time I saw them.
I looked over to where he's still sleeping soundlessly. His family was mostly torn apart, but they weren't greeted by black or gray owls, even though it was the same thing that caused both the owls to appear as well as his family tearing.
I finally decide to step out in the hallway for a second, because it's warmer out there and I had been getting cold chills. I used to never feel them, these freezing shivers that run along my bones. That's something that's come over time. A lot of people get them now, but I remember I never had them in first year.
Everything had seemed so safe, so clam, so magical and untouchable. Oh how wrong I was for thinking that. I did slowly begin to realize after time just how bad things were, but that didn't come till much later.
I looked down below me where I could see all the way down the two stories left of the house. Everything was so big and elegant here. You would think that they had parties and guests over frequently, but on the contraire, the owners themselves were hardly ever here.
That left him and his brother here alone most of the time. I never thought that I'd understand him and know him so well. I'd always watched him, I'd talked to him, it wasn't like we had been strangers, but it was the histories that had kept us apart. It wasn't even our histories really. I knew nothing of that in first year either. But I still remember the fear and panic in the eyes of those who had seen those owls before. Praying that one did not choose to drearily fly near and land softly and symbolically in front of you where it would drop its black letter and fly off; sometimes leaving a feather behind. Luckily the Gryffindor table had spared the visit of the owls to their table, but others were not so lucky.
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Lily looked around and jumped when a painfully distressed cry came from a now crying Ravenclaw as she looked down at the black letter in front of her. But her cry was not the last to be heard. Two more could be heard from students as they each also were given a black scroll.
The two gray owls flew towards the staff table. One owl went to Professor McGonagall and the other to Professor Dumbeldore. Lily watched as her usually stern and confident looking Transfiguration teacher's expression was changed into a sorrowful look of concern as she glanced at the three who had received letters.
Dumbeldore suddenly looked a bit older, wiser and gave the same three deep looks of caring and folded the letter as he placed it into his pocket. "If those of you who have received a black notice would please follow me to my office, I feel that I need to discuss a few things with you." The three who had received letters slowly got up from their tables and left with Professor McGonogal and Professor Dumbeldore.
Everyone in the Great Hall, with the exception of a few Slytherins, looked at the three retreating kids with concern. Lily was confused; she looked up at Anton already asking with her eyes what all this meant.
Anton looked down at Lily, she was worried and she didn't even know what was going on. He knew she was going to have a hard time accepting that not all magical people were good.
Anton was still lost in thought when he finally heard Lily voice the question she'd already been asking. "Anton," she said in a whisper, "what was all that about? With the black letters and all?"
Anton sighed and looked into her eyes. Lily noticed that they seemed to be lost in thought and full of concern and feeling. "Well Lily, you see.it means that someone close to them, most likely a family member or something, have well.died." Lily's eyes already widened in surprise.
"But since those particular owls came, it means that..well.." Anton let his sentence trail off as if he didn't even want to say it. "It means they were killed." Darren finished. Lily gasped in surprise, she had expected a death but not for them to have all been killed.
"But who, who could have, who would have done something like that?!" Lily looked confused again and Anton looked away. She had been so happy to be there he didn't want to be the one to have to tell Lily that not all in the magical world was good.
Thankfully it was Darren who, once again, responded. "There's a Dark Wizard named Voldemort and he has a group of supporters called Deatheaters. It might have something to do with him." Darren seemed to hang his head slightly. Anton knew that Darren had lost his older sister to a group of Deatheaters. He had been small so he didn't remember it but it still hurt him.
It was quiet before Lily asked, "Voldemort? Deatheaters, what's all that mean?" Anton who didn't want Darren to have to answer another question on the subject responded instead. "Voldemort has been steadily gaining more power now a days. And the Deatheaters who used to be but a small group of fifteen or so has now grown to at least somewhere in the 90's."
"Nobody's sure exactly what his purpose is right now." Anton didn't want to worry Lily by telling her that the one thing they knew was that he was after Muggle-borns and Muggles. He didn't want to discuss it anymore.
"So you liking all your classes so far Lily?" Lily wondered for a second how the subject had changed but when she saw Anton's face she decided to not question the matter any further. "Oh they're alright I guess. I have double potions after this though, what's the Professor like?"
Anton and Darren both chuckled. "Who? Professor Nightwar? He's one of the best Professors here. He's really well mannered." Anton smiled at Darren who finished the sentence, "Unlike his house." They all laughed and ate a bit before Lily got her things together for potions and Anton and Darren headed to Care Of Magical Creatures.
Lily and Leida left for potions together which actually turned out to be quite a trip, because on the way they ran into Peter, James, Sirius, and Remus. "Hey there you." Lily turned around to find the face of a grinning James Potter. Lily smiled, she could tell he had a crush on her; either that or he was certainly a flirt.
"Hi," she said. She noticed that Remus was eyeing Leida quietly and almost blushing because of her own attention being directed toward him. "What's going on?" he asked giving her another smile almost as if he thought she was already love struck.
Lily just giggled when she noticed that his friend, Sirius, was already playing a prank on his friend by changing his hair color. It was already slowly changing from its deep black into a violent shade of bright orange. Leida too had noticed and was also laughing.
James stepped back looking confused, until he saw both Peter and Remus laughing as well with Sirius nowhere to be found. James turned around and, as if it couldn't have gotten worse, found himself directly facing Sirius's wand and got a blast of orange in the face.
James then whipped out his own wand and aimed towards Sirius's hair. He missed though making a clearly visible hot pink stain on Peter's shoe. As soon as Sirius saw the color James had just used he ran off laughing calling back, "You'll have to do better than that to get me hair Potter! Arr for I be Captain Black who has snitched yer book from yer bag!"
James just laughed and ran off after his friend and as they disappeared Leida and Lily could hear James say, "Black you pirate unhand that book, what has it done to you unhand it I say you villainous dog!" The two girls and what remained of the four boys all laughed and continued to set off for potions without them.
As soon as they walked in the Potions room Lily looked around for Professor Nightwar. Lily decided after a few minutes that he must be out of the room and sat down in the nearest seat. She would have followed Leida, but she was already sitting with Remus and talking to him about Herbiology.
Lily grinned and turned around and saw that she had sat down right next to Severus Snape. He seemed to be lost in a book that's title was in Latin, which Lily couldn't understand. "Hi" she said smiling at him. He seemed to jump at the sound of her voice. 'I guess he didn't notice me sit down.' Lily thought.
"Hi," he said quietly before returning to his book. 'Not exactly the friendly sort, is he?' Lily asked herself. Lily decided to try and make some sort of conversation with him. "So, what's that you're reading?" she asked curiously. He just looked up at her with narrowed eyes and said, "A book."
Lily just shook her head. "Well I figured that, but what's the book called." He naturally just looked at the cover and read exactly what it said, in Latin that is. Lily sighed, 'Am I ever going to get ANYWHERE with this guy?' she thought. She was only trying to make decent conversation and here he was acting like she was an annoying little 4 year old.
But she decided to have patience. "What's it mean.in English?" she asked. He let out a small sigh and set his book down. "Why are you sitting by me?" he asked. She looked a bit surprised. "It was just the closest seat." He rolled his eyes. "Shouldn't you be sitting with some Gryffindor?" he asked. "Well no not that I know of anyway." Lily was starting to grow annoyed but once again calmed herself. "Besides my friend Leida is already sitting with someone."
She had half expected him to next ask her if she had any other friends she could sit by but instead he just nodded his head and went back to reading. After a few minutes of silence, the class was just now starting to really come in and fill the room. Lily decided to try this again.
"So your name's Severus right? Mine's Lily, but I've never heard of your name before it's really unique." He once again put down his book and sighed. He looked into her eyes and said, "Why do you talk to me so much?" Lily almost lost it then. She had just given him a compliment and here he was, once again, answering her question with another question.
"Why not?" she asked, "Why shouldn't I, I was only trying to make conversation." She said trying not to sound snappy. He also seemed to be getting rather agitated. "You're a mudblood aren't you?" he looked at her as if he should have known something. "Pardon, am I a what?" she looked very confused.
He once again sighed but this time the sigh was heavier more irritated. "A Muggleborn, you know, no magical parents." Lily's mouth twitched slightly as she answered, "Yeah, so what's it to you?" she really was starting to loose it.
He just rolled his eyes and said with a huff, "Never mind." Just then the Professor walked in through the door. He looked rather cheerful and had a bright smile on his face. "Hello, hello, welcome all of you. I am Professor Nightwar I will be teaching you Potions. Now then.."
The Professor went on and on about different things and they had to take notes every now and then. Lily was just amazed that this was the head of Slytherin house. He seemed really quite nice and was very descriptive at explaining things.
Lily looked over and saw Snape copying every word that the Professor was saying even when they didn't have to take notes. Lily thought about telling him this but decided that she didn't feel like having all the sarcasm thrown at her right now. Why ruin a good class?
"Now then if you all will work together with the person you're sitting next to then I would like you to try to make this." With a wave of his wand writing appeared on the black board with instructions. It seemed to be a fairly simple one but Lily wasn't going to argue, after all it's not like she'd ever done this before.
Lily looked over to see Severus push all the items that needed to be cut towards her. "Here you cut these up like it says, while I get the cauldron ready." Lily almost protested at the fact of just cutting up things, but after she double checked the board decided not to.
All the potion really was, was cutting up ingredients heating the cauldron just right and throwing them in the right order while giving the potion a good stir. When Lily finally finished cutting, she'd had trouble starting on one of the pants which smelled horrible when cut. She looked over to see Severus ready and waiting.
"Oh you're done, good. I was wondering when you were going to get over that smell." Lily sighed that could have been a decent sentence had he left off the part about the smell. Together they worked on putting the right ingredients in at the right times and making sure the cauldron maintained its temperature.
"Excellent Miss Evans, Mr. Snape. I shall be expecting great things from the both of you in my class." At first Lily was at bit confused but then as she glanced at the potion she saw that it had been completed and was text book perfect too boot.
Snape seemed to glance at her in a way that confused Lily some. It seemed like he was looking at her with a look of respect. But at the same time it was like he suddenly saw her as a threat.
Since they had gotten done so quickly Lily now had extra time. Not wanting to start up another conversation with Severus, Lily decided to read a bit more of her own book. Lily did however look up briefly to see that Leida and Remus had also finished their potion.
A smile began to curve itself into place on Lily's face as she saw that Leida was giggling about something while Remus smiled and continued to say something to her.
But as soon as Lily glanced back down at her book the Professor told them that they were dismissed. Lily happily bounced down the hallway towards Gryffindor tower. She had decided that she would put her things away before she headed down to dinner.
Lily walked into the common room to find Anton and a girl named Fiona Rose that Lily had only seen a few times sitting together on the couch. Fiona was blushing and Anton seemed to be off in another world. Lily was a bit confused at first but she wasn't that stupid.
As Lily headed up to her dorm she had to fight back giggles. As far as she could guess it looked like some sort of kiss had taken place. As soon as Lily flopped down on her bed she realized how tired she was. She tried and tried not to drift off but soon found herself drifting away.
********************************************************************** 'It is yours' a voice said in a dim room lighted with a single green torch. 'It is yours to have and protect. It has chosen you.' Lily could see herself shake her head in the light.
'No I can't take it, I don't deserve I'll loose it I'll-' 'It will never stray from you, it will always be at your side. And there it will be quite sheltered and safe' Lily saw herself once again shake her head. 'No I couldn't. I'm just not strong enough to power-'
'Oh but you must! It will only rest at your side, yours and no one else's. Go head touch it.' Lily could see something being pushed at her. Suddenly she was no longer watching from the sidelines but she was inside herself.
She reached out and felt for something anything. She searched for a long time almost afraid she wouldn't feel a thing. 'Feel with trust dear, with trust' Lily closed her eyes and reached out long. Suddenly she felt a tap on her shoulder.
The room went white and faded away.
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It was Leida standing beside her looking confused. "Come on Lily I thought we were going to dinner not to bed!" And with that the two friends set off together down towards the Great Hall, leaving Lily wandering shakily about the dream.
A/N alright! So what'd ya think? ^____^ aorry this took sooooooooo long. ::coughAlgebra1 and PS can both be such pains::cough:: not to mention all the OTHER stuff that's been going on lol. Anywho well it's FINALLY here. ^__^ I hope I've left you wandering about a few things ^___~ by the way..
This fic is going to be longer than I thought and although I'm going to kee the entire thing together in once piece it WILL be divided into years. This one is year on and is called The Jewl Of Trust and will be part of my A Flower Of Contrast series ^__~ Anywho, can't WAIT to see some replies.
Lovin' ALL my R&R ppl!! Lils
Chapter 5~ Shaky Trust
The next day Lily was awoken by the sound of cheerful humming. She lazily opened her eyes, but quickly pulled the covers over her head as if it were natural reflex. The sun had shone right into her eyes and she grumpily peeked her head out to look at the clock on the wall.
6:37am the clock read. Lily wondered who on EARTH was up so early when all of the sudden she was being shaken by someone. Lily didn't bother to see who it was. She didn't care, it was WAY too early for her to care!
'Maybe if I just lay here they'll think I'm asleep and go away' Lily thought. And so she lay in her bed pretending to be asleep while this person continued to try and wake her up.
Had Lily been sitting up she probably would have had an eye twitch form waking up so early. She just continued to lay there. All of the sudden the shaking stopped and Lily relaxed. Ten minutes later that horrible Shaking was BACK!!!
Lily, who had almost gotten back to sleep, in reflex reached her hand up quickly flung it in the air accidentally hitting whoever was trying to wake her in the face. "Ouch! Hey I was just trying to ask you if you wanted to go down to breakfast with me."
Lily's eyes shot open. "Oh I'm soooooo sorry!" It had been Leida trying to wake her up the whole time. "I'm really sorry Leida I didn't know it was you and I'm not used to getting up THIS early." Lily really was sorry. After all, besides Anton and Darren, Leida was the only friend she had so far.
"Oh that's okay." Leida giggled a bit, "I have a little sister who does the same thing when I try to wake her up." Lily laughed along with Leida for a while before Leida asked once again if Lily'd like to come down to breakfast with her.
Lily looked at the clock it was about 7:10 now and Lily figured that she would have been getting up by now anyway. "Sure why not. Just let me get ready for school." Lily took a quick shower and slipped on her school uniform before she gathered her things for class and they headed to breakfast.
When they walked into the Great Hall one of the first things Lily saw was a bright smile being flashed her way. She turned her head to see who it was and found that it was James Potter, the boy with the messy hair from the sorting.
Lily looked at the boy questioningly before he opened his mouth and said, "Good Morning, Lily Evans isn't it?" Lily just blinked for a few seconds before replying "Oh yeah, and um you're James Potter..right?" Lily was hoping she was right it'd be terribly embarrassing if she didn't know his name after he'd known hers.
"Yep that'd be me!" He flashed Lily another smile and Lily couldn't help but blush slightly. 'He's totally flirting with me!' she thought. She hadn't even noticed Leida giggling beside her until she started pulling on Lily's arm to sit down.
After sitting down Lily looked in front of her. There he was sitting there in front of her. It was Anton with a smirk plastered on his face he'd apparently saw the whole James incident.
Lily took a moment to really look at how much her child hood friend had changed. She'd already noticed before that he'd begun to fill out his form, but there were other things about him she hadn't noticed before.
His light blue eyes were relaxed and full of wonder and interest now. Before they'd been wide open and extremely cautious and lighthearted. His hair which used to be cut in a short style was now falling into his eyes.
And his smile seemed different. Before it had made Lily smile and laugh along with whatever he was smiling about, but now ....it was a totally different feeling she'd never felt towards Anton before.
"Already getting involved with boys eh Lils?" Anton continued to smirk while Lily snapped out of her thoughts and registered what he said. Once she had she continued to blush even more. "Shut up." She said as she flicked a piece of toast at him. He just dodged it and laughed.
"Well what did you expect Lily? Have you seen yourself in the mirror lately?" Anton continued to chuckle but Lily just sat there. Lily hadn't noticed the changes in her, but then she figured that since she saw all these changes in Anton he was bound to see some in her as well.
Lily just rolled her eyes at him. He just seemed different. Lily just went back to eating her toast when she heard Leida whisper in her ear, "What do you think of him?" she sounded a bit dazed if you asked Lily.
Lily looked up to find her friend staring over at the quiet boy named Remus and smirked. "Got a thing for quiet boys eh?" Lily looked towards Leida to find her blushing. "Well, I talked to him in the hall a bit and he seems nice.he's kinda cute too." At this Lily just smiled even more.
Lily looked around her searching for anyone she'd seen the night before. She saw that girl from the boat. Elizabeth, Lily believed her name was, as well as that other girl from the boat Vanessa. Lily wasn't really paying attention until her eyes landed on a girl she remembered as April Mills.
Lily remembered because the hat had said that her sorting was a surprise. Lily turned to Anton and rolled her eyes when she heard him talking about Quidditch. She decided to get his attention by flicking another piece of toast at him. It landed in his hair and Lily could see the corner of his mouth twitch slightly as he was getting it out. "Yes?!" he asked sounding slightly annoyed. Lily hung her head at bit; she hadn't meant to make Anton mad at her.
Anton sighed a bit when he saw her do this. "Look I didn't mean to sound snappy okay?" Lily smiled a little and straightened back up. "Just don't throw it in my hair next time okay?" he smirked and Lily could tell that all had been forgiven.
"Well I was wondering..." Anton raised his eyebrow; "Yes?" he asked giving her look telling her to just spit it out already! "Well that girl April Mills..why was her sorting considered surprising?" Anton leaned back in his chair.
"Well it's mostly because of her family. Her mother's side of the family has been in Slytherin for ages. And her father's side has all either been in Slytherin or Ravenclaw. Her Dad was the first in their family to be in Gryffindor."
Lily still didn't understand. "Why does that all matter?" Lily was quite confused and couldn't see why everyone would find it unusual that April hadn't followed in the same steps as her family.
Anton sighed at her question. "Things work a little differently as far as expectations in the magical world." Lily just looked at him still confused. "Things that that are usually just assumed; people just assume that since most of her family was in Slytherin that she should be too."
Lily thought about it before she realized how terrible it must be to automatically be judged like that. "Well at least the sorting hat seems to fairly judge." She said. "Yeah I guess so. The sorting hat looks more at a person's thoughts and wishes rather than their name though."
"Yeah I guess you're right." Lily continued to look around the room and was about to ask if the four boys, James, Remus, Peter, and Sirius, had always known each other when Professor McGonagall came around with schedules.
Lily looked at her schedule and saw that they had first period with the Hufflepuffs in Herbiology. That didn't sound too bad to Lily. She'd skimmed over their Herbiology book and it looked like it might be interesting.
Lily looked over at Leida who was looking quite happy about their first class. "You like Herbiology?" Lily asked. "Yeah, I LOVE it!" she said. "I used to look at pictures of the different plants when I was little." She smiled at Lily. "Well let's head out I wanna make sure we get a good seat!"
And with that Leida pulled Lily, who still had half a piece of toast in her mouth, out through the doors of the school and over to Greenhouse 1. Lily paused once they were inside. Everything looked really different. There was so much variety in the room!
There where some plants that were so colorful Lily felt like she was looking into a rainbow. But then there were other plants that just looked like dirt that had been molded into a plant-like state. There was even a plant that looked like a gigantic version of a Venus flytrap!
Leida pulled Lily into the seat beside her and told her a bit about a few plants while they waited for the professor to come in.
After class was over Lily decided that it seemed fairly easy for now. Really all you had to do was listen very carefully to what the Professor said. But when she said listen she really wasn't kidding! One of the four boys that were always together, James, hadn't listened carefully enough and had later been sent to the hospital wing with a cut hand.
Lily looked at her schedule and found that next up was Transfiguration. Lily was just a little more excited about this class. The ability to change something into something else sounded like it would be really cool.
When they walked into the classroom Lily was surprised to see a cat sitting on the Professor's desk. Lily couldn't help it; she walked up to the kitty and started petting it and scratching it behind the ears.
That's when she realized how much she missed her own cat and wished that Malico could have come with her. Sure she had Nuruku but he could just be so Moody sometimes! Malico had a BIT of an attitude as well, but his was just a part of his personality.
Lily stopped petting the cat which actually seemed to be smiling and sat down next to Leida. Lily looked at her schedule again and saw that they had this class with the Ravenclaws.
Elizabeth Hotaru walked in the room. Lily had wanted to say Hi too her she seemed like she would be pretty nice, but when she saw that she was reading she decided not to interrupt.
And then they entered, those four boys that just seemed to be joined at the hip. Lily couldn't help but stare at them. They all really were fairly good looking for their age. Peter looked like he would have been quite the cutie if he'd just loose the baby fat.
Remus seemed nice and all, but one Lily's now best friend had a crush on him and two he was just a little too shy for Lily's taste. The two that really caught her attention were the two that seemed to be joined together the most.
James Potter and Sirius Black were both very charming. As Lily looked around the room she noticed that she wasn't the only one who'd been staring. Several girls were already sighing themselves to death and some on the verge of drooling!
Lily just shook her head and watched as the two boys took a seat next to each other. The whole class was silent for a while but all were looking around curiously for the Professor. Suddenly, the cat that had been on the desk before hopped over near a chalkboard and sat in a chair next to it.
The cat let out a meow and just as suddenly changed into their own Professor McGonagall! Lily was so shocked and suddenly felt quite embarrassed for having earlier scratched her Professor behind the ears and even petting her!
Professor McGonagall chuckled at their stunned faces and said, "Several of the young ladies in our class came and gave me a very nice welcome." The Professor smiled and Lily was happy to hear that she hadn't been the only one to be fooled.
That day in class they were all supposed to try and turn a match into a needle. Lily wasn't having too much luck but at least, unlike Leida, she hadn't set her match on fire. James Potter was the first to successfully complete his assignment, followed, of course, by Sirius, and Remus.
By the end of class Lily had managed to basically change her match into a metal stick! It wasn't sharp and wasn't quite a needle but Lily was happy with it as a first try.
Lily looked back at her schedule and happily smiled. It was time for Charms with the Slytherins. Lily wasn't too sure how happy she was about that Slytherin part from what Anton had told her but at least it was Charms and Lily was excited about that.
Lily had been waiting to go to Charms class ever since she had been to Diagon Alley. Lily looked curiously around the room and wondered why there were books on top of the teacher's chair. However, not wanting another cat incident to happen, Lily decided to leave the books alone.
Lily once again found herself searching around the room for familiar faces. She noticed that the other blonde girl from the boat, Vanessa, was in this class as well as that boy Severus Snape. Lily smiled when she saw him. She didn't know why but she was interested in what he was like. He seemed shy and quiet but looked intelligent all the same. Maybe Lily would find a crush in this quiet boy like Leida did in Remus.
Lily stopped looking around when she heard a wand tapping on the desk she was surprised to see what looked almost like a small little dwarf standing on the books and tapping his wand. "Now class," he began in a peppy cheerful voice that seemed to make the Slytherins twitch.
"Quiet down won't you?!" he asked with a little more force so that his voice almost squeaked. The rest of the class finally looked up at the short little man with shoulder length dusty white hair which had been pulled back into a small ponytail at the back of his wizard's cap.
"Now then, I am your Charms teacher Professor Flitwick and today we will be practicing the hand motion for a levitation spell." The professor picked up his little wand and with graceful movements and a hushed word or two caused some of the books on his desk to levitate.
All of the students stared in mixed expressions of excitement, awe and interest, they were all eager to try the spell but as first years they weren't too sure of themselves.
"Right then, now I don't want all of you to be trying the full spell today; because today I just want you to practice the hand motions. Just get out your wands it's a simple swish and flick movement" The students rustled about with their wands
Lily held her wand in her hand watching the professor carefully she consulted the extra Charms book she'd picked up in Diagon Alley and as soon as the Professor was done explaining and gave them the go ahead Lily started practicing right away.
It took Lily a while before she noticed that a few people were staring at her with expressions of awe. Lily was a little nervous..was she doing something wrong, but when the professor came over and complemented her she knew that she must have been doing well and blushed.
"Very nice Miss Evans! If the whole class has gotten this fairly well by tomorrow then we might be starting practice with actual levitation items." The professor looked like he was pleased and excited with his first year students and Lily left the classroom, for lunch, in a good mood.
Lily walked with Leida, who didn't do NEARLY as well in Charms as Lily, to Lunch. The two girls sat side by side when Lily noticed that April Mills was sitting near them. Lily wondered about her. She just seemed so quiet and secretive, but she did very well in all the classes they had, had already.
Lily decided that she would talk to this April girl later after class in their dormitories. That's when she heard the sound of wings. She was surprised to see about 5 owls enter the Great hall. All the students started whispering and sending curios glances. Everyone knew that the post had already come this morning.
Then as a few students gasped Lily decided to look at the owls more closely. Lily now noticed that every single one of them was either black or gray and that they all held black envelopes.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Yes I remember that day. The day with the black and gray owls that looked so ominous. I know that I wasn't sure about why they were there at the time, but I would soon know what those owls meant and it wouldn't be the last time I saw them.
I looked over to where he's still sleeping soundlessly. His family was mostly torn apart, but they weren't greeted by black or gray owls, even though it was the same thing that caused both the owls to appear as well as his family tearing.
I finally decide to step out in the hallway for a second, because it's warmer out there and I had been getting cold chills. I used to never feel them, these freezing shivers that run along my bones. That's something that's come over time. A lot of people get them now, but I remember I never had them in first year.
Everything had seemed so safe, so clam, so magical and untouchable. Oh how wrong I was for thinking that. I did slowly begin to realize after time just how bad things were, but that didn't come till much later.
I looked down below me where I could see all the way down the two stories left of the house. Everything was so big and elegant here. You would think that they had parties and guests over frequently, but on the contraire, the owners themselves were hardly ever here.
That left him and his brother here alone most of the time. I never thought that I'd understand him and know him so well. I'd always watched him, I'd talked to him, it wasn't like we had been strangers, but it was the histories that had kept us apart. It wasn't even our histories really. I knew nothing of that in first year either. But I still remember the fear and panic in the eyes of those who had seen those owls before. Praying that one did not choose to drearily fly near and land softly and symbolically in front of you where it would drop its black letter and fly off; sometimes leaving a feather behind. Luckily the Gryffindor table had spared the visit of the owls to their table, but others were not so lucky.
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Lily looked around and jumped when a painfully distressed cry came from a now crying Ravenclaw as she looked down at the black letter in front of her. But her cry was not the last to be heard. Two more could be heard from students as they each also were given a black scroll.
The two gray owls flew towards the staff table. One owl went to Professor McGonagall and the other to Professor Dumbeldore. Lily watched as her usually stern and confident looking Transfiguration teacher's expression was changed into a sorrowful look of concern as she glanced at the three who had received letters.
Dumbeldore suddenly looked a bit older, wiser and gave the same three deep looks of caring and folded the letter as he placed it into his pocket. "If those of you who have received a black notice would please follow me to my office, I feel that I need to discuss a few things with you." The three who had received letters slowly got up from their tables and left with Professor McGonogal and Professor Dumbeldore.
Everyone in the Great Hall, with the exception of a few Slytherins, looked at the three retreating kids with concern. Lily was confused; she looked up at Anton already asking with her eyes what all this meant.
Anton looked down at Lily, she was worried and she didn't even know what was going on. He knew she was going to have a hard time accepting that not all magical people were good.
Anton was still lost in thought when he finally heard Lily voice the question she'd already been asking. "Anton," she said in a whisper, "what was all that about? With the black letters and all?"
Anton sighed and looked into her eyes. Lily noticed that they seemed to be lost in thought and full of concern and feeling. "Well Lily, you see.it means that someone close to them, most likely a family member or something, have well.died." Lily's eyes already widened in surprise.
"But since those particular owls came, it means that..well.." Anton let his sentence trail off as if he didn't even want to say it. "It means they were killed." Darren finished. Lily gasped in surprise, she had expected a death but not for them to have all been killed.
"But who, who could have, who would have done something like that?!" Lily looked confused again and Anton looked away. She had been so happy to be there he didn't want to be the one to have to tell Lily that not all in the magical world was good.
Thankfully it was Darren who, once again, responded. "There's a Dark Wizard named Voldemort and he has a group of supporters called Deatheaters. It might have something to do with him." Darren seemed to hang his head slightly. Anton knew that Darren had lost his older sister to a group of Deatheaters. He had been small so he didn't remember it but it still hurt him.
It was quiet before Lily asked, "Voldemort? Deatheaters, what's all that mean?" Anton who didn't want Darren to have to answer another question on the subject responded instead. "Voldemort has been steadily gaining more power now a days. And the Deatheaters who used to be but a small group of fifteen or so has now grown to at least somewhere in the 90's."
"Nobody's sure exactly what his purpose is right now." Anton didn't want to worry Lily by telling her that the one thing they knew was that he was after Muggle-borns and Muggles. He didn't want to discuss it anymore.
"So you liking all your classes so far Lily?" Lily wondered for a second how the subject had changed but when she saw Anton's face she decided to not question the matter any further. "Oh they're alright I guess. I have double potions after this though, what's the Professor like?"
Anton and Darren both chuckled. "Who? Professor Nightwar? He's one of the best Professors here. He's really well mannered." Anton smiled at Darren who finished the sentence, "Unlike his house." They all laughed and ate a bit before Lily got her things together for potions and Anton and Darren headed to Care Of Magical Creatures.
Lily and Leida left for potions together which actually turned out to be quite a trip, because on the way they ran into Peter, James, Sirius, and Remus. "Hey there you." Lily turned around to find the face of a grinning James Potter. Lily smiled, she could tell he had a crush on her; either that or he was certainly a flirt.
"Hi," she said. She noticed that Remus was eyeing Leida quietly and almost blushing because of her own attention being directed toward him. "What's going on?" he asked giving her another smile almost as if he thought she was already love struck.
Lily just giggled when she noticed that his friend, Sirius, was already playing a prank on his friend by changing his hair color. It was already slowly changing from its deep black into a violent shade of bright orange. Leida too had noticed and was also laughing.
James stepped back looking confused, until he saw both Peter and Remus laughing as well with Sirius nowhere to be found. James turned around and, as if it couldn't have gotten worse, found himself directly facing Sirius's wand and got a blast of orange in the face.
James then whipped out his own wand and aimed towards Sirius's hair. He missed though making a clearly visible hot pink stain on Peter's shoe. As soon as Sirius saw the color James had just used he ran off laughing calling back, "You'll have to do better than that to get me hair Potter! Arr for I be Captain Black who has snitched yer book from yer bag!"
James just laughed and ran off after his friend and as they disappeared Leida and Lily could hear James say, "Black you pirate unhand that book, what has it done to you unhand it I say you villainous dog!" The two girls and what remained of the four boys all laughed and continued to set off for potions without them.
As soon as they walked in the Potions room Lily looked around for Professor Nightwar. Lily decided after a few minutes that he must be out of the room and sat down in the nearest seat. She would have followed Leida, but she was already sitting with Remus and talking to him about Herbiology.
Lily grinned and turned around and saw that she had sat down right next to Severus Snape. He seemed to be lost in a book that's title was in Latin, which Lily couldn't understand. "Hi" she said smiling at him. He seemed to jump at the sound of her voice. 'I guess he didn't notice me sit down.' Lily thought.
"Hi," he said quietly before returning to his book. 'Not exactly the friendly sort, is he?' Lily asked herself. Lily decided to try and make some sort of conversation with him. "So, what's that you're reading?" she asked curiously. He just looked up at her with narrowed eyes and said, "A book."
Lily just shook her head. "Well I figured that, but what's the book called." He naturally just looked at the cover and read exactly what it said, in Latin that is. Lily sighed, 'Am I ever going to get ANYWHERE with this guy?' she thought. She was only trying to make decent conversation and here he was acting like she was an annoying little 4 year old.
But she decided to have patience. "What's it mean.in English?" she asked. He let out a small sigh and set his book down. "Why are you sitting by me?" he asked. She looked a bit surprised. "It was just the closest seat." He rolled his eyes. "Shouldn't you be sitting with some Gryffindor?" he asked. "Well no not that I know of anyway." Lily was starting to grow annoyed but once again calmed herself. "Besides my friend Leida is already sitting with someone."
She had half expected him to next ask her if she had any other friends she could sit by but instead he just nodded his head and went back to reading. After a few minutes of silence, the class was just now starting to really come in and fill the room. Lily decided to try this again.
"So your name's Severus right? Mine's Lily, but I've never heard of your name before it's really unique." He once again put down his book and sighed. He looked into her eyes and said, "Why do you talk to me so much?" Lily almost lost it then. She had just given him a compliment and here he was, once again, answering her question with another question.
"Why not?" she asked, "Why shouldn't I, I was only trying to make conversation." She said trying not to sound snappy. He also seemed to be getting rather agitated. "You're a mudblood aren't you?" he looked at her as if he should have known something. "Pardon, am I a what?" she looked very confused.
He once again sighed but this time the sigh was heavier more irritated. "A Muggleborn, you know, no magical parents." Lily's mouth twitched slightly as she answered, "Yeah, so what's it to you?" she really was starting to loose it.
He just rolled his eyes and said with a huff, "Never mind." Just then the Professor walked in through the door. He looked rather cheerful and had a bright smile on his face. "Hello, hello, welcome all of you. I am Professor Nightwar I will be teaching you Potions. Now then.."
The Professor went on and on about different things and they had to take notes every now and then. Lily was just amazed that this was the head of Slytherin house. He seemed really quite nice and was very descriptive at explaining things.
Lily looked over and saw Snape copying every word that the Professor was saying even when they didn't have to take notes. Lily thought about telling him this but decided that she didn't feel like having all the sarcasm thrown at her right now. Why ruin a good class?
"Now then if you all will work together with the person you're sitting next to then I would like you to try to make this." With a wave of his wand writing appeared on the black board with instructions. It seemed to be a fairly simple one but Lily wasn't going to argue, after all it's not like she'd ever done this before.
Lily looked over to see Severus push all the items that needed to be cut towards her. "Here you cut these up like it says, while I get the cauldron ready." Lily almost protested at the fact of just cutting up things, but after she double checked the board decided not to.
All the potion really was, was cutting up ingredients heating the cauldron just right and throwing them in the right order while giving the potion a good stir. When Lily finally finished cutting, she'd had trouble starting on one of the pants which smelled horrible when cut. She looked over to see Severus ready and waiting.
"Oh you're done, good. I was wondering when you were going to get over that smell." Lily sighed that could have been a decent sentence had he left off the part about the smell. Together they worked on putting the right ingredients in at the right times and making sure the cauldron maintained its temperature.
"Excellent Miss Evans, Mr. Snape. I shall be expecting great things from the both of you in my class." At first Lily was at bit confused but then as she glanced at the potion she saw that it had been completed and was text book perfect too boot.
Snape seemed to glance at her in a way that confused Lily some. It seemed like he was looking at her with a look of respect. But at the same time it was like he suddenly saw her as a threat.
Since they had gotten done so quickly Lily now had extra time. Not wanting to start up another conversation with Severus, Lily decided to read a bit more of her own book. Lily did however look up briefly to see that Leida and Remus had also finished their potion.
A smile began to curve itself into place on Lily's face as she saw that Leida was giggling about something while Remus smiled and continued to say something to her.
But as soon as Lily glanced back down at her book the Professor told them that they were dismissed. Lily happily bounced down the hallway towards Gryffindor tower. She had decided that she would put her things away before she headed down to dinner.
Lily walked into the common room to find Anton and a girl named Fiona Rose that Lily had only seen a few times sitting together on the couch. Fiona was blushing and Anton seemed to be off in another world. Lily was a bit confused at first but she wasn't that stupid.
As Lily headed up to her dorm she had to fight back giggles. As far as she could guess it looked like some sort of kiss had taken place. As soon as Lily flopped down on her bed she realized how tired she was. She tried and tried not to drift off but soon found herself drifting away.
********************************************************************** 'It is yours' a voice said in a dim room lighted with a single green torch. 'It is yours to have and protect. It has chosen you.' Lily could see herself shake her head in the light.
'No I can't take it, I don't deserve I'll loose it I'll-' 'It will never stray from you, it will always be at your side. And there it will be quite sheltered and safe' Lily saw herself once again shake her head. 'No I couldn't. I'm just not strong enough to power-'
'Oh but you must! It will only rest at your side, yours and no one else's. Go head touch it.' Lily could see something being pushed at her. Suddenly she was no longer watching from the sidelines but she was inside herself.
She reached out and felt for something anything. She searched for a long time almost afraid she wouldn't feel a thing. 'Feel with trust dear, with trust' Lily closed her eyes and reached out long. Suddenly she felt a tap on her shoulder.
The room went white and faded away.
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It was Leida standing beside her looking confused. "Come on Lily I thought we were going to dinner not to bed!" And with that the two friends set off together down towards the Great Hall, leaving Lily wandering shakily about the dream.
A/N alright! So what'd ya think? ^____^ aorry this took sooooooooo long. ::coughAlgebra1 and PS can both be such pains::cough:: not to mention all the OTHER stuff that's been going on lol. Anywho well it's FINALLY here. ^__^ I hope I've left you wandering about a few things ^___~ by the way..
This fic is going to be longer than I thought and although I'm going to kee the entire thing together in once piece it WILL be divided into years. This one is year on and is called The Jewl Of Trust and will be part of my A Flower Of Contrast series ^__~ Anywho, can't WAIT to see some replies.
Lovin' ALL my R&R ppl!! Lils