A/N: I'm pretty sure I forgot to put the whole none of it's mine thing in the last chapter. None of the Harry Potter stuff is. Anything you don't recognise is mine.
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Lily woke up as the sun's rays hit her face. She rolled over grinning as she realized where she was. Hogwarts. She was, in her mind, at home. She jumped out of bed and onto the freezing cold floor. Running quickly across the room with a hiss she pulled her uniform off of the hook she had placed it on behind the door and jumped into the bathroom to shower. As the warm water beat down on her back, Lily let her mind wander. Where did it end up? You guessed it, on James Potter. It seemed that it was getting harder and harder for Lily to get him out of her head. She sighed heavily as she stepped out of the foggy shower and wrapped a towel around her dripping body. She approached the large mirror over the sink. Her hair was dripping wet so she quickly dried it with her wand knowing that any moment Alaura would start banging on the door to get her out of the bathroom. Sure enough, as Lily finished brushing her teeth, Alaura pounded on the door.
"Lily! What's taking so long!"
"I'm on my way out," Lily called in reply and pulled open the bathroom door. She strolled quickly to her trunk and pulled out some of her course books.
"You so have to be kiddin' me!" Alaura said, as always forgetting her clothes, noticing what Lily was doing.
"What?"
"You so can't be studyin' already! Have you no life!" Alaura stomped back into the bathroom with her robes in hand. Lily grinned as she open her latest book.
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The girls wandered down to breakfast a half an hour later all in better moods than the ones they had woken up with. Lily grinned when she spotted the heaps of food on Sirius and James' plates. They could eat their parents out of house and home and still be hungry. She dropped down beside James and picked up a piece of toast that was on the platter in front of her.
"Hungry much?" Alaura asked sarcastically as she took the seat to Sirius' left. Sirius grinned at her.
"Much," Liandra and Lily in unison for James and Sirius. James threw Lily an indignant look but didn't get to say anything. The mail came with a chorus of screeches as the owls, both school and private, came swooping through the Great Hall. The Gryffindors caught their schedules and their morning mail.
"No matter how much we bug the head honcho we never get outta potions with those damned Slytherins do we?" Alaura said shaking her head at the page in front of her. Lily picked up her timetable and swore.
"Why me?" James grinned at her.
"There's an advantage though Lils." Lily shot him a glare. James put his hands up defensively.
"We have double periods to pick on the slimy gits. I mean, with our extensive knowledge in potions we would be able to have a little bit of fun with theirs," he said. Lily's glare turned to a mischievous glint.
"Care of Magical Creatures with the bastards too. Can my year get any worse? And damn it all to hell I just jinxed myself again!" Alaura yelled earning confused stares from the Hall. Lily looked back down at her schedule and swore again.
"What?" Liandra's gaze was shifting from her timetable to Lily and back again.
"I'll tell you what. . . "Alaura began.
"Defence Against the Dark Arts and Herbology with the gits! You'd think after so many years Dumbledore would stop putting the two groups together," Lily interrupted scanning her sheet to make sure they didn't have any other classes with the Slytherins. Liandra shook her head grinning.
"Don't you worry Lily Billy, we'll keep you all nice and safe," Sirius said in a singsong voice. Lily groaned and hid her head in her hands.
"Its not me I'm afraid of," she replied.
"Well. . . we should probably get a move on to that hell hole unless we want to upset ol' Mr. Cranky Pants again. Last time I did that, I cleaned out first-year cauldrons. Can I say ew?" Alaura said lifting her bag and pulling Sirius roughly to his feet.
"I'm with them. We really should get going," Lily said hoisting her bag, already stuffed to bursting point, onto her should and following Alaura out of the Great Hall.
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"Instructions for the Multiplying Mixture are on the board. Pair up and get to work," the harsh voice of the Potions professor, Professor Tonic, rang throughout the dungeons. Alaura sidled up to Lily and whispered,
"Does he have a stick permanently shoved up his ass?" Lily coughed violently hiding her laughing fit. The class turned to stare at her and she quickly composed herself and turned back to reading the instructions on the blackboard.
"We all know it," she replied quietly. "Hand me two snake tongues." Alaura handed her the offending objects and turned to cutting up sprigs of lavender.
"Let me guess. No one's given him the one-two either?" Lily smiled slightly.
"No student who wants to keep learning," she responded. Alaura nodded adding her perfectly cut up lavender to the bubbling cauldron in front of her.
"Lily," a voice hissed from behind her. She turned discretely to find a frightened Sirius Black.
"Help." Lily rolled her eyes.
"What with?"
"I've got the goat skin here all nicely cut up but my potion is green not pink." Lily looked at the mixture in Sirius' cauldron and sure enough, it was a sickly green colour. She sighed heavily.
"Did you add the poison ivy leaves?" Sirius nodded.
"That's your problem. You added them too early," Lily said smugly turning back to her own potion. Sirius groaned from behind her as Professor Tonic approached his bench.
"Mr Black? Is your potion not supposed to be pink?"
"Yes, sir."
"And is it?"
"No, sir. I added the poison ivy leaves too early, sir." Professor Tonic almost (I repeat ALMOST) did a double take. Sirius never knew where he went wrong when concocting a potion. Lily suppressed the grin that threatened to erupt on her face. She quickly added the poison ivy leaves the exact two minutes after Alaura had put in the lavender. She watched the other cauldrons bubble and steam as other pairs left theirs to stew too long. Professor Tonic brushed past Lily's bench and stopped at the head of the room.
"I would like a sample of your potions at the end of class. Mr Black I suggest you read instructions more carefully next time." Lily couldn't hold in the grin that spread across her face as the shuffling and cursing students turned back to their potions.
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"How do you do it?"
"I'm so workin' with Lil again next time we have this. . ." but Lily muffled Alaura's next words.
"Do you want a detention? Finish the statement when we get into the entrance hall," she warned. Alaura nodded and Lily removed her hand. As soon as Alaura set her foot in the Entrance Hall she finished her previous statement.
". . . Poor excuse for a useful class." Lily shook her head amused as she mounted the stairs to History of Magic.
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They emerged from the dusty classroom an hour later yawning and stretching.
"Mmmm. . . sleep is good," Alaura said yawning and lifting her bag higher on her shoulder. Lily nodded covering a large yawn. James, Sirius and Remus groaned as they made their way down to the Great Hall for lunch. Alaura, Lily and Liandra followed at a slower pace.
"That is more useless than potions and I dunno when I'm gunna use that crap anyway," Alaura was mumbling. Lily nodded again as she followed the flow of students into the Hall. She sat beside James and spooned pasta onto her plate eating groggily. The food woke them almost instantly and they chatting about everything and anything. This is what Lily missed in the summer.
"I heard from that Ravenclaw prefect. . . what's his name? Oh! Neil Hehner, that there was something Dumbledore was going to announce. Something about a special wizarding event happening this year at Hogwarts," James said shovelling another forkful of salad into his mouth.
"Did he tell you what? I haven't heard anything," Lily replied.
"No. He said Dumbledore told him it was. . . "
"Confidential," Lily finished. "Is anything Dumbledore does not confidential?" Remus, Liandra, Alaura, Sirius and James shook their heads.
"Any way, he's supposed to announce at dinner tonight. We'll find out then," James replied with a shrug.
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"Today we will be changing animals into picture frames. . ." Professor McGonagall said that afternoon in transfiguration. Something poked Lily from behind and she turned pulling the folded parchment out of James' hand before the professor could notice.
Hey beautiful,
Am I the only one bored?
Alaura, who was reading over Lily's shoulder, snatched the parchment and scribbled on it a response before handing it back to Lily.
Nope.
Lily added:
Being the top of the year has disadvantages.
She passed the note back to James when Professor McGonagall wasn't looking.
You're telling me. Even Sirius is bored.
Lily looked down further on the page and saw Sirius' untidy scrawl.
Was that supposed to be mean?
Lily suppressed a laugh before picking up her quill and writing her response.
Well I'm not helping him tonight. If he's not listening, then he loses out.
"Very good. Let's set to practicing then," Professor McGonagall said waving with her hand for the students to pick up their wands. Lily sighed passing the note back to James and picking up her wand. She heard Sirius groan from behind her and again suppressed a laugh. Lily quickly turned her animal, a hamster, into a fuzzy photo frame and turned back to Sirius.
"Come on! You know you really don't need my help. You just need. . . "
"To pay attention, I know," Sirius grumbled back. Lily returned to her frame with a smug smile on her face.
"Miss Evans, without the fur if you please," Professor McGonagall's voice rang out from across the room. Lily sighed before doing as she was told.
"I liked it all hamster-ish," Alaura said quietly from beside her. Lily nodded her head in agreement. She noticed movement out of the corner of her eye and a flash of black hair. Liandra had whipped her head to face her partner. Lily sneaked a peak and noticed they were whispering in each other's ear. Remus and Liandra? What on earth were they doing? She elbowed Alaura a little harder than she meant to.
"What?" Alaura hissed back angrily.
"Liandra and Remus are whispering. What is going on?" Alaura snuck a peek at the two conspirators and grinned.
"Remus hooked Lia," she replied. Lily looked again.
"That's not like Lia though. She would tell us these things." Alaura shrugged.
"We'll get her after class."
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Lily plunked herself down between Sirius and James a dinner that evening grumbling.
"What is the matter oh Lily flower?" Sirius asked watching Alaura walk through the great oak doors with Liandra.
"Detention," Lily ground out spooning mashed potatoes onto her plate.
"Do I have one of those?" Sirius asked. Lily slapped him… hard.
"Of course you do smart ass. We pulled that prank yesterday remember?" Sirius looked like he was thinking. Lily continued to grumble incoherently.
"Lils, you're not making any sense," he said stupidly after a minute. Lily glared at him.
"Would you like it in English, French or Spanish? Spanish? OK," she ground out.
"Lils…" Alaura warned.
"Tengo la detención estúpida a causa de que maldice broma que estiramos ayer y yo no tengo el tiempo porque tengo los deberes de todo mi dios maldicen a profesores!" Lily exclaimed jabbing her fork into the steak on her plate.
"Lily, dear, how bad could it really be?" Alaura asked ignoring Lily's outburst. The redhead glared again.
"You just jinxed us now."
"So what?"
"You want to argue with me?"
"I'm gunna fight with you girlie!"
"Lily! Alaura! Stop it!" Liandra said giving each girl a sharp kick under the table. Lily stood suddenly and stormed out of the hall. Liandra looked to Alaura before both stood up with a sigh and followed her.
"Lily, stop. You will break down you know…"
"Why does it matter?" True, Lily was throwing a temper tantrum but it also seemed to always break down her emotional walls too. Insecurities and fears poured out of her when she was in this state, Liandra knew that and now Alaura did too.
"I'll tell you why it matters…" Liandra started.
"I don't know if I want to hear it," Lily replied, quieter now.
"Well you're going to…"
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A/N: Lily, when she's ranting says "I have stupid detention because of that damn prank we pulled yesterday and I don't have the time because I have homework from all of my god damn professors!" I probably could have thought up something better but I was too lazy! Hope you enjoyed this chapter and I apologize for any crazy spelling or grammar errors (more missing letters than anything else)