Sorry, I did not mention this on my story. I just remembered that I had to!
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters except for Aryan and the plot. The characters all belong to J.K. Rowling. Hail her!
Chocolate Brown Eyes
Lily felt herself become sick from all the spinning; she soon gave in to the dizzy feeling as her legs gave up any balance that they had maintained. She fell through the fires of the floo powder onto the cold, hard, stone ground of Diagon Alley. Aryan was standing beside Lily's collapsed figure gracefully looking around at her fellow witches and wizards completely unaware of her friend's state.
"Are you alright? I remember when I first traveled by floo powder. Nasty dizziness, I tell you, totally took me by surprise." Strong arms found their way onto to Lily's small figure and were helping her up off the floor.
Lily looked up to see the boy standing in front of her. It was none other than Sirius Black, a fellow fifth year, his hands on her shoulders.
"Say! Is that you, Lily?" the boy asked a smile quirking on his lips. He had certainly noticed a difference in the girl he barely looked at for the past four years; and here she was in front of him looking amazing.
Lily had never been fond of the Marauders, a lively bunch of four boys including Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. The Marauders were the most desired boys at Hogwarts with their mischievous grins that stole girls' hearts. But Lily and Aryan were the only girls that had refused to surrender to their charms.
It wasn't that Sirius or any of the Marauders in fact were mean, but the fact that they were all players. According to Lily they were rich spoiled brats who got whom ever they wanted to snog them. Besides being amazingly handsome, smart, and rich, all four of the boys were purebloods, and held high positions in the magical world as their parents were Aurors. But Lily had never been intimidated by any of them, she had toped all her classes respectfully beating even James Potter at everything except for Transfiguration.
"Are you alright, Lily?" Aryan asked concern in her eyes at Lily's dazed expression. She had turned around when she heard Sirius's voice.
Lily snapping back into the moment muttered a spell to clean her clothes. When there was not a spot on her she turned to Sirius and stated a simple—"Thank you, Black." –and started walking away when Sirius quickly grabbed her arm. Lily turned around shocked and confused at the boy's reaction.
"I never let a beautiful girl go with just a 'thank you'. You know, it's kind of my tradition to give every girl that says 'thank you' to me something special." Sirius smiled at Lily's death glare. Flirting was a Marauder talent done so naturally that no girl could ever resist, except for Lily. But before Lily could respond cleverly, someone rudely interrupted their conversation.
"Oy! Padfoot, who are yo—," James Potter stopped in the middle of the sentence to catch a glimpse at who his best friend was talking to. What he saw took his breath away. Lily felt herself shockingly blush at James's stare. She never felt anything towards this member of the Marauder gang, anything except for disgust and strong, passionate hate. James had always bugged Lily with his round glasses, messy raven black hair, and his stubborn and spoilt attitude.
Unlike Sirius, James was almost never nice to anyone, especially girls, who he claimed were after nothing but his money. But he had never had any reason to be mean to Lily, she had never shown any interest towards him; but still he had maintained a safe distance from the girl.
Now he looked at her amazed at how much she had changed over the summer. The geeky, bookworm Lily had transformed into something... actually beautiful.
"Just chatting with my good friend Lils, that's all," Sirius replied a mischievous grin on his face and a teasing glance in his eyes. James turned to Sirius and gave him what looked almost like a death glare and a warning not to say anything, but no one could tell. Sirius was still grinning madly at James and James was frowning.
"Lily, let's go. I need to get a new broom servicing kit, and I want to catch a glimpse of the New Nimbus 1000." Aryan said, breaking her silence. She was really never one to actually stay quiet for very long. "Black, Potter, you want to come?"
Lily looked at Aryan and Aryan smiled; she knew she was risking major yelling for Lily for inviting the Marauders, but she had good relations with her fellow classmates. Plus, she saw them out of school, with their parents being in high society and all; Aryan pretty much was used to the Marauders.
"Sur--"
"But we can't!" James interrupted Sirius rudely, at least enough to get a weird 'what' look from Sirius. "We first have to go to Gringotts, we haven't any money right now on us."
Sirius nodded his approval putting his hands into his empty pockets. Just then, Remus and Peter joined the four talking amongst themselves about quidditch teams.
"No, Chudley Cannons are so much better than the Holyhead Harpies, Peter, just look at their incredible technique." Everyone looked at Remus, the soft one of the group. He shared a good amount of good looks, yet he still was not as hard and rough looking as the others. He had wavy brownish blonde hair with smoky gray eyes. Remus stopped talking when he noticed the others staring at him. "Oh! Hi Lily, Aryan," he nodded simply at the girls and smiled. The girls nodded towards Remus's greeting.
Peter was exceptionally quiet. He did not like Aryan very much, as for Lily; he just kept a safe distance away from her and her red-hot temper. Aryan was always teasing Peter about his marks in subjects, being a Marauder; Peter was always looked upon as the last man; a fourth wheel, a person that really did not fit in with the rest. Peter was more rounded than the others, a rat by nature, he was always found lurking in the hallways spying on the other students. But the other members still let him have a good part in the Marauder fame.
The others turned back to their conversation about some money-saving issues.
"What happened to all the money that your parents gave you, James?" Aryan asked confused. She had known James all her life, even before Hogwarts, and she knew very well that his parents, or any of the Marauders' parents in fact would not let their children go without giving them plenty of money to spend.
"We spent it," Sirius murmured.
"On what?" Aryan half-yelled out of shock. They were talking about spending some 50-80 galleons.
"On quidditch supplies."
"Goes to show how much the Marauders can handle money." Lily murmured to herself staring at the ground.
"Hey! I heard that!" James stated.
Lily looked up, her thoughts interrupted and a look of confusion in her eyes. Before she could say anything clever, she was mesmerized in James's eyes; warm, brown smiling eyes; she could not think about anything except for how good it felt to have those eyes on her. She never seemed to notice his eyes before, behind those ruddy round glasses, she wondered if anyone ever could.
Lily did not notice Aryan and Sirius discussion ending even when Aryan grabbed her arm and started pulling her away a disgusted look on her face. Lily was still staring at James as she was being pulled away, and James was staring at her. As if she had woken up from some deep trance, Lily quickly turned around blushing, and started walking quickly to keep up with Aryan.
"I cannot believe that Sirius Black!" Aryan fumed. "Wait till I get my hands on him at school! I will get him good, I really, really will!"
Lily smiled at her friend, Aryan never got mad about anything except for Sirius Black. Lily closed her eyes remembering the chocolate brown eyes, Yep she thought to herself, this is going to be a crazy year.
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Dinis