Hey! Anyways, loved the reviews. You guys are the best! And im happy that the whole POV thing worked out all right :)
Now, in this chapter, I'm going to introduce a new character that will have a role in the plot. And im also going to try to make the characters, especially Lily's friends, have a distinct personality.
Oh yeah. I also went and fixed up the first two chapters, so now the italics and all that jazz is good! hehe
Chapter Four:
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Why Not?
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"Liiiiil…wake up!" Gabi whined. She reached her hand over to Lily's cheek and gently smacked her. Lily didn't open her eyes. "Lily, I swear to god im going to throw a bucket of water over your head if you don't wake up right now!" Gabi warned the sleeping Lily.
"Unless you haven't noticed, she's asleep", Elina commented sarcastically.
"Has anyone seen my tie?" Nada interrupted the two. She made her way in-between Elina and Marlene McKinnon, another room-mate of theirs. "Excuse me, people! I really need my tie!"
"Why would anyone take your tie?" Elina asked curiously. She buttoned her blouse and headed towards a mirror to fix her hair.
"You know, Elina, that's what I'm wondering!"
"Maybe Sirius has it", Gabi said, getting up from Lily's bed and heading towards the restroom. "I mean, you two were spending the day together yester-" Nada gave Gabi a death glare, and Gabi stopped talking immediately. Elina turned around to look at the two, raising an eyebrow.
"I wonder what we have for breakfast today", Marlene said, hastily changing the subject.
"The usual, I guess", Nada muttered. She opened her suit case and took out a brand new tie. She put it on without saying anything to the others, and then left the dorm.
"What was that about?" Elina asked Gabi. Gabi shrugged, not meeting her eye. She went to the restroom and filled an empty cup with water. She then headed back to Lily's bed and gently splashed the water over Lily's face. The coldness of the water caused Lily to open her eyes and quickly get up.
"Gabi!!! What was that?" she asked, looking paranoid. She quickly searched the room, expecting the marauders to have pulled some evil prank.
"Water."
"YOU SPLASHED WATER ON MY FACE?!?! You moron!" she shrieked. She quickly got out of her bed, running towards Gabi. Gabi, knowing what Lily was going to do, dashed away. Lily chased after her, yelling something about not getting much sleep last night. She chased Gabi around the dorm for about a minute, before Elina stepped in front of her to stop her from moving and Marlene grasped hold of Gabi's wrist.
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"What class do you have first, Lils?" Gabi asked, looking over her own schedule for the day. She was sitting beside Elina, and as far away from Lily as possible. Nada wasn't sitting with the three. Instead, she was sitting beside Sirius and trying her best to start a conversation with him, and failing miserably.
Lily frowned, trying to remember. "I have Arithmancy, Divinations, and then Charm."
"Did you finish your essay for Charm's?"
"Yeah, I finished it before we went on vacation", Lily replied. She poked her bacon with a fork before taking a bite of it.
Lily distinctly remembered her summer vacation. Her family had gone to Spain to visit her Aunt Clara. It was the worst vacation that she had ever been on. It wasn't that she didn't enjoy Spain or being with her cousins, it was just the fact that Petunia was with them. And, if that wasn't bad enough, she decided to bring her fiancée with her as well.
Vernon Dursley.
Lily hated him with a passion. He looked like a huge balloon, and, next to Petunia, he looked even bigger (if possible). He would always ask Lily why she went to a private school away from the family (he wasn't aware of the fact that she was a witch) instead of staying with her parents. He also went on saying how Petunia was the best thing that had ever happened to him. Lily always snorted and asked to be excused when he said something like this. She couldn't imagine how their child would look; probably like a big whale, just like his father. She had decided long ago that if they ever married, she would never go and visit them.
Lily, however, was soon brought back to reality with someone's tap on her shoulder. She turned around to see who it was and groaned immediately. It was no one other than James Potter. He smiled slyly at her. He just loves annoying me, Lily thought bitterly. He sat down in the empty seat beside her, not even bothering to ask her if she minded. Which she did.
He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and drew her closer to himself. "How's my Lily doing?"
"Your Lily?" she replied rudely. She took his arm off of her shoulders. But it was useless, because he did the same thing again. Resistance was indeed futile in Lily's case.
James' smile broadened. Oh, how badly Lily wanted to punch him and wipe the smile off his handsome face. "Oh come on, Lil. I know you-"
"Don't call me that!" she yelled angrily. She hated it when he called her "Lil". They weren't close friends or anything. Actually, they weren't friends at all. He shouldn't even call her Lily, let alone Lil.
"Fine, Evans. It's your loss, not mine", he got back up from his seat and shoved his hands into his pockets. His smile faded a bit, as he gave her a last glance before leaving her and her friends.
Lily sighed. She hated to see the happy-go-lucky James look all disappointed. But she had no other choice than to drive him away when he annoyed her.
Elina's eyes followed James as he took a seat beside Remus. "Damn, Lily", she commented, not taking her eyes off James and the marauders.
"What?" Lily retorted. She wasn't in the mood to get a lecture about what a great job she did, especially from Elina.
"Nothing."
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Three seconds, two seconds, one second…
Lily counted down the time left till Arithmancy class finished. Although it was her most favorite subject, she had no one to talk to. Frankly, she never talked to half the people in the class. The only people that she could say she was slightly friends with were the marauders, who were also in the class (excluding Peter, who was too stupid to get into such a hard class).
James, Sirius and Remus were sitting in the row beside her. Remus was taking notes, Sirius was day dreaming, and James was looking smug. He had his feet on the desk and his chair was tilted so that it was only on its two behind legs.
The bell rang, and the class started putting their books and parchments in their bag. Lily was the first to finish packing. She picked up her bag and quickly headed for the door.
She left the classroom and headed towards the Divinations class. She hated the location of it. It was farthest in the North tower, farthest away from all her other classes. Once she got there, she noted that a few people were already waiting underneath the silver stepladder.
Lily noted Nada standing by herself in a corner. She looked frustrated and was eyeing someone with anger in her eyes.
"Hey", Lily greeted her. Nada looked away from the girl she was glaring at and instead focused on Lily, who was standing in front of her.
"Hi", she said in a rather shy voice. This was unusual, because Nada was the least shy person Lily knew. And it was also a sign that something was wrong.
"You ok?" Lily asked, concerned about her friend.
"I'm fine", Nada stared at the ground and frowned. "I'm just angry at someone."
"Sirius?"
"Yes."
"I figured. What happened?"
"He no longer likes me. He told me this morning during breakfast that he didn't have any feelings for me anymore", her voice sounded muffled as she said this. Although Lily couldn't see her eyes, she knew that Nada was crying.
"Oh, Nada, im sorry!" she said, hugging her friend. The two embraced. "He wasn't worth it", she said quietly.
"No, he was", Nada said, sniffling. "But he said that he still wanted to be friends with me…"
The two let go of one another. "Well that's still good! Don't worry. I'm sure you'll find someone else soon, that'll be a much better boyfriend than Sirius", Lily tried cheering up her friend. The edges of Nada's mouth twitches slightly, forming a smile.
At that moment, the students waiting outside started heading up the stepladder. Lily and Nada followed their suit.
The smell of a very strong perfume filled their nostrils. The room was dark, with a fire located in the front. The curtains were blocking any source of light from entering. The only light that kept them all from not being able to see one another was the light from the fire, which looked like it had been burning forever.
Nada and Lily quickly took their seats in the back of the class, where they usually sat in divinations. Since the marauders weren't in Divinations, they didn't need to worry about taking anyone's seat. Nada sat on the left of a hufflepuff girl with curly blond hair. Lily recognized her from somewhere, but couldn't remember where. Lily took the empty seat on Nada's left, and put her bag on the empty seat beside her, seeing as no one seemed to be sitting there.
Once everyone had sat down in their seats, Lily noticed how huge the class was. Students from all houses were in it. Even Slytherins, who were known for not believing in the art of fortune-telling.
Everyone started talking to one another, waiting patiently for the teacher to come. After a few minutes, another person entered the room. Lily gasped.
It was Rami.
Lily's heart beat faster at the sight of him. He looked rather confused, and was scanning the room in search of an empty seat. That's when Lily remembered that the seat beside her own was empty. She quickly took her bag off of it so that he'd notice. She felt a sudden urge to scream out his name and point to the empty seat, but decided not to.
After a few seconds, he noticed the seat beside hers. He smirked slightly and walked over to it. Oh man, Lily thought. She tried not to look too happy and excited. Once he reached her seat, he asked her in a shy voice, "hey, mind if I sit here?" His chocolate eyes made her feel all tingly inside.
Lily nearly melted. She opened her mouth to reply, but nothing came out. Instead, she nodded her head. He took this as a yes and put his bag on the seat. Once he sat down, Lily had a hard time trying to avoid staring at him.
"Good afternoon, class", said a mysterious voice. It belonged to no one other than Professor Alagur, the master of Divinations. She walked to the front of the class and examined the students. "Well, we're a big class now, aren't we?"
Professor Alagur was known among students and professors alike for her sense of sarcasm. She was hated by most, and admired by few. Although she was a true seer, she barely showed it. She was one that talked in ways that the class never understood. In Lily's opinion, she was one of the wisest professors in the entire school.
"Where should we start? Oh yes. Role call. How can I forget?" she took out a parchment with all the names of the students on it. "Atina, Barkel, Diggle, Doge, Dunn, Evans, Handerhan, Holt…I saw you six already. Miss Jaroud?" Nada put up her hand and muttered "present". "Ok. Jones, Jorkins, Kanan, Lowe, McKinnon, Mulroy, Norsikian, Podmore, Shacklebolt…I saw you all, too. Miss Tannir, and Mr. Taler?" two students put up their hands. "And who's Rami Serge?"
"Here", he said in his somewhat deep voice.
Alagur smiled at him. In Lily's opinion, her smile looked rather forced. "How nice of you to join us. So you seem to know much about Divinations. Well, you're going to do very well in this class."
Lily glanced at Rami. He seemed impressed by this good news. He thanked her.
"Now that we're done with that, lets start on the important things. Open your books to page 370, and find a partner to work with. We'll be starting palm reading today, and you will be having to do an essay for tonight, which will be due next class. No late work will be accepted." The students groaned and opened their books to the required page.
Oh joy, Lily thought bitterly. She thought palm reading was the most ridiculous part of Divinations. Nada, however, opened her book and looked rather enthusiastic.
"Yes! We get to work with a partner!" she said excitedly.
"Nada, me and you are always partners. Why so happy all of a sudden?"
Nada gave Lily a confused look. "Lily…I don't know how to say this…but can we not be partners this time?"
"Huh? Why?"
"Because I want to partner up with someone else," she said quietly. She looked away from Lily and her eyes searched the classroom. Lily followed her gaze and noticed who Nada was looking at. Bellatrix Black. Sirius' cousin.
Lily groaned. She could guess what Nada had planned in her little mind. "You're not going to…?"
"Yes, I am. Sorry, Lils. Can you find another partner instead?"
"Yeah. I guess I can", Lily sighed. Nada smiled at her and dashed to where Bellatrix was sitting. Now all I have to do is find a partner, Lily thought. She turned to the curly haired blond sitting beside Nada to ask her if she had a partner, but saw that she was busy talking to a Slytherin girl. She glanced at Marlene's direction, but noticed that she was working with Shacklebolt.
"Hey, do you have a partner?" a somewhat familiar voice asked. She turned around to see Rami with a quizzical look on his face. Their eyes met again.
"No. You?" Lily said, quickly looking away. She had a bad habit of looking away when talking to those she was attracted to. She could never keep eye contact for too long with them.
"Nope. Want to partner up then? I'm Rami Serge (A/N: I am sooo aware that Serge is a first name, not a last name. But hey, it sounded cool as a last name)."
"Sure. I'm Lily Evans", she replied.
Rami raised an eyebrow and looked rather surprised. "So you're Lily Evans. Nice to meet you."
Lily had no idea what he meant by this, but decided that someone must have told him about her. Probably the marauders. Most likely James.
"You too. So, we should start on this. Do you want to read my palm first or should I read yours?"
"How about you read mine? You probably know how to do this better than I do", he commented, holding out his palm. Lily nervously held it in her own palm. She opened her book to the required page and read the instructions. She then looked back at his palm.
"Ok, so this is your life-line. Let's see…you're life line is long. This means", she took her eyes off his hand and looked back at the book, "that you have strong romantic tendencies."
Rami let out a low whistle. Lily couldn't help but laugh.
"And your Head line shows that you have a strong sense of grievance. Your Heart lines shows that you are warm and generous. Your Fate line also shows that you will have an early start in career and finance. You Sun line shows that your personal success will come from one of your original ideas or breakthroughs in technology."
"Really now?" he commented, smiling his charming smile at her. Lily couldn't help but smile back.
"And, the type of hand you have shows that you're independent, intellectual, analytical and unpredictable." (A/N: ok people, don't kill me if I did this all wrong! I did this test on a friend of mine, and those were the results. And so I just used her results for this! And yes, I know that in their class, they probably don't do palm reading the same way!)
"Sound's great. Wow, you're smart."
Lily blushed. "No, im not."
"I'm sure you are. I mean, you're Head Girl and all…"
Lily looked down at her robes. She didn't have her badge on. So how did he know this? She asked him.
"Oh, I just guessed that you were", he said, shrugging. "How I interpret your palm now?" he asked, quickly changing the subject.
Lily gave him her own palm. He gently gripped her wrist with one hand and ran his finger along her palm lines with the other. Lily's heart beat quickened with his touch. He muttered things about her palm and its lines, but Lily wasn't listening. She was just staring at his eyes, his nose, his lips…Oh god. He's F-I-N-E, she thought.
"There's your fortune", he said once he was done. He let go of her hand. She gave him a floppy grin and he gave her a wicked smile in return.
"Thanks." She put her hands in her pockets to prevent them from wrapping around his neck. She barely knew him, yet she was in lov-lust with him.
"So, where do you people hang out?"
Lily laughed. 'Hang out' was a muggle term that she had never heard a wizard use. He was probably a half blood or a muggle born. "In Hogsmeade. It's a village close to the school. We take trips there every few months. But this year the rules changed, because we're in our 7th year. So, we can go to Hogsmeade any weekend."
"Really? Any good bars or restaurants?"
"The Hog's Head is a bar, but not many people go there. There's also 'The Three Broomsticks", which is sort of an inn. Then there is also Honeydukes, which sells candies and sweets."
"Really?" he raised an eyebrow. "Well, will you do something for me if I asked you?"
Lily chuckled. "Depends what it is that you're asking."
"Nothing too bad."
"Shoot."
He gave her a charming smile, and brushed her cheek. His mouth was a breath away from hers. Lily felt her heart accelerate even more. "Wanna go with me to Hogsmeade this Saturday?"
This was just what she wanted. Rami to ask her out on a date. All she had to do was find some romantic, yet witty comment to make.
She grinned, finding the perfect words. "Why not?"
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Meanwhile, Nada made her way towards Bellatrix's table. Black was busy chatting with a Slytherin girl and two guys. Not chatting…flirting, Nada corrected herself. Bellatrix was a wicked witch who had the worst sense of sarcasm Nada had ever seen in a person. She was a pure Slytherin attitude and wit wise.
Once she reached Bellatrix's table, she tapped her fingers on it. Bellatrix stopped talking and looked up at Nada.
"Hey, mind if we partner up?" Nada asked casually.
"She's my partner, Jaroud", said Florence, the Slytherin brunette. She was Bellatrix's partner in crime. Oh, how much Nada hated her.
Nada made a rude hand gesture to Florence, which caused the dazzling Slytherin to scowl. "Get lost, prat."
Bellatrix smirked. "Mind finding another partner, Florence?" she asked, not taking her eyes off Nada. That was the thing about Bellatrix that made Nada hate her even more. She always wanted to be on the winning side, to have an advantage in everything.
"Whatever," Florence replied, glaring even more at Nada. She got up from her chair and moved to Nada's former seat. Nada smiled at her little victory and sat down in Florence's seat. She opened her book and began interpreting Bellatrix's palm. After she was done, they switched parts and Bellatrix interpreted Nada's.
"So, why did you want to partner up with me this time?" Bellatrix asked once they had finished all their work. She was gazing at the quill she was holding in her hand as if there was something very interesting about it.
"Lily found another partner to work with", Nada lied.
"Really now? But why me?"
"You know exactly why."
"Why?"
"Because of your cousin, you dumbass."
"Now, now, watch your mouth, Jaroud. What did Sirius do this time?" She had a smirk on her pretty face, and still refused to look Nada in the eye.
"How do you know he did something? I just wanted to know where he was this summer."
Bellatrix raised an eyebrow. "Why?"
"I just do, god damn it."
"He was at Potter's house."
"Potter? James?"
"Is there any other Potter that you know of?"
"Well why didn't he ever write to me?"
"Jaroud, he doesn't like you anymore. Not even remotely."
Nada sighed and rolled her eyes. "Shut it, Black."
"You wanted to hear the truth, and I gave it to you."
"I'm sure you did. Listen, Black, I know that you must have a role in this whole ordeal. Since you barely ever talk to Sirius, you wouldn't know how he feels about me. And you always did seem to take a dislike in me."
"Wow. You're a clever one, aren't you?" she said, her lips curling to form a wicked smile.
"Clever enough to find out that you and Rodolphus sold your soul to the dark lord, yes."
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Lily entered the common room to find most of the Gryffindor students sitting at tables or by the fire and chatting with their friends. Nothing was wrong. Nothing could go wrong. It was all too perfect. Unless the marauders started a riot all of a sudden that had to do with either Severus or McGonagall--the head of the house--or both combined along with a bed. In all three cases, however, Lily would soon abolish it by taking house points away from their own house. Perfect.
Lily had it all under control this year. The marauders couldn't do anything. No fighting with Severus in the halls between classes, no having food fights in the great hall, no hexing people in the corridor just for looking at them…none of that anymore. Since she was the Head Girl this year and had much more power than last year, she had decided to crush on every single prank of theirs. Also, James was Head Boy, meaning that he would get into trouble if he broke the rules too. Excellent.
However, Lily's wicked thoughts were soon interrupted with Nada yelling "Oy! Lily! Over here!" and waving at her from the other side of the common room. Lily made her way over to the couch beside the fire where Nada and Elina were sitting.
"Hey", she said casually, sitting across from the two.
"How did the Prefect meeting go?" Nada asked.
"It went fine. I suggested that we have a dance before Christmas, but I was bombarded with disagreements from people wishing to visit their families during the break."
"Too bad. I wouldn't have minded one", Elina remarked.
"How did your little talk with Bellatrix go?" Lily forgot all about Nada and Bellatrix pairing up during Divinations until then.
"Not too bad. I guess." Elina and Lily exchanged quizzical looks, but didn't say anything.
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"…and guess what the big tomato said to the little tomato?" Sirius asked, laughing. He didn't wait for anyone to answer him, "Ketch-up! Get it, catch up?" and he started slamming his fist on the table from laughing too hard.
James, however, had better things to do then listen to Sirius tell corny jokes. He was busy scanning the common room, thinking of a prank to pull on someone. Anyone.
You see, ever since James had acquired the big, shiny badge that he was forced to wear every day, he had sensed a need to break the rules. A need even stronger than before. And the reason was that he would get away with anything that he did, because he was the Head Boy. Not only that, but his friends would also get away with what they did. He would never take house points off of them when they pulled pranks, and Lily couldn't do anything to stop them. Excellent.
Actually, now that he thought about it, a new plan started to form in his mind. This plan would have to make up for the beginning of year plan that they had never gotten to pull off.
"Hey Wormtail, ready to turn into a mouse?" he asked Peter, keeping his voice barely above a whisper. Rami was sitting beside Sirius and had a look of mild amusement on his face.
"What? Why?" Peter responded. James grinned. He knew that Peter would do anything he asked him to do. Afterall, he was practically Peter's role model.
"Well, I plan on playing a little trick on our three girls" he jerked his chin in the direction that Lily, Nada and Elina were sitting. Peter looked over at them and grinned maliciously.
James lowered his voice even further. "Here's the plan…"
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"Gabi was mentioning something this morning about you and Sirius…" Elina drawled.
"What? Oh that. About us spending last night together? Nothing big happened."
"Meaning…?" Lily commented.
"Nothing that we're going to regret later had happened." Lily sighed. Although Nada was what many would call…more experienced in the field of dating, she had much respect for herself and would never do something in a relationship without thinking it through beforehand.
Suddenly, the trio heard a loud shriek which seemed to have come from the table on their right. Lily turned to look at the two third year girls sitting at the table, and noticed what they were shrieking about. A rat.
Although Lily wasn't the type to be afraid of rats or any type of animal, she still got up and moved away from the table beside her. The rat was moving at a fast pace towards her, Elina and Nada. Nada and Elina followed her suit and got off the couch as fast as they could. The rat, however, kept going towards Lily.
Let gaped and was about to scream, but was interrupted by someone bending down and picking the mouse up. It was James.
"What are you doing?" she asked, surprised. Practically everyone in the common room was looking in their direction, even the First Years, who didn't even know about the ordeal between the two.
"I'm picking up the rat", James replied, not looking up at her. He got back up, holding the rat by the tail. Lily shrieked as the rat tried to free itself from James' fingers. "Relax, Lil, it's just a rat. Not going to do anything to you."
"Sod off", she scowled. Not only was she annoyed by the fact that he had called her 'Lil', but also because he had used the rat as an opportunity to show off to her. The pompous pig!
James raised an eyebrow at her, and smirked his famous smirk at her. She scowled in return and walked off towards the girls' dorms, not daring to look back.
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Ok. End of chapter! Hehe. The next chapters gonna be great! Least I hope it is ^_^
Also, one other thing. I thought that you guys might want to know what some of these names mean, incase you already don't. But yeah. I kinda didn't know what a few of them meant, and got a bit carried away with this site which gave the meanings behind names. LoL.
Gabriella= feminine form of Gabriel, the messenger from God
Nada=Arabic for generous
Elina= Finnish for the Greek name Selen, meaning moon.
Sirius= Constellation Canis Major. It was derived from the Latin word seirios, meaning "burning"
James=Derived from Latin word from the New Testament. Also mentioned as being the brother of Jesus.
Peter= Stone
Remus= The meaning is unknown. However, he was the co-founder of Rome
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And here's a part from one of my favorite songs. I think it fits in very well with this story, particularly this chapter.
Maroon 5 - This Love
I'll fix
these broken things
Repair your broken wings
And make sure everything's alright
My pressure on your hips
Sinking my fingertips
Into every inch of you
Cause I know that's what you want me to do