SUMMARY: Lily goes to Hogwarts, and James goes to
Beauxbatons. They've been writing letters to each other since their 3rd
year. What happens when James gets transferred to Hogwarts?
A/N: Whew, this has taken a while! Sorry! I thought I
had it written, but I didn't, so... yeah. Sorry again!!
Throughout
the weeks, Lily grew more and more aggravated by James, while he became more
and more amused as she grew closer and closer to insanity with each passing
day. He didn't want a lot, just for her to admit she wasn't stupid, and
one night in the Common Room, it seemed like she was finally cracking.
"Like-Who
put this red-headed Barbie doll in my purse?!" She asked, bloodshot
green eyes bugging, voice cracking. She
looked over and saw James standing on the base of the boys staircase, waving.
"Oh… like-never mind," she said, hands twitching. She
looked at his neck almost longingly, as if the only thing she wanted was to
place her hands around it and squeeze as hard as she could. Deciding
something, Lily began to walk towards James, hands outstretched, before putting
them down and grabbing his arm as hard as she could instead. "Could
I please speak with you for a moment out in the hall?" She asked
through gritted teeth. "I like-need help with my Transfiguration
homework!" She said loudly, and all her friends sighed with relief.
Heaven forbid she would actually talk with someone outside their group
willingly!
"WHAT
the hell do you think you're doing?!" She asked in her high-pitched,
obviously stressed voice once more as they reached the hall. "I
mean, honestly, why do you want my life to be a living hell?
"Just
admit who you really are!" He said, shrugging his shoulders as if it
were no big deal.
"Haven't I told you?!" She
said, massaging her temples and sighing. "I can't! Just leave
me alone, okay?"
"Uh
huh..." James said slowly, folding his arms and avoiding her demand.
"Well, I'll see you later," he said, patting Lily's head and
stepping back inside the portrait hole.
Lily scrunched
her eyes shut as tight at she could and let out a nice, big scream that echoed
down the empty corridor before stepping back in the common room, fake smile in
place.
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5:00 in the
morning was the time the whole Common Room was woken up to a quite loud scream
coming from the 4th year Girls Dormitories. "JAMES POTTER!!!!!"
Lily screamed, running to the 4th year Boys Dormitories, where a very
groggy but happy James Potter had just woken up. "WHAT THE
HELL ARE A BUNCH OF BARBIE DOLL HEADS DOING ON MY BED?!" She
screamed at James, who was currently sitting up, rubbing his eyes and grinning,
before realizing the multitude of people following her. "Like-I know
you know I like Barbie's and everything, and that Barbie is my roll model, but
I can't collect the heads alone, silly!" She said, pelting one of
the heads at him as hard as she could. "Here, I'll tell you what.
You can STILL like-be graced with my presence if you come and clean up
all the heads for me, okay?" She said, giving him the Death Glare
before turning around and motioning for him to follow her. Unfortunately,
the crowd of people followed them, so Lily didn't get a moment to punch him...
yet. James walked in the room, laughing slightly at the heads all over
Lily's bed, muttered a simple spell softly, and turned around to leave.
"Like-thank
you honey!" Lily said, giving him a tight hug... very tight.
Arms wrapped around James' neck as tight as she could, he began turning
blue before he was finally able to loosen her grip and pry her arms off his
neck.
"Anytime," He grunted, massaging his neck,
and began heading back towards his Common Room, only to see a grinning Sirius.
Wondering what he could possibly want, James approached him, eyebrows
raised. "Yes?" He asked curtly, arms folded.
"You know,
those Barbie doll heads would have been a lot better if you had enchanted them
to chant "Like-you're a ditz!" Over and over again at the same
time." He said, grinning mischievously.
"That would have been wicked!" James
said, chuckling. Maybe this Sirius wasn't so bad after all.
"And then
after they woke up you could have had them pop up on their necks and hop
towards her." He said between laughs.
"You're
going to have to help me with another prank I have planned for her!"
James said after about five minutes when he had recovered from his
laughter. This seemed to be the beginning of a very beautiful friendship.
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Little
did anyone know that over the next few days that with James, Sirius, Remus, and
Peter together, the pranks at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry would
be tripled. James usually thought of the original plans, Sirius, the
details. Remus would be in charge of getting it all to work, and Peter
was usually the distraction or decoy. Most of the plans had been directed
towards Lily, however, and all four of them agreed it was a miracle she hadn't
cracked. What they all didn't know was that one of the four was the only
thing to help her not go crazy.
Nuria,
I'm sorry things aren't going well for you right now...
you need to know that you can hang in there. You're a strong
person, I can tell from your letters, and as long as you don't let anyone get
to you, you'll be fine. Just know, for what it's worth that I'm
always here to talk about anything you need, no matter what, and there's at
least one person who cares about you. I'm closer to you than you think.
Love from,
O'Rion
Lily looked at
O'Rion's letter, smiling. It was short, but she guessed he had a lot of
homework. There was one part of it at the end she was puzzled about,
however. He's closer to her than she thinks? What was that supposed
to mean? After much pondering, she came to the conclusion that he was
talking about mentally, how they were on the same level. It was enough to keep
her sane, at least until she received his next letter. She could endure
James Potter and his new friends for another week or so easily. Setting
down her Arithmancy homework and taking out her special parchment she used for
O'Rion alone, she began writing. The
sooner she wrote a letter to him, the sooner he would write back.
O'Rion
Once again, you wrote the perfect letter to make
me feel better. I can stay sane for one more week thanks to you. If
only you were here at Hogwarts... it wouldn't matter what other people said
about me, and I could be myself. If only, huh… or maybe if I went to
Beauxbatons. I would be ridding myself of the imbeciles attending this
school and be able to see and spend time with you. Well, as I doubt none
of this will actually happen I'll have to dream about it. Speaking of
dreaming, it's late, and I'd better be getting to bed if I plan on waking up
anytime near time tomorrow. Thanks again for that letter.
Love,
Nuria
Lily looked at
the letter. She had added love at the end, but it was the truth.
She was young, only 14, but this was love, it honestly was. It was
crazy since she had never even met him, but every time she read a letter from
him or thought of him, she felt like laughing and crying at the same
time,
and there was a feeling in the pit of her stomach so strong... sighing, she
folded the letter and sent it off with her owl before getting ready for bed.
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I'm. SO. Sorry. That. Took. So. Long.
To. Get. Out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I honestly am,
but you guys have NO idea what I've had to go through lately.... I've
had MAJOR family problems, tons of homework, and been job hunting, which I've
found to NOT be a fun thing at all. It's summer now though, so I should
be doing better for a while. You'll have a really good chapter next time
though, I'll be skipping ahead a year, because I think that 14 is too young for
Lily and James to be meeting and everything, so hopefully things will get
interesting. I'm REALLY sorry again, and I hope you guys are still there
to review! I decided I would thank everyone this chapter since I've been
so horrible, so here ya go!
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