Lily Chapter 11: Reckless Response, a harry potter fanfic

Lily

Chapter 11

Lily's chair fell back. When her livid face appeared again, all of her friends at the table stared at her. "Are you okay?" Chantel asked concernedly.

Lily wouldn't speak to anyone, she was afraid that they wouldn't believe her. They'd think that she was insane! She ran up to her dorm, not making eye-contact with anyone, on the way. When she reached the room, she flung open the door, slammed it shut, then sat down on her bed.

She reached under her pillow, grabbed her diary and opened it to a fresh page. She didn't hesistate, she started scribbling all of her emotions, actions, and questions. Her diary was something that she could confide in; it wouldn't talk back to her, it wouldn't hurl questions at her, it would just soak in the ink from her pen.

Her entry was something like this:

Thursday

Dear Diary,

I think I am going crazy. A voice keeps haunting me. It's telling me to be in the Astronomy Tower tonight, and to join someone. It says that the rewards will be great, but how can something like this be so good if this person is sneaking around to tell me about it? Should I go there? Would it be too much of a risk? Who do you think it is? This is so confusing! I can't tell anyone about this. They'd probably ship me off to St. Mungo's as fast as they could.

~Lily~

That evening, Lily was preoccupied by her decision. She was split between curiosity and self-preservation. Maybe she could talk to someone in the common room...someone who wouldn't think she was crazy.

Lily ran down the steps. James and Sirius were sitting at a table, playing Exploding Snap.

Lily just stood there for a couple of minutes until she looked out the window. Dark. If she was going to go to the Astronomy Tower, now was the time. Lily started to walk quickly out of the room, until Sirius finally noticed her.

"You're going pretty fast there, Lily. Where're you going?" He asked.

"I have to meet someone tonight." She said shortly, not expecting any more questions.

"Who is it?" Asked a curious James.

"I don't exactly know." She said while her cheeks got very pink.

"How're you supposed to meet him if you don't even know who he is? If I have a date, I like to know who I am going out with. Is it a blind date?"

"It's NOT a date, James. I should've known that you two were going to be
immature." And with that, Lily stomped out the portrait hole.

James and Sirius felt bad, so after a few minutes, they went to go find Lily. They figured that she'd be in the Great Hall, but she was nowhere to be found. "Well, maybe she went back to her dorm while we were in the Great Hall," James suggested.

They went back to the common room and up the girl's dormitory stairs. James opened the door and peered inside. Lily, of course, wasn't there, but there was a diary poking out from under her pillow. He knew that it would be a major invasion of Lily's privacy to read it, but it could contain something that would give them a clue as to why Lily had been acting so odd. James bent down and picked the diary up, flipping through the pages.

"You really shouldn't be doing that, James." said Sirius.

"But what if it has something that we should know about? Maybe it'll explain why she has been acting so..." Then James stopped. He had found Lily's diary entry from that morning. For a moment, he read it over, then tossed it back down on the bed. "Come on!" he called to Sirius as he ran out the door.

Something bad was going to happen to Lily, they both knew it. The question was, what?

(A/N): Short, I know. I'll try and make the next one longer, I promise!