Something New
By Jasminee
Weee.. im having fun with this fanfic! My first one coincidentally.. but its cute to write about pathetic drama of love.. its soo…well…dramatic!
This is a Lily/James fanfic.. if you wanna know what its about, read the first two chapters..
Also.. because I don't know all the characters that were in Hogwarts during Lily and James's time, im just going to make most of it up.. xD MUA HA HA AHHHHHHHH..but that will happen later on.. for now I just avoid having them.. how sad…
Disclaimer Yeah not mine, no shit…
Something New – Chapter 3 – Revelations And RealityJournal Entry - August 31, 1972
Dear Journal,
Well, I have just finished packing up for Hogwarts. I hope that they don't mind that I'm bringing along some muggle (I learned that term from the book mom got me, it means non-magic folk) stuff. I NEED to bring my radio with me so I can keep in touch with the music that I love so much. I don't know what sort of music witches and wizards listen to so it's always good to be prepared. I think dad is a little bit annoyed at me for still being so into it though. I made him buy me a whole bunch of batteries for my CD player and a big case of CD-R's yesterday so I could burn all my laptop, which I'm ALSO bringing along (A/N Lets just pretend that they have all this tech back in 1972 haha). I had to use another small bag for all of it.
Oh I'm so nervous I can't stop shaking! Ever since I came back from Diagon Alley, I have been looking through my books and I just can't wait to learn about all of this stuff! I think the man from the wand shop in Diagon Alley was right. After looking at the books I think charms will be my favorite subject. Ahhhhh, I got to stop lying to myself! I keep talking about all this school stuff, but that's not the only thing that I'm looking forward too. I can't wait to see that black haired boy! I think his name was James Potter… Unless I'm mistaken, I think he will be in the same year as me. I hope he has some classes with me, which would be fun!
Well, anyways, I have to go to sleep now. The sooner I sleep, the sooner I wake up, and then I'll be off on my journey.
Lily Evans
There were still twenty minutes left before the train would leave for Hogwarts and Lily still could not find Platform 9 ¾. Her parents already left because they had to go back to work but they had wished her luck on her journey. How am I supposed to have this adventure if I can't even find the platform? Lily hoped that maybe somehow she would just happen to walk up to the platform but it wasn't happening. She walked around aimlessly, rolling along one large and one small suitcase stacked on top of each other and her owl on a cart along with a small backpack on her back. She decided that she would look for someone who was also going onto the Hogwarts express. After a few glances around, she happened to notice a boy with untamable black hair. It can't be, is it him? Lily started to walk towards him, noticing that he also had a large suitcase. It must be him! Lily decided that she should call him.
"James!" She screamed, but the person did not turn around. She called once more but he did not respond. "James! It's me Lily!" She caught up to him and tapped his shoulder. When the boy turned around, Lily realized that it was not him at all. "Oh, I'm sorry I thought you were someone else." She walked away, feeling rather stupid for thinking that he was James. "God I want to see him again," she muttered to herself.
"Aw, that's sweet," said a voice from behind her.
Lily turned around quickly and saw James standing right in front of her, wearing a mocking smirk on his face.
"I didn't mean that! It's just, uh… never mind." Lily looked down, not wanting to say anything else that would mortify her in front of him.
"So why aren't you on the platform already?" James asked.
"I don't know... where it is…" she replied, feeling dumb. "Wait, why aren't you on it?"
"I already went on and put my baggage there. I just felt like coming back to wait for some friends of mine." Without saying anymore, James grabbed the cart carrying Lily's luggage and started rolling it along.
"Hey! Where are you going with that!?" screamed Lily. A couple around them looked at her wondering what had happened.
"Well, you do want to go onto the platform don't you?" Inquired James.
"Oh right. Thanks I guess then. Wait a minute. What about your friends?"
"Don't worry. They know how to get on. They'll find me."
James got to the platform and showed how to get Lily on also. They got onto the train and Lily started wondering where to sit considering that she didn't know anyone besides James. She wanted to sit with James but she didn't want to seem obvious.
"Do you want to sit in my compartment?" It was almost as though James had read her mind.
"That would be nice. Thanks," Lily replied, secretly glad that she would get to spend some time with him.
As James helped Lily settle in, the compartment door opened in walked two boys.
"What's this? Is our James letting a girl take over our spots?" One of them asked, with a pretend pout on his face.
"Shut up Sirius. I'm just helping Lily out with her stuff." Replied James, annoyed.
"So THIS is Lily. Funny, she's just like what you said in..?" Sirius continued but James interrupted him before he could finish.
"Sirius I am going to KILL YOU!" He ran up to him and put him into a headlock and wouldn't let go. "Don't say anything about me talking about her," he whispered to him. He then let go and started laughing, along with Sirius and the other boy, still standing in front of the doorway.
Apparently these three must be good friends. If not, Sirius wouldn't have known that James was talking about me. Hold up, HE WAS THINKING ABOUT ME? Lily just realized what has just happened. God, if we were to go out, it would be so awesome. I would get to play with his hair whenever I want.
"Lily, this is Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." James said, "And guys, this is Lily. I met her in Diagon Alley."
They all greeted each other and settled down and put their bags away properly. The train started moving and everyone was in their seats. James and Lily was on one side of the compartment and Remus and Sirius were on the opposite side, snickering at the sight of James and Lily sitting together.
After a while James, Sirius, and Remus were all talking together but Lily didn't hear what they were talking about. She was just staring out the window, still thinking about what James and Sirius had said. She didn't move and was almost in a trance with the thoughts in head consuming her. It was a shame that she wasn't paying attention to the three boys in the room.
"Are you into Lily? James, you're already fancying some girl? You haven't even gotten into the school yet." Remus asked, too low for Lily to hear even if she was paying attention.
"I… No… I don't think so…" James answered, unsure of himself. Before Remus and Sirius could press him any further, Lily's sudden movements startled them. She had grabbed her bag and was busy trying to take out her black CD player and the CD that she wanted to listen to. It was the newest EP by Fall Out Boy and she had not gotten a chance to listen to it since she got it.
"Ooh what is that?" Sirius asked, pointing to black object.
"It's just my CD player." She said. She was a little concerned that they didn't even know what it was.
Sirius just grabbed it and started to toy around with the buttons. He opened and closed the top with such force that Lily was scared he would break it.
"Stop messing around with it!" She tried taking it back but he dodged her hands and quickly passed it to Remus. Before Lily could yell at Remus, he passed it to James. James held it and looked at her with a mischievous grin.
"James, can you PLEASE give my CD player?" Lily looked at him with such fire in her eyes that it matched her hair. "I REALLY would appreciate if you gave it back!." Lily's face was extremely red and she was on the verge of exploding and James could see it too but he wanted to have some fun with this.
"What does it do?" James continued to tempt her to blow up.
"IT PLAYS CD's WHICH HAVE MUSIC ON THEM! NOW LET ME HAVE IT BACK!"
"Fine, fine. Here." He tossed it but unfortunately at the same time, the train had jerked violently and the CD player fell hard onto the floor. There was a sound of plastic cracking and when Lily picked up her CD player, the top cover had broken off. She just looked at it and the whole compartment went quiet.
"Ooh that can't be good," Sirius said finally, breaking the silence.
"Lily, I'm sorry. Give it to me. My mom taught me this fixing charm once. Don't worry it will be as good as new." James started to move his hands out for the CD player but Lily pulled away.
"Don't you dare touch it." She could have shot out daggers through her eyes and she gave James the most nasty look possible.
"Look I said was sorry!" James started as he tried to defend himself, but Lily cut him off.
"SAYING SORRY WON'T FIX THIS WILL IT! I ASKED YOU IF COULD RETURN IT BUT YOU JUST COULDN'T GIVE IT, COULD YOU?! NOOO! YOU JUST HAD TO FUCKING MESS AROUND WITH IT!!! GOD JAMES POTTER, I HATE YOU!!!" Lily screamed. She then slapped James on the cheek and a loud, sickening smack echoed slightly in the compartment.
There was dead silence. No one had expected Lily to explode (not even herself) so violently like she did. With much effort, Lily grabbed her things and ran out of that compartment.
"Whatever chance you think you have with Lily, I think it's gone." Sirius said quietly.
"Shut up."
Lily stood there in the hall, wondering what she should do. Why did I get that mad? Lily looked at her hand, which was holding the broken CD player. Oh right. THAT'S WHY. She walked down the hall, looking into each compartment. Finally she found one that had enough room for her. There was only one other person in there.
"Umm… excuse me? Can I sit here with you?" Lily asked cautiously to the boy in front of her.
"Whatever," He answered.
Lily put her things down next to her and sat down on the opposite side of him. She looked at the boy and she felt uncomfortable near him. He looked sort of oily and nerdy. She didn't really like him but figured that she should be polite.
"So… What's your name?"
"Severus Snape"
"My name is Lily Evans. It's nice to meet you."
"I don't care."
Lily looked out the window. She wanted to be with James, Remus, and Sirius instead of this guy but knew that it would be EXTREMELY awkward for her to go back. Plus I hate James. He couldn't just keep his filthy hands to himself now could he? NOO… he just simply HAD to be a jerk and play around with my CD player. Bunch of jerks. That's what all of 'em are.
She continued to stare out the window. She did so until finally she heard the announcement that they were at Hogwarts and everyone should leave their luggage and go out. As she exited the train, she saw James already out and looking at her. Why can't he just leave me alone? (Secretly she was glad that he was looking of course xD). Before she could put any more thought into it, she heard someone call for first years and she started to walk in that direction. She found that the same man with the pink umbrella who had helped her at Diagon Alley was the one who was calling all the first years. All of them found themselves at a lake with a whole bunch of small boats on the water, each fitting up to four people. As Lily tried to get on a boat, other people got to it ahead of her and she needed to get a place. DON'T let me get in with the jerks. PLEASE DON'T. She must have jinxed it though because who did she end up having to across the lake with? It HAD to be them. She cursed under her breath as she got into the boat, with all three of the boys already in it. As the boats finally started going across the lake, James tried to start to talk to Lily.
"Evans? Are you mad at me?" James put on the most innocent face possible.
"Don't talk to me."
Once again, another moment of silence went on among them.
The view was beautiful across that lake. It's a shame I had to spend it with a bunch of asswipes. She was annoyed but decided that she would not let them ruin it for her. She had already missed the sorting hat sing because of her mind being preoccupied. She turned her head to look at Professor McGonagall who started performing the sorting ceremony. She watched as the people around her had been called up to the hat and sorted into the four houses. However, there were four people beside herself that she cared about what house they would go into.
To her, the ceremony went like this.
"Black, Sirius"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
He's almost as bad as James. I hope I don't have to suffer with him for the next seven years.
"Evans, Lily" Lily walked up slowly to the hat. Knowing that Sirius was already in Gryffindor, she really didn't want to go there but she knew by the whispers of the students that that was a good house to be in.
"GRYFFINDOR!" On the plus side, it's suppose to be a good house right? And what's the chance that James will be there too? Lily walked down and waited for the next person that she was sort of curious about.
"Lupin, Remus"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Well, he seems nice enough. He isn't as wild as Sirius and James. I can live.
"Potter, James"
Lily looked as James strode up to the hat with so much confidence and it made Lily sick to watch him and his blown up ego. PLEASE, Don't let him go into Gryffindor! PLEASE! Everything seemed to go in slow motion for her. He put on the hat and to her, it felt like forever before it screamed a response.
"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat screamed through its flaps of fabric. James had a wide smile on his face.
"NO!" Lily retorted loudly, causing everyone to turn and look at her. With a more quiet voice and her head down, she added, "Sorry… Please continue Professor…" She felt as though she could curl up in a corner and die. She was too embarrassed to lift up her head and see that James had a hurt look on his face.
Lily continued to look like this until she heard a name she recognized.
"Snape, Severus"
Lily looked up once more. She watched as Snape put his oily head into the hat. She was glad when she heard the response that the hat spit out.
"SLYTHERIN!"
Thank God.
After about a dozen more students were sorted, the feast began. Food was everywhere and everyone was glad that they could full their stomachs. But Lily didn't care. She just ate and let the feast pass her by. Before she knew it, a prefect had already led them to the Gryffindor common room. They were then told to go up to their dormitories soon to get settled. As Lily started to walk towards the steps that would take her to her room, someone grabbed her arm.
"James! Just get…" she started but didn't get a chance say anymore.
"It's Remus." Lily turned to see that in fact it was him.
With a sigh she asked, "What is it?"
"I know you're mad at James but please try to forgive him," he requested this with such genuine sincerity that Lily couldn't help but smile.
"It's sweet that you are defending a friend but I still think that he is a total jerk and he will have to work to earn my forgiveness." She said goodnight to Remus and started walking up the stairs.
Although she knew that Remus would most likely tell James about this conversation, she didn't realize that James would end up taking the idea of having to earn her forgiveness to heart.
Wow, another long chapter, I am honestly very proud of myself for being able to write this long and I'm proud if you read it on one sitting xD..
I don't feel like making too many comments here but let me just say that I will continue this until whenever..hehe
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