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Lily set off to the Owlery early the next morning; she wanted to send a letter to Flourish and Blotts to see if they had the second volume of "Charms for the Concealed."
Once she tied the letter to one of the school owl's leg, claw, foot, whatever you call it, a boy came in. His name was Remus Lupin: Another person of James and Sirius's "clan."
Remus had brownish-gold colored hair, and amber colored eyes. He was a limp, lanky thing; he always appeared sick – Even more today. (The full moon had finally finished, and Remus was sending his dearest mummy a letter telling her about it.)
At first Remus just went on without even noticing Lily, who was at his left near a window, and cried out towards the hundreds of birds, "Hermes!" And a tawny owl with piercing electric blue eyes came flying at him, hooting.
Lily was watching him coaxing his owl until the school owl that was in her own hand nipped her hand in an impatient way.
"Ow…" Lily mouthed out, as she examined her bleeding hand. She shrugged, she would pay attention to that later, then she spoke aloud to the owl and said, "Now, can you go all the way to London, and deliver this letter here, to the shop 'Flourish and Blotts?'"
The owl hooted in response, and Lily took this as it meant yes. She smiled, let her hand out in the window and watched the owl fly off her hand and into the sky.
Lily sighed, and Remus finally heard her. "Oh… I didn't see you there…"
"Huh? Oh yeah, that's alright…"
"Your name's um… Lily, er, right?"
"Uh-huh. You're correct."
"Well, um, good day, Lily." Said Remus as he gave her a weak smile.
Lily smiled in response, bid farewell, and left.
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A week passed by, and still no response. Lily worried that maybe the spell she had placed on herself might have also affected that letter, maybe the shop owner could have ignored it…
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By the 8th day, Lily decided to give up on worrying about that letter, and decided to get on with her life… Her probably-going-to-be miserable life… She would become a loner, no friends, no contacts… nothing.
These days her sighs were getting heavier, and more often. But one day, during breakfast in the Great Hall, when the owls started flooding the ceiling, an owl came soaring out at Lily, knocking over her pumpkin juice.
Lily, not caring about her now soaked top, was much more interested in the letter she received. She snatched the letter from the annoyed looking owl, and on the envelope, written on there in emerald ink, said Flourish and Blotts. Lily grinned, and ripped it open.
Dear Ms. Lily Evans,
I'm sorry for our late response, but we had just gotten a new load of books in, and we were too busy to respond. But we did find volume two of "Charms for the Concealed." If you wish to purchase this book, please insert 1 Galleon and 15 Sickles into the pouch on the owl's leg, and we will send you the book in approximately 3 days. Thank you.
Yours Truly,
Flourish and Blotts.
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Lily was not a stupid girl. She didn't even know what was in this book, so why waste almost 2 Galleons on something she wouldn't even remotely need? So, she decided to send a letter back to Flourish and Blotts to ask what was in the book… Like if there was a counter-curse in the book or not.
She received her response roughly in two days time, and it told her there were not any counter-curses of any kind in that book. Oh how Lily sighed.
She often wondered of going to Dumbledore, who was the greatest wizard in the world… But decided against it. He would probably ignore her, right? And he would probably think that Lily was some moron, I mean, what kind of person would put a concealment charm on himself?
The last days of school were drawing nearer… And new worries came to Lily. What if her family forgot about her? Where would she go? But that was still at least a week or away… Maybe she could owl her family and tell them the end of the school year was coming close, and to tell them to pick her up at the platform in London…
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Lily did owl them, and received her response shortly after a day or two. They said they didn't forget her, and also added that they were amused at that, and thought that Lily "must be very homesick indeed." Lily brightened up a little bit more, liking the fact that her family did not forget her – Still having a place in their hearts.
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A/N: Okay… That chapter was horrible. Too short, too much owl-ing, just horrible. In my opinion, anyways. But then again, it was somewhat rushed, and I was playing my guitar while typing. ^_^ Okay, for this story, I don't think I'm going to go through all 3rd year, 4th, and all that. I might just skip on to 5th year, and make Lily all lonely, depressed. Maybe. Possibly. Perhaps. I don't know… Maybe I'll just kill Lily off. =O! No, I'm kidding.