A/N: Chapter 2- reloaded and corrected. =) Hope you enjoy!
"Lily!!! It's time to get up! It's a new world, it's a new start, it's-" a shrill voice singing in the 7th year dormitories was abruptly cut off by a well-aimed pillow.
"Shut up Claire and let me sleep. What ungodly hour is it, and where is Ayrah?" Lily asked blearily.
Clarissa Ducria was a perky girl of 17. She had wavy shoulder length brown hair and soft, kind eyes. She was the most out-going of Lily's friends, and, by some weird chance, could actually get along with the all the Marauders.
"Ayrah is in the Great Hall… uh… saving you a seat!" Claire finished brightly, bouncing up and down on Lily's bed. Lily grimaced as she bounced too.
"You mean that she got tired of waiting for me to wake up and went down to breakfast already," Lily corrected. "What about you? Have you eaten yet?" Lily asked as she clambered out of her bed lethargically.
"Yes! I ate an hour ago! You weren't up late doing that stupid Arithmancy assignment were you?" Claire accused, slowing her bouncing.
"Well…" Lily hesitated. "As a matter of fact, yes." Claire rolled her eyes.
"You DO know that Professor doesn't even look over our notes, right? He simply just sees that we have something down on the parchment that states the right chapter and section!"
"Well, what if he decides to read over the notes? Or if he gets suspicious that the notes looked the same as it did the last couple hundred times? Or-" Lily asked defensively grabbing a set of clothes.
"Calm down, Lily. I have three different set of notes which I alternate on, they don't look the same!" Claire said.
"Well, how will you study for your N.E.W.T.S? You won't have anything to study with!" Lily said, taking on a whole different spin with her argument.
"Lily, Lily, Lily. It's a Friday morning! Stop trying to depress me with talk of schoolwork and N.E.W.T.S! In any case, I'd just study off yours. Just get dressed and I'll go down with you to breakfast, which will end in about ten minutes…" Claire said, trailing off looking at her friend.
"TEN MINUTES? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER?" She rushed into the bathroom and slammed the door shut. Claire chuckled.
"I don't think she'll be too happy when she finds out that there are really forty more minutes left…" she mused to herself.
The Great Hall was filled with chattering students, all enjoying their little breakfast. At the end of the Gryffindor table, sat the Marauders leaning back in their chairs, acting very full of themselves. In other words: acting normal. Several girls flocked around them batting their eyelashes or patting their carefully done hair. James smiled at one of them and the girl immediately squealed and hyperventilated.
"Like, Oh, my, GOD," she squealed to her little friends.
Lily came rushing into the Great Hall in this scene. Claire came up behind her, panting slightly.
"If there's only ten minutes left, why are there so many people?" she asked Claire, her brow furrowed.
"Well… Slip of the tongue Lily. There are really thirty minutes left, now," Claire said happily, smiling at one of Lily's glares. The two of them scouted the Gryffindor table, looking for Ayrah. They spotted her. Lily's smile then disappeared. Ayrah was sitting right next to the Marauders.
She sighed, rolled her eyes and made her way over to them, pushing past a few of James's fanclub. She reached her seat, which was… right next to James.
"You are so dead," she hissed to Ayrah. Ayrah shrugged and continued to eat. "Well, you see… I decided that I'd leave you the honor since you came in late!" she said smiling. Lily glared and plopped into her chair. She turned her back on the Marauders and started to talk to her friends.
"So then Matthew was like 'But Professor-'" Ayrah was telling them the story of what had happened in Ancient Runes the other day. She was cut off by James.
"Why are you sitting here?" he asked Lily rudely. Lily turned her head and stared at him.
"Do I NOT have the right to sit where I please?" Lily asked placidly although her friends noticed that her hands had balled into fists.
"Not when it's next to me!" James protested still leaning back. His fanclub glared nastily at Lily who didn't seem to care.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, King James. Should I leave, just to accommodate your highness?" she asked sarcastically. The rest of the Marauders and Lily's friends waited nervously. They knew that either James or Lily was explode any moment now.
"That would be fine, lowly peasant," James said casually, leaning his chair back again. He had touched a definite nerve.
Lily just stared at him incredulously for a moment. Then she stood up and kicked his chair leg and his chair fell backwards. James fell onto the ground, none too gracefully. Lily looked down at him and hissed, "You are the most egotistical prat I have ever met!" With that, she stalked out of the Great Hall. The fanclub gathered around James, promising revenge on that 'stupid Lily girl.' James got up, refusing help from his admirers, rubbing the back of his head.
"Wow, you know, she looks kinda cute when she's angry!" Sirius said brightly. James just glared at him. Sirius smiled more.
Lily's friends looked at each other, then set off at a run after Lily. Who knew what destruction she was capable of causing in her present mood?
A/N- the song that Claire begins to sing/shriek in the beginning to wake Lily up is from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron sung by Bryan Adams called "Here I Am."
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