Change of Heart

Chapter 4

Written by: Starburst Queen

The next few weeks went by quickly for Lily. She had great new friends, her grades soared and flourished even past their normal excellence, and she was happy. That is until she crossed Natalie's path. Sirius and Natalie hadn't lasted long. They broke up a week after school had started. Natalie had come crying to Lily begging her help and forgiveness. Lily had sympathy for Natalie, but she couldn't be forgiven that easily. No matter how sorry she felt for Natalie, she couldn't help her.

Natalie had pleaded for Lily to help her get back at Sirius for breaking her heart but Lily's new love for her friends wouldn't let her help Natalie reek revenge on her friends. Natalie had been hateful and more rude to Lily since then. All Lily could do was turn her head. Lily received numerous letters from her parents, and numerous letters informing her of her mothers new lover, Ronald. Carroll had even sent Lily a picture of him in one letter asking her honest opinion on whether or not he was dashing. Lily was quite disgusted and disgruntled. She never knew how to answer her mothers letters so she always wrote in a monotone.

Time was approaching fast for the first Quidditch match of the year against Gryffindor and Slytherin, the two most well known rivals in all of Hogwarts' history. Brawls, magical and physical, were breaking out in the hallways much more than usual, and tensions were running high. Both Quidditch teams were practicing furiously day and night. James and Sirius got in late most nights and it was left up to Lily, Remus, and Evy to get them through school.

As they sat in the Common Room waiting for Sirius and James to get in Lily sighed and put down her quill. She yawned and stretched, rubbing her tired eyes. "Lily?"

"Hmm?"

"You look tired, why don't you go on up to the dorm? Remus and I can finish everything up…" Worry laced delicately through Evy's words. Lily shook her head and picked the quill back up. "I'll be fine Ev." A few moments later the Portrait Hole opened and the Gryffindor Quidditch team dragged in, James in the lead.

He slowly walked towards the trio and fell heavily onto the couch Lily was setting on. As the team dispersed to their dorms he called out, "Match tomorrow! Get loads of sleep!" Sirius snorted and sat down on an adjacent couch.

"Sleep… what's that? I can't seem to remember seeing how you never let us get any!" James rolled his eyes in response and laid his head in Lily's lap. She looked down at him with an eye brow raised.

"Comfortable?" James grinned and nodded. Lily shook her head and picked up her Arithmancy chart studying it. After a few moments she noticed James' stare and looked down at him. She sighed and asked, "What do you want?" James' grin only grew larger. Lily began to worry, James never looked that innocent and mischievous all at once unless he had something planned.

"Oh…nothing…" Came James' sly response. Lily rolled her eyes and rolled up her Arithmancy chart and stuck it in her bag and then got up allowing James' head to fall painfully onto the arm of the couch. James groaned and Lily evilly smiled while the others snickered loudly. Lily yawned and turned to everyone. "I think I'm going to bed, good luck at the match tomorrow." As Lily turned to walk up the stairs she heard Sirius say, "What do you mean 'good luck tomorrow'? Aren't you coming?" Lily shook her head. "Quidditch matches aren't exactly my social appetite…"

"What? Lily! You have to come! I don't want to sit alone!" Evy jumped up and Remus looked at her meaningfully. "Evy, you won't be alone! You have Rhea and Drhea! And Remus will be there!" Evy gave Lily tremendous puppy dog eyes and said, "But Lily! It won't be the same without you! Puh- lease!!" Lily sighed and finally agreed to go to the match resulting in many loud squeals from Evy. Lily grinned and made her way to her dorm where she changed into some pale blue silk pants and a tight white spaghetti strap top. Lily yawned again as she climbed into her bed and pulled the curtains together.

Lily was already asleep and dreaming before her head hit the soft downy pillow.

A/N: I'm so sorry it took me this long to update. I'm still in a major writer's block mode, but I'll try to write more. Sorry this is so short! Thanks to: Dropped Rose, blueskywillow555, alaina, Kitty, Daisy Silk, Starlight Gundam, Hermione101888, ICE, Clearbrook, Musichick, Shree, Sassy Chica, and LizMaurder4eva! You're all great reviewers! Oh, and just to let everyone know, I've changed my pen name, but everything is still the same.