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Malia turned bright red, "Are you saying that I would CHEAT you? You MU- MUGGLE! Go off on your own then, leave! Buy your own things; I'll settle this with your mother when I get back there. What kind of daughter has she brought up?" Malia continued raving and threw a small bag at Lily, "There, there's some floo powder, can't say I left you without a way to get back. Go buy your own things!" With that Malia dragged Candice off into the crowd leaving Lily there with no idea what to do.

Chapter 2- Shopping Pt. 1

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A small boy was cowering in a hidden lane whimpering on an overturned barrel. He was hiding from his father that had just beaten him for the second time this week. This time it was because he had accidentally knocked over a glass bottle in Yulsie's Infinite Supplies Shop. He hadn't meant it; eyes full of unshed tears; he raised his head when he heard shouting on the street corner. The boy couldn't quite make out all the words but he crept closer and was just in time to see a tall woman dragging away a disheveled girl. He followed them with his eyes until they melted into the crowd.

The boy was startled when he looked in front of him and saw a girl staring at him from across the street. She had curly red hair and bright green eyes, she looked lost and alone but the boy didn't have time for that. He turned to sit back on his barrel when he saw her coming towards him.

"You're a wizard right?" she asked.

"Yes," he choked out. His voice was horse and his nose was stuffed from the internal sobs that he had been suffering through.

"What's your name?"

"Sev- Severus."

"Lily, it's nice to meet you Sev." Lily bit her lip unsure of what to say next, she couldn't really tell a lie, yet, she couldn't really tell the truth either. She settled for what she thought would be about right in the middle. "My aunt and cousin left something at the last store we were in; I decided to get to know some more Hogwarts students. Would you care to go shopping with me?"

Severus did NOT want to go shopping with this so called Lily girl. In fact he didn't even feel like going to Hogwarts anymore if all the students were like this. He couldn't be outgoing or fun, it just wasn't in him.

Unfortunately, Severus knew that if Lily turned out to be a girl from a prestigious wizarding family he was going to be in BIG trouble. His father was always telling him to use his head and get connections for the family, so Severus sighed and managed to give a civil nod to Lily.

She didn't move.

Severus stared at her. She wanted to go shopping so why didn't she get on with it? Severus stalked past her and into the closest shop, the Apothecary. He heard her follow him in the store and gasp. Severus didn't know what she was gasping about but threw a few ingredients on the counter, he had already memorized the Hogwarts list and could recite the minimal of supplies that they needed by heart.

Regrettably, Severus had forgotten an ingredient. Lily's eyes swept the Apothecary while also summing up what was on the counter. "Didn't you forget Haleaf Powder Sev?"

Severus ground his teeth together, why didn't she just do it herself then? He strode down the aisle to retrieve the missing Haleaf Powder while Lily stood at the counter. Once again, she was just standing there; surely she didn't expect him to PAY for her! Severus looked at a bag that she had on her shoulder, surely she must have money in there. He pointed at her bad to give her a subtle hint, but instead, Lily opened the bag and gave him a sack of galleons!

Severus was slowly starting to mutter curses at her inside his head, what did she think he was, her SLAVE? Severus couldn't believe he had even agreed to go shopping with this girl. Why couldn't she buy her own things? Severus tried to subdue his thoughts, it seemed like she was a spoiled girl who threw off her servants to play with someone else. He wasn't going to be that person, but thoughts of his beatings came back. What if she told? He was going to be in huge trouble, so he decided to get things through as fast as possible.

Severus looked at Lily, "How about I buy your things. You have a wand already so why don't you stay here and wait for me?"

Lily looked at him, "I don't have a wand."

"What?" Severus gaped at her, the spoiled child of a family not having a wand? He suddenly remembered that he did not have one either, in fact, that was exactly what he was in Diagon Alley for. For some reason his father wanted to go to the high class supply shop first and Severus had slipped up.

Severus frowned, his father had stormed off and left Severus to his own devices, Severus knew how to summon his house elves to take him home with a clap and a word but he had to get a wand today.

Lily was also looking at Severus, there were still things about the witching world that she didn't understand, but she couldn't ask a complete stranger to help her. She didn't know where to buy a wand and she didn't know where to buy her supplies. This Severus didn't seem to be in the mood to converse and Lily didn't quite know what to say.

"I guess I'll buy your supplies then we can go to Ollivanders to purchase wands," Severus sighed and then walked out of the Apothecary.

Lily looked around the store and couldn't find anything to sit on. Instead, she decided to browse the shop; she had stopped in front of a counter full of snap thorns when she heard the door open.

It was two boys and one of them was the boy that had knocked her over when she had first entered Diagon Alley.

Lily finally had a chance to closely scrutinize the boy. He had wild black hair and had a crooked grin on his face, one that looked extremely victorious. He was breathing heavily and had a card clutched in his left hand, there was also a small black owl perched on his shoulder. At his side was another boy with black hair and black eyes, pouting and wiping the sweat of his forehead.

"Awww, James, your no fun."

"Well it's your fault for stealing my first letter from my owl!"

"Well it didn't even SAY anything."

"Oh be quit Sirius, at least it reminded us to buy our potion supplies."

"I can't believe you named your owl Scrunchie!"

"Well it's supposed to be this muggle word, I couldn't help myself."

Lily took in front of the snap thorns and stifled a giggle. Scrunchie? As the two boys ran around the room grabbing supplies, Lily watched what seemed like a race. They quickly ran around the room grabbing whatever came to their fancy, in fact, the other people in the store were invisible, at least to them. Both boys bumped into quite a few inhabitants of the Apothecary. Unintentionally, they SHOUTED quick sorries and oops whenever coming in contact with a human body.

At the exact moment when James was running past the door to get to the other side of the shop, Severus came in bearing a load full of books, quills and various other items that had appeared on the Hogwarts list. Lily covered her eyes when she recognized an impending collision.

With a loud bang, cauldrons, papers, herbs and owl feathers scattered all over the floor, not to mention two heads that had been painfully banged together. James recovered first and shook his head in disgust. He looked down at the boy still on the floor and started picking up the dropped supplies.

Lily ran over to see if Severus was all right; he wasn't.

"Sev! Sev!" Lily started lifting Severus's head.

"You don't want to do that," said James, "wait until he wakes up by himself. If you lift his head, he might have worse of a headache then he'll probably have already."

Lily dropped Severus's head and glared at James. "Why couldn't you just look and see where you were going? Don't you know that you probably ran into about nine people in this shop already? It wasn't going to be long before you seriously injured someone anyway! I can't believe you hurt my friend, how could you?" Lily's green eyes flashed and her curly red hair started to emit sparks of static.

James swallowed, "I'm really sorry. I guess I wasn't looking. Here how about this, you can have my new owl... as a payback present."

"A payback present, you think you can buy forgiveness with a present?" Lily sniffed, "Just get out of here; I hope I don't have to see you ever again!" Lily turned her back on James and looked back at Severus.

James looked over to Sirius who was still at the counter. Sirius, who happened to be choking at James predicament pointed at his pile of purchases and mouthed the words "let's go."

James sat up and tried to flatten his wayward hair. He made sure that he had put the knocked down purchases in a neat pile and put his small black owl on top of them. The girl's back was still turned and she completely silent. The entire shop was completely silent. The two boys left and right when they walked out the door they heard people clamber over to the hot tempered girl and fallen boy.

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A/N: I'm so sorry! This is going to actually be a three section chapter. I never thought that it was going to turn out this way but... it did.

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