After getting permission from Dumbledore to leave, Raven dragged Lily away from the hall and upstairs.
'Who destroyed you?' She asked as soon as they were in the entrance hall and out of earshot of the auras.
Lily laughed inside her head. 'No one destroyed me idiot,'
'Well who changed you?'
Lily couldn't answer, as the hall doors swung open and four people came running at them. One was a girl, and the other three were boys. Lily recognized them all, and groaned inwardly. Yeah, she really wanted them on her back right now; though it was good to see them. The girl pulled Lily into a tight hug, forgetting about everyone else who was waiting to talk to Lily to.
'Amber, I can't-breath,' Lily choked.
'Oh, right,' Amber let go of Lily and wiped a tear from her eye.
'Where did you go? And why did you go?'
'Amber, move out the way,' one of the boys – who if Lily hadn't known him would have assumed he and one of the others were twins- pushed Amber out of the way and took his turn at squeezing Lily tightly. When he let go he put on his imitation of a mother figure
'Where did you go? You are very naughty, you should have told us! Out of my mind with worry...'
'Sirius, I get the picture,' Lily said, though a grin tugged at her lips.
'Nice to see you Lils,' a sandy haired boy shoved Sirius into Amber and took over hugging Lily.
'Glad to know you remember at least one thing about me,' Lily said, referring to her knick-name.
And last but not least, Sirius' would be twin. James Potter. He, like the others, hugged Lily, but the frown on her face faded into his shoulder as she hugged back, and a smile replaced it. Good to know even one of her would be enemies still liked her.
Once he let go, Raven started asking questions again.
'Why did you call yourself Izzy in there? And why did you run away? And where to? Where have you been? Why didn't you write to us? Did you get our letters? Who took you in? Where have you been going to school? As before, who the hell destroyed you?'
'I think by the last sentence,' Sirius interrupted 'she means, who taught you to stand up for yourself? And who brought at your boisterous side?'
Raven hit him around the head.
'Izzy is kind of a middle name for me now; it's what I told people my name was. And school taught me to stick up for myself. They taught me to,' Lily replied.
'Who?'
'My friends. My real friends. The friends who didn't make me run away. The friends who didn't tease and make fun of me. The friends who taught me practically everything I know. The friends who knew how to make me happy. The friends who knew when to lay off. The friends who didn't lie. The friends who didn't rely on me to do their homework. The friends who didn't just keep me around for the sake of it.'
Lily's face turned stern.
'That'd be us then,' Sirius said cheerfully.
'No,' Lily said in a low voice 'that would be the friends' I had where I was before. The friends who I was happy with. That'd be the friends I had at Green-way school for untrained witches.'
'You're not serious,' Amber asked quietly.
'No, he is,' Lily said, pointing to Sirius 'but I guess that doesn't matter. I wouldn't want to be him anyway,'
'You know what I mean,' Amber said, her face turning sour.
'Yeah, and you know what i mean,'
Lily turned on her heel and made the biggest mistake of her life. She walked away.
Well, what do you think? It was pretty hard to write, I had to redo this one at twice!
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