A lot happened within a day of Lily returning, but it was complicated. So to put it simply…

As soon as Lily went back to class, her head teacher was informed. Of course, he was angry she had run away again, so had a meeting with her. She said she wasn't Lily, and gave the same excuses over and over. Then they wanted to bring her dad in to see her and confirm if it was Lily, but he er…passed away two days before he was due to arrive. This sent lily into hysterics confirming he was her dad. Lily admitted it by crying;

'Of course I'm upset, someone beat me to killing him!'

Which of course meant she hated them, which added another reason to run away. They ministry officials were called, they did some tests, and decided Lily was mental. When the news was sent to Hogwarts Dumbledore left immediately to tell them she was just hurt and confused, but the ministry said they needed to run more tests to confirm it, so they sent her to Mungo's. She protested and ended up being put under a binding spell until she arrived. When her two sets of friends got word they left immediately, to see her. Both sets arrived and entered the room at the same time, not knowing the others were going to the same bed. One person from each group tried to hug Lily at the same time. Both pulled away at the same time. Both saw each other at the same time. Both asked all together at the same time

'Who are you?'

And from there it was a lot of shouting, accusing, fighting, confessions etc, but that's always fun to write, so here goes.

'Lily's friends,' Raven replied.

'No, we're Lily's friends,' replied Sharon.

'I'm her best friend,' Raven said.

'No, I'm her best friend,'

Both turned to Lily who was simply watching.

'Tell her I'm your best friend!' The both cried at the same time. Then they glared at each other while the others gaped. Sharon of course knew nothing of the run away situation, as they had been told by Lily that she was an orphan who had grown up on the streets then was found by a nice old witch and taken in. It was all lies. In fact, no one from the Irish school knew the truth.

'Izzy's never had any other friends! She lived off the streets for twelve and a half years!' Sharon nearly shouted.

'Oh, that's what you've been telling them all these years,' Sirius said smirking.

'How could you lie to your 'best friends'?'

'What are you talking about?' Dennis sneered.

Lily sighed.

'This is Sirius, James, Remus, Raven and Amber,' she said pointing to each in turn, 'and this is Sharon, Sandra, Katie and Dennis,'

'How do you know them?' Katie asked in a small voice. Lily didn't reply.

'The truth,' Remus started 'would get us six into a lot of trouble with them,' he said to the others, pointing at the group of other friends across the bed.

'Oh,' It dawned on Amber to 'Guys, they would want to hurt us for hurting Lily,' she said in a much smaller voice than Katie's.

'What did you do to Izzy?' Sharon growled 'and who's Lily?'

'Her,' peter squeaked pointing at the bed Lily sat on.

'Oh, of course, you're the people who think Izzy is Lily some run away kid,' Dennis said, starting to laugh.

'Let me tell you, we've been Lily's friends for two and a half years…'

'So have we,' Raven said. 'Where do you think Lily was before she met you? She was at Hogwarts, with us,'

'No, she was on the streets…'

'What the hell have you been telling them?' Amber shouted at Lily 'And why?'

'To protect us,' James whispered 'she may have hated us, but she still cared what happened to us. Think what would have happened if word got out it was all our fault?'

A tear dripped down Lily's face. 'I wanted to tell everyone…g-get you sent to A-Azkaban…but I couldn't…I still loved everyone of you, no matter how bad I told myself you were. So I replaced you instead. And as far as I'm concerned, I couldn't have had better replacements if I'd stayed h-here,'

James rushed forward, sat on Lily's bed and engulfed her in a hug. She sniffed, but hugged back.

'Lily, what's going on?' Sharon asked.

'I think it's time we all knew the truth,' Remus said when lily and James broke apart. James stayed sitting beside her and she leant her head on his shoulder as she thought how to put her story into words.

'Well, it started before I got my letter…'

How is it???? I'm feeling better-ish so I'll update sooner. Anyway, the next chap is what happened to Lily, from before she got her letter to present day. Not everything, but her thoughts, views…just what happened.

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