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"Lily!" someone screamed through the crowd of Hogwarts students outside the entrance doors, Lily looked in the direction the voice came and only caught a glimpse of the person before Lily was embraced with such force that she nearly lost her balance.
"Lily, I missed you so much!" the person yelled
"It was only 3 weeks, Alice." Lily said to her friend as they pulled apart.
"I know, but still I missed you, I was all alone and bored and had no one to talk to," Alice said dramatically "I thought I was going to die of boredom!" she said, dramatically throwing her hands in the air. Lily stared at her best friend before they both burst into fits of giggles.
"Come on, lets go inside, it's freezing out here." Alice said, Lily nodded and walked inside.
Alice Johnson had shoulder-length brown hair, hazel eyes, and a round, cheerful face. Alice and Lily had been best friends since their third year, helping each other through the difficult times.
"Lily, you seem quiet, what's wrong?" Alice asked Lily as they sat down at the Gryffindor table and started dishing up dinner.
"Nothing, I'm fine." Lily said, playing with her potato, Alice shrugged and asked
"Where's Steven? I didn't see him." Lily suddenly dropped her fork and closed her eyes, hearing the sound of his name brought tears to her eyes. Alice stared at Lily "Lily?" she said quietly
"He moved," Lily said plainly "and long distance relationships don't work."
"Oh, Lily, I'm sorry." Alice said, putting her hand on Lily's shoulder, who shook her head and said
"Don't be, it was going to end anyway." Alice looked at her with concern, Lily looked at her and smiled as she said
"I'm OK, Alice, don't worry about me." Alice gave her a small smile before looking around the great hall. "Look who decided to make an appearance." She said dully, looking at the entrance of the hall
"Who?" Lily asked as she looked up, but rolled her eyes and said "oh boy, not them again." James and Sirius had entered the great hall, along with Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew
"Again?" Alice asked, not looking away from the Marauders
"Yeah, I saw James bighead and Sirius the stupid on the train." Lily said, looking away from the door and at her food.
"Oh." Alice said absent-mindedly as she watched the Marauders scan the great hall, she saw Sirius point towards her and Lily and they started making their way to them. Alice smiled and said
"Yes! They're coming over here!" Lily looked at Alice in surprise
"Yes? Why you so happy? This is terrible." Lily said
"But it's so fun when they are around." Alice said
"So what, I don't want them to come"
"Oh, but you admit they are fun." Alice said with a sly grin
"No, I said no such thing." Lily said quickly and irritably
"But you implied it."
"I did not."
"Hello ladies." Lily and Alice looked up to see who had spoken and saw the four Marauders, Lily huffed and looked at her food again. Alice, however, grinned and greeted them
"Hello boys, what brings you here?"
"Oh, I wonder." Lily said sarcastically to Alice just above a whisper. Alice kicked her under the table making Lily wince. Remus took a seat opposite the two girls.
"Your beautiful face." Sirius said to Alice as he leaned over the table towards her, Alice blushed crimson. Lily rolled her eyes and said
"Don't you have a girlfriend, Black?" Sirius looked at Lily and said
"That relationship is currently on hold." Lily's jaw dropped, "But James, here, is available." Lily's jaw dropped even more
"Lily, close your mouth." Alice whispered, Lily quickly closed her mouth and looked at James. His hand flew to his unruly hair,
"Yea, Evens, I'm available." He said with a wink. Lily looked at him with utter disgust. Peter was snickering and Remus had taken his book out, but was constantly watching the four.
"Go out with me, Evans, come on." He said with a smirk, Lily was about to answer, but then Sirius said in mock
"But James, Evan's has a boyfriend, isn't that right?" Sirius asked looking at Lily, whose face was now expressionless as she stared at Sirius
"Oh right, I forgot, where is your Stevey?" James asked annoyingly, expecting Lily to scream at him, Lily just stared at him, before running out the Great Hall. The four Marauders stared at her with utter confusion. Alice stood up and threw her handkerchief on the table and said angrily
"You guys are so immature sometimes!" then she ran after Lily. James and Sirius looked at each other, then to Remus
"What just happened?" Peter asked, Sirius shrugged and said
"I have no idea." Remus looked up at the three, shook his head then continued reading.
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"Lily, Wait!" Alice called after her. Lily stopped and turned to face Alice. Lily had tears running down her cheeks
"Why'd he have to say that?" Lily cried. Alice put her arm around Lily's shoulder and said
"Because they are immature jerks. Don't let them get to you." Lily sniffed and slowly nodded, not really wanting to talk. Alice smiled at her and said
"Come on, lets go to the Common Room. Lily nodded again and walked up the stairs with Alice
A/N: Sorry I took so long to update, I've been busy, what with going away for Christmas break and all that crap, I'm suppose to be studying for midterms right now, but oh well, do you think I care? actually I do, but anyway
Sorry about the typo in Chapter 1, it's suppose to say "He has blue eyes." Not "blood eyes" sorry about that.
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