Sorry it's been close to a year since I last updated, but umm… That whole college process is killer. I have gotten yelled at a lot to continue the story, but I just haven't gotten around to it for whatever reason… Never fear, I'm here though… Hopefully I'll get some reviews to let me know if this chapter's okay or not. Right about now I'm avoiding doing quite a few papers and several math assignments, so I sure hope that ya'll enjoy it… I had an idea for this chapter, but I'm not too sure as to how it'll go
Oh yea, and I know that the 5th book says that Remus was a prefect, not James, but the simple fact is that I wrote that James was a prefect before the fifth book came out, and I don't really feel like fixing the story to comply with the book. Plus we should all keep in mind that this is a fan fiction, so therefore not every piece of information has to comply with the story, as we can twist it to what we'd like, being the loyal fans of Harry Potter that we are.
Disclaimer: You know the drill, having seen it in many other fanfics... nothing belongs to me, except for a few characters and the plot; the rest belongs to JKR, one of the people who reviewed, or a singer/band that I decided to 'borrow' the music from. (Though the music factor will be decided on how brain dead I manage to get while writing this chapter.) Or rather, from what my cousin told me to put in here; my name is Kira, it has a K and an R, but no J, and so I can't be mistaken for J.K. Rowling. I am not a professional writer, and do not get paid for anything I write (cuz I'm not professional.) Now, going on to my own stupidity, and not borrowing from my cousin. I may sing, but I am not a singer, so any songs I use are not my own (unless otherwise noted, which probably won't happen). So umm yea, that's the disclaimer.
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Thorns by Faerielights
Chapter 16: Reminiscent of Summer
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Sirius jumped on a motorcycle that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, and drove out of the common room. The portrait burst open to allow him out of the room.
About 30 seconds after he had disappeared from sight, everyone heard a shrill "SIRIUS BLACK, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING? DETENTION! AND 20 POINTS OFF OF GRYFFINDOR! GET TO MY OFFICE THIS INSTANT!" Professor McGonagall seemed pretty pissed off about this.
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As soon as we heard the words leave McGonagall's mouth, we were all in hysterics. James was about to pull something though on me… I could feel it.
'Wait a minute? James? Since when do we use his first name?' I pushed that thought aside with the simple explanation that I had been calling him James at the meeting for planning the ball this morning, for about three or four hours… it was almost enough to get used to saying his name. Almost.
I felt someone move closer to me, and tensed, waiting for Potter to do something that would either embarrass me, or get me in trouble. And trouble was the last thing that I wanted to get into, considering the fact that McGonagall was already practically spitting venom thanks to Sirius and his motorcycle. How did he get that motorcycle into the common room anyway? He definitely hadn't transfigured it out of anything, considering the fact that he would've had to use his wand for that. Maybe it was hidden under Potter's invisibility cloak. I don't think that would be all that smart, but from what my cousin had told me about Potter and Black's expeditions, it made perfect sense.
Suddenly, I was grabbed from behind and felt something get thrown over me. I gasped and kicked out, hitting someone nearby who glanced over in the corner I was in, in fear as if a ghost had hit him. Before I could scream for help, or even rationalize as to why no one noticed that I was being abducted, I was pulled up the stairs leading to the boy's dormitories. Once my abductor placed me down, and hurriedly locked the door, quick to put what I believe is a silencing charm on it, I gasped in shock. I could recognize that porcupine hairstyle anywhere. I immediately glared at him and got up, moving hurriedly towards the door. Did he not remember that I was the best in the year at Charms?
"Lily, wait."
I turned to glare at the kneazle-minded twerp, who looked for trophy girlfriends in place of gold, like the animal. "What do you want Potter? To try and humiliate me? If you remember correctly, the truce that we called was only for meetings to work on the inaugural ball."
He looked a little taken aback at what I had just said. He didn't honestly think that I'd be willing to be civil to him when he had just kidnapped me from the common room, did he?
Meanwhile, James was trying to figure out exactly how they had turned against each other. It was pretty fuzzy. They had gotten along for at least their first year of Hogwarts, and during the summers they'd have to at the very least tolerate one another, as Lily, Destiny and Remus were all related, and just about the whole gang hung out for a good month every summer.
(A/N: let's just say that they went from house to house pretty much, and the cousins were almost always together because their parents thought that they should stay together and form tight family bonds whenever possible)
He was brought back from his wonderings by a flying pillow that hit him in the stomach.
"Potter, if you have something to say, just spit it out already. I don't have all day!" why she always lost her patience with him, she did not know. All she knew was that there was something about him that drove her absolutely nuts, and she couldn't stand to talk civilly to him, because whenever she had tried to in the past, he was always a complete jerk back to her.
"Well, I –" But before he could get another word out of his mouth, someone began banging on the door, then there were faint mumblings as the person tried to figure out how to get the door to open. Less than a minute later, the door opened and the new transfer student walked in, seemingly unaware of the two people in there that were 'trying' to talk.
"I wonder why no one has bothered to talk to me yet… I guess it's cuz I've only been here a week… maybe if I wait a while longer" Peter Pettigrew, the new kid in Hogwarts was mumbling to himself. Suddenly, as if noticing that there were other people in the room, he looked up from the ever so fascinating floor and jumped. "S-sorry, I d-didn't realize th-that a-anyone was in h-here. I'll just l-leave." He turned to go, but Lily interrupted him.
"No! I mean, no, that's okay, I was just leaving" She glared at James. "I have things to do anyway." Lily hastily ran out of the room, leaving James gaping after her, wondering why she hated him so much, surely the years of him pranking her hadn't been that bad…
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Meanwhile, Lily practically flew down the stairs that lead from the boy's dorms, ran across the common room, and escalated the girl's stairs, barging into the room labeled 5th Year Girls. No one was in there, and she sighed with relief at not having to explain where she'd been. She went to her desk and pulled out some parchment and periwinkle blue ink.
Dear Jimmie,
It's really unfortunate that you happen to have the same name as my worst enemy, do you think you could possibly change it to something more pleasant? Anyway, how are you? It has been about a month or so since I last heard from you. Luckily for both of us, you're a wizard so I can use our type of mailing to send you letters.
I just had the worst encounter with that… prat for a lack of a better word. He infuriates me to no end, and I relish in the day when I can either decapitate him without anyone finding out it was me, or graduate. I think that the former would be more fun for me, but then again, who wants to have murderer on their resume?
Remember when I wrote to you, and told you about Mark, and how much I'd liked him and all that? Well… I realized today that he actually reminds of the utter idiot. I shudder to think that I accidentally dated someone as dense as that idiot. But what can I do about that? Not like I can go back in time and change the past. Anyway, I have some homework to work on, but hurry up and write me back so I can have something to take a break for (despite what all my friends think, I am not always studying).
Till Later,
Tiger
She rolled up the parchment and headed off to the owlery, to send out her letter. As she slipped out of the portrait and into the hallway, she hoped against hope that she wouldn't run into anyone such as Potter and his gang, or Peeves. As luck would have it, she didn't run into anyone on her way there, and had the owlery to herself. When she walked in, Makelina flew down to her side, and Lily stroked her feathers for a second, before giving her a pit of crust.
"Saved it to give to you, sorry but that's all I could get from the table, what with the idiot eating everything inside." Makelina nipped Lily's finger affectionately after taking the crusts. "I have a letter for you to bring. It's for Jimmie, be careful though, I don't want anything happening to you on your journey. I mean, who knows where you have to travel to bring it to him."
Makelina held out her leg for Lily to tie the letter onto. Once the letter was secured, she took off into the night. Lily watched her through one of the windows for a minute, before turning to head back to the dorm rooms.
As she walked back, she reminisced about a "summer fling" that she'd had over the summer. Her time spent with Mark had been wonderful, too bad he'd had to go back to America at the beginning of august, although she supposed it was for the better. Otherwise he might've met James and Sirius, and who knows? Maybe he'd have become friends with them, and James no doubt would have ruined their two-week relationship, which may or may not have continued if they hadn't decided that a long distance relationship was just too much stress.
You had me/You lost me/You're wasted/You cost me/I don't want you here messing with my mind
But as she thought a little longer, she realized that maybe she really didn't miss him all that much. He had been kind of a waste of time. H ehad put her down, ever so subtly so that she didn't realize it when he did it, and he had wasted his time with his fake ID at clubs, ogling other girls and things of that nature.
Spitting in my eyes and I still see/Tried to keep me down/I'm breaking free/I don't want no part in your next fix/Someone needs to tell you this is it
She though back to the time right before he headed back, and they had gotten into a fight. It must've been two days before he was scheduled to leave to go back to America. It had been over something stupid, apparently she wasn't supposed to have any male friends… like that was going to happen.
Hey listen you'll be missin'/Out on all my love and my kissing/Make your mistakes on your own time/When you come down you're just no good to have around/Instead of making money you took mine
She had been working a lot over the summer to, she wanted to buy herself a better broom. She knew that her parents would buy one for her if she asked, but this time she just wanted to earn it. He thought that her working was to take him out all the time, talk about annoying. At the time though, she thought that it was just cute, and enjoyed taking care of him.
You had me/You lost me/You're wasted/You cost me/I don't want you here messing with my mind/I've realized in time/that my eyes are not blind/I've seen it before/I'm taking back my life/You tried to trade on my naiveté/But the things you do and say embarrass me/See once upon a time I was your fool/But the one I leave behind is you
She though back to the day that he left. She had been pretty upset. Her dad claimed that mark was her first love. More like her first inside look on a relationship. He almost made her think that maybe most relationships would be like that, just pointless with the guy leaving. Mark knew that she hadn't been in a relationship before, he's tried to take advantage of that, but she wouldn't let him.
Hey listen you'll be missin'/Out on all my love and my kissing/Make your mistakes on your own time/When you come down you're just no good to have around/Instead of making money you took mine/You had me/You lost me/You're wasted/You cost me/I don't want you here messing with my mind/I've realized in time/that my eyes are not blind/I've seen it before/I'm taking back my life
He lost out. She was positive on that. He lost out because she was a great person. Yeah, she did have a temper every now and then, but who didn't? okay, maybe her temper made her lash out a little more than every now and then, but still…
Vodka and a packet of cigarettes/That's all it used to be but now/You're sniffing on snow when you're feeling low/Suffocating dreams that could have been/Maybe for a minute I was down with that/But it didn't take long for me to see the light/You swore you had control of itBut when I stepped back you slipped on your supply
He did manage to drink a lot for a sixteen year old. How exactly did he manage that? Oh yea, the fake ID. That was about it though, except for the two or three times that they had gone to a club, and he had been to busy ogling other girls to even take notice of her.
You had me/You lost me/You're wasted/You cost me/I don't want you here messing with my mind/I've realized in time/that my eyes are not blind/I've seen it before/I'm taking back my life/Taking it back I'm taking it back/Taking back my life/Taking it back I'm taking it back/Taking back my life/Ain't nobody got no business stressing all the time/Taking it back I'm taking it back/Taking back my life
She was pretty glad now that they were not together. Now that she thought of it, he had driven her insane. Always looking at other girls, which was allowed, but he had seemingly never looked at her. He basically had teased her about her looks. It wasn't a nice kind of tease either it was a mean tease. If he wanted to tell her how to dress, he should've bought the clothes that she wore. Speaking of buying things, wasn't the guy supposed to pay? Or at least split things fifty-fifty?
You had me/You lost me/You're wasted/You cost me/I don't want you here messing with my mind/I've realized in time/that my eyes are not blind/I've seen it before/I'm taking back my life/Taking it back I'm taking it back/Taking back my life/Taking it back I'm taking it back/Taking back my life/Ain't nobody got no business stressing all the time/Taking it back I'm taking it back/Taking back my life
Yes, she was definitely glad to be rid of him. He was a waste of time, and she was gunna take life into her own hands, live it to the fullest (within reason) and dress the way that she liked (A/N: no, she's not gunna be a Hoochie or anything like that, just dress nicely and comfortably.) and most importantly, she sure as hell wouldn't let a guy tell her what to do.
She snapped back into reality when she realized that someone had spoken to her. She looked around and saw that she was back at the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Juniper plant"
The Fat Lady nodded and then swung open to let Lily in. when Lily entered the common room, she was that it had already been cleaned up, and smiled at a couple of first years that were playing gobstones. She turned and headed upstairs to her dorm.
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A/N: okay, so that's the next chapter, told you I'd be getting it up soon. Sorry it's not longer, but I don't want to drag out a bunch of stuff. Next chapter: maybe will hafta do with the boys and the animagi potion, might hafta do with some teasing from the girls directed at Lily. Maybe both…. Undecided until I write the chapter.
So, tell me what you think! I promise to try and get the next chapter out soon.