A/N: I want to thank everyone for reviewing. Esp. Love-Speaks, Slilently, and Silver Moonmist, for pointing out what they thought could improve in my story. Well, This Chapter is exceptionally long. I thought nothing major happened in the first part so I add… A LOT!!! Well go ahead read it and tell me what you think.
 
Love-speaks, slilently: Sorry for making Lily seem perfect cause she's not, I just haven't found the right moment to show her major faults, but her outburst at Peter was supposed to be pretty random, showing that she can be perfectly nice one moment and pretty awful the next. I will show some of her other faults soon, just give me time, I'm never very good at starting stories out, but once they get going I can get some pretty good ideas (at least I think so, and I'm not trying to be conceited, a lot of times I hit rock bottom of the imagination well.) 
 

Silver Moonmist: Thank you for the detailed review. I sometimes wish more people would do that. I did go back and change the number of languages she can read/write. The reason I have Lord of the Rings in here is because I have a great respect for J.R.R. Tolkien's ability to right and just wanted to pay a bit of tribute to him. I especially love his songs and poems. Anyways, the books will kind of come back to play later on. Not a big part, but just to prove something. What do you mean by Mary Sue though?

Hope you enjoy!

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"Hey, Boys!" Lily said, or rather sung. They all turned their heads to look at her.

"Uh?" James grunted.

"Guess what I have?" she sang.

"What do we care?" Sirius said.

"Lily, don't listen to them. They're just nervous." Mariko said.

"Well, Mariko, come here. Please." She added as an afterthought.

"Why?" Mariko asked, eying her friend suspiciously.

"Cause you will want to see this." She said pointing to the roster.

Mariko wandered over curiously. She took one look at the roster and squealed, "We did it, Lily! Yes! I can't believe we did it!"

This attracted the boys' attention. "What is that?" Remus asked.

"Oh, nothing important, according to Sirius and James." Lily said as Remus walked behind her.

He took one look over her shoulder and said, "Congratulations, Lily, Mariko. Maybe with you guy's, we'll finally win the cup."

It took a moment for it to sink into the guy's heads. Suddenly, they both jumped up and started running for Lily, who took off in the opposite direction. Lily hurtled up the steps and out of the Great Hall. She swerved around Peeves and leapt over the statue he had just knocked over. Then managed to get out the front doors of the castle. She heard clattering behind her as the boy's tripped over the statue. She knew she could out run them, but she was going to have more fun than that. Quickly, she jumped from the steps to the closest window, and then proceeded to scale the castle walls up to the roof, which was approximately 100 ft. off the ground. (ok, so she probably couldn't really do this, but hey it's Hogwarts! Right?)

When the boys managed to make it outside, they looked around for a running redhead but found none.

"Where did that rascal go?"

"I dunno."

"Why does she have to be a runner?"

"What if she went into the Forest?"

"Peter, you stupid prat, she wouldn't go in there. She isn't brave enough!" that voice was clearly James.

Suddenly, they all heard the ring of joyous laughter from above them. Looking up, their eyes met an extraordinary sight. Lily was on the roof laughing!

"Not brave you say?" she called out.

"Lily, what are you doing up there?" Sirius yelled.

"Oh, just enjoying the view." She said calmly. Though she wasn't yelling, the boys still heard her.

"She-she's crazy!" Peter muttered.

"Why, thank you, Peter! I'll remember to congratulate you for finding that out!" she laughed.

 "Lily, come down, you'll hurt yourself." Sirius asked, "Please." He added as an after thought.

"Are you guy's worried about me? Or do you just want this piece of paper?" she said holding up the roster.

The boys had forgotten about the roster till she said that.

"Both, but Lily, please just stay still." James yelled to her. "I'm gonna go get my broom, then fly up and get her. She'll kill herself if she tries to get down any other way." He said this last part to his friends, but Lily heard.

"So, Potter, think I'm just a helpless girl? We'll see about that." Lily whispered to herself.

"You guy's stay here and watch her, talk to her, do anything to keep her still." James threw over his shoulder as he ran inside.

"So, Lily, how did you get up there?" Remus asked nervously.

"Umm, What did you say, Remus? I can't hear you." Lily said playfully.

"I SAID, HOW DID YOU GET UP THERE!"

"I still can't hear you." She yelled. "Hold on a minute, I'm coming down."

"NO, LILY!" Remus and Sirius yelled together. Peter was to scared to do anything.

"And why not?"

"Because you'll hurt yourself." Sirius said, clearly worried.

"Aww, come one, guys! You're taking out all the fun."

"No, You are going to stay there or-or-or…"

"Or what?" she said laughing.

"Lily, just stay there." Sirius said pleadingly.

"Fine." Lily said, before muttering a spell under her breath. The guys let out their breath. (They didn't even know they had been holding in.)

Suddenly, She jumped off the roof and landed with an almost inaudible thump on the ground right in front of the guys. Peter screamed and ran into the school, Remus let out a sort of growl, and Sirius went over to Lily and shook her.

"Don't ever do that again! Do you here me? If you do I'll…I'll..I'll" Sirius' voice broke.

"It's ok, Sirius. Seriously, I'm ok." Lily said putting her hand on his arm.

Remus just started laughing. "That was priceless."

"What was?" Lily asked.

"The look on James' face when he saw you jump!" he managed through his laughter, then pointed to James who was hovering 25 feet in the air on his broom.

"Oy! James! You can come down now!" Lily called.

James slowly dropped to the ground on his boom. "If you ever do that again, I'll, I'll I'll-

"You sound just like Sirius." Lily cut in laughing.

"What did you do?" James asked.

"Oh… ummm… ill have to get back to you on that one. It's some spell…" She said heading for the steps. "I'm going inside, it's to hot out here. Plus, I have to hang something up on the board."

The boys eventually made it up to the common room, only to be bombarded with congratulations.

The next night, Lily met Elijah and Bella in the common room. They ended up finding an empty classroom due to the loud shouts coming from the students.

"So, where should we start?" Lily asked.

"Well, we only know wizard songs, so if you want to suggest some muggle ones, feel free." Bella replied.

By the end of an hour, they had chosen 4 songs for Lily to sing: Sweet Poison…by: The Wingardiums; A Thousand Miles…by: Vanessa Carlton; My Sacrifice…by: Creed; and I Don't Want To Miss A Thing…by: Aerosmith.

"Well, glad that's done." Lily said, plopping her self down on a couch next to Sirius.

"What's done?" he asked.

"Oh, just something I had to do with Elijah and Bella."

Sirius tensed at the mention of Elijah's name.

"Hey. Where's Remus?" Lily asked curiously.

"Umm, he went to see his mother, she's got cancer or something." James said.

"Oh, I didn't know that. I hope she gets better." Lily said quietly. "So, who are you guys going to ask to the ball?" she said trying to lighten the mood.

"I was thinking about asking Mariko." James said quietly.

Lily smiled, "Mariko will like that." She thought. "What about you, Sirius?"

"Oh, I'm not too sure." he said blushing.

"Oh, Come one! There has to be at least ONE girl in this school you like." Lily said vehemently.

"Yeah, well, never mind." He muttered.

"Anyways, what about Remus? Who do you think he'll ask?"

"Oh, I think he has a thing for Sarah." Sirius muttered, seeing as she was sitting on the floor in front of them.

"Really? Hmmm, interesting." Lily whispered back.

"Lily, can I talk to you?" James asked.

"Shoot!" Lily said.

"Alone!" he said looking at Sirius.

"Ok." She said a bit perturbed.

He led her to an empty corner of the common room.

"Remember that time I asked you to teach me Japanese?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Well, I was wondering if you would reconsider our answer." He asked hopefully.

"Why?" she asked bluntly.

"Because I want to ask Mariko to the ball."

"So…." Lily was having fun making James uncomfortable.

"Well, I wanted to do it in Japanese." He was wringing his hands.

"Oh, how stupid could I be. Of course Japanese, I was thinking you wanted me to actually do something for you." She said dryly.

"Please, Lil!" he pleaded.

A pale green light shot out of Lily's wand and hit James, dressing him in a traditional woman's kimono. "Never, Ever call me Lil." She said strongly.

"Ok, Ok, just turn me back. Please."

Lily reluctantly obliged. "Look, the only reason I'm going to do this is because I know that Mariko likes you. Ok?"

That night, Mariko came bounding up the steps with a gigantic grin on her face.

"Guess what happened?" she called out to Lily from the bathroom.

"Ummm, Snape got expelled?" Lily said playing along.

"Nope, James asked me to the Ball!!!!"

"That's awesome. I'm glad he did." Lily said before drifting off to sleep.

The next few weeks passed uneventfully. Lily had written a letter to her mother asking her to send her a costume. Her mother obliged and sent her a set of black robes with tight fitting sleeves that came to a point at her middle finger and attached there with a slim silver thread. The top of it was form fitting with a scoop neck. Attached at the bottom of the sleeves, and to each shoulder was a sort of cape made of black brocade lace with matching slippers. Her mother had also thrown in a necklace with a black onyx clasped inside its silver chamber and earrings to match. Lily had to admit, her mother had a really good taste in clothing.

Lily hadn't gotten a date for the ball. Although Sarah and Remus, Mariko and James and Peter and Julia were going together, Sirius hadn't shown any interest in going with anyone, and Lily was content with playing matchmaker and helping people choose costumes. She even suggested one to Dumbledore.

Lily was so caught up in the hubbub of the ball that she had completely forgotten about helping Tom Riddle. After all, where was she to start, Hogwarts was huge.

One evening, two weeks before Halloween, Lily was surprised to find a large snowy white owl drop a letter in front of her. She untied the letter from the owl then offered it a bit of potato before it flew off. The letter was written on a bit of parchment with green ink.

L.E.

I found out something new. Apparently, the book is being kept in a hidden room only accessible by muggles unless you know the password. Although, I have no inclination as to where the room is, I did find this riddle:

            Far away, hidden deep, there is something that doesn't sleep.

            It can not talk, but don't despair, it will show your hearts care.

            For once found, it will show, the resting place of the Sred Nowsdl Row.

Sred Nowsdl Row is the name of the book. This is part of a prophecy written by Merlin himself. I haven't written the entire prophecy here, but I can if you need me to. I am trying to figure out what this item they speak of is, but it evades me. I must go. Good luck and show this to no one.                                                               

~T.R.

"Whatcha got there, Lily?" Sirius asked, trying to snatch the letter out of her hands.

"Nothing." She said, tugging back on the letter.

"It has to be something!" he said as the letter slipped out of his grasp.

Lily stuffed it in her pocket saying, "If you want it, it's in my pocket!"

"I might just have to get it!" he grinned reaching for it. Lily slapped his hand away playfully.

"What are you're costumes for the Ball?" Lily asked everyone.

"Well," Mariko said, "James and I were thinking of medieval type costumes."

Lily groaned.

"What?" Mariko asked.

"You of all people should be able to come up with something more original. I mean no offense, but you could do a punk singer and guitarist." Lily said seeing Mariko's pink tips.

Mariko looked at James, who looked impressed. "Lily, you're a genius!" he said, "I was afraid I 'd have to steal a suit of armor and wear that!" Everyone laughed, imagining James in a pile of metal.

"What about you, Sarah, Remus?"

"Oh, we're not to sure yet." Remus said.

"You could do the kinda tradition muggle prom king and queen." Lily said.

"Prom?" everyone asked.

"Oh, sorry, forgot. It's a really big dance muggle students have. The best girl and boy are chosen as Prom King and Queen. They get their own dance and get crowns and all." explained Lily. "But I dunno 'bout that one for you guys. You could always do a magical creature, one that is at least part human." Lily almost regretted saying that when she saw Remus' face pale, though no one else did.

Lily then thought of another idea, "Aladdin and Princess Jasmine? Cleopatra and Marc Antony; although you could be Julius Caesar?"

None of these ideas really appealed to the couple.

"WAIT! I've got it!" shouted Lily, and drawing attention for other students. "Yup, I, Lily Evans, actually has an idea!" she said unembarrassed, people just laughed and turned back to their meals. "Cupid and Psyche!"

"No, Lily! I'm not going to be a naked baby with wings!" Remus protested making everyone laugh.

"No, Remus. Cupid, the god, son of Venus, considered one of the most beautiful males of both mortals and immortals." Lily said impatiently, before going through the whole story of Venus trying to punish Psyche for her beauty, and Cupid falling in love with the mortal, who accidentally betrays him only to suffer under Venus's hatred to get him back.

"You know, Remus. I really like that idea." Sarah said.

"Well, if you're game, I'm game!" he said cheerily.

"Sirius, what are going to be?" Lily asked.

"Hmmm, I'm liking the whole magical creature thing. I'm thinking either a centaur, vampire, merman, or maybe even a werewolf." He said grinning evilly.

Lily saw Remus blanche when Sirius said the last one. "Remus, can I talk to outside?" she whispered. "Yeah sure." He muttered.

"Thanks, I really need help with that Defense Against the Dark Arts essay." Lily said walking out of the Great Hall with Remus.

"Wait! I thought you just wanted to talk?" he questioned, though still walking.

"I do, it's just a cover. But I want to talk in a quiet place where no one can overhear us." she muttered.

"Yeah, Just follow me."

After 5 minutes, Remus led Lily to a small but hidden room, which apparently, James had stumbled upon one day. After a couple minutes Lily got to what she really wanted to talk about.

"Remus, where were you a couple weeks ago?" she asked innocently.

"My mom has cancer." He said nervously.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know." Lily said.

"Lily, is something bothering you?" Remus asked.

"No, not at all." She lied.

"Yeah, there is. Come on, you can tell me."

"Are you sure?" she asked.

"Yeah, it can't be anything too bad." He laughed.

"Don't get to ahead of yourself." She muttered.

"No seriously, it can't be too bad."

"I know, Remus." She said.