Because it took me so long to update last time, I've
decided to start another chapter again sooner.
DobbyGrl: Thanks! I'm soo sorry about how long it took
me to update! I was always thinking to myself that I
should go write it and post it so I didn't lose all my
reviewers but I just never got around to it!
apotterlover: Thanks! No I didn't give up on the
story, I just never got around to updating. Sorry
about that!
Flame Of Desire: Yeah, in this story I decided to make
it so that they both like each other, but Lily prefers
to lead him on, play with his mind, and make him feel
stupid instead of go out with him in the beginning,
which I have already started to try and show. Maybe
it's be her test to see how much guys actually like
her, or maybe something else. I'm not sure yet, but I
hope I'll be able to write things so they play out as
well in the story as they do in my head. But only time
will tell. lol. Thanks!
IceCrystal: Thanks! Yeah I did describe her a bit in
the second chapter. Even I forgot I described her
there and began to re-describe her in the third
chapter, but then I remembered that I already had.
Your not being stupid it had just been a while since
the last update. lol
Thanks to all of you for reading the story and
reviewing!
Because none of you showed a preference in the way I
write the next chapter of the same day, only in
Lilly's POV.
Chapter 4; Lilly meets James
Lily's POV
I woke up that morning to a ray of light across my
face and birds singing outside. I was a beautiful day,
but I couldn't focus on it one bit because I have a
ton of butterflies fluttering around in my stomach,
and I couldn't even remember why. The next thing
Mariah said reminded me, and the knowledge came
crashing down on my head.
"YAY! Everybody's coming to school again! Your not too
nervous, are you?" Mariah asked me, looking concerned.
"No!" I said, a little too quickly. She raised her
eyebrows at me.
"Okay. . . I was just gonna say that I could make you
a potion to fix it but if your fine. . ."
"You know maybe the potion wouldn't be that bad of an
idea." I said quickly. She mumbled something about me
being indecisive before going to her stash of supplies
and quickly throwing a bunch of things together and
handed it to me in a thin vial.
"Drink this. It shouldn't wear out before the day
ends,but if it does let me know, and I'll make you
more." I took a large gulp of the red liquid, and then
choked on it, then swallowed it.
"What is that crap! Are you trying to kill me!" I
asked her jokingly.
"Yeah I forgot to tell you that the majority of the
time the potions won't taste too great."
"Thanks!" I said with a mix of sarcasm and a joke.
"No Problem!"
"For you. . ." I mumbled, before choking down the rest
of the liquid. I went and sat on her bed with her. On
the bedside table there was a muggle picture of her,
four guys, three of whom being extremely hott, and
three other girls. By looking at the group you could
tell that they were the fabulous people of the school.
Along with the other girls, Mariah looked like she had
put a lot of effort on what she looked like that
morning. She was wearing suggestive clothing and
makeup, she looked really different from the laid back
Mariah that I had gotten to know that summer.
"Who are all of these people?" I asked curiously. She
picked up the frame and told me about everybody in the
picture (other than herself) after pointing to them.
"That's Amber." She pointed to a girl with long brown
hair, a pretty face, and a body structure similar to
the rest of the girls in the picture, and Lily.
"She's such a great friend. I grew up living next to
her in Muggle London. We were both so happy when we
saw each other at Hogwarts the first day. We couldn't
tell each other about going to Hogwarts, and I thought
that I would practically never see her. In third year
she began to dress a bit more. . . like she is in the
picture, so the rest of us did, too. When people would
call us whores or something though, we'd stand up for
each other. She's so much different from everyone
else, it makes her so much more interesting than other
people at this school. This is Kat. " She pointed to a
blonde girl with an amused look on her face that said,
'I know something that you don't and I'm not going to
tell you what it is.' But it also said that there is
so much more to the pretty girl behind the pretty
face. The girl caught my
curiosity, and I wondered what she was like.
"She was the second one to start dressing differently.
She's such a nice person, and she's so much fun to be
around. She's a lot like Amber, in a way that she's
very 'this-is-how-I-am-and I'm-not changing-anything.'
They both speak their minds a lot. This is Michelle."
She pointed to a girl with black hair, longer than
Mariah's. She was wearing tight, dark blue jeans, and
the only makeup she wore was eyeliner and lip gloss.
She stood out from the rest of the girls because she
was the only one not wearing a skirt and tons of
makeup.
"Michelle was very reluctant to get into the whole
girly look. She's really athletic and the most girly
thing we could get her into was a pair of tight jeans.
She's dresses like us a bit more now but she still
dresses athletic a lot too. Here's Peter." she said,
pointing to an ugly, short boy with a frown on her
face.
"Ugly and annoying as hell but the guys like him so we
can't get rid of him. Nothing else to say about him.
Here's Sirius." She pointed to a hott boy.
"He started going out with Kat over the summer. He's
usually quite a player but who knows? Maybe Kat can
knock some sense into him. He's a really funny guy and
plays tons of pranks with the rest of the marauders.
Oh! The guys in this picture are the marauders. Here's
James." she pointed to the, in my opinion, most hott
guy in the picture.
"Just as funny and mischevious as Sirius, maybe more.
I think you two would make a great couple. Amber and
him had a FWB thing going on but she owled me recently
and told me that she's probably going to ask Jason
King out so you won't have to feel uncomfortable
getting. . . close to him. This is Remus." She pointed
to a hott guy, and in the picture he's standing
behind Mariah and they're both facing the camera and
he has his arms around her.
"He's my-." She stopped and blushed. "He's my friend."
She finished lamely.
"You were going to say boyfriend, weren't you?"
"Yeah. We've been FWB's for so long now that I kinda
think of him that way. I guess he's just afraid of
commitment or something."
"That sucks."
"Yep. Hey, do you wanna go swimming in the lake?"
"Sure!"
We both walked over to our own wardrobes and I
searched through it and I pulled out a white bikini
with a buckle on the bottoms. I bought it for surfing
when I had gone shopping with Chelsea just a couple of
days before getting my invitation to Hogwarts. It was
just a month ago but it seemed like an eternity.
Mariah was in a navy blue bikini and had her wand
sticking out of her bottoms. I grabbed my wand and did
a quick spell that changed my outfit into the bikini.
"Hey Mariah? I gotta write a letter to my friend
Chelsea before I go swimming, so I'll meet you down
there, okay?"
"Okay. Try not to take too long or I'll get bored
alone!"
"Alright," I said, but it didn't matter because she
was already out of the door and headed towards the
lake. I summoned a piece of parchment and a quill and
began to write.
Dear Chelsea,
I miss you so much! I wish you could be here with me!
Today is the day that everybody is gonna come to
school and i used to be SO nervous but Mariah made me
a potion and now I'm fine. I'm excited, though. I hope
I fit in with everybody and all that new kid worry
crap. Well I'm gonna go cuz I'm gonna go swimming with
Mariah in the lake. WRITE BACK!
xoxo LiLy
When I was finished I called the owl that Dumbledore
had gotten for me, Sky Rider. I almost named her
something stupid like Snow, but then I didn't, and I'm
happy I changed my mind! I toed the letter to her leg,
then let her out the window. I watched her fly away
for a couple of seconds, then hurried down to the lake
with my wand in my hand. When I got there I saw Mariah
swimming laps, so I called her name to get her
attention. When I did that she looked up quickly then
swam to me, and said,
"Hey."
"Hi," I replied, then jumped into the lake with her.
We swam laps and practiced diving for hours. Then, a
guy saying,
"Hey, babe, what're ya doing in the lake?" scared the
living hell outta me. It didn't seem to faze Mariah in
the least, and she said smoothly,
"Exactly what it looks like I'm doing, swimming." The
boy that said that was tall and muscular and had well
kept brown hair.He had a handsome face and a joking
smile. Close behind him were the also muscular and
hott James and Sirius. James, with messy black hair
and glasses, and Sirius with well kept black hair and
searching eyes. Also behind them were Michelle, Kat,
and Amber. I recognized them all from the picture
Mariah had shown me earlier. Then I said, so only
Mariah could hear me,
"Awwwww! It's Remus! He's soooo cute! I bet you just
wanna jump on him and. . ." I stopped because Mariah
was walking out of the lake, and was giving me the
finger behind her back. I laughed and followed her
out. James, who had an extremely strong accent, said,
"Hey Mariah," then did something both completely
surprising, and hilarious. He turned to me, and in a
very 'macho' voice, said,
"And who might you be?" before bending over my hand
and kissing it. I tried not to laugh, I really did,
but it was just too tempting! I cracked up, and then
said,
"Oh my god your accent is so strong I can barely
understand you!" He looked extremely embarrassed. Then
he said,
"Well so does Mariah! And anyways, what's wrong with
my accent? Don't you like it?" and I could tell he
was pretending to be hurt.
Then I replied,
"Yeah, but Mariah's accent isn't as strong as yours
is. And nothings wrong with your accent," I said, then
I thought of something funny to add, "It's actually a
pretty big turn on." Then I smiled sexily and turned
to Amber, Michelle, Kat and the rest of the guys.
"I'm Lily," I said. Everybody introduced themselves to
me, and even though I already knew who they were I
pretended that I didn't. We all chatted for a while,
and then I said,
"Hey Mariah, the sorting starts pretty soon, doesn't
it? We should go up and change so I don't miss my
first, and only sorting."
"Oh, you're right! Girls, you wanna come up with us so
we can get changed?" Mariah asked. After they agreed
to coming with us, she turned to the guys, and said,
"We'll catch you guys later, at the sorting." And then
we began to walk back up to the castle.
Okay, so chapter 4 is finished! I did it all today,
too! Just for you guys! lol! okay so I'm not going to
check it because I really want to get it up, so I'm
sorry if it isn't that great. Please Review!
