The Hot-Headed Chronicles
By J-R-S CRAzY
Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing...what a shame!
Chapter Four: Girls, Boys, And A Cat
Talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed...
At about 5:00 in the morning, I fell off my bed...It hurt...alot.
Petunia must have heard because she started screaming about freaks breaking into the house.
I wonder if she thinks she screamed loud enough...the giraffe!
I can't believe I'm actually going to miss her...
Wait...
Yes, I can...
I don't want to leave the giraffe...
She's my sister! I don't want to leave my family! I don't think any of us had thought about that!
Lily sat up in her bed until 8:30 when her mum came in to wake her up. "Oh, Lily, you're up already. Hmm, usually I have to pull you out of bed." Rose smiled.
"Haha...yeah." Lily said smiling in a miserable and fake way.
"What's wrong, dear?" her mother said sitting down on her daughter's bed.
"I...I just thought about something and couldn't get back to sleep." Lily sighed.
"What was it?"
"I just realised if I go to Hogwarts...I won't be...here..." she finished lamely, hoping her mother understood what she meant.
"Oh...I hadn't thought about that, either."
"I guess with all the excitement we overlooked that fact."
"Yes, it has been...exciting." her mum said breathless.
"Maybe-" Lily started.
"No! Honey...you have...special needs that have just come to our attention...and...how many times would you get the chance to go to a school and become a witch?" her mother asked, emphasizing the last word. "I'm...I...Your father and I want you to go. We're making you. And you had better do your very best." she said in a final tone. She stood up from the bed and walked out of the door.
Lily never was one to back down from something. She loved to try new things and she really, really, wanted to do this. But she hadn't thought about what it actually meant until now...and the shock nearly made her cry.
I want to learn magic...I'm a witch...
I'm a witch...
I'm a witch...
Whoa...
I'M A WITCH! I CAN DO MAGIC! OH MY GODDESS! WHY DIDN'T I REALIZE THAT UNTIL NOW?
I have to leave Petunia, Mum, and Dad...
I GET TO LEAVE DERRICK AND ZACH!
I have to practically live with Potter...
But there's Kelsey and Remus!
I'll be learning magic in a week!
I HAVE TO LEAVE IN A WEEK! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE HOGWARTS IS!
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"So, freak...? How was your little day trip?" Petunia asked in a snide way.
"Great! In fact...I'm going back today!" Lily said happily, wanting to rub every single detail in Petunia's face.
"Why? You're not actually going?" she asked, looking alarmed.
"Yeah...I am. Why do you care?" Lily asked suspiciously.
"Uh...no reason...I just didn't think it was real...I mean, why would you ever even want to go?" she asked. For a second, Lily had seen hurt and sadness in her twelve year-old sister's eyes.
Maybe Petunia would miss me, afterall?
"I want to go because I'm a witch. I have the chance to learn magic. Mum and Dad want me to go, anyways. I'll be back for some holidays and I'll be back for the summer."
"But, you don't know anyone at that school. They're freaks and you would become one too, if you went! DON'T GO! PLEASE, LILY! I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE! YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND!" Petunia started to cry.
No way in (Bloody) Hell did my big sister just admit I was her best friend...
Out of habit, Lily started to cry, too. Lily wrapped her arms around her sister and Petunia propped her head on Lily's.
"I'm sorry. I won't go if you don't want me to!" Lily sobbed.
"Uh...no! Go!...you should go, Elephant." Petunia heaved as if it was a big decision...which it was.
"Really?" Lily asked wiping her eyes and looking up. Petunia looked uncertain and then said, "Yes. It won't matter if you go to that freak school because...you were a freak to begin with." Petunia sniffed.
"Thanks, Giraffe." Lily smiled, leaning her face on her sister's shoulder. Petunia pulled Lily's hair off her face and thought about all of this. It was too much for her to take and she wondered what Lily's leaving would do to their relationship.
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The Evans family (minus Petunia- she was at her friends house, refusing to go to 'where the freaks dwell'.) arrived at Diagon Alley to find wizards and witches buzzing about, just like the last time they were there.
"Whoa...they're wizards? Like magic and everything?" Michael asked, reaching his finger out to touch a passing wizard. He was aware that Lily was a witch and could do 'magic and everything' and had seen her spell books and wand, but still was shocked to see a ton of them running around like normal people.
"Yes." Lily said getting annoyed with her father's look of tourism. She noticed his outstretched hand and swatted at it, making it fall to her father's side once more.
"Whoa." her father said again. Lily glared at him. He found it very amusing.
"Uh, Lily, I think I spotted one of your friends..." Rose smiled. Lily stopped glaring and looked frightened in the direction of her mother.
"Please say it isn't James..." Lily muttered.
"It isn't James." Rose laughed. She took Lily's shoulders and spun her around so that she was now face to face with...
Kelsey.
"Kelsey!" Lily said excited.
"Hey, Lily!" Kelsey said grinning.
"Mum! Dad! May I PLEASE go with Kelsey and meet you somewhere?" Lily said turning around to face her parents, wide-eyed and puppy-dogish.
"Sure, we'll meet you at The Leaky Cauldron in three hours?" Rose asked her daughter.
Lily nodded and Kelsey grabbed her hand, dragging her off to Queen Alfred knows where.
"THREE HOURS, LILY EVANS!" her mother called, to confirm her daughter had heard her. She recieved no response.
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"Lily, this is Caitlyn Brinkerhoff and Nicole, my sister. Cait and Nikki, this is Lily Evans." Kelsey introduced Lily to another 11 year-old girl with wavy, gold hair and brown eyes and an older girl about 16 with curly light brown hair.
"Oh, so you're Lily. The girl James decided he should stalk and fall in love with?" Nicole smiled knowingly.
"Uh...yeah." Lily turned red.
"I can't believe you and Remus came here without me!" snapped Caitlyn. She sounded offended but her face betrayed her voice. She was smiling and trying with all her might to look mad but, apparently her and Kelsey were good friends.
"Sorry, but you were sick..." Kelsey said sheepishly.
"You're Nicole? The Prefect?" Lily asked getting interested.
"Yes. Are you interested in being one?"
"Well...I don't really know what they are...like what they actually do."
"Well, we keep the younger students in line. We can take away points from all four of the houses, we can hand out detentions and we patrol the corridors at night. We do things for the teachers when they want us to and sometimes we tutor people. You have to be in fifth year, though." Nicole said.
"Oh, it sounds wicked!"
"Well, I think it will come in handy. My mum and dad have told me things that the Potter's son, James, had done and I can't wait to give him a detention. My parents work at the Ministry of Magic with James' parents. We have never actually met, but Kelsey and James have owled eachother about pranks and the like." Nicole said trying to clarify things for her. "And we've known Remus since he was about...eight."
"Oh."
"Yeah...don't be alarmed if Kelsey and Caitlyn talk like crazy people...they just...are, well...crazy." Nicole finished lamely.
"I understand." Lily laughed taking a minute to glance at Kelsey and Caitlyn who, at the moment, were making wild hand gestures to eachother and then laughing. Lily distincly heard, "I know you like thaaaaaat!" (GO TO go to toons and click on Banana Fingers 1 DO IT!)
Lily looked scared for a moment before saying..."I'm not alarmed."
Nicole just laughed and shook her head as her little sister came parading up to them, best friend in tow.
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"Alright." said Lily closing a trunk and looking around her room. "I'm pretty sure I have everything."
Lily's heart was beating fast and she had butterflies in her stomach. She was leaving for Hogwarts and she was done packing for the school year. She had piled in all her books and clothes and robes and made sure to check that she had acouple photos of the ones she loved and would miss dearly.
"Are you positive?" asked a voice in from the door. Lily looked up to see her sister there with Flippy Beans in her hands.
"Yes..." Lily answered uncertainly.
"Mum, Dad, and I think Flippy Beans should go to school with you..." Petunia said looking slightly sad.
"Oh...That would be great."
"Yes, you should have normal company once in a while." Petunia smiled. "Besides...you can't take Mr. Tuna with you."
"Thanks." Lily said taking the cat. "Hey Flibe, you're goin' to Hogwarts." she grinned.
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"Do you really want to go?" whined Petunia.
"Yes." Lily said firmly, nodding her head to try to assure herself.
"Alright." Petunia said giving her little sister a tight squeeze, and a kiss on the cheek. The Evans were at Kings Cross Station and Petunia refused to go to Platform 9 3/4.
"Petunia, wait in the car, okay?" said Michael.
"Yes, Dad." Petunia said rolling her eyes as she opened the car door and sat inside.
"Okay...so what platform is it again?" he asked.
"9 3/4!" Lily said forgetting her sadness.
"There is no such thing." Michael said in a, well, fatherly and stubborn way.
"Yes, there is." Rose said taking the lead. "You just have to walk through the barriers of nine and ten."
She said this so matter-of-factly that Lily and Michael didn't quite catch what she said. Then they looked shocked and stole a glance at eachother before catching up to her.
"Just walk right through?" Lily asked amazed, as she stared at the barrier, Flibe in her hands.
"Yes, that's what Sarah said."
"Sorry, but I think she's just like her son...joking...all the time." Lily said, disbelievingly.
Michael walked up to the barrier and put his hand on it, pushing it, willing it to become a door to walk through. "Nope, solid as a rock...or metal, steel, wood, you get it, don't you?" he said.
Lily walked forward and looked at the wall.
There is something really strange about that wall...
"Hmm..." Lily laid her hand on the wall and...fell through!
"Lily!" her father grabbed her disappearing arm and was pulled through, also!
"Michael! Lily!" Rose headed towards the barrier, pulling Lily's discarded trunk with her. When she reached the wall that her family dissolved through, two different sized hands grabbed her.
"Hey, Mum!" Lily greeted looking around, wide-eyed.
"Whoa...I told you there was a Platform!" Rose smirked.
"Oh, shuddap! I found it before you!" Mr. Evans said, looking ashamed and defeated.
Lily was staring with amazement her mouth slightly ajar, when an unwanted voice said, "Oh, here I always thought it was frogs who caught flies, not Elephants."
"What do you want, Potter?"
"Well, our parents kinda said I would help you get settled on the train..." he said staring down at her and giving her cat a scared look, before taking a step back.
"Oh yeah...well, you can always just, you know...'forget'." Lily smiled hopeful.
"Uh...yeah, right." James said, "I don't forget anything!"
"Damn." Lily muttered.
"What was that?" James asked looking shocked and...impressed.
"Nothing..." Lily said looking behind her hoping to find her parents. They were nowhere to be found and when she turned around James' face was about an inch from hers.
"Ah!" she squeaked. Apparently, Flippy Beans didn't appreciate James so close, especially when Lily didn't like him. So Flibe did what all good cats should do...he hissed and lunged himself at James. James fell backwards as the cat scratched him. James started sneezing like a moron and was screaming, while he flailed his arms about.
"Flibe! STOP!" Lily said snatching the cat off James. "I'm sorry, James! He...he's never done that before." Lily said looking confused at the cat.
"It's -sneeze- ok...-sneeze- I'm just slightly -sneeze- allergic and -sneeze- cat's don't seem to like me very much." he smiled covering his nose with his sleeve as he sneezed another mighty sneeze.
"Oh, James...are you allergic to Flippy Beans?" asked the concerned voice of Rose Evans.
"-sneeze- Flippy Beans?" James asked looking up at her approaching figure.
"Yes." Rose said laying a hand on James' shoulder and nodding towards the hissing cat in Lily's hands.
"You named your cat 'Flippy -sneeze- Beans' ?" James asked incredulously, standing up from his sitting postion on the ground.
"No," Lily said adopting a sarcastic voice, "We named him 'Flippy Beans'."
"Hahaha, just keep it away from me, alright?" he said taking another step back.
"Deal...if you stay away from me, he won't be anywhere near you..." she smiled.
James was about to retort when his mum came up behind him. "James, dear, have a good school year. Your father and I will miss you so much! Don't get into too much trouble and be nice to Lily...not too nice, though." she winked.
"What do you mean?" Lily asked cuddling her cat closer to her face as he continued to hiss at a glaring James.
What a pathetic boy...fighting with a cat...
"Well...Um...you wouldn't neccessarily like James when he gets too friendly..." Sarah said giving her son a look as he continued to give evil signs to Lily's cat.
"Lily...I...uh...your dad and I want you to do your very best at school." Rose said starting to cry as she put her hands on Lily's shoulder and going to her eye level.
"Don't, Mum! Don't cry...I'll write every chance I get, I swear."
"Yeah, " said James stepping closer, "she can borrow my owl anytime she needs to." He pointed to his cage where a brown and black owl sat. The cage had a name engraved on it...Fly.
Fly...I like that name...Hmmm
"Alright. Lily, I won't tolerate any of this crying business...So...give me a hug and make sure I don't break my own rules." he said with watery eyes. He grabbed her in for a hug and wouldn't let go until Rose wanted one, also.
"I love you." Lily said as they broke apart. "Tell Giraffe...tell her I love her, too."
"We will dear...and she already knows it." Michael smiled.
"It's almost 11." Sarah said. "James and Lily should get on the train."
There were scattered goodbyes and James helped Lily with her trunk. They found an empty space at the end of the train and put away their luggage. Lily sat down and James took the seat opposite, staring uncertainly at her glaring cat.
"What's wrong with it?" James asked. But before Lily could answer...a voice came...a voice she wasn't expecting...a familiar one...
"LILY!"
Oh my goddess!
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