Chapter 4:
Lily was sitting in a fluffy armchair by the fire when she saw a shadow draw up behind her. She looked up to see one of the three boys who had bullied her standing behind her. She put her head down, got up and left the chair. She stopped, however, when she heard the boy's voice calling her back.
"Come back! I have to tell you something!" the boy called.
"Tell me what?" she asked angrily, "That you're about to hex my nose so that it turn's into a hook?"
"No." he said simply. "I actually came here to apologize. I'm sorry for what my friends did. I also wanted to let you know that it wasn't anything you did that made them hex you. They just have fun in hexing random people whenever they feel like it."
"Why did they hex me then, if I didn't do anything?" she asked.
"They felt in the mood, they saw you walking by, you talked to them, and they thought that it was the opportune moment." Remus said.
"Well you can tell them that no time is the opportune moment to hex somebody!" Lily could feel tears building up in my eyes. "You can tell them that their 'harmless actions' consequently resulted in me having no friends at the start of the year. Everybody points and laugh at me. I hate it! You tell them thanks for making my life miserable!"
"I'm sorry that they made your first day here miserable," Remus said sympathetically, "but it you want, I'll be your friend."
"Thanks." Lily said. She didn't' quite know why, but she hugged him before she went to bed. As she climbed the stairs to the girl's dormitory, she couldn't help but smile—she had a friend.
"Guess what Remus?" Sirius yelled as Remus walked into the dormitory.
"What?" Remus asked.
"No, you've gotta guess." Sirius said.
"I don't care that much. I think I'll go to bed." Remus said, pulling the curtains around his bed shut. Suddenly, the curtains were drawn open again. Remus opened his eyes and looked around to see who had opened them. No one was in the dormitory. Funny, Remus could've have sworn that he hadn't heard Sirius leave the room. He shrugged sleepily and pulled the curtains shut again. As Remus was just about to fall asleep, he heard the curtains open yet again. "What the hell?" he muttered as he looked around the room, yet again seeing no one.
He heard footsteps coming up towards the room and James burst in. "Sirius?" James called. "Oh, hey Remus. I was wondering where you were."
"Oh, yeah…Sorry I sort of left, I was asking Professor McGonagall when our schedules would be handed out." Remus lied quickly. He didn't want his friends to know that he had befriended Lily, in fear that he would be teased about his crush.
"Okay." James said. "Have you seen Sirrr…." James started as a pie came flying at his face.
"What the…" Remus said.
"Sirius, take off my invisibility cloak." James said, taking a swing at the air where the pie had come. James and Remus were quiet long enough to hear a faint laughter coming from under the Pettigrew kid's bed. They made eye contact before getting on either side of the bed, to ensure that he had no means of escape, and pulling Sirius out from under it. Sirius finally took the cloak off and burst out laughing.
"Remus…the curtains…oh my God…hilarious…" he laughed "James…the pie…damn…brilliant…"
"Stop being so damn cocky and tell us where the hell you got a pie?" James asked, annoyed.
"…Dinner…nicked it…" Sirius was still laughing.
"Have you been hit by a damn cheering charm or something?" James asked, "Get up off your ass, we got to go!" James pulled the cloak over them and the disappeared from Remus' view.
"Where are guys going?" Remus asked.
"See what the school looks like at night." James said. "Wanna come?"
"Are you crazy?" Remus asked. "Of course I do!"
James took the invisibility cloak off himself and Sirius and threw it over the three of them. They disappeared from view and set out on there first adventure of the year.
Lily woke up early the next morning on account for how excited she was about the upcoming day. For although her first day hadn't been the best, today she started classes and she was excited to see her schedule. Today she decided, she would not be conspicuous in the least. She got up, put on her school robes, and pulled her hair back in a high ponytail.
After leaving her sleeping roommates in their dormitory, she went downstairs to the Great Hall for breakfast. The room didn't look nearly as festive as it had the previous night. True, the enchanted ceiling was still there, but the rest of the decorations weren't there. Also, there weren't students around, laughing and talking. In fact, there was only one other person in the hall, apart from herself.
Lily thought that she remembered the girl from the sorting last night. She was tall and skinny with long blonde hair and a big nose. Lily decided to talk to her. "Hi! I'm Lily…"
"…Evans, I know." The girl interrupted. "I'm Emmeline Vance, but you can call me Emmie."
"Oh. I guess everyone knows…" Lily said, disappointed that this girl remembered her as 'the girl who got her hair lit on fire by the three hottest guys in the first year.'
"You say that like it's a bad thing." Emmie said. "I would kill for people to notice me."
"Trust me it's not that great for people to remember you as the girl who got her hair lit on fire." Lily said sadly.
"I'm sorry…" Emmie apologized. "Do you wanna sit down? The food's great!"
"Yeah, 'cause I was too embarrassed by getting my hair lit on fire to notice how good the food was last night!" Lily said.
Emmie laughed, "You're funny Lily! C'mon, sit down!"
"Am I allowed to sit down at the Ravenclaw table?"
"Who's here to stop you?" Emmie said, looking around.
Lily looked around too, "Alright then!"
She sat down and the girls ate in silence for a while until they felt someone approaching them from behind.
"Good morning girls." Said the voice of Professor McGonagall.
"Hi Professor!" The girls said in unison.
"I have your course schedules for the year." She said simply. "You're in Gryffindor, right?" she asked, gesturing towards Lily.
"Yes." Lily said politely.
"Here you go then." She said, handing each of them a different schedule.
Lily examined hers:
Monday
8:00: Breakfast
9:00: Charms
12:00: Lunch
1:30: History of Magic
3:00: Defense Against the Dark Arts
4:30: Transfiguration
6:00: Dinner
7:30 Study
8:00 Must be in Common Rooms
Tuesday
8:00: Breakfast
9:00: Flying (starts 11/1)
10:30: History of Magic
12:00: Lunch
1:30: Potions
4:30: Charms
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Study
8:00 Common Room
12:00 Astronomy
Wednesday
8:00: Breakfast
9:00: Transfiguration
12:00: Lunch
1:30: Potions
3:00: Charms
4:30: Defense Against the Dark Arts
6:00: Dinner
7:30: Study
8:00 Common Room
Thursday
8:00: Breakfast
9:00: Herbology
10:30: Flying (starts 11/1)
12:00: Lunch
1:30: Defense Against the Dark Arts
4:30: Charms
6:00: Dinner
7:30: Study
8:00: Common Room
Friday:
8:00: Breakfast
9:00: Potions
10:30: Herbology
12:00: Lunch
1:30: Free Time
6:00: Dinner
7:30: Free Time
9:30: Common Room
Saturday:
9:00: Breakfast
10:30: Free Time
12:00: Lunch
1:30: Free Time
6:00 Dinner
7:30: Free Time
9:30: Common Room
Sunday:
9:00 Breakfast
10:30: Free Time
12:00: Lunch
1:30: Free Time
6:00: Dinner
7:30: Free Time
8:00: Common Room
"What does your schedule look like for today?" Emmie asked.
"Erm…Double Charms, History of Magic, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Transfiguration. What about you?" Lily replied.
"Double Transfiguration, History of Magic, Potions, and Charms." Emmie said. "We have a class together, that's cool!"
"Yup!" Lily replied happily. It seemed that she had made another friend.
"ARRRRGGGGGHHHH!" The screams of two first year boys could've been heard in the next town over.
James woke up with a start when he felt a bucket-full of water dumped on top of his head.
"Finally," Remus said, "I've been trying to wake you two up for about an hour now."
"Bloody hell! What was that for Remus?" James asked sleepily.
"'What was that for Remus?' You should be thanking me!" Remus said exasperatedly. "Here I am spending an hour trying to make sure you guys aren't late on our first day, and all you have to say is 'What was that for Remus?'"
"Did you have to wake us up that way?" James asked. "Couldn't you just have prodded us awake or something?"
"Tried"
"Okay fine, hit us?"
"Tried"
"Hit us with a pillow?"
"Tried"
"Kicked us?"
"Tried"
"Jabbed us with a broomstick?"
"My wand."
"Couldn't you at least of strayed away from dumping water on us?"
"What would you suggest I do? I've tried everything else! You two bloody bastards just don't wake up!" Remus said. "See, this ass has already fallen back asleep." He said, gesturing towards Sirius.
"Go get another pail," James suggested.
"Can I trust leaving you alone in here, or will you fall back asleep?" Remus asked suspiciously.
"I'm up!" James said. "Once I'm awake I can never fall back asleep!"
But sure enough, when Remus returned with the bucket of water, both Sirius and James were asleep in bed.
A/N: How did you like that part at the end? That was one of my favorite parts to write, seeing as I have used the line "once I wake up, I can't get back to sleep" many times in the past! Next chapter will be their first classes! You can bet that Lily will kick ass in charms! Please read and review. I love to hear both what you like and what you don't like. Even if you just want to say something like "update soon", I'd appreciate it!
PS: Sorry this chapter wasn't that long, I was on page 5, and I'm like "okay, I'll wrap it up." But then, when I was just editing it, I realized that about of page of it was taken up by their schedules. (Although the schedules did take a heck of a long time to do—I did all four houses and I had to make sure that nothing was overlapping!)
Black Heart: Thanks for your review! The rest is coming: I've written up to chapter 9, my goal was to finish through chapter 12, but, oh well!
Princessavg: Thanks! Please to continue to read and review!
Ycantibreathe: Did Lily's life get good enough for you in this chapter? She made friends with both Remus and Emmie! I wonder why you thought it was funny what they did to Snape, but sad what they did to Lily. When you really think about it, they knew just as much about Snape as they did Lily. Both times they did it for fun, they weren't provoked.
Jewels5: Thank you for your compliments. No, Lily's life will not continue in this depressing trend. I just needed to have something happen to her that would ensure that she and James got off to the wrong start.