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Chapter 5: The LetterThe following week, Lily sat at the Gryffindor table for breakfast. She heard the flapping of wings and realized the mail had arrived. Not expecting anything, Lily started to eat, but to her surprise, an owl landed right in front of her, carrying a letter in its beak.
She picked it up and slowly opened the envelope. It read:
My Dearest Lily,
Please meet me in the closet next to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom at twelve o'clock tonight.
Anonymous
Lily immediately looked at James. He was looking at her with curiosity.
"Who is it from?" he asked. She looked at him questioningly.
"It's not from you?" she asked confused. What was this about?
"No… I haven't sent you anything for the past couple of weeks! If I had sent you something, you would know. Who's it from?"
He lunged at the letter, but Lily was too quick. She tucked it into her robes and smiled.
"It's from no one."
At dinner, Lily was extremely nervous at what at twelve o'clock tonight she would be doing.
"Lily, you look so pale. Are you feeling ok?" James asked.
"I'm…fine. I'm just a little…umm…cold. Yeah, I'm just a little cold," Lily thought out-loud.
"Oh, here..."
He took out his wand and summoned a sweater.
"There you go," he said. He kissed her on her forehead.
"Thank you, James!"
She kissed him back.
"I love you!"
"I love you, too." (A/N: Awww…oh, sorry, that kind of ruined the –mood–…)
James and Lily kissed for a couple of moments. When they looked away from each other, a lot of people were staring at them, even Dumbledore! Lily went red, and they quickly pulled away from each other. Dumbledore had a playful glint in his eyes.
'Oops!' Lily thought. 'Oh no! What if the guy that's supposed to meet me saw this? He may not show up! And I want to know who it is!'
Dumbledore started to speak.
"Well…don't we have two little love birds?" Lily noticed James turn red, which was extremely rare.
He continued, "Now, are you two done? If not, please take yourselves elsewhere."
James couldn't believe Dumbledore was saying this.
Then he heard Lily whisper to him, "Why is he doing this? Tom and Lisa kissed last year, and he never made such a big deal!"
He looked at her and muttered back, "I know why he's doing this! I know exactly why!"
"Well, I wish he would stop!!" she hissed.
Lily then noticed he had started staring at Dumbledore, like he was concentrating on him.
'Professor, please stop!' James thought, trying to communicate with him.
'You don't have to call me professor, James,' Dumbledore thought back to him.
They were telekinetically talking back to each other.
'Yes, I do. Now, if you don't mind…would you stop?' James noticed that the whole hall was watching as he stared at Dumbledore.
'Alright, fine.' Dumbledore decided, still thinking to James.
Dumbledore sighed. James looked away and started rubbing his eyes from an awful headache.
Dumbledore started to address the hall, "Ok, now you all have seen enough. Go back to eating." The Hall erupted in chatter, pointing at Lily and James. James felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Are you ok, James? What did you do to make him stop?" Lily asked quietly.
"I'm not sure…" he lied. "But I have an awful headache!" James answered.
Lily leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, thankful that no one noticed, and started to rub his back gently.
"I think we've had enough for tonight!" Remus said.
"I was turning red, and I wasn't even being talked about!" Tara added in.
Lily sat there with James, rubbing his back, while everybody talked about school and so on.
After a half an hour, dinner was over. Lily and James got up, and walked to the hallway, holding hands.
"Oh, Potter and a mud-blood," a voice sneered.
James turned around quickly, as did the rest of the group.
It was Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape.
James went red in the face with rage. He tried to leap at Lucius, but Lily and Sirius had a grip on him. They were using all of their might to restrain him.
Unfortunately, Malfoy saw this and decided to go on, "I can't believe you actually kissed her in front of the whole school! You have sunk to the ultimate low!"
He smiled evilly.
James gave a forceful pull, which knocked Lily and Sirius to the floor, and quickly lunged at Malfoy, punching him hard in the nose. (A/N: lol…)
Lily gasped seeing Malfoy fall onto his back, but he quickly got up and hit James, making his lip bleed. James tackled Lucius again, hitting him again.
"James! Don't!" Lily yelled.
Finally, Sirius, jumping up, ran over to them and pulled James off of Malfoy.
"Don't you ever say that again!" James said through gritted teeth. He tugged himself out of Sirius grasp and stared at Malfoy getting help from Snape.
The small crowd died down, and Lily stepped forward.
"Your lip is bleeding," she told him. "Let's go to Madame Pomfrey."
"What happened?" Madam Pomfrey asked alarmed, when they entered the Hospital Wing.
"There was a…umm…fight…" James answered nervously.
"A fight?" she asked appalled.
They nodded their heads yes.
"Well…you have a bloody lip…and any thing else?" she asked.
"No…except Malfoy," James answered.
"Ok, I'll get a hold of him later…but I'll fix you up now."
Madam Pomfrey walked to a cabinet, and pulled out a small bottle of blue liquid. She put a drop of it on his lip.
He felt like a needle was poked into it, but as soon as the pain came, it left.
"There you go! No more fights, alright?"
James nodded as she shooed them out.
"You know, you didn't have to hurt him. I know you hate it when he calls me names, but you don't have to resort to hurting him!" Lily said after they'd left.
"But – ," James started to say, but Lily cut him off.
"Don't let him get to you, James! He's a shallow person, and he just wants to get you upset!" she said.
"Lily, no…I don't like it when he calls you names (a/n: lol…)! Remember in our second year? He stopped you in the hall and called you a bunch of things? I got so angry that I knocked him out for a couple of days?"
Lily laughed.
"Yes, I do…that was so funny."
She stopped in the hall.
"But that's beside the point, I know you get mad when he makes fun of me, but that's my problem. Don't fight my battles for me!"
"Whatever…" he said after a few seconds.
"Thank you."
In minutes they arrived at the Gryffindor Common Room.
At about fifteen until twelve, Lily crept out of her bed and lit a candle, trying not to wake the other girls. She grabbed a mirror and put on some lipstick and a little blush. After a few minutes, she grabbed her candle and silently went down to the common room, which thankfully was empty. All the way there, she was trying to guess who it could be that wrote the poem.
After a couple minutes, Lily arrived at the closet door. After taking a couple breaths, adjusting her hair, and taking a quick check of her clothing, she opened the door slowly.
"Hello?" she asked looking around.
She gasped at the person waiting for her.
Oooooo, cliffhanger…lol, sort of. Well, hope you guys enjoy this chapter! I didn't really like how it turned out. It was kind of slow… and well, just kind of stupid (the fight and the kiss/Dumbledore thing and all…) I really did a lot of quick editing to that part making final edits. I kind of had writer's block fixing it, so it's not that well written. It was also a little on the short side…compared to the others. I promise that the next chapter you'll –hopefully – find better. Thanks so much for reading!
Big, big, big, big, BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG shout out to the following reviewers:
Frozen In Motion – My first reviewer! I'm happy you think I'm a good writer. I've put a lot of time into this story, and I hope it shows…
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-Elle