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Chapter 5—The Process Of Healing

Lily coughed loudly.

"Ms. Evans! Do you have a problem?" Professor McGonagall said, after Lily's interruption and did not like being interrupted. .

"Um, sorry Professor." Lily managed before she started coughing again.

"Please, go get some water Miss Evans." McGonagall told her. Lily went out of the class and came back 5 minutes later. She took her assigned seat next to James again.

"You okay?" James asked, looking amused. Lily rolled her eyes and turned back to her rabbit, which was supposed to turn into a feather. Lily was never super at Transfiguration so hers ended up being a rabbit with a feathery tail. James laughed at it, since it looked weird. He easily transfigured his, since this was his best subject. Lily 'hmphed' at the sight of James's perfect feather. James grinned at her and went to show McGonagall his feather. He came back and helped Lily with hers. It made Lily sad, however because Jacob had always helped her with Transfiguration on her late nights of homework. With James's help she Transfigured her bunny into a feather.

"Thanks." She said and sighed as she took it up to the Professor.

"Hey, Lily, do you want to skate after classes today?" James asked her.

"Skate? I thought it was a Muggle thing?" Lily replied.

"Well, a lot of students like ice skating on the lake, even if Muggles do it." James told her.

"Okay, I'll go." Lily said, but still thought it was odd that magical people still ice skated. Lily loved it however, she had taken lessons until she was 10.

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Lily dressed in tight jeans and a figure hugging, sparkling white turtleneck. She left her hair down and perfectly straight to keep her ears warm and slipped on a pair of white gloves. All in all, James would like it. She quickly conjured up a pair of white, new figure skates and walked into the common room and saw everyone waiting already. The guys were wearing jeans and long sleeved shirts, with sweatshirts over it. Everyone carried their skates (hockey for the guys) and walked to the lake.

"Are you sure it's frozen enough?" Lily asked. Even though it was December, the lake was deep.

"Yeah, don't worry. Plus I put an extra charm on it. The teachers let me since I'm Head Boy." James grinned happily. Lily nodded and put her skates on then helping Shelley lace up hers. Lily easily stood up and glided onto the ice, earning stares from the Marauders.

"What? I took skating classes till I was ten." She explained. Even though it was 7 years ago, she still remembered how to skate. James joined her, not having as ease but not struggling either. After a while everything was setting and everyone on the ice.

"C'mon Lily, have some fun!" James said. He twirled her around on the ice.

"Hey, watch this!" Lily jumped up, spun around and landed on one foot, gliding towards them. They clapped and Lily laughed. And her laugh was real. Her eyes and whole face lit up and she looked naturally happy. Not like she had been. That made everyone even happier. For 45 more minutes they skated and glided around on the frozen lake. When they were all freezing cold, they walked to the kitchen and got a warm butterbeer. It warmed all of them completely and tasted excellent.

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As much as Lily had fun that day, she wasn't completely happy. She couldn't help thinking about her brother. It wasn't his fault he was dead. If only the stupid man that hit them wasn't drunk then he would still be here. It was terrible. Jacob was young, he was only nineteen. Ready to become an Auror and so happy about it. Lily began to cry again but was mad at herself for doing so. She was probably annoying everyone with all her crying and depression. She wanted to get over it, but it was hard. Too hard. There was a knock on the door.

"Hey." Came Danny's voice. Lily silently groaned, without really something.

"Hey." She replied quietly, but realized something. Last year, Danny always caused butterflies in her stomach, even just the sight of him. This year, it caused nothing. She came to the conclusion that she only went to Danny because he was a reminder of Jacob. If she held on to Danny it would be like holding on to Jacob.

"I want to break up." Lily said suddenly.

"Huh?" Danny said, although he heard.

"Danny, when I said I'd go out with you, I was mad and just wanted someone to love me." She told him.

"Lily, please--." Danny tried.

"No, I want to be alone. Please, leave Danny. I'm sorry." Danny sighed and walked out of the room, with one last hopeful glance at Lily before she shook her head. Lily, actually feeling a bit better walked to the common room. She saw the Marauders playing chess and Shelley, lying on her back with her feet dangling over the arm of the couch. She sat up when she saw Lily, who plopped down next to her.

"What happened between you and Danny? He walked out here in a huff and refused to talk to us." Shelley asked.

"I broke up with him." Lily answered simply.

"You did?" Everyone else said, making Lily laugh a little.

"Yeah. I realized the only reason I went out with him again was because he reminded me of Jacob and I'm scared to let go of him." Lily told them. No one said anything, but they understood.

"Let's play Quidditch." Sirius said suddenly and jumped up, along with James. Lily actually wanted to play, so she followed everyone out. Lily and Remus borrowed school brooms, while Sirius (beater), Shelley (chaser), and James used theirs since they were on the team.

"Okay, since there's an odd number it will be me and Remus against you three." James said, telling Sirius, Shelley, and Lily. Sirius threw up the Quaffle and Lily caught it. It was freezing cold, but she felt great flying up there. She passed to Sirius, right before James was about to steal it. It was passed around a few more times until Shelley scored a goal. James managed to get halfway across the pitch before Sirius almost took it from him, making him drop it and fall into Remus's hands, who scored.

"Ten to ten! We will so win baby!" Sirius said, making everyone laugh, even Lily. She got the Quaffle and flew across the pitch, actually scoring.

Once they were all frozen they got off their brooms, smiling happily.

"I had fun!" Shelley laughed.

"Me too." Lily breathed. She was cold. "Hey, I'm going to run up ahead, to warm up okay?" Everyone replied and Lily took off, sprinting fast. Shelley laughed, which the Marauders just stared. The caught up with Lily in the kitchen, who was sipping hot chocolate and laughed when they came in. She was almost back to her normal self.

Almost.

Authors note—sorry I haven't updated! I was having writers block! Hope this is good and not too short!

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