Lily's mum went over to her sobbing body, and leaned down, "Honey, a cop is here, and would like to talk to you about the accident," she said in a soft soothing tone.

Lily looked up and nodded her head. She quickly regained her composure and went out into the living room where this cop was sitting sipping tea. Lily sat opposite of the cop in a small wooden chair, and told him what happened. The cop thanked her, gave them both his condolences and left.

There was this weird mood settled among the house. Mum was just in this cleaning frenzy, and Lily just stayed sitting in that chair for a while. After about an hour, there was a knock on the door. Lily went up to answer it, it was her Aunt Becky. As soon as Lily opened the door Aunt B, gave Lily a huge uncomfortable hug.

"Oh my god child, what is all over you?" Aunt B asked in somewhat of a shock. Lily looked down and realized that she had yet to shower, and Lori's blood was still all over her.

"It's um...well…," Lily tried to get out with tears welding up in her eyes.
Aunt B quickly replied, "Don't worry dear, you'll feel better after a shower." And with that she kissed Lily on the forehead and went off to go find her sister. Lily knew she was right, so she went upstairs and took a shower. As she showered she watched her sister's blood roll off her and slowly escape down the drain.

After Lily got out of the shower, it seemed a little more noise downstairs. More family members had arrived. She quickly got dressed and threw her hair up in a clip. Lily really didn't want to be around any of her family, but maybe she hoped that her father had arrived.

As Lily walked down stairs she realized it was more people than she anticipated. There was from her mother's side; he Aunt Becky, Uncle Dean with wife Lacy and three kids Mike, John, and Peter, whom she had never met. Then from her father's side there was Uncle Chuck and his wife Terri and newborn baby Elisa. Also it had seemed that Petunia had arrived with Vernon, but the one person she did not see was her father. Lily spotted Uncle Chunk in the family room, nibbling on a cracker.

"Uncle Chuck," Lily asked approaching him, "where is my father?"
Chuck looked up, and promptly stuffed the rest of the cracker into his mouth.
"He is out of state and won't get here until Tuesday, the day of the funeral," he answered.

Lily nodded her head and began to realize how many people were in the house. She had to get out of there, just too many people in one area. She swiftly moved into her bedroom, and shut the door. The mess from that morning was still displayed about, so Lily decided to pick it up.

By the time Lily was done reorganizing her bookshelf, and sweeping up the glass, the sun had set and the relatives had said their goodbyes for the night. Lily climbed into bed to try to go to sleep, but every time she shut her eyes, she would see Lori's face. Eventually exhaustion took over and Lily dozed off, just to relive what happened the night before in a dream.

The next few days seemed to pass by slowly, more random relatives Lily had never met stopped by and every neighbor seem to of stopped in and gave them food. Most of it however was uneaten, but no one in the house seemed to have an appetite. Tuesday has arrived, and once again the house was packed full of relatives dressed in black, awaiting the arrival of the cars so they could drive to the funeral.

Lily was sitting on the couch when she heard the knock at the door; someone must have answered it because so lady walked in with a small child. Lily had no idea who she was, but when her father walked in right behind her Lily's heart dropped.

Lily looked at her father, he seemed so different. He had grown this ashy beard, and wore glasses; it didn't even look like the man she once knew. Then Lily looked towards that lady, and she quickly realized who it was and why her father had left. Lily arose from the couch and pushed past her father and ran out the front door.

"LILY," her father yelled from behind.
Lily turned around, "SO that's why you left? You got some slut pregnant! You dropped everything you had for her!"
"Lily it isn't that simple," Lily's father said approaching her.
"Get away from me," she said backing up, "How could you even bring her here? This isn't about you and you making some…some statement! This is about saying goodbye!"

"Lily that's not—"

Ignoring him, "You brought here into our house! Like she's part of this family! She broke up this family, you broke up this family! You are a horrible person!" Lily said holding back tears.

"I'm so sorry Lily I never meant—'

"You NEVER MEANT," Lily screamed, "then what did you mean? You must have meant to walk out on us, you must have meant never to call, and you must have meant to start a whole other life!"

"Yes Lily," her father said calmly, "just like you must have meant for Lori to get into that car with that boy, you must have meant for her to crash, and you must have meant for her to die."

Lily was taken aback by her father. How could he of just said that? How could he compare that to him? The amount of anger and guilt Lily was feeling right then; she couldn't express it in words. She did the only thing that she knew, and turn and ran. She heard her father screaming her name and she ran down the street, but she didn't turn to look back.

Lily didn't run for very long, she had on there short black heels that been very uncomfortable, so she took off her shoes and just started walking. Lily didn't realize how long she had been walking until her right leg began to cramp. She looked around to find out where she was and she was only a few block away from the cemetery. Lily now really didn't feel like attending her sister's funeral, she never really did. Something so sad like that wouldn't have fit Lori, it didn't feel like her, and a part her felt that this would permanently be saying goodbye.

Lily arrived at the cemetery and saw where it was all taking place. She stood from afar and the precession happened. She noticed a few kids from school were even there. This must have been printed in the wizardry newspaper also. Lily watched it all ended and the last of the people slowly trickled away, she watched the coffin get buried. It finally seemed everyone was gone so she approached the grave.

She read the tombstone:

Lorelei Marie Evans

Her lays our beloved Daughter and Sister
And shall always remain full of life

Lily knelt down in front of it.
"I'm so sorry I let you down, I'm so sorry," she sobbed.

Lily arrived home late that night, and in hopes that her mother had already gone to bed. She had not talked to her mother since she was told to go talk to the cop. Lily quietly opened the front door, but then ignored that tactic when she realized that the lights were still on. Lily walked in the house and down the hall to her room. She was abruptly stopped by her mother, who had been drinking.

"Where the hell have YOU been?"
"I—I was just out," Lily said with a stutter.

"OUT! YOU WERE JUST OUT," she yelled, "you were out after you made a scene with your faaather, that's what you were."

"You, LILY, once again managed to make this day about yourself," she slurred, "you—you go off on your father like that, and—and you runaway."

"You KILL your sister then—then you don't give her enough COURTESY to attend her funeral, YOU are such a bitch," she said with this sudden rage, and she raised her hand up and slapped Lily in the face.

"No one's going to pity you! You're the one that killed her! You took her away! You could have stopped it, but you didn't! You let this happen—"

Lily didn't stay to hear the rest of what her mother was saying to her. She walked into her room and shut the door, locking it. She gingerly touched the place where her mother had hit her, it didn't really hurt. But her mother had hit hard with what she had said, "Just go off and get yourself killed, see if I attend your funeral, you stupid bitch." Her mother was right she killed Lori it was all her fault.

Lily for the rest of the summer mulled over what she had done. Slowly she slipped away and lost sight of what was going on around her. When her Hogwart's letter arrived her mother was so of her, but Lily seemed indifferent. Lily never went to Diagon Alley to retrieve her school supplies her mother did it for her. Thought Mum had apologized profusely towards Lily and she knew it really wasn't her fault and she had even recommended counseling to her, but nothing seemed to get through. Lily just drifted away into a state of depression.

END OF FLASHBACK