All's fair in Love and War
A/N: Not much time to talk. I'm back, new chapter, the end. Read&Review, please? I'm so mad at the bozo who deleted our old account, but your reviews will cheer me up! Talk to you later!
Disclaimer: Do I look like JK Rowling to you? And NO I don't own Avril Lavigne's lyrics to her song Nobody's Home and thank you so much for reminding me. While you're at it, why don't you give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice on it! (Princess Bride anyone?)
Dedications: Mickey Mouse! I just had the best vacation in Disney World!
Chapter 4: A New Wardrobe
"How do you put up with them Piccolo Fleur? We've only known them for what, a day, and we're already ready to bite their heads off! They're unbearable!" Adrian moaned, throwing herself onto Lily's bed in exhaustion.
"A bunch of yaros," Yuki muttered, sitting at Lily's desk.
"You're telling me," Lily sighed.
Adrian looked up at Lily's tone. She knew that voice. It was the voice Lily had adopted when her dad died from a brain tumor last year. It was sad and monotone and Lily hadn't used it in a while now, at least to her knowledge. The voice made Adrian scared for her friend's well-being. She hoped she was just imagining things, even though she knew deep down that she wasn't.
"Lily-Chan?" Yuki asked, her voice soft, "Are you okay?"
"Why wouldn't I be?" Lily snapped her voice an octave higher than it usually was.
"Well excuse me for being concerned!" Yuki yelled, "Perhaps you don't want my help! Well fine then! Lily Marie Evans, if that's how you want it to be, then you got it! We're not friends anymore!"
Yuki left the room, slamming the door behind her. Lily just sat there, stunned, with tears beginning to run down her porcelain cheeks.
"Aw Lily, it's okay. She doesn't know what she's saying, you know she's-"
"No! She knows exactly what she was saying! If she doesn't want to be friends, then fine! And if you want to take her side, well we're not friends either, so just GET OUT!" Lily screamed.
Lily's words stung more than she thought as Adrian's eyes grew teary and she whispered, "Fine Lily, we'll leave. But remember, we were only trying to help." And with that, she left the room, closing the door softly behind her.
Adrian found Yuki sitting outside on the porch swing in front of Lily's house, mumbling to herself under her breath and glaring at anything that moved.
"Don't you think that you were a bit harsh?" Adrian asked, sitting down next to her fuming cousin.
"Me! Harsh! Ha, that's a laugh!" Yuki yelled, facing Adrian, "She was being a little bitch and she knows it!"
"Honestly, are you that thick! Merlin Yuki, she was using "The Voice"! She was hurt! Whatever we or those stupid Marauders did or made her remember must have been bad because she hasn't been that upset since her dad died! God Yuki, she was hurt!" Adrian shouted.
Yuki looked as if she had been slapped in the face, and was trembling as she looked down at her long, slender hands.
"Is she okay?" Yuki murmured, not looking at Adrian.
"Only one way to find out," Adrian stated.
They walked back inside and were about to open Lily's door, but stopped when they heard Lily's guitar and an angelic voice singing a sad song.
"She wants to go home
But nobody's home
That's where she lies
Broken inside
She wants to go home
But nobody's home
To dry her eyes
Broken inside"
(Avril Lavigne, Nobody's Home, Under My Skin)
Adrian looked at Yuki. "I'm horrible. This is entirely my fault," Yuki muttered.
"No Yuki, it's not your fault. You didn't help the situation, but you can fix it," Adrian explained sagely.
"I can? How?"
"Get your but in there and apologize!"
Looking skeptical, Yuki walked into Lily's room, being sure not to slam the door again.
"Lily-Chan?" Yuki asked softly. Her spirits fell even further when she saw Lily lying curled up on her bed, tears running down her face and her guitar lying abandoned on the floor.
Lily turned away from her. "Go away," she ordered fiercely.
"But Lily, I...I came-I came to...I just..." Damnit! Why is this so hard? Yuki thought angrily.
Lily looked up at her friend and sniffed. "Apologize?"
"Yeah. Look Lily, I'm sorry, I really am. I should have known you wouldn't want my sympathy, you're strong. But my temper took over and I-"Lily put a hand up to silence her friend.
"You're babbling," She laughed, "And thanks." Lily smiled and engulfed Yuki in a huge hug.
"Aw, you two made up," Adrian smiled in the door way.
"Let's go to that Diagon Alley place now. Someone told me that it was better than Yuksaki Alley. I bet it's a damn lie," Yuki called out.
Yuki took out a slim black flip phone with silver dragon designs on it.
"Moshi moshi Zix-San. Can you send a limo to Lily-Chan's house? Yes, yes she lives in England. Arigoto gomerasises," she spoke, "Ja ne."
"What did you do?" Adrian asked.
"I called Zix, he'll be here with a limo for us," Yuki replied, "We i.e.: Adrian and I have to buy you a new outfit or to. To hell with it, we need to buy you a new wardrobe!"
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A/N: Hey there everybody! Sorry for the long wait and whole deletion thing (not my fault!), and sorry for the short chapter. I am under a ton of stress and have zero time to spare on much of anything else. I mean, my TV just broke, I was in a car accident today, I'm doing volunteer work AND a babysitting job, I'm trying to write and post like 4 stories at the same time, I just got back from a weeklong trip to Disney World at like midnight last night so I am running on WAAAAAAAAAAAY to much caffeine, I had to go to the orthodontist to get my stupid wire on my braces changed, and...Well I guess you get the picture by now, huh? (You probably had the picture a while ago...heh heh...) Oh, and don't forget Jennie will kill me if I don't get this story up fast enough! Sigh. Please, spare the anger and criticisms for now. I am really about to just die tonight I'm so tired and blah. Send me a nice review and cheer me up, okay? I don't update until I get at least 5-10. Mahalo. (Means Thank You in Hawaiian.) And have a nice day.
Shannon