Woes of the Moon:
You obviously didn't see the "Or at least they would be until tomorrow" part of the last chapter... You all seem to think that the friends matter is resolved... Did you really think I'd give up such a good opportunity to mess around with your minds? (laughs evilly)
Disclaimer: JKR owns Harry Potter.
Or not:
Lily walked up to the North Tower alone and climbed up the ladder to divination.
She took a seat at her favorite table in the middle of the classroom, between Kate and Jane; Beth was at another table with Sirius. Lily and Beth's eyes met for a second, Lily smiled and looked away.
"Beth and Sirius sure have been spending a lot of quality time together," whispered Jane to Lily seeing where she had been looking, "if you catch my drift..."
"Yeah...." answered Lily in a low voice, she had barely heard what Jane had said; she was too happy thinking about the previous night; her friends had accepted her.
A shove in the ribs from Kate brought Lily back to the real world.
" ... and take turns looking into the crystal ball and analyze what you see. You may begin," came the voice of Professor Hawk
"You go first, Jane," Kate told Jane, "I want to talk to Lily about...what we discussed earlier?"
"Oh, that," said Jane un-enthusiastically, shooting an icy glance at her before pulling the ball towards her.
"What is it?" asked Lily in a whisper
"Well – I don't know how to put this Lil, but I don't think I don't think I can be you're friend anymore..."answered Kate in the same low voice as Lily
"What?" exclaimed Lily, forgetting to whisper. Everyone in the class looked up from what they were doing to look at Lily. She blushed and looked down. "Sorry..."
"Are you serious?" she hissed at her, once everyone had returned to what they had been doing "What about last night? Why did you even bother saying that all this was alright with you?"
"It's not like I don't have a reason for not wanting to be with you! I thought long about this and I think it'd be safer for me to stop seeing you. I come from a pureblood family, Lil. My grandfather would always tell me about how vampires and werewolves were bloodthirsty creatures who could not be trusted... I don't know if that's true or not but I definitely know that I can't keep being your friend like before; like nothing happened. So goodbye, Lily"
She stood up from the table and went over to sit with Nicholas, a boy from Slytherin who was on the other side of the room. Lily sat and watched her leave, shocked.
"Bitch," Jane hissed after her.
Jane moved over to the seat Kate had been in and consolingly put her arm around Lily's shoulder.
"Lily," she said, "I just want you to know that the opinions of others do not necessarily apply to everyone."
"Fine, alright. Whatever."
Lily pulled the ball towards her and stared aimlessly into it, knowing she wouldn't see anything. Jane was saying something about Kate, but Lily wasn't paying attention.
'This is so stupid... I can't believe what a bitch Kate was just now... As if I don't have enough of my plate as it is'
Just as she was about to give up and hand the ball over to Jane, she saw something. It looked like a wolf?
"What...?"
"I said: Kate is a double-crossing little bitch who'll never amount to anything," repeated Jane, playing with her ink bottle, "Look she's already all over that Nicholas boy," she added, watching as Kate played with his hair.
"No, I wasn't talking to you...I just saw something in the ball..." whispered Lily.
'I guess it must have something to so with my being a were-'
CRASH!
Jane had dropped her ink bottle, it shattered loudly on the floor, some of its ink contents getting on her and Lily ("Holy shit!" said Sirius, startled, jumping up).
"What is it now, girls?" asked Professor Hawk, annoyed.
"Nothing, sir" Jane said, "I just dropped my ink bottle, sorry."
The bell rung, just as Professor Hawk was opening his mouth to give some kind of reply.
"I...Arg.... Class dismissed!"
Lily, Remus, Beth, Jane and Sirius entered the Great Hall for dinner and made their way to where Peter and James were already sitting; they had left the class before the others. The eight... seven...of them had been spending a lot of time together since they had all found out about Beth and Sirius.
" -you should take this more seriously. My grandfather saw the Grim on his way to work one morning and he almost died at the same time the next day!" said Peter.
" But did he actually die?" argued James.
" Well, no... He's in some retirement home in Florida right now, but he did almost die!" replied Peter.
Sirius, Beth, Remus, Jane and Lily joined the boys at the table.
" Oh common guys!" cut in Sirius, before Peter could answer, "Stop arguing! Honestly people say that black cats and thestrals are unlucky, but you know what? Remus's great-great- grandmother owned a black cat, and she won half a million dollars in the muggle lottery, for Pete sakes!"
"How do you know what we were talking about?" answered Peter coldly.
"No shit! You guys were shouting so loud that people in France could know what you were talking about," Beth answered for Sirius.
Sure enough, Lily noticed, half people in the Great Hall were looking over at the Gryffindor table to see what the cause of the ruckus was.
"Where's Kate?" asked Beth.
"Kate's a bitch and for some reason has decided that we're not good enough for her anymore. As you can see, she's with Nicholas Soulordre from Slytherin now," Jane answered, pointing at the pair of them as everyone else started eating.
"Is it something to do with...Lily's condition?" whispered Beth to the two girls when the boys had all begun their own conversations.
Lily nodded.
"We'll tell you later," Jane told her.
Jane and Beth then started on a conversation about some new band that had played on the WWN the previous night while they all ate.
"Oh, Lil, we should go change; we both have ink all over ourselves, remember?" Jane reminded her, when she finished eating.
"Right. Then we can start on our History assignment."
"I'll come too," said Beth.
The girls got up from the table and started heading out of the Hall.
"Oh wait, Lily!" Remus called after her, getting up from the table.
He reached the girls as they stood in the doorway of the Hall.
"Could I have a word?
"Alright..."
He pulled her aside.
"The first night of the full moon is tomorrow night; meet me near the Whomping Willow. Madam Pomfrey will be there too."
"Near the Whomping Willow?" she asked, thinking maybe she had misheard him.
"Yeah, don't ask... You'll see tomorrow" he smiled at her and returned to his place at the Gryffindor table.
There's the chap!! Sorry it took so long, you have no idea how many tests Mrs. Snape has been giving us lately! God, if I have to wake up at 6am one more time to study for a test.... Damnit, I've got an engish test tomorrow!! Next chapter soon, much love to all my reviewers!!
Omigod, I just realized!! I'M ACTUALLY AT 30 REVIEWS!!
For the eyes of Nicholas only:
Ha! I got you back, so there. Damn Slytherin!!