The warmth of the sun beat down upon her as she sat with James and
Kaitlin. The refreshing sounds of the waterfall beside them comforted them,
and Lily found that she was quite happy. She had to find her other friends
before class started and so she left Kaitlin and James and headed for the
library. She found her friends and sat with them. They were laughing. Then
Kaitlin walked in. Lily could see she was angry. She said, "Why don't you
guys ever stand up for me?"
"What are you talking about?" they asked.
"I was expelled!" Kaitlin marched off.
They looked at each other in shock and then they realized it was time for class. The sun had gone away, it was raining rather hard creating a large puddle blocking their path. Over top of the puddle was a bridge. It only had railing on one side. She let her friends go first. When it came her turn she held on tightly to the only railing. The bridge flipped over, there was Lily hanging from the railing over the puddle. She felt her shoe slide off and then heard it splash into the puddle. She held on tighter.
She sat up. It was the weirdest dream she had ever had. She knew this but it had also been one of her happier dreams. She smiled and the sight of her and James sitting beside a waterfall. How can I call it happy when Kaitlin was expelled? She got out of bed, stretched and got dressed. She reached for her shoes. Why did my shoes fall off? That's kind of odd, isn't it? She tied them and left her friends who were still asleep. She walked down the steps to the common room.
She sat on the hearth of the fireplace. It wasn't abnormal for her to wake up before her friends. She enjoyed the mornings and the warmth of the fire on her back. She heard someone coming down the stairs. Cody and Simon, also fifth years, stumbled down the stairs in their PJ's still. They weren't close friends with the Marauders but they were friends. Simon was very small; he was shorter than Lily. His brown hair sat flatly atop his head. Cody was in Lily's opinion very tall. He and Simon sat down across from Lily on the couch.
They said good morning and then the common room was as quite as it had been when everyone was asleep. They all looked at each other in the silence. Until finally someone spoke. "Did you know that your right upper lip is higher than your left upper lip?" Simon asked curiously.
She hid her confusion with a laugh. Why was he looking at my lip? "Is that a fact that goes for all people or just me?" She knew that with Simon you just couldn't be sure.
"Just you," he said.
Lily covered her mouth and then Cody said, "Why were you looking?"
"But it's true," he said.
"Well, I'm going to get some breakfast," She said her hand still over her lip, "See you guys later."
"Bye," they responded.
She climbed through the portrait hole and walked to the great hall. The room was empty for the most part but there she saw Paige and Madison. As she walked toward them she could see that a third was hidden among them, Amanda.
Lily walked over. "What's new you guys?"
"Did you see the bulletin, by the door?" Paige asked.
"No, what did it say?" Lily questioned.
"There's prefect meeting after class is over." She responded.
Just then a large group of Gryfindors entered the room. Brooke, Kaitlin and Lizbeth walked toward them with the 5th year boys of Gryfindor. Lily smiled at them as if to say "Good morning". Lily knew Kaitlin was in a good mood before she pulled her away to do the chicken dance. The two of them sang as they did the hand motions. Lily laughed when Sirius joined them. They almost always did some dance. Lily enjoyed the Hokey Pokey but they always seemed to do the wrong movements (putting their right hand in when it was suppose to be the left foot). Their dance ended with the girls curtsying to Sirius who bowed. The three of them walked to their other friends, whom were so used to there dancing customs they hadn't said anything.
The tight circle left Lily standing on her tiptoes to see her friends faces. She squeezed in enough to bump Paige and Brooke with her hip. She smiled when the lost their balance. "What are our classes?" asked Lizbeth.
They all shook their heads they didn't know. "Well, after breakfast we should find out," Lily suggested.
She walked to the Gryfindor table and sat down. She grabbed a piece of toast and ate it before piling her plate with fruit salad. She didn't enjoy eggs all that much but took some anyway. The rest of the Gryfindors sat down with her. They soon found out that their first classes were Charms and Transfiguration. After that Lily had Divination. Lily happily remembered that James was in most of her classes. He took Divination too but unfortunately for Lily he didn't take Muggle Studies. Kaitlin on the other hand had taken Muggle Studies but only because she thought it would an easy class due to the fact that a lot of her family were muggles. Lily hadn't exactly thought of it that way, she thought it would be good to learn about the muggle culture from the point of view of wizards, not that it wasn't a plus that it would be easy. Soon the Great Hall was filled with the chatter of the new, excited first years and the somewhat less excited older students sharing their summer experiences.
Lily soon found herself in Charms, sitting beside Brooke. Kaitlin and Lizbeth were beside Brooke. Lily heard James and Sirius talking behind her she smiled. On the other side of her was Morgan. The Hufflepuffs and Gryfindors quieted down when Professor Flitwick entered the room. The very small wizard had always entertained Lily in the way he spoke. They didn't learn anything new but instead reviewed what they had been taught the year before. Lily was very happy when class ended with out homework because she knew Professor McGonagall would have plenty of homework to give them.
Transfiguration was a difficult class but it was one of Lily's favorites only because she liked the challenge. They had Transfiguration with the Ravenclaws. Lily wished they could have more time to talk in that class because of her friends.
Lunchtime came around a lot slower than Lily would have liked but it came. She grabbed a sandwich and found Remus, Paige and Carter to go to the Prefect meeting. They had to climb a few flights of stairs before they came to the Prefect meeting room, which none of them had known of until that year. They found the door but they couldn't remember the password. They sat against the wall to wait for some that would remember.
"So what do you think about that transfiguration homework for the first night?" Lily asked, knowing they had transfiguration with her.
"I should have known there'd be that much!" Paige pretended to sob into her arms.
"At least we don't have homework for Herbology," Carter said.
"Yeah but I'm going to have to make up my future for the next month in Divination," she said.
"Nah," Lily responded, "We won't have homework yet or at least not a lot."
"What are your guys extra classes?" Paige looked up to Carter and Remus.
"I'm taking Care of Magical Creatures and Study of Ancient Runes." Remus said.
"Same," Carter answered as Paige turned from Remus to him.
"That's cool," Lily said, "So I wonder what the password is."
She looked around the cold stone walls of the hallway. She excepted the silence as a chance to just relax, to look around and wonder and dream. She saw a shadow moving along the wall. It was the silhouette of Seth. "Hello all," he said as he took the last step off the stairs, "Why do you sit here?"
The four of them just looked up at him in silences. He seemed to get the message. He laughed, "Forgot the password already? I should have known."
They shook their heads, and they slowly began to pull themselves away from the ground. Lily and Paige turned, faced each other and pulled each other up slowly at the same time. They moved away from the door and allowed Seth to step forward with the password. "Che sara, sara."
The door opened and as they walked in he added, "It's Italian for what will be, will be."
They didn't bother asking how he knew this but it was interesting all the same. They entered the room; it was odd but cozy. The wallpaper was not the color of the four houses but instead a soft orange color, Lily liked it very much. There was one couch, two love seats and three large chairs arranged in a semi circle around the small fire that glowed in the fireplace.
Along the back wall sat a small worktable where sat two, the Head boy and Girl who work quietly, unnoticed by the prefects who had entered the room. They all went to sit in the couch and they were almost swallowed by it. Slowly more people entered, and soon there were people resorting to sitting on the floor. As the room filled with people, Lily's ears filled with their laughter and gossip. Finally the Head Boy and Head Girl joined the group gathered by the fire.
"OK and so our first really meeting is in session," when he finished he looked to the Head Girl to go on with the meeting.
"Yes it has. All we really need is for you guys to sign up to do your rounds. We'll pass around this paper. If you can't do it on a certain night and that's all that's left, let me or Bruce know," She nodded toward the head boy, "And perhaps we will rearrange it to fit everyone's needs."
She handed the paper to a boy who's black hair, so greasy, stuck to his head. And then she went on, "Any questions?" she looked around the room.
A hand went up, "Why is the wall paper orange?"
"Fifth years," the head boy shook his head and rolled his eyes, "Every year some fifth year asks that question. It's a neutral color so that none of the houses are favored."
The paper came to Lily; she moved her long red hair out of her face. She closed her eyes, pointed down at the calendar, spun her finger in the air and let it drop to the paper to see the date of Saturday, September 7 under it. She wrote her name beside this date under the time of 8pm-9pm. She handed it to Paige. Paige looked at it carefully and wrote her name down and handed the paper on.
"Any other questions?" Bruce looked around the room, "Well, I think that's everything, Leah."
"Except prefect bathroom passwords, girls see me before you go, guys ask Bruce," She said and then added, "And no you can't have the password to the girls bathroom."
"Darn!" Seth voice dripped with sarcasm, as if he was just about to ask that question.
Leah shook her head with amusement, "That's it for today. Next meeting is same time in a month, unless you're told otherwise."
At that the prefects rose from their seats and left the warmth of the orange room. "So what are your plans for this evening?" Paige asked Lily as the headed toward their common rooms.
"I was thinking I'd hang out with Diana and Melinda," She continued when she saw Paige's face confused, "Diana and Melinda Dea, their Gryfindors. Diana is a 7th year and Melinda is in 6th."
She nodded in understanding. They had come to their separate paths where the staircase spilt. "Well, I have to go this way, I'll see you at dinner," Paige said pointing at the staircase. Lily waved and began her climb up the steps and suddenly they shook, she grabbed hold of the railing just in time to save herself from falling flat on her face. It came to a stop and she scurried off to find another way back to the Gryfindor Tower.
Lily noticed that someone was shouting. She decided to investigate. The shouts became closer, louder and clearer until she realized that they belonged to Kaitlin. "You know I didn't! I'm sorry if that's what you think!"
"You were so flirting with him! And you knew I liked him!"
The second voice Lily recognized as Alexie.
"So I can't talk to the guys you like?" she was disgusted, "What about Jeremy? I can talk to him?"
"No," Alexie said simply.
Lily turned the corner and saw them she put on a confused look, for she certainly was confused and said hello with a hint of curiosity in her voice.
"Hi," their voices suddenly turned sweet and friendly.
"OK, is it flirting to talk to a guy?" Kaitlin was asking Lily for support.
"Well, if you're all giggly and stuff," Alexia interrupted, "Then yeah."
"Well, I personally think that all girls flirt in their own way, and I never have seen Kaitlin 'giggly' around any guys." She said, then realizing her mistake added, "Just leave me out, I have no opinion."
"Whatever," Alexie said tired of the subject, "I have to go."
When she was clearly out of sight Lily and Kaitlin began to walk once more to the tower. "What was that all about?" Lily knew the main gist but she wanted some detail, mostly just who the poor guy was.
"Alexie's mad at me because I talked to Ben, she thinks I was flirting," she explained.
"Hmm," Lily responded, "Very interesting."
"Yeah and she doesn't wanted me to talk to Jeremy either even though she doesn't like him any more, or so she said she didn't."
Lily let herself laugh. "Ok, so you can't talk to Jeremy, or Ben. And then when she doesn't like Ben any more you won't be able to talk to the new guy or him or Jeremy and so eventually you won't be able to talk to any guys." "Lily logic," Kaitlin shook her head and laughed, "Yep, that sounds about right."
"Well that's crazy."
"You won't ever get mad at me for talking to the guy you like," she asked.
"NO!" Lily laughed at the thought, "Of course not, besides you do anyway, I don't care who you talk to."
"Well, at least I know you'll never hate."
"Never."
They reached the portrait of the fat lady, in her pink silk dress. They presented the password and crawled through the hole into the Gryfindor Common room.
"What are you talking about?" they asked.
"I was expelled!" Kaitlin marched off.
They looked at each other in shock and then they realized it was time for class. The sun had gone away, it was raining rather hard creating a large puddle blocking their path. Over top of the puddle was a bridge. It only had railing on one side. She let her friends go first. When it came her turn she held on tightly to the only railing. The bridge flipped over, there was Lily hanging from the railing over the puddle. She felt her shoe slide off and then heard it splash into the puddle. She held on tighter.
She sat up. It was the weirdest dream she had ever had. She knew this but it had also been one of her happier dreams. She smiled and the sight of her and James sitting beside a waterfall. How can I call it happy when Kaitlin was expelled? She got out of bed, stretched and got dressed. She reached for her shoes. Why did my shoes fall off? That's kind of odd, isn't it? She tied them and left her friends who were still asleep. She walked down the steps to the common room.
She sat on the hearth of the fireplace. It wasn't abnormal for her to wake up before her friends. She enjoyed the mornings and the warmth of the fire on her back. She heard someone coming down the stairs. Cody and Simon, also fifth years, stumbled down the stairs in their PJ's still. They weren't close friends with the Marauders but they were friends. Simon was very small; he was shorter than Lily. His brown hair sat flatly atop his head. Cody was in Lily's opinion very tall. He and Simon sat down across from Lily on the couch.
They said good morning and then the common room was as quite as it had been when everyone was asleep. They all looked at each other in the silence. Until finally someone spoke. "Did you know that your right upper lip is higher than your left upper lip?" Simon asked curiously.
She hid her confusion with a laugh. Why was he looking at my lip? "Is that a fact that goes for all people or just me?" She knew that with Simon you just couldn't be sure.
"Just you," he said.
Lily covered her mouth and then Cody said, "Why were you looking?"
"But it's true," he said.
"Well, I'm going to get some breakfast," She said her hand still over her lip, "See you guys later."
"Bye," they responded.
She climbed through the portrait hole and walked to the great hall. The room was empty for the most part but there she saw Paige and Madison. As she walked toward them she could see that a third was hidden among them, Amanda.
Lily walked over. "What's new you guys?"
"Did you see the bulletin, by the door?" Paige asked.
"No, what did it say?" Lily questioned.
"There's prefect meeting after class is over." She responded.
Just then a large group of Gryfindors entered the room. Brooke, Kaitlin and Lizbeth walked toward them with the 5th year boys of Gryfindor. Lily smiled at them as if to say "Good morning". Lily knew Kaitlin was in a good mood before she pulled her away to do the chicken dance. The two of them sang as they did the hand motions. Lily laughed when Sirius joined them. They almost always did some dance. Lily enjoyed the Hokey Pokey but they always seemed to do the wrong movements (putting their right hand in when it was suppose to be the left foot). Their dance ended with the girls curtsying to Sirius who bowed. The three of them walked to their other friends, whom were so used to there dancing customs they hadn't said anything.
The tight circle left Lily standing on her tiptoes to see her friends faces. She squeezed in enough to bump Paige and Brooke with her hip. She smiled when the lost their balance. "What are our classes?" asked Lizbeth.
They all shook their heads they didn't know. "Well, after breakfast we should find out," Lily suggested.
She walked to the Gryfindor table and sat down. She grabbed a piece of toast and ate it before piling her plate with fruit salad. She didn't enjoy eggs all that much but took some anyway. The rest of the Gryfindors sat down with her. They soon found out that their first classes were Charms and Transfiguration. After that Lily had Divination. Lily happily remembered that James was in most of her classes. He took Divination too but unfortunately for Lily he didn't take Muggle Studies. Kaitlin on the other hand had taken Muggle Studies but only because she thought it would an easy class due to the fact that a lot of her family were muggles. Lily hadn't exactly thought of it that way, she thought it would be good to learn about the muggle culture from the point of view of wizards, not that it wasn't a plus that it would be easy. Soon the Great Hall was filled with the chatter of the new, excited first years and the somewhat less excited older students sharing their summer experiences.
Lily soon found herself in Charms, sitting beside Brooke. Kaitlin and Lizbeth were beside Brooke. Lily heard James and Sirius talking behind her she smiled. On the other side of her was Morgan. The Hufflepuffs and Gryfindors quieted down when Professor Flitwick entered the room. The very small wizard had always entertained Lily in the way he spoke. They didn't learn anything new but instead reviewed what they had been taught the year before. Lily was very happy when class ended with out homework because she knew Professor McGonagall would have plenty of homework to give them.
Transfiguration was a difficult class but it was one of Lily's favorites only because she liked the challenge. They had Transfiguration with the Ravenclaws. Lily wished they could have more time to talk in that class because of her friends.
Lunchtime came around a lot slower than Lily would have liked but it came. She grabbed a sandwich and found Remus, Paige and Carter to go to the Prefect meeting. They had to climb a few flights of stairs before they came to the Prefect meeting room, which none of them had known of until that year. They found the door but they couldn't remember the password. They sat against the wall to wait for some that would remember.
"So what do you think about that transfiguration homework for the first night?" Lily asked, knowing they had transfiguration with her.
"I should have known there'd be that much!" Paige pretended to sob into her arms.
"At least we don't have homework for Herbology," Carter said.
"Yeah but I'm going to have to make up my future for the next month in Divination," she said.
"Nah," Lily responded, "We won't have homework yet or at least not a lot."
"What are your guys extra classes?" Paige looked up to Carter and Remus.
"I'm taking Care of Magical Creatures and Study of Ancient Runes." Remus said.
"Same," Carter answered as Paige turned from Remus to him.
"That's cool," Lily said, "So I wonder what the password is."
She looked around the cold stone walls of the hallway. She excepted the silence as a chance to just relax, to look around and wonder and dream. She saw a shadow moving along the wall. It was the silhouette of Seth. "Hello all," he said as he took the last step off the stairs, "Why do you sit here?"
The four of them just looked up at him in silences. He seemed to get the message. He laughed, "Forgot the password already? I should have known."
They shook their heads, and they slowly began to pull themselves away from the ground. Lily and Paige turned, faced each other and pulled each other up slowly at the same time. They moved away from the door and allowed Seth to step forward with the password. "Che sara, sara."
The door opened and as they walked in he added, "It's Italian for what will be, will be."
They didn't bother asking how he knew this but it was interesting all the same. They entered the room; it was odd but cozy. The wallpaper was not the color of the four houses but instead a soft orange color, Lily liked it very much. There was one couch, two love seats and three large chairs arranged in a semi circle around the small fire that glowed in the fireplace.
Along the back wall sat a small worktable where sat two, the Head boy and Girl who work quietly, unnoticed by the prefects who had entered the room. They all went to sit in the couch and they were almost swallowed by it. Slowly more people entered, and soon there were people resorting to sitting on the floor. As the room filled with people, Lily's ears filled with their laughter and gossip. Finally the Head Boy and Head Girl joined the group gathered by the fire.
"OK and so our first really meeting is in session," when he finished he looked to the Head Girl to go on with the meeting.
"Yes it has. All we really need is for you guys to sign up to do your rounds. We'll pass around this paper. If you can't do it on a certain night and that's all that's left, let me or Bruce know," She nodded toward the head boy, "And perhaps we will rearrange it to fit everyone's needs."
She handed the paper to a boy who's black hair, so greasy, stuck to his head. And then she went on, "Any questions?" she looked around the room.
A hand went up, "Why is the wall paper orange?"
"Fifth years," the head boy shook his head and rolled his eyes, "Every year some fifth year asks that question. It's a neutral color so that none of the houses are favored."
The paper came to Lily; she moved her long red hair out of her face. She closed her eyes, pointed down at the calendar, spun her finger in the air and let it drop to the paper to see the date of Saturday, September 7 under it. She wrote her name beside this date under the time of 8pm-9pm. She handed it to Paige. Paige looked at it carefully and wrote her name down and handed the paper on.
"Any other questions?" Bruce looked around the room, "Well, I think that's everything, Leah."
"Except prefect bathroom passwords, girls see me before you go, guys ask Bruce," She said and then added, "And no you can't have the password to the girls bathroom."
"Darn!" Seth voice dripped with sarcasm, as if he was just about to ask that question.
Leah shook her head with amusement, "That's it for today. Next meeting is same time in a month, unless you're told otherwise."
At that the prefects rose from their seats and left the warmth of the orange room. "So what are your plans for this evening?" Paige asked Lily as the headed toward their common rooms.
"I was thinking I'd hang out with Diana and Melinda," She continued when she saw Paige's face confused, "Diana and Melinda Dea, their Gryfindors. Diana is a 7th year and Melinda is in 6th."
She nodded in understanding. They had come to their separate paths where the staircase spilt. "Well, I have to go this way, I'll see you at dinner," Paige said pointing at the staircase. Lily waved and began her climb up the steps and suddenly they shook, she grabbed hold of the railing just in time to save herself from falling flat on her face. It came to a stop and she scurried off to find another way back to the Gryfindor Tower.
Lily noticed that someone was shouting. She decided to investigate. The shouts became closer, louder and clearer until she realized that they belonged to Kaitlin. "You know I didn't! I'm sorry if that's what you think!"
"You were so flirting with him! And you knew I liked him!"
The second voice Lily recognized as Alexie.
"So I can't talk to the guys you like?" she was disgusted, "What about Jeremy? I can talk to him?"
"No," Alexie said simply.
Lily turned the corner and saw them she put on a confused look, for she certainly was confused and said hello with a hint of curiosity in her voice.
"Hi," their voices suddenly turned sweet and friendly.
"OK, is it flirting to talk to a guy?" Kaitlin was asking Lily for support.
"Well, if you're all giggly and stuff," Alexia interrupted, "Then yeah."
"Well, I personally think that all girls flirt in their own way, and I never have seen Kaitlin 'giggly' around any guys." She said, then realizing her mistake added, "Just leave me out, I have no opinion."
"Whatever," Alexie said tired of the subject, "I have to go."
When she was clearly out of sight Lily and Kaitlin began to walk once more to the tower. "What was that all about?" Lily knew the main gist but she wanted some detail, mostly just who the poor guy was.
"Alexie's mad at me because I talked to Ben, she thinks I was flirting," she explained.
"Hmm," Lily responded, "Very interesting."
"Yeah and she doesn't wanted me to talk to Jeremy either even though she doesn't like him any more, or so she said she didn't."
Lily let herself laugh. "Ok, so you can't talk to Jeremy, or Ben. And then when she doesn't like Ben any more you won't be able to talk to the new guy or him or Jeremy and so eventually you won't be able to talk to any guys." "Lily logic," Kaitlin shook her head and laughed, "Yep, that sounds about right."
"Well that's crazy."
"You won't ever get mad at me for talking to the guy you like," she asked.
"NO!" Lily laughed at the thought, "Of course not, besides you do anyway, I don't care who you talk to."
"Well, at least I know you'll never hate."
"Never."
They reached the portrait of the fat lady, in her pink silk dress. They presented the password and crawled through the hole into the Gryfindor Common room.