A/N: Hello again! Wow… I normally never update stories this fast… it's actually quite shocking… Anyway thanks to those who reviewed the last chapter… much appreciated…
The next couple of months seemed to flow by for Harry filled with Lily, work, motorbikes and the fact that he was moving out in just under two weeks.
Their class projects had all been finished after increasing amounts of stress, hard work and arguments, Harry having done motorbikes as his topic (which drew Lily to roll her eyes yet again) and Lily having done the different effects of sun on tropical and everyday flowers which earned her the prize at the end of year prize giving.
Which brings us to the current time; the prize giving ceremony.
All the classes had filed into the school hall and were awaiting the awards to begin.
Unbeknownst to Harry, it had been Vernon who had been chosen to deliver the awards; he was so shocked to see him walk onto the stage that he almost fell off his seat.
The normal prizes came and went and finally it came to the time of their class prizes.
As Lily was called up to receive her project prize, Harry could hear the deafening applause of their fellow classmates but settled with clapping normally instead. As Lily was walking off the stage however, whilst turning to grin cheerfully at her class, she tripped and with her, brought down Vernon.
Vernon, having never been a man with much patience at all, started yelling at her for her clumsiness, obviously forgetting the presence of the rest of the school, before he slapped her hard, the crack resounding through the hall.
There was an immediate scraping of chairs as many of Lily's other classmates decided to show Vernon a piece of their minds but none of them were quicker than Harry for he was already up on the stage.
Even Vernon seemed to realise that something was wrong as Harry walked purposefully towards him. As soon as he turned around, he was delivered a sound punch in the face, his nose instantly breaking. But Harry wasn't done there; he didn't stop punching and kicking Vernon amidst all his yelling at him.
"Harry!" yelled Lily though there were tears in her eyes from her pain, "Don't do it Harry! He's not worth it! Harry!"
Through his absolute rage at Vernon, Harry only barely heard Lily and stopped punching Vernon, though not before delivering a kick where it would really hurt.
Walking over to Lily, Harry didn't even notice the eyes of the rest of the school on both of them or register the look of absolute shock and bewilderment on the faces of his frozen classmates.
"Lils," he whispered gently, "You Ok?"
But Lily's only response was to hug Harry before crying on his shoulder. Suddenly remembering the presence of the rest of the school, Harry decided to save her the embarrassment she would surely feel later.
"Hey Lils, want to go grab a hot chocolate?" asked Harry with a smile knowing Lily could never refuse one of those.
Sure enough, Lily's head emerged from within his shoulder with a smile.
"Sure." She whispered back.
Sweeping into her arms bride style, Harry pointedly ignored the rest of the school and walked straight down the side aisle and out of the door.
As Lily and Harry had decided on a spur of the moment to see a movie that night, Harry had camped out on the couch at her house as it was far too late to show up at Vernon's especially when he was already surely angry at Harry for breaking his nose and possibly a couple of ribs.
The next day dawned bright and sunny though not at all reflecting Harry's mood; he was now slightly nervous about facing the rest of his classmates.
Lily seemed to notice this as they were walking to school; Harry had left the motorbike at school the day before when they had walked to the café.
"Harry, I'm sure it'll be fine. Stop worrying…" said Lily gently though the effect was anything but soothing on Harry; he knew how protective of Lily the other boys in her class were and the fact that nobody in his class even knew his name leave alone the fact that he had been Lily's best friends for a couple of years now seemed to make him only slightly nervous.
Lily seemed to realise that Harry wouldn't change his mind no matter what she said so she switched the conversation to discussing the movie they had seen the night before. Before either of them knew it, they had arrived at the school grounds.
According to their plan, Lily was to go into the classroom first, just in case, and Harry would take longer to unpack his bag before coming into the classroom.
Taking a deep breath, Harry slowly pushed open the door and came face to face with a whole lot of his classmates staring at him as though only seeing him for the first time.
"Guys," said Lily quietly though addressing the rest of the class, "This is Harry, my best friend."
A/N: Hello… Sorry to leave it at such a cliff-hanger… couldn't resist…
Anyway, hope that chapter wasn't too weird…
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