Chapter Two: The Visitor

"Get up! Mother is waiting for you!" snapped Petunia, looking down at her sister on the bed.

Lily groaned loudly and looked up at her sister. She looked at her alarm clock and saw it was already 8:00 am. Still groaning, she closed her eyes again. Something odd happened though, Lily sprang out of her bed and pulled out her sheets. She noticed bits of snow lying all over her bedspread. The snow was odd, considering it was just the first of September, and usually snow melts up against skin and warmth. She quickly looked at Petunia.

"Did you put snow in my bed!" yelled Lily, looking suspiciously at her sister.

"What snow?" asked Petunia, looking at her sister as if she was crazy.

Lily scowled. "Can't you see it, it's right there!" shouted Lily, pointing to where the snow was, but her mouth gaped opened when she saw that the snow had disappeared.

"Right…" said Petunia, rolling her eyes as she walked out of her sister's room.

Lily sat on her bed, feeling confused about the snow. She swore she had felt and saw snow on her bed. Why did it matter though? What was so harmful about snow anyways? She couldn't of made it up; it felt and looked so real. Lily's mind continued to puzzle her. With her mind still thinking about the snow, she remembered the odd dream she had last night and how that seemed so real too. She remembered walking out in the kitchen, feeling extremely cold. Then, she spotted the outside light flickering on and off, on and off. Curious, she stepped outside and the lights turned off. Lily felt that she wasn't alone. She couldn't remember more of the dream and didn't know what it meant. Sighing, she looked out her bedroom window and saw an eerie figure creeping behind a tree…

An hour earlier

Two teenaged boys, around 17 leaned against a brick wall. Both boys had dark raven hair. The one that was standing on the right pulled out a brush and started to brush his hair as various females giggled and winked past them. The boy on the left and smirked and faced his friend.

"Sirius… you do have a way with the ladies," said the boy on the left, cleaning his glasses.

Sirius smiled brightly and looked at his friend.

"It all comes naturally of course, James!" chirped Sirius. James tried not to laugh, but he managed to anyways.

Sirius patted James on the shoulder.

"Soon you'll know the way!" said Sirius smiling still.

James smirked at him.

"And what way is that?" asked James sheepishly

Sirius smiled dreamily.

'Being in heaven of course!" said Sirius, nudging his buddy.

"I thought you had a girl friend," said James eyeing Sirius.

"We broke up, …" said Sirius, not sounding so cocky.

James frowned. No girl in her mind would break up with him. So what happened? James wondered.

Sirius sighed loudly.

"Miranda dumped me… I don't know why," said Sirius, looking away from his friend.

James frowned. He knew the exact reason why Miranda dumped Sirius. She was very pretty and very popular, but she was very mean-spirited and spoiled. She always got jealous how girls looked at Sirius. Soon enough, she got tired of it and dumped him and started flirting with all of the boys at Hogwarts. James knew Sirius cared deeply for her, and was hurt by her. He tried to hide it, by smiling and waving at other girls, but James knew it was all a cover up, hiding the fact he still loved Miranda.

"Sirius… You have to get over her, dude," said James, frowning at his best friend.

"James… I can't. You don't know how it feels like. You haven't had a girlfriend in forever. So stop…" muttered Sirius scowling.

James took offense to Sirius's words.

"I bet I could get a girlfriend, and if we broke up, I wouldn't be upset and moaning around like an imbecile!" shouted James.

"Oh really then. Fine you get yourself a girl friend, and if she breaks your heart, don't yell at me," mumbled Sirius.

"Fine then. Its settled then," said James walking off.

Lily continued to stare at the figure. It looked dark from the distance. She started to reflect at her dream. She began to remember a bit more than before. She remembered herself feeling that she wasn't alone, that someone was outside with her. Then, a flash of light appeared, and she saw a figure, a figure of a boy, a bit older than her. The last thing she remembered was feeling a cold rush through her body, and Petunia waking her up.

"Mother and father are probably wondering why I'm not down stairs yet," sighed Lily. She continued to stare at the figure, which seemed to be stuck in their lilac bush. Lily laughed, it was a rather funny sight. She couldn't have imagined any fool getting in a situation like that. Lily started to worry about the person in the bush, so she ran down the stairs, out the door, and into the yard. She ran to the lilac bush, and frowned when she saw whom it was.

James smiled and looked up at Lily, whom was holding her hands at her hips

"Fancy in giving me a hand Evans?" said James, smirking.