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Lily found herself snubbed at the Gryffindor table during dinner. Everyone except for James, Alice, and Remus were ignoring her. James wouldn't talk to her, but kept on throwing her sorrowful glances as if she had betrayed him to his enemy.

Remus and Alice were carrying on completely normal conversations with her, which she deeply appreciated. Lily caught Severus's eye a couple of times from across the room, but he never did more then smile slightly and look away.

"What do you have next, Lily?" Remus's voice broke into her thoughts.

She dived under the table for her schedule, "Um... nothing! I have it off! What about you?"

"Off! What about you, Alice?"

She shook her head regretfully, "I have Muggle Studies."

"Ah well. Maybe there are some other people," Remus sighed.

"People that feel like hanging out with me?" Lily asked.

Alice laughed, "Lily, just throw something at their heads so they can attack you and then it'll be over it in five minutes."

"I have a funny feeling Molly wouldn't go for that."

"No, you're right. I was thinking more of James and Sirius. Once you're all right with them again, you're all right with almost everyone else. Although, not Molly. She can hold a grudge for a long time."

"Arthur might have next off. And he probably won't have a huge problem with you talking to Slytherins. Although, I don't know," Remus was thinking aloud.

"We'll figure it out. Maybe I will just throw a pillow at them. It might make me feel better, " Lily laughed.

After dinner, her and Remus said goodbye to Alice and walked up to the common room. Once inside, Lily collapsed on a couch and groaned.

Remus sat down next to her, "Long day, huh?"

Lily put her hands over her face, "You have no idea! Or maybe you do," she looked at him between her fingers, "Do you feel dead?"

Sirius and James tumbled over each other into the room laughing. They stopped when they saw Lily. Sirius ignored her and James looked at her sadly.

Lily rolled her eyes internally. Ok, time to take Alice's suggestion. James and Sirius were halfway across the room when a pillow hit Sirius in the back of the head, and then another hit James.

"What th-" James turned around and was promptly hit in the face with another pillow.

Lily put her hands on her hips and stuck out her tongue.

James looked as if he couldn't decide whether to laugh or be offended. Sirius, however, had no trouble making up his mind. He launched himself across the room, grabbing a couple of pillows as he went. He ran into Lily, pillows flying in all directions, and knocked her onto the couch.

Remus jumped up, looking scandalized, but pulled Sirius off Lily before he squashed her.

Lily, far from being squashed, was laughing hysterically.

"You should have seen your face!"

James walked over, picked up a pillow calmly and walloped her across the face.

"Hey! What was that for?" Lily shrieked.

He shrugged and sat down. Sirius remained sprawled on the floor where Remus had thrown him. He lifted his head up and frowned at Lily.

"Lily, don't you know that we're mad at you?"

"Yes, and I was getting tired of it. So I threw a pillow at you."

James snorted.

"And you," she said, turning to him, "You keep on giving me these looks, like a sad puppy. I figured you needed to be cheered up."

Sirius laughed, "Ok, point taken. But you did choose to spend two hours with Slytherins."

"Yeah, and I met some cool people. What's your point?"

James blew out his breath between his teeth, "I might have been ok, if not happy with it, if you hadn't been doing it with Snivilly!"

"You mean Severus?"

"Oh no," Sirius said, and began to hack, holding his neck like he was choking. Lily might have been worried if he hadn't then rolled over and pretended to throw up, complete with sound effects.

Remus kicked him lightly in the side, "Oh, get up. You two are ridiculous. She can hang out with whoever she wants to. It's not like she's asking you to do it with her."

Sirius stopped his gagging and considered, "I might chill a little if she never says that again in front of me."

Lily exchanged puzzled looks with Remus. James was fighting off laughter.

"Um, say what?"

"That name!"

"What, Severus?"

Sirius promptly rolled over and began hacking again. James lost it and started howling. Even Remus was laughing.

Lily started throwing pillows at them again, "That does happen to be his name. What do you want me to call him?"

James stopped laughing, "Snivilly?"

Lily mimicked Sirius's noises.

"Guess not. How about Snape?"

Lily considered.

"Only in front of us," Sirius put in, "You can call him whatever you want when we're not around. Like Snookums, or Snapey-poo," he started snorting.

James looked horrified, "Please don't ever call him that or I might actually start throwing up."

"Fine," said Lily, "I'll call him Snape around you two, unless," and here she held up a finger, "I'm talking with him."

Sirius started to protest, but Remus cut him off, "You can't ask for much more then that."

"Ok, fine," Sirius sat up.

Lily began picking up the pillows and putting them back in their rightful spots.

"C'mon you guys. Help me clean up."

"Whatever for?" James protested, "They look nice strewn about."

"Class ends in about five minutes. Other people will be coming in and then we'll have to go to Herbology."

Remus groaned, "I hate this new schedule! We don't get out until 10:30! That's crazy!"

"No one's arguing with you, mate," said Sirius, thumping him sympathetically on the back.

People began to trickle in from their classes. Alice came in pretty quickly and found Lily. She noted that James and Sirius seemed to be on speaking terms with her and smiled.

"Did you try my idea?"

Lily nodded, "It worked."

James looked between them, "What idea?"

"Nothing," Lily smiled serenely.

Alice looked at her watch, "Ok, you guys, we should probably start heading down to the greenhouses."

Everyone but Sirius stood up. He looked up beseechingly at her. She sighed and held out her hand to help him up. He took it and shook vigorously.

"Sirius Black, nice to meet you!" he smiled charmingly, then got up and walked out with James.

Lily shook her head and followed with Alice and Remus.

When Lily collapsed on her bed that night she was exhausted. Molly and Alice hadn't come in yet and were still socializing downstairs. She rolled over and looked at the empty bed, which still showed no sign of habitation.

"I wonder who the other girl is. I don't remember anyone else from Gryffindor in our classes. I'll have to ask Molly and Alice about it."

Then she remembered that Molly wasn't talking to her.

"Well, maybe just Alice then."

She started drifting off sleepily.

"I have to remember to ask Severus about those classes. I wonder what they are?" she thought, as she lost consciousness.

She faintly remembered Molly and Alice coming in a little later and having a whispered argument. She thought about waking herself up enough to ask about that girl, but decided to just wait until morning.

When Lily woke up the next morning, she woke up violently and sat up. She swung her legs over the side of her bed and saw that Molly and Alice were still sleeping. The strange girl was already gone.

Curious, Lily walked over to her bed and looked at it. It appeared unslept in.

"Maybe she already made it."

But something about the way the pillows were deflated, and the way the sheets hung, made her reach down and run a finger across the pillowcase.

When she looked at her fingertip, it was covered in a thick layer of dust.