Chapter 2, Hospital Wing

The next morning Lily woke up to find that she was in a white room, with white sheets, and white walls, and white… everything.

"Ah your awake now, how're you feeling?" asked the school nurse Madam Pomfrey.

"Wha' happened? Why am I here?" Lily replied, and then realizing what she was doing in the infirmary she muttered very grimly, "Oh, Potter…."

"Someone say my name?" replied the voice of James Potter, while ruffling his hair, and carrying a bouquet of lily flowers. "Here eat this," instructed Madam Pomfrey giving her three huge slices of chocolate.

"Potter, as soon as I get out of this bed I'm going to kill you with my bare hands!"

"Now, now, Lily is that the way you talk to the person who saved you from nearly drowning."

"Yes," said Lily huffily stuffing a piece of chocolate into her mouth.

"Oh James, what brings you here?" Madam Pomfrey asked curiously, for once he wasn't hurt, and she was very surprised.

"Just here to see Lily." He replied placing down the flowers on the bedside table.

"And now he's just leaving," she added, trying to get rid of him.

"Oh Lily you should have seen him, he swooped down and brought you out of the water lips blue, and shivering like crazy… nearly unconscious. Of course he had to perform mouth to mouth just to get you to breathe again-"

"HE WHAT?" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "YOU WHAT?"

"Gave you mouth to mouth of course, you weren't breathing at all, what else could I do. Its not like I enjoyed it," James lied.

At this Lily through off the covers and lunged at James trying to strangle him.

"Miss. Evans get back into bed this instant! James I'm going to have to ask you to leave, we don't want Miss. Evans to strangle you, now do we." She said while trying to pull Lily off of James.

She reluctantly got into bed and ate the last two pieces of chocolate, as she watched James leave, glaring at him the entire time.

Around 7 o'clock Lily's friend, Catherine Sugarsweets, with her long wavy auburn hair and dark brown eyes, came to save her from the horrid hospital food. "Hey Lils, feelin' better?" she said in a cheery tone, "I brought you some toast from the Great Hall, I heard the food here tastes like chalk," she said handing her a stack of toast.

"Oh… who brought the lilies, Lily?"

"Potter," she spat his name like he was something really awful she just tasted.

"Lily I don't get why you hate him so much, I mean he did save your life. Why not just be friends now anyway, it is our last year here."

"The day—" but Lily couldn't finish because Catherine cut her off.

"There's more than a half-a-year left, and your got head boy and girl duties together anyway," she pointed out.

"No way, never, nuh- uh, notta chance in heaven or damnation," she said in the most stubborn tone anyone had ever heard. Lily had to be the most stubborn person at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"Fine Lil, but you should have seen him save you, it was as if he lost someone he loved for ages. He was so scared he lost you, and when you couldn't walk to the infirmary he carried you all the way," she said in awe, "and it was the bravest thing I've ever seen in my life." She knew to avoid the asking of why she called out James's name because she already knew the answer.

At this Lily practically gagged (she did the convulsion that you see people always do when they're about to gag,) but luckily she held it down. "Well fine, you don't have to become friends with him, but if I were you I'd at least thank him, I mean he didsave your life," she stressed the last word with great emphasis.

"Fine, I will, but I'm not going to become friends with him," agreed Lily, "that's the absolute last thing on my list, next to going out with Snape of course," she added seeing her friends expression.

"You know Lily, he's not that bad, you'd like him a lot if you didn't hate him so much," she said to Lily who had an unconvinced expression on her face, "Anyway, I gotta run, class starts in fifteen minutes. I'll tell James to come by cause you want to tell him something, and I'll bring your homework for you!" she shouted as she ran out the door, to her first class History of Magic, with Professor Binns, their ghost teacher. Lily couldn't argue with her because she was long gone out the door already.