Petunia walked into her sister's room, cautiously stepping in, as if stepping on the ground might trigger some spell to fire out of her sister's wand and turn Petunia into a mouse. She walked closely to the bed and looked at the scene in front of her. A tangle of fiery red hair was sticking out over the yellow blanket, covering the girl in the bed. The blankets were scrambled and feet were sticking out of the end. Petunia let out a sigh before harshly shaking the girl awake.
Lily Evans opened her eyes, scrambling out of bed.
"Petunia, get out of my room!" She yelled, pointing in the direction of the door, as soon as her eyes got in focus and she was upright on her feet.
"Bloody hell, calm down! Mom told me to come get you, shopping for," she paused before she spat out the next word with great disgust. "School." she finished.
"Oh," Lily's expression softened a little bit. "Well get out anyway."
As soon as Petunia shut the door with a slight click, Lily ran to the bathroom, but not before grabbing clothes from her closet, she pulled out a pair of jeans, a green t-shirt, and a black sweater. Quickening her pace, she made it to the bathroom right before Petunia was about to go inside, she slipped past her and shut the door in her face. A few muffled "LILY! Get out!"'s could be heard coming from the other side. Once safely inside, she took a shower and settled the clothes nicely on herself. Before she ran out to give the bathroom to her little sister, she ran a brush through her ginger red hair. It ran all the way down to her back and the bangs swept nicely over her forehead, covering just a little of her eyes. Lily looked at herself in the mirror.
She never really thought of herself as "gorgeous". The one vivacious thing about her, really, was her eyes. Bright green, like emeralds. She had an average look to her, if you really thought about it, but for some reason, boys keep throwing themselves at her. Lily hated it, especially with that James Potter, always asking her out. The nerve, every time she turns him down and the next day, he just asks her again. She shrugged off the thought as she pushed her bangs back, out of her eyes and tied up her hair in a messy, but still good looking, knot in the back of her head.
Opening the door, she ran out the room at the speed of light. Why was everything done in such a hurry this morning? Petunia gave her an odd sort of look, but shook her head and walked into the bathroom herself. Lily hurried down the steps, and into the kitchen to find her mother making breakfast.
"'Morning, mum." Lily said, announcing her presence.
"Good morning dear. You know, today we have to go and get you're school supplies. So eat quickly so we can get there good and early." Her mother said, not turning around, as she plated eggs, bacon and some toast. She made her way over to the table, where Lily was now sitting, putting down the plate, she smiled at Lily. Lily knew she was a little uncomfortable with going to Diagon Alley, to many of Lily's kind, magical beings. Lily's parents are muggles, non-magical folk, and didn't understand all this magic non-sense Lily was doing when she went away to Hogwarts.
"Petunia, darling!" Her mother called up the stairs, "Come down here please!"
Petunia came bounding down the steps, a brush in hand.
"What'ya want, mum?"
"Now, we have a little problem. You are to young to stay home alone, and I forbid you to do so, but Lily and I have to go down to Diagon Alley for school things, and your father won't be home until nighttime. The only solution is you have to come with us." Lily's mouth dropped. No way was Petunia going to Diagon Alley with them. Petunia started to whine.
"Mummy! I don't want to go! Why? I so too can stay home alone!" She was starting up on her temper tantrums.
"Petunia! Settle down!" Mrs. Evans had to struggle with her to sit down in a chair. "Now, listen here, little missy. You are going with us and you are going to be good about it!" Petunia slowly nodded her head, disappointment growing with every nod. Lily's mouth was still wide open, the fork of eggs and bacon she had just picked up to her mouth, slid down from her fork and onto her lap.
"Lily, close that mouth and finish eating." Mrs. Evans snapped, obviously losing her patience. Lily shut her mouth and cleaned up the pile of food forming on her lap now. Finally, it was time to go. Everyone piled into the car, (Lily had to wrestle Petunia into the car.), Lily sat in the front seat, her Hogwarts supply list on her lap. Petunia quietly sulked away in the back seat. They finally arrived, after a very uncomfortable car ride, with awful silence. Lily got out of the car first and hurried into the pub that led to Diagon Alley. Pulling her wand out of her robes, much to Petunia's snorts, she taped the one brick to reveal the pathway in. The walls finished forming and they walked inside. The road was full of very colorful store displays and many types of people. Several people bumped into them and every time Petunia acted as if she was going to be contaminated with some sort of disease from them. Lily sighed and looked down at her list, first stop would be books.
She ushered Petunia and Mrs. Evans over to Flourish and Blotts. Walking inside, she noticed a familiar black haired head, duck into the quidditch store, which was a couple stores down. She pushed the thought to the back of her mind and ignored it. She looked down at the list again. So many books this year. They spent half an hour looking for all of them, with the help of a clerk, Petunia sulked away into a corner unnoticed. They were just leaving when they heard her yelling.
"Wait! Don't leave me here!" She cried, she caught up with them and they went over to the next store, as they walked past the Quidditch Store, Lily looked inside. No one I know, that's good. Breathing a sigh of relief she turned around. Only to face the one person she was hoping wasn't there.
"Potter, what do you want!" Lily snapped.
"Evans! Long time no see! My, how you've grown!" James Potter looked her over, head to toe. Lily crossed her arms uncomfortably. It was true she had filled out quite nicely this summer, even more then she has from last year. Lily held her arms tighter around herself more.
"Again, Potter, I ask, what do you want?"
"Can't an old friend just stop by to say hello? Alas! Sirius is here too!" As if on queue, Sirius popped out of nowhere.
"Hiya Evans!" He beamed at her. Lily muttered a quiet 'hello'. Suddenly, right from behind Lily, shot out Petunia.
"Petunia! What do you want now!" Lily irritably yelled, slapping her forehead. All this stress was causing her to get a headache. Stupid Potter. Stupid Black. Stupid Petunia. Stupid headache. Everything was stupid to her at the moment.
"Evans, introduce us." More stupid Potter. Did he have to bring Petunia into this?
"This is my sister Petunia, who is leaving...NOW!" Lily said through very gritted teeth. Lily looked over at Petunia with a look that said leave in every spot on her face. To her surprise, she saw Petunia doing something she hasn't seen since the last time Lily was being told off. Petunia was . . . smiling! A dreamy look in her eyes as she looked at James and Sirius.
"'Tunia, come on lets go." She had to literally drag her sister away from where she was rooted on the spot. She tugged at her as Petunia blushed and silently said goodbye to them. James and Sirius exchanged looks and figured no big deal, they were used to girls ogling over them. Waving it off, they walked over to the next store.
Lily was walking away hurriedly. Petunia following her, the dreamy look still on her face. In a daze, Petunia nearly walked into a light pole, but snapped out of it quickly and walked after Lily, her long, and fast strides, compared to Petunia's smaller and slower ones. Even though they were closer in height, many years of having to walk away from Potter made Lily a very fast walker, very skilled, too, not that it would ever help her in life. They made their way over to where their mom stood, waiting with all of Lily's things.
"Mum, lets go." Lily said as Petunia finally caught up with her.
"Okay honey. What's wrong though?"
"Nothing, mum." Lily said right away." Really." she added seeing the look on her moms face.
The next few days went by uneventful as Lily patiently waited for September 1st to come.
Finally, the day to go back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry came.
