A/N:Well, today, January 13th is my birthday! YAY! Well, anywayz if there are any spelling or grammer mistakes its b/c my pc deleted all my programs including microsoft word, so i had to write it on word pad, so its not b/c I'm too lazy to spell check it. Chapter 3 will be up as soon as possible!

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Chapter 2

A month had gone by since the summer holidays, and Lily felt as if she'd never left. Everything had resumed its normal pace at Hogwarts. Well, as normal as Hogwarts could get. After all, it wasn't your ordinary school. But after 5 years of utter chaos here, Lily was used to it and already had her routine down pact.

To Lily it seemed almost as if the horrible events that had occurred during the summer had never happened, which was a relief. She hadn't thought of her parents in ages, since she had been so busy adjusting back to life at Hogwarts. And she definitely hadn't had any thoughts on Petunia, other than ones of relief from being free from her.

"What day is it?" Lily asked sleepily, as she took her seat next to Joy in the Great Hall. She yawned loudly and looked up at the ceiling. It was a bit cloudy and dark, as it was in the middle of November and getting colder each day. Lily rubbed her eyes, feeling as if she hadn't slept at all.

"Tuesday," Joy said calmly, as she munched on a roll.

"Shit," Lily said, her eyes opening wide. "It's not Tuesday. It can't be Tuesday. It's Sunday. You see, if it was Tuesday that would mean we have a huge Potions exam that I didn't study for!".

"Calm down," Joy answered, rolling her eyes. "You obviously are not a morning person. If I recall you were up until at least 2 in the morning studying for no reason what so ever. It's obvious you'll pass with perfect marks. You always do."

"I studied," Lily repeated slowly "I studied! Thank the lord, lets throw a party. The only problem is, I don't remember a freaken THING,"

She grabbed Joy's sleeve tightly, but Joy just grinned and said "Asophodel and wormwood make?"

"When adding powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood you make one of the most powerful sleeping potions called the Draught of Living Death." Lily answered automatically, sounding as usual, as though she had swallowed one of her textbooks.

"Told you," Joy said tilting her head sideways at Lily.

"Fine. Big deal. So I know one thing. Knowing one thing doesn't mean I'm gonna be passing an exam. It just ensures me of getting one answer right on the test. Getting one answer right on an exam isn't passing. In fact, if I get only one right on it, that means I FAILED,".

"Don't tell me Lily's hyperventilating, as usual. Honestly Lily, sometimes I just don't get you. After all, aren't you 'Miss-top-of-the- class-who-never-got-below-a-90-on-a-test' ?"Lynn said as she sat down next to Lily. She patted her blond hair which was in put in a neat high pony tail. "Does my hair look good? I didn't do the hundred strokes things today because I woke up late,"

"Don't tell me Lynn's asking about her looks, as usual," Lily mimicked Lynn. "Aren't you Miss-perfect-hair-and-body-who's-never-looked- bad-once-in-her-whole-life'?"

"I didn't mean it that way," Lynn answered. She patted Lily's arm, and then proceeded to put spoonfuls of sugar on her hot cereal "I only meant you have nothing to worry about. Other people, people like me, who only pass exams occasionally, and when they do, its nowhere near a perfect 100, have something to worry about."

"Oh, poor Lynn," Annie teased, leaning in front of Joy, putting her elbow in the bowl syrup. "What was it you got on the last exam? An 89? Oh yes, that's really horrible,"

"Umm, Annie dearest ?" Lily said pointing to her arm. "You got a little something on your sleeve,"

"What?" Annie looked down to where Lily was pointing. Her sleeve was covered in the sticky substance. "Oh my Lord,"

"You see, that's what you get when you block me from my food when I'm desperately hungry," Joy said soberly.

Lily looked up as the owls began to arrive looking excitedly to see if she had gotten anything from her parents. As soon as she thought that, she remembered the horrible thing that she had been trying to forget. 'They're dead' she reminded herself sadly. She blinked back a few tears.

"Something wrong Lils?" Annie asked, looking concerned, as she tried to wipe away the huge stain on her robes, without any success.

"Nope. Nothing. Just thinking about the test," Lily said softly. She heard a hooting sound and felt a piece of paper flutter down on her 'What is it?' she thought, curiously. She hadn't thought she'd be getting mail, since there was no one to write to her. 'Maybe Petunia?'

She looked out the letter and skimmed it quickly. She closed her eyes and chuckled softly.

"What'd you get ?" Lynn asked, peering over at her.

"Pure junk ," Lily showed her it. "You got one, too. One of those stupid Rita Skeeter Newsletter things. And will you look at that! Adelia Baker and Norris Abecker have broken up. Oh, the horror!"

"They did?" Lynn said grabbing the paper and skimmed the article. "And on their third month anniversary? Poor girl,"

"And it also says here that Potter's already gone and gotten himself his second girlfriend this year," Lily said.

"Fawnera Mackins? Isn't she that really smart ravenclaw?" Annie asked as she looked over at the paper.

"That's the saddest thing about all his girlfriend. You think these girls are smart and then they go and pull a stunt like go out with the school's biggest player. It shows that they just have NO common sense what so ever. Except for you, Lynn," Lily declared. "Though you should have known better than to go out with him. I mean, come on,"

"Well, I'm over him anyway. I've got Peter Patil now," Lynn began to stare dreamily at the ravenclaw table, where he was sitting. "It's getting pretty serious between us,"

"You say that about every boy you go out with. Plus, isn't this the third week you've been dating him for,"

"Still," Lynn argued. "He's much di-"

"Well, if we don't wanna be late for first period, we should probably get to class now," Joy interrupted with a quick look at her watch. "Class starts in five minutes,"

"Shoot," Lily said jumping up, knocking over her chair. "You see, that's what gossip does to you. It's never helps anyone, and it only makes you late,"

"I suggest we talk about the negative affects of gossip another time," Joy said. "Since my watch is also five minutes slow,"

"Well, That's just brilliant! Come on you guys, we're late enough "Lily exclaimed, motioning for the rest to follow her.

The three other girls just rolled their eyes at each other, and then shrugging there shoulders, followed after the running redheaded girl.

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"That was too easy," Lily declared, throwing her arms up, as they walked through the dimly lit corridor. "What do they take us for, first years?"

"Perfect marks for you Miss Evans, as usual," a ravenclaw named Peter Patil mimicked their potions teacher, as he overheard Lily's remark. He walked over to the group and offered his arm to Lynn, in a gentlemanly fashion.

"Oh hey, Peter," Lynn said, as he came over to them. She smiled brilliantly, and took his arm. "See you guys later, K?"

"See yah," The group nodded to her and then she went off in the opposite direction giggling at something Peter was saying.

"And then there were three.."Lily said, watching Lynn and Peter go off.

"You mean two," Annie said. "I have to go meet Professor Sprout. Something about how to get my grade higher in that class. I've always hated Herbology and now it has to go and do something irritable like ruining my average," and then with a quick wave she to left.

"Lemme guess. You gotta go too ?" Lily looked at Joy raising her eyebrows in question.

"Actually, no."

"Oh," Lily said. They walked quietly the rest of the way until they came to the picture of the Fat Lady who was at that time visiting with the picture of Sir Cadogan.

"Um, excuse me," Lily said trying to get the Fat Lady's attention "I really need to get in there."

The Fat Lady turned to Lily and frowning said "Well, that wasn't very nice of you. I was in the middle of a highly important conversation with Sir Cadogan, and it used to be that children were supposed to wait until others were finished conversing. But now, i guess, this generation is too impo-"

"Fairy dust," Lily interrupted.

"What?" the Fat Lady asked blankly, looking confused.

"The password. It's fairy dust, isn't it?"

The Fat Lady swelled up and was about to start lecturing them but was stopped as Sir Cadogan said angrily "Will ye let the lasses through already, so we can finish conversing?"

Sighing, the Fat Lady swung open, and Lily and Joy climbed through the portrait hole into the Griffindor common room.

"Well, that was rather weird, don't you think?" Joy muttered in Lily's ear.

"Yeah, it really was," Lily said laughing.

"You're going the match tomorrow, right?" Joy asked as she flopped down on one of the couches in the common room.

"What match?" Lily sat down next to her, and immediately pulled out a book she had just taken out from the library.

"The quidditch match! What else would I be talking about?" Joy stared at her in disbelief when Lily said "There's a quidditch match?"

"Honestly, where have you been Lily? It's the first match of the season! And you're going even if we have to drag you there,"

"I never said I wasn't going to go," Lily said as she opened up her book. "I just forgot about the match. Of course I wanna go. I may not have the most enthusiasm when it comes to stuff like that, but I still enjoy it. Besides, I'm not that much of a study freak,"

"Sure you're not," Joy joked.

Lily just rolled her eyes and continued reading her book and was intterupted yet again as Joy tapped her on the back.

"Joy," She said annoyed. "What now?"

"Just wanted to know what you're reading," She made a puppy face at Lily and pretended to sniffle.

"Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean. It's for backround on what we're learning in Herbology,"

"Sounds horribly boring!" Joy tried to grab the book away from Lily, but Lily held it up out of her reach.

"Well, that's.. your.. opinion," she said struggling to keep it out of her grasp "Joy stop it! It's not-"

She stopped as something caught her eye, putting the book down. It was James Potter and Fawnera Mackins, his new girl friend. They were snogging furiously on one of the couches.

"Oh my G-d!"Lily groaned. "Why don't they get a room already? That's not even disgusting. It's just plain gross,"

"What? Show me," She looked at what Lily was staring at and then closed her eyes and said "Never mind. I do NOT wanna see."

"Every time he gets a new one its like he feels like he needs an obligation to show off. And with each one, it gets worse." She made a face.

"How do you know? You seem to keep close attention to all this Lil."

Lily blushed and then quickly covered that up by saying "Really Joy, it's a bit obvious. I mean it's not like he does that in the darkest corners of the room. Nope! instead, he picks the middle of the room where anyone, including innocent first years, can see him!"

"Whatever,"Joy answered "But still, not a day goes by when you don't comment on his 'erratic behavior and disgusting habits'."

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