Time Heals Everything: Chapter 5

For all those who don't know of my change of plans, I am no longer making it 4 months…I have reduced it to two months. And by the way, Lily doesn't like him yet so no L/J action happening right now. Please read and review!! By the way, I'm trying out your suggestions to make this story longer, and I'm going for at least 3 pages in Microsoft Word. That should do it. :P

Lily glumly entered the Great Hall, as it was the day before she left. Meg and Sara kept nudging each other throughout breakfast, and Lily knew something was up. She shook her head of the thought and just reminded herself that they were as eager as the rest of them to get Lily and James together. Lily's shoulder's drooped as she walked off to her first class, transfiguration. Lily was one of the first people in the class, but she was surprised that McGonagall called her up to the front.

"Yes ma'am?"

"Miss Evans dear, I think you should spend the rest of the day getting ready for your trip and relaxing for your journey. You and Mr. Potter will be dismissed from school today."

James and the Marauders had just entered the room and James heard the part about him getting to skip school. Lily gathered up her books and left the room, James hot on her heels. He stuck out his tongue at his friends as he was leaving. Luckily for him, the professor didn't see. James walked into the Heads' room right behind Lily. She disappeared into her room to get a book and returned in a minute with a large novel. Probably those cheesy romance things all girls read, James thought.

He sat down in front of the fire (a/n: remember its winter?) and stretched. Lily sat at the opposite end of the couch and started reading her book. James was bored so he got up and snatched Lily's book from her. She must have been at a good part, cause she was so mad, James could practically see the steam coming out of her ears.

"CAN'T I HAVE ANY PRIVACY AROUND HERE??" she screamed and stormed into her room, with James left there standing, trying to recollect his thoughts.

James a valuable lesson from all this. Never ever take Lily's book away from her under any non-urgent circumstances. He sighed and got up. He was walking towards his room, but suddenly Sirius burst in, grinning. He told James that he had complained of a sore throat and was going to the hospital wing. It was just a distraction so Sirius could hang out with James. His smile fell, however, when he saw the look on James' face.

"What's wrong, mate?"

"Well Padfoot, sometimes it seems that Lily will never be mine. She just hates me", James mumbled, staring at his feet.

"Prongs, never think like that. Don't worry you'll get her someday."

"By the way James," Sirius added grinning, "what did you do to her this time?"

So James told Sirius a quick summary of what had happened in the last ten minutes. Even James had to laugh at the amazed look on Sirius' face. They talked for awhile, coming up with ways to get their girls. At the sound of Lily's name, James looked up with a determined look in his eye. He knew that, after all like every other problem he had had, he learned that time would heal this.

Lily hugged Meg and made a mental picture in her mind, as if she was going away forever. They were all standing in the Heads' common room, because the Knight bus was going to arrive in 2 hours to pick up James and Lily. Lily didn't think she would make it through the two months with James and be exactly the same person when it was over, so she tried to preserve the images of her friends.

There was good-humoured, almost-always laughing Meg, with her shoulder length black hair and blue eyes that almost never stayed the same shade. Lily watched Meg laugh and say something to Sara, who smiled in spite of herself. Lily grinned when she saw Meg sneak a look at Sirius, who was watching her intently, and he slightly coloured and looked away when Meg caught his eye. Sara was standing next to Remus, who was playing with her light brown hair, her violet eyes flashing as she tried to get away. Lily could see that Sara wasn't really getting angry. After a while, the two hugged. She sighed and looked at the couples around her. Meg and Sirius were totally meant to be, and so were Sara and Remus. If only the remaining member of their group could be a perfect match for her. But he wasn't. James was standing next to his trunk and was grinning impishly at her. She rolled her eyes and tried to convince herself that this was an imperfect world, and not everything could be the way she wanted it to be. If only he didn't make her hate him so much, she could like him, or she could at least try.

Lily snapped out of daydream and walked into her room. James was the only thing on her mind right now. She wondered why he had to act funny around her. He played so many pranks on her and called her "his" Lily Flower like she belonged to him. Basically she thought it was his ego, that enlarged his head so it swelled up to about the size of the sun and she was surprised he could even fit through the doors at Hogwarts.

She checked her watch, and saw that there was 20 minutes until the Knight Bus arrived so she decided to go sit with the rest of the gang.

She was surprised when Sara and Meg walked up to her and Sara handed her a package wrapped in fancy pink tissue paper. Lily smiled and opened it. It was a beautiful muggle picture frame with a magic picture of the three girls over the summer when they in Hogsmeade. On the back, she saw a note with Meg's pretty scrawl.

Lily,

We bought you this picture frame as a going-away gift, and Sara had this picture, she got taken over the summer that one time we were in Hogsmeade. We want you to enjoy your trip, and we hope you'll learn some important stuff. Not just Head Girl stuff, but hopefully something more.

From your forever-loving friends,

Megan and Sara