Disclaimer: JKs characters, my plot...and that goes 4 the rest of the story...R/R!
FLASHBACK, LILY'S DREAM
"Lily!" Petunia screamed. Lily Evans shot out of bed and looked at her clock. It was 3:00 a.m. She thought Petunia must have found a dead rat from Lily's pet owl, Tigress, but she was wrong. Just as she was about to ignore Petunia, her parents were screaming bloody murder downstairs. Lily sat up bolt right, threw on her slippers and robe and snatched her wand off the bedside table.
"Mum! Dad!" Lily yelled, running down the stairs. It was dark and the eerie lights cast shadows over the walls. Her parents were not there. They were outside running and screaming. Through the window Lily saw flashes of different colored light, which could only be from wand magic.
"NO!" Lily screamed, running outside. Mr. and Mrs. Evans, along with Petunia, were running and dodging men dressed in black cloaks with masks. They were Death Eaters, followers of the ever-growing powerful dark wizard, Voldemort.
"Leave them alone!" Lily screamed, throwing herself on one of the Death Eaters backs. He yelled and pulled her off, sending her flying into her dad.
"Run, dad, RUN! I'll hold them off!" Lily cried, pushing her father out of a stunning spells path.
"No, Lily, you'll be killed!" He said.
"Dad, run inside and floo to Emily's. Do you remember how?" Lily said, shielding her mom from a leg-locker jinx.
"Yes," He said, fighting his way to the door. Mrs. Evans, crouched down low, followed her husband to the door. Before the Evans got there, Lord Voldemort stepped in front of them with a sick smile.
"Good-bye, Muggle filth." He said, pulling out his wand. "Avada Kedavra!"
"No!" Lily cried, but she was too late. Her parents were dead before they hit the ground. "Petunia! Floo to Emily's, now!"
"Lily!" Petunia screamed as she was hit from behind with a powerful curse.
"You leave my sister alone, you worthless excuse of a human being!" Lily cried, sending him a curse in return. The last thing Lily remembered before the Ministry came and saved her was seeing a bloody Petunia struggling to get to her and her parents lying crumpled together on the cold ground before she passed out.
END FLASHBACK AND LILY'S DREAM
"Lily!" Petunia called up the stairs. Lily woke up with a start, covered in cold sweat and hot tears. She had dreamt of her parent's death again. Two years ago her parents were killed by the most feared dark wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort.
"Yes, Petunia?" Lily called back, wiping her face on her covers. Lily had been living with Petunia and Vernon, Petunia's husband, ever since that day happened.
"Phone call! From Laurie!" Petunia said back. Lily yawned and made her way out of bed, going down the stairs on Number 4, Privet Drive. She didn't like living here, it was much too neat, but beggars can't be choosers.
"'Lo?" Lily said into the phone.
"Hey! Guess where you are going tomorrow?" Laurie asked excitedly.
"Hmm, lemme guess…to your house for my seventeenth birthday?" Lily said.
"No, but you are close. We are going to someone's house. I wanted to go to Diagon Alley, but we already went there a week ago for school shopping, so we exed that out. Besides, tomorrow is August 31, so it's the last day before term." Laurie said.
"Emily's house?" Lily said hopefully.
"Maybe…" Laurie said mischievously.
"Fine, don't tell me." Lily said, sitting down at the table, phone in hand.
"Fine, I won't. Besides, it's supposed to be a surprise." Laurie said.
"Yeah, yeah…" Lily said, twirling the cord around her index finger.
"Well get pretty tomorrow then I'll floo over there at 11:00. Alright? And bring over night things."
"It's a sleep over?"
"I guess, not like we'll be doing much sleeping, eh?" Laurie said. The girls giggled.
"I better go and help Petunia with breakfast." Lily said, standing up.
"Okay, see you tomorrow!"
"Yeah, see you." Lily said, hanging up and putting bread in the toaster. Lily wondered whose house it would be at.
Laurie Boot was a pretty girl with shoulder length black hair and tiger eyes. She was about 5'7" and had an average body. She was loud amongst her friends but shy amongst others. She was a half-blood, so she got the best of both worlds.
Emily Cobble was, well, weird. A good weird, mind you. She was so funny also, and really random. Maybe that's why she and Sirius could talk to each other; they both were so weird, funny, and random. She was tall, about 5'11" and had an athletic body. She had shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes. She was a pure blood, so she was fascinated by ordinary things, like telephones.
Lily was the smart one of the group. She was 5'8" and had a curvy body. She had thick, dark red hair, and startling emerald green eyes. She thought the Marauders, as the infamous pranking group liked to call themselves, were a bit immature. She didn't mind Remus Lupin as much, mainly because he was a Prefect as well. She didn't know much about Peter Pettigrew except that he followed the other three around. Sirius Black was loud and obnoxious, and James Potter, well, he was an arrogant prat in her opinion.
"Lily, could you pull out the eggs?" Petunia said, buttering the toast that just popped.
"Sure, Petunia." Lily said, making the eggs. Vernon came in and sat down, opening the newspaper to read.
"For my birthday tomorrow I'm going over to a friend's house for a sleep over, do you mind?" Lily asked.
"No, have fun." Petunia said, putting the toast on a plate and pouring some orange juice. There was a tap on the window and Petunia pursed her lips slightly.
"Sorry," Lily said as she relieved the owl of its burden. She looked at the letter and sighed happily.
"What is it?" Petunia asked suspiciously. She hated magic.
"I've made Head Girl at school." Lily said, smiling. Petunia smiled as well.
"Good job," Petunia said, slicing up and orange.
"Thank-you," Lily said, putting the eggs into a bowl.
(A/N: Petunia couldn't be completely evil, now could she? I think she still loved her sister and could still be proud of her, even if the thought Lily was a "freak" so don't kill me for making her so nice!")