Silhouette of a Disaster
Chapter 1: Silhouette of a Beginning
Dreams…their funny things aren't they? One minute you could be dreaming your dancing with a bear in a to-to and the next you see the girl of your dreams get snatched away into darkness. Of course you wake up and are a bit edgy for a couple of days as you ponder the dream; what did it mean, can that really happen, did it even mean anything, is she ok, will that bear come back? Until your friends go mental over your sudden change in character, as Sirius so kindly did, and hit you over the head with the biggest, heaviest book they can find.
On the morning of September 1st, favorite day because I get to see Lily Evens the girl I am one day going to marry... just you watch. Also return to school where I can't get grounded for blowing up the living room. Sirius woke me at about 6 am; apparently I was having a bad dream. You can say that again. It was horrible and had my head in a spin for days.
There she was, the most beautiful girl in the world. Her gorgeous fit body from many years of ballet was in a white summer dress that hung around her knees, her beautiful amber hair was out and billowing in the wind, he emerald eyes shining with peace and happiness. I walked closer to her, she looked amazing in that dress, and I reached out my hand to lightly brush my hand across her fair skin. When suddenly the clear blue sky, turned a blood red, the green grass dried up and died and a black hole engulfed her whole, "LILY! NO" I screamed. And that's when I woke up. If you had had that dream I think you wouldn't be your self for a couple of days either.
"I am so sick of you being off in La-La land James…WAKE UP!" Sirius shouted as he waked his new potions book over my head repetitively. A couple of people looked at us, but that was normal. Of course the other times they are staring at us it's with want and desire…not fear and confusion.
"OK! I'm awake jeez no need to kill me mate," I replied rubbing my head where he had so kindly pounded me with a book.
"Good, and are you going to go back to your normal self now, we missed the start of year feast prank, our fans are waiting Jamsie you can't let them down!" Seriously sometimes Sirius can be just a 'bit' dramatic.
"Yeah I'm back to my normal self, don't worry we will make it up to them I promise." I said. I'm serious...ok well, I'm not he is, but you know what I mean. I've decided that I can't waste my life worrying about that dream I mean it was probably just some bad food…who knows how old that pizza was.
"Ok GOOD! Because we have a lot to make up for, you've been spaced out 4 the last 3 days so you missed 3 perfectly good days of pranking on the unsuspecting student body of Hogwarts." Sirius said…he was starting to ramble he does that when he's excited.
"Ok I get it Padfoot. What did you have in mind anyway?" I said leaning in closer to hear the obviously brilliant plan the marauders had created while I was mentally on holiday. When, just then Remus walked in, he looked tired and sick so clearly there was a night-time trip coming up soon. We motioned him over and started discussing the plan.
School, it has its pros and cons I guess. I mean I'm so glad to be back with Ebony and Selena who had spent their summer in America while leaving me and Lily stuck here in England. But then again its school so classes and nobody likes them, except for Lily sometimes. And then there is Ballet which is like my passion and has been since I was like 5 and my parents and Lily's family took us to see 'The Nutcracker.' We instantly fell in love with the dance, of course back then we just wanted to wear the cute pink to-tos. But as the years went on we learnt that Ballet is more than girls dancing around in point shoes and pretty costumes. But then there are the stuck up girls in our class who think they are the best thing since sliced bread. And then the Marauders pranks which are always funny. And I suppose I could go on for forever but I should stop rambling about boring old school.
"I think James is back to normal, so we should expect a prank any day now," said the bright chirpy voice of Ebony as she walked into the Library where Lily had dragged me to study…three days into the school year and I'm already studying.
"Really, great I need some fun any way!" I said just as gleefully as Ebony. Me and Ebony had always loved the Marauders pranks and tried to guess who their next victim would be.
"Oh no…does this mean he's going to try and ask me out again?" Lily said with a groan. Because on the other hand you have Lily and Selena who just plain think the Marauders are idiots who should focus more on their school work, even though they get better marks than me.
"Oh admit it Lils you love him asking you out, you crave the attention." I said with an evil smirk and Ebony sat down with us and got out her homework.
"Yeah sure whatever you say Casey, I'm getting back to my homework now." James is a touchy subject with Lily, ever since fourth year he's asked her out pretty much every day, it was cute the couple of times then seemed obsessive and then annoying and now we're all used to it. We know its going to happen just as well as we know Quidditch is going to happen.
We all got back to our homework, which pretty much consisted of Lily doing hers me copying and then Ebony copying mine.
"Your never going to learn anything if you keep copying Lily, you know that right?" Said a small amused voice behind me, as Selena moved and sat down on the other side of Lily.
"Yeah we know but we don't care as long as the homework is done that's all that matters," Ebony said with a smirk.
We all finished our homework well…technically Lily finished her, mine and ebony's and Selena did her own. We headed back to the common room to find it just about empty except for a couple of people just finishing their homework, and of course the Marauders. James stood up as soon as he saw Lily walk in the door and we all knew what was coming. Lily groaned and walked a bit faster maybe she could make it to the girls dormitories in time…Me and Ebony made a bet, I say she would because I'm a good friend and have faith in her and Ebony said she wouldn't because I'd already taken she would.
"Hey Lily," said James, damn I just lost five Gallons. Ebony smirked. I decided wasn't quite ready for bed and went to talk to the remaining Marauders.
"Hey, so I see James is back to normal," I said taking a seat on the couch next to Sirius facing the fire.
"Yeah, who knew all it would take was to whack him on the head with a really big book," Sirius replied with an amused smile.
I laughed a little; I think I'm the only girl in Hogwarts that's yet to have fallen for him. In first year I know for a fact that Lily had a crush on him even though she denies it. Third Year Selena had a crush on him after she had seen him with out his shirt on after a Quidditch game on a mega hot day, and Ebony has been On and Off crushing on him she can never make up her mind if she likes him or not.
"FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME POTTER I WILL NOT GO OUT WITH YOU!" Lily shouted and stormed off up the stairs.
"I think that's my cue to leave, I'll see you guys latter," I said getting up and following Lily up the stairs.
She was sitting on her bed squeezing the life out of a pillow, if pillows even have a life. I walked in and she looked up at me and said, "can you believe that guy I mean it is not funny!" she seemed really angry, see Lily thought James asking her out was his idea of a sick prank and no matter what the rest of us said she wouldn't hear any of it.
"Yeah I know tell me about it," we learned its best just to agree with her. "Well I think maybe we should get some rest, I mean we do have our first Ballet lesson of the year tomorrow and don't want to be buggered for that now do we?" I said and changed into my Pjs and got ready for bed. Lily agreed with me and did the same.
"Night night Lily," I said and climbed into bed. I just heard Lily's reply before I fell into a peaceful sleep.