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A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in so long! Enjoy!
"Times of Change"
"Oh no, I'm late!" Lily cried earning a glare from Madame Pince. She quickly gathered her books scattered across the table and place them in her bag. She rushed out of the library.
"Where is she going?" Alice asked.
"Heads' Meeting," Allie answered not looking up from her paper.
"Oh."
"Please don't be there," Lily murmured to herself, "please don't be there."
She closed here eyes as she walked through the portrait. She opened them slowly and James Potter was already sitting on the couch hands behind his head lazily staring at the fire.
"Damn," Lily swore under her breathe.
James turned his head to see her standing near the entrance. He smiled at her. She walked towards him.
"I'm so sorry I'm late," she apologized.
"It's okay," he said waving it off.
Grateful that he didn't say anything against her she took a seat across from him, and they got down to work.
"That wasn't as bad as I thought it would be," Lily said truthfully.
"I'll take that as a compliment," James laughed. Lily smiled.
"Well, I better get going," he said getting up from his seat.
Lily felt she needed to ask him to make herself less worried about Alice.
"Potter, wait," she said.
James sat back down looking at her slightly confused.
"I wanted to ask you about Sirius."
"I'm kind of worried about…" she paused not sure how to say it.
"Sirius with Alice?" he finished for her. She nodded her head.
He sighed and looked at her, feeling uncomfortable about talking about his best mate.
"The thing about Sirius you have to understand is that he not only the person he puts himself out to be. He's much … deeper."
"It's kind of hard to explain," he sighed running his hand through his hair forgetting how Lily hated that.
"There's more to Sirius. He's a good guy, real loyal," he said, "Look Evans, I've known Sirius for so long and I know he won't hurt Alice."
"He may play the field, but he won't hurt her. He won't have the heart. Besides, he knows what she's going through."
"He said that too, but how can he know what she's going?" she asked.
James smiled at her slightly and said, "Well, I don't want to ruin the answer for you. Talk to him. He's a good guy."
He got up walked to the door and opened it slightly. Lily turned her head to look at him.
"You're not so bad. I think we can actually be friends, Potter."
He turned to look at her and smiled.
"James, Lily, the name's James."
Lily laughed.
"Well, James, I'll see you later," she said.
"Don't miss me too much," Lily joked.
He laughed and walked out of the door, but before he closed the door he said to Lily, "Already missing you, Lily."
The last he saw of her that day was her laughing, looking sincerely happy and it was because of him, what he did.
...
"Look Frank, tell mom to send me some extra money. I ran out," Allie told her brother sheepishly the next morning.
"Why don't you just ask her?" he asked her.
"You know how she's like," she told him.
"Must I?"
"Please…." Allie pleaded, "For your little sister."
"By like five minutes."
Allie pleaded and pouted.
"Fine, fine, but you owe me," he finally agreed. Allie smiled at him, but almost instantly it was turned upside down.
Allie's POV
Don't come over here, Alice. Don't come over here.
"Hey Allie," Alice greeted seating down not even glancing at Frank.
"Hey," Allie greeted back half-heartedly.
She watched as Alice grabbed a piece of toast and spread some jam over it. She poured herself a cup of juice and began to eat.
When she was done eating she turned to look around the Great Hall and looked right into Frank's face.
"Oh, hey Frank I didn't see you there," Alice said indifferently.
"Hey," he said a little uncomfortably.
Alice went back to scanning the Great Hall apparently looking for someone.
"Sirius!" Alice cried excitedly as he walked in. He smiled and walked towards her and sat across from her.
No long after he sat down he and Alice where whispering something to each other.
Allie heard some parts of the conversation even though she knew she wasn't supposed to eavesdrop. Apparently, so did Frank.
...
Over the pass few days Lily couldn't believe how close she became to James. She almost forgot that she once really didn't like him. Not only did she realize the change so did every other student at Hogwarts. There were no more fights between the two Heads, but the frequent smiles and laughs exchanged between the two.
Whispers followed them every since there new found friendship.
"Potter and Evans, did you here?"a student asked another.
"Weird isn't it?"
"One day enemies then friends."
"I never thought I would see the day," a student admitted.
"Dumbledore, do you believe it!" Professor McGonagall exclaimed, "Potter and Evans."
"The least likely people to ever get along," Dumbledore stated.
"Friends within a couple of weeks," McGonagall finished clearly amazed.
Dumbledore's POV
And together forever.
...
"Hey beautiful!" James greeted Lily.
"Hello handsome," Lily greeted him back with a smile.
"May I walk you to class, Miss Evans?"
"It will be my pleasure, Mr. Potter."
Together they talked all the way to Potions class, being just on time.
...
It was weird for James to go from Lily hating him to being one of his close friends. He felt he could tell her anything and she would understand. And the thing he couldn't help but think is that sometimes when they were together he felt like she was the only one for him, but he always convinced himself that he was dreaming about it. After all, he did like her and it was natural for him to think like that, right?
...
Sirius' POV
I'm glad I could help Alice get through this tough time. She needs someone to talk to who understands how she feels, alone. Like no one wants her. I felt the same before. I felt alone, unwanted by my family. I was never accepted, never good enough for them. Bitter is what I am. I'm never going to be able to settle down. Maybe it's for the better. I'll be to scared, scared of not being good enough. Alice doesn't need to be bitter. She deserves to live a life with the person she loves and to have a family like she wants. She still has time to turn back, to never feel alone again, but for me I'll always be alone.
I know Alice and I am not and never will be together. She has Frank in her heart, that dumb ass just has to see that Alice is the one. And I'll help them get together if that's the last thing I do!
A/N: How was it? This chapter was kind of hard for me to write, I don't know why though.
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