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Chapter 7:
Lily lay in bed thinking. She was beginning to think that everything bad was happening to her. She was also a little surprised cause Sirius and Mae were now just friends and they didn't fight anymore. She heard her alarm go off and reluctantly got up to take a shower. It was 5:00 and she hadn't gotten any sleep.
Lily decided to take a shower and go down to breakfast before anyone else woke up. She had been avoiding people for the last two days. She barely talked to anyone. After she had taken a shower and gotten dressed she tiptoed down the stairs to the Common Room.
When she was half way down she heard two voices talking quietly. She paused and listened.
"I'm getting really worried about Lily," said one voice.
Lily gasped into her hand as she realized it was James.
"She hasn't been eating a lot lately either," said the other voice that Lily knew was Remus Lupin.
"Maybe we should follow her in the morning and see if she gets enough to eat," suggested James lamely.
Lily frowned. She was glad that her friends cared about her but following her. Now that was just going too far. She marched down the rest of the stairs loudly.
"Oh Lily. Hi! What are you doing up?" asked James guiltily.
"I always get up to eat breakfast this early," she replied and walked out of the Common Room and into the chilly corridor. She walked slowly trying to take up as much time as possible. She knew the doors to the Great Hall would be closed this early so she went to the portrait of the fruit.
She tickled the pear and the painting swung forward to let her in. She saw about a million house elves everywhere cooking. "Hi Gracie," she said kindly to one of them.
"Can I help miss?" asked Gracie.
"Could I just get a glass of orange juice?" asked Lily politely.
"Right away miss," said Gracie. Two house elves hustled over to them and handed Lily a very tall glass of orange juice. She considered getting something to eat but she just wasn't hungry.
She thanked the house elves and walked out and headed toward the astronomy tower. When she arrived there she breathed in the cool air and smiled for the first time this week. It felt so good. She lay down on the hard stone floor and fell asleep.
"Lily, Lily wake up," said a soft voice.
Lily sat up moaning. She was sore everywhere from sleeping on a hard stone floor.
"Hi Mae," she said talking to her best friend for the first time in days.
"Hi Lily," said Mae. "I wouldn't have woken you up but Professor Dumbledore wanted to see you in his office right away and he said that he particularly enjoys jellybeans. But he doesn't expect you to bring him jellybeans does he?" she asked Lily confused.
"It's the password to get into his office," said Lily standing up slowly. "Thanks Mae," she said to her friend gratefully.
"No problem Lily. I'll always be here for me if you need me," she said to Lily.
Lily nodded and went off to Dumbledore's office. She said the password to the stone gargoyles and knocked on Dumbledore's door.
"Come in," said a voice from inside. "Good afternoon Miss Evans," said Dumbledore smiling cheerfully.
"Afternoon?" asked Lily. She looked out the big windows in his office and saw that it was indeed about 2:00.
"I'll just be straight forward. This afternoon around 4:00 we will be having a new student coming here to Hogwarts School. She will be in your year and she is coming from a school in America."
Lily frowned. "From America? Are there magic schools in America?" she asked confused.
"There are magical schools almost everywhere in the world," answered Dumbledore.
"Okay. Why are you telling me this?" asked Lily.
"I would like you to show her around and she will be sharing a dormitory with you and your friends. I'll just ask you to help her out for a few days and I will not take no for an answer," he said seeing Lily's hesitant look. "I think that it will be good for you."
Lily nodded knowing that Dumbledore wouldn't listen to her protests. Plus who knows maybe he was right. For the first time in ages Lily went to the Great Hall and had a small meal. She managed to keep some of it in her stomach.
She went up to Mae and hugged her. "Thank you," she said to her best friend.
Mae just nodded. "It's good to have you back Lily."
Lily also hugged James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Even though Peter hadn't really helped her with anything she hugged him too.
She then told her friends about the new student.
"That's weird. I didn't know there were magic schools in America," commented Sirius.
"Neither did I," said Lily, "but Dumbledore said that there are schools everywhere for magic." The whole time she was eating Lily felt like someone was staring at her but whenever she looked up everyone was just eating.
She looked up to see James's blue eyes staring at her. "What?" she asked him.
She saw the others stand up quickly and leave.
"Can I talk to you Lily?" asked James his eyes serious. Lily nodded. They walked in the halls.
"I've missed you so much Lily," said James.
"But I've been here all this time," said Lily confused.
"You were so sad you haven't been talking to me and you haven't been acting like yourself," said James sadly.
Suddenly Lily realized how hurt James must feel right now. Him and Lily had sorta started going out but then terrible things began to happen and Lily grew said and lonely and depressed and stopped talking to everyone. She realized how much it had hurt James.
She put her arms around him in a hug. "I'm sorry James," she said. "You didn't do anything wrong. I should have talked to you. I know you have had bad things happen to you like your sister," she said.
James just rested his head against hers.
Lily ran to Dumbledore's office. She had almost forgotten that she was supposed to meet the new girl. She burst in the door. "I'm sorry I'm late," she said to Dumbledore.
"It's quite alright," he assured her.
Lily then saw that she wasn't the only one in the office with Dumbledore. She saw a tall girl with long blond curly hair and bright blue eyes.
"Hi I'm Lily," she said holding out her hand to shake the other girl's.
"I'm Haylie," said the girl. "It's so nice of you to help me out and show me around."
Lily grinned. "No problem."
Dumbledore looked at her for a minute and Lily could have sworn she saw something like pride in his eyes but she blinked and it was gone.
"What house are you going to be in?" asked Lily.
"Gryffindor," said the girl.
"That's cool. That's what house I'm in," said Lily and she led Haley toward the Gryffindor common Room. Haylie gasped.
"At my other school everything is much smaller. How can you find your way around?" she asked Lily in astonishment.
"You'll get used to it," said Lily laughing. Suddenly Mae and James stepped through the portrait.
"Haylie these are my friends Mae and James."
"Hi, Haylie," said Mae smiling at the girl.
James smiled and shook her hand.
The next few days the girls friendship with Haylie grew. The boys liked her too because she always had great ideas for who to prank. Sirius was like in love with her.
"Hey Mae?" asked Haylie at breakfast before the Marauders had come down.
"Yeah?" asked Mae.
"I was um- wondering, you don't still like Sirius do you," she mumbled quietly.
"No, we're just friends now," said Mae. "Why?" she asked curiously.
"Oh uh, no reason, Lily just told me that you two used to be going out so I just wondered," Haylie stuttered.
Lily gaped at her friend. "You like Sirius don't you?" she asked Haylie.
Haylie didn't reply. "Do you?" persisted Lily.
"Does she what?" asked Sirius sitting down next to Haylie. Haylie nodded miserably at Lily and said to Sirius, "Nothing she just wanted to know if I like homework."
"You nodded. Does that mean you do like homework?" asked Sirius astonished.
"No, no," I was nodding about something else," she explained.
"Don't even ask Sirius," said Mae to Sirius grinning.
Sirius glared at her. "But I want to know," he whined at them in a babyish voice. They giggled.
"Too bad," said Lily to him.
Sirius pouted and showed them his puppy dog eyes.
James came and sat by them.
"Woa Padfoot, what's up with the puppy dog eyes?" he asked.
Sirius immediately quit and began to shove his face with food. Haylie giggled. "Do you always eat like that?" she asked. Sirius sat up straight and began to eat slower and not as pig like. Lily and Mae looked at each other in surprise. No one could ever change Sirius's eating habits.
"Oh crap," said Haylie. "I forgot my History of Magic Paper. I'll meet you guys in class," she said and waved.
"I'll come with you," said Sirius quickly. Lily and Mae grinned at each other and James seemed unaware of everything.
"Hey James," said Lily once the other two had left, "does Sirius like Haylie?"
"Yeah," said James grinning. "She's all he talks about. If they don't get together soon Sirius is going to drive me crazy!"
"Guys, today is Saturday. We don't have any classes." They all burst out laughing. They were guessing that Haylie planned that Sirius would follow her. "I bet you 2 galleons that they'll be together by the end of the day.
"Deal," said James. "I don't know why I agreed to this though. I know I'm going to lose."
"Do you guys wanna go for a walk outside?" asked Lily suddenly.
"I'm going to go to the library cause I have to finish my homework but you two can go," said Mae.
Lily shrugged. "Wanna go for a walk outside?" she asked James once Mae had left. James nodded.
"A walk would be nice," he said to her grinning.
Lily giggled. They went outside and sat by the willow tree facing the lake. Lily rested her head against James's shoulder. "I'm surprised no one's asked us if we're going out," said Lily.
"Are we going out?" asked James.
"Yeah, I think so," said Lily smiling a little.
"Well, now that I'm your boyfriend I have special privlages," he said and leaned over and kissed her lips softly.
Lily broke away. "One more thing James," she said. "Can we wait a few days before we tell anybody?" she asked him pleading.
James nodded. "Did you tell Mae?" he asked. Lily shook her head.
"She knows that something is happening between us but not what," said Lily. "I hope all of the girls don't hate me once we tell everyone."
"Why would they hate you?" asked James.
"Because if I'm going out with you it means that you're unavailable," she explained to him.
"Well, I'll deal with anyone who's mean to you," he said standing up. He pulled her up and wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her towards him.
When Lily and James stepped into the Great Hall for dinner everyone stared at them. They made their way to their seats. Lily sat next to Haylie and Mae.
"Are you and James going out?" asked Mae softly as everyone went back to eating.
"Why?" asked Lily frowning.
"Well," said Haylie, "there's a rumor that you were making out with James by the willow tree today."
Lily grimaced. "I hadn't meant for my friends to find out this way but I guess now is a good time to tell you. James and I are going out."
"That's what I've thought for quite some time," said Mae nodding.
"Just don't tell anyone yet," said Lily. They both promised.
"Sirius you can't tell anyone but the rumor is true, Lily-"
"Lily and you are going out?" shouted Sirius loudly. The whole Hall grew silent. Remus slapped Sirius as James put his head in his hands.
"I told you not to tell anyone Padfoot and you go and tell the whole bloody school," James growled at Sirius.
"Congratulations," he said seriously to James. "But they would have found out anyway," he told James as if what he said made perfect sense which to him it probably did.
Dumbledore clapped his hands. "Excuse me, attention please. The head boy and head girl Molly and Arthur Weasley have decided to have a Christmas ball. For this Ball each student is required to wear a dress or a tux." "It will be on December 25th. Anyone who wishes to sign to help with the decorations may see Molly before then. Thank you."
There was a great buzz of talking in the Great Hall and a lot of giggles. James looked at Lily. "Wanna go with me?" he asked. Lily nodded.
"Who are you going with?" Lily asked Mae. Mae shrugged. "Who do you want to go with?" Lily asked again. "I know there must be someone." Mae blushed. "Ha, I knew it," said Lily. "Tell me who!" she demanded.
Mae looked around wearily then shrugged then whispered something in Lily's ear. Lily squealed. "You two would make such a great couple!" "Ask him!" Mae shook her head.
"I'll wait and if he doesn't ask me I'll go with someone else," she said.
"Who are you going with?" Lily asked Haylie.
"Not telling!" teased Haylie.
Lily glared at her. "Tell me!" she demanded. Haylie just shook her head and laughed. "Did he already say yes?" asked Lily. Haylie nodded. "That was fast!" she said. "How did you get a date that fast?"
"You asked James before I got asked," said Haylie grinning at Lily. Lily begged and pleaded but Haylie said she refused to tell Lily until the ball. Lily gave up.
The next day there was much more chattering and giggling in the halls than usually. Lily was getting a little annoyed because it seemed like every girl in the school was asking James even though everyone now knew that she was going out with him.
"It's okay," James reassured Lily as another girl came up to him and asked. "I'd rather go with you then any of them any day," he said and kissed Lily. Lily clung to him. She couldn't bear to lose James. She loved him to much.
Lily stopped all of a sudden. "What's wrong?" asked James. Omg Lily had just admitted to herself what she'd been afraid would happen for a long time. She had fallen in love with James Potter.
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