CHAPTER 8: I JUST WANNA LIVE
The next morning Hermione woke up early...as usual, to find that Lily was already wide awake.
"My friends back home will be shocked" Hermione laughed, startling Lily. "They didn't think it was possible for someone to wake up earlier then me!" Lily blushed.
The two girls made their way down to breakfast late, despite the fact that they were probably the first ones awake in the entire school.
This was because of Lily. She was nervous. Never before had she worn something so...interesting or eye-catching. It had always been a plain lengthy shirt and a blouse for her.
"Come on Lily" Hermione said as they reached the entrance hall.
"Hermione...just one more minute..." Lily said queitly, looking down at the cloths she was wearing nervously. Hermione had known that Lily would act like this the first time she wore such cloths, mainly because she herself had felt the same way. So, to try and make her feel a little bit at ease Hermione had made her start with something quite simple, far from the cloths she usually wore yes, but not quite like the cloths Hermione was already wearing. Lily was wearing jeans and kitty heels (She refused to wear stilettos just yet having never before worn them). But it wasn't the shoes or the jeans Lily was nervous about, it was the shirt. The shirt clung to her body, something she hadn't been aware of when she had picked it from Hermione's wardrobe. The shirt was white with a chinese dragon printed on it in golden glitter. On the sides of the shirt there where small strips missing. Hermione had worn the same shirt in black (Lily's request), except she had worn askirt and stilettos.
"Lily please, you look really nice" Hermione said smiling warmly at the girl.
Lily fidgeted with the bottom of her shirt.
"Hermione I'm not sure about th-"
Hermione suddenly pushed her into the great hall. Lily gave her a piercing glare but started walking towards the Gryffindor table all the same. Alot of the people in the hall opened their mouths in shock.
"See Lily, they've never seen you wear something like this before and personally I think they like it alot more" Hermione whispered next to her.
"Don't be stupid, they're all staring at 'the hot new girl'...or at least I think that's what they call you" Lily whispered back, blushing ever so slightly.
"If you continue to be modest I will hex you" Hermione whispered, a small smile appearing on her face.
"You wouldn't dare, I'm head girl!" Lily hissed.
"Technically so am I" Hermione said. Lily's stomach lurched uncomfortably, she hadn't meant to make Hermione feel bad.
"And besides..." Hermione continued. "They can't be looking at me because I just saw a hufflepuff third year checking you out" Hermione finished, barely containing her laughter.
"Now I feel so much better..." Lily said sarcastically, not realising that Hermione had been joking. Hermione burst out laughing.
The girls then looked up to see all four of the Marauders. Each of them were staring at Lily in absolute shock, even Remus.
"What?" Lily snapped.
Sirius, Remus and Peter left James to answer. But James was at a complete loss of what to say, if he lied and said he didn't like it she'd probably get emotional, and if he told the truth...well she'd just think he was behaving like normal and ignore him for the rest of the day.
"Y-you...look...um..." James started.
Whatever smile had been on Lily's face was long gone when she looked over at Hermione.
"It was probably a stupid idea" Lily muttered. "I'll see you in first class" Before starting to walk out of the hall.
Before Hermione could even begin to chase after her James had reached her.
"Where are you going?" He asked quickly.
"To get change, not that it's any of your business!" Lily said.
"Don't get changed!" James said.
"And why shouldn't I?" Lily said, starting to get very emotional.
"B-Beacause you look...Beautiful" James half whispered, Something that was unusally for James, he was never tooshy to say something.
Lily smiled and threw her arms around James.
"Thank you!" she said before letting go, blushing furiously.
"Any time..." James said, sighing happily.
Lily walked back to the table glancing at Hermione with a small smile playing on her lips. Hermione winked at her and laughed.
Hermione then ate quickly and stood to leave.
"Where are you going?" Sirius piped up.
"I have to drop in at the library before class" Hermione answered, swinging her bag over her shoulder. "You coming Lily?"
"I'll miss this one thanks, I want to have a proper breakfast" Lily said. Hermione shrugged and strode out of the great hall.
Hermione's eyes wandered over the great oak doors as she walked through the entrance hall. Alot of skill would have been put into those doors, and personally Hermione hoped that the doors were hand-made, not magic-made, it would give it much more meaning in her opinion.
Unfortunatly her thoughts were cut short as she collided with something. Standing up she found her path blocked by Slytherins (What else?).
"Ah, Granger is it? I was wondering when you would come running to me" Malfoy smirked.
Holy hell...Malfoy? As in Lucious Malfoy? I will never be able to escape the Malfoy family while I'm at Hogwarts, will I?
"Keep wondering" Hermione retorted, coming to her senses. She pushed past him, only to have Malfoy grab her arm.
"And where do you think you're going?" Malfoy said, looking at Crabbe and Goyle with a smirk. The brainless gits started sniggering uncontrollably. Hermione rolled her eyes at the familiarity of the scene. Malfoy smirking while saying something that was in no way funny or even amusing while Crabbe and Goyle sniggered to boost his already overly-large ego.
"Well obviously I'm heading down this corridor" Hermione said sarcastically.
Malfoy sneered at her, having nothing more to say.
"Well I'm glad that I'm talking to someone as witty as you" Hermione said...once again sarcastically.
Malfoy glared at her before grabbing her shoulders and pushing her roughly against a classroom door.
"Fuck...Off!" Hermione yelled, kicking out at his shin.
"Bitch!" Malfoy hissed, slapping her across the face as he grimaced in pain.
By this stage Hermione had pulled out her wand as was pointing it...well lets just say it wasn't a good situation for him.
"You wouldn't" Malfoy said, a slight quiver to his voice as he looked down at the wand.
"You don't know me" Hermione replied, smirking victoriously.
"What's going on here?" A voice sounded from the doorway to the great hall.
Hermione looked over at the doorway, expecting to see a teacher, instead she saw...
"Sirius?"
"Expelliarmus!"
She felt her wand leave her hand leaving only one word in her mind...'Shit...'
"Thank you for the distraction Black, but if you don't mind Granger andI have some...er...business to attend to" Malfoy said, glancing at Hermione with a smirk. Hermione looked back with a look of repulsion.
Sirius let out a low sort of chuckle.
"I don't think so Malfoy" He said.
"Really, and why is that Black?" Malfoy sneered. Sirius pointed at Hermione.
Malfoy looked back at the girl only to recieve a blow to the face. The blonde fell to the ground, clutching his nose.
"You'll pay for that" Malfoy hissed, before walking in the direction of the Hospital Wing, followed by Crabbe and Goyle.
"So...um...wow" Sirius said.
"What?" Hermione asked with a small smile.
"It's just I've never known a girl who could...well...punch" Sirius said, running a hand through his hair.
"My best friends are guys, I have to keep up with them" Hermione said, before walking in the direction of the library.
As she walked she got the strange sense that someone was following her.
"Pray tell why you are follwing me Mr Black?" Hermione said with a small smile.
"Just making sure you got to the library safely..." Sirius mumbled, running a bit so that he walking directly beside her.
"I'm perfectly fine walking there without an escort" Hermione said, frowning slightly.
"Maybe so...but-" Sirius began.
"But you'd feel happier knowing I got there safely..." Hermione finsihed for him, having heard both Harry and Ron say that sentence tons of times.
"Well...yeah" Sirius said.
"Sirius, Hogwarts is not dangerous, I feel the safest here...now go away or you'll be lying in the bed next to Malfoy's in the hospital wing!" Hermione threantened playfully.
"Yes ma'am" Sirius mumbled, walking away with a small smile on his face.
Upon entering the library Hermione made her way over to a certain self at the back of the library that held her deepest memories...the potion's section.
At least one of these books had come in handy for her younger years at Hogwarts...
In first year it had been one of these books that she had read to know which potion Harry should take to get through the flames...Second year...well she had used one of these books to brew the Polyjuice potion...third year, she had secretly discovered what the smoking goblet Harry had told them about was for, helping her discover that Professor Lupin was in fact a werewolf and in forth year her Harry and Ron had searched tirelessly to see if there was a potion that would allow Harry to breath underwater for an hour for the Triwizard Tournament.
Yes...This was definatly a place where alot of her memories were...
Running her fingers over the spines of the books she stopped at the one that she had used to brew the polyjuice potion. Alot of her memories were stored in this book. Taking it off the self she flicked through it's pages until she came to the page with the complicated formula to make the Polyjuice potion.
After a little while of reading she stood up and put the book back on the shelf.
"And what about Lily Evans? That stupid little mudblood..."
Hermione frowned.
"Please don't say that word Bec, you know how much I hate it, even if we are talking about perfect little Evans..."
By the sound of it the voices were coming from the otherside of the bookshelf. Hermione pressed her ear up against it.
"Sorry Sarah, but have you seen the way James chases after her?"
"Unfortunatly yes, and she won't even look at him!"
"I was talking to him yesterday and then she walked into the hall looking like she was some queen and he stopped talking to me!"
"She doesn't deserve him..."
"No she doesn't..."
Hermione scowled, Lily was perfectly nice and it wasn't her fault that one of the most popular guys in the school liked her!
"I think...That it's about time Evans getswhat she deserves..."
There was a minute's silence.
"What did you have in mind...?"
A/n: Hello my gorgez readers! lol.
Sorree this took a while to update but like, school has just started back and i'm sick and to top it all off this document wouldn't let me in -- all fixed now obviously.
The title to this chapter is really messed up cuz i couldn't think of a song, so yeah.
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