A/N: Some one gave me a review about Ginny being a bitchy mom, and that's because she was so popular in her school days and she doesn't see how Lily could be so different. She just doesn't understand Lily.
I loved the Harry Potter book, the sixth one. Read it all in one day thank you very much. I'm going to pretend that book didn't happen, so nothing really changes because of that book.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling does, and she is probably raking in millions of dollars because of her new book. Ya, so not me.
Dedication: To the real Alex, who is nothing like his character.
That morning, I was absolutely ecstatic. I have a boyfriend! Tess was so happy for me. I was so happy that I wasn't mad a Molly for telling me that she was going to inform our dear mother of Alex. I didn't even care how she found out. I went down to the dining hall for lunch, and I found Alex had saved a seat for me. I went over and sat next to him. We talked for a long time, until almost everyone was gone. I told him I had to practice with my band, so he walked me over to the room of requirement. "See you later." He said, and he leaned down and kissed me, right as David was coming around the corner.
David turned slightly red, but didn't say anything. Alex had turned around and walked in the other direction, so he didn't see David. I went into the room of requirement, were Sirius and Gabe were already set up. Sirius pointed at the mike, telling me to warm up. We all did, for about ten minutes. Then we started practicing. David kept messing up on his drums, and I was getting irritated. Him messing up was making everybody else mess up to. Finally, Sirius proclaimed the practice over. He magicked the stuff away, and we left. Sirius caught up with me, and said, "What was up with you and David? Did something happen?" I shook my head, not feeling like informing him of the details. He didn't believe me, but he left.
I didn't want to go back to the common room, so instead I went to the library. There, I found Kelsey crying behind a bookshelf. Summoning up all of my courage, I went and asked her what was wrong. "I-I-I'm pregnant!" She said, a fresh wave of tears overtaking her. I was so taken aback that she taking to me normally and she didn't tell me to go away that I stared at her with my mouth open. I closed it once I realized what I was doing. As gently as I could, I asked, "Who's is it?" She stopped crying a bit, and she said with a shudder, "Brad Jacobson's."
"Have you told him?" I asked, and she shook her head.
"You're the first person I have told. I can't get an abortion, I have no money and I need parental consent. Please don't tell anyone!" Kelsey said.
I nodded. I wasn't going to tell anyone. "How far along are you?" I said, eying her abdomen.
Kelsey sighed, she had stopped crying, "About a month and a half. I went to a healer the other day, and she said the baby should be born in early June."
I got up to leave, and Kelsey stood up to. She hugged me, and again I was surprised. She left, and I walked back to the common room. I pondered all that Kelsey had told me. Her birthday is in May, making her sixteen when the baby would be born. I knew that Brad would deny the baby, and I actually felt bad for Kelsey. I was still thinking when I got to the common room, when two people yelling interrupted my thoughts.
I looked up and David and Alex were yelling at each other from across the room.
"You knew I liked her! Why did you have to send her those stupid letter things? I told back in September about how much I liked her, and you still went after her!" David yelled at Alex, who yelled back
"It's not my fault you didn't make a move. She liked you to, you know, but you couldn't see that, you couldn't open your eyes. No, you were to embarrassed about your pride, afraid she would turn you down. You wouldn't take that chance, but I did. I risked all me pride because I like her that much!"
I was awed. Alex must have really liked me. I watched David yell back. "I bet she doesn't even like you!" I knew he was only saying that because he didn't have anything to say back.
Alex yelled back at him, "Get over her! Lily is just a girl now, okay, she doesn't like you. She liked me, and I love her-" He stopped abruptly. He saw me. David did to. "Did-Did you hear all that?" Alex said, and I nodded.
David stalked off, leaving Alex and me alone, sorta. We were in the common room, after all. "I'm sorry about the fight." He said, and I nodded. Somehow, that fight seemed to offend me. A boy had never liked me in my life, and now I had to boys fighting over me like I was some prize. I told Alex that. He hugged me. "I'm sorry. I don't think of you like that at all." I smiled, and went up my dorm. Kelsey was there, and I smiled at her. She was staring at her abdomen. Knowing what she was thinking, I said, "You cannot tell. You look the same." She smiled at me. I could not believe we were have a conversation like we used to. Like friends.
I remember when Parvati was Jacob. She didn't show until about three months, but morning sickness a few weeks earlier. Kelsey groaned, and I knew what she was thinking again. She was a lot smaller then Parvati, meaning that she would show sooner. This conversation was so much like the one's we had in our first three years at Hogwarts that I was sad. I hadn't realized how much I had missed being friends. We actually talked until dinner, when I went down to get food and Kelsey stayed upstairs, deciding when to find out the baby's gender.
The next morning, I saw that Kelsey was going to be my friend again. She followed me around and sat with me everywhere. Tess was a little put out by her, but Kelsey was really acting nice, like she used to. I was amazed that a person could change so much basically over night. Marissa was mad at Kelsey for ignoring her, and so was the rest of Kelsey's little posse. I realized that Kelsey, Tess, Alex, Tucker and Me all got on really well. Kelsey didn't have a boyfriend, and I think that she was glad. I was worried that she would all of a sudden decide to be mean, but that never really happened.
Sunday night at lunch, Kelsey sat with Brad. She was telling him about the baby. I was sitting with Alex, Tess and Tucker. I stopped talking to Alex for a second to watch Kelsey tell Brad. As I expected, he denied it. I didn't expect him to yell it loud enough for the whole dining hall to hear.
"FOR THE LAST TIME, THAT DUMB BABY ISN'T MINE!" He screamed at her, and everyone looked. Kelsey had tears streaming down her face, and she got up and ran out of the room. I jumped up and followed her, and so did Marissa. We were basically racing each other back to the common room. We got there at the same time, and into the dorm at the same time. The first thing that Marissa did was run over to Kelsey, who was sitting on a bed, and hug her.
I turned around and was walking away. Clearly Kelsey saw me as her weird cousin again, or so I thought. "Wait Lils, don't go!" she called, and I turned around. Marissa was looking put out, and I went aver and sat next to Kelsey. Nobody had called me Lils since I was about ten. Right before I started Hogwarts was the last time someone called me that, as I proclaimed it childish. Struck by the memory of my old nickname, I barred Marissa for an hour and half before I had to get out of there. There is only so much you can take of Marissa.
I went down to the common room, where Tess was waiting for me. "What's up?" I said when I saw her, but she only frowned.
"How can you forgive all the things that Kelsey did just because she is pregnant?" She said coldly.
"She's my cousin, she's my Family. I can't just leave her when she needs someone." I said, trying to be nice. I got the feeling that Tess was jealous. She is an only child and her parents are muggles.
"So? You got in a fight with her! Just let her be depressed. She got herself into this position. Leave her alone!" she said. Then my temper was kicking in.
"Just because you have no cousins and muggle parents doesn't mean you have to be mad at me! It's not my fault I'm your best friend and my cousin needs me!" I said coldly, before I thought about what I was going to say.
"Well maybe I don't want to be best friends anymore." Tess said, and I could tell she was going to cry.
"Fine." I snapped.
"Fine." She replied, and she stalked away. I went to a table and pulled out my homework. I felt a tear roll down my face. Tess and I had been best friends since first year, and now we weren't best friends at all. I cried as I did my homework. David and I weren't friends and now neither was Tess and I. Kelsey and Brad hate each other, and so do David and Alex. I continued to cry softly until I felt someone put their arms around me from behind. I turned and saw Alex grinning at me. He saw my tear-stained face and the smile vanished.
"What's wrong Lily?" he said, sounding worried.
"Nothing." I said, some more tears leaking out. I got up and grabbed my stuff and ran up to my dorm. I didn't feel like telling anyone about Tess and me yet, I wanted to keep it to myself. I took a shower and decided to go to bed, even though it was early. I fell asleep right away, and I had dreams of Tess, Kelsey, a baby, Alex and David. I woke up with a weird feeling, that something wasn't right. I shook that feeling off, and fell back asleep.
When I woke up that morning, and felt like I was dreading something. I went down to breakfast, and ate. Right before I was about to go off to class, professor McGonnagall called me, Remus, Molly, Sirius and James all over to her.
"Please go see Professor Dumbledore in his office, he has some news for you." She said, sounding grave. I nervously followed James to his office and went inside. He saw use immediately.
"Please sit down." He said, and we did. Then, soon after, all of my cousins who go to Hogwarts came filing in. "I have something to tell you all. You dear grandfather Arthur has passed away. You all have permission to go home for this week for the funeral service and such. Please go pack your things and meet at the front gate in an hour, where somebody will escort you to the train station." Dumbledore said gravely.
I, and the rest of my family, all got up to go to our dorms. All of us are miraculously in Gryffendor. The sorting hat was going to put me in Ravenclaw, but I begged it to put me into Ravenclaw so my parents wouldn't be disappointed. Anyway, as I walked back to my dorm, I started crying. My poor grandpa, he had been so nice to me. He was always making me laugh, and he would never do that again… I started crying more, but I pulled myself together to get ready. I packed a quick suitcase full of stuff I would need, but I had clothes at home, so I didn't need too much.
Kelsey didn't talk much as we walked down to the gates with everyone. I knew what she was thinking about telling her mom and dad about the baby. If you looked really closely at her stomach, you could see it was slightly not flat. I doubted that her mom was going to take a magnifying glass and look, but that didn't stop Kelsey from worrying.
As we got onto the train, I told her, "Don't worry, it will be fine."
She smiled weakly and sat down next to me. I really hoped everything would be fine. My mom was probably still mad at me for be and Kelsey's fight. 'Whatever. I don't care' I thought. I couldn't wait to see my dad. He's really pretty cool. It does get annoying to have people following him everywhere, but I still love being around him. Anyway, as the train slowed down, I looked out the window. There was my mum and Dad. Mum was looking very said and so was Dad. I was sad to. I took a deep breath and got up, wondering what my mum would criticize about me today.
A/N: Hoped you like this chapter. Please review. I got one review last chapter, and a big thanks to that reviewer. The next chapter might be up a little later, my apologies. Thank you if you review.
