Disclaimer: all the things that u recognize in this story belongs to JK Rowling, and I owe it all to her or else I wouldn't be writing this now..

Present from the past

They were closing in and she knew it. The darkness seemed to last an eternity. Her breath was unstable.

'Ex…ex…' she tried, she was so scared.

Closer and closer. She took a deep shuddering breath.

'Ex…expec…expec…' she couldn't do it. She had never learnt it properly anyway. She just remembered James, Sirius and Remus talking about it once. Something about a happy memory, deep breaths and chocolate. She didn't see where the chocolate came in, but she took a deep breath.

They were closing in. Her back hit the wall behind her. She racked her brain for a happy memory. Then she realized, in the back of her mind, she was already thinking about her friends; The Mauruders and the girls. She brought the thought forward and concentrated on it.
The cold was unbearable. A strange sound was coming from the darkness ahead.

She took another deep breath, this time it didn't shudder. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the image of her friends, as she screamed with all her might, 'EXPECTO PATRONUM!'

She opened her eyes wide and sat bolt upright in her bed. Her sheets were tangled all around her and her hangings were half torn apart.

'Chocolate?' Lily turned to see a worried looking Alice holding out a piece of chocolate in her hands.

'Thanks'

'No problem'

As Lily ate the chocolate, she looked around to see who else was gawping at her. It turned out all the occupants of the dormitory were standing around her bed looking worried.
There was Alice, with her straight, shoulder length, light brown hair looking sort of floppy. (the hair I mean..)

Her grey eyes were wide in fear. Her lips had gone all white to match the colour of her face. She was wearing a long, pale pink, silk night dress, under a maroon dressing gown. Lily realized she was sucking on some chocolate too, to calm her nerves.

Next to Alice stood Sarah Wright. She had bright electric blue eyes that were much too big for her face. Like Alice, her eyes were wide (wider than usual) in fear. She had a small thin face with rosy cheeks. She had wavy, dark brown-nearly black hair about chin length. She was wearing a long sleeved blue shirt and track pants. She was a really pretty, brave, smart and adorable person.

Sitting a the edge of the bed was Jyocka Blossom. She was a dark skinned girl with bright turquoise coloured eyes. Small strands of dark brown, pleated hair covered her head. She wore a bright red, stripy pajama bottoms and an orange tank top. Like the others, worry was etched into her face.

On the left of Lily was Katrean Ysylyan. Kitty for short. She had copper curls with natural golden highlights. She always showed her emotion through her eyes. The way the moonlight shone on her pale face made it look translucent. She was wearing a baby pink tank top and pink girl-boxers with blue polka dots.

Lily stared into Kitty's big, round, hazel eyes, and knew that she too was worried. She let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding.

'So, are you going to tell us what happened, or do we have to ask?' Kitty gave Lily a questioning look.

'It's honestly nothing to worry about. Go back to sleep.' Lily gave them an unconvincing smile.

'"Nothing to worry about?"' Sarah said in a hollow voice, 'Your sheets are soaked through with sweat.'

'Yeah, and you were thrashing around for about ten minutes.' Jyocka added.

'And we couldn't wake you' Alice said in a small voice.

'You guys are making it sound worse than it is'

'No…we're not' said Kitty.

Jyocka broke the silence.

'So tell us what happened'

'What's going on?' Sarah said.

'You guys aren't going to stop until I tell you right?'

'Uh-huh' they all chanted.

'Well..Ok. It was just a nightmare. That's it. Ok?'

'No, not Ok.' Jyocka glared at Lily, 'We didn't want to tell you but we've been hearing you mutter in your sleep since we got here last week.'

'And we couldn't wake you.' Alice said in her small voice.

'Really?' Lily had been having these dreams, but she didn't know people heared her mutter. She blushed a little.

'Yup. You would just start saying random stuff like "cold, dark, life, happiness, gone, spell" and…' Kitty hesitated, 'die'

'Oh'

'So what are these nightmares about?' Sarah questioned.

'Dememtors. You know at the end of last year, we learnt about Dementors and then we did boggarts? Well, my boggart turned into a Dementor, and it looked so realistic.' She was starting to sob. 'I got so scared. And I never learnt the spell, so if I ever face one…' her voice trailed off.

The girls leaned closer. Alice put her arm around Lily and Kitty held her hand. Jyocka and Sarah kneeled closer to her on the bed.

They all gave Lily watery smiles.

'You know we're here for you'

'Always'

'Forever'

'Together'

'Thanks you guys. You mean the world to me.' She returned their watery smiles.
Kitty stifled a yawn. Sarah and Jyocka attempted to cover their yawns but failed.

'Right. I've kept you all up too long. Go to bed, now!' she gave them a smile.

'You sure you're o-o-ok?' Alice gave a yawn too.

'Yes, now, bed. All of you.'

Ok, so now you've read my very first story on fanfiction..well please please please review! Tell me everything that u thought that was good or bad, anything… thank you!