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Chapter 2: Making Peace
Lily approached the table and saw Remus and Alexis already sitting down side by side. She took a seat next to Alex and Melissa followed with Sirius and James. Melissa sat next to Lily and Sirius and James sat across from them looking at Remus questioningly.
A line of scared looking first years entered the Great Hall, and the sorting began. It lasted about
Dumbledore got up and everyone grew quiet to listen to his speech, "Welcome to a new year students. I would like to congratulate the prefects back and most importantly, our new Head Girl and Head Boy, Lily Evans and James Potter."
The hall broke into applause. Lily looked up at James. He had an unreadable expression on his face, but she blushed.
Once the applause stopped Dumbledore continued with his speech, "I would like to issue a word of caution to all of you. Voldemort is getting stronger and the threat of danfer is getting bigger. I have no intention of scaring you all, I merely want to warn you. Hogwarts is extremely ask, and all that I ask is that you don't do anything or break any rules that would risk danger to your lives, We here will do whatever it takes to keep you all safe. Howver, many of you are at your last year here and will soon be out on your own. There I would like to inform all seventh years that we will be starting defense classes. It is not mandatory, but I do strongly advise all of you to take it, and prepare yourselves for the dangers of this world. If you are interested, meeting here at eight o'clock tomorrow evening and you will be placed into different sections according to your ability.
"On a lighter note, Quidditch tryouts will be held Wednesday of next week. I also would like to announce that this year we will have some schools trips to go visit places for certain students. I will keep you all updated on this. Also, this summer some renovations took place here. I know that for those of you that are muggle-born it can be hard to leave the things and activities that you loved. There is now something called an outdoor rink for sliding on boots. It seems quite fun and enjoyable.
"My dear, I must say that I have talked for quite a while so now please enjoy the meal."
Suddenly, lots of food filled the empty platters and the Great Hall grew noisy.
Melissa looked over at Lily and asked, "So Lily, what do you say to those defense classes?"
"I'm going to do it. Dumbledore did scare me a little bit, but I think those classes could be a real big help to us."
"I think it's a good idea too," said Alexis, "I'm up for it too."
Remus jumped in, "Me too. What about you Padfoot and Prongs?"
"I'm in," said Sirius thorough a mouthful of food, "How about you?"
James didn't look up from his food and just answered, "Yeah sure."
Sirius threw a nervous look at Remus who mouthed later. Sirius nodded and everyone went back to eating.
Lily looked curiously at James and then the desserts appeared. Lily then glanced over at where Chris was sitting. He was now talking and laughing with Cassandra. Lily swallowed her anger and just waited for him to arrive. The only problem was that he didn't go to Lily until Dumbledore had dismissed everyone.
"Hey baby," he said to her as he took her into his arms, "I was taking care of some business. Sorry I took so long."
Before she could say anything, Chris kissed her and her anger with him quickly evaporated. He was a pretty good kisser.
"How about we take a walk to make up for lost time," Chris asked her as he pulled away from her.
"I actually have to go with James and Dumbledore to discuss Head duties," she told him.
"Ask Potter to fill you in when they finish. Tell him you aren't feeling well," Chris said.
Lily looked at him, "No I can't. I need to do my duties and James just saw that I'm fine.
Chris looked angry, " So you're going to ditch me for Potter, Lily? Is that it? I just want to spend time with you. But you know what Lily, if this is how you want to do it, then fine. We can do it this way.
Lily stared at Chris in disbelief, "Chris what are you talking about? You're being ridiculous. You took care of your business today of laughing with Cassandra and having a good time with her. I am now Head Girl and it is something I have wanted for a really long time. I am not about to forget about my life. It's time for me to take care of my Head business. I am not doing anything wrong. So see you later. Bye Chris."
Lily stormed off, her insides seething. She was ready to hit the next person that would decide to mess around with her.
James had been sulking about Lily by the entrance to the Great Hall. He saw Lily walking angrily toward him. She looked like she was ready to kill someone. She was about to keep walking past James, but James grabbed her wrist to stop her. She spun around to face him with anger burning behind her eyes.
"Evans, are you ok?"
"Are you and Dumbledore ready to go, James?"
"I think we just need to wait for Dumbledo-," James stopped mid-sentence realizing what she had called him.
Lily's anger disappeared for a minute while her expression changed to a questioning one.
"Well," said Dumbledore walking up to them, " I think we are ready to go talk about this. I'll show you to your Head rooms, and then we can discuss everything in there."
They followed Dumbledore and James could see Lily's anger return. Her fists were clenched at her sides, but she didn't say anything. Before James could ask her anything Dumbledore stopped in front of a bare wall with a gargoyle.
"Swedish fish," Dumbledore said, and the gargoyle stepped aside as the wall opened up for them.
"Erm professor, what are Swedish Fish?" James asked.
"They're a muggle candy and its really good and happens to be made with car wax," Lily said to him, her eyes still ablaze with anger.
Dumbledore nodded and stepped inside as the two walked in behind him.
James looked around with wide-eye amazement. He looked over to see Lily's reaction and saw she had forgotten about her anger for the moment and was looking around with astonishment.
The doorway led into a beautifully furnished common room decorated with gold and red. It looked magnificent. It was extremely cozy and the fireplace was going. There were two long tables that were for them to use to do work. There were also two doors at the far end of the room. The one on the right said LILY EVANS engraved in gold and the door had a big lily painted on it. The door next to Lily's was the bathroom, and the one next to the bathroom, directly across from Lily's had the name JAMES POTTER engraved in gold as well. On his door a big golden snitch was painted on it.
Lily looked inside her room. There was a full-sized bed and pictures of her friends and family on the wall. She had a wardrobe and her trunk was at the foot of her bed. There was also a small table in her room and a full-length mirror next to her dresser. The walls were painted a lilac color and the ceiling was white. She felt right at home.
She closed her door shut and went to go see James's room. He was already inside looking around. His room was pretty much set up the same way hers was. On the wall he had pictures of Qudditch teams and above his head was a picture of his parents, and a picture of him and the rest of the marauders. His walls were white, but there was a lot covering them.
Dumbledore cleared his throat and both Lily and James exited the room and went to sit with Dumbledore in the common room.
"Now you both know that being the Heads that you have inherited a great responsibility. There is a great deal that you two will be in charge of planning. Of course you will have the help of the prefects, but you two are the main people. For example, you two need to figure out if there are going to be any balls and you will be in charge of planning them. You are all in charge of decorating the Great Hall for holidays. You will be in charge of organizing any activities you would like as long as you have my permission. As you two heard today, I want to plan some trips perhaps, and I will need you two to help me in order to make my ideas a reality.
"On top of all this, you will have your normal class load going on, James I know you will have Quidditch too. At ten o'clock every night you both need to do rounds around the castle to make sure that everyone is in bed. Since there is so much that needs to be done and dealt with, you two will meet with me once every month at least in order to get caught up with things and you can run ideas by me. You will have to meet with the prefects at least twice a month to go over things. Do you two have any questions?"
"When is our first meeting with you going to be?" Lily asked.
"Well Miss Evans, I want you two to have time to go over things, so since today is Monday, how about on Friday we get together to talk. I'll get back to you about the time."
Lily nodded and then asked, "What about the details about the outdoor rink?"
"Ah yes, well I don't have it open to the school yet, but I do want it to be. I think on Friday we need to come up with open hours for it. I also think that we need to get skates and perhaps sell them to some students or have a place where students can rent them. We also need to take into consideration that many students have no idea what that is let alone know how to skate. So we need to find teachers so we can set up times for students to learn. Sound good Miss Evans?"
"Yes sir, thanks," Lily replied to him.
"James you are awfully quiet, but if you have no questions, I just want to inform you that you're the Quidditch captain this year," Dumbledore said to James.
"Sorry professor, thanks. I don't have any questions."
"Ok well classes start tomorrow, so you two should get some rest."
With that Dumbledore walked out of their room leaving a heavy silence between James and Lily.
Lily looked at James, sighed, threw herself backwards onto the couch and put a pillow over her face. Then she screamed into the pillow and James got startled. He very cautiously walked over to her and shook her a bit. She stopped screaming and took the pillow off of her face and looked at him. Her face was an unreadable expression, but full of emotion at the same time.
"Umm Lily are you ok?"
"You called me Lily…"
"Yeah," James shrugged, "You called me James before."
Lily looked at him in mock horror, "Oh my, I said James instead of Potter and you said Lily instead of Evans. The world is coming to an end."
James threw a pillow at her and she started laughing. Once she calmed down, James asked her, "Are you ok though?"
"Yeah I'm fine."
"Last time I checked, screaming with a pillow over your head isn't a sign of being ok. Plus before, when we left the Great Hall, you looked about ready to kill someone."
"Don't remind me Potter."
James's face fell. She had called him Potter again, "I bet it has to do with Chris."
"Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. What is it to you either way," Lily said to him without looking at him.
"Well if you're having problems with him already, then maybe it would have been better if you had just said yes to me."
Lily looked at him with her eyes ablaze and he knew he had gone too far, "You are such an arrogant prick. Just rub my problems in my bloody face right. You know for a second I thought you were genuinely concerned, but you just had to go and mess it up."
Lily got up and stormed off into the bathroom. James ran after her, "Listen, I'm really sorry. That was wrong of me."
"Just leave me alone Potter go bother someone else."
James heard the water to the shower turn off and figured it was no use. He looked at the time. It was 9:30. He would go visit his friends and then do rounds. He would make it up to Lily by not making her go with him. He went to his trunk and got out a piece of parchment and a quill. He wrote Lily a quick note and left it on the door. Then he left the room.
Lily got off the shower and saw a note attached to her door. It read:
Lily,
I'm really sorry. I was an arse to you and a big git. I shouldn't have said that and I'm really sorry. I know at the moment I'm not even close to the top of the list of people you want to be around, so I won't make you go through the torture of doing rounds with me tonight. Look at is as a part of my apology. Just go ahead and get some rest. Don't worry about it.
James
Lily took the note down and opened her door. She didn't know what to think of that. She found it really sweet of him to do something that nice for her. So far her boyfriend didn't even do anything like that for her. She sighed and walked into her room. She got dressed and climbed into her bed, her mind racing with a million and one thoughts.
At six in the morning Lily got out of bed. She was restless and had been up since five anyway. She needed to go do something and breathe in fresh air. She got dressed and put her school robes in her bag. She took everything she was going to need for the day with her because she didn't plan on going back upstairs. She grabbed her jacket in case she got cold and shrunk her ice skates to fit into her pocket. She quietly closed the door behind her and saw James sleeping on the couch in their common room. She walked past him quickly and quietly, hoping not to wake him up.
She was outside in five minutes and had her skates laced up. If there was one thing she loved more than anything else it was ice-skating. It cleared her mind and just let her think freely. She loved going fast and having the wind in her face and the feel of her skates on the ice.
"Trouble sleeping?"
The voice startled her from her thoughts and she looked to see James Potter watching her from the outside of the rink.
She skated over to him, "What are you doing out here?"
"I could be asking you the same question," he replied.
"Did you need to follow me out here and spy on me?"
"No, its just that someone happened to wake up as they were leaving."
She flushed, "I didn't mean to wake you up."
"It's ok. The reason I was sleeping out there was because I was going to bring you breakfast as the second part of my apology. I didn't want you to leave before I got it, but by the time the wall closed you had already gone."
"Thanks James. I got your note last night. I'm sorry too. I had a rotten evening after my fight with Chris and he took the last of the patience I had and I lashed out on you. I'm sorry."
"You know, I saw the whole exchange and I saw how mad you were. I think kept a hold of it pretty well. By the time it got to me though the anger was just itching to get out, and I'm the perfect one for its release," James said with a hint of a smile.
Lily looked at James, not believing that she had heard half the words that had come out of his mouth this morning. He really seemed like he was changing and growing up. He was actually a really sweet guy and--. Wait. I have a boyfriend. Stop thinking about James.
"Lily, are you ok? You look lost," James said, tapping her shoulder.
Lily shook her head to clear it and looked at James, and then looked away, "Why wouldn't I be?"
"Lily, that doesn't answer my question."
Lily looked at him and backed away and started spinning, "You know skating is the greatest. You can really fly when you're skating. It feels great."
James shook his head, "Tell me what's bothering you."
"Nothing. Look its 7:10. Let's go get breakfast."
James shook his head, giving up with trying to figure her out.
Inside the Great Hall, Lily took a seat between Melissa and Alex.
"Lily did you see the schedule yet?" Alex asked her.
"Nope," Lily said while pouring herself a glass of orange juice, "What's the story for today?"
"I don't know smart one," Melissa said to her, "We aren't all taking the same classes."
Lily rolled her eyes and looked at her schedule. It didn't look like it would be such a bad day. It did look like one of her fullest days of the week.
8:00: Double Charms
10:00: Potions
11:00: Muggle Studies
12:00: Lunch
1:00: Double Transfiguration
3:00: break
3:20: Double Defense Against the Dark Arts
5:20: (end of classes)
"I have charms and transfiguration with both of you, Defense Against the Dark Arts with Melissa, and Muggle Studies and Potions with Alex," Lily informed her friends.
"James and I have all our classes together," Sirius informed them all.
"Umm good for you two," Melissa told him.
Sirius snatched Lily's schedule out of her hand and examined it. Finally he handed it back to her and said, "Well Evans it looks like your stuck with me and Prongs all day."
Lily groaned, "Black, it really isn't necessary for you two to grace me with your presence. I can live without it."
"Now Evans, that's not a nice to thing to say, but anyway we all know you are thrilled about having all your classes with both me and James."
"Oh yes Black. You and Potter in all my classes is all I ever dreamed of," Lily replied.
Before Sirius could reply, someone touched Lily's shoulder. She saw James stiffen and figured it had to be Chris. She turned to face him and waited for him to talk.
"Good morning baby," he said to her, "Look, I know things didn't go well last night. I thought a lot about what you said and you're right; you didn't do anything wrong. I really am so sorry and I promise nothing like that will ever happen again. I really am sorry, baby."
Lily bit her lip. Could she really just let it go that easily? He did seem really sincere. It probably wouldn't happen again. And if it did, she knew it would be something she wouldn't stand for.
"Do you want to come here and sit for breakfast?" Lily asked him.
"Actually baby, I need to help out a friend in need," Chris said seeing Sirius roll his eyes and added," I don't think your friends would appreciate me here anyway. I'll come back and walk you to class ok?"
Lily glared at Sirius and James and said to Chris, "I'm sure that my friends wouldn't mind in the least bit. I'm going to head to class early though so I'll just see you later."
"How about I meet you outside for lunch since today seems like a nice day, ok? I'll bring it out for the both of us. Just meet me outside right in front at 12," Chris said to her while leaning down to kiss her.
"Sounds good to me," Lily said to him. She gave him a quick kiss before he left.
Lily saw James nudge Sirius and Sirius nudged Remus. Then Remus said goodbye to Alex and the three of them left the table.
"What's with them," Melissa asked.
"I don't think I will ever be able to figure them out," Alex said.
"The day that the mystery of guys is figured out will be the day that pigs actually fly," Lily said.
The three of them laughed and finished their breakfast quickly. Melissa and Alex needed to go back to their room to get their books. Lily headed on to class early.
Lily was about to go into the classroom, when she heard hushed voices inside the classroom. She stopped in her tracks and leaned closer to the door. It was open a little bit.
She leaned forward and heard Remus, "-out for herself."
Then Sirius said, "Mate, don't go telling her that her boyfriend is snogging other girls in the hallways. Actually telling her that won't go well at all."
Lily pulled away from the door. She couldn't believe James would tell her something like that. The only thing is, Lily missed the part of the conversation where James told them all he had seen Chris and Cassandra together last night.
Lily walked in the classroom and stood right in between the guys. She looked around at them, "It looks like I just walked in on an important conversation that must have some how have had something to do with me."
Sirius jumped in, "Evans, please don't flatter yourself by thinking that you are special enough to be the object of any of our conversations or worries. We all know that you aren't."
Lily rolled her eyes at the three of them, "Yeah ok, don't lie now, boys."
The rest of the class started filing in, and Lily picked a seat in the middle of the classroom. Her two best friends strolled in and Melissa sat next to her while Alex sat behind her with Remus. Charms was uneventful and although it was Lily's favorite class, she just wasn't into it at the moment. She pulled out her notebook and began jotting ideas down. She would have to run these ideas by James about different activities they could plan, but she had some really good ideas.
The main thing she wanted to start organizing was a Halloween Ball. It would be on the night of Halloween, and it would be for fourth-years and up. She wanted it to be a costume party. She needed to find someone to perform at it, and she needed to find really good decorations. It would be after dinner, most likely from about eight at night to one in the morning. The teachers would need to dress up as well. She would probably need to do a traditional dance with the Head Boy, but it shouldn't be that bad.
She stopped to think for a minute and noticed that a paper airplane now lay on her desk. She opened it and read it. It was from Sirius.
Lily,
James said he really needs to talk to you. He's too much of chicken to come out and say something, so I'm saying it for him. Can we say loser? Ok well just thought you should know darling.
SiriusLily looked over at where the two boys were seated. She saw James focusing on the paper in front of him. When she caught Sirius's eye she nodded and he nodded back. Then she went back to planning the ball for the remainder of the class.
Another long chapter I know. What do you think though? Thanks to all my reviewers for reviewing and giving me feedback. Sorry if there are spelling errors, I was writing this on a labtop in the car and it was bumpy.
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