A/N sorry I haven't updated in a while it's just that I was drawing a blank for what to write next and even now im drawing a blank but I'll still write so since ur all dying for another chapter
Grief and Comfort
Rhia and Rory had been running around the castle for half an hour looking for Lily. She hadn't been in the Great Hall for breakfast and since it was a beautiful Saturday morning nearing the end of there school year they had planned to spend the day outside but now neither of them could find there best friend.
"Okay!" Rhia said while coming out of the library after looking for Lily in there. "We checked the Library, the astronomy tower, the dungeons, by the lake the dormitory… We did check the dormitory right?"
The two girls gave each other one glance and ran for Gryffindor Tower. They gave the password and walked in. As the portrait was shutting behind them they ran for their dormitory.
When they reached there room they looked around and noticed the hangings around Lily's bed were closed. They slowly walked over to her bed and pulled back the curtains. What they saw shocked them! The normally calm, level-headed Lily was lying in her bed crying her eyes out. She had many tissues beside her bed and her hair was messed up quite bad. Her face was red from the crying and her eyes were bloodshot.
"Oh! Lily! Are you okay!" Rory exclaimed after overcoming the shock of seeing her friend like this.
Lily didn't say anything she just shoved a letter towards the confused girl. Rory picked it up and began reading aloud.
Dear Lily, our darling flower,
I'm afraid we have some bad news Lily. Hershey ran away! We put up missing dog posters but no one had found him. We did however find him yesterday. Lily, I'm so sorry, but he's dead. We found him lying in a ditch near the highway. I know he was your absolute best friend when you were a young girl, but he was a very old dog, sweetheart. We miss u lots and we wish that you don't grieve too much over Hershey. He died happily knowing that you loved him.
Love Mum and Dad
"Lily? Are you okay?" Rhia asked again.
Lily slowly lifted herself up into a sitting position. "Whenever I was sick he'd lie down beside me and keep me company. Whenever I was bored he would play with me. Whenever I was upset over the way Petunia treated me he would cuddle up beside me to make me feel better, and now he's gone! He was my best friend! It feels like I just lost you two or the Marauders!" Lily then began crying again.
The two girls sat there saying comforting words and rubbing Lily's back. For a brief moment Lily felt like her mother was the one comforting her. 'I have two of the beast friends in the world' Lily thought.
After about half an hour of comforting Lily she had fallen asleep. Rhia and Rory took that as there time to leave and go tell the Marauders why they hadn't been talking to them in a while. They walked down the stairs and were surprised to find the Marauders huddled in a corner quietly planning another prank. The girls walked over to them and sat down.
"About time you got here! Wait, where's Lily?" Sirius asked.
"She got a letter from home saying that her pet dog died. We just got her to go to sleep," Rhia explained.
The Marauders all looked at each other and they all felt the same thing, sadness. They weren't sad because Lily's dog died, but they were sad because Lily was sad. It was kind of strange but they were all sad nonetheless.
The five of them sat there for a few minutes before James decided to speak up. "We should do something for Lily to make her feel better."
"Like what?" Remus asked.
"Like something to take her mind of losing her dog,"
"And that something would be what exactly?" Rory asked.
"I don't know, just something!" James said.
"What if we throw her a little party in our dormitory?" Sirius suggested.
"And what would we call the party? 'Good job on killing your dog Lily!' I don't think that's quite what Lily would want. I mean, the dog had been her best friend for over 6 years. She got him when she was five and they had been inseparable ever since. The only time Lily and Hershey wouldn't be together was when Lily was at school or at a relative's house. She really misses him," Rhia said recalling the story Lily had told them before she fell asleep.
"Well, what if we throw her a party in remembrance of Hershey?" Sirius asked.
"You know, that might just work," James said. "We could owl Lily's family and ask them for pictures of Lily and Hershey together and we could put them up all over the first year boy's dormitory."
"Ya, and we could also ask Lily's parents what her favorite thing to do with Hershey was and we could do that with her," Remus said.
The five friends then spent the rest of the night planning Hershey's remembrance party. The five people only went to got into their nice warm beds at 3 o'clock in the morning. They had spent all evening perfecting their party ideas.
Lily got up slowly the next morning and took a shower. After she got out, she dried her hair, combed it, brushed her teeth and got dressed. She looked in the mirror and saw that her eyes were still bloodshot and her nose was still runny. She walked out of the bathroom and saw that Rhia and Rory were gone but Alice was still sleeping. She walked back over to her bed to find a small note on her pillow.
I'm a large round room with an amazing view you can see Orion and Mars from me. What am I?
'Well, that's easy' Lily thought. She quickly went down the stairs and walked out of the portrait. After climbing out of the portrait Lily turned left and started walking to the Astronomy tower. After the long walk to the tower she found a similar note to the first one.
I'm big and ugly and I can only see u with one eye when I look forward I'm facing a portrait of a table of knights drinking wine and celebrating a victory. What am I?
Lily had to think about that one for a moment. Then she realized that it was the statue of the one eyed witch. She was becoming extremely curious now. She was even smiling because answering all of these riddles was fun. She started running for the third corridor. When she got there she saw the knights that were drinking wine and politely said hello. They said it back and then Lily went to the statue to find another note.
Now if I said 'pranks' who would be the first people you think of?
Lily then ran back to Gryffindor Tower and up the boys' dormitory stairs ignoring all the odd looks she got from the people in the common room. She got to the first year boy's dormitory and knocked on the door. When no one answered she slowly opened the door and called out all three of the boys' names. It was so dark in here that she couldn't even see the light switch. She slowly ran her hand along the walls and found the light switch. As soon as flipped it on she heard party whistles and people yelling 'SURPRISE!'
"What's going on?" Lily asked as her friends slowly appeared out from behind furniture.
"Well, when Rhia and Rory told us about your dog. We decided we would have a party in honor of remembering Hershey," James said.
Lily took a good look around the room and saw all of the decorations. There were party hats and banners. There were also balloons and streamers. And a punch bowl and an assortment of Lily's favorite desserts were placed on a small table on the other side of the room. Even though all this was making her remember what had happened to Hershey, Lily couldn't help but feel happy as she celebrated everything she remembered about him. The six friends spent the next hour listening to music, pigging out on junk food and watching a movie Lily and Hershey always watched together called One-hundred and One Dalmatians. Of course, they couldn't watch the movie until Lily explained fully what a movie was. After the movie was done Lily's friend's still had one last surprise for her.
"Lily we have one last surprise for you," Remus said.
"What's the one thing you always loved to do with Hershey in the summer time?" Rhia asked.
Lily thought for a moment and then said, "We always went swimming in the lake behind our house."
Her friends nodded their heads.
Lily's eyes lit up. "We're going swimming in the Hogwarts lake?" She asked.
They nodded again.
"But, what about the giant squid? And I don't have a bathing suit to wear," Lily said.
"Don't worry! We got Dumbledore to give us and area to swim in that repels the squid and we got your parent's to send your bathing suit to us this morning," Rory explained.
The girls and boys all quickly got changed into their swim suits and went down to the grounds to ump in the lake. Right before they all got ready to jump in Sirius and James gave each other a quick glance and they both got the same idea. Remus was just taking his shoes off when he felt to people grab him by the arms. He whipped his head around to see Sirius and James each holding one of his arms. He then turned to look forward again and found himself on the edge of the deep end of the swimming area.
"NO! NO! SIRIUS, JAMES LET GO!" Remus was then thrown into the water.
Sirius and James started laughing on the edge of the lake when they each felt a hand clench around there legs. Before they knew it they both found themselves plunged into the water. When they surfaced they saw Remus floating beside them with a famous Marauder smirk on his face. They both splashed him and soon it was an all out splashing war.
The girls were sitting on the side of the lake watching their childish friends have there water war. Rhia started getting bored of just watching and she grabbed her friend's, and linked their arm's together and they all jumped into the lake too.
The six of them spent the rest of their Sunday splashing around in the lake. Lily was no longer sad about losing her dog. I mean she still missed him a lot, but she wouldn't waste her life away because he was dead he wouldn't want that.
A/N and that's all for that Chapter folks.
