-1I hope you all like this chapter…it was a lot of fun to write, that's for sure! It's short and pretty pointless as far as plot wise…but funny AND it introduces Jasmine and Rose, who are going to be every bit as important as Lily, so enjoy!
"Hey Lils." Rose Windsor said looking up from her diary when Lily walked into the dorm. Rose was the shorter of the three with long blonde hair and big green eyes. She was born to a very old wizarding family and had constantly been in the company of Sirius and James growing up. Before the war started, the Blacks, Potters and Windsors had all been great friends, but when Voldemort started rallying, everyone was forced to choose sides, and that had been one issue the families disagreed on. Though the Potters and Windsors were still friends, neither family had spoken to the Blacks in ages. Except for Sirius of course, Sirius was always the exception in the Black family.
"Hey." She said, collapsing onto her canopy bed.
"I see you ran into Potter again." Jasmine commented, not tearing her gaze from the magazine she was engrossed in. Jasmine Marietti was the exact opposite of Rose, taller than both Lily and Rose, she had medium length curly black hair and the bluest eyes you can imagine. She was born to the wealthiest wizarding family in Italy. Though the Mariettis remained neutral in the war, their loathing of muggles was obvious. Jasmine, however, could care less about blood. She was a natural born flirt and was constantly in the company of at least one young man.
"I…I don't know what your talking about. Why would you say that?" Lily asked looking at Jasmine, trying to mask her uneasiness.
Jasmine looked at Lily and raised her perfectly arched eyebrows. "Because your red in the face and look like you want to strangle someone." She said, blinking at her.
"Are you alright?" Rose asked, sitting cross legged on her bed.
"I'm fine. He just…eugh." She sighed wrinkling her nose. "I can't stand him."
"We know." Jamsine said if sounding a little exasperated. "What I want to know is if Sirius was there. And if he was, was he with anyone. And if so, who?" She asked curiously. Lily rolled her eyes, not that Jasmine noticed.
"No Jazz. I didn't even see that sorry excuse for a human being." She told her. Jasmine smiled to herself and twirled a piece of raven hair around her finger.
"Well. I'm allowed to ask aren't I?" She laughed. "Besides Lily, he's really not nearly as bad as you make him out to be."
"Oh no, I'm sure he's just as bad as I make him out to be. Because, you see Jazz, I pay closer attention to personalities than looks." Lily told her looking pointedly at Jasmine.
"Both of you, stop." Rose sighed exasperatedly. "You're both entitled to your own opinions--"
"Well, at least the entire female population of Hogwarts doesn't think I'm off my rocker for not going out with James Potter." Jasmine said idly flipping her hair over her shoulder and shooting Lily a challenging look.
"At least the entire male population at Hogwarts doesn't see me as easy" Lily shot back, her eyes blazing. "because I'll date any guy halfway decent looking." Jasmine widened her eyes at Lily.
"Honestly you two! Take it downstairs at least. I'm trying to write." Rose said irritably.
"You aren't going to try to stop us?" Jasmine asked in shock.
"Yeah, at the rate we're going we just might kill each other!" Lily added.
"No, I know you better than that. Just take it somewhere else." Rose sighed.
"If I kill her…" Jasmine started as she headed towards the door.
"Oh don't worry, if anyone kills anyone…my bets on Lily." Rose said with a slightly amused smile as she continued to write in her notebook. Lily smiled contentedly and followed a sulking Jasmine down stairs and out of earshot.
"Now where were we?" Jasmine asked, tilting her head thoughtfully.
"Oh! I had just called you a shameless flirt." Lily nodded.
"Right! Well that's easy for you to say. Who was the last guy you dated? Jackson Davis in third year?" Jasmine laughed loudly.
"You know perfectly well that the only reason for that is everyone's too scared of Potter to ask me out anymore!" Lily returned. "And how many guys have you dated this past year? Twenty?"
"Fifteen!" Jasmine exclaimed indignantly. "And…and you have ugly hair!" She added. Sirius poked his head out of their dorm.
"Hey, look! Marietti and Evans are about to murder each other." He said, hurrying downstairs, followed by a very interested James and Remus.
"I do not!" Lily gasped. "At least my hair's not black." She told her, raising her eyebrows.
"Hey!" Both James and Sirius said very affronted.
"Well you're short!" Jasmine all but shouted.
"You're tall!"
"Bookworm!"
"Minx!"
"Know-it-all!"
"Flirt!"
"At least I'm not blind, Lily!" Jasmine shot, taking Lily by surprise.
"How the Hell am I blind?" Lily demanded.
"Oh Prongs…I think you're about to come into this." Remus whispered.
"Do you think they realize we're even here?" James returned.
"I doubt it…they're way too into this." Sirius said.
"Oi Evans! I'm always on your side!" James shouted.
"Stay out of this Potter!" Lily returned, not taking her eyes off of Jasmine. "Come on Jazz…why am I blind?" Jasmine hesitated, looking between James and Lily.
"Because…" She whispered. "Anyone can see he's crazy about you, and you still believe that he's just using you."
"You don't know what your talking about." Lily returned quietly.
"We can't hear you!" Sirius told them in a sing-song voice.
"That's because it's a private conversation half-wit." Lily said angrily.
"Hey, don't call him a half-wit! I was going to call him a half-wit!" Jasmine exclaimed.
"Yeah…wait a minute!" Sirius said.
"I'll call him a half-wit if I want to!" Lily shouted. Jasmine was about to say something before she noticed Lily's necklace.
"Oh wow! Where did you get that?" She asked, pointing at the heart shaped pendant.
"Do you like it? My dad gave it to me as a birthday gift!" Lily said, fingering the necklace.
"It's dazzling." Jasmine nodded. "Sorry I said you had ugly hair. You know I'm envious of it." She laughed.
"It's alright. Sorry I called you a minx." Lily smiled.
"That's it?" Sirius asked, disappointment evident.
"You didn't really think we'd kill each other did you?" Jasmine grinned.
"But…but…you were both so…angry." James stuttered.
"So? We got over it. Of course we wouldn't really hurt each other. We were fighting about you for Merlin's sake…it's not as if it were important or anything." Lily laughed.
"Oh that's harsh Evans…though also extremely flattering." He smirked. She rolled her eyes.
"Actually it wasn't." She told him.
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