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No More Miss Nice Girl
Chapter 17
Aimlessly wondering around Hogsmead, Lily looked through the shops' windows not really seeing what was there to be seen, but instead her mind drifted as she patiently waited for Kristi who was still talking with Egwene to make an appearance. Her thins arms were wrapped tightly around her body, trying to preserve her body heat and gain warmth. Arabella had left her to solitude after one of her old school friends requested her presence. She had turned to her and apologized profusely before departing with Cindel Bayhorn who hadn't really given Lily a second glance. Now almost an hour later Lily found herself alone and still waiting for Kristi.
True, Lily was never a patient person, but she found herself not really caring that it was cold and she was walking through Hogsmead waiting for her best friend and had been waiting for over an hour. She was much to engrossed with her thoughts and memories. The longer she stayed there at Hogwarts, a place that had caused her much torment, heartache, and ridicule, the more she took these little trips down memory lane. And oh how she despised memory lane.
Her memories of Hogwarts weren't happy. They were far from it actually. They were a constant reminder of why she had left in such a hurried rush and broken state. A reminder of why she detested so much here.
"Watch where you're going." A voice snapped at her.
She blinked. She hadn't realized she had run into someone. She looked up at the owner of the voice and frowned. The voice belonged to Ginger Gray, a girl that Lily didn't particularly like. Ok hated almost more then Crystal. With her dark, dark almost brown auburn hair and smoldering eyes, she had been a popular Ravenclaw and to boot was rather snotty. Now she stood with her pregnant twin sister, Fawn who was a Huffelpuff graduate, and one of their friends, Tim Michel. Truth be told Lily didn't like any of the trio, all acting like spoiled brats.
She remembered clearly quite a few times she had run into the trio, and the experiences hadn't been pleasant.
--- The content redhead walked through the halls clutching a newly-checked-out-library book in her arms. She was planning on reading it, seeing as she had already read most of her other books from home. She had wanted something new all week, but only today had she managed to actually get down to the library and check something out. She would have stayed in the library, but a certain Severus Snape had been there, and taunted her relentlessly. Thus, she was walking back to her common room.
"If it isn't Lily Evans the know it all reject." A snide comment came from her left where a small group of students where coming out of a bisecting hallway. She recognized the person who had spoken immediately.
Ginger Gray.
Ginger Gray was a proud and rather snotty Ravenclaw who prided herself not only on her looks but her brains. She was tall, had dark auburn hair, and dark smoldering eyes; that easily made her popular and one of the most sought after girls. With her was her twin sister, Fawn Gray. The two were so identical that the only thing that told the two sisters apart were the gold necklaces that told their names that they always wore. Another thing that told the two apart were their houses; Ginger was in Ravenclaw, and Fawn was in Huffelpuff. The last member of the little trio was Tim Michel, a tall dark boy who was also in Ravenclaw.
"You know what your problem is Evans?" Ginger asked purposefully walked up to Lily and standing on her left side, looking down at the shorter girl with barely concealed anger. Her eyes were cold, her lips turned up in anger? Disdain?
Ginger didn't let Lily answer. "Your problem is that you think you know everything."
Lily looked at Ginger, who eyes managed to look both frosty and scorching. Apprehension coiled itself around in her chest and throat. Ginger sometimes was even worse than Crystal and her entourage, and that was clearly stating something. However, what Ginger was saying wasn't true, but very much a faux statement. She didn't think she knew everything, she didn't even think she knew half.
Ginger got close to Lily's face; only mere centimeters and Ginger would be brushing Lily's lips with her own. Her dark eyes bore into Lily's green ones. "But the thing is, you don't know shit." She spat out at her, spittle flying rather unattractively out of her mouth.
Fawn and Tim crowded around her, staring ominously down at her. Their presence a threatening shadow at her back. They were silent, letting only their eyes show their coldness toward redhead. It was clear that Ginger was the leader of the little trio, and the other two were merely (besides her friends) her lackeys, followers, flunkies. Whatever it was the onlooker wanted to call Fawn and Tim.
"You sit there thinking your everything, thinking you know everything, thinking your better then everyone else." Ginger hissed. "But the thing is your not! No one cares about you. Everyone hates you. No one likes a know it all bitch who thinks she's everything, when in reality is just a pathetic thing-"
"I-I'm not a thing, and I d-don't think-" Lily began only to be cut off by Ginger, as her fist connected with her mouth.
"Bitch, don't interrupt me." She practically growled, not feeling an ounce of remorse at Lily's bleeding lip and tear filled pure green eyes.
"And what do you think you are? Do you honestly think one-person cares about you? I'll say it again and maybe the truth will finally penetrate that thick and ugly skull of yours." Lily stood there looking up at Ginger hurt shining like a blazing sun in her green eyes, but the other girl felt nothing.
"Everyone hates you because you think you know it all and everyone should bow down to you. No one likes people like that, haven't you heard? Is what I'm saying penetrating anything in that stupid head of yours?" She asked coldly.
Lily didn't answer. She looked down at the ground, anger and hurt mingling together. She felt the first of tears slid out of her eyes and down her cheeks. Not looking at Ginger, she didn't see Ginger's open palm coming. She did however feel it. It was sharp and painful, not as bad as when she had punched with a closed fist, but still it hurt.
"I asked you a question and I expect an answer." She arrogantly pronounced.
Lily looked up at Ginger. Her pure emerald eyes didn't just show hurt, but anger. Somewhere deep inside of her, the Gryffindor way down raised its proud head and roared.
"Yes it's penetrating. But its not people like me that people don't like. It's people like you Ginger. You hate me, because I'm smarter then you, because I got Head Girl and you didn't. I don't think I'm better then anyone Ginger and I'm not the know-it-all-wanna-be. You are you dumb bitch." Somewhere masked below her anger, her anger at Ginger, hell her anger at the past seven years, was shock. Shock that she actually had the courage to stand for herself, after all these years of letting people walk all over her.
Ginger's mouth hung open and her eyes were wide with disbelief. Fawn and Tim wore a similar expression. They had not expected that.
"Why you little-" Ginger began.
"Little what? Bitch? Is that what you were going to say? Honestly for some one so smart you sure do lack nouns and creative adjectives." Lily sarcastically snapped.
"How…" ---
That had been her changing point.
Lily remembered that day clearly. There had only been a few weeks left of their final year at Hogwarts, and she had finally stood up for herself for the very first time. She smiled contemptuously. Ginger and her two friends had been so shocked and angry. Though, she thought, they hadn't been nearly as angry as she had been. She remembered that anger, that boiling anger just waiting to be unleashed so it could rage wildly. It was that same anger that turned her into the cynical and sarcastic woman she was today.
Looking at Ginger now though, she laughed out loud at how pathetic Ginger and her two friends had been. They had hated her for being smarter then they were. No, Ginger and Tim had hated me because I was smarter then them, Fawn hated me because she's her sister's shadow. Lily thought.
"What are you laughing at?" Ginger sneered.
Lily tilted her head to the side. "Still doing all the talking I see." Lily turned her attention to Fawn and Tim who were standing only a little behind Ginger. "Don't you two have any will of your own, or are you just going to be her two bitches forever?"
Fawn narrowed her eyes, and Tim's ice blue eyes frosted over. Still, they said nothing. "They're not my bitches." Ginger snarled.
Lily dragged her eyes slowly back to Ginger, her head still tilted. Her eyes were wide and sparkling with amusement. Liar, Liar. Her thoughts became words, leaving her lips and laced with much amusement.
Ginger growled, her hands fisted together. Oh how Ginger despised the petite redhead. "Evans…" Her sentence trailed off ominously.
Lily adopted her best innocent look, looking at her with wide almost crazily amused pure emerald eyes, and a small pleasant smile on her face. "Yes Ginger?"
"Shut the hell up."
Lily blinked wide emerald eye outlined by dark kohl. "Why would I want to do that?" She asked, pulling her best childlike naïve voice into full effect.
"God you're a bloody bitch." That was Ginger's harsh reply.
"Still lacking in nouns and adjectives I see." Lily quipped.
Gingers knuckles were white, from clenching her fist so tight. A fine tremble had begun. Her anger had long ago surged to life. Her anger was not something people liked to witness or be on the receiving end of, because it usually ended with her getting into a fist fight- literally a fistfight. Lily knew this and had also noticed her flaring temper soaring higher. Lily being Lily, she egged it on relentlessly. Her excuse was that she was bored, that and the fact it just wouldn't be her if she didn't encourage Ginger's temper.
Ginger growled, "Evans I'm warning you."
Lily took no heed. "I notice your bitches, haven't said anything. It makes me seriously wonder if they are mutes. Or maybe they have an even poorer vocabulary then you do."
"For the last time they're not my bitches, and they aren't mutes. And I do not have a poor vocabulary." Ginger's voice was dangerously calm.
"Flunkies then."
"No."
"Shadows."
A growl was her only response.
"Tell me, are you Ginger's shadows?" Lily asked. Her voice, for the first time, reverted back to its cultured English accent with just a touch of something sexual and seductive. Her eyes though never left Gingers cold but blazing eyes. Where Ginger's eyes were angry, Lily's was wicked and taunting.
Fawn and Tim's response made Lily's smile grow wider; grow a bit crazy, sarcastic, and maybe even sadistic. Their response to her question: nothing. They stood staring blankly at her, glancing slightly at Ginger only once. Once was enough for Lily. A small laugh escaped through Lily's parted lips, a cold empty laugh.
"Don't talk to them." Ginger commanded.
Head still cocked to side, Lily studied Ginger with an intensity that would have made her squirm if she hadn't been raging inside. "Do you pick out their clothes and undies for them also Ginger? You've broken them nice and proper. You have yourself two fully dedicated lapbitches."
"Shut up bitch."
The wind blew Lily's hair. "Not your best riposte."
Ginger's closed fist swung out to meet Lily's face.
I couldn't believe what happened at the end of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Anyways, obviously this story isn't very canon like most of mine, but hey where's the fun in canon. Ok canon can be fun sometimes, but this isn't one of those sometimes. So yeah just thought I should point that out to any canon loving freaks out there. Also in the flashback/memory you'll notice Lily is bolder. I just couldn't stand to write another flashback of having her weak and helpless, had to give her some backbone. Anyone have any objections to that. So anyways here's the next chapter, review and tell me what you think. The more reviews the faster I update, or um have the next chapter typed out. So hoped you at least semi enjoyed this chapter. I'll try and have the next one longer, not promising anything here though. Ok I've rambled enough, so go review.
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