Miss Cinderella
Disclaimer: Unless I'm getting a huge birthday present, Harry Potter isn't mine.
Chapter 2—Lily
By anybody's standards, nobody would think of Lily Evans as a Cinderella character.
She was nothing like a Cinderella either. A real Cinderella had an evil stepmother, two hideous stepsisters, always cleaned and who was friendless.
Lily, on the other hand, had two loving parents, a sister who couldn't stand her (okay, so Petunia could be the stepsister), she wasn't a cleaning woman and had two very dear friends—Tessa and Erica Monterey.
Lily was another thing too; extremely shy.
Nobody really paid attention to Lily because she was so quiet.
Lily was so quiet that when the Monterey twins (Tessa and Erica) asked people about her, they would give the twins an odd look and say, "Lily who?"
As you can see, Lily was shy.
Also, Lily (as in the real Cinderella) was extremely beautiful.
Her thick dark red hair fell straight down to her mid back. Her pale skin set off her startlingly almond shaped emerald eyes. (To Tessa and Erica they were her best feature)
Lily however, felt like she was a human Christmas tree all year round.
Our story begins as Hogwarts on a cold mid October day, right after classes end...
"Did you understand what Slughorn was saying?" Tessa Monterey asked her two best friends, Erica Monterey (her identical twin sister) and Lily Evans.
Erica shrugged and tightened her ponytail. "No, I was hoping you knew."
"You guys didn't understand what Professor Slughorn was saying?" Lily Evans asked, rolling her eyes. "It was easy."
The Monterey twins rolled their eyes. "Well, obviously for the smartest seventh year in Gryffindor," Erica said, hitching up her bag. "Now for regulars like Tessa and me, we had NO idea."
"Golplatt's Laws." Tessa wrinkled her nose. "They are so—"
"Easy," Lily cut in.
Erica smacked Lily with her bag. "Shut up you!"
"Watch out." Tessa muttered. "The Barbie's and Kens are coming."
The three girls started walking sideways until they were near the wall so they could let James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin pass by with their many admirers.
Yet, the 'Barbies' were the Marauders (James, Sirius and Remus) girlfriends.
Clinging to the Marauders (and looking increasingly snotty and plastic) was Kellie Crosby (with James), Morgan Jennings (with Sirius) and Marissa Everhard (with Remus).
Once the Barbies and Kens passed, Tessa, Erica and Lily walked back in the middle.
"I swear to god," Tessa said, giving the blonde haired Kellie Crosby a death glare. "How could someone that stupid be so nauseatingly perfect?"
"Genetics," Erica said, naming selections from the top of her head, "Make up and plastic surgery."
Lily shook her head at her two best friends. "Must you always say this when they pass by?"
"Oh come on Lils!" Tessa exclaimed. "They are so annoying! Especially Kellie Crosby."
"Yeah and Morgan and Marissa are angels." Erica said sarcastically.
"Guys," Lily said in a warning voice. "Don't be so mean. After all, they could be very nice."
"Oh yeah sure." Tessa said, dismissing it with a wave of her hand. "The day the Barbies become nice is when Snape finally gets a girlfriend."
"He does, you know." Lily said severely. "Some girl in Slytherin."
Tessa and Erica snickered.
Lily ignored her friends and said, "Anybody hungry?" She asked.
The Monterey twins gave each other confused looks.
"Why did she switch the subject?" Erica asked.
"I don't know." Tessa muttered.
The twins hurried up to catch up with their best friend.
--
"Don't eat so fast, Tessa."
"I'll eat as fast as I want, Erica."
"People will think you're a pig."
"I don't really care."
Lily groaned and buried her face in her arms. Must those two bicker every moment?
This was the one thing Lily hated about having best friends who were sisters—they always had sibling rivalry.
However, you really would never know that Tessa and Erica were really twins because Tessa dyed her hair jet black when she was fourteen and didn't plan on having it removed. She liked her hair black instead of light brown, like Erica, her goody-goody sister, who never swore.
"Would you stop acting like Mum?" Tessa demanded. "It's really starting to annoy me!"
"Well sorry!" Erica snapped. "I'm just telling you—"
"Uh, guys, please." Lily said. "SHUT UP."
Tessa and Erica had identical looks on their faces. "Why?"
"Because," Lily hissed. "I really do hate it when you guys bicker every day!"
The two girls fell in stony silence.
--
After lunch, the three girls walked to the Charms classroom where they instantly got to work on a review: turning mead into wine.
To Lily, it was quite easy and she was done within three minutes but to Tessa and Erica, it was quite difficult.
"Ergh." Erica whined pushing back some tendrils of some wispy lion's mane colored hair. "I don't get this."
"It's not that hard." Lily assured Erica. "Here, I'll show you."
Lily raised her wand and brought it down over the cup and instantly, the mead turned to wine.
Fortunately, tiny Professor Flitwick had been passing by.
"Excellent." He squeaked. "Marvelous job Miss Evans! A good earned ten points to Gryffindor."
Lily beamed with pride and shyness. Everybody knew that Flitwick favored Lily beyond anybody else.
"Now," Flitwick said, turning towards Erica and Tessa. "Miss Monterey—no the one with the black hair—please demonstrate how to turn this into wine."
In the back of the room, however, the popular girls and boys were sitting.
"Look at her," Kellie Crosby sneered; shaking her head so some of her perfect blonde hair fell into her perfect face. "Perfect Evans always gets the things right."
"I soo agree Kell." Marissa Everhard said sympathetically. "She is, like, SUCH a know it all."
"I never saw anybody so quiet too." Morgan Jennings said pulling her titian hair back into a low ponytail. "She never talks and she ALWAYS does her homework. Does that girl have a social life?"
"But you, like, have to admit." Marissa said, eyeing the redhead critically. "She is pretty."
Kellie glared hard at Marissa.
"I mean," the girl went on nervously, "In an 'I would never look at you twice' kind of way."
Morgan's eyes went wide. "What if our boyfriends go after the Know It All and those twins?"
Marissa's bulgy brown eyes widened. "Ohmigod!"
"Relax," Kellie assured her dim-witted friends. "Relax. Jamie, Sirius and Remus wouldn't dare go after those girls. After all, who is more popular? Us or them?"
"Us." Chanted Marissa and Morgan.
"Exactly." Kellie nodded her head. "But, just to be sure—"
Kellie curled her upper lip and turned towards her sleeping boyfriend James.
"Jamie." Kellie cooed. "Jamie."
James opened up one bleary hazel eye.
"What?" He asked groggily.
"What do you think of Know It All over there?" Kellie asked.
James looked confused. "Who?"
"Lily Evans." Ever so helpful Marissa chimed.
James looked even more confused. "Who's Lily Evans?"
Kellie gave a secret smile. Good, good. He had no idea.
"Her," Morgan replied, pointing a French-manicured finger at the redhead.
"Oh," James said, realization dawning, "Her. Yeah. She's smart."
"Thanks for stating the obvious." Kellie replied, rolling her eyes. "What do you think of her?"
"As in pretty?" James asked. "If she wasn't so quiet then yeah, she's quite hot."
Kellie frowned. "Hmph."
"Now, can I go back to sleep now? This class bores me as much as Binns' did."
Kellie's frown turned into a sweet smile. "Of course you can Jamie." She said in all of her sugary sweetness.
Once James fell back asleep, Kellie turned her ice-blue eyes back on the back of Lily's head.
Pretty. Pfh! I'm way hotter than her and I always will be.
--
"I think I got it—oh SHIT!"
"TESSA!"
"Wow, Erica, molten mead looks great on you."
Lily groaned and propped her head up with her arm. This was shaping up to be a very bad morning for Lily.
Oh, but this was just the beginning of some terrible mornings that Lily would encounter.
--
Harry stared at disbelief at the first chapter. His poor mum! He felt a strong surge of dislike at Kellie Crosby. He had a nasty feeling that she would do something terrible to Lily. (A/N: Oh, how right he is!)
"Nice," Ginny said. "At least we get a clear vision of Lily."
"Is that the end of the book?" Harry asked stupidly.
Ginny smacked him on the head. "No you prat! We still have Chapter two!"
"What's Chapter two called?" Harry asked.
Ginny looked down at page eleven.
"James." She said.
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Eh, there you go. The finished chapter 2. Yes, I know a snoozer but after Chapter 3, things will heat up quite a bit. Hehehe.
With the Harry and Ginny scenes pictured above, they won't be very often. I just put Harry and Ginny because I wanted you guys to see how Harry was taking the story so far.
Well yea, I'll try and put up Chapter 3 by this weekend but I got some finals coming up. Stupid American History...
Until next week!
--Greekchic