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They're in: Sixth year / summer vacation

Recap: "Leave her alone, what has she done to you?" a guy said. A guy with red hair.

"Well, it's more than the fact that she exists, if you know what I mean." (A/N: sorry, I just had to use James's line from the fifth book.)

"If her existence bothers you, then you should go exist somewhere else!" Thomas's voice had risen now and the people who were sitting nearby were looking.

Anna and Jopelle were looking a little nervous and decided they didn't want to make a mountain out of a mole hill. They left and smirked at Lily. "You just wait . . ." Jopelle sneered venomously. "You'll see what happens where you're all alone . . ."

Chapter Eight:

Jopelle and Anna left, leaving Lily a bit frightened. Would they really do something to me? Or are they just saying it so I'll get scared? Lily turned to face Thomas and opened her mouth to thank him, but she couldn't. There was something about the concern he showed on his face. "Thanks," she finally managed to say.

A smile split on Thomas's face and he said, "Don't let them get to you. They only say that to make themselves feel better."

Lily became lost in his green eyes, they had specks of hazel in them . . . "I know."

They were so close to each other. Lily's face was only a few inches away from Thomas's, and the gap was starting to close . . .

Someone dropped something made of glass, and it shattered, making a very loud noise. Lily snapped back and looked around to see who had done it. James had dropped it, and he looked quite angry. He glared at Lily and Thomas and stormed to him dorm.

Sirius looked at them and said a quick spell and all of the fragments of glass came together to form a beautiful box. He looked at them, shook his head and followed his friend.

Who does he think he is?! He thinks he can just, ugh! James was pacing around his dorm. He had just arrived from sneaking to Hogsmeade; he had bought Lily a gift.

It was a glass jewelry box, it was small, but it was beautiful. The box had intricate designs and he latch was made out of silver.

And he had dropped it. He dropped it because of that scum!

He thinks he can just kiss my Lily! James train of thoughts crashed, my Lily? Where had that come from?

Sirius walked in and walked over to James. "Here," he said, handing him the glass box.

"I thought I broke it."

"I repaired it," Sirius said casually. "You know, you can tell me anything. You can tell me if you like her . . ."

James head snapped up and he looked sharply into Sirius's eyes. "I don't!"

Denial, Sirius thought. "So, who do you like?"

James thought for a moment, "No one."

It was nearing the end of the school year, and Lily and Thomas had become great friends. Before Lily had met Thomas, she had hoped to be friends with James, but every time she said hi to him, he grunted and kept walking.

What was also strange was that ever since he had started going out with Anna, they seemed to be snogging only when she was around. Oh well. Maybe he hates me . . .

". . . so we can meet up in Diagon Alley. That sound okay?" Thomas was saying.

"Um . . . sure. When?" Lily said.

"I thought we agreed on that already?"

"Oh, right. I remember now."

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Lily had just arrived from the train station; she was used to coming home alone. She had done so since first year. She paid the cab driver and walked inside. "Hello?" she said when she arrived home. "I'm home!"

"No one cares!" someone shouted from upstairs. Petunia.

"Hi Petty!" Lily yelled in a falsely cheerful voice. She heard footsteps coming nearer.

Petunia came up to Lily and jabbed her finger into Lily's chest, "I've told you before! My name is not Petty!" She looked at Lily menacingly. "And you better not do anything weird, Vernon is here."

"I feel so loved," Lily said sarcastically.

She dragged her trunk upstairs to her room. She could hear Vernon talking sweetly to Petunia and Petunia giggling like an idiot. "Oh Vernon! Stop, you're making me blush!"

"Morons," Lily whispered as she shut the door to her room and cutting of the noise.

James had just arrived home with his parents and younger brother, (AN: I know he doesn't have a brother but oh well) and he could not stop thinking about Lily. Why? I mean, there were way hotter girls, in James's opinion. Why couldn't he be thinking about his girlfriend, Anna?  Yeah, Anna is so much hotter than Lily. And she's . . . well, she's hot . . .

But Lily is nice, generous . . . so what if she's not hot?

There was a low pop! in his room and his house-elf appeared saying, "Master James, dinner is served."

"Thanks, Lu-Lu, I'll be down in a minute."

Lu-Lu bowed, there was another pop and she was gone. James walked down to the dinning room and sat down next to Sirius. "So . . ." Sirius said, trying to make some conversation between the Potters and himself.

"Guess what?" James said, as an idea came to him.

"What?" his mom, dad, brother, and Sirius all said.

"Chicken butt!" James yelled.

They all stared at him blankly. To emphasize that no one thought it was funny, Sirius said, "Cricket, cricket."

"Well, I thought it was funny."

"It was . . . about three years ago . . ."

Lily's life was becoming so hard to cope with. Maybe she should go back to the needle . . . No, I can't. I promised James I wouldn't, I'll draw. Yeah . . . The phone rang and Lily went to go pick it up. Damn it, Lily thought, Grandma. Lily grabbed a piece of paper to write down her new phone number, "Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yeah, I'll call you. No- It's fine." Why did Grandma have to be so talkative? She would not quit talking . . .

So, she began to doodle. When Grandma finally did hang up, (twenty minutes later) she looked at her doodles and did a double take. J? Why would I write a J--? Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no!

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Finally, Lily would go to Diagon Alley to meet Thomas. She would be leaving Petunia's insufferable ways. When she got to Diagon Alley, she went to Florean's ice cream shop. (AN: I don't remember what it's called :X

She ordered a hot fudge sundae and waited for Thomas. A few minutes later, someone sat across from her.

"Hi Thomas!" Lily said brightly.

"Hey," he responded just as happily. He helped her finish the sundae and they both walked to the necessary stores to buy the things they needed for school. They were just coming out of the bookstore when she saw James coming towards the bookstore with Sirius.

A/N: Hello! Yay! It didn't take me so long update this time, whoooo! Anyway, here's the response to reviews:

taniita: Actually, you didn't. Sorry, I didn't really explain how that happened. The Slytherins from the Hospital Wing gathered that much from Madam Pomfrey and spread it, because they would love to make a Gryffindor feel worse. And to your other comment, I'll never tell! :X lol

LiL AcE ViLLa: Maybe just a little :X. Here's the update though.

myst tyger: Everyone seems to think there is something weird with Thomas.

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Here's something I wanted you to know: 63rd reviewer gets to be in the story! (I know, I'm setting my standards a bit high lol)

Till next time!

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