Crossing the line

Disclaimer: I do not own these charecters, they are the creation of J.K Rowling. I probably don't even own this plot, so I won't claim that one either.

Lily was sitting on her bed, humming, and organizing notes for upcoming exams. O.W.L's were in about a month and Lily did not want to be behind on studying. None of her roommates were in. Alice, as far as Lily knew, was with Martha and a Ravenclaw friend whom Lily did not know the name of. Emily was with her film group for the afternoon, and would be out until curfew watching movies. Martha was with Hufflepuff friends, doing something stupid. And Liz was, well, she didn't exactly know where her best friend was. So Lily was left in complete silence, which suited her just fine. Just as Lily was putting her notes away, the door opened and Liz came in with a bang.

"Liiiillllyyyy" She rang, jumping on Lily's bed.

"Hmm?" Lily said, lying down

"I'm so tired, James was really drilling us today." Sprawling out on Lily's bed.

"I thought it was just a game for fun." Lily said, sitting up

"Well it was, but it didn't seem like it. I would have told you if you missed practice."

Lily and Liz were perfect for each other; they just balanced each other out. They were very similar, but at the same time, much different. They were the best of friends, ever since day one, they were tight. They didn't even know how it happened; it was just there, like magic. They felt almost like extensions of each other sometimes.

There was a resounding ring in the room, like a telephone, but lower, and some how much more happy. Liz looked at Lily and rolled her eyes, smiling. It was Liz's mum, who was using a device that Lily and Liz had created. A television set was hidden underneath the nightstand in between Lily and Liz's beds. Liz taped the nightstand with her wand, and sat down on her bed, pulling her legs underneath her. The TV set flew out from under the night stand to hover in the air in front of them, with the face of none other than Mrs. Kinsey.

"Darlings!" Said the exuberant voice

"'lo Sarah, how're you?" Lily said

"I'm wonderful, honey, how are you?" said the t.v, spinning to face Lily.

"I'm fine."

Sarah paused a moment to made a pouty face at Lily "I wish you were here"

"I know, so do I" Lily said

It was common knowledge that Lily sucked up to Sarah, and in turn, Sarah loved her quite dearly. Lily acted quite loud and obnoxious around Sarah because it made her laugh (though that wasn't hard to do). Lily was glad to be talking to Sarah, but was also really glad that she did not have to live with her, because she knew that Liz got annoyed quite quickly with her mum. Liz's mum was a good natured woman who seemed to make the word exuberance come to life, she was really funny, and enthusiastic, and for all of Liz's eye rolling, a really good mum. Lily liked her quite a bit, though was glad her own mother was not so loud.

"So," The screen said, turning from Lily to face at Liz "You'll never believe who I ran into today"

"I dunno, who, mum?" Liz said in a bored voice

"David and Patricia Diggory!" Sarah said, outraged. "God that man is a prick, you should have heard him. He was actually saying that it was a fluke that you blocked more than Amos! He said that the chaser was being easier on you because he fancied you!"

"Pft. Right. I'm a better keeper than Amos, even on a bad day." Liz said ruefully

"Yeah, All you have to do is feint and he goes soaring" Lily added

"I hate how he prances around as if he owns the place, with that vapid wife of his, it makes me want to hurl." Sarah said loud enough that Lily was sure all of Hufflepuff could probably hear.

"Amos is alright though," Lily said, now reading a magazine.

"Yeah, when he's not gloating about everything." Liz added in sour tones

"Give him time, he's only a kid still, how much credit can you give him?" Lily said, flicking a page

"he's in your year, isn't he?" Sarah said

"Yes, but everyone knows that boys take longer to mature." Liz said, reading Lily's mind.

"Right, well, I've got to be off, it's getting late and you girls should get some sleep, Jeff is calling me. We're going out to eat. Night!"

"Night" the girls rang in return

The television switched off and retuned to its home under the nightstand with a resounding thud. Liz commented dryly "we should really fix that" for about the seven thousandth time in the span of it's working days. The girls stayed up for a while longer, enough to see all their roommates for what seemed like the first time in a long while.

Emily was to first to come in, holding a pillow around the middle with both arms and grinning wildly as she always did after being with her film group. She walked over to her bed and sighing.

"Brilliant. It couldn't have been any better. We watched the goblin prince. It's my favorite."

"I've never heard of it," said Liz, who was half pure blood and half muggle born and knew her fair share of movies.

"Neither have I" Lily said

"Are you sure? it's a childrens movie, with a goblin that lives underground and wants to be a prince" Emily demonstrated by hopping around a bit and laughing

"yes, I think we deduced that it would have something to do with a goblin and a Prince, maybe both, based on the name" Liz said, making Lily laugh.

Lily liked all of her roommates quite a bit; they all were good people, no matter what their pasts were. Emily was the lightest of the group, she would speak her mind and defend all of her friends, but when it came up to standing up for herself she crumbled. She, however, was quite smart and quite good looking, traits which all of the 6th year Gryffindor girls seemed to share seemed to share in their own way. Emily was strange in her looks, she had large blue eyes, which some would say were too big and dark black hair, always pulled into a pony. She had a chiseled face, and a tall body, though she slouched a bit. Emily also had a knack for spilling everything about herself, and everything that was going through her mind, which was never normal and always blunt truth, usually making all the roommates clutch their sides with laughter.

"so what did you guys do?" Emily asked, pulling out a brush and raking it through her hair

"Talked to my mum" Liz said

"That's always fun," Emily said "Tell her I say hi."

"'course."

The rest of the roommates invaded the room and all of a sudden it became very loud. Emily disappeared to take a shower, leaving Alice, Martha, Lily and Liz to socialize.

"Soo… I hear that Amos has a crush on Liz." Martha said in a fake smug voice with an expression to match.

"What? Who'd you hear that from? That's not true." Liz said, giving exactly the reaction they wanted.

"Oh, yeah. I was talking to Sophie, you know, the Hufflepuff and she says he's got it good." Martha said knowledgably

"I highly doubt that." Liz said incredulously

"Oh, it's true." Jessica said, catching on

"How would you know, Jess?"

"Because she was there" Martha said smoothly.

Lily enjoyed all of her room mates quite thoroughly, Martha, Emily and Alice were all much very different people, but all were very compatible. And all of them loved to pick on Liz. She often had a quick, sarcastic retort for everything, was very out going and very athletic and brainy, in fact, most would say there was nothing wrong with Liz at all. She was very good looking in an unconventional way, she had eyes similar to Lily's, almond shaped, except they were Hazel, which sparkled and high cheekbones with perfect eyebrows that were a little on the skinny side. She had wavy golden hair that reached a little ways past her shoulders.

Liz did, however have problems that Lily knew full well about, for one thing, her athleticism and intelligence generated quite a bit of jealousy in boys and girls, and unfortunately that meant that rumors flew about her like no other, and people were very ready to slander her. Lily kept Liz going in a way. They weren't attached at the hip, they had different friends and weren't always together, but for the important stuff, they headed straight to each other.

Emily and Martha were pretty good friends, but their best friends were in other houses. Both were reasonably outgoing, though not out of the norm, and both had a good deal of courage. Martha was funny, in the giggly way and was always there to smile and stick her tongue out at you. She was very sincere and knew how to find humor in everything; she was also very laid back and went with the flow. She was school smart in certain classes, when she was paying attention, but did not have very good common sense. Alice was there to have a shoulder to cry on, the optimist of the group, she was almost there to motivate (which Emily then helped with). Alice was pretty in a conventional way, she had dark hair and blue eyes so dark they were almost black, but her main advantage was the fact that she was a heavier person than most; she could take care of things, and worked well under pressure. Alice was a strong person and was very good friends with Lily and Liz because of it. They watched each others and everyone else's backs. The three of them were very quick at school and were quite smart in physical venues as well. Martha looked different; she had a girl version of a square jaw, which was not unhandsome, light blue-green-grey eyes and quite red hair, which she died that way.

"Amos is a git." Liz said firmly

"Hmm, I used to watch him in class and I decided that he looks a bit like a leprechaun." Emily said, now in her pajamas and hopping on the bed in an odd uncoordinated matter.

All the girls stopped for a second and then laughed, all thinking about Amos as a Leprechaun. It wasn't so much that it was funny, it was more the fact that none of them knew what to say, as always around Emily. It was hard to know how to react, so they all just laughed.

"Why were you watching him in class?" Lily said, giggling

Emily reddened slightly and then laughed "I dunno, I just heard these girls behind me talking about how fit he was and I just couldn't quite see it."

"Oh great, it's just like me to get the ugly leprechaun." Liz stated unhappily, though a flicker of a grin was on her face.

Well, there's chapter two. I got bored and decided to write more. I'm a little upset that I didn't get any feedback though. Even if you don't like it, just tell me. I want to know what's wrong so I can fix it.