Chapter 2
Lily shut off her alarm clock as soon as she heard it go off. Unfortunately, she couldn't go back to sleep because sunlight seemed to find its way through her curtains, and she could hear really annoying sounds of birds chirping outside.
'Damn birds! Why do they always have to be so perky?' she thought to herself, as she slowly got out of bed. She realized that the night before, she was too down-hearted and tired to care to meet her roommates. So as she opened the curtains to her four-poster, she thought to herself 'Here it goes, I'm going to be living with these people for the next seven years….'
"Good morning!" Came a very perky voice from the other side of the room. Even perkier; Lily thought; than those blasted birds outside.
"Liz, SHUTUP! Some of us are just waking up, and don't quite appreciate your perkiness this early in the morning!" Said someone from the other side of the bed to the left of Lily.
"Yea, sure Theresa. We could all use a little more perkiness in the mornings! It gets you through the day." Liz replied to Theresa's crankiness.
"Sorry, but I agree with Theresa, and I think its breakfast that gets you through the morning, not perkiness." Lily almost kicked herself. Why did she always have to be the smartass?
"Oh, well then perkiness is what keeps you awake until you get down to breakfast." Liz said, smiling that she came up with a comeback.
"Ugh, Liz I think that I've heard better comebacks from turkey sandwiches." Replied a groggy voice from somewhere near Liz.
"You people are not morning people huh?" Liz asked.
"Apparently not." The other girls in the room said, answering her ridiculous question.
"Arrite, I shot shower first!" Said Theresa, rushing to get into the bathroom.
"Oh no you didn't!" The voice from the other side of the room replied. As both girls got into the bathroom, they were silenced.
"Whoa……" Said Theresa, obviously impressed.
"Yea, I read in Hogwarts, a History that the bathrooms are impressive." Lily suggested, on her way to the bathroom.
"You won't believe it!" Liz exclaimed, coming in, too.
"What is this, party in the bathroom?" Theresa asked; the first of them t get over the shock. Liz, Lily and the other girl just kept staring until Lily had to go make a smart comment again.
"No, just trying to get on with our morning routines." She said, walking into one of the gorgeously tiled showers, which were across from five different glass sinks under a huge floor-to ceiling mirror.
"This really is a castle…isn't it?" The other girl said, getting into the shower (different shower) next to Lily. Theresa was looking at herself in the mirror, before she got into the shower on the opposite side of Lily. The girls each took ten minute showers, and started doing their hair.
"Got any suggestions?" Theresa asked, looking at herself in the mirror. Her long, straight, gorgeous red hair went for a long way down her back, and her green eyes shone brightly, even that early in the morning.
"You look fine already." Replied Lily, truthfully.
"No, no, you got to actually give her advice," explained the other girl, "or she'll keep bothering us."
"Hey! I don't want advice just for the sake for getting advice! I want a real opinion." Theresa said.
"Alright, you're gorgeous just the way you are." Said the other girl.
"Beth! I know that you don't think that!" Scolded Theresa.
"No, you're right. I'd kill for your hair. Put it up in a half-ponytail."
"Bethany! Stop taunting Theresa!" Liz called into the bathroom.
"Yeah! Stop taunting me!" Theresa said.
"Theresa, your hair is ugly. Move so I can fix mine." Beth said, pushing past Theresa to get a better look at herself.
"Alright, let's go! We're going to be late for our first day!" Liz said, leaning against the door watching Lily, Beth, and Theresa fixing their hair.
"Fine fine, c'mon Beth." Theresa said, walking out of the bathroom.
"I'll meet you girls downstairs! I want to get my schedule." Lily said, walking down the spiral staircase into the common room.
Meanwhile…..
"Sirius! LET'S GO! We have fifteen minutes to get downstairs before breakfast ends, and first period starts." James said to Sirius, trying to shake him awake for about the fifth time that morning. Remus and Peter were waiting for them downstairs, and James was already dressed.
"Five more minutes?" Sirius asked, sleepily, as he rolled over.
"We don't have five more minutes! We need to get to the Great Hall now!" James said, giving up and going downstairs. He was halfway down the stairs when he heard Sirius scramble out of bed, and hurriedly get dressed. He met James Remus and Peter YUCK in the common room at about the same time Lily was coming down the stairs. They didn't realize she was there, or for that matter, she couldn't take her eyes off of James. She thought he was the most gorgeous guy she'd ever seen! His hazel eyes had a sparkle to them, which just made her legs melt away. His ruffled, jet black hair suited him so perfectly, and the way he stood up she could tell he was in shape. Like six-pack in shape. She knew then, that she wanted to be the girl he never stopped thinking about. She wanted to be his girlfriend. The thought of 'future husband' didn't come to her mind, as it did James's when he first saw her in an alternate universe, but she immediately had a crush on James Potter. She had fallen for the Potter charm…..hard.
Lily walked down to the Great Hall with the marauders not far behind her. They didn't care too much that she was there, heck, they hardly noticed. They were too busy planning their next prank. All Lily heard about it, was that it had something to do with water balloons. And white shirts, but she couldn't hear the rest, she wasn't even trying to overhear their conversation; she was just concentrating on not falling over her own two feet. When she got to the Great Hall, she slowed her pace a little, and plotted a way to find out where James was sitting, before she sat down. She decided on going over to talk to Jade; at least she could come back to the table to see where they decided to sit for breakfast.
"Jade!" Theresa called, as she walked over to the Hufflepuff table. Her friend looked up from her plate, and a smile broke over her face.
"Lily! I can't believe we got split up!" She said, looking a little down-hearted again.
"That's alright; at least we still go to the same school." Lily said, trying to get Jade to cheer up, if it was only a little bit. But she didn't help at all, and Lily gave up; eager to go back to her own table so she could see where James and his friends had decided to sit.
Breakfast went by quickly for Lily, sitting so close to James and his friends, being able to hear their every word. Her friends joined her five minutes after, and they all got their schedules. Of course, she was in every class of theirs, and she was pretty sure that she was in every class of James's, too.
We will join Lily in Herbology, which was right after her lunch:
"Hey, Lils….can I call you Lils? I like how that sounds. Kind of cute, yet nicknamish….almost like our secret lingo." Theresa said with a little laugh.
"Sure. I don't mind. As long as I get to call you Tesa." Lily couldn't believe how close she and Theresa had gotten, in the past day! In fact, they all had gotten really close, almost like they'd known each other for years.
Theresa wrinkled her nose at the name, she thought it sounded weird, but she said in response:" Sure, but only you guys can. If the rest of the school starts to call me that, you're switching back to Theresa."
"Alrighty then, so who do you think will be in this class with us?" Liz asked.
"Probably everyone that's had classes with us so far." Replied Beth.
The bell rang as soon as they got into herbology; but Remus Sirius and James were late.
"Sorry Professor Sprout, we got lost." James said, making an easy lie as he sat not too far away from Lily.
"That's quite alright Mr. Potter, but I don't want this happening again." Said Professor Sprout.
The rest of the class went fine, with the Professor instructing them on how they should set up their notebooks, and half the lesson being taught. But the worst part of Lily's day was about to come: right after the bell rang that ended Herbology.
"Hey, Sirius! Go long!" James yelled at Sirius, who started running ahead of the rest of the class. When he got to a certain point, he looked over his shoulder at James, who threw a football towards him. Lily didn't notice, of course; because she was used to boys playing muggle sports. But the witches and wizards who were pure blood weren't, they all stopped to watch it. The ball didn't go to its intended mark; it hit Lily right in the face, leaving a big red spot that covered her whole face. She didn't think this was too funny, but everyone else seemed to think it was hysterical. They all laughed at her. And she was almost too mortified to move, even though she did. She picked up her books which she had dropped in surprise, and marched right up to the castle, fuming and extremely embarrassed, that she had made a fool out of herself, in front of James Potter.
