Oh wow….it's been a very long time since I even looked at Snape's Little Secret…Let's get those creative juices going then!

Chapter 10: Hogsmeade

The rest of the week went by rather slowly. I had detention every night and each night I was cleaning something or moving tables or cabinets around. On Thursday, Snape had me move all of the tables in the room to an intricate pattern, and then on Friday, he had me move them back. They were damn heavy too. They had to be at least 60 lbs a piece.

As I was finishing my detention, Snape came in, which was odd because all the past week he had not come in, but he just stood there in silence and let me finish nonetheless. "Can I help you with something, Professor?"

"Yes. I am here to inform you that you will not have detention tomorrow…or on Sunday. Professor McGonagall seems to think it fair that I give you the weekends off during your four month sentence."

"Thank you, sir."

"I see that you have finished your work." I nodded wearily, I had taken Hermione's advice and not used magic for fear that he'd come in and catch me. "Run along to your common room then."

"Yes, sir."

I headed out of the dungeons to find that it was only 9:30. Curfew was in thirty minutes, so I went up to the library to get some books for the essays I had due on Monday. I was grabbing a book on Ancient Runes when I spied Draco out of the corner of my eye. I quickly turned the other way and headed to Madame Pince to check my books out. Before I could get there, I was cut off by Crabbe and I noticed Goyle was behind me. "Hiya, boys. Did you want this book or something?"

They both scowled. "I don't think either of them can read, babe." Draco said as he slid out from behind Goyle.

"What do you want now?"

"Oh nothing much, just wanted to see how my girl was doing."

"First off, I'm not your girl."

"Then your Weasel's girl."

"No. I'm not anyone's property. And as I was saying, you have no right to be talking to me."

"Now why would that be? I've always been so nice to you."

"Don't even start with that shit. You haven't been nice to me since before…"

"Before what?"

"Before you tried to rape her!" Ron said as he punched Crabbe out.

"Can we just stop talking about that, please?"

"You want to know what she just told me, Weasel? She said that she never liked you. She finds you mildly repulsive and she only snogged you because she was upset and looking for something to get her mind off of it."

I scoffed in disbelief of what he was saying. I looked at Ron and his face was starting to turn red. Malfoy smirked evilly. "You know what, Draco?"

"What?" he said."

"Screw you!" I kicked Goyle in the nuts then punched Draco as hard as I could, right in the nose; there was a nice cracking sound. He fell to the ground, unconscious. I stepped over Crabbe and checked out my books. I headed back to the common room and I could hear Ron running to catch up with me.

"Lily, hang on a sec, let me catch me breath." I stopped and watched him inhale deeply a few times with his hands on his knees. When he was ready, he stood up and came over to me. "Was the running really necessary?"

"I wasn't running. I walk fast when I'm pissed off."

"Well can you walk slower the next time you're pissed? I think I almost had a heart attack or a stroke or something."

I smiled slightly.

"You think I'm kidding? I nearly took out like ten kids when I was coming up the stairs. I thought I was gonna die!"

I chuckled, "You really are a good kid; you always know how to make me laugh when I'm down."

"That's what I'm here for, the comic relief."

We sat down on one of the nicer couches in the common room and just watched the fire for a while. "Malfoy was lying, right? I mean…you know….you don't find me repulsive or anything like that…do you?"

"Of course not, he was just being an asshole."

"Okay…well that's good."

"To be honest, I don't think I could ever hate you. Unless…"

"I did something like what he did? I don't think I'm capable of that."

"Good."

An awkward silence ensued. The silence was broken only when Harry and Hermione came over. "I'm guessing detention wasn't that bad since you haven't gone to bed yet." Hermione said as she plopped on the couch between Ron and me.

"Eh, it was alright. I just had to move tables again. It's sorta like weight training. Maybe he's trying to make me super buff."

We all laughed and then we all just sat around and chatted for a while then went to bed, all anxious for tomorrow's trip.

When we got to Hogsmeade, Ron and Harry tried to hang out with us, but we reminded them that today was a sort of girl's day. They then went off and hang out with some other people. Now that we were boy-free, Hermione, Ginny and I decided to make the best of our day and start off with clothes shopping. We tried on all sorts of things: skirts, tops, pants, different kinds of robes cloaks and some hats. At this point we were joined by the very interesting Loony Luna.

Then we made our way to Zonko's and got ourselves some fun things to play with. Then we stopped by Honeydukes and bought some sweets to bring back to the school and ended our trip at the Three Broomsticks with several mugs of Butterbeer. It was only then when the guys approached us again and since they were had been good the whole trip, we let them join us.

"So what did you guys do?" Ginny inquired.

"Well, we went over to the Shrieking Shack with Neville, Seamus and Dean, then we all went to Zonko's and got loads of stuff," Ron pulled a bag off of the floor and showed us what they had purchased. Then we just walked around for a while, came here got some Butterbeers, then to Honeydukes and then back here."

"What about you? What did you guys do?"

"About the same but with some clothes shopping."

The four of us just looked at each other and smiles; girls and clothes, it's a wonderful thing.

"All right then…" Seamus said as he took a sip of his Butterbeer. The guys pulled up some chairs and joined us; Ron took his seat next to me.

We sat there in the Three Broomsticks for an hour talking about all the happenings of the wizarding world and I also told them about what was going on back in the States. I still find it weird that some people in the wizarding world have no idea what's going on in the Muggle world. I keep my cell phone around, even though I haven't used it since I came to Hogwarts. Owls are much cuter. At one point in the conversation, Ron put his arm around me. I nearly died because it was so amazing.

The following month or so went by and nothing of importance happened. Detention everyday except for the weekends; I constantly thank McGonagall for asking Snape for a reprieve. I'm surprised I went a month without be harassed by Slytherins. Apparently, that wouldn't last for long though.

One Tuesday when I was walking back from Hagrid's, I was stopped by Pansy, who jumped out from behind a tree. I tried to push past her, but she wouldn't let me past.

"Move, Pansy! I don't want to play your stupid games."

She smirked. "Oh…why not? My games are fun!" She pushed me back, and I fell to the ground. I motioned to get up, but she put her high-heeled foot on my chest. "Don't bother trying." Then out of no where four Slytherin girls came out from behind her. One of them had a rope in her hands. They came towards me.

"What the fuck is going on?!" I tried to push her foot off of me and get away, but she applied more pressure, nearly puncturing my skin. The girls grabbed me.

She laughed manically as the four girls tied me up as I tried desperately to get away. "You'll see. You'll see."