Hey guys! Here's the second part of this oneshot collection, and it's all about Lily and what she's thinking during the Halloween party.

And as usual, Harry Potter doesn't belong to me. It belongs to J.K. Rowling. I only own the characters you don't recognize and the storyline.

Happy reading! :)

Part 2 - "A Secret That Divides"

Lily smiled as she headed back inside the castle to join the other students in the Halloween Party that was held in the Great Hall. She had had such a fun discussion with James and she did feel a little bit sad that she had to leave. He was so charming despite the sadness and frustration caused by the breakup he had experienced earlier. When Lily had gone outside, and she had seen him sitting there by the fountain, she had prepared herself to get yelled at but James had been the exact opposite with her.

Tonight, Lily had learned that the king of Hogwarts had a sweet, softer side that she hadn't expected to see, and due to that, she had truly enjoyed being around him.

James had made Lily forget the whole argument with her friends quite effectively. Before she had talked to him, she had been on the verge of tears – which had been the reason why she went outside in the first place. She wanted to be alone, and just cry. Cry so much that she would be numb to everything else.

But James had been there, and without even knowing it, he had made her feel so much better.

Of course, when Lily told James about the argument, she had lied to him about the subject.

Instead of arguing over James and Julia, they had argued over something else that Lily had told them earlier that day – something that Lily had kept to herself since had been fourteen years old.

Lily Evans was a singer. A very, very rich and successful popstar called Satine White. She had had struggles with her debut, but gradually her music had resonated with the public, and her popularity skyrocketed so much that her releases had began to sell millions. She was now dubbed as one of the richest teenagers in the country.

Singing had always been Lily's dream ever since she had seen a music video of Melanie Attwood on TV. She had been singing and dancing there, and Lily knew that was what she wanted to be as well. With her parents' help she joined a music club held at the Attwood Music Academy – named in honor of Melanie Attwood in the 90s – and that's where Lily had been discovered at the age of 13 by manager Allison Smith, who saw her talents and brought her to the GD Music Group to visit the current CEO Norton Potter. He signed her up to his label and Lily began to work on her debut.

But Lily also faced a problem as she had begun to release her music – her friends. Alice and Katie hated the rich in general, and as Lily became more and more known as Satine White, she also began to worry how her friends might react if they knew.

At the time Lily Evans was a coward, and thus, she decided to keep it to herself for a little while longer.

And for a while turned to weeks.

Weeks turned to months.

And months turned to years.

Suddenly it had been three years, and Lily hadn't told her friends about Satine yet – only because she was scared of losing them because of it as by the time she turned 17, she was rich. So very, very rich, and it was sometimes very hard to hide from her friends.

But then she got an anonymous letter saying

"Get ready, bitch. I know who you are, and I will tell everybody."

The letter had arrived the day before Halloween. Sender hadn't written it herself – instead, they had cut the alphabets from different magazines to and glued it on the paper. The letter had looked so innocent when Lily had opened it, and she had assumed it was just fanmail, but her insides grew cold when she read the message.

And that was when she had made her decision to tell Alice and Katie. They wouldn't just leave her alone, right?

Right...?

Lily sighed as she entered the Great Hall. Memories from the earlier events before the party were all coming back to her – and so did the sadness she had issues coping with. She felt so lonely, like an outcast. Everybody else was having the time of their lives as they danced to the music the DJ played on the stage, ate, chatted with their friends but Lily was alone with her thoughts again.

In the morning of Halloween, there was a Hogsmeade visit. Lily was feeling confident that when she would tell her friends about Satine, they would stick to her side no matter what. They were her best friends, after all! She didn't want to tell them just yet though, because she was excited to go to the Hogsmeade just like they were.

The visit to the village went well. They had a lot of fun – while Lily secretly drooled after the more luxurious things in some stores – and they bought their usual candy and other things. Alice and Katie had their usual rant about the rich students whenever they saw them carrying designer bags and such, and Lily was sure they were just super jealous because they couldn't afford any of it. Lily smiled when she saw James pass them with Julia – he was definitely doing his best to make his girlfriend happy as everyone knew they had had lots of issues in their relationship – they both looked happy, which also annoyed Alice and Katie.

When the trio got back to school, Lily was nervous. She was going to tell her friends about Satine and after the visit to Hogsmeade, her confidence had dropped little by little. Was it really a good idea? But then again, wouldn't it be better if she told them herself rather than they'd hear it from someone else?

Lily decided to go for it no matter what. She was in trouble and needed help because if someone knew her identity, it meant that someone was a student at Hogwarts. Lily was planning to tell her friends so she could ask them to keep an eye on students while she was busy with her work as Satine White.

So when Lily entered Alice's and Katie's dorm room, she turned around to face them and told them she was Satine White immediately.

Their reaction to her secret wasn't what Lily had hoped.

"You were one of the rich bitches all this time, Lily!?" Alice exploded. "You should've told us earlier so we could've told you to not to do it!"

What the hell? Was all Lily could think.

"First of all, I wasn't rich the whole time, Alice. I'm from a middle class family who just happened to be lucky enough to succeed with her dream", Lily just said aloud. "And second of all, why is it such a huge problem to you that I wanted to chase my dream?"

Her friends were looking at her like she was nothing but a stranger to them.

"Your dream could've been achieved in a less richy way", Katie calmly said. "Like being an indie artist and sing in small bars and such. Why didn't you go for that? You know how we feel about the rich, and we thought you shared our beliefs."

"I've never shared your beliefs regarding the rich, Katie", Lily said firmly. "As for your attitude regarding my dream, why do you want to bring me down and criticize me for being the way I am now?"

"Because you were born as a normal human being, Lily. You should just live with that and put these kinds of dreams aside", Katie said. "It's a foolish dream for a girl like you."

Oh Merlin, seriously? Lily had thought, feeling offended by their attitude.

"You're not the person we thought you were", Alice joined the discussion. "You're something that we both despise strongly."

"Wow", Lily said. "Just wow. You're gonna turn your backs on me simply because I happen to be successful in life, huh?"

"We have no other choice, Lily, we can't trust you to be true to us because you're obviously lying. You've been hiding your rich girl lifestyle from us all this time, we see it clearly now", Alice told her while Katie nodded next to her.

"Well then", Lily said and began to walk towards the door, feeling angry and betrayed. "If you're ready to put me into the box of your delusional views on rich people then be my fucking guest, you two. I will go find better friends, who won't turn their bloody backs on a friend in trouble!" she yelled as she opened the door.

"Go ahead, Red, we wouldn't care less", Alice answered. "Go deal with your rich kid issues alone so you'll learn life is a bitch for once!"

Lily didn't even bother answering to her nasty remark. She only slammed the door shut as loudly as she could and was glad when she heard something fragile drop on the floor and break into pieces. She felt no sympathy for her ex-friends after that discussion. She was so done with them and their bs, but knew that later she would become sad about it.

But she wouldn't be the one to ask forgiveness, she had done anything wrong. Although Lily was pretty sure that she wouldn't forgive them this time. This had been the worst possible argument she had ever had with them and it was definitely something that had broken her bonds with them beyond repair.

Lily went to her own dorm room to get ready for the Halloween party. She shared it with four other rich girls, Julia Woodstock and her bestie Nadia Corralez as well as two other rich girls called Lynn Knight and Lisa Jones. Lily had stayed there with them since the first grade, and she did get along with all of them even though Julia and Nadia had been against it a lot at first. They had complained about it but McGonagall had told them to just deal with it so they did exactly that.

"What was that door slam we heard a moment ago?" Lynn asked while she was applying makeup on her face while sitting on her bed.

"It was me", Lily said. "I had a fallout with my besties and I expressed my fury by slamming the door. I hope it broke something I've given them to symbolize the end of our friendship", she went on without even trying to stop herself.

"Ah, the fallouts", Lisa sighed. "I can relate. I've lost all my middle class friends since my family got rich. They were so jealous of me for being able to buy the luxurious items..."

"Why did you argue?" Lynn asked Lily, who had just taken out her forest fairy outfit for the party.

"I have a secret that I finally had enough courage to reveal to them and they decided that I was an asshole because I'm not really that poor I pretend to be", Lily said.

"Ohhh, Lisa, I told you, Lily's really a filthy rich bitch like us!" Lynn said excitedly.

"Darn, how do you notice that so easily anyways?" Lisa asked in awe as she gave her some galleons – they had a habit to make bets about everything and Lynn usually won every single one.

"It's a secret skill that I got", Lynn said. Then she turned to Lily, "You're welcome to be our friend from now on, if you like."

"Aren't we already friends though?" Lily asked, raising her eyebrow.

"Touche", Lisa agreed and smiled to Lily.

Lily saw her ex-friends at the Halloween party twice. They had had fun in their own little group like they had no worries in the world anymore. Lily had once belonged to the group as well, but with the fallout with her friends, Lily was sure that none of them wanted her to join them anymore. By the looks on their faces, Katie and Alice had told something to them, but Lily was sure they had left the Satine part unsaid because in that group lots of people were fans of the said singer and Lily knew her ex-friends well enough to know that they had no interest in letting them talk to the rich people at all.

Lily spent her time at the party with Lisa, Lynn and Lisa's boyfriend Heath on the other side of the Great Hall – which was the rich people's side – and she knew lots of students were wondering why Lily was there. At that moment Lily didn't care about it that much. She just wanted to have fun as much as she could, and her new friends helped her with that a lot by telling her funny stories that really made Lily laugh.

The next time Lily saw her ex-friends was when Julia Woodstock dumped James Potter in front of everybody – on the dance-floor where they had been dancing to slow song. Lily could see how James' heart broke into million pieces with just one look into his eyes. The usual sparkle that he had on the corner of his eye disappeared. Lily felt so bad for him, as did her new friends as well.

"Poor James", Lynn said. "He worked so hard to fix the issues they had in their relationship..."

"Did you see them on the date today, Lily? They looked so happy!" Lisa said.

Lily only nodded. She felt the anger build up inside her when she saw her ex-friends and their stupid little group laugh and make fun of James every time he passed them. They were pleased with the pain that he was going through, and it really annoyed Lily.

"Julia's little kingdom has finally fallen!" yelled one of the group in an enchanted voice. "Let's celebrate this historic event by showing how the middle class parties better than they do!"

Everyone on their side of the hall cheered at that.

"Disgusting", Lily heard some rich students say.

"Middle class students have no class."

"Maybe we should leave and have our own private party somewhere?"

Lily decided she needed to get out of the school at that point as she felt so annoyed by her ex-friends' little group's weird behaviour. She walked out of the Great Hall and headed outside, where she felt like she could finally calm down as she breathed in the cold October air. She began humming one of her newer songs called "Towards Tomorrow".

That's when she had seen James Potter outside sitting by the fountain, and had ended up having one of the best moments of the day with him.

I can't stop thinking about that gorgeous smile of his. I can't believe Julia broke up with this guy, Lily thought as she rejoined her group.

"Did you enjoy the fresh air?" Lynn asked as she sat down.

Lily nodded. "I met James outside, and we talked for the first time ever, and I learned he's actually really sweet guy behind all that show off character thing he pulls off in the public."

"James is amazing", Lisa agreed. "I don't understand how Julia could dump him like that. She's gonna regret it later."

"I think it's for the best", Lynn disagreed. "Their personalities didn't mix together well."

"I'm with Lynn on this one, honey", Heath said. "That relationship was doomed since the beginning."

"I didn't think it'd last this long either", Lily said. "I hope he finds happiness now."

"With you?" Heath teased.

"I wouldn't mind it, if I'm completely honest with you", Lily said honestly and grinned. "He's my type of a guy."

But the problem with that idea would still be Satine. Lily was still keeping it a secret from everybody else, and dating James while holding onto that would end up in a disaster, she was sure of it. People weren't dumb enough to not to realize who Lily was in the long run. They would start noticing similarities and then count it all together and realize Satine was among them all along, and Lily wasn't ready for that storm just yet.

This secret prevents me from dating an attractive guy, Lily thought, feeling sad about it. Maybe I should expose myself just to have a chance with James? She wondered.

What a frightening thought.

Lily had so much fun at the party after she had talked with James. She was able to forget everything that made her life miserable, but she also forgot Satine completely. It was so much fun to be carefree and just laugh and enjoy her time – of course, she noticed her ex-friends were annoyed that she was in a good mood, but Lily decided to ignore them – so by the time the party was nearing its end, Lily was exhausted from all the dancing and was sitting on a table again, rubbing her feet as she watched her new friends still dance. Lisa and Heath were dancing to a ballad and Lynn also had someone to dance with. Lily didn't know who it was, but she was sure Lynn was going to get very cozy with him after the party.

"Hey, redhead", said a voice from behind her suddenly.

Lily turned to look and saw James' friends Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Piskuilan standing there. "Hey, boys", she greeted.

"Have you seen James? We've been looking all over for him", Sirius asked.

"I saw him outside earlier. He said he's going to Gryffindor tower."

"Ohh, why didn't we check our common room?" Peter asked.

"I dunno, Pete, we're dumb?" Sirius said to him over his shoulder. "Thanks, redhead", he told Lily as he and the rest of them left the Great Hall.

And Lily had James' gorgeous smile on her mind once again. She had definitely still having that crush on him that she had tried to get rid of for so long. Lily had fell for him in the third grade, and had always secretly hoped that he would dump Julia and notice her instead, but it wasn't going to happen. Then, after her second album, Feel, Lily had been so frustrated with herself for having feelings for him that she decided to turn them into an album. The project was known as faded, and when Lily was in her sixth grade, it became her most successful album ever. Lily had thought she had gotten over Mr. Charmer with that album, but she could feel how her heart pounded in her chest as she thought of him.

Shit, Lily thought and sighed. Oh well, at least now he's single and I actually spoke to him already so the situation might be different. Maybe I'd have a chance with him...?

It might be dangerous to hope for that, but Lily was always trying to be optimistic either way, because if she had been sad all the time, her life would be miserable until the day she died.

"Alright", said an enchanted voice of the Head Boy's – Hamilton Hodges' – on the stage. "Now that the party is nearing its ending, it's time to choose the King and Queen of our party."

Students who were still present in the Hall cheered.

"Let's reveal the queen first", Hamilton said. "Clarissa, do you have the results?" he asked from the beautiful blonde standing next to him.

Clarissa Winehouse showed the letters to everybody and they cheered.

Lily, on the other hand, was sure that Clarissa and Hamilton had something going on between them because they smiled to each other all the time, and they always avoided touching each other. But everyone knew their families were rivals in the industry world, so their relationship wouldn't be approved by their parents. So, if they had a forbidden relationship going on, they did pretty good job at hiding it from everybody.

Clarissa opened the first envelope. "The Queen of our dress party is..."

The Hall was silent as they were eagerly expecting the results to be revealed. Lily noticed that a lot of girls were already walking towards the stage as if they were thinking they were the obvious queens of the party. Lily thought it was funny because as they went, they shot death glares at each other.

She chuckled and covered her mouth, hoping that no one saw that.

"...Lily Evans!"

"What?" Lily said, completely shocked, as she stood up from her chair and walked over to the stage. How could she win this? She had tried her best to not to attract so much attention to herself!

What the hell am I doing here? Lily wondered as Hamilton put the crown on Lily's head.

"What's the story behind your outfit?" Clarissa asked her.

"I'm a forest fairy. Just something I came up with last weekend", Lily answered, even though she was very aware it was almost like one of her outfits in her older music videos and hoped nobody will notice it. She had drawn ideas from that outfit into this one while thinking nobody would ever pay so much attention to her. Now she realized how wrong she truly was.

"Very nice outfit indeed, Lily", Hamilton said and smiled. "And now the king. Clarissa?"

Clarissa nodded. "The King of the party is..." she said and opened the second envelope.

Lily only hoped it wouldn't be anyone annoying, or anyone from the group of her ex-friends because they were all looking at her mockingly, sneering at her and checking her out in a way that Lily did not like at all. She felt really uncomfortable standing there.

You people make me sick, Lily thought as she shot a death glare at their group.

"...James Potter!" Clarissa's voice called.

Most students were cheering loudly as his name was mentioned, and even more when he walked through the crowd towards the stage. His hair was a total mess, and Lily could see someone's lipstick on his white shirt and even a hickey on the side of his neck.

Did he really find a rebound this fast? Damn, if he did, he's really good, Lily thought. Still, he looks absolutely gorgeous as usual.

"What's the story behind your outfit?" Hamilton asked as James had been crowned.

"I'm a secret agent in disguise", James said.

Well, well, Mr. Bond, Lily thought and smiled to him knowingly.

"Judging by your expression, Lily, you know what he's talking about, huh?" Hamilton asked.

"Yes, I do", Lily said. "Also, are you trying to hook us up, Hamilton?"

"Damn, you got me", Hamilton said and laughed.

"Well, it's time for you two to charm us with your dancing skills then", Clarissa said, smiling.

These two are trying to hook us up. Definitely, Lily thought as James took her hand in his and guided her to the dance-floor for the last dance of the evening.

"Did you really find a rebound this fast, James?" Lily asked as the music began to play.

"I literally had a line of girls in front of me right after you left", James laughed.

"Good for you, James", Lily whispered into his ear. "Mr. Bond", she teased him.

"Careful now, you might find yourself from my bed, Lily. I'm really good at charming ladies", James whispered to her ear.

Lily chuckled. "I'm in danger."

"Very much so, but let's be friends anyways."

"Yeah, let's."

And this one's done. I think I had planned to have a Satine concert here in one version, but I wasn't sure about that part so I just ended this chapter at a part where that concert might have taken place in the story.

The next part will be called "A Game of Secrets", and there story starts to get a little bit more intense, but it was fun to write anyways.