A/N: Hey guys! I'm back with another chapter for my oneshot collection of this story. I thank all those who faved/followed this story, it's great. :)
The song used here is called "Unrequited Love". It was written for the story in 2007 so my English may be a bit weird there at times. The song is on that untitled new album that Lily has been working on in this story.
And as usual, Harry Potter doesn't belong to me. It belongs to J.K. Rowling. I only own the storyline, lyrics used in the story and the OC characters and locations you can't recognize.
Part 4 - "Operation Revelation"
Sooner than anyone wanted, the break ended and school continued. Lily didn't feel refreshed as she had had to work so hard during the break that she was still very tired. Even on the train to Hogwarts she slept most of the trip and went to bed right after they arrived to school. She felt more refreshed the next morning, and she was in the good mood as she walked down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
"Those seventh years are so freaking lucky..." she heard some younger students complain.
"Why?"
"I heard a rumor saying they got a scheduled trip to GD Music Group next week. If it's true, I'm so jealous!"
"Oh my god, really? Those lucky bastards, ugh. Why can't we go!?"
"I know, right!?"
Lily could only smile and shake her head in amusement. Sometimes her younger fans were super hilarious to her.
"What are you amused about?" Lynn asked when Lily joined them.
"Some younger students were complaining about how lucky we are to get a chance to go to GD Music Group", Lily answered as she began eating her eggs. "They called it a rumor."
"Good. We might have younger students trying to sneak into our group otherwise", Lisa said.
Yes, the rumor in question was, in fact, real. Lily's class was indeed going to take a trip to the infamous record company, where also Satine White had signed up on. Their Muggle Studies professor Margaret Tremens had scheduled the trip for her Muggle Studies class but because the company required a specific size for the tour groups, the trip became available for all seventh years. Lily had signed up in September only to keep her facade going on but had since forgotten the whole trip completely because the letters had started to come. Now Lily wondered if people might see the truth because if Satine's and Lily's faces would be put next to each other, they'd look identical.
I don't know why I'm so worried though, my whole plan is to reveal myself after all, Lily wondered as she ate her breakfast – now toast with nutella on top – and hoped that the trip would go well.
"Oh, look out, Lily, there's a letter coming for you", Lisa said and grabbed Lily's glass before the owl would crash into it.
Lily sighed as she looked at the letter. "It's from my mom", she said as she grabbed the envelope from the owl and gave it a bit of toast to eat before it flew away.
Lily opened the letter and read it through – and rolled her eyes. It was one of those letters where her mother tried to ask her to come home to meet some guy she wanted to hook her up with. That was how her sister and her fiancee Vernon Dursley had med too, and now Mrs. Evans was absolutely obsessed with finding a man for Lily as well.
"What's in the letter?" Lynn asked. "Because you look like you want to burn it."
"My mom just asked me to go back home to meet some guy she thinks is perfect for me", Lily rolled her eyes. "She's obsessed with matchmaking because she succeeded with my older sister who is engaged to her business partner's son, and now she wants me to marry one of her clients' son."
"Wow, that's intense", Lisa said, looking shocked. "I thought there is no families out there who does that anymore!"
"My mother learned it from hers", Lily sighed. "My parents met in similar situation so my mother thinks it works with her kids too, but I'm against all that because it's such an outdated thing to do."
"I strongly agree", said James, who sat next to Lily. "I don't know what you're talking about but I said so anyways."
"Arranged marriages, James", Lily told him and smiled.
"Ohhh", James realized. "That system sucks. Marielle Woodstock has been trying the same with my family ever since me and Julia broke up but I told my parents to tell her my heart's already in someone else's hands", he added and grinned at Lily.
Lily smiled at him. She knew what he meant.
"Ohhh, there's something going on between those two, isn't there, Lynn?" Lisa said as they both looked at the two.
"Definitely. Something has happened during the Christmas break..." Lynn said.
"It's a secret", Lily and James said in unision.
Lily did tell them what their thing was about later that day when they were alone, because she didn't want anyone to know that there was something between her and James yet. James wasn't completely ready for another relationship and Lily had agreed to wait a little bit longer. Her friends understood the reasoning, but were also happy that they found happiness together.
Lily's schedules kept being just as busy as they had been during the break because the release of her new album was getting closer and closer, and there was still things that needed to be done – photoshoots for the booklet and the covers, record the last few songs that she still hadn't recorded and plan the upcoming tour that would start right after her graduation. And at Hogwarts teachers gave seventh years insane amounts of homework to get done and Lily literally felt like she was about to be drown into a pile of unfinished things. Sometimes she would be working until 3am to get her homework done by the morning's classes and would only sleep around 4-5 hours per night – sometimes even less if she was at the record company working on her new album – and by the end of the first week she was already thinking about dropping out of Hogwarts and just sing to her heart's content.
It'd make her life so much easier.
But then she wouldn't be able to see James as often as she wanted – which was literally every day.
So she just kept her mouth shut and did her best with her homework. She quickly adopted a 'as long as I don't get a troll as the grade, it's alright' type of attitude when it came to school, and even though it felt like the wrong thing to do, it did have a positive effect on her life.
So when the day of the GD Music Group trip came, Lily was actually feeling less stressed, and very calm about everything. She had done all the homework so she would have this day off – she really needed a day off – and she was excited as the trip also included few hours of shopping time in London, and she was always happy about that.
"Those lucky bastards..." younger students swore when they passed them their way to Great Hall with expressions of pure jealousy on their faces.
It really hit them hard to realize that the rumor was actually true.
"You would only destroy the place anyways, you crazy kids", Nadia Corralez told them. "You brats have no class."
"Neither do you, hoe", younger students retaliated and walked away laughing.
Things weren't going well for Julia and her friends either – ever since Julia had dumped James, it seemed that her so called kingdom had fallen and nobody really cared about her or her friends anymore. They had become incredibly unpopular since then and it really did annoy most of them. Julia herself didn't care about it, she just spent all of her time making out with Jay Nicols somewhere.
"Good morning, everybody", Professor Tremens said as she joined the seventh years in the Entrance Hall. She was wearing muggle clothes as usual and looked like she was in a completely wrong place as she was wearing a muggle dress and long coat instead of the robes that witches and wizards usually wore. "Is everybody here?" she added looking around. "Seems like it. Alright, we're gonna use a Port Key to teleport to Diagon Alley, where we will enter the muggle world and we're going to use a bus to travel to GD Music Group, ok?"
Everyone nodded.
"Alright. Let's go and walk to Hagrid's hut. He has the Port Key ready for us", Professor Tremens said.
When the students and their professor got to the GD Music Group, everyone was excited about the visit except Lily, her friends and James, who had spent a ton of time there already. But Lily and her friends pretended to be excited anyways because the redhead still had her secret and it seemed like nobody else had realized it despite all the hints that Lily had been throwing into everyone's faces every time she performed somewhere.
"Good morning", said Ralph Potter when the students and their professor walked into the building and its lobby, where everyone was running around. Lily wondered what was going on, and wanted to ask Ralph but knew she couldn't do that.
"My name is Ralph Potter. I'm the CEO of the company and this is my lovely wife Melanie", he introduced himself and the woman standing next to him. Melanie smiled to everybody as a greeting.
"Holy hell, is that Robbie Evans!?" one of the students suddenly yelled excitedly while he pointed at something behind Ralph.
There was a guy with dark red hair and dark green eyes walking towards them. He was wearing a grey t-shirt and jeans and was carrying a leather coat over his shoulder. He grinned when his and Lily's eyes locked, and Lily didn't even notice she had started walking towards him until she had wrapped her arms around him to hug him tightly.
She had really missed her father.
"Hey, little sunshine", he whispered and hugged her tightly. "Don't squeeze your old man so tight..."
"I haven't seen you for 6 months, dad, I have every right to squeeze you!" Lily told him and hugged him more.
He just laughed and hugged her tight, too.
Robbie Evans was the lead singer of a popular rock band Monochrome which had become widely popular in the 90s. It was a real miracle how his private life had stayed private so well. Everyone knew that he was married with Mrs. Evans (A/N: I can't remember the woman's name, lol) and that they had children but everything else was a secret.
Not even Lily's now ex-friends had known she was Robbie's daughter.
"No. Freaking. WAY", Sirius Black said, amazed.
Lily turned to look at her classmates who were all looking at her with their mouths hanging open. She knew instantly that she had messed up. This was one of those things that had been supposed to stay a secret, but now everyone was looking at them as they progressed the little accidential revelation – Lily Evans was a rockstar's daughter!
"Eh, yes, everybody", Lily said as she let go of her dad. "This is my dad, Robbie Evans. Dad, these are my classmates and our professor Margaret Tremens."
"Nice to meet you all", Robbie said in his usual friendly way. "Are you here on a tour?" he asked from professor Tremens.
"Yes. Students wanted to visit", she answered.
Lily noticed her classmates were quickly digging up pens and paper from their bags. "Looks like you're gonna have to write some autographs now, dad", she told him.
"That'll be no problem, Lils, I'm used to it!" Robbie grinned. "Who is this for?" he asked when he took first paper into his hands.
"Catherine Stevens", said the first student, who also blushed.
These chicks has a crush on my dad, Lily thought, as she felt someone touch her hand.
Lily looked on her side and noticed it was James who had his cellphone in his hand, and he had a message from his mother on the screen that said,
Tell Lily we found out there's a magazine called StarPop that has an
article regarding Satine White coming up next month.
We're trying to stop them from publishing it but we probably can't do anything about it
unless we pay to the owners a ton of money.
Lily looked at James and mouthed a 'don't pay them', which James wrote to her mother and sent it to her. Melanie looked at her phone and then Lily, who mouthed a 'i'm sure', to her, and she nodded.
"Alright, I gotta go now", Robbie said as he looked at the clock on his wrist. "Looks like I might be a bit late but whatever, I got to see my little ray of sunshine."
"Dad, you're making yourself look less cool", Lily mumbled, blushing furiously. I should've known he'll call me that!
"I don't mind at all, Lily", Robbie said and hugged her again. "I missed you while I was away."
Lily nodded into his shoulder, "I missed you too", she whispered.
"Everything's gonna be fine, Lily, don't worry. Even if everyone knew, you won't lose everything. No need to be afraid, trust me."
Lily nodded and they broke apart. "I trust you, dad."
Robbie smiled encouragingly and then pulled out his phone from his pocket. "Oh hell, I'm gonna be really late now… It was nice to see you, Lils, let's talk more later, ok?"
"Yeah, let's do that, dad", Lily excitedly said and grinned at him.
Nobody really noticed the small quiet exchange of words because everyone was so busy looking around in the lobby where they had huge posters on the walls of the most popular artists in the company – students were excited about seeing Satine White's massive poster there, and Lily could hear at least 2 of them wonder if they could steal it. They were so distracted by the poster that they didn't even hear the history of the company.
"GD Music Group was founded in 1987 by Norton Potter, James' grandfather, who wanted to create a music label that solely dedicated itself to bring high quality dance pop music to the public, and in the 90s it was on its peak as dance music had been popular at the time. As the new millenium came, so did the tastes in music change and GD Music Group was in a financial crisis, and the complete rebuildment of the company had to be made – and the sub labels for other music styles were created, and artists like Melanie here were allowed to explore more wider amount of music styles. The company was saved from bankruptcy with these changes", Ralph explained after Robbie Evans had left the lobby.
"We also started to train new music talents at the Attwood Music Academy in 2009, and often we find our biggest stars from the annual talent show that they do during spring", Melanie said. "The managers at our own management studio visits the shows every year to look for new talents that we could sign up on our company."
"The academy is off limits during these tours as the trainers there believes that the visitors would only make it harder to concentrate on the studies", Ralph said. "But if your dream is to get into the academy after you graduate, you can get the application papers from the reception desk behind me", he added and pointed at the long marble table behind him. Over the table there was a sign that said 'RECEPTION', and there were four people talking on the phones.
"Oh, we should get those papers, Janice, we could hit it big together!" said one of the students to her friend, Janice Stevens, who was one of the biggest Satine fans at Hogwarts.
"Let's do it. Maybe we can become professional dancers and then get hired by Satine, Blair, that'd be so cool..." Janice agreed and the two girls hurried towards the reception desk immediately.
Those two aren't bad dancers to be honest, Lily thought as she watched them get their papers handed to them by Susan, who was one of the receptionists. She was super sweet, and had been there longer than Lily. She really enjoyed talking to her.
"Where's Satine White?" asked Catherine Stebbins. "She's the only reason we came here and we need to know where she is."
"Yeah, especially if Brad Mellows is here!" her friend Tina said, pointing at the DJ who had just appeared from the corridor from the studios.
"Satine White isn't here today", Melanie answered. "She has a day off."
Day off indeed, I'm here hanging out with my friends pretending I've never been here before, Lily thought and glanced at Lisa and Lynn, who looked amused by the situation.
"No, you two. We came here for the tour", James said before Tina and Catherine could even begin to list their demands to find out where their favorite artist was.
Tina and Catherine glared at him for a moment but said nothing. Instead, they began whispering to each other about something.
After Janice and her friend Blair had rejoined the group, the tour began with Melanie as their guide. Lily, her friends and the Marauders stayed on the end of the rest of them because they were all very familiar with the company as they had hang there as a group. They knew all the things that Melanie told them about the company, and all the areas were familiar as they had often been as a group in the parties that were always held at the company's party rooms.
Melanie brought them to the studio area where there were 6 different recording booths on each side of a long corridor – 3 on one side and 3 on the opposite side – and the group saw Satine's manager in one of the booths talking on the phone. Judging by her body language Lily could tell she was furious about something/to somebody.
From the recording booths Melanie took them upstairs to show them what kind of other things the company had. There were offices and more offices on the upper floors for the marketing teams, graphic designing, and even the talent agency had its own floor. Satine fans were, however, way too interested in trying to catch a glimpse of their singer to care – they were convinced that they had been lied to and that Satine was somewhere in the company hiding from them.
"So frustrating to do a tour when people don't even bother to listen", James murmured. "These aren't cheap things to do..."
Lily agreed with him. "We should bail", she whispered and giggled.
"Ohhh, aren't you a bad girl, Evans..." James grinned.
"I can be all you want, Little Potter", Lily whispered into his ear and then she quickly kissed his cheek.
Nobody noticed it because they were too obsessed with everything else in the company.
Well, except for Alice, Katie and Krystal who looked more and more gloomier the longer they stayed at the company.
Those two really hate to be here and I don't understand why. Alice and Katie were super excited about this trip in September but now they just hate to be here? That's so weird, Lily thought as the group followed Melanie to the Museum Room, which was a room dedicated to the company's most successful, already retired singers and bands. It had been opened in 2009 when Melanie had retired from music industry due to health issues and one thing that Lily had done when she had been signed onto the company was to visit this room.
She dreamed of having pictures of herself in this room one day.
"This room was built in order to honor and respect the stars of the past. We have statues of them here, their releases in these glass closets and small TVs showing clips of their music videos and concerts", Melanie said as the students looked around.
Lily walked over to the Melanie Attwood section of the Museum Room and sighed when she saw two of her 90s albums there that were impossible to find anywhere in physical form these days. Her collection was incomplete without them, and it annoyed her that she could only listen to them if she used streaming services to do it.
I need to find a way to get those into my hands, Lily thought as the group eventually left the room.
They headed back downstairs and used elevators. Lily really enjoyed getting a chance to breathe in James' scent because they had to stand so close to each other and smiled to him. He smiled back to her – and nobody noticed their little gentle exchange of affection because they were too excited about Satine to really care about anything else.
Melanie was waiting for them in the lobby when the elevators arrived and the doors opened. This time she had Allison Smith standing next to her, and Lily could tell she was still furious. Satine fans looked at her excitedly.
"Oh my god, that's Satine's manager!" Catherine yelled. "Where are you hiding her? We demand to know!" she added and walked to her with three other girls.
Allison looked at them for a minute and said, "I'm not hiding Satine anywhere, she's not at the company right now, kids."
"But she's always here!" Catherine said. "She should be here right now!"
"You're out of luck then", Allison calmly said and she began to write a text message furiously.
"Alright, everybody, let's leave Allison alone now", Melanie said, and smiled apologically to Allison. "I'm taking you to check out our famous Serenity Dome now..."
Satine's fans – who were still convinced that Satine was hiding somewhere – got distracted and they followed her excitedly talking about how they might see Satine at the infamous dome.
Lily, however, stayed behind along with James. "Allison, what's going on?" she asked her manager.
"Are you still hundred percent sure you want yourself to be exposed, Lily?" Allison asked, worried look on her face. "The article that this magazine is gonna publish will badmouth you, and make you sound like complete monster."
As she spoke, she pulled out an magazine from her Luis Vuitton bag and gave it to Lily, who looked at the cover. There she was – half of the cover was Satine in her trademark dark hair and glamorous makeup and the other half was Lily's face. The headline was Dark Side of Satine White – The Master of Manipulation. Lily cringed at the headline. How was she a manipulator and when had she been manipulating anybody?
"I read the whole article and I tried to call our lawyers to stop them from doing this but I was told that you had said nope to all damage control", Allison said seriously. "And I honestly can't understand why."
"This magazine", Lily said, "is the one who destroyed Melanie's career in early 2000s, Allison. GD Music Group's lawyers tried to stop them from releasing photos of her time in a mental institution but they did so anyways. There is no doubt in my mind that they would only make this article even worse if we react to it beforehand, Allison. The best damage control is to let this trash magazine publish their stupid article."
"So you don't want legal action to be taken against them?" Allison said. "You're hundred percent sure?"
"Yes, because I'm going to reveal myself before the bloody article is published. I think people would rather want my life story to be told by me rather than some shitty magazine who is famous for destroying music artists' mental health. I won't let it happen to me. What I will do will bite them in the ass", Lily told her. "Don't worry about it, Allison, things will be ok."
"I really hope so", Allison said and sighed. "If you're sure, I will let it go. I think I need to lay down for a minute. I have a hideous headache..." she said and walked past them towards the elevators.
"I wouldn't call you a manipulator", James said.
"What?" Lily asked and smiled.
"You're a Master of Seduction, Evans", James grinned and touched her cheek. "I've wanted to kiss you all day and I was thinking about doing it in the elevator but others would've noticed."
"James, we aren't publicly together yet", Lily giggled and took his hand off her face. "I think we should wait with that until after I've revealed myself to everybody. It'll make people forget the bloody article at once."
"True that, cutie. What other schemes do you have in mind and can I help?"
"I might have to help those Satine fans to get out of their misery for not being able to find me", Lily laughed. "My team's practicing at the dome. Let's go."
"What am I gonna tell others when you're not with me?" James asked.
"Tell them I'm in the bathroom or something like that", Lily shrugged.
"You're not being very helpful", he accused.
Lily grinned. "I'm sure you can come up with something, James."
"I'm going to have to punish you for this, woman..."
"Why does that sound sexy as hell to me?" Lily whispered to him.
"Because that's what it will be between us", James said and winked, which made Lily blush.
I love this guy so much, oh god, she thought.
They made their way towards the Music Academy while chatting about random things – like they would on the first date – and headed towards the Serenity Dome which was a huge concert arena owned by the GD Music Group. It was built on the same year when Lily had made her debut, and she had had a chance to perform there at the end of the very same year when the dome was opened. She had since performed there countless times – she had performed at the venue twice to a sold out concert at start of October, and it had been crazy.
"Ladies first", James said and bowed as he opened the main entrance door for Lily.
"Well, thank you, good sir", redhead flirted as she went past him to the entrance hall.
"My mom just texted me saying they're checking out the other rooms of the dome, and that Catherine and her annoying friends are frustrated because they can't get into the arena. I guess they heard your band play there", James said, sounding amused.
"I guess I'll go to the arena then", Lily said.
"I think I'm coming with you instead. Mom said they're coming to the arena next", James said.
"Tell her to not to hurry up, I need to do some preparations..."
"There's no time, they're here already", James told her, and nodded towards the rest of their group that just came out of the gift shop – Catherine and her friends had bags full of stuff – and Lily sighed.
She had wanted to surprise everybody so badly. It would've been so much fun!
"Hello, Mr. Potter, where did you two go?" Professor Tremens asked curiously.
"We just snuck out to do a little private tour", James made up. "You know me, always sneaking out with pretty ladies such as Lily here..."
"Oh my god, I'm so jealous", whispered Blair to Janice, who nodded.
"Well, good thing you found your way here", Professor Tremens said. "Let's continue the tour, Melanie."
"Certainly", Melanie said as she looked at her son and Lily a knowing look in her eyes, and she smiled to them a little.
Lily couldn't help but blush. Had she really just got a blessing from James' mother to date her son? Amazing!
"We are going to enter the arena next", Melanie said. "But don't harass Satine's band and dancers as they're rehearsing for her next tour, alright?"
Catherine and her friends reluctantly nodded.
Those girls aren't going to be able to keep their cool, Lily predicted as she followed her classmates inside the arena where they were met with the loud music and a flashing light show as the technicians were testing the special effects that would be used in the concert. Lily recognized they were using her song "Fly high" for the test, and really liked what she saw – lights were flashing exactly in rhyme with the music and she pulled her phone out to text her main dancer and choreographer about it.
"Yo, Jade, it seems we got visitors here", said her guitarist into the microphone on the stage. "At the doors."
"Yeah, I can see it", said the the woman on the circle stage at the end of the catwalk. She was looking at them. "Stop the music, and put the lights on", she added as she walked towards the stairs on the side of the stage. She came down just in time for the lightshow to stop and the arena went dark for a moment before the normal lights were put on.
"Hello, my name is Jade", brown haired woman introduced herself. "You probably know me as one of Satine's dancers, but I'm also her choreographer and sometimes a personal trainer as well."
"We thought Satine would be here", Catherine whined immediately.
"Nah, Satine's having a well deserved day off so I'm the boss of the team today", Jade said. "But knowing her, she'd come over to say hello if she was here right now", she added smiling.
But I am here, Lily thought and tried her best not to laugh at the hilariousity of the whole situation.
Catherine and her friends seemed to finally accept the fact that Satine was nowhere to be found on the GD Music Group's grounds and even though they looked sad for a moment, they were excited that they could see the new stage for Satine's next tour. Jade allowed the group to get on the stage and walk on it. Lily took the chance to check out the new design that she hadn't seen yet and absolutely loved the black, white and red color scheme – they had painted stars on the edges of all parts of the stages, and in the middle there was a red path that she would be walking on. The other details on the stage were amazing as well – it all looked exactly as Lily had envisioned it and was impressed how much better it looked in reality than in her mind. Lily absolutely loved it gave a silent high five to Jade, who walked by her side at the end of the rest of the students.
"I absolutely love it", she whispered to her. "Tell the designers that for me."
"I will", Jade said, as the group reached the main stage where the band was taking a break and talking about random things. The rest of the dancers were with them and they all had fun. Lily would usually join them on the fun but couldn't right now.
This is so weird, Lily thought as she looked at them.
The group walked into the backstage where they met Satine's DJ Brad Mellows, who was wearing headphones and working on something on his laptop. Lily and the rest of the students walked past them towards the dressing rooms but then Melanie changed direction towards the exit, which Lily appreciated because she knew that Catherine and her friends wanted to steal something Satine related, and there was a dressing room in this venue where there was a lot of new tour's outfits stored inside it – Lily didn't want anyone to see any of that yet because it was more fun when everyone saw them together when the time came.
"This is the end of our tour. I hope you enjoyed your stay here", Melanie said when they were in the entrance hall again – they had taken a detour corridor back there – and they could hear clearly that Satine's team had begun rehearsing again.
They're playing Towards Tomorrow now, Lily recognized it.
"It was interesting", Professor Tremens said. "I'm glad that you agreed to let us come here, Mrs. Potter."
"No problem. We do tours on a weekly basis", Melanie said and smiled. "Are you going back to Hogwarts now?"
"Yes. It's getting late, and we really need to get back now."
"In that case I will be on my way back to work then", Melanie said. "Have a nice day, everyone. And James, don't be a bad influence on girls."
"Mom!" James protested with a red face. "So unclassy!"
Melanie laughed as she left the group.
"That song sounds like something she hasn't released yet", Catherine pointed out as their professor was calling their bus driver of their location. "It sounds perfect."
"Everything she does sounds flawless at all times. No other artist can do it like SW", said her friends.
"I strongly disagree", said Krystal Wales while rolling her eyes. "You Satine stans are hideous these days."
"Shut up, you obvious hater", Catherine and her friends said in unision.
Krystal only rolled her eyes at them again as an answer, and walked out of the building with the other students. Their bus had just parked in front of the dome's entrance and everyone went in there. Lily was feeling surprisingly tired when she sat down on her seat. She looked at the watch on her cellphone – it was 6:30pm. It was so late.
They were back at school an hour later, and everyone just wanted to go and relax for the rest of the day – and go steal food from the kitchens, of course – and then everyone went to their own common rooms to tell everyone what kind of a trip it was. Satine fans told everybody they heard a snippet of a new song at the dome because Satine's team was there rehearsing and other fans were immediately asking about what it sounded like.
They all agreed that it'll be a perfect song just like every other track their singer had ever released.
Lily and her friends spent the rest of the day talking about what Lisa and Lynn had gotten from the gift shop and they also told Lily her ex-friends were super grumpy during the whole trip but Lily just shrugged at that piece of info. She was completely over them but she did find it weird that they were still unable to let the whole thing go. She didn't want to talk about it to them at all because it might escalate into something worse.
"We think you three should sit down and talk about it again", Lisa said while she ate a strawberry flavored lollipop.
"Yeah, we think they regret they were assholes to you", Lynn agreed.
"I don't think it'll change anything. Their attitude towards me was horrible, and it's been three months now. I think they would've come to say sorry if they really regretted it", Lily said.
"Very possible, but still. Think about it", Lisa said and smiled.
"I will. Later", Lily said and yawned. "I'm so tired..."
"Same here", Lynn and Lisa said.
"The trip was amazing though", Lisa said and grinned. "The new stage for your tour looks gorgeous!"
"Thanks", Lily said and smiled. "I wanted to do the designing myself."
"Are you gonna take over everyone's jobs on your team now?" Lynn teased.
"No, it was just this one time", Lily laughed. "I'll let others design the stages next time."
"Good idea, Lils, we don't want you to work too much", Lisa said. "You already do so much regarding school and your career."
"I know. The planned hiatus will be my Christmas gift from me to me this year", Lily said. "I really need a break..." she sighed, and yawned again right afterwards.
When February finally came, Lily was ready for her final phase of her 'Operation Revelation'. She was going to perform on TV looking more like herself as Lily Evans than Satine White. She was wearing a white blouse and black jeans along with boots. Her hair looked more like her own as well, and she barely had any makeup on which was very unusual for Satine who was known for having a heavy, dark makeup look. But it was all a part of her plan. To some people it seemed like she was just trying something new to herself, but in reality it was an attack towards her harasser's evil plan to reveal her.
Lily was interviewed about her own life, her new album and her past tours and how her new tour would be different from them. She also revealed her desire to go on a hiatus after the tour which shocked the guests and the audience because Satine White was known for her tendency to be a workaholic.
"I'm reaching the point where I'm at my limit of coping with things", Lily honestly said. "I need some time off."
Interviewers didn't go any further with their questions, they began talking about her style, which was very simple and Lily told them she didn't feel like going after her usual glamourous style this time but she wanted to show this more comfy side of herself.
"This style looks very good on you, Satine, I'm sure your fans agree", female interviewer said.
Lily agreed – she was sure that her fans in Hogwarts were probably browsing through the internet trying to find her clothes on sale somewhere.
Close to the end of the episode, it was time to perform a song. Lily was scheduled to perform her new song first, and she had picked a new, unreleased track from her album. It was called "Unrequited Love", and Lily explained it was a story of a girl who was in love with a guy who mislead her, and she still kept loving her and had no idea why she couldn't get over him. Then she walked over to the side stage to get ready while the hosts kept talking before they announced it was time for her to perform. By this time Lily was ready. She had her microphone attached to a mic stand that was decorated with clothing strips. On the edges of the stage, small torches were lit and the stage was engulfing in red lights as her band began to play the song.
I was never protected against the pain
You brought me one day
It was the same day you said those words
To that other girl who wasn't me
I know better
Because I can't lose it
I thought that the pain would leave when I forget you
But it came back making my heart cry again
You see? I try to smile and be happy
But seeing you breaks all the illusions
I walked past you and smiled again as our eyes met
Little shivering in my heart told me that I'm
Letting unwanted feelings built up in my heart for you
See? I can't possibly run away again
You should know better
Because you're always running away
I thought the pain would leave me alone the day I
Chose to forget you once again
I found it too difficult and here I am falling into darkness
I can't bare seeing your face again. Not anymore
I'm still going to be what I really am
Without you if possible
Why? Because you're just an unrequited love to me
I know better
Because I can't lose it
You should know better
Because you're always running away
I thought that the pain would leave when I forget you
But it came back making my heart cry again
You see? I try to smile and be happy
But seeing you breaks all the illusions
I thought the pain would leave me alone the day I
Chose to forget you once again
I found it too difficult and here I am falling into darkness
I can't bare seeing your face again. Not anymore
Because of you I'm broken from inside again
Because of you I'm being hurt again for the love's sake
Because of you I'm trying my best to run away again
Because of you I'm not believing in love never again
Because of you I'm going to throw my trust in love away
Because of you I'm only what I can't be normally
Because of my feelings for you I can't help but love you
I can't let you go because I'm longing for your love
I can't let you go because I'm longing for your love
Song ended with the stage going completely dark and the audience went wild. They clapped at her excitedly as the little stage lit up again and the singer bowed to them with a smile on her face. She thanked the audience and exchanged few other words with the hosts before they let her leave the show. Lily waved at her fans on the way back to the backstage, and the audience answered with waving at her too.
Lily smiled in the backstage. Her fans were so amazing.
But now she had to go back to Hogwarts and deal with the students' reactions to the fact that they had had a incredibly successful pop superstar among them all these years...
A/N: So here is this chapter for the oneshot collection. It was fun to write. I had a different idea for the performance in my head back in the day but for some reason couldn't remember it now but shit happens, as I like to say, lol.
The next chapter will be the last one for this collection. It'll be called 'The Aftermath'. I highly doubt that I'll be writing any more chapters for this collection after that because I feel that I wrote down everything that I wanted to get out of my system. It'll be interesting because you will finally figure out who the Culprit behind the letters was. :D