101 - Lonely, I'm miss lonely. I have nobody.
"The password this week is 'Mors Ultra,' do not forget it or else you'll be locked out." The first years gathered in front of the fat-lady painting, and everyone was listening to the prefects talk.
I would've been screwed if it wasn't for Lily poking me in the ribcage.
"Mors Ultra."
The fat lady opened the door and the students rushed in.
"Boys on the right and girls on the left! You'll each find your belongings placed in a neat arrangement next to your beds. Lights out at 10."
Lily and I started to head up the stairs up to the girls' side like the rest of the first year girls.
"I feel sorry for Severus," Lily spoke.
"I don't."
Lily glanced at me with a worried expression, "you don't? How would you feel if you were isolated from your friends? ... He was expecting me to join Slytherin with him…"
"I'd be glad to be isolated from society. And, for your information Lily, I don't have any friends, so that question doesn't really apply to me, does it."
"You do have friends!" Lily argued. "Severus is your friend, and um… Right! Those boys on the train could also be your friends as well."
"Correction. Severus is an acquaintance, same with those boys. Nothing more, nothing less. And I'd like to keep it that way."
"Come on, Prim, they could become your friends in the future. And later, perhaps, best friends?"
"When pigs fly," I scoffed. As if.
"We are in a magic school and we are witches so it's quite possible — flying pigs I mean."
"… Shite, you're right."
Lily glared at me, "watch your language, Primrose."
"Or what? You're going to tell mummy dearest —" That was when I realized I was fucked on all sides.
"You know I will, Primmie," Lily winked at me before entering our room.
But then I realized something. I followed right behind Lily and I said to her, "joke's on you, Lil, mum's not a witch so she can't enchant a letter for it to become a howler."
"But you'll have to deal with her during the holidays."
I smirked. "By then, mum's anger will have vanished."
"By then, mum's anger will have doubled if I choose to remind her that you cursed."
"Oh… you little…" I muttered under my breath. "Lily, I thought we were sisters!"
"That's exactly why — as your sister, I'm heavily concerned about your use of language."
I rolled my eyes as I settled onto my bed while Lily started to brush her hair, one of her nightly ritual she inherited from mum. I started singing Bon Jovi's It's My Life whilst reading a witch's magazine that was from a month ago. Terrible fashion, coming from me who've lived in the 21st century in my previous life.
My awesome singing was interrupted. "Pleased to meet your acquaintance, my name's Alice Prewett."
I felt like I've heard of that name somewhere, I mean besides from the sorting. But as I was thinking for a second, I noticed another girl, Jane Malbone from what I remembered her from the sorting (I have a good memory), beside Alice.
"I'm Jane," she cleared her throat, "Malbone. Jane Malbone." She was clearly shy, but she was probably the type of person to be crazy, fun, and weird when you get to know her. "Pleasure to meet you both."
"Nice to meet you, Alice, Jane. I'm Lily Evans. This is my twin sister, Primrose."
"You two don't look identical," Alice responded as she shook hands with Lily. Lily shook Jane's hand as well.
"Fraternal twins," I informed the two as Alice shook my hand as well.
"Wow, you have a strong grip," Alice said.
"My friend, I only have one type of handshake and that is the business handshake. The only handshake you'll ever need to succeed in life."
Alice and Jane both looked amused. Then, my sister explained to them, "Prim is all sorts of crazy. Don't mind her."
"Good kind of crazy I'm assuming," Jane responded with that soft tone of voice of hers.
Thanks, Jane. You're going to be one of my first friends — next to Cyclops.
102 - Spotlight
The first day of Hogwarts and I slept in. I was half an hour late to Potions. Lily probably tried to wake me up, but she was the type to even abandon her sister when school was at stake.
When I entered, all of the attention was on me. Everyone was staring at me as if I'd committed a terrible act of treason. However, I felt Lily's disapproving gaze on me the most.
"5 points from Gryffindor for Miss Evan's tardiness."
Now, let me inform you that 'Miss Evans' could mean Lily or me, and I could tell from three rows of desks away that Lily was beginning to fume. Another reason why she was fuming was because of the house points. She was a hardcore patriot.
"But professor —" That was Lily's voice, not mine. I didn't care about house points at all. What was the point of winning the house cup if I wasn't getting anything as a reward? Lily grumbled as I sat down next to her, then she whispered to me harshly, "I tried to wake you up three times…! I can't believe you're late on your first day — actually, I can believe it and that's what gets me the most."
"Maybe you should've tried harder? Or be creative with your alarms in the morning, like maybe 'Cyclops gained his missing eye back!' or," I interrupted myself with a slight yawn, "something like that."
"Or maybe you should wake up early for class?"
I sighed. There was no use arguing seeing as how I was so tired that I couldn't come up with a smarter remark. I was also getting a headache from hearing a set of annoying laughter from behind. The annoying laughter came from James and Sirius, no doubt hearing our argument. And it was class time so I decided to just say to her: "Alright, fine. … Sassy pants."
"… I am not a sassy pants."
"Whatever you say, Miss Diva."
"Ugh, I am not —"
"Miss Evans," we both looked up to see Slughorn with his hands on his hips, "if I could have your attention please."
The true diva today was Professor Slughorn.
103(1) - Evans the Original, and Evans the Clone
"Why do you keep avoiding them?" Alice inquired as though this needed an investigation. This was mostly after a few cases this afternoon seeing me look the other way when I noticed James and the other boys (now including Peter Pettigrew) look my way, or when I ran the other way when I saw them coming toward me.
"I'm quite curious too." Jane joined in on the conversation. "Are you scared of them? They do pull awful pranks sometimes — luckily, the pranks are aimed at Slytherins."
Lily answered in my stead, "no, she's not scared of them. If she was scared of them, I would've been able to tell."
"You saw my freaked out face before?" I asked. I don't think I was ever scared of something.
"Yeah. Once, a long time ago, when you thought I died after falling into a ditch. Remember?"
Well, now I remember. "Thanks for reminding me, Lil." Sure I was afraid that Lily actually died, but I was also confused when I thought she was quite possibly dead, I wondered just what would happen in the future. Like, would Harry never be born? Or, would Harry still be born from another parent? Or, will Neville be the boy-who-lived? etc.
Lily smiled as if she'd accomplished something amazing. "I thought you hated me, but after that time, I got to experience sisterly love from you!" It sounded by the tone of her voice Lily was joking, but from years of spending time with her, I knew there was truth in those words.
"What happened? Why were you in a ditch, Lily?" Alice asked. She and Jane's eyes had been wide after Lily told them that she almost died.
"Lily was bullied when we were younger and I guess someone pushed her too roughly that she fell down into the ditch. Our family lives by a small meadow beside a forest so Lily sometimes went there to play with Severus," I explained, "that's why you should always remember, kids, do not be a bully, you could kill someone…"
I sighed, noticing tiny little marauders gaining up on a poor kid from Slytherin who was in the same year as us.
It looked like the three girls noticed as well. "… You mean like them?"
"Exactly. Don't be like them."
103(2) - Evans no. 1, Evans no. 2
Sirius was the first to look our way, then he nudged James. James turned around as he greeted us. "Ah, fellow Gryffindors! How are you, Rose?" He then turned to look beside me, "Evans, Prewett, and… uh… Mal… Malfunction? Malodorous?"
"It's Jane the Maleficent," Jane introduced herself sarcastically. Remus was the only one to laugh at her sarcastic remark.
"… Isn't it Jane Malbone?" Peter asked dumbly.
"Oh my God, Pettigrew."
Peter appeared puzzled by Jane's response that was rather muggle. "What…? Did I say something wrong?" He asked Sirius who stood right beside him.
Sirius answered with a chuckle, "quite the opposite actually."
"Skipping all the pleasantry aside, I'm going to head for Minerva's class now. By the way, Potter, I didn't allow you to call me by Rose so drop the name."
"Then what shall I call you by? If you'd prefer, I could just call you by Ro — much simpler."
"I didn't give you any permission whatsoever for you to call me any other name than Evans."
"But there are two Evans. If I call you by Evans, what would I call the other Evans?" At that Sirius snickered.
Lily, however, was not in the joking mood at James' words. She surely didn't like being compared to me seeing as how I was better than her. Of course, she had her shining moments.
I told James, "call her Lily and call me Evans. There, simple."
"What?" Lily, dissatisfied with my answer, said, "I don't want someone that bullies others to call me by my given name."
"Okay, here's another solution, call Lily by Clone, and call me by Evans." — I heard Lily say "not funny, Prim." — "Or call Lily by Evans Number 2 and call me by Evans Number one. There are your choices, Potter. The same goes for you three as well," I glanced at Sirius, Remus, and Peter.
"Me too…?" Peter pointed to himself.
"What do you think, Pettigrew?"
As you could probably tell, Peter Pettigrew was my least favorite character. However, he was just an innocent little child right now, on the other hand, there was me — an 18-year-old woman (technically 29 if you counted both lives).
"Well," James began again, "freedom of speech an' all that, I think I'll call you Ro."
"We're not in America, Potter."
"Freedom of speech is included in almost every country, Prim," Lily pointed out, "including Scotland which Hogwarts is in. Also —"
"Thank you, dear sister, for the information that I didn't necessarily need."
Lily blew a raspberry.
"Um… Guys, hate to interrupt, but we'll really be late to Transmogrify if we don't start heading there right now."
"Bugger, don't want to be late again guys, and this is Professor McGonagall we're talking about," Remus said to the boys as he walked away faster than anybody could respond. The three boys hurried to catch up to him.
"Good, they're gone. I'll lead the way girls," I started walking but then I was stopped by Alice, I turned around.
"The class is the other way, Prim," Alice informed me.
Lily shook her head at me. "I'm just curious as to how you managed to find the potions class all by yourself this morning."
She then explained to the girls, "my sister has a poor sense of direction."
"I was only walking the other way so that I didn't have to walk along with Potter. Besides, I'd like to believe I've gotten better at directions since there aren't a lot of reflections here to distract me - all those times spent in muggle shopping mall-"
Lily sighed. She was definitely thinking that I was completely mental. "She's also a narcissist."
I responded with a witty remark. "I call it being confident."
Both Alice and Jane giggled. Jane said to Lily, "I think your sister's funny."
"Trust me, you two, Prim isn't trying to be funny."
A/N:
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