A/N: I am soooooo incredibly sorry for putting this story off for so long. I had serious writer's block. Anyway, hope you enjoy it. And please review. Thanx! You have no idea how guilty I feel right now.
Hogsmeade weekend came a whole lot faster than Lily had hoped and prepared for. As she was lying on her bed, she had hoped the sun would never rise and it was all just a horrible nightmare that will end as long as she doesn't get up from her bed. Unfortunately for her, that was not the case.
"WAKE UP!" cried a familiar voice.
Lily slowly opened her eyes to find Miranda literally shaking her awake.
"I'm up! I'm up!" cried Lily miserably.
"Yeah, thanks to me!" Miranda replied. "Now hurry up!"
Lily rubbed her eyes and asked, "For what?"
Miranda jolted her head towards Lily with a bewildered look and answered, "For your date with James Potter."
Lily looked at her friend with wide eyes. "That was today??"
"Oh my God, how could you forget?" Miranda asked in amazement.
"Whatever. I REALLY don't want to go! Please don't make me!" Lily cried.
"No! This is the chance of a lifetime and I'm not going to let you miss this opportunity!"
Miranda exclaimed.
Lily rolled her eyes and got out of her bed.
"Fine. I'll go to the stupid date with stupid Potter and get this whole stupid thing over with. Stupid." Lily whined.
"Yay! Thatagirl!" Miranda cheered.
Lily smiled. "That doesn't mean I'm not mad at you."
Miranda didn't seem to have heard her. "Yeah, uh-huh, whatever."
After breakfast in the Great Hall, Lily and Miranda, arm in arm, strolled to Hogsmeade.
Not only did Lily calm down but she was also hating James less and less too. However, Miranda thought she had to leave considering it was a date between Lily and James and left, leaving Lily alone in Three Broomsticks. After a whole hour, Lily started becoming impatient and finally left and started towards Hogwarts castle. Little did she know this decision would lead her into a dark alley filled with anti-muggle Slytherins.
As she was walking down the path towards Hogwarts, Lily noticed a small, dark narrow path that also leads to Hogwarts. Thinking it was a shortcut, Lily stepped towards the path only to be stopped by a girl. This girl, a Slytherin, looked different from what you'd expect a Slytherin to look like. She didn't have the evil in her eyes like all the rest. Also, instead of a snake-like attitude, she was surprisingly humble and a bit frightened.
"Are you Lily Evans?" the girl asked meekly.
"Yeah," Lily replied curtly, seeing that the girl was wearing a green and white scarf, indicating she probably was a muggle-hating Slytherin. "And?"
"Please don't go in there." She warned, pointing at the path, "It's dangerous."
Lily rolled her eyes and replied, "I think I can take care of myself." And with that said she walked in carelessly.
As she fumbled around in the dark, Lily had realized that she was lost. She could no longer see the sky anymore. Instead, when she looked up, she saw only the branches of dead trees and rotting leaves. As for the air, it was so thick you could practically feel it. Suddenly, she stepped on a twig, causing it to snap, making a huge crackling noise as someone in the distance yell, "Who's there?!?"
Lily realized she had made a mistake coming through this path and quickly turned around to find herself surrounded by a mob of angry-looking Slytherins.
"What's a mudblood like you doing here?? Don't you know this place is only for pureblood Slytherins??" A man, possibly twice as large as Lily was, asked.
"I just want to get out of here." Lily replied as best as she could without showing any fear.
"Yeah?" Another voice asked, this time a girl's. "Well it's too late for that now, princess. Should've thought twice before coming into my area."
"Your area?!?" The first man exclaimed. "Since when did this alley become yours, Amanda??"
"Since you decided to grow another chin, Luke. Oh wait, that's your face!" Amanda cackled back, receiving feedback of snickers, laughing, and one guy snorting.
"Shudup!" Luke demanded, and the crowd fell silent. "This is my territory and you don't get any say on anything!"
"Make me, punk!" Amanda cried and jumped onto the big guy and started whacking him on the head.
As the crowd around the two started chanting "FIGHT, FIGHT", Lily just stood there, unable to move as though her feet were glued to the ground.
Suddenly, a booming voice shouted "ENOUGH!" and scared everyone, including the two fighting, in that alley.
A cloaked figure in the darkness approached the group of people and lifted his hood to reveal who he was. As it turned out, the figure was actually a girl, a girl that didn't seem to show any threat of danger. She looked around Lily's age but younger than most of the people around her.
She turned to the two fighting people and asked, "What the hell are you two doing?!? I asked you politely if you guys can watch this alley so nobody will penetrate it and now you two are ripping each other's throats out. WHAT GIVES?!?"
"Sorry," Amanda answered, "We knew better than this but we still acted like babies."
The cloaked girl turned her head towards Luke and asked quietly but venomously, "Well?"
"Yeah," Luke replied softly with his face towards the ground. "What she said."
The cloaked figure sighed and was about to leave until she saw Lily standing there, unable to move.
The girl pursed her lips as a sign that she was pissed off and turned her attention towards the others.
"And what. Is. That?" she asked dangerously.
"That is nothing more than an intruder who apparently got lost." Amanda replied in a panicking tone.
"An intruder?? After I told you not to let ANYONE, especially a mudblood," She paused and scanned Lily in disgust, "In MY territory."
"We owe you a thousand apologies." Amanda pleaded. "Please forgive us."
The cloaked girl rolled her eyes and turned to Lily.
"I know your kind. You're the kind of person who thinks they are so perfect and flawless and think they are all high and mighty and deserve the world. Sorry, to spoil your dream, but you are nothing but a mudblood!"
After that, the girl slapped Lily across the face, sending her tumbling onto the ground.
Lily, however, recovered quickly and stood back up.
"NO!" cried a voice, and Lily and the girl turned their heads to find the girl that warned Lily about the path running to her.
Standing in front of Lily, the girl cried, " Please don't hurt her anymore. It was my fault. I let her in. I'm sorry."
For a second, the cloaked girl didn't speak. After a brief second, she exploded.
"Damn right you're sorry! I'm just sorry at the fact my father even took you in. You're nothing but a lowlife, a nonentity, a sorry excuse for a witch."
And with that said, the cloaked girl slapped her across the face and yelled, "I don't even want to see your ugly, revolting, disgusting face!"
All this happened before the eyes of Lily. She, at first, was shocked at how the cloaked girl treated the girl who defended Lily. However, that shock turned to anger and, with as much patience as she could, she bended down to help the defenseless girl up, only to be kicked to the side by the cloaked girl herself.
"And don't think I'm done with you just yet". The cloaked girl sneered. "I'm gonna make you pay for thinking you're so high and mighty when really you're nothing but a scrawny little mudblood!"
Before she could react to what the cloaked girl had just said, a sudden beam of white light flashed before Lily's eyes and it wasn't until later on that Lily realized the cloaked girl had taken out her wand and yelled, "Impedimenta!" sending Lily flying off and landing onto the ground with a hard thud.
All noises seemed to drone out of her ears. She was unable to hear what was happening around her. However, Lily was able to open her eyes for just a second to see a figure that looked so much like James come in and strike the cloaked girl with a spell that knocked her off her feet. And with that as the last image she saw, Lily collapsed and fainted.