Chapter Five: A train ride and a choice
During the remainder of the time before the school term was to start Lily and Raven became the best of friends. Which was refreshing for both of them, Lily never had a best friend for many reasons one was the fact that most girls were jealous of the fact that she attracted all the boys though most of the time it was because of her obsession with sports that competes with any boys in all of England and to add on top of all of that she managed to keep up her looks. Raven never had a best friend either because all her friends (who were all witches) were jealous of the fact that she was so close to James, Sirius, and Remus. Even they were eleven they all attracted a lot of girls. But who wouldn't be attracted to them? Remus had big warm and caring brown eyes and brown hair he always had the most sense between them and they always went to him with their problems. Sirius had a pair of gray eyes that always had a devilish glint in them as if he just did something wrong and no one knew about it (and he probably did) and black hair that fell on his forehead (think Shawn from boy meets world). James on the other hand had messy jet-black hair that could never be tamed but for some reason it worked on him. To accompany that unruly hair he had a pair of deep sapphire blue eyes that shone whenever he was joking around with his friends but whenever he had a problem they were solemn looking, either way they were always full of emotion and most girls would see their younger sibling just to be able to look at them up close. All three boys were very athletic and they were familiar with both muggle sports and wizarding sports. The Potters and the Lupins both thought that their children should be aware of the muggle world and since those three were inseparable Sirius learned a lot too. Soon it was September first and Lily would be starting her first year at Hogwarts. She was so excited that she awoke at five a.m. She quickly showered and got dressed in a pair of navy blue flared jeans and a pink spaghetti strapped shirt. She went downstairs and made herself some scrambled eggs, toast, bacon, sausage, and some orange juice. The Evans' live in cook (Jordan) wasn't awake yet and even if he was Lily still loved to cook. By the time she was done eating she looked at the clock to see that it was six forty five and Petunia was just getting into the shower. An hour later the entire Evans household was in the large eat in kitchen having breakfast. After that they all piled into one of their cars and drove Lily to the train station during the ride there Petunia and Lily were talking and laughing and joking and having a great time each hoping that the car ride would never end. When they finally got to King Cross Station Lily jumped out of the car excitedly as her father was unloading her trunk. When Petunia finally dragged herself out of the car Mr. and Mrs. Evans had already hugged and kissed their daughter good bye.
"Well Petunia aren't you going to give your younger sister a hug before I leave? You wont see me till Christmas"
Lily said with open arms and with that Petunia hugged her sister the last hug she would be able to give her for a couple of months. After saying her good byes Lily went up to the barrier for platform nine and three quarters. (Mrs. Potter had already told Lily about it and how to enter it.) After waving a final goodbye Lily took control of her trolley making sure everything was strapped in and right into the wall separating platforms nine and ten. Before she knew it she was on the other side of the barrier staring at a long scarlet train with Hogwarts written on it. As she stared in awe she heard a conversation going on near her.
" Mom I'm gonna miss you so much!! What if I don't make any friends and what about the sorting ceremony I've already heard some awful things."
At hearing that Lily herself started to get worried about the ceremony. That was probably the only thing that the Potters didn't go over with her.
With a chuckle the girl's mother replied
"I was worried to on my first day but don't worry all they are gonna do is have you put on a magical hat and its going to decide which house is best for you. But don't tell anybody half the fun is seeing every one's worried faces "
The girl's mother winked at her and sent her on the train saying that she had to get to work. At that moment Lily missed her family terribly and wished she were still in the car with them. As a tear started to form Lily quickly wiped it away and pushed those thoughts out of her head and looked at her watch, seeing that she had half an hour left Lily decides to go find a spot on the train for her and Raven. She boarded the train with her things and started going from compartment to compartment looking for an empty one. She didn't find one that she liked until she reached the very last compartment. She put her trunk away with some difficulty then sat in one of the seats while giving her owl a few owl treats. As a surprise Lily's parents got her a white owl with green eyes, which she named Blizzard. They also got her a black cat with green eyes and she named it Midnight. A couple of minutes later Lily was sitting there with nothing to do besides watching Blizzard sleep in her cage and Midnight pacing through out her compartment. She had just diverted her attention back to the window when she saw the Potters coming through the barrier with Sirius and Remus. Looking at her watch Lily saw that they had exactly two minutes to get on the train. They all gave each other quick good byes and rushed towards the train. Lily leaned out of her window a bit and called out.
"Raven hurry other wise you'll miss the train."
"I'm trying to but my trunk is too heavy"
The boys who were far ahead of her quickly got in the train put their things down in the hall and sprinted back out towards Raven whose trunk wouldn't even budge. Lily looked at her watch and saw that they had forty five seconds left. They told Raven to hurry up and get on the train. After a bit of hesitation she left the three boys and sprinted on to the train and before Lily knew it Raven was in their compartment watching James, Sirius, and Remus through the same window as Lily at that point no one or nothing for that matter was breathing in their compartment. (Blizzard and Midnight were both watching intently) Lily has nervously looked at her watch to see that there were ten seconds left. Just as the boys were out of the girls view the train started moving. Both of the girls sat there in stunned silence.
"Wait, wait did they get on the train? Did they make it?"
Raven asked frantically.
"I, I, I don't know "
Lily managed to stammer.
"Well we cant just stay here lets go see if they made it"
Raven said nervously. When she stood up the long mass of jet-black hair that had fallen on her face went back to its original position of falling perfectly down her back. As the girls walked down the corridors they quickly peeked inside each compartment. When they made it to the front of the train they had only one compartment left. Praying to God that they were in their Raven opened the door only to discover a nice looking middle-aged woman loading different types of foods and beverages onto a trolley.
"Can I help you dear?"
"No ma'am"
Lily said for Raven .As they walked back to their compartment they both remained in silence until they were halfway there.
"Lily it was my fault that they missed the train. I was the reason we got here so late too. I kept trying to put as many things as I could into that blasted trunk everyone had to sit downstairs and wait for me. And if it wasn't for my stupid trunk they wouldn't have had to get off the train to come help me"
"Raven don't be so rough on yourself. Everything will be fine I'm sure there's another way to get to Hogwarts."
"But Lily that's not the point they were supposed to be on the train and because of me their not."
Just as she was saying that they were opening the door to their compartment only to find four figures on the floor.
"Hey this is our compar-"
Raven didn't even get to finish her statement because both girls at that point realized that that it was Remus, Sirius, James, and now Peter who were sprawled out on the floor.
As they were getting up Raven ran towards them bringing them back down.
"Oh my god how did you get onto the train? Where were you all this time? How did you get in here we searched all of the compartments up and down the corridor?"
Raven said all of this in on breath. It wasn't until she was done speaking that she let go of James and Sirius (Remus had managed to get out of her grasp). Before James could open his mouth to answer his twin Sirius replied:
"Well you see when we made it onto the train with your very heavy trunk by the way we were trying to get to you guys when a talking hippogriff wearing pink tights apparated (sp?) Right in front of us and kidnapped us it was then we found out that he had kidnapped us because he wanted to steal our brilliant minds so that he could take over the world. But luckily for James and Remus I was there to save the day .I defeated him in a wizards duel and forced him to send us back. Poor thing was so scared that he did everything I told him to, and that's when we landed in the corridor on the other side of the train and came in here to find an empty compartment."
At the end of his little story James stood there with a look of worry on his face, Remus shook his head while going back to his book while muttering something along the lines of He should really get some professional help someday, Raven stood there trying to picture what he said in her head while trying to hold in laughter, and Lily being the only one there not used to his strange comments just stood there staring with a complete look of shock while her mouth was slightly open. James being the one to break the silence faced his twin forgetting that Lily was there, in fact everyone forgot about the curious green-eyed girl. James went on to tell Raven what happened and that only some of what Sirius had some truth to it. After the explanation they were all starting to sit down while talking about the Quidditch that had went on this past summer. Lily who was standing in the corner started to feel a bit out of place and slipped out of the compartment unnoticed. As she was walking down the corridor alone she heard bits and pieces of people's conversations it wasn't until she reached the middle of the train that she heard a conversation that stuck out to her and she couldn't help but stop and listen to it. The compartment door wasn't closed all the way so she was able to get a good look at who was in it. In there were four boys who were all seated but three of them were facing one boy who had platinum blonde hair that had in, Lily's opinion, too much grease. They referred to him as Luscious Malfoy. Another boy had even more grease if even possible and black hair, during the conversation they referred to him as Severus Snape. The other two boys had brown crew-cut hair one was called Crabbe and the other Goyle. During her inspection she got a very dark vibe from all of them and concluded she did not want to be in their crowd.
"They're probably going into Slytherin" Lily thought to herself. As she stood there, still listening to the conversation. The boy that they called Malfoy was now speaking.
"You know it's a shame that those damn mud bloods have to be admitted into this school. They really do mess everything for us purebloods. They bring disgrace to this school. You know I was going to go to Durmstrang but my mom thought that it was too far. (Sound familiar?) You can just tell them apart from us just as much as you can distinguish us from muggles. Did you see that redheaded one with the green eyes? She was definitely a mud blood."
The other boys just sat there with a stupid grin plastered onto their faces. At that moment Lily backed away from the compartment and quickly and ran into the nearest restroom. Lily wasn't the type of girl to cry when an insult was thrown at her she would just throw a better one back but for some reason this was different. During the vacation Raven had told Lily about the word mud blood and what it meant and Lily thought that it was stupid and anyone who paid any mind to it should just toughen up and retaliate. But when she heard it directed towards her something left her leaving her feeling weak and vulnerable. After a few minutes she stopped crying, and promised herself to never let the word bother her again. Just as she was doing this someone entered the restroom. Lily quickly dried her eyes and waited a few seconds, when she was sure that her eyes weren't as red she opened the stall door and was surprised to find someone sitting on the counter crying. Lily inspected the crying figure. Sitting on the counter was a girl with long black hair. Her skin kind of had a tanned look to it, in Lily's opinion she was probably Egyptian or from around that area. When Lily cleared her throat the girl looked up startled to see anybody there.
"Umm are you okay?" Lily asked hesitantly.
"Yeah I'm fine thanks...um are you " the girl asked in return.
"Yeah what are you talking about why wouldn't I be"? Lily asked slowly backing away. Lily didn't like to be seen crying even if it was by someone she didn't know.
"I don't know but your eyes are kinda red I just assumed that you had been crying" the girl replied. After a few minutes of silence Lily finally asked the girl
" Hey aren't your friends wondering where you are, " Lily asked curiously.
" I haven't made any friends here yet " She replied quietly.
"Well not any more, consider me your friend " with this last comment the girl's face lit up.
"Really!?!"
"Yep now as your friend where have you been all this time if you haven't been talking to any one?" Lily asked curiously.
"Ohh well I've just been moving from restroom to rest room." She added a bit embarrassed.
"So since we are friends do you mind if we introduce ourselves? " Lily asked jokingly.
"Oh sorry, my name is Simone, Simone Cassadine"
"Well hello Simone I'm Lily, Lily Evans."
As they were walking out if the rest room Simone asked Lily where her friends were that when Lily told them of how she left them to be alone. A few minutes later they got to the compartment only to find it empty.
"That's strange where could they have gone?" Lily asked looking out the door for the second corridor only to see that her friends were nowhere in sight.
"Maybe they all went to the little girls room together, " Simone, added suggestively. Lily then laughed.
"I hope not." By now she was laughing harder at the thought.
"Well why not?" Simone asked curelessly
"Because four out of the five are boys."
"Oh I see " Simone added embarrassed.
"I don't know what are you talking about I rather enjoy the ladies room better the men's."
Both of the girls turned around to see a boy standing there with gray eyes and a guilty look on his face.
"Hi Sirius, Where is every one else "
"Lookin for you. We have been lookin for you for the past hour where have you been?" Sirius asked not noticing Simone yet.
" Well I ran into Simone here and we just started talking" Lily said this turning to face Simone.
"Sirius Black I'd like to introduce you to Simone Cassadine, Simone Cassadine meet Sirius Black.
"Hello " they both said in unison.
"So where are the others?"
"Here we are Lily where have you been looking for you all over I was getting really worried about you. Why did you leave and why didn't you tell us so we wouldn't have to worry."
"Sorry 'bout that I didn't mean to worry you guys I umm just dropped one of my earrings and went to go look for it and then I met Simone here" Lily lied she didn't want them to know that she felt uncomfortable. She knew if she told them anything that it would lead to her crying about the mud blood incident and she didn't want them to know. Just as she was about to finish telling her story James came into the room in a very bad mood.
"Ohm okay now that every one is here now I'd like to introduce you to some one. Every one this is Simone this is every one. This is Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Raven Potter, and James Potter. It wasn't until she said his name that she looked at him.
"Oh my god what to you " Lily asked completely forgetting her hatred for James. James was standing in the corner with blood coming out of his nose while he was trying to clean it up.
"Nothing " he grumbled back as a response and went to go sit in the far corner of the compartment not talking to anybody. Meanwhile every body else was getting to know every one else. When every one was changed into their robes Lily finally asked Raven what happened to James.
"I'll tell you later "
"Okay" was all Lily replied.
When they finally reached Hogwarts Every one was tired and wanted to go to bed. When they got to the great hall they were encountered by a woman in forest green robes with her hair in a tight bun and a stern look on her face, she then told them her name is Professor McGonagall. In a shrilly voice she told them to follow her into the great hall. As the ceremony began everybody in the hall was silent. But not before clapping for the hat and its wonderful song
"Barton, Sarah"
-"Hufflepuff!!" At this the Hufflepuff table exploded with clapping Bentley, Frank
-"Slytherin!!" When he was announced the Slytherin table went off with clapping "Black, Sirius' -"Gryffindor!!" "Cassadine, Simone" -"Gryffindor!!' When they were called Gryffindor deafened every one with clapping and whistling "Davis, Lorry" -"Ravenclaw!!" At this name the Ravenclaw table started clapping and whistling. A couple of names later they finally got to Lily.
"Evans, Lily" After Professor McGonagall called her Professor Dumbledor stopped his conversation with one of the teachers. Lily sat on the stool and the hat was soon placed on her head, covering his. The last thing she saw was James looking dead at her.
"He's so annoying why can't he just get lost," Lily said agitatedly.
"He cant get lost you two are destined to be together your love will be the best of them all."
"You have got to be kidding me, wait a minute who are you.
"Well my dear I am the sorting hat. Now lets get down to business now according to your thoughts you have a fascination with the Ravenclaw house. No, no, no that wont do. It's Gryffindor that you belong in. It's there where you'll become the person to save us all, but you have a strong desire to be in Ravenclaw so you have a choice which one will it be "
"I'll go where it will do me best "
"Gryffindor"
Before Lily could reply anything the hat immediately shouted out Gryffindor. She sat down to the right of Simone and across from Raven who was to the left of Sirius who was to the left of Peter. When Remus joined the table he sat next to Lily. James soon joined the table sitting next to his twin. When they were done with the sorting Dumbledore said his start of term speech. After that the feast began. During dinner Lily couldn't help but look at James. Not because she liked him or anything but she just couldnt help looking at him and wondering what happened to him on the train.
During the remainder of the time before the school term was to start Lily and Raven became the best of friends. Which was refreshing for both of them, Lily never had a best friend for many reasons one was the fact that most girls were jealous of the fact that she attracted all the boys though most of the time it was because of her obsession with sports that competes with any boys in all of England and to add on top of all of that she managed to keep up her looks. Raven never had a best friend either because all her friends (who were all witches) were jealous of the fact that she was so close to James, Sirius, and Remus. Even they were eleven they all attracted a lot of girls. But who wouldn't be attracted to them? Remus had big warm and caring brown eyes and brown hair he always had the most sense between them and they always went to him with their problems. Sirius had a pair of gray eyes that always had a devilish glint in them as if he just did something wrong and no one knew about it (and he probably did) and black hair that fell on his forehead (think Shawn from boy meets world). James on the other hand had messy jet-black hair that could never be tamed but for some reason it worked on him. To accompany that unruly hair he had a pair of deep sapphire blue eyes that shone whenever he was joking around with his friends but whenever he had a problem they were solemn looking, either way they were always full of emotion and most girls would see their younger sibling just to be able to look at them up close. All three boys were very athletic and they were familiar with both muggle sports and wizarding sports. The Potters and the Lupins both thought that their children should be aware of the muggle world and since those three were inseparable Sirius learned a lot too. Soon it was September first and Lily would be starting her first year at Hogwarts. She was so excited that she awoke at five a.m. She quickly showered and got dressed in a pair of navy blue flared jeans and a pink spaghetti strapped shirt. She went downstairs and made herself some scrambled eggs, toast, bacon, sausage, and some orange juice. The Evans' live in cook (Jordan) wasn't awake yet and even if he was Lily still loved to cook. By the time she was done eating she looked at the clock to see that it was six forty five and Petunia was just getting into the shower. An hour later the entire Evans household was in the large eat in kitchen having breakfast. After that they all piled into one of their cars and drove Lily to the train station during the ride there Petunia and Lily were talking and laughing and joking and having a great time each hoping that the car ride would never end. When they finally got to King Cross Station Lily jumped out of the car excitedly as her father was unloading her trunk. When Petunia finally dragged herself out of the car Mr. and Mrs. Evans had already hugged and kissed their daughter good bye.
"Well Petunia aren't you going to give your younger sister a hug before I leave? You wont see me till Christmas"
Lily said with open arms and with that Petunia hugged her sister the last hug she would be able to give her for a couple of months. After saying her good byes Lily went up to the barrier for platform nine and three quarters. (Mrs. Potter had already told Lily about it and how to enter it.) After waving a final goodbye Lily took control of her trolley making sure everything was strapped in and right into the wall separating platforms nine and ten. Before she knew it she was on the other side of the barrier staring at a long scarlet train with Hogwarts written on it. As she stared in awe she heard a conversation going on near her.
" Mom I'm gonna miss you so much!! What if I don't make any friends and what about the sorting ceremony I've already heard some awful things."
At hearing that Lily herself started to get worried about the ceremony. That was probably the only thing that the Potters didn't go over with her.
With a chuckle the girl's mother replied
"I was worried to on my first day but don't worry all they are gonna do is have you put on a magical hat and its going to decide which house is best for you. But don't tell anybody half the fun is seeing every one's worried faces "
The girl's mother winked at her and sent her on the train saying that she had to get to work. At that moment Lily missed her family terribly and wished she were still in the car with them. As a tear started to form Lily quickly wiped it away and pushed those thoughts out of her head and looked at her watch, seeing that she had half an hour left Lily decides to go find a spot on the train for her and Raven. She boarded the train with her things and started going from compartment to compartment looking for an empty one. She didn't find one that she liked until she reached the very last compartment. She put her trunk away with some difficulty then sat in one of the seats while giving her owl a few owl treats. As a surprise Lily's parents got her a white owl with green eyes, which she named Blizzard. They also got her a black cat with green eyes and she named it Midnight. A couple of minutes later Lily was sitting there with nothing to do besides watching Blizzard sleep in her cage and Midnight pacing through out her compartment. She had just diverted her attention back to the window when she saw the Potters coming through the barrier with Sirius and Remus. Looking at her watch Lily saw that they had exactly two minutes to get on the train. They all gave each other quick good byes and rushed towards the train. Lily leaned out of her window a bit and called out.
"Raven hurry other wise you'll miss the train."
"I'm trying to but my trunk is too heavy"
The boys who were far ahead of her quickly got in the train put their things down in the hall and sprinted back out towards Raven whose trunk wouldn't even budge. Lily looked at her watch and saw that they had forty five seconds left. They told Raven to hurry up and get on the train. After a bit of hesitation she left the three boys and sprinted on to the train and before Lily knew it Raven was in their compartment watching James, Sirius, and Remus through the same window as Lily at that point no one or nothing for that matter was breathing in their compartment. (Blizzard and Midnight were both watching intently) Lily has nervously looked at her watch to see that there were ten seconds left. Just as the boys were out of the girls view the train started moving. Both of the girls sat there in stunned silence.
"Wait, wait did they get on the train? Did they make it?"
Raven asked frantically.
"I, I, I don't know "
Lily managed to stammer.
"Well we cant just stay here lets go see if they made it"
Raven said nervously. When she stood up the long mass of jet-black hair that had fallen on her face went back to its original position of falling perfectly down her back. As the girls walked down the corridors they quickly peeked inside each compartment. When they made it to the front of the train they had only one compartment left. Praying to God that they were in their Raven opened the door only to discover a nice looking middle-aged woman loading different types of foods and beverages onto a trolley.
"Can I help you dear?"
"No ma'am"
Lily said for Raven .As they walked back to their compartment they both remained in silence until they were halfway there.
"Lily it was my fault that they missed the train. I was the reason we got here so late too. I kept trying to put as many things as I could into that blasted trunk everyone had to sit downstairs and wait for me. And if it wasn't for my stupid trunk they wouldn't have had to get off the train to come help me"
"Raven don't be so rough on yourself. Everything will be fine I'm sure there's another way to get to Hogwarts."
"But Lily that's not the point they were supposed to be on the train and because of me their not."
Just as she was saying that they were opening the door to their compartment only to find four figures on the floor.
"Hey this is our compar-"
Raven didn't even get to finish her statement because both girls at that point realized that that it was Remus, Sirius, James, and now Peter who were sprawled out on the floor.
As they were getting up Raven ran towards them bringing them back down.
"Oh my god how did you get onto the train? Where were you all this time? How did you get in here we searched all of the compartments up and down the corridor?"
Raven said all of this in on breath. It wasn't until she was done speaking that she let go of James and Sirius (Remus had managed to get out of her grasp). Before James could open his mouth to answer his twin Sirius replied:
"Well you see when we made it onto the train with your very heavy trunk by the way we were trying to get to you guys when a talking hippogriff wearing pink tights apparated (sp?) Right in front of us and kidnapped us it was then we found out that he had kidnapped us because he wanted to steal our brilliant minds so that he could take over the world. But luckily for James and Remus I was there to save the day .I defeated him in a wizards duel and forced him to send us back. Poor thing was so scared that he did everything I told him to, and that's when we landed in the corridor on the other side of the train and came in here to find an empty compartment."
At the end of his little story James stood there with a look of worry on his face, Remus shook his head while going back to his book while muttering something along the lines of He should really get some professional help someday, Raven stood there trying to picture what he said in her head while trying to hold in laughter, and Lily being the only one there not used to his strange comments just stood there staring with a complete look of shock while her mouth was slightly open. James being the one to break the silence faced his twin forgetting that Lily was there, in fact everyone forgot about the curious green-eyed girl. James went on to tell Raven what happened and that only some of what Sirius had some truth to it. After the explanation they were all starting to sit down while talking about the Quidditch that had went on this past summer. Lily who was standing in the corner started to feel a bit out of place and slipped out of the compartment unnoticed. As she was walking down the corridor alone she heard bits and pieces of people's conversations it wasn't until she reached the middle of the train that she heard a conversation that stuck out to her and she couldn't help but stop and listen to it. The compartment door wasn't closed all the way so she was able to get a good look at who was in it. In there were four boys who were all seated but three of them were facing one boy who had platinum blonde hair that had in, Lily's opinion, too much grease. They referred to him as Luscious Malfoy. Another boy had even more grease if even possible and black hair, during the conversation they referred to him as Severus Snape. The other two boys had brown crew-cut hair one was called Crabbe and the other Goyle. During her inspection she got a very dark vibe from all of them and concluded she did not want to be in their crowd.
"They're probably going into Slytherin" Lily thought to herself. As she stood there, still listening to the conversation. The boy that they called Malfoy was now speaking.
"You know it's a shame that those damn mud bloods have to be admitted into this school. They really do mess everything for us purebloods. They bring disgrace to this school. You know I was going to go to Durmstrang but my mom thought that it was too far. (Sound familiar?) You can just tell them apart from us just as much as you can distinguish us from muggles. Did you see that redheaded one with the green eyes? She was definitely a mud blood."
The other boys just sat there with a stupid grin plastered onto their faces. At that moment Lily backed away from the compartment and quickly and ran into the nearest restroom. Lily wasn't the type of girl to cry when an insult was thrown at her she would just throw a better one back but for some reason this was different. During the vacation Raven had told Lily about the word mud blood and what it meant and Lily thought that it was stupid and anyone who paid any mind to it should just toughen up and retaliate. But when she heard it directed towards her something left her leaving her feeling weak and vulnerable. After a few minutes she stopped crying, and promised herself to never let the word bother her again. Just as she was doing this someone entered the restroom. Lily quickly dried her eyes and waited a few seconds, when she was sure that her eyes weren't as red she opened the stall door and was surprised to find someone sitting on the counter crying. Lily inspected the crying figure. Sitting on the counter was a girl with long black hair. Her skin kind of had a tanned look to it, in Lily's opinion she was probably Egyptian or from around that area. When Lily cleared her throat the girl looked up startled to see anybody there.
"Umm are you okay?" Lily asked hesitantly.
"Yeah I'm fine thanks...um are you " the girl asked in return.
"Yeah what are you talking about why wouldn't I be"? Lily asked slowly backing away. Lily didn't like to be seen crying even if it was by someone she didn't know.
"I don't know but your eyes are kinda red I just assumed that you had been crying" the girl replied. After a few minutes of silence Lily finally asked the girl
" Hey aren't your friends wondering where you are, " Lily asked curiously.
" I haven't made any friends here yet " She replied quietly.
"Well not any more, consider me your friend " with this last comment the girl's face lit up.
"Really!?!"
"Yep now as your friend where have you been all this time if you haven't been talking to any one?" Lily asked curiously.
"Ohh well I've just been moving from restroom to rest room." She added a bit embarrassed.
"So since we are friends do you mind if we introduce ourselves? " Lily asked jokingly.
"Oh sorry, my name is Simone, Simone Cassadine"
"Well hello Simone I'm Lily, Lily Evans."
As they were walking out if the rest room Simone asked Lily where her friends were that when Lily told them of how she left them to be alone. A few minutes later they got to the compartment only to find it empty.
"That's strange where could they have gone?" Lily asked looking out the door for the second corridor only to see that her friends were nowhere in sight.
"Maybe they all went to the little girls room together, " Simone, added suggestively. Lily then laughed.
"I hope not." By now she was laughing harder at the thought.
"Well why not?" Simone asked curelessly
"Because four out of the five are boys."
"Oh I see " Simone added embarrassed.
"I don't know what are you talking about I rather enjoy the ladies room better the men's."
Both of the girls turned around to see a boy standing there with gray eyes and a guilty look on his face.
"Hi Sirius, Where is every one else "
"Lookin for you. We have been lookin for you for the past hour where have you been?" Sirius asked not noticing Simone yet.
" Well I ran into Simone here and we just started talking" Lily said this turning to face Simone.
"Sirius Black I'd like to introduce you to Simone Cassadine, Simone Cassadine meet Sirius Black.
"Hello " they both said in unison.
"So where are the others?"
"Here we are Lily where have you been looking for you all over I was getting really worried about you. Why did you leave and why didn't you tell us so we wouldn't have to worry."
"Sorry 'bout that I didn't mean to worry you guys I umm just dropped one of my earrings and went to go look for it and then I met Simone here" Lily lied she didn't want them to know that she felt uncomfortable. She knew if she told them anything that it would lead to her crying about the mud blood incident and she didn't want them to know. Just as she was about to finish telling her story James came into the room in a very bad mood.
"Ohm okay now that every one is here now I'd like to introduce you to some one. Every one this is Simone this is every one. This is Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Raven Potter, and James Potter. It wasn't until she said his name that she looked at him.
"Oh my god what to you " Lily asked completely forgetting her hatred for James. James was standing in the corner with blood coming out of his nose while he was trying to clean it up.
"Nothing " he grumbled back as a response and went to go sit in the far corner of the compartment not talking to anybody. Meanwhile every body else was getting to know every one else. When every one was changed into their robes Lily finally asked Raven what happened to James.
"I'll tell you later "
"Okay" was all Lily replied.
When they finally reached Hogwarts Every one was tired and wanted to go to bed. When they got to the great hall they were encountered by a woman in forest green robes with her hair in a tight bun and a stern look on her face, she then told them her name is Professor McGonagall. In a shrilly voice she told them to follow her into the great hall. As the ceremony began everybody in the hall was silent. But not before clapping for the hat and its wonderful song
"Barton, Sarah"
-"Hufflepuff!!" At this the Hufflepuff table exploded with clapping Bentley, Frank
-"Slytherin!!" When he was announced the Slytherin table went off with clapping "Black, Sirius' -"Gryffindor!!" "Cassadine, Simone" -"Gryffindor!!' When they were called Gryffindor deafened every one with clapping and whistling "Davis, Lorry" -"Ravenclaw!!" At this name the Ravenclaw table started clapping and whistling. A couple of names later they finally got to Lily.
"Evans, Lily" After Professor McGonagall called her Professor Dumbledor stopped his conversation with one of the teachers. Lily sat on the stool and the hat was soon placed on her head, covering his. The last thing she saw was James looking dead at her.
"He's so annoying why can't he just get lost," Lily said agitatedly.
"He cant get lost you two are destined to be together your love will be the best of them all."
"You have got to be kidding me, wait a minute who are you.
"Well my dear I am the sorting hat. Now lets get down to business now according to your thoughts you have a fascination with the Ravenclaw house. No, no, no that wont do. It's Gryffindor that you belong in. It's there where you'll become the person to save us all, but you have a strong desire to be in Ravenclaw so you have a choice which one will it be "
"I'll go where it will do me best "
"Gryffindor"
Before Lily could reply anything the hat immediately shouted out Gryffindor. She sat down to the right of Simone and across from Raven who was to the left of Sirius who was to the left of Peter. When Remus joined the table he sat next to Lily. James soon joined the table sitting next to his twin. When they were done with the sorting Dumbledore said his start of term speech. After that the feast began. During dinner Lily couldn't help but look at James. Not because she liked him or anything but she just couldnt help looking at him and wondering what happened to him on the train.