First Year: Part 3
The Christmas Holidays had come and go and now Hogwarts was filled with students arriving from home. Lily and James were quite unpredictable as sometimes, they argued or acted like good friends. Severus tried to avoid Lily but then one day she came to apologise. Severus driven by his feelings, forgave her and they became almost proper friends.
'Hey Lily,' Lauren greeted as she sat down next to Lily.
'Hi Lauren. What's up?' Lily asked.
Lauren was quite for a while.
'I.. need help,' Lauren explains. 'I want things to become better with Lisa and I. I try to apologise to her sometimes but she just ignores me.'
'What caused Lisa to hate you so much?' (A/N. Lisa is Melissa's nickname)
'You see Lisa she was online and I pretended to be her as I was her twin and I accidentally posted something that humiliated Lisa so much and she got into deep trouble as our parents found out,' Lauren replies. 'And I regret pretending to be her.'
Lily looked at Lauren sympathetically. Melissa was the most stubborn person and it required hard work to change her mind. The only person that can change her mind a little was Roxanne.
'That means we need to think of a plan,' Lily suggested. 'Let's get Roxy first. She's a very convincing person.'
They waved Roxanne over and told her what happened between Melissa and Lauren.
'Hmmm. That's going to be really hard,' Roxanne said. 'Let's try do something simple in the beginning and see the outcomes and if it doesn't work, we'll try something bigger.'
Lily and Lauren agreed. 'Okay so the thing that Lisa wants most in her life. Is that she wished the 'thing' never happened but that's impossible. But I don't know much about her,' Lauren said defeatedly.
'I'll try convincing Lisa first,' Lily offered. The group agreed but wasn't sure it would work. Lily headed to the Gryffindor Tower and saw Melissa
exiting.
'Hey, Lisa. I need to talk to you,' Lily said.
'About what?' Melissa asked.
'I'm really worried what's going on between you and Lauren.'
'Why do you care?' Retorted Melissa.
Lily sighed. This is going to be hard, she thought.
'I know what happened between the two of you,' Lily blurts out not really meaning to do so. Melissa whipped around sharply.
'Oh no you don't.'
'Yes I do.'
'Well, if you are going to ask me to drop it, I won't even if it was by accident.'
Lily groaned. This plan was obviously not going to work. Out of the corner of her eyes, Lily spotted Sirius and gestured him to come over.
Melissa saw Sirius coming over and asked, 'What is he doing here?'
Lily ignored her and filled Sirius in about everything between Melissa and Lauren. Lily chose Sirius as Melissa would probably listen to him because of her feelings.
'Look, Lisa,' Sirius starts. 'Lauren is your twin and twins are closely tied together. They would do anything for each other. If Lauren was about to die, would you do anything to prevent that?'
Lily looked at Sirius bewildered. He was lecturing Melissa so seriously he couldn't be the original Sirius.
'Yeah I would.'
'And Lauren wants do the same and she wants you and her to be in good terms.'
Melissa hesitated, 'Okay fine.'
Triumphantly, Lily and Sirius led Melissa to Lauren and Sirius, Roxanne and Lily left them to talk privately.
'You know Lily that you really make people happy,' Roxanne says. 'Like look at Lisa and Lauren hugging.'
Lily who was a very modest person shrugged.
'Woah!' James exclaimed out of nowhere. 'What on earth is happening?'
'Melissa and Lauren made up,' Sirius explains to James.
James scratched his chin. 'How?'
Lily rolled her eyes. James was such an ignorant person and she couldn't stand that git.
Melissa beamed, 'It was all because of Lily and Sirius.'
'Of course,' James said. 'Lily is a clever person and can sort out things and Sirius would do anything to make Melissa happy.'
Roxanne and Lauren sniggered while Melissa turned beetroot. However, Lily didn't join in the laughter. She was quite surprised by what James. Did he really mean it? Or not? Lily dropped the topic as she didn't really care. James meant 100% nothing to her.
'James!' Sirius yelled drawing a couple of looks from nearby passers. 'Will you stop it?
'Sirius is only because you kept on teasing about Lily and I, I decided to get back at you,' James says. 'So I will never stop until you drop the subject.'
'No, I won't.'
'First years,' A prefect cut in. 'Hurry up to your lessons.'
Lily checked her watch and realised there was only five minutes to get to lessons. The six rushed to lesson almost a minute late. Everyone sat down in their usual places but Remus and Lupin were missing.
'Hey, Sirius where's old Remus and Peter?' James asked.
Sirius shrugged, 'I don't know but they're sure in trouble.'
Professor McGonagall was calling out people's names.
'Oakshield, Roxanne!'
'Pettigrew, Peter!'
There was a silence. Professor McGonagall tutted, 'Detention for Pettigrew and… Lupin. I expected better of Remus.'
All of a sudden, Remus and Peter burst into the room. They were covered with glue and Peter looked like he was going to start crying.
'Sorry, Professor,' Remus apologised. 'We were.. Er.. Delayed.'
Professor McGonagall raised an eyebrow. 'And that is more important than my lessons.'
Remus didn't know what to say but Professor McGonagall dismissed him and Peter.
'Remus,' Lily whispered. 'What happened?'
Remus sighed, 'We got ambushed by Malfoy, Black and you know the people.'
'Then why didn't you tell Professor?' James asked. 'She would've loved to deduct points from their houses as especially they have won the last two terms of Quidditch matches against Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.'
'Potter!' Professor McGonagall called out. 'I do not want any talking in my lessons.'
The three became quiet and the lesson carried on. From how Remus was acting, Lily knew there was more to the story as why would they target Remus and Lupin when there are other people they hate more like James and Sirius. Lily was sure it was to do with Peter as he was also acting different today. Lily was determined to found out. The lesson was over and everyone headed to dinner. Once she sat down, she noticed that Peter kept on glancing towards the Slytherin table and many of the Slytherins in their year kept on smirking. Now that's suspicious, Lily thought. She moved closer to Remus and Peter who were whispering in hushed voices.
'Thanks, Remus for not telling anyone,' Peter says.
'I was about to if you weren't my friend,' Remus replied darkly. Peter whimpered and Lily rolled her eyes. He was such a weak person.
'Lily!' Sirius called out. 'Lauren and Lisa are arguing again.'
Lily groaned.
