First Year: Summer Holiday
Lily's first year at Hogwarts was over and she was looking forward to the Summer Holiday. When Lily arrived home, she didn't pack immediately as she was heading over to Melissa's. She felt a little sorry for Sirius as he was embarrassed a lot and not many people like being embarrassed. Lily was outside of the house enjoying the sun.
'Lily,' It was Petunia.
'What?'
Ever since Petunia hasn't been friendly, Lily started ignoring her.
'There's some guy at the door,' Petunia explained. 'And I hope you're not dating because he's ugly.'
Lily rolled her eyes and headed towards and the least expected person was standing in her doorway.
Severus.
'What are you doing here?' Lily hissed. 'My parents are here.'
'Oh sorry,' Severus apologised. 'I just came here to talk.'
'Okay then. Wait here.' Lily went back inside and grabbed her jacket. She came back outside wearing an emerald coat that brought her eyes out.
'You look beautiful.'
Lily shot daggers at him. She hoped he didn't come here to talk about his feelings or she will start beating him up.
'I need to tell you something important.'
'What?'
'Don't trust Pettigrew,' Severus said darkly.
Lily didn't respond but said, 'Is that all you came for?'
'Yeah. Cuz your my friend.'
'Okay. So why should I not trust Peter?'
Severus hesitated, 'Peter… He betrayed Sirius. He told Bellatrix about where Sirius usually hides when his parents try to bring him back to their house during the holidays.'
Lily wasn't shocked. She knew that Peter wasn't a nice person.
'You should tell Sirius.'
'But Peter's his friend. He would never believe me,' Lily says.
Severus raked a finger through his oily hair, 'Yeah that's the problem but you could help by keeping an eye on Peter.'
Lily agreed and Severus went home. Her parents were ready in the car as they were going to drive her to Melissa's house.
'LILY!' Melissa exclaimed. 'I missed you so much.'
'Wow Lisa,' Lily says. ' You must love me so much that you can't resist me for a couple of days.'
Lily heard a couple of people coughing and knew it was the boys. Lily also hugged Roxanne and Lauren and greeted the Marauders except that Peter wasn't here. That's a relief, Lily thought, less trouble. Melissa introduced Lily to her parents.
'This must be Lily Evans,' Melissa's father said. He had brown hair like Melissa and had shaggy eyebrows. Melissa's parents led the way to the living room and everyone sat down. Melissa and Sirius looked uncomfortable and Lily urged Melissa to talk to him but she said later so Lily told her about Peter.
'Why would you listen to Snivellus?' Melissa asked.
'Oh using the name now,' Lily said coldly .
'Just answer my question.'
'Well, one Severus is my friend, two although he's a Slytherin you don't need to be rude. Slytherin is not all bad people and three he did nothing to you.'
Melissa rolled her eyes. As much as she hates arguing with Lily, she couldn't help herself. 'Look, Sirius is Peter's friend and you don't want to ruin that friendship.'
'If it was to save my friend,' Lily shot back.
'Woah woah woah,' James cut in. 'I thought you were besties.'
'Who got you involved?' Lily and Melissa choroused.
They both glared at each other and went in opposite directions. A few minutes later, Lily felt horrible. She missed talking with her best friend. She tried talking to Melissa but she ignored Lily. Sometimes Melissa can be a very stubborn was awkwardness in the room after the argument and Roxanne tried to change the subject, 'Where's Peter?'
Lily tensed but James replied, 'Family problems.'
Lily frowned. This should be an excuse. Dinner was served and things were not okay with Melissa and Lily yet.
