A/N: Ahem. Well... I'm back! And fully determined to continue this story! In fact, it is one of my new year resolutions! I'm full of ideas and rearing to go, but first, I want to make one thing clear, this is NOT a LilyTed fic anymore, because I'm just not feeling it any longer... But the basic plot of the story in my head is pretty much the same. It's been months now, and I think my writing style has changed a teeny bit [and so has my pen name- it's now clearblueskies] so please tell me what you think!

PS- There will be other pairings like Hugo/OC, Rose/Scorpius, and don't worry, Albus and James will be introduced into the story soon, even if they don't have a key role. Now, ON WITH THE STORY!

LILY'S POV

Chapter 5- Classes:

"*BRING**BRING**BRING*!"

I let out a small squeal and fell of my comfortable bed onto the cold, hard floor as my stupid roommate, Joanne screamed in my ear. And then, to top it off, she fell down on top of me. And Joanne was not light. I glared at her as she smiled brightly and jumped off me, as if annoying me was the most fun thing in the world.

"Sarah asked me to wake you," she said, as she made her way to her best friend, Katherine.

I went and showered, grumbling to myself all the way, and it did nothing to improve my mood when I realised that none of my friends had waited for me. And there was still the Teddy-ache.

I wasn't in a very good mood when I reached the great hall for breakfast.

I plonked myself grumpily next to Lucas, opposite Hugo and Sarah – who, I noticed, were sitting together. The fact that I didn't smirk or smile on seeing that proved that I was seriously not happy that morning. Lucas smiled at me as I poured myself pumpkin juice. I almost smiled back before I realised that I was supposed to be annoyed with all of them.

"Nice of you to wait for me," I said sarcastically as I helped myself to some toast.

"Sorry," muttered Luke; Hugo and Sarah carried on eating. I glared at them until they muttered apologies too, and then went back to eating my toast. Or rather, glaring at it.

There was a long silence before Hugo sighed and asked, "What's wrong, Lily?"

Lucas nodded. "Yeah, you haven't touched the jam, and you're actually reading something other than the Quidditch section of the newspaper, what's the matter?"

When I didn't reply, Sarah did for me. "She got exactly three hours of sleep last night boys, so cut her some slack"

I looked at Sarah, confused. How in the name of Merlin did she know?

She saw my face and answered my unasked question, "You were crying Lily. Almost all night... Don't worry, the other girls sleep too deeply to notice."

At this, Lucas squeezed my hand, and Hugo refrained from making an annoying comment. Do I have the best friends ever or what?

A livid Rose saved me from continuing the awkward conversation. She shoved herself between me and Lucas, her face red with anger, and banged her head on the table. Repeatedly. None of us were stupid enough to try and stop her. After two minutes of continuous head-banging, she gave a loud groan, attracting many curious stares, and said "Guess what?"

We waited.

"I have to share a bloody common room with Scorpius bloody Malfoyyyy," she wailed, burying her head in her arms.

"And we have to share one bloody bathroommmmmmmmmmm" she added, her voice getting louder with each word, "And we have rooms of our own and have the sleep practically next to each other and we can't sleep in our house dorms unless there's a special occasion and I'm going to DIE!" she finished dramatically.

Half- nay- three-quarters of the great hall was now staring at us.

"What in the name of Merlin were they thinking?" she added, in a barely audible whisper. I patted her uncertainly on the back, while, in my mind, I was jumping up and down in delight. It was perfect! Now they would be together in a matter of months, I was sure of it. The bell rang for class and the four of us hurriedly got up and left for Charms, leaving a distressed Rose behind us.

I closed my eyes briefly as I sat in front of the fire in the softest armchair there was. The rest of the day passed pretty normally, and with the exception of my constant heartache (Merlin, that sounded dramatic!), it was your average first day back to school... With the exception of lectures about our OWLs, that is. It's our first day, and we got lectures from each and every teacher whose class we had today- including Hagrid, of all people. We also got four essays, which are all due in three days. But, I suppose, such is life in your fifth year.

Thankfully, today-for once- we were spared the torture of the usual back to school drama- break-ups, make-ups, and summer gossip. Well, Scorpius Malfoy did break up with his new girlfriend just five hours after they got together today, but that doesn't count, right?

Oh, and of course, Al broke up with his girlfriend of six months. Apparently, she had become 'too clingy' over the summer. I remembered her, a pretty brunette from Hufflepuff. I shook my head. I sounded like one of those fourth-year gossips. But anyway, the breakup here at Hogwarts was just official of course; they had decided to end it a week before the wedding. Ugh. The wedding. The wedding...

I was interrupted from my morbid thoughts by a smiling pair of blue green eyes, and tousled brown hair.

I grinned brightly at Lucas. "Hey!"

"Hi Lils!"

"What 'ya doing?"

"Oh nothing much, just wondering if a good friend could do me a small favour..."

I looked at Lucas suspiciously "What do you want Lucas, because if it involves the cloak and the map, James still has the cloak, and this week is Albus' turn for the map..."

He ruffled his hair awkwardly before seating himself on the arm of my chair, and turning to me with wide, pleading eyes. "It's not much Lil's, I promise..."

His beseeching eyes reminded me of Teddy's when he had asked me to be bridesmaid. Except that Teddy's had been changed to purple- my favourite colour - and Lucas' were blue-green (or was it green-blue?)- which actually happened to be a mix of my other two favourite colours.

I smiled as he attempted a puppy-dog face. "Oh, all right Lucas... but it had better not get me into trouble."

"It won't! I promise!"

Lucas leaned forward (why was the back of my neck feeling warm all of a sudden?) and muttered something in my ear.

Well, there you have it, chapter five. I didn't really like it... it was wayyy too detached... and it includes my (very) lame attempt at a cliff-hanger. The next chapters are going to be longer, don't worry, with more purpose. I'm basically getting warmed up and used to the story again.

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