Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry for the tardiness of this update! I've been swamped with school work and exams, finals finals finals! Those will determine if I'm worthy or not to go to University… eek. Lol WISH ME LUCK!! Without further ado…
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Chapter 5:
Lily and Alex waited for Iza to come back but she never did. Getting up from their table, they walked out of the Great hall, deep in conversation about the quidditch game happening the following day.
'Lily, you are coming this time.' Alex said, placing his arm around her shoulders.
Lily whined at his order and said 'But Aleeeex! I've got homework to dooo'.
Alex gave her an outraged look 'Excuse me?? Honey, puhlease, this year you have no excuses. Last year was OWL's, next year are NEWT's… THIS year, is to figure out what you wanna do later on. Spare me your bullshit and let yourself go a little!!' he said giving her a small smile.
'Urgh fine. What am I going to do with you…' she muttered as she smiled back at him. They turned the corner towards the fat lady.
'You're going to listen to-' but he was cut short as they saw what they thought was Iza's shilouhette run through the portrait, into the common room. Looking at eachother, they rushed inside the common room to find it empty.
'I'll be here' Alex said quickly as he sat down in an armchair. Lily didn't wait for an answer as she ran up the stairs to the girl's dormitory to look for Iza.
She barged in the girl's dormitory to find it dead silent. She had to wait just a few seconds for her eyes to adjust to the dark room before making out the form of a girl, sitting on Iza's bed.
'Iza? Sweetheart?' Lily said as she walked towards her friend. She got to her and put her hand on her shoulder to make sure the other one knew of her presence. Iza turned her head slowly.
'It's over…' She whispered softly. She had no facial expressions but her eyes bore her sadness and her distress. 'Lily, he said it was over…' She repeated as she turned back to stare out of the window again.
'Oh honey…' Lily said as she sat down next to her on her bed. She placed an arm around her shoulders and Iza lowered her head on Lily's shoulder for support. 'It's going to be alright' she said softly. 'I know that it's not what you want to hear right now, but think about it… If you weren't comfortable with him in public, maybe it wasn't meant to be!' Lily felt Iza's shoulders slump. 'Listen, how about we get down to the kitchens and grab some icecream?' She said, trying to look at her friend's face to see if she was crying.
Iza gave a weak 'okay'. She took in a deep breath, grabbed onto Lily's arm and followed her out of the room. Getting down to the common room, she was joined on the other side by her other best friend, Alex. She couldn't stop that small smile on her lips as she walked out of the common room, with the two most important people in her life, by her side.
A/N: Eek, now I know that it's fucking hard getting into elementary school teaching!! Christ! I was refused!! And I'm an over average student there!! Well I'm very disappointed by this.. lol I just got the news this morning… Sorry about that, had to share it… Now back with the story
It had been a week since the break up and Iza was being her old self again. They were sitting down at the Gryffindor table for breakfast when Lily spotted Brandon walking in the great hall and going to sit down with his friends. His back was slightly slumped and he kept stealing glances at their table.
'Iza, I'm really proud of you' Lily said smiling, turning around to look at her friend. She was currently stuffing her mouth with eggs, concentrated in the book she held in her other hand. Alex and she were quizzing each other for the mini test Slughorn was giving that same day.
Iza looked up to Lily's face and said 'Foh?' trying to make sure the eggs wouldn't spill from her mouth. She chewed, waiting for her friend's answer.
'You haven't cried once!!' Lily said smiling 'You're very strong, that's why I'm proud of you!'
Iza shot her a look, raising her eyebrow. She swallowed her food and said in a flat tone 'I don't cry Lily.' She then went back to her eating, going through the text book to find a question for Alex.
Lily rolled her eyes, she opened her mouth to say something else but was cut off by Alex who got cranky. 'Argh! Just let her ask me another question Lily!!'
Lily huffed and placed her bag on the table. 'If you had studied like I did, you wouldn't be panicking!!' She stood up and received a piece of toast from one of the two. She mock glared at them and strutted out of the hall, still hearing their laughter.
She was walking up the stairs when her bag fell, she bent down to pick it up and got up quickly, she really needed to get going, she knew the book that she wanted to read was supposed to be in by now. But getting back up, the walls around her seemed to be spinning and her vision was blurred by black and blue spots. Feeling cold sweat, she knew she was going to collapse; she managed to whisper a soft 'oh' as she felt herself fall backwards before everything when black.
'Where the hell is Lily??' whispered Alex to Iza as they both were seated in their DADA's classroom. 'She's never late!'
'I don't know Alex, she said something about a book this morning, I think she left the hall for the library at breakfast' Iza whispered back to him, scrunching her face. Where could Lily be?
There was a big bang and the door flew opened, James Potter walked in, out of breath 'Sorry professor!' he wheezed out as he sat down next to Sirius who raised an eyebrow at him. Alex could make out what James mouthed at him Tell you later. The class dragged to an end, and the students piled out of class when it was declared over.
'Gosh I HATE theory DADA! Why can't we just do practice??' said Iza to her friend, as they walked in the hallways. Just as they were turning the corner, they saw James sprint past them and run through the hallways. 'Oula! Watch where you're going!' she yelled after him, waiving her arm about, as he almost knocked her off.
'Come on, let's go try to find Lily.' Alex said as he pulled her towards the library.
The smell of anticeptic spells filled her nostrils as she came back to consciousness. Wondering where she was, she let her eyes flutter opened. She quickly recognized the ceiling of the Hospital wing. Before she could even start to wonder what was going on, she heard a cough right next to her. Turning her head slightly to the right, she blinked, not registering what she was seeing.
Seeing her raise an eyebrow at him, he sat up straight in his chair, knowing it was his cue to start talking. 'Er... You fainted again' he said dumbly. His cheeks got a little rosy and he looked away. Seeing she wasn't answering, he scratched his head as he stumbled with his words and managed a feeble 'I just came back to see if you had woken up... Er... Well I'll be going now...' He said getting up and walking quickly out of the wing.
'What the...' said Lily as she watched him leave. Seconds later, Mme Pompfrey came back out of her office and saw she was awake. 'Miss Evans! You're awake! Thank Merlin Mr. Potter was there again! You would have broken something, that's for sure!' she said as she started going over her tests on Lily.
'What do you mean, again?' said Lily confused as hell.
'Well, he was the one to bring you in last time too...' the nurse said, looking at Lily wondering how Lily didn't know about this.
Not knowing what to say, Lily just made a little 'Oh...'
'Can you tell me what happened?' the nurse asked as she prodded Lily's abdomen.
'Well from what I can remember, my bag fell off my arm and I bent down to grab it, when I got up, everything went blurry and I guess I blacked out...?' Lily said, not knowing what happened afterwards.
The nurse just frowned and said 'Well for the moment, you seem fine... If you feel something off don't hesitate to come to me...' she said to Lily as she let her sit up. 'If this happens again, I'm going to have to talk to Albus about it'
Lily merely nodded as she headed out of the wing, scratching her head. She looked at her watched and cursed. She was going to be late for class! She started running through the hallways towards McGonnagal's class room. Getting there, she saw the last of her classmates walk in, relieved, she walked in behind them and found her spot next to Iza. Still panting from her run, she looked around and realized she didn't have her bag. She started to panic. Her diary was in there!
'Where the hell were you? We were looking everywhere for you!' Alex said from his spot in front of them.
'Hospital wing. I'll explain later... Shit shit shit... Where did I put my bag??' she moaned, as she buried her head in her arms. Iza raised her eyebrow at Alex but couldn't say a word since McGonnagal had started her lecture.
A soft 'Psst' was heard from the row behind them. Iza turned around but then saw that the person was addressing Lily instead. So she gave a nudge to Lily who raised her head, and nodded towards the back. Lily turned around, with her eye brows furrowed in confusion.
'I kept your bag, didn't want you to lose it...' James said, as he pushed the bag on the floor gently towards her. She didn't say a word but nodded, as she turned back and took out her things silently.
Iza scribbled on a piece of parchment and slid it towards Lily. What the fuck?
Lily wrote back I fainted in the stairs... Again, Pomfrey doesn't know what I have... Potter brought me there... And what the fuck! You never told me it was him that brought me to the wing a week ago!!
Iza looked at her, smiled and winked and went back to taking notes.
'Alright so that's it for the lesson today, but I'm going to team you up for your year project. This year, since you are in sixth year and do not have any ministry exams to take, you will dedicate your work to one project.' Excited murmurs could be heard throughout the class 'I will team you up with a fellow student of your house, to accommodate your meetings. Every class, I will give you theory, that you none the less, have to study and work on for I will give you exams to take during the school year. After I give you the theory, you have time to work on your project. Now I will write on the board the topics you can choose to work on.' As she continued to talk, the chalk on the board started to move and the topics were written on the board. 'You have to finish the year with your project accomplished and a 27" long report on how it went. I will also write down what you need to have in that essay to have all of your points. Please note them down, for I will not repeat myself.' She moved to the side to let everyone see the board.
Year Project
Human transfiguration (on yourself)
Non-Verbal Magic
Multiple Transfiguration, minimum four
(ex: frog to desk to soup to plant)
In the essay
Brainstorming
Your sources
The steps of the work
The difficulties you have encountered
A conclusion of how it all went
'Alright class' she said in a stern voice, making every one silent 'Now I will place you in groups of two' she said as she took out her list of names.
'Pettigrew – Paré, Parkhouse – Lupin, Black – Medows, Evans – Potter' she called before switching papers and calling out the Ravenclaw students.
Lily looked at Iza, horrified.
'Oh, putain de merde….' Iza swore in French as she registered that she was supposed to be teamed with the stupidest guy in her year and that Lily was teamed up with her arch enemy: James Harry Potter.
A girlish squeal could be heard from behind them. Lily slowly turned her head around, and came face to face with James, who was grinning stupidly, waving his hand to her. Great.
Okay so here it is!! Another chapter UP! I personally don't really like this chapter but oh well… I'm going to try and write as quickly as possible I think I'm going to update sooner than usual because my exams are coming to an end! :D hehe ANYHOW I have a question to ask all of you!
Poll: If you ever had super powers, what would it be?!
Turn invisible?
See the future?
Be able to do magic?
Change form?
Something else?? Lol
Please let me know! Haha I'm trying to test something out here!
R&R! Love you all!
Marie