A/N : Hope this doesn't confuse you. my computer whiped out on me, and my itunes is gone too. So the next couple of chapters was deleted, and i came up with this off the top of my head. This is just Lily reflecting when she goes home after her sixth year. From now on the chapters will take place in seventh year, or the summer before seventh year. Please review. x
Every time Lily looked out of her window, she could see the large house on Spinners End in the distance. The sight of it made her shudder, but not because it was the housing of her ex-best friend, Severus Snape, but because she knew the type of life and people it contained. She closed her eyes as she remembered the story that Severus had once told her on one of their days in the woods. Eileen Snape had been almost beautiful in her younger years, and fell madly in love with Tobias Snape at the ripe age of 19. Their 'love at first sight' was beautiful, and they had a baby boy in 1960, two years after their marriage. But, (this part she had not been told, but had gathered over the years) the relationship was not a lasting one, and it had fallen apart. Tobias had lost his job of 8 years to a 'newbie' and had become severely depressed. That was when he first became an abusive husband, and father.
That was why Lily was careful in love. She had seen pictures of how happy the Snapes had been, and so in love with each other, it was a relationship every girl hoped to see. But, alas, fate took hold. 'While Lily still believed in love, she thought it foolish to get married solely based on it. She wasn't a prude, or a slut for that matter. She had had a few boyfriends, none that had lasted too long, and dreamt about falling in love as much as the next girl. She just happened to think about the future, maybe more than she should have.
And true love, she just didn't quite understand.