ch 2 is here! thanks for everybody who reviewed! i hope you enjoy this chapter!

disclaimer: it's quite simple, every character that you recognize is not mine, every charecter that you don't recognize is mine.

Chapter two: the redheaded "mermaid"

Lily walked down the staircase to the Great Hall when she heard someone calling her name. She turned around and saw a tall boy with sandy hair and deep brown eyes walking towards her.

"Hi Remus" she smiled at her fellow prefect. She watched him carefully, while he greeted her with "G'Morning Lily", noticing the tired lines on his face.

"Hard night, huh?" she asked him gently with a little smile, referring to the full moon that happened a night before.

Remus Lupin was a werewolf. She found it out in the middle of first year. They became close friends when she moved to Jess's house and was his next-street neighbor.

"Bearable" he smiled back "and you? Got any good sleep?"

She shrugged and a half-smile appeared on her face "five hours of sleep. New record"

They started to get down side by side while talking about more light subjects.

"Where Jess and Vi'?"

"They told me that they would meet me down at breakfast. Apparently there was some kind of a mess up in the girl's dorm. Something about Vi' throwing all Elany's beauty products out of the window" she chuckled softly when she remembered all the shrieks and screams that were coming from her dorm

"So... when are you going to ask her out?" she asked him with raised eyebrows.

Remus looked alarmed and she laughed when she saw him starting to blush.

"What do you mean?" he asked her carefully.

"Remus, today is the last day of school and tomorrow we all going home. I was just wondering if in the next two months you're going to make a move"

"What?" he asked confused.

Lily stopped in her tracks and looked at him, faking a surprised look. "You mean to tell me, that I didn't tell you that Vi' is going to stay over the summer at our house?" she smiled when she saw his face brighten with happiness. "But I'm warning you" she added with her finger pointing at his chest "that if you two are not going to hook up before our seventh year, I'm going to strangle you both". He laughed in response and said good bye to her before joining his best friends.

Students were already sitting at their house tables talking cheerfully with each other. Lily's gaze followed Remus to the far end of the Gryffindor table where it seems a bit crowded, as always.

She stiffened when she heard James's potter laugh.

God how much she disliked that kid! Next to him, petunia seemed like an adorable, sweet little girl, and that saying something.

She sat at the other end of the table and noticed with disgust all the girls that were sitting or standing near the marauders and flirting with them shamelessly, some of them sighing or blushing when one of the marauders winked or shot they famous winning smiles at them.

Lily was in the middle of her breakfast, when the owl post arrived. She looked up just to see her brown little owl- woodek- flying towards her. He landed on her shoulder and dropped the two letters in her palm. She stroked it thankfully and gave him a little of her pumpkin juice before he flew to the Owlery.

Seeing that it was sent by Erica, Jess's mother, Lily opened the first latter in curiosity.

'Dear lily

This letter was sent to our house by muggle mail and it addressed to you from your sister.

Now, before you'll open it I just wanted to mention and apologize for Julie opened the letter before I noticed and read it.

But that's not all.

Julie drew something on the back of the letter for, if I put it in her own words. "To cheer Lily up, because there is no way that I'm going to let that

giraffe-neck blond depress her"

Lily smiled when she read that part. The whole family took it as a daily job to care for her, so naturally the four brothers and sisters despised petunia after she declared in her last letter that she won't recognize Lily as her sister anymore.

"Again, I am sorry about the situation, for I know how much it bothers you that people are privileging in your personal possessions.

And just to remind you all, we will meet you three down at the platform.

Enjoy your last day of school!

Love Erica.

P.s. I'm glad that you decided to stay after all."

Lily smiled warmly at the ending and put it aside carefully taking the next one.

Through the doors entered a group of girls. The front girl, who seemed to be the leader, observed the hall with narrow icy blue eyes. When it finally fixed on the marauders, her smile grew wider and she kept walking, her thighs swinging from side to side. One of her friends nudged her side and pointed towards the nearest person that sat on the table.

The front girl's face turned into a sneer as she watched Lily's figure sitting like a statue and staring in a letter wide-eyed.

"Oh look, its swamp monster Evens," she said aloud. Some people that heard her sniggered and some of the kids that sat in the nearest tables were watching curiously at the scene.

It wasn't new to them that Elany Pentale picked on Lily Evens every time she saw her, but it was still amusing. Amusing as to see as well Evens's reaction.

To everybody's surprise Lily didn't respond coldly as always but just sat there in her sit, and didn't move.

This reaction seemed to make Elany angrier.

She had three good reasons to insult lily today.

First: it made her feel superior than that bookworm loser when Jessica and Viviane weren't there to defend her. Or "it" as she liked to call Lily.

Second: she wanted to get James's Potter attention. James Potter was the hottest guy in Hogwarts that every girl fantasized about him.

Third: Lily Evens suffered a lot of pranks from the marauders, and everyone who treated Lily like a slug, was allowed to hang out with them.

"What's the matter? You didn't find any books that can teach you how to talk?" the girls behind her sniggered and it seemed that it awoken Lily from her trance.

"Huh? Did you say something Penthale?" asked Lily with a frown.

"Yes I did you-" but she stopped angrily when she saw that Lily's attention was slipping away again. "Hey Evens! Someone is talking to you!" she called loudly, making Lily look up to her again.

"What? Oh, good morning to you too Penthale" the people who watched burst in laughter, but Lily didn't pay attention to them and got back to the letter.

'Jess is going to blow up when she'll find out' she thought to herself.

"Get moving Penthale, or it's going to be you who I'll throw out of the window the next time!" Viviane called when she entered the Great Hall with Jess behind her.

Elany turned around muttering something about "wasting my precious time with that nerd" and walked straight where the marauders were, her pack of girls behind her.

"Bitch" muttered Jess quietly sitting opposite Lily, grabbing a plate and putting scrambled eggs in it, while Vi' did the same and looked at Lily curiously.

"Who send you that letter?" she asked. This time Lily heard her and looked up her face motionless "Petunia"

Jess choked on her pumpkin juice, and looked at Lily in disbelieve "what that horse-face wants from you now?"

"Nothing really" Lily said in a light voice "she's just back in England-" "WHAT?" "And she's engaged to some type named Vernon Dursley"

Vi' frowned when she heard that "she's engaged? And she's inviting you for her wedding?"

"Are you kidding me?" asked Lily surprised "she sent this letter just to make sure that I won't show up at her wedding. Here, read it yourself"

She handed the latter to Jess that seemed more relieved for some reason. After a few moments they both looked up.

"Well..." started Vi', unsure what to say "it's quite nicer than the last letter that you've got from her"

"Yeah, she only called you freak like...27 times. Compared to her last letter when she called you like what, 100 times?"

"120 times" lily said half smiling "I liked the last sentence in this latter: "you're such a freak. You're the freakiest of all freaks, so don't you dare crush into my party, showing you're freakiest powers, and doing a freak show. And that include you're freakiest friends from your freakiest school!""

The two friends laughed, relieved that Lily wasn't hurt from the letter "want me to burn it?" suggested Jess.

"I can't. Look at the back" Jess turned the letter and burst in laughter. On the other side was drawn a mermaid, with red hair and what seemed like green eyes. Above the drawing was said in big letters "midnight" and under the mermaid was written "with all my love, Julie"

"What can I say? I've got a talented sister" smiled Jess and handed the letter back to Lily. All three got back to their breakfast.

Lily opened the Daily Prophet when suddenly she felt something liquid going down her hair and people around her started to laugh.

"What did they do this time?" she asked boringly, turning a page with green fingers and long dark nails.

"Turned your hair to shining blue-green color, your skin to dark grey and your nails are twice longer" answered Vi' with a smile "I might add that its quite suits you" Lily suppressed a laugh and continued to read. "four minutes" she said only.

"Hi Jess, hi Vi', hi Lily! New hair style?" asked a male's voice. Lily looked up to see Jess's younger brother, Charley, looking back at her with interest.

"Yes" she answered, smiling. "I thought it would go perfect with my eyes. What do you think?" she lifted her glasses, her eyes turning to their original shade of green. Charley laughed in response "nice" he agreed. Lily put her glasses back on her face her eyes turning back to brown. "Two minutes" she announced.

Jessica and Viviane got off their sits "we're going to go and talk to those idiots" said Jess quietly to Lily.

"You don't have to" she answered looking up at them "it's anyway not going to last long"

It didn't seem that they've heard her, and she watched them going to the marauders. She shook her head slightly "one minute" she whispered to herself.

"Potter, Black, we need a word with you" said Jess sternly.

"Sorry love, but we're busy" answered Sirius, flashing towards her a dazzling smile, that the girls that surrounded them sighed dreamily.

Jess's eyes narrowed dangerously, and Sirius backend away slightly.

"Turn Lily back to normal!" commended Vi' angrily, looking at James.

"I don't think so" he smirked "the spell will only come off around lunchtime. until then..."

Lily heard him and smiled to herself "five seconds" she mumbled turning the next page indifferently. Her skin was turning now to pale green, and her hair was getting to dark green brown color.

"You look like Mell" commented Charley. Lily's smile grew wider when she heard that. "Well, she always said that I've got a part that is belong to the merpeople" she answered lightly. "One..." she thought to herself.

Suddenly her skin got back to its color, her nails shrank to their normal size and her hair was black again

"Everything back to normal?" she asked Charley, who nodded.

"Good" she said, adopting her cold attitude, now that people were staring at her. But it seems that Sirius Black and James Potter weren't thinking the same thing.

"How did you that?" asked an angry voice behind her.

"Did what, Potter?" she asked coldly, getting up from her sit and staring straight at his hazel eyes.

"That spell wasn't suppose to come off until the afternoon" continued Sirius Black.

"What spell?" she raised her eyebrows "look. As much as this conversation is interesting, I've got a class to go. Good day to you both" she said calmly and got out of the hall. Soon she heard hurried footsteps behind her. "Hey Lily! Wait up!"

"So" started Vi' questionably after she and Jess caught up with her.

"It's a new spell I found that change my hair color" smiled Lily, guessing what Vi' wanted to know "it's water proof, fire proof and spell proof. It seems to get rid of spells in five minutes. So because Potter and Black put only one spell on me..."

"Good one" laughed Jess "at least it shrank Black's and Potter's ego"

"You know as well as I am, that that is impossible" said Lily while rolling her eyes.

The three burst in laughter, before racing to their first class.

-Later that night-

Lily opened the door to her dorm and sighted with relief when she saw that none of the girls was in there. She didn't thought she could handle another humiliation.

"Lily! Oh my god... what happened to you?" asked Jess in shock coming out of the bathroom.

"Take a wild guess" answered Lily dryly, shaking the sticky green glue from her clothes. Jess looked at Lily, which was covered from head to foot in that thing

"Potter" she growled and took out her wand "he is so going to pay for this!"

"No. You're so not doing it," said Lily. In a frustrated sound she took out her wand and with a swish the substance was gone.

"See? No harm done. Besides, it's the last night at school and I've got more important things to do then hex Potter. Not to mention that he and Elany are not in the common room, doing you can-guess-what in one of Hogwarts cupboard"

Jess lowered her wand, looking calmer "when are you going to get back?"

"Three in the morning I think" said Lily, changing to something warmer to wear. She looked at the clock on the wall "almost midnight. See you around"

"Have fun" answered Jess smiling a little. When she no longer heard her friend's footsteps she raised her wand to her lips, smirking. "Well if Potter not around, than there always Black"

Lily hid her clothes behind a bush and stayed in a strapless and short tights. Her skin felt with goose bumps because of the cold air. And standing so close to the Forbidden Forest, didn't help her to feel less conscious about her surroundings. She looked from side to side carefully, trying to see and hear any sign of human in the area. She put down her glasses on top of her clothes and changed her hair back to normal

She took out her wand and pointed it to her body "watrio" she whispered.

She felt the familiar tickle running through her body and jumped inside the freezing water. Her body adjusted quickly to the temperature and she could breath freely

Like getting in a hot bath, she remembered her first thought when she first used that charm.

She dived under water and then up again, throwing her wet red hair to the back and then sighted quietly with satisfaction.

Lily loved to swim at night; it relaxed her from her daily troubles- "marauders trouble" if to be accurate. She swam deeper to the lake but not far enough from the ledge where she jumped.

Suddenly, she felt something grabbing her from the waist and pulling her hard in the water.

"aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!" she screamed before her voice muffled in the water. The thing that grabbed her, let her go and she swam upwards. She coughed and took deep breaths when she heard a cheerful laughter.

"Mell, it's not funny!" she half yelled, while rubbing her eyes to get rid of the water

"Yes it is" Mell continued to laugh, splashing water at Lily playfully.

"You almost gave me a heart attack," said Lily, now smiling and splashing water back at Mell.

Mell smiled, dived and reappeared behind Lily "I've started to wonder when you're going to visit me again" she said and dived again. Lily turned around just to catch a last glance at Mell's tail.

"Sorry" answered Lily when Mell appeared again above water "had a problem"

"Hmmm" nodded Mell, turning on her back and swimming, while circling Lily "that Potter, right?"

"Bingo. And you?"

"Lost my grindelaw pet"

"Again?"

"Well, it's only the fifth that my brilliant brother lost" answered Mell a bit bitterly "if I lost them, my father would go loosing bubbles around"

"Huh?" Lily asked completely confused. Mell scratched her face in thought "I think it means freaking out, in your words?" she suggested in a bit hesitation.

"Something like that" smiled Lily.

"But of course, my parents would never be angry with that little seaweed"

Lily laughed in response "the little merman of the family" she commented.

"Exactly" agreed Mell with her "so tell me, what that human did to you now?"

Lily sighted "it's a long story"

His arms circled her waist, getting her even closer to his warm body. She ran her hands through his messy hair, deepening their kiss, gasps of delight escaping her lips from time to time.

His hand traveled from her waist, down her thigh while he lowered her slowly to the ground.

It was after all, his last day at Hogwarts, and he deserved some fun, his mind reminded him, so why not do it with a popular and hot girl like Elany?

"What was that?" asked Elany with a fearful tone. James heard it too.

"It came from the lake," he said in a voice no higher than a whisper. He got up quickly and helped Elany to get on her feet.

"Go back to the castle" he said, his eyes fixed on the forest where the scream was heard from.

"And what are you going to do?" she asked worriedly while buttoning her shirt.

"Going to go and see who screamed" he said shortly. He never liked to explain his actions to anyone, especially girls.

Without a last look at Elany, he ran to the lake, ignoring the fact that his shirt was open in front.

He stopped on his tracks and listened carefully. There.

It sounded like two voices that were talking. He got nearer, staying low behind the bushes and looking towards the lake. He saw two girls that were swimming in the water, one of them laughing.

"Hold on," said Mell, trying to control her laughter "he glued you to your chair?"

"Yes, it was after he gave my homework wings and I had to chase it all over the corridors"

"And then-"

"Exactly"

Mell roared with laughter, tears coming from her eyes.

"I'm glad that it amuses you" Lily said dryly leaning her head on the ledge.

Because of the distance, James didn't hear clearly the conversation so he just observed them.

The girl that was laughing had a dark green hair and pale green skin "mermaid" he muttered to himself and he saw that he was right when her tail appeared above water.

But his attention was drowned back to the second girl who was leaning on the ledge, smiling.

He never heard of a human that befriended with a mermaid before, so it meant that this girl was mermaid too.

She had a dark red hair that floated around her shoulders. He could see only from her shoulders up, the rest of her body was, to his displeasure, under the dark water.

"Well, you can't say that your day wasn't eventful, my dear midnight" said Mell sweetly.(a/n: midnight is Lily's nickname)

Lily groaned and sank lower in the water.

Mell laughed again and swam forward towards Lily when she froze. She gave a quick look at the forest and whispered "there someone here" before disappearing.

Lily turned around quickly and looked at the forest behind her, getting slowly farther from the coast.

James saw that the redheaded mermaid was swimming away, and not wanting to lose his chance jumped from the bush.

Lily stopped swimming backwards when she saw a beautiful stag jumping in front of her. She relaxed and swam slowly back to the ledge, leaning on her elbows, because the ledge was higher from the water level and there wasn't any bottom.

She stretched her hand and called in a soft voice "come here beauty. I won't hurt you. Come on..." the stag stared at her for some moments and slowly stepped forward to her stretched arm. Lily looked at it curiously. That stag seemed familiar for some reason...

-Flashback-

A fifteen-year-old Lily swam on her back, enjoying the full moon light that sparkled on the water.

She looked at the moon and sighted. "good luck Remus" she muttered looking towards the Whomping Willow.

"Be careful!"

"Ouch! That was my foot!"

"Will you two just shut up? We're going to be late!"

Lily's eyes grew wider when she heard the voices. she looked towards the coast, but couldn't see a thing.

Than suddenly three boys appeared from thin air, throwing down something that looked like a cloak.

"Ready?" asked one of them a bit nervously.

"Let's get it over with, I'm freezing"

Lily now recognized them at once. It was James potter, Sirius black and Peter Pettigrew.

Her hand quickly covered her mouth to suppress her gasp. Instead of three boys, now stood three animals. A dog, a stag and what seemed like a rat, but she wasn't sure because the grass hid him well.

The stag suddenly looked at her way and locked his eyes with her own until the black dog barked and the three animals disappeared from sight.

Lily's head suddenly snapped to reality when she heard a load howl.

-End of flashback-

James looked at the girl, a bit confused when he saw her pulling back her hand quickly.

She stared at him with wide eyes.

"James potter?"

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