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Chapter four: guess who Head Girl is?

Charley got down to the kitchen, where Lily and Jess already sat and were eating breakfast.

"Morning" he yawned, sitting in a chair opposite his sister, and putting his head on the table.

"Good morning. Juice?" asked Lily, pointing with her chin towards the bottle.

"Yeah, sure" he nodded, stifling another yawn. They ate in quite for a few minutes, before Charley coughed, looking at the two of them "about today-"

"We know." interrupted Jess.

"Yes but are you sure-"

"We're sure." answered Lily.

"But you know how much I need to practice-"

"-to get on the team. We know. You already told us this 23 times"

"Well I just wanted to make sure, because it's important to me-"

"Charley!" They both yelled in irritation, glaring at him.

"We know." said Jess slowly through gritted teeth, looking back at the Dailey Prophet "Stop bugging; we already said that we'll help you practice"

Charley smiled in satisfaction. "So when are we starting?"

Jess and Lily groaned in response.

The three went to the back yard with broomsticks on their shoulders and Lily holding a football.

The moment they were in the air, Lily flew between the brothers, looking from Charley to Jess with wide smile.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we gathered around today, to play the first match of this summer between the Benory brother and sister! We hope that-"

"Cut the crap Lily, and throw the ball already!" yelled Jess, her eyes focused on the white ball.

"What happened to a little drama?" she teased.

"Lily!" they both yelled.

"Kidding, kidding." she laughed and threw the ball in the air.

"And we're off!" she yelled, and flew backwards to observe the match better.

"And Jess catches the ball first! She dodges under Charley who does a remarkable somersault in the air- we're glad that the ballet classes that he took, finally showing their influence on his flying skills-"

Charley laughed but didn't pay too much attention to Lily's words. He was already used to her teasing comments, when they played quidditch.

His big desire was to get on the Gryffindor quidditch team as a chaser or at least as a beater. Each summer he practiced with Jess, and Lily as the commentator.

Jess wasn't obsessed about the game as her brother was, but she still enjoyed playing it once and awhile.

Lily on the other hand, never liked to play it, even though she understood the rules.

She preferred to commentate in the game, testing new ways to make players loose the ball.

Charley always said that Lily is like a bludger with a snappy tongue.

"And Jess is heading towards the goal, looking from side to side- probably searching for her boyfriend, Sirius Black-"

"What!" Jess turned around in shock.

"-and Charley catches the ball! He's turning around, flying quickly to the other end, He shoots, he scores! 10-0 to Charley! Jess in the meantime is cursing the announcer in fury. Time of the month, my darling?"

Jess glared at Lily, grabbed the ball and threw it towards her head. Lily caught it, threw it back and smirked at her. "Well ladies and gentlemen, Jess seems to get up on the wrong side of the bed today, quite a jumpy girl, isn't she?"

Charley clutched his broomstick tighter so he won't fall down from all the laughing.

"10-10." announced Lily, smiling at him.

"What?" his eyes grew wider. Jess flew near his goal, smirking.

"You better pay attention, little brother."

"Hey, it's not fair!" called Charley, looking at his sister furiously.

"Eyes on the ball, Charley. I thought you've already learned not to listen to me when you play."

"Well it's kind of hard, especially with your unique commentating." said Jess, making Lily chuckle.

The game continued another two hours, until they decided to head back inside for something to drink. When they got to the kitchen, Vi' already sat there with a tired face and was eating breakfast.

They greeted her with good morning which she returned with wide yawn.

"Since when are you up?"

"Four."

"Six."

"Seven thirty."

"You're kidding me!" she looked at them as if they were crazy "is the word vacation saying something to you? I understand Lily, who likes to adopt the behavior of an owl, but you two?"

"I've got my morning runs." answered Jess, taking a bottle and a pack of cookies. "And Charley needs to practice in quidditch. Only you are acting like sleeping beauty and spend more than half of the day in bed."

"Hmph." answered Vi'.

"You should come and join us at running, it's great for the body, you know." said Lily.

"I'll think about that." shrugged Vi' which her friends interpreted as "no way in hell"

The sound of the bell rang in the house.

Erica entered the kitchen, smiling broadly. "Lily, why don't you go and open the door?"

"Its ok mum, I can get that." said Jess, getting up.

"No, no, I prefer that Lily will go and open it."

Lily and Jess exchanged glances. "Sure." Lily shrugged and went to the main door.

"Hello flower." smiled a tall dark haired teen of age 19, when she opened the door.

"Derek!" Lily gave him a tight hug which he returned with the same force.

"I can't breath, flower." he half chocked, half laughed.

"Sorry." laughed Lily letting him go.

"Lily who is- cousin!"

Jess run and hugged him as well, making him stumble backwards.

"Can't a man get inside a house?" he asked in mock angriness but then he smirked "Amazing. I can put my arms around you without difficulty."

Jess pushed him away and hit his arm. "Did you just called me fat?"

He laughed and kissed her on the cheek. "Missed you too."

He stepped forward and was almost lying on the floor, because of the force that the twins jumped on him happily.

He sighed with impatience.

"Are you going to let me enter in the next few days or are you going just let me sleep on the doorstep?"

Lily rolled her eyes, grabbed his arm and pulled him inside.

"Thank you." he said, dusting his clothes "By the way, I brought a guest." he turned around and called "Come on in and meet everybody!"

Through the door entered a beautiful girl at their age, with chocolate brown hair and black mysterious eyes. She was tall and wore tight clothes that showed all her perfect curves. She smiled at them, showing two rows of pearly white teeth.

"Guys, this is Angela. Angela those are my cousins- Jess, the twins- Jamie and Julie and Lily" Angela's eyes flashed with emotion that Lily couldn't recognize when Derek mentioned her name.

Angela looked straight at her, her eyes scanning her, from the baggy clothes that she wore, that hid any curve and feature in Lily's body; to her hair, that was held in a high and tight ponytail and lay lifeless on her back; and then to her huge square glasses that covered more than half her face.

Angela's smile turned into a smirk while she looked at the chubby short girl with the pale thin face.

"Pleasure." she said, her voice smooth and pleasant. "Derek told me a lot about you."

"Are you his girlfriend?" asked Jamie curiously.

"Yes, I am." laughed Angela. "Why do you ask?"

"No reason." he answered quickly. The moment she looked away; Jess and the twins looked at Lily, who was looking at Angela with slightly narrow eyes.

"Why do I have the feeling that the whole story is going to repeat itself?" she whispered, continuing to observe the couple.

"Let's hope that she's not after his money, like the last one." whispered Jess back.

"What do you think?" mumbled Julie.

"We need to take the notebook out." answered Jamie, but didn't sound too sure.

"Just in case?" asked Julie, a smile starting to grow on her face.

"Just in case." he agreed with the same smile on his face.

"Minimum, two galleons that he will dump her on his free will." said Julie in a low voice.

"Ten if he'll dump her for Lily." added Jamie in a whisper.

They giggled and ran out of the room.

"I'll take care of the bags while someone will show you your room." said Derek taking his wand out.

"I'm sure that- what's your name again?" she asked looking towards the short girl.

"Lily." answered Lily, smiling sweetly, covering her dislike towards Angela.

"Well, I'm sure that Gilly can show me to my room."

Lily didn't bother to correct her and just nodded. "No problem."

Angela gave Derek a long kiss and then whispered in his ear, "See you soon."

Derek locked his eyes with Lily's and she shook her head slowly, cocking one eyebrow at him.

Lily climbed the staircase with Angela behind her.

"Do you work here?" asked Angela.

"No."

"Do you live here?"

"Yes."

"Do you like doing shopping?"

"Sometimes."

"I say almost never, with the state of her clothing." mumbled Angela to herself.

Lily smiled slightly but decided to ignore her. She turned a corner and opened the first door from the right.

"This will be your room." She stepped aside, allowing Angela to enter. "If you need anything call Ouch"

"Ouch?" Angela looked at her puzzled.

Lily smiled and called aloud "Ouch!"

There was a silent pop and a small young house-elf appeared in front of the girls.

"Miss Lily called Ouch?" he asked, bowing deeply towards Lily's direction.

"Ouch is our youngest house-elf." explained Lily "And one of the best." she added, winking at him.

The house-elf blushed from pleasure and bowed even lower in response.

"Its name is Ouch?" asked Angela with raised eyebrows.

"No, his real name is Tikey, but since the twins were little they always got into sticky situation and yelled always-…" Lily stopped in mid sentence, remembering to who she was talking to, so she just shrugged "it's a long story, for short we call him Ouch and that's it."

"Isn't that a bit childish?"

Lily shrugged again. "You get used to it."

"Whatever." Angela rolled her eyes.

Lily looked at Tikey, who looked back at her with curiosity.

"Mr. Derek brought another lazy cat, Miss Lily?" he whispered.

She stuffed her laughter and nodded while saying, "Ouch, Angela is going to be our guest in the next few days-"

"I plan to stay the whole summer." interrupted Angela, glaring at Lily.

"And as long as she stays here, please obey to any necessity of her." continued Lily as if she didn't hear any interruption.

Ouch bowed to her and then bowed to Angela.

"If miss needs Ouch, miss call Ouch and Ouch will appear." and with another pop, Tikey disappeared.

"Lunch will be ready soon I think, and I believe that's all." Lily smiled and turned to leave.

"Wait." called Angela suddenly, getting closer to Lily and looking down at her.

"Yes?" asked Lily looking at Angela straight in the eye.

"Look, just so we won't have any misunderstanding, Derek is mine."

"And…?" Lily raised one eyebrow.

"And," Angela got closer to her. "Consider this as your only warning: keep your ugly nails off of my man or else…"

Lily looked at her in surprise. "What do you mean?"

"Don't play the dumb girl with me, Derek told me all about you and the things you did."

"You've probably mistaken me with someone else, because I really don't understand what you're talking about."

Angela looked confused for a second at the puzzled look on Lily's face, and then an evil grin spread on her face. She looked at Lily from head to toe.

"You are probably right. Such a hideous creature as you can't possibly make Derek dump his girlfriends. I mean, look at you!" she laughed cruelly.

Lily fought back the urge to roll her eyes or at least slap the girl in front of her.

She sighted heavily and looked down.

"Yes, you're completely right." she looked up and Angela thought with satisfaction that she saw Lily's eyes sparkle with tears.

"Derek will never look at me." continued Lily, seeing the reaction from Angela. "I mean, his handsome, and mature, and smart and funny…" a dreamy look formed on her face "He's the perfect guy for any girl, but unfortunately he only sees in me his another little relative." she sighted again and looked up. "So you see there is no way that Derek was referring to me on this subject."

Angela looked thoughtful for a moment. "Yes." she said slowly. "You're right about that. Sorry." she added not sounding sorry at all and waved her hand like dismissing her.

"It's alright." smiled Lily turning back to the door. "Derek always tells that to his girlfriends, just to make them jealous." She closed the door behind her and decided that the most sensible action right now will be to get down and kill Derek.

She entered the living room, where Jess sat alone, with her lags on the table.

"Well?" asked Jess when Lily sat next to her.

"The same like the others. Another snobbish brainless cat." she sighed. "She showed me her claws, while she threatened that I'll keep my nails of her man."

Jess shook her head and rubbed her eyes. "I really don't get it why he picks them."

"I don't care why he picks them, all I care is what the hell is he telling them about me?"

Jess looked at her friend amused. "You know he's only doing that to make you jealous."

Lily rolled her eyes. "I doubt that. It seems more to me that all he wants is to enjoy a catfight over him."

Derek walked in and sat right between the two, putting his arms around each one of the girls' shoulder.

"So ladies." he smiled looking from one to another. "Chatting about me, behind my back? Now that is very rude."

Jess removed his arm from her shoulder and pushed him playfully "What makes you think that we were talking about you? We're trying to avoid boredom you know, not to sink in it."

"Right." said Derek sarcastically and turned to look at Lily. "So flower, I still hadn't got my welcome back kiss."

"Forget it Derek, you've got a girlfriend." answered Lily with an indifferent voice, although she was struggling not to smile.

Derek seemed to know what she was trying to do and got a bit nearer.

"So I take it, that you don't like my girlfriend?"

"Just met her, I'll let you know. Although I don't see any difference between her and last 15 that you brought with you on each occasion." she smiled slightly.

Derek laughed in response. "Don't tell me that your jealous, flower." he smirked.

"Jealous? Me? At your new pat-cat? Don't be ridicules!" she laughed.

"Really? Are you sure?" he asked her with a sly smile, getting even closer. "Maybe I can change your mind about that…"

Lily gave him a lopsided grin and leaned forward until their noses touched. "I don't think so. Besides, you better not keep your girlfriend waiting." she said in a smooth voice.

Jess looked at the two, from the other end of the couch, enjoying their game. Every year it was the same and it never got boring.

Derek let a slow breath and traced Lily's full lips with his thumb. "Yes, I better go." he said in the end looking almost sorry for saying that.

"Meet you later?" he asked, his smirk on his face again.

Lily shrugged in response and leaned backwards. "We'll see."

Derek smiled again and kissed the back of her hand. "I'll see you two ladies later, than."

He nodded towards Jess and Lily and left them alone.

"Got settled?" Derek asked when he entered Angela's room and put his arms around her waist.

"Almost." she smiled and kissed him.

"By the way," she said after they broke apart. "I found out what you tried to do, and I don't see why you wanted to make me jealous if you know that I love you, baby."

Derek looked at her surprised. "Jealous? Who told you that?"

"That thing- what's her name again?"

Derek already guessed who is she was referring to. "Lily?" he smiled.

"Yes, her."

Derek burst in laughter. "And you believed her?"

"So it's true?" her eyes narrowing in anger. "She managed to break up your past relationships?"

"Yeah, but why does it meter? She won't be able to break us up." he kissed her and then added in a sly smile. "Our love is stronger."

Angela frowned slightly. "How on earth did she manage to do that?"

"What do you mean?"

"Have you seen her? I'm surprised that she has friends at all!"

"She's more than what she seems." Then he smiled slightly remembering what have happened a few moments ago. "She's got her ways."

"Why do you like her in the first place?"

"She's a good kisser." he answered casually.

She got closer to him. "Better than me?" He smirked and lowered her to the bed as a response.

Jess looked up at the ceiling. "He started it again."

Lily looked up as well. "Let's hope that he silence-proofed the walls and locked the door."

Jess looked back at her. "How long is she staying?"

"The whole summer, but I've got a feeling that she'll leave sooner than planned."

"You'll make Derek dump her?"

Lily shrugged in response. "Only if she'll drive everyone nuts."

"I don't know." said Jess in hesitation. "I think I can tolerate her until the end of the summer."

-Four days later-

"I can't take this anymore!" yelled Jess in frustration.

Lily, who stood by the entrance door and was tying her shoes looked up surprised at her friend. "What is it this time?"

"Her idiotic requests, what else? 'Oh, you don't have any trickle-double-chocolate dietetic cake!'" imitated Jess in a high-voice. "'there's a wrinkle on my skirt and it needs to be iron again!' 'I want a glass of fresh valley water…' 'I need a soft blue sea towel!' 'I need this…I need that…' what does she think we are? a hotel!"

"But isn't Ouch taking care of her?"

"I thought so too." said Jess. "But she refused to yell "ouch!" Every time she needed something because it was "immature", and ouch didn't responded to his real name so all the work landed on me, just because my dearest cousin threatened to tell mum and dad that I sneaked out the other night to meet a guy."

She put her hands together in a begging position. "Please Lily, please, please, make her leave!"

Lily looked thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know, Derek seems happy with her."

"Yeah." snorted Jess. "With her always jumping on him and kissing him every time you enter the room."

"So you've noticed it too? I thought it was my own imagination." she sighed then and stood up after finishing tying both shoes. "I'll think about it, I'll just deliver this and come back."

Jess looked at the envelope curiously. "What's that, anyway?"

"Invitation for the party in two days."

"The one that my parents organizing here?"

"The same one, I need to deliver it to-" she looked at the address. "House no. 19."

"Why don't you send it with your owl?"

"I need a walk, and besides it's very close. Anyway, I'll see you later and we'll figure this out."

Jess nodded. "See you soon." she said.

After the door was closed Jess heard some voices that argued.

"This is really none of your business." said Vi' in annoyance, the twins behind her laughing.

"Jess help! They won't leave me alone!" she said sounding desperate. Jess put a comforting arm around her and looked at the twins with a stern look.

"What did you do to her now?"

"Nothing!" smiled Julie, snickering.

"We just wanted to know where she disappeared to this morning." said Jamie.

"Yeah, where were you?" asked Jess sounding curios now.

"I just went to deliver some invitations for Mrs. Benory." said Vi' in a tired voice as she was explaining it for the thousand time.

"Yeah. Which one of the invitations included Remi's house." sniggered Jamie.

"And which she stayed there more then three hours" continued Julie, laughing again.

Vi' blushed and stared away from the others. "Really?" asked Jess with interest.

"Yes, so what if I did?" said Vi' crossing her arms, but than she relaxed. "Anyway I didn't manage to deliver everything, there was one house left so I asked Lily to do it for me."

"She just left." nodded Jess. "Went to house no. 19 or something."

Julie and Jamie exchanged worried glances. "Uh oh." they said together.

"What do you mean?" asked Jess suspiciously.

"No. 19 is the house where the Potter family lives." answered Julie.

"What!" Jess and Vi' yelled together.

"Yes, they moved in yesterday, we've heard mum talking about it." said Jamie.

"And you didn't tell us?"

The twins shrugged, "You never asked."

Lily rang the bell and looked at the big house in front of her. There wasn't any sign with the name of the family on it, but she guessed that they still hadn't found a time to do so.

"Come on in! The door is open." called a female voice from inside.

Lily did as she was told and entered with a bit hesitation through the door.

"I'm in the kitchen." called again the voice. Lily walked towards the voice while looking around her.

She put behind her ear a strand of red hair and continued to observe her surrounding.

Wait, she froze. Red hair?

She looked at her side where a small mirror was hanging on the wall and her eyes grew wider.

There was her reflection all right, but her hair was auburn again. Did the spell go wrong? Or did it fade already? But she was sure that she dyed it this morning! How could that be?

She got closer to the mirror and pulled off her glasses, looking at her emerald green eyes.

The spell on the glasses disappeared as well, what the-

Her thoughts were interrupted by a pleasant, "Hello."

Lily jumped, startled and turned around quickly looking straight at a tall woman with hazel eyes.

"Ehh…good afternoon." answered Lily with a bit nervousness.

The woman smiled warmly at her. "Can I help you?"

"Yeah, well… I was asked to deliver this to your family. It's invitation for a party that will be hold in two days at the Benory house."

"Ah, of course." nodded the woman "Erica told me all about it. Would you like to have a drink?" she asked heading back to the kitchen.

Lily, who tried to recover from her shock, didn't want to sound rude and agreed for the invitation.

"You didn't tell me your name yet." mentioned the woman taking a glass from one of the shelves.

"Emm..." Lily thought for a moment. She couldn't tell her, her real name because everyone in the neighborhood knew her by her different looks.

"Em? As in shortness for Emily? That's a very pretty name. My name is Helen Potter. It's a pleasure meeting you."

Lily stiffened when she heard the name "Potter" this can't be…

"Do you have any children?" she asked carefully.

"Yes I've got one son, James and of course there is Sirius." Helen chuckled softly "Which he's like part of the family.".

She gave Lily a glass with butterbeer which Lily mumbled "thank you" in response.

"Do you live here?" asked Helen trying to get to know the nervous girl better.

"Five years." answered Lily, taking a sip.

"That's nice. We moved here only a few days ago. And the only thing we managed to finish properly was the enchantment on the house."

"Enchantment?" asked Lily with more interest. "You mean you put protective charms on the house?"

"Yes. You can never be cautious enough about your protection. Especially in these days." Helen smile faded a little, but second later she returned to her cheerful state.

.Lily started to like this woman

"Did you happen to charm the door as well?"

"Yes, we put anti-magic on every entrance which means-"

"That any spell or charm will be broken once they'll step inside." continued Lily, remembering what happened to her hair and glasses.

Helen looked impressed of Lily's words.

"That is correct. You attend Hogwarts as well I suppose?"

"Yes." Lily smiled, relived that she understood what happened to her disguise.

"My son, James, is in his seventh and final year." said Helen, sounding very proud "And he's elected as Head Boy."

Lily chocked from her drink, and could feel her mouth dropping to the clean floor of the kitchen.

James Potter, Head Boy? Who on their right mind will appoint him for the roll?

Helen noticed the astonishment on the girl's face and smiled.

"I can guess what you're thinking and I can't tell you exactly how the school is going to handle with James as Head Boy. Hopefully the Head Girl will get along with him."

"Who's the lucky girl?" asked Lily casually.

"Lily Evans."

CRASH!

"Are you alright, my darling?" asked Helen in concern, helping Lily of the floor.

Lily looked at the woman with wide eyes full of horror.

"Who did you say again, the Head Girl is?" she asked in unsteady voice.

"Lily Evans, why?"

"How do you know that?"

"Me and my husband are working at the ministry, we've got a very good connection with Albus Dumbledore, but are you sure you're alright? You look very pale."

Lily was about to reply when she heard a loud call. "Mum! We're back!" Lily got even paler if possible.

"I...I need to go back." she stumbled backwards, while Helen looked at her in confusion.

"Is everything alright?"

"I…forgot my cookies in the oven."

"In a muggle oven?"

"Yes…it was a special assignment from Muggle Studies, for… extra points because... I need to improve my grade so… good day to you and here's the invitation." she put the envelope on the table and practically ran away at the same time that James and Sirius walked in.

James thought he saw a flash of red hair disappear from sight.

"Hey you! Wait!" he called and ran after her but managed to catch only the sight of the front door slam shut. When he reached and opened it he saw only the quiet street as usual.

Vi' and Jess sat in Jess's room when Lily apparated, and fell on the bed panting.

"Are you ok?" asked Vi' kneeling beside her friend.

"Po-tter" breathed the pale-faced Lily who tried to calm down.

"Yes, we heard about that." Jess frowned. "Did you meet him?"

"I ran... before I've got a chance. I just found out the most horrible news."

"What?"

"I'm Head Girl-"

"Congratulations!" cried Vi'.

"-alongside with Potter."

"What? Did Dumbledore got drunk or something? Doesn't he know that if he'll put you two together it's going to be a complete chaos?"

Lily groaned in response. "I need a swim." she sighed. "And can somebody please, get me a shooting gun?"

"Why?" Jess asked surprised.

"I'm developing this year a new hobby." answered Lily darkly. "Shooting stags."

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