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Chapter 5

The Discovered Diary

Lily awoke Sunday morning and went straight to the showers, she didn't even think to knock, which could've led to something bad; thankfully no one was in there. After she had taken her shower she brushed her teeth and dried her hair magically. She was still a bit groggy but she had to get dressed, so she went over to her wardrobe and pulled out a pair of jeans and a pink tank top, not really caring what she was planning to wear.

She threw on her outfit and brushed her hair a few times letting it fall down her back in crimson waves. Lily applied mascara, picked up her bag and went into the common room to begin brewing the potions for that month.

She tossed her bag into the chair next to the door and sat down on the couch in front of the coffee table. Waving her wand, the letter that Professor Sprout had sent them now laying on the table. She opened the letter and pulled out a large packet, flipping through it she found the potion that would be needed for the first month of the project. Lily waved her wand again and now sitting on the table was a cauldron, a spoon, and all of the ingredients that were on the list.

Lily sighed and then began to add things into the cauldron. First she added five Lacewing Flies and measured out the right amount of Ginger Roots, once that began to simmer she was supposed to chop up four Porcupine Quills and add them to her cauldron. When all of those ingredients were added she began stirring, three times clockwise, four times counter-clockwise, after she had done this twenty times the potion turned bright red, telling her that she was half way done.

She read over the next few instructions ( Wait until the potion begins turning gold; once there add Lionfish Spine and slice fresh Dragon Liver in half, make sure to add the right half and not the left! ) she decided that if she added a Horned Toad and then waited for it to turn gold she wouldn't have to add Dragon Liver to the potion, which was what she had just ran out of. Sure enough she was right, according to the instructions she was finished, but by the looks of it she figured that it was in need of a few more stirs, once again she was correct.

Lily wiped her hands off and said aloud, " There, now that wasn't too bad,"

She pulled out four vials and filled them to the brim with the potion that she had just successfully brewed. That would last her for the first month of the project, by the directions, she was supposed to give a potion to the plant every week. The directions also stated that you were supposed to pick one day out of the week that you would feed the plant, and that day would be the marker of every time you had to give the potion to the plant. Lily figured that Sunday would be fine, but she decided that she would wait and ask James what day he wanted when he got up. It was only eight o'clock so he wasn't expected to wake up for another hour or two... maybe three... or four.

Lily picked up the vials and put them in one of the drawers in the desk by the glass door, that way they would be safe from being broken or lost. With a mere flick of the wrist all of the evidence that she had just been brewing a potion disappear completely.

Now that, that was out of the way she decided that working on her Transfiguration report, which was due the following day, would be a good thing to get out of the way.

Forty-five minutes later she placed her Transfiguration book, and now finished report into her bag. Lily looked at the clock above the glass doors and saw it was almost nine o'clock, she conjured a cappuccino and walked out onto the balcony for the first time.

When she opened the door she realized that it was more like a deck than a balcony, to her right was a lounging chair and to her left was another lounging chair to match, and there was a beautiful banister going all the way around the large balcony. Beside each chair was a small side table.

She walked up to the banister and looked out over the beautiful landscape. The grass sparkled emerald green with dew from the morning and the lake might have usually been dingy and black but this morning it looked more like a deep shimmering blue. The horizon was lined with trees but right in the middle of all the trees there was a gap where the sun was just rising, making the sky bright colors of pink and purple, gradually getting darker.

Lily smiled what could be better than this? She knew from that moment on that this would be her favorite spot, well at least for her sixth year. She stood there for awhile sipping her cappuccino and enjoying the fresh air when the door behind her creaked open and James joined her at the banister.

" Good morning," she said conjuring him a cappuccino as well.

He took it gratefully from her and smiled, " Morning to you as well, it's beautiful out here isn't it?"

" Yes, it's very..."

" Calming?"

She smiled and nodded, " Exactly, so did you just get up?"

James shook his head, " No, I got a shower and cleaned up my room, and finished my Transfiguration homework, so I've been up since probably.. Oh I dunno eight thirty."

" Oh, I got up about an hour ago, and I brewed the potion needed for this month. Then I finished up my Transfiguration report as well and decided to come out here and check out this balcony,"

" Oh, sorry, I didn't know you brewed the potion, I figured we could do that together, I didn't want to make you do all the work," He said looking up at the sky.

Lily looked at him admiringly and thought 'What a gentleman, always putting me in front of himself... wait what are you thinking, just friends Lily! Just friends!'

" It's fine, it only took me about ten minutes,"

James was shocked at this, she was great at potions,.. he wasn't particularly good at anything but Quidditch, " Wow, really?"

Lily nodded, " Yep, but it took me forty-five minutes to finish that bloody report, McGonagall's absolutely killing me!"

" Yeah, I know what you mean, took me about a half hour," he said chuckling

Suddenly Lily spotted something red flying through the sky, as it got nearer she recognized it as Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix.

James looked at the speck of red oddly and then asked," Hey, is that Fawkes?"

Lily nodded, " Yes," she said, " I think it is,"

A few minutes later their thoughts were confirmed as the beautiful bird swooped down onto James arm and opened it's beak letting a letter from Dumbledore fall into the hands of Lily. Lily gave the bird a pat on the head, as a sign of thanks, and it flew off back in the direction of where it had come from moments before.

She opened the letter and read it aloud;

"Dear Miss Evans,

I apologize for the confusion among the other teachers, it seems that Professor McClerk, being new and all, has gotten a forth year project mixed up with your sixth year project. This project will be going throughout your sixth year and the due date will be the week before you depart for your homes. I am very sorry for the confusion, once again, enjoy your weekend,

Yours Sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore,"

Lily folded the letter and sighed, " Well, that explains a lot,"

" Yep," said James.

" Well, I'm starving, I'm going to go to breakfast, this cappuccino isn't holding me off much." she said turning on her heal and heading towards the door, " Do you want to come too?" she asked as a second thought.

He turned around and shrugged, " Yeah, might as well I'm so bloody hungry, I would be down there about five minutes after you arrived anyway," he gave her the knee buckling smile that just about melted her right there. She wished he would stop doing that, it made her have to keep telling herself that she liked him as a friend and only as a friend.

She giggled and walked back into the common room, waving her wand again she and James' cups vanished and they set off towards the Great Hall.

" Oh and about that project," said Lily, as they turned a right and walked into the crowded Great Hall, " we have to set a date that we will be able to feed the plate faithfully every week, I thought Sundays would be okay, but I have to ask you too of course."

" Sunday's fine," said James, sitting besides Sirius.

" Hey you two," Mallory said patting the seat next to her, " How are you guys doing?"

" We're good," said James, smiling at her and looking around for Amanda, " Where's Amanda?" he and Lily asked at just about the same time.

Mallory giggled girlishly and shrugged, " They must still be in their dorm, I'm guessing that they like to spend time together, I mean... now that they are, you know dating,"

" What!" said Lily and James in unison.

Sirius chuckled and then slapped James on the back, " Yeah, don't you think it's about time they get together?"

Lily looked at Sirius and laughed, " Um, no, I didn't know they even liked each other, I think its about time you two get together actually,"

This obviously hit a nerve because Mallory kicked Lily and then started blushing furiously and Sirius seemed to get mad, " Well, I think its bloody well time for you two to get together," said Sirius referring to she and James.

James threw his head back and laughed, " Yeah, right, Padfoot, like that would ever happen!"

Lily glared at him evilly, " What is that supposed to mean!"

Sirius smirked, " Oho! Ickle Lilikins has a crush on Jamesie!" Lily glared at him and he instantly shut up.

James started stuttering heavily, " Uh-um-er well, I... - hey why do you even care?" he asked finally noting that whenever he said something like that before Lily would most likely agree.

She looked at him and gave him a sarcastic smile, " You, Potter, are such an arse!" said Lily, now standing up, Mallory grabbed her arm and gently tugged on it but she was only to find that Lily had jerked her hand away again.

" Oh! So we're back to last names are we!" shouted James angrily.

Lily shook her head and narrowed her eyes, " You git, we were never at first names!" she hissed.

" I cannot believe you! Why are you even acting like this! I did nothing, absolutely nothing!" James asked angrily.

Lily stood there for a moment and thought, why was she mad?, that was the question, was it because he had said that they could never be together? Or was it that he insinuated she would never accept?, it was neither, she was just deeply hurt by his comment and she had spoken out her thoughts by mistake. ' You truly are a royal idiot, Lily, you truly are! How are you going to get yourself out of this one, he's going to find out that you like him either way!'

She shook her head and looked at him, tears brimming her emerald orbs, he had hurt her feelings, that was it. Nothing more nor less, but she couldn't say that. People were now looking at the two who had been screaming at each other just moments before. She had to get out of here, and fast, she could not cry in front of James Potter, the man whom she had just realized she loved as much as he did her.

Lily picked up her bag and ran out of the Great Hall, silent tears cascading down her porcelain cheeks, she could not believe that he had said that! Did that mean that he felt no feelings towards her anymore? Or did it only mean that he had thought that she only wanted to be friends? No one knew, and no one would find out for then.

She ran up to the canvas and wailed out the password, Fluffy looked at her curiously and then it opened up. Lily flung her bag into the chair and threw herself onto the couch, crying heavily, she could never talk to him again, she was too embarrassed now.

-THREE MONTHS LATER-

It was now the snowy month of December, Christmas nearing by each waking day, it was now the fifteenth. Lily and James had not spoken to each other, or at least, Lily had not spoken to him and tried to avoid him at all costs, for the past three months. There were a few times when James had caught up to her and asked her why she was avoiding him, but Lily had simply shrugged him off and went back to her room to " Study for the up coming exams." She had decided to go home over the winter holidays and had proceeded to owl her mum and dad to see if that would be alright. But her mum, dad, and her putrid sister Petunia had went off to Rome to visit her cousins.

Lily had planted their seed for the project three months before. She and James had not missed a single feeding so it was now about two feet tall and had a very small light blue flower that was beginning to bloom. Lily was quite please with it's progress and its color, which of course, was a sure sign for them to ace the project. James had went ahead and made the potions for the remaining part of the project which made it much easier to ensure that the plant would get fed regularly.

Lily was standing alone on the balcony, rapped up in a coat, two scarves, mittens, a toboggan, and boots sipping a cappuccino, while the rest of her friends had gone off to Hogsmeade. Amanda had gone with Remus, they were officially a three-month couple now, Mallory had gone with Sirius, who had just started dating a week before, and James remained in his room, sleeping. Lily hoped that he would not wake up and come looking for her, so she had came out here. She had figured that he wouldn't want to come out into the cold, but she was enjoying it quite a bit.

She looked over the snowy landscape and giggled as she watched a couple of seventh years bewitch 20 or so snowballs to attack Severus Snape repeatedly. Severus was running as fast as possible in all directions, squealing like a little girl with his arms over his head, falling and slipping every few seconds.

Then there were the people that were on the lake ice skating. Now this was truly a treat, Lily had actually started snorting as she watched these gits try to skate. There were a few choice second years that she found highly entertaining. They would go about three feet and then land flat on their faces, then their friends would come over to help them up, but unfortunately their friends were usually worse than them. In the end they would all end up falling, slipping and doing the splits quite often. One kid had actually lost control so badly that he had skated all the way into a tree, the whole time flinging his arms around like mad and screaming.

Lily was just thinking about how she would love to go skating when the door to the balcony swung open. She could hear each step crunch into the freshly fallen snow behind her. She closed her eyes and hoped it was a walking couch rather than James.

" Oh, there you are," said James sounding very tired, " I've been looking all over for you,"

Lily sighed and turned around, " I was just getting ready to go take a nap," with that she walked back into the common room, took off all of her winter gear and hung it on the coat rack. But she wasn't going to get off that easily.

James stormed into the large room, looking very angry, " What the bloody hell is wrong with you, Evans!"

She had her back facing him as he said this, she winced at the sound of her last name and turned looking at him with false anger, " What do you mean, 'What's wrong with me'? There's nothing wrong with me,"

He sighed heavily and continued yelling as he pulled off his coat and scarves, " All you seem to do is run from me! I'm not poisonous you know!"

Lily didn't reply she just sat down on the couch and looked up at him hopelessly, here goes nothing, she was ready for it to all spill out.

" I know," she said looking down at her feet and failing to even act the least bit sad. She missed him, even though they were never together, when they were friends he was like a sense of protection. Lily knew that with James around, nothing, would ever happen to her.

Seeing Lily like this made James' heart feel as if it had been dropped into a active volcano, which made his voice soften a bit as he pressured on, " Why have you been avoiding me? What did I do?" he sat down and waited for her response.

Lily looked up at him and said nothing, she then let her head drop and fall into her hands. What was she supposed to say? Should she just tell him?

No, that was the answer, no. She had to get out of here! So, once again she stood up and ran out of the room, knocking over the chair by the door and her bag that was sitting on it, making all of the contents fall out as well. She wasn't sure of where to go, but she soon decided that Hogsmeade would be a wise decision, away from him.

Xxxxx

" What the hell!" he shouted aloud after Lily had ran out of there, " Why does she always do this?"

He got up to follow her, but decided against it and figured that staying here would be better. James then noticed that Lily's books, quills, parchment, .. etc. had been scattered all over the floor, so, being the gentleman he was, he bent down and started to collect the items and put them back into the bag when he noticed that one of her books was open.

James closed it but couldn't help but see that printed in Lily's neat hand writing on the cover were two words... "My Diary," he stopped dead in his tracks. She was already mad at him... what would it hurt to read a bit out of it.. I mean she did leave it laying out carelessly... James opened the book and turned to the first page...

A/N: He, he, he, James is gonna find out quite a bit about Lily in the next chapter now isn't he? Please Review! I hope you enjoyed this chapter even though it was really short!