Not So Loverly.
A/N: you like Meg, you do, she's funny and nice. You also like Olivia, she's a real sweet girl. Just thought I'd let you know! Also, this chapter Rocks. the Line breaks symbolise the point of veiw changes that aren't ment to be subtle.
Disclaimer: I don't own stuff.
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Chapter 2: What Gift Came Not with a Name.
Meg awoke with a start after the sun came up on Christmas morning, wondering how she got to her bed last night. And then, she remembered, and smiled.
Observing the room through a opening between the curtains of her four poster bed, Meg noticed that everyone else had already made their way down to breakfast. She heard stumbling in the stairway outside the door, and remembered that lily had been at that party too.
She quickly pulled the sheets up over her head.
Lily tripped on the last stair, opened the door quickly and sprinted to her bed.
Meg, jumped out of her bed quickly, she looked like she had been awake, but the presents at the foot of her bed were un-opened, and her hair was wild. Lily did not care, however, she just collapsed on her bed. Meg followed.
"Lily!" She shook her "Lily where've you been?" She rolled Lily over. "Lily!"
"Last thing I remember," She said, still breathless, "Is running from McGonagall."
"Well, that was last night," Meg pointed out the window, "It's morning now!"
"Oh, well, I guess I had fallen asleep while I was hiding, sorry." She peeked through one eye. "What? You don't believe me? Well, how come you never went looking for me if you were so concerned?"
"Well...er... Breakfast is in twenty minutes and you're all... frumpy looking, you'd best get showered if you want any food," She pulled Lily to her feet.
"Oh, presents!" Lily said looking at the large shining pile at the bottom of her bed.
"No time for presents. Shower!" Meg pushed her into the bathroom and closed the door behind her.
By the time Lily was out of the shower Meg was gone. The room was empty.
Lily decided that she was not hungry. So she sat on the end of her bed, and opened her presents instead of going down to breakfast. It was lonely without her roommates shouting out what they've gotten, and lily felt very depressed for no reason at all, and began to cry.
Two galleons, 10 sickles, six chocolate frogs, several bags of Bertie Bot's, and a pile of wrappings later, Meg came back accompanied by Olivia, their other dark haired dorm mate.
"Why weren't you at breakfast?" they both said, only Meg shouted it, and Olivia merely made it sound like a conversation piece.
"I'anted my prethenths" Lily said guiltily with a mouthful of chocolate frog.
"Uh huh," Meg said raising an eyebrow. Lily began to play with the wrappings in front of her.
"I've got a date with Remus, I'll be back later," Olivia said. Meg rolled her eyes at Olivia as she left.
Meg sat next to Lily, who continued to fiddle with wrappings. "Do you always cry when opening gifts?" lily laughed reluctantly.
"No. Of course not." she said quietly.
"Well, then why on earth are you crying now?" meg put her arm comfortingly around Lily, who began to sob.
"I don't know!" She cried, and put her face in her hands.
"Sure you do." Meg comforted, "you can tell me."
"I guess, it's just, well, boys." Lily said and stopped sobbing. "I hate James, and I'm so lonely, because he drives everyone away from me. I haven't kissed anyone in 4 years."
"Luke?" Lily started to sob again."Lils, you need to move on, Luke, well, If he really loved you, he would have accepted that you're a witch."
"I saw him this summer." Lily said, after she finished sobbing.
"Why didn't you say anything?" Meg questioned.
"I didn't know how." Lily said softly.
"He told me he hasn't been seeing anyone, and that he really loved me, He just couldn't deal with the magic it was too much."
"Well, he's really missing out." Meg cooed.
"And- and-" Lily held back a sob. "James, He's such a-a pig!"
"What did he do this time?" Meg queried, her tone of voice changing to annoyed.
"He," She stopped and filled with the wrapping again, "He- Well, you know how I promised I'd never kiss another boy after I kissed Luke goodbye?"
"Oh god." Meg covered her mouth with her hand, "He didn't!"
"He didn't." lily said quietly, meg removed her hand and sighed, But lily said in a choked voice "I did."
"Why!" Meg screamed.
"We got stuck under that bloody mistletoe!" Lily Shouted.
Meg covered her face with her hands."no, no, no, no . . ."
"Well, I suppose, I needed to get over Luke anyway, and I guess this is fate telling me to do it."
"But why James!" Meg said through her hands
"Because fate hates me, Meg."
"Why?"
"Because that's the only way it can get through to me."Lily said slowly, and then she punched Meg in the arm, "Stop pretending to be sad, and go open your gifts."
"Okay!" Meg bounced up and began to rip off the wrappings to some gifts.
"I'm going for a walk." Lily said, standing up and grabbing her cloak. Meg just waved.
After Lily left, Meg sat her gift, half-opened, on the bed covers, and sighed. She looked over at Olivia's pile of gifts, and wondered which one came from Remus, but then she realized, he was probably giving it to her right now.
She turned back to her gifts and looked for the most interesting one to open.
One gift did stand out. A small purple-papered box, with a gold ribbon, and no tag, very neatly wrapped, with a very simple bow on top. She checked her other gifts to see who's it could be. There was mom's, and dad's, and her little sister Sarah's, and Sirius' and Lily's and Olivia's. So that ruled out anyone who normally gave her gifts. Meg opened it slowly, it may be from James, in which case; take caution.
It did, however, not explode, nothing flew out, and her hair remained a shining Ebony. A small gold locket, and chain lay perfectly on a plush purple cushion. Meg removed it with a shaking hand, and it opened with a melodious click, and a small folded paper fell onto her bed. She was to shocked by the glow inside the locket to open the note at first. It seemed to be singing to her, inside her head, a beautiful song with no real words. It was nothing that she had ever heard before, and It had her mesmerized.
"Wow." She said, and let a tear slip, as she closed it and put in gently in the box, and picked up the note. Meg had a hard time opening it, she was shaking a little, and had to blink away tears to read it.
"Dear Meg,
I cannot give you my name, for that I am sorry, but I know certain people that would be upset If I do. I have liked you for a long, long time, and I think It's about time I tell you just how much; In person, Valentine's day, 8 o'clock at the astronomy tower. Sorry to make you wait, but there's things I need to do before then, and this was very last minute as it took a lot of courage.
Sorry for the non-disclosure,
An Admirer."
Meg let slip a small, "Oh." and continued to ponder who this person could be, and why they could not tell her now, or meet her sooner, as she opened her other gifts. Until, she came to her last one; Sirius' gift. He had liked her for a long time too, but He had just told her that, and yet she still pondered if it was him. She read his card.
"Meggie,
I hope you like what I got for you It's a family heir loom.
Just kidding.
Love,
Sirius."
She opened the round box, inside there were two earrings, both round glass balls with smoke inside constantly changing colors and shape. They were pretty but she was tempted to listen to the song in the locket again. Whoever had gotten her that must have expected her to fall in love with it, and them. But she did not open it again, for fear that it may make her dizzy and light hearted all day. However, she did put it around her neck, and then, feeling guilty, shewent toput on Sirius' earrings.
As soon as she touched the first one, it stopped changing, and turned a gold color, and rotated slowly. She looked at the package and found a guide written inside the round box, when she touched it, it made the shape and color inside the glass, it read below;
"Gold; undefined?
Spinning; pre-occupied.
Round; In good health."
She found it interesting, but put on the earrings, grabbed her cloak, and ran to find lily and tell her about her admirer.
A/N: oooooooooh, mystery. I am laughing at you all reading this, because I know things that you do not!
Anyway, I may post Chapter 3: What they did not hear. and Chapter 4: What they did not say. On friday and sunday, or Sunday and Monday. Can't decide.
REVEIWERS ARE MY FAVOURTIE READERS, second only to reveiwers who favourite the story too!AND you all get personal thank yous next chapter. Neat, huh?