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Chapter Fifteen
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"Peeves, you blasted arse! I am going stick my wand up your-"
"Ms. Evans!"
Lily turned slowly, almost sheepishly to Professor Mcgongall, just now noticing the small crowd of people circling her.
What? She couldn't help it. She'd had a bad day. And Peeves had just made it worse.
"I'm am so sorry, professor. It's just Peeves-"
"There is no need for such language, Ms. Evans- Peeves, you little arse- I mean, Peeves you get back here right now. I'll get Headmaster Dumbledore!"
Peeves had dropped a water balloon over Mcgongall's head in the midst of her speech. So much for setting a good example, professor.
Mcgongall began to scurry after Peeves, who had flown straight through a few students (dropping water balloons on them as well) and turned a corner.
Lily sighed tiredly and began to walk off, the small crowd already gone.
Actually, she hadn't had a bad day- She'd had a horrible day. . .and could you believe that it was only the first day back from summer?
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She had overslept. For her first day of classes. Emma and Alice tried to wake her up, they said, but Lily just wouldn't get up. So, they left for breakfast while Lily slept.
Lily didn't wake up till 11:00 (AM). That's when her horrible day really started.
It really wasn't Lily's fault she'd overslept. She had prefect patrolling last night and hadn't got back to Gryffindor tower till 11:00 (PM). After that, Lily had taken a half hour to unpack most of her things.
So, to the point, she was really tired.
Anyways, after waking up, Lily rolled out of bed. Literally. Yes. She rolled off the bed and straight to the hard floor. She landed on her face and her nose started bleeding.
Well, after that, Lily started to frantically run out of the tower and to the Hospital Wing. Only to find that Madame Pomfrey was out for lunch. She might have been out on lunch, but let Lily tell you, injuries and illness never go to lunch! Never! So, after standing in the Hospital Wing, rereading Madame Pomfrey's "Out to Lunch. Be back in thirty minutes! Have a nice day!" (there was a smily face next to it), a few times, Lily walked out of the Hospital Wing, nose still bleeding, towards. . .well, towards Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
Of course, Lily had forgotten that that particular bathroom was Myrtle's home on account of being distracted by her nose. She'd been standing over a sink, letting the blood just drip down the drain when the wonderful ghost showed up.
"What's wrong with your face?"
"What does it look like?" Lily asked moodily.
"Well!"
Mrytle gave a few moans and groans and angry shrieks before saying something fairly unpleasant about Lily and flying furiously through a stall door and whizzing down a toilet. A few other toilets exploded and all the sinks began to go beserk, turning off and on. The bathroom began to flood.
"Oh for Merlin's sake! Can my day get any better?" Lily yelled over more exploding toilets and window's opening and closing frantically.
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After getting detention from Filch, who had discovered the water a few corridors down, Lily stomped back to Gryffindor tower (her nose had now stopped bleeding- she had a few tissue's from the bathroom shoved up her nose to clog the blood) in her soaked pajamas (water was spewing everywhere in the bathroom).
Filch had thought she'd flooded the bathroom on purpose and also thought she was skipping class. So, Lily had gotten detention and later that day, would have to clean up the bathroom. Without magic.
Once arriving in her dorm again, Lily changed out her pajamas and into a clean, newly bought Hogwarts uniform. She grabbed her books for. . .Lily had to grab her times paper. . .Charms.
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Well, once getting to charms (in the middle of Professor Flitwick's beganing of the year speech),
Lily mumbled that she'd had a "situation" and that was why she was late. Her nose was a bit stopped up now because of the tissues she'd had in early, so she sounded a bit funny when speaking. Lily hastily took a seat next to Ella Yung (Ravenclaw) and opened her Charms textbook.
Only to find that she had forgotten something.
Her wand.
Yes, she'd forgotten her wand.
Thankfully, Flitwick hadn't planned to practice any charms today since it was the first day. They did have to take notes on his lecture though (information on what they would study that year).
Lily found that she had forgotten two other something's.
Paper and quill- oh, make that three other things. An inkwell. . .actually, make that four things. Lily had also forgotten her brain. Ha, ha. Lily had found that joke very funny. Not.
Anyways, she whispered a "Do happen to have any extra quills, parchment, or inkwells?" to Ella. Ella said "No, sorry.".
Unfortunately, for Lily anyways (or, perhaps, fortunately?), James Potter just "happened" to overhear Lily asking Ella. He gallantly asked for his extra quill, inkwell, and parchment to be passed up to Lily (there was four rows between them, so it really was quite easy for James to "overhear" Lily's inquiry to Ella. Yeah).
Lily reluctantly took the utensils, knowing she'd most likely regret the action later. She had to take notes though!
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Next, Lily headed back to her dormitory to grab her wand and rush to transfiguration just after.
The only problem was that she couldn't find her wand.
It was lost, apparently.
That just made Lily's mood much better. Right.
Anyways, she ended up missing the rest of her classes that day (there were two left) searching for her wand. By dinnertime, her owl (it usually stayed with her mum and dad so they could owl her when they needed to) had flown up to a window in the girls dorm, pecking. Lily opened the window for the owl and roughly grabbed the envelope in the owl's claws. It also was holding, thankfully, Lily's wand, which it dropped instantly on Emma's bed. After, her owl pecked Lily's hand in a not-so-affectionate way before flying back out the window it came in.
Lily ripped open the envelope.
It was from her parents, obviously. They said that they had found her wand on the kitchen table and they thought she might need it (there was a "ha, ha" and smiley face next to this part. Lily didn't particularly find their somewhat corny joke that funny at that moment). They said, good luck and they loved her. Oh, and Petunia said hi and that she loved her too. Yeah right. Lily really was doubting that last part about Petunia quite a lot.
Why? Why could their letter and her wand arrived earlier? Lily thought she needed to get a new owl or new parents. This current owl was very slow and her current parents just didn't find her wand soon enough.
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On the way to dinner, just after find her wand and screaming into her pillow to calm her nerves (worked like a charm too! Not.), Lily had to take thirty points from Hufflepuff (who would have thought? They were always made out to be sweet, innocent students) to three third years that were charming all the portraits to say insults to anyone who passes (ha, oldest trouble-making spell in the book).
After the third years had run along, Lily uncharmed all of the paintings, getting insulted and called a few too many unpleasant things in the process ("I am not a ugly hag! You're the ugly hag!. . .Literally!").
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And just now, well, just now she'd had the encounter with Peeves, who had thrown one too many water balloons at her. She was soaked again for the second time today (Not counting when she took a shower though).
Lily began wringing some of the water out of her hair as she walked with squeaking shoes (they were soaked too) towards the Great Hall for dinner again.
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Once to the Great Hall, Lily founded a seat next to Alice and Emma and Hestia (they'd lost track of her last year and met back up with her on the Hogwarts Express).
While Alice tried to hide her blush as Emma innocently noticed Frank Longbottom making eyes at her a few seats down and Hestia laughed at Alice's face, Lily was having a fun time herself. With-
A) Merlin.
B) A leprachaun
C) That good-looking beater on the Chudley Cannons
D) That other good-looking beater on the Chudley Cannons
or
E) James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.
Ding, ding, ding!
E is correct!
Yes, Lily was sitting with E) James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. Apparently, there wasn't any other places to sit at the table.
"There really isn't, Lily." James protested after Lily said she could see just enough for the four of them at the end of the table. "Right, Sirius?"
Sirius was chatting up a girl to his left while scarfing down a few biscuits. He wasn't paying attention.
"Oh, yeah, I passed all twelve OWL's. They were a piece of cauldren cake."
"Really? Gosh, I hope I do well this year." She was obviously a fifth year.
Sirius snapped his finger. "Hey!" He said in a sly voice. "I could help you study!" Sly, sly Sirius.
"Right, Remus?" James asked hopefully.
Remus himself was being chatted up by Mary Harris, who had "coincidently" been seated next to him. He wasn't paying attention.
"And I said, Well, I was hoping someone else would ask me to Hogsmeade. . ." Mary trailed off slyly. Sly, sly Mary.
Remus cleared his throat and scooted closer to Peter. "Really?" He asked in a strangled voice.
James turned to his last resort. "Right, Peter?"
Peter wasn't being chatted up. . .unless the food on his plate counted. Anyways, he wasn't paying attention either.
Lily rolled her eyes and ignored James as he said something that should have been charming but she found it to be quite stupid. She turned to the girls.
"I'm telling you, he keeps glancing over at you, Alice- Oh, wait, there he goes again! Duck your head!" Emma and Hestia snickered as Alice did as Emma said and ducked her head over her plate. Her whole body was hunched over.
"Emma, stop it!" She hissed, obviously flustered.
Emma glanced down the table at Frank again. "Oh, he's laughing at something someone just said. . .now he's nodding. . .he's taking a bite of- what's that? Oh. He's taking a bite of chicken. . .now he's- oh, he glanced down again. . .he looks a little depressed now- probably because he can't see his dearly beloved Alice anymore. . .oh, now he's frowning. . .now he's taking a drink of his goblet. . .he's nodding. . .now he's shaking his head. . ." Emma continued her commentary of Frank Longbottom's every move while Hestia and Lily laughed and Alice covered her face.
"Hey, Lily, really enjoyed your itching powder." James said through mouth fulls of mashed potatoes and green beans. He was being sarcastic, of course.
Lily raised an eyebrow and smirked at James. Anyone could see the faint outlines of sores on James and his three friends from where they'd scratched too much because of the itching powder. "I'm glad you enjoyed it, Potter."
"Hope you'll enjoy this too." James said, grinning.
"Enjoy what?" Lily asked hestitantly. She didn't like the sound of James' voice (which was slightly deeper than what it was when they'd left Hogwarts for the summer a few months ago). It sounded not-so-innocent. It sounded very guilty.
James grinned wider as he spooned more mash potatoes onto his plate. Instead of picking up his fork and shoving more of the potatoes into his mouth like Lily had thought, James picked up the plate, leaned over the table and mushed it into Lily's face.
Lily looked livid. James looked triumphant. Emma and Hestia stopped their teasing and watched the scene unfolding before them. Alice brought her head up at the silence of her teasers and followed their gazes. Sirius stopped talking to the girl and watched Lily's face with a smirk on his own. Fortunately for Remus, Mary also stopped talking and watched Lily and James. Even Peter stopped eating.
It seemed everyone within ten feet of Lily and James had stopped what they were doing and watched Lily slowly pick up a napkin, run it over her face, getting the potatoes off it. She crisply set it down, bits of potatoes still here and there though. She sat, staring at the table for a moment, breathing heavily.
Finally, she cracked.
"James Potter, you imbecile!" She exclaimed standing up and throwing anything she could get her hands on at James. "I've already had a horrible day, then you go and make it even worse!. . .Of course, that's not a surprise. I should have seen this coming. I should have seen you coming. . .argh!" She fumed, throwing one last fork at James before storming off.
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"Hey, Evans, wait up!"
"Go. Away. You. Idiot." Lily said in a low voice as she walked up the entrance stairs.
James caught up with her. "Oh, come on, Evans. It was just a joke. And besides, you can't even see any of the mash potatoes anymore. . .except right there- but never you mind that!" He added hastily.
"I. Said. Go. Away."
James ignored her. Ooohhhh, bad move, buddy. "Besides, you deserved it, you know. We itched for two weeks!"
Lily whirled around. Her eyes were narrowed. James abruptly stopped and back up a bit. "My sister had scratches all over her face for a week from those stupid frisbee's you sent!"
"Hey, first of all, she was only in agony for a week, we were in agony for two weeks! Second of all, I didn't send the frisbee's. . .the Marauders did. And third of all, if anything, we did you a favor. You said you didn't like your sister!"
Lily shook her head before beganing to walk again. "Pothead, why don't you go visit Moaning Myrtle? I'm sure she's missed you."
James scoffed. "Oh, come on, Evans!" He began walking behind her, trying to keep up with her walk/jog.
There was silence for a few moments. . .
. . ."If it helps," James started,"you looked nice with mash potatoes on your face." He stated this as more of a question than a compliment.
"Oh, yes, that definitely helps."
"Thought so. . .oh, hey, since we're back to good terms again and everything's forgotten and nobody hate's anyone else, I thought I'd just ask if you wanted to go to Hogsmeade with me?" James asked.
Lily was frustated. So, what happened next was not her fault. She was frustrated. She was in a awful mood. She'd had a horrible day. She was still partially wet from Peeve's water balloons. And the most recent reason for what she said next was, she'd just had mashed potatoes mushed into her face.
"You know what, Potter? Fine. I'll go on a stupid, measly date with you. Happy?"
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Author's Note: Oh, wow. Poor Lily. A song that kept coming to my mind while writing this chapter was "You Had a Bad Day" by The Fray. LoL. And, oh my, did she just agree to what I think she agreed to? Hmmm. . .
So sorry for not updating in so long. Things got in the way, you know. Anyways, hope someone like the chapter, not to mention, the surprise ending there. I'll be updating either "The New Professor" or "Players One and Two" or maybe even both sometime this weekend also. I have a three-day weekend because of Labor Day, so there's a good chance both will be update.
Also, I've finally started an original fiction story. If you want to check it out, head over to my author's profile and click the link for my "homepage". There'll be a link to the story under "My Original Stories".
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