THE SECOND GENERATION
Chapter Three: Eating and Hagrid's
Lily flipped on her side and glanced at the clock; it read 1:45 AM. She had to admit it: she was scared.
She hadn't wanted to go to Hogwarts; she had known this would happen! She had issues. Many issues, actually. She had suffered with no one knowing for a while, but now that she was at Hogwarts everything would change. She would be watched constantly by her friends and family, and everyone would realize when she didn't eat. She was already regretting the Start-of-Term feast. She could feel it churning in her stomach.
It wasn't as if she liked being this way. It was only natural. I mean come on: her dad was the famous Harry Potter, so she had never exactly lived a normal life. She had always been the "New Little Lily." No one saw her as a seperate person; she was thought of as a copy of her grandmother. To some, on the other hand, she had her father's green eyes and her mother's red hair.
Whatever it was, Lily had been desperate for some control and to be her own person, so she had tried to change her appearance. She hadn't done it conciously; she genuinely wasn't hungry. She had just lost her appetite. She had been this way since age 6 or 7, so her parents just figured she was a normal little kid. As she grew up, they figured she just had a small appetite. They politely refused the truth that was glaring at them.
Lily had fallen asleep earlier, only to wake up an hour later to sounds of soft breathing. She couldn't allow herself to go back to sleep until she had planned how exactly she was going to skip breakfast the next day. Finally, after nearly an hour of planning, she was able to let her thoughts drift elsewhere and fall into a fitful sleep.
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"Wake up!" Caroline cried.
Lily woke with a start. Caroline was jumping on her bed- with her still in it!
"Caroline!" Lily shrieked. "Caroline! Get OFF!"
Caroline sat quickly and tried to look innocent. Lily just looked at her for a moment before deciding not to comment.
"So, still think red's not your color?" she asked, noticing Caroline had already changed and trying to change the subject.
Caroline shrugged. "I dunno. But hurry up and get changed before we miss breakfast!"
"You go ahead," Lily said. "I'll come down later."
"Are you kidding?!" Caroline gasped. "You'll get lost!"
"Ugh," Lily said in an agitated voice. "Okay. Hold on."
She changed quickly, and the two girls headed downstairs. It only took them thirty minutes.
"Lils!" Jacob cried as she sat down, and Lily was surprised he was actually admitting he knew her publicly. She supposed he was just making sure she was okay. "Sleep well?"
"Mm-hmm," she lied, grabbing the water pitcher and pouring herself a glass.
"You're not hungry?" Elizabeth questioned when Lily took a sip and didn't reach for anything else.
"You know she never eats," Jacob reminded her, stuffing a piece of bacon into his own mouth. "You get used to it."
Lily gave him a dirty look and took another sip of water. "No, I'm not hungry," she told Elizabeth.
"You might wanna eat a little bit before your first lesson."
Lily grabbed a biscuit and bit into it. "There," she said. "Happy?"
"Yes," Elizabeth replied.
Lily finished the biscuit and excused herself to try and find her way to her first class. Instead, she went into the first bathroom she found and made it to the toilet just before she threw up the biscuit. She couldn't help it! No one understood. She didn't mean to throw up the biscuit; her stomach just couldn't handle food- especially early in the morning.
She was late for her first class- Transfiguration- and Professor Hogan looked like he wanted to chop her head off. He was the Slytherin Head-of-House and wasn't quite fond of the Potters.
She slipped into a seat next to Caroline and hurredly opened her book.
"Where were you?!" Caroline questioned.
"I got lost," Lily explained in a whisper.
"How could you get lost?!" Caroline exclaimed, not bothering to hush her voice. "You left early! How could you possibly get lost?!"
"Caroline!" Lily warned as Professor Hogan paused in his speech and gave them a glance that clearly wished them an early death.
Caroline rolled her eyes and turned back to the matchsticks in front of her.
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Though Lily had gotten off to a pretty rough start, her first few months at Hogwarts actually went pretty smoothly. She had made pretty good friends with the other first-year Gryffindor girls and was actually getting on decently with Michael and Dylan. Well... I guess you could say she was "getting on decently" with Dylan as she had resisted strangling him. She found his sister Caysie a little arrogant but all right all the same.
Then there was the issue with Alana. She had finally accepted that she had been Sorted into Gryffindor, but that didn't mean she was happy about it. She had tried to make friendly with the Slytherin girls, and when they shunned her Lily thought she might have tried to make nice with them, but she hadn't. Though she thought she might be a little mean for thinking it, she thought the other Gryffindor girls uhh... marched to the beat of their own drummer, but she sort of liked that.
Harmony Jefferson was pretty normal, actually. She was Muggle-born, tall, and the youngest student at Hogwarts. She had been born on September 1 and therefore been allowed to enter Hogwarts on her 11th birthday. Because of her height you never would have guessed it, though. She seemed pretty nice and Lily liked her.
Andie Linne Martin was definitely unique. Lily had thought Caroline was different, but now she just thought of her as loud and blunt. Andie Linne was the definition of different. Not only did she have purple eyes, but she had a strange obsession with white-out. Lily often entered their dormitory at night, tired and ready for bed, to find her sniffing it with a dreamy expression on her face.
Then, of course, there was Caroline and Lily. Caroline, as explained earlier, was basically just loud and blunt. Lily was very secretive and a bit sensitive, not to mention Harry Potter's daughter, so she had to admit they weren't normal. But Alana had no business ignoring them the way she did. It was going to be a long seven years for her if she didn't make friends soon.
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Right when Lily was getting used to Hogwarts, December arrived. Their teachers began wrapping their lessons up before Christmas holidays, and she had started trying to locate her things and put them in her trunk so she didn't have a load of packing to do the night before she left. On the last day she trudged up to Hagrid's to have a cup of tea and a chat with him before she had to leave.
When Hagrid opened the door to let her in she was surprised to find Jacob and his friends Jonathon and Brightley eating rock cakes they had been too polite to refuse.
"Hey, Lils," Jacob greeted. He put a hand to his jaw and rubbed it; obviously he had just talked without thinking and ended up wrenching his rock-cake-glued-together-teeth apart.
"Hey," Lily replied, waving. She looked up at Hagrid. "So are you going to come round for Christmas?"
"I'm thinkin' abou' it," he replied. "Go on, Lil, sit down and have yerself a rock cake."
Lily sat but didn't reach for a cake. "Please, Hagrid," she begged. "It's not Christmas without you!"
"Have a cake, Lil! You look a little flushed."
"No, Hagrid, I'm okay, really."
"No, I insist!"
"Hagrid-"
"Lily-"
"Just eat it," Jacob cut in.
Lily glanced at Hagrid. "Fine," she muttered, and she picked up a rock cake but didn't eat it. "So are you coming?"
"Probably," Hagrid replied, scratching his head. "Jus' gotta check with Professor Pippins 'n make sure there ain't nothin' I got ter do here."
Lily noticed Hagrid looking at the uneaten rock cake and knew she was hurting his feelings, so she raised it to her mouth and took a bite. Immediately she cried out in shock and pulled it back.
"What's wrong?" Hagrid asked.
Lily looked up at Hagrid and then back at her hand. Jacob peered at it and his mouth dropped open.
"You lost your tooth?!"
Lily opened her mouth and put her tongue in the hole where the tooth next to her front tooth used to be. "Yeah," she replied.
Hagrid was in shock.
"I'm sorry!" he kept saying. "I didn't mean fer you to lose yer tooth, I jus-"
"Hagrid!" she cut him off. "It's okay. That tooth was loose anyway. It'd been annoying me for a while."
It was a lie; the tooth hadn't been loose at all and it had hurt quite a bit when it was wrenched from its roots, but she didn't want Hagrid to feel bad. She was glad that she at least had an excuse not to eat the rock cake.
Brightley had conjured her a pretty pink container to put her tooth in, and it had stopped bleeding. She now spoke with a slight lisp; it made her feel like a little kid, losing her tooth. All the others in the room had perfect rows of permanent teeth while she was nowhere near losing all her teeth and just had to lose one of her front teeth right before Christmas. Now in all the pictures she would have a hole in her mouth while the others had two nice rows of teeth. It wasn't fair!
"So are you coming for Christmas, too?" Lily asked Jonathon. She was sipping the tea Hagrid have given her carefully, scared she might lose another body part somehow.
"Probably gonna drop by," he replied, shrugging. "Mum's dragging us to that Christmas Ball, though. Aren't you guys going?"
"Yeah," Jacob replied. "We'll see you there. Brightley, you're going, right?"
"I think so."
"Wait, what ball?" Lily questioned.
"Didn't I tell you?" Jacob asked. When Lily shook her head he went on, "The Ministry's holding this huge Christmas Ball to show they support wizard unity or something. Dad says they're just trying to show off."
"Oh. Sounds kind of boring... Are Elizabeth and them coming?"
"Of course," said Jacob. "And Victoire's forcing Teddy to come."
"Yay!" Lily exclaimed. She adored Victoire and Teddy was practically her brother, and she hoped they would get married when they got older. Victoire would often have slumber parties and they would all talk about girl things and have tons of fun. She hoped she had another one over Christmas: then she could ask her if she planned to marry Teddy during a game of Truth or Dare.
"They're gonna have some beautiful kids," Brightley commented, and when Jacob and Jonathon burst out laughing, she defended herself, "What?! Teddy is hot. And like you two haven't noticed Victoire is drop-dead gorgeous?"
"Victoire is my cousin," Jacob reminded her in a disgusted tone.
"Oh, so that's why you drool every time you see her."
Jacob gave her a nasty look and changed the subject. "Hagrid, are you okay?"
Hagrid had been gazing off into space for the last five minutes. When Jacob said his name he started and tried to act like he'd been listening. "Yeah, yeah, jus' a bit tired. I gotta new creature fer you fourth years," he added, nodding to Jacob, Jonathon, and Brightley. "Slurgoffs. They're... Well, let's jus' say they're a handful."
They all rolled their eyes.
"Hagrid, you'll never stop," Jacob laughed.
Hagrid laughed as well. "I still miss Norbert... Anyway, it's 'bout time ter get back up ter the castle fer dinner. C'mon, I'll walk with you."
They made their way through the snow up to the castle and met (who else?) Dylan in the entrance hall.
"Well, look who it is!" Dylan exclaimed. "Lils!"
"Don't call me Lils," Lily replied.
"You lost your tooth," he commented. "Hot."
Jacob gave him a strange look and hung back.
"And could you please give me an intelligent explanation as to how on earth losing a tooth is hot?" Lily asked him, crossing her arms.
"Well, it's you," he said. "And it gives you a cute little lisp. You look a lot younger, though."
"That's not a good thing," she replied. She had already seen her reflection back at Hagrid's and thought she looked like she was five.
"I think it's hot."
Jacob was now getting into his "older brother mode."
"That is so weird!" Lily replied, sitting down at the Gryffindor table.
"Not really," Dylan defended, sitting down beside her. "Like I said, it's you."
"And what difference does that make?" Lily asked.
"You're incredibly hot, Lils," Dylan told her for the nine hundredeth and twenty-eighth time.
"I hope you mean she's too warm," Jacob cut in from across the table, wearing a mutinous expression and biting into a roll.
"No, I mean your sister's fine, dude," Dylan replied.
Jacob chewed and swallowed, still eyeing Dylan. Finally he said, "You're on my list."
Dylan rolled his eyes. "Ooh, I'm so scared!"
"You should be."
"Whatever."
"You'll see. Just keep hitting on my sister."
"I will."
"Ugh, guys, just shut up!" Lily exclaimed.
"Why aren't you eating?" Dylan questioned. "Scared you're going to lose another tooth?"
Lily slapped him and leaned her head on her fist again. She couldn't wait to get back home and be free of Dylan for the first time in three months.
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Well there you have it!! Sorry I took so long to update!! My life's been kind of crazy lately with basketball, cheerleading, hanging with friends, guys, and school (they've decided that they need to give us even MORE homework now that it's second semester to start preparing us for ninth grade, even though it's forever away) Then all last week I was sick with strep (mainly because it snowed for a total of five minutes and my friends and I played outside in it haha) My life is just going by so fast! Anyway, review please!!!! That might just make the next chapter get up faster!!
