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Ch.8/ Little Events
Lily woke up in the middle of the night, her head hurt from screaming too much.
She heard a noise out the window. It was a person. Flying around on a broom stick. She said a spell to look at who it was. Her vision tripled. To her surprise, it was James, without a shirt on. She could feel her face going red. 'Damn hormones,' she thought.
'He tortures me when he doesn't mean to. I hate him.' She thought angrily, 'I'll just have to make his face go red,'
Mina waited patiently in the common room.
Sirius came down the stairs with Remus.
"Hey Mina!" Remus greeted.
Mina looked up, "Hey Lupin!"
"Hey, if I have to call you Mina, you have to call me Remus," Remus smiled.
"Yeah, me too," Sirius agreed.
"Alright," Mina beamed.
"Who ya waitin' for?" Sirius asked.
"Uh, Joanna," Mina replied.
"Oh," Sirius said.
Since that night with Mina, the Marauders didn't seem to like Joanna.
"MINA!" Joanna screeched. Then she saw Sirius and Remus, "Oh! Hey Sirius! Hi Remus!"
Then yet again Joanna started to pull Mina away.
"Nice talking to you guys," Mina yelled.
Sirius was about to yell at Joanna, but Remus stopped him.
"I think Mina would be in hysterics if Joanna hated her. And Joanna would definitely hate Mina if you yelled at her because of how she was treating Mina. Mina's the kind of person that wants everyone to like her." Remus explained.
"You're right," Sirius agreed, "Well I'm off to Hogsmead. Now where's Prongs and Wormtail?"
Sirius walked away.
"Go on without me, I just want to sit down and read," Remus yelled after him.
Sirius caught up to James.
He was talking to a second year.
"Um, the professor wants to know if you'll work with Lily again," The second year said.
"HELL NO," James shouted, "SHE CAN CATCH UP WITH HER OWN DAMN SELF!"
The second year just nodded looking frightened and walked away.
"Damn Prongs, You didn't have to attack the poor kid!" Sirius said.
"Shut up Padfoot," James threatened.
Sirius laughed, "Come on, lets go find wormtail and go to Hogsmead."
Lily woke up. Sarah had already left to go to Hogsmead.
Lily, however was too lazy.
She made my way down to the common room.
She spotted Remus. She recognized him from the marauders.
"Hi," He greeted.
Lily glared at him.
"Hey, don't judge me if you don't know me," Remus said.
He was right, she usually wasn't one to judge someone before she even knew them.
"You're right, sorry," Lily apologized.
"So..uh… How did you become friends with jerks like Potter and Black?" Lily asked.
"Hey, they're still my friends, so please don't speak ill of them." Remus said.
"Sorry," Lily said.
Remus sighed, "I met them in my first year, the year that I decided that I would probably be by myself and not have true friends for the rest of Hogwarts, I never knew how wrong I was, I couldn't ask for better friends,"
"Well it doesn't matter how good they are to you, they're just crap to me," Lily said.
"So I see that I didn't change your opinion of them. Then let me ask you this, how did you get to meet them," Remus asked.
Lily was uncomfortable with the subject, but he'd probably hear it from James and who knows how he would tell it. It surprised her that James didn't already tell him, "Oh you know, I loved Potter he hated me, nothing big," Lily said walking away.
At first Remus didn't do anything, but then what Lily said really sank in.
"Hold on, WHAT!" Remus.
Suddenly he imagined Lily loving James. It was too hard to believe, especially after yesterday. Lily would have killed James if it wasn't for him breaking them up. James was begging for his life.
Lily laughed nervously, "It's really not a big deal and it's definitely not something I want going through the school."
"Oh don't worry, I won't tell anyone," Remus reassured her.
Lily smiled, "Thanks Lupin."
"Remus," Remus corrected.
"Right………. See ya later Remus," Lily smiled.
Lily caught up with Mina, who was smiling brightly.
"You look happy today, and every other day for that matter, but especially today." Lily observed.
"I'm done tutoring Joanna for today," Mina smiled, but then her face dropped, "Oh no, what am I saying, please don't tell Joanna that I'm happy to not see her. She'll be really mad."
"Mina, Mina calm down, it's gonna be ok," Lily soothed, "You're way too nice for your own good," then she saw Mina's down face, "But hey, at least you don't stutter anymore right? That was annoying."
"I didn't know that I was so annoying." Mina stated sadly.
"Oh for heavens sake," Lily started, "Mina you need to have some fun. Come with me."
Then Lily pulled Mina along with her.
Soon they were in the kitchens, "Sarah told me about this place," Lily stated.
"But how am I gonna have fun he-," Mina started but was cut off by Lily who threw a huge bucket of water on her.
"Lily," Mina shouted. But then she was splashed with more water.
Mina then picked up the nearest bucket and poured it on Lily.
The elves were bringing water in by the gallon.
By the time they were done, they were both soaked through and through.
They walked out of the kitchen.
Lily looked at Mina, "So……. Uh…… do you know how to get back to the common room?"
The Hogsmead trip was cut short.
"I don't get it," Sarah said, "Why can't we stay at Hogsmead?"
Of course she must have been talking to her self because no one answered her.
She just pouted.
Then they arrived at Hogwarts. Everyone went to their common rooms to tell people what they got or what they did.
Fortunately, Mina did know where to go and they made their way back to the common room.
Sarah looked, "I'm not even gonna ask."
"DAMN Evans. What happened to you? Did you manage to get a date with the giant squid." James grinned looking at her wet body.
"Yes, and at that time, I was thinking, 'I'm glad that I went on a date with the giant squid who has way more manners than Potter does' and I'm sure that I would have had a horrible time if it was with you," Lily stated.
"I just asked a question, I didn't want any detail," James said.
Lily turned to Mina, "We should get changed,"
"Yeah," Mina agreed.
Lily was walking through the halls trying to find the library. Unfortunately for her, James was also walking down that same hall.
"Hey Evans! How's life," James said.
"You mean life with the squid, great and thanks for asking. Well that is unless you mean the short period of time in my life in which I am walking down this hallway with you, then that would be a, 'It sucks and leave me alone.'" Lily answered hotly.
"Just asking, you don't have to be so bitchy about it," James said.
"I WAS NOT BEING BIT-," Lily started, but was cut off by someone.
"Potter, Evans, could you carry this to the Hospital wing, I have other things to do and I'm afraid I won't make it," one of the professors said. He sat down a huge box next to them, "I thank you so much." Then he was off.
"Other things to do my ass," Lily muttered, "I don't wanna carry this all the way to the hospital wing with you,"
"You don't even know where the hospital wing is," James said.
This was true. But Lily wasn't gonna let him know that.
"Lets just get this over with," Lily sighed.
She picked up one end of the box and James picked up the other.
Lily glared at James.
Then James glared at Lily.
Soon they were having a glaring contest.
Then finally Lily spoke up, "What are you staring at Potter?"
"ME! Please, we both know that you're still madly in love with me and you're just in denial," James declared.
"WHAT!" Lily shouted as she dropped the heavy box on James, who went down with the box.
"Mother f-," James started.
"POTTER! You are so annoying! You act so egotistical all the time, 24/7! What is wrong with you," Lily screamed.
"ME! What's wrong with ME! What's with you! You snap at me every damn five seconds," James yelled back.
"Well THAT'S because you are always acting so conceited!" Lily shouted.
"I bet you couldn't act civilized towards me for one second," James declared.
"Well I bet you couldn't act civil towards me and without once mentioning how great you are," Lily stated.
"Fine it's a deal, for the rest of the day we act civil towards each other and give each other compliments, loser has to admit they love the other participant in front of not only your friends but the rest of the marauders as well," James said.
"Fine," Lily agreed, "Starting now,"
Lily and James finally delivered the box to the hospital wing and made it back to the common room.
"Hey Lily! Where were you?" Sarah questioned.
"I was with James here," Lily forced out.
"James? Lily are you ok," Sarah asked.
"Never better," Lily assured her.
"ok," Sarah said.
They walked over to where Mina, Sirius, Peter, and Remus were.
"Hey Mina, Remus," Lily greeted.
"You know, you should say hello to Sirius and Peter also," James suggested.
Lily glared at him, "Right,"
"Hello Sirius, Peter," Lily greeted as well.
Everyone looked at Lily weird.
But Sirius seemed to catch on, "James you should help us, your smart, isn't he smart Lily flower,"
Lily glared hard at Sirius, "Really smart,"
"Oh but I could never be as smart as you," James also forced out.
"No, no, no. You are definitely the smartest person between us," Lily said.
"I conquer, you're the greatest," James spat out at her.
"Listen to me when I say that you are very wonderful and…… fun," Lily glared.
"Of course not, you're way better," James said.
"JUST ADMIT YOU'RE GREAT," Lily yelled.
"NEVER," James shouted.
"OK JUST STOP RIGHT THERE," Sarah yelled, "What the HELL is going on?"
"Why Sarah whatever do you mean," James said.
Sarah turned to James, "Please……. Don't ever call me Sarah,"
"Nothings going on so forget about it," Lily said.
"right," Sarah said but still didn't believe them. the rest of that day, James and Lily were pretty much trying avoid each other.
But Sirius was having way too much fun to let that happen.
"Lily flower why don't you sit next to James so you can show everyone what great friends you two are," Sirius suggested when Lily walked past his table during dinner.
Lily sat down, glaring hard at Sirius.
"Lily, did you know that James here is a wonderful Quidditch player? You should go to one of his games. You must agree that James has a nice body, right Lil?" Sirius asked with a very serious look on his face. (Though everyone knew it was fake)
"I-I, uh," Lily stuttered.
"You must have noticed his body for you to stutter like that," Sirius smirked. He really wasn't expecting her to go all red. Well of embarrassment that is.
All of the Marauders where looking at her.
"No," was the only answer Lily could come up with.
She couldn't take it anymore. So she got up and left.
Her face was red for three reasons. Her embarrassment, her anger, and her memory of James' body.
As embarrassing as that was, that reminded her of her plan, Operation make James go red.
"LILY! WHERE WERE YOU," Sarah demanded.
"Sarahhhhhhh, Black made me sit next to Potterrrrrrr," Lily whined, "It was horrible."
"Why on earth did you listen to Black?" Sarah asked.
Lily lowered her voice, "ok ok, here's the deal, I made a bet with Potter, He has to be nice to me and I have to be nice to him,"
"WHAT," Sarah screamed, "Why would you make a deal with Potter?"
"I dunno, I couldn't back down," Lily said, "but there's more,"
"Go on," Sarah urged.
"I, uh," Lily said going a little red, "saw Potter without a shirt on this morning, and Black brought up 'You must agree that James has a nice body, right Lil' and I was at a loss for words cause I do agree and then I got up and swore that I would make Potter get all flustered too, I just don't know how,"
Sarah was trying to take in all this information, "Lily, you don't like Potter do you?"
"NO! HELL NO!" Lily said.
Sarah let out a breath, "That's good,"
"I just like his body," Lily informed.
Sarah raised an eyebrow.
"Wait, that came out wrong," Lily said, "I just wanna get him back, and maybe I should get that damn Black back too."
"No need, I got something better in store for Black." Sarah grinned evilly.
"I can't wait," Lily said with an identical grin.
And they just sat there grinning like idiots until Mina came and said that they should move and standing there grinning can't be healthy for them.
The next day. They had potions.
"All right class, take out your ingredients," Professor Slughorn said, "and what I want you to do is, well, uh, surprise me with a potion,"
Lily did exceedingly well. Slughorn, who was the head of Slytherin, beamed down at her, "It's a pity that you're not in my house."
Lily looked over at Sarah, "Isn't he the head of Slytherin?"
"Yeah, but, He was always a bit odd wasn't he." Sarah said.
"I suppose he doesn't know I'm muggle born then?" Lily said.
"Oh, come on Lily, don't think like that," Sarah soothed, "no, no he doesn't," She had to tell the truth.
"Although, personally, I really don't thin that he would care."
"Well lets not worry about that now," Lily said. Truth is, she really didn't care whether or not Slughorn liked her. It was just that, Lily hated coming into the wizarding world, and already being hated by so many people. When she found out that she was a witch, she was so happy and couldn't wait to become friends with other witches and wizards her age. But to find out that she was hated by people she didn't even know, or did know for that matter, she wasn't very smiley anymore. To have been said to your face that you don't belong in a world that she was so ecstatic about joining and that there were rankings that you were born into and could never change. The pure bloods, the half-bloods, and the 'mudbloods.' It was one reason why she admired Sarah. Excepted by all for she was at "Top rank." Although, to Slytherins she was a blood traitor. But she wouldn't be the first target for the wizard that Lily had heard to much about. This Voldemort character. Otherwise known as, "You-Know-Who", or "He-Who-Must-Not-be-Named." Whatever, she couldn't care less about him. Just some maniac who supports Lily's greatest fear, the fear of rejection. She never told Sarah, nor her parents this. And definitely was not going to. Ever. It was embarrassing enough admitting it to herself thanks.
How Slughorn complementing her lead her to look back on her greatest fear. She would never know. She was random like that.
A mystery………….-
"Alright class, were doing a project," Slughorn announced, "In groups of four."
"It'll last for quit a while"
"I'll announce groups," Slughorn said, "Lily Evans, Severus Snape, Remus Lupin, and Lisa Tellis. Peter Pettigrew, Amy Way, Carman Joyhard, and Blake Earround. (and so on and so forth) Sarah Benson, Sirius Black, James Potter, and Mina Lawrence. Now be off with you!"
Many students groaned as they exited the room. But not as half as loud as Sarah.
Have Fun…………….
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