Chapter One ~ Six Years Later ~ 2023
"Lily honey get up or your going to miss the train" yelled Ginny Potter from the bottom of the stairs. She sighed, Lily was always being late. Some minutes later Lily walked down the stairs and Ginny looked at her only daughter, who was also in the house of Slytherin and not Gryffindor. She didn't care much anymore but at first she had been worried, wondering why she been put into that house and how she was, how was she feeling and how would she be in the future. But she had nothing to worry about, her daughter kept excellent scores and had friends from every house, no prejudice. Lily Potter held a pillow to her head. She hated waking up, but today she was going back to school. Slowly she got up. She hadn't slept a wink all night because she was all excited. She was going to see her friends and her secret crush Scorpius again. Putting on her undergarments and skinny jeans, a lime green tank top with converse shoes, Lily went downstairs. The house elf had already brought her trunks down which she had packed last night. Saying good morning and kissing her owl Baire, Lily ate breakfast all the while listing to her father read the newspaper to his children.
"Nothing as usual, just who won in the quidditch game last night and who gets out and those who move forward". Her father signed. The team he had been going for had just gotten out last week. So far her team, Kenmare Kestrels was still in (in fact they were the ones that beat her fathers favorite team) but overall she really didn't care. She wasn't much of quidditch fan. As they finished, they all got into the car and their father took them to the train station. Looking out the window, Lily looked at the other side of the car and saw the empty middle seat. James had graduated and Al was next as he too was staring out the window. Turning to look outside again, Lily caught her mom looking at her. Lily smiled at her mom and her mom smiled again. They all missed James and even thou he visited, it wasn't the same. At least he was going to come see his little brother and sister off.
Arriving at the station, Lily jumped out of the car and the Potter family without James walked through the 9 ¾ platform. There, students were everywhere to families and old students saying goodbye to younger ones. Ginny looked at Albus Severus Potter, her second oldest Son. He was going into his 7th year while Lily into her 5th year and James had already graduated that year. Ginny looked at her children proudly and with love. She felt her husbands arm going around her waist and she smiled at him and leaned against him.
"Well, children, be good and don't, please, don't do anything bad" both kids smiled. Ginny saw her son James, and her sister-in-law with her brother walking to them with both their children, Rose Al's age and Hugo Lily's age.
"Lily, over here" Lily heard. Truing around, she saw her brother, uncle Ron and aunt Hermione, and her cousins. She ran over to them, threw herself into her brothers arms and said hello to everybody.
"Hi aunt Ginny, Uncle Harry" said Hugo.
"Hello Hugo, Rose"
"Ready to go back to Hogwarts Lily"? Asked her uncle Ron. Lily smiled at him and gave him a punch in the arm.
"Course I am, O.W.L's are going to be a piece of cake".
"Well Rose, Al, and Fred are graduating soon and soon will you and Hugo. And Lucy over there-" Lucy was just coming in with her older sister Molly and her parents "will start this year" said her aunt Hermione then looking at her family proudly.
"Yes they are aunt, the years sure fly by don't they" And at that moment the train whisted and the crows looked towards the train.
"Well, I guess this is it. Bye mum, bye dad" Lily said hugging both her parents. All the kids did the same and then boarded the train.
"Have a good Lily, and write to us okay" Lily's mother said.
"Lily study well for you O.W.L. And just have a good time" Lily's father told her giving her a wink. Saying goodbye to everybody, Lily lifted her trunk into the train and went inside. They found a compartment and sat down, waiting for other people to sit down and for the train to start moving. They chatted idly when Jeal appeared with Dani.
"Hey Lily, come sit with us" Jeal asked Lily as she walked by her opened compartment.
"In a minute Jeal" and both girls left. "Well, guys I guess I will see you all later" and they all nodded. They were mad she knew, but she had been hanging out with them all summer and hadn't seen Jeal or Dani all summer long and wanted to catch up with them.
"Hey guys sorry ok, but they are my friends and I do sleep in the same dormitory as them" and at this they looked sad. Why, because even after all this time they still could not accept that Lily, their cousin and sister, was a Slytherin and not a Gryffindor. But Rose smiled, thank god for Rose, and nodded understanding. Lily knew that Rose was always going to be by her side as her cousin and friend and would help the other mellow down. Leaving, Lily walked towards the back of the train because thats were they were usually in the "Slytherin" compartments. Opening door per door Lily found neither of the girls and almost gave up when she opened a compartment door with Scorpius Malfoy sitting inside it. He had been looking outside the window when the door opened and now he looked at her. Lily gave him a small smile. She didn't know what it was but ever since 1st year, she had always had this small crush on him and he always made her nervous.
"Um, um are Jeal and Dani –"
"LILY" screamed a voice behind her and before she knew it, a person jumped behind her back and she was going to land on her face with Scorpius watching it all. She tried to fling her arms out and try to catch herself, but she didn't have time and was about to hit the ground when she felt some other person grab her from behind, but this time the person didn't push her to the ground, instead the person grabbed her and pulled her up by the waist.
"Are you okay" the voice whispered in her ears. She felt a shiver go down her spine.
"Lily, are you okay I didn't mean to make you fall" again the voice who pushed her down said and this time it pushed the person who had saved her from hitting her face on the ground to the side. Lily looked at the person. It was Jeal. Jeal had dyed her black hair and now had blond streaks in her hair, and her skin was tan. Jeal was smiling at her. Lily just started at her pretending to be mad, but she couldn't keep it for long. She threw her arms around Jeal and hugged one of her best friend.
"Jeal, what the fuck I almost landed on my face here" she said.
"Jeal, I told you to be more calm," a voice behind Lily said. Lily turned around to see Dani, Jeal's fraternal twin sitting down quietly with a book in her hands. Dani was a beautiful girl, she had pale skin and light blond hair, totally opposite Jeal in looks and personality. Lily sat down next to Dani and hugged her.
"Dani I missed you so much" out of the corner of her eye, Lily saw Jeal point at herself.
"Me too Lily, do you know how terrible it is to be with Jeal a whole summer with no other calm rational person around" again Jeal pointed at herself looking offended.
"Thank you so much Dani, I like knowing that you can rely on me" said a male voice. Lily stiffened. She had forgotten that he was still here. Good thing that Dani didn't notice Lily stiffen.
"Scorpius, I can't talk to you about personal girl stuff now can I. I mean I can but I doubt you want to hear my personal girl stuff, right". Dani told Scorpius. Scorpius laughed.
"Your right, I guess your lucky to have Potter as a calm friend unlike your own twin sister"
"Seriously, have you all forgotten that I'm here" Jeal said as she plopped down next to Scorpius. Lily laughed and looked out the window as the scenery started to get blurry. "Auf Wiedersehen" she whispered to herself to her home and family.
"and grandfather Lucias was like 'you girls cant do that sort of stuff, you are a Malfoy after all'" Jeal said while making a face and lowering her voice tone. Jeal, Dani, Lily and even Scorpius laughed. They had been in the compartment some minutes when Jeal started to tell Lily about how her summer was and what mischievous she got into with her grandfather not approving.
"So Lily how was your summer? Did your football (soccer) team win the tournament this year?" Dani asked when everybody had quieted down.
"Yeah we did, we won Undefeated Champions in our League and then we went on to State and placed first" Lily replied.
"Good for you, and I bet you were the star of the game. Dani and I were only able to go to one of your games over the summer but only saw part of it and from what we saw you were great. So, how many cute football boy fans have you"? Jeal asked with a wicked glint in her eyes.
"None really, or more like none that I knew of or payed attention too" and all the girls laughed.
"Well this year we're going to win the Football Cup for our house again" Jeal remarked and threw a fist out. Lily smiled and knew that, like always, competition was hard. A couple years ago, the headmaster decided that it wasn't fair that only a small amount of student got any real exercise or to participate in any house competition and so she had decided to allow some muggle sports. At first many muggle born students were the only to play ( and some houses didn't even have some teams) but the sports like, football, volleyball, American football, basketball, wrestling, baseball, softball, track, and tennis got popular.
Lily had always played soccer since her cousin Anna, her uncle Dudley daughter who was not anything like him but in fact quite athletic and pretty, played with Lily whenever they visited. Lily loved the sport so much she joined muggle teams just to play and in fact was in a summer team and played tournaments through out the summer.
When she joined the Slytherin soccer team, Jeal and Dani decided to join Lily and see what it was. Well, Jeal liked it and she loved to shot a lot so she was made a forward. Dani on the other hand was better at defending the gaol and so become defender. Lily liked scoring, making assist and getting back to help and so she was made a midfielder.
The compartment door opened and when Lily looked up to see who it was, she groaned inwardly. Looking up she saw Alex looking at down at her. Alex was her ex, she had dated him back in the middle of 4th year and gone with him to the Annual Yule Ball.
"Hey Lily. So, how is it?" He asked. Lily smiled.
"Good, I hope your summer was good as well" and he nodded.
"Hey Alex, lets go over here" said a female voice invisible to Lily.
"Yeah, lets go" looking one more time at Lily, he opened his mouth and closed several times trying to say something but not knowing what to say. Lily suspected that the person who spoke was a new girl considering he was dating Viki at the end of the year and that was definitely not her voice, this one was high tone voice. Lily didn't hate him for cheating on her, its not like she was in love with him, but she was mad and hoped that one day he learned his lesson.
"Well then, I guess I will see you later" he said, closed the door and left. After a few second, Jeal spoke.
"Lily, you got to get yourself a good guy this year. Here," she said as she pulled something out of her bag. "I got this just for this quiz. Wanna try it"? And Lily just shrugged because even though Jeal asked the person for something didn't mean that she wasn't going to do it anyways.
"Oh god Jeal, I cant believe your going to ask Lily" Dani said and Jeal just smiled at her sister.
"Ah, yeah, hopefully she gets better then a trash man" and Lily almost questioned about this but she had a feeling that Jeal wouldn't tell her till she herself had taken the quiz.
"Ok, so Lily I'm going to ask a few questions and your to answer them correctly"
"Ahm, Jeal, whats the quiz about?" she said looking at the cover of Quibbler.
"Its about what kind of guy is your Mr. Right and so on" said Dani. All Lily could do was Ooh. Hearing a small chuckled Lily turned towards Scorpius who had a small smile on his face, but he was facing the window.
"Ok, first question. What is your favorite color?"
"Green"
"Favorite eye color (Two choices)?"
"Green or gray, like the three of you." Lily said looking at Jeal and Dani and then Scorpius who was also looking at her.
"What your favorite hair color (Two choices)" Jeal asked breaking Lily away from Scorpius.
"Lets see, brown and black, and blond"
"Thats three but oh well, next what age do you prefer"?
"Well lets see, he has to be about a year to four years old"
"Do like your guys shorter or taller then you and if so, what height?"
"I like taller guys, and they have to be at least 6 feet tall" Lily said.
"Would you rather have a brainy or a brawny guy"?
"Brian over brawn, I rather have a interesting conversation then a guy who is more interest in his body muscles and me."
"What is your zodiac sign? Taurus" Jeal answered herself. " What is your element? Earth"
"I could at least answer these question myself if your going to ask" Lily told Jeal.
"Well yeah, but I know you to much. Just be happy I know things about you" Jeal said and with that went on taking the quiz for Lily.
"Yes, OK well, this is what the results say: Your Mr. Right is a young blond bloke about two to four years older then you. He has a reputation as one that doesn't let anyone do shit to him, his a nice guy and will be a bad boy if the times calls for it. But in the end he will be a successful... janitor" The girls laughed.
"So thats what you meant by trash boy, and what about you Jeal, what did you get?"Lily asked.
"I got a successful couch potato" and again the girls laughed. When they were done laughing, both Jeal and Dani saw the candy cart pass by.
"Lets go get some more candy Jeal" Dani asked. Jeal nodded.
"Yeah," both girls got up "you coming?" she asked Lily. Lily shook her head, even though Jeal knew that Lily wasn't much of a sweet tooth, she still asked. Once they were gone and the slide closed, Lily grabbed the magazine and started skimming.
"Congrats on the janitor, his way better then the trash boy or couch potato that Jeal and Dani got" Scorpius said all of a sudden. Turning to face him, he was smiling and Lily laughed again.
"Yeah, I guess I should consider my self lucky" and he laughed at that. Even though she had been best friends with Jeal and Dani, she didn't really talk to Scorpius. She was shy around him and never talked to him except for the occasional questions. Even after all this years, she still had that small crush on him. A forbidden crush.
Every year she thought of doing something about it, but it never came to that. She tended to see him around with different girls a lot and then she got scared. Why should she reveal her feeling to him, and what if he rejected her. She never did anything, afraid to lose the small and fragile friendship that they sort of had. But this year, she was much older, and besides he was leaving as well, and she wanted to kiss him at least once, she didn't care if there was no relationship or rejection afterward, she just wanted to get this crush of him out of her and this might help her. But what if it didn't.
"So do you have any plans on what to do after Hogwarts? Dani told me that you did really well on your O.W.L.s and so you'll probably do well on the N.E.W.T.s too". Lily asked him. He looked down at the ground.
"To be honest Potter, I don't know. I have a clue at the end of the year, so all I have to do is keep on doing well" was all he said before he turned his face towards the window and it was apparent that the conversation was over. Not knowing what to do, Lily decided to reach into her hand bag which she had put on the shelf above the seats and pulled out her Ipod which her cousin Anna had given to her. About to sit down, the train all of a sudden slowed down to a sudden stop.
Losing her balance, Lily fell forward and to where Scorpius was sitting down, his eye where o her as she fell towards him, her arms again flinging around trying to catch herself. She didn't succeed in catching herself and fell on top of Scorpius, her head on his shoulder. After what seemed like years, Lily put both her hand on both sides of Scorpius ready to push herself off him, and then he had his hands on her waist. Looking into his eyes, Lily felt her head leaning more towards him and her eyes were on his lips. His eyes closed and so did hers.