I'm not really sure what to think about this chapter, I'm running out of ideas but I can't make the big thing happen till the right moment :| SO, if the story seems crap at the moment then please don't judge it… cos it will get better…. Hopefully :D
Chapter 8- Birock and a pretty Lily Evans?!
I can't believe my dad. Honestly. What the hell did he just say?! It just should be illegal what he said, I mean, 'wizard golf something something?!', and the fact is he didn't just say it to me or my friends, but he basically shouted it in front of the whole pub. I could feel my face growing hot and knew that my face was now a similar shade to my bright red hair.
After my dad had just totally humiliated me in front of everyone the whole table, hell.. the whole Three Broomsticks was silent! James' and my parents seemed to smile awkwardly before ordering drinks and disappearing through the many doors of The T.B. James caught my eye discreetly and raised his eyebrows, I tired not to blush and gave him a small confusing smile before-
"You agree Lily?!" I jumped and turned to Matt. Whoa. I said Matt. I gave him a nickname. Oh my… anyways-
"Sorry!" I said lamely closing my eyes. "I zoned out there." I noticed James smirk slightly but turn it into his straight face mouth thing in a second.
Matt chuckled slightly. I like calling him Matt. It has a ring to it.
"We're talking about NEWTS and our Potions NEWTS results."
Potions. Newts. Results. WHAT?!!!
"But I thought it was ages till we got the results!" I exclaimed. Seriously if I had known about getting the results I would have been rambling on and on about how I'm going to fail and even though I will fail I really shouldn't ramble but I jus-
"Yeah. It's the 27th. We have to come back to Hogwarts to get the results, but we can come via portkey or floo." Alice said to me.
I nodded my head like I understood everything.
"The 27th." I chocked. Unbelievable. THE 27TH!! I HAVE FAILED MISERABLY! I HAVE GOT A T I AM SURE OF IT. MAYBE NOT EVEN A T!!! Do they do lower than a T? If they do I have got the lowest of the lowest mark...
"Lils, you've not got a T." Matt chuckled and placed his hand on top of mine. I looked at him questioningly and before I could ask he said-
"I know you well." And he kissed me on my check. Sweet, but hugely embarrassing. I didn't have to worry about everyone else at our table, they were all talking to their 'dates' but I could feel James' eyes on me, I looked at him, my face still red and Matt's hand still on mine. He looked at me for a second and then whispered something in Taylor's ear, Taylor nodded and giggled. Pfft.
I know I'm being jealous and… oh hell with it. I AM JEALOUS! Taylor gets everything, she's rich, popular, pretty, intelligent. Whereas I…
You have nice hair, eyes…
And that's all you can think of…
No! You have good friends-
Some friends they are. Izz keeps begging me to let her put makeup on me, Mari is always telling me to do something with my hair and Alice keeps scolding at me for my poor fashion sense.
Well there you go then. Listen to them. Let Alice show you what clothes you should wear, let Mari fix your hair up and let Izz do your makeup. Then, trust me on this, you'll be so lovely Taylor will be jealous of you.
I'm taking your word for that….
Go already you ugly duckling.
I sighed and glanced at Alice who was now halfway through her second butter beer.
"Alice," She looked up at me suspiciously. I didn't have to worry about anyone listening because they were all in their own little worlds, like I had said before.
"How do you like my outfit?" She glanced at my baggy green peace sign top, my old grey cardie and my worn out sneakers with my brown pants. She didn't look amused.
"Do you want me to answer truthfully?!" She asked with an angelic smile.
"Yes. I am prepared, say whatever you think."
"All hideous. The top doesn't compliment your figure at all. Making you look flat chested and actually podgy-"
"Woah." Me?! PODGY?! "I am not podgy-"
"Well the top doesn't really help. Anyways, moving on, the cardigan looks like a Grandma died in it. The trousers… don't even get me started on them and well for the sneakers…"
"OK. I get it. Well, how about if I asked you out on a shopping spree?!" Wait for it, 3, 2, 1...
She sat up straight, her eyes suddenly alert. "I'm listening." See?!
"Hogsmead and Diagon Alley in the Christmas Holidays. My treat."
"Shoe-shopping?" *sigh*
I rolled my eyes, Alice and shoe shopping is never fun. "Yes."
"Underwear?!"
Ugh. "No!" I whispered, I didn't want Matt or James to know what we were talking about. What if Sirius Black heard? Merlin, he better not have, but when I looked at him I was safe, he was eyeing an older girl who seemed about 20, ugh. How he can 'enchant' girls older than him is totally mind blowing, it's sick, and these older women don't mind liking a 16 year old boy for the night, how stupid can you get... I'm calm :)
"Fine. Shoes and Clothes." Alice beamed. "Aww, my little Lils is finally becoming a girl!"
There was silence again. But not just between me and Alice, our whole table suddenly just fell silent, we were all glancing at each other...
"Shall we go?!" Sirius asked wearily. We all agreed at once, left a couple of galleons on the table and then headed out back to Hogwarts.
It was like Alice and I were not part of the group, the boys were having a gigantic debate about Quidditch, Quidditch, Quidditch and even more Quidditch. Honestly, is that all guys think about?!
"And oh merlin had you seen Hatterson's throw as the Quaffle landed in the hoop?!" Matt asked in awe, Sirius and James nodded and grinned saying "Classic."
"What are they even talking about?!" Alice muttered to no one in particular. Remus, who was looking as bored and as lost as Alice and I sighed and said something about how the 'Red River Retters' had won the last Quidditch match against the 'Berry Bongers'. I mean what is with those names?! Was a person drunk or not their normal selves when naming these teams.
I was suddenly knocked out of my depressed and bored state as Sirius suddenly began to scream 'HOGWARTSSSSS! HOW I LOVE THEEE HHHHOOOOOGGGGGGWWWWAAAAARRRTTTTTSSSS!"
"James…" Remus said boredly, James turned to look at him with a sheepish grin… my heart fluttered. If a heart can actually flutter… it's his eyes and how they are so gleamy and sparkly…
"Yes, I may have tricked him into eating a cockroach cluster…" I love James! No! Bad Lily! Don't think that!
Think whatever you want, I know you still like him...
"How did you even convince him to eat it?!" I asked my eyebrows raised, he turned to me and smirked. Eeeks. I really need to work on my legs and how they feel all jelly like when he's around...
"Simple charm…" He said it like it was obvious. Wait… charm as in a spell or charm? 'Cos you can say charm and someone may think it like 'oohh it's his charm ' or 'Ooohh I hate charms.' See why I'm confused?!
We all watched amused as Sirius ran towards Hogwarts, tripped and ended face first into the mud.
"You mangy mutt." James laughed as he dragged the now totally muddy Sirius to his feet.
"Remember what we talked about Padfoot?! You don't a-"
But James' words were cut off as a loud siren began to wail. You know like in the Muggle World War two, where they used the sirens to warn people?! It was like that. There were quite a few students near us and we were all sharing that same confused face.
"Everyone!" McGonagall roared, from where I was standing I couldn't see her, but she sounded near. Maybe it was a charm. "Please can all Hogwarts students make their way to their dormitories and not leave the common room until their head of house has had a word."
"Sounds serious…" Alice said worryingly.
Sirius just barked, sirius- gah nnooo 'seriosuly' and then laughed "Aahahhaa, I'm serious Sirius." Honestly, that joke is so old…
Dear Diary…
Sorry I haven't written much lately, but that Hogsmead trip has totally made me baloney. We had all made our way to Gryffindor as quickly as possible, there were loads of first, second and third years who were chattering slightly and some older years who were actually looking quite concerned.
"Can I have everyone's attention please?!" Everyone in the common room turned to where McGonagall was standing, a few people who had retreated to their dorms where poking their heads from the stairs. "There has been numerous death eaters attack and so to reduce the risk of one of you getting injured ,Hogsmead visits are banned until further notice." Gasps. *GASPS* No Hogsmead visits?! WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO??!!!
And then she left. So yeah. Pretty hectic, ey?
I have to go now anyways, curfew has been changed to everyone in Common Room by 8 and everyone in dorms by 8.30. To reduce further risk. *scoffs* BUT- on a brighter note Alice told Mari and Izz about me finally accepting their offer, so when I go upstairs they will probably start experimenting with my hair and stuff, wish me luck!
Lily x
(READER'S POV)
"Are you sure about this?!" Lily asked uneasily. She was staring in the mirror looking at the 'new' her. Her hair had always been a bit knotty and was usually pulled into a messy bun to keep her long hair out of her eyes. Her face was always pale and clammy, she never wore makeup because the makeup would give her spots. And she always wore baggy clothes underneath her robes, because she was paranoid that someone was 'watching' her.
But now- her hair was down, curling halfway down her back, and was also in a side parting. Alice had said that it seemed to go well with Lily's complexion.
All three of her friends had also applied foundation, powder, mascara and eye-liner. The eye-makeup seemed to make Lily's eyes greener and wider than ever, which seemed totally impossible and yet it was achievable.
And lastly Lily had been forced to wear clothes that would show off her figure. She had whined saying that it felt like a corset and that she could hardly breath, obviously she was overreacting.
"I'm jealous." Izz announced after a silence that seemed to last forever. "You are so skinny and your hair is gorgeous."
Lily snorted and turned to look at the clock, announcing it was time for dinner. On the way to the great hall Lily found each and every one of her friend's tips making her even more nervous.
"I look ridiculous!" She wailed finally when the four-some were a corridor away from the great hall.
"I'm going to change." She tried to make a run for it but Izz and Alice grabbed both of her arms and pulled her with them.
"Just remember. Confidence." Alice hissed as she opened the doors, Lily meekly nodded and for a second Alice thought the red-head might vomit, but Lily merely gulped loudly, breathed deeply and followed Maria and Izz to the Gryffindor table. Alice smirked as she watched a few of the boy's heads turn, Lily was amazing but the fact was that Lily was so paranoid.
When she was about to enter the great hall and sit next to her friends-
"Aaaaaaaalice."
"Ugh. Black, will you please refrain from shouting down my ear. And what the hell is that smell. It smells like… like-"
"Brazilian Beat." Remus winced, gently waving his arm like it didn't really matter.
"Where's your friends (I forget Alice's last name. Is it something like Pippet or something?! If anyone knows please tell me lol, so for now I'm calling Alice, Alice… Pippet. I know I'm an idiot, anyways, MOVING ON!!) Pippet?!" (Hahaha, Pippet, I be shush now..)
Alice smirked, and pointed to Lily who was blushing, probably not noticing that all around her were boys gaping and gawping, and what looked like a very proud Izz and Maria.
Sirius laughed uneasily "Aahaha, no I'm serious, where's Lily?"
Alice sighed haughtily and rolled her eyes. "That is Lily. Or rather, the new and improved Lily."
"No," Remus shook his head. "I talked to Lily on the first day in first year. She hates makeup and when she is dressed up she said she felt like being strangled."
"Honestly Remus. First year?!" Alice scoffed, finding a giggle almost escape her throat. "First year?! That was like five years ago, people change. And… who am I kidding. Ok! I did it, Izz, Mar and I are guilty! But I think she looks flipping brilliant." Frank raised his eyebrows at his girlfriend who was now giggling and jumping up and down at Remus' and Sirius' shocked faces.
"Oi. Prongs, come and look at your girlfriend!" Sirius waved forward James, who had just emerged down the corridor looking quite pale and tired.
"Ugh, mmhhh, sag?! "James murmured rubbing his eyes. Sirius, being the best friend smacked James on the face, hard, and then pointed to Lily, who was now pretending to be very interested in her bowl of cereal.
"That's not Evans." James whispered bluntly.
"Well, if you excuse me. I am going to sit with my friends and eat some breakkie, you guys are welcome to join us."
The boys watched as Alice skipped to where Lily was and then turned back, making a quick hand movement as if to say 'get here you idiots.'
"Should we go?!" Peter asked nervously.
"Yes. Growing boys need food, right Prongs?" Remus grabbed James' arm and pulled him into the great hall, settling for seats that were a few seats away from Izz, Maria, Alice and Lily.
"Mmm beozoer nargleific poo." James mumbled into his eggs.
"I think our Prongsie is smitten. Lost for words are you Prongsie poo?!" Sirius sang gleefully, he seemed to be in a happy mood, again. Remus glanced at James and mouthed 'Cockroach cluster?' but James had shaken his head and smirked mouthing 'blood pop.' Sirius was tempted to skip around singing 'zipadeedoda zipadeeay! My oh my, what a wonderful day….'
"Rubbish." James laughed uneasily, his eyes flickering slightly to the new and improved Lily Evans, he mentally slapped himself, again.
What the ruddy hell am I thinking?! Evans?! Really… I can do better than that.
And yet you dream about her-
I did not dream about her! She was just in it- wait, how do you know I dreamt about her?!
I'm you, remember?!
Oh, right yeah…
And you like Evan-
"I do not like Evans!" James cursed out loud, and then he noticed the rest of the marauders were looking at him, so he resumed to eating his egg quickly, dropping a bit that slid off his chin and onto his lap, he caught it sheepishly.
"Rrrrrright." Remus scoffed, he caught Sirius' eye and they both watched in amusement as their dear friend James kept muttering to himself and slapping himself when his eyes glanced at a familiar red-head.
"Lily. You look hot!" Maria grinned, saying this at least the hundredth time.
Lily rolled her eyes and chuckled. "Honestly, sometimes I worry about you-"
"Seriously. Do you know how many boys have looked at you during these five minutes?"
Lily shrugged her shoulders.
"Almost half the male population."
"Wow, but I don't even look that great…"
"To be honest, I think you suit this look. You should keep it."
Lily grinned at Maria and then rolled her eyes, "Because I look hot right?" She said in a sarcastic tone.
Maria nodded and did one of her mini applauses.
"Because-" Alice.
"We-" Izz.
"Made-" Maria.
"You-" Izz.
"Look-" Maria.
"Hot!" Alice.
It was like they had organised how they were going to say, and it just made Lily feel rather dizzy as they then started to grin like Cheshire cats and just kept repeating 'Hot. Hot. Oh we are so good at making Lily Evans hot!'
"Err, am I interrupting anything?"
"Adam!" Lily gushed, this was the first time Adam had spoken to her in ages, and truth be told, she had began to worry. Not that she liked Adam or anything, after they had broken up in Third Year Adam had always acted like an over-protective brother. Over-protective being the key words here...
"Can I speak with you for a moment, alone?!"
Alice, Izz and Maria shared a glance and then began to talk hastily about marshmallows and fire-whisky.
"I just wanted to say you look fantastic, I would say you look beautiful, but you look that way everyday, even without makeup on." Adam grinned and then he turned away so fast that when Lily blinked her eyes he had gone back to the Ravenclaw table and was talking to his friends.
Lily smiled a small smile to herself. She looked fantastic, not hot, not gorgeous, not… sexy. But fantastic. And beautiful, every day.
"What-" Maria.
"Was-" Alice.
"That-" Izz.
"About?" All three said at once.
Lily just smiled. "He said I look beautiful every day, even without makeup. But today I looked fantastic."
"Hmpf. Well, he doesn't really have taste, I mean you without makeup is like… like…."
"Seeing a ghost banshee?!" Izz asked, without looking up from the Daily Prophet.
"Exactly!" Maria exclaimed.
"I think banshee's are cool." Lily shrugged.
"No, love. You do not want to be a banshee, you want to be like… like…."
"A lily?!" Maria asked.
"Exactly!" Izz exclaimed, then realising what sort of sad skit they just played, they began to laugh.
"I am a lily though right… Alice?!"
Before Alice could answer Matt kissed Lily on the check and sat down next to her.
"Course you're a Lily, and my Lily at that."
"Aww, Matt, so sweet!" Alice gushed and gave Lily a wink.
"Hey, um, Lily. You look lovely today."
Lily blushed.
"Ugh."
"What's with the 'ugh' now, ey Jamesie?!" Remus asked with a sigh.
"I swear if he complains about Evans one more time…" Sirius said gravely under his breath, what was the matter with James? Never had James been smitten over a girl, and the girl was Evans?! Pur-lease…
"There's a fly on my egg… and Parker just kissed Li- Evans on the check, and now she's blushing. And I almost called her Lil-"
"You almost called her her name again!" Sirius squeaked.
"Ah! Look, there's Taylor coming right here. Now Prongsie, even though you like Evan-" Peter said, catching Remus' eye and nodding discreetly-
"I do not like Evans." James growled dangerously, Peter squeaked and turned to Remus, his eyes wide and worried, but Remus just stared him down, making Peter sigh and turn back to James who was now drinking pumpkin juice with a mad look on his face.
"Oh really? Cos-"
"Look, I'll prove it!" James snapped.
"Hey James!" Taylor smiled and sat down next to him. James just made some gurgle noise at the back of his throat, Peter kicked him from under the table and James immediately sat up.
"Hey Taylor." He said smirking.
"Are you alright?!" Taylor asked, suddenly noticing that James was rather pale.
He caught Peter's eye.
Why you so scared? You don't like Evans right..
RIGHT! I AM GONNA KISS TAYLOR!
And that's exactly what he did, she hadn't expected it but smiled none the less, pulling James even closer to her. Lips, tongue, hair ruffling. It wasn't bad.
They pulled away giving each other a smile, then James turned to Peter with defiant smile on his face, his unruly wild hair looking even more spiked than it had done a few moments ago, Taylor, giving James one last song, had left her seat to sit next to her friends, and probably to gossip over what had just happened.
"You still like Evans don't you?!" Remus smirked.
"No!"
"Yes, you do!"
"No, I don't!"
"Yes, you do! I can see it in your eyes. DENIAL!!! You are in denial…"
"No, I'm not! Because I don't like her!"
"Yes, you do!"
"No, I don't!"
"Yes, you do!"
"No, I don't!"
"Yes, you do!"
"No, I don't!"
"No, you don't!"
"Yes, I do- Now that's not going to work on me, Lupin. That joke is old…"
"And yet, we still got the answer from you."
James snorted and was quiet for a second. "You happy now?!" He demanded to a very happy looking Remus, who smiled and nodded.
"Yes, I'm very happy now."
"So, what do I do Moony me old pal?!"
"Eeer. Honestly Prongs, I have no idea…"
"Escalio!" Lily muttered for the billionth time. But nopes, her rock still stayed the same, solid on her desk, not moving, not talking , not even a sign. Transfiguration was one of her worst subjects; she just never really had the patience. The 6th years were trying to change the rock into a bird, which was quite difficult.
"Escalio!" Nothing. "Ugh! You stupid rock why won't you just turn into a birdie so then I can kill you but then it would be like murder because I'm killing an organism but you are still technically a rock but then again I could throw you against the window and pray to Merlin that you smash on the way to abyss of death-"
"Lily! You're rambling. About a rock." Alice murmured next to her.
"Sorry, it's just this #*£$# rock!"
"Here, try flicking your wrist so the fingers are facing left, Yeah… hey! Look, you did it!" The two girls watched Lily's rock turn to a pigeon...
"Unben-ruddy-believable!" The rock was transfigured to a bird for a second, until it turned back to a rock, with feathers. The white and grey and brown and black feathers sprouting everywhere on the rock, making it look more like... a rock with hair, which technically it was...
"Excellent Mr Potter! 10 points to Gryffindor!" James smiled smugly, looking at his exotic bird that was green with what looked liked a yellow mo-hawk. Lily gaped.
"How the hell did he do that?!" She asked in awe. Alice shrugged her shoulders, slightly crest-fallen that she had not received 10 points seeing as her bird was purple and was a budgie.
James heard Lily and turned to her, trying desperately not to think about how angelic she looked, he then moved to look at the half bird half rock that was on her desk.
"That's an… *laughs* very interesting bird there Evans…"
Lily glared at James before shrugging, "It's a birock."
"Birock?!.... Oh, half bird half rock, clever Evans, never knew you had a brain…" He said it jokingly but swore to himself when he noticed Lily's eyes flicker for a moment, she tried to hide the sadness that was clearly there, but noticed James had seen them.
"Look, are you going to help me or not?!" Lily asked dangerously, after she had calmed herself down. Honestly, it was James Potter, he always insulted people, what was she to expect? Nevertheless James nodded and sighed, he struggled to think of the simplest way to explain the hand movements.
"Ok. Erm, pretend your swimming, your hand needs to move from your chest outwards, so it's like pushing the air, but you need to do it quickly and as soon as you say the incantation move your arm."
Lily nodded, breathed deeply and followed James' instructions. "Escalio!" POOF!
"Oh my god! I did it! I did it!"
"My merlin, how the f*** did you do that?!!" James replied, like Alice, he was completely in awe; Lily's bird was even more extravagant than James'.
McGonagall was also impressed and gave Lily 15 points, which made James gasp dramatically.
"B-but Minnie! My bird was out of the ordinary, it was magnificent! It was-"
"Mr Potter, one more word and then it is a detention for a month."
James nodded his head and pretended to zip his mouth, then when McGonagall was out of ear reach he turned back to Lily.
"What were you thinking when you said Escalio?"
"Were you supposed to think about something?!" Lily asked worriedly.
Liar.
What?! Was I supposed to say 'Oh yes James, I was thinking about you! Your just so ruddy sexy!' ?!
But James just shook his head, totally in wonder and awe. "Intriguing." He muttered. Lily couldn't help but giggle, James was just looking up into the atmosphere, his wide hazel eyes gazing into the atmosphere.
"But… you must have thought of something… how else did the bird come up so… colourful and.. cool."
"That's my secret and I'll tell if I want to." James was about to reply when it was time for their next lesson.
What the hell… we had a decent conversation. I had a decent conversation with Lily Evans.
Still believe you don't like her?
We're friends… friends.
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that mate.
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Preview-
"So you're telling me you kissed me for no reason?!" Lily demanded, her green eyes flashing dangerously, James laughed harshly and turned to the red dwarf, it was now his nickname for her, he had made it up himself and was rather proud of it.
"Why are you so bothered?! We kissed, we apologised. Just face it Evans- I just needed someone that night and you were there-"
"So, basicly I was just some randomer who happened to walk in at the right time?!" Lily had not expected this, how low could James ruddy Potter get?!
"Yep, that's all you were..." But before he had even finished... SLAP! Lily ran, not believing she had just slapped James Potter on the cheeck.
YAY!!! Another chapter done! Ahahhaa, I was just recently in South-port, surprisingly a lot of nice boys there x] hahaha, anyways…. Please review and tell me what you thought, also do you like the new summary? I thought the other old was a bit boring and dull. Sorry if there were spelling mistakes in this chapter...
Thanks for reading and *gives each reviewer a cookie, a nice chocolate cookie* :P
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