AN- hello, I hope you enjoyed the little acknowledgement and the quote at the beginning from Marilyn Monroe that I will try and fit into the story at some point although there's probably no pressure. The story is in fact written from the point of view of a character from the world of Harry Potter and will probably be revealed at the end because I know how much you love waiting (but yes I do know who the character is and I have it clearly defined how it will be revealed - with no wit or imagination but oh well)
But like most avid readers I am impatient and there will be plenty of Jily to come (soon) (probably not)
It never really occurred to Lily Evans that her life would become any more than the world she knew for 11 years of it. She looked around and saw what was there and believed that that was it. Lily truly believed that she would become her mother; finish secondary school, marry the first boy that asked her, settle down and produce the average 2.3 children and she was...resigned to that fact. Her 11 year old self believed that was the way the world worked. It wasn't fair or just and she wouldn't get anything bigger or do anything better than what her mother did. It seemed foolish to her now that she could have ever had had such a notion at such a young age, sometimes it even frightened her that her younger self ever gave up that easily. But living in the past is something people do if they want to go back and Lily had no desire to go back to a time before Hogwarts and therefore she hardly thought about it and shut it away. So it was curious that one summer evening it was all Lily could think about. What was it like before Hogwarts? Well, her and Petunia got on a better and Severus Snape and her were talking and... friends.
It did seem rather odd that Lily Evans would ever think herself ordinary since she was already showing extraordinary abilities before she could walk and her parents never refrained from telling her this, it was the subject of many dinner parties held at the Evans household. So it was no surprise to her parents that she received a letter from a school for wizards and witches, to Lily it felt like everything was falling into place like she wasn't going to have to be her mother. Now, Lily loved her mother very much and admired what she had done in life because her mother and done exactly what she wanted to.
The summer evening, I previously began to talk about, was the evening before she went back to Hogwarts for the sixth year of her education and somehow she was nervous. Usually before entering Hogwarts again she became nervous but never so nervous she was shaking and couldn't sleep. Her father tried to convince her it was just excitement the same as every year, she would complain of a stomach bug the night before and then be bouncing off the walls, trying to get everyone to move the following morning. All she could say to her father's suggestion was "If I was excited, dad, I would have a smile on my face." and true, there was no smile.
The red head was absolutely sure that if she found out the reason to her nervousness she would be able to get to sleep and be refreshed and ready in the morning. But that wasn't the case, you see she knew why she was nervous but she just refused to believe it to be true. You see all she could think about was what stupidly annoying things James Potter could do this year, that wouldn't annoy her, but make her fall for him.
AN- Well I hoped you enjoyed it and be sure to tell me your thoughts because I'd love to know what they are