As the night wore on Sirius knew he had to talk to Lily. To apologise. But it seemed Lily had found a lot of places to hide. Giving up his search he jogged to the Heads dorms. When he got into the Heads common room he searched around, looking for a scrap of parchment.
"Padfoot, what the hell are you doing?" Dorcas asked from the doorway to her room.
"The map, do you know where it is?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, it's on the coffee table in the transfiguration book." Dorcas said pointing at the thick, ageing book.
"You are a star Dora!" Sirius exclaimed as he held the parchment in his hand and ran out of the room, Dorcas rolled her yes with a grin and walked straight back into her room. Sirius ran to the nearest secluded area and pointed his wand at the parchment. "I solemnly swear I am up to no Good." Sirius muttered and watched as ink filtered onto the yellowed parchment, he opened it up and searched, he looked down every corridor but finally found her in the charms room, professor Flitwick was there beside her. Taking this as his last chance that day Sirius ran through relatively empty corridors until he reached the charms room, he looked through the open door way and saw Lily sitting there talking to the professor, he waited patiently outside.
"Lily!" He said, making Lily jump three foot in the air, she turned around and glared at him.
"What do you want?" She asked shortly, as she walked down the corridor, Sirius walking beside her.
"To apologise." Sirius said. Lily looked at him through the corner f her eye before nodding curtly. "You gotta understand Lily, I'm just terrified that you'll get hurt." Sirius said. "You don't understand." He said.
"What don't I understand?" Lily asked desperately. "What Sirius?"
"The people here, my friends, any of it." Sirius replied. "Do you really think Remus hasn't slept around?" Sirius asked.
"I-I haven't asked. It didn't occur to me to ask. But just because he has doesn't mean I will." Lily said defensively.
"Look Lily. I don't want you here, I love the girls they are my best mates, but they're just as bad if not worse then me, James and Remus." Sirius explained. "You're my punishment for going out and drinking and partying." Sirius told her.
"What?" Lily demanded.
"'Cos I was going out all the time, mum said she was going to send you to Hogwarts so that for once you wouldn't be looking after me, but rather I'd have to look after you. I'm a selfish bastard I get that, but I'm meant to look after you now, and I am so terrified of getting it wrong somewhere. I don't want you getting hurt, not to mention your dad said he'd skin me alive if you got hurt." Sirius explained.
"So the reason I broke up with my boyfriend, left all my friends and had to start a completely new life here is because you've fucked up your life?" Lily demanded. "Because you're a stupid idiot who can't keep their dick in their pants and is practically an alcoholic aged eighteen. I have to leave everything, I mean now I'm Sirius' little sister Twitch! The only person here who sees me as me is Remus and you're trying to destroy that too!"
"Lily I am so sorry." Sirius said desperately.
"Sorry! Sirius! You're sorry!" She shouted. "That was my life! I was happy!"
"And your not now?" Sirius said, hoping that she was, he was so wrong.
"NO! All I do is argue with you and cry! Any time anything goes well you ruin it! Sirius! I never stopped you having a life! Why stop me from having one?" She demanded. "I don't know what is going on between me and Remus, but he makes me happy! But that's not good enough for you! It's so god damn awful you try and destroy it! And if it isn't you James is ruining the moment! Ever thought the things those girls like I also like but to a much lesser degree?" Sirius looked away. "Look at me! I'm not eleven years old anymore! I understand the big magical world! I get that things can go wrong! I'm not scared of any of this anymore." Lily said, "So stop treating me like I'm eleven... I'm a big girl now." With that she walked away leaving Sirius in a stupor, when he realised she'd gone he ran after her.
"Twitch!" He called after her. "Not in front of me, right. Not with Remus, not with anyone." Sirius said. Lily smiled at him.
"I think I can manage that." Lily said, and before she knew it Sirius engulfed her in a bone crushing hug. "Need. To. Breath."
The next day Lily was woken at six am, much to her dismay.
"Why?" She groaned from beneath her bed covers.
"Because breakfast is in an hour, and you need to get ready." Mars said, she grinned as Lily appeared from beneath the blankets and walked to her wardrobe, throwing her clothes on her bed and then disappearing into the bathroom.
"Oh, hello." Lily said to the two girls who were already in there, she was thankful there were four sinks, one for each of them.
"Hey, you must be Lily Evans." One of the girls said, her hair was blonde with pink streaks in it, and she too was pale skinned, she was tall and skinny and sounded American. "I'm Skylar Brian." She said.
"Sirius' Little sister, I expected her to be a little more..." The other girl mused. "Well more." Lily glared at the girl, she was ridiculously tall, about 6", and worryingly thin, she had long black hair and olive skin, complemented by black eyes.
"Don't be a cow." Skylar snapped at her. "This is Sophia Auriema." Skylar informed Lily.
Lily smiled and was about to brush her teeth when Sophia spoke again.
"You do realise your hair is the most revolting shade of red, don't you." Skylar elbowed her but Lily just smirked.
"Really? Remus was telling me last night that he loved my hair, ah well can't please everyone." Lily replied.
"Remus Lupin?" Sophia demanded.
"Yeah, he's grown very fond of me and my hair." Lily said, Sophia glared at her. Lily smiled as Mars approached.
"Ah see you've met Twitch." Mars said to Sophia wrapping an arm around the redhead. "You know Remus, he's smitten with her." A couple of minutes later Lily was done she and Mars walked out of the room.
"Skylar is our very own Punk Princess, her best mate is a bitch, but once you get to know Sophia she's alright." Mars said to Lily as they walked down the stair case ready for the day ahead, Lily grinned and walked along the corridors with a slight bounce in her step.
"Me and Sirius have worked things out." Lily informed Mars.
"That's great." Mars replied happily hugging her younger friend. "It's good to know there will be a few less arguments." She said with a laugh.
"True." Lily giggled, when they reached the great hall it looked deserted. "Where is everyone ?" Lily asked looking around in concern.
"I actually don't know..." Mars said just as bewildered.
Lily looked around the Great hall, and walked forward until she was in the centre, the staff table was empty, as were the student tables, Lily was a bit unnerved by this, she turned back to where Mars was, only to find she was gone. Lily looked around the room, she wasn't there. Suddenly the large oak doors slammed shut, causing Lily to jump out of her skin, and then the room was engulfed in darkness.
"This isn't funny!" Lily called into the darkness, she could hear whisperings and then a loud explosion, and a number of small emerald green fireworks went off above her. She turned around and then suddenly the light came back on and standing there was Sirius, James, Remus, Regulus, Mars, Allie, Nay, Dorcas, Sev, Lucius, Frank, Skylar, Sophia and Peter.
"SURPRISE!" They yelled, making Lily laugh.
"It's not my birthday." Lily giggled.
"No but we wanted to give you a proper welcoming." Allie said grinning as Sirius stepped forward with the cake.
"After all you are new here." He said, Lily laughed and blew out the candles on the huge cake.
"Smells gorgeous!" Lily exclaimed.
"It's your favourite." Sirius replied he put the cake down on one of the tables and hugged his sister, Lily pulled Regulus in with them too. She pulled back slightly to look at her brothers.
"I love you guys." She said smiling at them.
"And we love you Twitch. Now come on, I want cake." Regulus said excitedly.
Lily laughed and walked towards Remus, she wrapped her arms around his waist and kissed him on the cheek.
"Morning." She whispered. He smiled at her before dragging her towards the table where they were cutting the cake. "Haven't we got lessons?" Lily asked. Sirius hit himself on the head.
"I forgot to tell you, we have the first week to get back in order, it is only Wednesday, we don't have to go back until Monday." He informed her smiling sheepishly at his lack of memory.
"Brilliant." She exclaimed.
After cake they went out to the grounds when Lily realised she was still wearing her school robes, Mars had somehow managed to change.
"Erm, I'll be back soon, I'm going to change," Lily said to the group.
"Don't worry about it." Remus said Pulling Lily down to sit beside him, she smirked at him before snuggling close to him, he wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head. "So your favourite cake is Carrot cake." Remus stated, Lily looked up at him oddly before nodding. "Good." He said lowering his head slightly. Lily looked at him curiously, not getting what he was leading to. "It's my favourite too." He murmured and then captured her lips with his, kissing her deeply.
"Will you two get a room?" Nay yelled to the pair, causing them to pull apart, Lily stuck her tongue out at her friend before purposely Kissing Remus heatedly.
"It's not happening, it's not happening." Sirius was muttering to himself, covering his eyes with his hands.
"Wow, I never knew Lily could move like that." Lucius drawled, teasing Sirius, but it caused the Gryffindor to jump up to his feet. Everyone laughed at him, he just glared.
"You are cruel people." Sirius muttered, shaking his head.
"Just a bit." Mars giggled, kissing his cheek.
As the day wore on Lily found herself really happy, maybe she had left her old life behind, she was already in love with this new life.