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Christmas with Petunia
Part 1
It had been 3 weeks since the incident in the hallway, and now Lily was sitting in a compartment in the train with Severus and Mary.
"I hope that Petunia is not mad at me anymore. You know Sev, since you don't want to spend time with your mom and dad you go to my house on Christmas Eve and wait until its 12:00. We won't be having any family members so you won't have to listen to that much 'muggle talk'. So, what do you say?" said lily
"Well, I would like to, but my mother wants me to associate with other Slytherin's more often so she got the Blacks to invite me for Christmas. She didn't even let me argue so I will have to spend a week with Sirius Black" he answered, not really looking forward to spending time with Sirius.
"Actually, Alice told me that Frank told her that he overheard from the Marauders that they are all planning on spending Christmas with the Potters, except Remus who has a sick mum or dad and will go visit him or her…it is so weird that every month he goes home for that" said Mary.
"Wait, you also call them the 'Marauders'! I am sure they don't even know what that word means, I actually feel betrayed" said Lily crossing her arms. She saw the confused look on her friends face and spoke again: "They want to be called that, that is why I always call them Potter and his sidekicks. Don't you get it? They are all arrogant fame seekers. All they care about is being cool and making others feel inferior to what they are".
"Fine Lily, sorry I won't call them that again. And I don't deny that they make others feel less than what they are, but Remus and Pettigrew aren't really that bad. You are blaming them for things they don't even do" said Mary.
"That is another thing; Pettigrew has some sort of obsession with them! Haven't you noticed that every time Potter does something he pees himself or starts clapping? It is very weird" she said.
"Well, Alice also told me that Frank told her that once when he woke up in the middle of the night and saw Peter sitting down next to Remus's bed and staring at him…the thought of it is just so creepy"
All of the sudden Severus got up and whispered something that none of the girls understood.
"I think he is going to the bathroom or to talk to one of his Slytherin friends…" said Lily.
About 5 seconds after he left you could hear the cheering of the Marauders and the screaming of Severus, who passed by the compartment door, chasing after the other four boys, but he was covered in feathers.
"Snivellus, you have finally decided to dress up as what you truly are. But what is it a chicken or a duck?" said James Potter.
"JAMES POTTER! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" screamed Lily Evans, who had left her compartment to see who the boy in feathers was.
"Hello Evans, good to see you. Have you come to join us in this little confrontation?" said Sirius Black
"Shut it Black. Potter you are the biggest bully I have ever met!" she then went to Severus and tried to take the feathers off, but every time she would, another one would grow back in its place.
"Take the spell off, now!" she said looking at James Potter with the same expression her mother would use if she didn't do one of her chores.
"Are you sure? He does look better I mean it does cover his horrible, greasy nose" said James, but she didn't move or take off the expression. "Fine" he said and went over to Severus.
He took the spell off and said: "You are lucky Evans was here, you would have stayed like that for a long time for all I cared" luckily he said it so quietly that only Severus could hear or else Lily would have hexed him or slapped him across the face, again.
"Let's go Sev." Said Lily and stomped back to the compartment.
"I hate those boys, they are so immature, selfish, arrogant, self-centered and the worst thing is that everybody likes them for making fun of others!" said Severus. His pale face was now red with anger and his heart was beating so fast it seemed like it was going to rip his chest open.
"Wait, what happened?" asked Mary who was absolutely clueless about what had happened. She had not left the compartment at all because she was worried about getting in trouble, and it probably wasn't any of her business.
The 3 students stayed in the compartment in complete silence until they arrived to the train station.
"Bye Mary!" said Lily. She and Severus started looking for her parents. They had agreed in taking Severus to his house since he lived close by.
"So Sev, when are you going to the Black's house?" asked Lily who was tired of the awkward silence.
"Tomorrow I think" whispered Severus, who was very happy before she had spoken. He liked staring at her in complete silence.
"That's too bad; I will be in complete boredom until we go back to Hogwarts. I am sure that Petunia most-likely already spoke badly about me with the neighbors so you are really my only friend that lives near my house" she said. She then spotted her parents and started running towards them.
"Lily!" the both said at the same time and made their ways towards her to hg her.
"Mum, dad! I have missed you so, so much!" she said as she hugged them.
"We have missed you too; now tell us how have you been doing in school? Have you made any friend? Are the people nice? Hello Severus dear, how have you been?" said Mrs. Evans in a bit of a rush.
"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Evans. I have been fine thank you" said Severus; he had always tried to make a good impression with his best friends parents. He knew that it would be useful for the future.
"I have been doing great in school. I already got myself a spot in Mr. Slughorn's club, 'The Slug Club' it is for students who are very good with potions. Sadly it is for people in 5th year and up. And yes I have made many friends. Most people are nice there is of course the exception. There are 4 boys in Gryffindor, my house, that are awful! But aside from them every one else is pretty nice"
Just when she finished talking James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew past next to them running towards two adults. Lily assumed that they were James Potter's parents.
"Okay, well Petunia must be waiting for us so let's go home." They then made their way to the wall but then James Potter stopped Lily.
"Merry Christmas Evans" he told her and gave her a small piece of paper.
She then continued to make her way towards her parents who had a very confused look on their faces.
They then walked all together towards the car and were driving their way back home.
"Who is that boy?" asked Mr. Evans who couldn't contain himself anymore.
"He is an acquaintance of mine" she said. Her father immediately let out long breath he didn't even know he had been keeping.
They then continued in silence. Mr. Evans skipped their house and made his way to Severus's house. He dropped him off and they continued back to their own house.
"I like that boy. But he is quite strange isn't he?" said Mrs. Evans referring to Severus.
"Well no not really. He opens up to you more once you get to know him" she said. She was very excited about going back home. Sure she likes Hogwarts, which was her second home. But she had missed her parents and Petunia very much.
"We're here" said Mr. Evans.
Lily was going to take her trunk but her father grabbed it before she could.
"Lily, can you please press the door-bell so that Petunia opens the door for us" said Mrs. Evans who was busy taking out the groceries she had bought before they had gone to pick up their daughter.
DING-DONG
No answer
DING-DONG
Still no answer
DING-DONG
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" said Petunia. As much as Lily doesn't want to admit it, she missed her sister. Her voice, the way she walked, even the look on her face when she was tattle-tailing. She missed it all, even the not-so-insulting insults.
"Petunia!" screamed Lily as soon as her sister opened the door. She hugged her and much to her surprise, Petunia hugged her back.
"Lily! I have missed you so much, I have to tell you so much, YOU have to tell me so much!" said Petunia. 'I wonder what's making her so cheerful' thought Lily, though she couldn't really complain. She preferred this sister way better than the other.
"That's how I like it, both of you being nice to each other. Keep it up girls" said Mr. Evans as he entered the house.
"Petunia dear, take Lily to her bedroom. Petunia decorated it for you. It looks beautiful" said Mrs. Evans as she entered caring grocery bags.
"You decorated my room for me?" Asked Lily in a shocked tone. She wasn't exactly pleased with the idea since her sister was 'abnormally clean' and she did not want to have a room with everything covered in bubble-rap or with hand-sanitizer in very corner of the room.
Bothe girls started to make their way up the stairs quietly.
Lily kept on thinking to her-self that Petunia was probably just waiting to be away from their parents to be mean to Lily again.
"So how is Hogwarts?" asked Petunia trying to break the silence.
"Very nice, the Gryffindor common room is my favorite, although I do like the astronomy tower as well but first years are not allowed to go up there without teacher supervision" said Lily. She then took a deep breath and opened her bedroom door.
"Do you like it?" asked Petunia.
"I-I love it! It is absolutely wonderful!" said Lily. The room was exactly how she always wanted it.
"Good, it took me ages to try and convince mum and dad to let me redecorate your room as well" she said proudly.
"Wait, as well?" Asked Lily.
"Yes, mum said that since I wasn't able to go to Hogwarts that I could redecorate my entire bedroom and she also allowed me to exchange to 'Cokeworth School for Ladies'. Obviously it is an all-girl-school. It is the one of the only schools that teaches typing to girls as well" said Petunia very arrogantly.
"Oh, well that is great. But that school is really expensive, can mum and dad afford it?" asked Lily. Yes her parents were wealthy, but only her dad worked and he had to maintain a family, a house and now he has to pay for a school that will teach his daughter anything that they teach in other schools with the exception of typing!
"Of course, now that you are gone and extra expense is as well." Said Petunia before going to her bedroom. But before she reached there, the vase she had just passed by exploded!
"What happened up there?" shouted Mr. Evans.
"Nothing" said both girls at the same time.
Petunia simply looked at Lily and continued making her way to her bedroom.
Lily knew that the vase had broken because of her. She had just done underage magic. Hopefully she wouldn't be in trouble since it had been an accident and she had done it without a wand.
Lily spent the rest of the day in her bedroom, she couldn't go to Severus's house since he was most-likely packing and she didn't want to interrupt him and she was not allowed to go to the park alone, she always had to go with Petunia. She was so bored in her bedroom, yes it was nice but it was basically empty, none of her belongings were there, so she decided to get her trunk and begin unpacking what she would need for the next 2 weeks she would be spending there.
She went downstairs and grabbed her trunk. She then started taking it up stairs. She had never noticed how heavy it was until now perhaps it was because she would always use a levitation spell to carry it at Hogwarts, which was barely ever, only to practice levitation spells.
"Ahh, finally" she said once she finally reached her bedroom. She took out her wand, about to use a spell to take her clothing and some of her books out, but then she remembered she could use magic outside if school. 'Too bad, Ill have to do it myself' she thought.
Once she finished she headed downstairs to spend time with her mum and dad, after all she was only staying for 2 weeks.
"Lily! We were already going to begin to think that you weren't going to come downstairs at all" said Mr. Evans once he saw her enter the living room.
"Tell us sweetie, how are your friends?" asked Mrs. Evans.
"Well they are all very nice. Mary is very funny, she is the first one I met Alice is also very nice, except that she is always talking about Frank Longbottom. They have a crush on each other, everybody knows that except them. Allison is also fun to be with. Remus is very cool, but he is always with James Potter and his followers" she said, the last part in a bitter tone.
"You seem to think very awfully about that James Potter boy" said Mr. Evans.
"He is they boy who said Merry Christmas to me at the station. He is very annoying. He bullies everyone else and thinks he is all that" she said rolling her eyes.
"Well does he bother you?" asked Mrs. Evans.
"Well, sometimes, but not that much. He mainly bothers Sev" she said.
"Maybe he bothers Severus because he is jealous" said Mr. Potter. Lily didn't really understand that her father was trying to say that James disliked Severus for spending so much time with Lily, but her mother did catch what he was trying to say.
"Oh please, boys that age aren't thinking about girls in that way" she said.
"What are you talking about?" asked Lily, who still didn't get it.
Mrs. Evans hesitated before responding.
"Your father seems to think that the Potter boy has a crush on you, and bothers Severus because you spend a lot of time with him and James gets jealous" she explained slowly.
"Ewe, James Potter having a crush on me! That is disgusting! He is an arrogant…an arrogant-"started Lily, but didn't come up with anything.
"Toe-rag?" suggested Mr. Evans; he was delighted to hear that his daughter still had no interest in boys.
"Yes, he is an arrogant toe-rag!" said Lily, very loudly to make herself clear.
They all fell silent. Lily's parents knew she was angry. But Mr. Evans couldn't hold it any longer and started laughing.
"Look, is James the one who gave you that piece of paper at the station?" he asked.
"Well, yes I had forgotten about that" she said. She reached into her pocket and took out a piece of parchment.
Look inside your trunk
"What does it say?" asked Mrs. Evans curiously.
"Nothing, it's blank. Hey I am going upstairs to start with some of the homework I was given" she said quickly.
Mr. and Mrs. Evans looked at each other. But when they turned to look at Lily, she had already gone upstairs.
She went into her bedroom. She opened her trunk again, but it was empty. She had already unpacked it. She looked through her bedroom. She was worried. Whatever James Potter put into her trunk, it couldn't be good.
Finally, in the floor next to her trunk was an envelope. She opened it and took the letter that was inside of it out. Once she opened it, many small Lily's began coming out of it, filling her room. She looked inside to see what was written, ignoring the fact that she was now surrounded by flowers.
I am sorry for being so mean
I know that these 423 flowers won't really make up for it
But I want you to know that each flower stands for the amount of times I have thought about you.
Love,
James H. Potter
Once she was done reading, she grabbed the letter and threw it away. Maybe some other girl would have like it, but now her room was surrounded by flowers.
'How could he think that a bunch of flowers would make me like him' she thought angrily to herself.
Her thoughts were interrupted when Petunia opened the door.
"What the-"asked Petunia, looking at Lily as if she had caused this.
"I know, it was an accident. A classmate sent it" babbled Lily.
Petunia simply glared. Lily knew that her sister was mad but she didn't understand why Petunia started keeping all her thoughts to herself. It was very strange.
After Lily was done picking the flowers and hiding them from her parents, she spent what was left of the day with her family. They went to the park for a little while and enjoyed some family time like the good old days. Later they went back home and had dinner.
"The food tastes great!" exclaimed Lily with a huge smile on her face.
"Well, it was actually Petunia who cooked it" said Mrs. Evans looking proudly at her older daughter.
"Oh, well its great Tuney" said Lily. She couldn't help but think that her sister was up to something and whatever that something was, she knew it wasn't good.
Lily quickly lost her appetite and as her eye lids got heavy, she decided to go brush her teeth and then go to bed.
"Night mum, night dad. Good night Petunia" said Lily once she finished brushing her teeth.
"Good night sweetie" said her parents.
"I can't believe your still trying to make them love you" she heard Petunia say. Her sister was sitting down on her bed looking enviously at Lily.
"What do you mean? I don't have to try, they are my parents. They love me. I don't have to try. You don't have to try either" said Lily. She already knew what was probably going to happen.
"You are so pathetic. They aren't even your parents. They adopted you. How can a freak like you come from perfectly normal people like them" said Petunia.
"I'm not pathetic, I'm not adopted and I am not a freak" said Lily, she practically spat out the last words.
Petunia glared at Lily, she walked pass her, pass the door and slammed it shut. Lily stood in disbelief. She then decided to forget that and deal with it tomorrow. She laid in her bed and closed her eyes.
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