I can't believe its been almost a month since I last updated! I'm so sorry to make up for it I'll post two chapter today! So lets get on with it I hope you enjoy! And I love reviews they make me all happy to know what you guys think.

The next few weeks went by surprisingly quickly; the days were mostly spent playing Quidditch and thinking up pranks, I was still at the Potter's which were a surprise in itself. They hadn't sent me back yet; maybe I would get to stay with them and would never have to go back to that awful home. School would be starting soon and Lily and I had made plans to meet up today at her house. We thought that would be better than her coming here and having to deal with James and Sirius.

Charlus and I were on our way out the door to the car for him to take me to Lily's, it was a Saturday so he didn't have to go into work and Lily's house wasn't too far away. Charlus also said he wanted to talk to me about something which worried me a little.

"So," Charlus started, "I wanted to tell you that Mrs. Michel is coming tomorrow."

As soon as the words were out of his mouth I started panicking. 'Did they not want me anymore?' 'Where they sending me back?' 'Had I done something wrong?' I started to hyperventilate a little I didn't want to be sent back to the orphanage.

"No, no, no sweetie, calm down, she's just coming to check in on you make sure the environment you're in is good for you. We would never send you back."

I started to calm down 'they weren't sending me back, I was staying.' "So she's not coming to get me. She's just checking on me? I didn't know they did that."

Charlus glanced at me with a confused look, "Yes, she checks on you once you've been with a family for awhile with no complaints. I thought you would know this."

I looked down at my hands in my lap as I answered embarrassed, "Well I've never actually been with a family longer than a week." Tears pricked in my eyes.

We pulled up to Lily's house and Charlus parked the car, "Oh Elizabeth." he said and paused before continuing, picking his words carefully. "You have a file from the orphanage as you know, and something that's in that file is about the past homes you've been in. So when Dorea and I were looking at the different files of the kids we saw yours and saw you were a little different, in the best way. The other families were also listed with why didn't stay with them. And it was more them than you, you need patience which they didn't have and couldn't provide. You should never feel ashamed because of that ok?"

All I could do was nod and smile afraid I would start crying if I talked. Before I got out of the car I gave da- Charlus I have to remember not to get to close I can't go calling him dad with Mrs. Michel coming tomorrow. I got of the car and walked up to the door waving bye to Charlus. After he left I knocked on the door. The house was a bright yellow with white fancy trim around the windows. There were flower boxes hanging off the windows on the outside with pink and purple flowers. There was a concrete path leading up to the house with flowers along the path on both sides, with all different colored flowers. Man they must love flowers, I thought to myself. Also there was a big tree in the front yard that looked like a good place to read.

The door opened soon after I knocked and to my dismay it wasn't Lily. "Who are you and what do you want?" Asked a bossy, swoot-nosed, know-it-all girl who looked like she was a little older than me. She was tall and extremely thin, with blonde hair, long neck and a horse face.

"Excuse me, but why don't you take a step back, get off your high horse and try being a regular person like the rest of us. Who knows maybe being nice will help with your face." I answer just as rudely back, I'm not taking any crap from anyone especially strangers I don't even know.

It was lucky that lily chose this time to come down the steps that were right behind the door. "Petunia! Leave her alone she my friend and she is here to spend the day!"

"You're one of them aren't you?" Petunia rudely asked. "You're a freak!"

"Look I don't know what you mean by 'freak' but if you're talking about this," I pulled out my wand, "Well you might want to shut your mouth before I show you what I can do even without my wand" I told her this with a deadly look in my eye I wasn't taking any crap from this person, even if she was Lily's family.

By now I could tell she was getting scared. "Y-you're just another freak like her, she pointed to Lily, "I'm going to get ready for when Vernon comes." She directed the last part to a Lily before to strutted up the stairs.

After she left Lily started to apologize for Petunia's (her sister) actions. "Lil's relax its fine I used to deal with people like her all the time at my old school." I told her

Lily just smiled at me before, "Come on in and we'll go up to my room."

I walked inside to the small entrance hall; there were stairs to the left leading upstairs and a hallway straight ahead leading to a living room. We walked down the hallway that was painted tan with white trim; in the middle of the hallway was a loo on the left. Into the living room the walls were painted the same tan as the hallway and a red. There's a tan couch against a red walls with tall lamps standing on either end of the couch. There were a few tan chairs to sit and relax with a coffee table in the middle with magazines. There was carpet in the living room unlike the hallway which was tiled. Straight through the living room from the hallway there was a screen door that leads out to a small wooden deck. In a circle connected by open doorways that connect the living room, kitchen which is to the right of hallway, and the dining room which is left of the screen door. When we walked onto the living room sitting on the couch reading was a man and a women. The women was shorter and had bright red hair like Lily's and brown eyes with glasses, she was wearing jeans and a nice white top. The man was taller with short brown hair and green eyes like Lily's, he was dressed in jeans and a plaid red and white button up shirt.

"Mom, dad, this is my friend Elizabeth that I told you was coming over. Liz these are my parents, John and Lisa." Lily introduced us as we all said hello to each other, then we went upstairs to Lily's room.

Her room was smaller with purple walls, and wooden bed with blue, purple, and green comforter, a plain desk with a lamp, a closet with closed white doors so I was unable to see inside, and a bookshelf filled to the brim with books. "I love your room!" I exclaimed to Lily, she got a light pink tinge to her cheeks.

"Are you excited for Hogwarts?" Lily asked to get the attention off her.

"Well it should be better than my old school, so that's a plus already. And I know what you're doing, trying to keep the subject off you and your amazing room!" I couldn't keep a straight face anymore and we both ended up laughing. The rest of the afternoon went in the manner of the two of us talking about Hogwarts, well until things started going south. First I had to ask a stupid question of, "What is with you and your sister, why was she being so horrible to you?"

Lily froze at the question, and I could physically see her close up and I knew I asked the wrong thing. As the guilt was welling up inside me I tried to correct my mistake before she cut me off. "You don't have to apologize, but that's a topic I don't like to talk about so can you please respect that?"

"Of course I can Lily! I'm so sor-" I tried to apologize before the 'topic' itself cut me off.

"Lily would you STOP inviting freaks like yourself over to this house! HE is here!" Petunia screeched up the steps.

Lily's eyes widened in shock, "I told him I couldn't hang out today. Well Liz I guess you're going to meet another friend from Hogwarts. If that's okay?" she asked nervously.

What was I supposed to say? No, send him away, she was obviously nervous and didn't invite him. So I was left with one option, "Of course it's fine, what house is he in?"

That was obviously wrong thing to say Lily got even more nervous but I wasn't sure why, "O-oh w-well," she stammered, "he's in Slytherin." she said so fast I barely caught it. "See he lives close by and, we've been friends since we were little-"

I held up my hands, she was trying to explain a friendship when there was no need, "Lily you don't need to explain who and why your friends with people. If they are nice to me I'll be nice back." I gave her a smile to help her relax a little.

She gave me a shaky smile back, "Well let's go downstairs then."