Chapter 5 - Zenith Osterly

Lily was furious with her. It seemed as though they were finally able to have a decent conversation with each other and not ripe each other apart for five seconds. Then he had to go and insult her. She went over their conversation and the look he had given her on the train in her head as Lily almost ran into someone. She looked up at a tall, black hair boy with sparkling blue eyes to match the Ravenclaw blue on his uniform. He gave her a huge grin with his rosy lips. Lily turned bright red with embarrassment because in that moment she realized she was wearing her pajamas and bare feet in front of this gorgeous boy.

She went to step to the left to go around him but he stepped to the left as well, so she tried to step to the right but he had the same idea. He gave a small chuckle and Lily giggled forgetting her frustrations with Scorpius.

"How about we try this?" he said in a deep but soothing voice as he stuck out this hand for her to shake. Lily shook his hand delicately and giggled.

"Zenith Osterly."

"Lily Potter." She realized she was still shaking his hand and quickly pulled it away.

"I know." He said with a chuckle and Lily turned bright red again.

"Oh, well of course." She laughed. Everyone at Hogwarts knew her; she was the daughter of Harry Potter, Boy who lived.

"Yes, well you're famous." Again he chuckled as he teased her.

"Hardly! My father is famous." She pointed out.

"You will be." He flashed a brilliant smile at her and stepped to the right side and motioned for her to go through.

"Why thank you." She giggled like a little girl and mentally slapped herself.

"Hopefully I'll see you around Lily." He gave her a wink and walked off.

Lily danced her way back to the Gryffindor tower with a huge smile on her face. She didn't care that it was only six in the morning; she was in an excellent mood now and wanted to be a ray of sunshine for everyone.

Lily opened the door slowly and slipped inside to see everyone fast asleep. She decided she would take a long shower and curl her hair in the muggle way before she woke them up. After she let the last curl fall, she smoothed down her school skirt and skipped into the dorm. She casually walked over to her bed and grabbed her pillow. She walked over to Ivy's bed, which was the closest to her and jumped on her bed.

"GOOD MORNING!" And she started hitting her with the pillow.

"BLOODY HELL LILY! WHAT IN MELRIN'S BEARD ARE YOU DOING?" Ivy covered her face with her blanket and the other girls were sitting up looking over at them.

"It's time to get up! Everyone!" Lily laughed and with the flick of her wand opened all the blinds.

"What the hell Potter!" Raven yelled from across the room. Lily just sat on the end of Ivy's bed and smiled at them all.

"You should just be grateful I didn't wake you up when I woke up!"

"You seem happy this morning Liles." Kenda yawned.

"Oh I'm very happy and … I'll tell you all why when you get up and we go to breakfast – I'm starving!" Lily giggled and they all groaned.

Finally after the three girls had gotten ready, they all made their way into an almost empty Great Hall for breakfast.

"Ok Lils, you woke us up. Now you must tell us what is going on." Ivy pointed out as she yawned. She had never been a morning person.

"Ok ok!" She giggled, "So I went for a walk this morning,"

"What time were you up!" Kenda stared at her as they sat down at the Gryffindor table.

"Five-ish," Lily shrugged not wanting to tell them the real reason she had been up that early.

"What on earth Liles, you really need to get more sleep." Kenda said concerned.

"Never mind that." Kenda just stared at her opened mouthed and shook her head. "Like I said I went for a walk and I ran into Scorpius."

"Malfoy? Please tell me you're not having a secret affair with Malfoy!" Lily broke into hysterical laughter.

"Raven, please. Calm down, it's nothing like that! We actual just had a conversation but that's beside the point." Raven nodded and grabbed a piece of toast. "Anyways, I ran into him and I was in the worst mood but when I was walking back, I almost literally ran into someone."

"Who!" Kenda all but shouted as she tried to shallow the pumpkin juice she had been drinking.

"Zenith Osterley," Lily whispered as she saw there was a couple of Ravenclaws sitting at the Ravenclaw table.

"The Ravenclaw Captain?" Ivy asked in a whisper as well.

"Is he?" Ivy nodded. "Well, we chatted and he really is quite nice. Then though he was like hopefully I'll see you around and winked at me! He's just … mmm!" The girls giggled.

"So are you going to see him around then?" Raven teased as she chewed on her toast.

"Hopefully." Lily quoted him with a giggle.

"I'm sure he'll come and find you. Awe it could be super romantic!" Kenda sighed; she was a sucker for anything romantic or cheesy.

"I think that's a bit dramatic Kends." Lily rolled her eyes and spread some strawberry jam on a piece of toast, thinking that they probably wouldn't even talk again.

"I think I'm being just the right amount of dramatic." Kenda laughed.

"Yeah, yeah, so why don't you start your own overly dramatic sappy love story?" Lily teased her friend.

"Honestly Lils, who's going to go for me?" She answered in a small voice. Although she probably didn't intend it to happen, there was a hitch in her voice at the end.

"Don't be ridiculous Kends, you're adorable. Who wouldn't want to date you?" Raven all but yelled at her.

"Who's adorable?" A voiced piped in. It was Owen Copper, one of Al's good friends. He was tall with brown shaggy hair, brown round eyes and a cute face; Lily always thought he was one of his more attractive friends. He sat down next to Kenda, along with Al and his other friend Chase Wood. A shorter boy, with light dirty blonde hair, green eyes and a round face, that would most likely thin out as he got older.

"Kends is adorable. I mean look at her, she's gorgeous and crazy!" Ivy raised her eyebrow at her with a smirk on her face.

"Ivy!" Kenda was now turning a light shade of pink.

"Oh I definitely agree. She's quite adorable." Kenda was now a lovely bright pink as she turned to glare at Ivy who was grinning widely. Ivy was not the only one grinning at her; Owen had taken an interested in her as he was now looking at her with a smile on his face. Al had suddenly seemed extremely interested in the eggs that were sitting in front of him, Lily was the only one to notice how uncomfortable he now looked but she shrugged it off as his weird behaviour.

"Good morning Sweetheart." Ivy's boyfriend, Edward McLaggen then swopped in and planted a kiss on her cheek before sitting down beside her. His friend Nathen Thomas came and sat down beside him. He was a more build darker boy, with curly brown hair. He was actually a sweetheart but looked quite intimidating.

"Morning." Ivy smiled at him and Lily rolled her eyes at all of them, while Raven giggled at her reaction.

"You two are too cute for your own goods." Lily laughed as her spirits were bright this morning. Edward put his arm around Ivy and they laughed together. They had their moments when Lily couldn't stand being in a room with them but she always thought they might actually make it.

Just then Lily felt someone poke her in her sides and she jumped out of her seat.

"WHAT THE…! JAMIE!" Lily yelled at her brother James as he sat down next to her as well as Louis, Fred and Hugo who were all laughing.

"Morning Lils." He grinned at her and chuckled to himself.

"I will hex you next time you do that." Lily threated him with her piece of toast.

"It's all in good fun." James chuckled grabbing some pumpkin juice.

"I'm sure you ju…" Lily started to argue with her brother when she was interrupted.

"Lily!" Raven hissed across the table and Lily whipped her head around to look at her friend.

"What?" She said sarcastically and looked at her with wide eyes.

"Zenith is looking at you." Raven giggled and Lily, Ivy and Kenda looked over at the Ravenclaw table. Lily caught his blue eyes and smiled. While he gave her a small wave and she turned bright red turning her head back to the table. The girls giggled, while the boys all turned and gave him a death stare.

"Jamie! James! Stop looking at him!" Lily hissed and punched him in the shoulder.

"You're flirting with the enemy Lils." Hugo simply pointed out. Hugo would always protect Lily, but never did he pester her about boys like James and Albus did.

"It's not only that!" Lily rolled her eyes at him. "No boys should be looking at my baby sister like that!" James argued.

"I'm not a baby anymore Jamie." She said frustrated.

"You'll always be my baby sister Lils."

"We got to protect the bab…" Louis quieted down as Lily gave him a stare that her mother would be proud of.

"Louis you had a girlfriend in your fourth year and James in your fifth year, so stop ragging on Lily for a boy looking at her." Lucy laughed as she sat down beside Louis. Rose slammed a pile of books down at the table and Roxanne raised an eyebrow at her.

"Besides the point Lucy!"

"James, she's not even talking to this boy." Lucy rolled her eyes at him.

"He's still a boy." Albus chimed in.

"Well it's about time we go to class, come on Hugo." Lily stood up to leave and Hugo followed suit with a grin to the two Potter brothers. "Thanks Luc." She gave her a small smile, knowing her brothers would probably interrogate him for looking at her.

"They're just protecting you Lils." Hugo pointed out.

"Yes well I don't need protecting." She pushed through the doors into the corridors.

"Lily." He stopped.

"Hugo." She turned around and gave him a sarcastic look.

"I'm just saying."

"I'm just saying too Hugo, never mind though, I talked to him once and he looked at me. So let's forget about ok?"

"Have it your way Lils." He put his arms around her shoulders and they made their way to Charms.

"You're such a brat sometimes." She teased her best friend.

"I know." He grinned at her.

"Come on," Lily laughed as they walked into Charms. Professor Frobisher was a tall, thin, pale and young woman with a thin face that always looked tired. She always wore black expensive looking robes and a tall hat with a small brim that made her long dark brown hair peak out the back. Lily had always liked her because she had this bubble personality that didn't match her appearance one bit, it was a true "don't judge a book by its cover" moments that she loved.

Hugo and Lily took their seats in the old class room that was covered in books. The interesting things about the books was that they weren't just Charm books, there was wizard novels and even muggle novels. She had once told them that her husband was a muggle who travelled for work when she was here teaching them and always brought her back books from the places he was.

"Good morning, Lily, Hugo." Professor Frobisher greeted them from behind her desk with a huge smile that made her laugh lines more prevalent on her face.

"Morning Professor." They said in unison as they took their seats.

"You two are early this morning." She said flipping through an old tattered book. They were usually the one walking in late.

"Well, you know, I was up quite early this morning…" Lily started.

"And I got dragged along." Hugo shrugged and then whispered so only Lily could hear, "Nightmare?" Lily just nodded.

"Good to see you bright and early anyways my dears." Lily and Hugo both smiled at her.

"Lils, you need to send Uncle Harry a letter." He whispered to her.

"Hugo, we'll talk about this later." She hissed under her breathe as the class room started filling up with people and when Raven, Kenda and Ivy came and sat down behind them.

"Thanks for leaving us there guys." Raven said annoyed.

"You're family kept asking us questions about you Lils." Kenda said quietly.

"We didn't say anything of course." Ivy stated.

"Sorry." Lily and Hugo answered together; it was a common thing for them to do. They had always been together – a habitat they had picked up.

"It's fine. It was actually quite amusing." Raven finally said.

"James starting freaking out, not really, but you know how he is when you like boys." Ivy pointed out.

"Oh, my brother." Lily rolled her eyes, he had always been the most protective of her. Just then the bell chimed to start class and they turned around to see Professor Frobisher walking around her desk.

"Good morning my bright young faces!" She always greeted them in some odd way." Today we are going to be learning about salvio hexia, the silencing charm." And Lily turned and smirked at Hugo, who smirked back. The rest of the class, Professor Frobisher talked about different ways the spell could be used, and the counter spell and for the last five minutes of class they were allowed to practice using the spell; which Lily and Hugo enjoyed entirely too much.

The rest of the day seemed to go by slowly as she had History of Magic which always seem to go on forever, then double Defense against the Dark Arts and even dinner was slow with James and Albus lecturing her. She finally took refuge in the library. Lily made her way to a back table where she always sat; it was her little special place. The reason why this was so special to her, was back in her second year she found this table that had Lily 1976 engraved on the side. She sat down at this table and ran her hand over the engraved lettering, smiling. Somehow it had managed to survive through everything the school had been through, it made Lily feel close to her Grandmother that she would never meet.

She decided she would start on the paper on defensive jinxes and charms that Professor Matlock had assigned for her Defensive against the Dark Arts class. She wrote Defensive Jinxes and Charms at the top of her parchment in her neat handwriting and stare at it. She knew a lot about Defensive because her father had made sure that her and her brothers knew how to defend themselves if ever needed.

She started writing a couple of lines on her parchment and looked at it, something about it she didn't like. Lily stood up and walked over to the tall book shelves and looked for books of Jinxes and Charms. She spotted Practical Defensive Magic and Its Use Against the Dark Arts close to the top of the shelves and sighed – there was no way her 5" stature would be able to reach that. She looked around and pulled her wand out "Wingardium Leviosa,"She whispered. It dropped into her hands and slipped her wand back into her combat boot.

"I saw that." And Lily turned her head to see Zenith leaning against the book shelves.

"Are you staking me or something?" Lily laughed flipping through the book and walking back to her table.

"I swear I'm not some crazy fan or anything. Not that I'm not a fan!" He rubbed his forehead. "I wasn't staking you, I swear." He finally said and Lily laughed sitting down at her table. "May I?" He gestured to the empty chair across from her.

"Be my guest." She shrugged.

"Thank you." He nodded, sitting down and pulling a book from his bag. "So…" He put his book down.

"So?" Lily smiled at him; he really was quite adorable the way he was trying to get her attention.

"What are you writing about?" He smiled at her.

"Defense Against the Dark Arts paper, curious?" She giggled.

"Maybe, I'm not very good I might add. I probably wouldn't be th…" The librarian, Madam Pince shhhed them and Lily covered her mouth to stop herself from giggling. Madam Pince was an old woman with sunken in cheeks, an unflattering hooked-nose and grey hair that was pulled into a tight bun under her short hat. She had always been a strict, awful woman according to Lily's father and Uncle Ron and Lily figured she had just gotten tougher as she aged.

"Sorry," Zenith whispered to her and Lily tried not to laugh. They sat in silence for a moment well Lily wrote some things down on her paper.

"So Lily, why are you here all by yourself?" Zenith asked her, leaning over the table.

"Hiding." Lily said simply.

"Hiding? From what dragons?" He asked her sarcastically and Lily again had to hold her hands over her mouth to stop herself from laughing. "Seriously, who would Lily Potter need to hide from?" He smiled sweetly at her.

"My brothers." She rolled her eyes, "They keep… pestering me."

"I guess you can't really hide in your common room like I can." He chuckled and Lily shook her head. "Well, next time yo…" Again the Madam Pince shhed them. Lily was livid, he was about to invite her or something and she had ruined it. He went to open his mouth but Lily placed her little index finger against his rosy lips and got up with her book.

"Madam Pince, I would like to check this book out if that's alright?" Lily asked her sweetly and winked at Zenith who was staring at her in disbelief.

"Sure dear, why don't you take your talkative friend over there with you." She suggested.

"Exactly what I was thinking." She smiled sweetly at the woman and walked gracefully back to the table and gathered her books. She was taking control of the situation as she waited for Zenith to stand up, when he didn't Lily looked sweetly at him.

"Are you coming?" She shook out her hand to him.

"Oh um, yes ok." He took her hand and Lily led him out of the library.

Every girl has to have a bit of a distraction once in a while! I'm really liking his character though. He's a strong personality Lily needs right now. Besides Her and Scorpius can't get together too soon! Let me know what you think! :)

Also a bit of a longer chapter this time too and a really fun one to write.

R&R and Lots of Love :)