Chapters are just getting longer and longer, yey! This is just a bit of filler I'm afraid, not too much that happens but the next on should be better! :)
Note: I'm going to Europe for spring break which is like 2 weeks, so there won't be an update for a while!
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Chapter 6 - The library
"Where are we going?" Zenith asked her as she pulled him along.
"Well, I didn't think you wanted to get kicked out." Lily giggled, "She's doesn't seem too fond of you."
"Yeah… That's because back in my thrid year my friends and I kind of caused a bit of a ruckus … to put it lightly." He chuckled, remembering back.
"What? What did you do?" Lily looked at him in surprise, he didn't seem like the type to cause ruckus as he had put it. It was more a James type of personality which he didn't seem to be.
"I don't know if I should tell you, might get the wrong impression of me." He laughed and Lilly rolled her eyes.
"I'm a Potter; I've either seen it or been a part of just about everything." Lily thought about everything her brothers and cousins had done and it made her smile proudly.
"I guess that's true." He laughed. She loved the way he laughed, with such an ease; it was comforting. Lily finally stopped dragging him as they reached the courtyard where she had been sitting that morning. Lily sat down against the wall and smiled at him as he joined her. The sky was dark, the moon was just a sliver and there were barely any stars in the sky.
"So tell me what you did." She giggled.
"Ok, ok. So you see one day we were quite bored and we were sitting in the library. Well my friend, Robert is quite good at Charms. So we charmed the books to dance and sing around the library." He chuckled.
"That's brilliant!" Lily grinned at him, "my family would have been impressed." That when he started laughing again and Lily gave him a guessing look.
"They actually well, your bother, uh, James. He came up to me and shook my hand." He seemed nervous mentioning her brother.
"Oh he would!" Lily's face turned bright red with embarrassment of her brother.
"It was quite a fun day actually, of course she not too fond of any of us." He chuckled and lend forward, reaching for her hand. "Do you mind?" He asked softly. Lily shook her head with a small smile on her red face. He took her hand and gave her a big smile showing off his white teeth.
"So Lily, tell me something about you." Lily turned bright red again as she giggled like a little girl.
"What do you want to know?"
Anything." He said as he played with her fingers.
"Um, I have an owl named Lou-Lou." Lily couldn't think of anything else as she laughed at how much of a dork she sounded like.
"Why did you name… her?"
"Her." Lily said with a nod.
"Her," he nodded "Lou-Lou?"
"When I first got her my Dad called her Loony and I couldn't say it when I was younger, so it came out Lou-Lou." She realized how silly she sounded, again turning pink.
"She sounds precious." He smiled at her.
"Ok, now it's your turn to tell me something about you." Lily realized she hardly knew anything about him except that he was the Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain.
"Mmm. My favourite colour is red." He chuckled.
"That's hardly personal." She pointed out with a giggle.
"But it is something about me." He teased her, raising his eyebrow at her. "I also believe it is your turn to tell me something."
"I really enjoy muggle music," It was her Cousin Molly's fault really, she was always telling Lily to listen to this band or singer. She was a dancer with the Royal Academy of Dance, so she was always listening to new muggle bands. Molly was a great dancer in Lily's opinion; she was tall and thin with a pale cream complexion, with long dark red hair and little hazel eyes, almost the complete opposite of her sister, Lucy. She was the first of Percy and Audrey, so it was excepted of her to be extremely stubborn and stuck up some of the time even if she had the talent and the brains to back it up, she was very much like her father, where Lucy was like her mother.
"Interesting. I want to be a healer when I leave here." He stared off into the starless night.
"Really? That's what my cousin Dominique does." Lily loved her cousin Dominique, she was Bill and Fleur's second and she had a quirky personality, though she was always kind and outgoing. She had long thick usually wild messy light red hair, sparkling blue eyes like her mother and wore earrings made out of polished bone. She was in Lily's eyes the definition of a free spirit; Lily figured that's why she loved being a healer so much. It gave her purpose that she loved and the ability to be herself while saving the world.
"Does she like it?" He asked her as his eyes sparked at her.
"Yes she loves it. I'm sure you will too." She smiled at him.
"Yeah, I'm sure too but … I better get you to your common room before its pass curfew." He tailed off, changing the subject.
"That's probably a good idea." Lily removed her hand from Zenith and jumped off the ledge. She started walking towards the Gryffindor Tower and Zenith grabbed her hand again.
"Where are you going?" He laughed.
"To my common room?" She asked him confused.
"I said I would walk you silly."
"Oh... Okay!" She said confused but happy that he wanted to be with her.
"So I was thinking, I might stop by the library tomorrow. Would I maybe see you there?" She asked her casually.
"You may see me there." She said as she tried to be flirty. To herself, she had never really been good a flirting, maybe it was the fact she spent a lot of time in her cousins' shadows.
"Well, good." He chuckled and they lapsed into silence as they walked towards the Gryffindor Tower. The thought occurred to Lily that he knew exactly where he was going.
"You sure know you're way around the castle." Lily pointed curiously.
"Huh? Oh uh yeah." He mumbled, which Lily found odd but brushed it off.
"I'm just saying it's strange that you know where the Gryffindor Common Room is." Lily looked up at him.
"I'm curious is all." He gave her a small smile. With that Lily dropped it and they lapsed back into silence until they reached the fat lady painting.
"Goodnight Lily, hopefully see you tomorrow." And he leaned in and kissed her on the cheek. Lily turned bright red and mumbled goodnight as he walked off.
"Little Lily's got a new boyfriend." The Fat Lady sung and Lily rolled her eyes.
"Pulchra domina." She mumbled and the portrait swung open. Lily walked into the Gryffindor Common Room to find Rose, Lucy, Roxanne and Katie sitting around talking.
"Lily you're cutting it close to curfew." Rose pointed out.
"Just because you're a prefect doesn't mean you get to tell me what to do Rosie." Lily rolled her eyes walking by them.
"That's exactly what it means!" Rose shouted after her. Lily knew Rose had a good heart but sometimes she let the power go to her head.
"Oh Lily! Hugo was looking for you before." Lucy turned her body so she was leaning over the couch to speak to Lily.
"Thanks Luc, I'll talk to him tomorrow or something. Night!" She bit her lip and ran up the stairs. She knew it was about the nightmare and she didn't want to talk about it, not now.
"Lily!" Kenda shouted when she walked into their room.
"Hey," Lily smiled at them.
"Why were you so late at the library?" Ivy asked as she was scribbling things in a notebook.
"I ran into Zenith and we talked." Lily said casually.
"Don't you think it's moving a bit fast?" Raven asked her raising her eyebrow at her.
"Moving fast? It's not like we're getting marrying! We didn't even kiss for merlin's sake!" Lily couldn't believe her ears, she couldn't understand Raven's reaction to this.
"Don't be stupid Raven; it's only been one day." Ivy laughed. Raven gave Ivy a cold look and pulled the blankets over face.
"Are you seeing him again?" Kenda asked her with a sparkle in her eye.
"I'm seeing him tomorrow." Lily bit her lip as she crawled into bed.
"OHH!" Kenda squealed and Lily gave her a concerned look.
"Before you get all fairy-tale on me Kends, it's not that big of a deal." Lily said yawning.
"You'll see." Kenda smiled and with a flick of her wand turned off the lights.
"Goodnight Kends. Ivy, Raven." Lily chuckled.
"Goodnight!" Kenda sung as Raven mumbled something, she was still being stubborn.
"Goodnight ladies." Ivy yawned.
Lily laid her head against her pillow, thinking about Zenith. He was definitely charming and attractive; he seemed to be quite nice too. Lily had a feeling that there was sometimes something not quite right but she pushed that out of her mind thinking that everyone had weird quirks about them. Lily spent soundly without any nightmare that night and for the next two weeks.
The next two weeks Lily danced from class to class, she was always smiling or in a seeming good mood and was overall happy. It might have been that for the next two weeks Lily and Zenith met in the library in the same spot. It also might have been that every time that Lily and Zenith were laughing loud or flirting it seemed like Scorpius was always storming out of the library which Lily did not object to. Throughout those two weeks Lily and Zenith talked about everything from their families and friends, Zenith had a younger sister, Lucetta, who was a 4th year Hufflepuff and his best friend, was Gabriel Corner, to just plain silly things like if the Alchemy teacher, Professor Kartik had lost his mind yet. Lily was beginning to really enjoy his company and she hoped that he was as well.
Lily was sitting at her usual table nose buried in a tattered muggle book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosk , waiting for Zenith to join her. When she heard the chair move she looked up to see that blonde hair, grey eyed boy sitting in front of her with a smirk on his face as her smiled faded.
"Good evening." Scorpius said in his soothing voice.
"What do you want Malfoy?" She sneered at her as he grabbed a piece of her paper and started folding it.
"What are you reading?" Scorpius asked with a smile.
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" She said bluntly and annoyed.
"It's good." He said to Lily's surprise as she raised her eyebrow at him annoyed by his presences.
"Was there something in particular that you wanted?" Lily sighed and Scorpius smirked like he knew exactly want he wanted. He let her read about a sentence before talking again.
"So, you and Osterly then?" He asked casually and Lily put down her book annoyed.
"I don't see how that's any of your damn business." She stared at him with fire in her brown eyes and leaning closer to him.
"So it is true." He pointed out with a smirk as he continued to fold that piece of paper. Lily just glared at him. "Well, you might want to watch out for him." He warned her.
"Wha…" Lily snapped back against her chair and began but Zenith started yelling as he walked up to the table.
"Malfoy!" He reached the table and stared at him, you could almost feel the hostility between the two boys. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm just talking to my friend Potter." He smirked, motioning to Lily.
"I'm not your friend." Lily said icy with piercing eyes staring right through him.
"Is he bugging you?" Zenith turned to her, looking concerned.
"Always." In the same icy tone she replied as Scorpius stood up. They stood level with one another, Zenith glaring at Scorpius and Scorpius smirking like this was what he wanted.
"What are you going to do Osterly?" He egged him on. Scorpius knew how to push people, knew how to get under their skin. It was something he was very good at. "Are you going to hit me like…?"
"What are you still doing here?" Zenith asked him harshly as he cut Scorpius off, Lily was sitting there stunned at his tone. She had also realized that Scorpius had left the paper he had been folding; absent mindedly she reached for it and put it into her bag. Scorpius stood his ground not saying anything else, waiting for something but Lily couldn't figure out what.
"The real question is what you think you're doing here." He glanced over at the still stunned Lily and half smiled.
"You think you're better don't you? You and your little death eater friends?" Zenith snarled at him and Scorpius took a step closer to him the smile never leaving his face, the only change was he was now glaring at him with hatred; he never showed weakness, something Lily couldn't wrap her brain around. He had always been like this, stubborn, always had to be right. Lily sat there opened mouth, frozen, not knowing what to say; as much as she didn't like Scorpius she knew it was wrong to involve things that they didn't understand.
"I know I'm better than you." He said in a harsh tone, and with that Scorpius he turned to leave, before he left though he gave Lily one last glace and walked out of the library. The library stirred not knowing what had just unravelled in front of them. Lily wasn't even sure what had just happened in front of her.
"Are you ok Lily?" Zenith asked her softly and Lily gave him a confused look as she looked around to see people staring at her and whispering.
"Of course, why wouldn't I be?" She answered with confidence although she was still a bit unnerved, not from Scorpius but from Zenith words.
"Well I was worried he was hurting you." He sat down where Scorpius had been sitting.
"I can take care of myself." Lily pointed out half annoyed that he didn't understand what she was capable of.
"Well, never mind that. I have something for you." He smiled at her and Lily let the negative thoughts be pushed firmly out of her mind.
"Now do you?" She smiled at him with confidence now.
"Close your eyes." And Lily did was she was told with a huge smile on her face. Zenith than placed a single rose and a piece of parchment in front of Lily. "Ok, you can open them now." Lily looked down and her smiled turned into a huge grin.
"What is this for?" she asked him confused.
"Why don't you read the note?" He suggested with a smile on his face. She picked up the small piece a parchment.
Dear Lily,
Will you do me the honor in letting me take you to Hogsmeade this weekend?
Truly, Zenith
"Honor?" Lily raised her eyebrow at him as she thought he was kidding. "We're not in the 18th century if you haven't noticed?" She teased him.
"Yes I know. Are you going to give me an answer or not?" He chuckled nervously.
"Well then," she cleared her voice and made it sound like she had something profound and important to say, "my answer shall be I would love to, my kind sir."
"Are you teasing me?" He laughed and grinned widely showing off his white teeth.
"Maybe just a bit." She smiled back at him. "My answer is still yes regardless if I think you're being extremely cheesy or not." He smiled and stood up.
"Great! I'll meet you in the front tomorrow but I got to go," He lend down and kissed her on the cheek as Lily held her breathe and blushed, "Quidditch practice." He explained and waved goodbye to her. She sat there with a smile on her and then felt looked around feeling eyes on her. The library was full of whispers and eyes that were directed at Lily. Lily packed up her books and walked out of the library with her head held high, she didn't care if people were going to talk she was happy. As she walked down the hallway she saw Maive auguring with Scorpius, she hadn't realized that they were still together but then again they did have an off again on again relationship, so it didn't really seem all that unlikely that they would be fighting. She didn't realized she had been staring because just then Maive gave her a dirty look as she continued to yell at Scorpius, who looked rather bored in Lily's opinion. She lowered her eyes to the ground and continued to walk swiftly away from them with a small chuckle. She had almost reached the staircase when she felt someone pick her up and hug her from behind.
"Lily!" She recognized the voice immediately as Bryant Longbottom.
"Bryant." Lily giggled as he put her down and she turned to face the tall sixth year Hufflepuff with a smile. He looked so much like his father, especially now that he had begun to thin out in both the face and body. He had longer blonde hair that was rather messy and lighter brown eyes, he and Lily were very good friends but never anything more.
"I haven't seen you at all this year!" He smiled down at her; obviously that he had grown a lot over the summer.
"I know! Marie is happy by the way." Lily saw his little sister around the common room from time to time.
"Yes, Dad is very proud you know. Marie in his house, surely Christmas is going to be fun." He laughed. Alice and him were both in Hufflepuff like their mother and Professor Longbottom had been waiting to see if Marie would either be sorted into his house or Hufflepuff like her siblings and now that she was in Gryffindor, he wasn't outnumbered anymore.
"I can only imagine!" she giggled at the thought of them all competing.
"Yes, well how is your fifth year going my dear Lily." He smiled at her. "You're so big!"
"Hey now, I'm only a year younger but its real good." She smiled at him; she realized how much she had missed him as she had only seen him once at the beginning of the summer.
"Good to hear my Lily pea, got yourself a boyfriend I hear." He teased her. He was always coming up with different nicknames for her to put a smile on her face.
"Not my boyfriend." She rolled her eyes at him, "good gossip does spread fast doesn't it though?"
"I tease. Just look out for yourself, I mean you always have me to beat them boys up. Remember that." He smiled down at her like she was his little sister and that's all he would be to Lily, another brother.
"I know." She punched him in the shoulder lightly.
"I better let you go; you looked like you were going somewhere. You always know where to find me." He waved at her and she waved back as he walked away.
Lily hurried up the stairs to the Gryffindor Common Room as she reached the Fat Lady. "Password." She sung in an Opera tone.
"Mimbulus Mimbletonia," and the portrait opened for her. When she walked in she saw James sitting with giggling Katie as Rose, Roxanne, Louis and Fred sitting nearby appearing not to be listening to their conversation although it was obvious that they were, and Lucy and her friend Ingrid Wood, a taller sandy hair sixth year sitting in the opposite side talking amongst themselves. Finally, she saw Hugo, Ivy, Raven and Kenda sitting in a completely different corner and she headed towards them with a large smile on her face.
She sat down quietly beside Hugo on one of the red loveseats as they were in deep conversation about everything that Owen had said to Kenda that day. Lily was coming in to the middle of the conversation so she just sat back and listened.
"You're the one who wanted romance Kends." Ivy pointed at her with a grin.
"Yes, I did want that. But this is just overwhelming." Kenda said, throwing her arms in the air. She always was one to talk a lot with her hands. "No one has ever been interested in me."
"That's not true!" Raven argued, "Remember Stephen?"
"That strange muggle boy from my town? With the pink hair?" Kenda giggled. Her neighbour had taken a strong interest in her over the summer and she thought he was the strangest thing she had ever seen.
"Well don't go around saying no one has taken interested in you now!" Ivy examined and everyone starting laughing, knowing how much Kenda did not like that muggle boy.
After everyone was asleep Lily drew the curtains around her bed and whispered, "Accio backpack," as she did not want to wake anyone, the backpack flew through the air on to Lily's bed and she started to dig through it. "Lumos," she whispered again and a flash of light came from her wand. She picked up the paper Scorpius had been folding and examined it. It was clearly folded into a flower, but not any flower; a lily. Liles had always been her favourite, even if it was cliché she didn't care. She held it gently in her hands, it was beautiful. She smiled softly to herself although she didn't really know why. Lily grabbed the jewelry box that sat on her bedside table and placed the paper lily inside with a couple rings she had from her Mother and a heart necklace from her Father that had once been her Grandmother. She lay back in bed and thought about her strange encounter with Scorpius. How he tried to warn her about Zenith? Or how he knew and read a muggle book? Everything seemed strange and foreign to her about the way he was acting towards her. She could handle the name calling or the constant pranks back and forth, that she could wrap her head around but not this. She let her thoughts drift as she slowly drifted off into sleep. Tomorrow was going to be an interesting day.