How It All Began

How It All Began

Chapter FIVE: Responses

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Later that day Kala, Alice and Lily were in their dormitory. Kala and Alice were interrogating Lily about the letter she had gotten at breakfast that morning.

“So, Lils, did you answer it?” Kala asked.

“Yeah, whoever it was must really love you...”Alice sighed dramatically.

“Alice, you have Frank to sigh over. That reminds me, have you found out whether he likes you yet?” Lily laughed at her two friends as they sat on her bed chatting about Frank. Slowly she moved, hoping that they had forgotten about the letter. Unfortunately, it was not to be so.

“So Lily...you evaded the question...tell us the answer!” Lily laughed at that.

“Actually, mates,” she began, “you were the ones who went off on a tangent, not me. And to tell you the truth,” she hesitated at her lie, “I didn't answer the letter. With all these rumors about dark wizardry, I didn't think it was safe.” She mentally excused her lie - after all, she had thought the exact same things, she had just taken the risk of writing back. She was curious. Kala and Alice seemed to understand and didn't question her further.

Meanwhile, Sirius, James, Remus and Peter were looking out of their dorm window at the girls crossing the lawn.

“Look at that girl, mate. Boy, does she look fine! Oh, and look at that one over there!” Sirius was being his usual girl-obsessed self. Remus laughed.

“Sirius, how can you tell these things? We're at the top of a tower and its dusk, and you can still tell if the girls are hot or not?” Sirius smirked and shrugged.

“It's my aura, mate. It's like a god-given gift or something.”

“Honestly,” said Remus, “I don't know how you manage to sound so utterly thick when you are one of the smartest wizards in the year.”

“Hey!”

“She'll never like me,” said James miserably, interrupting the other two. “If she ever found out who that letter was from, she'd probably hex me. I was so stupid to do that.” James had just gotten out of another depressing Heads meeting in which it seemed like Lily had been shouting at him the whole time. He wasn't looking forward to decorating the Great Hall that weekend with Lily. Remus suddenly looked up.

“Oy, James, isn't that Lily's owl at the window?” James also looked up. A smile lit up his previously sad face.

“It is! Yes!” James reached over and opened the window. He took the letter from the owl and opened it. He read it with a smile.

“So, what did she say, mate?” asked Sirius.

“She didn't threaten to hex me! Score!”

“Let me see!” said Sirius, attempting to snatch the letter away.

“No,” said James, shocking Sirius, who sat back. James got up, fetched a piece of parchment and quill, and went downstairs to the common room, thinking about what he should write. Finally, after many attempts, he had a letter.

Dearest Lily,

Prongs is an extremely distinguished and meaningful nickname. Or at least, I think it is. And knowing you, you probably would scream and runaway if you knew who I was. Personally, I think commitment scares you, though I think that isn't the smartest thing to say when I'm trying to get on your good side. But know that I will love you always and forever as long as I know you.

Forever yours,

Prongs.

James looked up to see a very confused looking Sirius reading over his shoulder.

“Why are you making it all fancy, mate? Why not just, `I think you're hot, come meet me at the astronomy tower at midnight.'?” James sighed at his clueless friend.

“Because number one, I don't want to shag her, I want to be her friend, and number two, the first years have astronomy at midnight tonight.” At that, James sent the letter off with the owl.

A/N: Sorry for the shortness, but I can't control that; these chapters have already been written. I can promise you that they get much longer, though!

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