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To You I Belong

Summary: Lily Evans hasn't been home to England in two years. She hasn't seen anyone from school, or had contact with them since graduation. She regrets the way she had let her life get before she left and was glad to get out of there. It takes a tragic event to finally bring her back. But Lily soon finds that coming home might have been a mistake. Things that she had forgotten are happening again, and one she tried to forget comes back into her life, and instead of regretting her life before she left, she soon regrets leaving in the first place. Please read and review when you're done.

Whenever dawn turns to night
And all the dreams sing their song
And in the daylight forever
To you I belong.

• To You I Belong

B*Witched

In a small apartment in New York City, a red haired woman of nineteen entered her apartment after an extremely long day at the office. Lily Evans was the youngest woman in her building, and like when she was in school, worked hard to get there and stay there. She really didn't have time for any fun stuff anymore; life was all work and no play most days. Lily looked at the floor of her apartment and sighed. The place was a mess; her roommate wasn't a very tidy person. Lily called out for Alison, but she wasn't in the apartment. She saw a note on the kitchen table saying,

Lils-

Went club hoppin', be back later.

Ally

Lily shook her head and sighed again. If Alison would work more and party less, she'd be able to do so much. Of course, everyone should work hard according to Lily. It's the rule for a perfect life. Though, things aren't perfect to Lily. The one thing that keeps her life from being flawless is that time in England. Seventeen years of her life wasted, and she almost ruined her life by staying with him. Lily collapsed into a chair and turned the TV on. The ten o'clock news was just starting. More than she wished, Lily sometimes couldn't help thinking about her past. She hated to think about it, but there are some things you just don't forget. When Lily came to the U.S., she left her identity as a witch behind. No one knew that she had magical powers, and that was the way it was going to stay. She had no use for it in America. She didn't know any of the witches and wizards in this country. Lily was about to doze off when someone knocked on the door. Lily sighed and got up, and upon opening the door, saw her best friend in America on the other side along with four others. Natalie said,

"Hey Lils, we're going down to a bar to celebrate Cameron's twenty first birthday, want to go along?"

"No thanks, I'm not really in a partying mood." Lily turned and walked away and sat back down in her chair. Natalie and the four others came in and closed the door. Natalie said,

"Oh my God, kill me now, Lils could you be anymore boring?" Lily rolled her eyes.

"Dude, Lily, you gotta have some fun in your life."

"I'm perfectly fine with how things are in my life."

"Yeah right." Lily glared at her best friend. Natalie gave up saying,

"Fine, go ahead, be the dullest person in the world. I don't care. I'll see you tomorrow."

"See ya." Natalie and her company left, and Lily went back to the TV, and about five minutes later, she was sound asleep.

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Lily woke up suddenly to a noise of someone coming in. It was Alison, tipsy from the amount of alcohol in her system, coming into the apartment.

"How was the club hopping?" Alison jumped at the unexpected voice and looked around.

"Were you waiting up for me?"

"No, this is where I fell asleep."

"Oh ok, cuz' you don't have to wait up for me."

"I know. So how were the clubs?"

"Ok, had fun, drank…a lot. I would've asked you to come along but you weren't home, and I figured you wouldn't want to anyways."

"You figured right."

"Lily, can I ask you something?"

"What?"

"Why don't you ever have any fun in your life?"

"There's too much to be done that I don't have time for it."

"This Friday me and my friends are going to a karaoke bar. You should go with, just for shits and giggles, just to say you did something bold and out there. Bring Natalie along if you want. It'd be fun."

"I'll think about it."

"Ok, that means a no then."

"No, I'll think about it. Seriously."

"You better. But anyways, I think I'm going to go to bed, get some sleep with what's left of the night, and sleep till noon. See you when you get home from work tomorrow."

"Night, Ally." Alison stumbled slightly up the stairs and into her bedroom.

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The next day at lunch, Natalie was saying to Lily,

"You should've came with last night, Lils, it was fun."

"That's ok. It didn't bother me."

"Ok, I wanna ask you something, when was the last time you went on a date?"

"I don't want to concentrate on those kinds of things right now."

"No, answer the question." Lily sighed.

"Two years. When I was still in school, I went out with this one guy in my grade for almost a year."

"What happened?"

"We wanted different things, and everything was just going too fast. Everyone always said we'd end up together, but it wasn't meant to be."

"Ok, I think I've figured out your problem."

"What problem?"

"You're scared."

"What, no I'm not."

"Yeah you are, things get too out of the ordinary; you stop, quit and give up. You're going to end up old and alone. You're gonna die a virgin."

"I'm not gonna die a virgin."

"Can you say that with confidence as in you've already done it, or saying that with hope that you're right?"

"With confidence."

"Ok, that makes me feel a little better then."

"To tell you the truth, I wasn't always like this. I was somewhat, but not always."

"Well, what the hell happened?"

"The real world happened. I realized there was a world outside of my boarding school."

"Boarding school? I'm sorry."

"No, it was a good school. I'm just glad I'm away from it."

"But ok, so we're going to go with Ally and her friends this Friday, and you're going to meet a guy."

"If you say so, Natalie." Natalie nodded.

"I say so."

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Friday night rolled around, and true to her word, Lily was among the partiers that night. She didn't want to get up and sing, she was glad that no one was making her. She figured if she didn't bring attention to herself, then she wouldn't have to get up and make a fool of herself. But if Ally and Natalie had their ways, Lily wouldn't have any control over what she did, judging by how much tequila shots they made her have. Soon her worst fears were confirmed Natalie said,

"Lils! You gotta go sing!"

"No, I don't wanna sing."

"C'mon, you gotta sing." The people at the table all started chanting,

"Sing, sing, sing, sing…" Lily sighed and got up, and her table broke into applause.

"Ok, easy song, it'll be quick and painless, nobody'll make fun of you too much." Lily went up to the list of songs and picked one that she knew. The song started up, Lily picked up the microphone and sang,

"Rain fell down
You were there
I cried for you when I
hurt my hand
Storm a-rushing in
Wind was howling
I called for you, you were there

To you I belong
To you I belong."

When Lily finished singing, everyone applauded loudly. She went back to her table, and Natalie and Ally had shocked looks on their faces.

"What?"

"Oh my God, Lils, you're awesome."

"Am I?"

"Dude, I haven't heard someone sing that good in a long time."

"Really?"

"Yeah, that song was awesome. I haven't ever heard it before."

"It's a song I used to listen to when I was seventeen. It was one I knew, so I chose it."

"You should sing more often."

"I don't know…" Lily was cut off when she heard a male voice say,

"Hey." Lily looked up and looked into the face of a gorgeous man about twenty-one or so. Lily blushed slightly and said,

"Hi."

"I heard you singing up there. You have a beautiful voice."

"Thank you."

"I'm Kyle Matthews." Kyle stuck his hand out.

"I'm Lily Evans." She took his hand and shook it.

"You mind if I sit down?"

"Go for it." Natalie said, giving Lily a wink. Lily smiled and turned back to Kyle.

"So are you from here in the city?"

"Yeah I live about ten blocks from here."

"I've never seen you here before. I live about that far from here too."

"This is the first time I've been here. My friends drug me along."

"Well I'm glad they did. Otherwise we might not have met."

"Yeah." A part of Lily was coming back to her. It was the flirting Lily Evans. She had put that part of her away, and she hadn't felt this way since she went out with James. `No, don't think about James right now, think about Kyle. God, he's hot.' Lily and Kyle talked some more, and towards midnight they decided to leave. Before she left, Ally grinned and said,

"Hey Lils, just in case, condoms are in the top drawer on the right side of the sink." Lily just smiled back and left with Kyle. Ally said to Natalie,

"Someone's gonna get lucky tonight." Then they both laughed.

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Back at Lily and Ally's apartment, Kyle and Lily stood at the door. Kyle leaned in and gave Lily a kiss goodnight. When he pulled away, she said in a low tone,

"Want to come in?"

"Yeah." He followed her inside, and when Lily turned on the lights, a brown barn owl stood on her coffee table with a letter attached to its foot. Lily's jaw dropped, `Why now?' She looked at Kyle's reaction, and saw him staring at the owl.

"Um, why is there an owl in your apartment?"

"Oh, uh…" She couldn't think of a dignified alibi. She just said,

"I think maybe you should go, Kyle, you might want to."

"Yeah, I think so too. I'll see ya." With one last look at the owl and at Lily, he turned and left. Lily turned the deadbolt on the door and attached the chain to the door. Then she took the letter attached to the owl's leg and it nipped her finger kindly and took flight. Lily took a letter opener and slid it across the envelope. She unfolded the letter and her eyes traveled across the paper, taking in the words. The letter was from one of her school friends, and one sentence made Lily drop the letter in shock and agony, and broke into tears.

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A/N: Here's a new story for ya. It was originally going to be a songfic, but I changed my mind and decided to expand it into a fanfic. Sorry to leave it at a cliffhanger, maybe this'll bring in reviews!! (Hopefully) I'll try and update as soon as possible but not before I get at least ten reviews. Bye-bye.

Husker-fan-2006

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