After the battle, Dumbledore had the courtesy to let classes off for a week so things could cool down.
Lily, Rebecca and Lauren had all slept in Lily's bed and wouldn't get up for anybody.
"C'mon, Lily! We can go anywhere, do anything… We can go to your house if you want to!" James cried.
"I don't want to go anywhere!" Lily sobbed.
"Lily, if you get up right now I will do anything for you." James said, trying to pull Lily out of bed.
"I can't. My life has no meaning." Lily said.
"Your life has so much meaning!" James said. "Just think. You were the first person in your family to be a witch. Besides your sister Petunia," James said, making Lily smile. She quickly turned that comment into a negative.
"But I have no future." She said.
"Yes you do! You're going to graduate from Hogwarts, marry me, and have the most gorgeous children ever to brace this earth." James said.
"You Promise?" Lily asked.
"I promise you." James said, kissing her forehead. "Come to breakfast. Please?" James asked.
"Fine." Lily said, getting up and going to breakfast with James.
Sirius had tried to get Lauren up.
"Lauren, I will give you all of the gold in my Gringott's account if you get up right now," Sirius said.
"I can't. All the gold in the world couldn't bring Raven back! She's never coming back and anything you do won't help!" Lauren cried.
"Neither is laying here!" Sirius shouted. "Lauren, you're my girlfriend, and I really care about you. I miss Raven too. I know what it's like to lose someone. I lost my dad in the fourth year. He was the only one who knew what it was like to be like me. An outcast. Losing somebody so close is like having your heart ripped open and the hole just gets bigger and bigger and other parts of your heart- your live friends and family- start to disappear, too. It's hard… I've been there. But I also know that moving on helps."
"I can't forget her!" Lauren screamed at him. "I can't forget Raven! She was too great of a witch to be forgotten. I can't forget her," Lauren said, crying hard.
"Be strong Lauren. Moving on is not forgetting. It's not even close. It's remembering. That's like Remus dying and you asking me to forget him. I couldn't do that, and I'm not asking you to forget her at all. I'm just worried. I want my girlfriend back." With that, Lauren was out of the depression stage.
The next day, Lily and Lauren went into the dorm and pulled Rebecca out of bed.
"Get up, now." Lily said.
"Raven's dead!" Rebecca screamed.
"And we need to move on. Hold on a second. Sirius is really good at motivational speeches." Lauren insisted. She called him and he ran upstairs.
"Rebecca, losing somebody so close is like having your heart ripped open and the hole just gets bigger and bigger and other parts of your heart- your live friends and family- starts to disappear, too. It's hard… I've been there. But I also know that moving on helps." Sirius explained.
"That was an exact wording with what he said yesterday!" Lauren whispered to Lily. They giggled.
"I guess… If it's what Raven would really want." Rebecca said.
"She would. I know it." Lily said.
"I miss her so much." Rebecca said, sobbing on Lily's shoulder. Tears flowed down Lily and Lauren's faces.
"We miss her too." They said, forming a group hug.
"She'll always be with us, won't she?" Rebecca asked.
"Of course. Raven will always be there." Lily said. And with that, the foursome was an official threesome.
A/N: I smile as I see that the hits on my story exceed 1200. I probably provided about 100 of them to check on reviews, but even one hit helps! I love reviews, and thanx sooo much to Remus' sweetie, Jersey Princess, Maria, Prongshoof, Nanopy, Moonbeam and anonymous… I loved the positive comments. Anyways, that was chapter seven… SO PLEASE LEAVE ME POSTS and I will reply to almost all of them… so yeah. Ive been kinda busy lately and im gonna be busy for a while, since HBP is coming out in TWO days… ill be busy until about Monday, when I should type up chapter eight. If any big twists about lily and james appear in HBP im afraid this will be an AU, which I totally suck at, but w/e so THANK YOU FOR READING "Call out your name" and have a nice HBP-filled weekend.
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