Hi I'm Lily. I'm a witch and these are my memories...
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~The Graduation Party -Part I~
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Hi. My name is Lily Evans. I’m 22 years old. I have flaming red hair and emerald green eyes. I’m somewhat different from the other people you see in London. I’m a witch. I have been for almost 10 years. Actually that is when I found out about my abilities. I got my letter when I was at home with my parents and my loving sister Petunia. She is not that loving anymore. Not since the letter. She got all jealous and started calling me names like “freak” and other not so complimenting names. Anyway I was eating my breakfast when suddenly an owl got in the kitchen where we usually have our breakfasts. We all freaked out when the owl landed on the table right in front of me. It lifted its leg and I noticed the letter. After reading it my parents didn’t believe any of it. But they had no choice but to believe after seeing the owl show. So we ended up on Diagon alley buying supplies for my first year in the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Anyway, ten years from then here I am, living in London in a studio apartment with my best friend from Hogwarts, Alice. She is quite the character really. She has an attitude problem that most of the time gets her in trouble, but she really doesn’t give a damn about it. She has M rated language and a hot body to go with it. Long brown hair and hazel eyes. Oh and she is in love with her high school sweetheart Frank. Actually he is her Hogwarts sweetheart.
As for me, I'm not in love with anyone. I don’t believe in love. Its all just chemicals that drive our body and emotions nuts. There is only lust. Nothing more. So I have never been I love and I never will be.
So let’s talk about something not so depressing as love. The Hogwarts “Five years from graduation” party. Yes, let’s talk about that. It’s in a week. So that means I have to go buy a proper dress, go tanning and all the pampering stuff usually girls do. I'm not into that stuff but Alice made me go. I don’t know why we have to go so pampered. Yes it’s a party. But I have no one to be pretty for… Not that I am complaining or something. I am not ready for relationships anyway. Got my career to look forward to. I can’t balance my love life and career as an Auror at the same time. Anyway… Where was I. Oh yes. Alice is beautifying her self for Frank off course so I have to be the tag along for the beauty salon.
Where is Alice anyway? She was supposed to be here a half hour ago. I'm going to kill her when she gets here. The nerve of her…
“Knock Knock”
Finally. I'm going to give her a piece of my mind.
“Hey Lils. Sorry I'm late. Got stuck in traffic” said Alice as she came in. She immediately attacked the fridge. “I'm starving. For breakfast I only had a bagel” Alice said as she took out products.
“Alice you apparated here. What traffic?” I raised an eyebrow. No way could she have fooled me. I was a head girl back in my time.
“Oh yeah, I forgot. You are smart” She smiled “Ok. I admit. I was with Frank and we got little carried away. We lost track of time. Sorry! Could you ever forgive your bestest of the best friend” Alice pleaded with those big puppy eyes and an apple in her mouth.
“You know, that eye trick isn’t working on me. Maybe on Frank but never on me” I rolled my eyes and took the apple from her mouth.
“Oh please, I will do your laundry for a week”
“Month” I demanded.
“Oh OK, and give me my apple back” she sighed and took the apple straight from my mouth. The nerve of her. I'm only allowed to do that.
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So here we are… Looking for the perfect dress for the perfect night. That’s what Alice said. I'm only a, messenger. I said crap. Anyway, we were talking and we decided that I should wear green. I'm sick and tired of people saying I should wear red. I hate red. I love my hair color, don’t get me wrong but the red color is not the color I want to wear. We talked about wearing white, but that would be too… bridal. Black was a good color but we still decided on green. It would match my eyes (blah cliche). We didn’t have to worry about Alice, everything suits her well.
So off we went.
Oh my God. Isn’t there one decent dress in this town? They are too frilly, too sparkly or the color is just plain ugly. Finally in the last store we went in. The store was empty. Not many people around. The dresses looked OK. Some were really nice actually.
“Hey Lily look at this one” Alice said and I turned around to look at her. She was holding a neon yellow dress with the hugest bow I have ever seen in my life. Apparently saw my face and cracked up “I'm kidding Lily. This dress is way too ugly, even I can say with my horrible fashion sense” I laughed.
After 15 minutes of looking around there still wasn’t sign of thee dress. Suddenly I got glimpse of a dress. It was an olive roman looking dress. It wasn’t one of those bal looking dresses (you know the long ones). No, this was a short one. Unfortunately a woman was holding it apparently she was ready to buy it. I poked Alice and showed her the dress. She looked at it, then me and smiled. She smiled with one of her evil smiles. No one wanted to see that smile, that smile meant no good. Before I tried to stop her she headed over to the lady.
“Why hello there” Alice said to the lady as she took another dress from the rack.
“Hello” the lady replayed glimpsing at Alice.
“Do you know about the big sale?” asked Alice acting nonchalant.
“What big sale?” asked the lady curiously.
“Oh, you don’t know. I'm surprised. Yeah. There is a big sale of dresses across the town. Apparently the shop owner is broke and he has to close the store so he is selling the dresses very, very cheap. But it closes in 10 minutes.” nodded Alice.
“Really, well thank you for telling me.”The lady said, put back the dress and left the store quickly.
I stared open mouthed and Alice started to bow.
“Thank you, thank you very much. There is no need for applause. I know I’m a genius”
I laughed and took out the dress again. I got a better look at it. It was perfect. The dress was there. The only problem was if it fitted.
“Hey Lily look at this one” said Alice as she showed me a chocolate brown colored dress. It was simple and quite lovely.
“I love it” I smiled. We took our dresses and headed over to the dressing room. Surprisingly the dresses fitted perfectly.