The Other Evans

Chapter 14

Chapter 14:

...My Worst Fear?

Lily. Dead.

A dead Lily was standing in front of her. But she moved.

,,Oh, look what happened!"

The Boggart said, with a melancholic, mocking tone.

,,I died, because if you! And I still hate you! Oh, how sad, how sad..." The boggart started crying.

,,Riddikulus!" The Boggart was now wearing a clown costume, along with ballerina shoes. The class barst out laughing, but Jasmine ran out of the classroom. She headed to the castle grounds and let herself fall on a bench.

She had not expected that.But it made sense. She loved her sister, she always wished that Lily did not hate her, she couldn't imagine how she would feel if something happened to her and, apparently, that was her biggest fear. That Lily died hating her. That the two sisters never got back together. A tear fell down her cheek and she quickly wiped it away.

,,You okay?"

Jasmine, surprisingly, was now sitting next to Potter. Was he there to tease her? She simply nodded:

,,I'm fine"

To her surprise, he snorted:

,,Please Evans! You can't trick me! I know for sure that the scale of a girl's mood is: fantastic , awesome, happy, good, alright, bad, very bad, horrible, dreadfull, I want to kill myself, and fine."

Jasmine was one more surprised, but she choose to hide it

,,Really, I am fine"

,,Yeah, right"

They sat there in silence, only make interrupted by her sobs now and then. It was somehow comfortable. Potter somehow gave her a...better feeling.

,,Do you want to talk about it?" He said after a while. Jasmine hesitated, but nodded.

,,It's just...when I was little, L-lily was my best friend. I was so happy to have her as t-twin sister. We used t-to do everything together and we often would p-p-play with Petunia in the garden. But then, with time...Lily changed. She was no longer the sweet, s-shy girl she was once. She was no an...arrogant, mean girl. She always snapped at us and s-s-searched for ways to get us into trouble. She suddenly didn't want to play or she didn't even talk with us, without a glare. T-then we met Severus. He told us about the wizarding world. Lily was skeptical; s-she thought that he was crazy and that we shouldn't talk to him, but I ignored her and still managed to be h-his friend. But t-then, Lily tried to drift us apart, Petunia started calling her f-freak and it...it was like a mini war. Nothing compared to the current one, of course" She said, referring to The Dark Lord's ,,When I was eleven, she convinced our parents to send me to M-mahoukotoro, so, while I got send to the other end of the world, she spend her time at Hogwarts, with her new r-reputation and all her 'fans'. She never replied to my letters. The only one she who wrote me were Petunia and Severus, sometimes mom and dad. I wrote h-her at least thousands! But she never replied them. Once, the only time she replied, while I w-w-was in Castellobruxo. God, I was so happy! I thought she had got over her...however y-you can call it. The letter was pretty kind; asking me how I was and so. Then she asked if I could help her with some potions thing and I agreed." Jasmine scowled ,,She only wrote that letter so I could tell her how to do the eye-color changing potion."

,,Hmmm" Potter said ,,You know, it's a bit funny"

Jasmine looked questionably at him

,,All this years, I had the image of Lily Evans as a perfect girl and so, but now, suddenly, it turns out everything I thought was wrong, false"

They fell once more in silence.

,,Well, I better get going" Jasmine said as she stood up ,,Thanks for listening to me, Potter"

,,Any time ma' Lady, any time"