The one with the sisters - Year Four [COMPLETED]

Chapter 1 - The one with the weird first day

Iris couldn't stand it. She just couldn't. The way Lily and Severus were laughing and talking on their compartment as if they were the only people around. It hurt her. It hurt her because for so long, she had been the only one to manage that shiny, beautiful smile out of Lily. For so long, her laughter was caused by one of Iris' jokes, or falls. For so long, it had been the two of them and that was when she felt the happier.

She felt bad, though. She was selfish, she knew she was. Severus was her best friend and there was nothing she could do about it. She should be happy that the two of them, despite many differences that were bound to tear them apart, kept hanging out with each other, just like they used to do before Hogwarts.

Iris sighed as she watched Lily throw her head back in delight at something Severus had just said. Noticing the look in her best friend's eyes, Camilla, who was beside her waiting for Bambi to arrive so they could all get into the Hogwarts' Express, raised an eyebrow at her.

"You know..." She said, a smile forming on her lips. "If you keep staring like that, you might end up burning holes in their heads."

"I'm not staring." Iris rolled her eyes, but Camilla just laughed. "Right, so maybe I am."

"Of course you are, don't be stupid."

Iris sighed again and Camilla did the same, realizing that the red headed girl, who, apparently hadn't grow that much during summer and that, now, reached somewhere near her shoulder, was hurting a lot more than she was showing. She looked from Lily and Severus and back to Iris.

"You're going to figure it out, you know?" She offered gently, with a smile. "You're sisters, I mean... It's almost impossible that you've never fought before."

"Of course we did." Iris shrugged. "It's just... We've never ignored each other for so long. I mean... She didn't even write to me over summer."

"Did you?" Camilla glared at her and Iris flinched a bit.

"No." She mumbled, quite ashamed.

"Then what are you moaning about?" The blonde girl rolled her eyes. "If you want something done you need to do it yourself! Apologize!"

"But I wasn't wrong!" Iris defended and Camilla groaned.

"Oh, Merlin's beard... If you want your sister back, you need to drop the attitude and stop being so bloody proud!" The girl tried to reason. Just when she thought she had won the argument, Iris shook her head.

"I did nothing wrong." She insisted.

"Oh, fine... If you don't want to listen to me, don't, but don't you dare tell me I didn't warn you." She huffed, annoyed. "Oh, there's Dorcas. She's found Bambi. Let's go fetch them so we can find ourselves a compartment."

Camilla grabbed Iris' wrist and pulled the girl along with her. The four girl met halfway in the middle of the Station and, as soon as they said their hello's, they entered the Train, so engrossed in their own conversations that they missed the faint sound of a frustrated sigh from somewhere near them.

"I miss her, you know?" Lily mumbled, as she watched Iris walk past her, not even flashing her a smile. Severus tried to stop a groan.

"Yeah, you've told me that at least a hundred times already. This week alone."

Lily was about to respond, when she looked up at him and saw the smirk on his face. She let out a giggle.

"I know, I'm sorry, it's just... I don't know... Perhaps..."

"You weren't wrong." Severus interrupted her. "You were trying to help her, tear her away from bad influences, if she doesn't want to be helped, then..."

"It's not that." Lily frowned, shaking her head. "She has the right to pick her friends. Even if I don't like them." She finished in an annoyed tone as she watched, none other than those four boys that had, as soon as they stepped foot in her life, ruined everything for her.

"She has a disgusting taste, really..." Severus mumbled, also glaring at them. "But either way... I know she misses you too, Lily and you always work things out on the end. When she's ready to place her selfishness and pride aside..."

"Severus!"

"I'm just saying!" He defended. "And you can't say that I'm wrong."

Lily glared at him, but when she said nothing, he shrugged and gently wiped her frown away from her face with a simple touch of his fingers in her wrinkled forehead. She bit back a smile.

"It's going to be alright."

Lily placed those so beautiful green eyes on his intense black ones and smiled. She threw herself at him and engulfed him in a hug, quietly whispering a 'thank you' on his ear. The moment between the two friends got interrupted by laughter. Laughter that both of them knew quite well and that neither particularly enjoyed.

"Evans! Snivellus!" James' voice sounded around them and, with a groan, they pulled apart from each other.

"What do you want, Potter?" Lily glared at him and he raised an eyebrow at her.

"Just wanted to ask if you've had a good summer." He smirked and she rolled her eyes.

"Like you care."

James looked back at his three best friends, who stood a few feet away from him and were watching the scene with amused smiles on their faces. James chuckled as Lily grabbed Severus' hand and pulled him away from the four idiotic boys.

"Try and forget me this year, Potter!" Lily angrily shouted, as she entered the train.

"That'd be quite hard, Evans!" He called back, not once tearing his eyes away from her form.

As soon as she was out of sight, Sirius clasped a hand on his back.

"I don't understand how she walks with Sni-"

"Is it just me or is Evans prettier this year?" He asked, interrupting his friend's speech.

Sirius looked at her as if he had just grown five more heads out of his neck. He looked at Remus and Peter, but both of them seemed just as surprised as he was. Sure James Potter took an unexplainable pleasure on tormenting Lily Evans, but the three of them had always assumed it was just because of the reaction he got out of her: frustrated, annoyed, mad... And to be quite honest, so did James. Up till now, he had always assumed he liked the way she glared at him, or how the angry way she spat his name got a chuckle out of his best friends, but not today.

No, today, when she glared at him, he seemed to have seen a light on the bright green that he had never seen before. When she growled his name, a shiver went down his spine in a way he never thought possible. When she turned around, her flaming red hair wiped around, looking shinier and more fragrant than ever.

"She seems, hum... Taller than last period." Remus said, his words snapping the boy in glasses out of his trance.

"Yeah, and, hum... A bit more tanned, perhaps." Peter added, as Sirius stared at James.

"Mate, you alright?" He asked.

"Yeah." James shook his head, as if his friends' worries were completely uncalled for. "Yeah, of course."

"James, you're not..."

"Let's find ourselves a compartment then, shall we?" He interrupted Peter and started to walk away from his friends, entering the Train.

The three boys exchanged glances, but decided to drop the subject. Lily was pretty, it wasn't that much of a deal to take notice of it, was it? They shrugged and followed James in. They sat in their usual place and started a new conversation, leaving Lily's subject behind for James' sake. But even so, the boy with jet black hair couldn't help but wonder...

Why the bloody hell did Lily's perfume smelledso nice to him all of the sudden?