Jily one shots

Life has its struggles

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Life Has It's Struggles

"Long time no see eh?" James Potter asked the girl of his dreams as they embraced. It had been at least a month since the last time they had seen each other and that made their reunion all the more emotional.

"Yeah, but I had to go. I had really no choice in the matter." Lily Evans, a girl with dark red mid-length hair and unforgettable emerald green eyes mumbled into the shoulder of her six-foot tall boyfriend.

James could feel the small-thin-fragile girl shutter as she began to cry. A lot had happened between them within the past year. They had finally gotten together and had been happily dating for almost six months. But no matter how happy Lily had been when she was with James did not have enough of an affect to make her happy when she was not with him.

James probably one of the only things in her life besides Artemis, Ivory and the rest of the marauders, Lily felt had not changed or spun out of control. The past few years had been the toughest for her.

She had been dealing with certain issues in her life since before she could remember, however, she always seemed to be in control of everything and had the ability not to let things affect her. That was up until she began her fifth year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Looking back at it now, Lily had no idea where she had gotten the strength to make it through without going crazy but somehow she did.

The beginning of her fifth year started out normally. She was a happy healthy teenage girl. Like many other girls her age, she thought about boys, schoolwork, friends but something else was plaguing her. Something she was scared of and at the same time it intrigued her.

September and October were filled with the same routine Lily had been through during her first four years at Hogwarts. She had the same classes with her two best friends and the marauders who she did not like at that particular time of her assorted past, the same teachers and the same Headmaster. She slept in the same bed talked to the same people and sent letters to her beloved parents every Saturday using the same snowy owl (which belonged to the school) diamond. She loved the unchanging atmosphere she was living in. The only minor changes to her life were her becoming one of the school Prefects and the OWL's (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) she would have to face at the end of her fifth year. But things can change within a blink of an eye.

In November of that same year is when Lily's familiar life began to crumble around her and everything she had control of was falling apart. She had being insecure about herself since she had hit puberty but it had never affected her as badly as it did now.

On the fatal morning of November 12th, eleven days before her fifteenth birthday, Lily received news from a Ministry owl that her parents had been found murdered at her home in London.

She had read the letter over at least twenty times before realizing the truth:

Dear Miss Evans,

We sadly regret to inform you, that your parents, Michelle Rose Evans and Fredrick Michael Evans, were found dead yesterday morning in their home in London. They were found by a neighbour who had heard a racket and went to investigate.

We have determined, after our own investigation that it was done by a wand. They were murdered with the Killing Curse. At this time we have no leads but we will inform you the moment we find out anything.

Also your sister Petunia Sarah Evans was not present the night of the murder and was found safe and sound at a friend's house.

Again we are sorry for your loss.