You can't judge the sky by it's thunder ((Layla))

[hermione7lunaroc]

It was just after the sorting feast and Lily decide she'd make her way to the common room. There was just a slight probelm; she couldn't remember the way. Lily was too stubborn and too proud to ask for directions. Channel had told her the basics, that it was in the towers, but directions really weren't her think. Rubbing her right temple, she looked around. She was so confused and she felt like she was going in circles. The staircases moved making everything equally more difficult and she hadn't a clue what floor she was on. She was ready to cry, but she thought better of it. She sat on the floor pretzel-style legs and closed her eyes. It looked like she was sleeping in the random hallway for the night.

[Layla Jimenez]

Layla had eaten slower than her usual. She'd entered the Hall without an appettite, but hadn't been able to resist the amazing meal the elves had prepared. So she had dug in at everyone's pace and had had to slow down right before dessert. She'd ended up just sitting there with her housemates eating her ice cream slowly, and now she just felt terrible. She felt like she needed to be rolled up the stairs for lack of energy.

But she'd sat there until she was able to move and had mentally prepared herself to climb all seven flights of stairs plus the stairs that lead to the entrance to Ravenclaw. She'd made the best of it, chatting her way up with those she hadn't seen all summer. She felt a rush of relief as she took the steps to the seventh floor landing. Aahh... almost there.

At this point, Layla was beginning to feel sick and had to stop to take a few breaths before she tackled the stairs of the tower. But just as she was going towards the foot of the last set of staits, she saw Lily sitting on the floor. She was silent and still in front of a set of moving stairs that lead to the east corridor of the sixth floor as if she were meditating. Inching closer, Layla made a few noticable noises with the heels of her shoes to see if Lily responded. Nothing.

"Lily? Are you ok?"

[hermione7lunaroc]

Lily's eyes opened. "Yeah," she said. "I'm fine. I've just resolved myself to sleeping in the hallway as I can't remember the way to the common room." And I don't want to ask for directions. "It seemed pretty comfy?" She added with a laugh. "Join me, you don't look like you could go another step. It's Layla, right?" Though she had hardly met the girl for more than a second, it stuck out in her mind. She had met her with Drew/Vito.

[Layla Jimenez]

Layla's shoulders slumped a bit when Lily asked about her name. She figured she'd at least be normal with her. She knew Drew and her got into fights easily, but why was she acting like this with her too? "Um.. the floor is stone and wood for the most part," she told her. "I think I prefer Ravenclaw Tower, but I'll join you for a bit." At that Layla groaned as she bent down and sat right across from Lily and looked right at her.

"Now how exactly is it that you've forgotten where Ravenclaw is?" she asked her simply. But she couldn't stop herself there. "Kind of like you forgot to at least say hi to me and Drew before you sat somewhere else?"

[hermione7lunaroc]

"Sorry about that," Lily said. "I wasn't too sure where I was supposed to sit at first. Plus this Drew, Vito, whoever he is guy, he didn't seem too keen on believing me. He told me not to come back until I was done with my game. Only probelm is, it's not a game. So I couldn't exactly come back you see. Because he would just yell at me or something like that and I couldn't help anything I did." Trust me, I'd rather not be like this.

[Layla Jimenez]

Layla could only stare at the girl. She wasn't quite sure what to make of it all. If it was really a game, it was bad one. but if it wasn't? No... no... that would mean that Lily...

No. The only explanation was that she was still playing this 'game'... right? But why?

"Lily are you mad at Drew? Or me? Or all of us?" She didn't know how to put it, but she was being chilish if she was thinking the cold shoulder and amnesia combination was going to get her anywhere. "Because if you are then you just need to tell us."

[hermione7lunaroc]

"I'm not," Lily said. "Maybe I wish I was because then I could say, haha I'm kidding. I hardly know you well enough to be mad at you for anything yet. I just only met you both this morning. Trust me, it's been one heck of a morning. Did you know I had a boyfriend? I don't think Channel and Matt knew or they might have told me and prepared me for finding out. I get the impression I've done some bad stuff or something because no one believes me."

[Layla Jimenez]

Layla watched the other girl's face closely as she spoke, looking for... something. She just didn't understand the point of acting like this, but she also didn't see why someone would make something like that up, not matter what Drew thought.

"You used to have a boyfriend," she corrected quickly. "You told me what happened with him and..." She stopped herself. Why was she recounting Lily's personal life to her? her patience was starting to wear faster than she had anticipated, but she took a breath before continuing.

"Ok... so... let's pretend you're not playing a game," she said slowly. "And you've lost your memory. Then how did this actually happen?"

[hermione7lunaroc]

Lily shrugged. "According to him we're togther again. Or we were. I told him I'd have to get to know him better. I couldn't even remember his name." She wasn't playing a game so how could she pretend she wasn't? Oh well, she'd go along with it. "Apparently, or so as I've been told, I tried to do this. Tried to erase my memory." I guess there was just something too bad there. But what?

[Layla Jimenez]

"What?"

She wasn't sure if she was directing it to Lily getting back with her ex or to the idea of Lily using a memory charm on herself. She knew from her readings that they were difficult and Obliviators were highly skilled. She couldn't imagine a sixth year trying to so one. Wait a minute... what was she thinking? Lily wouldn't do something like that. Right?

"Lily... this doesn't make any sense. First, you're not allowed to do magic outside of school until you're 17. Second people who screw up ther memories tend to forget how to talk even. And third, please tell me you're joking about your ex boyfriend."

[hermione7lunaroc]

"If you live with someone magical, the magical presence isn't really recorded," she said. "Because they do magic too, so they don't know it's an underage. Or so Channel told me. I had to practice magic this summer anyways. I didn't erase that much memory that I don't know how to talk. Well we're not together again now, we're apart again. It makes my head hurt and I wish I knew more. He said we fought a lot but I don't know why. He seems alrigbht to me."

[Layla Jimenez]

Layla was starting to feel a headache coming on. She didn't want to believe that Lily was lying. No matter what Drew or anyone else said. She was her friend and she didn't want to think of her that way. Besides, she seemed to only play these 'games with Drew. But if she was lying... that just came with so many complications. Was it permanent? Why did she do it? Why did it go wrong?

"Lily, I know this sounds terrible, because I'd like to think my friends don't lie to me. But how can I know you're not playing this... game or whatever?"

[hermione7lunaroc]

"Hold on," Lily said. "I'm positive that I put it in one of my pockets here." Lily began searching all the pockets of her robes for a singular slip of paper. "Here," she said, holding up a folded peice of paper. She unfolded it and handed it over to Layla. "It's a photocopy of the original in my file." The file which was entirely too big in her mind, but no one had let her read the rest of it.

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