FINDING LOVE IN THE PAST
Chapter Three
Lily woke up at eight o’clock the
next day. Before she opened her eyes, she said to herself, That whole thing
about going back in time was a nightmare. When I open my eyes, I’ll be in my
bed at Hogwarts. She opened her eyes. "Dammit." She got up from
her bed and saw James sleeping on the other side of the room. "Why
couldn’t this be a bad dream?" she asked out loud. She was about to leave
the room when she realized she was wearing the same clothes as yesterday.
Thinking quickly, she pulled out her wand and conjured three dresses, simple
like the ones she saw the other girls in third class wearing even though she
hated wearing dresses. She got dressed quickly and quietly, not wanting to wake
up James. She conjured a hairbrush, a toothbrush, toothpaste, etc. She got
ready to go to breakfast, and before she left she decided to wake up James.
"James, wake up," she said, shaking him slightly. But all James did
was turn over and moan. "James!" she said louder, shaking him more.
Still sleeping, James reached out, grasped Lily around the waist, and pulled
her onto his bed next to him. "James, let me go!" Lily yelled as she
tried to squirm out of his grasp, but he was too strong. "James!"
"Uh…what?" James had
just woken up and seen Lily in his arms. "Lily, what do you think you were
doing?"
Lily stood up and faced him.
"James, you grabbed me, and all I was trying to do was wake you up."
"Oh, sorry," James
apologized while getting up.
"You also need to conjure
some clothes to wear and whatever else you need."
"Fine. Are you always this
bossy?" James asked with a smile.
"No. Now, get dressed. I’m
going to breakfast," Lily said, heading to the door, and then added,
"if I can find it."
As soon as Lily shut the door,
James got up, conjured what he needed, and got ready for breakfast. When he
left for breakfast ten minutes later, he found the dining room by going to
F-Deck. As soon as he reached the room, which was four times as big as the
general room, he looked around for Lily. He found her and sat down next to her,
starving. "What’s for breakfast?"
"There isn’t much choice.
There is oatmeal porridge, smoked herring, jacket potatoes--I have no idea what
they are--tripe, yuck, or Swedish bread with marmalade."
"Tripe? That’s
sickening," James said with disgust.
"Are you ready to
order?" a waiter asked James and Lily. At the same time, they both asked
for the bread.
When they finished their small
breakfast, Lily asked James to go with her to get some fresh air. After walking
around the ship for hours, they finally found the door that would take them
outside. "Oh, my God!" Lily exclaimed.
"What?"
"Look at the ocean! It’s so
beautiful."
James looked over the deck and
saw a beautiful navy blue ocean surrounding the Titanic. It looked like they
were all alone in the ocean. That thought was surprisingly comforting. Comforting?
How is the thought of being alone in the ocean on a ship that will sink
comforting? It must be the sea air. James remembered hearing once that the
sea air did crazy things to a person’s mind.
Lily was also staring out into
the endless blue ocean. I could stay out here forever, she thought.
Then, at the same time, she realized how cold she was, even though it was
April. She shivered.
James, noticing her, took her by
the shoulders and said, "Let’s get you inside before you freeze."
"No. I want to stay out
here," Lily said quietly. She pushed against his chest in protest.
"But you’re cold,"
James said, and started to stroke her long, red hair.
Lily lifted her head and looked
into James’ attractive blue eyes, while he gazed into her emerald ones. She
whispered, "I want to stay…" Before she could finish her sentence,
James leaned in and kissed her lightly. She kissed him back at first, tenderly
and then more passionately. Suddenly, they heard a door open and they stopped
kissing immediately. A small group of people came out on deck. Lily, who had
just realized she had kissed James, said, "I should go inside. You’re
right. I’m cold." She turned to leave and paused for a second before she
opened the door.
James called after her.
"Lily, wait."
Lily stopped walking when she was
halfway in the door, then thought for a second and went inside. When she closed
the door to her cabin a couple of minutes later, she was confused about what
happened on deck. What was I doing? she thought. I’m supposed to be
looking for the time turner, not kissing James. I should go and start looking
for that time turner. She took a shawl with her just in case she went outside
again.
James was sitting on a bench on
the deck, thinking. I hope we get off the ship in time. He looked
around. The Titanic is so huge and beautiful. Too bad this will all be at
the bottom of the sea. Then he thought of the people who would die. That thought
was making him sick. Trying to think of a pleasant thought, he thought of when
he and Lily kissed. The thought confused him. The kiss had been different than
others. Being a Marauder, he had kissed girls before. But this one was
different, even though he couldn’t describe it. I should look for the time
turner instead. He was about to get up when Lily walked through the door
and saw James sitting on a bench.
"James, you should be
looking for the time turner, not relaxing."
"I’m thinking of where it could
be," he lied.
Lily sat down on the bench next
to him. "What if the time turner isn’t on the ship at all? What if we
don’t find it?"
"We’ll find it. Don’t
worry," James said comfortingly.
"Do you think so?"
"Yes." There was an
awkward silence that followed. James, who was now starving, said, "Let’s
go eat lunch." He led Lily to the dining room.
After eating an appetizing lunch
of rice soup and biscuits, Lily and James spilt up and searched for the time
turner, but it was difficult because there were locked gates blocking the third
class from going to the higher decks. After hours of searching, they met in the
general room. The search was unsuccessful. "Now, what do we do?" Lily
asked. They were sitting in a corner of the room.
"I don’t know," James
said.
Lily thought for a minute, and
then suggested, "This is just a thought ,but we could disguise ourselves
as second class passengers and look for the time turner. And if it’s not there,
then we could try first class. Besides, I want to see more of the ship."
James laughed. "That could
work, but we only have two more days to look. I’d be shocked if we found
it."
"Don’t be so negative."
"Just look at the chances.
We have two days to search six more decks on the biggest ship in the world in
1912."
"Well…wait a minute.
Yesterday, you didn’t know anything about the Titanic, and today you’re an
expert."
"Well, I conjured a book
about the Titanic and read the important facts."
"I’m impressed," Lily
said. "What else did you find out?"
"Well, it strikes the
iceberg at 11:40." James lowered his voice. "It sinks at 2:20."
"That’s not a lot of time to
get out of third class when the iceberg hits. We might not be able to get to a
lifeboat. Oh, no. James, we can’t get into a lifeboat."
"What? Why?"
"We’d be taking someone’s place.
We can’t do that."
James thought for a minute, and
then replied, "Not really. You see, most of the lifeboats were half full
anyway. So, we wouldn’t be taking anyone’s place in a lifeboat, as long as it’s
one of the first."