Chapter 22 - Chapter 22

"Okay Lily, what EXACTLY happened in the classroom when it was just you and Professor Snape?" Fred asked, not showing any signs of letting her go until she had stopped shaking, Lily drew in a deep breath to try and calm her nerves even just a little bit. Unfortunately, this didn't help her at all, so she just wanted to get this new development off of her chest to get the weight off of her shoulders. She placed her hands on their arms that were still embracing her, and finally spoke. "I saw both of my parents being murdered right before my eyes." Fred and George squeezed her even more tightly than ever before trying to put her at ease, Lily continued with tears in her eyes, "Bellatrix, I don't exactly know who she was entirely, but, she tortured my mother for information on our good friends, Lily and James Potter's location, but she never told where they were because the letter had a memory erasing charm, once the reader had read the letter, they wouldn't remember what it said. But, Bellatrix didn't want to believe my mum was telling the truth and killed her for it." Lily's tears returned and this time, they didn't stop, Fred and George looked at one another and nodded, then Fred spoke, "Lily, we think you should come to our home, the holidays are coming up soon, we will ask our parents if it's alright though, but, we know that our mother certainly won't mind, when you were unconscious for almost the entire week, mum always asked us how you were and what you had been up to, things like that. I think she already thinks of you as a daughter." Lily couldn't help but smile upon hearing those words. "But, what about my aunt, I don't want her to be by herself, especially on the holidays." George embraced Lily a bit more tightly before answering, "We'll ask if she can join us as well, however, we should get to the rest of our classes before we become late." Lily nodded and all three of them made their way to Charms, she had some questions about the charm that was placed upon her that Snape had removed and just wanted to understand a little bit more about it.