Mornings in Rome

Hi! :)

I've been blogging a bit frequently now since it's summer timetable so we get to leave school two hours earlier! Yay! But we start lessons at 8:15am... Sigh, I've got to wake up at 6:15 every morning now. Anyways, besides using the Internet and studying, I've begun making Harry Potter T-shirts. I'm just planning out what designs to use at this moment. I'm definitely making one that says 'Keep Calm and Go Out With Me, Evans.' and one plain white t-shirt that only has 'Have fun in London. -Z' written in black marker on the back. Damn, I love it!

I also have other Hogwarts House colors like green, blue red. I'll make a 'Slytherin Pride' green shirt with one of my fave Slytherin quotes 'The End Justifies the Means'. I don't know why I like that particular quote... I just like it. I'll do a Gryffindor shirt as well. Oh wait, I know! I can replace my Ravenclaw colored t-shirt for a t-shirt that has Zach's quotes written all over it! Ahhh! I'm getting excited over the very idea of having a shirt that says 'That's classified.' or 'Hi again, Gallagher Girl' or 'Bad boys have a way of doing that. But they're worth it.'

But don't worry, I haven't forgotten about James and Lily. It's just that I'm having a hard time writing out the romantic parts like dates to Hogsmeade or dinners in the Heads' common room. I'm so used to them being two atomic bombs waiting to drop and explode, you know, to set each other off, to drive each other mad. I love that kind of chemistry. The passion, the energy, the emotions... And it's so obvious that they are so meant for each other. You can't fight so passionately with someone without feeling something. (I can just imagine Lily arching an eyebrow, saying, "Um, intense hatred, perhaps?" And James'll be like, 'Ah, Evans, I've been awesome since birth. How can you not feel anything?')

So expect the 'Seventh Year and Beyond' fanfiction to be out in around summer. Yeah, sorry. I know it's, like, forever but I promise you that I'm working really hard on it. Just not as hard compared to the non-exam season! And I'm promising a fanfiction of Rose and Scorpius. Please, just bear with me for a couple more months and you'll get your stories! :) I'll put the James and Lily's fanfic out first then I'll post the Next Generation. But in the mean time, I'm working on my English short story. Six more pages and I'll be done with it! It's only 10 pages and it's a tragedy.

Anyways, just a random fact- Does anyone still remember the second fanfiction of Lily and James? The one that spans over the end of Fifth Year and halfway into Sixth year? There's a song in there, did you notice? The one that goes:

She looked out the window,

He walked out the door.

She followed him and he asked:

Whatcha’ lookin’ for?

She said…

I want something that I want.

Something that I tell myself  I need.

And I need everything I see and I see something that I want.

I see, yeah…

He’s been living in a pure illusion.

She’s going to come to her own conclusion.

Right when you think you know what to say,

Someone comes along and shows you a brand new way…

I want something that I want.

Something that I tell myself I need.

And I need everything I see ‘cause it’s so easy to make-believe, it seems you’re living in a dream.

Don’t you see that what you need,

Is standing in front of you?

It's called 'Something That I Want' by Grace Potter. I chose it because 1) the lyrics do have some meaning to the story 2) I just happened to be listening to the song while working on it 4) it was in one of my favorite movies EVER and 5) It's by Grace Potter, common last name! :) 

If you've been observant in your daily life and maybe have a photographic memory, you'll know that this song is played during the credits of the movie 'Tangled'. The first time I watched the credits, the song just stuck in my head and I felt some kind of special connection to it. It was always there in my mind, tugging at my memory. And I'd just play the movie so I could sit through the credits to listen to it. It meant something to me but I had no idea what.  

Amazingly, it was exactly how the Marauders first sounded to me. The first time I read Prisoner of Azkaban was in P2. I didn't read it with great detail and paid special attention to everything in the book but the name Marauders stuck in my head. Just like how 'Something That I Want' stuck with me. It's pretty amazing how these things just fall into place.  Maybe it was fate? Destiny? Something planned out in the stars?

Nah, I think it was just Sirius' animal magnetism.

I HAD to share this one. It's so sad that it never happened. That James never got to spend more time with Harry. Because in my mind, after James matured and married Lily, he's always wanted a family. He wanted kids to train them up to beat Slytherin in Quidditch, to play pranks and teach them the joys of driving Lily crazy and sneaking around with his invisibility cloak. This idea is so...James. I mean, Sirius will probably give me his rare, ahem, serious stare like I've just lost my mind or something because I don't think he'll ever mature if James is still around (James takes care of Sirius a lot. More than Remus and the others.). Remus will be so scared that he'll hurt his kid if he ever had one (besides, he probably won't teach him Quidditch or the art of pulling pranks). Peter...well, Peter would need to get a girlfriend first.

So alike, yet so different. 

I love this silhouette. It's my iTouch's lock screen as well.