I woke up to the sound of three, short knocks at the door.
"I'll get it!" shouted Petunia. She seems to have this thing with answering the door. I slowly got out of bed went downstairs and walked to the door. Petunia was waiting there looking grumpy.
"Who was it?" I asked
"Your boyfriend," she snapped at me.
"What!" I shouted, "I don't have a boyfriend!"
She rolled her eyes, "Fine. I'll elaborate. Your boyfriend: that greasy kid from Spinners End,"
"Sev Is NOT my boyfriend!"
She nodded in mock enthusiasm, "Ah-huh, 'cause the only thing you ever talk about is not Sev this, Sev that,"
I glared at her, "Not true!" but even while I said It, I knew I was blushing. "What was he here for anyway?" I asked trying to sound uninterested.
"He wanted to know where you were," she said,
"Oh," I said, "And what did your tell him?"
"I told him you were dead,"
"Petunia! You don't ever tell someone I'm dead unless I'm dead!" which I know sounds kind of stupid, but It was all I could think of.
Tuney just laughed.
I wish I knew some of those jinxes Sev talked about right now. Maybe I'll ask Sev to teach me. Maybe he'll even let me use his wand until we get the letter from Hogwarts. Of course if he thinks I'm dead, that may be a problem.
"And what did he say?" I asked.
"He didn't get a chance to say anything; I slammed the door in his face,"
"Tuney!" I yelled. I'm glad she doesn't know Leniency right now. Not that she could.
Tuney rolled her eyes again, there was another knock on the door and we could hear our mother's voice coming from the other side of the side of it.
"Dears, could you open the door? My hands are full," Petunia opened the door very quickly, and I shouted,
"Tuney told someone I was dead!"
"Petunia!" Mom told her looking surprised "Don't tell someone that your sister is dead unless she is dead!" Petunia grumbled, and said something about me saying the same thing.
"Who was this anyway?" Mom asked. I opened my mouth to say something, but Petunia beat me to it
"Her boyfriend" Petunia sneered.
"Oh! Lily, that's so exciting, what's his name?" Mom said happily, still holding groceries.
"I- I don't have a boyfriend!" I told her.
"Do his parents know? We really must invite him over to dinner. Where does he- Lily, where are you going?" I rolled my eyes as I walked up the stairs, wondering when this would end.
When I got to my bedroom, I was suddenly attacked from above by a tiny, bluish-gray fuzzball. It was my cat, Mew. I sighed, pulled her off of my head, and put her on the floor. She jumped on my foot. I ignored her and was walking to the phone after putting clothes on, when I heard my mom yelling,
"Lily! The mail just came and there's a letter for you, I think it's from your boyfriend!" I rolled my eyes and ran down the stairs. When I got to the bottom of the steps, my mom was trying to fish out a large envelope that had gotten stuck in the mail slot. When she got it out, she handed me a small letter written on parchment. It said:
Lily, meet me at the park
S. S.
"Bye, going to the park!" I yelled, and ran out the door. I ran until I got to the park.
"Sorry about the letter thing, but after your sister said you were dead, then I decided not to show up on your doorstep again," he said when I arrived
"Yeah, sorry about her, she can be really annoying sometimes," I apologized.
"I noticed," he said "and by the way, why is there a cat on your foot?"
