LILY POV
I hit the button on my alarm clock went off. I looked at the time. Uhh 7:30 already. I got out of bed quietly, trying not to wake up my parents, Petunia or my older brother, Matt. I went to the bathroom to take a quick shower before I had to go to work.
30 minutes later, I was dressed and ready to leave; I grabbed my dad's car keys and my jacket as I headed out the door. I got into my dad's black, beat-up pick up truck, put the keys in the ignition and backed carefully out of the driveway.
The reason I was getting up at 7:30 in the morning was because I was trying to save up to buy the new comet 400 for my best friend, James Potter's, 16th birthday. James and I have been friends since we were 5 years old. Our parents were friends and we lived next door to each other. We were inseparable, until James moved away when we were ten years old. We were both devastated, but we kept in touch.
Then, on my eleventh birthday, I got my Hogwarts letter. I was so excited, but my excitement was short lived because I realized then that I wouldn't be able to tell James and I wouldn't be able to communicate with him while I was away. That night when I was in my room, I wrote a letter to James telling him I wouldn't be able to write or call him until next summer because I was going to a boarding school in Scotland and I wouldn't be able to write. When I woke up the next morning, I had a letter from James telling me essentially the same thing I had told James. I was disappointed but I knew it was easier for the both of us this way. Then, imagine my surprise when I saw James in person again for the first time in year. That is when life really got good; my best friend was at Hogwarts with me.
That brings me back to present day, working in a bakery in Poole. James has been mooning over the Comet 400 for months and hasn't been able to get it because I told his parents what I was planning and now whenever he asks for the broom, they just tell him he doesn't need it.