Chaotic Love – Reuploaded

A/N: Hi everyone. A few years ago I started this story but I never finished it, in fact, I never got past the first chapter. I'm on holidays and I had a random thought about the story and thought, why not have another go? So if you've seen this story before, don't panic! It's not plagiarised (unless you've seen it posted by someone with a different username/on a different site - I promise, the writing is indeed mine). While I tried to go off the first chapter I wrote all those years ago, I thought it would be better if I just deleted the old story and re-uploaded it. Fresh start and all that.

At the moment I'm needing a beta reader. If anyone is up to it, I'd really love for you do it! Also if you have any suggestions (including constructive criticism - no flames please) for where the story is headed, please message me!

Hope you like it!


So It Begins

Lily bounded off the train laughing, closely followed by her three best friends, Alice Xavier, Mikaela Slater and Kirra- lee Rodriguez. As Kirra was stepping onto platform 9 ¾ she stumbled and was rewarded with a loud exclamation from Alice.

"OW! That's my toe!" Kirra-lee made a face and replied in a wry voice,

"Don't lie; I know that was just your natural reaction"

"…So you might have a point."

"Oh good, so I can do it again?"

The other two laughed at their friends' antics and Lily, wearing a huge grin, was reminded how much she would miss her friends once Seventh Year was finished. Her thoughts were interrupted by Mikaela's voice.

"Okay so everyone's got their stuff, yeah? We right to go?"

"Yep" Lily, Kirra and Alice chorused. Mikaela grinned, "Then let's do this!"

It was the end of their sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and their group had decided they had to do something REALLY special together before their final year of schooling. Mikaela had received word that her family was to stay at their new summer house for holidays and that she was allowed to invite her three best friends. This announcement had been met with squeals of excitement, a promise of the fun-filled, action packed and most definitely LOUD holiday that was in store for the Slaters.

As the four girls were making their way to the designated pick-up spot, a feminine voice calling her name caught Lily's attention and she whirled around.

"Over here Lily!" the lady called once more. Lily grinned, having finally spotted a waving Mrs. Potter. Waving back enthusiastically she mouthed 'just a second', and turned to her friends who had been too busy chatting amongst themselves to notice the woman.

"Hey guys, let's go catch up with Mrs. Potter before we leave, yeah?" The others agreed earnestly and the four rushed over to give Eleanor Potter a hug. They had all known Mrs. Potter since they were First Years and absolutely adored her. As they began talking animatedly about the school year they heard a sharp, ear-piercing wolf-whistle and Lily turned around and grinned.

"Hey James, care to explain the monstrosity we witnessed in the Great Hall earlier?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. James grinned but pretended he hadn't heard the comment about the Marauders' slime prank on the Slytherins.

"Hey sugar!" He said cheekily, sweeping Lily up in a hug. Lily, exasperated, could only be bothered to roll her eyes.

Everyone was used to this sort of thing by now. The two had been the best of friends since they were kids, and although they had their own groups now the two still hung out together often, bringing the Marauders and Lily's group closer together as well. After this year, the two groups had basically formed into one and everyone was closer together than ever.

Sirius sauntered over with Remus and Peter, slinging an arm over Mikaela's shoulder,

"Hate to break it up lovebirds, but I'd like to know what everyone's doing for the summer." This time everyone one rolled their eyes but Sirius just stared at them blankly, "what!"

Before everyone could erupt into a 'pay-out-Sirius-in-an-exaggerated-sarcastic-voice' rant, Mrs. Potter burst in with:

"So, Miki, I heard you're staying at your new summer house these holidays, what was the address again?"

Mikaela, trying to move Sirius' arm off her shoulder, finally succeeded and replied

"Yeah, in fact my parents agreed to let all of us stay there –"

"Oh! Can I come?"

All four girls rolled their eyes and firmly said, "NO, Sirius"

"Anyway, like I was saying," Mikaela continued, "my parents are letting all of us stay there for the summer and the address is… Lily what was it again?" She turned to Lily who had just walked over, her and James' arms around each other's waist.

Lily replied straight away, "8 Azalea Parade, Little Winging, Surrey."

At this James and Sirius gasped simultaneously. Kirra glanced from one to the other, an eyebrow raised, "this can't be good."

Ignoring the twin fish (otherwise known as James and Sirius) gaping in the corner, Mikaela and Lily were listening to what Mrs. Potter was saying with confused looks on their faces.

"Oh that's right! Miki, your mum told me all about it the other day but I'm such a scatterbrain that I made no connection between the two addresses until I was on my way to the station, but then I couldn't recall if she had really said that address. Now that you've cleared that up – I have the most fabulous news girls!" Mrs. Potter gushed.

"Fabulous news..?" Lily asked with trepidation. Out of the corner of her eye she saw James and Sirius suddenly spring into action, shaking their heads vigorously and making wild hand gestures in an attempt to distract Mrs. Potter from continuing. The sinking feeling in Lily's stomach grew and Mikaela turned to Kirra and Alice muttering, "I really hope she doesn't say what I think she's going to say".

"Our summer house is right next door!" Mrs. Potter announced, beaming. James and Sirius slapped their hands to their foreheads simultaneously. Remus and Peter, who were also hearing this news for the first time, were surprised, but not as surprised as they were about James and Sirius' reaction to it. After all, weren't they all good friends?

In the meantime, it was the girls' turn to act like stunned mullets. Mrs. Potter was somehow oblivious to the shock on the girl's faces and continued on with her 'fabulous news'. "Oh this is so exciting, now we can plan the whole holiday with all of us TOGETHER! We can go on picnics and to the beach and all these GROUP outings TOGETHER". Not only were the girls shocked. They were now horrified.

A whole summer, their fun-filled, perfect summer...spent with the Marauders?

Alice realised that Mrs. Potter had stopped talking and was now looking at them as if they held all her hopes and dreams in their hands. The scary thing was that this analogy probably wasn't too far off seeing as all of them knew she had been playing matchmaker between Lily and James; and probably with the rest of them too – but that hadn't been confirmed yet.

Alice cleared her throat to snap her friends out of their daze and smiled weakly at Mrs. Potter, "it sounds lovely Mrs. Potter". Somehow, James' mum managed to smile wider and clapped her hands, "Now girls, it's been lovely catching up with you but I'm afraid we'd better be off. James' dad is probably wondering where we've got off to. Do you girls need a lift?"

Subtly nudging Mikaela, who still looked like a deer caught in headlights, Lily said "No thanks Mrs. Potter, we have prior arrangements with Mikaela's parents, RIGHT MIKAELA?" Mikaela shook her head as she cleared her thoughts and replied, "Oh, yes, we're going shopping first and we'll be by the house later this afternoon".

"Wonderful girls, see you soon!" With that Mrs. Potter flounced away happily, calling, "Meet you at the car boys! Don't be too long now", to the suspiciously quiet Marauders.

Once she was out of sight all four girls turned to the Marauders with glowering expressions. The boys gulped nervously. Smiling sweetly, Lily walked towards James, "Oh James...why do you do this to yourself?"

As quick as lighting, she had grabbed his ear and was pulling it while he yelped in pain, "HOW COULD YOU NOT WARN US?" "I'm sorry! I forgot about it okay?"

"JAMES POTTER, I swear to Merlin..."

The others watched in fascination as the almighty James Potter, Quidditch Captain, prospective Head Boy and ladies man quietly had his head handed to him on a platter by a girl. Admittedly, a ferocious, red-headed girl; but a girl nonetheless.

Sirius turned to the others and cheerfully stated "well, he's a goner... so what's up everyone?" "Hold on," Remus said, "I don't get why he's a goner? What's wrong with us being next door to you guys?" Sirius snickered and said, "Boy, you're in for a shocker Moony. Peter, let's go and ask Mrs. P if she's got any food. I'll tell her you and Jamie will be right there Remy-boy. See you ladies later." Leaving them with a wink and a wave, he sauntered off in the same direction Mrs. Potter had gone in with Peter trotting after him, rejuvenated by the thought of food.

Mikaela patted Remus on the back, chuckling as he stared after his friend, confused as ever. As he looked at her he smiled wryly, "are you going to explain it to me then? He's absolutely useless" he said, jerking his head in the direction Sirius and Peter and wandered off in.

"Well, what he meant was that now that Mrs. P knows that we're living next door to you guys she's going to plan out our whole holiday. You heard her, right? JOINT outings, GROUP gatherings. The parents will want us to spend the whole summer together! Which we wouldn't mind too much, but we'll have no choice in the matter. I assume you know what Mrs. P is like around holiday time. Now that all you boys are home she'll want to celebrate with formal dinners and the like. Actually I can almost guarantee that she makes us help her organise a ball..."

Remus furrowed his eyebrows, "I'm sorry, I'm still not understanding why this is such a huge problem? You guys don't want to hang out with us?"

Kirra jumped in this time, "It's not that we don't want to hang out with you Remy, it's just that...we wanted to do our own thing this summer. You know? Make our own plans, we probably would've invited you along sometimes too. But Miki's parents love the Potters, and vice versa, so they'll want us to spend as much time together as possible. You know how Lily and James get when they spend too much time together."

All the girls looked pointedly at Lily and James, where they witnessed Lily smacking James upside the head and James looking down at the ground meekly. Alice groaned, "They're going to be impossible this summer. We really have to do something about them."

Mikaela grinned, "You're right Ali!" Lowering her voice she said, "I have the perfect idea to make our summer both fun and interesting, and it stars our two lovebirds over there." Looking over her shoulder, she noticed that James and Lily were walking towards them. Hurriedly she said, "there's no time to explain now! We'll have to meet later to discuss it. I'll owl you guys when the time is right. Quick, look casual!"

Remus cleared his throat and looked over nonchalantly at Lily and James. "Everything sorted then?" he smirked at James, who was looking rather worse for wear, while Lily looked triumphant. Lily grinned happily at Remus saying, "Everything's great Remus!" She hugged him and said, "We'd better be off, we don't want to be late for dinner and you guys should probably get to Mrs. Potter. See you later!"

The rest of the girls said their goodbyes, and as they walked away Lily called, "Bye Jamie!" in a sing-song voice. James simply poked his tongue out at her receding form, rather childishly. Watching James' reaction to Lily and thinking back to the conversation he had been in with the girls just before, Remus chuckled, "Oh boy..."

"What?" James said. Remus just shook his head, still smirking, "nothing mate, let's get to the others."