It was a crisp August morning , which was really odd. I grimaced as my bare foot settled on the cold ground. My white cotton peasant skirt whipped around my calves. I Pulled my zip up white hoodie tighter around me. It was cold. I made my way to my tree swing. settling comfortably on the swing bench I pushed off. My flaming red hair blew behind me as i rocked back and forth. My mind focused on what was gonna happen today.
My church was sending the teenagers in the neighborhood to a campsite for 3 weeks! I was ecstatic when i found out. 3 teens had just moved in at the very end of my street and we were s'pose to get "aquatinted".I don't care the reason. I just wanna get away from petty and my Mom. Ever since dad died 1 ½ years ago she's been ...sad? No that doesn't even begin to describe it. Oh no my eyes are watering again. Who am i kidding I'M CRYING.
If you were to look into the backyard you would have seen a sight. 16 year old Lily Evan's was sitting on the bench of the swing. Tears rolled down her creamy cheek. She started to sing then she sang in a soft but beautiful voice
I
will not make the same mistakes that you did Because of you I lose my way Because of you I watched you die Because of you Because
of you
I will not let
myself
Cause my heart so much misery
I will not break the way
you did,
You fell so hard
I've learned the hard way
To
never let it get that far
I never stray to
far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the
safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard
to trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I
am afraid
And it's not too long before you
point it out
I cannot cry
Because you know that's weakness in
your eyes
I'm forced to fake
A smile, a laugh everyday of my
life
My heart can't possibly break
When it wasn't even whole
to start with
I never stray to far from
the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe
side so I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to
trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am
afraid
I heard you cry every night in
your sleep
I was so young
You should have known better than
to lean on me
You never thought of anyone else
You just saw
your pain
And now I cry in the middle of the night
For the
same damn thing
I never stray too far from
the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe
side so I don't get hurt
Because of you
I tried my hardest
just to forget everything
Because of you
I don't know how to
let anyone else in
Because of you
I'm ashamed of my life
because it's empty
Because of you
I am afraid
Because of you
Her tears stopped as the last note rang around the yard. Singing always made her happy it filled the empty spots in her heart. These days it filled the spot were her parents were supposed to be.
Rising from the bench she made her way inside. Looking at her watch she saw it was 7:50 she had to hurry. Lily is a gorgeous girl and LOVED cloths and shoes and other accessories. She had packed 3 duffel bags a bookbag and a rolling suitcase. Loading everything into her truck she drove t pick up her best muggle friend Nevaeh.
Sorry, i forgot to mention that Lily is a witch. She attends Hogwarts school and can't tell any of her friends . Good thing she has magical friends. though she also had a few enemy's James and Rae Potter and Sirius Black. BUT we won't go into detail because that could ruin a certain Red Heads day.
HONK HONK
Blowing hard on the horn she watched as her best friend came out. Carrying 2 suitcase 1 dufflebag and a backpack this may not sound like as much as Lily had but they were Big suitcases. Thus,leading to Lily getting out and helping her
"Bring enough?"Lily questioned sarcastically
"your one to talk"Nevaeh shot back
"OK, so i went a tiny bit overboard. But hey there's gonna be a lot of cute boys and some guys from other neighborhoods. Besides i just have 21 shirts ,pants 9 pairs of shoes all my makeup, all my hair stuff and 30 pairs of socks. I want go into detail on what other clothing i brought.
"Thanx"Nevaeh laughed" I only brought 8 pairs of shoes but were the same with everything else. Which swimsuit did you bring ?
"You will see" she answered slyly.
"By the way, My dad wants to know if you'll pick up the new family.
"Sure no prob"
Then Lily gave Nevaeh a big hug. Nevaeh had been in paris the last week. Lily hadn't seen her since Christmas. They both stood back to look at each other. Some people joked they were like twins except for there eyes and hair. They both were barley 5 and a half feet tall and had a pale collection. They were both lean . At the beginning of the summer they had gotten very curvy. Lily had taken to flaunting around the front yard doing her chores in her belly shirts and jeans. She had even gone skateboarding with her guy best friend Miles in her bikini top and beach shorts. As she told Nevaeh this Nevaeh cracked up. They both loved skateboarding. They both had long straight hair that went just past there shoulder blades. Lily has, as you know flaming red hair with flecks of gold from the sun bleaching it. Nevaeh had blonde almost white hair that she had curled right now , Lily's was in a high pony tail. There faces were the same pale complexion, slightly upturned nose, full pink lips which they both had glossed at the moment and almond shaped eyes. Lily had emerald green eyes and Nevaeh had sky blue ones. They were even dressed the same. Both were in peasant skirts that were just at there thighs,Lily white Nevaeh black, silk camisoles,Lily red Nevaeh green, and both wore etnies with the e's matching the color of there camisoles. They both laughed everyone was gonna think this was planned but in all honesty it wasn't and all of their clothes were the same just in different colors
They climbed into the front of the truck and drove to the church they would have to drop their stuff off before they could pick anyone up. They pulled there hoods up and put there sunglasses on. Their faces were completely covered they wanted them to stay that way until they could figure out who these new people were. They were still excited. They were picking up 2 16 year old guys and a 16 year old girl. Triplets they guessed. They gossiped and talked the way there. Going the long way( going around the block 4 times).
"I'm so glad petty isn't going" Nevaeh giggled as Lily finished her impression of her sister.
They pulled up into the driveway of the house Lily decided to honk
HONK HONK
The front curtains opened and then shut. Out came The most gorgeous guy Nevaeh had ever seen and to Lily's horror JAMES POTTER!
She leaned over to Nevaeh
"Nevaeh he goes to my school i can't stand him!" she whispered urgently.
"Don't worry Keep your hood up and we'll play it cool"
Nevaeh and Lily slid out of the truck and walked over to james.
"Hello" Nevaeh greeted cheerily
"hey" Lily smiled
Lily had to admit James looked good he was about 6'3. he was lean but athlectly built . His Psychotic hair was still just that. but he was tanned and looked good. Her train of thought was interrupted by a deep voice
"Hello Ladies. You look beautiful for it being 9:00 in the morning"
typical James lily thought as she smiled up at him
"Thanx"Nevaeh giggled
Suddenly Nevaeh's mouth dropped. Lily looked at her strangely. Then followed her eye line. Sirius black had just walked out and he looked just like james...Godly. This ofcourse meant Rae was coming.
Sirius smiled"Are you two twins?" he questioned
"No best friends"Lily laughed
"Your Laugh sounds familiar"James said
"James Sirius stop ogling the wanna be hookers and help me with my bags"
james and sirius looked ready to pounce and well the"wanna be hookers" looked ready to kill. Rae looked just like James. Messy black hair, blue eyes, strong nose and really tall and athletically built. She was about 5'11. Lily thought about how much these 3 were alike the only differences were James had round gold glasses,Sirius had neat chin length hair and steel colored eyes, and Rae was female? Again her train of thought was interrupted
"Is it okay if we bring someone who doesn't live here?"
"Sure who is it?"lily asked
Just then Remus Lupin walked out the door. The boy looked heavenly. His honey gold hair was dropping into his hazel eyes and he was about 6'4 and very nicely built. Lily couldn't contain herself. Taking of her sunglasses and pulling down her hood she charged.
"REMUSSSSSSSSS"She yelled running up to hug him
"Lily what the..."that was all he got out before she knocked him to the ground
"Remus I didn't know you were coming"
"Lily I can't breath love"he stated
"Are you implying that i'm fat"she asked Dramatically
"No ofcorse not"he laughed
"Good because i wouldn't ever hug you again and i would beat you up"she Grinned
With that she got up and pranced over to everyone else.
"Ready to go?" She questioned
"Lily?"James Rae and Sirius questioned all at once
"Hey"she grinned
"Lily, you neva told me you got greek gods at your school"she laughed
"trust me they weren't greek gods last year"she laughed
"you like how they have a conversation like were not here?"James asked
"No they think I'm a greek god"Sirius declared
"hopeless"Remus murmured
"OK load up we gotta be there in ...2MINUTES!"everyone loaded into the truck . Remus Lily and Rae in the front and James Sirius AND Nevaeh in the back. Lily had warned them that she was muggle.
"Poor Nevaeh, She's in HEAVEN."lily laughed
"Pedals its cold back here "
"sorry wings.were...here! Everyone out!"
"Is the church providing the tents for this?"Lily asked Nevaeh
"I'm not sure."
about 20 teens loaded up onto the bus.
I stumbled getting onto the bus. James caught me. I mumbled a thanx and made my way to the back. It was getting hot i pulled my white hoodie off. I think Nevaeh had read my mind because I turned around to see her pulling hers off. We sat down in the back seat. I pulled out my walk-man. I put in my good charlotte Cd and hummed. I had to turn the volume up all the way because the bus had just stared in on a song
I KNOW A SONG THAT GETS ON EVERYBODY'S NERVES
EVERYBODY'S NERVES
I KNOW A SONG THAT GETS ON EVERYBODY'S NERVES
AND THIS IS HOW IT GOES
BUMBUMBUM
it was getting on my nerves .I ignored them and started to sing along
it's
a new day But it all feels old At
my high school It felt more to me That
I don't ever wanna be like you You "Go to
college, Do you really
wanna be like them? You You
It's a good life,
That's
what I'm told
But everything, it all just feels the same
Like a jail cell, or
penitentiary
My time spent there, it only made me see
I don't wanna do the things you
do
I'm never gonna hear the words you say
And I don't ever
wanna,
I don't ever wanna be
Don't wanna be just
like you
What I'm sayin' is
This is the anthem
Throw all
your hands up
You
Don't wanna be you
A university
Get a real job"
That's what they
said to me
But I could never live the way they want
I'm gonna
get by
And just do my time
Out of step while
They all get in
line
I'm just a minor threat so pay no mind
Do you really wanna be another trend?
Do
you wanna be part of their crowd?
Cause I don't ever wanna
I
don't ever wanna be
Don't wanna be just like you
What
I'm sayin' is
This is the anthem
Throw all your hands
up
You
Don't wanna be like you
Don't wanna be
just like you
What I'm sayin' is
This is the anthem
Throw
all your hands up
Y'all got to feel me, sing if you're with
me
You
Don't wanna be just like you (just like you)
This is
the anthem
Throw all your hands up
Y'all got to feel me, sing
if you're with me
Another loser anthem (Whoa-oh)
Another loser
anthem (Whoa-oh)
Another loser anthem (Whoa-oh)
Another loser
anthem
there was an odd silence wen i stopped singing. Oh crap everyone had stopped singing they had heard me!then they all started Laughing. Hot tears prickled my eyes I couldn't cry that would make it worse. There were only 3 people not laughing Nevaeh James and Remus.I just smiled.Nevaeh turned on me"you didn't tell me you sang on choir songs I felt bad because I do!"she sounded scandilizaed
"I must really suck hun"
"No everyone's laughing because perfect lily evans was singing good charlotte"
"ohh my bad"
Lily that was awsome you rocked" james stammered
"i didn't know you could sing"Remus statted sounding stunned
"my roommates knew but one of them told me i really sucked and shouldn't sing in public"she grinned
They knew what roommate Lily was talking about.
Just then pastor wayne stood up.
"Ladies and Gentlemen There are 30 of you and we decided tenting would be to much so we have decided were renting 6 cabins in the woods with a lake river and a ...beach
Everyone started cheeering. Lily was excited lists are being passeed back on the main things were doing choir we will be practicing on sunday nights also were booked to stay for 5 weeks" he smiled
my and Nevaeh's mouths dropped we needed to go shopping!
Lily Nevaeh I see your shooked faces there will be places to shop.Theres a board walk"He laughed we visibly relaxed. This was gonna be the best 5 weeks EVER.
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