July 2nd- Lily: 4 years, Vic: 10 years, Teddy: 13 years

It's a sunny day, the type of day when your mom casts a hundred sun protection charms on you and sticks a hat on top of your head because she's Mum and therefore prone to overreacting.

You and Vic are sitting out in the garden, her reading a book and you pretending to read over her shoulder. She often ends up watching you because she's not terribly interested in Quidditch and is the least likely to feed you something from Uncle George's shop or chuck you in the pond and teach you to swim. You're basically friends, as far as two people that far apart in ages can be, because you're rather mature for your age and Vic sometimes isn't.

Teddy comes over later, smiling and teasing Vic because even though she's three years younger he's just realized that girls maybe don't have cooties and wow she's pretty. He puts up with you because he idolizes your dad and you don't bother him to let you ride on his new Lightning 2000 or ask him to change his hair a hundred different colors like Rose does (you sometimes see her with her face screwed up, like she's trying to become a Metamorphous too).

Vic puts her book down and pulls you up into her lap as a sort of shield against Teddy (boys have germs and do weird things like pull your hair or poke you after all). The two of them start talking, and it's moderately awkward but not incredibly so. Somehow, Vic ends up braiding half of your hair and trying to teach Teddy how to do the other half. They're laughing and it's becoming less like braids and more like knots, but you're giggling too.

You mum snaps a picture, the three of you laughing and it's pronounced "adorable" by everyone in the family. Teddy is teased mercilessly and refuses to even give you a hug for nearly a month, but somehow by the time you're fifth birthday rolls around the three of you are best friends.

September 1st- Lily: 6 years, Vic: 11 years, Teddy: 15 years

It's the first of September, the first day of Hogwarts for Vic and the beginning of fifth year for Teddy. They're leaving you behind and you hopehopehope that they'll remember you when they go off to the castle of magic and everything that was apparently your dad's favorite time in the world.

Your parents are taking Teddy and you beg to go with them instead of being watched by Aunt Hermione (she always makes you read) and having to play with Hugo who is still only five and always so sticky. So you put on a prettypretty pick dress (look Vic picked it out for you and if you wear what she likes then you'll be angel perfect like her, right?), grab your little dragon toy that Uncle Charlie gave you and get in the car after "helping" Teddy carry his trunk.

You get to the station and spot Vic's silvery blonde hair through the thick fog, but don't run over to her yet because you've got to stick with Teddy- you pinky promised your dad that you wouldn't run off. You nudge Teddy and point to Vic, and the two of you walk over slowly and properly, like how Lucy always tries to (she says she's a princess, but you say you're a dragon and therefore get to have the pretty ring that she found at the playground).

Uncle Bill and Aunt Fleur are standing behind her, Aunt Fleur straightening her robes and trying to make her stand still long enough to finish putting her hair into a braid. They finish finally, and all of you give each other hugs and exclaim over how grown up Teddy looks and how tall you're getting, even though you see them every Sunday when you visit Grandma and Grandpa. It's boring and silly and rather annoying, but you figure it's slightly better than when you go and visit Uncle Dudley and Great Aunt Petunia and she looks like she'll cry and he looks like he's going to run out of the room screaming.

So you're finally done with the family stuff and you're allowed to talk to Vic and give her a hug. You press a flower into her hand to, and it's small and you picked it all by yourself. Teddy just charmed it, you say, and laugh when Uncle Bill gives Teddy his death stare. Vic blushes and starts talking about your dress and things, while out of the corner of your eye you see Teddy's hair turning faintly pink.

The whistle blows though, and Aunt Fleur mumbles something in French before telling you and Teddy and Vic to stand together and smile. You do and she snaps a quick picture that is ruined (in Aunt Fleur's eyes anyways) that has Teddy bent over double laughing because you started tickling him and Vic giving you a pair of bunny ears. She scolds you because there isn't enough time for another picture and Teddy and Vic have already escaped with only quick hugs from the two of them.

You're afraid this means they don't care, but then you see them waving and a little note folded into the shape of a paper crane lands on your head. All it says is 'Write!' in Vic's slightly sloppy handwriting, but you throw them a smile that you're pretty sure they're too far away to see, and rush back over to where your dad and mom have been waylaid by some important guy (you think he might have been the Minister of Magic, possibly) and tug them to the car because you have to get home and send a letter to Teddy and Vic.

August 15th- Lily on her 8th birthday, Vic: 13 years, Teddy: 17 years

It's your birthday, an annoyingly hot day where there are clouds in the sky and enough humidity to make you sweat even with a cooling charm (the fact that Teddy cast it instead of Vic probably doesn't help much). Everyone is crowded into your house, people spilling out of the doors, smallish explosions coming from upstairs (you think that it's coming from James's room and you hope his present is less slimy and explosive than last year) and Dom, Al and Lucy are flying around tossing a Quaffle. Birthdays in your family are always just an excuse for everyone to get together and eat and argue a lot, so you don't really mind that the only people paying attention to you are Teddy and Vic. Even your parents are a bit busy, although you can't blame them. After all, Mum is once again (it's sort of what she does every year for your birthday) trying to bake a cake the Muggle way and Dad is trying to make sure that she doesn't burn down the kitchen.

So you're sitting on the ground next to Teddy because even though you were sitting on his lap earlier he shoved you off because it was just too hot. He looks almost asleep, sprawled over nearly the entire floor of the tree house that your dad built a year back. Vic is leaning against one wall, looking too cool and collected because she managed to get her charm right. You tease Teddy about the fact that she's far better at charms that he is and four years younger.

You all three laugh, although Teddy first pretends that he's terribly angry with you and says that he won't give you your birthday present. Then he takes a package out of his bag, handing it to you. You immediately tear off the wrapping paper, and Vic inches close to see what it is. It's a camera- a pretty one, silver, that Teddy says can take both Muggle and wizard photographs. Pulling Vic closer to you and shoving Teddy upright, you tell them to smile and snap a picture.

It's only a Muggle photograph and a blurry print of your thumb is covering Vic's ear, but you love it and stick it on the wall of your room by a permanent sticking charm that you made Teddy do (your mum gets so so mad, but you work on Dad and Mum doesn't end up murdering you).

June 17th- Lily: 8 years old, Vic: 14 years old, Teddy: 18 years old

It's the first day of summer for Vic, and Teddy's going to be back soon from his London job as an intern at a very 'prisitgious' (according to Aunt Hermione anyways) Potions lab in London. Vic and Teddy have both been sending you letters, but they've been rather short the past month or so. You're worried, worried that they've forgotten about you now that Teddy is out of school and has a real job, and Vic has other friends who she hangs out with at school.

But they all come over the first day back. A huge party is thrown at Grandma's house, and James lords his Gryffindor tie over Al and Roxy and Fred (although he doesn't dare say anything to Lucy because she already has the scary Aunt Audrey death stare down- the one that says "you are so stupid, go die in a hole of dragon dung"). Vic's there, and immediately puts to rest any fears you had when she talks to you for an hour and a half about everything that happened that couldn't fit into her letter. You ask if she's got a boyfriend yet, once the two of you are out of earshot of Uncle Bill anyways, and she blushes red. You tickle her mercilessly but she won't tell, and Teddy isn't there yet to help you out.

He arrives just as dusk begins to fall, greeting everyone with side hugs and you with a twirl. Vic hangs back though, and the two of them disappear off into the tree house that Grandpa and Uncle Ron built.

You wonder what's going on, slipping away from everyone else after two games of Exploding Snap with Louis (he's only five and absolutely adorable- plus he's the only one you can actually beat). Something stops you from just barging in like you usually would, and instead peek in through a window. Vic and Teddy are sitting on the floor, her leaning in his lap, him playing with her long silvery hair. They're smiling and laughing and Teddy's hair is the color of Vic's blueblue eyes.

You make a noise, or start or something and they both turn to look at you. All three of you blush, Teddy's hair transforming from blue to orange, Vic scooting away from him quickly and you can feel the heat rushing over your face.

You go inside, sitting down, arms hugging your knees. They look at you for a sec, then both of them starting talking at the same time. "Sorry Lily, I know we should have wrote you" and "Oh, Lils, gosh, we're so sorry" mingle together, hanging in the air, waiting for you to say something.

You smile, tell them that they are such a cute couple and that you knew that they would be perfect for each other. You're not hurt, not really. Just a little bit worried that there won't be any room for you now. You take a picture of the two of them, with the camera that is still your most prized possession.

It looks a bit off, and you can't figure out why. It's clear and their faces are perfect and they're both just the type of annoying people who look good in photographs so you don't understand. You realize eventually that the reason it looks off is because you're not sitting in the middle, smiling as wide as you can, one arm around both of them.