A new story, great:-)

I wrote this one as if it happened before my other story "Fire", so don't be surprised if you recognize the names of Lily's friends. I plan to create a trilogy of stories with this one as the first, then another one (probably also Lily/James) and "Fire" as the last story. Well, I don't know yet.

Disclaimer: I have bought the rights yesterday, so everything is MINE! No, not really...

So, here's the first chapter of "Summer Nights":

"Magixchange? That sounds tempting!" said the girl with the remarkable green eyes, looking at a little advert, which was pinned to the magical notice board in the Gryffindor Common Room (little coloured letters were sliding over the board, forming adverts and messages for the students).

Her friend Nadine Meyer had interrupted her while she had been learning some minutes before.

Lily Evans had reacted a bit irritably to this disturbance ("Can't you see that I am revising our DADA subjects?"), but Nadine had not felt insulted or offended because almost every student became angry very fast at the moment. The reasons for this entire bad mood were the forthcoming OWLs.

It was the weekend before they would take their exams and – naturally – everybody (except the lazy students and last-minute-learners) tried to revise their stuff in their free time.

But Nadine couldn't really understand why Lily was that tense. No matter what challenge her beautiful friend had to pass, she did it excellently.

Lily always got an "outstanding" and she was a teachers' darling, just like James Potter, but he wasn't quite as popular with the teachers as Lily (well, would your teachers appreciate it very much if you tried to blow up the toilet?).

But right after her break-out, Lily had apologized to her blonde friend Nadine because she was a really peace-loving person.

Then she had followed Nadine to the notice board together with her other friends, Elena Fuego and Jennifer Hardy.

Actually, Lily was glad to get a diversion from her school books and from DADA. She was very good at school, but that didn't change the fact that she hated the stress and pressure before their exams.

The three girls read the little advert, Nadine was pointing at:

Your friends are looking forward to great adventures and much fun in your summer holidays, but not you? You have to stay at home and feel bored?

Then take part in Magixchange – the magical exchange programme!

Exchange for 2 months of your holidays combined with holiday work;

Just pick one of the countries on the following list and we will find a host family for you.

…

To apply for the exchange, send your owls to…

Below the list with the countries, they could see the address of IME (Institute for Magical Exchanges).

After reading this advert, Lily was really like fire and flame – she was totally thrilled.

Elena and Jennifer weren't very enthusiastic about Magixchange because they already had a plan for their summer holidays: Elena and her family would visit their relatives in Spain, Jennifer and her older sister Elsa would go on a backpack-trip through Europe.

That's why the two girls went back to their repetitions, but without Lily and Nadine.

"Accio piece of paper and pen" Lily muttered under her breath in order to keep the silence of the room and after some seconds, the called things flew into her outstretched hand. She wrote down the address of IME on the piece of paper.

Nadine was also very interested in Magixchange and so, she suggested to apply immediately and also write letters to their parents to ask for permission, but as the exchange was quite cheap, safe and combined with holiday work their parents would probably agree with everything.

Lily and her friend sat down on their chairs next to the fire again and wrote letters to their families at first and then, they had to choose one country from the list. As they both had always dreamed of one certain country, the destination was quickly found: Australia.

Having also written the application for the programme, the two students turned back to their books, but a bit less tense than before.

Especially the redhead felt very happy because this journey was her opportunity of getting rid of James Potter for at least 2 months!

He had really managed to come to Lily's house last summer and tell her parents that he was her boyfriend.

Unlike their two daughters, the Evans had liked Potter very much because he could be a very good ass-kisser – bloody good!

But in spite of this, the girl with the smooth, dark-red hair had thrown him out of their house when he had started to talk about their wedding on his 3rd visit.

It was one thing to ask her for dates all the time, but he had really gone too far by coming to her house and lying to her family.

It had taken her much effort to tell her parents that their "charming young man" and "to-be son-in-law" was just a stupid liar and a show-off and they had really been very disappointed.

After that summer, Lily had ignored James as well as she could or insulted him whenever he asked her for a date. Her peaceable nature ended with the mention of his name or his presence.

Therefore, this Magixchange was just the right thing for the 15-year-old girl: 2 months without Potter – heavenly!

But you may know that everything turns out to be differently than you think it is…

To be continued...

What do you think about this chapter? Please tell me, thanks!