James Potter=15

Albus Potter =14

Lily Potter=12

It was a few days after Hogwarts let out for the summer break, and the Potter kids were at home. Ginny was staying at the house, working on the article, while Harry was out at the Ministry. Lily Potter knew something was up with her brothers. She had no idea what it could be, but what she did know was that James recently broke up with his girlfriend of four months, and Albus was seeing a girl.

"You actually have the nerve to ask me what is wrong." James said, Lily could hear him from her own room, her new best friend Cassie was the room as well, they two girls were chatting about the loved about school and guys they like. "You have a lot of nerve you double sided snake."

"What the bloody hell are you talking about? I am not the one who quit talking, that was all you!" Albus said, Lily and Cassie looked at each other.

"What are they arguing about?" Cassie asked, Lily shrugged, and her guess was as good as Cassie's.

"You want to know what is wrong. Alright I'll tell you, even though you already know what it is." James cried.

"How can I know what it is if you don't tell me," Albus said, Lilly knew he was getting tired of James acting like a child.

"I saw you with her Albus, I saw you two kissing in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom," James replied, by the sound of his voice, Lily could hear that James was furious, he wasn't yelling, but he was almost there. "I saw my ex-girlfriend kissing my little brother, my brother who is a bloody Slytherin."

"Your brothers are weird Lily," Cassie said, Lily nodded in response; they were both trying not to laugh.

"I know," Lily told her.

"Miranda? That is what you're mad about?" Albus asked, "You two were already broken up and you said you didn't even care about her anymore. For all you cared, she could have gone out with every guy in school."

"YOU DON'T BLOODY GET IT! You are my brother, and brothers never, NEVER go out with his brother's ex-girlfriend." James said, he sounded furious.

"You still like her?" Albus asked, realizing that James still liked Miranda.

"Oh go fuck a tree you traitor!" James said and Lily heard a door slam shut. It wasn't a loud slam, but it was enough to know that James was mad.

"Do they always fight like that?" Cassie asked as Lily walked away from the door and sat on the floor near Cassie.

"It depends," Lily replied, "When James uses muggle cuss language, then you know he is mad because he only says it if he is really, really mad."

"Won't he get in trouble by your mum?" Cassie asked,

"No, mum is down stairs, she is in the study and the room is sound proof." Lily said.

It was an hour later and Cassie went home a few minutes before, Lily was outside James's room, and she gathered her courage and knocked on the door.

"If its Albus then sog off," James said from the room, he didn't care who was at the door, all he knew was that Albus helped break his heart.

"It's me James," Lily said from outside the room.

"Come in Lil," James said, and Lily noticed that James's voice sounded calmer when he said her name. Lily walked in the room, she saw her elder brother on the bed, an opened magazine on the bed.

"I heard you and Al fighting," she said.

"Good, then you know the little snake can't be trusted," James replied.

"Are you really going to let a girl get in-between you two?" Lily asked, James looked down at the magazine. It seemed to take forever before he answered.

"Yes" James replied. He sounded like a little child in Lily's opinion.

"Is that really why you're mad at him?" Lily asked, she heard her mother and father use that tactic on the three of them, and surprisingly it worked all the time. James pondered that question.

"Yes," he said. Lily strained herself from yelling at him.

"But it isn't his entire fault," Lily said.

"Of course it is Lily, that is an unspoken rule," James made it sound like it was the only reason.

"Fine, just remember it is just as much your fault as it is his," Lily said she left the room, saying things like that made Lily feel a lot older than her actual age.

Lily reached her older brother's room, Albus. She knocked on his door.

"Hey Al its me," Lily said as she walked in the room. She saw Albus at his desk, she saw the quill was moving fast along the paper, he stopped writing and turned the chair around.

"Hey Lily." He said.

"I heard you and James." Lily told him, Albus just nodded silently.

"Sorry about that," he said to her, "he can be a real arse in the neck at times."

"Why apologize to me?" Lily asked her brother.

"Did James put you up to making me feel bad about Miranda?" Albus asked, he was about ready to go to James room and tell him off for using their sister as a shield.

"No of course not, I came on my own; James has nothing to do with me being here." Lilly said to him

"Good," Albus said. "What are doing here then?"

"Go apologize to James already, I can't stand to see you two fighting, and hating each other," Lily said.

"He should apologize first," Albus said, and Lily was ready to strangle Albus now. Was acting like a baby affecting everybody today?

"It doesn't matter who apologizes first, it is both you who has the same blame," Lily said.

"It's not my fault he wants to act like I am the reason she broke up with him," Albus said. "She came to me Lily."

"That isn't how James sees it Albus," Lily said.

"So? If he doesn't want to talk me then that is fine by me, it will be like first year all over again." Albus said, defending himself.

"Fine," Lily said. "Just don't let this destroy you two in the end."

Lily walked out of Albus's room, and she so wished she knew a way to get her brothers to stop fighting, then it hit her. She knew both of her brothers loved cookies, especially homemade original sugar cookies with icing. Lily went down the study room and she walked in the room, seeing her mum at the desk, reading the article.

"Hey mum," Lily said.

"Hey Lily, what can I do for you?" Ginny Potter asked her daughter.

"James and Albus are fighting again," Lily said to her mother.

"What is it over?" Ginny asked, her focus was on her daughter now.

"Over a girl apparently," Lily said.

"Right, well, are you thinking what I am thinking?" Ginny asked, staring Lily in the eyes.

"Yes" Lily said with a nod.

"Let's go make some cookies then, I am feeling hungry, are you?" Ginny said as she stood up and headed to the kitchen.

The cookies were done and Ginny and Lily iced the two dozen cookies. The entire kitchen smelled of the aroma.

"Lily go get the boys," Ginny said as Lily raced up the steps towards the second floor.

"James want some cookies?" Lily asked as she popped her head in James's room, she saw him perk up as she said that. She then went to Albus's room. "Hey Al, cookies are ready if you want some."

Both boys raced down stairs to the dining room, and when they walked in, they saw no cookies on the table and then they heard the double doors shut and heard the doors lock.

"Hey let me out," James said as he tried to open the door, but no luck.

"Yeah don't leave me with him," Albus said who rattled the door handle.

Lily looked at her mother and both made a high five and shared a bag of cookies.

Lily put some Extendable Ears under the door and used the other end to hear what the two brothers were saying to each other.

"… I don't care what your reasons were Al, she was my girlfriend," James said. "Do you have any idea how that made me feel?"

"How was I supposed to know you still liked her if you said you didn't?" Albus said. "You said that you didn't care about her anymore. Besides she said she liked me."

"I do admit I should have been… more clear about it but… darn it Al I thought you knew how I felt about her." James said, there was silence now.

"I'm sorry James… I should of asked before I started seeing her… But I was pretty cool to have an older girl interested in me for a change though." Albus said, Lily rolled her eyes, Boys.

"I thought you did?" James said, Lily could tell the atmosphere between them was getting clear. "I thought that girl named Whilimina liked you, she was in my year."

"No, we only pretended," Albus replied, Lili and Ginny looked at each other. Lily had to admit that those two hid some secretes.

"Why?" James asked.

"I can't say," Albus said, Lily imagined him shaking his head and crossing his arms.

"Oh come on Al, please?" James said again.

"Fine, do you really want to know?" Albus asked, Lily had to bite her lip to keep herself from responding.

"Yes," James said, then silence…

"What is the secret?" Lily said as she found herself saying it out loud.

Ginny opened the door, and she put the plat of cookies down on the table.

"Thanks mum," both Albus and James said as they took a cookie each.