Hi. I'm nandotabby, and this is my first fanfic ever! I'm excited! SO, this is a Lily and James fic because I've read every scenario possible for them to get together and it will be a good fic and I'm sick of it! So then I thought of this totally random new one that I haven't read yet. It follows basically the same course, but its summer time, my favorite setting for Lily/James and guess what? Their friends actually didn't force them into the same house. (no offence at all to anyone, I started writing one just like that until I saw that I was copping someone else's story word for word. I understand that this idea must have cropped somewhere!Nope, that's not what happens but it does still follow the same routine of them being in the same house and eventually falling for each other, the beginning is just a tad bit different. That's all. So if you are as addicted to these characters as I am then I bet you might at least start to read my story. If you get bored and leave, at least tell me why in a review. It will make my writing technique change to benefit others. Hopefully. Just please send in a review if you read this at all. Please? Ok, now that you've read my mountain sized beginning I must start on with the story! ONWARD!
Disclaimer- JK Rowling is the coolest person ever and she can put really cool things called copyright laws on all of her stuff so we cant steal. I don't want to be taken by the copyright police so I must admit that what I am writing is hers and the summer plot like thing is probably not even mine. All I have is a computer. Wait….that's Dell's.
Chapter One
I was having a rather pleasant dream when an owl knocked on my window and woke me. Summer holidays had started just last week and all I wanted to do was catch up on lost sleep. The last week of school my friends and I had been having lots of late nights playing truth or dare, pranking the marauders, and just hanging out before it was time to leave school and go home.
Only being half awake, I simply hit my window, hoping it would make the noise go away. My window simply opened and the owl flew in. It only dropped the letter on my desk and made its way out the way it came, another letter still in hand. It must have had another letter to deliver.
Groggily I got out of bed and retrieved the letter. It was a Hogwarts letter for sure, but what could they want from me the first week into vacations…? Duh! I could have smacked myself. The tutoring program. Dumbledore had talked to me about a tutoring program that would take place over the summer, and that I was someone they had to have as a teacher, especially since I was head girl. The sixth and seventh year prefects and James, head boy, and I were asked to do it.
Checking my clock I dashed down to show mum. She would be elated. Although I still hadn't really read it at all myself. Ah well. It was 9:30 in the morning and Mum and Petunia were having a cup of tea, having already eaten their share of breakfast. I grabbed a pop-tart (sorry if pop-tarts aren't British or w/e but they are basically the food that can be eaten anywhere! They are awesome.) and stuck it in the toaster, sitting at the table with them.
"Good morning Lily, dear." Said mum, with her unusually cheery voice. "What's that you've got there?"
"Just a letter from Hogwarts," Petunia stiffened at the name. "saying that I'm to be a summer tutor this vacation."
"Oh, how wonderful darling!" She said, getting up to give me a bear hug. "Let me see."
I handed her the envelope, remembering that I still hadn't read it through myself.
"This is wonderful darling, but you have to report to the home of your student every other day. For a month. That's a great amount of your vacations."
"Oh, I never really read it through myself…" I muttered.
"But, your student sounds familiar. Daniel Potter. Didn't you say once that you don't like that boy?" She asked, a look of confusion on her face.
I froze in shock on my way to the toaster. This was terrible! James Potter's little brother? My tutor student?
"Err…That's his older brother, James. He's in my year, whereas Daniel is in third year. Lemme see that." I walked over to get the letter from my mum, as I was fighting hyperventilating.
"Great!" I yelled. "Now, I get to go to my worst enemy's house once, every two days! This is a dream come true!"
"Now, calm down Lily. It can't be that bad. Just let us go together and see how bad it really is. How does it say we'll get there again?"
"They said that we will apparate there and make arrangements for the future once we got there."
"Yes, Lily, I have a wedding to plan and you just need to leave." My sister sneered at me as she picked up her cup and took it to the sink.
"Maybe I will go." I fumed at my sister's stupidity. I still couldn't believe she had found a man that would willingly live in a house with her in some form of unity. In this case a marriage. Not that you could call her fiancé Vernon much of a man.
"Swell." My mom seemed to not get my aggravation.
Finishing my pop-tart, I walked to my room to call Ava, my best friend. She wasn't really good at advice, but she was a good person to vent to, as she would vent right back.
"Hello?" Ava sounded distracted as she answered her cell phone. This was a bad sign. When she was distracted it wasn't a good idea to vent to her, much less talk to her. She would even go to lengths as to tell you to be quite. The problem with this is that we're on the phone! The point of the telephone is communication and speaking, as in talking.
"Hey." I tried to sound like I didn't notice her distraction.
"Hi…"
"What's up?" I tried a card that said, what the hell are you doing being distracted at a time like this?
"…"
"What's up?" I said it again! Just in case she didn't hear me.
"Huh? What?"
"I said, 'what's up?' and you said nothing." Now I was getting angry on top of angriness. This was not good.
"Oh, I really don't want to talk right now, I'm watching 'The Office'."
"Ok, fine." I said, snapping my phone shut. It was so annoying when she did that. She can be great to talk to when she wants to talk. Key word there. When she wants to talk.
I paced around my room, searching for something to do. Anything to get my mind off the fact that I had to go to James Potter's house in a few days. The James Potter. The one that has gone out with half of Hogwarts. The feminine half that is. The half that wasn't Lily. Even Ava went out with him at one point. He was also a sodding nut case. He asked her out every day it seemed. And she rejected him every time. He was to much of an egotistical, rude, immature, and even promiscuous boy for any human being to want to even be in company with. He was just plain annoying.
My mom popped her head in the doorway, a stressed look on her face. This happened everyday. She would be fine in the morning and then she would have a wedding to plan so she would just run 'round stressed all day. Best speak with her in the morning before the stress bus came up and hit her.
"Lily dear, would you get dressed and ready, we all have to pick a location for the reception and our planner is already here. Please." My mom was starting to beg. This was sad.
I ran to the shower, blasting the water, and jumping in when it wasn't even warm yet. I probably only had like six minutes to get ready, but I couldn't just leave without showering.
Getting out of the shower and towling off, I grabbed the closest outfit, put some gel in my hair, and ran downstairs.
"Come on, Freak. Before we're late and my life is once again ruined by the weird Lily Evans." Scowled my sister in my direction, heading for the car.
"Yes, come along Lily, we want to get a good start." Said Jackie, our planner.
"Ok, ok, I'm here now aren't I?" Jeez, are they that stupid, can we go instead of just criticizing me?
After the excruciatingly long trip through what seemed to be the whole freaking world, we finally got back. It was past dinner time when we got home. I had to eat a microwave dinner and go strait to sleep if I wanted to get to Potter's on time. They wanted me to be there at nine in the morning. It was vacations. On vacations one must sleep until ten every morning and be late to obligations, no matter what. Unless you are me. Then you have to be perfect. At school I'm close to perfect, but I can't be that way all the time now can I?
Crawling into bed, I snapped off my light and put my head to the pillow, hoping for a quick sleep. It didn't come. I had way to much on my mind. What if Sirius was staying there? I don't think I could take that much of them over my summer. Finally sleep engulfed me.
What do ya think? Review for me please, I need some kind of response. Please? If you like it then ill make the chapters much longer, I promise, I just wanted to get some kind of audience. Promise this isn't going to be as long as my opening. Oh, wait, I have nothing to say. Bye, and review!