A/N: This is a Lily/James fic! I'm sorry to say that I've paired up all of Lily's friends with all of James' friends, but it had to be done! I suppose this is an AU fic because Sirius has a twin sister (whose name might change throughout lol because I didn't like the first name and had to change them all and I may have missed a few) and they also have a little brother.
Disclaimer: I only own Katie, Aries, Gemini and their parents and owls and stuff! Oh yeh! And Kate and Robyn! Ok ok ok! Anything you recognise isn't mine! Lol!
-Chapter 1-
The Potters Arrive
In Little Whinging, Privet Drive to be precise, it was just another bright summer's morning. The sun was gleaming across the rooftops and shimmering along the cars. The sky was a beautiful pale blue and it made the air seem clean and crisp. At number four life went on like it did everyday. Rose Evans made breakfast, Lily Evans went out to the shop to get the newspaper for her father, Robert Evans and Petunia Evans whined on about Lily and her freak school.
For muggles everything seemed normal, but that's just because they didn't notice the purple triple-decker bus that had just landed on the pavement. The doors flung open and out came a woman, with blonde hair and hazel eyes, a man and a 17 year old boy along with several large suitcases and a grand piano. There should have also been two twins and a younger boy but they had been forced to go home and tell there mother that the Potter's had moved and to tell her where before leaving again.
The boy and the man immediately busied themselves with the luggage as the woman tossed her blonde hair over her shoulder and walked up the path to a house with a red door. She pushed the door, but it didn't open. She was puzzled and looked around before pushing the door again, this time with slightly more force. She looked at the door in disgust and crossed her arms and began to think. She suddenly had an idea and began fumbling around in her jacket pockets. After a few moments she found what she was looking for, a small, silver key. She began prodding it at the door viciously.
The man, who had watched her with amusement, rushed forward and reached into his pocket. He had lots of messy, black hair and blue eyes and looked very friendly. His wife stopped him from bringing his hand out and said, "now Edward dear, you know we can't in this area, it's full of muggles!"
He sighed, as he realised that his wife was right, and withdrew his empty hand. He took the key off his wife and began searching for a hole in the door. An old man, who was walking his dog, looked in amazement at the grand piano that was on the lawn and then at the boy, whose floppy, black hair was falling into his hazel coloured eyes, behind and in front of his round, black rimmed glasses. The boy gave him a 'have you got a problem with that' look and the old man quickened his pace and carried on walking his dog. His dog, however, had a different idea. He didn't want to go, so instead bounded merrily up to the boy and began wagging his tail.
"Come on Bonzo, time to go!" the old man said and the dog obediently but reluctantly followed his owner. The boy chuckled and got a stern look from his mother.
Lily Evans was walking along the street with a newspaper in her hand. She had just been to the corner shop for her father and was returning home again. She reached into her pocket and turned the volume up on her c.d. player.
"People kill and people dying, children hurt you hear them crying" she sang along to the music "will you practice what you preach, would you turn the other cheek. Father, father, father…OH NO!" she stopped dead as she saw the sight in front of her at her neighbours house. She hurried on quickly, hoping that he wouldn't see her.
"EVANS?" he called, she winced and span around.
"Potter" she said, acknowledging him.
"Why are you…" He began, but was cut off by his mother pushing in front of him. Lily tried to escape but the lady, who turned out to be Mrs Potter, grabbed her arm and refrained her from doing so.
"Do you know each other?" they both nodded, glaring at each other "how perfectly delightful! Where from?"
"From school Mrs. Potter" Lily answered, James wasn't likely to have anyway.
"Oh do call me Shirley! Well, if you go to Hogwarts then you'll understand our problem then!" Lily's eyes flicked to the grand piano on the lawn and smirked at James who mouthed 'it could happen to anyone!' innocently and then glared back.
"You see," Shirley Potter continued "we haven't really gone without magic for very long and neither of us took muggle studies"
"What's the problem then Mrs. Potter, my parents are muggles and I'll happily help you with anything, by the way muggles don't usually put pianos on their gardens!" James glared even more.
"Oh no dear! It's not that! The fact of the matter is that we're not sure how to get into the house! My that sounds absurd!"
Lily chuckled to herself as she showed Mr and Mrs Potter how to locate the keyhole and open the door. They gratefully said goodbye and Lily went home. James glared at her.
Lily opened her own front door, took off her coat ad hung it up and then went to put down the newspaper, but when she saw it she realised that she had absentmindedly screwed it up. Ugh! That James Potter! He thinks he's so great! Lily thought just because him and his idiot friend Sirius Black play Quidditch they think they're so good! When they're not! Just because…
"Did you get my paper Lily love?" Robert Evans shouted from the kitchen, interrupting her thoughts. She went through into the kitchen and saw her mum, Rose Evans, sitting at the table drinking a cup of tea beside her father, Robert Evans, who was eating a piece of toast. She looked round the rest of the room and found her sister, Petunia, on the telephone to her boyfriend Vernon Dursley, who, in Lily's opinion looked like a large grape in a suit.
Lily put the remains of the newspaper down on the table and sat down opposite her mother.
"Oh! What did the poor Times every do to you Lily? You seem to have massacred it!" Robert Evans laughed looking at the remains of his newspaper "I expect you to attend the funeral!"
"I see that the new neighbours have finally arrived," said Rose, breaking the silence and changing the subject from dead newspapers.
"Mm" replied Lily. She really couldn't have cared less.
"Strange though, I never saw a removal van and they had a large piano in the middle of their lawn, ah well, maybe that's traditional where they come from," Said Mr Evans, looking amusedly at the ball of newspaper again.
"Oh yeah, they're wizards" said Lily, with extreme boredom. Mr and Mrs Evans were anything but bored at this information. They loved wizards and anything to do with them. They had read many of Lily's schoolbooks and were greatly excited that Lily went to magic school. They started firing rapid questions in quick succession at Lily, like 'do you know them?' 'Are they nice?' and 'do you think they'll like us?'
Lily answered all of their questions before going up to her bedroom, she had better things to do than discuss Potter. He really was the most arrogant, big headed person with the most inflated ego she had ever had the misfortune to meet. She slammed her door shut with frustration and then paced over to the window and looking out of it. She quickly moved away as she saw that her bedroom was directly opposite James Potter's. She flopped on her bed and stared at the ceiling. Why did he always have to ruin my life? She thought why was he so infuriating? Why was he so…ugh! There aren't any words bad enough to describe him! He's just…EVIL!
Later that day, when her mum had gotten her out of her room and dragged her downstairs, she was made to deliver a large, sticky chocolate cake to the Potter's. There was nothing that she could do to change her mother's mind. Lily tried every excuse in the book, but none of them worked because Lily's mother was busy organising a bingo evening and didn't have enough time to deliver it herself.
She reluctantly left the house and dashed next door well if I have to do it better make it sooner rather than later and get it over with as soon as possible! She knocked on the cherry red door and got a nasty shock when James opened it, she was hoping for either Mr or Mrs Potter.
"Oh, great, Evans, just who I wanted to see! What? Come to see the great almighty Potter?" said James, leaning against the doorframe.
"Don't flatter yourself, I don't want to see you either! My mum told me to give this to your mum; it's from her, not me!" she turned to leave, but was interrupted by Mrs Potter who came and invited her inside, she tried to resist but Mrs Potter was too forceful. Lily talked to Mrs Potter about muggles, her parents, muggles, bingo, muggles and Lily and her friends. Lily told Mrs Potter that she was in Gryffindor and that her best friends were Victoria Black and Katie Felton. Mrs Potter was pleased, she was good friends with Mrs Felton and knew Gemini Black because of Sirius, she was also very happy about Gryffindor and said that it really was the best house, she wasn't biased in the slightest! Lily kept trying to leave, but Mrs Potter wouldn't let her.
"I know you probably have more important things to do," my, she got that fast thought Lily "so I'm only going to ask you one more thing, would you and your parents like to come to our moving in party tonight, it starts at 8pm"
"I'll ask" was all that Lily said before darting out of the door and back to the safety of her own home.
Lily did tell her parents, because she was an honest person and unfortunately they said that they had to go. Mr and Mrs Evans spent all day trying to make themselves look their best and forced Lily and Petunia to make themselves look respectable and go. Both Lily and Petunia put up good fights but lost spectacularly to their mother, who was very stubborn.
Lily went up to her room and basically threw on a pair of jeans and white T-shirt, she didn't care how she looked, it was only Potter! She sat down and divided her hair in half before plaiting it in two loose braids that hung down and tickled her shoulders. She went downstairs to find her sister in her usual pink, girlie skirt and flowery top, her father in a suit and her mum in a fairly formal black outfit. They went round to the neighbours with their father carrying a bottle of Champagne.
Rose Evans knocked on the door and James opened it. When Petunia saw James her eyes lit up and she smiled, which was any girl's normal reaction when they saw James Potter. Lily rolled her eyes and reminded her sister that she already had a boyfriend, Lily Evans was not any girl. In fact, her and her friends had even started the 'I hate James Potter fan club' which met to discuss the arrogance of James Potter. If Lily had had it her way it would've been the 'I hate James Potter and Sirius Black fan club' but since the other two members were Gemini Black, Sirius' twin sister and Katie Felton, who had a massive crush on Sirius, they decided against the idea.
"Hello, you must be the Evans', my parents are through there somewhere, let me take your coats," said James as he opened the door. He took Mr and Mrs Evans' coats, Petunia coat, who giggled madly, which, made Lily roll her eyes for the second time in under a minute. But when James came to Lily he said "I don't want to touch your coat Evans, I'll get your germs!"
"I don't want to be in your house, Potter, it gives me the creeps!" Lily replied, her eyes squinting already.
"Yeah, well, I don't even want you in my house Evans, your making it look untidy" he drawled.
"Right back at you Potter!" Lily said. James' best friend Sirius Black, who came bounding up to them out of no where, interrupted their arguments.
"Hey look! It's Evans! What's she doing here? Aw! You're going out, aren't you!" Sirius said, still leaping about.
"I DON'T THINK SO!" Lily shouted.
"I wish" James muttered under his breath, but no one heard it.
Lily went to look for Gemini and Katie, if Sirius was here they were both bound to be here. Lily found them outside next to, what looked like a Quidditch pitch. She ran up and hugged them, they hadn't seen each other all summer and were happy to be reunited, even if it was at Potter's house. Lily talked with them for a bit before looking around for other familiar faces, she noticed Andrew Wood, Mary Johnson and the rest of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, Ludo Bagman a Gryffindor that left school last year along with Bartimus Crouch and Arabella Figg, who lived opposite them. She noticed that Peter Pettigrew, a small, chubby, blond boy that idolised James Potter and Remus Lupin, a very good friend of Sirius and James weren't there. She realised why Lupin wasn't there when she looked into the sky and saw a full moon, but she couldn't explain why Pettigrew wasn't there, though, come to think of it, Lupin, Potter and Black were always finding new ways to ditch him.
At about 9pm, James decided that they should all play Quidditch on his super duper, magical, anti-muggle pitch, Lily's parents and sister were allowed to see it as the other adults helped them to remove certain charms. They split the Gryffindor team up, because that would be unfair and made new teams. James, Mary Johnson and Pip Shoesmith were chasers, Sirius and Ludo beaters, Arthur Weasley keeper and Sophia Stephanides seeker. On the other team, Lily, Katie and Gemini were chasers, Kate Thompson and Laura Thompson beaters, Andrew Wood keeper and Tom Chang seeker. Edward Potter decided to commentate and Elaine Tang was the referee.
They started like any normal Quidditch game, with the shaking hands of the captains, James and Andrew, the releasing of the balls and then the game commenced. Even though James, Mary and Pip were the best chasers the other three were best friends and had the advantage of being to able to read each other's thoughts and actions. The same was with the Thompson twins, except Kate was more violent; she was the evil twin! James found it hard to score against Andrew, as he never actually had to score against him, due to the fact that they were normally on the same side.
"Well, this match is good!" commentated Edward Potter from the specially made commentator's box "there had been no sign of the snitch and Wood's team's winning 100-90! Ha! You're having a tough time getting past him! What a superb keeper!" A flash went off and Mrs Potter took a photograph of everyone playing so that they could all have a copy.
The game went on with Wood's team in the lead and Potter's team not far behind. The snitch wasn't seen until half an hour into the game Tom Chang spotted it hovering next to Sophia Stephanides foot. He quickly swooped and caught it in one clean move; he wasn't seeker of the Ravenclaw team for no reason. He had excellent eyesight and superb flying skills, he was the best seeker in the school but Gryffindor still seemed to win, due to the fact of their 3 marvellous chasers and fantastic keeper.
They all came down from the air and were congratulated by the other guests. All very tired they began to traipse off home, Mr and Mrs Evans made Petunia and Lily stay behind to help clean up. Lily was picking up litter when James approached her.
"I didn't know you could play like that Evans!" he said in surprise.
"Well now you do" she replied and carried on putting the rubbish in a bin.
"You should try out for the team," he said.
"Yeah right!" she laughed and walked over to where Katie and Gemini were standing talking.
"I wish you would and then I could spend loads more time with you" James said quietly to himself.
Lily invited Katie to spend the rest of the summer at her house and she said she would, but she'd have to come in a week's time, as she was very busy at home. Gemini was muttering something about her stupid brother being the favourite and being stupid and something like that. They laughed and talked a while longer before Katie had to go home. Gemini and her twin brother Sirius, along with their younger brother Aries as they no longer lived at home. Great thought Lily just what I need! The Dream Duo messing up my summer! Well isn't this gonna be just fantastic!
Lily and Katie said their goodbyes and promised to write to each other before Katie came to stay over. After that Lily and her family went home, Lily looked at her photo of the game, smiled, put it on her notice board and fell fast asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow.
"Goodnight my sweet flower" said James drawing his curtains and going to bed himself.
