Untitled:
by
Keira Tucker
Chapter
1: Surviving, pizza making, fighting, and sleeping out under the
stars.
"Lily dear, wake up!" Mrs. Evans called
upstairs to her daughter who was sleeping.
Lily Evans yawned
and got up. She put on a pair of shorts and a green tank top that was
laced up the sides with ribbon. She braided her hair off to one side
and slipped on a pair of white tennis shoes. She walked down the
stairs and took a seat at the table. Her father was there drinking a
cup of coffee and reading the local muggle newspaper. Her mother
brought her over a plate of eggs and bacon.
"Thanks
mum," she said as she dug into her food.
"Lily, your
father and I are leaving for vacation today. Petunia is staying at
her friends house and we are going to be gone for two weeks."
"I
know remember, you told me last week."
"Yes, and we
don't want to leave you home alone. It's dangerous."
Lily
stopped eating the eggs falling off her fork. She looked up towards
her parents.
"James Potter's parents also just happen to
be going on a vacation today for two weeks also and they don't trust
leaving him and his two friends home alone. They are going to come
and stay here with you for the next two weeks."
"Is
this a joke?" she coughed out, she didn't want to spend the next
two weeks with Potter at all and especially not his friends.
"Of
course not Lily, but don't worry I'm sure you will all have a great
time together and its only two weeks."
Lily sat there
thinking. 'James Potter and his friends! Staying for two whole weeks!
All they do is play pranks I'd be better off without them! How, I
mean how, am I ever going to survive
this?!"
The
doorbell began ringing rapidly. 'Wonder who it could possibly be'
Lily thought as she rolled her eyes and opened the door. There stood
James, Sirius, and Remus. James was wearing a black muscle tee and
tan shorts, Sirius was wearing a blue muscle tee and black shorts,
and Remus a red tee-shirt and khaki shorts. The were all standing
there with huge grins on there faces. Lily took one look at them,
sighed, and slammed the door shut. They opened the door themselves
and walked in.
"Aw Lils I'm hurt your acting like your
upset to see us" James said putting on a fake pout.
"Naw,
she loves us all" Sirius said smirking and putting his arm
around her which she instantly threw off.
"Honey! We're
going to be late and miss our plane." Mr. Evans called out.
"So
sorry dear I'm coming. O hello boys, glad you could stay. I left
money for food, and emergency phone numbers next to the phone. Good
bye, be good" Mrs. Evans said and walked out to the car.
"Take
care and be safe," Mr. Evans said and walked out the
door.
"Anyway where can we put our stuff down?"
Remus asked.
"O, um, here you can set down your bags and
set up your sleeping bags in the living room" Lily
instructed.
"A little small but it will do I guess"
James said teasing her.
"Sorry, but we can't all live up
to your standards Potter." She said. They were now glaring at
each other.
"How about you show us around your house
Lily?" Remus asked trying to lighten the mood a bit.
"Fine"
she replied and began to show them the rooms and swimming pool that
they had in the back yard. She showed them the last room, her
bedroom. They walked in.
"O, and who is this?" she
said walking towards her window sill were next to her own small tawny
owl was a huge barn owl.
"That's my owl. Must've followed
me here."
"Oh, ok" she mumbled and walked over
giving both owls a bit of bread crumb out of her hand. 'This is going
to be a long two weeks, odd though, they don't seem to be being as
annoying as usual, they haven't even played any jokes yet.' She
turned around and caught a glimpse of her self in the mirror, her
hair had been turned black and greasy like Severus Snape's.
"POTTER
CHANGE IT BACK NOW!" she yelled and running after them down the
stairs 'And I thought I might have had a chance of surviving this,
yeah right, what a joke...'
It was now around 7 o'clock. They
had all been talking and playing outside. James, Sirius, and Remus
hadn't played any jokes on Lily since the last one, at least not to
many.
"I'm hungry" Sirius said "can we get
some dinner?"
"Uh yea sure, I have an idea we can
make a pizza!" Lily exclaimed.
"...Pizza? Dare I ask
what the hell that it?" James asked.
"I think I had
one before...no wait that was something else." Remus said trying
to think about what a pizza was (A.N.- For those who don't understand
why I'm making James, Sirius and Remus not know what pizza is it's
because well they don't have pizza in the wizard world, I think, and
Lily knows what it is because she's a muggle born.)
"A
pizza is like dough stretched out in a circle, and you put sauce and
cheese on it. Then you put toppings of all kinds on it, some people
even put pineapple or these little fish things on top! Usually though
you put meats like bacon or sausage on it, that and vegetables like
onions or green peppers." Lily said. The boys kind of stood
there looking at her for a moment. "Well don't just stare at me,
come on." She said walking into the kitchen.
She got down
a bowl from the cupboard nearby, and set it on the counter. She also
took down some flour, yeast, and other items.
"We don't
have any already made dough so we can make some ourselves you have to
help though."
They didn't say anything. She rolled her
eyes at them. She put some of the flour in the bowl. 'hmmm...' she
said looking at the flour 'I think I need to get some revenge on
Potter and the others'.
"Potter come here" she said
casually.
"What?" he asked slightly curious.
He
walked over behind her. She turned around and dumped a cup of flour
over his head. The white powder mixed in through his messy hair,
covered his face, and some now rested on his shoulders. His eyes were
closed shut.
"What the hell was that for!" he
yelled.
"Revenge Potter and nothing else" she said
smiling.
He scowled at her and took a handful of flour from
the bowl and threw it back at her. She coughed and spit some out of
her mouth. Sirius and Remus were still in the door way laughing. Lily
and James both turned towards them. Looked back at each other, and
then both started throwing the flour and sugar and other items at
them. It turned into an all out war. The kitchen was a total mess.
The pizza eventually got made but was extremely sloppy, it was oddly
shaped and toppings of all kinds were everywhere. They all ate it,
still cover in flour and other foods.
"Not bad for
muggle food I guess" Sirius said. James and Remus agreed.
"
Gross, were all a mess though." Lily said.
"Not to
mention the kitchen, but, hey since it's your house I know you will
be thrilled to clean it while we take a shower." James said
smirking as he tried to walk past her and out the kitchen door. She
caught him by the collar of his shirt.
"I don't think so
Potter, you three help me clean up now, we can all take different
parts of the kitchen." She yelled.
He mumbled a fine. She
threw them all a towel and started to clean up. After a while or so
of working and trying to clean the egg yolk that was all over the
counters plastered on because it had dried Lily finished up her part
of the kitchen. Lily looked up and out the window it was very dark
out, the stars lighting up the sky. 'Must be late,' she thought and
looked over to Sirius, Remus, and James who were just finishing up
cleaned 'I guess they aren't that bad, they act worse at Hogwarts.'
They had just finished 4th year at Hogwarts and were starting their
5th after the summer finished off. 'Three weeks left until we go
back' she thought again. It was true, only three weeks left. The boys
would be there for the first two weeks and then all she had to wait
was one week. Not that she was thrilled or anything to go back. For
the last four years at Hogwarts The Marauders as they called
themselves played horrible pranks to her and in front of many of the
students no less. 'Not like it mattered, no one likes me there anyway
with or without them playing their silly pranks' Lily had only one
friend. Her name was Suffie Moon (A.N.- She's my character, even
though I unfortunately do not own any Harry Potter characters I do
own her) they had met on the Hogwarts express during their first
year. 'yea and why is she my friend?' Lily thought 'pity, that's the
only reason I can think of. She so beautiful and everyone seems to
like her, I'm ugly and nobody likes me I don't even know why she
bothers to be my friend' She hated herself. She thought she was the
ugliest person alive. She really wasn't but never saw it and didn't
take care of herself, things like brushing her hair, putting any make
up on, and wearing baggy and slightly dirty or stained clothing while
at school. She didn't want to waste nice cloths on school so she only
wore them while she was at home. She was ok at school but slightly a
teachers pet and tattle tale. She tried to stay alone most of the
time and away from people other than Suffie. 'Besides why would I
want to have lots of friends and be pretty and popular, I like what I
have right now.' She thought '...but how come everyone has to hate
me' She unintentionally said the last part out loud. James looked up
at her oddly.
"Because you rat us out to teachers, you
act stuck up, and you look like you haven't brushed your hair in
years." James blurted out.
Lily looked at him clearly
upset. She already knew all that and she hated it. She hated herself.
The only time she was ever slightly happy was when she was away from
Hogwarts and away from the other students and they ruined it by
having to stay at her house. During her first and second year when
the other girls made fun of her she use to cry. She had gotten over
it and didn't mind when they made fun of her and she hadn't cried
about it since, but this just pushed it. She started crying and ran
up to her room slamming the door.
"Um James, I don't
usually disagree with you but that was a little harsh, I mean she is
letting us stay at her house." Remus said.
"She's
not letting us were being forced, and besides we always make fun of
her at school." James said back at him.
"She's not
really that bad, I mean she started a food fight she has potential."
Sirius laughed.
"Come on guys this is the girl who ruined
it when we tried to turn the entire Slytherin house into the opposite
sex they really were while wearing the Gryffindor colors!" James
stated.
"Yea well all the same go apologize, I mean we
need to be nice to her she has all the money to buy food with! Are
you trying to starve us James!" Sirius yelled at him
"Yea
I'm with Sirius, and besides if you apologize it doesn't mean we have
to stop playing pranks on her exactly." Remus said.
"Fine,
maybe in alittle" James mumbled.
up in Lily's
room
Lily slammed the door behind her and wiped her eyes.
'This is stupid why am I crying, what do I care.' She thought as she
grabbed a pair of pajamas. They a pair of blue shorts and a white tee
shirt that had a unicorn on it. She went and took a shower and then
put her Pajamas on. She could hear the others downstairs chatting but
couldn't hear what it was about. She sighed and jumped on her bed, '
I should be getting to sleep' she thought as she tried to fall
asleep. It didn't work, she tried but couldn't. 'How come this is
bothering me, it never use to, stupid Potter.' She heard her bedroom
door open and close. She whipped up quickly into a sitting
position.
"Calm down, just me." James said as he
walked in his arms folded across chest. "I thought you would be
asleep by now." He mumbled not really wanting to apologize.
"I
can't sleep I've been trying."
"Oh, you can um come
sleep downstairs in the living room with us if you want, I'm sorry
for saying all that stuff to you." He said not making eye
contact.
"Thank you,you didn't have to come up and
apologize." She said
"Yea, well I didn't think I
would make you cry I'm sorry." He turned around and started to
leave. "You coming?"
"Uh, yes." She said
and grabbed a spare sleeping bag out of her closet and then followed
him downstairs. She sat down in the living room with them. The was a
long silent pause. 'arg, this is embarrassing and boring, what can we
do...' Lily thought to herself.
"oh I have an idea, we
can go sleep outside on the back patio. I mean it is very nice out
tonight." Lily said
"That's a great idea Lil!"
Sirius said.
"Yea it sounds like that would be fun."
Remus said agreeing.
James nodded, they all took their
sleeping bags and Lily led
them
to the back. They stepped outside. The stars were bright in the sky
and it was just the right temperature out. They all put there
sleeping bags down they were in the order of Remus, Lily, James, and
Sirius. James and Sirius were talking about the next big prank they
were going to pull on the Slytherins when they got back to Hogwarts.
Lily turned around to face Remus, because she didn't want to listen
to Sirius and James.
"Hey, sorry about what James said
none of us really hate you. You just ruin a lot of pranks on us and
tell the teachers." Remus said to her
"I only ruin
or tell on you when your going to pull a pranks that I know is going
to backfire. Like the last time when you tried to turn all the
Slytherins opposite sex and wearing the Gryffindor colors, it was
going to backfire and turn all of us Gryffindors the opposite sex and
I am sorry but I didn't feel like turning into a guy." She
said.
"Well you could have just told us, we got 3 days
detention!"
"Come on Remus, if I told you that
would you ever believe me? I doubt it."
"We would
have believed you!" James said as he and Sirius turned towards
them.
"Yea sure, why would you have believed me you all
hated me." She shot back.
"No we hated you telling
the teachers on us..." Sirius said.
"Yea so now that
we know why you did can we just have a good two weeks here together
and go to sleep, I'm tired." Remus said yawning.
"Fine,
goodnight." Lily said as she closed her eyes. She was now facing
James. All the rest of them also said good night and went to sleep
except James. 'Finally now that we know we can get her not to tell on
us. We are going to be able to pull the best pranks this year at
Hogwarts. She's not all that bad and she can even tell us if one of
our jokes aren't going to work. Its odd, she hasn't worn any of that
old gross clothing she usually does at Hogwarts and her hair is
actually almost brushed and nice. She actually looks kind of pretty.
I so did not just say that.' He thought and turned around the other
way.
