Disclaimer: Lily and James sitting in a tree. J-K-OWNS-THEM-COM-PLETE-LY!

"Lillian Evans! Get your butt out of bed into that shower Vernon will be here in half an hour and don't want him thinking that my family doesn't look presentable!"

Lily made a loud sound of protest and sunk even ferhter under the doona. Lily had spent the whole day in bed, she didn't want to get up and face the world.

"AARGH! LILY!!" screamed Petunia storming into Lily's room and ripping the doona off her bed "OUT OUT OUT!!"

Lily yet again made another sound of protest, with her eyes shut tight becuasee of the light, but slowly got up.

Lily sat on the side of the bed and rubbed her now puffy, red, tear stained eyes. Lily had been in a sort of wallowing mood ever since she returned from Hogwarts, 2 days ago. Her boyfriend of 3 months, Matt Isdale had broken up with her on the train back from Hogwarts.

'I'm really sorry Lily but I can't put up with Potter torturing me for going out with you. I really do like you Lily but it isn't worth this.' His words still rung in her head

Bloody James Potter always ruining any relationship I have

"Lily! Get you butt in that shower!" Petunia interrupted her thoughts

Lily got up and threw herself in the shower, the warm water felt nice on her face and she wished she could stay there forever. But she knew that if she stayed in the shower any longer Petunia would flush the toilet or something and ruin her shower.

So Lily still feeling gloomy made her way out of the shower and into her closet

"SOMETHING PRESENTABLE!" screamed Petunia from downstairs

Bloody hell is she watching me?

"LILY!" yelled Petunia five minutes later "YOU READY YET HE WILL BE HERE IN ANY MINUTE!!!"

"AARGH! I'M COMING PETUNIA!" screamed Lily getting fed up with the bossiness of her sister

Lily made her way down the stairs feeling completely ridiculous in such a pretty dress and makeup when she was in her own home

As Lily made her way into the kitchen her mother squealed with delight

"Lily, darling, you look gorgeous" her mother exclaimed.

Lily was wearing a green dress taht complimented her figure and brought out her eyes perfectly

"humf, she can scrub up nice" remarked Petunia whilst eyeing Lily up and down

Lily just rolled her eyes at this remark and plonked herself down on a chair

I'll take that as a compliment

DING DONG!

The doorbell sounded and Petunia ran to the door excitedly closely followed by her mother leaving just Lily and her dad still in the kitchen

"Daad" moaned Lily

"Just be nice, no laughing at him" replied Mr Evans with a knowing smile

"Huh?" asked Lily

Lily's father just winked at her and made his way out of the kitchen to greet Vernon

Lily gave her father a confused look before following him

"VERNON!" squealed Petunia in delight as she opened the door

Lily found it hard to suppress a laugh, there, standing in front of her was a walrus. Ok, so not literally, but if you put a walrus and Vernon next to each other it would be hard to tell the difference.

Vernon was a chubby man, a very chubby man. He had a moustache that looked like walrus tusks, they sort of fell sharply downwards framing his mouth.

He was wearing a tuxedo, that looked about 10 sizes to small and his tie looked very tight around his neck, not that it really looked liek he had a neck.

"Mr and Mr's Evans" Vernon acknowledged nodding at them when he said their name. "And this must be Lillian"

"Lily" corrected Lily still trying to stop a laugh from escaping her lips

Vernon just eyed her up and down with a look of disgust on his face

"Come on Vern, I'll take you for a tour" said Petunia in an unusually high pitched voice. She linked her arm with his and led him away.

When they were out of earshot Lily started laughing hysterically

"I warned you." Said her father, while her mother gave him a nudge of disapproval

"Be nice you two" said Lily's mother with a stern look on her face "Come on, let's go into the lounge room for some drinks"

-:-

In the lounge room, Vernon was talking, and talking, actually he was the only one talking, while Petunia was eagerly listening and Lily and her father were almost asleep. Lily had tried to go into the kitchen to 'help' her mum but her mother wouldn't hear of it she had to 'be nice and go and socialise'

"- so I strongly believe that people, well people like Lily her should be locked away, if I had my way Lily would be locked up for good."

Lily suddenly broke out of her daydream "EXCUSE ME!" she exclaimed

Petunia suddenly snapped out of that day dreamy look she had been giving Vernon and her face turned into total shock

"Ummm, Verny, dear, I don't think we should bring up this, Lily doesn't like to talk about it"

"No, please Petunia let him go on, I'm interested to know why I should be locked up"

Petunia's face turned to utter horror

"Well, go on Vernon" urged Lily, her voice quivering with anger

"Well from what I've heard about you, you are a real thug –"

"THUG? WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT!?"

Vernon continued calmly "Well that's why you don't go to school around here, your parents sent you to a boarding school because you were such a nuisance, but I shouldn't need to tell you that, it's your life." Vernon let out a small chuckle at his remark and then took a sip of his drink before continuing "I'm not surprised you don't have a boyfriend, despite what you may think guys don't like the 'bad girl' kind"

"Actually I do have a boyfriend" announced Lily through clenched teeth, she could feel the blood rushing to her head; her face must have been as red as a fire truck by now.

"uha, I'm sure you do Lily" said Vernon sarcastically before taking another sip of his drink

"I DO!" yelled Lily sounding very childish "And-and" Lily stammered but was cut off by the phone ringing "That's him calling now!" announced Lily as she grabbed the phone out of Petunia's grasp and answered

What have I got myself into, for all I know it could be Mrs Harris calling about the fundraiser at the town hall tomorrow night?

-:­-

"Sirius, get over it, she won't go out with me, especially now after Matt Isdale broke up with her because WE forced him too"

"James me'boy, you can always try, she might in such a vulnerable state from the break up that she needs a shoulder to cry on and you will be calling at the right time"

"I'm sure Sirius" said James rolling his eyes "I'M, NOT CALLING!"

"Too late!" said Sirius putting the now ringing phone up to James' ear

'Hello?'

"Lily?"

-:-

"Oh James!" said Lily in a very odd cheery voice whilst giving Vernon a 'told-you-so' look

'umm, I'm sorry Lily I will hang up now – wait a second you sound happy to hear me?'

"Oh, well, I can't go out tonight, but you can come here for dinner, my sister has got her boyfriend over for dinner so please come and join us, everyone would love to meet you!"

Petunia gave Lily a look of horror and anger combined but Lily ignored it and kept glaring at Vernon who was happily drinking away

'Lily are you ok?'

Lily then picked up the whole phone and walked into the next room so she was out of ear shot

"James, get your butt over here, dress nicely, I will explain later" Lily whispered in a harsh tone and then hung up

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