Mrs. Jacen Solo does not own any of the characters in this here story. For if she did, she would be a genius.
Distracted
Lily Evans was in hell! Or at least as close as she ever wanted to be to total agony and torture. James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Petigrew were outside her bedroom door, banging on it like Sasquatch, demanding entrance.
Save, Lily thought, Remus was probably not banging on the door- No!- that was James.
"Go away!" Lily yelled at the door, "You weren't invited to my house, and I don't want you here so scram!"
"But Lilykins!" She heard James's annoying kid voice, "We wanted to come over and see how our favorite head girl is doing this summer!"
"I swear to god, James, that if my parents come home early and find you in this house, you wont have eyes left to see how my summer is going!" Lily threw her pillow at the door. They had arrived while Lily was having breakfast, using the door, so Lily had to let them in. As soon as she had opened the door to see who it was, James and Sirius had braced themselves against the door, rendering it impossible for Lily to lock them out.
When Lily had seen no other option, she darted up to her room and locked herself in, refusing to interact with the whole lot of them.
The banging ceased and no sound could be heard from the other side of the door. Lily was too smart for them, she knew that they were still there, just waiting for her to venture out where they could catch her and force her to do something horrible- (Okay readers. Get your minds out of the gutters, now)- like take them to the mall. She shivered. Just the thought of Lily brining four wizard boys into a muggle mall gave her enough incentive to stay locked up.
Lily had been sitting in her room for an hour and James and his posse didn't make a single reappearance. She was starting to get a bit hungry but was hesitant to go outside the safety of her sanctuary.
Her hunger won out in the end and Lily silently walked to her door. She opened it by a mere crack and peaked outside. Hallway was all clear. She quickly grabbed her wand on the bedside table for safety reasons. She knew that it was illegal to perform magic underage but if worst came to worst she would claim that James and company were putting her in life-threatening danger. All would be well.
She took careful steps down the hallway, being extra cautious when passing doors incase any of them were hiding. When she got to the stairs, she proceeded slowly, alert for any telling noises.
She made it to the first floor, so far so good. The first floor was just as eerily silent as the second. She relaxed when she got to the kitchen. She had been through the whole house and no sign of retarded fools at all.
She sank into her usual seat at the table and grabbed a banana, started to peel off the covering and was about to take a bite when all of a sudden- it was gone and James was there! Sitting on the table, eyes focused on her, mouth moving as if he was chewing something.
"Good banana, love." He said, "Could use some chocolate though. Got any?"
Lily fumed. "Get out of my house!" She yelled and pointed at the back door.
She heard an obnoxious laughter and turned to see Sirius right behind her chair. "Sorry Evans, time to go!" He laughed again.
James jumped off the table and took hold of her legs and Sirius got her around the middle. They lifted her up and began to carry her out of the kitchen.
"Le'me go!" Lily struggled to release herself from their grip. "Where are you taking me?" She demanded.
James smiled down at her and answered, "We have always dreamed of – what's that muggle name?- oh yeah, rollerblading and you have to take us so we don't look like compete idiots."
"Trust me, my being there wont stop that." She continued to struggle as they brought her into the living room.
Sirius suddenly stopped. Remus, who had not taken her hostage, but had also not stopped his friends, ran into him. "Sirius, what's your major mal-function?"
He was staring at something under the TV. "Lily, What is that." He nodded at a black box with wires coming out on two sides.
Lily looked and rolled her eyes. "That's a X box." She said as if it was common knowledge for wizard kids to know what an X box was. "idiots" she mumbled.
"X box." Sirius repeated in awe. "What's it do?"
"You play games on it, put me down!"
Sirius suddenly acknowledged and released her waist. James let go too and Lily fell to the ground on her butt.
Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter slowly approached the game system. They each took a remote and sat on the floor in front of the TV. Utterly clueless as to what to do next, Lily decided to help them out, but only because it would distract them for a bit and leave her alone.
She turned on the TV, turned it to the right channel, and powered on the X box. She decided that they could play whatever Petunia's friend, Vernon, had been playing last. It was some shooting game and Lily left it at that.
They boys were pathetically glued to the TV as they watched the start menu appear. "Wow." She heard one of them say. She rolled her eyes and instructed player one to press start. When they looked back at her like deer in headlights she sighed and followed player one's cord to the gamer.
It was Remus, so she pushed the start button for him. When the start menu faded and the four player divided screen came up the boys gasped.
"Lily! What's going on?" James asked.
"You guys are playing on X box live so you will have to shoot other players from all around the world who are also connected to live. "
"What do we do?" Remus asked casually even though Lily could tell that he was just as anxious as the rest of them.
"Use the analog stick, " Lily pointed it out, " to move and push "A"" she pointed "a" out, "To shoot. As easy as the summoning charm."
Sirius experimentally pushed "a" and his player started shooting rapidly. He released the button with a yelp and threw the remote clean across the room.
The others stared at it and looked at each other. They all grinned so evilly and so in sync that Lily had to arch an eyebrow.
Sirius flung himself at his discarded remote and instantly all four of them were indulged in the game. Peter started crying when his player was killed and his friends kept telling him not to be such a wuss. Peter insisted that he could feel the shot in his chest and that was why he was crying.
Lily rolled her eyes and went upstairs to relish in the peace and quiet. Soon, though, she got bored. With her book finished and no desire to go to the library for another, she picked herself up and went down to test her powers over James.
Lily had been up in her room for a good part of two hours and the boys were still at the game.
Lily sighed and muttered something like, "Boys" and glared at the screen. They had all gotten quite good. Much better then Vernon who had been playing for five years.
"Ahhh!" Remus screamed. "I was just killed by the common flu!"
Lily had always thought that it was funny, some of the names other player came up with.
"At least it's better than getting bested by a fuzzy bunny." James said. "That blasted thing has gotten me three times!"
"Oh," Peter sighed, "I was just killed by mistake."
Lily decided to put her original plan into action. She stretched out and squeezed herself into the near nonexistent space between James and Sirius. She touched her let to James's and smiled up at him.
His face was still glued to the TV, he didn't even seem to notice Lily's closeness. She tried a different tactic. She placed her head on James's shoulder and exaggerated a sigh of contempt.
Still- he mad no reaction.
Okay, now she was annoyed.
Lily's head was thrown off of his shoulder when James suddenly jumped out of his seat, completely lost in the game. "Sirius! Buddy, I'm coming!"
"Hurry!" Sirius leaned in too. "I don't know how much longer I can hold down the base by myself!"
"Peter! Cover the forward hold!" Remus shouted orders.
Peter sobbed, "I don't remember where that was!"
"James." Lily said as slowly as she could.
He didn't listen.
"James." She said a bit more forcefully.
Still nothing.
'Shoot him! Shoot 'em!" James suddenly yelled. "Lily," He turned toward her. Lily leaned up and smiled, finally some attention! "Will you make us some popcorn or bring us out some chips or soda?"
Lily scowled. 'Sure."
He grinned. "Thanks."
That was the final straw. Instead of going to the kitchen to heed James's demands, she went out the door and to her next door neighbors house. She doubted the boys would notice her absence or the lack of snacks, they were too indulged in X boxing. Typical boys.
She softly knocked on the door and Allana, one of her muggle friends, came to the door. "Lily! What are you doing here?"
"I need your X box." Lily cut to the chase.
"umm… Okay. " Allana shut the door after Lily walked in. "Don't you have your own, though?"
Lily walked confidently into Allana's bed room. "Yes, but it's been hijacked."
"I see." She said but she didn't really understand.
Lily put in the correct game and logged on to live "Do you ever get the impression that boys like inanimate objects, like x boxes for instance, better than us girls?" She asked Allana.
Allana laughed. "I see, you want the attention of some guy but all he wants to see is the game screen. Classic."
Lily scowled at how fast her friend could catch on. She turned to the TV and put in her username. That's when she pushed 'start'.
Meanwhile….. at Lily's house…..
"What!" Sirius shouted. I was just terminated by a red head! I can't come back. All my lives are gone!"
"Me too!" Yelled Peter.
"Same here!" Remus shouted. "By a red head."
"Ahhh…" James cried. "There I go."
They all put their remotes down and looked at each other.
"Well, now what?" Remus asked.
James and Sirius grinned.
Back at Allana's house……
Lily put the remote down in triumph. "Don't ever mess with a red head again." She said at the screen as if it could hear her.
"Congrats!" Allana said. 'Now that boy of yours will pay more attention to you and wont get distracted by the game."
Lily's face fell. Oh CRAP!
And from next door, sure enough, Lily heard James's voice carry to her with, "Lily! Time to go skating!"
END
What, may I ask, did you think?
I Know there was no X boxes when Lily and James were teens but I didn't care. I wanted to write this story anyways!
Hope you liked it, it is my first story ever put on this site!