Roses & Motorcycles

The New Girl

Lily Potter peeked outside of her house. The rumours were true; someone was moving across the street from them. Neighbours can always be a bad or good thing, Lily was etching on to know who they were and what they were like. The house was obviously beautiful; she had not the slightest clue why someone hadn't bought it ages ago. The house was well enough for size, with brilliant green shutters and a very at-home peaceful agrestic touch to it. It had 6 bedrooms, a resplendent balcony/porch that wrapped around the whole house, with a handsome backyard. Lily had watched closely as several men arrived at the house, heaving out furniture from several moving vans.

"Someone is moving in!" hissed Lily peering from the window, James, her husband came to the window and hugged her.

"Yes, Lily. I don't know why you're so excited. I've always had bad experiences with neighbours. They're always too loud, too weird, or too... I don't know" sighed James, sitting back down to his seat in their small living room.

Lily, observed a tall, broad, rather 'loud' Man with a straight fine nose walk with his three daughters to their new home. The youngest daughter, looking no day older then 10 skipped facilely behind her Father with the middle child, looking about 15. The 10 year old daughter had short blonde hair with bright blue eyes, opposite to her 15 year old sister who had dark, long curly matted hair with brown eyes. The eldest sister, appearing to be around Lily's age, around 23 had medium length layered hair with green eyes, a curvy body. The girl would have appeared to be attractive if she could have shown a smile. The girl's expression longed for passion, there was something grieving amongst her eyes; telling the world that this was the last place she wanted to be.

"Have you stopped spying on the neighbours, yet?" muttered James, rather boredly.

"Oh, James. We should welcome them. There is a girl about our age... she looks lonely. I think you should go talk to her" insisted Lily, with her eager green eyes, sitting beside James.

"I am sure they are quite fine..." sighed James.

"James ... please..." insisted Lily.

"Why don't you come with me?" asked James rather annoyed.

"I will, some other time. I have to speak to Phoebe about the party approaching, while I am gone.. you better of talked to the neighbours" snapped Lily, getting on her shoes and walking out the door.

James peered at the window, he saw the eldest daughter. She looked a bit cold, and quite dejected.

"Err I will just write a letter" muttered James Lazily, he got out his quill and began writing to the new girl.

Dear... neighbour,

My wife and I are glad that you have moved into the neighbourhood. We would be certainly appreciative if you joined us tomorrow afternoon at our house for a small get together with other people from the community. Hope to see you there...

Sincerely,

The Potters

James felt a bit silly, he still couldn't understand why he couldn't just walk up to their house and ask her personally. He directed his owl to deliver the letter to the eldest girl. Momentarily, the owl swooped into the eldest daughter's room.

"Julia, hurry up and start unpacking" roared the father to his eldest daughter.

"Yes, father." mumbled Julia, not moving until she noticed an owl swoop in her room. Surprised, she opened the letter and read it over with an unimpressed look across her face.

"Is he too lazy to walk over here. I'm sure the 10 metre walk would have wore him out" muttered Julia tossing the invitation under her bed, she rolled her eyes as her second youngest sister barged in her room, tossing her dark curls in a pony tail.

"What was that letter" asked Julia's sister.

"An invitation, Nadera" responded Julia.

"Well, what for?" snapped Nadera suspiciously.

"Hmm.. for you. Our neighbours want you to visit them tomorrow, for a small get together with the other susceptible people in this area..." yawned Julia, laying on her bed boredly.

"Are you serious? Me? Invited? To a party?" squealed Nadera.

"Yes, I'm sure you'll be the bell of the ball," snapped Julia.

"I have to tell Daddy! This is so romantic..." said Nadera, Julia gave her an odd look.

"I'm guessing you're going to start to drool next, get out of my room.." mumbled Julia throwing a pillow at her sister.

"With that attitude, it's no wonder they didn't invite you," cried Nadera running out of the door.

"I need to get my own place," sighed Julia, fixing up her room.

Lily finally arrived home, James smiled brightly towards his beautiful wife.

"She is coming tomorrow, and is highly delighted. I invited Sirius, Remus, Peter, Kora and you probably invited Phoebe," said James.

"Phoebe can't make it. She always has an excuse for everything" muttered Lily tossing herself on the couch.

The afternoon was fast-approaching, Sirius, Remus, Peter, and Kora had arrived. Some music was playing and everyone was laughing and having a great time. Kora was talking in a deep conservation to Lily about old days at Hogworts. Kora had thin, long brown hair and almond shaped eyes, her complexion was rather pale, and she looked sickly.

The doorbell rang, and James quickly answered the door. He was shocked to find the 15 year old girl. Her curly brown hair was in two, very, high pig tails. She wore bright red lip stick, blue eyeshadow and the weirdest but most sophisticated outfit he had ever seen. She seemed like she was trying too hard to impress. James nervously escorted her to the living room.

"What the hell is that," yelled Sirius almost dropping his glass.

"Uhhh, one of our new neighbours" explained Lily; she walked over to James, with a fierce look.

"I told you to invite the eldest, not a little girl with clown make-up!" hissed Lily to his ear, and the room was awkwardly silent.

"So who wants to dance with me?" asked Nadera confidently, no one offered so she began dancing by herself.

"The owl must have delivered the letter to the wrong sister..." sighed James, nervously.

"OWL? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY OWL? JAMES POTTER YOU LAZY..." started Lily, but she didn't want to lose her temper.

The only person who was really talking was Nadera who was blurting out random sentences and remarks.

"Oh my. This is a lovely party. I'm so happy right now. My name is Nadera. I'm glad to be here," said Nadera, only Lily seemed to respond to her weird comments.

Nadera skipped into Julia's room with a huge smile on her face.

"You missed out on a great party! It was so fun. They didn't talk to me much though only that Lily girl!" exclaimed Nadera, acting like it was the best party that anyone could ever go to.

"They didn't talk? What did you say? You probably scared them or something, and you forgot to knock before entering my room. I'm sure the party was dull. Probably with a group of old people," sighed Julia, flipping over her Teen-Witch Magazine.

"Not at all. They were all you're age. If you were invited... you would have had a dashing time, and there was this really, really handsome guy named Sirius, I don't think he really liked me though" said Nadera with a sad expression.

"He probably adores you," laughed Julia, still concentrating on her magazine.

"They all want you to drop by tomorrow, Julia," explained her sister.

"Hmmmm. That's nice," muttered Julia, ignoring her sister's blabbering. Her sister finally left.

Julia looked down at an old photograph. It was taken in London a month ago. The picture was of her, but she looked a bit different. Her hair was lively, and her face filled with happiness and love, she missed that part of her, but so much has changed. Her heart leapt as she looked at the man beside her, it was of her fiancé Gregory Hamilton; he had proposed to her 6 months ago. He was the love of her life. His dashing dark hair, and bright eyes brought a small brief smile to her face. If only he didn't had to leave London to New York for work. If only she could be with him this very moment...

Julia looked out the window, and was surprised to notice that it was quite dark outside. Had the day been so young? It went by so quickly. How long had she been looking down at that photograph? A burning sensation filled her stomach. Her younger sister told her it was dinnertime, but Julia refused and took a walk outside and sat near a tall maple tree. She hugged herself, but the memory did not fade away. She wished she were sitting under the tree with Greg, with his warm smile and welcoming arms. A silver tear rolled down her cheek, someone approached her and touched her arm, and Julia leapt up.

"What? Who are you" snapped Julia looking at a girl with red hair.

"Oh. Sorry to frighten you. I'm your neighbour, Lily Potter. My husband and I just live across the street. Are you alright?" asked Lily soothingly.

"Yes… I'm fine," muttered Julia.

"Its about a boy... isn't it?" snapped Lily.

"I-I… I don't know what you mean," protested Julia stubbornly.

"Boys will always make us cry, laugh, and very angry sometimes. Just the other day my husband was irritating me to death! You can't live with them, but you can't live without them either," laughed Lily, throwing a warm smile to Julia, and she finally smiled.

"True, I heard my sister was quite the guest at you're house today" laughed Julia smirking.

"Oh, yes. Very. She was quite amusing," giggled Lily winking, Lily stepped forward.

"Julia, you will get to love this community and this area. It's quite lovely, really. How about you come to a party on the beach tomorrow, all of James and my friends will be there. It will be fun, and good for you," suggested Lily.

Julia thought for a moment, she didn't really want to go, but there was something fun and amusing about this Lily-Girl that she wanted to learn more about.

"Sure, what time?" asked Julia.

"Yes? You're really going to come? Around 1, James and I will come get you. Have a good night Julia," said Lily, they both said good night and headed to their own homes.

Lily muttered as she walked to her door.

"MEN! Why couldn't James have done it like THAT," snapped Lily.