Chapter I: Choices of life
A young woman is sitting on a chair, sleeves rolled up to her shoulders while her jacket drapes over on her chair behind her. She taps her feet in an impatient way as she is focuses on her paperwork front of her with determined emerald eyes.
She punches the buttons of her calculator furiously while she plays with her pen on her right hand that keeps flipping backward and forward like a ball.
"I hate doing my paperwork. Despite that I am the owner and the manager of the shop so its my responsibility to make sure that everything is right and there's no mistakes that might let things get stolen or go missing so I must doing this in right way. That's the policy law. Sometime I wish I could use my wand to do this in the quick way but that might be lead to mistakes. It's best that I should use the technology to do it in safe way" Lily's mind is annoyed as she thinks this.
She shakes her head as she leans her back on her chair and sighs in frustration while she is glance up the clock to see what is time now. It is eleven in the morning.
She groans with frustration as she rubs her neck and rolls it to exercise it for awhile.
Same time, someone knocks the door softly.
She groans as she closes her eyes for a moment.
"Not another person's paperwork. I hope this is worth of my time before my lunch break. I do love my job. Sometimes a job you love and hate but at least it lets you have and enjoy a lifestyle as well. Oh well.. I have to get used to it." Lily thinks, frustrated, and raises her hand in air like she want to punch the wall above her as she barks in annoyance, "Come in please!"
The door opens as someone walks into the office and close the door behind her. Lily returns to working, as the woman enters, and it doesn't go unnoticed. She walks toward Lily's desk and stands front of her. Whoever it is is hiding something behind her back and Lily notices that there's a hopeful smile on her face.
"Please leave your paper here and please close the door when you walks out of this office. Thanks." Lily said without looking up at who it is standing in front of her.
The woman laughs. "Geez, Lily. Is that how you speak to your employees like that?"
Lily stops and drops her pen on the desk with a thud. She looks up at her with shocked expression on her face.
"Monica!" Lily said happy as she stands up and twists around the desk to hug Monica warmly. She steps back and smiles warmly to her friend.
"Monica, when did you got here from your holiday?" Lily asked softly.
Monica is tall and petite bodied young woman who wears long black skirt and blue sleeves with a dark colour coat to protect her from the cold weather she had her holiday trip. She flips her long brunette hair while she pulls parcel from her back to give to Lily.
"This is for your late Christmas present and I just got here few minutes ago via Floo – Power when I arrived home from tour yesterday so I decide to drop by to catch up with you. I hope that you will like the present." Monica said warmly.
Lily smiles at her and take the present from her. She puts it on the desk while she motions Monica to toward the sofa opposite from her.
Monica slumps down on the navy sofa and crosses her legs while she waits for Lily.
"Thanks so much for the present. I have a present for you too, I'll give it to you tonight if you are not busy with other things" Lily told her.
Monica shakes her head gentle. "I am free all day so let's meet up later today for dinner at my house. What do you think?"
Lily nodded. "That's great idea. I'll drop by your house around six or seven. I better go back to my work now. Sorry, Monica.
Monica waves that comment away as she stands up. She walks toward her to give her quick hug and steps back. Halfway to the door she turns around to look back at Lily.
"Is something wrong?" Lily asks worry.
Monica turns around and pulls the newspaper from her bag as she put it down on the desk then she looks at Lily. Then back to the newspaper.
Lily shakes her head and turns around to walk toward the desk. She has paperwork to focus on.
Monica sighs. She leaves the room quietly.
"I don't want to know what is going on in the newspaper at all. I am sorry, Monica" Lily thinks, a bit sad, but she ignores the newspaper. She has the paperwork and everything else to do before the end of the day.
A young woman walks into the local café that's called The Fairy Inn and waves to the waitress as passes her to get to her usual seat. She sits down on the seat and looks out the window while she is wait for someone to meet up with her here for coffee.
The waitress walks toward her table as she pulls the notepad from her apron and smiles warmly at her.
"Hello, Monica. What can I get for you?" the waitress asks softly.
Monica smiles in greeting. "One hot chocolate please."
The waitress nods as she writes it on the notepad. Monica watches her turn around and walk off toward the coffeemaker man, who is already making a coffee for one of his customers, and hand the note to him with friendly smile. He nods as he puts the note on the line for people waiting.
Same time, the door bells as a handsome young man walks into the cafe and he looks for someone while there's a sigh from women as they see him.
"Over here, Sirius." Monica calls out to him when she spots him.
Sirius walks toward her while those same women send a jealous glance to her. He leans down to kiss her cheek gently before he sit down on the seat opposite from her.
"This is nice place for our date, Monica." Sirius Black teases her.
Monica shakes her head in amazement as she hit his arm playfully. "In your dreams, Sirius."
Same time, the waitress walks toward the table as she smile at Sirius and waits patiently while he reads over the menu.
"Just a black coffee, please." Sirius tells her.
The waitress nodded as she goes back to toward the coffeemaker man to give him the note then she goes off to do other service with her one of regular customers.
Sirius put the menu back and leans back with arms cross behind his head as he smiles at Monica. "So what do you want to talk about?" Sirius asks, clearly curious..
She looks closer at him with hope in her hazel eyes. "I need your help with something please, Sirius"
Sirius rubs his chin thoughtfully as his grey eyes raise his eyebrows.
"Can you spy on Lily's boyfriend, Colin, please?" Monica ask in desperate and worry voice.
Sirius look surprised by that as he runs through his thick raven hair. He shakes his head.
"Please? I have a bad feeling that he is hiding something from Lily since the day she introduced me to him a few years ago." Monica explains.
"Why do you want my help? I have no skills of spying." Sirius responds.
"You can't be found if you're my dog whenever I'm around Lily. Please do it for me." Monica told him.
He sighs and gives in wearily. Sirius stands up and pats her hand gently.
"I can't do it. It'll be dangerous for me and Lily. Remember Colin has more power than me because he is the son of a wealthy man and he has the company under him. No way, I am not doing this for you. I can't lose my job." Sirius turns his back on her and heads for the door.
Monica looks at him with sad hazel eyes while she is watch him walks away from her toward the door of this shop.
"Is it because he is mad at me about rejecting him few years ago? Is it because he don't want to hurt me or Lily or that he can't protect us if Colin discovers his identify? If not then why would he reject this offer?" Monica is confused. She stands up as she walks toward the coffeemaker man and gives him the coins directly, dropping them in his worker tshirt, then she turns around and leaves the shop without looking back.
A young man walks into his house. He gets the light on by using his wand and he collapses onto a chair while he stares at the fireplace in front of him that's starting to blaze. At the same time, his house elf runs into the room, carry the tray of lunch for his master.
"Here is your lunch, master." Kreacher tells him.
Sirius nodded as he dismisses him with a wave and Kreacher left the room in silence to leave him. He needs privacy for a while. Sirius taps his hand on his chair while he gets lost in his thoughts. 'Is there something going on behind Colin's mask? I don't understand why Monica asks me to be the spy. Colin is not my business at all. What should I do now?' Sirius thought worry.
He grabs the goblet of ale from the tray of his lunch and drinks it while an image of Monica sits in his head. Since he graduated from Hogwarts and landed a job with his knowledge of magic and skills it is hard to be independent and work. He sigh wearily and shakes his head. Sirius sits there brooding all day over this decision.
A young woman walks into her apartment and shrugs her coat off as she steps into the bedroom. Her oldest sister is following her into the room.
"How's work going?" Petunia Evans asks.
Lily kneels down on the floor and pokes her head into the closet to search for something. "The work is good and Monica just recently visited me for chat. We're having dinner tonight to catch up." Lily explains.
Petunia is thin and blonde young woman. She watches her little sister with patience in her eyes. "So what time will you going to leave for the dinner?" She asks, curious.
"I am going to leave the house for dinner around six or seven." A few minutes later, Lily stands up as she tugs her pale pink dress out and holds it to her chest. She walks toward the mirror to see if it's good or not. "What do you think of this dress?"
Petunia walks closer to Lily and looks at the dress with her thoughtful pale eyes.
"I think its look good on you, Lily. Are you going to meet up with Colin?" Petunia said honest.
Lily smiles as she walks off to the bathroom to have quick shower. Half hour later, Lily steps into the bedroom, wears her pale pink dress as she dries her hair with a towel.
"Colin is busy with his job so I don't know when he'll spend time with me. I'll be home around nine. Don't wait up for me, sis." Lily told her.
Petunia nods.
Few minutes later, Lily hang the towel on the hanger and grabs her purse as she give her sister a quick hug then she walks toward the front door to grab car keys from a silver bowl in the hallway. At the same time, she grabs aparcel in her arms and waves farewell to her sister. Lily steps outside of the house, locks it behind her, and gets into the car. Lily puts the parcel on the front seat as she slips into the seat behind the steel wheel and turns the key on as she put her seatbelt on it.
She sped off to Monica's house.
Author's note: Hello, readers. Sorry to keep you wait so long and I have writer's block for this chapter for awhile. Now I have idea for this story and I hope that I will keep writing on this story as well.
Hope that you will enjoy read it. Hope that you will like this chapter too.
By the way, this story is write by me and I don't copy it from JR's stories because it's wrong and I write this story from my heart so there will be no Harry Potter in this story as well so sorry.
And for characters are belong to JR's stories except Colin, Monica and Cecilia are my own characters for this story so please don't insult on me or threat me that I stole it from JR's stories at all.
By the way, hope this chapter will make up for delay update and sorry to keep you wait so long.
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