Hey! Um wow so this took me forever. I just haven't had the energy work on this. Hope you enjoy!

- Alanna Green


Lily woke up early in order to get washed up and what she considered preparing her self for a day full of potter. She was just sure that by the end of the day she would have had enough arrogance to last her a life time. And she still had all summer to go though it, because she knew that her grandma wouldn't let her just ignore him all summer. No matter how much she wanted to. At eight o'clock she said bye to her grandparents and headed next door to get to get potter and try to make this day pass with the least amount of pain as possible.

It didn't take long for Tammy to get to the door after the door bell had been rung once.

"Hi Lily, James mentioned to me that you were gong to be taking him around town today." Tammy said with a rather big smile on her face.

"yah. Is he already to go then?" Lily asked trying to sound as cheery to keep Tammy happy.

"He's not even awake yet. Mac had said that you would probably be here kind of early, so I tried to get him up but he just wouldn't wake up. Maybe you'll have more luck. If you want to jive it a try"

"Sure I'll do that thanks Mrs. Potter"

"Oh just call me dear Tammy, if you go upstairs it's the first door on the left."

"Ok thank" Lily said as started up the stars.

When she turned into the right room she saw him sprawled out on the bed only in pair of shorts, with his blanked tossed on the floor. Lily couldn't stop herself from noticing how in shape he was. His arms were not unmorally big but big enough to make her mouth go a little dry; she was even willing to bet that he could pick her up with little to no difficulty. With a quick shake of her head she regained sight of why she was there. Wanting to get out of the room as quickly as she could, she decided that a simple hex would work to get him up. With a flick of her wand and a silent incantation, it took him all of two seconds to wake up. He looked rather confused by the sudden awakening until he looked over and saw Lily standing there with a small smile on her face and her wand out.

"Oh Evens, I see you have come to join me this fine morning. Now if you un-hex me I can move over and make room for you." He finished with a devilish smile.

"Oh yah because that's my live goal, too end up in your bed. Can't you tell I need you, I want you, take me, take me now" he voice was mono town and sarcastic, the smile that she had had on her face a second ago was wiped off.

"Well I'm glad to see you finally admit it, now would you like to join me now or should we wait?"

"oh just get up and get dressed I'm in a hurry" and with that she turned and left the room undoing the hex as she went.

When James entered the kitchen it was to find his grandma and Lily sitting at the little round table having a cup of tea. He sat down across the table from Lily and grabbed a muffin from the center of the table.

"I see your up, and it's before noon, is there a fire?" his grandma asked him chuckling as she did so

"yah it turns out Evans here is quite gifted with hex's" he smiled at her. At this his grandma just burst into laughter.

"I was tempted to do that but I didn't think your mom would let me get away with it. But I'm sure she won't mind that Lily here did it. I think it just looks bad if a grandma were to hex's her own grandson" she was still laughing as she said it, and making it known that she wasn't in the least bit upset with the way Lily had decided to wake him up. after a few minutes of silence Tammy started up conversation.

"so Lily there's a dance at the town hall tomorrow night, Mac, James and I are planning to go. I was wondering if you would like to join us, we could pick you up and drop you off. How dose it sound?"

"oh er… yah ok, as long as its ok with my grandparents" she said with a polite smile

"that's no problem I have to go over to see your grandma latter so I can ask her for you then"

"grate ok thanks" lily said.

James could not believe his ears Lily was willing to go with him to a dance. Not that it was a date his grandma and Mac would still be there, but he had a pretty good feeling that they wouldn't be hanging around with them all too much.

"Ok done are we heading out now" he asked Lily as he swallowed the last of his muffin

"Yah ok let's go" she said as she began to head for the door. He gave his grandma a quick smile before falling Lily out o the kitchen.

"So your going to go to the dance with us then?" he asked once they were out side

"Yes I accepted the invitation because I'm a polite person and I'm fond of Mac and your grandmother, and not because I'm harboring feelings for you like your probably thinking" lily said angrily

"And how would you know what in thinking?" he said with the same devilish smile he used up in his room.

"Because you always think that people love you and anything they do is for you that's how."

"I resent that," he said then decided that the beast thing to do at this point would be to change the subject.

"So what do you have planed for us to do today?" he asked trying to get her to relax and not hate him so much. She looked a bit relieved at the sudden change of topic.

"Like I said, I have things to do. so we have to go into town and when I'm done what I need to do I'll show you around" she said as she started down the walk way heading for the street.

"Are we walking then?" James said as he started after her

"Yes so I hope you're wareing comfy shoes"

"Why how far away are we from town?" he said well keeping up with her quick strides.

"Only about fifteen minutes away but if I'm going to be showing you around town then we're going to be on our feet for a good couple of hours" they walked down the dirt rood mostly in silence for ten minutes. Until James spoke up in hopes that she might open up and have a good time.

"What's the basket for?" he asked nodding towards the hand weaved basket that was hanging on her arm.

"Its for Mrs. Anderson, it's full of baked goods"

"Who's Mrs. Anderson?"

"She's a woman that lives in town, she's a widow and has three kids" Lily said with a sad look on her face.

"Oh so you go to see her when you here for the summer, and jive her baked goods?"

"Yes, I go over once a week when I'm here."

"How'd her husband die?" she gave him a weird look when he asked but answered the question.

"well according to the muggle report he just died out of the blue. But if you ask any one in the wizzerding world he was murdered."

"Oh. Do you know who murdered him?"

"Kind of, it was in the prophet last summer it was a couple of bored death eaters. He was on his why out of town when it happened. He was driving to a business thing and they stopped him on the highway and killed him. Just for fun because he was there." Her voice was filled with sadness and revolution as she said this. James felt sick to his stomach at the thought of what had happened.

"That's just sick. I hate people like that.. You know once I'm out of school I'm doing what ever I can to bring Voldamort down, and I'm going to try as hard as I can to make him and all those people that fallow him hurt as much as they've hurt everyone else." He said

Lily gave him a sideways glance before replying in a soft voice

"Me too" it was another couple of minutes before she spoke again.

"You say you hate people that torment and kill for no for fun, but is what you do any better?" she said in a rather calm voice well looking him a side ways .

"I don't get it what do you mean?" he ask in a rather confused voice

"well you go around the school and pick on people and bully them just for fun don't you?" she said it in the same calm voice as before but this time there was a twinge of anger in it as well.

"You know I never thought of it that why, but I guess on a smaller level I was a bit like them. But on the other hand I would never do anything as heartless like kill someone for fun"

"I know that, but that's not..." she stopped in mid sentence and looked up at him "what did you say? was as in past tense?" she asked but to with that same calm voice as before.

"Yes as in past tense. I don't know if you noticed but I haven't done anything like that in quite a long time." After he said this Lily seemed to think it over. Then her face split into a wide smile.

"You know you're right, now that I think about it the last time I saw you picking on someone was at the end of our fifth year after one of the O.W.L." James couldn't help but stair at the smile that was on her face as she said this

"Here we go" She said it as they turned up a walk way to nice little bungalow style house, that he hadn't even noticed they were in front of.

The door was opened by a little blonde girl about seven yeas old. When she saw the little girl Lily brook into a big smile and gave the girl a hug asking her if her mom was home. They were lead to a small living room by the little girl. When they stepped into the room there was a woman sitting in a char holding a baby that couldn't have been more then a year old and sitting on the floor was a little boy with brown hair playing with a couple of toys. It was a rather happy sight. Lily introduced James to the women and her children. Lily sat and talked to the women and played with the baby. Well James found himself playing cars with the little boy. After spending about an hour with the family they said their good byes, Lily promising to come and visit next weekend. Then Lily lead them farther into town

"What are we going to do now?" James asked as they rounded a corner.

"Well I thought that I would give you a quick tour of the town. Sound ok to you"

"Yah sure sounds good" he answered as she lead him into a small shop. They went around all morning looking at shops well Lily would ketch up with people. They met along the way. For lunch Lily took James to a small diner in town. Once they were seated and had order Lily shocked him by willingly starting a conversation.

"Why did you stop?" she asked

"Stop what"

"Picking on people?" she was laughing as she said it. James was slightly stunned by the sound of her laughter.

"Um well I guess something came to me when this girl said that I was so fat headed that she was surprised my boom stick could get of the ground, she also said that I made her sick, and some other things that I dint didn't like so much." When he said this Lily was smiling the memory of saying that to him coming back to her.

"well I'm sure that girl thought that it would do some good for you to see yourself the way others see you, and apparently I was right" Lily said this with a friendly smile on her face hoping that James would see that she didn't mean all of it but was really mad at the time and got carried away, but apparently what she said had a good effect on him. She was about to say sorry about being so harsh that day but was cut of by James.

"Yah I guess I should say thanks for that because I figured if you said then it must have some truth to it." He said smiling.
The rest of the day went by pretty much un event full. Lily finished showing James the small town and had secretly had a really nice time, but if anyone asked she would never admit it.

When James went into his room at his grandma's house it was to find a small black owl sitting on the window sill. James instantly recognized Siris's owl and rushed over to grt the letter that's tied to the owl's leg.

Prongs,

Ok the first thing I have to say is EWWWWW!!! I think if I saw my grandma doing something like that id go blind. As for the dinner with the old couple and their boring granddaughter, bad luck mate. But how knows maybe you'll get lucky and not have to spend time with her. In answer about the job, well its not that bad but no grate ether. I do have Sunday off though and I was thinking I could come and visit you then you know maybe keep you from going completely mental. Tell me if Sunday won't work but if you don't say anything then I'll see you then.

P.S. Moony might be coming too he's not sure yet.

- Padfoot

Padfoot,

Yah Sundays fine for me and the dinner wasn't so bad there was such a good unexpected surprise. I was going to tell you in this letter but if your going to be here in a couple of days, then I'm going to wait and you can see for your self because I don't think you'll believe me you will just think that I have finally lost it.

Looking forward too Sunday,

Prongs