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Lily part 1
The high pitched squeal that came from the kitchen followed by a loud crash had Lily Potter sitting bolt up in bed before rushing down the stairs and into the kitchen, followed closely by her best friend and roommate Carrie Tate.
"Allison Jewel!" Lily yelled at the same time Carrie yelled, "Lana Kate!" as the two sleep ridden women barreled into the living room.
"Sorry mommy." Came the duel reply as the two six year olds sat on the counter of the island, the chair they had obviously used to climb up over turned on the floor and a jar of un opened peanut butter rolled to a stop where the carpet and tile met.
Both women looked at each other before sighing softly. Lily slumped against the door frame of her vintage house in the middle of Los Angeles.
"It's okay babies. You just scared both of us." Carrie said softly as she sat the chair back up and picked up the jar of peanut butter. "Here, I will make both of you a PB&J and we'll all head over to the studio early."
Lily trudged back up stairs and into her in suite bathroom, letting Carrie take care of the girls breakfast. Showered and dressed in a pair of skirted deadwood bloomers and a tank top Lily made her way back down to the kitchen to find it empty except for a PB&J inside a small baggie on the counter. Shaking her head she went around the kitchen and into the living room and grabbed the few things she needed for dance class and at the bar later that day.
About ten minutes later she looked around at the sound of small feet running across the tile in the kitchen.
"Hey there, princess. Are you ready to go dance?" Lily asked scooping up Ali in a big twirl before sitting her back down.
"Yes, mommy," Came a happy reply.
"We're all set. Here's Ali's bag." Carrie said handing over a small duffle bag.
Lily and Carrie owned and taught at Red's Dance Studio less than five minutes away. It was small but Lily had used magic to fix it up to a standard most professional dance studios didn't have.
When Lily had first left England she had taken dance classes in almost every country she visited, until she found out about Allison. Lily had always thought it ironic that the first time she had sex she conceived her daughter. It just proved that it only took once. Or technically many times over the course of one weekend with her older brothers' best friend.
Only spending a week in the few countries she did visit she had first believed she had caught a food bug from some of the more eccentric food choices she had made in India or Burma and figured it would pass on its own after a few days. The actual sickness had waned away and just left a mild nausea over some random foods. It wasn't until she was in America on the West Coast at a small 24hour diner around 3am, sitting across from a very pregnant girl who looked her age did it hit her, what could be wrong.
In a mild panic Lily went to the closest 24hour grocer and bought a dozen or so OTC pregnancy tests and a hotel room.
Every single test came back positive. She was pregnant.
Lily had gone home later that month for Christmas and withdrew enough from her Gringotts account and opened a second account for her unborn child and herself in the muggle world. Making sure to have enough for at least a year or more for both of them to find a place to live and make sure she had everything she would need for a child.
After that she had kept her distance, only owling her parents once a week and she had only told Nana Molly what was going on when the older lady had found her face down in the toilet at 4am Christmas morning.
Lily had bought a house as far away from England she could think of under her grandmothers name in uptown L.A.
It was about eight months after she'd had her daughter that she made friends at the daycare she left Ali at a few days a week.
Carrie had been God and Merlin sent at that point. She worked at a small bar a few miles away from the new house she had bought earlier that year that was hiring for waitresses. A few of the girls even had children that they had to bring along. Lily was nowhere close to hurting for money but she was bored and lonely.
Half a world away from everyone she knew and with only an infant to keep her company Lily was starting to go spare.
It was just before the holidays again and Lily was in a bind to go home for Christmas when Carrie offered to watch Ali since she had no plans and no one to visit. So a tradition started.
Carrie ended up losing her apartment due to them tearing it down to build some strip mall, like L.A. needed any more at that point and moving in with her daughter Lana. Both infants could share a room and Carrie took the room on the opposite side of girls while Lily was on the other. Life in L.A. became much more enjoyable.
And after Ali's first bout of accidental magic Lily sat her new friend down and explained the world she came from.