Chapter 2
"Where? What guy?" James asked, turning around to find Lily in the crowded street.
"She's already in Gringotts," Sirius said, letting go of James' shoulders.
"Well what are we waiting for, let's go!" James exclaimed as he started to make his way to the wizards' bank. Sirius stopped him though by grabbing his sleeve.
"I'm not going to let my best friend run in there and make a fool of him self. Come on, I see Remus and Peter." Sirius tugged on James' sleeve and pulled him toward Flourish and Blotts.
"What's wrong with him?" Remus asked when the two had gotten over to them. James was currently trying to get away from Sirius' grip on his shirt to go look for Lily.
"Lily," Sirius said simply. Remus and Peter nodded in understanding.
"He really needs to get over her," Remus told Sirius. "She hates him too much to fall in love with him."
"I've been telling him that all summer. You can try if you want but I'm not telling you it's going to work," Sirius shrugged.
"James, listen to me, it's Remus, one of your best friends," Remus said slowly, walking in front of James to block his view. "You need to get your mind off of Lily. Go out with other girls, use up all of our best pranks on stupid stuff, anything to get your mind off of her. Okay James?"
James stopped struggling but was still looking down the street. A sad look passed over his face. "Yeah Remus."
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"Why didn't I stay outside?" Jacob asked when they came out of the Gringotts building.
"Because you just love roller coasters," Rebecca laughed.
"Roller coasters, I like, but those things in there I don't."
"I agree with Jacob, the trams in there make me sick," Lily agreed as she counted her money. "I have just enough for all of my supplies and then a little extra."
"Let's go shopping!" Rebecca exclaimed, bounding down the stairs and onto the street.
As Lily and Jacob followed Rebecca down the steps, Lily suddenly stopped. "Uh-oh," she muttered as she looked down the street.
"What?" Jacob asked, also stopping. He tried to follow Lily's gaze down the street but couldn't see anything except tons of people.
"A guy that is obsessed with me is here. I really don't want him to see me, though, with my luck he probably already has," Lily groaned as she continued to look down the street. A brilliant idea suddenly came to her, though. "Pretend to be my boyfriend."
"What?" Jacob asked, staring at Lily in shock. Yeah sure, he went through a stage where he would do anything to be Lily's boyfriend, but that had passed. Now he couldn't even imagine it.
"Come on, just while we're here. Just put your arm around me and, I don't know, kiss me on the cheek on something. Please?" Lily begged, putting on her best puppy dog eyes.
Jacob rolled his eyes but couldn't help but smile. "Fine," he said while putting his arm around her waist.
"You're the best Jacob," Lily gushed, standing on her tiptoes and giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"I thought I was the one doing the kissing on the cheek?" Jacob thought aloud as they walked down the stairs where they found Rebecca staring at them.
"Finally decided to get together, have you?" Rebecca asked when the reached her.
"Potter's here," Lily explained.
"Really?" Rebecca asked, her face lighting up. "So that means the rest of them are here too, right?"
"Yes," Lily rolled her eyes. "That means Remus' here." Rebecca squealed in reply.
"So how come I've never heard of these guys?" Jacob asked.
"Because you don't need to hear about them and I don't want to hear about them for the rest of this trip," Lily said sternly as she started to walk down the street. Rebecca and Jacob looked at each other before catching up with her.
"So what are you doing to do when you pass them? Just ignore them?" Rebecca asked.
"I've been doing it for the past six years, why stop now?"
"So you really don't like these guys?" Jacob asked.
"No, I like the others, just not Potter. He's been on my Most Hated List since the first time he asked me out," Lily growled.
"Which was?"
"First time he laid eyes on her," Rebecca butted in. "It was so cute," she gushed.
"He didn't even know my name!" Lily exclaimed.
"Ok guys, you can't give me little snippets of the story, I have to hear the whole thing," Jacob butted in.
"When James saw Lily on the train to Hogwarts our First Year, he couldn't speak for almost five minutes and we all thought he was completely mental. Finally, though, he got enough courage to ask Lily out. Granted, we were on the other end of the hallway already so he shouted it for everyone to hear. It was priceless," Rebecca told Jacob.
"Thank you Rebecca, thank you so much for telling him my life story," Lily said, rolling her eyes.
"Please, if I were to tell him you're life story we'd be talking for days. And James would be in over half of it," Rebecca laughed.
"What does he do to be in your life so much?" Jacob asked, shocked.
"He asks her out every week!" Rebecca said gleefully.
"Do you enjoy my pain or something?" Lily asked. "Can we please stop talking about him?"
"Yeah, we should stop talking about him," Rebecca said.
"Thank you!" Lily exclaimed.
"Because we're just about to talk to them," Rebecca continued.
"What?" Lily exclaimed, searching the crowd for the familiar head of messy, black hair. When she spotted him she quickly grabbed Jacob's hand and whispered urgently, "Remember you're my boyfriend."
"Oh yes Queen Boss," Jacob laughed, giving her hand a squeeze.
"You are such a nice boyfriend," Lily said sarcastically. Rebecca left the two as she ran ahead and jumped on Sirius' back.
"Hello lover," she said, smiling.
"You're so fat Rebecca, lose some weight already," Sirius grunted, struggling to hold her up.
"You did not just call me fat," Rebecca said, jumping off his back. When Sirius turned around to face her he was met by a glare.
"Rebecca, I was kidding. Can't you take a joke?" Sirius asked, trying to not to smile.
"Sirius, mate, you have a few things to learn about girls. You never, ever call them fat," Remus informed him, slinging his arm around his shoulders. James and Peter were laughing behind him.
"But Rebecca knows I'm kidding, right Rebecca?" Sirius asked again.
"No, I don't," Rebecca said. "Have you seen this pudge I'm carrying around?" she asked, picking the almost non-existent fat on her stomach. "And this?" Rebecca jiggled her arm.
"You're mental," Sirius said, "she's mental. You're not fat Rebecca."
"You're just saying that so you can snog me."
"Well, I can't deny that," Sirius shrugged, a smile forming on his lips.
