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The Story Of Us~ Chapter 3

The Evans stay at the Potter's house ended before Lily knew it.After forgiving James for the drowning accident, she found that having him as a compagnion was quite pleasurable. She celebrated her 14th birthday while at the cabin, and received the cutest teddy from James, which had a beautiful chain around its neck, with a charm of a Lily on it.

"It's a charm necklace" James told her. "I know you have a bracelet, so I thought that a necklace would be more useful. It's not too cheap or anything? I mean, you do like it? Right?"

"It's beautiful" Lily reasured him. " I'll wear it all the time."

James smiled and sighed a sigh of relief. He'd made her happy. He loved it when she was happy, everytime she smiled, it spread to him, and he felt his whole body warm up starting from his toes. The warmth spread all the way to the roots of his hair. ' I just feel like this cuzz we're so close. Friend-wise I mean' James told himself. (a/n wow that makes sense J )

The day the Evan's left was terribly wet and cold, which matched Lily's feelings exactly. She hated knowing that it would be a whole year before she returned. The drive home was long and silent. Petunia had stopped trying to convice her parents to never come back, and sat silently beside Lily, with a look of disgust on her face.

"I don't know how you can stand being friends with him Lillian," Petunia was saying. "He's so immature and stupide. I wish Vernan had come." Vernan was Petunia's latest boyfriend. Funnily enough Petunia always happened to have a boyfiend, even though she was ugly as hell and had an attitude to kill.

But Lily just said nothing, and ghost of a smile playing on her lips.

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"All aboard!" Lily heard the conducter call.

"No, wait, I'm not on! Stop moving!" Lily had slept in that morning, and now wished for the 100th time thast she had set her alarm. The Hogwarts express was slowly pulling out of the station. She had hurredly said her goodbyes to her family, and sprinted through the barrier, seconds before the conductor had made his call.

"Lily! Lily!" Lily looked behind her, and saw James hanging out the door of a compartment. He was steadily moving towards her (a/n cuzz you know he was on the train, and the train was moving). "Here, toss me your bags," he called "I'll pull you in!"

The train had caught up to her, so Lily started running beside it, handing James her bags as she ran.

"Give me your hand!" He yelled. The train was going faster, and Lily was having a hard time keeping up with it.

"I can't reach." She yelled, trying to get hold of James' fingers. He caught her hand, and swung her up just as the train pulled away from the ledge. Lily toppled onto James with a thump.

"What's going on out here?" came Sirius' voice from the compartement. He stuck his head out, and saw Lily sitting on James stomach the two of them laughing so hard tears were streaming out of the corners of their eyes. "Oy guys, Lily's arrived" He called and went back into the compartment.

James and Lily distangled themselves, collected Lily's bags, and went into the compartment.

"Hey, Lils! Good to see you arrived!" Maggie was reading a magazine, but looked up as Lily and James came in.

"Yah, what took you so long?" Remus asked. He and Jackie were sitting together, flipping through their defense against the dark arts book.

"Oh you know the usual…didn't set my alarm clock." Lily grinned at her friends, glad that the school year had started once more.

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