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"Get your cutie booty out of this bed! We have to go to work, Lils." Nadine Meyer screamed in order to wake up her friend Lily Evans.
Of course, this was a very brutal way of waking somebody up, but a kinder method didn't work any longer as Lily didn't want to get up.
And the reason was – you all know it – James Potter.
James, his friends Sirius Black and Remus Lupin had received their holiday work at the post office near their homes and it was THE post office which brought all the letters and little packets to the café (Daniel's) Lily and Nadine worked at.
That's why the beautiful redhead had to see Potter and his friends almost every morning and here's how these meetings looked like:
James and the others would enter the café with many letters (principally bills) and the packets (they were able to use the bikes of their exchange partners for their job). The black-haired boy would spot Lily behind the bar, taking the glasses and dishes out of the dishwasher together with Nadine. He would walk right over to the girl of his dreams, smile his broadest smile at her and salute her with words like these: "Queen of my desperate life, would you give me the pleasure in going out with me?" Nadine and the others would roll their eyes and Lily would answer through gritted teeth: "Not even if you were the last guy on earth, Potter!" Then, James's spirits would sink, he would become very sad and not be able to say more than: "I need your signature here." (- and that very desperately). Lily would sign the bill of delivery and then ignore the boys, so they would leave and Nadine would be left with a fuming Lily.
"Well," Nadine thought "she can spoil her own holidays, but she won't spoil mine."
The picture of a tall, brown-haired hottie came back to her mind. THE tall, brown-haired hottie who used to come to Daniel's every morning to flirt with her for about an hour and then vanish suddenly, without a word. She didn't even know his name. The pretty blonde girl allowed this picture to warm her from inside and conjure a smile on her face for some moments.
Then she jumped onto the bed of her friend and shook her.
Lily moaned, but had to giggle at the same time because Nadine had also started tickling her.
Lily stammered between her laughter: "O-ok, I surr-rrender and wi-ill get u-up!"
The other girl, with the light-green eyes, was content with herself and got up from her friend's bed.
Then she fetched her clothes and make-up (she wanted to look good for her hottie) and went to one of the two bathrooms on the second floor of this huge house.
The red-haired girl stretched her arms and legs and yawned. She hadn't slept very well throughout the whole week, even though she had not gone out at night, but locked herself into the library of the Mauves.
Hal, Trish and Nadine were very worried because of this behaviour – Hal and Trish had rather expected to get party girls as exchange students instead of a stay-at-home.
But Lily told them that she was a bookworm and could not bear a day without reading a book before going to bed.
"But darling, you surely didn't come to Australia just to read all the time? You can also do that when you're back home." Trish said when they were finally having breakfast on this already sunny Monday (it was only 6.30 in the morning, but the sunrise promised a wonderful day).
She looked down at Lily's white skin under her mini-skirt and added: "You'll never get tanned if you go on like that!"
Hal agreed: "You have to enjoy this excellent weather we have here."
Nadine nodded and they all looked expectantly at the pretty girl, but she only answered: "I wondered about that many times."
When she noticed the puzzled looks of the others, she explained: "I thought that, here in Australia, it would be winter when there's summer in England."
Nadine blinked. She could not believe that her friend had simply changed the topic and that Hal and Trish didn't realized that because Hal grinned an whispered (as if anybody could overhear their conversation in this huge house, which was protected by the best electric alarm system on the market): "Yeah, you're right, Lil. Yes, actually it would be winter now and I suppose that you two would freeze very much with your summer clothes then, but one wizard has caused great trouble here in Australia with one of his invented spells. At first, he produced a huge snow storm and it became very cold. We could even build a snowman." Hal chuckled. "Your wardens have told us what had exactly happened, namely that this guy then wanted to melt the snow in his garden, but caused a snowmelt in the whole country!"
Trish found this affair also very funny: "Yeah, it was great: we were outdoors, trying to free our gateway from all this snow, in our warm clothes, of course, and suddenly the snow is gone, everything is green again and we have to get rid of our boots, coats and pullovers and everything because it's that warm!"
Lily and Nadine giggled loudly, though the latter was a bit angry at her friend because of lying at the Mauves.
In their minds, they all thanked this wizard for their (in Hal's and Trish's case) the second or (in Lily's and Nadine's case) their first summer in Australia.
"But that's very conspicuous for the Mug- sorry, the non-magicians, isn't it?" the redhead asked.
Hal winked at the girls: "Well, your ministry made the news presenters tell the people that at first, an Antarctic cyclone and then, a tropical high pressure area or something like that has caused this change of temperatures. Yeah, well, we 'Muggles' believe that."
Lily had to laugh about that on their short way to Daniel's (it was no hundred metres away from the Mauves' house), but Nadine was still angry.
She could not believe that Lily had lied because that wasn't like Lily at all.
It suddenly burst out of the blonde girl, when they were standing in front of the door of the café: "Why didn't you tell them the truth? Why did you have to lie? Hal and Trish are very kind and our friends. Friends don't lie to their friends!"
Lily stopped looking for the key in her bag and looked dumbstruck at the back of her friend, who already unlocked the door of Daniel's (not Lily had the key, but Nadine). Daniel was not there, but that was not new to them because he would come at 12 o'clock and then work throughout the night together with his other two employees, and best friends, Michael and Alex.
The two girls entered the café in silence and after some moments, Lily had to admit that Nadine was right and answered: "I know now that it was stupid, but I find this whole thing with Potter very embarrassing and I thought that Hal and Trish would laugh at me."
She looked at the floor.
Nadine shook her head: "Why should they? I think that they would listen to you and understand you."
Lily nodded and raised her head to look at her friend: "I think that you're right. I will tell them the truth and apologize!" Suddenly, her voice became very desperate. "But at first, I have to survive this day!"
Nadine wondered what this last comment could mean, but then she realized that Lily wasn't looking at her any longer, but somewhere else. She followed this look and immediately recognized the reason for the sudden change of her friend's behaviour: Sirius, James and Remus were standing in front of the now again locked door of Daniel's, but not in their uniforms. They wore T-shirts and shorts. They seemed to be waiting for the café to open.
"Oh no, what can they want here?" Lily shook her head, with an expression on her face that wanted to say: Do I really deserve this?
But Nadine, who already knew this behaviour and wouldn't be able to bear it much longer, only said: "Ask them."
She smiled and turned around to open the door, which the two girls had closed behind them when they had entered. They always did that because they first had to clean the tables and take the dishes out of the dishwasher and then, put up the outside tables, etc. before they could open the café.
Lily moaned and went behind the bar. The boys had already entered the café, so she couldn't really do anything against that.
The guys sat down on some chairs at the bar and watched the two girls.
"Why aren't you at the post office and delivering mail?" Nadine finally asked, while cleaning the tables and chairs.
"The office is on strike today, so we have a day off." Sirius and the others grinned, but Nadine realized that James was unusually silent. He hadn't saluted Lily with one of these stupid love declarations. He actually had said nothing so far.
Lily looked over at Nadine and her eyes showed that she, too, was very surprised about that.
"Well, guys, you are only in our way now, so you could at least be a bit useful if you really HAVE to be here now." Nadine grinned at them. "Maybe you could put up the tables outside?"
She fluttered her eyelashes and smiled charmingly, so the three young men had not other choice.
"After this very nice and charming request-" Remus got up from his chair and the others followed him outside.
When they all had finished their tasks, they only had to wait for the first guests and they came very gradually.
As a "thank you" for their help, the girls said that the three boys didn't have to pay for their drinks, which was – as you can imagine – really abused because they ordered one drink after the other.
Everybody seemed to be happy, except the redhead because Potter and his friends didn't want to leave, so she tried to ignore James again.
"How can you ignore somebody who is 6 feet tall, with these deep, hazel eyes, this messy black hair and a grin that could melt ice?" Lily wondered and wanted to hit herself at the same time because of these thoughts.
It was one of those days when the pretty girl didn't feel antipathy towards James Potter. He didn't act as like a show-off that day, didn't get on her nerves, didn't chat her up, but she would never admit this fact, not even to herself.
To forget all these strange feelings, she talked to Daniel, when this surfer guy-hottie came – one hour earlier than usually –and realized that James was not really pleased to see that at all.
"Good." Lily thought. "Maybe he will finally realize that we will never become a couple."
But somehow the "never" made the girl's stomach ache. Did she really want that Potter forgot her?
She really started to worry. She thought that she was ill and crazy because she couldn't decide if she wanted to get rid of Potter or not.
A group of about 10 girls interrupted her thoughts and brought her back to reality, to the sweetie Daniel in front of her.
She liked him. She really liked this guy, but was there more? And why couldn't she stop thinking about Potter?
Totally confused, Lily noticed that some of the loudly-chattering girls had sat down on some chairs next to James, Remus and Sirius and one of them – a dark-haired Barbie – was talking animatedly to Potter, touching his arm and flirting with him.
She felt a stitch in her heart, when she saw this, and she wished that it would just go away.
To be continued...
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