Tanie and I walked through the mall carrying bags and bags of clothes and chatting madly. Today was my day off or at least my half-day because Moody wanted to see me later.
Tanie and I had been having a girls day out and so far we had had manicures, pedicures, facials, massages, been out shopping and had lunch at a fancy café. At the moment the topic of our discussion was James Potter.
"Lily it's obvious that you still have feelings for him and you haven't really had a proper date since he joined them" stated Tanie.
"I have too had a date" I objected.
"Oh yeah name one"
"Well there was…um, well…" 'OMG she's right I haven't'. Tanie smirked
"See you've been hanging on to the thought that James will come back but he won't. Lily if you're going to do this assignment you have to let go of your feelings for him or your going to be in big trouble" Tanie's expression had changed into a look of sympathy.
"I know Tanie, but me and James never really officially broke up, he just left, what if he still has feelings for me?" I said
"Lily even if he still has feelings for you, you can't get back together with him, he's evil now, and you know how many raids and deaths he's responsible for"
I sighed; we walked out of the mall, across the road and into the park. The park had many picnic tables and we took a seat near the children's playground.
"So?" Tanie asked randomly
I looked at her confusedly
"Are you going to try to get rid of your feelings for him?" she asked in a pleading voice.
I sighed. I looked over at another couple sitting on the grass. Oh what would I give to have a relationship like that, sitting in a park, sitting in each other's company, smiling, laughing, kissing, just being next to someone you love.
Maybe it would help me, maybe I should move on its not like I've got a chance to be with James again.
"Lily, you-who, earth to Lily" I snapped my eyes back to Tanie.
"Alright" I said in a confident voice although I did not feel that confident at all.
"Really? Ahh yay this is so awesome lets go clubbing tonight, it'll be so much fun" Tanie squealed. She looked at her watch.
"Oh is 3 o'clock you'd better go, here give me your bags and I'll see you later" I handed my bags to her, checked to make sure no one was looking an apparated to work.
When I got there I headed straight for Moody's office, when I walked in I saw all of my team standing there around Moody's desk. There was Millie Hochberg, Tyson Tarroneta, Frank and Alice Longbottom, Eddie Smars and another man.
This other man was tall and very handsome, though I did not think him anymore handsome than James, 'You're not meant to be thinking about James' I mentally scolded myself.
He had dark blond hair and blue eyes. He was fairly tanned and from the look of it had nicely toned muscles.
"Evans, thank you for finally gracing us with your presence" Moody growled.
"Sorry I'm late" I said and took a seat.
"Evens I have just informed your team and Lupins team about the Mission and they will be undergoing some extra training as well before we put this mission into action" Mad Eye informed me.
"And as I am sure you are all curious as to who this man is here, this is Alex Ringer an he is the newest addition to your group and he has exactly the same qualifications as the rest of you" He said indicating to Millie, Tyson, Frank, Alice and Eddie.
"He has recently been transferred from American, he will be with you for 5 months and then will be returning to America" Moody said.
I had to take a minute to let it all sink in. When the situation had finally sunk in I noticed that everyone's eyes were on me, I blushed a little and smiled.
"Well then welcome to the team," I said in semi-sarcasm. He smiled warmly at me.
"Alright well that's all, Ringer" Ringers attention went back to Moody "good luck your going to need it with her in charge" everyone except me laughed, I just sent a fake glare in Moody's direction.
"Alright that's all, so get out," Moody said.
We all filed out of the room. Once out of the room I started up a conversation with Alex in attempt to get to knoe hime.
We kept talking for about 20-30 minutes, and I was really enjoying his company, when I was caught in a hug with Sirius.
"Sirius let go of me now or I'll be forced to kill you," I said laughing. He put me down and then noticed I had company, boy company. Ever since James had gone Sirius had started to get even more protective of me and whenever there was someone he didn't like he would make sure that they didn't get too close.
"Who are you" Sirius said coldly. I rolled my eyes.
"I'm Alex Ringer" Alex said holding out his arm, Sirius did not shake it. Alex did not seem to be offended by it but just took back his hand.
"So what do you want with Poss" Sirius said. By now Remus was standing on the other side of me acting just the same as Sirius.
"Excuse me" Alex looked really confused.
"He asked you what you wanted with Lily" Remus said, although a little less harsh as Sirius.
"Alright that's enough, Alex is a new addition to my team he was transported from America," I answered for him.
That seemed to be a good enough answer for Remus.
"Sorry about that, just taking precautious, I'm Remus Lupin nice to meet you" Remus said politely and stuck out his hand. Alex took his hand.
"Alex Ringer, it's a pleasure" Alex smiled.
I looked over at Sirius and he was still looking coldly at Alex. I sighed
"This is Sirius Black," I said for Sirius. Alex ran hand through his hair. "Alex I should probably go it was nice talking to you we should do it again sometime soon, though somewhere a little more privet" I said eyeing Sirius. Alex laughed lightly.
"That would be nice I'll catch you later then" I watched him walk away and my eyes traveled down his back and to his ass. 'Bad Lily, no perving on nice men, bad'.
"What the heck is your problem Sirius Black?" I said rounding on him
"Look Lily there's just something I don't like about him, and I was just letting him know that I didn't like him" I groaned.
"I am not happy with you Sirius, I'm going home" with that said I walked out to the apparation room and went home.