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"Petunia! Move your damn magazines before I light them on fire!" Lily yelled up the staircase.
"Move them yourself, if it's bothering you so much!" Petunia shouted back.
Lily let out a scream of mirth, before picking Petunia's magazines of the couch, and throwing them out the window.
Lily had put up with Petunia, and her loser boyfriend for two weeks of the Summer break, and she had had enough. She had been as patient as humanely possible, and today, she was finally leaving. Lily ran upstairs to her room, and started to pack. Everything from old sugar quills, to mismatched socks, to old necklaces.
Lyra was feeling good as new, and happily taking letters to all over Britain and Athens, where Madi was staying.
At quarter to 5, Lily was all packed, and ready to go. She had arranged for her fireplace to briefly be connected to the Floo network, so she could get to Emma's house in Upper Flagley quickly and easily. And at 5 o'clock, the flames went bright blue, which meant they had been activated.
Lily hugged her parents goodbye, and dropped a pinch of Floo powder into the now orange flames. The fire turned fluorescent green, and she stepped in, saying firmly, "Number 15 Chamberlain Road, Upper Flagley", and she disappeared into the fire.
Lily got out of the fireplace, coughing and spluttering, in a house she recognised to be Emma Vance's.
"Lily! You're here!" A friendly voice called.
"Hi Emma, had a good Summer so far?" Lily hugged her friend, and walked into the living room.
"It's been alright. Don't worry about your trunk and owl, my dad said he can arrange a way to get your stuff here. How are you? How has she been?"
"Petunia's been a nightmare, and she has an oaf boyfriend now! I swear, he's part walrus, and he's just as bad as she is!" Lily exclaimed.
"Well, you're here, and this Summer is going to be amazing!" Emma squealed.
That night, Lily talked cheerily to Emma's two younger sisters, Isobel going into 3rd year, and Kylie into 1st.
As Mrs. Vance told Lily a highly amusing story about Emma when she was young, the door opened, revealing Mr. Vance, who was holding Lily's trunk.
"Hi Mr. Vance!" Lily got out of her chair to help with her luggage. She thanked Mrs. Vance for dinner, and she Emma took her belongings upstairs to Emma's bedroom.
As Emma pulled the camp bed out, Lily took in the room. It was at least twice the size of her room at home, the walls were white, but the ceiling was blue, and there were amazingly realistic white clouds that were painted on. Of course, Emma had about 18 posters of muggle boy bands and models, almost all of them shirtless. Her desk was jam packed with magazines, makeup and sweets.
"Your room is amazing!" Lily laughed.
"I try," Emma replied casually, and flopped onto her bed.
The next few weeks couldn't have been more different to life in Cokeworth. Upper Flagley was one of those villages that was filled with witches and wizards. Lily spent the weeks exploring the town with Emma, seeing both the muggle and the wizarding parts of Upper Flagley. And all of a sudden, there was only 2 weeks left of the Summer break.
"Oi, Lily, get up!" Emma threw a pillow at Lily's face.
"What?" Lily said groggily.
"We're going into town. Get your arse out of bed!"
"We've been in town every day this week. Can't we have just one day to lay around?" Lily complained, and threw the pillow back at Emma.
"Not today! There's this book store I need to show you!" Emma explained, choosing a green dress to wear that sunny day.
Lily groaned, and forced herself to get out of bed.
"What book store?" Emma had caught Lily's attention.
"Well, there's this book store on the edge of town that not many people know about. It's only visible to magic folk, but it's still not very common to go in. I love it though. The guy who works there is really cute," Emma gushed.
"Em, I am so not going to the other side of town just to be your wingman!" Lily threw another pillow at her friend.
"Well, Miss Bossy, there are also some really cool books on experimental magic, which I thought you might be interested in, but if you don't want to go," Emma said slyly.
"Fine, but only for an hour, and I'm not talking you up to the guy that works there!"
Lily grabbed a skirt and tank top from her trunk, and went to shower and change. An hour later, her hair was braided, her stomach was no longer rumbling, and Lily and Emma were ready to go.
The walk to the book shop took about an hour, and by the time they had reached the street, both girls were hot and bothered.
"Ice cream?" Emma suggested.
"Please," and the pair made their way to the ice cream place across the road.
Happily licking their mint-chip ice cream, the girls walked into the bookstore. Immediately, Emma spotted the assistant, and started undeniably flirting with him. Lily, however, had spotted a very interesting book. 'The most ancient and awe inspiring secrets of potion making, by Edmund Jeckle'.
Lily started flipping through the book frivolously,
Yeah, that would do the trick, she thought to herself. That makes sense, she agreed. Lily looked over to see Emma, unsurprisingly wrapped around the assistant, trapped in an embrace.
Lily chuckled, and then walked up to the counter to pay for the book.
"Oi! Get your hands off that customer!" A loud old man walked into the store, looking angry. Emma and the assistant broke apart, and Emma couldn't stop giggling.
"Friend of yours?" The shopkeeper asked Lily.
"Unfortunately," Lily chuckled, receiving and elbow in the ribs, from an approaching Emma.
"4 galleons, 3 sickles," the man told Lily.
"Lily paid, and the two girls left, Emma still giggling.
When the pair returned to Emma's house, Mrs. Vance was looking at them excitedly.
"You two have mail!" Mrs. Vance beamed.
"From who, Marlene, Alice, Madison?" Emma guessed.
"No. They're Hogwarts! Your exam results are here!"
A.N: How did the girls go? What surprises are in store for Lily? I hope you guys liked the chapter, I've decided to do shorter chapters, only about 1k words each, but I plan on doing plenty of chapters. Please review!
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