James shook Lily gently awake early the next morning, he had packed absolutely everything that he thought they needed and their plane left at ten in the morning, right now it was eight.

"Let me sleep," Lily muttered while she flipped over and buried her head in the pillow.

James never realized that Lily would be one of those people like Sirius who like to sleep. Personally, James liked to get up early in the morning and do things. He was definitely not one to waste the morning hours.

Quickly, he walked over to the light and flipped it on.

"Not the light," Lily screamed, pulling blankets up over her head, James sighed and yanked them off.

"Get up Lily, we're going on a trip," he said with a grin. Lily stopped trying to pull the blankets back and looked at him.

"Where are we going?" she asked.

"We're going to the Caribbean, and our plane leaves in two hours! Now get up!" James replied, pulling her up.

Lily listened and emerged from the bathroom an hour later.


They had gotten to the airport just in time. Now they were sitting in the plane as it rolled down the runway.

"Are you nervous?" Lily asked with a grin.

James had turned a pale color when the announcements had come on telling everyone to keep buckled. He nodded slowly gripping the armrests. Lily put a hand over his and he seemed to be a bit surprised at that.


A couple of hours later they landed on one of the Caribbean Islands. James hadn't remembered what it was called, nor did he care. He just wanted Lily to get a little bit of relaxation.

Lily assumed that James knew where he was going, so she just followed him around. The truth was though that all he knew was the name of the place they were staying, he had no clue whatsoever how to get there.

They walked around aimlessly for a little bit.

"Are we lost James?" Lily asked, sensing his nervousness.

"Kind of. I know where we're going I just don't know how to get there," he replied with a small grin while he rana hand through his hair.

They ended up taking a shuttle to the hotel, which turned out to be quite nice.

It was quite large, the outside was whitewashed walls and there was a fountain sitting in the middle of the front lawn. On the inside there were marble floors and two large staricases reminiscent of the ones leading up to the dormitories at Hogwarts, only a lot fancier.

James had booked a suite on the fourth floor. It consisted of a bedroom, a bathroom, a sort of living room area, and a kitchenette. Off of the bedroom there was a beautiful balcony overlooking the beach. It was getting dark now and Lily was unpacking. His main goal was to make her forget the whole ordeal with Death Eaters, she was still a bit jumpy around strangers.

James figured he'd do the whole romantic cliche thing and he called roomservice to order strawberries (and chocolate to dip them in) and champagne. He planned that they would have it on the balcony. Lily was lying in the bathroom taking a shower.

There was a knock at the door and James let the man in to bring the food out to the balcony.

Lily came into the bedroom with a bathrobe on.

"Close your eyes," James said. Lily did and he led her out onto the balcony and sat her down in one of the chairs.

"Open your mouth now," he said, dipping one of the strawberries in the chocolate.

She tried to refuse, but in the end she gave up and reluctantly opened her mouth and James fed her the strawberry. She swallowed the first bit and her eyes flew open.

"Was that a strawberry?" she asked, her face getting very pale.

James nodded, "I figured that's what they do in most of the romantic muggle movies, I thought you'd like it."

"I'm allergic to strawberries," Lily replied.

James's eyes widened, "Are you going to be ok?"

Lily nodded, "It's not that serious. I don't get the huge life threatening reactions, I just try and stay away from them. I get horrible rashes and my tongue swells."

"I'm sorry, I didn't know," James said, he got up to grab the phone, "What do you want to eat?"

"I'm not hungry anymore, I just want to go to sleep," Lily replied with a smile, "But it's the thought that counts, James."

So the first romantic thing he did for Lily failed miserably.


The next two days Lily refused to leave the room because the rashes were horrible. On the third day it rained so they stayed inside and went down to the pool.

On the fourth day, the weather cleared up and it was very sunny. They decided to go on a boat for the day.

The boat they were on was more like a yacht. It was big and white and there were lots of other couples on it. The only difference, Lily thought, was that the other couples were in love. Back to the boat though. It had a nice deck that Lily liked looking off of, and underneath the deck were rooms, but Lily didn't spend much time down there.

"It's beautiful here, isn't it?" came a voice from behind Lily.

"Yes, it is, I suppose," Lily replied.

The man she was talking to was tall and very tan. He was wearing a white t-shirt and shorts, and he looked very muscular. His hair was dark brown and curly. He had brown eyes to match his hair.

"You suppose?" he asked.

"Yes, I think it's beautiful. I would find it more beautiful under different circumstances though," she answered.

The man looked puzzled.

"I'm here because I was sick and my friends thought that it would be good for me to get away," she replied.

"Nothing life-threatening I hope?" the man asked.

"No, I was trying to get out ofa stressful relationship that was making me sick," Lily replied. She knew that she was telling a complete lie to this man, but she hoped he would just go away. She also hoped that James wasn't around to hear any of this. She supposed what she was saying wasn't exactly a lie. She was scheming to get out of her "relationship" with James. Poor guy.

"So what's your name?" he asked.

"Lily...Evans," she replied hesitantly, "What's yours?"

"Isaac Escobedo," he answered with a smile.

"What are you here for?" Lily asked.

"No purpose, I'm just traveling during summer break," he said squinting, theboat was turning towards the sun now. Lily put her hand over her eyes.

"College?" she asked.

"Medical school actually," he replied.

Too bad I'm married. Med school...a man after my own heart.

"I always wanted to be a doctor when I was little."

"It's hard stuff. I was feeling burnout. It was horrible so I lightened my load a little bit, it might take me longer to graduate but it's worth it," he said.

"So do you have a girlfriend?" Lily asked. She had to know.

"No. They don't seem to understand my drive for my work. I figure I just might as well wait until I'm working," he said sadly.

"I was exactly the same way until I graduated two years ago from school, there was one guy who would rather run around and play pranks all day and he wouldn't let me do my work...always distracting me, he didn't get that I would just rather do my schoolwork," Lily said.

"We've got a lot in common then," Isaac said with a grin, "Would you like to go out for dinner when we get back to land?" he asked.

He looked really hopeful, but Lily just couldn't say yes, she was married.

"I can't, I'm married," Lily answered sadly.

"I thought you said you were here to get away from a relationship, what does it matter?" he pressed.

"He's here too, it's so complicated," Lily said and turned to go find James.


Sirius was sitting in the living room of James's mansion. It had just sold for a lot more than he expected. He couldn't believe his luck at finding a buyer so soon.

He just hoped that he was the highest bidder on the house that he had found.

There was a three story house in a village called Godric's Hollow. It was bigger than the average house, but still quite a bit smaller than the Potter Mansion. He had also found out that back quite a few generations ago, James's family had lived in the same house. He thought that it was just begging for him to buy it.

It was made out of brick and had a nice sized lawn in front and back. There was a stone fence all around the perimeter of the property and there were huge trees on either side.

It was perfect for Lily and James. There were plenty of bedrooms so that maybe even the Order could meet there sometimes...he'd have to bring that up with James. It had five bedrooms and a huge kitchen, a living room, a huge study, and three bathrooms. The basement was finished and Sirius figured that's what they could use for the meeting space. There were a couple of other rooms that really served no purpose, and he supposed that those could be made into more bedrooms if James agreed to letting the Order meet there.

Yes, it was definitely perfect. He just had to wait for the realtor to get back to him.


It was the fifth day of their seven day vacation. James had gotten a bit jealous when he heard Lily talking to that man, but it was to be expected.

He was really regretting accepting Lily's proposal. No he wasn't. They just needed to get used to the whole situation. Hopefully Sirius would get a new house for them by the time they got back. It really was an impossible task, but with the amount of disposable money James had on his hands it shouldn't be all that hard.

James was sitting on the bed in their room. Yesterday had been fun. When Lily had found him they dove off of the yacht and went swimming. The other people on the boat hadn't even noticed that they were gone. It had been nice.

They had shared their real first kiss.

"How are we getting back to land?" Lily asked, all of sudden looking panicked.

"We'll just have to swim I guess," James replied with a mischevious glint in his eyes. He knew how to get back to the hotel. He had his wand, they would just apparate back to the hotel.

Lily pouted. "I don't like swimming," she said.

"But your dive was just about perfect, you sure could have fooled me," James said, puzzled.

"I like diving, not swimming. There's a difference," she answered, and then dunked him for his stupidity.

James resurfaced a few seconds later gasping for air. Lily just laughed. They weren't that far out into the sea, because they could see the beach from where they were.

While Lily was laughing James dunked her, but she got away from him and swam a few feet away. James didn't know what had happened though.

He was starting to get worried because Lily hadn't come back up for breath yet.

Lily popped up a few seconds later ten feet behind James. She laughed when she saw the look on his face.

James was swimming over to her now, when he got closer he wrapped his arms around her so she couldn't get away this time.

"You scared me," he whispered.

Lily looked at him. His eyes seemed bright with a sort of playfullness.

It was then that she had kissed him.

Author's Note: Well there. I liked that chapter. Sort of. Not much happens I guess. I didn't want to elaborate on what exactly went on during their stay because it got really boring and long and repetitive.

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