Chapter Eight: Rewritten Completely!
Ok I have been away for about a month and a half or so, I have been on lent and as I am sooooo addicted to fanfic (Lol) I decided I wouldn't go on it until Easter for lent. I know sinful isn't it! Lol, but I am back with my chapter 8 completely revised and ready for you to read because I just didn't like the way my story was going before I am sorry if you did but I feel you will like this chapter much more anyway. Because I have been away for so long, this chapter is longer than all the rest. I have started writing the next chapter as well! So that's good news.
After the words Next day in this chapter it isn't Lily's POV it is the narrator's point of view. Then it will switch back to Lily's point of view when the words Lily's POV sorry for any confusion.
Last chapter
I nod. She gives me an encouraging look and says "well then we shall just have to open my stupid brother's eyes and get you the two of you on a date"
'What? You don't mind?" I say.
"Course not! You're my friend why would I care?"
"Thanks" I say and we run down onto the beach ready for yet another day of full-on surfing!
Sunny and I lay on our stomachs discussing some fun things to do. Being the only 'girlish and masculine at the same time' guy I know Sirius is laying beside us insisting he didn't come to Australia to go back as pale as he left, plus that girls like tanned boys not pale pasty skinned ones. Whilst he said this he gestured to Remus who in return gave him a rude hand gesture. I must agree with Sirius though, that's probably why I like Mike so much.
We flip over onto our backs and slip on our sunglasses and just relax. I plan to try and get some information out of Sunny about Remus when we aren't surrounded by self obsessed pretty boys (cough Sirius cough). So for now I just lay and soak up the sun going over our surfing session in our head. The boys had improved quite well, but remembering there first lesson that isn't really saying much.
James and Sirius decided they would share a board and come into shore in cliché Hawaii movie styles. And once or twice in the Saturday Night Fever pose. Let's just say that didn't go very well. They soon learned the meaning of getting 'dumped' and not in the sense of a relationship break-up.
Remus did quite well, I must say that Sunny, Mike and I are particularly good teachers (especially Mike, clad in just boardies!)
After a while we got tired and headed up to the hotel for a good nights rest.
Next day
The Marauders had had fun with the group of girls they had met the other week. The shopping centre had been fascinating for them so they decided to go again, this time on their own. When they arrived they headed straight to the electrical shop named 'Tandy's'. They got a lot of strange looks, but who could blame the muggles? James and Sirius were yelling out about "the weird things muggles come up with" or asking Remus what certain things do. They asked him because he actually pays attention in muggle studies. Eventually they were asked to leave when James started screaming because an electrical toothbrush went off in his hand. "I thought it was possessed or something" explained a blushing James to Remus.
They walked for a few minutes before coming to a sweet store. Sirius face lit up like a, well, a kid in a sweet store. Remus rushed inside to find some chocolate leaving the boys unattended which wasn't a good idea. Sirius and James grabbed a huge bag and started filling it with all the sweets in sight, Gummy Rings, Gummy bears, Gummy babies, Gummy phones, Gummy sodas, Gummy feet, Gummy balls, Gummy drops, Gummy fruits, everything! And when they came across Fredo Frogs they were delighted, thinking muggles had finally caught on the wizard candy, but were disappointed later on when they found out that the frogs didn't move they just stayed stiff. They boys didn't wait to start eating candy; before they had paid a cent they had eaten at least four packets of gummy stuff and two bars of chocolate.
When it came to pay Remus put his stuff with the others as he had no muggle money with him. But as it turns out neither did the others as they found out when Sirius slapped down a load of galleons on the counter.
The shopkeeper eyed the galleons and laughed thinking it was a joke but when Sirius didn't move and just stood there blinking the shop keeper realised they were serious about it. "You can't use whatever that money is, here. Hand over the real dosh please." Sirius blinked a few more times then pushed the galleons further onto the counter.
Remus smacked his own head then stepped forward "Im sorry we don't have anything else" he said.
The shopkeeper began to look angry "well you're going to need to find some because your friends have already consumed something of my confectionary." He said.
Remus looked extremely worried "Im sorry but…"
"Run!" shouted James grabbing the bags of sweet on the counter, then began sprinting away giggling with Sirius. They were obviously high on sugar. Remus looked once more at the shopkeeper before shrugging and running off after them. All three of them ran to the bathrooms James and Sirius laughing giddily all the way stuffing more sweets in their mouths as they went. When they got in, they ran into a cubical and locked the door behind them, breathing heavily. After they caught their breath they discussed their next move.
"We ruuuun!" exclaimed Sirius still chomping on sweets.
"I think we should come up with something with more tactics, yeah?" said Remus hoping for them to just agree.
"We Ruuuuuuun!" shouted Sirius again.
"Good idea old chap" said James patting him on the back.
"Am I the only sane person here?" muttered Remus, but before he could do anything, James and Sirius burst through the door and ran out the bathroom, so he followed them, muttering to himself all the way.
After a while the security guards where on their trail Probably because all the havoc they had been wreaking they had "Borrowed" from a fancy dress store and James was in a ballerina costume, Sirius was dressed as super man, and Remus was a lamb (pink bow in hair and all). Then they shouted random insults at people in the music store, insulting there music style or for there lousy singing. Then they had fun on the River boats splashing each other sailing under the water falls and eventually falling in.
So now they were running as fast as they could away from the Guards, which was pretty hard with two of them in lyrcra. Remus had given in to the sugary goodness and was no longer being responsible; in fact he was actually being as bad a James and Sirius.
"Run! To the bat mobile, AWAY!" he yelled.
"Maniacal Laughter Mooney is a comic nerd!" screamed James like a mental lunatic.
"HAHAHA comic! That's a funny word" exclaimed Remus.
"Jeeves Loves Pie and so do I!" shouted Sirius.
"You're a poet and you know it" hollered Remus.
"Whatever Mooney man! Hurry up James you, you, POO!" cried Sirius
"Does my bum look big in this?" James had stopped and turned around pointing to hid tutu covered butt.
In that split second the guards caught up and the boys were captured. "Abuse! Abuse!" squealed Sirius as they flung his hand behind his back "He touched my hynie" he whined. The guards marched them to the police beat office in the centre and sat them down for their punishment. They sat in front of a large tattered desk in hard uncomfortable chairs; sitting behind the desk was the chief guard.
James put his hand up "Are you important?" he asked
The guard looked confused, "Well yes"
James look considerably uncomfortable then loudly whispered to Sirius "Does my tutu look ok?" Sirius shook his head gravely.
"Boys" interrupted the chief "You're lucky your friends could pay off your debt" the boys were confused until Lily and Sunny walked through the door.
"You're free to go, but if this ever happens again you're facing a $5000 dollar fine" said the chief.
As soon as they were out the office the boys enveloped Lily and Sunny in a tight hug jumping around in circles thanking them. "Exactly how much sugar have you guys had?" asked Sunny.
"Eleventy Leven plus one" said James trying to sound intellectual in front of Lily but just ended up sounding drunk.
The girls laughed and then turned to each other and tried to think of a way to sober the boys a bit. "We could get them a savoury lunch and water, hopefully that might calm them down a little bit" said Lily. So the girls took them to subway restaurant and bought the boys a chicken salad sub each and a bottle of water. There was a bit of fuss because the boys didn't want anything that didn't contain many sugars. But they eventually got it down their throats and sobered up considerably for it.
"So what have you been doing today then?" asked Remus.
"Apart from saving your guys butts, we went down and got a tan, you like?" James and Remus were just about to answer yes but Sirius butted in.
"You went to get a tan, without me?"
Everyone laughed except for Sirius who pouted childishly and stuck out his tongue.
"Well anyway, changing the subject, what do you guys want to do now?" asked Remus.
'Well as were here…"
Lily's POV
For the rest of the day we went shopping, first up we headed to the clothe shops and tortured the boys by trying on absolutely everything we had even the slightest interest in (I.E the whole shop) It was payback for their earlier behaviour. Eventually I bought some tee shirts and quarter length shorts and sunny bought a new bikini and sundress. The boys decided they need some new Flip flops because they didn't have any good ones back at the hotel. After that Remus and I dragged the others to the bookstore and bought a few books each (even though I haven't finished my others yet)
James and Sirius were critically bored so we let them choose were to go next. They of course chose Quidditch so I had to remind them we were in a muggle shopping centre so they would have to make do with something non magical, they asked what the muggle equivalent of Quidditch was. I told them muggle boys like cars and motorbikes so off we went to an automobile store. They spent forever looking around amazed that something non magical could be so cool. Just when I was sure I was free to leave Sirius spotter a large black Harley Davidson and started drooling over it. It took all Sunny, Remus and I to pry him away from it, James wouldn't help because he didn't really want to leave either. So he just stood and watched in amusement. Jerk!
Next we stopped at the pet shop, I ran over to the kittens and straight away picked a favourite, a grey tabby with one white paw. It meowed and clawed at the glass. It was just so cute and when it was time to leave the shop I didn't want to go, so I ended up buying it! I named her Grace.
After that we pretty much went straight back to the hotel to get Grace settled in. When we arrived I rushed up to show petunia ands she was fairly happy as she has always wanted a cat, but when I went to show mum and dad they weren't to happy. They lectured me about how I should have asked them before I "wasted" my money on a cat. They said I should take it back because they think I will get sick of it in a week (no way). I wasn't going to do that though, I had already gotten attached to Grace and her to me, it wouldn't be fair on either of us for her to be sent back now.
I decided I would get someone to look after her just until we are back at school, in went to the most trusted out of the marauders, Remus. He shook his head wildly when he saw her and said "Sorry no can do Lily I hate cats, especially …. Well I hate them," which was quite weird but I guess he has reasons.
So instead I went and asked James (not that I really wanted to, he would probably use her in pranks, but tats not as bad as what Sirius would do so James it was) but oddly when I went to ask James Sirius popped up and tried to convince James that Grace was evil, even more weird, Grace was actually hissing at him. James looked as if this was dreadfully routine and just ignored him and told me he would look after Grace as long as I needed. This was really quite nice of him. As I left I flung my arms around him in a hug and said thanks and as I turned to leave I heard "she touched me" and a large thump as he fell to the floor.
When I got back to the room I had to explain to Petunia what had happened and she went back to her normal bitchy self. I ignored her and ate dinner in peace thinking the day through we had had when Mike came over and invited me to come for a swim with him after dinner. I accepted immediately and rushed upstairs to get changed. 10 minutes later I was in the lobby walking side by side with mike to the pool area. It was quite awkward as neither of us were saying anything.
The water was brilliant and refreshing; the Moon was large in the sky and Mike look dashing with the moonlight reflecting off his face.
I was floating on my back pondering whether this meant that Mike liked me more that a friend when I felt a pair of arms encircle around my waist and hug me close. I was quite shocked but otherwise pleased. We stayed like that for a while before I declared a splashing contest. He looked amused and then said "you're on"
I got out of the pool to prepare, I stretched and got warmed up. When I jumped in I thought I made a rather hefty splash and shouted out for him to beat it. He just smirked at me and jumped in. His splash made mine look pathetic, but it was only due to a large amount of experience and practise.
We swam around for a little longer then decided to call it a night and head back to our rooms. When we got to my door I stood gawkily and hesitantly told him I had had a wonderful evening. To my astonishment he leaned down a kissed my cheek and said we should do it again some time soon. And just walked off down the hall calmly, I watched him until he disappeared round the corner then jumped up and down like a little school girl.
I walked inside and freaked out yelling "he kissed me he kissed me!" a pillow came hurtling my way so my guess is I woke up Tuna. "Sorry Petunia" I whispered and climbed into bed thinking about the day I had just had. My mind was a-race and I really couldn't get to sleep so I got out of bed and had a warm relaxing shower to wash my thoughts away until tomorrow when I was allowed to get excited and tell sunny every detail of what happened.
I didn't wash my hair or anything, no that took to much effort I just let the water rush over my head. When I stepped out i was completely relaxed and was able to fall asleep right away. Well, just after playing the kiss over once more in my head that is.
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