Lily looked around. She had just gone through the barrier, and was now looking for her family. Her eyes landed on her sister, Petunia. She looked around once more, her parents were no where in sight. What the crap? Petunia hates me now… well at least she did over summer. Slowly Lily went over to Petunia.
"Hey Nia, where's Mom and Dad?"
"They're at work, urgent call. Here," she handed Lily the keys to her dads car, "You're to drive home. I'm going home with Vernon."
"Who?"
A large, beefy man stepped forward. Lily stared at him in shock. He resembled a walrus so much that she expected him to turn into one.
"Lily." She said extending her hand cheerfully.
"Vernon Dursley, Petty's fiancée." He took her hand hesitantly.
"Oh, Nia! I'm so happy for you!"
"Thanks, Lily."
"Ok, bye. Will you be home for Christmas?" Lily said turning towards her sister.
"Yes, of course."
"I'll see you then!"
"Hmm. Be careful."
Lily waved cheerfully over her shoulder before going to the car, shoving her trunk in it, and driving off, towards Privet Drive. (They live there because when their parents died they left Petty with the house and she loved it so much she persuaded Vernon to live there with her)
I wonder what's going on with Nia. She's hated me ever since I started Hogwarts…Oh well, it's a change for the better. I missed her.
Lily got home, and sat outside on her porch. From the house next door she could hear laughter, it sounded familiar, but she couldn't place it. It was a laugh she hadn't heard in a long time. Quietly she peered over to the next house and gasped when she saw who was there.
There, lying in the snow, laughing, was James Potter. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin looked shocked to see, or hear, their friend laughing for a moment, but hey quickly overcame their shock and laughed with him.
Lily went over quietly, not believing what she was seeing. What are they doing here? I've lived here all my life, and they were not here before. I'm gonna find out what's going on, yeah that's what I'll do.
"James? Sirius? Remus?" she questioned looking shocked.
"Lily?" James said looking up. The other two were looking at her the same way she was them. "What're you doing here?"
"I live here. What are YOU doing here?"
"Um… see when my parents died, they left me this house, the Potter Manor is apparently too big to live with two people and a couple of house elves, so I was s'posed to come and live here until I decide to sell it or whatever… But I still own the Manor too."
"Oh. And you're just visiting right?" she asked looking at the other two.
"Well, I live with Prongs and Moony's gonna stay with us over break." Sirius answered.
"Oh." A voice behind them called for Lily ("Lily! Darling! Come back inside, sweetheart you'll catch a cold!"). "I'd better go, Mum'll have a heart attack."
Lily turned and walked back to her house.
The boys could hear Lily saying "Mum! I didn't know you were home!"
"I know, you wouldn't have gone out if you did. I just got in."
"Oh."
Sirius and Remus exchanged a look. James looked like he was in heaven.
"Did you hear her? She said my name before yours! SHE SAID MY NAME FIRST!"
"Well, it looks like we got James back." Remus muttered.
"James, CALM DOWN! IT'S NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL!" Remus said, trying to calm down James, who was doing a victory dance.
Lily turned around and gave them a slightly worried look. "Its fine, James is back to his old self." Sirius called to her cheerfully.
"Ok." She called back, smiling happily to herself.
"Who were you talking with?" her mom questioned.
"The boys next door, they go to school with me. In my year, and house."
"The boys in your year are Sirius Black, who's favorite color is white, Remus Lupin, whom you used to have a crush on ("Mother!"), James Potter, whom you loathe, Peter Pettigrew, who you can't stand, and Frank Longbottom, who is one of your friends. Correct?"
"Uh… pretty much." Lily said, shocked that her Mom remembered these things.
"Pretty much?"
"Well, I don't hate James anymore. He's really nice, we're Heads together too. And I get a long with Sirius now too. But yeah."
"So which ones are next door?"
"James, Sirius, and Remus."
"I see. Go freshen up, I think we might have some guests tonight for dinner."
"Um… Okay, is that Vernon guy coming?"
"No, he is busy tonight, so is Petunia, she's been spending less and less time with us ever since she met Vernon."
"She was really nice to me today… didn't call me a freak once. Just like good old times." Lily said smiling. She went up stairs and took a shower and pulled her favorite outfit of her closet (it was a pair of jeans and a pale gold halter-top). She left her long red hair down, put on pale gold jewelry (dangling earrings and a choker-like necklace), Lily lightly lined her eyes. When she was done she dug through her closet for a pair of black shoes. She grabbed a white overcoat and glanced at the clock, 4:25 PM. Record time. Smiling to herself Lily headed out the door thinking about who her mom was going to have over for dinner.
She walked past James' house and waved to the trio who were still having a snowball fight.
"Care to join?" Sirius said.
"No, I just changed! Are you crazy?"
"Sorry." Remus said.
Shaking her head Lily walked on. She stopped two houses down from her own, in other words James' neighbors. Lily could feel the trio's eyes on her, ignoring them she went and rang the doorbell. A tall boy with blonde hair, blue eyes, and tan skin, Jonathan in other words, opened the door and looked at her for a second before picking her up.
Lily laughed, "Jon put me down!" she squealed with delight.
"Awe, come on Lils!"
"JON."
"Fine be that way!"
"Well, sorry!"
"Whatever. What are you doing anyway?"
"What do you think I'm doing? Honestly!"
"Shut-up, Lillian."
Lily gasped, pretending to be hurt. "Oh no you didn't!"
Jon smirked. "In or out, babe?"
Lily looked inside and a look of disgust came over her face. "Ugh, don't you ever clean that place? Out."
"Yeah, about once a year." Jon said as he grabbed a jacket from one of the heaps on the floor. Lily looked at him like he was an alien. "Don't look at me like that. There was a time when you knew where everything was in my ever so organized house."
"Ugh, don't remind me." He smirked and locked the door after calling through the house that he was leaving.
The two of them walked to Lily's house, Jon had his arm slung around her shoulders, and Lily was leaning into him happily. They walked past three of the four Marauders, Lily grinned and mouthed that she'd see them later.
"I didn't know people actually lived there…" Jon said. "You remember when we used to break into that house and just hang out in their living room?"
Lily glanced at the boys, it seemed that Sirius had heard and he was laughing. "Oh yeah. That was always fun."
Jon chuckled. "Good times."
"Mum?" Lily called once they entered her house.
"Yes, dear?"
"Can Jon stay for dinner?"
"Of course. I've asked the boys next door to come as well."
"Oh, ok. Bye."
"Bye."
Jon and Lily left the house and headed back towards Jon's. When they walked past the Marauders house Lily stopped and walked to the door, and rang the door bell. It seemed that the boys decided to go inside.
Sirius opened the door with a mug of steaming hot chocolate in his hand.
"Oh hey Lily-Flower. Wanna come in?"
"Can Jon come in too?"
"Who?"
"Jonathan Goldson. Your neighbor."
"Oh, yeah, sure."
Jon and Lily entered the house. Lily glanced around, "Looks the same as ever… just populated."
Sirius laughed. "I'm Sirius Black by the way," he said sticking his hand out for Jon to shake.
"Jonathan Goldson, I go by Jon." Jon took Sirius' hand. After a second Sirius led them into the family where James was trying to figure out how to turn on the light, and Remus watched amused, he was half-blood but had grown up with his wizard father.
James turned when he heard footsteps. "Oh, hi Lily. Can you help me here?"
Lily smirked. "Sure," she went over to him. "Ok, so you see these switches? You flip that one up if you want that light to turn on. See? Ok, and this one turns that light on. Got it?"
"I think so." James said smiling.
"You can't turn on a light?" Jon said sounding amused.
"They grew up in rich family's, never had to do anything themselves." Lily said before the boys could respond.
"Oh, I see. I'm Jon Goldson by the way." He said holding his hand out the way Sirius did.
"James Potter."
"Remus Lupin."
"Pleasure. I have to get going, I'll see all of you at dinner." Jon said. He kissed Lily's cheek and winked at her, "See you later, babe."
"Yeah, yeah. Don't get a big head." She replied.
"Too late." Jon said a smirk gracing his face.
At 6 o'clock Lily answered the door to find Jon leaning casually against the bricks in the doorway. He looked at her, "Wow. Looking good, Lils." He said, once again smirking. Unfortunately for him, James, Sirius, and Remus came at exactly that second. James glared at Jon's head, Remus and Sirius snickered.
"Yeah, Lily-Flower, he has a point." Sirius said winking as he walked in. James now glared at Sirius.
Remus' eyes scanned Lily quickly, before he nodded, agreeing with the other two boys.
Lily looked at James, waiting for his reaction, Sirius and Remus looked at him too. Jon had gone into the kitchen, looking for Lily's mum, do he could say hi.
"Lily, you look great…" James trailed off, blushing. Lily was the only person who could make him blush.
"Why, thank you James," she said winking at Sirius.
"Lily! Stop flirting and get over here!" Her father said cheerfully.
"Yeah, Lily! Stop flirting and get over here!" Jon echoed.
"Shut up boys, Lily can flirt with them if she wants to."
"Yeah, boys! Mum said I can flirt with them if I want to. BEAT THAT!" Lily echoed her mother. Sirius and Remus stood, amused, James looked like he might have a heart attack.
"OH NO! MY BABY GIRL'S ALL GROWN UP! SHE'S FLIRTING!" Lily's dad said extremely dramatically.
"Jeez, dad. Calm down." Lily's parents and Jon had migrated back to the entrance room from the kitchen. They all had wide grins on their faces. Lily's dad came and gave Lily a big hug. "It's good to see you too, Daddy, but I can't breath all too well."
"Oh, sorry Hun."
"It's ok. Right intros. Dad, Mom, this is James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin." Lily said pointing to each one in turn.
"Alexander Evans."
"Rose Evans."
"Cool." Sirius said cheerfully, Lily laughed lightly.
"Lily give them a tour of the house. Jon, Alex, help me with dinner."
Both boys groaned. Rose raised an eyebrow and they followed her grudgingly.
Lily smirked as she turned to the boys. "This is the entrance hall. That over there is the Evans family crest." Lily pointed to a blue and yellow crest with a lion on it. At the top there was a stag, when the boys noticed this they exchanged small smiles.
"That there is the family room." She pointed to a cozy little room with a warm fire lit and couches.
Lily led them upstairs. "This is my room." They entered a room with white walls with posters covering them. There were posters of bands, movies, boys, book signings, everything. One wall was completely filled with books (there was a huge bookshelf). There was a nice bed with light gold coverings, and her furnishings were a honey color.
"The bathrooms down the hall, door after the next."
"What's the next room?"
"My sister's. and then across the hall from me is the guest bedroom, and across from my sister's room is my parents. Let's go downstairs."
They went down stairs and Lily led them towards the dining room, pointing out a bathroom and kitchen as she went. When they got to the dining room there was a nice meal of roast chicken, mashed potatoes, and stuffing. The dessert was chocolate cake, it was, to put t simply, heavenly.
The boys all thanked Lily's parents, complimented the food and left.
Lily went up to bed smiling to herself. Lily was happy, but if you asked her why, she couldn't tell you, because she didn't know herself.
A/N:
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