Chapter 10 as promised done on time.
"Lily?" Called her mother form downstairs
"Yeah Mum?" Lily said standing at the top of her stair case looking at her mother, leaving Marlene in her bedroom.
"There's two charming boys here" her mother said gesturing to the figures behind her "They are requesting to see you and Marlene"
Lily looked over her mother and saw Sirius and James standing in her doorway grinning awkwardly, "Charming?" she questioned with a chuckle. But then it hit her why her mum was so confused to who they were "Shi- I mean; Opps, sorry Mum I forgot to tell you that me and Marls were meeting them today" she said shamefully walking down the stairs in her summer pink shorts, cream top and flip flops.
"Hey guys" Lily smiled at them.
"Hey, Lil's"
"Alright Lily-flower"
Her mother coughed slightly, Lily turned round to face her with her eyebrows raised. "Are you going to introduce us" Rose asked curious to whom the charming boys Lily and Marlene were spending the day with.
"Oh right" Lily said letting out a single chuckle "Sorry" she excused herself.
"This Is James Potter" she said pointing to James who shook her mother's hand, "and this is Sirius Black" whom she also pointed too "and this is my Mum, Rose" she smiled awkwardly as Sirius shook her mother's hand as well.
"Oh!" he mother said in realisation "It's nice to put the names to faces" she said with a smile.
"Right…?" Lily said with a confused. "I'll err, go and get Marlene" she told the boys, "Don't let my mum bother you, she's just nosy" Lily said with a wink to her mum who chuckled.
Lily walked up the stairs quickly with the sense that her back was being watched. Gently pushing open the door to her bedroom she leant on the doorframe.
"What was that about?" Marlene asked.
"People at the door" she said pretending to act dully.
"Oh right? Anyone I'd know?"
"Oh yeah" Lily grinned "I think you may have taken a fancying to one of them"
"Shit! Sirius and James?"
Lily laughed at her friends panic "Yeah, they're waiting for us…" But then it dawned on her "With my mum! Let's go quickly" she said grabbing Marlene's braceleted wrist and dragging her down the stairs behind her and then into the sitting room.
"Hey guys" Marlene smiled, pretending not to be embarrassed that Sirius was there.
"Alright?" Sirius smirked.
Lily attempted to hide a grin but saved Marlene before she embarrassed herself "Right err, shall we go?"
"Where are you four planning on going anyway?" Asked Rose
Lily glanced to the other three nervously but James answered for her; "We haven't really planned anything, we're just …"
"Going with the flow" Lily said ending his sentence with a giggle.
"Ok. Don't be back to late" Her mother said sternly "and b-"
"-Be sensible, yeah yeah I know" Lily said rolling her eyes.
"And d-"
"And don't spend all my money. I know" Lily moaned, but chuckled at the sight of James and Sirius shocked faces of how she knew what her mother was going to say.
"How did you know?" James asked baffled.
"I have had the same conversation, each time I go out without my parents since I was 9" she whined.
"Ahh but at least you know it now"
"Mum, I've knew it within the first 5 times you said it hence why I get so exasperated" Lily said wanting to bang her head against a wall. "I'm sure even Marl's knows it"
Marlene nodded "F'raid so Rose" She grinned knowing that she wouldn't take offence.
"Well have fun whatever you're doing" she smiled "You're all welcome to come back and have dinner"
"Oh no, its fine Mrs Evans, Sirius and I don't want to be a nuisance" he said politely to which Marlene and Lily both broke out into fits of giggles knowing full well that James and Sirius are nothing but a nuisance.
"Oh, it's no trouble at all. We could always order a pizza or something."
"Pizza sounds great mum" Lily smiled, suddenly feeling hungry even having recently eaten lunch.
Withing 5 minutes the four friends had left Lily's house and took a left up the road towards the village.
"So Lily" Marlene teased as they walked past another house round the block from Lily's house. "Do you know who lives in that house" she said pointing to it."
Lily blushed slightly "No, of course not" she lied.
"Huh?" Questioned Sirius, missing the hint.
"Nothing!" Lily said a little too quickly, but from the corner of her eye she caught sight of the door from the house opening causing her to quicken her step.
"What have we missed?" James, who had also missed Marlene's subtle hint, questioned.
"Well someone you may have heard off, lives in that house there" she said pointing back at it.
"You mean, Joey?" James asked.
"Is that him?" Sirius announced loudly catching sight of someone walking out of the driveway.
"Can we go?" Lily asked nervously, tugging at their arms.
"But I want to meet this guy" Sirius moaned.
"Not now" Lily said with a blush on her cheeks.
"But we will?" Marlene asked confused that Lily was saying this.
"If it makes you guys hurry up then sure" she said trying to get them moving as quickly as possible.
After Lily had managed to get them into the village without encountering Joey, they slowed their pace down and walked along the street stopping in a few shops to have a look or buy a few snacks in Sirius' case.
On their way back to Lily's' house they had decided to stop in a grassy park a few minutes away from Lily's house where they sat away from the playground equipment and under a shaded tree out of the glowing sun.
"Lily?" came a deep unrecognisable voice, unknown to James and Sirius.
Lily shuddered slightly knowing the voice. She lifted her head and sent a quick death glare at all of them as though warning them to behave and NOT embarrass her. "Hey Joey" she said trying to act casual.
"It is you!" he grinned "I haven't seen you since last summer-" Lily heard him say which caused a stifled giggle from Marlene which thankfully Joey did not notice. "Have another go year at that boarding school of yours?"
"Oh yeah, it was great." Lily looked to Marlene who gave her a smirk, "You remember Marlene right?"
"Of course" he smiled at her which earned a smile back.
"And this is James and Sirius, who also go to my school" Lily said feeling forced to introduce them. She watched nervously but intently as the guys shook hands in and awkward postiotin as she realised Joey was still stood up whereas the four of them were sat down. But obviously Marlene was thinking along the same lies but grabbed the opportunity.
"Why don't you sit down" Marlene smiled
"Oh no, I don't want to intrude"
"Oh no its fine" Sirius grinned winking at Lily without Joey noticing.
"If you're sure" he said glancing nervously at the two guys, but all the same he sat down in between Lily and Marlene. "So Lily is it nice to be home, or not so much..?"
"It has its benefits but I'm not looking forward to Petunia getting home from her boyfriends, sitting in the car with her was bad enough this year, living with her again may just kill me"
Joey chuckled "Well if you need to escape, you can always come and find me if none of these guys are around" he said gesturing to the others "or if you just wanted to hang out…"
James was unsure of what to think of Joey, he seemed like a nice guy but James was struggling to keep his feelings for Lily out of the equation. He was jealous that Joey had dated Lily and he hadn't and he wasn't afraid to admit that to himself but he didn't want to be unreasonable to him, when to be honest he'd never actually done anything wrong to him or Lily.
"Yeah, maybe you guys could play spin the bottle" Sirius said loud enough for only Lily, James and Marlene to hear whilst stifling a laugh and trying to act casual.
Lily sent a quick scowl at Sirius before saying "Thanks" to Joey with a smile. "I appreciate it"
Marlene attempted to hide a smile that was creeping up on the corner of her lips, she loved causing her best friend slight embarrassment, she guessed that she wasn't the only on as she caught James' and Sirius' awkward eyes causing all three of them to laugh.
"So what's it like up at that school of yours" Joey questioned the other three. "It can't be as good as Lily makes it out to be, can it?"
"It's pretty good actually" James said nicely but took an opportunity to tease Lily slightly "but Lily is a bit of a nerd so she enjoys all of our classes" Lily elbowed him playfully.
Joey chuckled "I guessed, pretty much every time I saw her last summer there was always a book with her"
"That sounds about right" James laughed "but for a smart girl she does do a lot off stupid things" he said to Joey.
"Oh yeah? Like what?" Lily tested.
"Well a few ago in the library after fetching a book for revision you sat down at a table and began talking to a guy before you realised it wasn't me and that I was at the table next to you"
'Stupid question' Lily told herself 'such a stupid question.' "Yeah well I was still reading the book as I walked over and I wasn't even looking at the person as I sat down, it wasn't till he started talking back to me that I realised it wasn't him…" she said flushing slightly.
"Funny thing was you just started at him confused and embarrassed and moved as quickly as possible back to our table"
Everyone except Lily was in hysterics, but Marlene didn't want to miss the opportunity either so she began to tell them how she had managed to wake Lily up while she was staying at hers
"Lily!" came an annoyed voice "LILY!"
"What? Leave me alone, I's sleeping. Shhh" she said drifting back off to sleep.
"You were right" laughed Nate "she has got worse in the mornings"
"Wait there I've got an idea" Marlene grinned "dunno why I haven't thought of this before" she said walking over to Lily's bed.
"Lily! Quick get up now" she said tapping her shoulders and shaking her slightly. "LILY! Quick were going to be late!"
"Huh?" she said still dazed and not with it.
"Our exams, they start in 5 minutes, get dressed now!" Marlene hurried. "Quickly!"
"What!?" Lily screeched jumping out of bed and rushing to find some clothes other than the pyjamas she was already wearing. Lily was only brought to her senses when she realised that two people were laughing from behind her. "Shit!" she moaned
"AND!-" Sirius said getting in on the action.
"What is it, embarrass Lily day?" Lily asked to which everyone ignored.
"While in the middle of her exam she remembered a prank that me and Jamsie here" he said placing his hand on James' shoulder "played on someone in 5th year, whilst she was being questioned"
Joey laughed "My one isn't as good as yours but, when we went to the cinema last year with our family's"
"Cinema?" James questioned.
"Later" Lily told him, knowing that because he was a wizard and didn't live in a muggle environment he didn't understand or know what most of the muggle stuff was.
"When the film finished, Lily fled claiming she needed the toilet so when I the rest of went to wait outside the toilets we saw her come out of the men's flushed"
The hysterics began again "It wasn't my fault! I was really bursting for a wee and I dint think to look at the sign and just ran in to the toilets, three was no one in there when I went in so I didn't think anything off it, but when I left my cubical I saw these men standing with their backs to me and I ran out of their as quickly as possible hoping they didn't notice me…"
"I think this just proves my point entirely" James grinned
"Yeah, yeah whatever."
When Joey had to leave the other decided they would head back too. As soon as he turned a different way down the road after saying their goodbyes giving a hug to both Lily and Marlene and handshake to James and Sirius, Lily turned round to James and said "you looked a bit confused when he mentioned a cinema?"
"Yeah, what the hell is that" Sirius interrupted.
"It's a large room with loads of seats facing a big screen that plays a film"
"A film" James asked.
"Crikey merlin" Lily explained "You both should really take muggle studies"
"To be fair Lily, I dint know what it was until you took me there in 3rd year…" said Marlene supporting the two boys.
"A film is a bit like our photographs where it captures a moving image of the few seconds it's taken in except it goes on for like 2 hours."
"How?"
"Technology" Lily answered.
"I'll never understand muggle's" James admitted.
"How about I take you all tomorrow? We have a cinema 15 minutes away"
"Can we!?" Sirius said lighting up slightly, interested to see what it would be like.
"Sure thing" Lily smiled.
In what felt like no time at all, to ticking clock told them that 6 o'clock was upon them. They had all ordered their pizzas and ate them tastefully. All four of them were now sat round a small games table playing regular muggle cards.
"Can I get you four anymore drinks?" Rose asked.
"Yes please" Grinned Lily.
"I suppose me and Sirius had better go after a few more rounds, we were told to be back by 8"
"Wow, James Potter following the rules "Lily teased "never thought I'd see the day"
"Hahaha" James said sarcastically
"You boys are welcome to stay over if you would like?" Rose Evans suggested "You kids are already going to the cinema together tomorrow…"
James looked at Sirius who nodded "only if it wouldn't be a hassle…?" James asked.
"Not at all" she told him.
"We could put up the big tent in the garden" Lily suggested
Once James and Sirius had permission from Mr and Mrs Potter to stay at Lily's house through a letter which was sent with a package of what they would need for the night and the following day, they headed out to set up the tent in Lily's square shaped garden with a small pond.
It was 8 o'clock once the tent was up and they had carted in all the bedding into the two separate bedrooms of which one was for the girls and the other for the boys which were opposite one another.
The four of them sat back inside in the living room finishing up their game of cards when the doorbell rang. "SHIT!" Lily exclaimed gaining several curious glances from the remainder of the group. Lily looked to Marlene and whispered "Petunia" with a horrified face.
"Ahh the four of us in her living room will be a lovely surprise for her, I am sure" Marlene grinned at the opportunity to see Lily's sister flip out.
James and Sirius looked at Lily, they both knew that Petunia was horrible to Lily and didn't approve of her magic but Lily had never told them to what extent that Petunia didn't approve. "Why will she flip out" James asked with his eyebrows raised.
Lily looked at James and then to Sirius feeling terrible "I'm so, so, SO sorry for what's about to come" Lily apologised.
"What do you-?"
"Who are you?" declared a foul voice toward James and Sirius, belonging to Petunia Evans.
"Tuney" Lily said firmly "these a my friends"
"From school" Marlene added with a smirk.
"WHAT!? How dare you bring more freaks into my house?"
"Petunia, don't you dare say another word" said Mr Evans. "This house belongs to me and your mother and Lily's friends are guests for the night, so watch your tongue" He said firmly
Each and every pair of eyes were on Petunia who was glaring at Lily, before storming off up to her room looking murderous.
"Sorry about her" apologised Mr Evans "she err..."
"She is a bit of a prat when it comes to magic" suggested Rose from behind him.
"A bit?"
"Hugh!" Mrs Evans said attempting to stop a smirk rising up on her lips.
"Sorry dear" He smiled, winking at the others before following his wife to the kitchen.
"I'm SO sorry" Lily said embarrassed
"Lily it's not your fault your sister finds us so abnormal, how many times do we have to go through this."
"If it was your brother I'm sure you would be apologising"
Marlene blurted out a laugh "My brother would never do anything to offend you, he fancy's the pants of you too much"
Lily flushed "No way in hell does Nate fancy me…"
"I've grown up with him Lil's, I think I'd know when he has a crush on a girl. Especially if she's my best friend"
"I highly doubt it..." she said still flushed.
"Lily I know my brother…" Marlene said firmly concluding the argument.
"So what happens in this film thingy?" James asked changing the current subject, understanding that it was making Lily feel awkward.
Lily began to explain the basis of any film by telling him it was a bit like going to theatre watching it on a big screen instead, but this didn't work either because watching theatre productions wad also a muggle thing. Lily just couldn't seem to understand how much stuff the wizarding world lived without.
"Bed?" Sirius said "And not in a suggestive way" he added after seeing the other threes raised eyebrows on their shocked faces.
"In that case, sure" Marlene smiled standing up next to him.
"I'm not that bad…" Sirius attempted to defend.
"You keep believing that Pads, keep believing" he grinned. "OUCH! There was no need to hit me" James squealed.
"You're a pussy, that wasn't even hard" Sirius said rolling his eyes "OUCH! You can't hit me back" he said attempting to smack James again but Lily and Marlene had jumped in-between them, laughing.
"Grow up you two" Marlene said rolling her eyes before heading outside to the tent closely followed by Lily and then the two muttering boys.
After the four of them had each climbed into their own sleeping bag, wrapped up tightly and warmly they slowly bum-shuffled into the porch living space at re-drew their circle to talk before sleeping, but within the first half an hour of talking Lily had managed to fall asleep leaning against James, leaving her head to fall onto his shoulder whereas Marlene had fallen asleep curled up in a ball with her head partially resting against Sirius leg, just above his knee.
James looked down at Lily glad that it was he who was there to comfort her while she slept, and that he was able to be this close to her without having his head blown off as it would have been under a year ago.
"What do we do?" Sirius asked James uncertainly as he looked at the two girls "If we fall asleep then we'll end up waking then because I doubt I'll mange to fall asleep into this position without falling backwards, but if we move then they'll wake up as well"
"Then maybe we shouldn't move?" James suggested
"How do you propose we sleep then Prongs" he said looking amused at James' idiocy.
"We just won't fall asleep" he said saying it as though it were simple.
"Dunno about you but I don't think I can manage to keep my eyes open for much longer" Sirius moaned.
"Maybe if we can just mange to lie down then we don't have to move?"
"I bet you 5 galleons that you can't lie down without waking Lily up" Sirius tested.
"You're on mate" James grinned. He gently wrapped his arm around Lily so that as he moved she wouldn't fall and slowly lowered himself down to the floor. Lily stirred slightly and crinkled her nose before snuggling closer into James and then continuing to dream.
"Damm!" Exclaimed Sirius in a whisper, "I should have known she would be a heavy sleeper considering she never gets up"
"You're turn" James said, smiling as he stared upwards at the tent.
Because Marlene was only resting on his leg Sirius slowly stretched himself out in his sleeping bag and fell backwards without waking Marlene in the slightest. "HAHA!" He exclaimed again in a whisper.
That was the last thing they both heard that night before drifting off into an easy sleep with a strange but pleasant feeling in their stomachs off butterflies.
Warm, bright sunlight was shining through the large blue canvas tent in the Evans' back garden that morning.
"James?" Lily questioned quietly and tiredly as she lifted her head from his chest.
"Hmm?"
"Did we fall asleep like this" she said un-wanting to move away from his warmth.
Coming to his senses' James nodded "Well actually you fell asleep on my shoulder but I didn't want to wake you so I just lead down and … well feel asleep." He said sitting upwards with Lily still leaning against him.
"Ohh" she said "Thanks." Lily sat up with him but didn't move away, she kept the closeness between them, for some reason it comforted her but she didn't think twice about it.
Lily glanced over and saw Sirius and Marlene in a similar position to how James and Lily were laid and smiled at how peaceful they looked together. "What does Sirius truthfully think of Marlene?" Lily questioned.
James looked to Lily, their face's inches away from one another. "I dunno, I've never asked."
"You know on the train when I asked Sirius if he had ever had actual feeling s for a girl and he said 'yes', Do you reckon it was Marls?"
"Maybe" he breathed.
"Do you want to have some fun?" Lily grinned mischievously at him. "We still have to bottles of water and the food my Mum gave us in here…"
"Lily I think you've been hanging around with us Marauders to much, first you want to help us with a prank and now you want to pull your own!"
"You only live once" She grinned cockily. She climbed out of her sleeping her bag leaving her in her pyjamas and walked over to grab the water and the snacks. "I say we decorated them with snacks and if they haven't woken up by time we're done, we wake them up with water?"
"Couldn't have thought of a better plan myself" James grinned, climbing out of his sleeping bag to assist Lily.
First they crunched up crisps and put it in Sirius' and Marlene's hair knowing that Sirius' will be more upset about the fact that it's in his hair than Marlene in hers. Next they smeared Maltesears on them gently and watched as the chocolate melted on their faces.
"How are they not awake yet?" Lily whispered. "Rustling through the bag off food her mum had given her. "YES!" she exclaimed in a whisper "I absolutely love my mum"
"Random" James smirked confused.
"Not really" she said throwing him a can.
He caught it cleanly and read the can "Squirty cream?"
Lily rolled her eyes "how do you not know what squirty cream is?"
"We don't have it in the wizarding world, I guess" he shrugged.
"Watch and learn" Lily grinned.
She stole the can out of James' hand and took off the cap and squirted a large pile of cream onto Sirius' and then Marlene's hand while James just stood and watched amazed.
"Right now I need you to gently let little droplets of water land on Sirius' face while I do Marlene's" she grinned.
James nodded confused to what she was planning to do to add the mess they had already made.
"Resist the urge to pour it all on, or it won't work" Lily told him.
The both gently let little drops of water land on the two sleeping people who soon began to stir slightly. As though in unison, both Marlene and Sirius lifted their creamy hand and went to wipe their faces that were covered in water droplets, subconsciously.
James let out a huge laugh as he watched the two stirring people wake themselves up by smearing cream all over their faces' with the cream Lily had previously put on their hands.
"Urghh!" Exclaimed Sirius sitting up, while Marlene just squealed.
"LILY EVANS AND JAMES POTTER I HATE YOU BOTH" Marlene roared after realising what had happened. She leapt out of her sleeping bag and tackled Lily to the floor.
In between giggles Lily attempted to apologise "I'm –s –sor –sorryy"
"Lily that was genius" grinned James
"It wasn't your idea" Sirius asked confused, attempting to get the small crunched up pieces of crisps out of his hair.
"Nope" he smiled "I think we have a new Hogwarts prankster to compete with"
"Dream on James" Lily laughed "No way am I going to be pranking to the extreme you boys do, the occasional one...maybe" She grinned slyly.
"We shall see" James grinned.
After breakfast they made their way to the muggle cinema of which James, Sirius and Marlene were extremely excited for, Lily just couldn't seem to understand why it was so amazing for them, Marlene tried to explain to her that because it's not a usual thing for them it becomes new and exciting but Lily just couldn't understand because it was just a cinema.
When they got there the three of them were even worse, they brought god-knows how much popcorn and chocolate because they believed that it was 'part of the movie experience.' Despite the strange glares Lily laughed at their innocence to muggle things and enjoyed seeing them all happy.
Once the 2 hour film was over James, Sirius and Marlene came out buzzing. The large screen and the surround sound was so fascinating to them that they wanted to watch another film, which Lily objected to with a laugh.
"How was the film then?" Mr Evans asked them once they had arrived home and were seated on the sofa in Lily's living room.
"It was amazing" Sirius blurted out with a grin while Marlene and James nodded in agreement.
"You sure about that Sirius? You seemed a little concerned at the start that there were people stuck behind a screen" Lily laughed
Sirius scowled at her "I didn't understand" he defended in a childish innocent voice.
"I don't know what your laughing at James" Lily told him watching James tease Sirius "You were just as jumpy when the guns were pointed towards us and you hid behind a chair" she chuckled. "I wouldn't worry though Marlene did the same thing when I first took her to the cinema"
"Why on earth did you hide behind a chair?" Mrs Evans questioned interested "the people aren't actually there, it's just projected footage"
Lily nodded in agreement with her mother "I don't think James managed to grasp that concept" she said nudging him playfully.
"Well I'm sorry that it's all new to me" he defended.
"I know" she chuckled. "It was just so funny watching you three. I think I was watching your reactions more than I watched the film"
"We were not that bad" Marlene tried.
Lily nodded "You three managed to earn us a few odd glares today" but truthfully Lily didn't mind, she had never had so much fun at the cinema. She loved watching her friends be happy at their new discovery like they were kid's and be so thrilled and caught up in the excitement of the film. It was a rather amusing cinema experience for her. Lily made a mental note to take them again at some point for a birthday surprise or something, knowing that they would really enjoy it. Although she wasn't sure if she should take the whole group 'I don't think I can manage the lot of them with only Mary to help me' because Mary and Lily were the only muggleborns of the group and those two up against seven excitable wizards would be extremely tough.
"Lily used to get excited when we would go to the cinema when she was younger" her mother told her friends.
"I knew it!" Marlene grinned.
"Yeah, she used to get so into the films"
"Especially snow white" her father added.
"Snow white?" James asked politely
"It's the name of the film, Snow white was a princess…" she told them embarrassed
"After watching it in the cinema once she was glued to it, we ended up watching it at least 15 times while it was in cinemas"
"In my defence I was 6" Lily tried.
"No excuse's Lily-flower" Sirius grinned.
"I hate you" Lily mouthed to her mother who just shrugged her shoulders and grinned at Lily and her friend's.
"Oh Lily before we forget to tell you" Rose began "While I was out shopping the other day, I bumped into Tina and Jimmy, Joey's parents, and they will be coming round for dinner tomorrow night. We guessed it would be nice for you two to catch up" She smiled.
"We actually saw Joey yesterday in the park, he stayed with us for about an hour" Lily told her mother.
Her mother chuckled "Typical. Never mind it'll be nice to catch up with Tina and Jimmy, I haven't seen them in a while"
'They live like 5 minutes away?' Lily thought to herself. "Ok" she smiled "It'll be nice to talk to Joey again anyway" she said earning a few curious and readily teasing glances towards Lily from her friends.
"Why do you guys have to go? Don't leave me alone with my family" she pleaded at the three of them that late evening of the same day at her front door.
"I'm sorry Lily, but I don't want to be a hassle to your parents, they still like me" Marlene said pulling her into a tight hug "I'll see you soon, yeah?"
Lily nodded "The sooner the better"
"And promise me your owl me how it goes with Joey?"
"Why would I owl you?" Lily asked confused to what Marlene was suggesting.
"It's obvious he still like's you, and I want to know all the gossip"
"Count us into that" Sirius grinned, gossip hungry.
"Look even if he does still like me, which he doesn't" she added "Nothing's going to happen because I don't like him that way anymore"
"Still!" Marlene grinned "Everything"
"Fine" Lily agreed reluctantly before moving on to say good-bye to Sirius who pulled her into a huge bear hug. "I'm so glad you haven't just played quidditch" she teased "Merlin, I would suffocate with an added stench"
"It's the price of quidditch" Sirius told her again shrugging his shoulders before doing the same to Marlene.
"Good-luck with Joey" James teased hugging her tightly but comfortably.
"Why does everyone think something's going to happen?" Lily cried.
"Because he likes you and I reckon he will tell you that he still does" he told he wisely and simply.
"What do I tell him?" Lily asked as though contemplating that he might.
"the truth, whatever it is" he told her fairly, even though it hurt him to say it, Lily might like Joey and if she did then he didn't want to step in the of her happiness, if Joey was what she wanted, James didn't want to step in the way.
Lily nodded "I'll see you all soon right?"
"Yeah"
"Defiantly"
"Couldn't keep us away"
"Bye guys" she smiled, and they disapparated away from her to their homes leaving Lily to face Petunia alone, if she came into contact with her. She loved her sister deep down but Petunias views on her made it difficult for them to get along. She gently closed the door behind her and took in a deep breathe with her eyes closed as she leant against the door
"Couldn't you have gone with them?" her sister scowled "Then this house would be freak free"
Lily opened her eyes and sighed "Love you too Petunia" Lily said not letting her sister get to her. And with that Lily climbed up her stairs and clambered her way into bed after having an exhausting but amazing day with her friends.
Done on time :) Yey! I was having doubts that I would have it done by today, but it is!
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