Chapter 11

A/N- I am writing all of this on my laptop and none on my iPod so if that solves the problem of formatting I will retype the last two chapters. Enjoy!

The fight between James and Sirius had been completely forgotten and Lily couldn't help but laugh at the boys, they were inseparable – nothing could change that, they needed each other. The contents of the letter however had been anything but forgotten. James seemed on edge all the time, with every owl he would tear the envelope in anxiety to read the content of the letter, each time hoping that it would bring no bad news. Sirius however was dealing with it in a completely different way; he was going back to his old self. There were so many girls on his arms fawning over him that Lily had trouble remembering even their hair colour and house, let alone their names. James took this in his stride, telling Lily that that was how Sirius dealt with stress and not to bother him unless she wanted her arm bitten off. Summer was the one who seemed most disturbed by the back track in Sirius' personality; she would frown whenever he walked in, glaring at the girls who just glared straight back. Lily, of course, knew it was only because she was jealous but Summer was giving herself a really hard time and came to the Head's Dorms many times in tears.

It was nearing the end of the term and Dumbledore had sent both Lily and James letters informing them that there would be a meeting which they were expected to attend with him and the Head's of Houses.

On Tuesday, the day of the meeting James and Lily had a quick lunch together before walking side-by-side to the Headmaster's Office.

"Ah, Miss Evans, Mr Potter, how nice it was of you to join us," Dumbledore greeted, smiling warmly, James resisted the urge to say that they had no choice whether to come or not but he decided not to in case it could be seen as rude.

"Hello Professor," Lily smiled back, taking the seat which she had been indicated to.

"Hello sir," James nodded his head respectfully.

"Is everyone here now? Wonderful, lets begin," Dumbledore waved his hand towards Minerva who stood and began explaining how the school year had gone in the teacher's view. Once she had finished Flitwick added something about how successful the extra-curricular activities had been and how pleased he was with the new first years who had shown a keen interest in learning and all seemed to get along well. For the majority this is what commenced, how the new perfects were and any issues with students, James and Lily sat quietly listening until they were called on by Dumbledore,

"So now here is where the truth comes out, the mystery of our students. Miss Evans, Mr Potter, could you please tell us any issues you have noticed, any arguments – even if they have included you," Dumbledore's eyes twinkled here and both Lily and James flushed slightly, "but we want to know everything, we will not confront anyone unless absolutely necessary and you have our complete confidence – whatever is said in this room shall remain here. Besides, we have been hearing all about you two from our previous Heads, so no need to feel abashed about taking about people," Dumbledore confided, chuckling at the shocked expressions on their faces.

"Lily? I believe that Summer and Juliet would fall into the category of issues our Headmaster would like to hear about," James offered, breaking the awkward silence.

"Oh yes, we have had some concerns about those two, please enlighten us,"

"All right then, well, basically it all kicked off in the library. I had just come back from the court case with Petunia, I saw Remus and Lucie walk out hand in hand and when I came to the library I gave everyone who was there – James; Sirius and Summer – a hug. Then Sirius and Summer hugged, and, well, it looked a bit more than friendly. Juliet was watching and an argument flared from there about Summer stealing her boyfriend – she had just broken up with Sirius not so long ago - and Juliet was saying she wished she had Summer's life and that she didn't deserve to have such a horrible life and that she should be the one with all the things Summer has, that's were it all went downhill," Lily explained patiently.

"Ah, I see, and how are things now?" Dumbledore asked, watching Lily intently over his long fingers.

"They don't speak, the occasional row, the more than occasional swear word," Lily said in an off-hand voice.

"I see, Mr Potter? Do you have any thing to report?"

"Actually I do," James admitted, Lily looked at him in surprise but decided to go along with it anyway.

"Please continue,"

"Okay then, Professor Sprout, this is mainly towards you. In first year, Hufflepuff, I believe you have a girl named Emily?" James questioned.

"Yes, Emily?" Professor Sprout replied, her brow knitted in concern.

"Well, I have reason to believe she's being bullied," James said with confidence, before going into detail explaining how he found Emily being beaten up by Snape and his friends – at this point Lily paled considerably – and how she is never talking to any of her year, just older students.

"I shall look into it, thank you for alerting me James. It has been a long time since anything in Hufflepuff has slipped under my radar and I can't afford to start letting it happen now," Sprout thanked gratefully.

"Thank you Miss Evans, Mr Potter. You may leave and attend you lessons now," Dumbledore dismissed them with one last smile before turning to his colleagues to discuss more private matters.

"Lily, do you think you could bring Lucie and Summer to our common room after lessons today?" James queried casually.

"Yeah, course. Bye James," Lily chirped cheerfully before knocking on the classroom door and disappearing into Charms, with James in quick pursuit.

"OK, well everyone's here, so I was wondering if you all wanted to come to mine for a week before the Christmas Ball? My mum told me to ask, she said that she was bored of only boys and wanted to meet some of my friends who are girls," James ran a hand through his hair, being careful not to say 'girl-friends'.

"Um, James, my mum is...sick, um, I can't sorry," Peter squeaked before scurrying out of the room.

"That's fine Wormy," James tried to respond but Peter had already left the room, without more than a raised eyebrow James let him go. "So...what about you guys?" James asked nervously.

"I can't see why I wouldn't be able to, but, James, are you sure?" Lily spoke carefully, hoping James got the message she was trying to send: 'Are you sure? Your parents are ill, remember?'

"Yeah, mum and dad are fine with it; they can't wait," James beamed at the prospect Lily might be coming.

"All right then, I will owl my parents," Lily agreed, her eyes twinkling at James' wide beam.

"Great," he said enthusiastically.

"Yeah, I probably can too, I will have to ask my parents though," Summer assured.

"Luce? Remus?" James prompted.

"Yeah, mate, I can come," Remus replied.

"I will have to ask dad first, but he will probably agree," Lucie said in her soft voice.

"Awesome!" James exclaimed, sharing a joyful hi-five with Sirius.

"This is going to be a great Christmas!" Sirius whooped.

The night before the Hogwarts Express left for the Christmas holidays was chaos for the girls; all of their parents had agreed to let them go, but the had no idea what to pack. Lily decided to just pack her trunk minus the school robes, the other two however had no idea what Muggle clothes to pack.

"Lily! Where's my bra?" Summer shouted across Lily's room, where they had brought their bags to pack in an effort to avoid Juliet.

"Why in the name of Merlin's pants would I know where your underwear is?" Lily replied, laughing at Summer's frustrated expression.

"I don't know but I need it!" Summer shrieked, collapsing into giggles as she threw a pair of socks at Lucie.

"Well you'll need these as well but I'm not giving them back!" Lucie sulked playfully as she snatched the socks out of the air.

"Oooh, Lucie juicey should be playing seeker!" Summer cackled.

"Too bad Lily's boy friend has taken it!"Lily who had been sitting out of the clothes war flung her book down and glared at Lucie.

"Honestly?" she questioned, raising a sceptical eyebrow.

"Yes," came the reply muffled by squeals of laughter.

"Bring it sister!" Lily threw herself at Lucie and soon they found themselves in a fierce play fight whilst Summer pummelled them with socks.

Unbeknown to the three girls the door creaked open, Remus' head peeking through. He gave a small chuckle of laughter and upon Summer's orders flung himself onto the scrum. Summer stopped throwing the socks but both Lily and Lucie carried on, not noticing the extra body. That was until he found himself face to face with Lucie.

"Hello Luce," he laughed.

"Remus," Lucie smiled, her face flushed and hair tangled. Slowly their heads moved together as they got lost in each other's eyes. Their lips met with a gentle sweetness, but grew fierce as Remus pulled Lucie closer.

"GET OFF OF ME!" Lily's yell came from between them, and looking down in embarrassment they saw her head stuck between Lucie's stomach and Remus' chest. They scrambled quickly apart, straightening out their robes as Lily muttered, "Thank you, now I believe you have some packing to do?"

Just at that moment James decided to saunter in, saw they situation and began to roar with laughter. Not so long after Summer's giggles joined in and soon they were all laughing until tears dampened their cheeks.

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The train journey was long and tedious, but ran with no interruptions. When they reached the platform Lily felt butterflies jumping in her stomach. Leading the small group over to the far left of the station, James ran his hand through his all ready bush like hair.

"This is my mum – Dorea Potter – and my dad – Charles Potter," he introduced.

Lily knew instantly she would like James' parents. Dorea had James' easy going smile and Charles had his good looks. Dorea had deep blue eyes and dark red hair – so dark it was almost brown. Charles had James' dark hair and hazel eyes and apart from slight minuscule differences the father and son looked almost identical.

"Hello, we've heard so much about you all, especially you," Dorea winked at Lily, normally Lily would have felt annoyed with this but she somehow knew Dorea's teasing was kind.

"Well are we going home or not?" Sirius asked impatiently, "I for one know I have been way too long without one of your cookies mum."

"You little scamp," Charles' voice was deep and melodious, and had a calming effect on Lily.

For once in her life, she agreed with Sirius; she could not wait to see the Potter's home.

A/N – Sorry for the long wait and short chapter, my school work has been hectic at the moment but hopefully I will find more time to fit writing in.

I am still finding time to re-type the chapters with strange format but hopefully that shall be fixed soon.

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