WWiBL? Chapter 3

Lily and Harry walked down the steps, arm in arm, and found themselves in a kitchen, which was very neat indeed. She looked around and saw a very, very fat boy sitting on one side of the table. He was the same width as the table, for god sakes! Lily looked around some more and saw a guy, which must have been Uncle Vernon. He had hardly no neck and was fat himself, though not nearly as fat as the boy. She also saw her "Aunt" walking around cutting up grape fruits. She was very skinny and had a look on her face as if there were something very disgusting in her house. Not adding any beauty to her appearance was her horse like teeth. "Of course, I'm part of what's disgusting," thought Lily.

She followed Harry and sat down beside him. Aunt Petunia laid a very small portion of grape fruit in front of her and Harry and added almost a half of grape fruit onto Dudley's plate.

"Here you are, Diddy darling," said Petunia as Dudley looked at her with a very mean expression on his face.

"Of course, we get less so Dudley can feel he has more. Why the heck am I on a diet when I already weigh less than a quarter of him?" thought Lily. She and Harry together barely took up half of their side of the table. She looked up at Uncle Vernon and noticed he was staring at her. She quickly looked down at her plate and began to eat her measly breakfast. She looked at Harry to see what he was doing and noticed the look of triumph on his face. "Yes! I just remembered that we'll have stuff under the floor boards upstairs!" thought Lily excitedly and she ate the little grape fruit gladly.

Petunia sat down a piece of grape fruit as big as Dudley's in front of Vernon and he said, "Is this it?" Petunia glared knives at him. He shut up and started eating while he read the paper. Lily noticed he was sneaking glances in her direction. She turned to look at Dudley and noticed he was eyeing her grapefruit with interest. She knew he wanted it, which made her take an even bigger bite and chew it largely as Dudley glared at her. Suddenly the doorbell rang and every one jumped. She knew what the doorbell was ringing for and jumped. "We're going to get yelled at!" she thought. "Please Uncle, let me get it. I'll tell them we've returned from the institute for summer if it's for you." She said. She knew that it was the mailman with a letter, which was from Mrs. Weasley.

Apparently Vernon didn't know what was up with her sudden kindness. He eyed her viciously and said, "I guess you can, just hurry up and see what's wrong. If it's for me tell them you're just here to clean the house."

She walked to the door and, since she knew who it was, opened the door with out one bit of shock on her face. "Hello ma'am. I've got this letter for Harry and Lily Potter. It's very funny actually. See all the stamps? Where's it from anyway?" said the mailman.

Lily thought up a quick story and said, "Oh, it's from my parents in, er, America. Yeah, America, California in America, uh huh, that's right. You know my brother and I are here to help the Dursley's take care of their house since our parents are in their debt. I'll take that, thank you ever so much." Said Lily. She made sure she sounded sweet and innocent so he would believe her story. He looked doubtful for a minute and then handed her the letter.

"Well, have a good day ma'am. Tell the Dursley's to have a nice day too." He said and he hurried off to finish his route. He looked slightly embarrassed at having thinking there was something wrong with the letter.

Lily took the envelope and stuffed it into her bra. She didn't want anyone knowing she had a letter for her and Harry because they'd go nuts. She looked at the other letters and thought up an excuse to why the mailman had rang the doorbell.

"Well girl, who was it?" said Vernon as soon as he saw her come around the corner. He looked suspicious.

"Well, the mailman, er, rang the doorbell because he, er, thought this letter looked so important. He thought he didn't, er, shouldn't risk putting it in the box in case someone, er, from another drill company got it and learned something they shouldn't about your, er, company." She knew at once she hadn't sounded very sure of herself and wondered what was coming next.

"Okay, well, hand them over before I have to go and see for my self if you're telling the truth." Said Vernon. She handed over the letters quickly so he wouldn't find out she had lied to him.

"What did you tell him about yourself?" he must have wondered if she had let slip anything to the mailman.

"I told him Harry and I were her in service to you because our parents are in America and they are in great debt of your kindness so we're helping to clean your house. How does that sound?" she explained.

"Good as long as he doesn't know you are both, er, abnormal." He said. She thought, "We're abnormal? You're saying we're abnormal and you have a son as big as a whale?" She suddenly felt the urge to say, "Free Willy" as she noticed Dudley had stolen her grape fruit when she had been gone.

Harry looked puzzled at her when she sat down. She mouthed out, "Tell you when we get upstairs," and he nodded for her to know he understood.