A/N: *sigh* I took AGES 2 upload this, so, thanx 2 all my reviewers, if u hadn't reviewed, I would prolly have taken months…lolz…well, thanx sooooooooo much 2 my reviewers, even the ones hoo didn't like it…=) well, read and enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own everyone's personality, except 4 the characters that we were familiar w/ in the books (like, the ones we KNEW, not Lily, James, Sirius, ect.), and I own a few characters, and…I own anything that I own…k! that just 'bout covers it…YaY!
Chapter Four:
Quiddich and Crystal Palace
Lily quickly ate her breakfast, grabbed her broom and walked over to the golden gate labeled 'Godric's Hollow'. It was invisable to muggles, but any witch could see it. Lily checked to make sure no one was looking, and took out her wand. She tapped the gate and whispered 'Visitor, Lily Evans' The gate swung open, and Lily walked through. She walked down a long lane of huge manors, toward the largest of them all; the Potter Manor. Lily wasn't exactly poor, but her house wasn't a quarter of the size of this, and most people said her house was huge. Erica was waiting outside of the house.
"Hi Lil! Got your broom?" Asked Erica.
"Yup!" Lily replyed.
"Well, c'mon, Grace and the rest are in back." Lily followed Erica around the enormous mansion. Mrs.Potter walked out the back door with a tray of cookies. Lily almost wanted to cry as James fought with his mother about his messy hair. Lily wished she still had a mother to fight with. James didn't know how lucky he was. Lily tried to swallow her tears, before anyone noticed, but she could see Grace's caring eyes on her.
"Well, are we gonna play, or what?" Asked Grace. Good old Grace, you could always count on her.
"Well, that's what we're here for, isn't it?" Said Sirius.
"We only have 7 people. That's not enough for two teams." Lily said.
"Sure it is, we just need to…er…ummmm…fine, then. We won't play quiddich. We can race, and we'll start now!" James jumped on his broom and flew toward the quiddich pitch.
"Hey, no fair!" Lily shouted hopping on her broom. The rest followed, but by the time they all were a quarter of the way there, James had already gotten there and had time to do 5 laps around the quiddich pitch.
"Well, What are we gonna play?" Said Lily breathlessly reaching the pitch.
"How about Mercury?" Asked Erica.
"What? How do you play that?" Asked Lily.
"Well, basically, you have a ball, and one person is 'It'. The tagger throws the ball at everyone and they try to dodge it, and if you get hit, you get controled by the tager for one minute…for one minute the tager can use any spell, as long as it's legal, and harmless, on you…an entire monute of torture. The last person not to have been controled becoms 'It'. Simple, really." Erica explained.
"Oh, ok, well, then, lets play!" Said Lily.
"Ok, who's it?" Asked James. "Here I brought my wand" James muttered some incantation and tossed his wand into the air. It pun around one bit until it landed in Sirius's hands. Sirius grinned evilly and hopped onto his broom.
"Ok, ready? One, two three…GO!" Yelled Erica.
Everyone jumped on to their brooms and flew madly around bumping into each other. Sirius's first victim was Peter who couldn't fly for pickles. Sirius grinned. "Peter, hop on one leg and sing 'Yankee Doodle'." Peter stumbled off his broom and started jumping around and singing 'Yankee Doodle' to the best of his ability.
"Yankee Doodle…came to…the…uh…city, a riding on a…horsey, stuck a…macoroni? In his hat and called it…errr…uh…feather?"
"Ok, good enough, Petey, your out, sit on the grass and watch." Said Sirius. At that moment they all dove onto their brooms and dashed around. Sirius finally caught up to Grace. Sirius grinned madly. "Grace, tell me your biggest secret." Grace turned a deep shad of red and muttered something in a soft voice. "I couldn't hear that, speak a little louder, please." Sirius was grinning like Christmas had come early.
"STOP!" Yelled Lily furiously.
"I was just playing by the rules." Said Sirius innocently.
"No, nowhere in the rules does it say you have the right to humiliate someone! What if you had asked Remus that question? What then? Everyone deserves to have secrets!"
Sirius looked down at the ground. "Fine, sorry, I'll make her do something different. Grace, sing 'Three Lions' while doing the polka." Sirius said boredly. (A/N: For those of u ppl who don't know wut 3 lions is, it's a English football (soccer) song, I don't exactly know the words to it, but I figure since they r British I might as well use a English song, so anyways on with the story!)
Grace obeyed and looking quite awkward, she did the polka while singing three lions. When she finished Grace said "This is getting boring, and it's time for lunch."
"Yeah, I have to go home, bye guys!" Lily shouted as she walked away from the Potter Estate. Lily walked home slowly. For some reason her head was telling her not to go home. Why? That's so stupid! I'm being paranoid. Thought Lily. That second Lily noticed Grace go very pale and a odd expression came onto her face. Suddenly she turned toward Lily.
"Lil, why don't you come and came lunch at my house? I need you to…err…help me! Yeah…with my charms holiday homework!" Grace said nervously, sounding slightly frightened. She was biting her lip and staring into space.
"Ok, Grace. Grace? Earth to Grace!"
"Huh? Oh, yeah…ok, lets go." Lily looked at Grace worriedly and went into the house.
Grace's mother smiled warmingly. She was a typical mother; loving, kind, and with that special mother-like touch. Lily remembered Mrs.Evans, she was unlike any other mother. She loved her children with all her life, and she would do anything for them. From when Lily was just a toddler, Mrs.Evans would tell Petunia, Lily, and Violet about how much of a wonderful life they'd have. She was very loose, and would let her children do nearly anything they wanted to as long as it was, of course, safe. Mrs.Evans was a wonderful mother in more ways than one. Thinking of Mrs.Evans, Lily felt tears forming in her eyes. Grace noticed them, and quickly pulled Lily upstairs.
"Wanna talk about it, Lil?" Grace asked worriedly.
Lily hastily wiped the tears from her eyes. "Talk about what?"
"You know what, Lily. You can't keep keeping it all inside like that! You just can't!"
"I can't be sad, mother wouldn't want me to cry. She would want me to go on with my life." Lily said, trying hard not to burst into tears.
"Your mother would want you to be happy, but you'll never be happy if you keep all that inside!" Grace replied.
Lily finally burst. She began to sob on Grace's shoulder. "Oh, Grace, I can't take this! Why did she have to die? Why me?"
"Oh, Lily, I don't know! Why do these things ever happen? I guess it was just her time, she was ready to go."
"But, I wasn't ready to let her go!" Lily sobbed.
Suddenly a huge bang echoed through the street. Grace shuddered and bit her lip. "Oh no! No this…oh, please, god, not this!" She was horribly pale by then. Grace's mother ran up the stairs.
"We have to go to Crystal Palace! There's been an attack!" Shouted Grace's mother.
"Where?" Asked Lily, frightened.
Grace's mother looked at Lily sadly. "I'm sorry, dear,"
Lily didn't have to hear more. She ran down the stairs of the house and down the street as fast as she could. Blood pounded in her ears. Vaguely, she could hear voices shouting her name, but she kept running until she reached her house. She reached her house and looked up. The Dark Mark floated in the air, menacingly.
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