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A/N I'm tired and got homework and my grammar is coming out bad, so no more writing and stuff, so wish me luck on getting this finished before the end of the week, even if it is just the summer I'll send you something! I might get inspired, but otherwise I'm going to just drag on the summer with boring stuff…JUST KIDDING it will be funny if I think so I just got an idea a while ago and have got some work to do!
OH MY GOD!! I just noticed….I GOT 52 REVEIWS AHHHH!! **~! Faints! ~** (10 minutes later) Yeah!! I'm soooooo happy I never thought I would get this many…wow!! Okay now I owe you a chapter 19!!!
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CHAPTER 19
Lily spent her first week listening to Mindy talk about Robert, she was beginning to think they would get married as soon as they got out of school It was so funny, the two of them sent letters to each other everyday, and he was in Paris for the first week, Lily was actually looking forward to him coming back, then him and Mindy would start snogging and Lily would have some peace and quiet.
Mindy tried not to make Lily feel bad about not having a boyfriend anymore, by trying not to talk about Robert but failed miserably.
"So do you want to play Quidditch? I'll get some neighbors to play, and I'll be seeker, Robert's position." Mindy was practically drooling, and Lily kindly, but firmly refused to play Quidditch. Talking about Quidditch reminded Lily of James, and that made her wonder if she would be able to survive all the Quidditch practice with him next year, Lily was turning the idea of quitting Quidditch, but Mindy found out and chewed her out about it, making Lily decide to stay on the team.
Once Robert got back from Paris, Lily had much more time to herself, and was getting bored. She wrote Sierra and Jimena frequently with Socrates. Lily was trying to find something to occupy her mind besides James, which was something she found impossible. She finally got desperate enough to talk to him, that she wrote Remus to ask how he (Meaning James) was doing.
Remus wrote back telling her she should get back with him, or to stop moping around.
Lily decided not to write Remus anymore.
So she decided to write Sierra to tell her to write Sirius to ask HIM how James was.
~In the Wizarding World with James~
James wrote his friends just like Lily did, but little did Lily know that he was thinking about her and was wondering what she was doing.
James decided to write Jimena to ask her to see how LILY was.
Jimena wrote him back telling him that he was being stupid and should ask Lily herself.
James didn't write Jimena anymore.
James decided to write Sirius to ask HIM to write Sierra to see how Lily was doing.
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Lily and James both got identical letters from Sirius telling them to get back together and that they were acting like fools. They both replied back to him telling him HE was being an insensitive jerk (as Lily said) and a clueless imbecile (as James said). Lily could only guess that Sierra had told him that it was SHE who was wondering about James.
The two of them were pondering over whether to write the other a letter or not, and had no idea what their friends were up to. Here are some of the letters.
(A/N just random letters to everyone.)
Remus-
Do you know why Lily and James broke up, when they both still like each other, I know something important to it, but I was wondering if you knew anything else.
Love Jimena
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Sierra-
Ha-ha this is funny, I got a letter from James trying to convince me to write you to see how Lily was, don't bother telling me, because I'm going to make him do it himself!
-Sirius
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Wormtail-
Have you heard about James and Lily? The two of them have been trying to get Jimena, Sierra and Sirius to cooperate by giving them information on each other. So if you get a letter from either of them asking you about it, ignore it, or reply saying you know nothing, you might not know anything, but look out all the same. I wonder why they split up in the first place, maybe we should get them back, no never mind James wouldn't like that. Remember what happened last time?
-Remus
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Jimena-
This is too funny, the two of them (Lily and James) I just got another letter from Lily begging me to find out how James is doing, I feel bad but I don't care! I hope Lily feels better soon, I hate seeing her this way! Lily is getting pathetic! Has she sent you any of THOSE letters; you know the ones where she gushes about James. She also told me about having more nightmares, how's it going for you? My nightmares have stopped! I haven't had one yet and it's already three weeks into break!
-Sierra
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Lily was getting bored when towards the end of July she got a letter from Jimena telling her that they (Meaning the Marauders and the girls) were going to meet up at Diagon Alley to get school supplies before everyone else did and it started to get crowded.
Lily found herself falling through the fire place and out onto the floor of the Diagon Alley ice cream shop. Lily groaned and rubbed her head which had gotten hit on the floor. She looked for her friends but all she saw was James. She decided to be brave and go sit by him and wait for everyone else to come.
"Hey James." Lily said, her voice strained with trying to sound normal.
"Hey." He said in the same tone. Lily sat across from him, wondering what she was supposed to say now.
"Um, so where is everybody, have you seen them?" Lily asked trying to start a conversation which they hadn't had for months.
"Don't know, I just hope they aren't trying to set us up again, look what happened last time." James said bitterly.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. I wish they hadn't meddled in OUR business in the first place." Lily said mournfully.
"There's Jimena and Remus, let's go get them!" James said hurriedly so they could end the strained conversation. They were soon met by everyone else, and they got some ice cream and talked about their summers so far. Then they went off to get their school supplies.
As they passed a broom store Lily saw a broom and thought of something her and Mindy had argued over. "I was thinking of quitting Quidditch this year." She said mostly to know one.
"WHAT!?" Her friends said in disbelief except for James who just stood there staring at the broom.
"I was just thinking about it, Mindy said she wouldn't allow me though so don't worry about it." She said hastily.
"I was thinking about it too." James whispered when they had continued to the next shop. Lily just smiled sadly up at him.
A few hours later they stood in front of the ice cream shop with their newly bought supplies, and were talking about more plans to meet up when Lily had an idea.
"Hey what do you guys think about going to muggle London for a day?!" Her friends stared at her thinking the idea over in their minds. "It would be so much fun! I could show you around and Sierra and Jimena are already taking Muggle Studies so it would just be YOU four who had absolutely no idea about what's going on! I haven't been in the muggle world for so long…I miss it a bit, and Mindy's Mum was thinking of letting me go anyways, so what do you think?" Lily said finishing her short speech.
"That sounds great! We should all go! When? Where? Time?!" Sierra asked happily.
Soon plans were made to go to Jimena's house who was closest to London, and then catch a muggle bus.
Lily was of course very excited to leave Mindy's house since all she ever did was talk about Robert, Lily would just laugh at her and mutter 'young love'. It was however annoying the fiftieth time you hear her tell you the story about how they finally started liking each other… "The summer I was going into fifth year, I still can't believe I had no idea what was going to happen..." Mindy would then explode into the story starting with that first summer day when she and Lily had gone to the ice cream shop.
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Lily got up earlier then she normally did on Saturday, especially for the summer. She was ready to get to Jimena's house as soon as possible. She got dressed quickly, and said good bye to Mrs. Ewing then hurried through the Floo Network. Lily fell out into the living room of the Jenkins.
She didn't see anyone, so she just dusted herself off where she was standing. And was about to get out of the way of anyone else coming through the fireplace when, she was immediately hit by someone else coming through.
"Ouch!" Lily's voice came muffled from underneath someone's chest.
"Oh sorry, sorry!" They said, moving off her, Lily recognized the voice as James, and her heart totally flip flopped.
Lily and James blushed, and they both dusted themselves off, since Lily had gotten swamped by more because of James. They stood there awkwardly for a moment, and were soon saved when Peter tumbled through.
"I wonder where Jimena is." Lily wondered aloud, and went off to look for her, but as soon as she opened the door to leave there was Jimena and Sierra.
"Oh good you guys are here! Sorry I wasn't here but Sierra came and got me anyways." Jimena said while they all sat on the couches and chairs in her living room.
Soon Remus and Sirius had made it and everyone walked to the nearest bus stop, which wasn't too much of a walk. They had already changed into muggle clothing.
The whole way there Lily was answering the 'interesting' questions they came up with.
"What's that red thing?!"
"A fire hydrant."
"Is that house for house elves?"
"No, no that's a dog house."
"What's this box doing on a fence?'
"That's a mail box; it's where the muggles put letters."
"What, is that a cage for PEOPLE!?"
"NO it's a fence to keep your pets in or just for looks."
The questions only got worse as they went, but Lily kept patient and kept answering them. She was very thankful when they finally got to the bus stop, there was already some one waiting there, an old man.
"Is that a…muggle?" Sirius whispered to Lily. Lily only nodded trying to contain her laughter which had been building up.
They boarded the bus and were soon in London, Lily headed straight for the mall, since she had missed it dearly. She laughed at everything her wizarding friends asked about or were clueless about.
One of her favorite times was when they came upon a merry-go-round. Sirius, James and Remus insisted on going, and when they got off, Sirius had to go puke.
"Imagine, he can handle fifty foot dives on a broom stick no problem; then put him on a child's merry-go-round and he loses his breakfast!" Jimena said shaking her head.
After that Lily decided they needed to get out of there. They came upon something on their way that they just couldn't pass up; a carnival with rides and everything.
"NO, NO I won't go on….that!" Sirius yelped looking at a small spinning ride.
"Oh come on you big baby!" Sierra said tugging on his hand and getting tickets, everyone else followed suit. Lily ended up with Peter and James and they were spinning around and around and around. They were all laughing and getting dizzy when the ride was finally over. Sirius didn't even throw up!
They rode some more rides, then went off to the game stands. "What how does this work?!" Remus said investigating a stand that was handing out gold fish.
"You just have to knock over the pins, and you win one!" A perky teenage girl said, who was operating the stand.
"All right I'm going to try this!" Remus announced, and ended up totally missing it. Sirius didn't do much better when he tried. James made it easily since he WAS a chaser, he had a good arm at throwing.
Considering all the weird looks they got through out the day, it was truly fun. They went back to Jimena's tired, but happy.
"That was too much fun!" Sierra exclaimed landing on the couch again.
"Yeah, those muggles know what they're doing!" Sirius said with a grin on his face.
"Lils you muggle borns know what you're doing!" Jimena said giggling as she sat on Remus' lap.
"I told you this would be fun." Lily said. "I have to get back, I told Mindy's Mum I'd be home in like five minutes!"
Lily was sad to leave her friends she said a quick goodbye and ended up at the Ewing home in front of the fire place, only to find it totally empty.
She searched everywhere and when she got into the kitchen she found a quickly scribbled note.
Mum-
Went to Robert's house, be back by nine.
-Mindy
Lily was wondering where Mindy's Mum was, Lily was thinking of Mindy's dad, when she remembered that he was hardly ever home, he was always gone doing work for the Ministry, he was an auror. Lily had only met him a few times, and he seemed like a smart guy who could read her personality well. But he wasn't very friendly.
Lily was getting worried, she didn't like being in the huge house all alone. She was thinking of going back to Jimena's when she was surprised to hear some people in the living room. 'Must be Mindy and Robert.' Lily thought, but when she got there she found The Marauders standing there.
"Err, what are you guys doing here?" Lily said, they hadn't noticed her yet.
"Lily, thank God your okay!" Remus yelped and hugged her.
"Why? I was only gone for twenty minutes." Lily said confused.
"James here just had a…feeling that he should come here, and we insisted on coming with him, Jimena and Sierra are sill at Jimena's home." Sirius explained.
"Where's Mindy?" Remus questioned.
"At Robert's still I think, but her Mum isn't home and she normally is by now…I was getting a bit worried, do you think something happened?" Lily asked nervously. The boys shifted uneasily, and said nothing.
"Lils, I honestly don't know, but I was thinking you might want to come home with me…Err one of us or something or maybe we could stay with you." James said unsurely, Lily had a feeling he was in big brother mode.
"I'm sure they'll be home any minute, Mr. Ewing will be home soon anyways he normally gets home at this hour and goes straight to his office. He'll know where Mrs. Ewing is and by then I'd be safe anyways." Lily told them, she didn't want to get into trouble if she left with out asking to stay at someone's house. "I CAN take care of myself you know."
"We just don't want you to get into trouble." Peter said finally, but she noticed that he was scared, even though he tried to hide it.
"GUYS I don't need to be babysat, now would you PLEASE leave! This isn't your house, it's not even MY house now leave!" Lily yelled and stormed off up the stairs, she knew she should have burst out like that but she was scared, nervous, and she had a bad feeling something terrible was about to happen, and if it was she didn't want them hanging around when it did, she didn't want to be held responsible if James got killed; he was always playing hero; but then again it was his destiny to protect her. 'Lily stop thinking like that!' Lily scolded she was trying to stay as far away from him as possible.
Lily got to the top of the stairs and went into her room after checking to see if Mindy or Mrs. Ewing were in their rooms (no). She left her door open which was unusual for her, so she could hear when they came home.
She waited another twenty minutes and went to see if the Marauders had left, and fortunately they had. Lily sighed and sat down on the couch, after a while she dozed off, and when she awoke no one had come home. Then Lily thought she heard someone opening the front door on the other side of the large house.
Lily walked hurriedly to see who it was, and when she got there she saw; blood everywhere. It covered the walls, the door, the floor it was disgusting. Lily let out a loud scream against her own good judgment. Lily backed away from the OPEN door, and ran for the living room, and then she noticed something eerie. The blood trailed down the hallway where she had just been, but yet she hadn't seen it on her way there.
Lily's breathing became uneven, and quickened its pace. She began running down the hallway into the kitchen, and found a body lying there on the floor, it was a mangled bloody mess, and Lily started crying and getting hysterical.
Someone was in the house, and they were killing people! The first person who could have done this that came to mind was 'Voldemort'. Lily didn't want to see who was dead in the kitchen, and she continued to run this time she took another way that would get her to her room, and hopefully to an escape.
Lily went to her trunk and when she tried to open it she felt legs! Lily let out a shriek but felt some one cover her mouth. Then before her eyes appeared James Potter.
When he let her out of his grip, she slapped him across the face. "You jerk! Don't you ever listen! I'm running from a crazed evil killer wizard guy, and I don't need to deal with you!"
"What Lily? What's going on? Where's Mindy? I'm sorry I dozed off on your trunk and then you woke me up so I missed something!" James said panic filling his voice.
"We have to get out of here right now! I should have listened to you, but- but now someone's dead in the kitchen and someone's in the house trying to kill me!" Lily said hurriedly, still trying to calm herself down, and wiping away the tears.
"Let's get out of here, were you about to get your broom?" James asked putting his arm around her to comfort her. Lily nodded, they got out her broom, and put on the invisibility cloak, and opened the door that led to her small deck. "I'll steer the broom you just hold on okay?"
"Okay." Lily said nervously. James got on the broom and Lily got on behind him, holding on tightly to his waist, and still under the invisibility cloak.
They flew off in some unknown direction, and Lily noticed just how nervous James was. He was breathing heavily and shaking a bit. He was scared.
"James, we need to get help, we need to tell someone, we need to get to Robert's house! He lives nearby-."
"I know where." James said quietly and they flew higher in the sky and headed towards Robert's house. They landed with a thud, and ran to Robert's door, and were greeted by Robert.
"Rob, Rob is Mindy here?!" Lily just about screamed grabbing Robert by the collar.
"Uh n-no she just left by Floo-." Before he could say more Lily ran into the house and was soon greeted by Mindy who had just come back from her house looking terrified.
"LILY! OH THANK GOD YOU'RE ALIVE!!" Mindy screamed and hugged Lily and they both started crying. "I saw some one dead in the kitchen and I knew my Mum was out with my Dad so I thought…I thought it was you!" Mindy said sobbing into Lily's shoulder, the two boys just stood watching then Mindy ran to hug her confused boyfriend.
Lily was still sobbing and just fell into James' arms; he was only a tiny bit less confused then Robert. James hugged Lily, but it still felt awkward since he still had feelings for her.
A while later Lily and Mindy were calmed down, and they got a hold of the ministry and told them what happened and they sent some people down there straight away.
The four of them waited up to hear from the ministry; Robert's parents had helped a lot. Lily was worried sick 'Who could be dead?' They tried to keep up high spirits thought out the time they were waiting. They were still waiting around three in the morning when Robert's parents came back into the room.
"I think you kids need to get to bed, we'll put you up in the guest room." Mrs. Saratoga said. The three guests nodded and went to bed.
They entered a large room, and there were three beds set up. They got into bed and Mindy was able to get to sleep, but Lily was still awake, she had been very upset and it wasn't going to disappear that quickly, plus James was across the room from her, and she kept thinking about him.
Lily sat up in bed and crawled over to the window seat. "Lily?" James voice whispered softly from the other part of the room.
"Yeah?"
"What are you doing up?"
"I couldn't sleep what about you?" Lily asked as James walked over and sat by her.
"The same. So…how are you?" James asked looking at her.
"I'm…still upset; it was so scary I've never been more afraid in my entire life! All that blood…And a person dead, and then I thought that the murderer was still in the house! I was glad you showed up, even though I told you to leave, I really was glad you didn't listen. Honestly though you should listen to me once in a while, YOU could have been killed; you're always risking your life trying to help me out!" Lily whispered loudly.
"So…" James didn't know what to say to that. "I can't say that I'll listen to you, but if it helps I have a funny story about when I found out about that curse and how much it's…changed." James told her he was smiling slightly with amusement.
"All right I guess, it's not like I'll be sleeping any time soon anyways." Lily replied.
"Okay here it is…"
~Flashback seven years ago~
(A/N I always wanted one of these! This is just for fun, since I'm waiting for great sneeze of inspiration to catch me or catch it…never mind.)
"James sit down son, we need you to be a serious little boy for a moment okay?"
"Dad, I'm not Sirius, SIRIUS is!" he young James Potter said smiling at his dad, but decided to be good since his Dad looked like he needed to tell him something important.
"Son, me and your mother have reason to believe that you are under a curse. I'm not going into too much detail since you are still young, but you are going to be like a big brother to someone and take care of them. You understand?"
"Yeah, so like am I getting a little brother or something? That would sound like a curse to me."
"No, no it's not a sibling, it's more like…It's someone your age and we think it is a young girl, but we aren't positive yet Albus is doing some work on it."
"Eww! I have to take care of a girl! Dad…." James got close to his dad's ear. "They got…cooties!" His father laughed heartily. "Dad, it's not funny YOU might be immune to it, but I'm still young, I have to be careful!"
"James, I don't think you have to worry about that."
~James discovers Lily is the other part of the curse and is thinking about it in his head~
'At this point a girl seems much better then a guy, then I'd think I was going to turn out gay!'
~End of Flashback/story~
"James were you worried you were gay? I always wondered about you and Sirius but-."
"LILY I told you that to make you feel better not so you could make fun of me! I'm perfectly straight thank you very much." James said in a dignified way.
"Yeah, I know that by the way we snogged." Lily said and instantly regretted it when Mindy sat up in bad and was grinning like a maniac. "Mindy it's not what you think, so shut up now before I hurt you." Lily said warningly and Mindy lied back down.
"You sure took care of that uncomfortable situation." James stated.
"Yeah, now I'm going to bed, since MINDY probably won't stop listening to us talk." Lily looked towards Mindy's bed and she saw Mindy shaking with laughter. "I'm just surprised she hasn't snuck off to Robert's room yet."
"HEY! Me and Rob haven't done anything THAT bad!" Mindy said, and Lily just knew she was turning red. They all went to sleep and Lily was still wondering about who could be dead.
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(A/N Okie dokie, is that good enough for the wonderful reviewers of mine? I hope you like it! Next up 60 reviews!! PLEASE REVIEW!!! I know begging doesn't work, but nagging does, and I've asked you at the end of like every chapter to review my story, so THERE! Sorry this was so short!)
*~Sierra~*
A/N I'm tired and got homework and my grammar is coming out bad, so no more writing and stuff, so wish me luck on getting this finished before the end of the week, even if it is just the summer I'll send you something! I might get inspired, but otherwise I'm going to just drag on the summer with boring stuff…JUST KIDDING it will be funny if I think so I just got an idea a while ago and have got some work to do!
OH MY GOD!! I just noticed….I GOT 52 REVEIWS AHHHH!! **~! Faints! ~** (10 minutes later) Yeah!! I'm soooooo happy I never thought I would get this many…wow!! Okay now I owe you a chapter 19!!!
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CHAPTER 19
Lily spent her first week listening to Mindy talk about Robert, she was beginning to think they would get married as soon as they got out of school It was so funny, the two of them sent letters to each other everyday, and he was in Paris for the first week, Lily was actually looking forward to him coming back, then him and Mindy would start snogging and Lily would have some peace and quiet.
Mindy tried not to make Lily feel bad about not having a boyfriend anymore, by trying not to talk about Robert but failed miserably.
"So do you want to play Quidditch? I'll get some neighbors to play, and I'll be seeker, Robert's position." Mindy was practically drooling, and Lily kindly, but firmly refused to play Quidditch. Talking about Quidditch reminded Lily of James, and that made her wonder if she would be able to survive all the Quidditch practice with him next year, Lily was turning the idea of quitting Quidditch, but Mindy found out and chewed her out about it, making Lily decide to stay on the team.
Once Robert got back from Paris, Lily had much more time to herself, and was getting bored. She wrote Sierra and Jimena frequently with Socrates. Lily was trying to find something to occupy her mind besides James, which was something she found impossible. She finally got desperate enough to talk to him, that she wrote Remus to ask how he (Meaning James) was doing.
Remus wrote back telling her she should get back with him, or to stop moping around.
Lily decided not to write Remus anymore.
So she decided to write Sierra to tell her to write Sirius to ask HIM how James was.
~In the Wizarding World with James~
James wrote his friends just like Lily did, but little did Lily know that he was thinking about her and was wondering what she was doing.
James decided to write Jimena to ask her to see how LILY was.
Jimena wrote him back telling him that he was being stupid and should ask Lily herself.
James didn't write Jimena anymore.
James decided to write Sirius to ask HIM to write Sierra to see how Lily was doing.
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Lily and James both got identical letters from Sirius telling them to get back together and that they were acting like fools. They both replied back to him telling him HE was being an insensitive jerk (as Lily said) and a clueless imbecile (as James said). Lily could only guess that Sierra had told him that it was SHE who was wondering about James.
The two of them were pondering over whether to write the other a letter or not, and had no idea what their friends were up to. Here are some of the letters.
(A/N just random letters to everyone.)
Remus-
Do you know why Lily and James broke up, when they both still like each other, I know something important to it, but I was wondering if you knew anything else.
Love Jimena
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Sierra-
Ha-ha this is funny, I got a letter from James trying to convince me to write you to see how Lily was, don't bother telling me, because I'm going to make him do it himself!
-Sirius
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Wormtail-
Have you heard about James and Lily? The two of them have been trying to get Jimena, Sierra and Sirius to cooperate by giving them information on each other. So if you get a letter from either of them asking you about it, ignore it, or reply saying you know nothing, you might not know anything, but look out all the same. I wonder why they split up in the first place, maybe we should get them back, no never mind James wouldn't like that. Remember what happened last time?
-Remus
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Jimena-
This is too funny, the two of them (Lily and James) I just got another letter from Lily begging me to find out how James is doing, I feel bad but I don't care! I hope Lily feels better soon, I hate seeing her this way! Lily is getting pathetic! Has she sent you any of THOSE letters; you know the ones where she gushes about James. She also told me about having more nightmares, how's it going for you? My nightmares have stopped! I haven't had one yet and it's already three weeks into break!
-Sierra
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Lily was getting bored when towards the end of July she got a letter from Jimena telling her that they (Meaning the Marauders and the girls) were going to meet up at Diagon Alley to get school supplies before everyone else did and it started to get crowded.
Lily found herself falling through the fire place and out onto the floor of the Diagon Alley ice cream shop. Lily groaned and rubbed her head which had gotten hit on the floor. She looked for her friends but all she saw was James. She decided to be brave and go sit by him and wait for everyone else to come.
"Hey James." Lily said, her voice strained with trying to sound normal.
"Hey." He said in the same tone. Lily sat across from him, wondering what she was supposed to say now.
"Um, so where is everybody, have you seen them?" Lily asked trying to start a conversation which they hadn't had for months.
"Don't know, I just hope they aren't trying to set us up again, look what happened last time." James said bitterly.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. I wish they hadn't meddled in OUR business in the first place." Lily said mournfully.
"There's Jimena and Remus, let's go get them!" James said hurriedly so they could end the strained conversation. They were soon met by everyone else, and they got some ice cream and talked about their summers so far. Then they went off to get their school supplies.
As they passed a broom store Lily saw a broom and thought of something her and Mindy had argued over. "I was thinking of quitting Quidditch this year." She said mostly to know one.
"WHAT!?" Her friends said in disbelief except for James who just stood there staring at the broom.
"I was just thinking about it, Mindy said she wouldn't allow me though so don't worry about it." She said hastily.
"I was thinking about it too." James whispered when they had continued to the next shop. Lily just smiled sadly up at him.
A few hours later they stood in front of the ice cream shop with their newly bought supplies, and were talking about more plans to meet up when Lily had an idea.
"Hey what do you guys think about going to muggle London for a day?!" Her friends stared at her thinking the idea over in their minds. "It would be so much fun! I could show you around and Sierra and Jimena are already taking Muggle Studies so it would just be YOU four who had absolutely no idea about what's going on! I haven't been in the muggle world for so long…I miss it a bit, and Mindy's Mum was thinking of letting me go anyways, so what do you think?" Lily said finishing her short speech.
"That sounds great! We should all go! When? Where? Time?!" Sierra asked happily.
Soon plans were made to go to Jimena's house who was closest to London, and then catch a muggle bus.
Lily was of course very excited to leave Mindy's house since all she ever did was talk about Robert, Lily would just laugh at her and mutter 'young love'. It was however annoying the fiftieth time you hear her tell you the story about how they finally started liking each other… "The summer I was going into fifth year, I still can't believe I had no idea what was going to happen..." Mindy would then explode into the story starting with that first summer day when she and Lily had gone to the ice cream shop.
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Lily got up earlier then she normally did on Saturday, especially for the summer. She was ready to get to Jimena's house as soon as possible. She got dressed quickly, and said good bye to Mrs. Ewing then hurried through the Floo Network. Lily fell out into the living room of the Jenkins.
She didn't see anyone, so she just dusted herself off where she was standing. And was about to get out of the way of anyone else coming through the fireplace when, she was immediately hit by someone else coming through.
"Ouch!" Lily's voice came muffled from underneath someone's chest.
"Oh sorry, sorry!" They said, moving off her, Lily recognized the voice as James, and her heart totally flip flopped.
Lily and James blushed, and they both dusted themselves off, since Lily had gotten swamped by more because of James. They stood there awkwardly for a moment, and were soon saved when Peter tumbled through.
"I wonder where Jimena is." Lily wondered aloud, and went off to look for her, but as soon as she opened the door to leave there was Jimena and Sierra.
"Oh good you guys are here! Sorry I wasn't here but Sierra came and got me anyways." Jimena said while they all sat on the couches and chairs in her living room.
Soon Remus and Sirius had made it and everyone walked to the nearest bus stop, which wasn't too much of a walk. They had already changed into muggle clothing.
The whole way there Lily was answering the 'interesting' questions they came up with.
"What's that red thing?!"
"A fire hydrant."
"Is that house for house elves?"
"No, no that's a dog house."
"What's this box doing on a fence?'
"That's a mail box; it's where the muggles put letters."
"What, is that a cage for PEOPLE!?"
"NO it's a fence to keep your pets in or just for looks."
The questions only got worse as they went, but Lily kept patient and kept answering them. She was very thankful when they finally got to the bus stop, there was already some one waiting there, an old man.
"Is that a…muggle?" Sirius whispered to Lily. Lily only nodded trying to contain her laughter which had been building up.
They boarded the bus and were soon in London, Lily headed straight for the mall, since she had missed it dearly. She laughed at everything her wizarding friends asked about or were clueless about.
One of her favorite times was when they came upon a merry-go-round. Sirius, James and Remus insisted on going, and when they got off, Sirius had to go puke.
"Imagine, he can handle fifty foot dives on a broom stick no problem; then put him on a child's merry-go-round and he loses his breakfast!" Jimena said shaking her head.
After that Lily decided they needed to get out of there. They came upon something on their way that they just couldn't pass up; a carnival with rides and everything.
"NO, NO I won't go on….that!" Sirius yelped looking at a small spinning ride.
"Oh come on you big baby!" Sierra said tugging on his hand and getting tickets, everyone else followed suit. Lily ended up with Peter and James and they were spinning around and around and around. They were all laughing and getting dizzy when the ride was finally over. Sirius didn't even throw up!
They rode some more rides, then went off to the game stands. "What how does this work?!" Remus said investigating a stand that was handing out gold fish.
"You just have to knock over the pins, and you win one!" A perky teenage girl said, who was operating the stand.
"All right I'm going to try this!" Remus announced, and ended up totally missing it. Sirius didn't do much better when he tried. James made it easily since he WAS a chaser, he had a good arm at throwing.
Considering all the weird looks they got through out the day, it was truly fun. They went back to Jimena's tired, but happy.
"That was too much fun!" Sierra exclaimed landing on the couch again.
"Yeah, those muggles know what they're doing!" Sirius said with a grin on his face.
"Lils you muggle borns know what you're doing!" Jimena said giggling as she sat on Remus' lap.
"I told you this would be fun." Lily said. "I have to get back, I told Mindy's Mum I'd be home in like five minutes!"
Lily was sad to leave her friends she said a quick goodbye and ended up at the Ewing home in front of the fire place, only to find it totally empty.
She searched everywhere and when she got into the kitchen she found a quickly scribbled note.
Mum-
Went to Robert's house, be back by nine.
-Mindy
Lily was wondering where Mindy's Mum was, Lily was thinking of Mindy's dad, when she remembered that he was hardly ever home, he was always gone doing work for the Ministry, he was an auror. Lily had only met him a few times, and he seemed like a smart guy who could read her personality well. But he wasn't very friendly.
Lily was getting worried, she didn't like being in the huge house all alone. She was thinking of going back to Jimena's when she was surprised to hear some people in the living room. 'Must be Mindy and Robert.' Lily thought, but when she got there she found The Marauders standing there.
"Err, what are you guys doing here?" Lily said, they hadn't noticed her yet.
"Lily, thank God your okay!" Remus yelped and hugged her.
"Why? I was only gone for twenty minutes." Lily said confused.
"James here just had a…feeling that he should come here, and we insisted on coming with him, Jimena and Sierra are sill at Jimena's home." Sirius explained.
"Where's Mindy?" Remus questioned.
"At Robert's still I think, but her Mum isn't home and she normally is by now…I was getting a bit worried, do you think something happened?" Lily asked nervously. The boys shifted uneasily, and said nothing.
"Lils, I honestly don't know, but I was thinking you might want to come home with me…Err one of us or something or maybe we could stay with you." James said unsurely, Lily had a feeling he was in big brother mode.
"I'm sure they'll be home any minute, Mr. Ewing will be home soon anyways he normally gets home at this hour and goes straight to his office. He'll know where Mrs. Ewing is and by then I'd be safe anyways." Lily told them, she didn't want to get into trouble if she left with out asking to stay at someone's house. "I CAN take care of myself you know."
"We just don't want you to get into trouble." Peter said finally, but she noticed that he was scared, even though he tried to hide it.
"GUYS I don't need to be babysat, now would you PLEASE leave! This isn't your house, it's not even MY house now leave!" Lily yelled and stormed off up the stairs, she knew she should have burst out like that but she was scared, nervous, and she had a bad feeling something terrible was about to happen, and if it was she didn't want them hanging around when it did, she didn't want to be held responsible if James got killed; he was always playing hero; but then again it was his destiny to protect her. 'Lily stop thinking like that!' Lily scolded she was trying to stay as far away from him as possible.
Lily got to the top of the stairs and went into her room after checking to see if Mindy or Mrs. Ewing were in their rooms (no). She left her door open which was unusual for her, so she could hear when they came home.
She waited another twenty minutes and went to see if the Marauders had left, and fortunately they had. Lily sighed and sat down on the couch, after a while she dozed off, and when she awoke no one had come home. Then Lily thought she heard someone opening the front door on the other side of the large house.
Lily walked hurriedly to see who it was, and when she got there she saw; blood everywhere. It covered the walls, the door, the floor it was disgusting. Lily let out a loud scream against her own good judgment. Lily backed away from the OPEN door, and ran for the living room, and then she noticed something eerie. The blood trailed down the hallway where she had just been, but yet she hadn't seen it on her way there.
Lily's breathing became uneven, and quickened its pace. She began running down the hallway into the kitchen, and found a body lying there on the floor, it was a mangled bloody mess, and Lily started crying and getting hysterical.
Someone was in the house, and they were killing people! The first person who could have done this that came to mind was 'Voldemort'. Lily didn't want to see who was dead in the kitchen, and she continued to run this time she took another way that would get her to her room, and hopefully to an escape.
Lily went to her trunk and when she tried to open it she felt legs! Lily let out a shriek but felt some one cover her mouth. Then before her eyes appeared James Potter.
When he let her out of his grip, she slapped him across the face. "You jerk! Don't you ever listen! I'm running from a crazed evil killer wizard guy, and I don't need to deal with you!"
"What Lily? What's going on? Where's Mindy? I'm sorry I dozed off on your trunk and then you woke me up so I missed something!" James said panic filling his voice.
"We have to get out of here right now! I should have listened to you, but- but now someone's dead in the kitchen and someone's in the house trying to kill me!" Lily said hurriedly, still trying to calm herself down, and wiping away the tears.
"Let's get out of here, were you about to get your broom?" James asked putting his arm around her to comfort her. Lily nodded, they got out her broom, and put on the invisibility cloak, and opened the door that led to her small deck. "I'll steer the broom you just hold on okay?"
"Okay." Lily said nervously. James got on the broom and Lily got on behind him, holding on tightly to his waist, and still under the invisibility cloak.
They flew off in some unknown direction, and Lily noticed just how nervous James was. He was breathing heavily and shaking a bit. He was scared.
"James, we need to get help, we need to tell someone, we need to get to Robert's house! He lives nearby-."
"I know where." James said quietly and they flew higher in the sky and headed towards Robert's house. They landed with a thud, and ran to Robert's door, and were greeted by Robert.
"Rob, Rob is Mindy here?!" Lily just about screamed grabbing Robert by the collar.
"Uh n-no she just left by Floo-." Before he could say more Lily ran into the house and was soon greeted by Mindy who had just come back from her house looking terrified.
"LILY! OH THANK GOD YOU'RE ALIVE!!" Mindy screamed and hugged Lily and they both started crying. "I saw some one dead in the kitchen and I knew my Mum was out with my Dad so I thought…I thought it was you!" Mindy said sobbing into Lily's shoulder, the two boys just stood watching then Mindy ran to hug her confused boyfriend.
Lily was still sobbing and just fell into James' arms; he was only a tiny bit less confused then Robert. James hugged Lily, but it still felt awkward since he still had feelings for her.
A while later Lily and Mindy were calmed down, and they got a hold of the ministry and told them what happened and they sent some people down there straight away.
The four of them waited up to hear from the ministry; Robert's parents had helped a lot. Lily was worried sick 'Who could be dead?' They tried to keep up high spirits thought out the time they were waiting. They were still waiting around three in the morning when Robert's parents came back into the room.
"I think you kids need to get to bed, we'll put you up in the guest room." Mrs. Saratoga said. The three guests nodded and went to bed.
They entered a large room, and there were three beds set up. They got into bed and Mindy was able to get to sleep, but Lily was still awake, she had been very upset and it wasn't going to disappear that quickly, plus James was across the room from her, and she kept thinking about him.
Lily sat up in bed and crawled over to the window seat. "Lily?" James voice whispered softly from the other part of the room.
"Yeah?"
"What are you doing up?"
"I couldn't sleep what about you?" Lily asked as James walked over and sat by her.
"The same. So…how are you?" James asked looking at her.
"I'm…still upset; it was so scary I've never been more afraid in my entire life! All that blood…And a person dead, and then I thought that the murderer was still in the house! I was glad you showed up, even though I told you to leave, I really was glad you didn't listen. Honestly though you should listen to me once in a while, YOU could have been killed; you're always risking your life trying to help me out!" Lily whispered loudly.
"So…" James didn't know what to say to that. "I can't say that I'll listen to you, but if it helps I have a funny story about when I found out about that curse and how much it's…changed." James told her he was smiling slightly with amusement.
"All right I guess, it's not like I'll be sleeping any time soon anyways." Lily replied.
"Okay here it is…"
~Flashback seven years ago~
(A/N I always wanted one of these! This is just for fun, since I'm waiting for great sneeze of inspiration to catch me or catch it…never mind.)
"James sit down son, we need you to be a serious little boy for a moment okay?"
"Dad, I'm not Sirius, SIRIUS is!" he young James Potter said smiling at his dad, but decided to be good since his Dad looked like he needed to tell him something important.
"Son, me and your mother have reason to believe that you are under a curse. I'm not going into too much detail since you are still young, but you are going to be like a big brother to someone and take care of them. You understand?"
"Yeah, so like am I getting a little brother or something? That would sound like a curse to me."
"No, no it's not a sibling, it's more like…It's someone your age and we think it is a young girl, but we aren't positive yet Albus is doing some work on it."
"Eww! I have to take care of a girl! Dad…." James got close to his dad's ear. "They got…cooties!" His father laughed heartily. "Dad, it's not funny YOU might be immune to it, but I'm still young, I have to be careful!"
"James, I don't think you have to worry about that."
~James discovers Lily is the other part of the curse and is thinking about it in his head~
'At this point a girl seems much better then a guy, then I'd think I was going to turn out gay!'
~End of Flashback/story~
"James were you worried you were gay? I always wondered about you and Sirius but-."
"LILY I told you that to make you feel better not so you could make fun of me! I'm perfectly straight thank you very much." James said in a dignified way.
"Yeah, I know that by the way we snogged." Lily said and instantly regretted it when Mindy sat up in bad and was grinning like a maniac. "Mindy it's not what you think, so shut up now before I hurt you." Lily said warningly and Mindy lied back down.
"You sure took care of that uncomfortable situation." James stated.
"Yeah, now I'm going to bed, since MINDY probably won't stop listening to us talk." Lily looked towards Mindy's bed and she saw Mindy shaking with laughter. "I'm just surprised she hasn't snuck off to Robert's room yet."
"HEY! Me and Rob haven't done anything THAT bad!" Mindy said, and Lily just knew she was turning red. They all went to sleep and Lily was still wondering about who could be dead.
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(A/N Okie dokie, is that good enough for the wonderful reviewers of mine? I hope you like it! Next up 60 reviews!! PLEASE REVIEW!!! I know begging doesn't work, but nagging does, and I've asked you at the end of like every chapter to review my story, so THERE! Sorry this was so short!)
*~Sierra~*