"Hey Prongs." Sirius's voice came over the phone. Sirius was on the outskirts of Hogsmeade, using a pay phone to call James in Godric's Hollow.
"Hey Padfoot. Glad you could finally contact me. What happened on the train?" James asked, leaning back in his seat by the window. Outside across the street some little kids were playing.
"Uh.. My mom wanted me to stay at Hogwarts this summer.. Problems on the farm.." Sirius lied, running a hand through his hair. "I'm staying with Lily."
"Is she around?" James asked, trying not to seem to eager, and ignoring the suspicions he had about Sirius's situation.
"Nope, not really.. In fact, I'm trying to get away from her dormitory- The place reeks with the smell of flowers."
"What are you talking about?" James asked with a certain amount of boredom in his voice. Lily's room was really no concern to him.
"Flowers, chocolates, teddy bears, you name it.. He's also got singing cards, trinkets, photo frames, soaps, magazines, books.. Anything you can give a girl, he's given it.." Sirius said. "I'm surprised she hasn't suffocated from the number of things in her room. It's not that big.."
"WHAT are you talking about?" James demanded.
"David Morales. The guy that's interested in Lily. She's had her number of admirers, but this one has pushed the envelope." Sirius muttered, not realizing the pangs in James's heart.
"So is she seeing him?" James asked, failing to sound casual.
"Not really.." Sirius dragged out the words, it suddenly hitting him that James didn't like this David fellow. "She has this rule about no summer dating.. There was this summer date of hers after second year that crushed her. Nope, no summer flings for Lily."
"Oh, good. I mean, good, right.. Lily won't get hurt- She's had enough of that.." James lied, his head hurting because so many contrasting thoughts were going through his head.
"Riiiight.. Dude, what have you been eating? You sound worse than I do, and I have come from a dormitory that has every feminine smell in there imaginable." Sirius asked, worried. He became comfortable on the short little bench in the phone booth.
"Nothing.. Nothing.. When will you guys be up in London?" James asked, rubbing his temples... His head and his heart were having the battle of the hormones up in his brain.
"A few days. Lily's packing for the both of us.. Dammit, that David fellow is buying more flowers.. I got to go, James.." Sirius muttered in somewhat of a lie.. He didn't have to go, but he couldn't bear a conversation with James at the moment.
James hung up the phone, wondering what was wrong with him.
"How on earth are we going to get rid of all those chocolates?" Sirius asked as he flopped down on Lily's bed. "I'm sick to my stomach.. We've tried every variety on earth."
"We could sell them for a nice profit. Discounted Honeydukes Chocolate, just pay shipping and handling... That'll give us a profit and pay for an ad in the Daily Prophet." Lily said cleverly, rearranging her flowers, which, in a nice little rhyme, would take her hours.
"And the singing cards?" He pondered, really hating the little song the big one sang.
"Well, they've all got my name on it, so we should just dump them." Lily said after smelling a group of daffodils.
"The soaps?" Sirius asked, picking up the bunch of weird-shaped ones.
"Place them in all the bathrooms all over the school.. Save Filch a job." Lily replied instantly, sniffing a group of yellow irises. "These smell like lemonade."
"Photo frames?" Sirius asked, conjuring a list of things to go down.
"Wrap them and we'll save them for Christmas presents for people we're obligated to give Christmas presents to." Lily said after thinking a minute. "We're throwing those petunias out, their coloring is all wrong for the room."
Sirius picked them up and put them in the trash next to the singing cards. "Teddy bears?"
"Uh.. Send them to your sisters. The trinkets you can send as well, the ones on the bookshelf, and there's a big one you can send to your brother's new wife." Lily said, though putting on a chain with a glass lily charm. But then she saw James's locket around her neck, and thrust the chain off. "Or this one. Isn't her name Lilly?"
"Yeah, he's got good taste." Sirius said, making a small smile at Lily's loyalty to a memory. "The magazines?"
"Keep them for the girls, put them in the Common Room or something.. There are some Quidditch magazines you can put in your dormitory." Lily said, fingering the locket as she looked in the mirror.
"And finally, the books.. Most of them you can't use- How To Make Cheese Flavored Crackers or Liquid Soap: The Mystery of It All." Sirius muttered, thinking the guy was nuts.
Lily laughed. "We'll give them to Madam Pince. There are a bunch of weird books in the library too."
"And will you forever suffocate me with the smells of these flowers?" Sirius whined, as he collected everything they were going to remove from the room.
"Let me select a few varieties that I like." Lily said, a finger going to her lips immediately as she slowly walked about her room.
"Pack a few of your favorite prank tools, Sirius, we will have an unexpected journey ahead of us." She said after a moment of silence, dumping vases left and right.
"There, Sirius.. Magazines to the Common Room, soaps to the bathroom, go up to the owlry and send those trinkets and teddy bears out, I'll wrap the photo frames and you take the books to the library. I'll dump the flowers off the roof." Lily said in a perky tone.
"Whatever, Lily.." Sirius muttered, grabbing things to throw out first. By the time he finished his tasks, there were no flowers in the dormitory at all. He pulled on the dowel and the staircase came down.
The rooftop was covered with flowers. But, Sirius noticed, these blooms were only flowers that they had interacted with in the past year, in their times with James, Jackie, Rafe... Lily was lying in the middle of the flower display, drowning in sweet scents and blissful memories. Sirius silently went back down the stairs, letting Lily fall asleep in the flowers.
"Princess?"
James's voice asked her, dragging out the word and making her drool.
"Yes, James?"
Lily asked, perfectly perky and wearing pink, for some odd reason.
"How are you
today?" He asked.. Lily still couldn't see him, but she wandered about the
halls of somewhere, no particular location, trying to find him.
"Fine, James,
fine.." She said, beginning to sob. "Where are you, James? Where are you?"
"I'm right here,
under your nose, Princess. I'm right here." His voice said. She looked down.
Suddenly, there was a warp thingy of black and liquidly silver and she was
falling into it.
"JAMES!!!!!!!!!!!"
Lily woke up from her daydream as the sun started to go down. Sirius was sitting next to her, and she had been screaming, sweating.
"Are you okay, Lily?" He asked softly. She nodded weakly.
"The scent of all these flowers is making me giddy. Let's go downstairs." She said, and the spot where the staircase had disappeared appeared again at request. Several blood red lilies that hadn't been there before toppled down into her room.