This is the fourth chapter, and I'm still on
vacation!
The girls knew that they were very dead. Potter, Lupin and Black figured it out
pretty quick. They were
responsible. And proud of it. After the Quidditch try outs, the girls really
didn't have anything to do, so they went to go see Hagrid. Then Tania had a brilliant idea. They could go sailing! All of the girls had gone before because of
Muggle friends and had enjoyed the sport immensely. They asked Hagrid if he happened to have a sailboat. He actually did. He even had two! Jennifer
magiced the air to make it windy. They
climbed in and raced across the lake and back again. It was odd that Tania had been sailing before if she couldn't
swim, but she had been wearing life jackets. They had a blast and didn't come in until dark.
When they got back, their room was a wreck. Things were everywhere and everything was
died in green, red and purple. The boys must have done it when they first
started sailing, because the colors were fading a little bit. It was obviously the same spell that Potter
had used on Lilly's shirt the first time she met him. The girls started picking up everything, looking out for anything
missing and anything written on their cloths.
It took until ten to finish everything. Fortunately for Arabella and Marian, the
attack was only on the three girls. They stayed up the rest of the night planning their next attack.
The rest of the year flew by. It was full of pranks, studying, fights,
duels, classes, Quidditch, detentions, the Forbidden forest, exams, Snape,
insults… it's hard to list them
all. At the end of the year, the boys
hexed the ceiling to shoot fireworks and the girls charmed the plates at the
feast to shout, "School's over, YEA!" All they got from Dumbledore was a crinkling of the eyes and a smile in
their direction.
Every one knew about the James, Sirius and Remus
against Lilly, Jennifer and Tania war. Most girls were appalled that they even thought about playing pranks on
the most popular boys in the school. When they voiced their opinion, which happened often. At first they girls just started laughing
and ignored them, then just turned and walked away. The number of girls who said that to them was 102 and going
up. Aside from Potter and his gang, Lilly
and the girls were the most known and heard about people in the school. And they were second for most
detentions. Barely.
As every one boarded the train to go home, the boys
snagged the back compartment to the infuriation of the girls. They sat in the next one and played every
trick and prank they knew for the remainder of the trip. They had the best time and couldn't wait for
the next year.
The first day home after school was the worst in
James' life. His parents were
fighting. Worse than before. With tears in his eyes, he walked up to the
attic, knowing what might come tomorrow. No prizes for guessing what. As
if she knew, his little sister came up to the attic and asked him what was
wrong. Melissa walked up and sat in his
lap. He had to smile at his 5 year old
sister, for he couldn't.
(A/N incase you don't know, Lissi is the nick name
for Melissa.)
"Mommy and Daddy are fighting again, Lissi. It's worse than normal. It hurts to see them fight like that."
"Are you worried that they might not like each other
any more?" She probed further, with
knowledge odd for a 5-year-old.
James hugged her tightly. "You don't need to worry, honey."
He smiled at her response: "You didn't answer my question!"
"Only a little, only a little."
She sighed, unconvinced, hugged him back and slowly
left the attic. Unknown to both of
them, their parents had heard the conversation between brother and sister.
Sirius and Remus were having the time of their
lives. Remus was at the Black's home
because his parents were on an overseas trip and couldn't take him with
them. They were playing Quidditch in
the back yard, well Remus was a moving target for Sirius to hit Bludgers
at. I don't think you want to know the
outcome of that. Let's just say that Remus was VERY sore when he woke up the
next morning.
They were going to have a great summer.
Lilly was being tormented again by Petunia. It was about her being a witch again. Lilly go her back by threatening with curses
and hexes. That would shut her up for a
while but then it would start again.
Her parents wanted to take her on a trip to France
right before the school year. Little
did she know that they would not be taking that trip…
It was the middle of summer and Lilly's mom was out
shopping, for Petunia. She was late
coming back when the phone rang. Thinking it was her mom, Lilly beat Petunia to the phone. There was a policeman asking for her
dad. She told him he wasn't home right
now.
"I think that you should know that we found a car
wreck site on the highway –"
"It was mom, wasn't it. Is she alright?" Lilly
cut him off.
"Her car had rollen over several times. Even though she was wearing a seat belt, it
wasn't enough. She snapped her spine
and died instantly. There was nothing
we could do."
There was a shocked silence as Petunia, who was
listening on the other line broke out into sobs.
"You'll need to call my dad…" Lilly told the officer
dumbly and recited her dad's work number and hung up. She walked to her room and closed the door.
Jennifer was reading on the porch when she got the
letter from Lilly. She sat there,
shocked then immediately grabbed a pen and some paper and began to write
back. Her letter was three pages long,
and was the best she could think of. Then she grabbed her worn stuffed animal polar bear, Fluffy, and put
everything in a bag and sent it with the owl back.
Tania was in Greece and didn't know anything until
she got home, for the owl had left the letter in the doorstep. The girls were going to met in Diagon Alley
the next day, and so she wrote a quick note and sent her owl to Lilly.
Okay, people, what I'm going to do next is skip a
year and go straight to their third year. Just to let you know, after James' parents heard their conversation,
they decided to go for counseling and are trying to hold the marriage
together. Lilly took a year and a
half to get over her mom's death. It
was really hard on her. She wasn't
herself so much that even James, Sirius and Remus noticed. James and Remus were seekers, Sirius a
beater and Cozan the seeker. That's
about it. Toddles.
Disclaimer: same as before.