All My Life
*~* Summer *~*
"I cannot believe for the life of me that we are already through with our first year at Hogwarts?! I mean, imagine, just last September, I thought that magic was walking through walls whenever you want to! How wrong I was!" Lily exclaimed, thinking about the past.
"Hey Lils," Sirius said, "you do know that magical people can fly whenever they want to, right?"
"Yeah right Sirius, I didn't fall for that last night, and I won't today!"
"Worth a shot."
As Elle entered their compartment, she complained to the others about the trek over to the train, "Honestly, I have to carry all my things, and it took me forever to get over here with them! How did you all get here so fast?"
"The carriages?" James said looking around to see if she was joking.
"There are carriages! It figures!" She yelled.
"So… Where do you all live? I've never asked." Lily said looking around. As people explained where they live, she saw James fidgeting in his seat, she looked at him and asked with out thinking, "James where do you and your family live?"
Everyone looked at her with wide eyes as she covered her mouth quickly, not believing that she actually said that! Oh my God why did I say that?
"I… I live…" James started.
"He is staying with me. I live on Privet Drive. The south side though, with the huge houses." Sirius said looking at Lily like she was scum of the earth.
"Are you joking!" Lily said, totally forgetting about making James feel like crap.
"No Lily, I actually live in a circus tent in Madrid."
"No, because I live on Privet Drive!"
"Wicked!"
"I know! Oh my gosh we are going to have so much fun!" Lily said, while taking out a piece of parchment and quill, scribbling down all the 'fun' things they were gonna do that summer.
"She has some MAJOR control issues man. Major." Sirius said leaning over to Remus, while Remus just nodded.
"Hey Ava, did your dad owl you about the Ministry Ball?" Sirius asked Ava. Sirius's dad took over being the Minister after James' was killed, and Ava's dad was Head Auror.
"Yeah, why?" Ava asked, looking at the card she got with her chocolate frogs.
"Because my mum and dad said that I could invite everyone over the week before, and they stay with us, and then we all go to the ball, and then off to school, since the ball is August 29th."
"Ball, August 29th…" Lily mumbled as she wrote more on her scroll.
"Ooo! That would be great Sirius!" Elle said, getting excited.
"Hey, so this ball, what is it for?" Lily said, looking up from her scroll.
"Well, it's for the Ministry, and its just an annual dance they do every year. You have to wear dress robes, and you have to do your hair all nice and stuff. And its really cool at the beginning because James' dad does this big fire-works display to open it." Ava said, getting more and more excited by the minute.
"Yeah," James said looking sad, "except this year, Sirius' dad will open it."
"Oh yeah." Ava said, looking embarased.
"So," Elle said, changing the subject, "Lily, do you have any dress robes? And what are we going to do about the dating situation? There are three guys and three girls!"
"I'm going with Sirius!" Ava said grabbing Sirius' hand. He looked happy over the sudden display of protectiveness.
"Well then I am going with Remus," Elle stated. Remus' eyes grew huge as he nodded.
"Well then, James, do you want to go with me?" Lily asked James, while smiling as big as humanly possible.
"I would love to go to the ball with you Lady Lily." James said, smiling.
"Great!" Elle said, "Now, Lily, since you live with muggles and all, your gonna have to some stay with either Ava or I, so we can get you some dress robes before the Ball."
"Sounds great! I'm so excited!" Ava said, "Lily, you can stay at my house, my mom already asked me if I wanted to have you and Elle over, for a week or so."
"This summer is going to be great!"
As they walked off the train and said goodbye, Lily ran towards her sister and nearly knocked her over.
"Petunia!" she screamed, while dropping her things and running towards her older sister.
"Hey Lily," she said, intercepting her sister.
"I've missed you so much! Where are mum and dad?" Lily said, looking around.
"They are at home, and made me come get you." Petunia said.
They, made her come get me? I thought she liked to pick me up. Lily thought.
"Oh." Lily said, "So where is the car?"
"It's right over here." Petunia said walking away from her sister.
The car ride home was mostly silent except for Lily trying to start a conversation, and Petunia giving her a yes or no answer.
"Mum! Dad!" Lily yelled jumping out of the car and running towards her parents.
"How is our favorite little 12 year old?" they asked Lily.
"I'm great!" she replied while dragging her trunk towards the stairs.
"Miss Lily! I'm so glad you are home!" Henry, the Evans' butler, said walking towards Lily's trunk. He grabbed it and proceeded to drag it upstairs.
"Hullo Henry!"
"Lily, why don't you go and get washed up for dinner, and Petunia has someone for you to meet." Her mother said while walking her upstairs towards Lily's suite.
"Ok," Lily said while walking in her room. Lily loved her room. It had pale pink walls and white squishy carpet. The head of her gigantic bed was at the wall opposite her door. The bed had a down comforter, with a white duvet cover. On the duvet cover, little pink and purple lilies were stitched in. She had a window seat over looking the flower garden. The wall opposite her bed was covered in pictures of her friends at Hogwarts. She had done about half of it herself, and the rest of the pictures she had sent home since Christmas, Henry had put up. She was amazed how good it looked. On that wall also sat her desk and computer. She had a rubber ducky themed bathroom, and her closet adjacent to the bathroom held more clothes than she could count.
"Its good to be back to my own room!"
"Miss Lily, its time for dinner. Your mother has instructed me to tell you to wear a dress, seeing as though it is your first day back." Henry said, while closing Lily's door.
"Oooook? Why do I have to wear a dress, am I meeting someone?" she said out loud. She then heard her mothers words in her head, Petunia has someone for you to meet.'
"Oh yeah."
She picked out a jean skirt that went a few inches above her knees, and a dark blue one shouldered tank top, and ran down stairs.
As she was about to slide into her seat she noticed there was a man sitting there.
"Um, excuse me, but I think that the seat you're sitting in is my seat." She said, looking at the rather ugly large man in her seat.
"Well, go find another seat then, you little…"
"Ah, Lily, I see you have met Petunias boyfriend!" Lily's dad said while bringing in the turkey.
"He is in my seat!"
"Lily! Just go sit at the counter or something, don't be such a brat!" Petunia said, while bringing in the lemonade pitcher.
"What!?" Lily said looking at her parents, but they didn't say anything. The doorbell then rang, "I guess I will just go get that." She walked through the house to they foyer, and opened one of their huge doors.
"Lils! I haven't seen you since last year!" Janet said.
"Janet! Oh my gosh!" Lily said, "Hey, what is going on with Petunia? She's being really mean! And what is with that, THING, that is her boyfriend?"
"Here, lets go into your room so they can't hear us."
Janet was Petunias best friend, and would know if anything was going on.
"Well, Vernon and her started going out right after you left for your school. (A/N: Janet also knows about Lily being a witch.) Well, he is really abusive to everyone, like, verbally. And she is starting to act like it too. I don't know what's going on Lily! She is a totally different person! My advice, is to just stay away from her, from the both of them."
"What?" Lily breathed. Stay away from Petunia? She was my best friend, how can I just not be her friend anymore? She is still my sister. Janet's wrong. Lily then just nodded her head and pretended to agree with Janet. She doesn't know what she's talking about!
"Lily!" her mother yelled up the stairs, "Are you going to eat with us?"
"Yes mum, were coming right down."
Once they were down the stairs, Lily sat at the counter and listened in on the conversation of her family. Janet had left, once she gave Petunia something, though Lily was not quite sure what it was. Lily decided to get more dessert, but stopped at the kitchen door when she heard yelling within.
"Leave Lily out of this!" Petunia screamed.
"Petunia! You know she is a bad person! Why else would she be a witch? I don't like her, and I know you don't like her either. Agree with me you stupid girl!"
"Yes, Vernon, she is a bad person. I hate her." Petunia said, truthfully. "I've hated her since the day she got that stupid letter! And mum and dad were so HAPPY to have a witch in the family. We, you and I Vernon, are the only ones that see her for the filth she is. I hate her. You know what, I have no sister."
Lily walked away from the kitchen door and walked through many rooms, and out the front door. She continued walking at a steady pace with an un-expressive look on her face. She then sat on the sidewalk and started to cry. She must have been sitting there for hours when it grew dark and started to rain.
"Hey, you!" someone yelled from behind her, but she couldn't hear them because it was raining to hard.
"Oh my gosh, Lily! What are you doing out here?" one of the boys asked.
She looked up and saw James and Sirius standing there, brooms in hand.
"Oh," she said between sobs, "hi guys."
"Lily!" James said, kneeling down, "What's wrong? "
"No-noth-nothing! I'm fine, just leave me a-alone!"
"Ok," James said while lifting her up and carrying her inside.
"Sirius, James, who is this rather wet child!" a man in a suit asked.
"She's our friend, Lily Evans, and Jeffrey?" Sirius said to the man, "Can you bring her a robe and some hot chocolate. Make that three robes and three hot chocolates?"
"Yes Sirius," the butler said.
Once they were all settled in the parlor, James and Sirius prodded Lily for information on why she was trying to drown herself outside.
"Why were you sitting in front of my house, crying?"
"I didn't know this was your house, Sirius. I live only three houses down. But I don't want to talk about it. Can I go home now?"
"NO!" both boys said in unison.
"Lily, your not leaving until you tell us why you were crying." James said.
"Fine! You know my sister, Petunia, well I just found out she hates me."
"Well, my sister Bella hates me? I don't cry though. I think its kinda funny!" Sirius said.
"You don't get it! We were best friends! She was my idol! And now she all of a sudden hates me! I mean, I don't know what I did!" tears started to well up in her eyes. "She was my best friend! I loved her! I don't understand why she hates me!"
Lily put her head in her hands and started to cry harder than before. James and Sirius looked at each other with wide eyes.
"It's ok Lily," James said, putting his arm around her and pulling her towards him. Sirius watched this and smiled.
A few weeks after the Petunia incident, Lily received an owl from Ava.
Lily,
Hey girl! Wuz up!? Sorry for the lingo, I've been in America for two weeks. It was great! Yeah, but to the point of this letter… My mother said that if you would like to come stay at my house starting August 1st, you can. Elle is also invited, I owled her too, and I should be receiving the reply anytime now. We would go to Sirius' the 28th, and stay there for the ball and to head back to school from his house also. How has your summer vacation been so far? Well I better get going seeing as though mum needs me to help her clean the kitchen. I absolutely despise cleaning, but you've got to do what you've got to do! Bye!
Love,
Ava
Ava,
My summer has been just fine, with the exception of having to live next to James and Sirius! They are clinically insane! But mum said that it would be fine if I stayed with you in August. Well, I must be quick, because James and Sirius are coming over any minute, we are going to go play quidditch in Sirius' pitch! Bye!
Love,
Lily
Miss Avienna!
Sirius and James here, wondering how your summer has been. We have taken over Lily's letter, and now she is threatening to kill us. Temper temper! Ok, well I guess Lily is making us go now, so we will see you soon! Adios!
Sirius and James
AVA!
Sorry about that, they are insane, I'm telling you, INSANE! Ok, bye!
"Ok guys, what are we gonna do?" Lily said, putting the letter in an envelope and handing it to Orion, Ava's bird.
"Well, we figured we'd practice our quidditch moves. You can come if you want."
"James, you know I'm really bad! I have no chance with Sirius hitting bludgers at me all the time, and you always catch the snitch before I do!"
"She's right James, she has no chance against us. It's sad really." Sirius said, nodding his head.
"Well then, you can just watch us practice." James suggested.
"Oh, can I James, please! I really want to!" Lily said sarcastically.
"Well than what can we do?" Sirius whined.
"Um…" They sat and thought a while when Lily thought of something brilliant.
"Lets go to the go-kart track!"
"The what?" James asked, while picking up muggle items in Lily's room.
"Its like a road, and you get to drive little muggle cars." Lily said.
"Don't you have to have an ED to drive muggle cars?"
"A what?"
"You know, a lifense?" Sirius said seriously. (A/N: lol)
"A license? An I.D.?" Lily said smiling, "Was that what you meant?"
"Yeah, that's I said."
"So do you guys want to? Anything is better than sitting in my room." Lily said looking at James who was playing with the blow dryer.
"I don't know Lily, some of this stuff is pretty interesting…. Ah!" he had just managed to turn the blow dryer on and it blew hot air right in his face.
"AH!! How do you get this off?!" Sirius went over to try to help his friend but ended up getting blasted by it also. All of a sudden, the phone started ringing very loudly and the two boys were screaming bloody murder at the 'little screaming device.'
"Get it to stop Lily! Please, turn it off!" the boys pleaded.
Lily unplugged the blow dryer, helped them get untangled from the cord. By then the phone had stopped 'screaming.'
"So do you guys want to go now?" Lily asked the two frightened 12 year olds.
"YES!" they both said quickly, eyeing the blow dryer cautiously.
Once they arrived at the go-kart place, Lily paid for them and they got into their cars.
"So Lily, um, how do these things work?" Sirius asked, while being strapped in.
"To go fast, press the pedal on the right, to stop, press the pedal on the left. To go right or left, turn the big circle in front of you, got it?"
"Uh, ok?" Sirius said, unsure. He leaned towards James and asked, "What's a pedal?"
James shrugged, "I don't know!"
"Ok," A man in the front with a flag said, "ready, set, go!!!"
Lily took off, but Sirius and James just sat, trying to figure out what a 'pedal' was.
"I thought it was a part of a flower?" James said.
"Me too!" Sirius answered.
"Just push these thingies down at the bottom………" James said while taking off. Soon followed by Sirius.
"Hey Sirius!" James yelled to his friend. "Do you remember how to steer? I'm heading into that wall!"
"Twist the circle!" Sirius said as he turned, but James still was going straight. He was playing with his 'circle' when Lily came up beside him.
"Lily, my circle-y thing isn't working!" he screamed, getting closer and closer to the wall.
"Use your brake then!"
"My what?"
"Your, CRASH!" Lily didn't finish fast enough. James had just smashed into the wall.
"Oh my gosh! James!" Lily said, getting out of her cart. Behind her, Sirius was going in circles over and over again.
"I, think, I'm, gonna, be, SICK!!!" Sirius said, still spinning round and round.
"What happened?" James said, standing up and weaving towards Lily.
"Um, I will explain once we get home."
"What is Sirius doing?" James said, pointing towards his best friend. Lily looked over and saw Sirius, who had managed to unbuckle himself, standing in his go-kart that was still going in circles, around and around.
"Oh my…" she said, while her mouth hung open.
"I'm, gonna, jump!" Sirius screamed while being rocketed out of the go-kart.
Thud.
"Sirius!" Lily yelled while running towards a heap on the ground, "are you ok?"
"Yeah, lets get out of here, they don't seem to happy with us," he said while brushing himself off.
The three then ran out of the door and walked back to Lily's.
A/N: You know, when I first started writing this story, I thought, I'm not gonna be one of those authors that says, "Please Review!" and I'm not. Hint hint. We will just leave it at that…
Sorry for taking so long w/ this chapter, I had a lot of family obligations and stuff. Expect the next chapter by… the 11th? Sorry, but I have a lot of homework over vacation. Homework that I haven't done yet… Ok, Hope you enjoy, and email me if you have any questions.
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