All My Life
*~* Ava's Humble Abode *~*
"Ahhh!!!!!!!!" Lily heard Petunia scream as she was checking her trunk one last time. She was just about to leave for Ava's, and had to make sure she had everything she needed.
"What is she going on about now?" Lily thought out loud as she ran down the stairs. She then saw what Petunia was screaming about.
"Lily! Get your freakish people out of our fireplace!"
"Ava! What is your head doing? In my fireplace that is." Lily asked, scratching her head. She was a witch and all. A lot of people could conclude that being in a witch in its entirety is a little odd. But heads in fireplaces is REALLY weird.
"Well, we were just going to floo over there, but mum said that might not be to smart, seeing as though you live muggles and all, and they tend to get a bit jumpy. So, I figured that if I just called you over the fireplace, no one would get scared. Misjudged that one a bit, didn't I?" She explained, jesturing towards Petunia.
"Floo?" Lily said mulling the term over and over in her head.
"Yes," Ava said, "the way magic folk transport themselves through fireplaces… Don't tell me you've never heard of it?"
"Well… no, I am still relatively new to this whole magic thing."
"Well move over then!"
No sooner did Ava bark those orders, did she come tumbling out of the fireplace. Petunia, who was standing idly by watching, was sent onto hysterics.
"Ugh. You think that I would be able to land on my feet by now, blasted rug. It tripped me, did you see it?" Ava said seriously.
"Well come one now Lily, just don't stand there like a fool, lets get your trunk and leave! I don't want Elle there with just my family. What a scary prospect that would be!"
"Ok, my trunk is on the stairs, I got distracted when your HEAD came poking out of the fireplace."
"Yeah, yeah."
Once they had gotten Lily's trunk and other nesisities, they arrived safely at Ava's house. If you could call it a house. Lily thought of it as a small city. As they were going up the second flight of stairs, Lily finally spoke.
"So. Ava. How do you navigate through this house? Its like Hogwarts!"
"Oh, well its rather simple once you get used to it I suppose."
"Oh wow." Lily said as they entered a room. It was yellow, a light yellow, with white stars sponged on. The bed was white, but had a few yellow star pillows. The whole room was themed this way, as was the bathroom.
"Ok Lily, this is your room, my room is across the hall, and Elle's is next door. Her room is the same as yours, but light blue with white moons. Make yourself comfortable Lil, because this is your room."
"What do you mean, my room?"
"Look on the door, silly."
As Lily looked at the door she gasped. In intricate cursive carved letters, it said, 'Lily', as did Elle's and Ava's.
"Wow, thank-you!"
"Don't worry, if we turn out hating each other, Pierre will just put on another door." Ava said seriously.
"Oh, well…" Lily searched around for an answer.
"I'm just joking with you Lily, don't get scared!" Ava said laughing, standing in the doorway of her own room, "I will just let you unpack, and I will go get Elle."
"Ok!"
After Lily unpacked she started looking around her room. After a moment, someone knocked on the door.
"Come in!"
"Oh, hello Lily, I just wanted to tell you to get ready because I'm taking you girls shopping for a dress for the ball," said the women. Lily looked at her and realized that she looked much like Ava, but very mature and pretty.
"Um, ok, but may I ask you something, um, who are you?" Lily said, turning a little red from embarrassment.
"Oh! I'm sorry for not introducing myself!" the women said walking further into the room and out stretching her hand. "I'm Ava's eldest sister, Grace."
"Oh," Lily said, taking the hand, "lovely to have met you! If I may ask, how many siblings does Ava have?"
"Well, there is me, I'm 19. Rhyce is 17, and then Ava. Oh, and there's McKennon, he's 3."
"Oh, ok."
"Ok, Lily, but you do need to get ready, we are going to a muggle store, so be prepared." Grace said smiling.
"Oh ok, well, my parents are muggles, so I'm used to them."
"Oh, good! Well, it will be me, you, Elle, Rhyce and McKennon."
"Why are we going to a muggle store?" Lily asked.
"Well, I guess this year, the Ministry is stressing Muggle/Magic relations. The theme I think is Muggle Madness! Its insane, I know, but this all means that we have to wear muggle formal wear."
"Oh good! I love muggle formal wear, it's so beautiful."
"That's reassuring to hear," Elle said, walking in Lily's room.
"Elle!" Lily said, running up and hugging her friend.
"Lily! It's so good to see you!"
Once Lily and Elle had said their hellos, the girls got changed and then flooed to the Leaky Cauldron, and headed out into muggle London.
(A/N: Ok, for these dresses, lol, I actually went to a few websites to find the perfect dress. Now, since they are 12, I couldn't pick anything to grown up. And that was REALLY hard, and I don't think I did to well… but at the end of this chapter I will leave URL addresses for the dresses. One problem though, I couldn't find Lily a dress I wanted… So I just picked a dress that I thought could be cute. Tell me what you think of the dresses, I wanted them to fit their styles. Jeese now I'm talking about them like they really exist… LOL! Ok, but yeah, so write me an email or something on what you think, adios!)
While Grace took the girls to a formal wear store, Rhyce took McKennon to a tuxedo shop.
"Hey Lily," Rhyce said before he headed off, "I will come get you before we buy the tuxes to help me with paying for them. Is that ok?"
"Yeah, that's fine!" Lily said, trying not to smile too much.
"Ok, thanks so much Lil," he said, and then gave her a hug.
"Oh my God!" Elle said coming up behind Lily, "He is soooo hot! If I was Ava, I'd be worried that we were using her for her brother!"
"Who says we aren't?" Lily said seriously. Elle just looked at her.
"I'm just kidding!" Lily said laughing hysterically at the look on Elle's face.
"Oh, ok, I was scared there for a minute."
"Guys, come on!" Ava yelled from up the street.
As they entered the store, each girl was bombarded with sales people.
"Hello Mademoiselle, may I help you find anything today?" the sales clerk asked Ava.
"Yes actually, you can! Ok, so I was thinking that I wanted a black dress, frilly-ish at bottom. But, I don't really want the bottom to go all the way to the floor. I want it, how shall I put it… Fluttery. That is how I want my dress, fluttery. Did you get all that?" Ava ordered as if she was at McDonalds.
"Mademoiselle, I think I have the perfect dress for you!" the sales clerk went into a room and came back with a perfect dress. It was black, and the bottom was in a 'V' shape. The neckline was an "x" with a diamond accent. When Ava put it on, her tan skin and blonde hair contrasted beautifully. The dress wasn't to grown up, but not little kiddish at all. It was perfect.
"I love it." Ava said to the clerk, while walking back into her fitting room and putting her other clothes back on.
"I will wrap it up for you, Mademoiselle." The clerk said while taking the dress.
Mean while, in the other part of the store, Elle was looking through the racks.
"May I help you?" a clerk asked her.
"Well…" she said, "I suppose, but I don't really know what I'm looking for!"
"Ah, well what is your style, would you say?"
"Fun, a little out of the ordinary, and pretty versatile, and probably… a little more 'mature' than my friends." Elle said smiling. (A/N: HA! That means she's a slut! No just kidding.) "I'm pretty much up for anything."
"Well, you are a brunette, and brunettes normally look fantastic in any color," the clerk said as she looked at Elle. (A/N: I'm a brunette, can you tell?)
"How about," Elle grinned, "you bring me some dresses to try on?"
"Yes, I think that would be fine," the woman said while ushering Elle into a dressing room with 4 dresses.
Ava looked through the 4, and two she just refused to wear. But a fucshia dress caught her eye. When she put it on she knew she had to have it. "Madame, can you wrap this dress up, I will be buying it."
"But you've only tried one on, how could you possibly have already decided?" the clerk asked through the door, but as Elle walked out, she couldn't find words to speak.
"What? You don't like it?" Elle asked, getting worried.
"No darling, I don't think you need to try any more on. That dress, was made for you."
"Thank you!" Elle said smiling and twirling in the mirror. Remus will love this dress! She thought.
Elsewhere, Lily was driving her clerk absolutly up the wall.
"But Mademoiselle, that looks fantastic!" He said looking at her.
"I don't like it, it's the wrong shade, the tint is all wrong." She said, wrinkling her nose.
"But its black?!" he said, looking bewildered.
"Well what is that suppose to mean?" she said, looking at him dead in the eye.
"You have tried on over 30 dresses Mademoiselle!"
"So, I will try on thirty more until I find the PERFECT one!" She said with her teeth clenched.
The clerk threw up his hands in defeat, "Fine! I hate this job! I hate this place! And I especially hate you! I QUIT!"
Lily watched him run out the door, and muttered under her breath, "Take a Prozac honey, you ain't seen nothin yet."
She looked around the store, and looked out of the front window at the people that were passing by. She then looked at the mannequin in the display case.
"Oh my goodness," she breathed, "that is my dress!"
Lily ran over to the window and snatched it from the display. With the mannequin under her arm she marched back to the dressing room to try the dress on. Earning odd looks from other patrons, she closed the door.
"Yes, hello," she said smiling at the on looking customers, "hello."
The dress was perfect on her. It was neurotic and bossy, yet very classy. This dress was Lily.
"Ok girls, are we ready to go now?" Grace asked, holding her dress.
"Yes!" They chorused.
Lily was just finishing up paying for hers, "Oh! I have to go help Rhyce and McKennon!" She tried to look depressed at this prospect, but, she could hardly hide her smile.
"Oh, Lily, I will help you, uh…" Elle said trying to find an excuse to go with Lily, "cross the street! Yes, I will make sure you get safely to your destination. Ava, how about you and Grace head down to a restaurant of some sort and we will meet you there! Tah tah!" Elle finished when she was half way down the street, clutching Lily's arm and dragging her with her.
"What was that about?" Ava asked.
"I will give you two clues," Grace smiled, "it starts with 'R' and ends with 'ice,' any ideas?"
"Oh." Ava said nodding. "Oh, eww! They like Rhyce? Ugh!" She said, finally understanding the weight of Grace's words.
"Lily! Elle!" Rhyce said, "Over here!"
"Oh my god!" Elle whispered to Lily, "He is so hot! Look at him in that muggle tux!" (A/N: Elle knows a lot about muggles because she reads teen magazines and stuff.)
"Oh I know!"
"Ok, girls, jacket or no jacket?" Rhyce said taking the jacket off, and showing them his vest.
"Um…" Lily said looking him up and down.
"Take the jacket, but you can take it off at any time," Elle said, then leaning over to Lily she whispered, "Heck, I will show him to my room and he can take it all off there!"
"Amen to that!" Lily said out loud, earning a strange look from Rhyce.
"Amen to what?"
"Nothing!" Both girls said quickly.
"Ok…"
"Oh McKennon you look so handsome!" Lily said bending down towards the three year old.
"Thank you!" he said smiling up at her.
"Ok, well lets buy these, and we are meeting Grace and Ava at a restaurant." Elle said, rummaging through her purse for some gum.
"What restaurant?" Rhyce asked while taking out some muggle money. Elle and Lily looked at each other and shrugged.
"I think we forgot to figure that out!"
"Eh, don't worry, we can just floo home from the Leaky Cauldron, no big deal."
"Oh ok," Lily spoke, reassured by Rhyce.
Once they got out of the tux shop, they decided to have a drink in the Leaky Cauldron before heading back. An hour later they flooed into the Graham's living room.
As they were brushing there selves off, Ava came into the living room and looked up.
"Oh my god! Mum! Dad! Their here!"
Rhyce looked at Lily and then at Elle and back to Ava, "What?"
"Oh my goodness!" Mrs. Graham said, "I'm so glad you are all safe! We were so worried!"
"Why?" they all asked in unison.
"There was another attack," Mr. Graham said as he walked in, "and we didn't know where you were or if you were safe! I'm glad to see you all back here safe and sound!"
Lily had heard about the attacks from select people at Hogwarts. She wasn't clear on why Voldemort was attacking people, but she knew it wasn't good.
"Sorry for worrying you guys, we were just at the Leaky Cauldron, because we weren't sure where to meet Grace and Ava." Rhyce said, while taking McKennons tux. "I will just go put these away." As he walked away they noticed he stopped to talk to Ava for a minute. Lily couldn't distinguish what they were saying, but could tell Ava was crying.
Lily and Elle looked at each other, and then walked towards the two.
"Its ok Avie, I'm ok, I'm alive!" Rhyce said looking at Ava.
"I know, its just I was so scared!" Ava said as she reached up and hugged him. He picked her up and carried her up the stairs, Lily and Elle following closely behind.
The rest of the time at Ava's house passed rather quickly, and without anymore Voldemort scares. And before the girls knew it, it was time for the ball.
"Lily, wake up, its time to go to Sirius's!" Ava said excitedly in Lily's door way. "I'm gonna go wake up Elle now."
"Ugh… It's only 8:00! What is she thinking!" Lily said out loud.
"She thinking that you take so long to get that she needs to wake you up early so that you might actually be on time! Whoa! On time? What's that you say? GET OUT OF BED YOU LAZY GIRL!" Ava screamed and then slammed the door.
"Whoa, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed!"
"I HEARD THAT!" Ava said, popping her head in one last time.
"Yeah, yeah." Lily said while getting up and walking into the bathroom. She took a shower and then did her hair.
"Hey Ava!" Lily yelled, while curling her hair, "come here!"
"What?" Ava said as she walked in to Lily's bathroom.
"How about you, me and Elle go get our hair and nails and stuff done before we go to the ball. It can be like, a bonding experience! Plus, I've never had my nails done and I really want to!" Lilly said, getting excited.
"Lily! That is a perfect idea!" she said as she ran out Lily's bedroom door, "I'll go and tell mum right now!"
"What to wear, what to wear…" Lily said out loud while looking in her closet. She missed wearing muggle clothes at school, because, well the robes they had to wear were just plain ugly. She finally decided on her new pair of jeans, and her black halter top. She had curled her hair in ringlets, combed it through with her fingers and put it half up, half down. To top it off were some black flip flops and silver hoop earrings. She looked hot. (A/N: and she's twelve, oh lord.)
Rhyce walked by Lily's room, glanced in and saw Lily. He stopped dead in his tracks thinking, "Damn, she is hot for a second year!"
"Hey Rhyce," Lily said while adding some eyeliner.
"Oh, hey Lily," he said as he turned and walked back to his room.
"That was weird," she said aloud.
After the girls were finished getting ready and were through packing, they headed to the fireplace, and off to Sirius Black's house.
(A/N: Hullo my loyal fans. Haha, just kidding. Well I hope you all had a wonderful 2002, and an even better 2003, I know I will. Ok, well I said that I would give you the girls dresses, so…
Lily:
https://www.windsorfashions.com/catalog.cfm?method=product&product_id=00D2554F-36CF-4460-A92F48C9C9C4EDC9
Ava:
http://www.nydressco.com/detail.php?from=48&id=319
Elle:
http://www2.davidsprom.com/dresses_detail.jsp?stid=88&prodgroup=1&pid2=58
Grace: (don't know if you want this one, but it was a REALLY cute dress so I decided to put it in here anyway)
http://www.cassandrastone.com/exclusive-2003/big.asp?cat=EC0010
**If the links don't work or there is anything you need to say to me, leave it in the reviews or email me, I promise I will get back to you, my address is: elizabethcm@charter.net
Oh, and I have forgotten to put a disclaimer on so far, soooo, none of this belongs to me except the plot and a few characters.
Well I guess that is all, all of you have a wonderful day, and if you have any questions just ask. And I thank all of you that have reviewed, it really means a lot to me, adios!