All My Life
*~* Makeovers, and Muggle Madness *~*
"Lily! How nice to see you again!" Lana Black said as Lily stepped gracefully out of the fireplace.
"Oh, Mrs. Black! I haven't been here in weeks! I've missed everyone so much!"
"We've missed you too Lily." Lana said as Ava fell out of the fireplace.
"Bloody hell!" She yelled, and as the words escaped her mouth, her eyes fell upon Lana Black.
"Hello, I don't believe we've met, I'm Sirius's mother, Lana Black." She said coolly, extending a hand to the thoroughly embarrassed Ava.
"Hullo, I'm Ava Graham." She said, getting up while Elle walked in.
"How do you do that?" Ava asked, turning her attention away from Lana.
"William and Bella's daughter? I haven't seen you since you were a baby!" Lana said, looking at Ava.
"Oh, well then it's nice to see you again, I'm sorry if I don't remember you," Ava said, smiling.
"Oh that's quite all right, and who may I ask is this?" She inquired, gesturing towards Elle.
"Isabelle Jacobs, but everyone calls me Elle." She said shaking Lana's hand.
"Well I am Lana Black and everyone calls me Lana, so I insist you girls do as well."
"Ok." They said in unison.
"Hey girls!" Sirius said as him and James came bounding in the room, muddy from practicing quidditch.
"Boys! Get up stairs and shower before you track all your mud through out my house! Go!" She yelled, pointing to the stairs.
"Yes, ma'am." They both answered, while trudging up to the bathrooms.
"So girls, I will introduce you to the rest of the family, and then, as I understand you were going to head down to get your hair done and such? Well, there is a lovely place down the corner that would be just a short walk. Oh! Here are my lovely twin daughters right now."
"Hello." They said in unison. The girls both were about 7 and had long curly black hair, and were very cute.
"Girls introduce yourselves." Lana said.
"Well I am Ava…"
"She meant us." One of the twins remarked, raising an eyebrow at her twin and whispering, "I told you they were stupid, they hang around with Sirius."
"Eh em…" Lily said.
"Lily!" both girls screamed, realizing that she was there.
"Hello girls. Elle, Ava, this is Cadence, and Macayle." Lily said, hugging the two girls.
"Nice to meet you girls," Elle and Ava said.
"Oh, hello!" A girl about Rhyce's age said as she walked in the room.
"Oh, girls this is Callista, my eldest, who is here for a few weeks. She graduated from Hogwarts 2 years ago and is now living in Hawaii." Lana said.
"Hello Callista," the girls said while shaking her hand.
"Please, call me Callie." She said with a smile. She looked a lot like the twins, but much darker. She was tall and had long black hair, which was straight, not curly, and was wearing a pink sundress.
"So you girls are going to get your hair and nails done, right?" Callie asked.
"Yeah, we figured, heck we're going to a ball! Why not go all out." Elle said grinning.
"Well, would you mind if I tagged along?" She asked hopefully.
"Not at all!" Ava answered, "but we better be going, I want to get out of here before the boys get back, lets let them be surprised."
"Sounds good!" Lily said, while walking out the door.
"Where are you going!?" A girl yelled while she ran down the stairs.
"Nowhere Bella, mind your own business!" Callie said while ushering the girls out of the enormous front door and shutting it quickly behind her.
"Who was that?" Ava asked.
"Bella." Lily and Callie answered.
"And she would be…"
"My annoying little sister, who is Miss Gossip Queen, and to top it all off, the biggest snob you will ever meet. I feel ashamed being related to her."
"Well put." Lily said nodding.
"Ah, I see. Ok, well our appointments are at 12, so we best be getting a move on." Elle said, while hopping down the steps leading up to the Black Manor.
"Ah, Leelee, we meet again!" a man dressed in black leather said from behind the group of girls.
"Oh lord," Lily breathed as she spun around, "Fabian, so lovely to see you again, hope your doing well."
"Oh yes, I am, and I see you have kept up your hair? Though it has gotten long, no?"
"Yeah, well, it tends to do that you know."
"Yes, well, I think I will keep it this length, but I am going to do something different with the color of your hair."
"And that would be…?" Lily asked, looking at Fabian with fear in her eyes.
"I'm going to do low lights, weech is all the rage in Paris!"
"Low lights?"
"Yes, I am going to do the same thing I did last year, but I am going to do it with bigger pieces, and with a different color. I was thinking a rich, burgundy shade. It will make you look tan, but also it will give you a more mature, exotic look."
"Well, I guess that would be ok..." but even before she had finished, Fabian was already painting away at her long red hair.
"Hello, my name is Zoë and I will be doing your hair today." A woman with purple hair and a nose ring said to Ava.
Oh lord! If her hair is terrible, how is mine going to turn out!? She thought. (A/N: Don't you hate it when that happens?)
"Ok?!" Ava said, as the girl started foiling her hair. Ava just shut her eyes.
"Hi! I'm Elle!" Elle said towards the person who was walking towards her.
"Hello, I'm Christie, your stylist. Is there anything you want specifically today?"
"Nope. Do whatever you want, I give you full control." She said, smiling.
"I love to hear that!"
As the stylists were finishing up, Callie wandered around greeting all the girls.
"Oh my goodness! Callie! You look fantastic!" Lily said, while Fabian was taking out the foil.
"I know! I love it!" Callie said, touching her hair. She had opted to not have it dyed, but to have it all chopped off, to make wigs for little kids with cancer, or no hair. Her hair was REALLY short. (A/N: Think Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama.)
Once Callie had talked to Lily, she went to the manicure section and got her nails done, as did the rest of the girls. Now it was for the unveiling of the three best friends to each other.
"Oh my god!" They said collectively, while running up and giving each other hugs.
Lily's hair was just as Fabian said it would be. Long layers, the shortest at her shoulders, and it was dark and medium shades of red. She had acrylic nails put on with a french manicure. (All the girls had acrylics put on.)
Ava's hair was almost as long as Lily's but had short layers, and the shortest was about to her shoulder blades. The color was her natural color, and since it was so blonde already, the colorist just put a platinum blonde in it, to make it have 'depth.'
Elle had her dark brown hair capped with a golden brown, giving it a sandy sort of color. It was about two inches past her shoulders and was flipped out.
"We look hot!" Elle said as she grabbed her friends (and Callie) and walked out the door.
"Till next year Leelee!" Fabian called, and Lily waved behind her.
"So where did you say the girls went?" Sirius asked his mom right before he shoved a cookie in his mouth.
"They went to the salon to get their hair and nails done! That is the fifth time I've told you that!" Lana said with an exasperated tone.
"Right, right. I knew that."
"Uh huh." Remus said. He had just arrived about an hour earlier. His 'aunt was sick' so he couldn't come any earlier.
"When do you think they'll be back?" James asked for the umpteenth time.
"I dunno." Sirius answered for the umpteenth time.
"What if they look really bad, and, we are embarrassed to take them to the ball?" Sirius asked wide-eyed.
"I'd never thought of that," James said, getting a little panicky.
"Well, I suppose if we did look that bad, we wouldn't want to go to the ball ourselves now, wouldn't we?" Ava's voice said as the boys spun around
"Oh, wow." The boys said collectively. There mouths dropped open.
"Oh girls, you really do look lovely, and boys! Don't gawk at them as if they are some exhibit at those muggle animal cages! Do be gentleman and sit up straight! Maybe throw out a complement here and there? Honestly!" Lana said while walking through the kitchen into the parlor.
"I think she meant a zoo." Lily said nodding.
"What?" Ava said shaking her head.
"You know, a muggle animal cage, I think she meant a zoo." Lily said.
"Whatever." Ava retorted.
"So boys are we too ugly to take to the ball? Or can we accompany you with a paper bag on our heads, would that make it all right?" Elle asked.
"Oh, no, no. I'd say you look fine…" James started.
"Nope, nope, you look brilliant, honestly. No, no paper bags would not be needed…" Remus added.
"I'd say you could get by with one of those kinda see-through plastic ones at muggle markets. That should do it." Sirius said honestly.
"Sirius!" The girls and boys said at the same time.
"What? I was just kidding! Geez, don't get your panties in a wad there guys."
"Ugh. We'll we are going to go get ready for dinner, if anyone needs us we will be in my room." Lily said looking at the boys.
"Yes ma'am!" Sirius said sarcastically.
"Honestly man!" Remus said.
"What!? Not you too Remus!" Sirius asked.
"You are such a prick sometimes, honestly."
"You know," Sirius said, "I would normally take that as a complement. But somehow right now, by calling me a prick I do not think you are meaning that my wit is as sharp as a needle."
James just looked at him bewildered.
"You would be right on that one, Sirius my boy." Remus said laughing.
"Boys! Come down for dinner!" Lana yelled as the three boys ran down stairs.
"What's for dinner Pierre?" Sirius asked as he slid into his seat.
"Well, we have some pizza." Pierre said with a straight face.
"Pizza? What about your fancy French orange duck?" Sirius asked, " And wait a minute, I thought that you're a French culinary… something!? You can whip up some of the best food there is, and we are expected to eat pizza?"
"Do you not like pizza, Sir?" Pierre asked Sirius.
"No, I love pizza. I was just making sure I knew what was going on."
"Oh, ok Sir, the pizza should be served in a few moments."
"Sounds great!" Sirius said, while closing his eyes, putting his hands behind head, and leaning his chair back on two legs. "Ah, pizza. I love thee!"
"SIRIUS!" James yelled.
CRASH!
"What!?" He screamed from the floor.
"Pizzas here."
"Thanks for the heads up, James." He said, sounding rather annoyed, as he sat his chair up right, and sat down in it. The pizza was set down on the table just as the girls ran to their seats, giggling.
"What are you three on about now?" Remus asked, while grabbing a piece of pizza.
"Nothing!" They said quickly. Too quickly for Sirius's comfort.
"I will find out. Don't you worry about that." He said, while James and Remus nodded their heads.
"Oook, Sirius, whatever." Lily said, and then started to giggle again.
"What is taking them so long!!!???" Sirius asked, loosening his bow tie.
"These muggle tuxes are SO uncomfortable!" James whined.
"Amen to that." Remus agreed.
The three boys were waiting at the bottom of the stairs for the girls. And, the girls were taking there own sweet time getting ready.
"Ooo! Here comes one!" Sirius shouted, getting excited.
"Oh, its just Callie." James said, sounding disappointed.
"Thanks a lot James!" Callie answered him, laughing.
"Well, no offense or anything, I was just hoping to see Lil… the girls. Yup just me hoping to see the girls."
"Yeah, ok James. Oh, here comes Ava!" Callie said, pointing up the stairs.
"Ava, you look beautiful!" Sirius said smiling. He then handed her a rose.
"Why thank-you Sirius, you look very handsome yourself."
"That was the look I was going for," he said nodding, and then leading her down to the first floor landing.
"Whoa Remus, Elle looks hot tonight!" James whispered towards Remus.
Remus didn't take his gaze off of Elle and said, "Yeah she does."
"Hello Remus you are looking very, very good this fine evening," Elle said as she took the rose from Remus, and then took his outstretched hand.
"You look amazing yourself, Elle." He said as he led her down to where Ava and Sirius were chatting.
"Lily," James breathed as he saw her descend the staircase.
Oh my goodness. I have never seen her look better. She is gorgeous!
"Hello James, you are looking wonderful tonight!" She said smiling.
"Thank you. And you are easily going to be the prettiest girl at the ball."
She looked up at him, as he handed her the rose, and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you!"
"Sirius!" James said as he grabbed his best friend.
"Yes, Master James? What is it that I can do for you?"
James nodded towards the center of the dance floor.
"What? Oh, is she still dancing with him?" Sirius asked, referring to Lily, who was dancing her 18th dance with a certain Rhyce Graham.
"Yeah, I haven't danced with her once since we got here!"
"Come sit down with the rest of us, take your mind off the Scarlet Woman over there." Sirius said, laughing at the joke he made.
"Hey James," Ava said as he sat at the table with her, Sirius, Remus and Elle.
"Where's Lily?" Elle asked, as Sirius pointed her out, dancing away with Rhyce.
"Who is that she's dancing with?" Ava asked, squinting to see, "Is that my brother!?"
"The one and only." James sighed putting his head in his hands.
"You really like her, don't you James?" Remus asked, leaning towards his friend.
"Yeah, but as soon as I get her to go to a ball with me, or notice me, she runs off with some seventeen year old? How am I supposed to compete with that? He's an adult. And I'm 12! Well, almost 13, but still!"
"Its ok James, my brother is a loser. Just think of him, going after a 12 year old? How pathetic! And its one of my best friends too! This really makes me sick! And mad!" Ava said rather loudly.
"Ava, calm down!" Elle told her friend.
"Calm down? Oh, no, I'm gonna go over there and give them a piece of my mind!"
"No Ava, don't. They will just think I put you up to it. Just leave it alone." James said getting more and more depressed as the minutes ticked by.
"I think I'm gonna go outside, walk around for a while." James said, while getting up.
"Ok James, be back soon!" Ava said, and then turned around to look at her brother and Lily.
"Where is James going?" Lily asked herself aloud.
"I don't know," Rhyce said as he spun her around.
"I'm gonna go find out," Lily said, slithering out of Rhyce's grasp.
"What?" Rhyce asked, standing there alone.
"I'll be right back." She said as she walked towards the door.
"James!" Lily called, running after him. But, he just kept walking.
"James! Stop walking so bloody fast! I can't keep up with these shoes on!"
"Why should I wait for you!?" He spat as he whipped around
"Well," she thought, "why not?"
"Its not like you even noticed I was here, except for the annoying little detail that I'm your date! You have danced with Ava's older brother the whole time! Ava's not to happy with that prospect, come to think about it, neither am I! I don't really care that you dance with other people, but the ball is almost over and you have yet to acknowledge me! Just, don't talk to me, I need to be alone."
Lily just stood there as James stalked off into the night, dumbfounded. Never before had someone yelled at her like that. Not that she hadn't been yelled at before, but she didn't even get a chance to argue. Which was odd, because that's what she does best. Usually she would be mad, but he was right. She was a jerk in there. She noticed a bench near by, and at down on it. She must have been sitting there for 25 minutes, when she heard James voice.
"Why are you still out here?" He asked, coming from behind her. Lily jumped.
"Are you gonna talk, or are you pissed at me because I yelled at you?" James asked, sitting down next to her.
"No, I just feel like a real bitch." She said honestly.
"I shouldn't have yelled at you, but I was just really frustrated, and jealous." James said, then his eyes had widened, he hadn't meant to say jealous.
"Jealous?" Lily asked, smiling.
"Um, no I didn't mean jealous," he said, trying to think of something else to say.
"Well, I'm really sorry that I was a jerk in there, I didn't mean to be. I just hope you're not mad at me?" She asked looking at James.
"James?" Lily said when he didn't answer her, "Are you really that mad, I mean because…"
"Shhh!" He said, covering her mouth.
"What?"
"I have a weird feeling."
"What do you mean you have a 'weird feeling'?"
"I think something bad is gonna happen, come on, lets go inside." He said as he grabbed her hand and took her inside. When they were about half way inside, they heard some screams and some glass breaking.
"Oh my god, James, what's happening in there?" Lily asked, gripping his hand.
"I just hope it's not what I think it is." He said, the words getting caught in his throat. He knew what was happening. He just hoped he was wrong.
"Oh lord." Lily breathed. The scene before her was horrible.
There were bodies everywhere, and broken chairs and tables strewn about.
"Lily! James!" They heard Ava yelled from behind them. Lily and James whipped around and saw all their friends and families standing there.
"We thought you two were dead!" Ava said as her and Elle ran towards them, tears streaming down their faces. Just as Ava was about to reach James to give him a hug, she tripped. As James was helping her up, Lily looked at what Ava tripped over.
"Oh my god!" Lily screamed, as Ava looked behind her to see what she tripped on.
"Rhyce!" She screamed and started bawling, as she dropped to the floor next to her dead brother.
James looked at Rhyce's face as Lily came towards him and cried into his chest. As he held Lily, he couldn't believe that he had not been there to save Rhyce.
It's all my fault.
Woo, I'm just whipping out these chapters, aren't I? Geez! Ok, sorry that I killed off Rhyce, but you should be happy, because I was going to kill off Ava. But, I decided not to. Ok, well I already know what is going to happen second year. Well, actually, I know what's going to happen up to 5th year, but I don't know what to do with the summers. Expect the next chapter out by… the 8th? I think that's pretty reasonable. I think 2nd year will be 2 chapters, but they will be pretty long. Ok, well email me if you need to, and please review, and tell me what I'm doing wrong (or right.) Ok, love you all, and have fun at school tomorrow, adios!