All My Life
*~* Spring Fling *~*
** Island in the Sun **
Hip hip
Hip hip
Hip hip
Hip hip
When you're on a holiday
You can't find the words to say
All the things that come to you
And I wanna feel it too
On an island in the sun
We'll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain
Hip hip
Hip hip
When you're on a golden sea
You don't need no memory
Just a place to call your own
As we drift into the zone
On an island in the sun
We'll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain
We'll run away together
We'll spend some time forever
We'll never feel bad anymore
Hip hip
Hip hip
Hip hip
On an island in the sun
We'll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain
We'll run away together
We'll spend some time forever
We'll never feel bad anymore
Hip hip
Hip hip
We'll never feel bad anymore
No no
We'll never feel bad anymore
No no
No no
No no
** Weezer **
"God I miss Quidditch." James said flatly as he stared out onto the Quidditch pitch, where his old team was practicing.
"And believe me," Sirius said coming up from behind James, startling him, "it misses you. We suck without you James, honestly! Our back up seeker couldn't find the bloody snitch if it was trapped in his underpants!"
"I'm sure he's not that bad." James said. Though just as he uttered the words, the back-up seeker came hurtling towards the earth, James and Sirius diving out of the way. The seeker crashed into the ground and then stood up, un-scathed.
"Sorry mates, thought I saw the snitch." He explained as the snitch flew around his head. "Best be off now." He said as he mounted his broom and took off, the snitch still flittering about James and Sirius.
Sirius held his hand out, "See! I told you! He is horrible!" He then mounted his broom and took off, shaking his head.
"Well, nice to see I'm missed." James said laughing, and then headed up towards the common room, running his fingers through his hair.
"Hey baby," James said, kissing Lily on the cheek as he entered the common room. She was on a couch, doing her transfiguration homework.
"Hey," She said smiling at him. Things were great in paradise. Yet in other parts…
"I was not flirting with anyone Ava!" Sirius screamed as he barged in the common room. He had a little blonde girl running right after him screaming right back.
"You were to! I saw you and Amanda! Don't you deny it Sirius Black!" she screamed, jumping in front of him so he couldn't go anywhere. James, leaning over the couch with his arms around Lily, looked up, and then took a seat next to her. This was gonna be quite a show.
"Fine, Avienna," He said slowly pronouncing her full name, "what if I was? What are you going to do about it?"
"I'm gonna do this!" She said, slapping across the face, and then staring at her hand as if thinking, 'whoa, look what I did.'
"I can't believe you did that!" Sirius said, looking wide-eyed into her face.
"Well, I, uh…"
"You know it doesn't even matter. We're through. Too bad, you were cute. But Amanda's cuter." He finished, walking towards the boy's dorm.
Lily and James sat there; mouths open as Ava huffed into the girl's dorm.
"Well." James said, "I better go see if Sirius is ok."
"Yeah, I will go check on Ava, in a minute or two. Let her cool off." Lily said, glancing at the dorm door, "Maybe an hour or two…"
"Ok," James said hopping up the stairs, "see you in a few."
"I can't believe she slapped me!" Sirius said, clutching his cheek.
"Yeah I know," James said, trying not to laugh.
"I'm glad we're not going out anymore, though. I was beginning to feel a little tied down. I'm in my prime, I don't need a girl running around, barking at me for talking to a pretty girl. A very pretty girl…" Sirius rambled.
"Sirius. Just shut up man," James said shaking his head.
"Ava?" Lily asked quietly as she walked through the door.
"What?" Ava asked, from her bed.
"Are you gonna be alright?" Lily inquired.
"Yeah, I 'spose so. He was just a boy. I can do better." Ava said matter-of-factly.
"That's the spirit. I'm glad your ok." Lily replied, giving her friend a hug.
"Where's Elle?" Ava asked, looking about the room.
"I'm right here!" Elle said bursting in the room, her arms full of muggle shopping bags.
"What are you carrying?" Lily asked, being handed a full bag.
"You will never guess what is happening!" Elle said jumping up and down, the contents spilling from her bag.
"You have decided to buy a swimming suit store and your giving us all the merchandise?" Ava asked, holding up a swimsuit she plucked from her bag.
"No, but that would be cool too!" Elle said, pondering the thought.
"Then what is happening?" Lily asked, getting a little frustrated.
"Oh, yeah. Dumbledore is letting us have a week off in the spring, and he is turning the grounds into Hawaii!!! It's to get our minds off of Voldemort I suppose, but still, isn't that cool?!" Elle asked, holding a red bikini up to her body.
Lily and Ava looked at each other for a moment, then got up and started screaming and giggling and jumping about the room.
(A/N: Now you are probably thinking, how can Dumbledore turn the grounds into Hawaii? Well, it's on a need-to-know basis, and frankly, you don't really need to know. All you need to worry about is how to picture it. Pretend that the castle is the hotel, and the beach/ocean is all around it w/ jet-skis, speedboats, surfers, wake boarders. Yeah, I know, in that time, there was none of this, but lets just pretend that there was. And also, it's very muggle-ish, I'm really sorry about that; I will try to put some magic in there. And I might include urls of the swimsuits, I know I am pathetic, but hey, you don't have to look at them. I'm looking for a swimsuit any way, for Maui in April. I LOVE MAUI!! Ok, back to the story)
"What are they screaming about over there?" Remus asked as he walked in to the boys' dorm.
"Don't know, don't care." Sirius said, hunching over the broom he was polishing.
Remus gestured towards Sirius looking at James and then James answered knowingly, "They broke up."
"Oh." Remus nodded.
"So where were you when…" James started when all of a sudden; a very excited red head interrupted him.
"Oh my goodness guys, you'll never guess what's happening next week!?" she said, bursting in the room.
"Do you not know how to knock?" Sirius said rudely.
"Excuse me Sirius, would you like to say that again?" Lily said, hands on her hips, her eyes boring into him.
"No."
"Thought so," she said, shifting her gaze to James and Remus.
"Any ways…" James said, gesturing for Lily to finish.
"Oh, yeah. Well Dumbledore is giving us a week off, for spring break. And he is turning the grounds into Hawaii! So you boys better brush up on your beach volleyball, because we're gonna kick your butts." She said, and then turned to leave.
"Dream on, baby," James said, "we will kill you in bolleyball."
"Ok honey, whatever." She finished, walking out the door.
"Um, James," Sirius said from his bed.
"Yeah?"
"What's bolleyball?"
"I was hoping one of you knew." He said flatly, Remus and Sirius shrugging and then shook their heads.
"Damn."
"Jet-Skis, anyone?" Lily said, playing with her sunglasses.
"There are only two left!" Ava said, twirling her hair.
"Ok, Ava you come with Lily and me, and Sirius, you go with Remus and Elle." James said, pushing the Jet Ski out into the water, and then hopping on the back, followed by Lily and Ava.
"Hold on, Ava, he's gonna try to throw us off, so don't let go, no matter what." Lily said, and felt the grip tighten around her life jacket.
"Ok, we're a go, James," Ava said as she felt comfortable.
James took off and rode around for a while, going really fast, and then decided, much to everyone's surprise I'm sure, that he was going to throw them off.
"Don't do it James!" Lily said, as he went into a perfect 360.
But, instead of flying off, Lily and Ava just kind of hung off the edge, not letting go. Their combined weight tilted the Jet Ski, making it so it was sticking straight up in the air, and was about to fall on top of them.
"Let go Lily!" James yelled.
"You let go!" She screamed back, and as a last ditch effort, James let go, and the three of them slid off the back into the warm water.
"We are not doing that again." James said, through clenched teeth, climbing back onto the Jet Ski.
"Better tell that to your self, sweet-heart." Lily said sarcastically.
Meanwhile on the other Jet Ski, things weren't nearly as exciting.
"Can you go a little faster, Remus?" Sirius whined from the back.
"No."
"Please!?"
"No."
"Pretty please?" Sirius asked once more.
"Oh! Look Sirius, there's Amanda, and she's looking at you!" Elle said, pointing towards the beach.
"Where?" He asked, looking around.
"Oh, better be fixing that hair, amazing what salt can do to normal hair. You look like you have been hit by a truck." She said, and as Sirius frantically tried to fix his hair, she yelled, "Hit it Remus!"
Remus hit the throttle as hard as he could and Sirius went flying into the ocean. Remus turned back around and found him floating around yelling obscenities.
"Jesus Christ, Remus, you bastard! Could have killed me, you know." Sirius said, his middle finger flying in the air.
"For that," Remus said shaking his head, "you can swim home." He then hit the throttle and took off.
"Sure. Now he goes fast." Sirius spat, as he started to swim his way back to civilization.
The five on the Jet-skis decided that when Sirius finally got back to shore, that they would all go boating.
"Come on buddy, come on, you can do it!" James said patting his thighs towards Sirius, who was struggling to swim the last 10 yards left to go.
"I'm not a dog, you know," Sirius yelled from the water.
"Well, sometimes I'd have to say that you do resemble one," James said, pondering the thought.
"I second that." Remus said, giving out his hand to help Sirius stand up. Sirius graciously took it,
"Ok, I saved us a boat." Elle said walking up swinging a key-chain around her pointer finger.
"What are we waiting for then?" James said clapping his hands together and running towards the speedboat.
"Are the inner tubes tied on the back?" Lily asked as she hopped in the driver seat, adjusting her sunglasses that were perched atop her messy bun.
"The what?" James asked, leaning over the edge of the boat.
"Never mind." Lily said, as she saw the inner tubes in question, floating along, firmly attached to the back of the boat.
"Ok, James, Remus, see those circle shaped things floating?" She asked, pointing out into the water.
"Yes." Remus said, and James nodded.
"Well those are inner tubes, and I need you guys to grab them and put them on the boat so we can get out of here." Back at home; Lily's dad had a boat and Jet-skis. During the summer, Lily practically lived in the water.
"OK Ma'am." Remus said saluting her and then leaning over the boat and grabbing the tubes. James followed suit. Sirius was leaning over the side of the boat, coaxing a fish to come towards him.
"Here fishy, fishy." He said softly, swirling his finger in the water. Ava sat opposite him shaking her head.
Once James and Remus had gotten the tubes ready, and Sirius was done playing with his new pet 'Hermie,' they were ready.
"Lily, are you sure we should be going this fast?" Elle yelled over the sound of the water.
"Yeah, why not?" Lily said. She slowed down to a stop, and then stood up, facing the boys, who were in the back of the boat, goofing around.
"Ok, who wants to go on the tubes first?" Lily asked, as she looked around the boat.
"Will you be driving?" Ava asked from the front, twiddling her thumbs.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be? Wait, are you all scared?" She asked laughing.
"Well," Elle started.
"We'll go Lily," Sirius said, standing up quickly. His sudden movement upset the boat and he let out a tiny scream as the vessel lurched.
"Whose 'we'" James asked.
"Me and you, Jim." Sirius answered back.
"Oh, well, I don't know, I mean, I just ate, and isn't there a rule agai…"
"James, don't be such a baby!" Lily said, throwing the inner tubes out of the boat. "Sit in the tubes and hold on."
"Oh, um, ok." James said, unsure about this. He trusted Lily, but he wasn't sure about her boat driving skills.
"It's not like she can tip us over or anything, James. She's not that good." Sirius said as he jumped in the water and swam to his inner tube, followed by his best friend.
"Yeah your right." James answered as he got in his tube.
"Nope boys." Lily said, hanging over the back of the boat, "you're very, very wrong. Have fun!" Ava and Elle laughed and Remus shrugged.
Lily started off good, and the boys got used to her style.
Sirius and James gave each other the 'thumbs-up' sign and they each smoothed their hair. As they were doing this, the boat turned sharply and the tubes collided into each other, mid-air, and sent the two boys flying in opposite directions.
And Lily had missed the whole thing.
"Oh my God Lily! That was brilliant!" Remus said patting her on the back.
"What??" She said, standing up. Her glasses had fallen off, and she had been at the bottom of the boat, trying to find them.
"What do you mean, what? You just threw Sirius and James off their inner tubes! It was amazing!" Remus said, squinting out into the water to try and find James and Sirius.
"Are you kidding me!? I didn't even see it!" She yelled throwing her glasses down, "These damned glasses made me miss it!"
Remus started cracking up and Lily swung the boat around, to go find the two overboard.
"Ok, Remus, we are going to pretend that I did it on purpose, and I am going to make fun of them and rub it in their faces. They will not know that it was an accident. Do you understand?" She said inches from his face, holding onto his shirt collar.
"Yes." He said, backing away from her. "You do know, Lily, that you are a bit scary."
"Yes." She said through gritted teeth, and then hit the throttle, throwing Remus towards the back.
Once she spotted James and Sirius, she sped over there, and walked to the back of the boat, to help them in.
"Jeez, guys, I can't believe that happened!" She laughed, as Sirius flopped in the boat.
"Be quiet, Lily." James said, as he tried to climb in.
"Oh James, don't be such a poor sport." Lily said, handing him a towel.
"Let's just go back." He said, wrapping the towel around him and sitting down.
"Fine," Lily said while sitting in the drivers seat, "it's almost time for the dance, anyways."
The rest of the way back to the castle was spent in silence, except for the muggle music blaring out of the boat, (the song from the beginning of the story.) Once they got back to the castle, the boys went to their room and the girls to theirs, to get ready for the dance.
"Lily, when is the dance?" Elle asked from the bathroom where she was fixing her make-up.
"Um, I think 7:00, but I'm not entirely sure." She answered back while zipping up the back of her black and white dress. Her long, dark red hair was in loose curls that cascaded down her back. She pulled the top half back and secured it with a pin that had a white lily on it.
"Yes, it's at 7." Ava said putting on her left shoe. "How do I look?" She asked, spinning around. She had a little white dress on and her long blonde hair was pulled back into a low ponytail secured at her neck.
"Absolutely divine, darling, absolutely divine." Lily drawled, turning Ava around.
"Same to you, Lily. James might have a heart attack." Ava said, spinning Lily around.
"Yeah, if he's not still mad at me for the whole boating thing." Lily laughed, putting some lip-gloss on.
"If he is, he's dumb." Elle said, unveiling herself for the first time. Over the spring break vacation, Elle had become so tan that she looked like she was a native of Maui.
"Oh my gosh, Elle! You look so pretty!" Lily said, her jaw dropping. Elle was wearing a pink strapless sundress, and her very long hair was crimped. (A/N: Like when you braid it when its wet, that kind of crimped.)
"Thanks Lil, you guys look great too." She said turning around and running into the bureau. As she did this, a camera clattered against the wood.
" Oomph. Oh! We should take another picture for our wall!" She replied, grabbing the camera from the bureau top, and motioning for the other two girls to come closer.
"On three. One, two, THREE!" She said, smiling, and Lily and Ava smiled along with her.
"That'll be cute," Ava said, grabbing the camera and putting it back, "oh my gosh, it's time to go!" She finished looking at her watch, the hands telling her it was 5 till 7.
"Ok, lets go find the boys." Lily said as she grabbed her purse and ran after her two friends.
The boys, who were waiting not so patiently, were standing at the bottom of the stairs when the girls started walking down.
"Elle," Remus said, taking her hand, "you look especially lovely tonight."
"Thank-you Remus, you look very, erm, lovely too." She said back, kissing him lightly. Remus was wearing khaki cargo shorts, (A/N: Abercrombie, of course. I love that store.) and a red polo shirt.
"Get a room," Sirius said, crossing his arms. He was wearing a blue plaid button up shirt and khaki shorts.
"I think it's sweet," Ava said as she stepped off the stairs.
"You would." Sirius mumbled, and Ava hit him in the arm.
"Just shut-up Sirius." She shook her head. They both still hadn't gotten over the whole, break up, thing.
"Where's Lily?" James asked Ava.
"Right here!" Lily said, running down the stairs. "Sorry! I had to grab my purse!" She stopped when she saw James, leaning against the stair railing, looking up at her. He was wearing a white button up shirt that was rolled up to his elbows, and dark khaki shorts.
That boy does clean up well, doesn't he? She thought to herself.
"Oh, Lily, you look beautiful." James whispered into her ear as he pulled her in for a hug and a kiss.
"Thank-you James," She said, and then stood back to take a look at him.
"Damn," she said towards Ava and Elle, "my boyfriend is hot."
"Yeah," Sirius said, jumping into the conversation, flexing, "he learned all he knows from me."
"Whatever Sirius," James said, as he grabbed Lily's hand, "we need to go, we're gonna be late." The four followed Lily and James out the portrait hole, and down to the Great Hall.
As they entered the hall, they were in awe of the luau that lay before them. There was a bar that served Pina Coladas, and Tiki torches lining the pathways to the tables. There were tropical plants everywhere, and a huge dance floor in the middle, and a song was playing. (A/N: If you wanted to know, it's the Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World song, from the end of the movie Finding Forrester. When I went to a luau in Maui, they played this song.)
"Let's go find our table, and then we can go dance," Remus said, as he led the group to the table that had all their names on it. The girls sat their things down and then led their boyfriends to the dance floor. Well, Ava and Sirius went and found some other people, but hey, what can you do about it.
After about the 8th fast song, Remus and Elle, and Ava and Sirius went to sit down. James begged to go too, but Lily promised just one more song.
"Come on Lily, we've been dancing for forever!" James whined as he started to walk away.
"James! Stop, we are just gonna dance just one more song, and then we can go sit down." Lily said grabbing his hand, as slow music started.
"Now this is what I'm talking about, now we can just move slow, and rest." James said as he put his hands around her waist, and she put her arms around his neck.
"Yes, we'll now, forever, this is our song." She said, and then leaned against his chest.
I will never find another lover sweeter than you, sweeter
than you
And I will never find another lover more precious than you, more
precious than you
Girl you are close to me you're like my mother,
Close to me you're like my father,
Close to me you're like my sister,
Close to me you're like my brother
You are the only one my everything and for you this song I sing
James sang the song into Lily's ear, and she looked up at him.
"How do you know this song?" She asked
"Sirius' sister plays it all the time. It's a good song. It reminds me of you." He smiled and then kissed her on the cheek.
"Oh." She smiled back.
And all my life I've prayed for someone like you
And I thank God that I, that I finally found you
All my life I've prayed for someone like you
And I hope that you feel the same way too
Yes, I pray that you do love me too
"I'm really glad you're my girlfriend Lily." James whispered.
"I'm really glad that I am too." She answered back.
I said you're all that I'm thinking of...baby
Said, I promise to never fall in love with a stranger,
You're all I'm thinking of, I praise the Lord above,
For sending me your love, I cherish every hug,
I really love you
And all my life, baby, baby, I've prayed for someone like
you,
And I thank God that I, that I finally found you, baby
All my life I've prayed for someone like you
And I hope that you feel the same way too
Yes, I pray that you do, love me
"So what are your plans for this summer?" Lily asked him, as he pondered thought for a minute, still holding her in his arms.
"Probably just sit at Sirius' and rot." He answered.
"Don't worry, I'll come over a lot." She said, smiling as his eyes widened.
"Oh, this is my favorite part." He said as he began to sing to her again.
You're all that I ever known, when you smile, on my face,
all I see is a glow.
You turned my life around, you picked me up when I was down,
You're all that I ever known, when you smile on your face glows,
You picked me up when I was down
You're all that I ever known, when you smile on your face glows,
You picked me up when I was down and I hope that you feel
the same way
too,
Yes I pray that you do love me too
Lily looked at him and then he leaned in for a kiss,
All my life, I've prayed for someone like you,
And I thank God that I, that I finally found you
All my life I've prayed for someone like you
Yes, I pray that you do love me too
All my life I've prayed for someone like you
And I thank God that I, that I finally found you
All my life I've prayed for someone like you
Yes, I pray that you do love me too
They broke apart and headed back to their table, smiling at each other the whole way.
Finally, I'm done with that chapter! Jeez, thought I was gonna be typing about the stupid spring break for the rest of eternity. Ok, well I hope you like the chapter, because I hate it. I think it's the worst chapter I have ever written. It's not funny, and it's just, ugh. Sorry if you hate it to, I hope the next one will be better. Lets pray. Ok well I have decided to give you ideas about what all the stuff looked like, so here you go…
Ava's Swimsuit: http://www.delias.com/main/html/goto_frameset.epl?g=category.swimwear
Her Dress:
http://store.alloy.com/catalog/browse/productview.asp?PRODUCT_ID=16415&PARENT=1001&PARENT=10001
Her Sunglasses (God I'm a freak):
http://www.ae.com/AE_ProductPage.process?RestartFlow=t&Merchant_Id=1&Gender=Womens&Section_Id=582&Product_Id=3558348&CatalogFlag=FloorSet&Section_Title=Jewelry&ColorString=0506_2477_117
Elle's Swimsuit:
http://www.ae.com/AE_ProductPage.process?RestartFlow=t&Merchant_Id=1&Gender=Womens&Section_Id=650&Product_Id=3225155&CatalogFlag=FloorSet&Section_Title=Swim&ColorString=0467_1226_780
Her Dress:
http://store.alloy.com/catalog/browse/productview.asp?PRODUCT_ID=16714&PARENT=1001&PARENT=10001
Her Sunglasses:
http://www.polo.com/cgi-bin/polo/polo/catalog/product_detail.jsp?cat_oid=-14086&ref_oid=30745
Lily's Swimsuit:
http://www.embassysports.com/swimpics/ehrinn01.jpg
(I love this one)
Lily's Dress:
http://www.spiegel.com/shop/style.asp?style_id=77052&index=14&nav_cat_id=65&gp_cat_id=284&category_id=1184
Lily's Sunglasses:
http://www.fossil.com/Product/Product.asp?Tier1=Womens&Tier2=WS&Dept%5FID=WS&Cat%5FID=WS18&Prod%5FID=MS3154040&Color=
Ok, and when I was talking about the boat, I was modeling it after our boat, so here is what our boat look like, (except this one is a little bit newer)
http://www.boats.com/listing/boat_details.jsp?entityid=262780&searchtype=buy&searchid=1&back=%2Flisting%2Fcache%2Flisting_search_results.jsp%3Fsearchtype%3Dbuy%26toYear%3D2004%26fromYear%3D1998%26ac%3D509%26bcint%3D1%26wuom%3D126%26ps%3D20%26currencyid%3D100%26duom%3D126%26so%3D4%26sm%3D3%26is%3Dtrue%26spid%3D146%26fromPrice%3D25000%26searchPage%3D%2Flisting%2Fcache%2Fquick_search.jsp%26ic%3Dtrue%26luom%3D126
And the jetskis are like the ones my uncle has, except his are a different color than these ones:
http://www.seadoo.com/seadoo/web/jsp/main.jsp?Params=Y.US.310.33
Ok, there you go, I know I'm a loser for giving you all these pictures, but hey, you don't have look at them. Ok, well have a good February, and I will try to update as soon as I get over this writers block.
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