"Why don't you four grab a seat instead of blocking Mrs. Hafillelied?" "Who?" asked Remus. "The old witch with the candy trolley dears. That's who. I supposed it's the usual for you four?" "Yes ma'am." They chimed in together and took seats around the compartment. James sat on the floor by Lily's feet as the trolley witch handed them each bags filled with candy and several pitchers of pumpkin juice. "Mrs. Hafillelied, I didn't know you had juice on the trolley." "I carry especially for those four. After the first year with them on the train bugging me up in the front of the train for drinks, I started stocking it just for them. I have a little extra if you'd like Lily dear." "Thank you Mrs. Hafillelied. Can I get a few pumpkin pasties and cauldron cakes as well?" "No candy dear?" "Not this year. I'd like to keep as much room for the feast as possible." "I can understand that one dear. Now for you Lily its 4 sickles and 2 knuts, and as for you boys, its 1 galleon, 3 sickles and 6 knuts." They all paid the trolley lady the money, and she moved on to the next compartment. "So what did the you all do over the summer holiday?" Peter asked. Peter had gone away with his parents to Hawaii in the U.S. for the summer, and missed out on a lot. "Well Pete, Sirius and I stayed at James' for half the summer as usual. Then for a week or two my mum took to see my dad in Greece. Then I came back with a week or two to spare." Remus said with a small smile. "As for me, I was very happy having Lily in my bed. What hot nights those were." Sirius started laughing, then caught the looks he was getting from both James and Lily, and stopped. "Okay, I'm sorry. Well as Remus said we spent half the summer at James'. For about a week I went to see my parents in Germany. They're there on business. Then I came back, Lily needed a place to stay for two nights and 3 days, so I let her, she stayed for those days, then went home, and I spent the rest of the summer going back and forth from home to the Leaky Cauldron." "What about you James?" Lily asked softly, looking down at him after taking a sip of pumpkin juice. "Well after dealing with dumb and dumber for half the summer, my dad took me to the Quidditch World Cup games, as always. I met both teams, and the referee, and the winning team allowed me to keep the snitch. Then we took a cruise around the Mediterranean. On our way home we stopped in Italy, saw Rome, stopped in Greece, saw Athens, then stopped other places on our way back. And lastly but not the least, I met up with these three numbskulls in Diagon Alley two days ago." "Wow." Lily went quiet. She never really realized just how rich James was. He definitely had more wealth then Sirius, Remus, and Peter, who seemed pretty wealthy themselves. Lily also started to notice that with a very faint tan, it brought out James' eyes. She had always liked James, and each and every year since first year, she noticed the gradual changes in his appearance that made him more appealing. But she did her damnedest to hide it from him, playing it off that she like Sirius and Remus, but both Sirius and Remus knew her true feeling were for James, and have always been for James. "So what about you Lily?" Remus asked, breaking her train of thought and the silence that had settled in on them. "Well the second I got home my sister Petunia was complaining about having to spend the entire summer with a freak, and having to see freaky things settle onto the house again. So my parents sent her to France for most of the summer, until she kept sending letters, complaining that the freak got all of the attention from our parents. So my parents made arrangements for me to stay with my grandfather, and my aunt. They day that my parents left, my aunt called me and asked me if I could find a place to stay for just a few nights, as there was an emergency that had to be taken care of. I owled James' house first, but one of his house elves wrote back that he wasn't home, I knew Peter was away, along with my other friends, so I tried Remus but then remembered that he wrote to me to tell me he was going to Greece, so then I tried Sirius. I didn't think I was going to get a hold of him, so I wrote letters to other friends who I'm not that close to, and as I was about to send the letters, I got Sirius' reply. Stayed with him for 2 nights and 3 days, then went to my aunt's and stayed there for the rest of the summer, until 2 days ago, when I spent it with my parents. I had already gotten my school supplies as my aunt was more then willing to take me to Diagon Alley while I was staying with her." "Sheesh Lily, we didn't ask for your entire life story." Remus said with a smile, and James kicked him. "Its too bad you hadn't owled me a week or two earlier Lily. My dad would have been more then happy to have you come with us, and he would have been able to get another ticket to the world cup. My dad likes to meet all of my friends, and frankly he's tired of seeing Remus, Sirius, and Peter all the time." James grinned and looked up at her.