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Came Into My World- The Prequel
Chapter Two
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"I will find a way,
To get to you someday,
Cause I am so afraid I'd fall
Can't you hear me call
Shake some action is what I need
To make me bust out at full speed
and I am sure that's all you'll need
to make it alright"
Cracker - Shake Some Action
Thank you to DeeDee, for the use of her idea of Lily and Mrs. Granger being friends. Go read her story, Finding Lily, on SugarQuill.com. It really is a sweet story, and DeeDee is a sweet person. Now go read her story for more explanation of this chapter. Oh, yes, some of the 'Finding Lily' details have been changed. I had to add Jimi Hendrix. Lily's middle name, Susannah, means 'lily'. Thanks to Kayleigh for beta-ing! Now, on to the second day.
As Lily pushed open the doors of La Bello hotel, she gasped delightedly. The hotel was very beautiful. There were plush, floral carpets and golden accents everywhere. The employees were dressed to impress, and so were most of the customers. Her father led the way to the counter, and got the keys to the rooms. A hotel employee had already taken their bags to their rooms.
Violet and Richard's room was red, and very luxurious. However, Lily and Petunia's room was sky blue, and overlooked the park. It had two twin beds, a television, and one dresser.
"I get the bed facing the window!" Lily said excitedly. She ran to that bed and jumped onto it. Petunia scowled.
"That's not fair! I didn't know we got to pick!" Petunia said, disappointedly.
"My bag was on this bed, anyway," Lily pointed out. Petunia's scowl lessened a bit, and she walked over to her bed.
"We'll leave you two girls to unpack," Violet said kindly, and walked out of the door that connected their room with their parents'. Lily unzipped her full suitcase, and took up an armload of jeans, short sleeved shirts, and shorts. She set them on top of the dresser while she opened one of the drawers and placed them carefully, making sure none became unfolded and wrinkly.
Petunia, however, did not. She opened her suitcase hastefully, and shoved them into a drawer. Lily found her one-piece bathing suit and put it in the bathroom closet, next to her favourite beach towel, a Disney one. Petunia unpacked her two bags of makeup, and many, many accessories.
Lily took a breath one moment, and looked out the window at the park in the courtyard of the hotel. There were many people there, young and old. Children were scampering to one part of the courtyard to the next with excitement. Older people were sun-bathing or reading.
She grabbed her room key and took the lift to the lobby, which was as packed as ever, if not more. In one corner, there was a sitting area with oriental rugs and expensive and fragile looking chairs. In one door, there was a huge conference room, filled with business people. The second was a plexi-glass door with a sign that said "Pool". The third was the entrance. The fourth was (as Lily guessed) an entrance to the courtyard. She opened the double-doors and stepped onto the soft grass in the middle of the building. There were even more children than before. Lily walked over to a playset and set on a sturdy-looking swing. A blonde-headed boy was standing around. A girl with brown, braided pigtails was going down a slide. There were two boys, undoubtedly plotting something, in her nearest corner. She looked at them with interest.
They were unnaturally quiet for two young boys, but they were innocent looking. One with messy looking hair looked up at her with big, chocolate eyes and grinned maniacally.
"Whatcha up to?" he said curiously. Lily shook her pigtails and shifted in her swing.
"My name's James, this old dog is Sirius," he continued mischievously, obviously dragging on conversation.
"I'm Lily Evans," she said stiffly.
"I'm Sirius Black," the other boy said. He had bright blue eyes. Lily nodded.
"How long have you been here?" Lily asked.
"For about three days. It was starting to get boring around here," James dryly.
"But there's a lot of other people. How can you be bored already?" Lily asked curiously.
"We've been stuck in this hotel the whole time. My dad has been doing business the whole trip, and my mother's got a horrible head cold," he replied.
Lily felt sorry for him. She had her mother and father, and Petunia, and Crookshanks, her baby kitten. She imagined it would get rather boring being stuck in the same place for three days, but didn't say so out loud.
"Oh. We've just arrived this afternoon, my parents, sister, and I," Lily said.
"How old is your sister?" Sirius Black asked.
"She's eleven. She's awfully mean and rude," Lily told him, making a face of disgust as she said it.
" It sounds awful," James said. Lily giggled.
Petunia was awful and meanspirited; not that any one wanted to talk to her. She was teased, because she was so tall and bony. Her horse-like features didn't help, and she wore so much makeup, you couldn't tell what her original face plan had looked like in the first place.
Petunia's best friend, Leanne, was the complete and utter opposite. She was short and skinny, with shiny, dark brown hair in waves. She had green eyes like Lily. She was beautiful, and was very popular, especially with the boys. Lily had no idea why she would hang around Petunia, though.
From what Lily knew, Petunia was un-liked by many at the school, mostly because her frankness, and her loud mouth. But Leanne was convinced that Petunia was not a bad person, and had started to take after Petunia's ways.
Lily looked at the peculiar boys. She noticed that Sirius had something behind his back, and was smirking very guiltily. She grinned on the inside.
"What ya got there, Sirius?" she asked, interested.
"Nothing," James said quickly, and scooted closer to Sirius.
"I won't tell," Lily said truthfully. James was staring at her.
"Okay," Sirius said. He pulled out a long, red package. "Filibuster's No- Heat, Wet-Start Fireworks', the package proclaimed. Lily had never heard of this brand of fireworks before.
"I've never seen that brand before. Where did you get it?" Lily asked.
"It's American," Sirius lied. He pulled out a bag, from which he had been hiding behind his back all along. There were large, oddly shaped, and brightly coloured packages in different sizes. Lily wondered where he could have got all these strange products. There was surely not a place in London where you could buy these things!
"Oh. Okay. What's that?" Lily asked, pointing at a random package in the bunch.
"Dungbombs. They're brilliant!" James answered for Sirius, grinning like a Cheshire cat.
"What do they do?" Lily asked.
"Well, they-"
"They stink like the dickens!" Sirius said, interrupting James's sentence. James and Sirius both burst out laughing. Lily managed a feeble smile. These boys were okay, for boys. They were funny, really.
Lily was quiet and well behaved. She had only a few friends, all in her neighbourhood. One, Rose, was her very best friend. Rose and Lily were like sisters and had always been like that. Lily thought she was very, very lucky to have a friend such as Rose. The two boys reminded Lily of Rose and her. Lily missed her dear friend, whom shared a love of gardening, reading, and playing "pretend" with her.
"So what do you use those for?" Lily asked. Sirius looked offended.
"To set off on people!" the naughty little boy exclaimed. James laughed.
"On who?" Lily asked.
"I don't know our next victim yet," Sirius said.
"What about that sister you talked about, Lily?" James suggested. Lily hesitated for a moment.
"I don't know. we might get into trouble!" she said. The two boys looked at each other and guffawed.
"Trouble is my middle name," Sirius said. "Sirius Lee 'Trouble' Black!" He grinned and patted the quiet James on the back. "My buddy here is James Godric 'Trouble' Potter!" James grinned, showing sparkling white teeth. Lily smiled politely. "Whats your full name, Lily?"
"Lily Susannah Evans," she replied.
"Where ya from?" James asked.
"Surrey."
"I have a cousin from there! Name's Marge, lives with her little brother!" Sirius interjected. "Resembles a small whale, really."
"A small whale?" James said, "More like a great white!"
Lily giggled when she thought of a human that was as big as a great white whale, like the ones she had seen when she was little.
"Right on!" Sirius said.
Lily asked Sirius what he liked to do.
"Playing pranks, playing Quid-I mean football, being with my buddy James.Just whatever," Sirius said. Lily smirked. "What do you like to do, Lily?"
"Oh, I like to garden, and read.I like to watch television, and listen to music," Lily replied easily. Sirius smirked this time.
"Gardening?!" Sirius said. Lily looked offended.
"Yes." Lily said.
"Oh," was all Sirius said. He seemed offended, or bored with her answer. Sirius and James went back to their laughing and joking, and Lily sat on the swing, looking and feeling very lonely.
* LATER*ON *
Lily was lying on her bed, watching television. Okay, so she wasn't really paying attention. She was thinking about James and Sirius. They were so strange. Sirius had his strange antics, and James was so quiet. Lily had never really met quite a pair of friends. They were the opposite from each other. But there was something she couldn't quite place with them.
There was a knock on her door. 'Oh God' she thought. It was her parents! The room was a mess, and she didn't feel like going anywhere. She slowly got up out of the bed and placed the covers back into their places neatly. She opened up the door slight crack. It wasn't her parents.
It was James! The boy she had met!
"Hello, Lily...I just wanted to see what you were doing. You looked sat back there," he said.
Lily's heart jumped. She was so bored, and had no friends here. And, knocking at her door, here was a chance to have a friend. So, it was a boy. But a friend is a friend, right?
"Oh, I'm just sitting here, watching television," Lily said. James looked around the room.
"Want to come in?" asked Lily.
James nodded, and Lily opened the door some more, to let him in. He sat down in one of the gilded chairs around the television, and Lily sat on the end of her bed.
" So this is your room?" James asked, his voice breaking the silence.
"Yes, and Petunia's too," Lily replied. James put on a face of disgust.
"Is she really that bad? Like you said?" asked James. Lily laughed nervously.
"Worse. She's awful!" Lily said.
They both seemed so grown up, for seven-year old children. They could talk so easily, and without shame. They seemed to understand each other, which was amazing, for they were almost complete strangers to each other. But here, in this hotel room, the two were sharing their hearts.
"I don't have any sisters or brothers. I don't see my dad a whole lot either. He works for the Minis--- I mean the government. " James said.
"So you and Sirius aren't brothers?" Lily asked.
"No, not actually. Our parents were best friends, and my mother is his godmother." James patiently explained.
"I wish I had a better sister than Petunia, or a little sister, more little than me," Lily said.
Someone was knocking on the door. Lily looked up.
"James, don't answer it," Lily warned.
Whoever it was, was fooling around with a hotel key.
"Petunia," Lily said, under her breath. James actually looked frightened. Lily almost laughed! The door creaked open slowly, and there stood a very wet and confused looking Petunia.
But not so confused that she couldn't yell at Lily.
"Lily, who is that boy?" said Petunia.
"He is my friend!" Lily yelled.
James looked at Petunia shyly, but she just glared at him hatefully. Now he saw why Lily didn't like her.
"Get him outta here, or I will make you!" Petunia shouted.
"No you won't. Why do you always have to ruin my fun? Get away!" Lily said.
James laughed. Petunia let out a frustrated noise. James walked up to her and extended his hand.
"James Godric Potter. Nice to meet you. We're here because my father is on very important government business," he said.
"Really? Hi, there! Nice to meet you," She said in one breath, squealing like a pig. Lily shot her a look.
"I really have to be going," James said. He walked out. She couldn't believe it.
"Petunia! Why did you make him leave?" Lily shouted.
"Make him leave? I did not!" Petunia said, with a glare. She went into the bathroom to fix her hair again, so she could leave. There was another knock at the door. Lily opened the door. It was James.
"Forgot my jacket!" He said loudly, so Petunia could hear him. He gave Lily a piece of paper.
"See you soon," he whispered. Lily nodded. She didn't understand. She felt something wrinkle in her hand. She unfolded the paper, and in sloppy script, it read:
Lily-
Meet me in the lobby at seven. It's important.
J. P.
Lily's heart jumped. He wanted to be her friend. Petunia came back, and she asked why Lily was looking so dazed. Lily told her she was tired. Petunia was satisfied, so she left again, saying she was heading out to the tennis courts. Lily decided she was tired, so changing into some silk, breezy pajamas, she laid down for a catnap.
* * LATER*ON * *
Lily woke up to see a setting sun. She had left the television on. She got up sleepily and looked at the clock. She had been asleep for an hour. It was six fifteen. She jumped up and shut off the television. She grabbed some bell-bottom blue jeans and put them on, with a baby blue tee shirt.
She went into the bathroom and combed out her long, red hair. She put it into a ponytail. She slipped on some sandals and grabbed her room key. Six forty-five. She left a note for Petunia:
Petunia,
Don't worry about me. I'll be back later. If mom and dad come, make up an excuse, because you will get into trouble.
- Lily
Six fifty. She put the note on Petunia's bed and shut the door quietly. She raced down the hall into a lift. She pressed the silver one and the lift shook as it descended down. After what had seemed an hour, she reached the lobby. The lift doors clicked and then they opened. She ran in the lobby, not noticing the stares she was receiving.
James was sitting quietly on another gilded chair, like the one she had in her room. He looked at her and grinned.
"I have an idea! Put on this cloak and we will go wake up Sirius. He's sleeping like a lazy git!" he said excitedly.
"But won't someone see us?" Lily asked.
"Not with this cloak covering you. Believe me, and put it on," said James, anxiously.
"But how can he not see us under this cloak?" asked Lily.
"Just get under," James said patiently. Lily got under the cloak, holding the firework. James whispered "Follow me." He walked to the lift and pressed the silver five. The lift moved more quickly this time. It was like it had somehow sensed their anxiousness. It clicked, and the doors opened.
The two exited, and no one gave them any notice. James reached the third door on the left, and took out the key. The door opened, and Sirius was there. He was asleep heavily. He took no notice, most likely because he was snoring so loudly. James wet the fuse and placed it next to Sirius's ear.
He ran back to Lily and quickly covered both of them with the cloak. The firework exploded with the sound of a bullhorn, and Sirius was covered with ashes.
"What?" Sirius said, jumping up. Lily giggled nervously, but James gave her a look, and she stopped. Sirius looked around the room. He lay back down, and James and Lily high-fived and high-tailed it out of there.
James walked Lily to her room, talking all the way. It was very dark out. She went into her room. Petunia was there, watching a dirty television show.
Lily didn't say anything, just went into the bathroom and took a shower. She put her breezy pajamas back on, and took her hair down. Petunia had came in there, too, and put on a brown facial mask that made her look like an underfed, skinny dinosaur. Lily lay down in her bed, dreaming of what the next day on this wonderful island would hold.
Came Into My World- The Prequel
Chapter Two
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"I will find a way,
To get to you someday,
Cause I am so afraid I'd fall
Can't you hear me call
Shake some action is what I need
To make me bust out at full speed
and I am sure that's all you'll need
to make it alright"
Cracker - Shake Some Action
Thank you to DeeDee, for the use of her idea of Lily and Mrs. Granger being friends. Go read her story, Finding Lily, on SugarQuill.com. It really is a sweet story, and DeeDee is a sweet person. Now go read her story for more explanation of this chapter. Oh, yes, some of the 'Finding Lily' details have been changed. I had to add Jimi Hendrix. Lily's middle name, Susannah, means 'lily'. Thanks to Kayleigh for beta-ing! Now, on to the second day.
As Lily pushed open the doors of La Bello hotel, she gasped delightedly. The hotel was very beautiful. There were plush, floral carpets and golden accents everywhere. The employees were dressed to impress, and so were most of the customers. Her father led the way to the counter, and got the keys to the rooms. A hotel employee had already taken their bags to their rooms.
Violet and Richard's room was red, and very luxurious. However, Lily and Petunia's room was sky blue, and overlooked the park. It had two twin beds, a television, and one dresser.
"I get the bed facing the window!" Lily said excitedly. She ran to that bed and jumped onto it. Petunia scowled.
"That's not fair! I didn't know we got to pick!" Petunia said, disappointedly.
"My bag was on this bed, anyway," Lily pointed out. Petunia's scowl lessened a bit, and she walked over to her bed.
"We'll leave you two girls to unpack," Violet said kindly, and walked out of the door that connected their room with their parents'. Lily unzipped her full suitcase, and took up an armload of jeans, short sleeved shirts, and shorts. She set them on top of the dresser while she opened one of the drawers and placed them carefully, making sure none became unfolded and wrinkly.
Petunia, however, did not. She opened her suitcase hastefully, and shoved them into a drawer. Lily found her one-piece bathing suit and put it in the bathroom closet, next to her favourite beach towel, a Disney one. Petunia unpacked her two bags of makeup, and many, many accessories.
Lily took a breath one moment, and looked out the window at the park in the courtyard of the hotel. There were many people there, young and old. Children were scampering to one part of the courtyard to the next with excitement. Older people were sun-bathing or reading.
She grabbed her room key and took the lift to the lobby, which was as packed as ever, if not more. In one corner, there was a sitting area with oriental rugs and expensive and fragile looking chairs. In one door, there was a huge conference room, filled with business people. The second was a plexi-glass door with a sign that said "Pool". The third was the entrance. The fourth was (as Lily guessed) an entrance to the courtyard. She opened the double-doors and stepped onto the soft grass in the middle of the building. There were even more children than before. Lily walked over to a playset and set on a sturdy-looking swing. A blonde-headed boy was standing around. A girl with brown, braided pigtails was going down a slide. There were two boys, undoubtedly plotting something, in her nearest corner. She looked at them with interest.
They were unnaturally quiet for two young boys, but they were innocent looking. One with messy looking hair looked up at her with big, chocolate eyes and grinned maniacally.
"Whatcha up to?" he said curiously. Lily shook her pigtails and shifted in her swing.
"My name's James, this old dog is Sirius," he continued mischievously, obviously dragging on conversation.
"I'm Lily Evans," she said stiffly.
"I'm Sirius Black," the other boy said. He had bright blue eyes. Lily nodded.
"How long have you been here?" Lily asked.
"For about three days. It was starting to get boring around here," James dryly.
"But there's a lot of other people. How can you be bored already?" Lily asked curiously.
"We've been stuck in this hotel the whole time. My dad has been doing business the whole trip, and my mother's got a horrible head cold," he replied.
Lily felt sorry for him. She had her mother and father, and Petunia, and Crookshanks, her baby kitten. She imagined it would get rather boring being stuck in the same place for three days, but didn't say so out loud.
"Oh. We've just arrived this afternoon, my parents, sister, and I," Lily said.
"How old is your sister?" Sirius Black asked.
"She's eleven. She's awfully mean and rude," Lily told him, making a face of disgust as she said it.
" It sounds awful," James said. Lily giggled.
Petunia was awful and meanspirited; not that any one wanted to talk to her. She was teased, because she was so tall and bony. Her horse-like features didn't help, and she wore so much makeup, you couldn't tell what her original face plan had looked like in the first place.
Petunia's best friend, Leanne, was the complete and utter opposite. She was short and skinny, with shiny, dark brown hair in waves. She had green eyes like Lily. She was beautiful, and was very popular, especially with the boys. Lily had no idea why she would hang around Petunia, though.
From what Lily knew, Petunia was un-liked by many at the school, mostly because her frankness, and her loud mouth. But Leanne was convinced that Petunia was not a bad person, and had started to take after Petunia's ways.
Lily looked at the peculiar boys. She noticed that Sirius had something behind his back, and was smirking very guiltily. She grinned on the inside.
"What ya got there, Sirius?" she asked, interested.
"Nothing," James said quickly, and scooted closer to Sirius.
"I won't tell," Lily said truthfully. James was staring at her.
"Okay," Sirius said. He pulled out a long, red package. "Filibuster's No- Heat, Wet-Start Fireworks', the package proclaimed. Lily had never heard of this brand of fireworks before.
"I've never seen that brand before. Where did you get it?" Lily asked.
"It's American," Sirius lied. He pulled out a bag, from which he had been hiding behind his back all along. There were large, oddly shaped, and brightly coloured packages in different sizes. Lily wondered where he could have got all these strange products. There was surely not a place in London where you could buy these things!
"Oh. Okay. What's that?" Lily asked, pointing at a random package in the bunch.
"Dungbombs. They're brilliant!" James answered for Sirius, grinning like a Cheshire cat.
"What do they do?" Lily asked.
"Well, they-"
"They stink like the dickens!" Sirius said, interrupting James's sentence. James and Sirius both burst out laughing. Lily managed a feeble smile. These boys were okay, for boys. They were funny, really.
Lily was quiet and well behaved. She had only a few friends, all in her neighbourhood. One, Rose, was her very best friend. Rose and Lily were like sisters and had always been like that. Lily thought she was very, very lucky to have a friend such as Rose. The two boys reminded Lily of Rose and her. Lily missed her dear friend, whom shared a love of gardening, reading, and playing "pretend" with her.
"So what do you use those for?" Lily asked. Sirius looked offended.
"To set off on people!" the naughty little boy exclaimed. James laughed.
"On who?" Lily asked.
"I don't know our next victim yet," Sirius said.
"What about that sister you talked about, Lily?" James suggested. Lily hesitated for a moment.
"I don't know. we might get into trouble!" she said. The two boys looked at each other and guffawed.
"Trouble is my middle name," Sirius said. "Sirius Lee 'Trouble' Black!" He grinned and patted the quiet James on the back. "My buddy here is James Godric 'Trouble' Potter!" James grinned, showing sparkling white teeth. Lily smiled politely. "Whats your full name, Lily?"
"Lily Susannah Evans," she replied.
"Where ya from?" James asked.
"Surrey."
"I have a cousin from there! Name's Marge, lives with her little brother!" Sirius interjected. "Resembles a small whale, really."
"A small whale?" James said, "More like a great white!"
Lily giggled when she thought of a human that was as big as a great white whale, like the ones she had seen when she was little.
"Right on!" Sirius said.
Lily asked Sirius what he liked to do.
"Playing pranks, playing Quid-I mean football, being with my buddy James.Just whatever," Sirius said. Lily smirked. "What do you like to do, Lily?"
"Oh, I like to garden, and read.I like to watch television, and listen to music," Lily replied easily. Sirius smirked this time.
"Gardening?!" Sirius said. Lily looked offended.
"Yes." Lily said.
"Oh," was all Sirius said. He seemed offended, or bored with her answer. Sirius and James went back to their laughing and joking, and Lily sat on the swing, looking and feeling very lonely.
* LATER*ON *
Lily was lying on her bed, watching television. Okay, so she wasn't really paying attention. She was thinking about James and Sirius. They were so strange. Sirius had his strange antics, and James was so quiet. Lily had never really met quite a pair of friends. They were the opposite from each other. But there was something she couldn't quite place with them.
There was a knock on her door. 'Oh God' she thought. It was her parents! The room was a mess, and she didn't feel like going anywhere. She slowly got up out of the bed and placed the covers back into their places neatly. She opened up the door slight crack. It wasn't her parents.
It was James! The boy she had met!
"Hello, Lily...I just wanted to see what you were doing. You looked sat back there," he said.
Lily's heart jumped. She was so bored, and had no friends here. And, knocking at her door, here was a chance to have a friend. So, it was a boy. But a friend is a friend, right?
"Oh, I'm just sitting here, watching television," Lily said. James looked around the room.
"Want to come in?" asked Lily.
James nodded, and Lily opened the door some more, to let him in. He sat down in one of the gilded chairs around the television, and Lily sat on the end of her bed.
" So this is your room?" James asked, his voice breaking the silence.
"Yes, and Petunia's too," Lily replied. James put on a face of disgust.
"Is she really that bad? Like you said?" asked James. Lily laughed nervously.
"Worse. She's awful!" Lily said.
They both seemed so grown up, for seven-year old children. They could talk so easily, and without shame. They seemed to understand each other, which was amazing, for they were almost complete strangers to each other. But here, in this hotel room, the two were sharing their hearts.
"I don't have any sisters or brothers. I don't see my dad a whole lot either. He works for the Minis--- I mean the government. " James said.
"So you and Sirius aren't brothers?" Lily asked.
"No, not actually. Our parents were best friends, and my mother is his godmother." James patiently explained.
"I wish I had a better sister than Petunia, or a little sister, more little than me," Lily said.
Someone was knocking on the door. Lily looked up.
"James, don't answer it," Lily warned.
Whoever it was, was fooling around with a hotel key.
"Petunia," Lily said, under her breath. James actually looked frightened. Lily almost laughed! The door creaked open slowly, and there stood a very wet and confused looking Petunia.
But not so confused that she couldn't yell at Lily.
"Lily, who is that boy?" said Petunia.
"He is my friend!" Lily yelled.
James looked at Petunia shyly, but she just glared at him hatefully. Now he saw why Lily didn't like her.
"Get him outta here, or I will make you!" Petunia shouted.
"No you won't. Why do you always have to ruin my fun? Get away!" Lily said.
James laughed. Petunia let out a frustrated noise. James walked up to her and extended his hand.
"James Godric Potter. Nice to meet you. We're here because my father is on very important government business," he said.
"Really? Hi, there! Nice to meet you," She said in one breath, squealing like a pig. Lily shot her a look.
"I really have to be going," James said. He walked out. She couldn't believe it.
"Petunia! Why did you make him leave?" Lily shouted.
"Make him leave? I did not!" Petunia said, with a glare. She went into the bathroom to fix her hair again, so she could leave. There was another knock at the door. Lily opened the door. It was James.
"Forgot my jacket!" He said loudly, so Petunia could hear him. He gave Lily a piece of paper.
"See you soon," he whispered. Lily nodded. She didn't understand. She felt something wrinkle in her hand. She unfolded the paper, and in sloppy script, it read:
Lily-
Meet me in the lobby at seven. It's important.
J. P.
Lily's heart jumped. He wanted to be her friend. Petunia came back, and she asked why Lily was looking so dazed. Lily told her she was tired. Petunia was satisfied, so she left again, saying she was heading out to the tennis courts. Lily decided she was tired, so changing into some silk, breezy pajamas, she laid down for a catnap.
* * LATER*ON * *
Lily woke up to see a setting sun. She had left the television on. She got up sleepily and looked at the clock. She had been asleep for an hour. It was six fifteen. She jumped up and shut off the television. She grabbed some bell-bottom blue jeans and put them on, with a baby blue tee shirt.
She went into the bathroom and combed out her long, red hair. She put it into a ponytail. She slipped on some sandals and grabbed her room key. Six forty-five. She left a note for Petunia:
Petunia,
Don't worry about me. I'll be back later. If mom and dad come, make up an excuse, because you will get into trouble.
- Lily
Six fifty. She put the note on Petunia's bed and shut the door quietly. She raced down the hall into a lift. She pressed the silver one and the lift shook as it descended down. After what had seemed an hour, she reached the lobby. The lift doors clicked and then they opened. She ran in the lobby, not noticing the stares she was receiving.
James was sitting quietly on another gilded chair, like the one she had in her room. He looked at her and grinned.
"I have an idea! Put on this cloak and we will go wake up Sirius. He's sleeping like a lazy git!" he said excitedly.
"But won't someone see us?" Lily asked.
"Not with this cloak covering you. Believe me, and put it on," said James, anxiously.
"But how can he not see us under this cloak?" asked Lily.
"Just get under," James said patiently. Lily got under the cloak, holding the firework. James whispered "Follow me." He walked to the lift and pressed the silver five. The lift moved more quickly this time. It was like it had somehow sensed their anxiousness. It clicked, and the doors opened.
The two exited, and no one gave them any notice. James reached the third door on the left, and took out the key. The door opened, and Sirius was there. He was asleep heavily. He took no notice, most likely because he was snoring so loudly. James wet the fuse and placed it next to Sirius's ear.
He ran back to Lily and quickly covered both of them with the cloak. The firework exploded with the sound of a bullhorn, and Sirius was covered with ashes.
"What?" Sirius said, jumping up. Lily giggled nervously, but James gave her a look, and she stopped. Sirius looked around the room. He lay back down, and James and Lily high-fived and high-tailed it out of there.
James walked Lily to her room, talking all the way. It was very dark out. She went into her room. Petunia was there, watching a dirty television show.
Lily didn't say anything, just went into the bathroom and took a shower. She put her breezy pajamas back on, and took her hair down. Petunia had came in there, too, and put on a brown facial mask that made her look like an underfed, skinny dinosaur. Lily lay down in her bed, dreaming of what the next day on this wonderful island would hold.