Jeanne was so quiet. Lily was so quiet. They both knew that they didn't want this to happen; the very end of their dreams. The summer had lasted for such a short time, or so they thought. It was unbelievably true how much time flew when one was having fun. Now, Jeanne was quietly putting her sundresses, ballgowns, jeans, and pants into her petite suitcase. Nearby Lily was also unusually quiet.

" I had so much fun…" Lily mumbled to Jeanne while she through in her silk blouses and jean skirts into the suitcase. "I don't want to ever leave here, it's just too fun and too perfect. Not to mention--"

" James and Sirius." Jeanne cut in knowingly. " Trust me, I know. I'm really sad too."

Lily sighed and pushed her sleek red hair up into a pony tail. Changing out of her jeans and white tank top, she put on white linen trousers and a forest green tank top. Adjusting the silky and satiny parts to fit her figure, she looked up; emerald eyes staring at Jeanne intently.

"What?" Jeanne asked without looking at Lily.

" Are you going to tell Sirius about what you feel for him?"

Jeanne sighed knowing that the question would have to come sooner or later. " I honestly don't know. I think I might. But, what happens if I totally totally get rejected. I mean, I know I'm not going date him right? Not until I feel ready to get married. So yeah, I guess I can't tell him."

Jeanne looked glumly at Lily and asked, " You? What about James."

Lily reached for her designer sunglasses and slipped them onto her head. " I don't know either. I want to, but like you, I don't know what would come of it."

Both of the girls now had a black cloud over their heads.

"Gah…" Lily gave a frustrated growl and through herself onto the bed. " I don't want our dream to end. We're going back to cold England, in comparison to here, and back to the books."

"Agh," Jeanne scowled. "Yeah I know, this is paradise. No one wants to leave paradise."

Lily lay on the bed while Jeanne responsibly packed up her clothes neatly and then used her wand to pack up Lily's.

"We can't do anything about it." Jeanne said softly watching Lily's gaze go to where their beautiful view of the ocean lay. The two of them stared, letting the best summer vacation sink in. The sun was just about going down while the sky was turning brilliant shades of pink and purple. James and Sirius were going to escort them to the airport where they'd take different planes home.

Jeanne took one last look at their beautiful suite and put her makeup into her satin purse. She smoothed down her white satin skirt with matching boatneck top and looked around to see if they had forgotten anything.

"Lily! Jeanne!!" James pounded on the door of the girls' suite to see if they were ready. " Are you guys ok? Do you need some help?"

Jeanne and Lily were startled out of their day-dream and Jeanne gave Lily a special smile saying "Your man is here." While telling her, " You can go to the door. Talk to him."

Lily rolled her eyes goofily at Jeanne but nevertheless got up and went to the door.

"Hey James!" Lily called cheerfully as James grinned at her.

"Do you need any help Lily? Sirius and I are all done except Sirius went out to buy souvenirs. You know how he's like." James finished with a nod of his head.

Lily smiled and said, " Come in, me and Jeanne are just packing up. We're pretty much done." James followed Lily in, feeling sort of wistful that the Summer was over, but then again, no one wanted the summer to be over.

"Are you excited for school to start? You know, you're going to be Head Boy." Lily smiled at James, breaking into his thoughts.

"Yeah," James admitted, " In a way, I'm excited but I'm lazy so I don't want to go through all that school work again."

Lily laughed and replied, " You're lucky you're all done with your NEWTs and OWLs and stuff. Agh, I'm starting that horror."

James smiled but looked serious. "You know, if you ever need help, don't hesitate to call for me. I'll always be there to help you, you know?" Lily smiled gently, truly touched at his words. "Yeah, thanks James but you have problems of your own, like the Head Girl for instance." James shook his head, his adorable, floppy, dark-brown hair tousling with every shake.

" Oh man. I forgot about Marianne."

Outside Lily was smiling sympathetically but inside she was seething with anger, frustration and a tinge of jealousy. It wasn't fair. Although James was blind to see it (as well as too humble to see it) there were so many girls vying after his hearts weather as a second year to last year graduates. Lily had heard from Jeanne that her sister said that Marianne was extremely pretty and nice as well. How could Lily even compare? Lily had yet to see what this Marianne looked like but she could tell that this lady had once totally captivated James' heart.

Jeanne came out of the room, lugging Lily and her's suitcases as James lunged for one catching Jeanne's grateful look.

"Oops, Sorry Jeanne." Lily said weakly.

Jeanne gave her a knowing smile saying slyly, " Oh, that's quite alright."

Thankfully, James being a person from the male species and was therefore oblivious to the meaning turned and started out of the door with the two ladies following him. Once down to the Lobby, they met up with Sirius who had taken back their BMW for them and was waiting by a sleek silver limo.

"Are you guys ready to go back?" Sirius asked them, looking at Jeanne.

"Not really, but what can we do?" Laughed Jeanne. Sirius chuckled and opened the door for her, leading the two ladies in and James climbed into the limo as well. When Sirius got in, the chauffer closed the door and went back to the front seat to start the engine.

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Jeanne watched absentmindedly as Lily's eyes got heavier and heavier and her head slowly started nodding. Internally she smiled as Lily always fell asleep in cars for which she didn't drive in. Finally giving into the desirable idea of sleeping, Lily's head finally landed gently onto James' shoulder in which he was looking out the window.

James felt a gentle thud and found that Lily had fallen asleep onto his shoulder. Shaking a little, James looked up to see Jeanne staring dreamily out at nothing while Sirius had fallen asleep as well, only next to the window. James wasn't used to this sort of touch, not since Marianne and he didn't exactly know what to do.

"Ummm…Lily?" James mumbled, gently prodding Lily's arm. " Lily?" James ran his fingers through his tousled hair and with that motion, Lily's head unconsciously slid into his lap.

" Er…" James' breathing got a little fast so since he didn't want to bother Lily, he took his jacket, rolled it up and used it as a pillow for underneath Lily's head. She looked so innocent, with a small smile on her pale, milky skin. Her little freckles, or sunspots from the sun, were even more noticeable when she slept because she didn't smile as big.

James hesitantly brushed her bangs from her eyes and watched as Lily breathed in and out dreamily. James smiled and looked out of the window, wondering why he was so happy when this wasn't important.

Lily mumbled softly and slid her arm under the comfortable pillow. Weird. Whatever this pillow was, it twitched. Yawning, but not opening her eyes yet, she flung her thin wrist out and circled it around a firm upright pillow.

Wait. Firm upright pillow? Lily's eyes flew open, bright green and slightly alarmed as she saw a pair of chocolate brown eyes twinkling with amusement staring straight back at her. Noticing her position, she flew upright, and started apologizing to James saying she had no clue how she ended  on his lap.

"It's ok Lily," James replied smirking as Lily blushed, recalling that one arm was encircling James' waist and another hand squished on top of James' thigh.

" I seriously fell asleep, I totally didn't know what I was doing." Lily babbled.

Sirius had woken up from Lily's startled chatter and was now laughing along with Jeanne at what a funny situation it was. The four of them didn't notice that they had already pulled up to the Airport. They got out as the chauffer lifted out their luggage and set  them aside. Jeanne and Lily thanked the driver and took their belongings. As they entered the gigantic building, Jeanne smirked at Lily who in turn blushed and pushed Jeanne gently into Sirius.

" Where are your guys' planes?" Lily asked.

" We don't leave until in an hour." Sirius replied.

" Oh," Jeanne said, semi disappointed. " We're leaving about now."

"Come on," Sirius said. " We'll go walk you ladies to where your terminal is."

Sirius grinned and motioned for James to start walking, the four chattered amiably. Lily was quite sad though. She didn't want to wait one more month to see Sirius and James. Moreover, she didn't want to return home to a desk full of NEWt and OWL books to study. It looked like her sunshine James wouldn't be there to make her happy anymore. Wait, HER sunshine? Gosh. She really had to stop dreaming. He was so popular with the girls it wasn't even funny. Lily sighed internally.

James noticed that Lily's face had dropped a bit and right away semi knew what she was thinking. As Jeanne and Sirius had also reached the correct terminal, James turned to Lily and softly said to her,

" Hey you. You know you can always owl me. Seriously, just owl me."

Lily smiled and said, " Alright, but what do you want me to owl you for?"

James replied, "Anything, just anything."

Lily reached up and hugged him, feeling so happy that he had asked her to stay in touch. As James put his arms around Lily's waist, he couldn't help but feel a bit weird how he wasn't going to see her until a month later. They did live in two different cities in England after all.

The speaker sounded, for all passengers to get on flight 703 to enter the gates. Out of the corner of her eye, Lily saw Sirius reach down and give Jeanne a bear hug promptly making Jeanne go into a fit of ticklish giggles.

" BYE JAMES!! BYE SIRIUS!!" Lily and Jeanne called as they boarded their flight. The two young men waved in response as several young and pretty stewardess' checked them out, making Lily internally jealous.

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The two young ladies were now in the air, high up and above the sparkling emerald-like island among a smooth sapphire fabric known as the ocean. Jeanne pushed back her chair, reclining comfortably and set he feet slightly up on the foot-rest. Lily followed the suit.

" Lily?" Jeanne mumbled, not opening her eyes. " I don't think I like Sirius anymore…"

Lily's eyes popped open and her head flew up to face Jeanne's still closed eyes. " Why the heck not?"

Jeanne slowly opened her eyes and replied, " I decided I've got way too much to do like NEWTs and OWLs and plus if Sirius ever found out, he'd never talk to me again. You know how he's awkward with girls who tell him they like him. That's why even his fanclub in Hogwarts keeps it low."

Lily thought about it slowly. " That's true…so are you just going to stay friends?"

Jeanne smiled lightly. " Yeah, I think that's the case. I like him so much as a friend and it's going to take some time to stop liking him but I think the reward will be much better. I'm not ready to think about dating yet."

Lily sat back, wondering about herself. Unfortunately she wished she could say the same. Yet, how was she supposed to get James? He was graduating in a year and he'd find some other gorgeous girl and they'd get married leaving Lily all alone…. Wait. She had a life, and from what other girls said, she had her own guys too right? Why did James matter so much?

Lily sighed and Jeanne opened her eyes smirking.

" So I guess you're still hanging on to James huh?" She teased. Lily grumbled proving to Jeanne that it was true.

" You shouldn't worry but I do think you should tell him how you feel you know? Maybe sometime later in the future you know?" Jeanne yawned again, falling back to sleep. Lily was worried though, she didn't' want to distract herself from her NEWTs and OWLs. Meh..she could always tell him some other time. Lily leaned back into the seats and fell asleep herself.

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A/N: Ahhhhh chapter thirteen! And there was some confusion. I don't' think it'll end at chapter 14 maybe like 16 or something but it's NEAR THE END!!! How am I doing? Hehehe  I love all my reviewers^^ You guys help me so much when I'm down, gah I hate tests and all that crap. But yeah more chappies later~!!