~*~ Home For The Holidays ~*~
~Hold my head up high
~Keep on movin'
~Nothing's going to get me down today
~Gotta uphold that smile
~Ignore those troubles
~They ain't gonna spoil my holiday
~Coz I've learnt enough
~Not to let them get the best of me
~I know when I have to say
~Leave me alone
~I don't know you anymore
~So you certainly can't spoil my...
~Holiday
There wasn't as much damage as I had first thought. Nothing serious, no broken rib - just a black eye, fat lip and a lot of grazes and bruises. But I felt like hippogriff dung. The matron, lucky for me, didn't ask any questions. Just tutted and clucked a lot. James stayed with me while Sirius went and got Bella and Hilary. Well, he set out to get Bella and Hilary, anyway. He ended up bringing half of Gryffindor Tower. Not to mention about ten galleons of butterbeer and three quarters of Honeyduke's chocolate supply. Needless to say, we had a bit of fun.
The next few weeks passed without much event, thankfully. I noticed Slytherins following me occasionally, no doubt hoping to get me alone, but, thanks to James and Sirius, I was always surrounded by people. They had vaguely suggested to countless people that the Slytherins were giving some of the first years a hard time, and that it wasn't probably a good idea for us to be alone - so just about all of Gryffindor decided to take up the challenge and protectively follow all of us around. It was sometimes a bit of a nuisance being stuck in the middle of a heap of people all the time, but it definitely kept Malfoy and his friends away.
So, I made it to Christmas without anything happening. Us girls had exchanged details and vowed to meet up at some point. Bella and Sirius had swapped numbers, and Kelsey had asked for Remus's, much to Hilary's disgust. And when the time came, we all packed our things and hopped onto the Hogwarts Express to head home for Christmas.
And when we arrived at the station, I was met by a very excited Joey.
'Lilian Evans! I haven't seen you for three months! Three months!'
I grinned and practically ran out of the train, Bella and the crew hot on my heels.
'Three bloody months, Lily Evans!' Joey screeched, waving her arms around, a paper shopping bag in each hand.
'Hey, settle, settle. Where have you been?' I laughed. Joey pulled a strand of hair out of her face. Her entire head of deep brown now had blonde streaks in it, and was all braided into a zillion tiny, neat little braids. She grinned and held out a bag.
'I have been exploring London. Here's your welcome back gift, by the way.'
I opened the bag. Inside appeared to be a cheesecloth top, some jeans, and...
'Tickets to the circus! Oh my god, are you for real? This is awesome!'
'Mum got them from work,' Joey grinned. Suddenly, someone behind me coughed. It was Sirius.
'Oh! Joey, I suppose I should introduce my friends before Sirius decides he has to fake his own death to get some attention,' I said airily, turning to look at Sirius. He pretended to cower, trembling his lower lip.
'Wi'm sowwy, Wiwly. Wi didn't mwean two intwerwupt.'
Joey laughed.
'Everybody, this is Joey. Joey, this is Sirius Mercutio Benvolio Romeo Tybalt Juliet Black.'
'Pleased to meet you,' Joey giggled, as Sirius enthusiastically shook her hand.
'This is Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Hilary Potter, and Arabella Figg.'
'Call me Bella,' Bella aid as she shook Joey's hand. Joey's smile flickered a little.
'Bella. Lily's told me so much about you!'
'Oh no, Lily, I hope it wasn't anything bad!' Bella mocked sternly.
'Am I missing something?' 'Oh, James! Where did you go? Anyway, Joey - this is James Potter. James, this is Joey.'
'Nice to meet you,' James said, bowing.
'Same to you,' Joey smiled back, her lips twitching slightly as she shook his hand. I watched with amusement.
'Is my mum picking us up, or yours?' I interrupted. Joey snapped around. 'Oh, yours is. I'm staying the night. That is - after the circus. I wanted you to stay with me, but your mum wanted you to herself!' she giggled. I grinned.
'Well, I am dying to see my mum,' I told the guys. 'So I hope you don't mind if we go.' 'Of course not,' Bella said.
'Catch up with you guys later, ok?'
'Diagon Alley, a must,' Hilary agreed, waving madly.
'Nice to meet you, Joey!' Sirius yelped, as he dodged Bella, who appeared to be trying to attack him. Joey kept looking over her shoulder as we walked away.
'I can't believe it! You ditched me for a load of nutters!' she joked.
'They aren't that bad,' I commented, accepting the gum Joey gave me and popping it in my mouth.
'Yeah, James is a major hottie. Where did you pick him up?'
'Actually, he was the first person I met. I was sitting by myself on the train, and the guys came in and sat with me.'
'Ooh. So, is he dating anyone?'
'Well, Sirius is always going on about this Paige girl, but I don't know if he's actually seeing her. But he does have a major crush on another girl. In fact, your good friend Nick's girlfriend.'
Joey's eyes clouded with confusion for a moment, then opened wide in understanding.
'Nick?' she laughed. 'As in Nick Mornington, who came to your house?'
I nodded.
'He has a girlfriend? You have got to be kidding.'
'Who? James, or Nick?'
'Why do you say it in that tone?' she asked warily.
'Well, James has a bit of a reputation with girls,' I said lightly.
'I'm spoken for, anyway,' Joey sighed. I raised an eyebrow.
'Really? Who?'
'Sam.'
It took me a moment to register that.
'Wait - did you just say Sam?'
She nodded.
'Like - as in, Sam van Loon?'
'The very same.'
'Joey!' I exclaimed. She giggled.
'What? He's cool!' she defended. 'He's heaps nicer now. Besides, according to him, the only reason he annoyed us was because he liked us, he said.'
'Oh my god,' I laughed, shaking my head. 'You, and Sam. Do you know how wrong that sounds? What did René have to say about it?'
'René thinks I'm a crazy jackass. But then again, she can talk.'
'Yeah, she is a bit wild,' I admitted.
'But never mind Sam, I'm in love with your best friend.'
'Who, Bella?' I asked, raising an eyebrow. I could see my mum in the distance and gave her a wave.
'No, James, you dolt,' she laughed.
'Ah,' I grinned knowingly. 'He's quite the little heart breaker, I will stress.'
'Heartbreaker smuchwaker. Who cares? I'd kill for one kiss. He is hot,' she grinned, shaking her head, as I was suddenly swept into a big hug by my mum.
'Hi,' I choked out.
'Hi, honey,' mum grinned. 'Have fun at school?'
'Yes - but I miss you guys way too much!'
'I'm sure. She's been too busy hanging around with hot guys, Mrs E,' Joey teased. Mum gave me raised eyebrows and I poked my tongue out at Joey.
'Relax, mum. They're just friends -'
'Who happen to be incredibly sexy,' Joey interrupted.
'That happen to be incredibly sexy,' I added, rolling my eyes. 'I'm not going to get raped, mum. Geez, Joey. Don't put ideas into her head.'
We both laughed.
'Well, we're going out for lunch, to celebrate your return!' Mum said as we climbed into the car. 'Cool. Where to? By the way, where's Petunia?'
'Smokey's. And Petunia's been on camp. She gets back tomorrow afternoon.'
'Smokey's? Awesome, Mrs E,' Joey said, pulling on her seatbelt.
'I'm, glad you like the idea,' Mum replied, smiling at us in the rearview mirror.
I wasn't sorry that Petunia was at camp. I doubted that she would have come had she been home anyway. And besides, Joey and i would have more fun with out her. We had lots of gossip to catch up on and Petunia wouldn't have wanted to hear a word about my 'freak school' as she had deemed it.
Smokey's was great - and as it happened, Bella and her family happened to be walking around Muggle London near by. We begged our parents to let her come to Smokey's with us.
I looked at Joey. She was great at convincing my mum. She smirked and turned to my mother.
'Go on, Mrs E. I'd love to meet Bella, since Lily's told me so much about her. I'm sure you would too.'
'Oh, go on then. If it's OK with your parents,' she added, looking over at where Mr and Mrs Black were standing.
Bella came from a large Italian family. She was an only child, but according to her, the house was never empty of children. I guess Italians just have that any-child-of-yours-is-a-child-of-mine kind of way of thinking.
Mrs Black was the kind of person you'd call a way-out hippy. Peace, love and all that jazz. Mega greenie, too. I even think she was a vegetarian. She may sound weird, but she looked pretty cool. I'd never actually spoken to her, but I'd seen her a couple of times and her fashion sense was pretty far out at least. Funky jeans and boob tubes. Everything flared. And her hair! It was the darkest black, down to past her waist. She wore it in a big braid, with fantastic colours streaked through it. If she was anything like the way she looked, I'd thought, she'd be an awesome mum.
Mr Black seemed a bit more serious, but Bella said he was pretty laid back. He was wearing jeans and a red shirt, and looked like a normal kind of guy. Bella said that he was, except for the odd occasion when he got an odd idea in his head. Like this one time he'd thought that it was important that all of her cousins learned the skill of falling off the roof, if ever they found themselves in a dangerous position. You know, put your arms out to break your fall and all that rot. She also warned me that you should probably not put your arms out to break your fall from such a height, as they ended up with eight broken arms. I'll remember that, if I ever find myself falling off a roof.
Anyway, Smokey's didn't go as smoothly as I had originally intended. There seemed to be somewhat of a hint of jealousy lurking somewhere there, because Bella and Joey didn't exactly hit it off.
'Lily, you have come stay sometime,' Bella had grinned as she helped herself to some salad while my mum was off touching up her make up.
Simple enough statement, but the claws came out.
'Come on, Bella. She's been with you for three months! She's mine, now!' Joey laughed, but it was slightly stiff.
'I can still go to Bella's,' I said simply.
Joey looked at me.
'Whatever. You know, mum got tickets to a heap of concerts, too, not just the circus. She works at the Box Office,' she added superiorly to Bella.
'My dad plays Quidditch,' Bella said proudly through a mouthful of celery. Joey wrinkled her nose.
'That basketball on broomsticks? How... exciting.'
I'd had enough of it by then, and it hadn't even really started yet.
'Guys, quit it,' I said, not looking up.
'It's not my fault your friend here can't live with the fact you have another best friend,' Joey said with a pointed look at me.
'I don't mind if she has two best friends,' Bella said simply. Everyone had forgotten about their food.
'Yeah, if you say so.'
'I don't! And it's not my fault if you feel like you have to remind Lily how good you are so she'll still like you more. But I don't care if she likes you more. You've been friends forever. Geez, I don't want to intrude,' Bella said, rolling her eyes. Joey glared at her.
'I don't need to remind Lily how good I am, because just being next to you creates a great comparison.'
I could not believe Joey had just said that. Bella looked hurt.
'Guys, just stop it, right now!' I demanded, slamming my drink down. They both scowled and looked away.
'Listen, guys - you don't have to get along, but you're both going to have to get used to the fact that I'm friends with both of you. If you aren't going to be nice, don't talk.'
I was actually leaning towards favouring Bella then. You don't think that was just biased, because I wasn't used to Joey as much? I just seemed to think that Joey was being a bit mean there, but I might have been wrong.
'Listen, Lily. I should go. My mum will be here soon,' Bella said, finishing her drink and standing.
'Yeah, I guess,' I said dully. 'See you. Call me, OK?'
Bella's eyes flickered to Joey for a moment.
'Yeah, maybe. Bye.'
'Bye.'
Joey and I sat in silence for a few moments, not looking at each other. After a moment, I spoke.
'Joey, she's my friend too, you know. Did you expect I'd go three months away from you with out meeting new people?'
'No,' she said shortly. 'But I haven't seen you in ages. You get to see her all year round at school. I don't know, I guess I'm just not used to sharing you. But this doesn't mean I'm going to be nice to her,' she added quickly.
'Civil?' I bargained.
'I'll try,' she agreed, pushing her food around her plate with her fork.
Mum came back about then.
'Hey girls. Where's Bella gone, Lily?' she asked, smiling.
'Oh, she had to go. Her mum came for her,' I lied. Mum bought it though, so we quickly finished our food and left. Joey and I had lost our appetites.
We pretty much just wandered around London for the rest of the day, and that night, we went to the circus. It was awesome, full of performing animals and acrobats. Brilliant costumes, and the lighting was amazing. The magic tricks didn't seem quite as exciting after spending a term at Hogwarts, but it was great all the same.
The awkwardness between myself and Joey had ended quickly, and we were right back to our chatty selves, but I still had a nagging feeling in the back of my head, telling me something had changed in our friendship that day.
And I don't think it was exactly for the best. ~*~*~*~*~ Author's Note ~*~*~*~*~
Hey guys, I just wanted to clear a few things up.
One, several people have been telling me that James and Lily are the same age. I figured this, but felt like writing something different.
Two, I know that since Tom Riddle is her father, Lily technically speaking isn't a muggle born. But since nobody knows that he is her father, it is natural that everyone thinks she's a muggle born. So even if she's not muggle born, she lives the life of a muggle born and thus the title. Are you with me on that one? Great.
Anyway, the next chapter is ~Christmas With The Potters~ and should be up soon. It will cover the rest of the holidays.
My humblest apologies to all those who seem to be in love with Joey - I'm sorry I turned her into such a nasty person. And I hate to say it, but she gets worse. Sorry, but it's based on a relationship I was in where two of my good friends couldn't stand each other. But it had a good ending, and don't worry, the Joey/Bella issue will be resolved!
I know this was a pretty short and not-so-exciting chapter, but I had a lot of homework! Have mercy.
See you guys soon, and please keep up the reviews! I don't want to be mean and say 10 reviews or I won't update, because I know I have a couple of faithful readers out there and even one would be good enough for me. But reviews would be great!
Bye!
Sezzie
P.s. I didn't have time to write thank-yous, so I'll mention everyone in the next chapter, K?
~Hold my head up high
~Keep on movin'
~Nothing's going to get me down today
~Gotta uphold that smile
~Ignore those troubles
~They ain't gonna spoil my holiday
~Coz I've learnt enough
~Not to let them get the best of me
~I know when I have to say
~Leave me alone
~I don't know you anymore
~So you certainly can't spoil my...
~Holiday
There wasn't as much damage as I had first thought. Nothing serious, no broken rib - just a black eye, fat lip and a lot of grazes and bruises. But I felt like hippogriff dung. The matron, lucky for me, didn't ask any questions. Just tutted and clucked a lot. James stayed with me while Sirius went and got Bella and Hilary. Well, he set out to get Bella and Hilary, anyway. He ended up bringing half of Gryffindor Tower. Not to mention about ten galleons of butterbeer and three quarters of Honeyduke's chocolate supply. Needless to say, we had a bit of fun.
The next few weeks passed without much event, thankfully. I noticed Slytherins following me occasionally, no doubt hoping to get me alone, but, thanks to James and Sirius, I was always surrounded by people. They had vaguely suggested to countless people that the Slytherins were giving some of the first years a hard time, and that it wasn't probably a good idea for us to be alone - so just about all of Gryffindor decided to take up the challenge and protectively follow all of us around. It was sometimes a bit of a nuisance being stuck in the middle of a heap of people all the time, but it definitely kept Malfoy and his friends away.
So, I made it to Christmas without anything happening. Us girls had exchanged details and vowed to meet up at some point. Bella and Sirius had swapped numbers, and Kelsey had asked for Remus's, much to Hilary's disgust. And when the time came, we all packed our things and hopped onto the Hogwarts Express to head home for Christmas.
And when we arrived at the station, I was met by a very excited Joey.
'Lilian Evans! I haven't seen you for three months! Three months!'
I grinned and practically ran out of the train, Bella and the crew hot on my heels.
'Three bloody months, Lily Evans!' Joey screeched, waving her arms around, a paper shopping bag in each hand.
'Hey, settle, settle. Where have you been?' I laughed. Joey pulled a strand of hair out of her face. Her entire head of deep brown now had blonde streaks in it, and was all braided into a zillion tiny, neat little braids. She grinned and held out a bag.
'I have been exploring London. Here's your welcome back gift, by the way.'
I opened the bag. Inside appeared to be a cheesecloth top, some jeans, and...
'Tickets to the circus! Oh my god, are you for real? This is awesome!'
'Mum got them from work,' Joey grinned. Suddenly, someone behind me coughed. It was Sirius.
'Oh! Joey, I suppose I should introduce my friends before Sirius decides he has to fake his own death to get some attention,' I said airily, turning to look at Sirius. He pretended to cower, trembling his lower lip.
'Wi'm sowwy, Wiwly. Wi didn't mwean two intwerwupt.'
Joey laughed.
'Everybody, this is Joey. Joey, this is Sirius Mercutio Benvolio Romeo Tybalt Juliet Black.'
'Pleased to meet you,' Joey giggled, as Sirius enthusiastically shook her hand.
'This is Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Hilary Potter, and Arabella Figg.'
'Call me Bella,' Bella aid as she shook Joey's hand. Joey's smile flickered a little.
'Bella. Lily's told me so much about you!'
'Oh no, Lily, I hope it wasn't anything bad!' Bella mocked sternly.
'Am I missing something?' 'Oh, James! Where did you go? Anyway, Joey - this is James Potter. James, this is Joey.'
'Nice to meet you,' James said, bowing.
'Same to you,' Joey smiled back, her lips twitching slightly as she shook his hand. I watched with amusement.
'Is my mum picking us up, or yours?' I interrupted. Joey snapped around. 'Oh, yours is. I'm staying the night. That is - after the circus. I wanted you to stay with me, but your mum wanted you to herself!' she giggled. I grinned.
'Well, I am dying to see my mum,' I told the guys. 'So I hope you don't mind if we go.' 'Of course not,' Bella said.
'Catch up with you guys later, ok?'
'Diagon Alley, a must,' Hilary agreed, waving madly.
'Nice to meet you, Joey!' Sirius yelped, as he dodged Bella, who appeared to be trying to attack him. Joey kept looking over her shoulder as we walked away.
'I can't believe it! You ditched me for a load of nutters!' she joked.
'They aren't that bad,' I commented, accepting the gum Joey gave me and popping it in my mouth.
'Yeah, James is a major hottie. Where did you pick him up?'
'Actually, he was the first person I met. I was sitting by myself on the train, and the guys came in and sat with me.'
'Ooh. So, is he dating anyone?'
'Well, Sirius is always going on about this Paige girl, but I don't know if he's actually seeing her. But he does have a major crush on another girl. In fact, your good friend Nick's girlfriend.'
Joey's eyes clouded with confusion for a moment, then opened wide in understanding.
'Nick?' she laughed. 'As in Nick Mornington, who came to your house?'
I nodded.
'He has a girlfriend? You have got to be kidding.'
'Who? James, or Nick?'
'Why do you say it in that tone?' she asked warily.
'Well, James has a bit of a reputation with girls,' I said lightly.
'I'm spoken for, anyway,' Joey sighed. I raised an eyebrow.
'Really? Who?'
'Sam.'
It took me a moment to register that.
'Wait - did you just say Sam?'
She nodded.
'Like - as in, Sam van Loon?'
'The very same.'
'Joey!' I exclaimed. She giggled.
'What? He's cool!' she defended. 'He's heaps nicer now. Besides, according to him, the only reason he annoyed us was because he liked us, he said.'
'Oh my god,' I laughed, shaking my head. 'You, and Sam. Do you know how wrong that sounds? What did René have to say about it?'
'René thinks I'm a crazy jackass. But then again, she can talk.'
'Yeah, she is a bit wild,' I admitted.
'But never mind Sam, I'm in love with your best friend.'
'Who, Bella?' I asked, raising an eyebrow. I could see my mum in the distance and gave her a wave.
'No, James, you dolt,' she laughed.
'Ah,' I grinned knowingly. 'He's quite the little heart breaker, I will stress.'
'Heartbreaker smuchwaker. Who cares? I'd kill for one kiss. He is hot,' she grinned, shaking her head, as I was suddenly swept into a big hug by my mum.
'Hi,' I choked out.
'Hi, honey,' mum grinned. 'Have fun at school?'
'Yes - but I miss you guys way too much!'
'I'm sure. She's been too busy hanging around with hot guys, Mrs E,' Joey teased. Mum gave me raised eyebrows and I poked my tongue out at Joey.
'Relax, mum. They're just friends -'
'Who happen to be incredibly sexy,' Joey interrupted.
'That happen to be incredibly sexy,' I added, rolling my eyes. 'I'm not going to get raped, mum. Geez, Joey. Don't put ideas into her head.'
We both laughed.
'Well, we're going out for lunch, to celebrate your return!' Mum said as we climbed into the car. 'Cool. Where to? By the way, where's Petunia?'
'Smokey's. And Petunia's been on camp. She gets back tomorrow afternoon.'
'Smokey's? Awesome, Mrs E,' Joey said, pulling on her seatbelt.
'I'm, glad you like the idea,' Mum replied, smiling at us in the rearview mirror.
I wasn't sorry that Petunia was at camp. I doubted that she would have come had she been home anyway. And besides, Joey and i would have more fun with out her. We had lots of gossip to catch up on and Petunia wouldn't have wanted to hear a word about my 'freak school' as she had deemed it.
Smokey's was great - and as it happened, Bella and her family happened to be walking around Muggle London near by. We begged our parents to let her come to Smokey's with us.
I looked at Joey. She was great at convincing my mum. She smirked and turned to my mother.
'Go on, Mrs E. I'd love to meet Bella, since Lily's told me so much about her. I'm sure you would too.'
'Oh, go on then. If it's OK with your parents,' she added, looking over at where Mr and Mrs Black were standing.
Bella came from a large Italian family. She was an only child, but according to her, the house was never empty of children. I guess Italians just have that any-child-of-yours-is-a-child-of-mine kind of way of thinking.
Mrs Black was the kind of person you'd call a way-out hippy. Peace, love and all that jazz. Mega greenie, too. I even think she was a vegetarian. She may sound weird, but she looked pretty cool. I'd never actually spoken to her, but I'd seen her a couple of times and her fashion sense was pretty far out at least. Funky jeans and boob tubes. Everything flared. And her hair! It was the darkest black, down to past her waist. She wore it in a big braid, with fantastic colours streaked through it. If she was anything like the way she looked, I'd thought, she'd be an awesome mum.
Mr Black seemed a bit more serious, but Bella said he was pretty laid back. He was wearing jeans and a red shirt, and looked like a normal kind of guy. Bella said that he was, except for the odd occasion when he got an odd idea in his head. Like this one time he'd thought that it was important that all of her cousins learned the skill of falling off the roof, if ever they found themselves in a dangerous position. You know, put your arms out to break your fall and all that rot. She also warned me that you should probably not put your arms out to break your fall from such a height, as they ended up with eight broken arms. I'll remember that, if I ever find myself falling off a roof.
Anyway, Smokey's didn't go as smoothly as I had originally intended. There seemed to be somewhat of a hint of jealousy lurking somewhere there, because Bella and Joey didn't exactly hit it off.
'Lily, you have come stay sometime,' Bella had grinned as she helped herself to some salad while my mum was off touching up her make up.
Simple enough statement, but the claws came out.
'Come on, Bella. She's been with you for three months! She's mine, now!' Joey laughed, but it was slightly stiff.
'I can still go to Bella's,' I said simply.
Joey looked at me.
'Whatever. You know, mum got tickets to a heap of concerts, too, not just the circus. She works at the Box Office,' she added superiorly to Bella.
'My dad plays Quidditch,' Bella said proudly through a mouthful of celery. Joey wrinkled her nose.
'That basketball on broomsticks? How... exciting.'
I'd had enough of it by then, and it hadn't even really started yet.
'Guys, quit it,' I said, not looking up.
'It's not my fault your friend here can't live with the fact you have another best friend,' Joey said with a pointed look at me.
'I don't mind if she has two best friends,' Bella said simply. Everyone had forgotten about their food.
'Yeah, if you say so.'
'I don't! And it's not my fault if you feel like you have to remind Lily how good you are so she'll still like you more. But I don't care if she likes you more. You've been friends forever. Geez, I don't want to intrude,' Bella said, rolling her eyes. Joey glared at her.
'I don't need to remind Lily how good I am, because just being next to you creates a great comparison.'
I could not believe Joey had just said that. Bella looked hurt.
'Guys, just stop it, right now!' I demanded, slamming my drink down. They both scowled and looked away.
'Listen, guys - you don't have to get along, but you're both going to have to get used to the fact that I'm friends with both of you. If you aren't going to be nice, don't talk.'
I was actually leaning towards favouring Bella then. You don't think that was just biased, because I wasn't used to Joey as much? I just seemed to think that Joey was being a bit mean there, but I might have been wrong.
'Listen, Lily. I should go. My mum will be here soon,' Bella said, finishing her drink and standing.
'Yeah, I guess,' I said dully. 'See you. Call me, OK?'
Bella's eyes flickered to Joey for a moment.
'Yeah, maybe. Bye.'
'Bye.'
Joey and I sat in silence for a few moments, not looking at each other. After a moment, I spoke.
'Joey, she's my friend too, you know. Did you expect I'd go three months away from you with out meeting new people?'
'No,' she said shortly. 'But I haven't seen you in ages. You get to see her all year round at school. I don't know, I guess I'm just not used to sharing you. But this doesn't mean I'm going to be nice to her,' she added quickly.
'Civil?' I bargained.
'I'll try,' she agreed, pushing her food around her plate with her fork.
Mum came back about then.
'Hey girls. Where's Bella gone, Lily?' she asked, smiling.
'Oh, she had to go. Her mum came for her,' I lied. Mum bought it though, so we quickly finished our food and left. Joey and I had lost our appetites.
We pretty much just wandered around London for the rest of the day, and that night, we went to the circus. It was awesome, full of performing animals and acrobats. Brilliant costumes, and the lighting was amazing. The magic tricks didn't seem quite as exciting after spending a term at Hogwarts, but it was great all the same.
The awkwardness between myself and Joey had ended quickly, and we were right back to our chatty selves, but I still had a nagging feeling in the back of my head, telling me something had changed in our friendship that day.
And I don't think it was exactly for the best. ~*~*~*~*~ Author's Note ~*~*~*~*~
Hey guys, I just wanted to clear a few things up.
One, several people have been telling me that James and Lily are the same age. I figured this, but felt like writing something different.
Two, I know that since Tom Riddle is her father, Lily technically speaking isn't a muggle born. But since nobody knows that he is her father, it is natural that everyone thinks she's a muggle born. So even if she's not muggle born, she lives the life of a muggle born and thus the title. Are you with me on that one? Great.
Anyway, the next chapter is ~Christmas With The Potters~ and should be up soon. It will cover the rest of the holidays.
My humblest apologies to all those who seem to be in love with Joey - I'm sorry I turned her into such a nasty person. And I hate to say it, but she gets worse. Sorry, but it's based on a relationship I was in where two of my good friends couldn't stand each other. But it had a good ending, and don't worry, the Joey/Bella issue will be resolved!
I know this was a pretty short and not-so-exciting chapter, but I had a lot of homework! Have mercy.
See you guys soon, and please keep up the reviews! I don't want to be mean and say 10 reviews or I won't update, because I know I have a couple of faithful readers out there and even one would be good enough for me. But reviews would be great!
Bye!
Sezzie
P.s. I didn't have time to write thank-yous, so I'll mention everyone in the next chapter, K?
