Kelsey woke up one morning a few weeks later, almost forgetting about it being the last day of school. She and her friends made their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast, like every other day. They pretty much ate in silence, except for the few plans that were being made for the summer.
"I say we all meet up at Diagon Alley and stay the last week at my house," Marcie said, pulling her long brown hair up so that it wouldn't get in her food.
There was a chorus of "Oks," "yeahs," and "that works" from the others. Kelsey just sat there, still very tired.
"Do we have potions today?" she asked. "I don't think I did my homework last night and professor's going to kill me" without waiting for an answer, she fell asleep with her head resting on the table.
"Should we wake her up?" Brianna asked, poking her best friend in the side lightly with a fork. When breakfast was over, they woke her up, with out the use of a fork like Brianna had offered to wake her up with earlier.
"Kels, it's time to go, you're going to miss the train if you sleep all day," Marcie said loudly near her friend's ear when this didn't wake her all the way Brianna got a fork.
"Brianna! Don't stab her with a fork!" another member of the Gryffindor house yelled.
"Then you wake her up!" she called down the table. Jake Peters walked down the table and stopped by Brianna.
"Ok then, I will," he grabbed a spoon off the table and poked her sharply in the side with it. This had the effect that they wanted, she was on her feet, rubbing her side in a matter of seconds.
"I thought you said we couldn't use silver wear," Marcie said, looking at Jake questionably.
"No, I said don't use a fork," he corrected, pushing his glasses up his nose and shrugging his shoulders while smiling cheekily.
Soon they had double checked their dorm and common room to make sure they had everything, and were on their way out to the horseless carriages.
As the students boarded the Hogwarts Express to go home for the summer, The Order of the Phoenix was meeting in the History of Magic Class Room.
"Hello, welcome to the Order of the Phoenix to all of our new members. Today we must talk about how were going to get the Potters back. They are still alive, but we don't know what condition they're in."
"When I was held captive by death eaters, they actually treated me pretty good. They didn't tie my up, but they did lock me in a room like a jail cell. Had a toilet and a bed and a flat on the door where they gave me food four times a day." one man said.
This was slightly reassuring to James who was looking at his shoes the whole time they were talking about his parents. Sirius tried not to look at him, Lily kept squeezing his hand, Remus kept smiling encouragingly, and Peter was shaking lightly.
'I didn't know Peter had taken this so hard,' James thought when he looked up to see who had spoken about death eaters holding him captive.
As the meeting went on, they were told exactly what the Order did. "Basically, we look for death eaters, we find them, we alert the ministry right away, they take care of them, and then that's it. No one else knows who we are. We work as a team; there is no one that isn't doing something. You will usually be pair up with some one who you work well with because of ability to find a certain Death Eater. There are times that you will have to take one to the ministry your self, or rather, you and your partners by yourselves. That's why you will always work with the people who you are assigned to work with.
"We are working on getting a place to hold our meetings, some where know one knows about because the death eaters will find out about us eventually. As much as we like to think there aren't any death eaters in the ministry, there are. But we need the proof before we can take them in." Dumbledore explained.
**Later that evening, after they all got back from the meeting, the decided to start on planning the wedding. The group of 7 seven people sat around the table at the three broomsticks drinking butterbeer, laughing and throwing out suggestions.
"I think you should get married in the Great Hall," Shelly said, ignoring Sirius's comments about her only wanting to go back to the school.
"If she wanted to go back, she could have just failed a year," Peter said in Shelly's defense. Sirius just rolled his eyes and the rest of the group watched amused at the entertainment provided by their friends.
"Alright, alright, we're here for a reason aren't we?" Remus said after another minute or two of arguing about failing a year to stay. This would have worked if Sirius hadn't said that James would've stayed but the squid was there.
"Oooh Padfoot you're asking for it!" he said, a huge mischievous smile lit up his face as he pulled out his wand and muttered a curse.
Sirius didn't know what happened to him, but he assumed it was something changing color because he couldn't feel anything growing. His suspicions where confirmed when he reached for his mug of butterbeer and his hand was a violent shade of pink. He did, however, get his revenge later that evening when they were walking back to the apartment.
"Say Prongs, you recon Lily would like to marry a purple man?" Sirius asked, waving his wand and saying the spell to turn James light lavender color.
James grinned and muttered something under his breath as well. "Probably about as much as she'd like to have a green and silver best man."
"Ugh, James, you could've picked something better than Slytherin colors, honestly," Peter said, joining in the conversation. "I say a nice bright red with pale blue stripes."
"Peter, you have absolutely no color coordination what so ever," Remus said rolling his eyes. "Maybe pink and red, or red and gold, or two different color blues, but seriously,"
"Yes, well not all of us are that in touch with our, uh shall we say feminine side?" James said, sticking up for Peter's poor sense of colors, which happened to be just as bad as his own.
"Say, it's getting about that time of the month again isn't it?" Sirius asked playing along, not even bothering to take the spell off himself.
"Yes, Padfoot, It's that time of the month again," Remus said, once more rolling his eyes but he couldn't help but laugh at the ridiculousness of the conversation.
Soon after they returned home, the four of them were crowded around the kitchen table watching a heated game of chess between Shelly and Andrea who had somehow made it there before the others had made it back.
They're chess pieces were even getting into the game. They would call out insults to the piece that they were instructed to take.
"Knight to B5," Andrea said, sacrificing her knight to Shelly's queen. "Bloody traitor!" the piece yelled at her before it got knocked into pieces by the other piece. "Teach you to talk back to me you stupid chess set," she muttered, clearing the remains of her knight off the board.
As soon as the queen was moved, she was free to take the queen, and then her next move she was able to check the king. Shelly's game pieces didn't like this very much as they regrouped themselves they started to yell at Shelly about how she needed to get better tactics. She just shoved them in the box, still talking about her 'utter lack of skills'.
**Kelsey got off the Hogwarts express with her friends at King's Cross Station. She was paired with Marcie to walk through the barrier out into the muggle world.
"Send me an owl and tell me what you're aunt's friend is like," she said, as they emerged into the hustle and bustle of the station.
"Don't worry, I will. And if she's a bloody witch, I'll be seeking refuge at your place!" she called as she started walking toward the face that she remembered be introduced to.
"You are a bloody witch Kels!" Marcie called back, heading the opposite direction to find her mother and father. Kelsey sighed as she got closer to the lady that was waiting for her, another year was gone, and so was another family member.
"Hullo! I'm Caitlyn, the one who will be taking care of you," the lady introduced herself, shaking the teenager's hand.
"Hello…" she said, feeling kind of shy. She didn't know what kind of person this Caitlyn was, but she at least seemed nice.
"Don't be shy dear, we won't ever have fun if you're shy!" the lady said laughing, "Now tell me about you're year, by the way, what house are you in? I was in Ravenclaw myself...." Oh yes, this was going to be a summer to remember.
**"I'm going to see Lily," James called, slamming the door behind him and not waiting to see what any of the other members of the house said.
"God, you'd think they were alright married, he can't stay away from her for three minutes. And when he is away from her, he doesn't shut up about her." Sirius sighed, leaning back into the couch.
"I'm not deaf Padfoot," James said, laughing through the door." Apparently he did wait and see what his friends had to say.
When James arrived in Lily's apartment, via floo powder, he saw a sight that made him wish he had a camera. Lily had fallen asleep. Now, you may thing that there is nothing special about falling asleep, but when you fall asleep and your friends put various hexes and charms on you, then it's something of a Kodak moment.
Lily was lying on the floor in front of the couch with a magazine under her head. She had her hair in a messy pony tail that was charmed orange with purple and black dots, her skin was normal, but her clothes were very not normal. She was in a spork costume.
She had on shiny silver pants, with the same type of shirt. The hat however, was the funniest part. It was shaped like the head of a spork, only it had 'Lily is afraid of sporks and must sleep with James" engraved on it. He found this quite humorous, but then the thought of sharing a bed with Lily came to mind. It sounded nice, but he liked the couch better, if forced them to be closer together.
James sighed and held back his laughter, after taking many of the curses and hexes off of Lily; he sat down next to her on the floor and woke her up.
Ok, so he hadn't gotten all of the hexes off. "James?" she asked, he smiled down at her. He was going to say something to her, but she cut him off with a very loud, and very off key rendition of "We wish you sporkless sleeping," This was the hex that he missed. Her eyes widened when she realized what she was saying, and how she was singing it for that matter.
Finally, James managed to get the hex off of her and they went into the kitchen, hoping to get some work done with planning the wedding.
This thought however was put on hold when they saw what was on the table, or rather who was doing what on the table. "Andie!" Lily said, stomping her foot. "I thought we agreed no more table snogging? Some of us want to eat you know!"
Grinning sheepishly, Andrea Mick and Remus Lupin slid to the floor. "Sorry Lilsy," Andrea said, shrugging her shoulders slightly. It didn't take long for the whole situation to hit James, and then it didn't take long after that for him to find it extremely humorous for some reason.
Although the reason was standing behind him in the doorway with her long black hair messed up and her shirt on slightly skewed. He didn't need to know that.
a/n: Well, there was Chapter Ten.. Wow ten chapters already! Anyway, sorry for the delay, my internet was down, so I couldn't post. The next chapter will be more of Kelsey, possible a death eater scene, and an order meeting, and this time they will actually do something, so it won't be as painfully boring, (yes, that was probably as painful to write as it was to read! Sorry about that...) Oh, and they will actually get some of the wedding stuff planned too! Yay for that. And sorry if that chess scene was wrong, because well I've honestly never played chess in my life so I have NO idea what I was talking about...lol
Anyway, review and I'll always love you! Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, I love you too! lol
Manda