Lily was your average eleven-year-old girl. She had auburn curly hair (like her father) that fell just a little below her shoulders, and bright green eyes (like her mother). Lily had an ordinary family, ordinary friends, and went to an ordinary school. There was definitely nothing unusual about her, or at least, nothing she knew of, anyway.
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Today was the first day of summer, and Lily was going to stay with her grandparents, who lived far out in the country, while the rest of her family went to America to visit some relatives. They had invited her to go along, but to be honest, Lily didn't exactly get along with her American cousins, and didn't feel like spending her whole summer getting into fights with them. Since her parents got a free plane ticket when they bought theirs, they decided to let Lily fly to her grandparents, instead of taking the 6 hour train ride.
"Here we are." Said Lily's mother as they arrived at the large London airport. "Do you have your plane ticket dear?"
Lily sighed. It was time for the never ending list of questions her mother always asked her when they were going to be separated like this. "Yes mom."
"Do you know what plane your on?"
"Yes mom, flight eleven, its right on the ticket."
"Do you have your luggage?"
"Yes, mom!"
"Are you sure you haven't forgotten anything?"
"Yes!"
"Are you positive? Lets go through the list once more, just to be sure: tooth brush, hair brush, underwear, …"
"MOM!!!"
"Calm down Lily, your mother just wants to make sure everything goes all right."
"I know…"
By then they had arrived at the gate for the flight Lily's family was taking. They were a little late, so the plane was already boarding.
"You guys better hurry, or you're going to miss your flight!"
"Now you be careful, and behave yourself!" Lily's mother said as they exchanged hugs and good-byes.
"I will. Say hi to everybody in America for me! Oh, and if its not too much trouble, can you bring me back a souvenir?"
At this, Lily's father laughed. "Of course dear. Say hello to grandmother and grandfather for us, all right?"
"Last call for passengers on flight 16!"
"Oh! That's your flight!! Hurry, or you'll miss it!"
They all said a last few good-byes, and then finally boarded the plane. Lily walked over to one of the large wall-sized windows and watched as their plane made its way to the runway and took off.
Lily's flight wasn't set to leave until about an hour and a half from now, so she slowly made her way to the gate, keeping an eye out for a good place to have lunch.
When she was about half way there, she noticed a commotion by one of the snack bars. To kill some time, she decided to go over and investigate. As she got closer, she noticed that what ever was going on, was being caused by two boys with black hair.
The boys were dressed rather oddly. Over their regular clothes, they each wore a cape with a long scarf, despite the warm summer weather. Lily assumed they had just arrived from somewhere rather cold. She couldn't tell much else about them, except the fact that they appeared to be around her age.
She had now joined the quickly forming crowd around the snack-stand and listened to what the boys and shopkeeper were arguing about.
"It was only a little prank, geez, you don't have much of a sense of humor do you?" said one of the boys. He was a little shorter than the other one, and his hair was rather short and neat.
"Only a prank?! Only a prank?!?! Why you two hooligans could have set my entire shop on fire!!!!!"
"Who you calling hooligans?? You should be thankin' us right about now. Why, I doubt you've never, or would ever have seen an indoor firework in your entire life if it wasn't for me and James here!!"
"Sirius, calm down. He has a right for being angry. None of these people have ever seen anything like that before. They had no way of knowing that the firework was perfectly safe." Said the boy who was apparently named James, as he attempted to calm down the other boy, whose name appeared to be Sirius. James was a slightly taller than Sirius, and had black hair that was a little bit longer than Sirius's, not too mention much messier.
"I don't care if that 'firework' was harmless or not! I won't have you two dimwits hanging around my stand and causing trouble! Now scat before I call security!"
"Huh, dimwits is it now? Not very good at name calling are you??"
"Sirius, come on, let's go before we get into more trouble!" said James as he grabbed Sirius's arm, and attempted to drag him away from the scene. His attempt was futile though, as Sirius just yanked his arm out of his hand and headed back in the direction of the shopkeeper.
"Hold on, I'm just getting started!!" He called back to James, before turning his attention back to the keeper. "All right you stupid, ugly, not to mention smelly, excuse for a heir to Slytherin! Me and my good friend here are perfectly capable of deciding when we want to leave, thank you! We don't need a fat fellow like yerself givin us empty threats about 'calling security'! Come on, Prongsie, lets go and find somewhere muggle free to get something to eat!"
Slytherin? Prongsie? Muggle? Lily thought to herself. Although these two spoke with a British accent, they definitely came from somewhere with a rather strange vocabulary.
Looking to her right, Lily noticed that a few people seemed to be forcing their way through the small crowd. Unfortunately for James and Sirius, the shopkeeper apparently had called security during Sirius's little speech, and they were now surrounded by three rather large and angry looking security guards.
"Uhh, hullo there fellows! Nice weather we're having, ehh?" Sirius said brightly, hoping to avoid trouble.
"Hello there boys. Would you care to explain what exactly you're doing causing such a commotion, not too mention why your dressed in such warm clothes on a nice summer day like this?" asked one of the guards.
"Ummm, we're lost?" offered James meekly. He kept looking around the crowd for someone to help him.
"Well in that case, why don't we take you down to our station by the front of the airport?" said the second guard slyly.
"Uhh, that's ok officer. I'm sure if we just wandered around here for a little while, we could figure out where we're supposed to be goin'!" said Sirius hurriedly.
"Oh, I'm sure you would be much better off if we helped you." Said a third guard.
"That's really all right officer, we really don't want to be any trouble!"
"We insist." said SG#1.
Lily could tell by the panicked looks on both of the boys' faces that this was definitely not something that they had planned on happening. Why she did what she did next, Lily could never really explain. All she could say was that she had suddenly grown rather fond of the two boys, and knew that they would be in BIG trouble if someone didn't do something to help them.
"There you are!!" she said as she stepped out of the crowd. "I've been looking everywhere for you!"
"What are you talki-…OWW!!" Sirius started to say before James elbowed him in the side.
"Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about! Mom told you two not to do wandering off, but no, you just don't listen, do you?"
"Are you saying that these two are your brothers, young lady?" questioned SG#2.
"Yes, well, that ones my brother." Lily answered quickly, pointing to James. "The other one is his moronic friend."
"Hey, who you calling a moron-…Oww!" Sirius began to say before, once again being elbowed by James.
"I'm sorry if they've been causing any trouble, Sirs."
"Oh, well, they have been-…"started SG#3
"Because my mother is right over there, if you'd like to talk to her. I can go get her if you'd like."
"I don't really think that's neces-…"said SG#1 before being interrupted
"Oh good, because our flight is just starting to board, and we really should get on our way, you wouldn't want us to miss our flight, would you?" Lily asked sweetly.
"Of course not, but-…" began SG#2
"Good, all right you two, grab your bags and lets get going!" and with that, Lily grabbed James and Sirius each by and arm, and started at a brisk pace down the terminal. The guards, crowd and shopkeeper were so startled by this little presentation, that they just stood there gaping at each other.
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(a/n well, here's the beginnings of another story, up and ready to go! For some strange reason, I'm suddenly very inspired. Strange, huh? Well, for those of you who have started to read my other story; When Squirrels go bad: A Lily Evans story, don't worry, I haven't given up on it, I'm just simply starting another fic, so that when I get a writers block on one, I can work on the other!! Now don't forget to review, or I won't continue this story!!)
