~Pictures and Notes~
Once they had all arrived home safely, Lily was on the verge of falling asleep. Michelle walked Lily upstairs and into bed. Once she returned downstairs, she found everyone in the family room, bored to death. Of course, it was only midnight. Everyone sat on the couches and said nothing. They had nothing to talk about.
'What are you guys doing?' Lily said, standing at the doorway in her pajamas.
'I thought you were asleep?' asked Sirius curiously.
'I was faking it.' Lily said. All the guys were speechless. 'As I told you before, I hate the Ferris wheel.' James was not happy, he loved the Ferris wheel and he missed out because of her. When Lily looked at James and saw that he wasn't happy about it, her smile faded as well. James turned away from her eyes.
'So you guys knew about this?' James asked the other 2 girls.
'Well, sort of, it was Lily's idea.' Michelle replied. They all looked at James' face, he had his head in his hands. Lily started to move closer to him, but he reacted quickly and turned on the TV with the remote that was beside him. Everyone froze with confusion. 'Lets watch some tv,' he said, pasting on a smile 'does anybody know what's on tight now?' Everyone shrugged and James flipped the channels until some saw something they liked. Michelle told them to stop at the cooking channel, then Sirius at the cartoons, but finally they all agreed on the Much Music* channel. The girls were dancing to the song that was on. They soon got up and danced to Christina Aguilera's 'Can't Hold Us Down' music video. Sirius soon joined them and so did Remus, but James just sat and watched them. Lily tried to pull James off the couch, but he was still much stronger than her. Sirius and Remus finally pulled James off the couch, and he finally started to dance. Of course he decided not to dance near Lily. She faked being sick so she didn't have to go on the Ferris wheel, its not even that scary, he told himself. The song finally finished and they all sat down. They didn't know the next song, so they turned of the TV. Sirius and Remus were still laughing about they way they had all started dancing. A few minutes later they headed up to bed. They fell fast asleep right away, including James and Lily who were both in the same bed.
The next morning Sirius woke up early, which was different, since usually he slept in, but this time he wasn't tired. He looked over towards Bella, who was already awake. It seems she had also just woke up. Michelle and Remus were still asleep and so were James and Lily. This gave Sirius an idea. He looked over towards Bella.
'Oh no, what are you thinking?' she whispered.
'What if…' he started to whisper to her, when Remus woke up. He also gave Sirius a concerned look and got up.
'I know you thinking of something sneaky,' whispered Remus, 'and this time I want to be a part of it' Sirius and Remus both smirked and Sirius continued with his plan.
'What if we rearranged Lily and James, to make them look like they fell asleep in each others arms?' Sirius finished saying. Bella let out a little giggle.
'So, your pretty much blackmailing them!' she whispered. She liked the idea of blackmailing Lily. She always thought James and Lily would make a good couple. Bella and Sirius got out of bed and slowly walked over towards Lily and James. They were of course beside each other, Lily on her side facing her end of the bed, and James lying on his back. Sirius knew James was a heavy sleeper, but they also knew that Lily was a light sleeper. They slowly moved James onto his side, so he was just barely pressed against Lily's back. Bella slowly propped James' hand on top of Lily and made Lily have her hand in his. They did make such a cute couple. Remus pulled out his camera and took a picture of them. But he left the flash on which woke up both James and Lily. James and Lily didn't realize why they were standing around them until James realized Lily was holding his hand. He quickly pulled his hand away from her and she also realized his arm was on hers and she quickly moved her arm. Lily blushed into her pillows while James covered his bright red cheeks with his hands, pretending to yawn. Lily slowly crawled out of bed and walked into the bathroom. She was in there for about 15 minutes. During that time, Michelle had finally woken up and Bella had quickly finally clued her in about the picture. Remus had hid the camera again and they all tried to act innocent. James knew they were acting suspicious, but he didn't know why. Lily walked out of the bathroom and followed Michelle and Bella into the kitchen.
'Lily, you'll never guess what happened.' Michelle started, Bella thought she was going to tell, but she didn't 'I had that same dream I told you about last time. You know the one with sea monsters living in a pond, while my cousin and I tried to run away.' Lily nodded her head tiredly and sat on one of the kitchen chairs. Bella and Michelle did to. Minutes later, the boys walked down the stairs, all changed.
'You guys stay here, we're going out for a walk.' Remus said as the boys had opened the door and walked out. They left before the girls had time to argue, but the girls just shrugged and walked upstairs to get changed.
Back with the boys, they had just started down the street.
'So James, where's the nearest photo stop?' asked Sirius.
'Over there, in front of that ice cream shop.' James pointed and they started on their way.
'Why do you guys want to go over there?' asked James.
'To develop photos of course!' Remus replied. "Remember from our trip to Maui. I wanted to show the girls our pictures we took!" James gave a sudden look of concern.
'You didn't take a picture of me and that flight attendant, did you?' asked James. He remembered all to clearly. When the boys had boarded their flight, James was in a rush to check out the plane. As he made his way down a small walk way, a flight attendant wanted to go the opposite way. Of course the isle was to small for them both the pass so James tried to climb onto a seat, but that had caught onto the flight attendants skirt, and they both fell towards the ground. It took them 6 minutes to finally get off each other and back to what they were doing.
Remus smiled and made no comment, which James took as a yes. James stayed quiet for the rest of the walk.
Back with the girls who seemed to keep themselves pretty occupied with James' room. It was the room down the hall from where they were sleeping. James' room is a navy blue and a small closet. He had a large dresser and a black bed. He also had a desk and a small chair in a corner. Bella had found an old photo album of James', while Michelle was looking at the notes and pictures on the desk. Lily, of course, had already made her way into his closet, when she noticed a silver box with a note on the top saying 'DON'T OPEN!' She pulled out the box and sat on his bed. Both Michelle and Bella stopped what they were doing and sat down beside Lily. Lily slowly pulled off the lid to reveal pictures and notes inside of the box. Bella pulled out a note, and so did Michelle. Lily picked up a few pictures and looked at them. They were all in circle shapes, and they were all of James with different girls. Actually, there were only 4 different girls in all of the pictures. She saw a picture in the shape of a heart. She picked it up to reveal herself standing beside him. It looked like there had been more people in the picture, but he had cut the off.
'Lily read this!' Bella handed her a note. Lily started to read the note.
'Hey James,
How is your summer so far? Mine's been great! Bella and I have been camping with my parents! Isn't that great. I really wanted you to come, but maybe next time! I can't wait to see you again, when we start our Third year, it's going to be great! Write me back, OK!
Lils
Hey Lils, Yeah, I really wished I could have come camping with you 2. Oh well. Yeah third year will be great, won't it? I hope we have some of the same classes together. Yeah, Sirius came over for a week and we hung out the whole time, and stayed up for 2 whole days with NO sleep! Crazy, huh? Well-'
Lily heard a noise at the front door. All 3 of them started to pile up the notes and pictures back inside the box and placed it in the closet. They quickly ran out into the hall and down the stairs ready to meet them. But when they got there, there was no one there. Then they heard a noise in the kitchen. They all slowly made the way towards the noise of falling cups and plates. Once they entered the room, they saw a small little house elf.
'Oh,' Michelle said, 'he's so cute' The house elf looked like a 3- year-old child. He had smooth skin and perky ears. He was also small and careless.
'What's your name?' Michelle asked.
'Pebbles,' He replied, 'Im the Potters house elf.' The girls were soon very fond of him. He said he was making dinner and he was too busy to talk, so the girls made their way outside. They took shelter beside the pool, and sat on the deck chairs.
'So, what do you think that box meant?' Lily asked.
'It means he likes you Lily! What else?' Michelle said.
'How do you know?' replied Lily.
'From this!' and with that, Bella pulled out a small sheet of paper and handed it to Lily. Lily opened it and noticed that it was a note.
R: James, just ask Lily out. What so hard about that? J: Remus, once you ask Michelle if she likes you, then I will. S: James, I know she likes you too. I just talked to Arabella, and she said that she fancies you, a lot! J: Yeah right! And Im supposed to believe you? S: Yeah! R: What the harm in asking her? Do you think she bites or something? J: No, but… R: But what? J: I don't know? S: Fine, I'll go and tell her you like her. J: NOOOOOO!!!!!! S: Then ask her out! J: NO! S: YES! J: NO! S: NO! J: YES! R: Good one Sirius! J: Damn! S: we now have it in writing! Ha Ha! J: NEVER!!!
Lily blushed and handed it back to Bella.
'Told you!' said Bella. And with that the boys appeared on the deck.
'Lily, what were you reading?' asked James.
'Oh, nothing.' Replied Lily, trying not to laugh.
'I know it was something. Let me see it!' James ran over towards the girls but Bella was already on the other side of the pool. James ran towards her, but she still ran away. Finally, the boys caught her. James was holding Bella to the ground. And Sirius read the note to himself. He let out a little laugh and walked over towards Lily.
'Did you actually read this!' he said quietly, so that no one over heard him.
'Yeah, why?' replied Lily.
'Because, I need to give you the second one of these' Sirius winked and ripped up the paper.
'What did it say, Sirius?' Yelled James, still holding Bella to the ground.
'Just a note she found in my bag.' Replied Sirius. James slowly let Bella off the ground. Sirius walked over towards James.
'It was the note of when we tried to force you to ask Lilykins out, in 5th year!' Sirius said. James went red in the face. He sat down on one of the patio deck chairs and put his face in his hands. Lily walked over to him and put her arms around his head.
'My poor baby.' She said sarcastically, and with that they all started to laugh. James stood up and walked into the house. A minute later he walked out holding 5 water balloons. He placed them down on the nearest table. Everyone was frozen in fear. He threw the balloons at every one of them. Missing only Lily. She was the main person he wanted to hit. She shook her head and let out a soft chuckle. James slowly walked up to her. He had a back up balloon in his pocket, which was ice cold. He opened his arms and gave her a hug. She hugged him back. At this point he pulled out the small ice-cold balloon and dropped it down her shirt.
'James! You idiot!' cried Lily.
'Im not finished yet!' He said. Then he picked her up and threw her into the pool. Clothing and all.
Once they had all arrived home safely, Lily was on the verge of falling asleep. Michelle walked Lily upstairs and into bed. Once she returned downstairs, she found everyone in the family room, bored to death. Of course, it was only midnight. Everyone sat on the couches and said nothing. They had nothing to talk about.
'What are you guys doing?' Lily said, standing at the doorway in her pajamas.
'I thought you were asleep?' asked Sirius curiously.
'I was faking it.' Lily said. All the guys were speechless. 'As I told you before, I hate the Ferris wheel.' James was not happy, he loved the Ferris wheel and he missed out because of her. When Lily looked at James and saw that he wasn't happy about it, her smile faded as well. James turned away from her eyes.
'So you guys knew about this?' James asked the other 2 girls.
'Well, sort of, it was Lily's idea.' Michelle replied. They all looked at James' face, he had his head in his hands. Lily started to move closer to him, but he reacted quickly and turned on the TV with the remote that was beside him. Everyone froze with confusion. 'Lets watch some tv,' he said, pasting on a smile 'does anybody know what's on tight now?' Everyone shrugged and James flipped the channels until some saw something they liked. Michelle told them to stop at the cooking channel, then Sirius at the cartoons, but finally they all agreed on the Much Music* channel. The girls were dancing to the song that was on. They soon got up and danced to Christina Aguilera's 'Can't Hold Us Down' music video. Sirius soon joined them and so did Remus, but James just sat and watched them. Lily tried to pull James off the couch, but he was still much stronger than her. Sirius and Remus finally pulled James off the couch, and he finally started to dance. Of course he decided not to dance near Lily. She faked being sick so she didn't have to go on the Ferris wheel, its not even that scary, he told himself. The song finally finished and they all sat down. They didn't know the next song, so they turned of the TV. Sirius and Remus were still laughing about they way they had all started dancing. A few minutes later they headed up to bed. They fell fast asleep right away, including James and Lily who were both in the same bed.
The next morning Sirius woke up early, which was different, since usually he slept in, but this time he wasn't tired. He looked over towards Bella, who was already awake. It seems she had also just woke up. Michelle and Remus were still asleep and so were James and Lily. This gave Sirius an idea. He looked over towards Bella.
'Oh no, what are you thinking?' she whispered.
'What if…' he started to whisper to her, when Remus woke up. He also gave Sirius a concerned look and got up.
'I know you thinking of something sneaky,' whispered Remus, 'and this time I want to be a part of it' Sirius and Remus both smirked and Sirius continued with his plan.
'What if we rearranged Lily and James, to make them look like they fell asleep in each others arms?' Sirius finished saying. Bella let out a little giggle.
'So, your pretty much blackmailing them!' she whispered. She liked the idea of blackmailing Lily. She always thought James and Lily would make a good couple. Bella and Sirius got out of bed and slowly walked over towards Lily and James. They were of course beside each other, Lily on her side facing her end of the bed, and James lying on his back. Sirius knew James was a heavy sleeper, but they also knew that Lily was a light sleeper. They slowly moved James onto his side, so he was just barely pressed against Lily's back. Bella slowly propped James' hand on top of Lily and made Lily have her hand in his. They did make such a cute couple. Remus pulled out his camera and took a picture of them. But he left the flash on which woke up both James and Lily. James and Lily didn't realize why they were standing around them until James realized Lily was holding his hand. He quickly pulled his hand away from her and she also realized his arm was on hers and she quickly moved her arm. Lily blushed into her pillows while James covered his bright red cheeks with his hands, pretending to yawn. Lily slowly crawled out of bed and walked into the bathroom. She was in there for about 15 minutes. During that time, Michelle had finally woken up and Bella had quickly finally clued her in about the picture. Remus had hid the camera again and they all tried to act innocent. James knew they were acting suspicious, but he didn't know why. Lily walked out of the bathroom and followed Michelle and Bella into the kitchen.
'Lily, you'll never guess what happened.' Michelle started, Bella thought she was going to tell, but she didn't 'I had that same dream I told you about last time. You know the one with sea monsters living in a pond, while my cousin and I tried to run away.' Lily nodded her head tiredly and sat on one of the kitchen chairs. Bella and Michelle did to. Minutes later, the boys walked down the stairs, all changed.
'You guys stay here, we're going out for a walk.' Remus said as the boys had opened the door and walked out. They left before the girls had time to argue, but the girls just shrugged and walked upstairs to get changed.
Back with the boys, they had just started down the street.
'So James, where's the nearest photo stop?' asked Sirius.
'Over there, in front of that ice cream shop.' James pointed and they started on their way.
'Why do you guys want to go over there?' asked James.
'To develop photos of course!' Remus replied. "Remember from our trip to Maui. I wanted to show the girls our pictures we took!" James gave a sudden look of concern.
'You didn't take a picture of me and that flight attendant, did you?' asked James. He remembered all to clearly. When the boys had boarded their flight, James was in a rush to check out the plane. As he made his way down a small walk way, a flight attendant wanted to go the opposite way. Of course the isle was to small for them both the pass so James tried to climb onto a seat, but that had caught onto the flight attendants skirt, and they both fell towards the ground. It took them 6 minutes to finally get off each other and back to what they were doing.
Remus smiled and made no comment, which James took as a yes. James stayed quiet for the rest of the walk.
Back with the girls who seemed to keep themselves pretty occupied with James' room. It was the room down the hall from where they were sleeping. James' room is a navy blue and a small closet. He had a large dresser and a black bed. He also had a desk and a small chair in a corner. Bella had found an old photo album of James', while Michelle was looking at the notes and pictures on the desk. Lily, of course, had already made her way into his closet, when she noticed a silver box with a note on the top saying 'DON'T OPEN!' She pulled out the box and sat on his bed. Both Michelle and Bella stopped what they were doing and sat down beside Lily. Lily slowly pulled off the lid to reveal pictures and notes inside of the box. Bella pulled out a note, and so did Michelle. Lily picked up a few pictures and looked at them. They were all in circle shapes, and they were all of James with different girls. Actually, there were only 4 different girls in all of the pictures. She saw a picture in the shape of a heart. She picked it up to reveal herself standing beside him. It looked like there had been more people in the picture, but he had cut the off.
'Lily read this!' Bella handed her a note. Lily started to read the note.
'Hey James,
How is your summer so far? Mine's been great! Bella and I have been camping with my parents! Isn't that great. I really wanted you to come, but maybe next time! I can't wait to see you again, when we start our Third year, it's going to be great! Write me back, OK!
Lils
Hey Lils, Yeah, I really wished I could have come camping with you 2. Oh well. Yeah third year will be great, won't it? I hope we have some of the same classes together. Yeah, Sirius came over for a week and we hung out the whole time, and stayed up for 2 whole days with NO sleep! Crazy, huh? Well-'
Lily heard a noise at the front door. All 3 of them started to pile up the notes and pictures back inside the box and placed it in the closet. They quickly ran out into the hall and down the stairs ready to meet them. But when they got there, there was no one there. Then they heard a noise in the kitchen. They all slowly made the way towards the noise of falling cups and plates. Once they entered the room, they saw a small little house elf.
'Oh,' Michelle said, 'he's so cute' The house elf looked like a 3- year-old child. He had smooth skin and perky ears. He was also small and careless.
'What's your name?' Michelle asked.
'Pebbles,' He replied, 'Im the Potters house elf.' The girls were soon very fond of him. He said he was making dinner and he was too busy to talk, so the girls made their way outside. They took shelter beside the pool, and sat on the deck chairs.
'So, what do you think that box meant?' Lily asked.
'It means he likes you Lily! What else?' Michelle said.
'How do you know?' replied Lily.
'From this!' and with that, Bella pulled out a small sheet of paper and handed it to Lily. Lily opened it and noticed that it was a note.
R: James, just ask Lily out. What so hard about that? J: Remus, once you ask Michelle if she likes you, then I will. S: James, I know she likes you too. I just talked to Arabella, and she said that she fancies you, a lot! J: Yeah right! And Im supposed to believe you? S: Yeah! R: What the harm in asking her? Do you think she bites or something? J: No, but… R: But what? J: I don't know? S: Fine, I'll go and tell her you like her. J: NOOOOOO!!!!!! S: Then ask her out! J: NO! S: YES! J: NO! S: NO! J: YES! R: Good one Sirius! J: Damn! S: we now have it in writing! Ha Ha! J: NEVER!!!
Lily blushed and handed it back to Bella.
'Told you!' said Bella. And with that the boys appeared on the deck.
'Lily, what were you reading?' asked James.
'Oh, nothing.' Replied Lily, trying not to laugh.
'I know it was something. Let me see it!' James ran over towards the girls but Bella was already on the other side of the pool. James ran towards her, but she still ran away. Finally, the boys caught her. James was holding Bella to the ground. And Sirius read the note to himself. He let out a little laugh and walked over towards Lily.
'Did you actually read this!' he said quietly, so that no one over heard him.
'Yeah, why?' replied Lily.
'Because, I need to give you the second one of these' Sirius winked and ripped up the paper.
'What did it say, Sirius?' Yelled James, still holding Bella to the ground.
'Just a note she found in my bag.' Replied Sirius. James slowly let Bella off the ground. Sirius walked over towards James.
'It was the note of when we tried to force you to ask Lilykins out, in 5th year!' Sirius said. James went red in the face. He sat down on one of the patio deck chairs and put his face in his hands. Lily walked over to him and put her arms around his head.
'My poor baby.' She said sarcastically, and with that they all started to laugh. James stood up and walked into the house. A minute later he walked out holding 5 water balloons. He placed them down on the nearest table. Everyone was frozen in fear. He threw the balloons at every one of them. Missing only Lily. She was the main person he wanted to hit. She shook her head and let out a soft chuckle. James slowly walked up to her. He had a back up balloon in his pocket, which was ice cold. He opened his arms and gave her a hug. She hugged him back. At this point he pulled out the small ice-cold balloon and dropped it down her shirt.
'James! You idiot!' cried Lily.
'Im not finished yet!' He said. Then he picked her up and threw her into the pool. Clothing and all.