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Mia was glad that James had suggested the beach. It was perfect for Phase One of Operation Bella & Remus.
They had arranged to change and meet down in the entrance hall. Bella was changing in the bathroom, while Mia and Lily were in Mia's bedroom.
"So what's Phase One?" Lily asked.
"Well," Mia said, "We're going to have to get James and Sirius's help for it. I figure that if we get Bella into some sort of "danger" and Remus saves her, that that's a good start."
"And we have to make sure Remus saves her. He's mad, too, you know."
"I know. But of the pair, he's the sensitive one," Mia said, cracking a smile, "But any pair involving Bella...she's not going to be the sensitive one."
"So we just have to count on the fact that Remus will save her?"
"Well, no, not exactly. This is where they come in," she said, meaning James and Sirius.
"Okay..."
"They've always been good with prank stuff..."
Lily sneered.
"...so we get them to set up something that's really no danger, but it looks like it."
"Alright..."
"And then, lets say, I try to help, but I "can't". Then you do, and you "can't". Then Sirius does, and so on and so on. Then Remus is the only one left, and he'll have no choice but to do it. So we're--"
"--pretty much guaranteed that he'll save Bella!" Lily finished, "Brilliant, Mia. Didn't know you had it in you."
Mia was in the midst of chucking a pillow at Lily, when there was a pounding at the door.
"Hey!" came Bella's voice, "You ready yet?"
The girls looked at each other. Neither had their bathing suits on, they hadn't even gotten them out of their trunks.
"Almost!" Lily called, cheerily.
Lily and Mia rushed getting dressed. Bella, sweet girl that she was, did not like waiting.
~~**~~
Lily slipped into her signature black bikini. She was never seen at a pool, beach or lake without it. She brushed her hair, deciding to leave it down. She didn't really like it up, anyway.
Mia, on the other hand, owned more swimsuits than you could count on two hands. She almost had enough to wear a different one every day that summer. She finally decided on a red one with white hibiscus flowers. She pulled her hair back into a knot, explaining that the breeze made it go all knotty.
"Hurry up!" came the impatient voice of Bella.
Lily bustled over to the door and yanked it open, harder than she meant to.
"Whoa," Bella joked, "Trying to rip it off the hinges, Lil?"
Mia was hunched over her trunk, apparently looking for something. Triumphantly, she pulled out a ratty pair of black shorts.
"Cover up," she explained.
"Oh, wait," Lily said, going back to her trunk, "I need one too."
Lily dug, and dug, and dug, until she pulled out a pair of faded denim cut-off shorts.
"Ready."
~~**~~
James, Sirius and Remus were getting impatient. Almost twenty minutes had passed, and the girls *still* weren't ready!!
"It's only a bathing suit," James complained, "How long can it take?"
"Maybe," Sirius said, grinning, "They just want to look beautiful for us."
"Nah," James replied, "Lily doesn't care what she looks like around me."
"Touchy, are we?" Remus asked.
"So lets see," Sirius said, "Lily and James...not going to happen. Bella and Remus...she'd kill him first. So that leaves me and Mia. Looks like I'm the only one hooking up this summer!"
"Oh, don't be so sure," James replied, smirking.
"What? You think Lily's gonna come back to you?"
"What? You think Lily can resist a whole summer of the Potter charm?"
"She's resisted three years of it," Remus commented.
"Shut up, Moony."
~~**~~
The girls (finally) were ready.
Bella had donned a shockingly bright yellow bikini. Bella had always liked to shock people. Her dark hair, left down, contrasted beautifully with the bright colour.
The girls walked down the stairs, giggling amongst themselves, all secretly wondering what the boys would look like in their swim trunks.
Lily glanced at James. His jaw had nearly fallen at the sight of her. She was glad she still had that effect on him.
Lily did a double take when she saw the boys. All three of them stood at the bottom of the stairs, looking at them smugly, wearing matching navy-blue swim trunks.
"You trying to be twins?" she asked, raising a single eyebrow.
The boys didn't reply, just smirked identically.
Sirius turned around first. On the butt of his bathing suit, embroidered in white, said "Padfoot". James turned around next. His was the same, only it said "Prongs". Remus went last. He turned around to reveal "Moony" embroidered in pale yellow.
"Oh Merlin," Bella groaned, "You're *still* going by those ridiculous nicknames?"
~~**~~
"Ridiculous?" Sirius asked, faking hurt feelings.
"What do they mean, anyway?" Lily asked. When she and James had been going out, she often heard him refer to his friends by them. She always thought they were stupid, but never told him. A little part of her always wanted to know what they meant, but a bigger, stronger, Potter-hating part told her not to care. This time, the little part won.
"That, m'dear, is classified information," James replied, smirking.
Lily hated that smirk. That simple expression infuriated her to no end. She had always thought it was something he did to show superiority...something that, in the mind of Lily Evans, he did not have. Oh, back in the old days, she had adored it, had adored him, but things change. Feelings change. Hers sure did....didn't they?
Bella smiled, showing superiority. "Fine, then. You have your little secret. But keep in mind, we've got our little secret. And oh, you'll want to know."
Bella gestured to her "girls" and they followed her outside, down the path to the beach.
"Damn, now I want to know!" James complained, "Maybe we should tell them. We're out of school, now..."
"No," Remus said, sharply, "If we give in, they've got the upper hand."
"Fine," Sirius groaned. He, too, wanted to know this secret that they would want to know. "How do they *always* get one step ahead of us?"
~~**~~
The boys eventually got down to the beach. They reasoned that this secret thing was not a big deal, but they were still excited about it.
Lily, Mia and Bella were lounging on wooden beach chairs.
"Bella!" Lily hissed, "We have no secret!"
Bella waved her hand, as if this statement were a pesky fly. "Doesn't matter. They don't know that..."
Lily grinned at Bella. She always got her way.
The three girls hadn't noticed the boys had come down to the beach, until they were suddenly covered in sand.
"Hey!" Lily exclaimed, spitting sand from her mouth.
"Hi, Lily-kins," James said, sitting himself on Lily's chair.
Sirius had seated himself on Mia's and Remus just stood in the sand, looking uncomfortable.
"Oh, Remmy," Bella said, laughing, "Sit. We have a truce."
Remus grinned at himself, and sat on Bella's chair.
"So...," Sirius said, casually, "This secret. What might it involve?"
"What might yours involve?" Bella shot back.
"We'll give you a hint, if you give us one."
"Okay," Bella agreed.
Lily glared at Bella. Bella just waved her hand impatiently.
"You first," Sirius prodded.
"Okay," Bella said slowly, "Lily."
"Lily? That's it?"
"Yep. Yours?"
"Okay...," Sirius said, obviously searching for a vague hint, "The letter 'A'"
"The letter 'A'? That's an awful hint!!" Bella cried.
"It's better than Lily! And we never said they had to be *good* hints!"
Bella sighed.
"Okay, fine. I'll give you another, better hint, if you will."
Sirius considered the thought, ignoring the death glares from his friends.
"Okay."
"Alright...better hint...Lily's *personal* life."
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Her personal life? Why did Bella have to bring *her* personal life into it? Especially a fake one!
Oh, well, Lily thought, Maybe atleast I'll get James jealous.
~~**~~
"Lily's personal life, eh?" James asked, interested. "How personal?"
"Hey, that's all I'm saying," Bella said, "Your turn, Black."
"Fifth year," he said.
Bella thought for a moment. "Okay, something starting with the letter 'A' happened in fifth year."
"Yeah," James said, "Lily Evans made *a* big mistake."
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I know, I know, I know. I never got around to Bella being in danger, but that'll be the next chapter. I promise. And all the "hint" stuff in this one (that sounds dumb now) will make more sense in the coming chapters. So you see, it's all setting up for the future.
Yeah.
Okay.
So review, and I'll post.
*Lily~Pad*
Thanks everybody who reviewed!! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Mia was glad that James had suggested the beach. It was perfect for Phase One of Operation Bella & Remus.
They had arranged to change and meet down in the entrance hall. Bella was changing in the bathroom, while Mia and Lily were in Mia's bedroom.
"So what's Phase One?" Lily asked.
"Well," Mia said, "We're going to have to get James and Sirius's help for it. I figure that if we get Bella into some sort of "danger" and Remus saves her, that that's a good start."
"And we have to make sure Remus saves her. He's mad, too, you know."
"I know. But of the pair, he's the sensitive one," Mia said, cracking a smile, "But any pair involving Bella...she's not going to be the sensitive one."
"So we just have to count on the fact that Remus will save her?"
"Well, no, not exactly. This is where they come in," she said, meaning James and Sirius.
"Okay..."
"They've always been good with prank stuff..."
Lily sneered.
"...so we get them to set up something that's really no danger, but it looks like it."
"Alright..."
"And then, lets say, I try to help, but I "can't". Then you do, and you "can't". Then Sirius does, and so on and so on. Then Remus is the only one left, and he'll have no choice but to do it. So we're--"
"--pretty much guaranteed that he'll save Bella!" Lily finished, "Brilliant, Mia. Didn't know you had it in you."
Mia was in the midst of chucking a pillow at Lily, when there was a pounding at the door.
"Hey!" came Bella's voice, "You ready yet?"
The girls looked at each other. Neither had their bathing suits on, they hadn't even gotten them out of their trunks.
"Almost!" Lily called, cheerily.
Lily and Mia rushed getting dressed. Bella, sweet girl that she was, did not like waiting.
~~**~~
Lily slipped into her signature black bikini. She was never seen at a pool, beach or lake without it. She brushed her hair, deciding to leave it down. She didn't really like it up, anyway.
Mia, on the other hand, owned more swimsuits than you could count on two hands. She almost had enough to wear a different one every day that summer. She finally decided on a red one with white hibiscus flowers. She pulled her hair back into a knot, explaining that the breeze made it go all knotty.
"Hurry up!" came the impatient voice of Bella.
Lily bustled over to the door and yanked it open, harder than she meant to.
"Whoa," Bella joked, "Trying to rip it off the hinges, Lil?"
Mia was hunched over her trunk, apparently looking for something. Triumphantly, she pulled out a ratty pair of black shorts.
"Cover up," she explained.
"Oh, wait," Lily said, going back to her trunk, "I need one too."
Lily dug, and dug, and dug, until she pulled out a pair of faded denim cut-off shorts.
"Ready."
~~**~~
James, Sirius and Remus were getting impatient. Almost twenty minutes had passed, and the girls *still* weren't ready!!
"It's only a bathing suit," James complained, "How long can it take?"
"Maybe," Sirius said, grinning, "They just want to look beautiful for us."
"Nah," James replied, "Lily doesn't care what she looks like around me."
"Touchy, are we?" Remus asked.
"So lets see," Sirius said, "Lily and James...not going to happen. Bella and Remus...she'd kill him first. So that leaves me and Mia. Looks like I'm the only one hooking up this summer!"
"Oh, don't be so sure," James replied, smirking.
"What? You think Lily's gonna come back to you?"
"What? You think Lily can resist a whole summer of the Potter charm?"
"She's resisted three years of it," Remus commented.
"Shut up, Moony."
~~**~~
The girls (finally) were ready.
Bella had donned a shockingly bright yellow bikini. Bella had always liked to shock people. Her dark hair, left down, contrasted beautifully with the bright colour.
The girls walked down the stairs, giggling amongst themselves, all secretly wondering what the boys would look like in their swim trunks.
Lily glanced at James. His jaw had nearly fallen at the sight of her. She was glad she still had that effect on him.
Lily did a double take when she saw the boys. All three of them stood at the bottom of the stairs, looking at them smugly, wearing matching navy-blue swim trunks.
"You trying to be twins?" she asked, raising a single eyebrow.
The boys didn't reply, just smirked identically.
Sirius turned around first. On the butt of his bathing suit, embroidered in white, said "Padfoot". James turned around next. His was the same, only it said "Prongs". Remus went last. He turned around to reveal "Moony" embroidered in pale yellow.
"Oh Merlin," Bella groaned, "You're *still* going by those ridiculous nicknames?"
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"Ridiculous?" Sirius asked, faking hurt feelings.
"What do they mean, anyway?" Lily asked. When she and James had been going out, she often heard him refer to his friends by them. She always thought they were stupid, but never told him. A little part of her always wanted to know what they meant, but a bigger, stronger, Potter-hating part told her not to care. This time, the little part won.
"That, m'dear, is classified information," James replied, smirking.
Lily hated that smirk. That simple expression infuriated her to no end. She had always thought it was something he did to show superiority...something that, in the mind of Lily Evans, he did not have. Oh, back in the old days, she had adored it, had adored him, but things change. Feelings change. Hers sure did....didn't they?
Bella smiled, showing superiority. "Fine, then. You have your little secret. But keep in mind, we've got our little secret. And oh, you'll want to know."
Bella gestured to her "girls" and they followed her outside, down the path to the beach.
"Damn, now I want to know!" James complained, "Maybe we should tell them. We're out of school, now..."
"No," Remus said, sharply, "If we give in, they've got the upper hand."
"Fine," Sirius groaned. He, too, wanted to know this secret that they would want to know. "How do they *always* get one step ahead of us?"
~~**~~
The boys eventually got down to the beach. They reasoned that this secret thing was not a big deal, but they were still excited about it.
Lily, Mia and Bella were lounging on wooden beach chairs.
"Bella!" Lily hissed, "We have no secret!"
Bella waved her hand, as if this statement were a pesky fly. "Doesn't matter. They don't know that..."
Lily grinned at Bella. She always got her way.
The three girls hadn't noticed the boys had come down to the beach, until they were suddenly covered in sand.
"Hey!" Lily exclaimed, spitting sand from her mouth.
"Hi, Lily-kins," James said, sitting himself on Lily's chair.
Sirius had seated himself on Mia's and Remus just stood in the sand, looking uncomfortable.
"Oh, Remmy," Bella said, laughing, "Sit. We have a truce."
Remus grinned at himself, and sat on Bella's chair.
"So...," Sirius said, casually, "This secret. What might it involve?"
"What might yours involve?" Bella shot back.
"We'll give you a hint, if you give us one."
"Okay," Bella agreed.
Lily glared at Bella. Bella just waved her hand impatiently.
"You first," Sirius prodded.
"Okay," Bella said slowly, "Lily."
"Lily? That's it?"
"Yep. Yours?"
"Okay...," Sirius said, obviously searching for a vague hint, "The letter 'A'"
"The letter 'A'? That's an awful hint!!" Bella cried.
"It's better than Lily! And we never said they had to be *good* hints!"
Bella sighed.
"Okay, fine. I'll give you another, better hint, if you will."
Sirius considered the thought, ignoring the death glares from his friends.
"Okay."
"Alright...better hint...Lily's *personal* life."
~~**~~
Her personal life? Why did Bella have to bring *her* personal life into it? Especially a fake one!
Oh, well, Lily thought, Maybe atleast I'll get James jealous.
~~**~~
"Lily's personal life, eh?" James asked, interested. "How personal?"
"Hey, that's all I'm saying," Bella said, "Your turn, Black."
"Fifth year," he said.
Bella thought for a moment. "Okay, something starting with the letter 'A' happened in fifth year."
"Yeah," James said, "Lily Evans made *a* big mistake."
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I know, I know, I know. I never got around to Bella being in danger, but that'll be the next chapter. I promise. And all the "hint" stuff in this one (that sounds dumb now) will make more sense in the coming chapters. So you see, it's all setting up for the future.
Yeah.
Okay.
So review, and I'll post.
*Lily~Pad*