Futurity - Celtic Dilemma
MomoYome
A/N: Thank you so much for all of your kind reviews. I'm sorry that I couldn't get this part out sooner, but I've been working really hard in figure skating trying to land the Lutz jump and I've had like, no time to write!!! This part will be longer that Part 1. 2C is a lemon, so just warning you before hand. I'll warn you again in the actual part!!!
A/N2: I'm terribly sorry for the many delays and me not getting chapters up sooner. I have many other obligations recently. Since I started writing Futurity, I've been in two figure skating competitions and have no time b/c of practice. I hope you enjoy~!
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On the train ride to London I watched the scenery with new interest. I don't know why, but it seemed more interesting than watching Kathy and James play Wizard's Chess. I had completely given up on the game. I never came close to winning, or even a check.
"Check Mate!" Kathy said gleefully as one of her chess pieces smashed one of James' into tiny pieces. This was another reason I wasn't found of Wizard's Chess.
"Wh-what?" James asked looking over the board. Kathy, who was opposite him sat back, crossed her arms and smiled. "I never loose," James shook his head and put one of his hands through his hair. This made him unbelievably sexy.
"You win some and you loose some," Kathy said grinning and scooping up her chess pieces and putting them in a scarlet sac.
"James, I think you'll survive," I said kissing him on the cheek.
"I never loose..." He said horrified looking at his little sister with disbelief. "I'll be back," He said leaving me alone with a gloating Kathy.
"You've been like a dream for James," She said placing her scarlet sac away. "It's so strange to see him like this. He's always been so quiet,"
"I know," I watched the pastures of grazing animals as we speed across the Scottish country side. "He's been a dream for me too,"
**
James got over his lose to Kathy and was happy once more. 'This is taking so long," Kathy said getting up. "I'm going to look for the witch with the cart. She might have some Pumpkin Juice," She took a pouch with some coins and left.
"She's finally gone!" James sighed as he scooted closer to me
"Don't you like your sister?" I asked as He put his arm around me and kissing my cheek.
"Yeah, but she gets annoying sometimes. She's like my shadow sometimes," James sighed again. I let my head fall onto his shoulder and pulled my legs up and wrapped my hands around my knees.
"She's so nice though. I wish I had a sister..."
"What about Hitomi?" He asked stocking my hair.
"She doesn't count. Aya is more like a sister than Hitomi will ever be," I sighed hoping that I will never have to go back to see her. She always reminded me of an Asian Barbie with a nervous system.
"Things are getting serious with her and Sirius. That's all he talks about. They have so much in common,"
"You hang out with Sirius Black?" I said suddenly confused.
"Yeah, really close friends. We've been best friends since we could talk," It seemed to me James had just gotten super strange to me. I mean, if this was true, his best friend was the most popular guy in our year.
"I'm also friends with Remus Lupin," My head spun around as I laughed.
"Is there a child you need to tell me about?" I joked as I smiled.
"What? I'm not aloud to be friends with the in-crowd?"
"It's bad for my image," I said in a teasing manner.
"I thought you didn't care what people think about you," His face was incredibly close now, his breath mixing with mine. I sat up to capture his lips, but the sliding of the door broke us apart slowly. I opened my eyes and sat up. It just seemed weird to kiss in front of Kathy. Maybe it was her age or something.
**
"Kathy, do you have a mirror I could possibly borrow?" I asked frantically as I smoothed out my skirt and combing my fingers through my straightened hair.
"Chill Lily, I think you look beautiful as you are," She said as she now sat by the window watching the train slightly slow down as we entered King's Cross Station.
"Err..." I mumbled at my last minute abutments. Never in my dreams had I imagined meeting his parents been this stressful. I could only imagine James when he saw them for the first time.
I took two deep breaths as I grabbed my trunk and purse. "I don't get how you can pull that outfit with those shoes, though...." Kathy said shaking her head as the three of us exited the compartment.
"You really are wise beyond your years, ne?" I said to the girl.
**
I closed my eyes as we stood onto the platform, James and Kathy craning their heads to find their parents. "Oi!" I heard James yell. "C'mon, they don't bite...hard,"
"Haha, I'm really laughing James,"
"How should I introduce you?" He whispered into my ear. "Tamura or Evans or Tamura-Evans?" I heard the slight anxiety in his voice as he stumbled over his words.
"Ah...Tamura-Evans," I said. I don't know why. It just showed both sides I guess. It seemed over the past few weeks I didn't want to part with either of them. James shook his head. He squeezed my hand.
In the distance beyond the crowds of people I saw to people. One looked just like James and the other like Kathy. They reminded me of two people who just didn't belong in the crowd of people wearing very laid back clothes.
Mr. Potter wore a suit and a black tie while his wife on his right arm wore a blue dress that came up just above her knees and shoes that were the same hue as her dress. They looked to me very distinguished people. James cleared his throat as we walked together.
"Mummy!" Kathy said flinging herself into her mothers arms. Mrs. Potter hugged her daughter.
"I've missed you," She placed a finger on her nose and Kathy giggled looking like a little girl, not the one who reads so much and seemed more mature than I was at some points.
"Me too!" Kathy said. Mrs. Potter's glance went away from her daughter and rested on me in a cool and collective way. She smiled warmly. It seemed to me that she was just an ordinary mother that just happened to be very dressed up.
"Mum, Dad, this is Lily Tamura-Evans, Lily, these are my parents," James said to his parents, looking at them for their approval of me.
"Tamura, what is that?" Mr. Potter asked as he looked me over just as his wife had done. Kathy now looked at me and winked.
"It's Japanese, sir," I didn't know what to call him so I just said sir. Don't really know why. When I was around him, he made me feel like I had to be very proper and use words like sir that aren't normally in my vocabulary.
"Nice to meet you Lily," Mrs. Potter outstretched her right hand for me to shake and I took it. Her finger nails were painted a pale pink, and were relatively short. I would have thought they should have been longer.
"Nice to meet you," I tried to smile as warmly as I knew how knowing I shouldn't screw this up.
I shook Mr. Potter's hand and he gave me a slight smile.
"Well, we should go now," Mrs. Potter said getting us all to move out of King's Cross Station with our luggage in tow.
**
The Potter's owned a car, it was dark blue and had a massive engine. "My dad
is obsessed with muggle cars, he has a whole garage full at home. He likes to
tinker with the engines," James whispered to me as Kathy had loaded her trunk
into the trunk. The trunk looked like it had been magiked to be big in a small
area.
I nodded as I put my trunk next to Kathy's and James
followed. Kathy had gone to sit in the car and Mr. and Mrs. Potter were in the
car waiting for us to load our gear in. I got a nasty thought and took both his
hands and pushed my lips onto his in a bruising kiss.
"I've been waiting to do that!" I said happily as I closed the trunk. We went on different sides of the car and opened the doors at the same time and closed them at the same time.
Kathy sat between us and watched us as we stole looks at each other. I could tell she was laughing inwardly at our childish behavior.
Kathy then reached to the floor of the car and pulled out a massive book with a cover that looked like it had seen better days. The cover was light yellow and had a picture of what looked like a bunch of geometric shapes with the sun in the middle. The top of the book read 'The Flammarion Book of Astronomy'
"Where'd you get that?" James asked pointing to the worn out book.
"Oh, I had asked Mum and Dad to bring it with them when I owled them a few days ago," She said opening it up and taking a look at the Table of Contents.
"Oh," James said. I was astounded at Kathy as I watched her read the book. How could someone so young like to read so much?
"You're scary sometimes," James shook his head as he spoke. "I'd give my eyes a rest after reading Pride and Prejudice," I laughed.
"What's so funny?"
"You can be extremely funny sometimes when you don't even try,"
**
"We're almost there," James sighed. We had taken countless dirt roads as we finally pulled onto a paved street. It looked to me we were in the southern part of England.
Kathy looked up from her fat book and looked around at the scenery. "It's about time, too," She mumbled placing a mark in her place. "I thought this car ride would never end."
I thought so too as I looked down at my nails...that were still black. Oops. I quickly put my fingers in my mouth and began biting the polish off, something I didn't normally do. I didn't want his parents thinking I'm a Goth or someone who likes to do animal sacrifices and engrave the pentagram in my wrist.
"Are you alright?" James asked looking at my strange behavior.
"Yeah, but I forgot to take the black nail polish off," I said showing him my other hand which still had the black polish on each nail.
"Calm down," He said soothingly, "My parent's aren't going to kill you if they find out about your black nail polish addiction," He whispered in a mock-ish kind of tone.
"Are you two going to kiss or something?" Kathy asked looked at me, then at James with a look of grossed out spread on her face like jelly.
"No," I said smiling. I saw Mr. Potter's friendly eyes in the rearview mirror. He looked like he was smiling.
**
The car rounded a corner when I saw the Potter house. It nearly took my breath away as I caught my first glimpse of it. It was settled on a plot of green land with rolling hills surrounding the eighteenth century castle.
"Wow, it's so pretty," I said wondrously as I took in the beautiful house and landscape. Even the slight cloud cover couldn't dampen the beauty of the home.
"It's nothing like your home in Kyoto," James said humbly.
"That's not really my home. I lived there once, but no more," How wrong I found that statement was only intact for three more months.
**
The Potter's had I guess you would call them 'footmen' that helped Kathy, James and me with our trunks up the stone steps and into the home of the Potters.
When I entered for the first time my breath was taken away once more with the elaborate decorations and paintings that hung on the walls. Their was a mysterious light that seemed to emanate from the walls making this entryway seem to glow with gold. The ceiling went up two stories high and ended in a bewitched ceiling much like the one at Hogwart, only exe the flying candles.
"C'mon Lil!" Kathy said from a staircase to the left of the hall. She was half way up with someone carrying her stuff. James was standing next to her with someone with his stuff too. I smiled and walked up the stairs (with red carpet on top of the carpet).
"You're parent's don't seem as bad as you guys made them out to be," I
pointed out.
"It's not that they're bad people, it's that they want
everyone to be like them," Kathy sighed as we reached a door. "This is my room,
yours is right there," She pointed kitty-corner from her room to a door with
white trim.
"Oh, okay,"
"You're welcome to come in my room after you put your stuff away," Kathy said before she closed her door.
When I opened the door I saw in front of me a large window looking off into gardens of pink trees...Cherry Blossom trees. "I thought you might like that," I heard James say from behind. He was leaning in the doorway, his arms crossed nonchalantly. "I think you mentioned it a while back,"
"And you remembered?" I asked astonished at his memory.
"I remember everything you say Lily," He said this as if it was already a given.
"It's so nice to be with you," I hugged him tightly. "I love you,"
"Me too...me too..." He patted my back.
**
Mrs. Potter came in as James was helping me unpack. She had a coat hanger that held what I had presumed to be a dress. "James' father's boss is coming over for a formal dinner tonight," She said laying the dress on my bed and walking out.
I was standing over the dresser putting my underwear away (I wouldn't let James do it, he asked though). I stopped and went over to the bed that was under the huge window and looked at the dress placed there.
I picked up the hanger and looked at the dark read dress. It kind of reminded me of dark blood. It had was sleeveless and had a sweetheart neck to it. Along the top of it were little stones that went they caught the light they spread it to a million different colors.
"Told you she was going to make you wear something you didn't want to," I picked the dress up and looked at it. I thought it looked uncomfortable to wear. "That's going to be tight," James said touching the fabric. I nodded with my eyebrows still raised. "Why don't you try it on?" He asked.
"Where?" I asked walking around in circles, the dress blowing in the current I was now making. "I'm not changing in front of you!" I said smiling. "You're a boy!" I said sarcastically as he left me.
I took off my clothes and struggled to fit into the dress. I gasped as I pulled it up to my chest. It was cutting off my circulation. I could feel my face turn shades of blue. I pulled it completely up and let a sigh of relief, I could somewhat breath. Thank goodness. It wouldn't be good for Mr. Potter's boss to see me strangled by a dress.
I tucked in my bra straps thinking it would be extremely tacky if I left them on my shoulders. I them pulled on the zipper and got it up only half way. I struggled some more with the zipper until I gave up with a frown and let James in. "I can't get the zipper up all the way, can you help?" I asked sheepishly and turning around knowing that he wouldn't say no to me.
I felt one of his hands rest on my waist. "I don't get it," He mumbled tugging at the zipper. "You're like a friggin toothpick and the zipper won't go up all the way,"
"No, I'm just fat..." I said filling my cheeks with air and turning my head to look at him. "That's why the zipper won't go up," I said to him, believing that I was fat.
"You're not fat," He said pulling the zipper harder, but careful not to rip the zipper off the dress. It budged a tad. "See, I've made progress,"
A nasty thought crossed my mind and for theses few moments I wished that James was trying to get the zipper down, not up. It would be a lot easier than trying to get the damn dress on.
The zipper went up slower and slower until James got it all the way up and smiled. "You look pretty, you just need to get rid of the black finger nails," He pointed to my thumb. I hadn't gotten all the paint off and had forgotten.
"Forgot that one," I said bringing it up to my eyes to look at it. I frowned. "Am I fat?" I asked turning sideways and looking at myself. "Is my butt too big?" I asked suddenly self conches.
"Your butt is just fine," James said smiling and giving it a look that made my cheeks raise a few shades.
"I think tonight is going to be long, I'm going to ware slippers to dinner, you wouldn't notice would you?" I asked slipping my feet into a pair of pink slippers. The skirt covered them and I couldn't notice, but I awaited James' opinion.
'Nope," He said shoving his hands into the pockets of his jeans.
"Good,"
**
I didn't bother to take the dress off, it was just too hard getting it on and I didn't feel like going though the zipper nightmare once more. I put the finishing touches on my make-up before I let James come in.
It was the first time I had used the pearl pink Aya had given to me a couple of years ago and if you looked at me, you probably wouldn't notice the rebellious streak in me. "Hi," I said more bubbly than I intended. "How do I look?"
"Fine!" James said. "I swear, girls live longer because they drive us to our graves with questions like that," James mumbled in an almost inaudible tone.
"Well, are you ready?" I asked. James offered me his arm and I took it.
"If Kathy tries to persuade you to do anything, don't," James mentioned to me.
"Huh?" I asked stopping at the end of the hall.
"She said she was going to play a joke on someone, probably me, if you would join her," James said. "At least she's not smart enough to know that I tell you almost everything,"
"Almost?" I asked evilly.
"Well, I doubt that you'd want to know when I clip my toenails,"
"Good point,"
**
Dinner was boring. What can I say? Listening to people talk about Magical Law Enforcement never floated my boat. Don't think it will in the future either.
So James and I played footsie. I started it when I slipped my slipper off and placed my foot on his pant leg and started lifting it. James shifted uncomfortably in his chair so I stopped. James surprises me a lot, like when he slipped his foot out of his shoes and staring playing with my dress. I looked down and saw him lifting my dress. My he was frisky today.
Kathy sat across from me and she did try to recruit me for the thing James had warned me about and I politely denied. "What time is it?" I asked James.
"Err..." He pulled up his sleeve and showed me his watch. It blinked 10:15. I stuck my tongue out at it. I wanted to sleep. I was tiered.
**
These parts are getting shorter and shorter, ne? Well, the next part is a lemon, okay! You do not have to read it if you don't want to, you've been given plenty of warning. It should be finished tomorrow.