LN- Sorry it's late. I typed this up originally on a laptop, and I didn't
have the disk drive in, and I was on spring break up in New England. So,
sorry if I kept you waiting. Oh, don't forget to review!
Oh, and what is your favorite romantic song you dream of dancing with you crush at your prom or other special event? When you review, put it down and put who its by. Thanks! ~Lizzie
Disclaimer- We own Summer, Autumn, Candy, Nicole, Michelle, Danielle, Professor Tregon, and um. Whatever you recognized belongs to the wonderful JK Rowlings.
Chapter 6: Pillows and Christmas Surprises
"WAKEY WAKEY!" a voice shouted in Lily's ear. Lily groaned, rolled over and opened her eyes.
She found herself looking into the bright violet eyes of Candy Minyatur. "Gosh Candy, even at an early hour your hyper." Then she snuggled down deeper into the covers to go back to sleep.
WHACK! Candy threw a pillow at her friend's head. Lily hurriedly sat up and pointed to the clock on her bedside while rubbing her head with the other. "Girl," she started while swinging her legs out of bed, "It's 7 O'clock on a SATURDAY! Are you NUTS?" she practically screamed.
Candy smiled. "Well. your point is?"
Lily smiled and shock her head, thinking that it was useless to try to go back to sleep with a hyper Candy on the loose.
"Shaddup! SOME people are TRYING to sleep!" a voice yelled from the bed next to Lily's. The curtains were thrown open to reveal a bleary-eyed, red nosed Summer.
"Tut tut. Someone woke up moody this morning, didn't we Princess Summer?" Candy called out cheekily.
Summer responded by throwing a pillow at Candy, yelling, "Leave me alone, please! I don't want to sleep, wake up, or be alive right now!"
Candy frowned. "Do you really mean that, Summer?" she asked quietly, her joyous mood gone. Summer nodded, curling up into a little ball on her bed.
Lily saw how much her friend was hurting, so she went over to her bed. She sat down and pulled Summer into a hug.
"It's going to be ok Summer. You have us remember? We'll help you get through this, ok?" She said calmly. Again Summer nodded.
"Well, now that that's over, can we get dressed and go get some breakfast? I'm hungry!" Candy called out.
Lily laughed and rolled her eyes towards the ceiling. "Lord help us. She's starting to sound like Sirius!"
Twenty minutes later, the trio made it's way down to Great Hall, each lost in their own thoughts, well, Lily and Summer. Candy chatted animatedly about the last Quidditch match, Gryffindor versus Ravencalw. Gryffindor had won to a victorious 250 to 30. All the Gryffindors were ecstatic. They now had a shot at the House Cup.
Lily only half listened to Candy. In her imagination, she was turning Lucius Malfoy's head green with tennis ball sized warts on his face. Needless to say, it was a happy thought and she made a mental note to tell Sirius about it.
Even though Lily was lost in her imagination, Summer was totally not there. In her mind she was at Platform 9 and ¾, the last time she saw her parents.
~~~Flashback~~~
"Hurry up dears, or we're going to be late," a short, plump witch called to her family. Racing behind her were two blonde haired twin girls and a tall, brown haired wizard.
"If I had a Knut for every time she said that, I'd be a galleonare!" the taller of the twins said to her sister.
" But you got to love 'er, Aut!" the shorter one, Summer, said to her sister.
Their dad laughed and hurried the girls along. "Well, she's right girls. We have ten minutes to get you there and to find you a compartment."
They hurried after their mom and ran through barrier separating the Muggle world from the wizarding world.
"Ok dears, here we are," their mom prattled. She swept both of them up into a hug and whispered into their ears, "Bye-bye dears, Mummy is so proud of you. I love you so much!" She babbled, sad that her babies were leaving her.
"Laura, let me have a chance to say good-bye to them too," their dad called to their mother. Summer and Autumn were released from their mother's strong hug and went to say goodbye to their dad.
"Bye my two seasons," he said, using his nicknames for them. "I love you guys, and don't forget to owl us. Be good, and see you at Christmas, ok?" he said. They two girls nodded.
"Love ya Daddy!" they cried, hugging him and then stepping back. They smiled and then turned around to board the train.
They stepped up onto the train and turned around. Summer felt a piece of lead fall into her stomach.
"Think they'll be ok Aut?" she asked her sister.
"Yeah, they'll be fine. We'll see them soon," Autumn replied, waving to their parents. Summer turned and waved to her parents. Her mom blew a kiss and her father stood waving, pride and love in his eyes. With one backwards glance, she turned around and stepped into the hall of the train. Autumn reached out her hand.
"Summer? Summer! Are you ok?" a voice interrupted her thoughts.
She looked around and found herself sitting at the Gryffindor table next to Sirius and Lily.
"Where am I?" She asked.
"Eating breakfast by any chance?" Candy asked, reaching for a blueberry bagel.
Summer smiled a little. "Oh."she said, looking around. "Hey, where's Remus?"
James, Peter, and Sirius exchanged glances. "Oh. He's in London, um, visiting his sick Aunt," James hurriedly replied. A little too quickly Lily thought. She arched an eyebrow but continued to butter her bagel.
"Oh. I see," Summer said, getting very interested in her chocolate chip pancakes.
"Well, well. What do we have here? It seems that somebody has a crush on Remus," Sirius said coyly, fluttering his eyelashes freakily.
Candy snorted. "Where'd you get that idea? I mean, we've only known each other for like what, three months?" she said, trying to draw attention away from a silently blushing Summer.
"Well, I do have a hunch. I do have the best sources," Sirius said, holding up a book with 'Summer's Diary, keep out!' written in gold script on the front of it.
"Where'd you get that?" Lily asked, astonished.
"That's for me to know and you to find out," he said cheekily.
"That means he's not going to tell us," James replied.
"Brilliant deduction Potter," Lily said, rolling her eyes again.
"Give it here, Black," Summer growled, a menacing glint in her icy blue eyes.
"Uh, I don't think so. I think that I'm going to go find a good place to settle down and read this faaabulous piece of literature. Tootle-loo!" Sirius waved and skipped out of the Hall with a very mad blonde chasing him.
"Poor Sirius. He doesn't know the seriousness of his crime," Candy said, shaking her head sympathetically, making the others laugh.
"Come on, we better go rescue him before she hexes him. And trust me, she knows some good ones," he said, standing up. The others agreed and followed suit.
They searched around Hogwarts for about five minutes before Peter spotted them from a third floor window.
"There they are, by Hagrid's hut," he reported, pointing. They could see Summer standing on one side of Hagrid and Sirius on the other side. They saw her yelling at Sirius and Hagrid trying to keep her from hexing Sirius. Hagrid had managed so far, but Sirius had received a set of horns, a red, pointed tail, and his knees were locked together,
"We better go help Hagrid," Lily said, feeling sorry for the gentle games keeper.
They hurried down the stairs to get to them before she hexed him some more, or worse, accidentally hexed Hagrid.
When they reached the group, they saw Sirius on his knees begging for forgiveness and I'll do your homework till Valentine's Day. Summer though, wasn't buying it. She was yelling at Sirius, calling him a stupid git and that if he set on more finger near her diary ONE more time she'd hex it right of his measly hand.
"'lo Hagrid!" Candy called out when they got in hearing range of the 'happy' group. Hagrid smiled and waved back at them.
"Beautiful day, ain't it?" he merrily called back to them. The newcomers and Hagrid grew silent as Summer and Sirius feuded.
"YOU READ MY DIARY YOU.!" Summer screamed.
"Summer, how'd you find out?" Sirius suddenly asked her, cutting her off in mid-sentence.
"Find what out?" she asked, still mad.
"About Remus," Sirius asked her, looking at her like she was mental, which is probably right.
She laughed evilly, totally unlike her normal attitude. "You know how it feels for someone to except me as who I am? Someone to trust me? Someone to laugh at me? Well, I don't think that you'd know because your to busy being Mr. Popular and Mr. Perfect. It all comes easily to you. But some people have to work at it. Well, I'll tell you what you want to know. He told me that day in the library. You think that I wouldn't notice that he suddenly gets sick or his aunt or whoever gets sick on a full moon? You think I'm THAT blonde?" she retorted.
Sirius was dumbfounded. He had seen Summer angry, but never this angry. He had always thought she was a ditz, a little off center, a little too quiet and touchy, but he had never guessed that she had feelings, that she took those things he said seriously.
"Summer, I." he began.
She held up a hand. "I don't want to hear it. I don't need any sympathy. You think that it's easy trying to make your parents love you, except who you really were, trying to be like your perfect sister who's always doing things right? Well, I have news for you. Its not!" she cried.
"What about Remus?" Lily asked, returning back to the main subject.
"He's a." James began.
"He's a werewolf," Summer lamely finished.
On Christmas morning Lily found herself being rudely awakened by a pillow being catapulted towards her head at 6:30.
"CANDY!!!" she screamed, since Candy was the only one who did that to her, but instead of finding herself looking into violet eyes, she was looking into blue ones. "Summer?" she asked, surprised.
"The one and only. Now, if you excuse me, Candy is my next victim," she said, hopping off Lily's bed and moving towards Candy's. Lily lost sight of the girl, but then she heard a loud thunk and a scream.
"WHAT?! WHERE'S THE FIRE?" Candy yelled, bolting upright in bed. She looked around madly until she saw Summer holding a pillow. "You!" she said, shocked. Summer nodded, and then she turned around and tripped over the bed skirt in her haste to get away.
She quickly picked herself up and practically flew down the stairs to the Common Room where the boys were waiting with Candy hot on her tail.
"Mad.Candy.hide...me!" Summer gasped out, looking for a place to hide. Remus pointed to the space behind the couch he was seated on. Summer dove behind it just as Candy stormed in.
"WHERE IS SHE?!?!?!" Candy yelled, shattering the calm atmosphere of the common room. In unison the four boys pointed to behind the couch, not wanting to get on Candy's bad side this early in the morning.
"Some friends you lot are. Uh-oh." Summer whined, catching a glimpse of four fingers pointing to her and Candy's head poking over it.
"Run." Candy said through clinched teeth. Summer heeded her warning and sprinted around the common room with Candy hard on her heels, unaware that the Headmaster was watching them.
"Happy Christmas, children," he suddenly said, causing Summer to stop suddenly and causing Candy to plow into her. They fell to the floor in a mixed up heap of arms, legs, robes, and heads.
Dumbledore laughed aloud. "What seems to be the problem here ladies?" he said, trying to hide a chuckle, as Lily helped them up.
"Nothing sir, just that she woke us all up too early," James said, rubbing sleep out of his eyes and pointing to Summer. Summer smiled innocently at the professor.
"Who me? I was just upstairs calmly waking Lily and Candy up!" She replied, causing Lily to roll her eyes and Candy to laugh.
"Well, I wouldn't say calmly, but I would say she woke us up all right," Lily said, earning a glare form Summer.
"Oh well. It doesn't matter now. Open your presents and I will see you later, all right? " Dumbledore said. All of them nodded. "Oh, and Ms. Dippet, can I talk to you for a minute?" and with that Dumbledore smiled and walked out with Summer hurrying behind him.
Sirius appointed himself as the 'head elf', the gift distributor, and set to handing out the presents. Soon all of them had a good size pile of presents in front of them.
Lily picked up a blue polka dotted wrapped present and set to opening it. When she opened it, she found a clear class orb with swirling purple and blue smoke inside it attached to a gold chain. When she picked it up, it turned a canary yellow. When she fastened it around her neck, she saw a note lying on the bottom of the box. She picked it up and read it.
Dear Lily, I hope you like it. It resembles your personality, always changing. The storekeeper told me it was similar to a muggle mood ring. I don't know what that is, but it changes color to you mood. Happy Christmas, James
Lily looked up and caught James's eye. She smiled, and James looked smug after that, well, as smug as a 11 year old can look.
She turned back to her other presents. Besides the necklace, she got a charms book from Remus, a sack of dung bombs form Sirius, a bottle of ink that changed color from Peter, a note book with a protection charm on it form Summer, and a stuffed orange kitten from Candy that actually purred.
When she finished opening her presents she turned her attention to what the others were getting. She saw Sirius's face light up as he opened the prank survival kit from her. He looked at her and smiled, mouthing the word 'Mafloy' to her. She groaned.
Then Summer walked quietly in, going over to her place on the couch, holding a small box. Everyone looked at her and watched her open it.
Inside was a charm, a silver broom with a miniature Quaffle zooming around it, attached to a silver chain. Summer looked up at them, tears shining in her eyes. "My Christmas present from my parents. Dumbledore somehow managed to get it before they died. Somehow they must have known." she said, trailing off.
"Hey guys, look!" Candy said from her place by the window, shattering the gloomy mood. She pointed outside and Lily could see soft white specks floating down from the sky. Everyone cheered, even the saddened Summer. It was snowing!
They hurriedly finished opening their presents and went upstairs to change. Lily grabbed her favorite muggle clothes, jeans and a red turtleneck top, and threw them on herself. Then she grabbed her cloak, slipped on her shoes and ran downstairs to wait for her friends. The boys were down in a snap, but it took longer for Summer and Candy to come down.
"By the time those two get down, the snow will be all gone!" James complained. Lily silently agreed with him.
"I bet I know a way to get them to come down," Sirius said after they hadn't come downstairs after five minutes. "Hey Summer, I'm going to read the next chapter of your diary now!" he called up to them.
Then they heard the pounding of footsteps and a clatter of shoes being thrown down the stairs. After the shoes reached them, a barefoot Summer appeared, screaming. Candy appeared after her, flustered.
"Like I said Black, put one more finger." she screeched, pointing her wand at him.
"Hey hey, easy now. Sirius doesn't have it. He just wanted you two to hurry up. Now, after you put on your shoes we can go out. Hurry up girl!" Lily said.
"Sorry," she said, slipping on her shoes and racing after her friends.
They ran through the empty halls, unused to the silence that filled them.
They passed other students that were staying over the holiday and said hi to Autumn, who joined up with them. When they reached the heavy oak doors in the main hallway, they saw Hagrid.
" 'lo there! What are you eight up to?" He asked the excited eleven year olds.
"We're going to go outside to play in the snow of course!" James said, shocked that Hagrid wouldn't know.
Hagrid laughed. "Well, go outside then. There's plenty of it to go 'round!" he said, opening the doors and almost getting swamped by the eager Gryffindors and Ravencalw. He laughed again, remembering how he used to react to snow.
They bounded down the stairs and landed in the powdery soft snow. (LN- I can see it now. the good ole white stuff, just begging to be played in.. * Here Ea grabs the keyboard from Lizzie * Now, back to your regularly scheduled story..)
James grabbed a handful of the snow and rolled it into a ball. "Hey Lily!" he called out. Totally unaware about what was about to happen, she turned to look at James. A cold, wet snowball was flung straight at her head.
"POTTER! OOOOH! YOUR DEAD! THIS MEANS WAR!" she screamed. She teamed up with Candy, Summer, and Autumn, and decided to go to the side with the field at their backs, leaving the boys with their back to Hogwarts and a big oak tree.
After about ten minutes of fighting, Lily saw her chance. She told her plan to her war mates, and cast a simple invisibility charm over herself that she had memorized from their textbook.
She crept over to where they boys were fighting. Lucky for her, they were standing right under the big tree. She climbed up it and levitated some snow up to her hiding spot, praying that they hadn't seen the snow float up to her. Then she settled in and waited for the signal.
Suddenly Summer and Autumn screamed and started to run. They pointed to the ground, making it look like something was chasing them. The boys were bent double laughing at them, and like she had planned, Remus and Peter ran over to where they were being chased.
Then she said the counter charm (LN~ or is it the counter curse?) to release the snow. It tumbled down and down, burying James and knocking down Sirius. "Ha, that should wipe the smile off his face," she thought.
Then two things happened at once. The branch she was sitting on broke off, burdened with the weight of the snow, plus her, on top of it. Then the charm she was using wore off, letting Sirius get a glimpse of her as she flew down quite gracefully towards the ground. She tumbled down and down, finally landing into a soft drift of snow. Then the snowdrift groaned. She hurriedly jumped off of it, surprised. Then she laughed at what she saw.
"Hello!" she said cheerfully. "Fancy meeting you here!" she giggled. James glared at her for a minute then laughed. Then he stood up, brushing snow off of himself and trying to brush the majority of it out of his hair.
She bent down, trying to find her wand that she lost on the way down. When she found it, she straightened up and faced James. "Um, sorry bout that," she said, but inwardly, she did not feel any sympathy towards him at all.
He laughed again, "That's ok Evans. I'm sure I would have done it too," he said, giving her his Potter smile and then bent down to help Sirius up.
She smiled back, then called out to the twins. "Hey Autumn! Summer! You can stop running now!" she called to the two running blondes.
"WE CAN'T!! SOMETHING IS CHASING US!" Summer screamed. Lily laughed, seeing that Remus and Peter were now running after the two, pelting them with snowballs.
She looked around the mêlée. All her best friends were having a good time, despite the fact that something tragic had just happened to two of them. Summer and Autumn were running around, trying to dodge the icy snowballs thrown by Remus and Peter. Candy was building a snowman with the help of a now fully recovered James Potter and Sirius Black. Candy was trying to tell Sirius that the candy cans was for the snowman's nose, not his snack. Lily laughed to herself and went over to help.
After a while of playing, they trooped inside with happy hearts, rosy cheeks, red noses, and hungry, ready to do some damage in Great Hall.
Dumbledore smiled at the sight of them. Robes and cloaked askew, hair wind blown, snow everywhere, but all of them with smiles on their faces. He smiled again at them. They smiled and waved back, then went to sit at their tables to eat a well-deserved lunch.
LN~ was that better? I, they smile too much and get whacked in the head with a pillow, and I hope it didn't bore you. I had too much time on Spring break between the 10-hour car ride, no disk drive, and not much to do; I got a lot done, like about three chapters, and this is like 11 pages and 3,404 words, an all time high! WOO HOO! Par~Tay! Sorry. Well, anyway, you know what to do. Click the review button and please include the song! (This one (follow the arrow.)) I I I I I I I I I I I I I I v
Oh, and what is your favorite romantic song you dream of dancing with you crush at your prom or other special event? When you review, put it down and put who its by. Thanks! ~Lizzie
Disclaimer- We own Summer, Autumn, Candy, Nicole, Michelle, Danielle, Professor Tregon, and um. Whatever you recognized belongs to the wonderful JK Rowlings.
Chapter 6: Pillows and Christmas Surprises
"WAKEY WAKEY!" a voice shouted in Lily's ear. Lily groaned, rolled over and opened her eyes.
She found herself looking into the bright violet eyes of Candy Minyatur. "Gosh Candy, even at an early hour your hyper." Then she snuggled down deeper into the covers to go back to sleep.
WHACK! Candy threw a pillow at her friend's head. Lily hurriedly sat up and pointed to the clock on her bedside while rubbing her head with the other. "Girl," she started while swinging her legs out of bed, "It's 7 O'clock on a SATURDAY! Are you NUTS?" she practically screamed.
Candy smiled. "Well. your point is?"
Lily smiled and shock her head, thinking that it was useless to try to go back to sleep with a hyper Candy on the loose.
"Shaddup! SOME people are TRYING to sleep!" a voice yelled from the bed next to Lily's. The curtains were thrown open to reveal a bleary-eyed, red nosed Summer.
"Tut tut. Someone woke up moody this morning, didn't we Princess Summer?" Candy called out cheekily.
Summer responded by throwing a pillow at Candy, yelling, "Leave me alone, please! I don't want to sleep, wake up, or be alive right now!"
Candy frowned. "Do you really mean that, Summer?" she asked quietly, her joyous mood gone. Summer nodded, curling up into a little ball on her bed.
Lily saw how much her friend was hurting, so she went over to her bed. She sat down and pulled Summer into a hug.
"It's going to be ok Summer. You have us remember? We'll help you get through this, ok?" She said calmly. Again Summer nodded.
"Well, now that that's over, can we get dressed and go get some breakfast? I'm hungry!" Candy called out.
Lily laughed and rolled her eyes towards the ceiling. "Lord help us. She's starting to sound like Sirius!"
Twenty minutes later, the trio made it's way down to Great Hall, each lost in their own thoughts, well, Lily and Summer. Candy chatted animatedly about the last Quidditch match, Gryffindor versus Ravencalw. Gryffindor had won to a victorious 250 to 30. All the Gryffindors were ecstatic. They now had a shot at the House Cup.
Lily only half listened to Candy. In her imagination, she was turning Lucius Malfoy's head green with tennis ball sized warts on his face. Needless to say, it was a happy thought and she made a mental note to tell Sirius about it.
Even though Lily was lost in her imagination, Summer was totally not there. In her mind she was at Platform 9 and ¾, the last time she saw her parents.
~~~Flashback~~~
"Hurry up dears, or we're going to be late," a short, plump witch called to her family. Racing behind her were two blonde haired twin girls and a tall, brown haired wizard.
"If I had a Knut for every time she said that, I'd be a galleonare!" the taller of the twins said to her sister.
" But you got to love 'er, Aut!" the shorter one, Summer, said to her sister.
Their dad laughed and hurried the girls along. "Well, she's right girls. We have ten minutes to get you there and to find you a compartment."
They hurried after their mom and ran through barrier separating the Muggle world from the wizarding world.
"Ok dears, here we are," their mom prattled. She swept both of them up into a hug and whispered into their ears, "Bye-bye dears, Mummy is so proud of you. I love you so much!" She babbled, sad that her babies were leaving her.
"Laura, let me have a chance to say good-bye to them too," their dad called to their mother. Summer and Autumn were released from their mother's strong hug and went to say goodbye to their dad.
"Bye my two seasons," he said, using his nicknames for them. "I love you guys, and don't forget to owl us. Be good, and see you at Christmas, ok?" he said. They two girls nodded.
"Love ya Daddy!" they cried, hugging him and then stepping back. They smiled and then turned around to board the train.
They stepped up onto the train and turned around. Summer felt a piece of lead fall into her stomach.
"Think they'll be ok Aut?" she asked her sister.
"Yeah, they'll be fine. We'll see them soon," Autumn replied, waving to their parents. Summer turned and waved to her parents. Her mom blew a kiss and her father stood waving, pride and love in his eyes. With one backwards glance, she turned around and stepped into the hall of the train. Autumn reached out her hand.
"Summer? Summer! Are you ok?" a voice interrupted her thoughts.
She looked around and found herself sitting at the Gryffindor table next to Sirius and Lily.
"Where am I?" She asked.
"Eating breakfast by any chance?" Candy asked, reaching for a blueberry bagel.
Summer smiled a little. "Oh."she said, looking around. "Hey, where's Remus?"
James, Peter, and Sirius exchanged glances. "Oh. He's in London, um, visiting his sick Aunt," James hurriedly replied. A little too quickly Lily thought. She arched an eyebrow but continued to butter her bagel.
"Oh. I see," Summer said, getting very interested in her chocolate chip pancakes.
"Well, well. What do we have here? It seems that somebody has a crush on Remus," Sirius said coyly, fluttering his eyelashes freakily.
Candy snorted. "Where'd you get that idea? I mean, we've only known each other for like what, three months?" she said, trying to draw attention away from a silently blushing Summer.
"Well, I do have a hunch. I do have the best sources," Sirius said, holding up a book with 'Summer's Diary, keep out!' written in gold script on the front of it.
"Where'd you get that?" Lily asked, astonished.
"That's for me to know and you to find out," he said cheekily.
"That means he's not going to tell us," James replied.
"Brilliant deduction Potter," Lily said, rolling her eyes again.
"Give it here, Black," Summer growled, a menacing glint in her icy blue eyes.
"Uh, I don't think so. I think that I'm going to go find a good place to settle down and read this faaabulous piece of literature. Tootle-loo!" Sirius waved and skipped out of the Hall with a very mad blonde chasing him.
"Poor Sirius. He doesn't know the seriousness of his crime," Candy said, shaking her head sympathetically, making the others laugh.
"Come on, we better go rescue him before she hexes him. And trust me, she knows some good ones," he said, standing up. The others agreed and followed suit.
They searched around Hogwarts for about five minutes before Peter spotted them from a third floor window.
"There they are, by Hagrid's hut," he reported, pointing. They could see Summer standing on one side of Hagrid and Sirius on the other side. They saw her yelling at Sirius and Hagrid trying to keep her from hexing Sirius. Hagrid had managed so far, but Sirius had received a set of horns, a red, pointed tail, and his knees were locked together,
"We better go help Hagrid," Lily said, feeling sorry for the gentle games keeper.
They hurried down the stairs to get to them before she hexed him some more, or worse, accidentally hexed Hagrid.
When they reached the group, they saw Sirius on his knees begging for forgiveness and I'll do your homework till Valentine's Day. Summer though, wasn't buying it. She was yelling at Sirius, calling him a stupid git and that if he set on more finger near her diary ONE more time she'd hex it right of his measly hand.
"'lo Hagrid!" Candy called out when they got in hearing range of the 'happy' group. Hagrid smiled and waved back at them.
"Beautiful day, ain't it?" he merrily called back to them. The newcomers and Hagrid grew silent as Summer and Sirius feuded.
"YOU READ MY DIARY YOU.!" Summer screamed.
"Summer, how'd you find out?" Sirius suddenly asked her, cutting her off in mid-sentence.
"Find what out?" she asked, still mad.
"About Remus," Sirius asked her, looking at her like she was mental, which is probably right.
She laughed evilly, totally unlike her normal attitude. "You know how it feels for someone to except me as who I am? Someone to trust me? Someone to laugh at me? Well, I don't think that you'd know because your to busy being Mr. Popular and Mr. Perfect. It all comes easily to you. But some people have to work at it. Well, I'll tell you what you want to know. He told me that day in the library. You think that I wouldn't notice that he suddenly gets sick or his aunt or whoever gets sick on a full moon? You think I'm THAT blonde?" she retorted.
Sirius was dumbfounded. He had seen Summer angry, but never this angry. He had always thought she was a ditz, a little off center, a little too quiet and touchy, but he had never guessed that she had feelings, that she took those things he said seriously.
"Summer, I." he began.
She held up a hand. "I don't want to hear it. I don't need any sympathy. You think that it's easy trying to make your parents love you, except who you really were, trying to be like your perfect sister who's always doing things right? Well, I have news for you. Its not!" she cried.
"What about Remus?" Lily asked, returning back to the main subject.
"He's a." James began.
"He's a werewolf," Summer lamely finished.
On Christmas morning Lily found herself being rudely awakened by a pillow being catapulted towards her head at 6:30.
"CANDY!!!" she screamed, since Candy was the only one who did that to her, but instead of finding herself looking into violet eyes, she was looking into blue ones. "Summer?" she asked, surprised.
"The one and only. Now, if you excuse me, Candy is my next victim," she said, hopping off Lily's bed and moving towards Candy's. Lily lost sight of the girl, but then she heard a loud thunk and a scream.
"WHAT?! WHERE'S THE FIRE?" Candy yelled, bolting upright in bed. She looked around madly until she saw Summer holding a pillow. "You!" she said, shocked. Summer nodded, and then she turned around and tripped over the bed skirt in her haste to get away.
She quickly picked herself up and practically flew down the stairs to the Common Room where the boys were waiting with Candy hot on her tail.
"Mad.Candy.hide...me!" Summer gasped out, looking for a place to hide. Remus pointed to the space behind the couch he was seated on. Summer dove behind it just as Candy stormed in.
"WHERE IS SHE?!?!?!" Candy yelled, shattering the calm atmosphere of the common room. In unison the four boys pointed to behind the couch, not wanting to get on Candy's bad side this early in the morning.
"Some friends you lot are. Uh-oh." Summer whined, catching a glimpse of four fingers pointing to her and Candy's head poking over it.
"Run." Candy said through clinched teeth. Summer heeded her warning and sprinted around the common room with Candy hard on her heels, unaware that the Headmaster was watching them.
"Happy Christmas, children," he suddenly said, causing Summer to stop suddenly and causing Candy to plow into her. They fell to the floor in a mixed up heap of arms, legs, robes, and heads.
Dumbledore laughed aloud. "What seems to be the problem here ladies?" he said, trying to hide a chuckle, as Lily helped them up.
"Nothing sir, just that she woke us all up too early," James said, rubbing sleep out of his eyes and pointing to Summer. Summer smiled innocently at the professor.
"Who me? I was just upstairs calmly waking Lily and Candy up!" She replied, causing Lily to roll her eyes and Candy to laugh.
"Well, I wouldn't say calmly, but I would say she woke us up all right," Lily said, earning a glare form Summer.
"Oh well. It doesn't matter now. Open your presents and I will see you later, all right? " Dumbledore said. All of them nodded. "Oh, and Ms. Dippet, can I talk to you for a minute?" and with that Dumbledore smiled and walked out with Summer hurrying behind him.
Sirius appointed himself as the 'head elf', the gift distributor, and set to handing out the presents. Soon all of them had a good size pile of presents in front of them.
Lily picked up a blue polka dotted wrapped present and set to opening it. When she opened it, she found a clear class orb with swirling purple and blue smoke inside it attached to a gold chain. When she picked it up, it turned a canary yellow. When she fastened it around her neck, she saw a note lying on the bottom of the box. She picked it up and read it.
Dear Lily, I hope you like it. It resembles your personality, always changing. The storekeeper told me it was similar to a muggle mood ring. I don't know what that is, but it changes color to you mood. Happy Christmas, James
Lily looked up and caught James's eye. She smiled, and James looked smug after that, well, as smug as a 11 year old can look.
She turned back to her other presents. Besides the necklace, she got a charms book from Remus, a sack of dung bombs form Sirius, a bottle of ink that changed color from Peter, a note book with a protection charm on it form Summer, and a stuffed orange kitten from Candy that actually purred.
When she finished opening her presents she turned her attention to what the others were getting. She saw Sirius's face light up as he opened the prank survival kit from her. He looked at her and smiled, mouthing the word 'Mafloy' to her. She groaned.
Then Summer walked quietly in, going over to her place on the couch, holding a small box. Everyone looked at her and watched her open it.
Inside was a charm, a silver broom with a miniature Quaffle zooming around it, attached to a silver chain. Summer looked up at them, tears shining in her eyes. "My Christmas present from my parents. Dumbledore somehow managed to get it before they died. Somehow they must have known." she said, trailing off.
"Hey guys, look!" Candy said from her place by the window, shattering the gloomy mood. She pointed outside and Lily could see soft white specks floating down from the sky. Everyone cheered, even the saddened Summer. It was snowing!
They hurriedly finished opening their presents and went upstairs to change. Lily grabbed her favorite muggle clothes, jeans and a red turtleneck top, and threw them on herself. Then she grabbed her cloak, slipped on her shoes and ran downstairs to wait for her friends. The boys were down in a snap, but it took longer for Summer and Candy to come down.
"By the time those two get down, the snow will be all gone!" James complained. Lily silently agreed with him.
"I bet I know a way to get them to come down," Sirius said after they hadn't come downstairs after five minutes. "Hey Summer, I'm going to read the next chapter of your diary now!" he called up to them.
Then they heard the pounding of footsteps and a clatter of shoes being thrown down the stairs. After the shoes reached them, a barefoot Summer appeared, screaming. Candy appeared after her, flustered.
"Like I said Black, put one more finger." she screeched, pointing her wand at him.
"Hey hey, easy now. Sirius doesn't have it. He just wanted you two to hurry up. Now, after you put on your shoes we can go out. Hurry up girl!" Lily said.
"Sorry," she said, slipping on her shoes and racing after her friends.
They ran through the empty halls, unused to the silence that filled them.
They passed other students that were staying over the holiday and said hi to Autumn, who joined up with them. When they reached the heavy oak doors in the main hallway, they saw Hagrid.
" 'lo there! What are you eight up to?" He asked the excited eleven year olds.
"We're going to go outside to play in the snow of course!" James said, shocked that Hagrid wouldn't know.
Hagrid laughed. "Well, go outside then. There's plenty of it to go 'round!" he said, opening the doors and almost getting swamped by the eager Gryffindors and Ravencalw. He laughed again, remembering how he used to react to snow.
They bounded down the stairs and landed in the powdery soft snow. (LN- I can see it now. the good ole white stuff, just begging to be played in.. * Here Ea grabs the keyboard from Lizzie * Now, back to your regularly scheduled story..)
James grabbed a handful of the snow and rolled it into a ball. "Hey Lily!" he called out. Totally unaware about what was about to happen, she turned to look at James. A cold, wet snowball was flung straight at her head.
"POTTER! OOOOH! YOUR DEAD! THIS MEANS WAR!" she screamed. She teamed up with Candy, Summer, and Autumn, and decided to go to the side with the field at their backs, leaving the boys with their back to Hogwarts and a big oak tree.
After about ten minutes of fighting, Lily saw her chance. She told her plan to her war mates, and cast a simple invisibility charm over herself that she had memorized from their textbook.
She crept over to where they boys were fighting. Lucky for her, they were standing right under the big tree. She climbed up it and levitated some snow up to her hiding spot, praying that they hadn't seen the snow float up to her. Then she settled in and waited for the signal.
Suddenly Summer and Autumn screamed and started to run. They pointed to the ground, making it look like something was chasing them. The boys were bent double laughing at them, and like she had planned, Remus and Peter ran over to where they were being chased.
Then she said the counter charm (LN~ or is it the counter curse?) to release the snow. It tumbled down and down, burying James and knocking down Sirius. "Ha, that should wipe the smile off his face," she thought.
Then two things happened at once. The branch she was sitting on broke off, burdened with the weight of the snow, plus her, on top of it. Then the charm she was using wore off, letting Sirius get a glimpse of her as she flew down quite gracefully towards the ground. She tumbled down and down, finally landing into a soft drift of snow. Then the snowdrift groaned. She hurriedly jumped off of it, surprised. Then she laughed at what she saw.
"Hello!" she said cheerfully. "Fancy meeting you here!" she giggled. James glared at her for a minute then laughed. Then he stood up, brushing snow off of himself and trying to brush the majority of it out of his hair.
She bent down, trying to find her wand that she lost on the way down. When she found it, she straightened up and faced James. "Um, sorry bout that," she said, but inwardly, she did not feel any sympathy towards him at all.
He laughed again, "That's ok Evans. I'm sure I would have done it too," he said, giving her his Potter smile and then bent down to help Sirius up.
She smiled back, then called out to the twins. "Hey Autumn! Summer! You can stop running now!" she called to the two running blondes.
"WE CAN'T!! SOMETHING IS CHASING US!" Summer screamed. Lily laughed, seeing that Remus and Peter were now running after the two, pelting them with snowballs.
She looked around the mêlée. All her best friends were having a good time, despite the fact that something tragic had just happened to two of them. Summer and Autumn were running around, trying to dodge the icy snowballs thrown by Remus and Peter. Candy was building a snowman with the help of a now fully recovered James Potter and Sirius Black. Candy was trying to tell Sirius that the candy cans was for the snowman's nose, not his snack. Lily laughed to herself and went over to help.
After a while of playing, they trooped inside with happy hearts, rosy cheeks, red noses, and hungry, ready to do some damage in Great Hall.
Dumbledore smiled at the sight of them. Robes and cloaked askew, hair wind blown, snow everywhere, but all of them with smiles on their faces. He smiled again at them. They smiled and waved back, then went to sit at their tables to eat a well-deserved lunch.
LN~ was that better? I, they smile too much and get whacked in the head with a pillow, and I hope it didn't bore you. I had too much time on Spring break between the 10-hour car ride, no disk drive, and not much to do; I got a lot done, like about three chapters, and this is like 11 pages and 3,404 words, an all time high! WOO HOO! Par~Tay! Sorry. Well, anyway, you know what to do. Click the review button and please include the song! (This one (follow the arrow.)) I I I I I I I I I I I I I I v