"What do you mean you're staying in France longer?" Lily said to her auntie's face in the fire.
"Well it's just so nice here, so Karl booked up another week," Susan said with a sigh.
"You do know that I do have a job," Lily said sitting on the sofa.
"I know that; it's not a problem taking him to work is it?" Susan asked.
"No everybody at work loves him it's just that I…" Lily cut off from her sentence because she didn't want to tell Susan about James.
"Well what's the problem Lils?" Susan asked.
"Um nothing it's alright, I love having him here anyway it's someone to talk to" Lily said with a smile.
"Ok then, Look Lils I've got to go tell Bryan I said hi and that I'll see him soon, Bye Lils" Susan said.
"Bye" Lily said and when the face in the fire had disappeared lily banged her herd against the arm of the sofa several times and then Bryan walked in form being in the kitchen.
"Lily, I heard all of it" Bryan said sitting down next to Lily who lifted up her head, sighed and looked at Bryan.
"I'm really sorry Bry," Lily said with sadness in her eyes.
"It's not your fault, Lily can I ask you a question?" Bryan asked now looking down at the floor.
"Sure" Lily said simply and looked at Bryan who was now admiring the colours on the carpet.
"Lily are you happy with me staying here, am I annoying you, do you want me to leave?" Bryan said quietly still looking at the floor.
"How could you even think that, Listen I was telling the truth to your Mum, I love having you here, It's really good fun, and I've haven't regretted it for one moment." Lily said lifting Bryan's head up.
"Really?" Bryan said with a little smile.
"Really, Really" Lily said and laughed and soon Bryan joined in.
"Lils you didn't tell me about yesterday, you had your first assessment thing didn't you?" Bryan asked when the laughter died down.
"Yeah…don't ask" Lily said leaning back on the cushion behind her.
"I already did…tell me," Bryan said with a sad face knowing that Lily would feel guilty if she didn't tell him.
"Fine…I had to serve dinner in James' suite and he was with the girl I was pretending to be the other day" Lily said quite fast but Bryan caught every word.
"Did he think that you would turn up?" Bryan said really knowing what the answer was.
"Yes…he explained to my boss that the girl he was having dinner with wasn't the right one and he described me to him and mentioned your name…so now my boss knows!" Lily said.
"You didn't get fired did you?" Bryan asked with worry in his voice.
"No… don't worry about it…my jobs still mine…but it won't be if we don't leave now." Lily said and Bryan looked at her weirdly.
"Why's that?" Bryan asked getting up with Lily.
"Cause I'll be late otherwise" Lily said with a smile and picked up some floo powder for her and Bryan and went to work.
"So how was dinner yesterday" Sirius asked James who was sitting at the dining table reading a newspaper.
"Don't ask" James said turning the page of the paper.
"I already did" Sirius said getting up from the sofa and sitting at the table with James.
"Well if you must know…the wrong girl turned up," James said shutting the paper and leaning back on his chair so it was only on two legs.
"The wrong girl…how did that happen?" Sirius asked surprised.
"You got me!" James said getting up and walking into the kitchen to get a drink.
"Well don't worry about it mate…you've got that conference meeting today, or whatever it's called, to get your mind off things" Sirius shouted into the kitchen and James walked out with a drink of water and two aspirins.
"Actually Sirius could you owl them quickly and say that I can't make it." James said popping the aspirins in his mouth and swallowing them whole.
"No way, you're going to this press thing to set things straight between you and this Sarah girl." Sirius said.
"But Sirius I don't feel like it" James whined.
"You can wine all you want but you're going to go and that's that, so stop arguing and put something more descent on." Sirius said pointing at James' tracksuit bottoms and baggy top.
"Fine…but Sirius can you do me a favour, or no matter what you say I'm not going" James said.
"Fine what do you want me to do?" Sirius asked.
"I want you to take that spare invitation that I have for that ball tonight and give it to the main butler…he's sure to find the girl I want" James said and picked up the invitation and gave it to Sirius.
"Ok I'll see you in a bit…but when I come back you better be dressed and ready to go!"
"I will just go!" James yelled and Sirius walked out the door and down to the maid and butler parts of the hotel. Sirius went down to the main room where he found all the butlers and maids having a meeting and stood there waiting for it to finish.
"Alright people that's all lets get to work!" Rachel said and walked off.
Over the other side of the room Lily was talking to her friends when she spotted Sirius.
"Oh no Guys hide me!" Lily said and hid behind her three friends.
"What's going on, what's he doing here?" Lily asked from behind the girls.
"Nothing he's just handing something to Mr Baker that's all, and he's now walking away…oh wait no he's not he's waving at Shell" Amy said now staring at Michelle.
"Michelle don't you dare bring him over here!" Lily whispered.
"I'm not he's gone now" Michelle said and Lily jumped up.
"I tell you what…this is not how I thought it would be" Lily said sighing, something she was doing a lot lately. Mr Baker was walking up to Lily and pointed for her to go into the storage room, which she did.
"Lily I'm going to ask you this again…are you really interested in being part of the management team?" He asked her.
"Yes sir!" Lily answered.
"Ok then…I suggest that you go to this ball tonight and tell James Potter who you are and end everything to do with him…until you become a manager then you can make your own rules" Mr Baker said and handed Lily the invitation and walked out of the door when Michelle, Amy and Jen walked in and Lily looked at them with a sad smile.
"Come on tell us what happened" Jen said.
"You're not fired are you?" Michelle asked.
"No my jobs secure…but only if I break it off with James!" Lily said.
"Well that doesn't matter It was only a bit of fun wasn't it!" Amy said and Lily frowned.
"You lot don't get it…when I went out with him he was so sweet and charming…not like he used to be in Hogwarts!" Lily said not realising what she had said.
"Lily did you know JAMES POTTER in Hogwarts?" Amy said.
"Yeah I did we were head boy and girl together!" Lily said looking down at the floor.
"And he doesn't remember you!" Jen asked.
"I guess not…but it doesn't matter…what matters is now and what I'm going to do…I mean I really like him I think that this could be something here!" Lily said.
"Right now you're talking crazy!" Michelle said.
"I guess you're right…it's just a crazy dream for a Quidditch star to love me, now there's only one thing to worry about!" Lily said looking into space.
"Oh yeah and what's that?" Amy asked.
"What I'm going to wear to this thing!" Lily said and all the girls started yelling.
A/N: Hi what did you think of this chapter…I think this one took me the longest surprisingly, please review and tell me what you think of my story so far.
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