*Chapter 13*

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" a body jumped on top of Lily waking her up.

"wha. hu?.. Ry? What are you doing here? What time is it? What's going on?"

"ITS YOU BIRTHDAY!" Lily looked around and noticed Remus was standing to the side looking extremely amused, and James was leaning against the door to her room chuckling quietly. Then she saw the clock.

"YOU WOKE ME UP AT 5 BLOODY O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING????"

"Can't waste any time on your birthday! Common Sirius is making pancakes." Ryan said dragging her out of bed. Lily groaned

"alright, alright I'm coming. But." she said her smile widening and her eyes twinkling "James has to give me a piggy back"

"As you wish. Hop on." And so they made their way down to the kitchen, where they found Sirius making clown pancakes, you know the kind with the whipped cream hair, chocolate chip eyes, mouth and nose.

"You went all out Padfoot." Remus commented

"What? They're good!"

"I'm not denying it" he answered sitting down at the table.

After breakfast was finished, Ryan dragged lily up to her bedroom and locked the door.

"Ok.. get dressed, we're having a girls morning out, we'll meet the guys for lunch, hurry!"

"Chill Ry! Its only. seven" but never the less she jumped into a dark blue pare of hip-hugger jeans, and black shirt, quickly brushed her hair and put it up, but on some blue mascara, and grabbed a jacket. "Alright, where are we going?"

"Muggle London." Ryan said grabbing her hand as they ran to the fireplace to floo to the leaky cauldron, yelling a quick 'later guys' to the boys who were sitting in the living room.

Exiting the small pub the girls were talking about what they were going to do that morning.

"So how's things with Remus?"

Ryan smiled. "Just great! He's so sweet, and god damn hot."

Lily laughed at her friend "yeah. Remus is a great guy. I'm glad you two have each other."

"Aww Lils. I'm sorry we've been spending a lot of time without you since we got together. It's just."

"No Ry, really its cool, you make each other happy, and that makes me happy." Lily grinned at her friend, who grinned back.

Ryan's grin turned into a smirk as she said "So Lils. Spill how did you and James hook-up, and don't deny it, Remus and I saw you on the couch together!"

"Fine you caught me" Lily replied grinning

Ryan grinned. "so when did it happen? We saw you after you got the heads letter? Was it then?"

"uh. no.. actually. it happened on your birthday."

"really? So that's were you were."

"Well technically.. Remus asked me to leave. I just happened to choose a McDonalds by Sirius's new place to eat, and bumped into James, so we hung out, went to a movie, after the movie it was raining, so I showed him the joys of running around in the rain.. and we ended up kissing. yeah. that's the short version."

"Awww. But I want the long one!" Lily giggled as her friend gave her pleading eye, and a pouted, then started to tell Ryan about what happened.

Later, after walking around the city talking, shopping, and cheering for random buskers.

Ryan said "alright, we have an hour left till we meet the guys. What should we do?"

"I dunno. give me some ideas."

"more shopping, just walk around, ooo we could go on one of those double deckers, or. um."

"Lets just walk around, maybe we'll see something." Lily grinned, then stopped looking across the street, Turning to Ryan with a grin on her face she said "you know. I always wanted to get my belly button pierced.."

Ryan's eyes glowed. "Oh my GOD! That's and excellent idea. so spontaneous. I LOVE IT!" Lily grinned "alright lets!" and the girls crossed the street to the shop.

"God that felt great. being spontaneous like that. How long till we meet the guys?" Lily asked as they walked out.

"um. five minutes ago"

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"Where are they?" James asked impatiently tapping his fingers on the table.

"They're only fifteen minutes late. look. there they are" Sirius pointed as the two girls walked into the restaurant laughing, before looking around spotting the boys and walking over. Lily plopped down on James's lap, while Ryan slid into the chair next to Remus.

"Hey guys!" lily said before kissing James lightly on the lips. Sirius was the only one who looked surprised. Looking around seeing no one else was confused he asked "Did I miss something?"

"oh yeah.. Their dating." Remus answered nodding at James and Lily, who had slid into the chair between James and Ryan.

"Oh.. Ok. well.. That explains it. but. WHY WAS I THE LAST TO KNOW?"

"Technically you're not the last, your third.." Lily said sensibly.

"so instead of coming over the minute this happened, you told them and left me to find out?"

"Actually? I was wondering how they did know. we didn't say anything." James added

"They saw us after we got the heads letters" Lily shrugged. "I just found out they knew today."

"So when were you planning on telling us?" Sirius asked

Lily and James looked at each other and shrugged.

"So what did you girls do with your morning?" Remus asked changing the subject.

Lily and Ryan looked at each other shrugged and said "shopping, talking, oh and." looked at each other again "we'll tell you later." Then they burst out laughing relizing they said all that together.

Remus looked at them suspiciously "alright. what did you guys do."

"later baby" Ryan said leaning over and kissing him.

Remus sighed "fine"

"Hi I'm George and I'll be your waiter today, can I get you anything to drink?"

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"Alright, now will you tell us what you did?" Remus asked as the girls came out of the fireplace.

The pair looked at each other before taking off at a run. "ONLY IF YOU CAN CATCH US!" Lily yelled over her shoulder as she and Ryan ran up to her room.

Locking the door she said "that wont hold them long, just as long as it takes them to remember they can use magic, common, onto the roof." She climbed out the window and onto the tree outside it, before climbing up the tree and onto the roof, Ryan at her heels.

They lay on their backs on the slightly slanted roof .

"so how long should we make them wait?"

"till they catch us, we'll wait here till they leave my room then go back, they'll find us in their eventually, but it fun making them sweat." Lily answered her friends question.

"WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO?" a shout came from below them. Shaking with laughter they waited for the sound of the boys leaving the room before climbing back down into Lily's room, and waiting for the boys to find them.

Sirius was the first to realize the two girls were in the room; apparently the boys had split up in hope of finding the girls faster. But as he went to call the other two, the girls signaled him to be quiet.

"what?"

"let them find us themselves."

"alright.. but I found you first meaning I get to know what you two loons did!" Sirius said grinning. Lily and Ryan looked at each other shrugged and lifted up the bottoms of their shirts to reveal the piercing.

"Hot shit." Was Sirius's response as his jaw dropped. Then he grinned. "Wicked you guys. So what shall we do while waiting for the two buffoons to find us?"

"We could play truth or dare. although the dare part might be a little hard seeing as we're trying to be quite." Ryan suggested

"oh well.. we'll just play truth then." Sirius said shrugging. "I'll start"

"Lily, when did you and James get together?"

"Ryan's birthday."

"how?"

"one question per turn! So Sirius. I haven't seen you with anyone for a while, who has caught you eye?"

"uh." he mumbled something they didn't understand.

"sorry little bit louder." Ryan said

"Charlie."

Lily grinned "I knew it!"

"Ryan, we haven't asked you yet, are you a virgin, and if not with who and when?" Sirius asked.

"Uh no. and Remus, and my birthday" she said blushing. "lils same question"

"Ry you already know."

"yeah.. but Sirius doesn't." she said with a grin

"fine, I'm not, and it was a muggle, last summer, his name was Cody, it was a summer fling typa thing., we broke up before we went back to school since we weren't going to se each other." Lily said with a shrug. "ok.. um.." but she stopped as the door opened and James and Remus walked in.

"You were in here the whole time?!?!?! And Sirius! What happened to telling us when you found them!" James asked incredulously.

Sirius shrugged "They told me not to."

"we weren't in here the whole time, we came back after you left." Lily answered his first question smiling slyly.

"well we found you. what's the big secret?" Remus asked. "Think we should tell them?" Lily asked.

"Well.. they didn't technically catch us yet.." Ryan responded. And jumped out of the way, as Remus made to jump on her. As the girls and Sirius laughed, James and Remus sat down on the bed.

"Aww common Lils!" James pleaded.

"Hmm." looking at Ryan she smiled and they lifted the bottom of their shirts again to reveal their stomachs. The boys (minus Sirius) jaws dropped. James seemed to be trying to put together coherent thought as his jaw began to move up and down silently, while Remus simply grabbed Ryan and started to snog her. (A/N: I love that word snog!)

"God Lil, your amazing, crazy. but amazing" James managed to get out before gabbing her and pulling her down on top of him on the bed, into a full fledged snogging session.

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Lily and James were walking hand in hand down the street, her friends had given her all her birthday gifts already (Sirius gave her a huge box of chocolate stars, her favorite candy, mint chocolate, it was to die for, Remus gave her a few CD's, Ryan had paid for her piercing, and given her a pair of earrings) James said he was going to give her, her present at later. After her birthday dinner and cake, James had asked her if she wanted to go for a walk, she had agreed, and they were now walking towards the little town close to the house, talking about what Lily and Ryan had spent their morning doing.

When they arrived at the little town, James asked if she wanted to get ice cream, she had of course answered yes, even though dinner and cake had filled her up, no one is ever to hungry for ice cream, so as James got the ice cream, Lily sat down at a table and waited. She smiled at him as he came back and sat down across from her, handing her the bowl of ice cream. She took a bit and watched as James slid a box across the table saying "happy birthday lil" She grinned and unwrapped it, opening the black velvet box to reveal a white gold necklace with a sapphire surrounded by two diamonds. She gasped, looked at James smiling "Its Gorgeous, I love it, thank you so much James!" leaning over to kiss him, before looking back at the necklace running her fingers over it gently. James smiled as he watched Lily look at his present. Before standing up and offering her his arm and a cheeky grin. "Ready to head home miss evens?" She stood up took his arm and they made their way back to the house.

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Well???? Hmm. so yes. still sick. ew. and we cant figure out whats wrong either. wich.. is rather depressing. yup. anyway. enjoy.

If you want to see the necklace go here, but remove the space between jcstore and .com: . jcstore .com/graphics/3419.jpg

Ta! ~ Rin