It's About Life
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Character Pairings: Lily/James, Lily/OC, James/OC, Sirius/OC, Remus/OC, Luke/OC, and many more!
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Rating: PG- 13 for language and sexual situations and insinuations.
Summary: Because of the life Lily was born into, she had to grow up. She had to deal with things most people would never have to deal with in their lifetime. She had to become an adult far before her time. Now, when she's finally built a new existence for herself her present life and her past will collide, and in doing so, will open up a closet full of skeletons. Skeletons that were meant to stay secret.
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Random Quote of the Moment:
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
-Albert Einstein
Chapter Four: George Porgie Had a Lil' Money
"Hey, your up as well," said Luke Evans, Lily Evans' twin brother.
"Hay is for horses, grass in greener straw is cheaper!" Lily chirped back. It was obvious from Luke's groans and Lily's giggles that this was a well-known and even more used axiom. They shared a smile and he knelt next to Petunia and asked
"Really Petty what's the matter? Your making it seem as if Vernon had died!" Luke joked and Lily smiled.
Vernon was a huge boy that her older sister had a crush on. That made her shut up quickly. She looked at her mother and father then back to her younger siblings. After clearing her throat she announced:
"I don't know but mum and dad said you two were going away to , schoooooooooooool," school was lengthened out because by the end of the sentence Petunia was sobbing once more.
Petunia, though she acted as if she couldn't care less about her sister and brother most of the time, knew life would become almost unbearable without her younger siblings there to make her problems laughable.
Lily and Luke shared a startled look and silently glanced at their parents. It was clear that this was quite unexpected. It had never been mentioned before to either of them that they would go to boarding school, and the new realization that their parents might have plans regarding their futures that were unknown to them was somewhat of a shock and quite an unpleasant thought. Both Lily and Luke liked to have an idea of what actions could be expected from people and this latest development clashed violently with the way they had previously classified and categorized their parents. As if reading one another's minds they simultaneously walked up to their parents and stood watching them, waiting for their presence to be noticed by the two adults conversing quietly in hushed, yet excited tones. The shadow the twins cast on their parents immediately made them pause their whispering and look up to see their two youngest children staring at them as if they had grown two heads. Lily's mother smiled, ignoring the looks the two twins were giving her and her husband and said
"Good Morning! Your father and I have excellent news!" she smiled and paused for them to say good morning which came in a fast response. She then continued, leaving little room for more that the expected greeting. She had brought them up properly, of course.
"The two of you have been accepted to got to one of the finest wizarding academic institutions in all of Europe! Hogwarts!" she finished with a flourish. In the background there was an audible pause in Petunia's sobbing. Obviously, Lily thought, her highness has finally decided to rejoin us.
"WHAT!" yelped a shocked Petunia. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'WIZARDING'?" she spat.
"Exactly as your mother said Petunia. Aren't you so proud to have a witch and a wizard in the family? Your mother and I certainty are! The very first I do believe," Lily's father stated as if Lily and Luke had found the cure for cancer. This new and unexpected attention from their normally inattentive father caused both the twin to feel slightly uncomfortable, but was only shown in the slight step that Lily took back and the widening of Luke's eyes. This attentiveness did not go unnoticed by Petunia either. Always the one who longed for her father's praise and focus more than anything, the admiration that her brother and sister were now receiving was too much for her to bare.
"But their freaks then! Wizard and Witch is just fancy talk for abnormal! Oh my God!" Petunia said and then fainted. Once recovering from the shock seeing her sister do a right proper face plant on the floor, Lily processed what her sister had said and immediately felt her eyes sting. After Petunia had been taken to her room, Lily's father continued.
"The headmaster is sending someone to bring you to a special place to get your school things. I believe that he has a son who will be in your year. A mister Harry J. Potter if I'm not mistaken. He will come collect you both as well as George and Mr. Jones to get your things. I," but what Lily's father was about to say never came out because at that moment a messenger burst through the door panting and whispered in his ear. This was quite a common occurrence in the Evans household however, and none of those present were the least bit surprised.
"Great Scott! I will be there in a moment! Please excuse me dear but there is an emergency. I will see you before you depart," and with that he was gone. Lily's mother continued on as if nothing had happened.
"I will give George a very nice sum of money for you each to set up an account and to buy school supplies. I, personally, would also like it if you all would get us some basic books about the wizarding world so that we may know what we are sending you all into - history, recent events, customs, folk lore, government, politics, recent discoveries, social structure, that sort of thing. Now on your way. And be good. I've a meeting with the First Lady in an hour and I must get ready. Oh and do forgive your sister. I believe she's in a bit of a state of a shock," their mother said ushering them out the doors, which closed with a whoosh.
Lily studied at Luke with a measuring look in her eye and said " You know what this means?"
"Yeah. No more Christmas presents from Petty," he said with a reserved sigh. Lily giggled and then hit him on the shoulder. Despite the fact that it was funny, it slightly annoyed Lily that her brother couldn't resist cracking a joke even when it was the time to be serious.
"No! Well, yes, but now we can find out why we can read each other's minds!" said Lily with a superior tone. It was something that had always bothered the twins, but it had always annoyed Lily much more than Luke. Sure, twins were supposed to know each other quite well, but they both knew it was not ordinary for twin to read each other's minds.
"Yeah, this does explain it but I'm looking forward to George and Jones terrifying someone else for a change!" he said which made them both laugh.
George and Mr. Jones or Jones as Luke and Lily called him were their body guards and were both like loving older uncles who didn't show their love most of the time. When they'd first met them, Luke had almost wet his trousers, something Lily rarely let him forget.
And as Luke and Lily imagined what Hogwarts would be like someone with their own agenda watched the twins liking this new development an awful lot. A whole lot.
Author's Note: Did I surprise you? I decided that I would give this nice long chapter. But I got a ton of twists ready so read on and review! The more reviews the quicker a new chapter comes so review! Please review! Holds out a tantalizingly delicious looking chocolate chip cookie I'll give you this cookie!
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