A/N: yes I no, James seems like a pervert! But he's not! Honestly!

Disclaimer: anything you recognise I don't own and anything you do recognise I do own!

-Chapter 2-

An Eventful End to the summer

The constant flapping of his curtains with the morning breeze awaked James. He opened his eyes and saw the sunlight streaming through the window. He reached out for his glasses and shoved them on and ran his hand through his hair. He stopped and remembered that Lily didn't like it when he did that.

Why should I care what Lily Evans thinks?

You know why you care what she thinks!

What?

You know!

What? OH NO! NOT THE 'L' WORD!

Yes the 'l' word!

But I hate Lily Evans and she hates me!

Are you sure you hate her?

Yes…I mean no…I mean…I don't know what I mean! So shut up!

No! You shut up!

No you!

NO YOU!

"James dear breakfasts ready!" Mrs Potter knocked on the door disturbing him from his thoughts.

I'll deal with you later!

And with that he bounded downstairs to eat.

Lily was still asleep; she could sleep for hours and would have slept a lot longer if she hadn't heard a loud tapping sound. It grew steadily more violent and more frequent to Lily was forced to open her eyes and find the source of the noise. She scanned her room and her eyes landed on a black owl oustside her window. She groaned. Snape's owl. She reluctantly got out of bed and let the owl in. It dropped the letter then flew back, but no sooner than it had got out of the window another owl flew straight into it and they both tumbled inside the room. She laughed. Katie's owl, Orlando, was a bit stupid, dizzy and very hyper, much like Katie herself and was named after her favourite film star!

Lily decided to get the bad over with first and opened the letter from Snape whilst the owl was recovering, not that she would send a letter back!

Dear Lily, my dearest flower,

I miss you so much that it hurts. I can't wait to see you again.

I can wait though, thought Lily, I can wait forever and ever, it doesn't bother me!

I think I love you Lily. You're my one true love and I can't last another day with out you.

Great just what I need! Potter's gonna find this hilarious!

You light my fire; you're my hearts deepest desire. I'll see you at school! I can't wait!

Neither can I!

Love

Severus

Lily laughed, screwed the letter up and threw it in the bin. There really was not point in keeping a letter like that! So she moved onto Katie's owl, which was flying round the room trying to catch his tail, he thought he was a dog! She calmed him down a bit and took the letter off and read it:

Dear Lily,

My mum says that I can spend the rest off the holidays with you and she also asks, very politely, if you can also take me to Diagon Alley and Kings Cross because she's really busy.

Hope Potter's not been giving you a hard time and Orlando isn't being too stupid!

Love

Katie the craziest gal on the planet!

Lily smiled. Katie was a really nice person, very hyper and incredibly crazy! She scribbled a quick reply and sent it off with Orlando, who looked like he, was either trying to bark or had suddenly gone silent. She also shoved Snape's owl out of the window and hoped it was better enough to fly, well not so much 'hoped' but 'not cared.' She decided to get up now that she was awake and went downstairs to see if she could help her mum.

Meanwhile, in the Potter household, James had just gone back up to his bedroom and was sat on his bed, looking at the photograph from the day before. He watched as he scored and laughed when Sirius nearly fell off his broom from laughing so much at some joke Katie had just told. Just at that point Sirius bounded in covered in soot, he'd flooed to Hogsmeade to get some sweets.

"Hey Jamsie boy!" Sirius shouted leaping over to James and heartily slapping him on the back.

"Hey Siri! What happened to you? Let me guess! The fire ate you again because you were rude to it!" James said cheerfully.

"Nope, not this time! I decided to dance whilst moving and let me tell you one thing! It doesn't work! I ended up somewhere in Diagon Alley! But I just got back in and went straight to Hogsmeade!" Sirius picked up the photograph and laughed as James tried to push Lily off her broom, but she dodged and pushed him instead, looking really annoyed. "I don't think she likes you"

"Oh never…who was that again?" James pretended that he didn't know and went to look out of the window.

"You now exactly who I mean and let me tell you boy, you got it bad!" Sirius went to stand next to James, to see what he was staring at and fell out of the window when he saw Lily practising the flute in the room directly opposite. James roared with laughter and Lily went to see what all the fuss was about.

"Oh no! You're both here to ruin my life!" she groaned and chuckled when she saw Sirius in a flowerbed looking very ruffled. He, fortunately, saw the funny side of falling out of the second floor of a building and laughed to. His laugh was like a dog's bark. Weird thought Lily I wonder why that is!

James went down to help Sirius remove himself from the flowerbed and they went inside. Lily went back to her flute practise. She was forced to stop though when something small and fluttery collided with her head. She looked up and saw a small, twittery, white owl. Lily grinned; it was Gemini's owl, Mr Fluffers or Idiot for short. She undid the letter as Mr Fluffers merrily flew in circles around her head.

Dear Lily,

Come over NOW!!!!! They are annoying me SO much! Hope the guys and Snape aren't getting you down.

Love

Gemini

"Please tell me you haven't been perving on her James, please tell me you haven't!" Sirius whined as the boys watered Mrs Potter's flowers.

"I haven't been perving on her" James said, shocked at what his friend had just said.

"But you have really, haven't you prongsie!" Sirius said grinning evilly.

"No comment!" said James beginning to smile. They watered the garden for ages, well for as long as you can keep Sirius Black and James Potter doing something sensible with hosepipes. Soon enough they started a water fight and both got each other totally soaked. Sirius had, what he thought, was a good idea and walked up to the fence that divided the Potter's and the Evans' gardens. He stood with the hose in one hand grinning like a mad man at Lily, who was trying to sunbathe.

"Oh no! Sirius Black don't you dare get that ting anywhere near me! No Sirius! Bad Sirius! Evil Sirius! Um…get her instead!" she shouted pointing at Petunia who had just come out of the house and immediately got drenched. She fumed and ran back inside. Sirius' eyes gleamed as he turned back to Lily and said "this town ain't big enough for the both of us, kid!" but to his surprise he got showered with water. He spun around and saw Gemini, smiling like an angel behind him.

"GEMINI!" Lily cried and hugged her friend over the fence.

"LILY!" Vicky shouted. Causing Sirius and James to go "SIRI!" and "JAMESIE!"

"SHUT UP!" said Lily and Gemini together and they all laughed.

James was in the middle of laughing when he found himself behind hit by a jet of water and saw Lily holding a hosepipe and laughing at him. He got a water bomb, which Sirius always had on hand, in Lily's face and shouted, "let the war commence!"

Water was everywhere and anywhere you looked there were multicoloured water bombs flying through the air. Lily and James were 'fighting' each other and were both thoroughly soaked to the bone. James was throwing water balloons at Lily but she was just standing with the hose, dodging James' attempts.

Sirius had given up with the whole water idea and was tickling Gemini who was on the floor laughing uncontrollably. Being her twin he knew exactly how to win any fight and so did Gemini who managed to whistle through all her fits of giggles and spasms of laughter on the ground. Mr Fluffers charged into attack and began buzzing round Sirius' head, pecking him at each available moment. He concentrated on the owl and Gemini escaped and went to help Lily, who was being bombed.

Lily jumped over the fence to get better aim, but James began to chase her. She screamed and found herself up a tree with Sirius below smiling up. She then looked around and nearly fell out of the tree when she saw James sitting next to her looking equally shocked. It was obvious that Sirius found it very amusing to put them up a tree together and wouldn't let them come down. Lily and James had to, to Lily's disappointment, figure out some sort of 'plan' to get them down.

She talked to Potter and was amazed at how nice he could be as they evilly plotted away at Sirius' misfortune. He would pay for shoving them up a tree. Vicky was hoping around wondering what to do and went to look for something inside.

"Right, now what I think we should do is summon brooms and fly down" said James "that should work"

"It depends if Sirius' charm will let us" said Lily, still puzzled at why James was being so nice to her.

"It should do, well we could try anyway. Accio Starsparkle" a broom came flying out of James' window and up into the tree. "Oh, I only got one, you don't mind sharing do you?" Lily thought for a bit, but she didn't mind really so agreed to share Potter's broom. They stood up and mounted, but couldn't get off the tree. Sirius was keeping a close eye on them.

"What is he playing at?" Lily shouted, getting quite frustrated.

"I no!" said James glumly, "he's trying to get us two together"

"WHAT!" Lily shouted and looked down in amazement at Sirius who was doing some sort of weird dance around the base of the tree. "That's a stupid idea though! Why would we want to do that?"

James found himself agreeing, though he didn't really want to. He watched Lily sit there, trying to work things out in her head. He smiled as she rested her head on her hands. He wasn't really thinking of how to get down anymore but how beautiful she was. He'd thought this ever since about fifth year. When, instead of seeing her as an annoying, little, red head brat he started seeing her as a beautiful princess. His beautiful princess.

Lily sat with her head in her hands, wondering how to get down. She felt Potter staring at her and wondered why, but was distracted as Gemini ran out of the house brandishing a cuddly toy.

"Right! Sirius Black! Let them down or Mr Snuffles gets it!" she shouted, waving a shaggy, black, toy dog in the air.

"NOT MR SNUFFLES!" Sirius cried, "I'll never let them down!"

Gemini got out a pair of scissors and put the blades at either side of the toy's neck.

"NOOOOOO! GEM YOU WOULDN'T" he cried.

"Wouldn't I?" she said, grinning evilly and closing the blades of the scissors.

"Ok! I'll let them down! Thanks for spoiling my fun Gemini"

Reluctantly Sirius got the pair down and they laughed for a bit before Gemini and Lily went next door to Lily's house. They talked about the day's events and Gemini smiled when the 'tree incident' was mentioned. She knew exactly why her brother did that. She didn't tell Lily though. Not yet anyway.