Lily & Jason have been neighbors and Best Friends forever. One day, Jason
comes back from the States from vacation, and his mom sets up a "playdate"
for Jason and a boy Lily will learn to hate, then befriend, then to hate
again, and, finally, to love. Rated PG-13 for future chapters, and
language.
Hey all!! Thank you so much for reading this!! Hey, uh, how do I get a Beta reader or whatever? Like to edit and format? If someone were willing to do it for me, YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW MUCH I'D APPRECIATE IT!!
And I'd also like to thank my kit-kat (Tiger-Lily) for helping me get this up! She's actually helped me a lot whenever this site doesn't like me!!!
Disclaimer: I PROMISE BY NO MEANS AM I J. K. ROWLING!!! Just read the story! It's not THAT good! You'll be able to tell! Even if you sue you'll get nothing out of it. I'm broke. I'm a good girl! (At this point my close friend, Kit-kat, chose to mock me.) I Promise!!!!
King of Hearts, Queen of Spades
Chapter 1: Mediocre
Lillian Marie Evans was sitting in her bedroom, in the window seat, looking out the window. She'd been reading Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, and had just finished it. She was in tears, her heart full of love and emotion. It was true; this book was the best of the author.
She was facing out the window, but not truly looking. She was thinking about how she wished something interesting would happen in *her* life. That someone interesting would kiss *her*. That her grandparents would take *her* backpacking across Europe. That *she* could have a wonderfully large, happy family. No, she thought, what an awful thing to think! She had two wonderful parents, and Petunia. Thought she loved them dearly, she couldn't help but want more.
She had, of course, written all her feelings down in a journal, since she was about seven. She'd just finished an entry, and decided to sit and finish pondering the wondrous novel.
Lily was, as she would describe it, boring & mediocre. She would've told someone that her hideous head was curtained by bushy, electric red hair, which looked to be on fire. She probably would've told you she was a fat giantess.
But quite the contrary, she was far from mediocre. She was gorgeous, with her beautiful red hair to her shoulders; her fair, soft skin had a tint of pink on the cheeks. She had freckles, and gorgeous large, green orbs for eyes. She was not fat, just a little extra baby fat around the edges, because she was an early bloomer. But most of the fat had been lost, as she shot up again this summer and was developing into a healthy, fine figure. She was a happy, energetic optimistic dreamer. She was also quite witty.
Lily, on the other hand found her quite ugly, mediocre, boring, fat and too tall, compared to her fascinating storybook heroes.
She was looking quite forward to her twelfth birthday, coming late this September. But it was only just turning through to July thirteenth. The moon was high over her head, and she began looking for constellations.
***A/N: I don't honestly know very much about constellations, apart from names, so bear with me here!!***
So far, she'd spotted Orion's belt, the big dipper, sickle and was looking for Sirius. She sighed. It was useless, looking for figures representing so fascinating stories that they were written in the stars. It only made her life look more boring to her.
She looked down, upon the lawns, and saw a figure out of the corner of her eye. She jumped up out of the window seat and grabbed a larger t- shirt to throw over her cami and boxer shorts. She threw on some gym shoes, as she already slept in socks. She opened the window wide, took out the screen, and climbed down the small ladder onto the roof. From there she walked over the garage to the lowest end of the sloping roof and jumped the mere eight or ten foot drop.
It wasn't like she'd get in trouble for doing this, she was too goody- goody to do anything wrong. It was just that she didn't feel like waking up the house, or listening to Petunia scream, as she would think it to be a burglar.
She ran silently out to the figure, grabbing her basketball that was left on the edge of her drive, on the way. She quickly reached him as he stood in the middle of the street. When she was two feet from running him over, she reached out and quickly jumped on his back.
"Oi! Lil! Don't do that at night! Scared the bloody crud out of me!" The boy shouted. She grinned.
"Couldn't help myself, you were sitting out here, looking all too innocent," she said in defense. "What are you doing back? I thought you wouldn't be home until tomorrow!"
"No, came in today. Just as planned."
"You said the thirteenth! That's tomorrow!"
"Today," he corrected, grin on his face. Lily rolled her eyes.
"How were the states then?" Lily asked, curiosity bounding about in her eyes.
"Wonderful. You would've loved them! We flew in from California, which I told them was a bad idea," He paused, rolling his eyes, "We went over, like, six time zones, on an already eight and a half hour flight!"
**A/N: Confession: I've never flown to Britain, so I have absolutely no idea about this, except that it's a pain going against time zones.**
"Ha ha! Must have serious jet lag!" Lily snorted.
"Sane people aren't even asleep in the states. Let alone on the Pacific coast."
"Ha. Well, it's been Boresville pretty much here. Read, slept, got on the computer, and played basketball by myself all summer. Softball was the only thing keeping me in touch with the outside world."
The boy's name was Jason Penton. Lily and Jason had been best friends since they were two. Jason knew Lily better than anyone she knew, and vise versa. Jason had cute features, and nicely styled blond hair. He had tiny freckles scattered about all over his high cheekbones. Several girls were jealous of Lily, as she was the only girl he really spends time with. Everyone says that they have crushes on each other, but Lily and Jason knew it was not true. Jason was not interested in girls yet, and Lily was straight out not interested in boys. Lily and Jason had had baths together through the age of six. The thought of going out seemed revolting and awkward.
Jason had left for the USA in June, and had been there up till now. Lily had gotten extravagant post cards, explaining about the many wonders from all over the country he had seen. Lily had not really been in contact with the only real girl friends she had. She wasn't too close with any one else in the grade, but she was on friendly terms with everyone.
"So you up for a game of horse?" Lily inquired, with a sly grin playing about on her face. He had yet to defeat her in any sport, mental or physical, let alone in basketball. She took deep pride in that.
"Sure, if you're ready to finally be defeated for the first time in you life," Jason asked, a grin on his face as well.
"Absolutely ready at any time, but it won't be now, let alone by you," She laughed.
"Ah, you might be surprised," he said, stretching.
"The only surprise I'm looking at ahead would be if I finally made my half-court shot," She giggled, dribbling the ball through her legs.
"Fine, it was worth a try. Intimidation is the first step to defeat," he surrendered, shrugging.
They played horse for a little while, until, after about twenty quick minutes, Lily won. Again. Jason rolled his eyes.
"Enough. You've had all summer to practice shots I'm weak at. I challenge you to one-on-one. Best out of three, first to twenty wins."
"Alrighty then," Lily agreed, quickly stealing the ball from Jason and starting the game.
Lily awoke the next morning, or more, afternoon, around one-thirty. She had beaten Jason all three games, the first by seven, the second by four, and the last by five.
She hopped out of bed, and walked through the silent house. As usual, her parents were both at work, and Petunia with friends.
She could hear her dog running around in his room. She walked up to the door with a large sign, labeled, 'Terry & Feifer'. She opened the door, to release the large, beautiful golden retriever. Feifer, a small bichon frise puppy, came prancing up behind him.
"Good morning, boys!" Lily greeted, as she poured them each some food. "Hungry, are we?" She laughed, as they scarfed down the food.
She walked through to the kitchen, and came to the large, white pantry, gather some food, retrieved a bowl from the cupboard next to it, and some milk from the refrigerator. She ate in about ten minutes, and, realizing Jason was home, quickly let the dogs out to the spacious backyard through the sliding glass door. She ran upstairs to her large room, which had fallen under a blue and purple theme. She quickly went into the bathroom, and jumped in the shower. When she was finished, she grabbed an emerald green t-shirt with her basketball team logo on it, and quickly rolled under he sleeves. She leapt into her jean shorts, and fled the room, grabbing a pair of white socks on the way. She grabbed her Luke's hat she'd gotten from the front hall table, and sat down on the stairs to braid her hair. She quickly put on the hat and slid into her gym shoes, and leapt out the gorgeous oak front door with elegant glass styling of window. Her mother was an interior decorator, and had designed the whole inside of her house with glamour. Nothing was out of place in the Evans' household. Lily turned and sighed, as she looked up at the large, white stone mansion. It was truly a glamorous home.
She couldn't help but wonder why she had not done anything without Jason all summer, as she walked down the stone-laid path. She began to feel, quite suddenly, to have a lack of friends.
Lily had never minded only having Jason, as he was truly everything she saw in a best friend. She was beginning to think that people were only friendly to her to be nice. She had only the two close girls, who had grown distant from Lily over the summer, and through the year the two grew closer to each other. She decided to talk to Jason.
As she crossed the street, something caught her eye. A large snow owl was perched in the Pentons' front spruce tree. It was wide-awake, eyeing her.
"Odd," She muttered under her breath. She walked up to the door and knocked. Mrs. Penton answered the door, and smiled at the sight of Lily.
"Good Afternoon, dear!" She shouted happily. "Smashing to see you!"
"Wonderful to see you, as well, Mrs. Penton! How was your vacation in the States?" Lily asked in polite conversation.
"Excellent, dear, simply extraordinary! How's your mother? Oh! Well, I imagine you did not come over here to visit with me. Jason, dear, Lily's here!"
"Coming mum!" Came a voice from up the marble stairs.
"Wonderful to see you, Lily, dear. You can go ahead up and maybe then he'll speed up a bit," She said, adding a wink.
"Alright Mrs. Penton. Thank you."
"You're very welcome, Lily, dear."
As Lily climbed the stairs, she suddenly had a pang of curiosity about that owl. When she reached his door, she did a quick knock and opened the door.
"Oi, you've got a bloody owl in your tree," she heard him say.
"So do you! Wonder what the blast creatures are up to." she said with a grin.
"I think I have an idea," he muttered under his breath.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Hey, do you think I'm annoying or clingy? Honest answer, please," She said, quietly.
"'Course not. Why would I think that? Have I ever spent more than five minutes with a person I didn't like?"
"Well, I guess not. But why would you hang out with me, when obviously no one else wants to?" she asked.
"Because, you're fun, energetic, and smart, and they're straight out blind."
"Whatever. You want to do something?" she asked half-heartedly, doubting his latter answer.
"Sure, you want to go back to your house, go out, or stay and hang out?"
"Uh, whatever. My parents still aren't home, but we can just hang out there & like get some food. Mum made her cookies when I told her you'd be coming home today."
"You know I love those cookies! Oh, wait . I just remembered Lil. My mum set up a 'play-date'" Jason paused to roll his eyes with disgust, "but you can stay and save me from whatever 'charming young man' she's set to come over here while she talks to an old friend over tea. If you'd like."
"Sure, nothing better to do alone."
"Patricia!" They heard a loud cry from downstairs. Jason rolled his eyes at his mother's shriek of a welcome.
"Penelope!" An unfamiliar voice sounded throughout the house. "Wonderful to see you! It's been too long!"
"Oh! And, yes, this must be your son! Darling boy!" At this, Jason mouthed, 'Darling, my mistake,' getting giggles out of Lily.
"Yes, James, put that away! I thought I told you before we cam to-"
"Whatever, Mum," Came a voice of a boy their age.
"James, Jason's upstairs, mind, the neighbor's up there with him, probably planning to stay. Jason! Lily!" She called up the stairs. "The Potters are here!"
Lily and Jason headed down the marble staircase, to see a beautiful woman who looked to be in her thirties, standing next to a boy with untidy raven hair and hazel eyes.
"Jason, this is James Potter. Remember me telling you about him? And James, this is Lily Evans, from across the street," Mrs. Penton introduced.
Jason stuck his hand out and James shook it. Lily gave James a polite smile and a nod. James returned the smile and a small nod.
"Jason, what were you two planning today?" Mrs. Penton asked.
"Oh, we were just going to go Lily's or something," Jason shrugged.
"Well, that not be such a good plan now, as Lily probably did not expect another boy to come along, and I'm sure her mother-"
"Don't worry Mrs. Penton, we were just going to grab some snacks from my house and then go off to the park. Mum made her chocolate chip cookies. I would've brought them, but she left me a note to let them cool until three."
"Alright then dears! Be home by dinner, then!"
They walked out the door, and they were walking across the street, when Lily realized she was in the lead, and the two boys were several paces behind her, speaking in low voices. Lily chose to ignore this, and pretended not to notice. Then she remembered something unpleasant haunting her as she walked into her glorious home.
"Hey, you two can go on in the kitchen. Jason get some sodas or whatever out of the fridge, I'll be right back. I've got to go get er- something from my room I forgot. Oh and um. Don't touch the cookies, I counted how many there are."
She ran as fast as she could up the stairs and into her room. She dug through her drawer, and retrieved a small package. She quickly went into the bathroom. As she returned, she began walking out the door, when something caught her eye.
"Jason! Get your fat arse up here!" she yelled, eyes wide. "You've got to see this!"
Jason came running up to her, closely tailed by James. Jason was terribly out of breath. They'd been in the basement, messing with a few of Petunia's things.
"It's a bloody barn owl!" she laughed. Indeed, there was a large, brown, barn owl perched on her window seat. Jason's eyes bugged out.
"It's an owl. Big deal," James said, shrugging. "I thought you said she was a muggle!" Jason elbowed him as hard as he could, while trying to keep it discrete, but Lily didn't see it, she was in awe of the owl.
"Lil, it's got something for you, it looks like a letter," Jason said, cautiously. Lily turned and saw there was a scroll of what looked to be . Parchment? Tied to the owl's leg.
"Wonder who could've trained a bloody owl to deliver this ." she wondered aloud.
Jason grabbed the parchment, but Lily snatched it out of his hand, eager to see it's content. But Jason had seen enough. It was addressed, down to the very window seat she adored, to Lily, in emerald ink.
"Bloody rats' crucifixion." Jason said in awe. He looked over at James, who shrugged.
"What?" asked Lily, confused.
"Lily . You're a bloody witch!" Jason yelled. Then he realized what he said, and in the way he said it, she most likely found it incredibly insulting, he thought. She, apparently, did.
"What?!" she screamed, angry, and threw the letter down. "So I'm a witch now? Bloody, clingy, bratty, witch, am I?" She started out her tantrum. She was walking threateningly towards Jason.
"No Lily! Read it! You're going to Hogwarts as well!" Jason said. Scowling, Lily snatched the letter from him, and began to laugh harshly. This was not a good time of the month to mess with Lily.
"What *is* this? This is PATHETIC Jason!" She spat, and stalked out of the room.
"She'd not taking this too well, is she then? How did you two grow up best friends, and never notice the bloody girl's got magic flowing in her veins?" James asked, retrieving the golden, glinting object from his pocket.
"Lily! Ask my mum! She's a witch, too! James is a wizard! I am, too!" Jason told her, she turned.
"Yeah, I think I'll take this to her. Ought to get you at least a good three weeks' grounding," she said, stomping down the stairs. She ran down to the Penton house, knocking rather louder than usual on the door. Mrs. Penton answered the door, looking concerned at the tears in Lily's eyes.
"What's the matter?" Mrs. Penton asked.
"Mum! She's a witch Mum!" Said Jason, in a squeal of delight. Lily turned to glare at Jason, only to find him grinning broadly.
"Lily dear!" Before Lily could even respond, Jason's mother had engulfed her in a large, bear-like hug.
"Could someone please tell me what's going on?" Lily pleaded.
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Thank you all so much!!! I really hope you like the start, I think it gets better! I have another chapter typed, but I'm going to try updating maybe once a week? The next chapter's 9 pages of story! So it'll be longer!! Thanks again to Kait! (Tiger-Lily)
If I don't have at least 3 reviews next week, though, I'm going to wait before I update.
*Jenna~*
Hey all!! Thank you so much for reading this!! Hey, uh, how do I get a Beta reader or whatever? Like to edit and format? If someone were willing to do it for me, YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW MUCH I'D APPRECIATE IT!!
And I'd also like to thank my kit-kat (Tiger-Lily) for helping me get this up! She's actually helped me a lot whenever this site doesn't like me!!!
Disclaimer: I PROMISE BY NO MEANS AM I J. K. ROWLING!!! Just read the story! It's not THAT good! You'll be able to tell! Even if you sue you'll get nothing out of it. I'm broke. I'm a good girl! (At this point my close friend, Kit-kat, chose to mock me.) I Promise!!!!
King of Hearts, Queen of Spades
Chapter 1: Mediocre
Lillian Marie Evans was sitting in her bedroom, in the window seat, looking out the window. She'd been reading Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, and had just finished it. She was in tears, her heart full of love and emotion. It was true; this book was the best of the author.
She was facing out the window, but not truly looking. She was thinking about how she wished something interesting would happen in *her* life. That someone interesting would kiss *her*. That her grandparents would take *her* backpacking across Europe. That *she* could have a wonderfully large, happy family. No, she thought, what an awful thing to think! She had two wonderful parents, and Petunia. Thought she loved them dearly, she couldn't help but want more.
She had, of course, written all her feelings down in a journal, since she was about seven. She'd just finished an entry, and decided to sit and finish pondering the wondrous novel.
Lily was, as she would describe it, boring & mediocre. She would've told someone that her hideous head was curtained by bushy, electric red hair, which looked to be on fire. She probably would've told you she was a fat giantess.
But quite the contrary, she was far from mediocre. She was gorgeous, with her beautiful red hair to her shoulders; her fair, soft skin had a tint of pink on the cheeks. She had freckles, and gorgeous large, green orbs for eyes. She was not fat, just a little extra baby fat around the edges, because she was an early bloomer. But most of the fat had been lost, as she shot up again this summer and was developing into a healthy, fine figure. She was a happy, energetic optimistic dreamer. She was also quite witty.
Lily, on the other hand found her quite ugly, mediocre, boring, fat and too tall, compared to her fascinating storybook heroes.
She was looking quite forward to her twelfth birthday, coming late this September. But it was only just turning through to July thirteenth. The moon was high over her head, and she began looking for constellations.
***A/N: I don't honestly know very much about constellations, apart from names, so bear with me here!!***
So far, she'd spotted Orion's belt, the big dipper, sickle and was looking for Sirius. She sighed. It was useless, looking for figures representing so fascinating stories that they were written in the stars. It only made her life look more boring to her.
She looked down, upon the lawns, and saw a figure out of the corner of her eye. She jumped up out of the window seat and grabbed a larger t- shirt to throw over her cami and boxer shorts. She threw on some gym shoes, as she already slept in socks. She opened the window wide, took out the screen, and climbed down the small ladder onto the roof. From there she walked over the garage to the lowest end of the sloping roof and jumped the mere eight or ten foot drop.
It wasn't like she'd get in trouble for doing this, she was too goody- goody to do anything wrong. It was just that she didn't feel like waking up the house, or listening to Petunia scream, as she would think it to be a burglar.
She ran silently out to the figure, grabbing her basketball that was left on the edge of her drive, on the way. She quickly reached him as he stood in the middle of the street. When she was two feet from running him over, she reached out and quickly jumped on his back.
"Oi! Lil! Don't do that at night! Scared the bloody crud out of me!" The boy shouted. She grinned.
"Couldn't help myself, you were sitting out here, looking all too innocent," she said in defense. "What are you doing back? I thought you wouldn't be home until tomorrow!"
"No, came in today. Just as planned."
"You said the thirteenth! That's tomorrow!"
"Today," he corrected, grin on his face. Lily rolled her eyes.
"How were the states then?" Lily asked, curiosity bounding about in her eyes.
"Wonderful. You would've loved them! We flew in from California, which I told them was a bad idea," He paused, rolling his eyes, "We went over, like, six time zones, on an already eight and a half hour flight!"
**A/N: Confession: I've never flown to Britain, so I have absolutely no idea about this, except that it's a pain going against time zones.**
"Ha ha! Must have serious jet lag!" Lily snorted.
"Sane people aren't even asleep in the states. Let alone on the Pacific coast."
"Ha. Well, it's been Boresville pretty much here. Read, slept, got on the computer, and played basketball by myself all summer. Softball was the only thing keeping me in touch with the outside world."
The boy's name was Jason Penton. Lily and Jason had been best friends since they were two. Jason knew Lily better than anyone she knew, and vise versa. Jason had cute features, and nicely styled blond hair. He had tiny freckles scattered about all over his high cheekbones. Several girls were jealous of Lily, as she was the only girl he really spends time with. Everyone says that they have crushes on each other, but Lily and Jason knew it was not true. Jason was not interested in girls yet, and Lily was straight out not interested in boys. Lily and Jason had had baths together through the age of six. The thought of going out seemed revolting and awkward.
Jason had left for the USA in June, and had been there up till now. Lily had gotten extravagant post cards, explaining about the many wonders from all over the country he had seen. Lily had not really been in contact with the only real girl friends she had. She wasn't too close with any one else in the grade, but she was on friendly terms with everyone.
"So you up for a game of horse?" Lily inquired, with a sly grin playing about on her face. He had yet to defeat her in any sport, mental or physical, let alone in basketball. She took deep pride in that.
"Sure, if you're ready to finally be defeated for the first time in you life," Jason asked, a grin on his face as well.
"Absolutely ready at any time, but it won't be now, let alone by you," She laughed.
"Ah, you might be surprised," he said, stretching.
"The only surprise I'm looking at ahead would be if I finally made my half-court shot," She giggled, dribbling the ball through her legs.
"Fine, it was worth a try. Intimidation is the first step to defeat," he surrendered, shrugging.
They played horse for a little while, until, after about twenty quick minutes, Lily won. Again. Jason rolled his eyes.
"Enough. You've had all summer to practice shots I'm weak at. I challenge you to one-on-one. Best out of three, first to twenty wins."
"Alrighty then," Lily agreed, quickly stealing the ball from Jason and starting the game.
Lily awoke the next morning, or more, afternoon, around one-thirty. She had beaten Jason all three games, the first by seven, the second by four, and the last by five.
She hopped out of bed, and walked through the silent house. As usual, her parents were both at work, and Petunia with friends.
She could hear her dog running around in his room. She walked up to the door with a large sign, labeled, 'Terry & Feifer'. She opened the door, to release the large, beautiful golden retriever. Feifer, a small bichon frise puppy, came prancing up behind him.
"Good morning, boys!" Lily greeted, as she poured them each some food. "Hungry, are we?" She laughed, as they scarfed down the food.
She walked through to the kitchen, and came to the large, white pantry, gather some food, retrieved a bowl from the cupboard next to it, and some milk from the refrigerator. She ate in about ten minutes, and, realizing Jason was home, quickly let the dogs out to the spacious backyard through the sliding glass door. She ran upstairs to her large room, which had fallen under a blue and purple theme. She quickly went into the bathroom, and jumped in the shower. When she was finished, she grabbed an emerald green t-shirt with her basketball team logo on it, and quickly rolled under he sleeves. She leapt into her jean shorts, and fled the room, grabbing a pair of white socks on the way. She grabbed her Luke's hat she'd gotten from the front hall table, and sat down on the stairs to braid her hair. She quickly put on the hat and slid into her gym shoes, and leapt out the gorgeous oak front door with elegant glass styling of window. Her mother was an interior decorator, and had designed the whole inside of her house with glamour. Nothing was out of place in the Evans' household. Lily turned and sighed, as she looked up at the large, white stone mansion. It was truly a glamorous home.
She couldn't help but wonder why she had not done anything without Jason all summer, as she walked down the stone-laid path. She began to feel, quite suddenly, to have a lack of friends.
Lily had never minded only having Jason, as he was truly everything she saw in a best friend. She was beginning to think that people were only friendly to her to be nice. She had only the two close girls, who had grown distant from Lily over the summer, and through the year the two grew closer to each other. She decided to talk to Jason.
As she crossed the street, something caught her eye. A large snow owl was perched in the Pentons' front spruce tree. It was wide-awake, eyeing her.
"Odd," She muttered under her breath. She walked up to the door and knocked. Mrs. Penton answered the door, and smiled at the sight of Lily.
"Good Afternoon, dear!" She shouted happily. "Smashing to see you!"
"Wonderful to see you, as well, Mrs. Penton! How was your vacation in the States?" Lily asked in polite conversation.
"Excellent, dear, simply extraordinary! How's your mother? Oh! Well, I imagine you did not come over here to visit with me. Jason, dear, Lily's here!"
"Coming mum!" Came a voice from up the marble stairs.
"Wonderful to see you, Lily, dear. You can go ahead up and maybe then he'll speed up a bit," She said, adding a wink.
"Alright Mrs. Penton. Thank you."
"You're very welcome, Lily, dear."
As Lily climbed the stairs, she suddenly had a pang of curiosity about that owl. When she reached his door, she did a quick knock and opened the door.
"Oi, you've got a bloody owl in your tree," she heard him say.
"So do you! Wonder what the blast creatures are up to." she said with a grin.
"I think I have an idea," he muttered under his breath.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Hey, do you think I'm annoying or clingy? Honest answer, please," She said, quietly.
"'Course not. Why would I think that? Have I ever spent more than five minutes with a person I didn't like?"
"Well, I guess not. But why would you hang out with me, when obviously no one else wants to?" she asked.
"Because, you're fun, energetic, and smart, and they're straight out blind."
"Whatever. You want to do something?" she asked half-heartedly, doubting his latter answer.
"Sure, you want to go back to your house, go out, or stay and hang out?"
"Uh, whatever. My parents still aren't home, but we can just hang out there & like get some food. Mum made her cookies when I told her you'd be coming home today."
"You know I love those cookies! Oh, wait . I just remembered Lil. My mum set up a 'play-date'" Jason paused to roll his eyes with disgust, "but you can stay and save me from whatever 'charming young man' she's set to come over here while she talks to an old friend over tea. If you'd like."
"Sure, nothing better to do alone."
"Patricia!" They heard a loud cry from downstairs. Jason rolled his eyes at his mother's shriek of a welcome.
"Penelope!" An unfamiliar voice sounded throughout the house. "Wonderful to see you! It's been too long!"
"Oh! And, yes, this must be your son! Darling boy!" At this, Jason mouthed, 'Darling, my mistake,' getting giggles out of Lily.
"Yes, James, put that away! I thought I told you before we cam to-"
"Whatever, Mum," Came a voice of a boy their age.
"James, Jason's upstairs, mind, the neighbor's up there with him, probably planning to stay. Jason! Lily!" She called up the stairs. "The Potters are here!"
Lily and Jason headed down the marble staircase, to see a beautiful woman who looked to be in her thirties, standing next to a boy with untidy raven hair and hazel eyes.
"Jason, this is James Potter. Remember me telling you about him? And James, this is Lily Evans, from across the street," Mrs. Penton introduced.
Jason stuck his hand out and James shook it. Lily gave James a polite smile and a nod. James returned the smile and a small nod.
"Jason, what were you two planning today?" Mrs. Penton asked.
"Oh, we were just going to go Lily's or something," Jason shrugged.
"Well, that not be such a good plan now, as Lily probably did not expect another boy to come along, and I'm sure her mother-"
"Don't worry Mrs. Penton, we were just going to grab some snacks from my house and then go off to the park. Mum made her chocolate chip cookies. I would've brought them, but she left me a note to let them cool until three."
"Alright then dears! Be home by dinner, then!"
They walked out the door, and they were walking across the street, when Lily realized she was in the lead, and the two boys were several paces behind her, speaking in low voices. Lily chose to ignore this, and pretended not to notice. Then she remembered something unpleasant haunting her as she walked into her glorious home.
"Hey, you two can go on in the kitchen. Jason get some sodas or whatever out of the fridge, I'll be right back. I've got to go get er- something from my room I forgot. Oh and um. Don't touch the cookies, I counted how many there are."
She ran as fast as she could up the stairs and into her room. She dug through her drawer, and retrieved a small package. She quickly went into the bathroom. As she returned, she began walking out the door, when something caught her eye.
"Jason! Get your fat arse up here!" she yelled, eyes wide. "You've got to see this!"
Jason came running up to her, closely tailed by James. Jason was terribly out of breath. They'd been in the basement, messing with a few of Petunia's things.
"It's a bloody barn owl!" she laughed. Indeed, there was a large, brown, barn owl perched on her window seat. Jason's eyes bugged out.
"It's an owl. Big deal," James said, shrugging. "I thought you said she was a muggle!" Jason elbowed him as hard as he could, while trying to keep it discrete, but Lily didn't see it, she was in awe of the owl.
"Lil, it's got something for you, it looks like a letter," Jason said, cautiously. Lily turned and saw there was a scroll of what looked to be . Parchment? Tied to the owl's leg.
"Wonder who could've trained a bloody owl to deliver this ." she wondered aloud.
Jason grabbed the parchment, but Lily snatched it out of his hand, eager to see it's content. But Jason had seen enough. It was addressed, down to the very window seat she adored, to Lily, in emerald ink.
"Bloody rats' crucifixion." Jason said in awe. He looked over at James, who shrugged.
"What?" asked Lily, confused.
"Lily . You're a bloody witch!" Jason yelled. Then he realized what he said, and in the way he said it, she most likely found it incredibly insulting, he thought. She, apparently, did.
"What?!" she screamed, angry, and threw the letter down. "So I'm a witch now? Bloody, clingy, bratty, witch, am I?" She started out her tantrum. She was walking threateningly towards Jason.
"No Lily! Read it! You're going to Hogwarts as well!" Jason said. Scowling, Lily snatched the letter from him, and began to laugh harshly. This was not a good time of the month to mess with Lily.
"What *is* this? This is PATHETIC Jason!" She spat, and stalked out of the room.
"She'd not taking this too well, is she then? How did you two grow up best friends, and never notice the bloody girl's got magic flowing in her veins?" James asked, retrieving the golden, glinting object from his pocket.
"Lily! Ask my mum! She's a witch, too! James is a wizard! I am, too!" Jason told her, she turned.
"Yeah, I think I'll take this to her. Ought to get you at least a good three weeks' grounding," she said, stomping down the stairs. She ran down to the Penton house, knocking rather louder than usual on the door. Mrs. Penton answered the door, looking concerned at the tears in Lily's eyes.
"What's the matter?" Mrs. Penton asked.
"Mum! She's a witch Mum!" Said Jason, in a squeal of delight. Lily turned to glare at Jason, only to find him grinning broadly.
"Lily dear!" Before Lily could even respond, Jason's mother had engulfed her in a large, bear-like hug.
"Could someone please tell me what's going on?" Lily pleaded.
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Thank you all so much!!! I really hope you like the start, I think it gets better! I have another chapter typed, but I'm going to try updating maybe once a week? The next chapter's 9 pages of story! So it'll be longer!! Thanks again to Kait! (Tiger-Lily)
If I don't have at least 3 reviews next week, though, I'm going to wait before I update.
*Jenna~*