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Chapter 3: Reunion, Memories, and Par-tay

Dedicated to: Secret Lily -- Thanx for the reviews à Everyone go read her story!!

Special Notes:

1) Eva: Umm… Lily does not forgive James… or shez not friends with him… shez just saying that she will try to tolerate him and be civil to him… she doesn't like him… sorry to confuse you.. Hope u like this chapter

2) Star: James is not related to Serena thru blood but after her parents died, James didn't want her to feel like she didn't have any family so he made Serena a sister and his parents adopted her… just like what happened with Sirius.. I'm sorry I didn't mean to confuse you either

3) Anyone!: I know I'm not a great writer so if at anytime you seem confused, just leave me a note and Il answer it for you thanx mwahz urz one n only lil qt wanna b lily

Happy Jason?

Lily and Serena stepped out on the streets of Diagon Alley. It was 10:45 and they had a date with Maria at 11 at a new restaurant called La Fiesta. It had become a new obsession in the wizard world, eating Mexican food… everyone loved it and you could always see almost anybody that was a somebody there. The girls walked in and as the waiter for a table for 3, and just as they were asking, Maria came up quickly and said a table of 6.

"A table of 6?" thought Lily. Serena must have been thinking the same because she gave Lily a skeptical look.

"Sorry guys, I forgot to tell you, Remus, Sirius, and James are coming too," said Maria.

"O yeay!," Serena said. "they are coming? God I haven't seen them for such a long time!"

"Yea, well considering the fact that Remus is my boyfriend, I would naturally invite him to lunch and then therez always his best friends James and Sirius… sorry Lils I know you don't really want to see James." Maria said sympathetically.

When Maria had mentioned James, the color on her face had drained. Yea she did promise to be nice to James but she wasn't expecting it to come so fast. She just thought that it would be practice before Hogwarts.

"O come on Lils," Serena whined, "hez not that bad, why don't you just give up? Didn't you promise me that you'd give him a chance?"

"Yea well I'm sorry, I just didn't expect it so fast… O well."

"Come on," Maria said breaking the conversation. She really didn't want to hear Lily complain about James. "Lets go sit down and order our food."

As they went to sit down, James and Sirius stepped into Diagon Alley. They had told Remus that they'd meet him at that new Mexican restaurant. Remus had said something about having a surprise for Sirius and James and along they had wondered what it was. Just as they stepped into the restaurant, Remus came up behind them.

"Prongs, Padfoot!! How nice too see you guys. Man I missed you so much last month… it was so hard to be there without you guys."

"I'm so sorry Moony that Sirius and I couldn't make it. My mum wouldn't let us out the house because it wasn't safe."

"Yea its alright Prongs. Merlin, there have been so many attacks this summer that its unbelievable. I'm starting to worry about Peter. Hez been avoiding us all summer. Do you think his parents got to him?"

"I hope not." said Sirius angrily. "However I do feel as if he is changing… I don't know if you guys noticed the last couple of months of school but he was so against us pranking Slytherins like they were his friends or something. Sometimes man, I worry about that kid. I hope he doesn't fall into the wrong hands."

"O come on Padfoot… don't be so unrealistic." said James because for some reason he felt as if Peter would never betray him. Yea his parents we muggle haters like the Blacks and they also highly supported Voldemort but they didn't disown Peter like Sirius had gotten disowned. But still, Sirius felt that something was wrong but he didn't want to think what wasn't even real.

"Lets go sit down" said Remus trying to forget about Peter. "Maria saved us a seat he said. Sirius was getting really impatient about his surprise.

"Moony, what is our surprise?"

"O just you know, my two dear future sister in-laws Lily and Serena." he said grinning. One should have seen the expressions on the faces of James and Sirius… the looked like they had just been struck by cupid all over again… you could already vision the drool coming out of the sides of their mouths. "O knock it off you two," Remus said. "they are just girls."

"Yea, they are just girls," said James nodding his head. "they are hot girls."

"Alright are you guys gonna sit here and drool or do you want to see them?" Remus asked irritated.

But before James could say a thing… Sirius started walking… he was excited to see his girl.

"Umm I think Ill take a bean burrito and 2 tacos with a side order of beans and rice." said Lily

"And Ill go with the same thing as Lils here" said Serena.

"And you miss?" the waiter asked Maria.

"I think Ill go for the taco salad with an enchilada please."

Just as the girls finished ordering what they wanted, Sirius, James, and Remus came to the table. Remus sat between Lily and Maria, Sirius sat between Maria and Serena, and James sat between Lily and Serena. Just as James sat down next to Lily, he automatically started ruffling his hair and Lily took one glance at him and rolled her eyes.

"I guess hez never going to change," she thought. "O Merlin, what did I get myself into… being nice isn't hard… but being nice to Potter is going to be a challenge… even worse than transfiguration."

When the guys sat down, the waiter asked if they would like anything and so the guys ordered.

"Ill take 3 Mexican pizzas, 1 taco salad, 4 tacos, and 5 chalupas with a side order of rice and beans." said James, "I'm not very hungry today." "Right," muttered the waiter while Lily just stared at him in awe… the amount of food James was ordering would last her for a whole 5 days and James wasn't even hungry… she wondered how much he consumed when he was actually hungry. However, what really amazed her was when Sirius ordered.

"I'm not really hungry either, I just ate the whole damn refrigerator at home he said.. But I guess Il take something for a snack. Um Id like 2 tacos salads, 5 bean burritos, Mexican rice, 1 Mexican pizza, 3 chalupas, 4 gordidas, and 2 chicken quesadias. Ahh that's all I guess."

Lily was just to struck to even say something… she was just staring at Sirius like shed never stared at someone before. To her surprise, Serena's expressions never changed… but then she remembered that shed been adopted by the potters so she was use to this. As if she expected an enormous appetite from Remus, she looked in his direction to see how much he ordered.

"I think Ill take a taco salad and 2 tacos please." he said politely.

"Wow," thought Lily, "at least one of them turns out to be normal."

"Anything to drink?" the waiter asked. "Butter beer," they all replied in unison. With the order taken, the waiter went to prepare the food for the party.

At the table while waiting for their food.

James looked at Lily and smiled, "Wow she's gotten so beautiful." he thought… he apparently didn't notice that he was staring at her and so when Lily met his gaze, he blushed and looked the other way at Serena. "Serena, my darling sister." he said giving her a soft peck on the cheek. "How are you… look at you… you've grown so pretty in the last 2 months!" he exclaimed.

"Thanks Jamie! You are so sweet, I don't know what I didn't to get an adorable brother like you." she said giving him a peck on his check back. Sirius gave James a dirty look that said, "back off James… shez mine!" and all James did was grin at Sirius.

"Right," Lily exclaimed, "James sweet and adorable?… pahlease (please)" she said sarcastically.

"That's right," said James giving Lily the grin that made the knees of ever girl at Hogwarts melt… well with an exception of a few like Lily, Maria, and Serena.

"Yea, " she said with feisty tone, "and I'm Merlin reincarnated"

"Really?" James said keeping up with the joke… "Nice to meet you Merlin… I am very fond of your work!!"

!!!! A/N: I read that somewhere and thought that was the best line ever.. I don't know who used it.. But if the owner sees it… I hope you don't mind. I fully acknowledge that I don't own that line!!!!!

"Haha James. You think you are really funny don't you?" "Hey what can I say, its part of my charm." "Yea," said Lily rolling her eyes, "Too bad this doesn't seem to charm me." "Well then Lily dear, you are just gonna have to take it lightly then. Watch, I promise you, by the end of our Hogwarts career, you will be mine… all mine." "Yea, and that will happen when my father becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain." "You just wait and see Lily dear, you just wait and see. The Potter charm never fails, NEVER!" James said to Lily winking at her.

So most of the time, while everyone was waiting for their food, and waiting for Lily to stop biting James' head off, the two couples started their own conversation.

Remus and Maria

"Hey Ria." Remus said softly pecking his girlfriend on the cheek. "How have you been? I just saw you Monday but it feels like ages since Iv seen you! How can this happen?"

"Well Remy," said Maria in a seductive way, "That's what happens when passionate couples like us are in love." she said with a twinkle in her eye moving closer to Remus with every word she spoke. As if without warning, Maria leapt onto Remus's lap and started kissing him passionately. However, unlike the other customers, their friends didn't notice that this couple was snogging senselessly in front of the whole wizard world because some of them, like lily and James, were too busy biting each other's heads off and Sirius and Serena were too engrossed in a important conversation amongst them.

Sirius and Serena

"Hey Rena." Sirius said in a heart felt tone. "How was your summer?"

"Umm it was good," Serena said rather uncomfortably. Last year, at the end of the term, Sirius had said something to her that replayed in her mind over and over again. This something had changed her life forever. He had taken her to his favorite broom closet and told her that he loved her. And unlike the real Sirius, all he did was give her a soft peck on the cheek and told her to sleep on it… he told her that she didn't have to answer right away, and for that she was glad. And sleeping on it, she did. She spent the summer at Lily's house away form Sirius to see if she felt the same way about him… and to her surprise, she did. Every week, Sunday Post, she would look forward for the letter from Sirius where he told her everything going on in his life… but never did he once pressure her to say something back. He felt that she needed time… and the summer had really proved that she liked him. Every time she wasn't busy doing something, her mind would waver to Sirius. She would think of all the warm conversations she had with Sirius and it would make her warm all over. But now, she was scared. What if he didn't feel the same way about her any more?

Sirius was staring at Serena and he noticed that her eyes were in a deep thought and they looked worried, sad, and confused at the same time.

"Serena," he spoke, "What's wrong sweetie?" "O Siri," she said with a sad smile and a tear trickling down her face, "I was just thinking about what you said to me last year and now that I reflect on it… I… I… I realize that I missed you so much and all summer all I could do was think bout you and how much I wanted to be with you!" "O sweetie, that is the greatest news Iv heard since Merlin knows!" he said pulling her into a tight hug. "But Siri," she said a little confused pushing him away, "I just don't think that I'm ready for a relationship right now… I mean, this could just be passion or lust… cant we just give it time? And I promise, Ill tell you when I'm ready." "Ok… that's… that's… that's fine." Sirius said a little discouraged… but hey at least she was falling for him and that's all that matters.

A few minutes later, the talking, fighting, and snogging stopped because the food had arrived. And the party was busy pigging out laughing and giggling. Somehow the their conversation turned into the first day everyone had met everyone else. Everyone laughed out loud saying it was an experience that they would never forget. It so happened that James, Sirius, and Remus had arrived together at platform 9 ¾ and James had "accidentally" ran into some pretty red headed girl. And this red headed girl happened to be none other than Lily Evans who had happened to be talking to two girls she had just met, Serena and Maria. James, being the bloke he was, didn't even apologize to Lily when he knocked her down and he let on walking.

"HEY! EXCUSE ME MISTER!!," Lily shouted in rage, "Don't you thing YOU should be apologizing?

"Ahh not that I know of," replied James cockily. "And by way miss who would you be?"

"Shut up arsehole and get out of my face!" and when he left, she muttered, "Stupid Prick."

And so that's how all of them had bumped in and before it was noticed, all of them every friends with each other, well at least with the exception of Lily n James. Lily always hated but James didn't. He liked her from the first moment he saw her… but come on, he was a guy! He had to keep up his tuff GUY image so he acted like he didn't like lily too.

Remembering that… they all laughed so hard. Before they knew it… they had to go because it was time for the party.