GREEN EYES
CHAPTER 23-TOMATOES ANYONE?
Nobody was speaking to Sirius except Lauren, who somehow thought that what he had done earlier was funny. Lily figured that the only reason that she was in a good mood was because Roy had been chased by that mermaid for an hour and a half before he could crawl out of the pool and lock himself in the bathroom. Everyone had found this extremly ammusing, they had sat in the spa and ate popcorn, watching him trying to get the mermaid to back off. He kept saying something about writing her into his book, whatever that meant.
Everyone was now in Lily's room, staying up and talking. It was getting late, yet no one wanted to go to sleep, so they were trying to find something to do that would keep them up and keep them occupied. They were all terribly bored when Jamie finally thought of something.
"Hey Remus, truth or dare?" asked Jamie sleepily. She was resting against Remus's shoulder, and he slowly turned to her.
"Dare," he said, speaking quietly but not without confidance.
"I dare you to kiss me," replied Jamie.
"Hum, as hard as that dare is for me, I'm going to have to take it," he answered, giving Jamie a soft kiss on the lips.
"Remus darling, it's your turn now!" exclaimed Lauren, who seemed to be the only one with any energy at this time of night. Well, except for Sirius, but everyone was too busy being mad at him to notice.
"James, truth or dare?" he asked James.
"Truth," replied James with a yawn.
"Ok, um, what is the hardest thing you have ever done?" asked Remus, with a satifisted look on his face.
"Oh, that's easy. I don't want to stir up bad old memories, but we're past it so I guess it doesn't matter. Cheating on Jamie," said James. He then suprised everyone by saying, "Sirius, truth or dare?"
"Does this mean you're talking to me again?" questioned Sirius hopefully.
"No, it means that you're the one I'm asking truth or dare to. So, truth or dare?" asked James, a bit annoyed.
"Hard choice, but it has to be dare. I'm a dangerous man, I have to have something dangerous to do!" explained Sirius.
"Fine, then you will love this one. I. Dare. You. To. KISS. Lauren." said James slowly. Sirius solemnly nodded.
"It's a tough job, but someone has to do it!" said Sirius. He then went over, wrapped his arms around Lauren's waist and kissed her. Her lips felt soft, and they smelled like kiwi. Sirius had always like kiwi. Lauren sweetly returned the kiss, wrapping her arms around Sirius' neck. Sirius didn't notice the first tap on his shoulder, or the second, but by the third he had finally seemed to come to his senses. He regretfully broke away from Lauren and turned around to see what whoever was tapping him wanted.
"Yeah?" he said. Lily was the one who had tapped him, and she was giggling.
"Um, you are aware that you were kissing for two minutes, right?" she questioned him, through giggles, which made her rather hard to understand. Lauren looked as confused as Sirius did, as if she didn't realize how long they had been kissing either. But then again, Lily reminded herself, she probably didn't.
Sirius looked around uncomfortably, and then, to break the awkward silence, he pulled, to everyone's amazement, a bag of tomatoes out from under his bed.
"Tomatoes anyone?" he asked.
***
The next morning Lily awoke with a start. It was still about fifteen minutes before her alarm clock, which was set for 8:30, would go off, which would give her time to think. She looked over at Sirius, who had somehow wrapped his arms around Lauren's waist during the night, and she was resting her head against his chest.
I don't understand why those two won't just admit that they like each other, she thought. She knew there was something that she had to do today, something important and something that she hadn't done before. Then it finally came to her- the driver's test!
The alarm clock went off and there was a frantic rush as everyone got ready to go to take the test. No one was that worried, it didn't really matter if they passed or not, as they had no use for cars in the wizard world, still it would be fun to pass. Sirius had gotten ready a few minutes after the alarm clock went off. He wore a hat and dark sunglasses, and would not take them off for any reason.
"Why do you have that ridiculous outfit on?" questioned James.
"No reason, really, you'll see!" answered Sirius happily. Lily did not like the sound of that, it definatly sounded as if he was up to something.
***
They arrived at about half past nine. The rest of the driver's education class was already there, eager and nervous about driving. Lily was hoping that she would pass, and everyone else knew she would. She was the top-student at Hogwarts, she could pass a silly little muggle test.
The test involved standing in a long line for about a half hour. Then, when they got to the front of the line, they were handed forms to fill out. The forms took another half hour, and then they had to stand in the long line again. Finally Lily was at the front. They gave her an eye exam, took her fingerprint, and stamped the paper saying that she had passed that part. Then they took her over to another part of the room and took a picture. Lily didn't like the picture that much, they always
turned out bad, but she was much more suprised when she saw how Sirius' picture had turned out.
It became apparent immediatly why Sirius had worn the hat and sunglasses: Lily would not have let him out of the house if he hadn't. Instead of his usual, perfectly done black hair, there was a large, green afro on the top of his head. And instead of his deep, brown eyes, he had bright purple eyes that seemed to glow. In his picture, he made a peace sign and then, when his picture was handed to him he got a huge smile on his face.
"Wow, that's great! Righteous!" he said, and gave the picture taker a high-five. The old woman hadn't seemed too happy about this, and she quickly sanitised her hands.
The next part of the test were the questions. They were from the handbook and were not that easy. When they handed them in, James had missed 5, Remus 6, Jamie 8 (which was the most you were allowed to miss) Lily 3 and Sirius, suprisingly, had missed only 1, which was the best out of anyone in the class. Lily had made him put his hat back on too, so he hadn't scared the young man that graded the tests that much either. Lily was actually pretty happy for Sirius, and everyone was speaking to him again, asking him how he had studied and what was going on between him and Lauren ('We're just friends! I swear, one game of truth or dare and you make a big deal out of this!') but all of the new found trust was ruined, for Lily at least, when Sirius came to take the driving portion of the test.
Lily had asked her parents to loan her their car so that everyone could use it to take the test, and it was sitting in the lot. She wasn't all that suprised to see a big, black motorcycle parked next to it, this was London after all, a lot of people rode motorcycles. Of course, everyone in the class loved the motorcycle, and they kept asking whose it was. Imagine Lily's suprise when she heard Sirius say, "It's mine!"
"You bought a motorcycle? Why? Where did you get it? Where did you get the money?" she screamed. Sirius smiled.
"Well, Remus and I were calmly walking down the street when we saw this man who was selling his garage. So we told him we didn't want his garage, but we wanted what was in it. And, suprisingly enough, he sold it to us." explained Sirius happily.
"Yeah, and how did you get the muggle money to pay for it?" questioned Lily, looking very unhappy.
"That's just my little secret!" excalimed Sirius happily. Lily was then stopped from hurting Sirius by having to take her test. Everyone ended up passing, and Lily was very suprised to see that Sirius hadn't missed any points, which was extremly odd, because he was, there was no other way to explain it, Sirius!
***
Once again, Lily was not speaking to Sirius. She had made an attempt, but when she found out that he had taken the bike to his friend Arthur Weasley's house and now it could fly, that was the end of it. They were sitting in Lily's backyard, on a very hot day, when Jamie came up with an idea.
"Hey you guys, my mom has a minivan. That's a muggle car that can hold a lot of people," she explained, because the boys looked rather confused. "Why don't we take it and I can drive us to the mall!"
"What's the mall?" James wondered outloud.
"It's a muggle place, with many stores, were you can buy just about anything you want!" said Jamie excitedly.
"Ok, let's go!" said Sirius. He still had a lot of muggle money left, he wanted to get some more things before he left from here.
They all piled into Jamie's minivan and soon they were on their way to the mall. The mall was huge, with more shops than diagon alley, a movie theater and an ice skating rink. Sirius looked as if he was in heaven when he walked in and turned over to the McDonalds. He had never seen one before, and he excitedly walked up to the cashier.
"Good afternoon, what can I make for you today?" asked the cashier in a monotone voice. He was a teenage boy with a lot of pimples, and he was very tall. Sirius examined the menu and then decided on something.
"So, if you get this happy meal thingy, you get a toy?" he asked. The boy looked at Sirius as if he was not completly normal (which he's not) and then answered.
"Yeah, a sesame street toy. Now, what do you want?" replied the boy, sounding irratated.
"That big mac thing, what's that?" pondered Sirius.
"I am sure that you are an english boy, you most know what a big mac is. Please order, sir," said the cashier.
"Ok, I want one of those. Um, with that super thingy. And a toy. I like toys!" said Sirius. The cashier rolled his eyes as he called in his order. Finally it was done and he handed the bag to Sirius.
"Thank you. Please come back to McDonalds, where we love to see you smile," muttered the cashier, but Sirius was too busy playing with his elmo toy to notice.
***
"Man Lily, you have it great! I mean, you get that DacMonalds thing as often as you want, and the cool records and everything. Man, I wish we had this stuff!" exclaimed Sirius, shoving his fourth Big Mac into his mouth. He had bought a ton of stuff, most notably quite a few boxers with heart, star and loony toon designs on them, a record player, the Aretha Franklin, Beatles and Eagles records (he had been listening to way too much muggle radio) and, for some strange reason, a tu-tu. Lily
smiled, it was all too hilarious.
"Wow, what's that store?" asked Remus, pointing over at the Victoria's Secret store.
"Victoria's Secret. Trust me, you probably don't want to go in there," said Jamie. Just then, a very fat lady that reminded Lily of the pink lady walked out of the bathroom with only a bra and underwear walked out.
"Oh my God, that's one secret Victoria should have kept!" exclaimed James. Lily laughed.
"Hey, let's go ice skating!" yelled Lily, pulling James along by the hand. Everyone followed her to the rink, where she payed for everyone and then strapped on a pair of white ice skates.
"So what are we doing?" asked James nervously.
"Ice skating. What you do is glide across the ice. It's great fun!" exclaimed Lily. She went over to the ice and stepped on. Instanly everyone looked at her as she pulled off a double axel double toe, followed by a spiral that was very high and graceful, and then ended with a perfect flying camel spin. James, Remus and Sirius stared in awe as Lily skated over to them.
"See, it's simple!" she said, pulling them onto the ice. However, they didn't seem to think it was so simple, to the contrary they thought it was one of the hardest things they had done. Lily laughed at them as the fell across the ice, and then she had an idea.
"Hey Sirius, come over here!" she yelled, and he came over to where she was standing on the oppisite side of the rink. That was quite a task, and it took him ten minutes.
"Just pretend that I'm giving you a hug, ok?" she whispered. He nodded, and she wrapped one arm around his neck, with him wrapping his arms around her waist. She quickly pulled her wand out of her pocket with her free hand and, as discreetly as she could, she charmed Sirius to know how to skate.
He grabbed her hands and they started pairs skating through the rink. After a few crossovers to get them warmed up, Sirius pulled Lily up into a simple press lift. Then they did a throw triple twist, followed by a beautiful death sprial and then side by side triple flips. They finished, and everyone there clapped for them. Even the saftey skater, who knew that pairs was not allowed until the private sessions later that night, was clapping for them. They bowed, and then went over to where everyone else was sitting outside, drinking hot chocolate.
"So, how fabulous are we?" asked Lily, sitting down next to James and giving him a quick peck on the cheek.
"You're great! That throw triple twist was amazing, I bet you could do a quad, and it was so effortless, I want to coach you, you could make it to the olympics." said a farmiliar voice. Lily turned around and saw, to her great suprise, her old skating coach.
"Why hello Tiffany. It's a pleasure seeing you again!" said Lily.
"Lily Evans? Is that you?" she asked. Lily nodded and soon they had hugged. "My, it's wonderful to see you again. You are still the best skater that I've ever coached."
"Oh, don't say that!" argued Lily.
"No, really! So what do you think, do you want to come back to skating?" asked Tiffany.
"I would, but I can't. Boarding school and all. But don't worry, I can practice there. Maybe after I graduate." explained Lily, a tone of regret in her voice.
"Oh, well keep in touch," said Tiffany, rather dejectedly. Just then Sirius piped in.
"Hey guys, I'm hungry. What do you saw about going and getting another hamburger?"
A/N-Sorry that this chapter wasn't as long as the last one. I'm pretty much trying to get through the summer right now. I promise that when they get back to school (which I am estimating will be chapter 26) the chapters will get a lot longer. Until then, please read and review!
Disclaimer-I don't own any Harry Potter characters, Aretha Franklien, The Eagles, The Beatles, Victoria's Secret or McDonalds. I wish I did though, because then I would be rich and get to live in a big house with a GOOD computer!
CHAPTER 23-TOMATOES ANYONE?
Nobody was speaking to Sirius except Lauren, who somehow thought that what he had done earlier was funny. Lily figured that the only reason that she was in a good mood was because Roy had been chased by that mermaid for an hour and a half before he could crawl out of the pool and lock himself in the bathroom. Everyone had found this extremly ammusing, they had sat in the spa and ate popcorn, watching him trying to get the mermaid to back off. He kept saying something about writing her into his book, whatever that meant.
Everyone was now in Lily's room, staying up and talking. It was getting late, yet no one wanted to go to sleep, so they were trying to find something to do that would keep them up and keep them occupied. They were all terribly bored when Jamie finally thought of something.
"Hey Remus, truth or dare?" asked Jamie sleepily. She was resting against Remus's shoulder, and he slowly turned to her.
"Dare," he said, speaking quietly but not without confidance.
"I dare you to kiss me," replied Jamie.
"Hum, as hard as that dare is for me, I'm going to have to take it," he answered, giving Jamie a soft kiss on the lips.
"Remus darling, it's your turn now!" exclaimed Lauren, who seemed to be the only one with any energy at this time of night. Well, except for Sirius, but everyone was too busy being mad at him to notice.
"James, truth or dare?" he asked James.
"Truth," replied James with a yawn.
"Ok, um, what is the hardest thing you have ever done?" asked Remus, with a satifisted look on his face.
"Oh, that's easy. I don't want to stir up bad old memories, but we're past it so I guess it doesn't matter. Cheating on Jamie," said James. He then suprised everyone by saying, "Sirius, truth or dare?"
"Does this mean you're talking to me again?" questioned Sirius hopefully.
"No, it means that you're the one I'm asking truth or dare to. So, truth or dare?" asked James, a bit annoyed.
"Hard choice, but it has to be dare. I'm a dangerous man, I have to have something dangerous to do!" explained Sirius.
"Fine, then you will love this one. I. Dare. You. To. KISS. Lauren." said James slowly. Sirius solemnly nodded.
"It's a tough job, but someone has to do it!" said Sirius. He then went over, wrapped his arms around Lauren's waist and kissed her. Her lips felt soft, and they smelled like kiwi. Sirius had always like kiwi. Lauren sweetly returned the kiss, wrapping her arms around Sirius' neck. Sirius didn't notice the first tap on his shoulder, or the second, but by the third he had finally seemed to come to his senses. He regretfully broke away from Lauren and turned around to see what whoever was tapping him wanted.
"Yeah?" he said. Lily was the one who had tapped him, and she was giggling.
"Um, you are aware that you were kissing for two minutes, right?" she questioned him, through giggles, which made her rather hard to understand. Lauren looked as confused as Sirius did, as if she didn't realize how long they had been kissing either. But then again, Lily reminded herself, she probably didn't.
Sirius looked around uncomfortably, and then, to break the awkward silence, he pulled, to everyone's amazement, a bag of tomatoes out from under his bed.
"Tomatoes anyone?" he asked.
***
The next morning Lily awoke with a start. It was still about fifteen minutes before her alarm clock, which was set for 8:30, would go off, which would give her time to think. She looked over at Sirius, who had somehow wrapped his arms around Lauren's waist during the night, and she was resting her head against his chest.
I don't understand why those two won't just admit that they like each other, she thought. She knew there was something that she had to do today, something important and something that she hadn't done before. Then it finally came to her- the driver's test!
The alarm clock went off and there was a frantic rush as everyone got ready to go to take the test. No one was that worried, it didn't really matter if they passed or not, as they had no use for cars in the wizard world, still it would be fun to pass. Sirius had gotten ready a few minutes after the alarm clock went off. He wore a hat and dark sunglasses, and would not take them off for any reason.
"Why do you have that ridiculous outfit on?" questioned James.
"No reason, really, you'll see!" answered Sirius happily. Lily did not like the sound of that, it definatly sounded as if he was up to something.
***
They arrived at about half past nine. The rest of the driver's education class was already there, eager and nervous about driving. Lily was hoping that she would pass, and everyone else knew she would. She was the top-student at Hogwarts, she could pass a silly little muggle test.
The test involved standing in a long line for about a half hour. Then, when they got to the front of the line, they were handed forms to fill out. The forms took another half hour, and then they had to stand in the long line again. Finally Lily was at the front. They gave her an eye exam, took her fingerprint, and stamped the paper saying that she had passed that part. Then they took her over to another part of the room and took a picture. Lily didn't like the picture that much, they always
turned out bad, but she was much more suprised when she saw how Sirius' picture had turned out.
It became apparent immediatly why Sirius had worn the hat and sunglasses: Lily would not have let him out of the house if he hadn't. Instead of his usual, perfectly done black hair, there was a large, green afro on the top of his head. And instead of his deep, brown eyes, he had bright purple eyes that seemed to glow. In his picture, he made a peace sign and then, when his picture was handed to him he got a huge smile on his face.
"Wow, that's great! Righteous!" he said, and gave the picture taker a high-five. The old woman hadn't seemed too happy about this, and she quickly sanitised her hands.
The next part of the test were the questions. They were from the handbook and were not that easy. When they handed them in, James had missed 5, Remus 6, Jamie 8 (which was the most you were allowed to miss) Lily 3 and Sirius, suprisingly, had missed only 1, which was the best out of anyone in the class. Lily had made him put his hat back on too, so he hadn't scared the young man that graded the tests that much either. Lily was actually pretty happy for Sirius, and everyone was speaking to him again, asking him how he had studied and what was going on between him and Lauren ('We're just friends! I swear, one game of truth or dare and you make a big deal out of this!') but all of the new found trust was ruined, for Lily at least, when Sirius came to take the driving portion of the test.
Lily had asked her parents to loan her their car so that everyone could use it to take the test, and it was sitting in the lot. She wasn't all that suprised to see a big, black motorcycle parked next to it, this was London after all, a lot of people rode motorcycles. Of course, everyone in the class loved the motorcycle, and they kept asking whose it was. Imagine Lily's suprise when she heard Sirius say, "It's mine!"
"You bought a motorcycle? Why? Where did you get it? Where did you get the money?" she screamed. Sirius smiled.
"Well, Remus and I were calmly walking down the street when we saw this man who was selling his garage. So we told him we didn't want his garage, but we wanted what was in it. And, suprisingly enough, he sold it to us." explained Sirius happily.
"Yeah, and how did you get the muggle money to pay for it?" questioned Lily, looking very unhappy.
"That's just my little secret!" excalimed Sirius happily. Lily was then stopped from hurting Sirius by having to take her test. Everyone ended up passing, and Lily was very suprised to see that Sirius hadn't missed any points, which was extremly odd, because he was, there was no other way to explain it, Sirius!
***
Once again, Lily was not speaking to Sirius. She had made an attempt, but when she found out that he had taken the bike to his friend Arthur Weasley's house and now it could fly, that was the end of it. They were sitting in Lily's backyard, on a very hot day, when Jamie came up with an idea.
"Hey you guys, my mom has a minivan. That's a muggle car that can hold a lot of people," she explained, because the boys looked rather confused. "Why don't we take it and I can drive us to the mall!"
"What's the mall?" James wondered outloud.
"It's a muggle place, with many stores, were you can buy just about anything you want!" said Jamie excitedly.
"Ok, let's go!" said Sirius. He still had a lot of muggle money left, he wanted to get some more things before he left from here.
They all piled into Jamie's minivan and soon they were on their way to the mall. The mall was huge, with more shops than diagon alley, a movie theater and an ice skating rink. Sirius looked as if he was in heaven when he walked in and turned over to the McDonalds. He had never seen one before, and he excitedly walked up to the cashier.
"Good afternoon, what can I make for you today?" asked the cashier in a monotone voice. He was a teenage boy with a lot of pimples, and he was very tall. Sirius examined the menu and then decided on something.
"So, if you get this happy meal thingy, you get a toy?" he asked. The boy looked at Sirius as if he was not completly normal (which he's not) and then answered.
"Yeah, a sesame street toy. Now, what do you want?" replied the boy, sounding irratated.
"That big mac thing, what's that?" pondered Sirius.
"I am sure that you are an english boy, you most know what a big mac is. Please order, sir," said the cashier.
"Ok, I want one of those. Um, with that super thingy. And a toy. I like toys!" said Sirius. The cashier rolled his eyes as he called in his order. Finally it was done and he handed the bag to Sirius.
"Thank you. Please come back to McDonalds, where we love to see you smile," muttered the cashier, but Sirius was too busy playing with his elmo toy to notice.
***
"Man Lily, you have it great! I mean, you get that DacMonalds thing as often as you want, and the cool records and everything. Man, I wish we had this stuff!" exclaimed Sirius, shoving his fourth Big Mac into his mouth. He had bought a ton of stuff, most notably quite a few boxers with heart, star and loony toon designs on them, a record player, the Aretha Franklin, Beatles and Eagles records (he had been listening to way too much muggle radio) and, for some strange reason, a tu-tu. Lily
smiled, it was all too hilarious.
"Wow, what's that store?" asked Remus, pointing over at the Victoria's Secret store.
"Victoria's Secret. Trust me, you probably don't want to go in there," said Jamie. Just then, a very fat lady that reminded Lily of the pink lady walked out of the bathroom with only a bra and underwear walked out.
"Oh my God, that's one secret Victoria should have kept!" exclaimed James. Lily laughed.
"Hey, let's go ice skating!" yelled Lily, pulling James along by the hand. Everyone followed her to the rink, where she payed for everyone and then strapped on a pair of white ice skates.
"So what are we doing?" asked James nervously.
"Ice skating. What you do is glide across the ice. It's great fun!" exclaimed Lily. She went over to the ice and stepped on. Instanly everyone looked at her as she pulled off a double axel double toe, followed by a spiral that was very high and graceful, and then ended with a perfect flying camel spin. James, Remus and Sirius stared in awe as Lily skated over to them.
"See, it's simple!" she said, pulling them onto the ice. However, they didn't seem to think it was so simple, to the contrary they thought it was one of the hardest things they had done. Lily laughed at them as the fell across the ice, and then she had an idea.
"Hey Sirius, come over here!" she yelled, and he came over to where she was standing on the oppisite side of the rink. That was quite a task, and it took him ten minutes.
"Just pretend that I'm giving you a hug, ok?" she whispered. He nodded, and she wrapped one arm around his neck, with him wrapping his arms around her waist. She quickly pulled her wand out of her pocket with her free hand and, as discreetly as she could, she charmed Sirius to know how to skate.
He grabbed her hands and they started pairs skating through the rink. After a few crossovers to get them warmed up, Sirius pulled Lily up into a simple press lift. Then they did a throw triple twist, followed by a beautiful death sprial and then side by side triple flips. They finished, and everyone there clapped for them. Even the saftey skater, who knew that pairs was not allowed until the private sessions later that night, was clapping for them. They bowed, and then went over to where everyone else was sitting outside, drinking hot chocolate.
"So, how fabulous are we?" asked Lily, sitting down next to James and giving him a quick peck on the cheek.
"You're great! That throw triple twist was amazing, I bet you could do a quad, and it was so effortless, I want to coach you, you could make it to the olympics." said a farmiliar voice. Lily turned around and saw, to her great suprise, her old skating coach.
"Why hello Tiffany. It's a pleasure seeing you again!" said Lily.
"Lily Evans? Is that you?" she asked. Lily nodded and soon they had hugged. "My, it's wonderful to see you again. You are still the best skater that I've ever coached."
"Oh, don't say that!" argued Lily.
"No, really! So what do you think, do you want to come back to skating?" asked Tiffany.
"I would, but I can't. Boarding school and all. But don't worry, I can practice there. Maybe after I graduate." explained Lily, a tone of regret in her voice.
"Oh, well keep in touch," said Tiffany, rather dejectedly. Just then Sirius piped in.
"Hey guys, I'm hungry. What do you saw about going and getting another hamburger?"
A/N-Sorry that this chapter wasn't as long as the last one. I'm pretty much trying to get through the summer right now. I promise that when they get back to school (which I am estimating will be chapter 26) the chapters will get a lot longer. Until then, please read and review!
Disclaimer-I don't own any Harry Potter characters, Aretha Franklien, The Eagles, The Beatles, Victoria's Secret or McDonalds. I wish I did though, because then I would be rich and get to live in a big house with a GOOD computer!