A/N: Hi, Readers! I know I haven't updated for awhile, but I have been preparing to perform in a performance soon, and I have been rehearsing like crazy! Please forgive me! (To those of you who read True Bliss as well, the eleventh chapter will be up very soon)

Chapter Three

Lily picked up an empty basket and tucked it under her arm.

She had just landed gracefully on the ground in the villiage outside the place where wizards and witches eat; The Patronus Cafe.

To make sure muggles don't enter the cafe by mistake, the owners of the cafe placed a charm similar to the one on 12 Grimwauld Place. Lily stepped between the butcher's shop and the hat store and concentrated on the Patronus Cafe. An old green door appeared in front of Lily and she opened it, looking around.

Inside was the familiar scent of coffee and the soft chatter of a few witches and wizards discussing what they recently read in the Daily Prophet. Lily smiled at the familiar shop and stpped through the doorway, still carrying her basket and James' broomstick.

Lily sat down alone at a table and the friendly waitress, Jane, walked over and sat down across from Lily.

"Hello, Lily, nice to see you again." the brunette greeted.

Lily smiled warmly at the waitress, "Hello Jane. How has business been?" Lily asked politly.

"Slow. As usual." Jane replied and sighed.

Jane had chocolaty brown eyes and looked rather younger then her actual age, which was 24.

"Well, be glad you get any customers at all." Lily mock-scolded.

Jane gave a dry laugh and stood up again.

"Would you like me to get you anything?" Jane asked professionaly.

"No, thanks, Jane. I just came here to buy a few things for my mum." Lily replied.

Jane nodded and sat back down.

"So, has anything interesting happened lately?" Jane asked.

Lily sighed and wondered if she should tell the gossipy waitress about James. Jane was like a sister to Lily, but she's also known for her rather gossipy personatlity.

"Well, there's this boy at school, and he has always been pestering me. He's rather obnoxious and arrogant. He thinks he's great because he's a good Quidditch player, is, well, rather smart, he thinks he's good looking, which I disagree with, and he's popular." Lily said in one breath and gasped for air.

Jane sighed dreamily.

"He sounds like my dream guy." Jane said.

Lily looked scandilized. "No, no, no! He's a prankster, he's broken about every school rule, and has got more detentions then anyone except for maybe his best friend, Sirius Black."

Jane's eyes widened. "I think I've seen him before." Jane said.

"What? How? Where?" Lily asked.

Jane chuckled at the memory.

"He came here once, along with his friend you were talking about just now."

"This is boring, let's just go back to your house." Sirius complained as James dragged him into the cafe.

"Shut up, Padfoot. Didn't you say you were hungry?" James asked as they sat down.

"I'm starving!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Then why do you think we came here?" James asked impaciently.

Sirius looked confused while he was piecing the information together.

"Oh!" Sirius said finally.

James rolled his eyes and looked up to see the waitress looking at Sirius like he was crazy. James cleared his throat loudly. The waitress seemed to snap back to reality and she took her notepad out of her pcket and read aloud from it.

"Hello, my name's Jane, and I will be serving you. Our special for the day is broccili soup. What would you like for drinks?" she asked in a steady drone.

"We would just like-" James started but Sirius interupted.

"Hello, Jane. May I remark at how stunning your eyes look?" Sirius asked and flashed her a charming smile.

Jane blushed a little bit but recovered quickly and asked, "How old are you?"

"Seventeen." Sirius answered proudly.

"What did you say your name was?"

"Sirius Black..."

"Well, Sirius Black, I happen to be eight years older than you, so I don't think it would work out." Jane remarked and turned to James.

"What did you say you wanted to order?" When she finally left the table, Sirius was in awe.

"Did you know she was 24? She looks our age!" Sirius exclaimed, not bothering to keep his voice down, causing angry glances to be thrown their way.

"Let's just leave." James suggested, trying to keep a straight face.

"But we haven't eaten yet!" Sirius exclaimed.

James just dragged Sirius out of the cafe leaving Jane laughing her head off.

"Sirius flirted with you? Gross!" Lily exclaimed with a disgusted expression on her face.

Jane laughed, "Sirius was quite charming for his age. But his friend didn't look so bad either, with his messy black and and warm brown eyes..." Jane said in a dreamy voice.

"Yep, that's James alright." Lily said.

"Anyway, what about James?" Jane asked, asking Lily to continue her story.

"Well, he lives thirty miles away from me, so on my way here, he came along and offered me a ride on his broom..." Lily said.

"Aw! How sweet!" Jane interupted. Jane looked at Lily's narrowed eyes and blushed.

"Sorry, continue." Jane insisited and rested her head on her hand.

"As I was saying, he offered me a ride. Instead of riding with him, I stole his broom and rode here by myself!" Lily said and laughed, holding up the broom she was holding.

Jane looked at it in awe.

"That's a Golden-Spear 480!" she exclaimed in shock .Lily looked at the broom and shrugged, "It does ride pretty well." Lily said and let Jane hold the broom.

"Lily, this is the fastest broom made! Do you know how expensive these are?" Jane asked while examining the broom.

"No, do you?" Lily asked.

"Well, no. But I heard their worth a lot. Lily, is James rich?" Jane asked excitedly. "Yes, he's filthy rich. It's disgusting how he thinks that money means everything-" Lily started but Jane interupted.

"Lily, shut up about James for a second. Do you think I could have a go on this?" Jane asked anxiously. Lily looked around. "Where? You can't do it outside, muggles might see." Lily pointed out. Jane's face fell.

"Look, if you ask for a day off, you could ride it home with me." Lily suggested. Jane's face lifted, "Oh, I already know I can have the day off. There's still Annie." Jane replied, referring to another waitress.

"Ok, I'll come get you after I finish shopping and we can ride to my house. I'm sure my mum will let you stay for dinner." Lily said. Jane nodded and hugged Lily. "Thanks Lil, I owe you." Jane said and pulled away. Lily laughed and stood up to leave.

"See you in a bit!" Lily said and left, charming the broom so it would fit in her pocket.

Lily walked out and breathed the market air. She looked around at the stalls and finally found one owned by a women named Sharon Youlder.

"Hello, Mrs. Youlder." Lily said sweetly to the women.

"Hello Lily, what is it you have come to buy today?" The kind women asked. "Milk and eggs, and then I'm going over to Mrs. Tarupt's stall for a watermelon." Lily replied and gave Mrs. Youlder her basket. The women put a carton of milk and a carton of eggs in the basket and handed it back to Lily. Lily pulled out some muggle money and payed the women before wandering off in search of Eliza Tarupt's stall.

When Lily finally reached the stall, she found that Eliza Turupt's son and daughter were running the stall without her.

"Hello John and Rose. Where's your mother?" Lily asked them. Both smiled warmly at her before answering. "She left me in charge while she does her own shopping. I have to look after Rose, too." The eighteen-year-old boy answered, motioning towards his ten-year-old sister. Lily nodded and asked for a watermelon.

After John handed her a fresh watermelon and Lily payed him, Lily performed a charm to make the watermelon lighter, making sure nobody saw her performing the spell.

Lily decided she would pick flowers for her mum on the way home and went back between the buildings to go into the Patronus Cafe.

Lily walked in and stood face-toface with Sirius Black.

"Sirius?" she stuttered. "What are you doing here?" she asked.

Sirius took a step back before answering. "I'm looking for James. You wouldn't know where he is would you?" Sirius asked worridly.

"Are you staying with him over the summer?" Lily asked. Sirius nodded. Lily laughed, "What a way to treat your guests." she muttered.

"You still haven't answered my question." Sirius said impaciently.

"I stole his broom an left him stranded in the middle of nowhere." Lily replied, holding up his broom.

Sirius laughed.

"I was going to give Jane a ride. Could you please not tell him?" Lily asked.

Sirius shrugged, "Alright, I won't tell." Sirius said and pushed a strand of hair out of his eyes. Someone started laughing behind them and Sirius spun around to see Jane bent over from laughing so much.

"Hello there, Mr. Black." Jane said and calmed herself down.

"Not you." Sirius said, cowering behind Lily.

Lily looked at Sirius and then Jane.

"Jane, something tells me that you left something out of your story about Sirius." Lily said suspoiciously.

Jane laughed, "Well, right after he flirted with me," Sirius blushed as Jane said this, "I hexed him so that the words 'I'm an ass' appeared on his forhead. He didn't know about it until after he left here." Jane said, wiping tears of laughter from her eyes.

"It wasn't funny." Sirius muttered and looked at his shoes.

"Anyway, let's go, I'm dieing to ride one that broom!" Jane said, jumping up and down.

"You're not very mature for your age." Sirius told Jane. "Neither are you." Jane retorted. Sirius opened his mouth, and then closed it.

Lily ignored them and dragged Jane out of the shop and into the muggle villiage.

When the two finally reached a clearing, they both mounted the broom and took flight.

Jane let out yells of joy the whole ride.

Lily glanced at the tree they were flying to and recongnized it as the tree she left James at. Just then she remembered she had to pick flowers for her mum.

"Jay, we have to land for a second, alright?" Lily told Jane, who was now whooping in the air. Jane nodded and they landed softly on the ground by the tree. They spotted James, who was sleeping peacfully in the tree's shade. They walked up to him and kneeled down beside him.

"James?" Lily said softly. James stirred and opened his eyes. The first thing he realized was that his glasses fell off while he was sleeping. He looked up and saw two blurry faces looking at him. He felt someone put on his glasses for him and he blinked. He found himself face-to-face with Lily and the waitress he met two weeks ago. "Lily?" He asked groggily.

He rubbed his eyes from behind his glasses and looked at the waitress. "Why is she here?" he asked. Lily and Jane looked slightly annoyed. "This is Jane, my friend. She's going to be staying for dinner with me tonight, so she's walking with me to my house." Lily explained.

"Aren't you gonna invite me for dinner?" James asked. Lily rolled her eyes and stood up.

"You can have your broom back. Sirius has been looking fo you, so you should get home soon." Lily said and started picking random flowers. James was too drowsy to object so he climbed onto his broom lazily. "Don't fall off your broom." Jane told him as she watched his sleepy state. James just nodded and took flight.

"Bye, Lily!" James called. Lily rolled her eyes and continued picked flowers.

"Lily, I think James has a crush on you." Jane remarked.

Lily snorted, "I never would have guessed." Lily replied, not able to keep the smirk from her face.

A/N: Please reveiw! I'm sorry this took so long, but as I said before, I've been terribly busy. Please reveiw, it really means a lot to me!