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Reading Between The Lines
Chapter 2-Reunions and Relizations
There she was.
Standing outside one of the shops.
He couldn't tell you which, if you had bothered to ask.
No, he was too busy looking at her. Her being a future 7th year by the name of Lily Evans. Time seemed to freeze as he watched her. He noticed it was raining lightly, the dropplets seemed to advance upon her, touching her as he knew he never would, no matter how much he longed to.
He sighed, his disapointment bringing him back to reality. And reality was him, standing in the rain, staring at a becautiful girl. God was she beautiful, her flowing locks of auburn hair, her captivating emerald eyes, her milky skin, if only he could touch her....kiss her even. He shook his head, realizing that once again he was standing in the rain, day dreaming about her.
He shook his head again, looking down at his shoes and blinking a few good times. Before he could look back up someone behind him clasped him on his shoulder and said "Staring at Evans again mate?" James groaned, reconising the voice of Sirius Black.
"Yes Padfoot." He said, looking back up only to see that Lily was gone, he sighed. "Remember when my life wasn't revolved around her every move?"He asked.
"Yes, great times those were." Sirius said in mock seriousness, recieving a playful push from James.
"Hey!" Sirius said, pushing James back, then laughing. "Come on, Moony and Wormtail are in the Three Broom Sticks with some nice hot mugs of butterbeer for the both of us."
James smiled at Sirius, walking with him to the end of the street. Before turning the corner he took one last look back to where Lily had been standing, with a sad sigh he trudged after Sirius.
"Red or blue?" Victoria Stevens asked the beautiful red head James had just glimpsed outside this very store. This store was "some quidditch shop" according to Lily Evans, more widely known as Qualidy Quidditch Supplies.
"Err....blue?" Lily asked, looking towards the door and not at all at the Keeper's Gloves Victoria was holding out.
"Lily!" Voctoria said impatiently when she realized Lily wasn't paying attention. "You could at least pretend to be helping me!."
Lily sighed. "Why are you buying those anyway, you're not even on the Quidditch Team." She said, her voice nearing a whine. Lily didn't like Quidditch, mainly becuse of a raven haired boy, whose name shall not be mentioned in her presence, who was the recent Captian of the team.
"Lily, what year are we going into?" Victoria asked as if she were talking to a small child.
"Seventh...."
"And who has been the Gryffindor Keeper since we started going to Hogwarts?"
"Uhhh.....Seth something..." Lily answered with a shrug.
"Seth Greenwood, who just happened to have his last year at Hogwarts prior to this one." Victoria said, smirking.
"And you're going to try out for the Keeper position." Lily finished herself, first smiling, then it dropped into a frown, "Does this mean I have to come to the games?"
"Yup." Victoria said, putting the blue gloves back and taking the red, Gryffindor color don't you know.
"Great, not to mention Potter being Captain." She sighed. "Fine, I'll go to your games as long as I don't have to conversate with Potter." She said, following Victoria to pay for the golves.
"I don't decide who you "conversate" with Lily/" She said, handing the lady at the counter 7 sickles for the gloves.
"Fine fine, whatever you say, lets go already." Lily pleaded, pushing Victoria out of the shop and into the light drizzle outside.
"Ah, always hit the spot." Siruis informed his fellow Marauders after taking a perticular refereshing gulp of his butterbeer.
The other three nodded, one a little too enthusiasticly for most people's last nerve, but the others seemed use to it as that just continued drinking.
This group, self named the Marauders, consisted of four very troublesome boys. Firstly, the prementioned James Potter, the one with the pineing for a certian red head girl. Yes, quite a catch he would be, if you could get him to look at you of course, as Mr. Potter seemed to only have eyes for Lily Evans. Being such, Lily was very envied, as James was very high on the top ten list of Most Elegable Bacholers of Hogwarts. With his messy raven hair and his tempting chocolate eyes, why wouldn't he be?
Also included in that list was Sirius Black, also know as the Playboy of Hogwarts. Yes, he and James were in a tie for best looking, as they looked so much alike it was amazing to find they weren't brothers. Sirius had long, dark hair and nearly black eyes that were so captivating that almost no one could resist their charm.
Runner up for best looking would be the thrid member of the group, quiet, sweet, loving Remus Lupin. Remus, unlike the other two, never had many girlfriends. He often looked sickly, but had a mysterious air about him that held most's attention. The mysterious air was most likely the fact he disappeared so often, monthy actualy. Yes, the third Marauder was a werewolf. He thought himself, still thinks actually, that he is a monster, but the other three help him out a great deal durring his transformations, but more of that later.
Next, looking quite ordinary compared to the other three but still desent, is Peter Pettegrew. Peter was a "fourth wheel" of sorts according to the other students of Hogwarts when someone mentioned him as being included in the Marauders, but definetly not so to the other three boys. Peter was always there for them, for better or worse, through good and bad. He might not of been the smartest, or best looking, but he was sneaky, and that added to his small size accomplished numerous pranks that could not of been done without him. So Peter was as much a Marauder as any of them were.
"So..." Peter said, rubbing his quite pudgy belly happily as it was delightfully warm on the inside from the butterbeer.
"Yeah, feel like going back now?" Sirius asked, looking at the others boys, one shrugged, the other nodded vigoriously again. Sirius turned to James, who failed to answer. Sirius, seeing where James had focused his attention sighed and shook his head as Lily Evans and Victoria Stevens entered the Three Broom Sticks.
"A double chocolate sundae please, two spoons." Victoria said to the waitress, who smiled and walked away.
"You know, one day this is all going to come back to haunt us. It may not affect us now but when we're old and fat, I'm going to blame you." Lily said, looking pointedly at Victoria.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Victoria said, her mouth watering a few minutes later as the waitress set the sundae down in front of the two. She grabbed a spoon and scooped some into her mouth, then smiled. "Yummy."
Lily laughed, picking up her own spoon and tryign out the sundae, which was rather good.
After a few mintues of eating quietly Victoria noticed James. "Guess who's staring at you." she said smugly.
Lily looked confused, she turned around and met James' warm brown ones.
His cheeks seemed to tint slightly with embarassment but he didn't move his eyes, she did.
She turned back around and looked at Victoria. "Is that Potter?" she asked, slightly stunned.
"Yup." Victoria said through a mouthful of ice cream, she swallowed and grinned when Lily looked over her shoulder at him.
"He looks so..."
"Hot." Victoria finished, Lily glared.
"I was going to say different."
And he certainly was since the last time Lily had seen him, both physically and mentally. James left most of his childest ways behind over the summer due to the murder of his parents by Voldermort, the most hated evil wizard of thier time. But the changes noticed by Lily and Victoria were probably the physical ones, as James was most be most definetly described as a man now, instead of the boy he was described as last year. And for once, Lily blushed while thinking of James Potter.
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