Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Marauders or Lily, but I do own Kyla and Michael Potter, who I am bringing back as the COOLEST parents ever… in my opinion.

Chapter 1- Summer Plans

June 14, 1979

Dear Diary,

We are on the train back home. James invited me to sit with him and the other Marauders in one of the compartments, well, not all of the Marauders. Peter's been missing for some reason. Perhaps that's why he invited me. I think I shocked him by accepting, but I think I have succeeded in making them all regret it when I pulled out the Goofster with some, uh, minor changes. Namely little bows around his ears and a pink bath robe: just a few accessories. I think I'll go have some more fun.

Lily put away her diary just as James and Sirius were discussing ways to reverse the offensive changes to the goofy toy. James decided on the direct approach, "come on Evans, don't bring shame to the Goofster."

"Shame? Me?" Lily asked while enchanting Goofy to have a mauve lipstick showing on the large stuffed lips. Sirius winced. "And I do have a first name, Potter."

Remus laughed at Sirius who looked like he was about to go into shock over the state of the prize that not only had been stolen from them, but had also taken the pride of the Marauders. "Lily," Sirius croaked out making Remus laugh even harder.

"Yes Padfoot?" Lily asked sweetly.

"Please, oh please for the love of muggles, stop this…this- just PLEASE?!" Sirius was on the verge of tears and Lily figured this might be far enough, so decided not to make the Goofster do a tap dance.

"Oh alright," Lily said, putting her wand away.

"What about the lipstick and clothes?" James whined.

"If I don't get my dress-up fetish out on dolls, they end up being taken out on seventeen year old prats that won't let me have my fun elsewhere," Lily stated making James and Sirius look at one another with a bit of fear. They didn't put it past Lily, not after what she did to them on April Fool's day. Remus was now rolling with laughter. "Don't think I won't include you in this, Moony. I've got a lovely gray eyeliner in mind for you."

Remus froze. "Ah…er…uh… Lily, so, what are you doing this summer?" he asked, trying to change the subject.

Lily shrugged. "My sister just graduated from muggle school, so Mum and Dad are taking her on a cruise, but I think I'll stay home."

Images of Lily in a bikini flashed through James's mind. "Why not? You could show us the pictures later. It might be fun."

"No, I get sea sick really easily," Lily told them. "But it's Petunia's graduation gift, so they're all going at the very least. I think I'll just hang out and get a head start on N.E.W.T.s, now that we can legally do magic."

"What a bore," Sirius said while rolling his eyes. "Come on Lily, why don't you spend the summer with us?"

James looked at Sirius like he was crazy, but then got a mischievous grin and put an arm around Lily, "Yeah, Lily, come stay with us. We're going camping at Crocky Hill for about a month."

Lily looked at James in disbelief. "Do you think I'd go anywhere, let alone a place you call 'Crocky Hill', for any amount of time with the two of you?"

"Hey, I'm going to," Remus said, then added, "well, for most of the month at least."

"My parents are going too," James said hoping it might make a difference. "It was dad's idea. He likes to do things like this every summer, like a muggle adventure, and it would make it all the better since you're a muggle-born. Oh yeah, and we're not making up the Crocky Hill thing, it's a place in North Yorkshire. You could look it up if you wanted."

"I don't know," Lily said slowly, not believing herself for actually considering it.

"Come on, Evans," Sirius stuck out his lower lip to pout.

"Call me Lily and I'll go," she agreed.

"Alright, Lily," James's heart jumped for joy. Lily and me, alone, in the woods on a starry night… the endless possibilities, James thought as they arrived at the station. They all were busy grabbing their things to talk, but James came up to Lily as she started to walk away from platform 9 ¾. "Lily! Wait," James said running up to her. "Where's your family?"

"I told them I'd apparate this year," Lily told him.

"Oh, you already took the test?"

"Yeah, my birthday was in March. The ministry sent an examiner in April for anyone who wanted to take it in Hogsmeade," Lily told him.

"Really?" James, who had turned 17 in May had ignored this announcement, as he did any other that didn't effect him. "Oh, okay. Well, I thought I'd give you our address so you know where to come to. Think you can come by next week?"

"Next week? I thought you weren't going until July," Lily said, now wondering what she had agreed to.

"We are, but if your family is going to be gone anyways," James ran his fingers through, deciding not to tell Lily that it had been his mother, Kyla's, idea for her to come early.

"Oh, I'll see," Lily said, putting the parchment in her pocket. "Just send your owl tonight, if that's alright."

"Sure it is," James said, with a big smile on his face. "Talk to you later then?"

"Yeah," Lily said before turning and making her way to an apparition point.

Go me, James thought as he walked back to his family and Sirius. "So you wanted us to help you find a place?" Michael asked Sirius.

"Yeah," he responded. "I think it's time I'm on my own."

"You know you could stay until you graduate," Kyla told him. "We don't mind having you around. Besides, we'll be gone most of the summer and what's the use of having a place of your own during the school year? It'll only collect dust."

"Maybe I'll stay," Sirius shrugged.

"Come on, let's get going," James said wanting badly to send Lily an owl to get a response.

A/N: This is a start of what I think will be just the summer, but it might go into their 7th year. So far though, I think I have enough antics for the summer, that and a main character in this one will be Kyla, so all of you who said you liked that character, here you go: lots of Kyla and Michael. Read some of my other things (especially the 1st in this series if you haven't done so) if you like this, but if you don't have time or energy to do that, all I ask of you is to REVIEW!

Thank you to reviews of 'The April Fool and the Goofster':

Angul-Gurl: I hope this one is a bit better for you, you seemed kind of indifferent to the other one, and maybe it just didn't strike your funny bone…

JamieBell: I'm blushing! I wouldn't say brilliant, but I do try. I find it easier to write the funny stuff, and so that's what I've been sticking to lately, though I need to finish my other LJ fic. I loved that last bit of JL fluff too. I liked how he got his hair back and threw her off like that. FYI she had to steal that picture away. I thought it would be cute to have a picture of that, even though it wasn't technically a prank.

Storywritter10791: I hope you'll like this one too…

Katkit: Thank you for reviewing all the time, I appreciate this. Here's another beginning.

Miss Lady Padfoot: Thank you for your compliments. I like the idea of Harry seeing into his parent's lives from at least one of their view points, but I knew I wanted to end with a diary entry. I'm glad you liked the little interjection though.

Ash: I'm doing a sequel, but I'd image that Harry wouldn't really be that mean, especially since Lily had a reason for revenge, and Harry was just making a joke out of it. I think if he did do it, he'd probably reverse it before anyone saw.

Hellen B. Potter: Thank you for all of your reviews! I appreciate the time you obviously put into it. I'm glad you liked the last story and I hope you like this one just as much! Happy reading!