Septième Amour

Intro:


Yay, this is my first fanfic... Hopefully you'll like it and I'll get plenty of reviews. And hopefully, this'll be the only time I'll have to write an intro, because there isn't much I can say really.

All characters here belong to JK Rowling (Except for the ones you don't recognize)!


Chapter One: Head Boy, Head Girl

Lily breathed in slowly; her hand paused reluctantly halfway to the brass knocker of Remus' door. Her hand slowly lowered back to her side, and she subconsciously stared around Remus' yard. It was extremely lovely, large, and covered with many magical herbs. "Herbs, huh. That's weird." Lily thought.

A white bird flew by and excreted, the result landing a couple of centimetres away from her right foot. Sickened, she edged a little towards the left of the white porch, accidentally bumping her head on a hanging plant.

Slightly freaked and even disgusted, at what she was doing, she knocked on the door, with the sole intention of speaking to James. "Might as well get it over with... before I hurt myself badly," Lily thought, referring to her "escapade" with the plant.

Remus Lupin appeared at the doorway, surprised at who was standing on his porch.

"Oookay... You'd think he'd stop gaping at me now and moved onto drooling on the door frame or something," Lily thought, already annoyed.

"So? Is Potter here?"

"Yeah but... um, not that I mind or anything, but how did you know to come to my house?" Lupin asked, quite clearly puzzled.

"Yeah, well, I owled James' mother and she told me he was here, and told me your address. You don't mind, do you?" She said briskly, and continued, "I would've owled you, but my sister, Petunia, hid him from me."

Pause.

"Do you mind?" Lily repeated, now slightly concerned.

"Guess not." Remus shrugged. "Not that it's any of my business, but... why are you looking for James?"

"Gretle told me he was head boy. I needed to see his letter... or at least hear it from him for myself," Lily replied curtly.

"Huh. Why not just owl Dumbledore then?" Remus silently mused, "Ah well, better not question her logic."

"So? Can I talk to him or not?" Lily asked, perhaps disturbed by Remus' expression.

"Yeah. PRONGS!" Remus hollered, looking diagonally upwards. A window opened and Sirius' head popped out.

"Huh? What?" Sirius asked, appearing to be chewing. Lily could see his mouth full of bread. Very dignified, no?

"PRONGS Sirius."

"Oh... Prongs, your girlfriend's here to see you." Sirius said as he withdrew his head, not bothering to lower his voice.

There was a small poofing sound. Guessing Sirius was just hit by a pillow, Lily smiled contently to herself. "Serves him right," Lily thought, "I'm NOT his girlfriend. I think I've made that pretty clear by now. Not even his friend." Lily shuddered slightly at the thought.

"Cold? Come in then." Remus said, but just then the porch door swung open again, knocking onto Lily's nose.

"You'd think that it'd be safer on the porch, wouldn't you?" Lily muttered.

"Oh. Sorry Evans." James said, cringing.

Lily rolled her eyes and replied coldly, "It's fine."

"So... to what do we owe the pleasure of this visit on this fine August day?" James asked, grinning. His hand subconsciously moved towards his hair, but he stopped just in time with a slightly alarmed look.

Lily smiled at him, softened. "Potter... Are you head boy?" she blurted, before she could realize what she was saying.

Lily watched anxiously as James' face grew sour. "What's that to you?" he muttered. Suddenly he brightened and grinned sheepishly. "Head girl then Evans?" he asked.

Lily's heart sank and she nodded.

His grin grew so large Lily was worried his face was going to split in half. "Oh... Evans wants her special time with me..."

"No," Lily replied firmly. Just for confirmation though, she asked if he was head boy again. James nodded, "Yup."

Trying to distract herself, Lily tried to take a peak inside of Remus' house as the porch door was still open, but Remus was still standing in the doorframe. Just then a RED-HAIRED Sirius stormed downstairs, and appeared behind Lupin, asking, "Where is that blasted idiot?"

"If you mean Peter, he's in the kitchen." Remus said irritably. Lily saw James smirking at Sirius' hair, who did a rude gesture with his hands (Sirius obviously, not his hair).

Remus followed Sirius back into the house, Sirius saying, "Stupid Wormtail was trying to change the colour of his sweater. God knows where he got his aiming genes."

Remus chuckled.

"It's not funny. Do you know the counter curse?" Sirius asked fiercely.

There was some muttering, and then Sirius yelping.

"Sorry! Wrong... wrong spell..." Remus said, laughing.

"MY EARS ARE SEVEN FRICKIN INCHES!" Sirius shouted, earning more laughter from Remus, and James.

"How can they find that amusing?" Lily thought, but she knew she was smiling too.

James closed the porch door, his laughter subsiding. "He has a nice laugh," Lily thought, "This is the first time he'd laughed like that in front of me. Usually he just demonstrates the phrase 'roaring with laughter'... For the audience I suppose."

"So, Evans... that all?" he asked.

"Yeah..."

There was another pause, and then James' disappointed face broke into a grin again. "Oh! I have a hunch that Evans only came all this way to see me..."

"Don't kid yourself." Lily said icily, turning to go. She stepped briskly off the porch and heard James snicker.

"What?" Lily asked, in what she hoped was an annoyed, and not curious, voice.

"Nothing Evans. Nothing." James said quietly, "Just that... there's bird poop on your shoe."

He sounded almost frightened.

Lily glared at him and turned around to leave, steaming. Unfortunately, the path leading away from Remus' house was still a little wet, causing Lily to slip a little and fall backwards.

Before she landed on the porch step however, she saw James leap forward, apparently trying to catch her, but it was too late. She slipped through his arms and fell down, her head colliding painfully with the first step of the porch.

"This house is cursed." Lily said through clenched teeth, trying to stop her eyes from watering.

James face darkened. "No Evans, it's not."

Lily gave him one last glare and walked quickly away.


A/N

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