Chapter 21

Home

At 8:50 Lily went outside again to wait for the horselss carriages. Her bags had been

loaded into the cart, she had found her friends and apologized again for overreacting the night

before. For some reason she kept her and Nicky's kiss a secret. She had forgotten about it for a

little bit, but when she remembered she decided not to tell. She could not have said why she did

not want to tell her friends, she just didn't.

Nicky had disappeared after they went back into the common room. They arrived back

with half an hour until departure time, and Lily had wanted to see her friends, and find people to

go down to the cariages with. She had found Alice and Caroline to go downstairs with and had

helped them check in and get there bags to Filtch. Caroline left them to go off somewhere with

Ben.

"Perhaps she's going to find out what it feels like on a train.." Alice had said, but decided

not to take it further based on the previous nights discussion. The train ride home was uneventful,

Alice and Lily talked, but Lily still didn't tell about the kiss with Nicky. They played cards with

some of the other boys and girls they had run into on the train. Then, finally, after what felt like

ages to Lily, they pulled into platform 9 3/4.

Lily collected her bags and walked through the barrier. She saw her parents waiting for her

on the other saide. Petunia was not with them, she was probablly at home waiting, or with

friends. Lily hugged her parents and put her luggage on her fathers cart. The walked out of the

station and got into the car. Lily's parents peppered her with questions the entire way home. It

took them about an hour to reach Privet Drive due to traffic, and Lily could not wait to get out of

the car. Being enclosed in small spaces wth parents who had not seen you in weeks was not a

good thing.

When Lily arrived at her house her father carried her bags up for her. Lily's father was tall

and mostly gray. He had a short beard that covered his chin and the area above his lip. He was

skinny, and gangly because of his height. He carried her trunk into the smallest of the four

bedrooms in their house. One room was Petunias, one was her parents, one was a guest room

usually occupied by Lily's grandparents or sometimes family friends, and Lily's old bedroom.

Her trunk was layed at the end of her bed. She plopped down, exausted.

"Lily darling, come down to he kitchen and help me cook, your sister will be home shortly."

"Ok mom, coming." Same old story. Lily was always stuck doing the dishes and cooking

with her mother. Maybe Petunia was just really bad at cooking, or maybe mom and dad thought

that, since Petunia had to do the dishes all year round, Lily could do it when she was home. Lily

went down and was put on pot scrubbing duty. There were four pots in the sink, pots which had

obviously acumulated there over some time, but Lily finished the task in no time. She was an

experienced pot scrubber. After she finished the pots she was set to work on emptying the dish

washer, polishing the silverware, and setting the table. After these tasks were finished, Lily

peeled potatoes.

Sorry, that chapter was pretty boring I know, I originally had it as part of the next chapter, but that made the chapter uber long, so I made it it's own chapter, It's only setting the scene, it'll get good again soon, I promise.