Title: A Spring Fling
Author: Ally
Rating: PG13
Summary: Lily's grandma takes her and her family on a five-day Carnival Cruise to Mexico, and while there, she has the greatest spring fling of her life.
L/J
Disclaimer: No, I do not own Lily or any HP characters, or the Carnival Cruise line. (Although that would be totally awesome).
In honor of summer break, I have started a new story.
Hey everyone! I wanted to tell you all that this is mainly an original story except for the fact that I use some of HP's characters and James originally Hogwarts and such. (You'll like it; it's not really misusing the characters.) Okay, just getting that cleared.
A Spring Fling
Chapter One: Day One, Boarding Ecstasy
Lily's family had been planning this for months now, and had booked their vacation long ago. Her grandmother had wanted to do something for her family before she got too old, and had gotten the best idea in the world. (So Lily thought). She would take her family on a cruise to Mexico! Lily was excused from her school for a few days, which was called "The American Witchcraft School and Learning Center". (AWSLC) You see, Lily was a witch; or rather, a witch in training. AWSLC was a daytime witchcraft school for girls, but that's a different story.
Lily's grandmother had driven over from her house in the next town this morning, and the family had piled into the car. You see, although Lily was becoming a witch, her family were muggles, and therefore had to use muggle transportation. Dad driving, Grandma sitting in the front, her sister Petunia sitting on one side in the back and Lily sitting on the other side, with their mother in between them to prevent any fighting from going on, so the drive would be as peaceful as possible.
Coincidentally, Petunia fell asleep almost right away, while Lily listened to her CDs and her parents talked.
"How long will it be 'till we get there?" Lily asked when they left.
"About four and a half hours, actually." Her mom replied.
Lily sighed, and settled in for the long trip.
After being nudged awake, Lily opened her eyes to see LA pass by the window. It had been a while since she had been there, and it was still awesome. Huge buildings everywhere, a big airport with gigantic billboards all around... it was a lot to take in.
Lily was a 14 year old in 9th grade with stunning red hair, and gorgeous sparkling green eyes. Nevertheless, she was not very content with her life. Although she had plenty of good things going on for her, she always found something wrong. Her parents had been missionaries when they were younger, and had therefore moved a lot, and had brought Lily up strictly in the Christian ways. Lily was born in Mexico, had lived in London from age 3 to 7, and then moved to the coast of Northern California after that, where she was accepted into AWSLC.
As they passed slowly through the traffic of LA, Lily thought about what she had written in her diary about talking to her parents the other day...
(Lily's diary)
Dear journal. I want to tell you what has happened to my hopes and dreams. They have gone down the loo. On this cruise I'm going on, my whole plan was to get away from my parents as much as possible, find some friends on the cruise (or maybe even a boyfriend), and hang out with them most of the time. Sounds like a good plan huh? Well I was talking to my mom tonight, and she said that I would probably have to stick with her the whole time. Seriously! I just can't stand them. Always favoring Petunia for every little detail and I get the extra. Just because she's 2 years older? I bet she'll be allowed to do whatever she wants. Although I bet she'll just throw it all away by sleeping all day. The lazy bitch. I thought about it, and about just how boring it would be for me to stick with them the whole friggn time, until I got to tears. I was supposed to have fun on this vacation too wasn't I? So I talked to my dad and complained to him about it. I usually get along better with my dad than my mom. Don't ask me why, that's just what happens. He said that at first I had to stick with them and so they can make sure that there are no child molesters or anything not safe on the ship. Yea right. Of course there won't be, but I'm just wondering how long it will be until my parents see that. I guess all I can do for now is pray that God will open their eyes to see that it is perfectly safe for me to go around by myself and for them to see how boring it would be for me to go around with them the whole time.
Lily shook her head in disgust. If things didn't work out the way she planned, she would probably just end up in their room most of the time.
Lily's dad pulled into a drop off place, and everyone unloaded their luggage and themselves. For a moment, Lily forgot about her problems and looked at the ship. It was huge! She and her family got in the long line to check in and get on.
As she looked around, Lily thought about the people who were in the line with her. Why were they on the cruise? Were they all going to know her by the time the cruise was ended? But the leading thought in her head was "Am I going to "meet" someone special?"
Lily wandered to the front of the line to look at the people, when a boy with messy black hair and startling hazel eyes turned and looked her in the eyes before disappearing into a pair of doors. She shook her head, trying to get the image of the handsome boy out of her head, but in it stayed.
Getting on the ship was a fairly simple process. She herself didn't have to do anything but stand in line with her parents. When it got their turn, her parents handed the ticket manager their tickets and all else that was needed to get on the boat, and they were on their way.
Getting on the boat, which was called Ecstasy, Lily's family was greeted by two stewards that showed them the way to their rooms. Lily shared a room with her mom and grandma, while Petunia and her dad shared a room. They were nice little cabins, somewhat small though because you weren't expected to spend much time in your room, when you have a whole ship at your disposal. Lily put her stuff down and looked around. The room was dull pink, with two beds by different walls, and two bunk beds that could be pulled down by the stewards in the evening.
It was still early and people were still boarding Ecstasy, so Lily's parents wanted to get something to eat. All the food on the cruise was free. It was just the drinks that they had to watch out for. Everything at the bars and the drinks that the waiters carried around cost money. Lots of it. At one of the buffets, they were serving all matter of foods. Hamburgers, hotdogs, meatloaf, salad, and even desserts. After eating, the family went back to their rooms to get used to the surroundings. While that was going on, a drill was held for if the boat was to sink, and all the passengers on Lily's deck were instructed to get on their not very stylish life jackets, (Petunia complained), and meet at the Blue Sapphire Lounge which was the big performance stage and big enough to hold just that amount of people. The drill went on about how they should remain calm and quite and should file out calmly to the side of the ship to where the life boats where held when directed, and then all passengers were allowed to leave. Lily and her family went back to their rooms to change for dinner. Her grandma had told them that all the dinners were very formal there and that all the girls should wear dresses every night and the boys would all wear tuxedoes or suits. And there was no tolerance for jeans in the dinner room at all.
So, when it was time, they headed out to fine the Wind Star, which was the most fancy dinning room, where Lily's family was put down to dine. As they entered, a waiter led Lily and her family to their table, at which were seated five people already.
Lily looked around and saw that everybody in the Wind Star was wearing casual clothes. Pants, shirts, sweaters, some were even wearing jeans! Lily looked down at herself wearing a fancy dress and felt very self-conscious that her and her family were the only ones wearing fancy clothes.
"This will be your table for this week." Said the waiter, "I am your waiter Spitz, and this is my assistant Sonia." He mentioned to a girl that was helping set the table.
Lily and her family acknowledged Spitz, and then sat down.
Lily's mom, being the outgoing person that she thought she was, launched out into introducing herself to the family.
"Hi everyone, my name is Candice Evans and this is my husband Matt, my mom Sarah, and my two kids Petunia and Lily."
They all smiled at one another, and the other mom decided to introduce their family.
"It's nice to meet you! I'm Hattie; this is my husband"
"Bill." Interrupted the man next to her.
"My two daughters Hailey and Jordan," here the woman named Hattie motioned to the two girls that were seated at the table. One was chubby, but still very pretty, and had dark brown hair, and the other was thin and had blonde hair and a very cute face. "And this is my son Remus." Lily looked and saw that "Remus" was very good looking. Cute, as she would say. Semi-chubby, but with the cutest face and smile. He had tame brown hair, and was about Lily's height, which was around 5' 7". She smiled and whispered to Petunia, who was sitting next to her, "Cute!" Petunia rolled her eyes.
After eating dinner, Lily asked the ages of the kids, which turned out that Jordan was 19, Hailey was 16, and Remus was 14.
Lily practically jumped in delight. He was the same age as her! She had heard that there were some teen activities in the evenings, so she said so. "Hey Remus, I heard that there are some, I don't know, things they put together for some of the kids or something. You should come!"
Hattie nudged her son had said, "You really should go!" then she turned to Lily and said, "Remus is not much of a dancer." And Lily replied, "Oh don't worry about that, I don't dance at all. I don't even know if there will be dancing. I'm going to go check it out tonight."
Remus didn't really say anything, so Lily headed back to her room to change.
By the time Lily and her mom were changed, it was past the time when they were supposed to go to the Spirals room, which was the kids' room, and was where all the teen activities would be held, so her mom shooed her out the door.
At the Spirals room, they walked in and saw about 8 little kids and a couple middle schoolers hanging out. Lily's mom signed her up on the sign up sheet, and told her to come back to the room when she was done.
Lily put on her hyper side, and went over to the two middle schoolers, and introduced herself. The girls introduced themselves as Ray and Kay, and they were sisters. Kay was 12, and Ray was 13.
"Wow." Said Lily, "I wonder if we could get people in our group up to 18. You know, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18... okay, maybe not."
Just then, another girl walked in.
"Man, this is everyone? This sucks! There is like no one here over the age of 12."
"Sorry to burst your bummer bubble," said Lily, grinning, "But I'm 14, and these girls right here are 12 and 13."
"I suppose that's fine, but I thought there would be more older people.' Said the girl.
"I know what you mean." Said Lily. "How old are you?"
"15." answered the girl.
Lily looked at Kay and Ray, and burst out laughing.
"Only need three more." Lily said, before asking the girl what her name was.
"Bella." She replied. "I don't think any more people are coming. Wanna ditch this place?"
"Definitely." Replied Lily.
The four girls left the room, to head for the ice cream machine, which was by one of the buffets.
"There are like, no cute guys here." Said Bella.
"So true." Answered Lily, "You'd think that out of all these people on this boat, there would be one guy our age that would be cute." She thought for a moment, "Well actually, there was this one guy who sits at our table at dinner who is adorable, and he's 14 too. He might go to the Spirals room tonight."
"That's neat." Said Bella, somewhat unenthusiastically. Lily figured that it was because she was 15 and wouldn't like a guy that was younger than her.
After going for a walk with the girls, Lily decided to go back to her room and sleep because she had the whole next day to explore.
Her mom came in after a little bit, asked her how it went, and told her that the boat would dock the next day in a place called Catalina where people were free to get off the boat and look around town.
"Do I have to go?" whined Lily.
"I guess not." Replied her mom, "Petunia's probably still going to be sleeping, so it's not like it's going to be a family excursion or anything."
Lily thanked God inside that she didn't have to go with them. That meant that she would be able to roam the boat by herself and maybe find a boy...
"Dear God," Lily prayed, whispering so no one else would hear, "Please help me to find a guy on this cruise. I want to find someone to spend a lot of time with. Someone who will really care about me. I want to find someone who... whose cruise would be totally different if I wasn't here. And if you really want to take your time, just... I would really like a boyfriend. Even if you have to wait until I get off this cruise. Thanks ahead of time Jesus!"
With that thought in mind, Lily fell asleep.
So, how did you like it? I would really like to see what you think of this yes, YOU.
Author: Ally
Rating: PG13
Summary: Lily's grandma takes her and her family on a five-day Carnival Cruise to Mexico, and while there, she has the greatest spring fling of her life.
L/J
Disclaimer: No, I do not own Lily or any HP characters, or the Carnival Cruise line. (Although that would be totally awesome).
In honor of summer break, I have started a new story.
Hey everyone! I wanted to tell you all that this is mainly an original story except for the fact that I use some of HP's characters and James originally Hogwarts and such. (You'll like it; it's not really misusing the characters.) Okay, just getting that cleared.
A Spring Fling
Chapter One: Day One, Boarding Ecstasy
Lily's family had been planning this for months now, and had booked their vacation long ago. Her grandmother had wanted to do something for her family before she got too old, and had gotten the best idea in the world. (So Lily thought). She would take her family on a cruise to Mexico! Lily was excused from her school for a few days, which was called "The American Witchcraft School and Learning Center". (AWSLC) You see, Lily was a witch; or rather, a witch in training. AWSLC was a daytime witchcraft school for girls, but that's a different story.
Lily's grandmother had driven over from her house in the next town this morning, and the family had piled into the car. You see, although Lily was becoming a witch, her family were muggles, and therefore had to use muggle transportation. Dad driving, Grandma sitting in the front, her sister Petunia sitting on one side in the back and Lily sitting on the other side, with their mother in between them to prevent any fighting from going on, so the drive would be as peaceful as possible.
Coincidentally, Petunia fell asleep almost right away, while Lily listened to her CDs and her parents talked.
"How long will it be 'till we get there?" Lily asked when they left.
"About four and a half hours, actually." Her mom replied.
Lily sighed, and settled in for the long trip.
After being nudged awake, Lily opened her eyes to see LA pass by the window. It had been a while since she had been there, and it was still awesome. Huge buildings everywhere, a big airport with gigantic billboards all around... it was a lot to take in.
Lily was a 14 year old in 9th grade with stunning red hair, and gorgeous sparkling green eyes. Nevertheless, she was not very content with her life. Although she had plenty of good things going on for her, she always found something wrong. Her parents had been missionaries when they were younger, and had therefore moved a lot, and had brought Lily up strictly in the Christian ways. Lily was born in Mexico, had lived in London from age 3 to 7, and then moved to the coast of Northern California after that, where she was accepted into AWSLC.
As they passed slowly through the traffic of LA, Lily thought about what she had written in her diary about talking to her parents the other day...
(Lily's diary)
Dear journal. I want to tell you what has happened to my hopes and dreams. They have gone down the loo. On this cruise I'm going on, my whole plan was to get away from my parents as much as possible, find some friends on the cruise (or maybe even a boyfriend), and hang out with them most of the time. Sounds like a good plan huh? Well I was talking to my mom tonight, and she said that I would probably have to stick with her the whole time. Seriously! I just can't stand them. Always favoring Petunia for every little detail and I get the extra. Just because she's 2 years older? I bet she'll be allowed to do whatever she wants. Although I bet she'll just throw it all away by sleeping all day. The lazy bitch. I thought about it, and about just how boring it would be for me to stick with them the whole friggn time, until I got to tears. I was supposed to have fun on this vacation too wasn't I? So I talked to my dad and complained to him about it. I usually get along better with my dad than my mom. Don't ask me why, that's just what happens. He said that at first I had to stick with them and so they can make sure that there are no child molesters or anything not safe on the ship. Yea right. Of course there won't be, but I'm just wondering how long it will be until my parents see that. I guess all I can do for now is pray that God will open their eyes to see that it is perfectly safe for me to go around by myself and for them to see how boring it would be for me to go around with them the whole time.
Lily shook her head in disgust. If things didn't work out the way she planned, she would probably just end up in their room most of the time.
Lily's dad pulled into a drop off place, and everyone unloaded their luggage and themselves. For a moment, Lily forgot about her problems and looked at the ship. It was huge! She and her family got in the long line to check in and get on.
As she looked around, Lily thought about the people who were in the line with her. Why were they on the cruise? Were they all going to know her by the time the cruise was ended? But the leading thought in her head was "Am I going to "meet" someone special?"
Lily wandered to the front of the line to look at the people, when a boy with messy black hair and startling hazel eyes turned and looked her in the eyes before disappearing into a pair of doors. She shook her head, trying to get the image of the handsome boy out of her head, but in it stayed.
Getting on the ship was a fairly simple process. She herself didn't have to do anything but stand in line with her parents. When it got their turn, her parents handed the ticket manager their tickets and all else that was needed to get on the boat, and they were on their way.
Getting on the boat, which was called Ecstasy, Lily's family was greeted by two stewards that showed them the way to their rooms. Lily shared a room with her mom and grandma, while Petunia and her dad shared a room. They were nice little cabins, somewhat small though because you weren't expected to spend much time in your room, when you have a whole ship at your disposal. Lily put her stuff down and looked around. The room was dull pink, with two beds by different walls, and two bunk beds that could be pulled down by the stewards in the evening.
It was still early and people were still boarding Ecstasy, so Lily's parents wanted to get something to eat. All the food on the cruise was free. It was just the drinks that they had to watch out for. Everything at the bars and the drinks that the waiters carried around cost money. Lots of it. At one of the buffets, they were serving all matter of foods. Hamburgers, hotdogs, meatloaf, salad, and even desserts. After eating, the family went back to their rooms to get used to the surroundings. While that was going on, a drill was held for if the boat was to sink, and all the passengers on Lily's deck were instructed to get on their not very stylish life jackets, (Petunia complained), and meet at the Blue Sapphire Lounge which was the big performance stage and big enough to hold just that amount of people. The drill went on about how they should remain calm and quite and should file out calmly to the side of the ship to where the life boats where held when directed, and then all passengers were allowed to leave. Lily and her family went back to their rooms to change for dinner. Her grandma had told them that all the dinners were very formal there and that all the girls should wear dresses every night and the boys would all wear tuxedoes or suits. And there was no tolerance for jeans in the dinner room at all.
So, when it was time, they headed out to fine the Wind Star, which was the most fancy dinning room, where Lily's family was put down to dine. As they entered, a waiter led Lily and her family to their table, at which were seated five people already.
Lily looked around and saw that everybody in the Wind Star was wearing casual clothes. Pants, shirts, sweaters, some were even wearing jeans! Lily looked down at herself wearing a fancy dress and felt very self-conscious that her and her family were the only ones wearing fancy clothes.
"This will be your table for this week." Said the waiter, "I am your waiter Spitz, and this is my assistant Sonia." He mentioned to a girl that was helping set the table.
Lily and her family acknowledged Spitz, and then sat down.
Lily's mom, being the outgoing person that she thought she was, launched out into introducing herself to the family.
"Hi everyone, my name is Candice Evans and this is my husband Matt, my mom Sarah, and my two kids Petunia and Lily."
They all smiled at one another, and the other mom decided to introduce their family.
"It's nice to meet you! I'm Hattie; this is my husband"
"Bill." Interrupted the man next to her.
"My two daughters Hailey and Jordan," here the woman named Hattie motioned to the two girls that were seated at the table. One was chubby, but still very pretty, and had dark brown hair, and the other was thin and had blonde hair and a very cute face. "And this is my son Remus." Lily looked and saw that "Remus" was very good looking. Cute, as she would say. Semi-chubby, but with the cutest face and smile. He had tame brown hair, and was about Lily's height, which was around 5' 7". She smiled and whispered to Petunia, who was sitting next to her, "Cute!" Petunia rolled her eyes.
After eating dinner, Lily asked the ages of the kids, which turned out that Jordan was 19, Hailey was 16, and Remus was 14.
Lily practically jumped in delight. He was the same age as her! She had heard that there were some teen activities in the evenings, so she said so. "Hey Remus, I heard that there are some, I don't know, things they put together for some of the kids or something. You should come!"
Hattie nudged her son had said, "You really should go!" then she turned to Lily and said, "Remus is not much of a dancer." And Lily replied, "Oh don't worry about that, I don't dance at all. I don't even know if there will be dancing. I'm going to go check it out tonight."
Remus didn't really say anything, so Lily headed back to her room to change.
By the time Lily and her mom were changed, it was past the time when they were supposed to go to the Spirals room, which was the kids' room, and was where all the teen activities would be held, so her mom shooed her out the door.
At the Spirals room, they walked in and saw about 8 little kids and a couple middle schoolers hanging out. Lily's mom signed her up on the sign up sheet, and told her to come back to the room when she was done.
Lily put on her hyper side, and went over to the two middle schoolers, and introduced herself. The girls introduced themselves as Ray and Kay, and they were sisters. Kay was 12, and Ray was 13.
"Wow." Said Lily, "I wonder if we could get people in our group up to 18. You know, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18... okay, maybe not."
Just then, another girl walked in.
"Man, this is everyone? This sucks! There is like no one here over the age of 12."
"Sorry to burst your bummer bubble," said Lily, grinning, "But I'm 14, and these girls right here are 12 and 13."
"I suppose that's fine, but I thought there would be more older people.' Said the girl.
"I know what you mean." Said Lily. "How old are you?"
"15." answered the girl.
Lily looked at Kay and Ray, and burst out laughing.
"Only need three more." Lily said, before asking the girl what her name was.
"Bella." She replied. "I don't think any more people are coming. Wanna ditch this place?"
"Definitely." Replied Lily.
The four girls left the room, to head for the ice cream machine, which was by one of the buffets.
"There are like, no cute guys here." Said Bella.
"So true." Answered Lily, "You'd think that out of all these people on this boat, there would be one guy our age that would be cute." She thought for a moment, "Well actually, there was this one guy who sits at our table at dinner who is adorable, and he's 14 too. He might go to the Spirals room tonight."
"That's neat." Said Bella, somewhat unenthusiastically. Lily figured that it was because she was 15 and wouldn't like a guy that was younger than her.
After going for a walk with the girls, Lily decided to go back to her room and sleep because she had the whole next day to explore.
Her mom came in after a little bit, asked her how it went, and told her that the boat would dock the next day in a place called Catalina where people were free to get off the boat and look around town.
"Do I have to go?" whined Lily.
"I guess not." Replied her mom, "Petunia's probably still going to be sleeping, so it's not like it's going to be a family excursion or anything."
Lily thanked God inside that she didn't have to go with them. That meant that she would be able to roam the boat by herself and maybe find a boy...
"Dear God," Lily prayed, whispering so no one else would hear, "Please help me to find a guy on this cruise. I want to find someone to spend a lot of time with. Someone who will really care about me. I want to find someone who... whose cruise would be totally different if I wasn't here. And if you really want to take your time, just... I would really like a boyfriend. Even if you have to wait until I get off this cruise. Thanks ahead of time Jesus!"
With that thought in mind, Lily fell asleep.
So, how did you like it? I would really like to see what you think of this yes, YOU.