Disclaimer: I own none of the HP characters, including but not limited to Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus. I also do not own The Carnival Cruise line. Even though that would be nice. (Goodness, I feel like saying: Thank you, and have a nice day.)
A Spring Fling
Chapter Four: Day Three, Ensnada
"How long do you think we'll be out?"
"I really couldn't say mom, I mean, it's a big city right? And are we going on a tour?"
"I don't know, I think so. No, wait, what just happened here? What are you saying?"
Lily smiled as she heard her mom and grandma talking in the morning. She was pondering if she should pretend that she was asleep and keep listening, or get up and ready for the day, when her mom's head appeared over the bunk bed.
"She lives!"
Lily glared at her mom. If there was one thing about her mom that she disliked, it was the way that she sometimes tried to act like a teenager.
"Come on Lily," said her mom, "My little witch needs to get up and ready to go into Ensenada! We're going to eat in..." she checked her watch, "10 minutes."
Lily was about to turn over and try to go back to sleep just to spite her mom, but she thought better of it, and turned to smile and say good morning to her grandma, who was sitting on her bed.
While Lily was getting dressed, her mom decided to chat for a bit.
"I do wish you'd get up earlier Lily."
Lily grunted, "I know."
"I saw that young man you were with the other night with his family. He has quite a lot."
"I know." Said Lily.
Candice went on to ask more questions.
"How old is he?"
"16."
Lily was dressed and ready in no time, and the family went out the door of their room. Her dad and sister were outside of their room, waiting, (to Lily's surprise.) She didn't expect Petunia to be up this early.
"Wait? How early is it?" Lily asked herself; she checked her watch and saw that it was about 4 minutes to 10:00.
Lily was stunned at how she could sleep-in on this ship! But anyway, there wasn't too much to do there, so why not sleep in?
For breakfast, there was French toast, eggs, and they made you a custom omelet if you asked for one. Lily had always loved breakfast because of the good food it brought with it, even though she didn't get a lot of it most of the time.
"So," asked Lily's dad, "Are you all ready to go into the land of Mexico?"
Petunia snorted. "Dad, we are in the land of Mexico."
"So technical." Retorted Lily, "You know he means actually step onto the land." She shook her head.
Petunia glared at her sister.
"Anyway!" Exclaimed Matthew dramatically, "It's time to go."
The family finished their food, and got up from the table, leaving the plates there. The workers would clean up after them. After all, that's what they were for.
Exiting the boat was fairly easy. Easier than Lily expected anyway, all they had to do was show the clerk their Cruise Card, and they were free to go onto the land of Mexico. Lily thought that they would at least have had to have their purses checked to show that they weren't going to have anything bad to sell to the people of Mexico.
"Well," she thought, "I guess them checking us into the boat in the first place was them looking through our stuff."
Right when they got off the boat, a bus was waiting and ready to go. Lily and her family quickly got on, and the bus left. On the way there, a man who was obviously a docent stood up and gave a little schpeel on what to do in Ensenada.
"Hello, my name is Antonio. I am your docent today, and we will be taking you to the city square. I have just a few points to make out, before I let you go on your way, and that is that there will probably be a lot of little children on the street selling flowers and such, and I advise you not to buy from them. They are getting so that they have so much money that they would rather sell things than go to school, and so less and less children are going to school. Ah. Another thing is that there are many shops that sell silver things around here, and I advise you not to buy any. Chances are that it is not real silver, and it will turn green in about a week."
Lily chuckled. Was there anything they could buy around here?
The docent chattered on for a little while the bus rolled through the streets of the heavily populated town, and Lily widened her eyes as she saw a huge Mexico flag. It was waving proudly above the town, and must have been about 50 feet long! Lily thought that you could probably see that flag from anywhere in town!
After a little bit, the bus stopped, and the people got out. Right away, Lily noticed the little girls on the street selling bead bracelets that they probably made themselves, and candy and flowers. Lily politely said no to their pleadings, but was secretly grinning inside, just at the thought of these children's pocket's being filled with money.
Almost as soon as they got off that bus, another one appeared, and Lily's family got on it. Candice told her they were going to La Buffidora, and there was a shopping place there. Lily had no idea what La Buffidora was, but figured that she would find out soon enough.
The bus went through hills and dirt roads, (most of the roads were dirt anyway), but soon enough were at a little parking lot.
Lily felt eternally sorry for the people of Mexico that they were all so poor. Most of the roads were dirt, most of the houses could use a bit fixing up, and they were even warned beforehand not to drink any of the water there but to bring your own water bottle into town because the water there wasn't clean.
"How do the people who live here drink water?" Lily thought to herself.
Lily got out and examined her surroundings. There actually wasn't much to see. A dirt parking lot, and a path through a few booths set up. Some were set up sloppily, and others you could tell had been there quite a while because they blended in wonderfully, and anyone could just tell that the people who ran the booth had taken the time to set it up nice and neat.
Lily figured that this was La Bufadora that her parents had said they were going to, but she didn't think it would be quite like this. A shopping center, that's what it was. Lily didn't quite understand why her parents and grandma would want to go there, but was happy nonetheless, because maybe she could find something she liked.
Walking on the dirt path, Lily looked around at the shops; there were all kinds, and the people manning the booths called out to her.
"Silver jewelry for a pretty girl like you?"
"Pictures! Only the best! You won't find a better price!"
Lily shook her head at the venders, and walked on.
"Better not tell Lily." Lily heard her mother comment.
Naturally, Lily looked at her mother, and then followed her gaze to a cowboy hat with leopard print on it. Lily was an avid leopard print collector, so she walked up and tried on the hat. It fit perfectly. The vendor came up to her and said in chopped English.
"You like? You can have it for $20!"
Lily smiled and shook her head.
"I don't have that much." She knew it was a lie, but bartering was the thing to do there, from what her parents told her. "How about $10?"
The vendor expected the barter, and so played the part.
"$15"
"$12." Lily insisted.
The vendor gave in; Lily handed over the twelve dollars, and placed the hat on her head, smiling to herself. Her first real barter!
Lily's family shook their heads. The girl would never learn. The real thing to do when you are in a place where booths are set up is to look around first before buying anything, to see where the best price is!
The family stopped to look at a couple booths, and eventually got to the end. There, there was a hut, and inside, you could pay to use the loo for 10 cents. Lily's parents and grandma had to go, and so Lily hung behind with Petunia. The people sitting at the counter also sold some candies, and so Lily couldn't really resist! Just a little snack to tie her over.
When her folks got out of the loo, they went to the back of the hut where a few people were gathered. There was a cliff that went down into the ocean.
"So what's this all about?" Lily asked, "Is there supposed to be anything special going on here?"
"This is La Bufadora!" said Candice. "When it is high tide, the water comes and splashes up on the rocks and shoots high in the air."
"Oh!" Lily finally got it. "But it's not high tide?"
Candice shook her head in disappointment. "I guess not."
After looking around a bit, the family started to head back. Lily laughed as one of the vendors yelled,
"Silver jewelry! We promise it won't turn green!"
"How would they know if it turned green in the first place?" laughed Petunia. "Just don't say anything or they'll pull you over there!"
They walked past a carving place where the vendor next to them was shouting out, "We have it all! And if we don't have what you want, we'll make it for you!"
"Yeah, sure." Said Lily, "I bet they don't have a Lord of the Rings chess set." As they walked by,
"We have that!" exclaimed the vendor in desperation.
The family laughed. Of course they didn't have a genuine chess set, so they didn't even look.
When Lily and her family got back to the ship, it was about half an hour until dinnertime, so they all had to rush to their rooms and get ready.
Lily didn't feel like wearing any of her dresses, and so she asked her mother if she had anything extra that would fit her. Her mother gave her a black skirt, and told her to just wear one of her nicer shirts. Lily did just that, and looked ravenous.
The family headed down to dinner, and all ordered their separate foods. Lily once again requested that Remus come to the Spirals room that night, but Remus smiled and said that he wasn't quite sure if he was up to it, but after dinner he and his family were going out to the deck and were going to watch the ship set sail. Lily decided that she would like to see the ship set off too, so she said that she would meet up with them on the starboard side of the ship.
Lily and her mom went back to their room after dinner, and changed into more comfortable clothes, when they heard a knock on the door. Lily was fixing her hair, when she heard her mom call her to the door. She looked around the corner, and saw none other than James standing in the doorway.
"Hi!" she said.
"Hi." Said James. "I just wanted to tell you that I haven't been ignoring you today, I have just been in the city."
"Well so have I." Said Lily.
"So I'll see you tonight at Spirals?" asked James.
Lily nodded. "Of course!"
James smiled and left.
Candice shut the door. "Nice boy."
Lily giggled. "I had no idea that he memorized our number last night!"
"So what's going on at the Spirals room tonight?" asked Candice inquiringly.
"Oh, just some dancing, and then they're going to put on a movie. Wait, I don't even know what movie it is!" Lily checked her activity paper, and it said that the movie that was going to be showing was the movie "Drumline". Lily sighed. She was hoping that it was a movie that she hadn't seen before; but with James there, she knew it would be great anyway.
Checking her watch, Lily noticed that it was almost time for the ship to leave the dock, and so she rushed out to the side of the ship. She saw Remus and his family, excluding the dad, waiting on the deck. Small conversation was exchanged, and after a while, the boat finally left the dock.
"Wee." Thought Lily sarcastically.
They all watched the ship take off with them on it, and turn around, which was what they had to do to go out of the bay. When the ship was out on the open sea again, Lily got bored of watching the water, and went back inside. Checking her watch, Lily remembered that there was supposed to be a ping- pong tournament on the game deck that started in a few minutes, so Lily meandered over to the game deck to see if she could sign up.
It turned out that no one had shown up to the tournament, so Lily got the award, (A platinum 24 carrot gold plastic ship on a stick, or so it was called. In reality, it was a mini plastic form of the ship Ecstasy, painted gold, on a platform.) Afterwards, Lily hung around the ping-pong tables to see if anyone came around who wanted to play an amateur like herself. Fortunately for her, a deaf black man came up to her and motioned if she wanted to play. Glad for someone to play with, Lily readily accepted. The man was very good, and Lily was surprised. She thought that it would be hard to play the game if you were deaf, especially because you wouldn't be able to hear the ball bounce, and it seemed like it would through you off. It sure would through Lily off if she couldn't hear the ball bounce.
After a while though, Lily motioned that she had to go, and the man smiled and got a piece of paper. He then wrote down asking what her name was. Lily wrote her name, and the man said his name was Tim. They shook hands, and Lily went off to the Spirals room.
A.N. L/J action in the next chapter! Yay!
Thanks:
Star19: Yay! James is cool huh? Cringes Let's see if I'm putting this together too fast in the next two chapters. Just remember that they only have 5 days, well really, 4, because the 5th is getting off of the ship. Thanks for reviewing!
Sunny Joe bob: Thanks! Please keep reading!
Prongsie-gurl8: Oh I know! I'm trying to put that together myself at the moment. Lol, the wheels in my head keep turning... thatnks for the review!
Callista Silverheart: Your review got me so happy and hyper! You can't possibly know how much I loooove reviews taht tell me how much they like the story! It just gives me the good chills! Bummer about the guys mate, maybe next time huh?
mandyzcool: In time, in time. You'll be happy. I personally loooove the very end of the next chapter, but you'll just have to wait for that won't you... LOL, thanks so much for the review!
Lee-SenRu: I feel so honored! Thank you so so so so so so much!!!
Drizzer419: Thank you! Keep reading and reviewing!!!
Carmel March: Ahhhh!!! Jumps around room and then blushes furriously. You said I was an amazing author... Blushes. Wipes tear .I'm so happy...Bummer about not being able to get on the internet though. The past 10 days I have also been away from the computer because I have been at a horse camp. YAY! Wahhh, I won't be able to ride a horse for a long time now... Thanks tons for the review! Keep reading!
A Spring Fling
Chapter Four: Day Three, Ensnada
"How long do you think we'll be out?"
"I really couldn't say mom, I mean, it's a big city right? And are we going on a tour?"
"I don't know, I think so. No, wait, what just happened here? What are you saying?"
Lily smiled as she heard her mom and grandma talking in the morning. She was pondering if she should pretend that she was asleep and keep listening, or get up and ready for the day, when her mom's head appeared over the bunk bed.
"She lives!"
Lily glared at her mom. If there was one thing about her mom that she disliked, it was the way that she sometimes tried to act like a teenager.
"Come on Lily," said her mom, "My little witch needs to get up and ready to go into Ensenada! We're going to eat in..." she checked her watch, "10 minutes."
Lily was about to turn over and try to go back to sleep just to spite her mom, but she thought better of it, and turned to smile and say good morning to her grandma, who was sitting on her bed.
While Lily was getting dressed, her mom decided to chat for a bit.
"I do wish you'd get up earlier Lily."
Lily grunted, "I know."
"I saw that young man you were with the other night with his family. He has quite a lot."
"I know." Said Lily.
Candice went on to ask more questions.
"How old is he?"
"16."
Lily was dressed and ready in no time, and the family went out the door of their room. Her dad and sister were outside of their room, waiting, (to Lily's surprise.) She didn't expect Petunia to be up this early.
"Wait? How early is it?" Lily asked herself; she checked her watch and saw that it was about 4 minutes to 10:00.
Lily was stunned at how she could sleep-in on this ship! But anyway, there wasn't too much to do there, so why not sleep in?
For breakfast, there was French toast, eggs, and they made you a custom omelet if you asked for one. Lily had always loved breakfast because of the good food it brought with it, even though she didn't get a lot of it most of the time.
"So," asked Lily's dad, "Are you all ready to go into the land of Mexico?"
Petunia snorted. "Dad, we are in the land of Mexico."
"So technical." Retorted Lily, "You know he means actually step onto the land." She shook her head.
Petunia glared at her sister.
"Anyway!" Exclaimed Matthew dramatically, "It's time to go."
The family finished their food, and got up from the table, leaving the plates there. The workers would clean up after them. After all, that's what they were for.
Exiting the boat was fairly easy. Easier than Lily expected anyway, all they had to do was show the clerk their Cruise Card, and they were free to go onto the land of Mexico. Lily thought that they would at least have had to have their purses checked to show that they weren't going to have anything bad to sell to the people of Mexico.
"Well," she thought, "I guess them checking us into the boat in the first place was them looking through our stuff."
Right when they got off the boat, a bus was waiting and ready to go. Lily and her family quickly got on, and the bus left. On the way there, a man who was obviously a docent stood up and gave a little schpeel on what to do in Ensenada.
"Hello, my name is Antonio. I am your docent today, and we will be taking you to the city square. I have just a few points to make out, before I let you go on your way, and that is that there will probably be a lot of little children on the street selling flowers and such, and I advise you not to buy from them. They are getting so that they have so much money that they would rather sell things than go to school, and so less and less children are going to school. Ah. Another thing is that there are many shops that sell silver things around here, and I advise you not to buy any. Chances are that it is not real silver, and it will turn green in about a week."
Lily chuckled. Was there anything they could buy around here?
The docent chattered on for a little while the bus rolled through the streets of the heavily populated town, and Lily widened her eyes as she saw a huge Mexico flag. It was waving proudly above the town, and must have been about 50 feet long! Lily thought that you could probably see that flag from anywhere in town!
After a little bit, the bus stopped, and the people got out. Right away, Lily noticed the little girls on the street selling bead bracelets that they probably made themselves, and candy and flowers. Lily politely said no to their pleadings, but was secretly grinning inside, just at the thought of these children's pocket's being filled with money.
Almost as soon as they got off that bus, another one appeared, and Lily's family got on it. Candice told her they were going to La Buffidora, and there was a shopping place there. Lily had no idea what La Buffidora was, but figured that she would find out soon enough.
The bus went through hills and dirt roads, (most of the roads were dirt anyway), but soon enough were at a little parking lot.
Lily felt eternally sorry for the people of Mexico that they were all so poor. Most of the roads were dirt, most of the houses could use a bit fixing up, and they were even warned beforehand not to drink any of the water there but to bring your own water bottle into town because the water there wasn't clean.
"How do the people who live here drink water?" Lily thought to herself.
Lily got out and examined her surroundings. There actually wasn't much to see. A dirt parking lot, and a path through a few booths set up. Some were set up sloppily, and others you could tell had been there quite a while because they blended in wonderfully, and anyone could just tell that the people who ran the booth had taken the time to set it up nice and neat.
Lily figured that this was La Bufadora that her parents had said they were going to, but she didn't think it would be quite like this. A shopping center, that's what it was. Lily didn't quite understand why her parents and grandma would want to go there, but was happy nonetheless, because maybe she could find something she liked.
Walking on the dirt path, Lily looked around at the shops; there were all kinds, and the people manning the booths called out to her.
"Silver jewelry for a pretty girl like you?"
"Pictures! Only the best! You won't find a better price!"
Lily shook her head at the venders, and walked on.
"Better not tell Lily." Lily heard her mother comment.
Naturally, Lily looked at her mother, and then followed her gaze to a cowboy hat with leopard print on it. Lily was an avid leopard print collector, so she walked up and tried on the hat. It fit perfectly. The vendor came up to her and said in chopped English.
"You like? You can have it for $20!"
Lily smiled and shook her head.
"I don't have that much." She knew it was a lie, but bartering was the thing to do there, from what her parents told her. "How about $10?"
The vendor expected the barter, and so played the part.
"$15"
"$12." Lily insisted.
The vendor gave in; Lily handed over the twelve dollars, and placed the hat on her head, smiling to herself. Her first real barter!
Lily's family shook their heads. The girl would never learn. The real thing to do when you are in a place where booths are set up is to look around first before buying anything, to see where the best price is!
The family stopped to look at a couple booths, and eventually got to the end. There, there was a hut, and inside, you could pay to use the loo for 10 cents. Lily's parents and grandma had to go, and so Lily hung behind with Petunia. The people sitting at the counter also sold some candies, and so Lily couldn't really resist! Just a little snack to tie her over.
When her folks got out of the loo, they went to the back of the hut where a few people were gathered. There was a cliff that went down into the ocean.
"So what's this all about?" Lily asked, "Is there supposed to be anything special going on here?"
"This is La Bufadora!" said Candice. "When it is high tide, the water comes and splashes up on the rocks and shoots high in the air."
"Oh!" Lily finally got it. "But it's not high tide?"
Candice shook her head in disappointment. "I guess not."
After looking around a bit, the family started to head back. Lily laughed as one of the vendors yelled,
"Silver jewelry! We promise it won't turn green!"
"How would they know if it turned green in the first place?" laughed Petunia. "Just don't say anything or they'll pull you over there!"
They walked past a carving place where the vendor next to them was shouting out, "We have it all! And if we don't have what you want, we'll make it for you!"
"Yeah, sure." Said Lily, "I bet they don't have a Lord of the Rings chess set." As they walked by,
"We have that!" exclaimed the vendor in desperation.
The family laughed. Of course they didn't have a genuine chess set, so they didn't even look.
When Lily and her family got back to the ship, it was about half an hour until dinnertime, so they all had to rush to their rooms and get ready.
Lily didn't feel like wearing any of her dresses, and so she asked her mother if she had anything extra that would fit her. Her mother gave her a black skirt, and told her to just wear one of her nicer shirts. Lily did just that, and looked ravenous.
The family headed down to dinner, and all ordered their separate foods. Lily once again requested that Remus come to the Spirals room that night, but Remus smiled and said that he wasn't quite sure if he was up to it, but after dinner he and his family were going out to the deck and were going to watch the ship set sail. Lily decided that she would like to see the ship set off too, so she said that she would meet up with them on the starboard side of the ship.
Lily and her mom went back to their room after dinner, and changed into more comfortable clothes, when they heard a knock on the door. Lily was fixing her hair, when she heard her mom call her to the door. She looked around the corner, and saw none other than James standing in the doorway.
"Hi!" she said.
"Hi." Said James. "I just wanted to tell you that I haven't been ignoring you today, I have just been in the city."
"Well so have I." Said Lily.
"So I'll see you tonight at Spirals?" asked James.
Lily nodded. "Of course!"
James smiled and left.
Candice shut the door. "Nice boy."
Lily giggled. "I had no idea that he memorized our number last night!"
"So what's going on at the Spirals room tonight?" asked Candice inquiringly.
"Oh, just some dancing, and then they're going to put on a movie. Wait, I don't even know what movie it is!" Lily checked her activity paper, and it said that the movie that was going to be showing was the movie "Drumline". Lily sighed. She was hoping that it was a movie that she hadn't seen before; but with James there, she knew it would be great anyway.
Checking her watch, Lily noticed that it was almost time for the ship to leave the dock, and so she rushed out to the side of the ship. She saw Remus and his family, excluding the dad, waiting on the deck. Small conversation was exchanged, and after a while, the boat finally left the dock.
"Wee." Thought Lily sarcastically.
They all watched the ship take off with them on it, and turn around, which was what they had to do to go out of the bay. When the ship was out on the open sea again, Lily got bored of watching the water, and went back inside. Checking her watch, Lily remembered that there was supposed to be a ping- pong tournament on the game deck that started in a few minutes, so Lily meandered over to the game deck to see if she could sign up.
It turned out that no one had shown up to the tournament, so Lily got the award, (A platinum 24 carrot gold plastic ship on a stick, or so it was called. In reality, it was a mini plastic form of the ship Ecstasy, painted gold, on a platform.) Afterwards, Lily hung around the ping-pong tables to see if anyone came around who wanted to play an amateur like herself. Fortunately for her, a deaf black man came up to her and motioned if she wanted to play. Glad for someone to play with, Lily readily accepted. The man was very good, and Lily was surprised. She thought that it would be hard to play the game if you were deaf, especially because you wouldn't be able to hear the ball bounce, and it seemed like it would through you off. It sure would through Lily off if she couldn't hear the ball bounce.
After a while though, Lily motioned that she had to go, and the man smiled and got a piece of paper. He then wrote down asking what her name was. Lily wrote her name, and the man said his name was Tim. They shook hands, and Lily went off to the Spirals room.
A.N. L/J action in the next chapter! Yay!
Thanks:
Star19: Yay! James is cool huh? Cringes Let's see if I'm putting this together too fast in the next two chapters. Just remember that they only have 5 days, well really, 4, because the 5th is getting off of the ship. Thanks for reviewing!
Sunny Joe bob: Thanks! Please keep reading!
Prongsie-gurl8: Oh I know! I'm trying to put that together myself at the moment. Lol, the wheels in my head keep turning... thatnks for the review!
Callista Silverheart: Your review got me so happy and hyper! You can't possibly know how much I loooove reviews taht tell me how much they like the story! It just gives me the good chills! Bummer about the guys mate, maybe next time huh?
mandyzcool: In time, in time. You'll be happy. I personally loooove the very end of the next chapter, but you'll just have to wait for that won't you... LOL, thanks so much for the review!
Lee-SenRu: I feel so honored! Thank you so so so so so so much!!!
Drizzer419: Thank you! Keep reading and reviewing!!!
Carmel March: Ahhhh!!! Jumps around room and then blushes furriously. You said I was an amazing author... Blushes. Wipes tear .I'm so happy...Bummer about not being able to get on the internet though. The past 10 days I have also been away from the computer because I have been at a horse camp. YAY! Wahhh, I won't be able to ride a horse for a long time now... Thanks tons for the review! Keep reading!