Chapter 10: White Houses – (Britney's Plea)

"Daddy?" Britney asked her father at dinner the night home from Hogwarts.

"Yes," Her father answered.

"What are we doing for Christmas?" Britney asked sweetly.

"The same thing we do every year. On Christmas Eve we're at the Potters Ball and Christmas day we have our families come over to celebrate," Mr. Turner answered while cutting a piece of his steak.

"Do you think I can skip that?" Britney asked.

"What do you mean?" asked her mother.

"Ok, well, can I stay at Lily's house for winter vacation?" Britney asked pouting.

"No," her father answered. "This is Christmas time, time for families to get together and celebrate. You will stay here."

"And I will be celebrating with family . . . just a different one," Britney said smiling.

"No, we don't see you for a long time sweetie, we want to spend Christmas with you," Her mother answered nicely.

"I've tried it before Brit," muttered Haylie.

"Yes she has, and she hasn't won," Mr. Turner said. "It's the time to be with family!"

"What if I don't want to be with family?" Britney asked upset.

Mr. Turner sighed. "Britney, we haven't seen you for months, you can go after Christmas," Her father answered.

"I want to spend Christmas Day with my best friend," whined Britney.

"Britney Marissa Elizabeth Turner," Mrs. Tuner said shortly.

"Yes," Britney said smiling.

"No," said both her parents. Britney pouted.

"Fine! I just won't ever talk to you ever again!" Britney got up and stomped up the stairs, and when she reached her room she slammed the door.

"Maybe we shouldn't have been so hard on her," said Mr. Turner frowning.

"Are you kidding me?" Haylie started laughing. "She's got you right where she wants you!"

"Don't talk about your sister like that," Mrs. Turner said also frowning.

"Yeah, ok, I'll be in my room," Haylie got up and left.

"I'm going to go check on Britney," said Mrs. Tuner getting up to go to her younger daughters room. When she reached Britney's door, she knocked.

"Who is it?" Britney called from in the room in a teary voice.

Her mother opened the door and went into her room.

"Oh," Britney said looking up from her bed, her eyes red. "It's you."

"Sweetie, you must understand why we're doing this," said her mother facing her. Britney turned around. "Don't you?"

Britney took in a shaky breath. "No," she cried.

"Aw sweetie," her mother wrapped her arms around Britney and hugged her. Britney cried. "You must understand, your father and I, love you so much, we don't want you to be away on Christmas!"

"But I would write!" Britney sobbed.

"I know sweetie," her mother said sadly. "I'll go see your father and talk to him about it." Her mother got up and left.

Britney smiled. "Damn it, I rubbed my eyes too hard!" Britney scolded herself.

Mr. Turners Office

"I think we should let her go," said Mrs. Turner sadly.

"Jessica!" complained Brad Turner.

"What?" Jessica Turner snapped.

"No," said Brad.

"She wants to go really badly. And if she wants to do this again, we'll invite Lily over, or we can think of something else," said Jessica.

"Why can't we think of something else now?" Brad questioned his wife.

"Brad," Jessica said as warning. "She's going to go!"

"I thought we agreed at dinner that Christmas was for family!" Brad complained.

"It's not as if she would miss much, first of all none of the family is her age, so she couldn't play with anyone," Jessica said.

"Haylie can –,"

"No, Haylie has had to do it for years, she needs a break. She's going and that's final!" Jessica said sharply.

"Jessica," Brad said.

Mrs. Turner looked at her husband. He sighed.

Evans House

Next Morning

"So I can have Britney over?" Lily asked her parents hopefully.

"Yes Lily, as long as her parents agree," said Mrs. Evans.

"Thanks mom," Lily said smiling as she hugged her mom.

"You've said that, ten times already," Mr. Evans sighed.

"Yes, would you like me to thank you again?" Lily asked.

"No," Mr. Evans said putting down his newspaper.

"Well dear, I better get going to work," Mr. Evans kissed his wife on the cheek and he left out of the front door.

"When can she come over?" Lily asked her mom.

"Tomorrow, or when ever she can make it," Mrs. Evans said to her daughter.

"Great, I'll go tell her and – how do you contact a wizard without an owl?" Lily questioned her mother.

"You're asking me?" Mrs. Evans laughed.

Lily frowned and went to her room. How was she going to do this? It wasn't as easy as she thought it would be. She didn't have an owl. Hmm, maybe she could phone Britney! Lily ran downstairs to the phone. Lily frowned once again, she didn't know Britney's phone number. She could just call the operator.

Lily pressed the number '100' on the phone.

A voice was heard on the telephone. "Operator, how may I help you?"

"Er, yeah I'd like to reach Britney Turner's house please," Lily said cautiously.

"Which Britney Turner?"

"Er . . ."

"Do you have the address?" the operator asked.

"Er, yeah, it's the Nonsuch Palace, I believe," Lily said thoughtfully.

"The Nonsuch Palace you say?" asked the operator incredulously.

"Er, yeah," Lily said.

"That place has been burnt down for hundreds of years . . . is this a prank call?"

"No . . ."

"You are wasting mine and your own time, have a nice day," the operator hung up.

"Damn," Lily muttered as she hung up the phone.

"The Nonsuch Palace?" asked a voice. Lily turned around to see Petunia leaning against the doorframe to the kitchen.

"Yeah that's where my friend lives," Lily said quietly.

"Stop lying, stop lying to everyone," Petunia snapped.

"What do you mean?" Lily asked.

"Everything you say is a lie, do us all a favour and go away!" Petunia glared and turned on her heel.

Lily shook with fury.

"Mom!" Lily called. Lily looked into the living room and saw her mom watching TV. "Mom, can we buy an owl tomorrow?" Lily asked.

"Are they expensive?" Lily's mother asked.

"No, not really," Lily answered truthfully.

"Alright then," Lily's mother said with a smile.

2 Days Later

"MOM! DAD! I NEED FLOO POWDER TO GO TO LILY'S!" Britney called throughout the house, as she received Lily's owl.

"You're going already?" her father asked as Britney approached the dinning room at around lunch time.

"Er, yeah, the letter said to come anytime today, I want to go now," Britney said clearly. Her father sighed and went to get some floo powder. A house elf came in carrying all her stuff.

"Bye Sweetie!" Mrs. Turner hugged Britney tightly. "Write to us everyday!"

"I will!" Britney smiled.

"Bye Pumpkin," her father hugged her too.

"We'll see you this summer!" said her parents. Britney smiled. She stepped into the fireplace and threw the powder in yelling, "Evans Household!"

A/N: Ok, I have no one commenting on me skipping to the end of 5th year...so i'm guessing it's ok for me to do that? OK, THEN DONE! Actually I'm having aks100 (Anna) write some of 7th year. Originally she was suppose to write a paragraph, now she's been writing like..hmm...36 pages. So there will be a few chapters that aks100 herself has written. Hehe. I need to finish second year. I've been to lazy to finish it. Then i'll go to 5th year. I'll probably start it this Thanksgiving weekend. So I think i'll be updating twice...next chapter, i think, has some...romance:D:D:D

R/R! thank you:D

P.S: Originally Britney's name was Marissa...we added that as her middle name. When I changed her name, I had to go through like the whole first year changing it. (Yes I know Britney is a brat. She's a daddy's girl)