Chapter 1-A New Life
"Do you like it sweetheart?" I turned around and my mother was in the doorway beaming with joy. The look on her face told me to make her happy even if it meant lying.
Don't get me wrong, it was a nice house, hell it's a beautiful house but it's not home. It has big windows in every room that let so much sunlight in, with the high ceilings and big doors. There are 3 bedrooms that are about the size of my old house and there is a very large library. It's a great house but once again it doesn't feel like home. In my bedroom I have a walk in closet and a big bathroom which is pretty damn cool.
"Yea, mom, I...I love it" I smiled my best fake smile.
"I new you would. Listen I'm going to go to the store and get some food so why don't you finish bringing in your boxes and then go wash up and I should be done with dinner." With that mom left the room and went to find George.
I took one last look around my room and headed back down the stair to get some more of my boxes out of the hallway. When I got down stairs George yelled for me to come outside. So I started out the door mumbling curse words at him under my breathe. There he was -George- (oh how I despise that name), he was talking to a man and his son. The boy looked bummed to be there talking to his neighbors, not bummed like this sucks but bummed like he was planning on doing something else. He looked to be about my age, he had sandy blonde hair that mopped over his head and blue glittery eyes. He was built well, he looked strong but defeated and had a weight on his shoulders that seemed to follow him everywhere. I walked over to them with a small box still in my hands.
"Emily this is Mr. Lupin and this is his boy Remus, they are our neighbors" I smiled politely and shifting the weight of the box to my left hand, I extended my right and shook both their hands.
"Its very nice to meet you" I said and then quickly evened the weight of the box in my arms before I could drop it.
"Here, let me help you with that" I gladly handed the box over to Remus.
"Remus, why don't you stay here and help Emily put away her things while I show George my brooms?" without an answer George and Mr. Lupin left. Remus and I watched as they walked away, I could feel an awkward silence coming on so I said "umm...you can fallow me this way" and I stupidly pointed my finger towards my house and hurried in it. When Remus entered I gently closed the door behind him and picked up a box with my name on it.
"Wow this is a big house"
"yea...my room is this way" I started up the stair with Remus right behind me. When we got in my room we put the boxes down and Remus began to check out my very big closet and bathroom.
"Ah...do u mind?"
Remus appeared from out of my closet "oh, I'm sorry"
"No, its okay I was just goshing you" I said with a smirk on my face.
"Rite, soo do u have any brothers, sisters or any other type of strange being living with you?" He said with a grin.
I returned the grin "No actually, only George"
"How come you don't call him dad?" Remus questioned.
"Because he's my step dad and we don't get along well"
"Oh, how come?"
"Long story, I'll tell you some other time" I said and went down stairs to get more boxes. The rest of the day went by and me and Remus talked about a lot of things. I told him about my dad and Nana and he told me silly stories of him and his friends. When mom got home she was very pleased to meet Remus and thought he was a "stud" she even invited him to stay for dinner but he said he had to get home so I said good-bye and he said he'd see me around.
The next day I got up at 10 to start cleaning my walls to get them ready to be painted. Mom and George left at 11 to buy furniture. The door bell rang around 1 and I went to answer it. When I got to the door there was a very pretty girl with red hair and big green eyes much like my own.
"Hi, my name is Lily Evans" She said handing me a pie that was very much burnt.
"ermmm, Hi" I said eyeing the pie "come in" with that Lily Evans came in. When she saw the way I was looking at the pie she laughed and said "I tried to bake a pie but it didn't work well and I didn't want to use magic."
I too laughed "yeah its all right. What school are you attending? I'm going to Hogwarts" I asked hoping I'd just made a friend.
"Me too! That's great. We should go to Diagon Alley together"
"okay" I said happily "but I cant today I gotta paint my room and put the furniture in"
"oooo that's cool can I stick around and help?"
"Sure" I was glad that I would have a friend with me at Hogwarts besides Remus. So Lily helped me with my room and she stayed over till 11 that night. We talked about everything and Lily explained to me all about Hogwarts and it's houses (I hope I get into Gryffindor). When I asked if she thought the kids would like me at Hogwarts she said yes but she told me stay away from this one group of kids. The Marauders. "The Marauders consisted of three members" she said "James, Sirius, Peter and Remus-"
"Remus, I met him yesterday, he was really nice" I said defensively
"Yea of course Remus has always been nice, he's the nice brainy but cute one."
"Ohhh, and the others are...."
"Well, the others are..well they...all right James is the handsome, athletic, arrogant one who hasn't stopped annoying me since first year. Sirius is the tall, dark and handsome one who is a conceited player and Peter well Peter is different. Anyway that's all you need to know, try not to get involved with any of them they go through girlfriends like they were candy." That seemed easy enough.
Mom liked Lily and thought she was a really sweet girl and said I should have her over more often. We now had a week till September 1st, the day I would leave for Hogwarts. The Saturday before Lily and I are going to go to Diagon Alley together so that should be fun. I wanted to go to the train station with Lily but mom and George are taking me out for breakfast that morning so I guess I'll just meet her there.
AN: I know it's short and brief but Review or flame all are welcome, I need to know how I'm doing or I'll discontinue it. I also need a Beta reader so if any one would be so kind.