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A/N - Thank you, my lovely lovely reveiwers. I was so shocked to see them on the first chapter when I posted it even! It renewed my lust for writing. I'm not even sure, however, if my summary at the present time will stick, because I sort of jumped right into this story without much of a plot, so even I myself am sort of excited to see how things will develop over time. I swear, I have no control over what happens, I'm just the outlet that this plot has chosen to use. So, read on, lovers. )

Chapter four - Like Parents, Like Son

Lily opened her eyes with a start. It's too quiet in here for a party. She thought to herself. Looking around she saw, daylight? 'Oh my god!' She gasped in a whisper. She quickly hopped off of the couch and peered into the large room that the party was in. The room was immaculate, but then Lily saw a house-elf flit around out of the corner of her eye.

"No wonder its so clean, the bloody bloke has a cleaning staff." She whispered to herself. She was laughing at how funny it was that she fell asleep and no one found her, but then a thought struck her. EW! I've just spent the night at Potter's house, and now I'm here all alone. Ew ew ew ew ew! She immediately started devising a plan for escape, but one grumble of her stomach scratched that plan. She had to find Potter.

"Great, just what I always wanted...to sleep at Potter's house and then eat his food. Just great." She trudged into the big room and searched for a door that looked like it led to a kitchen. It took her a little more than a moment to realize she was in a basement, and once she realized she immediately found the stairs and groggily made her way up them.

She entered a room was was just as spotless and at once concluded it was some sort of a foyer, as there were doors all around her, it seemed, and an endless array or hallways. However, she heard laughter coming from the one direction and decided to go that way because, well, laughter was alway good. Her footsteps made no noise on the plush carpet, and she stopped as she neared the open doorway where the voices of what seemed to be a man and a woman flowed out.

"Now dear, don't hassle him, I'm sure the boys been home all night just like he said." The man was saying.

"But, Harold!" the woman preotested. "He's a teen, we were gone for the weekend...you mean to tell em you have no suspicions?" Uh oh. Lily was thinking. I can't let them see me, James obviously was not allowed to have that party! To prove her thoughts right, she then heard Jams speak.

"Mother, oh mother, you know just as well as I do that I was studying for the beginning of the school year, I want to have all of the imformation fresh in my head so as to have a fresh start." Lily almost laughed out loud - James sounded so funny. She could almost detect a hint of humour in his voice as he talked, ut she didn't doubt that this was how he normally spoke with his parents. Wait a second. Her concience butted back in. You despise James...wouldn't it be fun to get him in trouble? Lily didn't have a chance to second guess herself, as her little voice always won. She blodly stepped through the doorway and onto the white marble floor at that moment, into what seemed to be a lavish kitchen.

The Potters were gathered around a high counter, seated on bar-like stools and they were all smiling. As soon as they turned at the sound Lily immediately regretted her desicion to bring James down. In unison, a look of shock flashed across all three faces, and Mr. Potter rose.

"My goodness!" He exclaimed. "Where did you come from, miss?" Lily's tongue was caught, and all she ould do was stutter.

"Uh, uhhmmmm, heh heh..." She nervously tugged at the chain around her neck, turned around and made to run off, but the sound of Mrs. Potter breaking out into laughter caused her to turn around again and stay put.

"So you are as evil as James says you are." She said, still laughing. Lily was really confused. And James was grinning. Boy, I'd like to smack that thing off of his face," she thought. Instead, Lily just gave them a puzzled look.

"Darling," Mr. Potter said in his rumbly voice, and motioning with his hands, "Come, sit, please." Lily quietly did as she was told, still quite confused.

As if reading her thoughts, James finally spoke. "I think she's confused." He stated simply.

"Yeah, just a little." She barely whispered it, but it seemed that all three caught her words.

"Oh, I'm sorry dear, we couldn't resist a good prank when it was so willingly sleeping on our couch." Mrs. Potter said, pleasantly.

"So, so you knew about the party?" Lily asked, quite bluntly.

"We planned the party." Mr. Potter told her.

"S-so then, what, what was that?" Lily asked, kinda confused, but slowly realizing she'd been had.

"We heard you coming," James' father told her, "and decided to have some fun. James is always telling us how cruel you are (Lily shot him a dirty look) and we noticed you fell asleep on the couch...so we kinda wanted to see if you'd deliberately get our son in trouble." Mr. Potter said it all in an easy voice, but Lily swore she saw his eyes flash a little at the end part. And she blushed.

"Well..." she trailed off nervously, tugging on her chain again. I want to get out of here so bad...hy didn't I just leave? To her surprise, Mr. Potter laughed again.

"I hope we'll be seeing more of you, Miss Evans. A girl like you is good for our boy, lord knows what trouble he gets into that we haven't even heard about." Seeing his parents smiles she relaxed a little, but then she turned to James, and he seemed to look quite smug about something. Lily turned her eyes cold and shot him the darkest glare she could.

"If you'll excuse me, Mr. and Mrs. Potter, I really must be going, I was just going to find James to mooch something to eat off of him, but really, I can wait till I get home." She sent them a nervous smile, turned, and walked briskly to the doorway, where she did another one eighty. "By the way," she added, "You have such a beautiful house." She spun around and left the manner as quickly as she could.

Reching the sidewalk outside, she realized she had no choice. Oh boy, she was thinking, this is just great. Lily raised her want, and her a loud, snap.