Chapter 2

Lily made her way to the kitchen the next morning and sure enough Remi had left two boxes of cereal on the table. She sat down lazily and summoned a bowl, a spoon, and a jug of milk. She poured herself some sugar cereal and was a bit confused when she looked up to see Andi slide into the seat across from her.

"Glad to see you are getting an early start on that job search." Lily said with a smirk.

Andi groaned. "I'll go out later I just wanted to catch you this morning to talk."

Lily took a bite of her cereal and kept her eyes on her cereal. "About what?"

"Don't act so dense. About last night, what happened? Did you go to James Potter's house because there really isn't any other Potter I know of." Andi said staring hard.

"Yes I went to James's house what's it matter anyway?" Lily asked looking up from her cereal.

"Well sounds like a big deal." Andi said incredulously.

"Well it's not so keep your nose out of it." Lily said sharply.

"Fine." Andi said not really in the mood to get in a fight. "Yeah so Ben took me out last night." She said changing the subject.

"Where'd you go?" Lily asked filling her bowl with more cereal. "Some nice restaurant in town. It was nice just not really my thing but it's the thought that counts right?"

"Of course. So are things getting serious with you two? It's been five months now, that's pretty impressive."

"Yeah things are good he's a great guy, he's sweet, tall, and attractive. What more could I want." Andi said with a genuine smile.

"That's great you should invite him over for dinner sometime. Remi and I hardly know the guy. It almost makes me think you're embarrassed of us." Lily said raising an eyebrow.

"Oh please if a guy had a problem with you guys then he would have to have a problem with me since I'm twice as embarrassing as you two. He just works a lot and most of the time he just wants to go out when we're together. But I'll tell him about it and I'm sure he'd love to come over for dinner." Andi said with a grin.

Lily put her bowl in the sink then headed for the stairs. "Well I have to get dressed but when I get home tonight you better have a job or proof that you were at least trying to find one."

"Yeah, yeah quit hassling me about it, I'll go out after I eat something and find something professional looking to wear."

"You don't have anything professional looking." Lily called down the steps. "In fact even if you wore the nicest thing you have I don't think the ice cream parlor would even hire you." Lily sniggered.

"That's not true I'm sure they'd love to have a girl like me who has class work in their dump!" Andi shouted up the steps.

Lily came down the stairs dressed and laughing still. "Well I'm not going to let you humiliate yourself so I'm allowing you to borrow my clothes. I laid out some dress pants, a blouse, and some flats since you're already tall enough.."

"Hey you know I'm sensitive about my height." Andi interrupted.

"Anyways, so wear what I laid out and maybe you'll actually be considered for a job." Lily said slipping into her coat.

"Thanks mom." Andi said sarcastically.

"Oh knock it off you know you appreciate what I'm doing for you deep down, your just trying to be an ungrateful school girl like you always were." Lily said with a smirk.

"Oh just get out of here or you'll be late." Andi said ushering her out the door.

It turned out that Lily was late for training but no one seemed to notice. She took a seat next to a pretty brunette who had been a Ravenclaw in the same year as her.

"Did I miss anything, Sage?" Lily whispered to the brunette.

"The professor just announced that for the remainder of our training we will be with one other person and together you will have an experienced auror teach you what you need to know." Sage said beaming with excitement.

"Really? That's so awesome!" Lily said joining in on her friends excitement.

"I already paired you up with another trainee and I did my best to pair you up with someone you can deal with. So come up to the front and find who you're with and also you will find the name of the auror who will be working with you." The professor announced.

Lily and Sage made their way to the front of the room and waited their turn. "Lily Evans and Sage Zorwitz and our auror is Printzley." Lily read aloud to Sage.

"Miss. Evans, Miss Zorwitz come this way." An older man behind them instructed.

The two girls obeyed and followed. The man was a fairly tall man, about six foot Lily guessed, he had short hair, his face looked a little worn but for the most part he looked in fairly good shape for his age. The man led them into a separate room.

"Please have a seat." the man said motioning to some chairs. "I'd like to get right to work so I'll make this quick. I'm Bronan Printzley you may call me whatever you'd like just not professor that makes me feel old. I've been an auror for eighteen years and the head auror thought this would be a much better approach to teaching our up and coming aurors and I must agree. I'll have things for you girls to do everyday but if ever you have something you wish to learn instead, if I find it fitting, I'll teach you that instead. Everyday we will meet in this same classroom. Sound good?" He asked looking at both the girls.

"Sounds great to me, let's get to work!" Sage said hopping up from her seat.

Sage and Lily went through their lesson and Sage had everything down pat and Bronan dismissed her when time was up but he kept Lily behind.

"Miss Evans, I couldn't help but notice that you are extremely tense are you uncomfortable with this new approach of training?" Printzley asked.

"No, not at all Printzley I think the new approach is a wonderful idea." Lily said numbly playing with her wand.

"Miss Evans I've done my research and I've looked at your records. You are extremely capable of succeeding in the charm I taught you today but yet you could not seem to get it down. I need you to take all other things off your mind when you're here. I need you to be 100 here with me mentally." Lily nodded. "Tomorrow you need to release your tension and I think then we will be more successful in this charm. That is it you may go."

"Thank you, Professor Printzley." Lily said headed for the door.

"Ah ah, not professor just Printzley." Lily again nodded then left.

Lily walked down the sidewalk and tried to get training off her mind. She tried to remember what alley it was that James had pulled her through just yesterday. As she came to each alleyway she looked down it to see if she could see the cute row of houses. After two or three alleys she saw the houses. She made her way quickly down the alley not at all comfortable. When she got to the end she spotted the small house she had been at yesterday. She made her way to the backyard and saw no sign of James so she figured he went home or maybe he went inside. Lily forced herself to knock on the door so no one could say she didn't try.

Lily waited for a bit and contemplated going home but before she got the chance to disapparate the door opened. "Hello." A male with only a t-shirt and boxers on drawled looking her over.

"Um is James here?" Lily asked.

"Oh you're the one he's waiting for. Come on in." the male said stepping aside to let her in. "James she's here."

Lily watched as James got off the couch and made his way over to them. "Hey." James said smiling at Lily. "I wasn't sure if you were coming."

"Yeah I got held back, sorry about that." Lily explained.

"It's fine don't worry about it. Here let me introduce you to my friends. This is Sirius." James said motioning to the one who let her in. "This is his usual attire."

Sirius Black had long black hair and a bit of a beard and mustache. He had shocking blue eyes and had a very toned body and was a little over six feet tall.

Lily gave him the best smile she could muster. "Nice to meet you, Sirius." Lily said offering him her hand.

James pulled her hand back. "I wouldn't do that if I were you he's a dirty, dirty man." James said with a smirk.

Sirius sneered at him. "I am not! Nice to meet you." Sirius said offering his hand and Lily took it and smiled to him once again. "Remus get down here, James's girlfriend is here!" Sirius shouted up the steps.

Lily turned a slight shade of red at being called James's girlfriend. Remus came quickly down the stairs. "Hello there! Nice to meet you. How long have you and James been seeing each other?" Remus asked.

Lily blushed even more and looked at James for help. "We're not going out Remus and you know that. Sirius was just being his normal stupid self." James explained.

"Oh, oh right so she's just a friend then." Remus said rolling his eyes.

Remus like the other two was very attractive but he didn't look like James as much as Sirius did. Remus had sandy brown hair and he was a little under six foot.

"Well I hate to cut this short but I should really be headed home." Lily said.

"Oh come on you just got here I know they're slobs but you'll get over that quickly. I'm sure your friends can whip up something and if not they can wait a while longer." James said already taking her bag from her.

"Alright I'll stay, but only for a little." Lily said knowing that James wasn't really giving her the choice to leave.

Sirius helped her our of her coat and the four of them made their way into the living room. Sirius sat in "his seat," which he was extremely possessive of, and Remus, James, and Lily took a seat on the couch.

"Thirsty? Of course you are." Sirius said without a pause. "Accio four butterbeers."

With that four butterbeers made their way to the four people. Lily took hers and set it on the table since she wasn't too thirsty and she watched in amazement as the boys all chugged their drinks down.

"You going to drink that?" Sirius asked leaning to pick up her drink.

"Sirius quit being a hog she'll drink it when she's thirsty." James said and Sirius sat back down and shrugged it off.

"So who is it that you had to get home to and feed?" Remus asked after wiping his butterbeer mustache off.

"Oh my two best friends." Lily explained. "When I transferred to Hogwarts last year we became very close and after we graduated we moved into a small flat together."

"They hot?" Sirius asked with a raised eyebrow.

James rolled his eyes and Lily let out a laugh. "Well it's not really my place to judge that but the one is taken anyways. The other is training to be a Healer so she thinks she's too busy for a boyfriend."

"What are their names? We might know them from when we went." Remus asked.

"Andi Adams, the taken one, and Remi Sands, the too busy one." Lily said with a smirk.

"Neither ring a bell." Sirius stated.

"And that's a good thing." James said receiving a glare from Sirius. "Sirius was a player all through Hogwarts."

Sirius made a sound of protest. "I was not, well maybe a little, but James you weren't much better than me." Sirius said pointedly.

"Sirius who are you trying to kid other than yourself." Remus said plainly.

James rolled his eyes then looked to Lily. "So what were we talking about?

"Her friends." Sirius cut in. "So what is this guy like that your friend is going out with?"

"Um dark hair, tall, clean cut, businessman. I don't know too much about him since I only met him once or twice." Lily said with a shrug.

"Sounds like a stiff, your friend goes for that?" Sirius asked with a bitter look on his face.

"No, at least I didn't think so, maybe he's different then he appears. In Hogwarts Andi always went for the wild guys and she sure hasn't changed much maturity wise so I don't know if she thinks that if she has a mature boyfriend that then people will think she matured more or what. I really don't get it." Lily explained.

"Hmm I see." Sirius said.

Lily arrived to her flat around eight after talking for awhile longer with James, Sirius, and Remus. "Hey Remi, where's Andi?" Lily asked walking over to the table where Remi was reading.

"Lily where have you been?" Remi asked seriously.

"I was out, why?" Lily asked confused.

"Well Andi was under the impression that you would be here to make dinner." Remi explained.

"She has some nerve. Is it really that hard to make yourself a sandwich or something?" Lily said exasperated as she headed towards the stairs.

"Lily wait! Don't go yelling at her.." Was all Remi could get out before getting interrupted by a fuming redhead.

"Remi for once in your life keep out of this! This is between me and Andi so shut it!" Lily shouted sending Remi a glare as she stomped up the stairs to her bedroom.

Lily found Andi sitting on her own bed looking cross. "Well look who finally decided to show up?" Andi spat.

"You have some nerve Andi Adams." Lily shouted moving to stand next to Andi's bed. "I'm sorry I wasn't home to make my highness's meal. I guess I was too busy trying to have a life of my own."

"What are you talking about Lily? I'm not that self absorbed to get mad at you for that. You know perfectly well why I'm mad at you so stop trying to avoid it." Andi said her eyes brimming with angry tears.

"I have no clue why you are mad at me is it because I didn't call you and tell you where I was or what? Because I didn't know I had to tell you my every move." Lily said crossing her arms across her chest.

"No Lily! You honestly don't know do you?" Andi asked in disbelief as Lily shook her head. "You were the one who wanted me to get a job so bad! You were the one who said you wanted to get to know him more! You were! So I told him the good news of me getting three job interviews tomorrow and he was so proud of me that he wanted to celebrate and I convinced him to come have dinner here like you wanted. And I waited and made him wait even though he was growing more and more impatient but after an hour and a half he couldn't take it so he just kissed me and left." Andi said breaking down towards the end and letting the tears flow freely.

Lily let her anger wash away and she sank onto the bed and wrapped her arms around Andi and pulled her into a tight embrace. "Andi I'm sorry. But honestly you didn't give me any notice, how was I supposed to know you were going to bring him over tonight?" Lily asked levelly.

Andi wiped a few tears away. " I don't know, I was just so excited to tell you about my interviews and so excited that I got Ben to come over so I just figured you would be here because you usually always are."

"Andi I'm so proud of you for getting your butt out there and getting yourself not just one interview, but three." Lily said offering Andi a smile.

Andi smiled back and the tear flow began to slow up. "It's only because I was wearing your clothes." Andi said with a laugh. "If I would of went to any of those places with what I usually wear I would of never been considered just like you said."

Lily smiled. "You're going to get one of those jobs and be excellent. I'm so sorry I missed Ben, next time just give me a heads up so I know to be home."

"Alright." Andi said.

"So everything better?" Remi asked standing in the doorway.

"Come over here." Lily called patting the spot next to her on the bed.

Remi obeyed and plopped herself down. "Rem, I'm sorry I know you were just trying to help and I…"

"Oh shut up I get it you're sorry. I didn't take it personally anyways. I hate apologies they always seem so fake so don't even finish what you were trying to say." Remi said interrupting Lily.

Lily smiled. "Remi you're awesome."

The three girls smiled at one another. "So how bout some dinner?" Andi quipped.

Remi and Lily just rolled their eyes and gave Andi a shove. "Come on I'm hungry!"

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