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A/N Ok I realise its been over a year since I last updated, if anyone is still interested. Yes I have been writing, I have never stopped writing. This chapter ends on page 80 on Microsoft Word. And there's like around 400 pages. Now why haven't I posted if I have so much written? Well last summer I was out of town every month and especially through July and August I was gone like 4 days come home for 3 days go back for another 4 days. Etc. And also a lot of things have happened since then like my grandpa died. And then My aunt had a baby, my sister moved away, we've been redoing our house. And Finally I am starting to have a life outside of school. This year at my school I not only have had an overloaded schedule (meaning I take 8 classes a day 9 for those people who count lunch as a class and I don't have a study hall and I also take early bird which is a class before school meaning my school day is over 8 hours long) Then I made the Drill Team or Dance Team, they call it drill team at my school which is actually the dance team. And We had practice like 4 days a week during August and then once school started we had practice every single school day before Early bird meaning that I wake at 5 am and am at school before 6am and dancing. Along with being in Drill Team, I have also been in APEC, which is a PE class that is on the weekends and you go skiing, and sailing, and camping, and rock climbing etc, wayyy better than a regular PE class, And I am in French Club, Mission Club, AWARE, Youth Group, Youth Choir, Liturgical choir, Show Choir, Madgrical, Tennis, Fall Play, Tech aka stage crew for Fall Play, Musical, and Tech for Musical, which is still going on, Dance lessons, Large Group Speech Small Group speech, Miracle Makers, JEL, Spanish Dancing, debate ok I think that's it. Anyway so basically as you can tell I have been in everything under the sun, I spend more time at school than I do at home and on weekends I'm dead tired, and tired enough where I don't even want to do things with my friends, though I want too. And then you put homework on top of all that and you result with like 3 or 4 hours of sleep every night. But now I don't have all that. And there's other things. I'm sorry for those who have been waiting. You can call me insane, which a lot of people have and they don't know how I can do everything at once, and nor do I. Another thing with the 400 pages I have to edit it unless you want to read unedited misspelled things. It's really bad, cause I just typed and I was typing on a keyboard w here the letters didn't all work.
Ok I think that's all I have to tell you
Banny is this soon enough for you? But thanks soo much for your email. I honestly thought that no one was even interested in reading it still since I haven't updated in over a year.
Thanks also to everyone else who has reviewed.
Just a warning I was going through this kind of quickly so there might be some errors (grammatical ones) please forgive me on that
Chapter 4 Life at the Evans
When they all finally woke up it was 3 in the afternoon.
"James wake up, it's already 3pm" Lily said, since he had fallen asleep with his head on her stomach. "Just 5 more min." Lily then stood up making James' head fall on the floor.
"No, get up now."
"Fine, I'm up."
"Let's wake the rest of them up,"
"No, not right now, let them sleep a little bit."
"Why - oh ok" James had just kissed her on the lips.
"James, stop, what if your parents are home, and see us, snogging? They hardly even know me."
"Lily don't worry." He then pulled her closer to him and started kissing her passionately.
After a couple minutes, Lily stepped back.
"James, look, I really should be getting, home, but the thing is I really don't know how to get home from here, so could you bring me home, or at least show me where the bus station is?"
"Yeah, I can, I'm not so sure about a bus station, but I can."
"James you don't know what a bus station is do you." Lily said.
"I do to, I just don't remember." James replied.
"Ok have you ever seen a big yellow school bus that picks up muggle kids and brings them to school?" Lily said in a voice, that sounded as if she was talking to a kindergartener.
"Oh! I know what your talking about now, yeah, it's just down town, about like 5, 6 blocks away from here."
"Great can you show me where it is, since I have no idea."
"Yeah, I'll just leave a note telling them where we are so they don't wonder where we are."
"That would be smart." "Of course it would, because I thought of it." James wrote a quick note and left it on the table.
"James you know what I was just thinking, this would mean that you would be seen in public, meaning you would be completing your dare."
"I forgot about that, forgot the fact that I even had make-up on and my beautiful blue nail polish that matches my eyes'."
"Well I must say your hair looks great, if I do say so myself.
"Do you think your sister would mind if I borrow a shirt and pair of shorts?"
"No, I don't think she would even realise they were gone."
"Great, I'll be right back."
"I'm going to change too."
"Wear shorts, it's a must, then you can show off your legs."
"I am, because my legs are just so soft and silky."
James went into his room, and Lily went into Laura's bedroom to change, into different clothes. A few min. later they both came out, and went back downstairs where everyone was still in a deep sleep, and went outside, to start walking to the bus station.
"James, do you have any muggle money on you by chance?"
"Yeah I do, figured that I should bring some."
"Ok, good, I'll pay you back, the next time I see you. So it's how many blocks away?"
"About 4 now, hmm, you know today's a very nice day."
"I was just noticing that."
"Yeah, it would be a splendid day to play quidditch."
"James is there something wrong with you?"
"No, why would you ask that."
"Um lets see, your using words like very nice and splendid day, words you don't use."
"Well it's your fault, that I'm like this."
"My fault, why would it be my fault?"
"Because, I want it to be, so it is."
"Whatever. Thanks for showing me where the bus station is, even though, I know that you're going to end up walking 10-12 blocks all together, and it was really out of your way and stuff, but thanks."
"Anytime, there's the bus station, it's not big at all, but it's a bus station."
"It's just fine." Lily and James then went up to the counter to by a ticket.
"James, why did you get 2 tickets?"
"I'm not going to let you go alone on that big bus, with scary people all by yourself."
"James you do realise that I am 17 and am perfectly capable of taking care of myself, right?"
"Yes, but you see this way, I get to see you, and don't have to only think about you, when I could see you in person, and be with you." James said lovingly.
James and Lily then got of the bus, and sat in the back of it, together. and waited to get off at there next stop, to only get on another bus, and then to repeat this process about 15 times, before they finally reached Lily's neighbourhood.
When they reached Lily's house it was almost dinner time.
"James you can come inside and you might as well eat dinner with us."
"Ok." Lily then walked n the front door her find her mum come running at her and engulfing her into a hug.
"Lillian, I've been so worried about you!"
"Mum why would you be worried about me? I was at my friend's house, and I called you and told you that."
"Because I worry about my daughters."
Lily just shook her head.
"Oh mum this is James Potter, he's my close friend from school."
James stepped forward from the shadows of the door.
"James this is my mum,"
"Hello, how nice it is to meet you." James said, while shaking Mrs. Evens hand.
"Pleasure to meet you to, James." Mrs. Evan's said back in a motherly tone.
"Mum James can stay for dinner tonight right?" Lily asked.
"Of course he can, it'll be ready in about 2 hours." Mrs. Evens replied.
Lily then started showing James her house. He was amazed by all the ways muggles had learned to cope with life without magic. Lily then took him to the last room in the house, which was her own bedroom.
"Is that a CD player?" James asked like it was a big deal.
"Yeah, here I'll show you how to use it." Lily said in a kind of laughing voice, because of the look on James' face. "First you push this button which opens this, and then you put the CD in there, like that, then you push the thing down and then you push the play button, and then the song starts to play. Then you can push this button to stop it, this one if you want to go to a different song. Then this one turn the volume up or down. "
"This is bloody brilliant."
Lily started laughing.
"Here want to show you something." Lily then picked up a magazine from her desk and flipped through the pages until she found what she was looking for.
"This is the car I want to get, it's a mustang -convertible."
"Lily you can drive a car?" James asked like he would of never thought that it would be possible for someone their age to drive.
"Yeah, I can drive, it's not that hard. I got my license last summer."
"Cool, who's that?" James asked pointing to a picture that was lying on Lily's desk.
"Oh that's one of my best friends. Her names' Teresa Romeo, she went to my old school, Royal Docks. I told her that I had to go to a boarding school, which was an all girls' school, when I got my letter from Hogwarts.
"I see." James responded.
"Do you want to go play basketball, or even fencing?"
"How about basketball, it doesn't' sound like you can kill yourself playing it. You're going to have to teach me since I really don't know how. "
"I know." The phone in Lily's room then rang.
"I got it," said a girl in the hall who was running into Lily's room.
"Who's that?" James silently asked Lily.
"That's my sister Petunia."
"It's for you Lillian," Said Petunia dully while handing her the phone.
Lily took the phone out of her hand. "Hello?" Lily said into the phone. "Hi Teresa!...We were just talking about you?...So what's new with you?... You're actually going out with him now!...I know I have...Hey can you come over?...because I want you to meet someone...my boyfriend...yes I have a boyfriend...ok great see you in a bit, bye.
Lily then hung up the phone.
"What was that all about?"
"Nothing really, she's just coming over, she lives' down the street, I really, really would like for you to meet her."
"Meet a friend of yours? Are you serious? this is going to be terrible!"
"James!"
"I was just kidding." Lily rolled her eyes' at the last comment.
"Let's just go down stairs and wait outside on the front porch."
"So have you figured out what you're going to do since we're done with school and everything?" James asked once they were outside.
"Um... I really don't know, maybe something with the ministry, or something like that. Do you know yet?"
"I'm trying out for England's quidditch team, but I don't want to do that all my life."
"I see." A girl then came running up Lily's driveway.
Lily jumped up and ran over to the girl, and gave her a big hug.
"Omg! I miss you so much, I haven't seen you for ages!"
"I know" the girl replied. They then broke apart and started doing a weird handshake thing. "Teresa this is James, James this is Teresa." Lily said.
They both said Hi to each other. "So you guys want to play a game or something?" Lily continued. "We could play soccis(sock-kiss)." Teresa said.
(a/n soccis is a game my brother's and their friends made up it's a game that a cross between tennis soccer and ping pong, it's really fun, ok well anyway you use a tennis court, and u use a soccer ball (American) and u keep scoring like in ping pong. and u "Juggle" the soccer ball with ur feet, and the ball can only hit the ground on ur side 2, or the other team gets a point, ok that's basically it, its hard, but really fun.)
"What's socciss?" James asked.
"It's only like the best sport in the whole wide world!" Teresa quickly responded.
"Didn't they have sports at your school that you could play."
"Yeah they did." Lily said.
"What sports then?"
"We played Quidditch!" James proudly said, because he finally knew something that they were talking about.
"What is Quidditch?"
"Never mind, it'd take a year to explain it, and you wouldn't believe half of the stuff we told you."
"Try me."
"Teresa, I can't tell you, I'm not allowed to tell you, and neither can James, it's against the law." Lily stated.
"Can we just show James how to play."
"Fine." Tresa said in a somewhat ticked off voice.
"Tessa go and set up the tennis net, and I'll go get a soccer ball, James you can go with her or me, I don't care."
"I'll go with you."
Lily then went into her house and grabbed a soccer ball from her closet.
"James this is a soccer ball. Please just go along with the game even though there's no magic involved in anyway or form."
"I will, and hey, who to say that I won't like it, even if it is a muggle sport?" James said, while he and Lily were walking to the backyard.
"What's a muggle sport?"
"Never mind that, let's just start showing James how to play it, he's never played soccer before, so it's going to take a while. For the next 15 min. they explained to James in great detail how to play socciss and how to keep the ball up in the air, and how to pass it and all the rules that go with the game.
"Ok James here now we'll let you try it," Lily said.
Lily then kicked the ball up into the air and bumped it with her head over to James. James tried to juggle the ball with his knees but failed, and the ball dropped. After a half hour James was finally getting it pertty good, on his own.
"Lily, James' is so freakin hott! Do they make them all that way at your school?" Teresa said
"Unfortunately no," Lily replied. '
"You are so lucky, and then the fact that he's not a jerk or stuck up in his own world is great,"
"I know." Lily and Teresa then started to giggle.
"I wonder if he'll ever really get it down, like we do, look at him." Lily said.
They both then started giggling even louder then before.
"Lily and Tresa if your so much better then me you try it" James said, noticing that they were laughing about him, but not really why.
"Fine" smirked Lily taking the ball from James. James then went off the tennis court. Lily and Tresa then started to playing a game of soccis. James' just stood there shocked at there ability, there was no doubt that they were good.
"Ok, so your good," James said after a few min of watching them.
"Good?" Teresa said. "Ok, you guys are awesome."
"That's more like it, do you think you can play a game now?" Lily said.
"Yeah."
"Teresa, you can be by yourself, and James and I will be together, he won't be much of a help anyway."
James then glared at Lily evilly.
"What James it's the truth!"
"So!"
"Is that fine with you?"
"Yeah it's just fine."
"And after a while we can switch and stuff."
"Ok."
"Here you start." Lily said throwing the ball over to her.
1 hour later
"Lily, James go wash your hands dinner will be ready in 5 min." Mrs. Evens called out the window, from the kitchen.
"Well I guess I'll be seeing you later Tresa." Lily said in a some what sad tone of voice.
"Bye Lily and James, I'll see you soon, hopefully."
Tresa started walking back to her house. Lily and James then turned to go back inside to go wash there hands as they were instructed to do, (a/n Lily's mum was very high into hygiene)
"Hi Heather, where did you come from?" Lily asked.
"Oh, I just got back from a friends' house, and then earlier I was at camp." Heather replied.
"Who's he?"
"He is James Potter." Lily stated.
"Hi," said James who put out a hand to Heather to shake, who happened to be like half the size of him.
Heather just ignored the hand and just said Hi back to him. "Hey Lily guess who comeing over to eat with us?"
"Who," asked Lily dully.
"Vernon!"
"What, you can't be serious, I hate him, ERR!"
"Yeah, he is, and to let you know mum and dad think very highly of him, he's always suxing up to them."
"Oh my god." Lily said while rolling her eyes.
"I know." Heather then went running back downstairs.
Lily and James then came back downstairs after washing their hands.
"Mum, why is Vernon eating with us?" Lily asked.
"Lily, Vernon is a very nice young man, and your sister is very fond of him. So I don't know why you would be so upset with him eating with us."
"Come on James, let's just go sit down at the table."
They then walked into the dinning room, where Petunia, Vernon, Heather and Mr. Evens were already sitting.
"James you can sit here. Petunia, Vernon, and Dad, this is James Potter, he's a close friend of mine from school."
Mr. Evans said hi back. While Vernon sat there looking at James in disgust. While Petunia was keep on muttering freak under her breath. Lily's mum then came and joined them, bringing the food from the kitchen and putting it on the table. Everyone, well mostly everyone, sat there and had an enjoyable meal, and held a pleasant, but somewhat forced conversation when it came to Lily, James, Petunia and Vernon. Vernon then stood up.
"I have something to say."
"Petunia, I love you with my whole heart and soul, and I promise to keep you safe from anything unnatural, or bad. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about you. Would you be my wife and marry me?"
At this point, Petunia was in tears of joy. Mr. and Mrs. Evans had a proud look on their faces, Mrs. Evans, starting to get emotional. Heather was in shock why someone would ever ask Petunia to marry him or her. Lily kept her head down, while covering her mouth to keep herself from laughing out loud. And James really didn't know what to think of it, except that he was going to kill Vernon for basically calling Lily and all other wizards and witches freaks, and "unnatural". Vernon then took a small box and opened it, revealing a ring, that look alright, it wasn't really anything to brag about, to say the least.
"Oh Vernon! I love you so much, of course I'd marry you."
Vernon then slipped the ring on her finger.
"Mum, may I be excused?" Lily asked.
"Sure honey." Lily then went walked out the back door, and Petunia shot her and evil glare.
Once Lily was outside, she fell over laughing.
inside, still
"Honey, this is so great, my little baby all grown up and getting married, and then you'll be having kids of your own. I'm so proud of you." Mrs. Evans said once Lily had left the table.
"Why did Lily leave the table? Especially with people like Vernon and your dreaded sister Petunia, hmm...ok, I think I'll go outside and see what's up with Lily. James thought. "Mrs. Evans may I be excused too?"
"Yes dear."
"Thank you." James then got up and glanced over at Petunia and Vernon.
"Vernon you better keep your mouth shut about Lily, or you'll find your self in a living nightmare." James quietly muttered threateningly; as he was now glaring at him.
James then walked to the back door and went outside to find Lily lying in the grass, laughing her head off.
"Lily why in the world are you laughing?" James curiously asked.
Lily then stopped laughing and looked up at James. "If only you knew them like me, I mean they're prefect for each other in every way, they don't like anything that has to do with magic and they both hate me. But I still can't believe that pig is going to marry my rat sister, I honestly think I'll die the day I see there children, I know they won't be cute. James, you, Sirius, Remus and Peter have to pull pranks at her wedding. This is so funny! Honestly, I never thought I'd live to see the day that someone would be dumb enough to marry Petuners.
Lily then started cracking up again. James just stood there still not completely understanding why she was laughing as hard as she was about it. "And I think for them, marrying each other is kind of a last resort thing, since I know no one ever dated Petuners, until she meet Vernon, and knowing Vernon, I'd be surprised if he had a girlfriend before Petuners." Lily then started laughing again, though not as hard.
A couple seconds later Lily stopped laughing and James sat down next to her.
"Wow you can see a lot of stars from here, even though you live in the city."
"I know, I love at night just being able to look at the stars from my bedroom window."
"Hey look there's a shooting star!"
"I call it!"
"No, I get to make the wish I saw it first!"
"did not!"
"Did too."
"Did not"
"Did too."
"This is dumb James, look you can make the wish."
"No, it's alright you can."
"Ok"
"No, you weren't suppose to say ok, you were suppose to say no really, James should make the wish."
Lily sat there and ignored him, while biting her lip, thinking about what to wish for.
"I know," she said quietly.
"What?"
"That none of this ever happened to Sirius, that his little sister was alright."
"I do too." James then leaned over to kiss her.
"That's so sick!"
Lily turned around to see who it was.
"Heather what in the world do you think you're doing out here spying on James and I?" Lily angerly asked.
"I for one wasn't spying on, I was getting my shoes, that I left out here, earlier!"
"Fine get your shoes then go!" Lily spat back.
"That's all I planned on doing," Heather quietly said.
Heather grabbed her shoes, and went back inside.
"I love her, but honestly sometimes I get completely fed up with her, and want to kick her in the arse."
James chuckled at this, knowing exactly what she meant.
"You know, it's getting really late, I should be heading home." James said.
"Alright, how are you going to get home then?"
"I'll take the knight bus."
"The knight bus?"
"Yeah, you never have heard of it before, or seen it, but it's there."
"I see, well I guess I'll be seeing you later, Bye James, I love you, and take care of Sirius, and make sure he doesn't do something stupid." Lily said while hugging James.
"Don't worry." James then hugged her tighter.
Lily loved it when James did this, she loved the fact that he was taller and more muscular making her feel protected and loved. James on the other hand loved it too, he liked because Lily was smaller then him and fitted against him just right. Though, he sometimes felt if he hugged her any tighter she would break in half, but he knew other wise, from personal experiences from before they were going out. James then let her go, against his own will, and kissed her on the lips and said bye on last time before heading out to the street. Lily stood there in a semi trance until she couldn't see James any longer, she then went back inside and silently closed the door behind her and melted to the floor. She then jumped up after a while, and went up to her room to go get ready for bed.
James walked away feeling like he was the luckiest man alive, because he had Lily. James waved for the knight bus, which stopped and picked him up and brought him back to his house.
Thanks for reading! Reviews of any kind are welcome as long as they are constructive ones.
Jessie
