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"I need four shots," shouted a Pete. Lily grabbed a bottle and four shot glasses, did a few tricks and slid the glasses to Pete. Pete gave her a couple pounds and she stuffed it in a jar and took the next order. Luckily, Lily hadn't served the inspector, yet.
Lily heard one of her favorites songs come on, she jumped up on the counter, grabbing Monica and Bret with her. Bret started to grind with Lily while Monica grabbed a guy from the crowd. Lily looked at the guy Monica was with. Lily almost fell off the counter but Bret caught her. The song ended and Lily grabbed the guy's arm and hopped off the counter with him. She scowled at him and shouted something in his ear. He walked off to Monca's office grinning.
"Hey Lily, what the hell are you doing?" shouted Monica.
"Monica, I'm taking my break!" screamed Lily.
"If Twister! doesn't pass this inspection your fired!" said Monica smiling. Lily smiled back knowing that Monica would never fire Lily. Lily then rushed into the office.
"Hello Miss Evans? Haven't seen you in a long time? Can't believe this is what you do?" he joked.
"Shut up," said Lily, "What are you doing here, Remus?"
"I thought I'd catch up with an old school friend."
"Remus, now is really not a good time."
"If I leave my address, I would probably never see or hear from you again, and if I stay you'll be angry. This is a very difficult decision, I guess I'll have to stay and deal with things thrown at me later."
"Remus, I'll call you, what's your number?" Remus beamed and gave his address and Lily reluctantly gave him hers.
"Have a good night Miss Evans! It was great to see you and I expect you to stop by!" Remus kissed Lily on her cheek and then left. Lily sat down in a chair and sighed. She grabbed a beer from the small refrigerator and drank the whole thing.
"You know Pete, I will not be used!" slurred Lily, clearly drunk.
"And I will most definitely be there when you are used!" said Pete, also drunk. Lily and Pete were in their apartment with Bret, Monica, and Rosie. They all had drunk more than five bottles of beer each.
"Then, I guess I will have to be the user, Lily!" laughed Bret kissing Lily. Lily kissed him back.
"Mona," started Rosie referring to Monica, "Can you believe it's almost 4:00 in the morning!"
"Lily, Pete, I'm going to crash in Pete's bedroom," said Monica turning to Rosie, "Now Rosie, will you help me to the bedroom?" as she stood up and wobbled.
"I would be glad to," she laughed as she stood up and wobbled along with Monica.
"I'll come with you!" said Pete following the two to his bedroom.
Lily and Bret watched them go, Lily then sat on Bret's lap and started to kiss him while taking off his shirt. He glided his hands up and down her back which finally stopped touching her ass. She smiled wickedly after they broke. He took off her top and went to undo her bra but she got up off his lap. She slowly unzipped her jeans and shimmed out of them taking her underwear with them. She watched as Bret watched keenly, clearly enjoying every minute. She then turned her back to him and unhooked her bra. She threw it at him and then walked slowly to her room. He walked after her, spun her around and kissed her. Lily jumped up and swung her legs around him and he continued to kiss her while walking into her room. They both fell on the bed. Lily undid Bret's belt as he kissed neck then retreated lower and lower down her body. He linked eyes with her as she slowly pulled off his pants. He rose above her and started to rock back and forth slowly then quickly. Lily let out a long moan and then arched her back feeling the sensation running through her body.
Lily woke up the next day with a hangover but slightly pleased with what had happened that morning. She looked at the clock and realized it was almost 1:00. Lily pulled the pillow over her head and went back to sleep trying to get the faint pounding in her head to stop, but the loud knock on her door just made it worse. Lily looked up swore then pulled the covers around her body, making sure she was covered. She tried to tame her hair with her fingers but that didn't work very well.
She pulled open the door and there stood James looking very handsome, "Oh… um… Lily?" he started staring amazed at her appearance.
"James!" Lily was caught off guard.
"I… um… I'll go, I can see your busy," he said turning to leave down the stairs.
"Wait James," Lily said grabbing him as he started to descend down the staircase, "A couple friends and I, we got off work and got drunk. Please, give me a couple seconds to take a shower then get changed." Her emerald eyes were staring softly into his. He nodded. Lily closed the door behind him. "Sorry for the mess, my roommate and I are slobs. By the way why are you here?" she asked grabbing the empty beer bottles and throwing them in a paper bag.
"Remus told me, where you lived and I thought I could take you out to lunch or dinner or something."
"Um… okay, but give me a couple minutes to get changed. Find a place to sit and I'll be with you in a moment." Lily went into her room and heard the shower on with Bret missing from the bed. She dropped the sheet on her bed and walked through the door leading to the bathroom. Lily knocked on the shower door, Bret poked his head out, "I have to join you," she said.
"Hey Lily, last night was great but give a guy a break," he said.
"My old school mate is sitting in the living room, waiting for me!"
"Get in!" he said opening the door. Lily smiled and jumped in.
Lily walked out of her bedroom with her hair damp and wearing a jean miniskirt and a green strapless shirt clinging to her body. "So… how are you?" she asked sitting next to him on the couch.
"Oh fine."
"That's good. Are you still working at the Ministry?"
"Yeah, in the Department of…"
"Shh!" whispered Lily, "My friends and roommate don't know I'm a you know."
"They don't know you're a witch?" he breathed.
"Yes, and I don't need them to know either." James looked Lily very confused.
"The why were you at Diagon Alley?"
"Who… you still talk to Jackie? Anyways, I was at the Leaky Cauldron, because Tom as the best tea in London. I wasn't going to pass on the best tea just because I don't…"
"Oh," said James he stared at Lily some more and then said, "Well I work in law enforcement."
"That's good."
"So what are you up to?" he asked.
"Oh I work at a bar and then audition for shows whenever I can."
James again looked at her oddly, "You don't use magic at all anymore?"
"Hey Lily," said Bret entering the room with his jeans on but no shirt showing off his buff body, "Do you know where my shirt is? I remember you took it off but…" Bret looked at James.
"Bret, this is James, my old school mate," Lily said standing up, "James, this is Bret, my boyfriend and also a fellow bartender." James stood up shook Bret's hand wide-eyed. He looked at Lily then at Bret.
"Nice to meet you, Bret." Bret nodded his head.
"Here's your shirt, Bret," Lily said handing him a shirt.
"I'll go change in my apartment," he said turning towards Lily, "I'll see you tonight," he said smiling and kissing her. Lily smiled and kissed him back. "Nice to meet you James," he said leaving. James looked at Lily. He didn't see the girl he loved anymore. He only saw a girl he went to school with.
Lily looked down at the floor while James watched her, "I'm happy with my life James. Magic was the thing in my life that kept on getting in the way of being happy."
"So I guess, me and Emily and Remus, and Hogwarts just made you miserable," he said quietly.
"James, it's not…"
"I'm sorry I made you so unhappy, Lily. You know what," he said getting a little louder, "I don't really recognize you anymore, Lily Evans. But maybe, you forgot all about the people who really know who you are! The people that were with you for seven years!" he stopped yelling and looked at her, "I thought we weren't like Jackie or Lexie, I thought you hadn't changed. I thought I could walk into this apartment and fall in love again with the girl I never stopped thinking about. But I guess this was just a big disappointment because I don't see Lily Evans anymore, I see a slut just like the girls I dated at Hogwarts. The girls that made me miserable!"
"Shut up!" she shouted, "You have no fucking idea, what I have been through these past two years, James! So you can just shut the hell up! I don't need your permission on how to run my life! I don't need you to tell me I'm a whore because you just saw me one day out of two years! Two years James, can change people!" Lily stopped to breath, "I have changed, and I don't give a rat's ass if you hate it or if you like it!" She stopped glaring at him, her chest rising and falling.
James looked at her, and shook his head, "It was nice talking to you Lily. Have a nice life." He slammed the door shut as he left. Lily threw a beer bottle at the wall and watched it shatter. "God damn you James Potter!" Lily kicked the coffee table and then slammed the door to her room. For the remainder of the day Lily sat in her room reviewing the past few years of her life but one kept repeating itself no matter what she was thinking of.
-Flashback-
Lily was watching an old movie on the couch with Pete. It was the one night that they both had managed a night off from the bar.
"I think Audrey Hepburn is pretty," Lily stated while grabbing a handful of popcorn.
"Yeah, but Casey Grant is pretty handsome," responded Pete. Their conversation though was cut short by the telephone ringing. "Your turn, Lily," stated Pete.
Lily groaned and walked into the open kitchen and picked up the ringing telephone off the wall, "Hello?
"Lily it's Petunia, I have some news…"
Petunia hung up the phone leaving a shocked Lily on the other line. Lily dropped the phone and sank into one of the kitchen chairs.
"Who was that?" asked Pete standing over her.
Lily looked up at him with tears in her eyes, "My mom died."
Lily looked at the strange, distant faces around her. She was standing in a corner away from Petunia. Petunia had told Lily that if she did anything abnormal, she would kill her. Lily hadn't really listened to anything Petunia had said after that but she thought it best if she just kept to herself. Lily observed the visitors, finally focusing on something. There were her mom's work partners and then there were the neighbors and the few friends her mom had kept over the years.
Lily couldn't stand being alone during this so, she walked over to her mom, lying neatly in her wooden box. Lily stood over her, she touched her mother's wrinkled hands, cold as ice. She looked at her mother, she looked different. Her face was too pale and her cheeks too bright. Her hair was grayer than its once auburn. Lily kissed her mom's forehead and said quietly, "Good bye mom, I am so sorry. I could have been there and used magic somehow. I'm sorry I couldn't…" Lily sighed letting the tears run down her already puffy face, "save you." Lily bent over her mother and then ran out of the room, bumping into a man on the way out. Lily went into the bathroom and just cried over the sink.
That day seemed like ten years to Lily. After Lily watched her mom's coffin sink into the ground next to father she turned and got in the car belonging to the funeral home. She put on her sunglasses on that cloudy day. It seemed even the weather was mourning. Soon Petunia and her boyfriend, Vernon, got in the car and they drove back to her childhood house.
"When do you plan on going through mom's records and pictures?" asked Lily setting her purse and coat on the hanger. She walked lazily over to the couch and lied down covering her face with her hands.
"I wasn't," Petunia said.
"But Petunia, all of our memories and my school stuff is here. I thought maybe we could do it as a sort of sister bonding thing."
"I said no, Lily, now stop badgering me!" she snapped. Lily backed off, "get your feet off the couch! We do have guests coming, I unlike you, don't have magic to help me clean and straighten up!" Petunia said magic as if it was dangerous and dirty.
"Petunia, I thought you liked my…" started Lily.
"I pretended to like it, Lily, because I thought mom would finally be proud of me for something! You… you were always gone and perfect! I, was left here where I was told nonstop by my mom 'Why can't you be more like Lily?' 'Lily would never do this!' Lily, Lily, Lily, Lily, perfect little virgin Lily. Well, guess what, Lily, I hated everything you did! I knew it would be a disgrace to my friends and our family if they knew what you were. You despicable… witch!" she shouted. Lily stood in shock. This was her sister who, yes they did fight a lot and hardly spoke to each other, but Lily didn't honestly think Petunia hated her. Never did she think Petunia hated magic. Petunia always asked for help.
"You know what, Petunia, go fuck yourself! Go fuck Vernon, because that's what you were doing all through college! I covered for you so many times! I helped you! 'Lily help me clean!', 'Lily, can you make a potion for me?' Well, Petunia, I quit being your personal problem solver! You know what, just don't ever fucking talk to me again! Have a nice life screwing Vernon Dursley!" Lily screamed. The two sisters glared at each other.
"You don't deserve to be here, Lily," Petunia breathed, "If you are so powerful, and you can do all this magic, then why couldn't you help mom? Why couldn't you do something, or at least visit her once in a while! Mom, waited every day for a phone call or a surprise visit! She had so many presents for you up in her closet just waiting for you to open them, but you never came by! And you wonder why she died of a heart attack! But no, perfect Lily Evans was off being a whore at a bar. I'm surprised you aren't wasted!"
Lily stared right into Petunia's eyes. She turned on her heel and walked over towards the door. She grabbed her coat and jerked the door open, "I'll be over on Saturday or Sunday to get my stuff out of my room and collect some other stuff, and then Petunia you will never have to see or talk to me ever again!" Lily slammed the door and a taxi drove her to be alone.
That had been the last time she had seen or talked to Petunia. The sisters had split after all those years of rivalry, in the end, Lily thought that Petunia was just jealous. But in the end, Petunia had been right.
-Flashback End-
Lily wiped away her tears and then went to her bed to clean her room and sleep. It had been such a hard burden to think her mom's death could have been prevented if Lily had visited once or twice. The day that she went through her mom's closet, the day that she unwrapped the leather coat, that was the day she gave up magic. Now, her wand and books were safely hidden under her bed collecting dust. She swore she would never do magic again.
Lily picked up her leather coat from the closet door and then just crashed into the bed and cried wishing to change the past two years somehow.
Flame Of Desire: thanks for all the reviews! and i kind of based the bar on cayote ugly.
Celi: im sorry for the confusion. everything i hope will make sense in the end. Just hold on until then.
KMK (Krisitn): Again i wish you werent confused. Instead of writing a bunch of useless informations leading up to 2 years i sort of jumped ahead. Last chapter they were at Hogwarts, happy, etc. Now they're 2 years out of Hogwarts with different lives, careers, etc. Don't worry hopefully, it'll make sense later on.
the phoenix: I know i am horrible with grammar, it's the worst thing i do. And with the 2 years out of Hogwarts thing, on JKR's website she said that Sirius was arrested when he was about 22 years old or something. anywayz, thanks for the review.
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