"Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling." –Jack Handey-
Oh yeah my old account was bella1015 so if I use any thing from that story it really is mine I'm not copying from that one. Well I am but seeing as how its mine to begin with it doesn't really matter...besides I can't even remember the password to that one. Sorry lol
Chapter 3
"Peyton come on!! WAKE UP!" Lily shouted excitedly to her sleepy friend.
"Get the birds away!" Peyton screamed sitting up suddenly.
"Err...Peyt there aren't any birds" Lily said with a giggle. It was common knowledge to anyone who was close to Peyton that she had an immense fear of birds. Birds of any kind simply freaked her out including owls. She had a hard time keeping in contact with her magical friends because of this. She sort of had a few bad encounters with birds in the past.
"Ugh must have been another horrid nightmare. Their beady little eyes are always staring at me...just staring and staring." Peyton said trying to suppress a shudder.
"Well don't worry we are gonna have a wonderful day despite your birdmares." Lily responded with another giggle. She and Peyton referred to her bird nightmares as birdmares.
"Sounds great Lils. What's on the agenda for today?" Peyton asked suddenly wide awake, even though she happened to be a very late sleeper.
"Swimming, eating, the usual. Whatever you want to do." Lily responded. "Only I can't drive anywhere yet seeing as how I haven't turned 16 quite yet."
"Oh don't worry because I can." Peyton said with a mischievous glint in her eye. Lily liked that glint, even though it usually meant something crazy, wild, and maybe even dangerous.
"Lord help the pedestrians" Lily giggled. Peyton sent a mock glare her way.
"I'm not THAT horrid of a driver Tiger Lily" Peyton said, using the nickname Lily detested.
"Oh lets not start that awful nickname again." Lily rolled her eyes.
"Alright let's just jump in the lake for starters! We can take Madi and Shaylee with us." Peyton suggested. Lily nodded in agreement and they changed into bathing suits and got their sisters, excluding Petunia of course.
The early part of the day was spent at the Evan's lake, affectionately known to Peyton as Tiger Lily Lake. Lily detested the name and insisted it be called something different, but to no avail the family thought it to be rather cute so it has been Tiger Lily Lake for as long as anyone can remember. The swung off the rope tied to a near by tree and Peyton's dad even bewitched a muggle raft to zoom around the lake at the rider's desired speed. They ordered pizza for lunch and luckily Petunia had left with her "Vernie" before the pizza arrived or else they would have to hear about the mounds of fat and calories that were loaded into the pizza. Petunia was a diet fanatic.
"So what's there to do now that we have devoured the pizza?" Peyton asked. "Want to drive to the Leaky Cauldron and go to Diagon Alley, because I haven't been there in ages?"
"Sounds good to me. What are we gonna drive?" Lily responded. "I can ask mom for the SUV I guess. Do you think you can drive that?"
"Well of course Tiger." Peyton smirked. "We can even haul around some of your friends from Hogwarts in the back."
"Well...the only person I really have a good time with at Hogwarts is Lynsay Cambridge... the girl I wrote to you about. Of course there is Remus Lupin and Sirius Black but those three and you are my only close friends." Lily said. "I never really got close to anyone after you moved away."
"I'm sorry Lils." Peyton said, looking truly sorry indeed.
"Don't be. I'm not. They are great friends and I'd rather have them and you than a million people who would only pretend." Lily said. "I'll go ask my mom, be right back." Lily ran to ask her mother for permission, keys, and cash. She came back quickly announcing they could go.
"Wicked...let's roll." Peyton jumped around excitedly like a three year old on her way to Honeydukes. Lily loved her friend's crazy childlike personality and it was a fresh change from Lynsay's soft spoken attitude.
Lily and Peyton drove the 30 to 45 minute trip to the Leaky Cauldron reminiscing about past adventures and giggling all the way there. Although if you asked anyone else the giggling might have sounded a lot more like cackling since they were basically wiping tears of mirth from their eyes.
"Well how the bloody hell do you get into Diagon Alley again?" Peyton asked impatiently.
"You mean you don't remember?" Lily questioned.
"Well how am I supposed to remember the exact order you tap the bloody bricks to enter the damn place. Honestly you'd think they'd just have something simple to say. So simple the muggles wouldn't even guess it. Something like "Open Sesame" ya know? None of this tapping business." Peyton said quickly. Lily didn't bother suppressing a smile at her friend's bluntness. She always came out and said what she was feeling and never held back. A quality Lily didn't exactly possess. Peyton folded her arms and wrinkled her nose at the bricks waiting for Lily to open the entrance to the alley. Lily rolled her eyes and told her to watch carefully before tapping the bricks in order to open the entrance.
"Ah... good to be home Tiger." Peyton said with a look of fondness on her face. The two friends walked down the street. Lily was being greeted by a great many people and wanting to be introduced to Peyton.
"There's Frank Longbottom and his long time girlfriends Alice. They are a shoe in for next terms Head Boy and Girl jobs. You couldn't find a nicer couple in all of Hogwarts. Lucky Alice, Frank is rather dashing don't you think?" Lily said. "Loads of girls are jealous of Alice but none can really find a good reason to dislike her." Peyton merely nodded.
"And who's that striking bloke over in front of Flourish and Blotts?" Peyton asked.
"Oh Amos Diggory. He's in our year and Hufflepuff's quidditch teams newly elected captain. A bit of a player if you ask me but no where near as bad as Sirius Black and James Potter." Lily said, sounding a little disgusted when she said 'James Potter'.
"Is James the one that always asks you on a date in a terribly rude manner?" Peyton asked.
"Yes... and when we got off the Hogwarts express I was in such a good mood knowing that I was getting ready to see you that I mistakenly included an invitation to him to come to my house this summer to meet you with his friends. I really only meant to invite Sirius and Remus but oh well. I suppose if you invite one Marauder you invite them all." Lily sighed.
"Well I thought you wrote to me that there were four Marauders? What about that Peter boy?" asked Peyton again, curious about these pranksters. She was actually somewhat of a prankster herself, as was Lily at one time. "Poor girl must have forgotten how to lighten up with some pranks while I was away." Peyton thought to herself.
"I didn't invite Peter that rat. All he does is follow the other three around like a lost hippogriff. Great lump of a tag along that one is." Lily said with a somewhat disgusted look on her face. She believed Peter needed to become a little more independent. He was always relying on others to protect him. "Honestly, I can understand your friends protecting you sometimes but that boy has absolutely no backbone."
"Sounds like a prat." Peyton said.
"He really is a quite boy but I guess... I dunno something about him rubs me the wrong way. Anyway Potter's the real prat of the group." Lily explained launching into her story about the day at the lake after the OWLS.
"That's awful Lils. I'm sorry I wasn't there to help with the yelling. I know who Snape is though. He and his family have been to quite a few ministry functions that I've had to attend with my father. He's rather rude and disgusting if you ask me, but he shouldn't have been that unkind to him." Peyton said. She made a face after all this that caused Lily to laugh and ask what the face was for.
"Well I can't imagine seeing ol' Snivelly's graying underwear lying about anywhere much less while it was on his body." Peyton laughed. Lily joined in.
"Well, well, well if it isn't the insufferable mudblood Evans and her new little friend." Came an icy voice from behind Lily and Peyton. Peyton whipped around with her wand pointed to the neck of the cold voice from behind them.
"Don't you ever call Lily that foul name again Malfoy." Peyton said threateningly, hatred flashing in her emerald eyes that rivaled Lily's own.
"Peyton Starr what are you doing here, and hanging out with such dirty blood. Why you're a pureblooded witch who should have better taste in friends then this." Malfoy managed to squeeze out.
"I don't think you want a repeat of the incident at the ball last year do you Lucy? Because I assure you it would be ten times worse now that you've insulted my closest friend." Peyton warned. A hint of fear flashed in Malfoy's eyes for a few moments, barely recognizable to anyone but Lily and Peyton, before he backed away from Peyton's raised wand.
"I've an appointment to be getting to anyway. I do hope if you attend Hogwarts this year you are sorted into Slytherin. We could use a pureblooded beauty such as yourself in my house." Malfoy said with a slight bow, and turned to continue down the street.
"Not a chance in hell I'd be sorted into a filthy house like Slytherin Malfoy." Peyton said to his retreating back. With a quick flick of her wand Malfoy's silvery blonde hair turned puke brown and although he didn't know if a large bit of acne sprouted upon his face. "Hope his appointment wasn't too important because he isn't going to make a very good impression."
"Thanks Peyton, that stupid git Malfoy's had it in for me ever since he found out Snape's had a bit of a crush on me. Won't you get in trouble for using magic outside of school?" Lily asked.
"Actually at my school summer after 4th year you can use magic outside of school, and I figure since I haven't really attended Hogwarts yet I'll be excused from that rule for a bit." Peyton said.
"Lily, we saw everything and hurried over here." a panting Remus Lupin said from behind Peyton, along with the rest of his Marauding crew. Minus Peter since he was on holiday with his parents.
"Thanks Remus but as you probably saw Peyton had it under control." Lily said to him. Remus, Sirius, and James looked at her a little questioningly when she said Peyton. "Oh I'm sorry Peyton this is Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Potter of course."
"Thanks for the lovely introduction Evans." James remarked.
"Yeah yeah, and guys this is Peyton Starr. She and her family are moving back here from America and she'll be attending Hogwarts when school starts." Lily explained.
"Hello, it's good to finally meet the infamous Marauders." Peyton said.
"You must be the reason our little Lilykins here was in such a good mood at Kings Cross. Such a good mood in fact she invited arch nemesis Jamesie here to visit you two this summer along with Remus and I." Sirius said throwing one arm over James shoulder and the other over Lily's, squeezing them close to him.
"It's James ok not Jamesie?!!?" James shouted.
"Ok JAMESIE you don't have to shout. You nearly busted my ear drum." Peyton laughed.
"Great look what you've started Sirius." James rolled his eyes.
"Well we saw what happened with Malfoy and I thought it was bloody brilliant." Remus said to Peyton.
"Thanks, he knows better than to mess with me after an incident back in the day." Peyton said nonchalantly.
"About that...what happened?" Lily asked.
"Well let's just say at a ministry ball he danced with me a little to close for my liking and I hit him with every curse I knew." Peyton answered. "It wasn't a pretty site and his parents were furious. They had to take him to St. Mungo's where he stayed in rehab for a week."
Lily hi-fived her and laughed along with the rest of the Marauders.
"Well I'm probably going to regret this later but you three can come back to my house with us for a bit today and floo home if you like." Lily said a little apprehensively.
"Sounds simply spiffing to me dear Lillian" Sirius said bowing low to the ground in a ridiculous manner. His two friends rolled their eyes but nodded in agreement with him nonetheless.
"Great I'll drive us back as soon as Lily and I have bought the newest racing broom." Peyton said excitedly and grabbed Lily by the hand and dragged her off to the Quidditch store. The Marauders ran along behind them, thoroughly just as excited to be going to one of their all time favorite stores with two girls no less.
Lily and Peyton purchased the latest broom model. The three boys had already ordered them and merely picked up their purchases on the way out. Soon they were all piled into the SUV.
"Alright everyone better buckle up." Lily said, mentally saying a silent prayer to herself.
"I'm not that horrid of a driver." Peyton said sticking her tongue out at Lily very maturely. "Wild at times yes...terribly awful...no."
Ten minutes into the ride Sirius and James became intrigued with the many buttons in the back seat. For instance they had already rolled the windows up and down a dozen times a piece and Lily was constantly turning around trying to explain things to them or get them to cut the crap. Remus and Peyton found it all very amusing because of Lily's mothering ways and the fact that the two trouble makers were barely paying a bit of attention to her scolding. Sirius was now begging Lily to switch him seats so he could play with the buttons in the front.
"Come on Tiger let him have a little muggle fun." Peyton laughed while pulling the car over.
"Hells bells let's just let him drive the rest of the way home." Lily said sarcastically.
"Really?" Sirius said, completely missing the sarcasm.
"HELL NO!" Peyton and Lily answered together very quickly.
"Okay geez. Lily was the one that suggested it." Sirius said.
Everyone rolled there eyes. Sirius played with the sunroof buttons and turned the air on cold and hot and blasted the radio with several stations. James was still fascinated with the power windows in the back seat. So fascinated that he was continually rolling the up and down. Peyton turned the child safety lock on all the windows.
"Hey! Mines broken!" James whined.
"Tough luck Prongsie. There are plenty of buttons up here though." Sirius said smugly.
"No fair! Shove over Padfoot and make some room for me." James said while climbing into the front.
"No problem mate." Sirius said scooting over.
"What have we gotten ourselves into?" Lily sighed. Peyton only laughed. She couldn't imagine this James Potter to be the one Lily always wrote of in her letters. The James Potter who was arrogant and a prat. Maybe Lily was over exaggerating... or maybe he changed. Whatever it was she decided she didn't mind the Marauders to much at all.
They were about 10 minutes from the Evan's estate when Sirius declared his need to use the bathroom.
"I need to piddle." Sirius stated.
"Piddle?" Peyton questioned.
"Yeah you know...piddle. Pee. Piddle just sounds so much cooler." Sirius smirked.
"Well you're gonna have to wait 10 minutes because there aren't any bathrooms anymore from here on. Can't you hold it?" Peyton replied.
"Nope." He said simply.
"Well to ruddy bad cause we are almost there. Just try to think of something else. Or sing or something." Peyton said.
"NO! DON"T sing!" Lily shouted. "Great...we'll never hear the end of this...nice going."
"It can't be that bad?" Peyton said. Sirius' mouth turned into an evil sort of smile before he began his singing.
"999,999,999 bottles of butterbeer on the wall. 999,999,999 bottles of butterbeer on the wall, you take one down pass it around-" Sirius began.
"999,999,998 bottles of butterbeer on the wall!" Peyton cut him off. At first Sirius was a little surprised but Peyton just kept on singing and he joined right along. The rest of the 10 minute ride the two rambled on with the same bloody song. When they got to the Evan's Estate they were only on 999,999,944 bottles of butterbeer and Peyton even mentioned something about driving around a bit longer until they finished the entire song. Before Sirius could agree Lily, Remus, and James jumped out of the car and ran the rest of the way up the driveway.
"I think I need some butterbeer to drown myself in." James muttered.
"Oh please do. You'd be saving me the trouble from having to later." Lily said with a sweet smile on her face.
"Ha ha ha" James said sarcastically.
"Those two are quite a pair." Remus said thoughtfully about Sirius and Peyton. "Never have I ever heard a girl join right in with Sirius while he was singing an annoying song."
"Me either Moony. Rather interesting" James said.
Sirius had run out of the car and was doing a funny little dance in front of Lily.
"Oh the bathroom is this way follow me." Lily said.
After they showed Sirius the way to the bathroom and he had successfully err... 'piddled' as he fondly called it... Lily gave them a tour of the rest of the house. They all raced their brooms around the yard after Lily and Peyton introduced them to their parents. Turns out Peyton's parents knew James and Sirius's parents.
"Pity you know mine." Sirius said darkly. "I'd just like to state I'm nothing like them."
"I can see that dear." Callista Starr said to Sirius. She felt rather sorry for the boy, but she could tell he turned out much better than his family.
After the broom racing they jumped into the lake for a swim when Peyton's father came out to visit.
"Here Peyton I've brought you this to wear." Her father said merrily, thinking he was doing her a big favor by bringing a very very large T-shirt for her to wear over her bathing suit.
"I'm not wearing that." Peyton said wrinkling her nose. "I've already got a swim suit."
"If you could call it that." Caden said frowning at his daughter's attire. "It's rather skimpy."
"It's fine dad... is there something else you needed?" Peyton asked.
"Hmm? Oh yes yes indeed. Tomorrow we are flooing back to our home in America to pack a few things and your mother and I have to take care of some business. We thought you might want to go and say goodbye to Jacob and your other friends. Of course Lily you Sirius, James, and Remus are invited to come along." Her father said happily.
"Sure thanks daddy." Peyton said before he headed back to the house. Once she knew he was out of earshot a string of curse words escaped her mouth. "Shit Lils I forgot about Jacob...what am I going to do?"
"Who's Jacob?" Remus asked.
"My boyfriend of a year as of...bloody hell it was yesterday. Double Damn. I didn't even send him an owl...because well you know why Lily." Peyton said. She was upset because in all the excitement of moving back to what felt like her real home she had forgotten all about having to say goodbye to Jacob.
"Uh why didn't you send him an owl?" Sirius asked confused.
"Well you see, I don't really like birds. In fact I detest them. They scare the, as you might say, piddle out of me." Peyton said. Sirius laughed. "It's not funny ok? I always have rather bad experiences with them."
"Sure whatever you say." Laughed Sirius.
"I guess you'll just have to break up with him or something Peyt." Lily said changing the subject before Peyton knocked Sirius out.
"Yeah, I guess so." Peyton said sadly.
"Well were you in love with him?" James asked simply
"I don't think its really any of your busin-" Lily started, but Peyton cut her off.
"Wait I want to see if there is a point to this. I don't' suppose I was really IN love with him more than the fact that I was in love with the IDEA of being in love. Sure I loved him because I consider him a friend...with benefits of course." She smirked. "But I guess it was more of a love like caring for someone not being actually IN love. It wasn't fireworks exploding; jump the fence, over the moon, past the stars, feels like your living in another galaxy type love."
"Wow that was deep." Sirius said. Peyton laughed.
"Thanks James for helping me see it that way." Peyton said and gave him a friendly hug. "Now I don't feel too bad about breaking up with him."
"Ok you guys be here at 7:00 am tomorrow morning if you want to come with us." Lily said, while walking them to the fireplace.
"Okay see you then Lilykins." Sirius replied.
"Thanks for having us over today Evans." James said.
"Yeah it was a lot of fun." Remus added.
"No problem. See you guys tomorrow." Lily said
"Later Marauders." Peyton said. The two girls crashed into bed early that night barely waiting for the next day to begin.
Oh yeah my old account was bella1015 so if I use any thing from that story it really is mine I'm not copying from that one. Well I am but seeing as how its mine to begin with it doesn't really matter...besides I can't even remember the password to that one. Sorry lol
Chapter 3
"Peyton come on!! WAKE UP!" Lily shouted excitedly to her sleepy friend.
"Get the birds away!" Peyton screamed sitting up suddenly.
"Err...Peyt there aren't any birds" Lily said with a giggle. It was common knowledge to anyone who was close to Peyton that she had an immense fear of birds. Birds of any kind simply freaked her out including owls. She had a hard time keeping in contact with her magical friends because of this. She sort of had a few bad encounters with birds in the past.
"Ugh must have been another horrid nightmare. Their beady little eyes are always staring at me...just staring and staring." Peyton said trying to suppress a shudder.
"Well don't worry we are gonna have a wonderful day despite your birdmares." Lily responded with another giggle. She and Peyton referred to her bird nightmares as birdmares.
"Sounds great Lils. What's on the agenda for today?" Peyton asked suddenly wide awake, even though she happened to be a very late sleeper.
"Swimming, eating, the usual. Whatever you want to do." Lily responded. "Only I can't drive anywhere yet seeing as how I haven't turned 16 quite yet."
"Oh don't worry because I can." Peyton said with a mischievous glint in her eye. Lily liked that glint, even though it usually meant something crazy, wild, and maybe even dangerous.
"Lord help the pedestrians" Lily giggled. Peyton sent a mock glare her way.
"I'm not THAT horrid of a driver Tiger Lily" Peyton said, using the nickname Lily detested.
"Oh lets not start that awful nickname again." Lily rolled her eyes.
"Alright let's just jump in the lake for starters! We can take Madi and Shaylee with us." Peyton suggested. Lily nodded in agreement and they changed into bathing suits and got their sisters, excluding Petunia of course.
The early part of the day was spent at the Evan's lake, affectionately known to Peyton as Tiger Lily Lake. Lily detested the name and insisted it be called something different, but to no avail the family thought it to be rather cute so it has been Tiger Lily Lake for as long as anyone can remember. The swung off the rope tied to a near by tree and Peyton's dad even bewitched a muggle raft to zoom around the lake at the rider's desired speed. They ordered pizza for lunch and luckily Petunia had left with her "Vernie" before the pizza arrived or else they would have to hear about the mounds of fat and calories that were loaded into the pizza. Petunia was a diet fanatic.
"So what's there to do now that we have devoured the pizza?" Peyton asked. "Want to drive to the Leaky Cauldron and go to Diagon Alley, because I haven't been there in ages?"
"Sounds good to me. What are we gonna drive?" Lily responded. "I can ask mom for the SUV I guess. Do you think you can drive that?"
"Well of course Tiger." Peyton smirked. "We can even haul around some of your friends from Hogwarts in the back."
"Well...the only person I really have a good time with at Hogwarts is Lynsay Cambridge... the girl I wrote to you about. Of course there is Remus Lupin and Sirius Black but those three and you are my only close friends." Lily said. "I never really got close to anyone after you moved away."
"I'm sorry Lils." Peyton said, looking truly sorry indeed.
"Don't be. I'm not. They are great friends and I'd rather have them and you than a million people who would only pretend." Lily said. "I'll go ask my mom, be right back." Lily ran to ask her mother for permission, keys, and cash. She came back quickly announcing they could go.
"Wicked...let's roll." Peyton jumped around excitedly like a three year old on her way to Honeydukes. Lily loved her friend's crazy childlike personality and it was a fresh change from Lynsay's soft spoken attitude.
Lily and Peyton drove the 30 to 45 minute trip to the Leaky Cauldron reminiscing about past adventures and giggling all the way there. Although if you asked anyone else the giggling might have sounded a lot more like cackling since they were basically wiping tears of mirth from their eyes.
"Well how the bloody hell do you get into Diagon Alley again?" Peyton asked impatiently.
"You mean you don't remember?" Lily questioned.
"Well how am I supposed to remember the exact order you tap the bloody bricks to enter the damn place. Honestly you'd think they'd just have something simple to say. So simple the muggles wouldn't even guess it. Something like "Open Sesame" ya know? None of this tapping business." Peyton said quickly. Lily didn't bother suppressing a smile at her friend's bluntness. She always came out and said what she was feeling and never held back. A quality Lily didn't exactly possess. Peyton folded her arms and wrinkled her nose at the bricks waiting for Lily to open the entrance to the alley. Lily rolled her eyes and told her to watch carefully before tapping the bricks in order to open the entrance.
"Ah... good to be home Tiger." Peyton said with a look of fondness on her face. The two friends walked down the street. Lily was being greeted by a great many people and wanting to be introduced to Peyton.
"There's Frank Longbottom and his long time girlfriends Alice. They are a shoe in for next terms Head Boy and Girl jobs. You couldn't find a nicer couple in all of Hogwarts. Lucky Alice, Frank is rather dashing don't you think?" Lily said. "Loads of girls are jealous of Alice but none can really find a good reason to dislike her." Peyton merely nodded.
"And who's that striking bloke over in front of Flourish and Blotts?" Peyton asked.
"Oh Amos Diggory. He's in our year and Hufflepuff's quidditch teams newly elected captain. A bit of a player if you ask me but no where near as bad as Sirius Black and James Potter." Lily said, sounding a little disgusted when she said 'James Potter'.
"Is James the one that always asks you on a date in a terribly rude manner?" Peyton asked.
"Yes... and when we got off the Hogwarts express I was in such a good mood knowing that I was getting ready to see you that I mistakenly included an invitation to him to come to my house this summer to meet you with his friends. I really only meant to invite Sirius and Remus but oh well. I suppose if you invite one Marauder you invite them all." Lily sighed.
"Well I thought you wrote to me that there were four Marauders? What about that Peter boy?" asked Peyton again, curious about these pranksters. She was actually somewhat of a prankster herself, as was Lily at one time. "Poor girl must have forgotten how to lighten up with some pranks while I was away." Peyton thought to herself.
"I didn't invite Peter that rat. All he does is follow the other three around like a lost hippogriff. Great lump of a tag along that one is." Lily said with a somewhat disgusted look on her face. She believed Peter needed to become a little more independent. He was always relying on others to protect him. "Honestly, I can understand your friends protecting you sometimes but that boy has absolutely no backbone."
"Sounds like a prat." Peyton said.
"He really is a quite boy but I guess... I dunno something about him rubs me the wrong way. Anyway Potter's the real prat of the group." Lily explained launching into her story about the day at the lake after the OWLS.
"That's awful Lils. I'm sorry I wasn't there to help with the yelling. I know who Snape is though. He and his family have been to quite a few ministry functions that I've had to attend with my father. He's rather rude and disgusting if you ask me, but he shouldn't have been that unkind to him." Peyton said. She made a face after all this that caused Lily to laugh and ask what the face was for.
"Well I can't imagine seeing ol' Snivelly's graying underwear lying about anywhere much less while it was on his body." Peyton laughed. Lily joined in.
"Well, well, well if it isn't the insufferable mudblood Evans and her new little friend." Came an icy voice from behind Lily and Peyton. Peyton whipped around with her wand pointed to the neck of the cold voice from behind them.
"Don't you ever call Lily that foul name again Malfoy." Peyton said threateningly, hatred flashing in her emerald eyes that rivaled Lily's own.
"Peyton Starr what are you doing here, and hanging out with such dirty blood. Why you're a pureblooded witch who should have better taste in friends then this." Malfoy managed to squeeze out.
"I don't think you want a repeat of the incident at the ball last year do you Lucy? Because I assure you it would be ten times worse now that you've insulted my closest friend." Peyton warned. A hint of fear flashed in Malfoy's eyes for a few moments, barely recognizable to anyone but Lily and Peyton, before he backed away from Peyton's raised wand.
"I've an appointment to be getting to anyway. I do hope if you attend Hogwarts this year you are sorted into Slytherin. We could use a pureblooded beauty such as yourself in my house." Malfoy said with a slight bow, and turned to continue down the street.
"Not a chance in hell I'd be sorted into a filthy house like Slytherin Malfoy." Peyton said to his retreating back. With a quick flick of her wand Malfoy's silvery blonde hair turned puke brown and although he didn't know if a large bit of acne sprouted upon his face. "Hope his appointment wasn't too important because he isn't going to make a very good impression."
"Thanks Peyton, that stupid git Malfoy's had it in for me ever since he found out Snape's had a bit of a crush on me. Won't you get in trouble for using magic outside of school?" Lily asked.
"Actually at my school summer after 4th year you can use magic outside of school, and I figure since I haven't really attended Hogwarts yet I'll be excused from that rule for a bit." Peyton said.
"Lily, we saw everything and hurried over here." a panting Remus Lupin said from behind Peyton, along with the rest of his Marauding crew. Minus Peter since he was on holiday with his parents.
"Thanks Remus but as you probably saw Peyton had it under control." Lily said to him. Remus, Sirius, and James looked at her a little questioningly when she said Peyton. "Oh I'm sorry Peyton this is Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Potter of course."
"Thanks for the lovely introduction Evans." James remarked.
"Yeah yeah, and guys this is Peyton Starr. She and her family are moving back here from America and she'll be attending Hogwarts when school starts." Lily explained.
"Hello, it's good to finally meet the infamous Marauders." Peyton said.
"You must be the reason our little Lilykins here was in such a good mood at Kings Cross. Such a good mood in fact she invited arch nemesis Jamesie here to visit you two this summer along with Remus and I." Sirius said throwing one arm over James shoulder and the other over Lily's, squeezing them close to him.
"It's James ok not Jamesie?!!?" James shouted.
"Ok JAMESIE you don't have to shout. You nearly busted my ear drum." Peyton laughed.
"Great look what you've started Sirius." James rolled his eyes.
"Well we saw what happened with Malfoy and I thought it was bloody brilliant." Remus said to Peyton.
"Thanks, he knows better than to mess with me after an incident back in the day." Peyton said nonchalantly.
"About that...what happened?" Lily asked.
"Well let's just say at a ministry ball he danced with me a little to close for my liking and I hit him with every curse I knew." Peyton answered. "It wasn't a pretty site and his parents were furious. They had to take him to St. Mungo's where he stayed in rehab for a week."
Lily hi-fived her and laughed along with the rest of the Marauders.
"Well I'm probably going to regret this later but you three can come back to my house with us for a bit today and floo home if you like." Lily said a little apprehensively.
"Sounds simply spiffing to me dear Lillian" Sirius said bowing low to the ground in a ridiculous manner. His two friends rolled their eyes but nodded in agreement with him nonetheless.
"Great I'll drive us back as soon as Lily and I have bought the newest racing broom." Peyton said excitedly and grabbed Lily by the hand and dragged her off to the Quidditch store. The Marauders ran along behind them, thoroughly just as excited to be going to one of their all time favorite stores with two girls no less.
Lily and Peyton purchased the latest broom model. The three boys had already ordered them and merely picked up their purchases on the way out. Soon they were all piled into the SUV.
"Alright everyone better buckle up." Lily said, mentally saying a silent prayer to herself.
"I'm not that horrid of a driver." Peyton said sticking her tongue out at Lily very maturely. "Wild at times yes...terribly awful...no."
Ten minutes into the ride Sirius and James became intrigued with the many buttons in the back seat. For instance they had already rolled the windows up and down a dozen times a piece and Lily was constantly turning around trying to explain things to them or get them to cut the crap. Remus and Peyton found it all very amusing because of Lily's mothering ways and the fact that the two trouble makers were barely paying a bit of attention to her scolding. Sirius was now begging Lily to switch him seats so he could play with the buttons in the front.
"Come on Tiger let him have a little muggle fun." Peyton laughed while pulling the car over.
"Hells bells let's just let him drive the rest of the way home." Lily said sarcastically.
"Really?" Sirius said, completely missing the sarcasm.
"HELL NO!" Peyton and Lily answered together very quickly.
"Okay geez. Lily was the one that suggested it." Sirius said.
Everyone rolled there eyes. Sirius played with the sunroof buttons and turned the air on cold and hot and blasted the radio with several stations. James was still fascinated with the power windows in the back seat. So fascinated that he was continually rolling the up and down. Peyton turned the child safety lock on all the windows.
"Hey! Mines broken!" James whined.
"Tough luck Prongsie. There are plenty of buttons up here though." Sirius said smugly.
"No fair! Shove over Padfoot and make some room for me." James said while climbing into the front.
"No problem mate." Sirius said scooting over.
"What have we gotten ourselves into?" Lily sighed. Peyton only laughed. She couldn't imagine this James Potter to be the one Lily always wrote of in her letters. The James Potter who was arrogant and a prat. Maybe Lily was over exaggerating... or maybe he changed. Whatever it was she decided she didn't mind the Marauders to much at all.
They were about 10 minutes from the Evan's estate when Sirius declared his need to use the bathroom.
"I need to piddle." Sirius stated.
"Piddle?" Peyton questioned.
"Yeah you know...piddle. Pee. Piddle just sounds so much cooler." Sirius smirked.
"Well you're gonna have to wait 10 minutes because there aren't any bathrooms anymore from here on. Can't you hold it?" Peyton replied.
"Nope." He said simply.
"Well to ruddy bad cause we are almost there. Just try to think of something else. Or sing or something." Peyton said.
"NO! DON"T sing!" Lily shouted. "Great...we'll never hear the end of this...nice going."
"It can't be that bad?" Peyton said. Sirius' mouth turned into an evil sort of smile before he began his singing.
"999,999,999 bottles of butterbeer on the wall. 999,999,999 bottles of butterbeer on the wall, you take one down pass it around-" Sirius began.
"999,999,998 bottles of butterbeer on the wall!" Peyton cut him off. At first Sirius was a little surprised but Peyton just kept on singing and he joined right along. The rest of the 10 minute ride the two rambled on with the same bloody song. When they got to the Evan's Estate they were only on 999,999,944 bottles of butterbeer and Peyton even mentioned something about driving around a bit longer until they finished the entire song. Before Sirius could agree Lily, Remus, and James jumped out of the car and ran the rest of the way up the driveway.
"I think I need some butterbeer to drown myself in." James muttered.
"Oh please do. You'd be saving me the trouble from having to later." Lily said with a sweet smile on her face.
"Ha ha ha" James said sarcastically.
"Those two are quite a pair." Remus said thoughtfully about Sirius and Peyton. "Never have I ever heard a girl join right in with Sirius while he was singing an annoying song."
"Me either Moony. Rather interesting" James said.
Sirius had run out of the car and was doing a funny little dance in front of Lily.
"Oh the bathroom is this way follow me." Lily said.
After they showed Sirius the way to the bathroom and he had successfully err... 'piddled' as he fondly called it... Lily gave them a tour of the rest of the house. They all raced their brooms around the yard after Lily and Peyton introduced them to their parents. Turns out Peyton's parents knew James and Sirius's parents.
"Pity you know mine." Sirius said darkly. "I'd just like to state I'm nothing like them."
"I can see that dear." Callista Starr said to Sirius. She felt rather sorry for the boy, but she could tell he turned out much better than his family.
After the broom racing they jumped into the lake for a swim when Peyton's father came out to visit.
"Here Peyton I've brought you this to wear." Her father said merrily, thinking he was doing her a big favor by bringing a very very large T-shirt for her to wear over her bathing suit.
"I'm not wearing that." Peyton said wrinkling her nose. "I've already got a swim suit."
"If you could call it that." Caden said frowning at his daughter's attire. "It's rather skimpy."
"It's fine dad... is there something else you needed?" Peyton asked.
"Hmm? Oh yes yes indeed. Tomorrow we are flooing back to our home in America to pack a few things and your mother and I have to take care of some business. We thought you might want to go and say goodbye to Jacob and your other friends. Of course Lily you Sirius, James, and Remus are invited to come along." Her father said happily.
"Sure thanks daddy." Peyton said before he headed back to the house. Once she knew he was out of earshot a string of curse words escaped her mouth. "Shit Lils I forgot about Jacob...what am I going to do?"
"Who's Jacob?" Remus asked.
"My boyfriend of a year as of...bloody hell it was yesterday. Double Damn. I didn't even send him an owl...because well you know why Lily." Peyton said. She was upset because in all the excitement of moving back to what felt like her real home she had forgotten all about having to say goodbye to Jacob.
"Uh why didn't you send him an owl?" Sirius asked confused.
"Well you see, I don't really like birds. In fact I detest them. They scare the, as you might say, piddle out of me." Peyton said. Sirius laughed. "It's not funny ok? I always have rather bad experiences with them."
"Sure whatever you say." Laughed Sirius.
"I guess you'll just have to break up with him or something Peyt." Lily said changing the subject before Peyton knocked Sirius out.
"Yeah, I guess so." Peyton said sadly.
"Well were you in love with him?" James asked simply
"I don't think its really any of your busin-" Lily started, but Peyton cut her off.
"Wait I want to see if there is a point to this. I don't' suppose I was really IN love with him more than the fact that I was in love with the IDEA of being in love. Sure I loved him because I consider him a friend...with benefits of course." She smirked. "But I guess it was more of a love like caring for someone not being actually IN love. It wasn't fireworks exploding; jump the fence, over the moon, past the stars, feels like your living in another galaxy type love."
"Wow that was deep." Sirius said. Peyton laughed.
"Thanks James for helping me see it that way." Peyton said and gave him a friendly hug. "Now I don't feel too bad about breaking up with him."
"Ok you guys be here at 7:00 am tomorrow morning if you want to come with us." Lily said, while walking them to the fireplace.
"Okay see you then Lilykins." Sirius replied.
"Thanks for having us over today Evans." James said.
"Yeah it was a lot of fun." Remus added.
"No problem. See you guys tomorrow." Lily said
"Later Marauders." Peyton said. The two girls crashed into bed early that night barely waiting for the next day to begin.