A/N: YIKES! That's a long time since I last updated!…I seem to be getting really bad at this…

…Anywho…this chapter is dedicated to one of my best friends, because it's her birthday today (Whoohoo!) and I don't have any money to get her a real gift.


Ch. 11: Lily's Summer


Genny's knuckles were white as she gripped the chair with all her strength, as if holding the chair tighter would spur on England to win the Quidditch match.

"Go, go, go, go, GO!" She was on her feet now, so was the entire stadium… "YES!"

The score was 40 to 20 in favor of England.

The crowd was roaring as her best friend, Lily, poked her in the arm.

"Yeah?"

"What'd you do that for?"

"What?"

"Fling the peanut when you stood up so fast! You hit me in the head!"

"Oh my god Lily, I am so sorry, I promise not to do it again!"

Lily smiled and nodded as everyone sank back into their seats.

Lily really couldn't tell what was going on, but she enjoyed herself nonetheless. She never really had gone to watch Quidditch games or taken any interest in the sport since her first experience with flying….

"Ow!" Lily reached behind her and found another peanut.

She turned to Genny, but her best friend was sitting on the edge of her seat repeating the word, "no" over and over as Ireland got the quaffle closer and closer to the goal posts.

Lily shrugged and turned back to watch the game.

"Lily, do you want some bubble gum?"

"Excuse me?" Lily turned and saw Ms. Vallier offering her some bright blue sticky…stuff, "Oh, no thanks."

"Alright." She to turned back into her seat.

Another peanut came sailing into the back of her head and Lily immediately spun around to see who was chucking peanuts at her head.

Everyone seemed to have peanuts, but only a pair of boys seemed to be snickering into theirs. Lily frowned and turned around.

What were they doing here?

Lily turned back to Mrs. Vallier and asked if she could have some of that gum.

"Sure,"

Lily was now sitting there with blue stuff in her hand and her wand in her pocket. It didn't take a whole lot of time before James Potter and Sirius Black had the bubble gum smeared in their laps, faces and hair.

"AW MAN! STEP IT UP YOU PUNKS! THEY ARE KICKING YOUR BUTT!"

Genny startled Lily with her exclamation, but before the game was over she was used to it, seeing as Ireland was gaining points like there was no tomorrow.

The three of them stepped out of the stadium to where the portkeys lay.

"I can't believe the game! I mean come on, they are full grown men! Why on EARTH do they have to play quidditch so bad?"

"Genny, Ireland is a very talented quidditch team, and the man who coaches England is a complete and utter moron…that's why they lost." Her mother replied.

"I cannot believe you are on the side of the enemy, and what do you mean that the coach is an utter moron? The man is brilliant, and my team can darned well play quidditch properly! They…probably just had like head colds or something that would distract them from playing."

"Really Genevieve, I don't get you sometimes, one moment you are trash talking your own team, another you are defending them as if they've already gone and won the World Cup."

"They will have in the next couple of years, mum, you mark my words."

"Consider them marked." Mrs. Vallier retaliated.

Lily walked beside them in utter fascination; she absolutely adored the relationship between Genny and her mother. You would swear they were best friends rather than mother and daughter. If only her mother treated her like that…only she supposed it would be harder with two children, her mother wouldn't want to play favorites now would she?

The threesome approached the portkey; for their commune back to Genny's it was a popped tire. They all grabbed onto a bit of it and it wasn't long before they were making their way back.

Lily tumbled to the ground as the tire came to a halt. She stood in the middle of the clearing they had left from; she stood up and brushed herself of before following Genny and Mrs. Vallier out through the trees.

5 minutes later the trees thinned as they came to Genny's home. It was rather quaint, and blaringly obvious that there weren't any men living there. It stood elevated on a large wooden deck so large a whole had to be cut so that a rather tall tree could continue to grow. The deck wrapped around the whole house, and the house itself was a pale yellow with blue shudders and a blue front door. The trees that were everywhere completed the picture, and Lily had fallen in love with in the first time she came, even before she had stepped inside.

Tomorrow she had to leave to go back home and she was deeply regretting having to, the summer was so nice without Petunia around.

"What would you girls like for dinner?" asked Mrs. Vallier

Both of us shrugged and headed into the house.

"Just sandwiches then I suppose." She said to no one in particular.


"Nooo!" cried Petunia as she dropped to her knees and put her head in her hands all very dramatically, "I thought we'd gotten rid of you forever!"

Lily got down on her knees as well and hugged her sister, "Never, my dear Petunia, I love you too much," she said, standing up she added, "besides, I had to come back, you were watching Yuri for me while I was gone to Genny's." Lily scooped up the cat and cradled it in her arms.

Her mum and dad came and gave hugs to their youngest daughter. She had only been home a week before she went off to the Vallier's.

The next day Lily left the breakfast table and got the mail, only to find her next Hogwarts letter.

"Yes!" Lily brought her fist down through the air in triumphant jubilation.

"Hm?" Her mother looked up from the novel she was reading

"I get to go back on the 1st of September!"

"That's lovely!" Her mother gave her a hug and sat back down. "Do we have to go back to Diagon Ally?"

"Yes, there's a new list of things I have to get enclosed."

"Alright then, we will go a few weeks from now."

Unfortunately, Lily's mother fell ill at the day before they had planned to go to Diagon Alley.

"I contacted the Lupin's, you can go with Remus today."

"Alright then." Lily heard the kettle whistle and she went to go finish making some tea for her Mrs. Evans.

"Petunia!" called Mrs. Evans from her place on the couch.

"Yes mum?"

"Will you be a dear and light a fire in here I awfully cold."

This baffled Petunia, how could someone be cold when it was the middle of August? But she shrugged the thought aside and moved toward the fireplace.

It only took a second for the oldest Evans sister to be knocked to the floor by a middle-aged woman in robes flying from the fireplace.

For once Petunia wasn't screaming, she honestly couldn't find any words for the situation.

A second person then came from the fireplace.

"Remus!" Lily ran to the living room and gave him a hug, "I'm so glad to see you!"

Remus smiled, "Lil, you're all covered in soot."

She spread out her arms and laughed, "I guess I am."

Mrs. Lupin stood up and brushed soot off her, "Ready to go dear?"

"Yes." Lily turned to her mum, "bye, mum, see you tonight."

"Remus, hand Lily some of the floo Powder in your pocket."

"Er…let's pretend for a moment that I know what "floo powder" is." Lily said nervously.

"You don't know?" Remus pulled some out of his pocket and showed it to her, "this is floo powder. It is the main way for wizards with underage children to get around, you throw it into the fire, shout the name of the place you want to go and jump in."

"Jump into the fire?"

"Yeah."

Lily seemed skeptical.

"Watch Remus dear." Mrs. Lupin said as she ignited a fire with her wand. This impressed Petunia because it meant she didn't have to do it.

Remus threw the powder into the fire and it turned a bright emerald green. "Diagon Alley!" and he stepped into the fire.

"Seems simple enough, yes?"

"Er," Lily scratched her head, "Could I go with you?"

"Sure."

The two of them stepped up the fireplace, Mrs. Lupin placed a hand on Lily's shoulder, threw some floo powder into the fire, and shouted "Diagon Alley!" before she put her other hand on Lily's shoulder and stepped in.

The last thing Lily heard as she was led into the fire was Petunia groaning as her mum asked her to "be a dear and clean up the ashes and soot."