Chapter Two

You're so Vain

Dear Greg,

I miss you awfully, you must be rather busy considering you haven't answered any of my letters. I hope you think about me as much as you think about you...

I moved with my family, once again. I'm sick of moving one to place to another. This new community I'm living in looks remotely boring, but every rose has it's thorn and looks can be deceiving.

Hope to hear from you soon,

Love,

Julia

Julia gave the letter to her owl and watched her flutter out of the open window. She looked at her bathing suits and pulled out a plain black one; her sister like always, stepped her opinionated nose in Julia's room.

"You're never going to be seductive or carefree with that ugly thing, wear you're romantic 2 bikini, it's ravaging" suggested Nadera.

"I haven't worn that since Greg left.. Its too ... err vibrant" muttered Julia throwing the black one in her beach bag and headed downstairs for breakfast. Nadera smirked and switched the black one with the red one.

Lily, James, and Julia walked to the beach. Julia went off to change into her bathing suit, she rummaged through her yellow and pink beach bag. The only 'bathing suit' she could find was the red bikini, she nervously put it on. She found Lily waiting for her near a close Pic Nic table wearing a royal blue two-piece bathing suit.

"You look ... "said Lily observing Julia.

"Awful" sighed Julia as her face turned as red as her bikini.

"NO! Stunning! Lets go to the beach area, James will be there" giggled Lily guiding Julia.

Julia spotted James and his friend. James' friend had tawny coloured hair, a bright smile, a bit on the thin side but good-looking nonetheless.

"Hello, you must be Julia. I'm Lupin, Remus Lupin" said Remus introducing himself to a smirking Julia.

"Enough goggling, let's play" requested James anxiously as he pulled out a volleyball and went on the opposite side of Julia and Lily and joined Remus.

Frustrated, Julia served the volleyball, but they were losing quite badly.

"You two are cheaters!" cried Lily turning scarlet.

"C'mon, Lily, don't be a soar… LOSER!" laughed James scoring another point, at that moment, another one of James' friends approached them.

"I want to play, this game needs some spice" insisted Sirius Black stepping on Lily and Julia's side.

"I'm Sirius, James' seriously good looking friend you must be..." said Sirius but he was trailed off when James bumped the ball over the net which hit Sirius in the head. He had laughed, but narrowed his eyes towards James.

"I guess James is eager to play to lose, of course; but obviously its not fair 3-2, so Peter has volunteered to play for you James" smirked Sirius pushing Peter towards them. Julia watched a short, fat blonde boy join James' team.

"Good, I'm on the winning team," said Peter lazily thinking he wouldn't have to move around as much.

Sirius served, the volleyball went passed Remus' head, James backed up to bump it but it bounced off of his face.

"POINT FOR US!" beamed Sirius as Lily and Julia both giggled.

"We are still ahead," muttered James.

10 minutes later, Sirius' team was way ahead, they all worked great together. Peter was wincing and his face was like a bright cherry.

"I can't breathe... I'm..." started Peter, as Sirius served the Volleyball at Peter's belly.

"I quit!" snapped James falling to the ground, Julia and Lily shadowed over James.

"Now, James. Don't be a soar loser," laughed Lily helping him up.

Julia wrapped her beach towel around her waist, she looked around the beach, so far the day had been fun, and amusing to her. Sirius gave Julia a captivating smile.

"You have to see the park grounds, they are beautiful" beamed Sirius.

"Well, all right," said Julia walking with Sirius around the tremendous park, they settled and sat on a red Picnic table. Sirius was right. The campgrounds were immensely resplendent; calling it beautiful was an understatement. She pulled out a quill and some paper and began writing expeditiously.

"Uhh... what are you doing?" laughed Sirius as Julia blushed.

"Oh, it's a habit of mine, anywhere I go that is beautiful or solitary I must write about it, in detail, for future stories" explained Julia.

"Rather, creative and artistic. Don't forget to mention me in that description you're writing," laughed Sirius winking. Julia put down her quill.

"Very vain" she smirked.

"Nah, just a good self-esteem" replied Sirius smiling.

"You're very amusing, where does a comedic boy like you live?" asked Julia.

"Are you hitting on me?" asked Sirius, smirking once again.

"Don't be ridiculous, and if I was hitting on you, you would be quite flattered," teased Julia.

"Oh yes. Very. I would have to ask you to marry me right on the Picnic table then have 8 kids" beamed Sirius.

"Very classy. I'm guessing you don't live with you're parents, you probably drove them mad," joked Julia.

"Hm. Fairly accurate and predictable. I live out of town in my sprawling shack" lied Sirius.

"You liar, I highly doubt it's a shack. You don't know how lucky you are to live on your own. My sisters drive me crazy" sighed Julia tossing back her hair.

"Well, in desperate times, you could always live in my basement" suggest Sirius winking.

"You mean, you're 'shack' has a basement?" asked Julia sarcastically.

"Yes, but, no bathroom though. You will have to do your business in the forest with the leaves and Mother Nature" smirked Sirius.

"Glad to see you keep you're place modernized" laughed Julia sarcastically.

"You know, you should smile more often," said Sirius randomly.

"Well, what do you mean? I always smile!" snarled Julia, a bit angry.

"Hm, well. You're not smiling right now," commented Sirius.

"Well, ... you... UGH!" muttered Julia.

"AHA! One of those girls who don't like to be proven wrong" teased Sirius.

"You assume many things about me," sneered Julia.

"Perhaps. What do you think or assume about me?" asked Sirius winking. Julia eyed him and smiled.

"I think you're arrogant, over confident, vain, and quite futile" snapped Julia but she never mentioned, "incredibly handsome for his own good" she kept that inside.

Sirius paused for a moment.

"That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me... I guess that makes us best buddies now!" jeered Sirius wiping a fake joyous tear.

"I'm flattered you value my opinions so very much, but I really need to get going; unfortunately I need to baby sit my sister" sighed Julia, scanning the area for Lily or James.

"Great. You're just looking for an excuse to escape me... I thought we were buddies!" exclaimed Sirius as Julia laughed.

"No, I'm being honest, even ask Lily..." said Julia, smiling innocently.

"Well, then. Let me drive you home then" pleaded Sirius.

"I suppose, just don't get us both while you're at it" snapped Julia following him to his stunning, savage motorcycle, Julia's eyes glittered at it while she hopped on the bike with Sirius.

They sped off in the open road; Julia smiled wildly as her hair blew in the wind while she wrapped her arms around Sirius.

Julia and Sirius arrived at her house, finally, but Julia was disappointed that she was already home.

"Thanks for the ride" said Julia looking into Sirius' eyes.

"No problemo. See you around," said Sirius, winking as he sped off. She turned to face the door and bumped into her sister, Nadera.

"I guess you didn't know. Greg is here, and he saw you with that Sirius boy..."