Chapter 22, Moving On
"You have everything dear?" asked Mrs. Sugarsweets when they were unloading. When Lily's parents died, Rin had told her that she could stay at her parents house until she could find a place of her own.
"Yes, I think so," answered Lily looking at everything.
"Can you believe that we get to use magic this summer?" Rin was saying excitedly.
"Yeah, how cool is that?" Lily agreed.
"How cool is what?" James wrapped his arms around Lily.
"We get to use magic this summer," Lily supplied for him. "You realize that every time we've begun a conversation, you always start with a question."
"No, but now I have," James kissed her on the cheek.
"Where's Sirius?" Rin asked looking around, but a pair of hand covered up her eyes and asked," Guess who?"
"Hummm…. You know, I have no idea who it could be," Rin said playfully spinning around and finding Sirius there.
"Can you come over here for a second with me Rin?" Sirius asked nervously.
"Sure…," Rin replied as she followed Sirius with a bewildered expression on her face until they were out of sight, and earshot.
"So…. I'll be staying at Rin's until I can find a place or the wedding," Lily told James giving him the address so he could come over once in a while to make the wedding arrangements.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, we don't have to worry about finding a place to stay after we're married because my Uncle Albert and his wife Georgina are moving away, and they're thinking of selling it to us."
"That's great! Where is it?"
"I'll show you it later, but it's perfect. I have to go, my parents are getting impatient."
With a hug and a kiss they both went in their different directions. James to his parents and Lily to Rin, who was sporting a huge smile, and her parents.
"What's with the smile?" Lily asked her quietly, as they walked behind Mr. and Mrs. Sugarsweets.
"Tell you later," Rin muttered, and walked faster to catch up with her parents so that she wouldn't loose them in the crowd.
Rin's house was huge! There was no other word for it. Just from the outside you could see that there was at least 7 stories to it, who knows what could be hiding underground.
"This isn't a house, this is a castle," Lily told Rin walking through the front door, into a marble floored room, filled with golden light, and a staircase that went for what seemed like ages. Rin's parents went straight down the hall, into the kitchen.
"I know. I dispise it, but the secret passageways are fun," Rin told Lily, picking up her own bag and starting to haul everything up the stairs. "Our rooms are on the top floor, so if you want to get there before dinner, you might want to start now."
Lily didn't take Rin's advice for granted and started heaving her bags up the stairs.
It took them a good thirty minutes before they reached their rooms, but they managed it.
"Where are James and Sirius when you need them?" Rin asked.
"Oh no, I just remembered! We could have used magic!" Lily pointed out. "We're not the brightest bulb in the pack are we?"
"I guess not," agreed Rin, looking downcast.
"Ahh well, this is only the beginning, there'll be plenty more times to use magic in life," Lily perked up. "So, do we have to walk all these stairs again, or is there an almighty cool passage that can get us down faster?" Lily asked, walking out the door, to the gorgeously decorated hallway.
"Right… here!" Rin poked the wall with her finger in a spot that had the smallest purple dot over the white surface. Rin's mother had tried to remove it, she even painted over it, but no matter how hard she tried, she could get it to leave.
Within seconds of touching the wall, it moved to show an opening that looked like the beginning to a slide.
"You first, m'lady," and Rin pushed Lily down it. She slid and tossed, and turned, and tumbled down the seven story slide that she couldn't tell when she reached the bottom until something spattered her out of another hole in the wall, closely followed by Rin.
"Woah! We're back on the first floor! In less than ten seconds flat too!" Lily said amazed. Getting up and walking into the kitchen. She didn't know where it was, but she was following the smell of really delicious chicken.
"Yum! Spoogle!" Lily said, walking into the kitchen.
"Er…. Spoogle?" Rin's mother asked politely.
"Chicken, more precisely the type of chicken found in the West Indies," Lily supplied, helping Rin set the table.
"Really now?"
"No, I made it up just now off the top of my head actually. I don't even know what a spoogle is, but I'm calling it chicken from now on," Lily smiled, as Mr. Sugarsweets put the 'spoogle' on the table and everyone sat down at the table, like on happy family.
