Rules for Dating Lily Evans
Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter characters, and I never will.
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James studied himself carefully in his mirror. He was pretty sure he was still forgetting something. "Sirius, am I forgetting something?" he asked.
Sirius, like his best friend, was dressed nicely in muggle clothes. And he found the collar on his shirt quite irritating. "I don't know. Do you have shoes on?"
"Shoes!" He ran to his closet and started digging through his stuff. Sirius, expecting him to be a while, sat back in a chair and watched in amusement. James wasn't yet aware that his shoes were actually under his bed.
"Boys! Is everything okay?" Mrs. Potter shouted from downstairs.
"We're fine! We'll be down in just a minute!" Sirius called, still enjoying James mad search for his shoes.
"Wait! My shoes aren't in here!" James rushed over to his bed and pulled his shoes on. Once again looking into the mirror, he patted down his unruly hair. It was, however, quite hopeless.
"Oh, don't you just look adorable!" James' mother cried when she saw them walking downstairs. "I should get a picture!"
"Please don't," Sirius said. He loved the Potters dearly, but could never quite get used to being coddled.
"Oh alright. James, why didn't you do anything with your hair?"
"Mum!"
"Fine, fine. Well, off you go! Have fun!" she said, giving them each a kiss on the cheek, which they each promptly tried to wipe off.
Lily and her father were supposedly going to pick them up in some automobile type thing. Neither boy had ever been in a car, and Sirius was quite excited. James, on the other hand, was feeling very nervous.
When they arrived, Lily and Mr. Evans stepped out of the car. "Hi!" she said to them as excitedly as she could. Then she turned around. "Dad, this is James and Sirius," Lily said, indicating to each of them. "This is my father."
"You're not dating both of them, are you?" Mr. Evans asked jokingly.
"What? No, of course not! Daddy!"
"I'm just kidding," he said, seeing his daughter was upset. "It's nice to meet you boys. Now, which one are you dating, Lily?"
Lily sighed. She felt almost bad for what James was about to be put through. Especially since Vernon was coming over. "James, Daddy."
"Alright. Let's get going, shall we?" The three teenagers piled into the backseat, with Lily sitting between them. She seemed nervous as well, although she wasn't entirely sure why.
After nearly fifteen minutes of complete silence, Sirius decided somebody needed to say something, or he would go crazy. "Well this is awkward," he said, just loud enough for Lily and James to hear him.
"We're almost there," Lily said. "Just behave yourselves. Vernon's over as well, so that means no magic."
"I know, I'm not stupid," Sirius said. Lily looked at him as if she didn't believe this. "Really, I'm not!"
She rolled her eyes at him and turned to look at her "boyfriend." "James, are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," he said. "I've just never done the whole 'meet the parents' thing before."
"It's not for real," she whispered. "You'll be fine." This reassured James, but only a little. He sighed and looked out the window at her house as they pulled up in front of the Evans' house.
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Once inside the house, Lily grabbed James' arm. "Come on, I want you to meet my mum," she said, trying to sound excited.
"Your mum? Right," James answered. He felt a bit nauseated. He hadn't thought meeting a girl's parents would be this unnerving. Then again, he'd sort of assumed he'd actually be dating the girl first.
They entered the kitchen, where a short, red-haired woman was pulling something out of the oven. Sirius, who had followed the other two, looked around her curiously at the wonderful smelling dish.
"Oh, you must be James," she said, pulling off her oven mitt and holding out her hand. "It's so nice to meet you."
James shook her hand as confidently as one who felt queasy could. "It's nice to finally meet you, Mrs. Evans," he said with a charming smile.
"He's quite cute, Lily," Mrs. Evans said to her daughter, though not quietly enough.
"Mum!" Lily said in an agitated whisper.
James couldn't help but smile at this(a bit smugly, too). "Oh, and this is my friend Sirius," he said, introducing him.
"Thanks a lot for having me," Sirius said.
"Oh, not a problem, dear. Now, why don't you three go out into the living room. Dinner should be ready soon."
Once out of earshot, James whispered into Lily's ear, "Did you hear that? I'm quite cute."
"Shut up, you prat." The three of them sat down on the sofa.
"Well, so far, so good," Sirius said.
"Trust me, the night's far from over," Lily told him anxiously. He father walked into the room. "Hi dad. When does... Petunia's boyfriend get here?" she asked.
"He's running a little late. Why?"
"Just wondering when I was going to be subjected to that torture," she mumbled.
"Well, until he gets here, you boys can talk freely," Mr. Evans said to James and Sirius.
"Right. Muggle," Sirius commented.
"So James, Lily tells me you're quite the athlete," her father prompted, trying to begin a conversation with the uncomfortable looking teens.
"Well, I play quidditch at school."
"Quidditch, Lily's mentioned that. What exactly do you do in that sport?" he asked.
"Here we go," Lily muttered under her breath.
James suddenly became very animated. His anxiety left him as he explained the rules to Mr. Evans, who tried to keep up.
"So, there are six places to score goals?"
"Well, three for each team. And we generally don't call them goals."
"Right, wrong sport. And you actually do all of this on brooms? In the air?"
"Yeah, we-" James stopped talking when he noticed someone else in the room.
Lily suddenly stood up. "Petunia," she said to the other girl, "This is my boyfriend, James, and his friend Sirius."
"You brought two freaks to the house?" Petunia said with disgust, not otherwise acknowledging James or Sirius.
"Petunia, remember what we said about that," Mr. Evans said sternly.
She looked at James and Sirius with disdain. Then, she turned to her father. "I'm going upstairs."
After she left, Lily said, "I'm so sorry about that."
"That's alright," James said kindly. Sirius was looking at the stairs Petunia had just ascended with narrowed eyes. James knew he was concocting a plan to get back at her.
The doorbell rang just then, and Petunia came racing back down the stairs to answer it. When she opened the door she greeted what was easily the largest man Sirius and James had ever seen. "Vernon, it's so good to see you!" she practically squealed. She then reached up and kissed him on the cheek.
Lily was rolling her eyes. "Hello Vernon," Mr. Evans said cordially.
"Good evening, Mr. Evans," Vernon said, shaking his hand. Only then did he notice the others in the room. He stared at them suspiciously.
"Vernon, these are friends of Lily's," Mr. Evans said after a long, awkward silence in which it was clear no one else was going to start talking.
"Hi, I'm James." Vernon simply looked at him warily. Lily was almost positive Petunia had told him she was mentally unstable and/or dangerous, so his reaction came as no surprise to her. "This is my friend Sirius," James tried again, but still got no answer.
There was another uncomfortable pause for a moment. Then, from another room, Mrs. Evans said, "Dinner's ready!"
"Great!" Sirius said, standing up excitedly.
"This is going to be a long night," Lily whispered to James, barely noticing that he'd grabbed her hand. "A very, very long night."
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I experienced serious writer's block on this chapter. Maybe it's because I wrote most of this only days before the new Harry Potter book came out. Whatever, I finished it.
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