What happened next…

Disclaimer: J.K Rowling wrote the books not me. I don't own anything. Except the characters I made up.

Summary: James likes Lily but are his feelings returned? Will Lily ever give in and go out with the marauder or is them even being friends asking too much? These two questions can only lead to confusion, fun, and much more. Rated m for later chapters. R and R.

Author's Notes: Hi, this is the new chapter up. Thanks to my few reviewers I really appreciate it. Hope I get a few more readers, as the story goes along I love to hear from my reviewers. Hope you like chapter five.

Chapter 5

They ran into to house kicking off they're shoes at the door. Lily followed James as he would obviously know where he was going better than her. He led her through a series of doors and corridors before finally entering a large living room. It had four huge sofas and on them were their friends, they were sitting and talking.

"You're house is amazing James, its as big as Hogwarts." Lily said in awe.

"Thanks," James said smiling. They joined their friends and sat down with them.

"Where have you been?" Sirius said winking at James and grinning at Lily.

"James was just showing me the garden," Lily said glaring at Sirius' insinuation.

"Sure, sure." Sirius replied not wanting to cause an argument. "So what's going on for the rest of the day?"

"I want to go swimming so bad," Cressida said. "Can we James?" She added thinking James was the man to ask.

"Yeah sure whatever you want, I'm easy." James said.

"Great everybody meet in the pool in half an hour." Sirius said jumping up. The girls ran off to get ready.

"Hey Sid," Lily called after her friend who was running up the stairs.

"Yeah Lil's?" Cressida asked.

"Can I borrow a swim suit. I haven't got one with me, I will get one on Monday though." Lily said.

"Sure Lily, you're lucky I have two with me," Cressida said. "Come to my room and get it." Lily followed Cressida upstairs to get her suit.

"Here you go," Cressida said handing Lily the smallest red bikini she had ever seen.

"Sid! I can't wear that! It's tiny!" Lily exclaimed.

"Sure you can, it'll look great on you, I don't have another one. You could see if 'illis has another one but hers will be way too big on you as she has bigger… assets than you." Cressida said laughing. Lily grumbled and went to her room to grab a towel and she changed into the bikini and also her trousers into shorts and a tank top.

She had been right about the bikini but it covered enough and she really wanted to go swimming. She went to her friend's room and she walked with them down to the pool using the way the house elf had shown her earlier. They walked down the lawn and into the building with the pool in it.

They walked in and saw the Olympic sized pool with a diving board as well. There was a bar at the end of the pool and Peter and Remus were standing at it while James and Sirius dive bombed off the top diving board. The splash it caused soaked the girls and they all screamed.

"Hey now!" Cressida called. "Was that necessary?" The boys looked at each other and both simultaneously said,

"Yes," Then they dived under water and swam to the die of the pool and got out. The girls stared a bit, as they did indeed look gorgeous in their swimming trunks. They were extremely muscular and with their chests dripping with water they were hard not to stare at.

The girls turned though and found three deck chairs at the side of the pool and lay their towels down on it, then they stripped down to their bikinis. Lily felt really self-conscious but tried not to show it. Her red bikini was a halter neck and had a hoop holding it together in the middle. The bottoms had two hoops on each hip and it was very revealing.

The other two girls didn't have much more on. Cressida had a while all in one swimsuit on with two massive chunks taken out the sides of it so it was basically a bikini joined in the middle. Amaryllis was wear a bikini like Lily but it was black and was fairly plain except for the pink design in the corner of the top and bottoms of it. Both of them looked amazing with their hair down their backs.

They turned and saw the boys were staring at them, practically drooling. When they saw the girls were looking back they suddenly became very interested in the drinks they were all holding in their hands. The girls unnerved by this as they were used to boys staring walked right up to the bar where the boys were standing.

"Can we have drinks too?" Amaryllis asked Remus who was staring at her still a bit. Though he was subtler than James and Sirius who were blatantly staring at Cressida and Lily's… assets as Cressida had put it earlier.

"Sure you can," James said coming to his senses finally. "Just put your hand on the bar and say what you want and it will appear."

"Cool," Lily said, she placed her hand on the bar and said, "Bacardi and coke" and it appeared next to her hand. The other did the same all ordering the same drink. It was all their favourite. They sipped their drink for a bit then all dived into the pool now splashing all the boys.

The boys soon followed jumping in and they all splashed about playing for a while. The girls all got tired and went to the edge of the deep end and stayed there for a bit. They found some inflatable beds so they got on those and were floating around talking. The boys were being really quiet so the girls looked over to where they had been. They weren't they anymore. The girls looked around and the boys had completely disappeared.

Suddenly Lily looked down and a hand shot out of the water and grabbed her leg and pulled her off the floating bed and into the water. She screamed as she got pulled under and once she was under the water she opened her eyes. She saw James swimming in front of her looking cheeky. He swam away from her with her chasing. Finally she caught up with him at the other end of the pool she grabbed his arm and pushed him against the side of the pool.

"Did you really think you could get away from me Potter?" Lily said raising an eyebrow at him.

"Well I don't know, maybe I just wanted you to chase me Miss Evans," James replied looking back cheekily.

"Is that what you want James?" Lily asked moving a little closer to him, "Do you want me to chase you?" She asked. James was breathing quicker now as his back was firmly pressed against the wall.

"Um…I…uh," James stuttered. Lily smiled, she liked seeing James not as cocky as usual. It made a change from him being arrogant.

"Well since I guess you don't know what you want I will just go find someone else who does." Lily said turning around and grinning evilly at what she was doing. As she went to go back under the water though her arm was grabbed hold of and James pulled her back to him.

"I know what I want Lily?" He said seriously. He took her hand and stroked it. She smiled.

"Good so do I," Lily said, "and I want to swim right now." Then she turned quickly and dived under the water and swam quickly away. James smiled, he liked a chase and he never gave up.

The others while this was happening carried on with the games they were playing. Since what Lily had said to her about Sirius Cressida had been acting completely differently, letting Sirius come to her. He did a lot of advancing as well. Taking every opportunity to touch her whether it was to grab her around the waist or to stroke her arm.

Every time he did this she would feel a jolt up her as though she had been electrocuted. She liked it, but she didn't want to be too obvious so she hung back from him and didn't give him much to think on whether or not she liked him. And right now in his swimming trunks hair dripping wet and chest rising up and down from being out of breathe who couldn't like him. She never felt the need to like a particular boy as they always came to her, but Sirius; he had definitely come to her attention.

She was just lying down on her deck chair when she felt someone lie down next to her on the other deck chair. She looked to her side and there he was, lying there smiling at her.

"What's up?" She asked sounding not bothered and calm about his presence when actually her heart was beating with him just being so close to her.

"Nothing much, just thought I would come over and chat to you," Sirius said stretching his arms above his head making his muscles twitch.

"Cool, I love it here, James' house is amazing. I never want to leave," Cressida said sighing with content.

"I know what you mean, its nice to be back here, its been a few years," Sirius said.

"Yeah, so are you enjoying your stay so far at chez Potter?" Cressida asked smiling at Sirius cheekily.

"Yeah I think this is going to be the greatest summer ever, I think its going to just keep getting better and better," Sirius said with a slight leer in his voice.

"And why do you say that Black?" Cressida asked.

"Because you're here," Sirius said matter of fact.

"Oh really? And who says I will have anything to do with making your summer better." Cressida said sitting up and looking at him straight in the eye.

"Come on Sid, don't act like this isn't going to happen, on the train. You weren't just messing about, you meant business." Sirius said.

"Well Sirius, you obviously have no idea, I was just fooling around. I never gave you the idea anything would come from it." Then she stood up and walked over to the bar, swinging her hips as she went. Sirius watched her go smiling broadly. No one had ever turned him down before. Now that's his kind of woman.

The day went on with more flirting and more fun in the pool and eventually they got tired and it started to get dark. They all trudged back up to the house for a shower then bed. As they were walking Lily suddenly noticed Peter trailing behind the group like a lost sheep.

She hardly ever noticed when he was there. He was so quiet. He hadn't swam at all today, he probably couldn't swim. He was very strange, out of place with the marauders definitely. Lily was just thinking about Peter the whole way up to bed, she didn't even realise she hadn't stopped walking until she reached her room. She got into bed and fell asleep before even having a shower.

The others were about the same as they walked back to the house. As they entered it James muttered something about getting a sandwich before bed and went off to the kitchen with Peter following as usual. Remus stumbled off in the direction of the stairs with Amaryllis coming up behind him. Sirius was suddenly not as tired as he thought now that he had been left alone with Cressida. She wasn't paying much attention to what she was doing and when he grabbed her hand and pulled her into a door that was a corridor leading to somewhere she opened her eyes in shock. He pushed her against the wall and he leaned into her.

"I like you Cressida, I really like you," Sirius whispered to her, "and I know you like me. So stop playing games with me and just let it happen." With that he suddenly pressed his mouth against hers and put one of his hands on the small of her back and the other behind her head, playing with her hair.

She stood there in shock at what he was saying and when he kissed her she just stood there. She couldn't stop herself from kissing him back. He was such a good kisser. So much more gentle than she would have expected. She reached her arms up and played with his hair. He groaned into her mouth, obviously he liked having his hair played with.

They he got more into it, he nibbled her lip and she opened her mouth to gasp but instead he just slipped his tongue into her mouth and massaged her tongue. She felt as though her legs were going to give way, she had never felt like that before, boys don't get to her like this. She pulled back and tidied up her hair.

"Look Sirius, I do like you, but I don't want me to be some one of your summer flings. I'm better than that, and unless you show me that you want more than that there is going to no more of this." Cressida said seriously. Sirius stood back and took note of what she was saying, he nodded and let her walk past him to go back on the route upstairs to bed.

While this had been happening Remus had been walking upstairs with Amaryllis. They didn't even notice they were alone until Amaryllis said goodnight to Remus and realised it was only Remus. He looked at him shyly.

"Night Amaryllis," Remus said before turning to go to his room. But before he did Amaryllis grabbed his arm and he turned back around. Instead of saying anything she just kissed him lightly on the lips and turned to go upstairs as she was climbing she called,

"Night Remus," who at this time had a massive grin on his face.

By the time everyone was in bed it was past midnight and no one was awake. Apart from Sirius who was trying to think of a way to show Cressida he truly liked her.

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