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Well here we go again!

Chapter 2: Encounters And Practice

Lily took some deep, calming breaths and grasped the evil magnet in her hand. "Black, Potter, what the bloody hell are you two doing here?"

When the redhead had been given the opportunity to work at her Aunt Millie's grocery store (Aunt Millie's Market), she had jumped at the offer, determined to get away from Petunia. Aunt Millie's Market five hours away from home, so Lily got a Petunia-free summer and a chance to spend two and a half months with her favorite relative.

But on the downside, she didn't get to spend the summer before her seventh year with her parents. Lily had turned seventeen a few days ago on June 19. She had woken Aunt Millie up by going around fixing various objects, cleaning the house, and cooking breakfast…all by magic of course.

"Why, Lily dear, we're doing the same thing as you. Shopping, isn't it sooo much fun." Sirius replied acting oddly giddy. Well maybe it wasn't so odd.

"Black?" Lily fixed him with a stare.

"Yes, flower."

"I work here, you dolt!" Lily exploded and shouted the last bit.

At that precise moment, another older employee appeared at the end of the isle. She had the same stunning emerald eyes as Lily lined with wrinkles, and curly blonde hair streaked with gray. She placed her hand on Lily's shoulder in a motherly way; they were wearing matching dark green 'Aunt Millie's Market' shirts.

"Lily, what seems to be the problem? And why are you yelling at these poor innocent costumers?" A look of confusion crossed the woman's face as she looked around the isle at the new magnet decorations.

"Yeah Lily, why are you yelling at us poor innocent costumers?" Sirius questioned the redhead with a look of fake-confusion on his face.

"Auntie Millie…I…I…," Lily stuttered.

"Sorry ma'am," James finally found his voice, "I…well, we…we were…," he picked up a large handful of magnets and began putting them back on the display. "We were goofing off and hit this display. Sirius and I started to walk away when…Lily…is that your name…well, Lily asked us to help her pick them up. We didn't hear her so she shouted to us. We're sorry about the mess…and the noise."

"Young man that is fine," Aunt Millie began, "It's just, Lily is a new employee and I wasn't sure if she was having a dispute with a customer. I accept your apologies and extend my own."

"Apology, not needed, but accepted, ma'am." James thought that he had come up with a satisfactory story.

"Well, I've got to get back to the register. Have a nice day boys." With that, she turned and walked out of sight.

"You, too," they both called after her in unison.

"So, Lily, how are you?" James took a stab at conversation.

All Lily did was look up at him, fling the magnet, and walk away.

James jerked the magnet off of his glasses and stared at Lily's retreating figure.

"Damn, Prongs," Sirius bluntly said, "you need help."

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Back at the Potter Manor, Sirius and James plunked down on to James' bed after a hearty dinner, provided by Mrs. Potter, and a few hours of quidditch.

"Wow," Sirius said in exhaustion, "It has been one hell of a day. Right, Prongs?"

James let out a strangled laugh, "If you can even call it that."

"And what is that supposed to mean, mister?"

"Go to bed Sirius."

"What? No! Why?"

"Because both of us are clearly delirious, and in need of sleep." James rubbed his eyes and pushed Sirius off of the bed.

"Bloody hell, Prongs! What is up your arse?" Sirius got up rubbing his butt. He lethargically stripped down to his boxers as James did the same. James got into bed and turned off the light.

"Sirius-," James yelled as he felt the mattress sink on the other side. "What in Merlin's name are you doing?"

"Going to bed, of course." Sirius yawned and James felt the bed shift as Sirius rolled over.

"I can see that. But, why in my bed?"

"Because I don't have one."

"Griffon shit, it's over there," James said pointing to Sirius's bed across the large red and gold room.

James waited for an answer, but, receiving none (only fake snoring) got up and got into Sirius' bed.

Five minutes later, James heard Sirius mumble something inaudible; in a matter of seconds felt the mattress sag again.

"What is the matter with you," James asked getting annoyed.

'Snoring'.

"Oh, yeah, really mature of you. I'm going to go back to my bed if you promise to stay here."

More 'snoring'.

"Well I'm sure that I can ensure that you stay there, and quite easily." James got up and made his way over to his bed-side table. As he reached it his toe gracefully made contact with one of the legs ("Shit.") His toe throbbed as he grabbed his wand and uttered, "Petrificus Totalis, much better. Night, Padfoot." James fell asleep thinking about his encounter with the lovely Lily.

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James awoke at the crack of noon ready for the day. He showered, got dressed, and returned to see Sirius still not moving. He still must be asleep, James thought to himself. He laughed to no one in particular as he made his way out of the room for a spot of lunch.

Meanwhile, In Sirius' Mind

Oh wow, these sheets are really stiff. Wait, hold on one bloody moment…I'm…I…can't…I don't remember…I…oh yes I do remember! James…JAMES!

Oh, right he can't hear me. Humph. Well it's just great that I don't HAVE TO GO PEE! Don't have to go pee really, really, really badly! I mean that is because I don't have to, you know what I mean. Like when you are getting a hair cut and all of the sudden you just have to, and you have one of those really uptight hairdressers and they're all like, "If you move I will have to charge you extra." And you don't have that extra money cause your job doesn't pay that well and…and…wait…I don't have a job…oh well…anyways, you get the picture. Except you're incapable of moving, so it's not that you just don't have the money, but the hair person just turned into a hag and bolted you into the chair.

Yes that sounds right. You do get the picture…right? 'Cause if you don't then I could give you another example…but I think you get it so, yes. Yes that's right.

Ggrrr-

Curse bodily functions! Why? Because:

A: You always have to go when there's no toilet

B: You always have to go when you can't get to one

And C: You always have to go when James BODY BINDS YOU!

Aarrgghh-

If it weren't for the invisible straining restraints which are nastily restraining me I would have been to the loo and rid myself of the unnaturally natural yellow river inside.

Maybe reverse psychology will work.

You don't have to go pee.

Yes I do.

You don't have to go pee.

Yes I do.

You don't have to go pee.

Yes I do.

You don't have to go pee.

Yes I do.

Yes I do.

Yes I do.

Oh. You're not talking to me anymore. Well I guess I won!

No, you most certainly did not.

Did too.

Did not.

Did too.

Did not.

Did too.

Did not.

This is ridiculous I'm arguing with myself.

Hey, are you saying that I am not fit to argue with.

I am not.

You know, talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity.

Is not.

And answering yourself is the second.

GO AWAY!

You only had to say it once.

I have triumphed over the evil voice…go me, go me, go me!

I'm hungry.

You are not hungry.

Not you again!

Back To The Sane

About half an hour later, James made his way back up the stairs on strict orders (from his mum) to wake Sirius up.

"Sirius this is getting ridiculous. It's 12:45 we have to get ready for…oops." James quickly realized that Sirius was totally petrified. He quickly grabbed his wand and undid the curse. He laughed uneasily as Sirius sat up and shot a death glare at him. Then faster than lightning, bolted toward the bathroom. Back in the room about twenty minutes later, after a shower, Sirius tackled James and in a tangle of bodies managed to grab James' wand.

Sirius hit James with every curse he could think of: Jelly-legs, endless tickling, boils, eye itching, hair loss, the curses went on and on. And Sirius laughed and laughed. All the while throwing various comments toward James: "Hey Prongs, this game is fun. We should play it more often." "And that was for making me go insane." "That for making me fight with myself." "That one in particular for leaving me like that."

James was dancing, crying, and picking his nose, all while singing a Warlock Wing tune, when Mrs. Potter came in and broke up the Hit-James-With-Every-Curse-You-Can-Think-Of-Session. She took James wand (she already had Sirius' from a previous session) and put James right, then proceeded to send the two on their way to practice.

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"I guess I deserved some of that, but not all of it." James debated the previous situation with Sirius as the walked.

"You very well deserved all of it. I really had to go pee and I was going insane." Sirius relived his sweet revenge; this one was going in the books.

After three and a half miles of the same argument, they could see their destination on the horizon. "Prongs look we made it! Remember what that muggle said? What time is it?"

James checked his watch, "Umm…it's 1:56 and 25 seconds."

He looked up at Sirius who chose to wear black shorts with dark blue stripes and a black shirt, while James wore simple black shorts and green undershirt.

The pair made their way to the green court and a group of congregating girls and two boys off to the side. James dragged an unwilling Sirius off to the two males and introduced them.

" Hey, I'm James Potter and this is Sirius Black." James extended a hand which was grasped by the sandy blonde haired boy.

"I'm Mark Kunick" the boy said as he looked James square in the eye with his clear blue ones.

"And I'm Christopher Guernsey. You can call me Chris," the second boy said. He had golden eyes and light brown hair. Mark looked to be around six foot three; where as Chris was barley six foot.

A shrill whistle blew and the girls parted everyone looked over to see a rather tall black haired woman. She had a squeaky but demanding voice that did not look as if it should come from her. She was built with fairly broad shoulders and reached about five feet and eleven inches.

"The coach that you were supposed to have bailed at the last minute, so I'm Coach Kim Finnegan. Start with five laps, then stretch.Now let's get going."

Grumbling the whole way the players set off. They formed lines of three and four and began to stretch. Once they weredone Coach Kim approached them.

"Finished?" There was a general murmur of agreement, and she started again. "Good, today will be a day of observing for me and showing off for you. Now first up I want you to play king of the court 4 v. 4. Alright," she looked down at her clipboard. "Black, Potter, Guernsey, and Kunick. Start us off, the rest of you in four lines."

James looked over at Sirius who was gaping open mouthed at some thing. James guessed that it was the girls who had spandex shorts on. But he was wrong, very, very wrong.

He looked up as well to see the ball coming at him. Instinctively he bumped it and allowed Mark to tip it over. James looked up to see the girls all in their stance awaiting the ball. The first, a pretty blonde also bumped it up allowing a brunette to set up a familiar looking redhead. James was so busy gaping that he didn't see the redhead's spike coming at his head.

BOOM.

He looked up after theblow to the headto see that everyone was laughing at him. But the redhead was between satisfaction, fury, and bursting out into giggles.

Although James crashed headfirst into his first and second encounter with Lily, he knew he would have many more chances that summer to grace her with his presence.

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