I am really really sorry for not posting anything lately. Of course I have an excuse…a lame one but an excuse…volleyball pre-season has started and coach always needs older players to help him out with the lame players…no offense to lame volleyball players out there…okay well sense I got yelled at for just writing an authors note I have a little something (even though its lame) to keep you entertained. Be prepared for next Carly Mullet post around noon on Monday…sorry again.
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-Tandemswipe
Only the Good Die Young- Billy Joel (Song fic)
James Potter tapped his foot and checked his watch. Sure his friends where five minutes late, but it wouldn't bother him much because in about one minute and thirty five seconds NEWT charms would let out and Lily Evans would be walking out of the door first chatting with her friends about the class. Every Friday this would happen. He would always catch her eye and give her a wink. She would blush the color of her wavy auburn hair and hurry down the hall whispering to her friends.
Now usually James Potter wouldn't bother with a girl like Lily Evans. She was a good girl. She was top of the class, Head Girl even. She was a good catholic girl, besides being a witch, she always followed the rules.
James Potter on the other hand was the opposite. Although he did get good grades when he actually went to class, he always pulled pranks, was with a new girl every week, and thought rules and religion where for chumps who wanted to live a short unhappy life. Yup, right now James felt on top of the world. He already had a job lined up after school, he had the three best mates a guy could ask for, the only thing he couldn't do was crack Lily Evans of her good girl shell. He was slowly getting through her shell though when he got her to blush when he smiled at her.
The first time he met Lily was when she first moved across the street when she was eleven. Her parents had thought it would be a good idea if Lily came home to a neighborhood full of other witches and wizards. It was a week before Hogwarts started and James' mother had made him clean up and go over to invite the Evans' over for dinner. When James knocked on the door a short girl with braided red hair answered the door. He of course still thought girls had cooties so at first he glared at her,
"Hi, I'm James Potter; my mum wanted me to invite your family over for dinner tonight." Lily looked at him with her huge green eyes before she spoke,
"Umm…come in. I'll go ask mummy." She stepped back and let him in before she ran down the hallway still filled with boxes. James surveyed the house and saw a couple of pictures that didn't move, the people in the pictures seemed to have light coming from the back of their heads none of them looked really happy. Next to each picture was a stick with another stick across it. He was about to touch one when she came bounding back into the room.,
"What are those?" He asked pointing at the sticks and paintings. Lily giggled,
"Well those are pictures of saints and those brown things are crosses." James still looked confused. "My family is Catholic." He raised an eyebrow, "It's my religion." His eyes popped out of his head,
"You mean you worship these sad looking people?" His voice squeaked, and she giggled,
"Uh-hu oh I forgot to tell you my mummy said we'll be over at six." James nodded,
"Whats your name? How old are you? Are you going to Hogwarts?" Lily giggled,
"Lily Evans, eleven, and yes I am." James nodded and left without another word.
Later that night at exactly six o'clock there was a knock on the Potter's front door. "James answer the door." His mother said from the kitchen. James ran to the door and ripped it open,
"Hello we're the Evans." A man with bright red hair said in a deep voice. Lily waved from behind him. James smiled back and let them in. "You must be James?" The man said. James nodded and was soon joined by his mother,
"I'm Maria Potter, I'm sorry but my husband couldn't make it tonight he's working." She said shaking Mr. Evans hand,
"I'm Patrick Evans, this is my wife Jane, and my daughters Petunia, and Lily." James sniffed at the horse looking girl standing next to Lily.
"Please come in and sit down there is plenty to eat." Maria said showing them to the dining room. The Evans all sat down their posture perfect. It kind of unnerved James a tad to see all of them with perfect manners, "So Patrick, what do you do?" James' mum asked,
"I'm a doctor at Saint Mary's Hospital."
"They have hospitals too?" James asked. Lily began to giggle, but the rest looked confused,
"James." His mother hissed shutting up James instantly, "What do you do Jane?" Mrs. Evans whipped her mouth daintily before answering,
"I stay home and tend the house." James' mum nodded politely, "You work?" Mrs. Evans asked in a sort of shock. From that moment on Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Potter did not get along very well,
"Yes, my husband and I are Aurors at the Ministry of Magic."
"And what do you do?" Mr. Evans asked also shocked to hear that James' mum worked,
"We are almost the FBI of the muggle word only we work for the wizarding world." Petunia sniffed in distaste when Maria said wizarding. James decided he hated Petunia and all of the Evans besides Lily that night.
After the very tense dinner that night Jane Evans advised Lily to stay away from the Potter's. Lily of course was a good girl and listened to her mother. When school started she saw how James acted with his friends around and began to hate him. He never went by the rules and it irritated her.
Come out Virginia, don't let me wait
you Catholic girls start much too late
aw But sooner or later it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
Every Sunday during the summer James would go out early on his broom and see the Evans' family car pull out of the drive way. Mr. Evans driving wearing a suit, Mrs. Evans in the passenger seat wearing a clean pink dress. Lily wearing a light green dress sat behind her father, and Petunia wearing a light blue dress sat behind her mother. During the summer after his third year he decided to find out where they went so he followed them on his broom at a good distance so he wouldn't be seen. When they came to a pointing looking building Mr. Evans parked the car and they all filed out and walked into the church. James landed and followed them in. He watched the church mass for the full hour on the last pew. He watched the Evans family. Mrs. Evans was bent over a bead necklace looking thing. Mr. Evans was reading from a black book, Petunia was grinning and winking at a fat boy across the isle and Lily was listening intently to the man in the front wearing a white robe. Her hair had gotten darker over the summer and she had grown in a feminine way. This might have been what attracted James to Lily, or it could have been that she was a complete challenge. She hated him and wouldn't give him the time of day. That made him smile. He needed to get her attention so he decided to cough. A couple of people turned one of them was Lily. Her eyes became wide when she saw who coughed. She glared at James then turned around towards the robed man again. After the man exited the pointy building everyone followed, "I'll catch up Daddy." Lily said to her father as they walked out behind the robed man. She watched her parents as they talked to the robed man and walked back into the church to find James. He was leaning back on the last pew his feet up and he was flipping through a black book, "What are you doing here?" She hissed,
"I followed you." He said without looking at her. She grunted at him,
"You have to leave before my parents see you." She hissed again turning red. James looked up at her with a sly grin,
"Why?" She stomped her foot,
"Because."
"Because why?" He asked standing up and coming closer to her,
"Because I said…" She trailed off as he came closer. Her expression softened as he leaned in,
"Said what?" He whispered bringing his lips to hers. She couldn't help herself as she leaned in closer,
"LILY ANN EVANS!" Her mother's voice shrieked. Lily jumped away from James who was grinning like a madman. "In the Lords house! To confession NOW!" She screamed dragging Lily by the wrist towards a large looking closet. Lily turned her head and shrugged at James who winked and walked out of the church listening to Lily's mum rant at her, "…you where told to stay away from him! What happened to Amos? He was a nice boy and a Christian…" James laughed and went behind the church and mounted his broom.
They showed you a statue, told you to pray
they built you a temple and locked you away
but they never told you the price that you pay
for things that you might have done...
Only the good die young
that's what I said
only the good die young
During Lily's fourth year she would stay away from James as much as possible and when he started to ask her out constantly she would get angry at him for trying to tempt her. Her mother wrote her monthly to make sure her perfect Lily was staying away from the bad Potter boy. Lily would always reply with I promise mum, just today I yelled at Potter and his friends for making fun of a less unfortunate boy in our year.
That summer one of James' best friends ran away from home and was living with him. James and his friend, Sirius Black, where always outside playing Quidditch. Every time Lily would come outside James would fly over causing her to run back into her house. One day Lily was outside with her best friend from CCD sun tanning. James and Sirius where extremely bored so they decided to have a look in Lily's back yard. What they saw made Annabelle, Lily's friend, shriek and cover up. Lily in her new bathing suit became furious and stomped over, "What do you think your doing?" Lily hissed again checking her house to make sure her mother wasn't watching.
"Seeing what you fine girls are up too." James said leaning over her fence. Sirius joined him,
"It seemed you where having fun. Mind if we join?" Sirius asked opening the fence. Lily slammed it shut,
"Yes I mind. Leave now before my mum sees you." She whispered frantically looking over her shoulder to check again. James leaned over the fence further,
"Why?"
"Not this again." She said aggravated.
"This has happened before?" Sirius asked amused. They ignored him,
"Why should I leave." James whispered now dangerously close to Lily. This time they didn't even have a chance before Lily's mother came rushing out a frying pan in her hand. James winked before him and Sirius walked away. Sirius slipped something in Annabelle's hand,
"Call me." He mouthed to her. Annabelle blushed causing Lily to look at her friend.
Needless to say Lily and Annabelle got yelled at for talking to Potter and Black. The next week Lily could see Annabelle and Sirius kissing on the Potter's front step. Lily even witnessed when Sirius broke up with Annabelle and unfortunately so did her mother, "That is why you have to stay away from Potter and Black." Her mother said, "He only wants you for the body God gave you."
"MUM!" Lily shrieked,
"What it's true. I've seen it before people like Potter only care about the girl's body, not the girl."
"That's not true." Lily retorted,
"You are contradicting your mother?" Her mum said now very firmly,
"No, mother." With that Lily was sent to bed early to prey and to forget about boys like Potter.
You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain't too pretty we ain't too proud
We might be laughing a bit too loud
aw But that never hurt no one
The next day James followed on his broom as Lily and her mother drove to what he learned was called a church. Lily was wearing a white blouse and a white skirt that came to her knees today. James watched as her mother dropped her off at the front of the church and told her as punishment she would walk home. James watched as she walked into the church and into the huge closet from the year before. James saw a colored window and looked in. Lily was bowed her head facing the opposite wall and she seemed to be talking to the wall. He raised an eyebrow and knocked softly on the different colored window after she stopped talking. She looked up and her eyes became wide. She motioned with her head for him to leave. He shook his head. She rolled her eyes and ran her finger across her throat.
"Lily Ann?" The priest asked through the wall,
"Sorry father." She whispered now ignoring James in the window. When Lily walked out of the church she saw James leaning against the railing his broom slung over his shoulder,
"Need a lift?" He asked. Lily looked around and back into the church before nodding. When Lily came home three hours later her mother was frantic,
"Where have you been!" She asked her daughter.
"Walking home from the church mum." Lily said quietly.
"Don't lie Father Macking told me you left with a boy with wild black hair! You where with Potter!" Lily nodded,
"So!"
"Go to your room, tomorrow I will accompany you to confession." For the rest of the summer Lily's mother never let Lily out of her sight.
So come on Virginia show me a sign
Send up a signal I'll throw you the line
The stained-glass curtain you're hiding behind
Never lets in the sun
Darlin' only the good die young
I tell ya
only the good die young
Every time James would approach her at school she would back away and become snappy towards him. She was afraid her mother would pop out of no where and make her go to confession. The next summer was when Lily turned sixteen. It was also the year she got confirmed at her church. On the third Sunday of July James watched from his room as Lily and all her family members took pictures outside her house. She was in a pretty white dress and when her family packed into the car he followed again wondering what the special occasion was. When he got to the church he saw a lot of the girls wearing white dresses and all the boys wearing tuxedos. He laughed as the waddled down the isle at the end, but stopped when he saw Lily come down. She looked so beautiful in all white it made him want to stand up from his seat in the back and swipe her off her feet and kiss her like there was no tomorrow. Of course when she saw him she stood up straighter and walked a little faster ignoring him.
You got a nice white dress and a party on your confirmation
You got a brand new soul
mmmm, And a cross of gold
But Virginia they didn't give you quite enough information
You didn't count on me
When you were counting on your rosary
Lily was frantic as she paced the bathroom. She was supposed to be at the after party in the basement with all the other confirmation teenagers, but that was so boring and plus she had other matters on her hands. She took a deep breath and looked at herself in the mirror. She was not ready to see James there. Hopefully he was gone, she thought as she opened the door and saw him standing there his broom in hand, "You want to get out of here?" He asked in a soft voice. She looked down the steps seeing everyone looking bored and looked back at James,
"Sure."
They say there's a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it's better but I say it ain't
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
the Sinners are much more fun...
alright its not done but its something to post so i dont get yelled at for only telling you stuff...