Chapter 16: Love by Rain

The first 2 days of the last week passed in a haze. They swam every day. At the end of the pool, that statue still towered with the same phrase flashing above them both. James would often surprise Lily by pulling her into the pool at any moment and holding her like the statue in the water. It usually didn't last long. Lily would turn around and dunk him and it would continue as such for a few moments.

On one particular day, the sky was cloudless and the temperature was perfect. It was warm enough for shorts, but not so you'd sweat sitting still. A cool breeze ruffled the leaves in the trees. They all suited up in raddy old jeans and plain shirts. The girls wore tanks. The 6 went out on the lawn and played some soccer. Lily had to give a quick run down. She knew, the others didn't.

"James, you don't kick it t the guys' net. You just scored against your own team. You have to try and goal in our net. We goal in yours. Imagine the guys are Gryffindor and we girls are Hufflepuff. Same, but in nets instead of hoops and no hands 'cept the goalies!"

They played well into the night. It took a while, but the guys eventually caught on and won. Then, the rain started.

"C'mon, everyone. Into my place before you get soaked." They went in and grabbed blankets. Then, James found Lily was gone.

"Lily? Lily? Where are you, Lily dear? Hey, get in here, Lily!"

She stood outside. I don't feel like going inside right now."

"Lily, get in. It's raining. You'll catch your death of cold. C'mon in!"

"I don't want to. I stand in the rain all the time at home."

He ran and put the blanket around her. "I don't want you to get sick. C'mon."

"James. I don't' want to right now. Just staying long enough to get wet."

"Lily, please com in. I'm terrified you'll be sick. Come in please!"

She took the blanket off and let the rain fall on her bare shoulders. Thunder!!!

"Jesus, Lily! Come in! You'll catch pneumonia if you don't!"

"Ahhhhhhhhh," she sighed in relief after kicking off her shoes and squishing her feet in the mud. "James. Do me a favor; don't talk."

She pulled him close to her and kissed him. He dropped the blanket and deepened it as far as he could. He kissed her passionately. She had started the kiss hugging his neck. Now, her hands had slid down his wet shirt and stopped at his belt. She held that position.

James soon forgot his white shirt and moved his hands all over her backside and in her wet hair. He could stay like that all day.

She stopped and held his collar. She began to lower herself to lie on the grass. He went down, too, and lay next to her and resumed their kiss. It was long. They lips danced on each other's mouths. They lay in the long, yet tidy, blades of grass. They kissed and not once came up for air.

As they lay intimate on the neat grass, the rain grew more and more intense as did their little activity. The thunder rolled and the lightning struck. The neat grass lawn soon became a muddy field. They stayed interlocked in each other's arms and paid no attention as the rain got worse. They were as if chained together and couldn't separate. They wouldn't stop. They came up from time to time to kiss each other's necks or shoulders.

The rolled over each other. Soon, Lily Evans and James Potter had become human mud people. As they rolled, the mud slid between them on their fronts. It fell into their tops, but neither paid heed. James caressed her mud covered hair and held her face close to his. He kissed down her cheek and neck. He kissed her chest. He thought he had gone way too far, but she didn't push away. He continued to caress down her front while she enjoyed and absorbed every moment of it.

Remus and Mariah, Sirius and Carey, each couple under their blanket, came out to see their sick, twisted, and very much in love friends.

"Well, look Sirius. Their at it again, eh?" Remus poked at his friend's relationship.

"Yeah, Moony. Astute as always!"

Carey dropped their blanket. "We could try too, Sirius, you know?"

Mariah dropped theirs too. "Yeah, Remus. So could we."

Within 2 minutes, three couples lay on the lawn, wet and kissing like mad!!!