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Chapter 7

Day 4- Tuesday

Dressed in overalls, (happy that she now had plenty of pockets to stuff her wand in if need be), Lily headed for the stairs, hoping that James had once again made breakfast. Her stomach as aching horribly from not eating much the night before and eggs and bacon sounded very good at the moment.

But as she passed Sirius' bedroom door, she heard a commotion that made her stop in her tracks and look curiously in through the open door.

Sirius was standing on top of his school trunk, leaning deep into the top of his closet, half hazardly pulling down stuff onto the floor.

She stood at the doorway looking in. No one seemed to notice her there as she raised in eyebrows in question as Black's antics.

James was sitting on Sirius' bed, watching his best friend at it with a bored sort of expression on his face well Remus seemed immersed in their new Defence Against the Dark Arts book they were assigned.

"I can't find it, Mate." He stuck his head out of the closet, looking a bit razzed with his hair all over the place and dust smeared on his nose. As he turned he caught Lily standing at the doorway. "Evans, maybe you can help me!"

She backed away slightly. "Help you with what?" She was quite aware of James watching her now; saw him out of the corner of her eye smiling sweetly at her.

"He's lost his wand." Remus spoke up, not looking up from his book.

Lily stared at Remus in horror. "Are you serious."

"No, I am, but that's not the point." Sirius was once again digging through the closet.

Lily walked fully into the room now, rolling her eyes as she came. "Why on earth would it be in the closet?"

"That's what we told him." James was grinning at her now, pleased that she ventured into the room. "But he says he's looked everywhere else." He shrugged. "You never know."

Lily put her hands on her hips, watching as Sirius dumped down a pile of complete junk, when something fabric and pink fell from the abyss above.

Intrigued, and wondering why Sirius would have something of such feminine colour, she walked forward and picked the thing off the floor. "A kite?" She turned it over in her hands, raising an enquiring eyebrow in Sirius direction. "Do I want to know."

James laughed behind her and she turned to him. He was eyeing the kite quite fondly as Sirius stepped down from his trunk and plucked it from her hands. "Me and Prongs were going to do a prank with this."

She glared up at the black haired boy. "Why couldn't I have guessed that?" She carefully took the kite from his hands again, a small smile coming to her lips. She used to fly kites with her mom and sister when she was little.

At the thought of her family however, her face fell and she felt that normal thrill of urgency. For what seemed like the thousandth time this week, she wondered how they were doing.

James seemed to have caught the look on her face because he suddenly spoke up. "Did you want to go fly it?"

She looked up, a surprised look on her face. "Now?"

He shrugged, grinning. "Why not?" He turned to Sirius who was, for the fourth time now, lifting up the blanket to look under his bed. "What do you think, Sirius?"

"What?" He looked up from his hands and knees, eyeing the kite before shrugging as well. "It's just a muggle game."

Lily frowned. "It's fun." Then she realized she was egging him on to do something with her and stopped immediately.

He stood, sighing and letting his eyes drift over his room for a moment before landing on the kite once more. "All right... I think I need a break looking anyway."

"It's probably in the most obvious place." Remus cut in, looking up from his book, then, deciding he might as well join in, put it to the side. He carefully got off the bed and inched around Sirius to Lily's side, smiling down at her in a friendly way that was quite different than the smile James always gave her.

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The wind wasn't great, but it was enough to get the kite in the air. Lily held on to the white string as it soared around James' backyard over their heads, making flapping sounds as the wind hit it in an awkward position.

Remus was lounging on the grass by the back porch next to an irritated Sirius who obviously wasn't very comfortable without a wand in close quarters. James was standing behind her, chuckling slightly whenever she gasped at the kites close proximity to the large willow tree.

He laughed even harder when she finally managed to get it snagged and stuck on a rather high branch.

Turning around, she sent a glare in his direction as he brushed past her. "I'll get it."

She expected him to pull out his wand, but instead he hoisted himself up the trunk of the tree, holding himself steady on one of the thick branches.

"James, what are you doing?" She put the string down on the ground and pulled out her own wand, "Accio-"

"No don't." He smiled down at her in a roguish sort of way as she looked up at in confusion. His hair was swept into his eyes and he was breathing in a way that suggested he had too much adrenaline

And Lily Evans found herself suddenly blushing, unable to keep her eyes of him as he clambered further up the tree, ignoring the jeering calls from Sirius about acting like a muggle.

James laughed down at him, his head appearing past some branches, his eyes dancing. "I'm determined, don't crush my spirit Padfoot."

He reached the kite in what seemed no time at all, and just as he had it in his hands, a loud "crunch" sound reached their ears and with an almost comical gasp, James plunged to the ground, the kite trailing after him.

Sirius roared with laughter well Remus gave a loud groan, and Lily found she was the only one running forward, a small gasp escaping her as she bent over him, her eyes worried.

"James, are you ok?" She hunched down letting her eyes look him over for any injuries, but she found him smiling up at her.

"I play Quidditch, Lily, I've had worse."

"Oh, have you now?" She moved away from him, glaring furiously now. She had actually showed she was worried about him! A mistake she knew, as she looked at James amused face, that would never be lived down.

He passed her the kite, then sat up, looking down at his ankle. "I think I sprained my ankle."

"Your lucky that's all you did!" She was now glaring at his ankle as if that was the reason for her embarrassment.

"You seemed pretty worried there for a moment, Evans." She nearly jumped as Sirius came up behind her, his shadow blocking out the sun so his features were hidden from her. But she knew he was watching her with the same amusement James was.

She felt herself blushing again. "People are generally worried when someone falls from the top of a tree, yes Black."

He shrugged and crouched down next to James too. "It's his fault for showing off for you."

She blushed even more. "Well next time just use your magic." She did a very complicated flick with her wand over his ankle, mumbled "scaurus talis" and James gave a small sigh as his ankle lost all swelling and was healed.

"Thanks, Lily." He grinned as he stood up, testing his weight on his ankle.

She mumbled a your welcome and stood up turning away from both good looking boys and walking; feeling slightly disorientated, back to the house.

Remus had pulled something out of the the coat pocket of the jacket he borrowed from Sirius, and was no grinning, waving it in the tall boy's direction. "Sirius, isn't this your wand?"

The last thing she heard before stepping into the house was Sirius' over exaggerated cry of "Moony! Your my furry little hero!"

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AN: don't know if you like this one...

She's starting to realise she likes him. -nods-

The spell she used on his ankle is real latin... but... lol, it means something like swollen ankle ankle. lol