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The Fight Over Ice Cream

"That looked exactly like Lily." James said sighing.

"That's because that IS Lily. She's my best friend so I know her best. She always looks like that when trying to look puzzled. Plus I know those boys. They are Isaac Anderson, Matthew Van Rynn, and Kevin Kikkert. I was neighbors with Matt and she was DEFINATLY not his neighbor. We were the only kids within a mile, except for when he had Isaac and Kevin over.

"So then that is Lily, right?" James said as he paid Madame Malkin and walked out of the shop.

"Yup, I just don't know why she won't admit it."

Both groups finished their shopping and split up into smaller groups. Remus and Peter went to Zonko's for James and Sirius who went to go get some ice cream. Dani and Sarah went to Magic Makeup. Isaac and Matt went to the Quidditch supply store, and Lily went with Kevin to go get ice cream.

"Lily, why don't I go get the ice cream and you can go save us that corner booth over there." Kevin asked with a smile on his face. That "corner booth" was in the darkest corner of the ice cream parlor. Although there was room for four if Isaac and Matt came Lily doubted if they would be able to find them. Lily smiled back.

"Sure. My favorite ice cream is chocolate chip cookie dough." Lily walked away smiling to herself and slid into the corner booth. She was having a very good summer so far. Only a couple weeks with her parents, a /shudder/ awful night at Potters, then a whole month away from all of her worries with three great new friends. Lily was pulled out of her daydream though when she saw someone slid into the seat across from her, and it wasn't Kevin. It was Sirius Black. Not even five seconds later, she felt someone slid in next to her and put their arm around her shoulder. Lily turned to face him, knowing exactly who it was.

"What do you want?" She snapped.

"Lily, I want to talk to you."

"I don't know who you are talking about, I told you earlier in the store. I don't even KNOW a Lily."

"Lily, I know that its you. Trust me, I know everything about you. How your favorite color is blue but you only wear green because it goes a lot better with your eyes. I know that your birthday is on September 2, normally the first day of classes. And I know about you, Dani and Sarah."

Lily was shocked, she didn't try to show it but she was. How did he know about them? Everyone of course knew that they were best friends, but no one, NO ONE knew about them, not even Dumbledore! She decided that ignoring him was the best thing to do and started to fiddle with her necklace hoping that Kevin would come soon. She knew though that even if he glanced over there while he was in line and ordering he wouldn't be able to see James and Sirius. She was getting nervous.

James looked at her. "Where did you get that necklace?"

"I beg your pardon?"

"I said, where did you get that necklace?"

"M-matt's mum found it in the letter that was left when they found me."

"I thought that you two were neighbors?"

Lily gulped, she forgot. She had to make up something quick. "We didn't want anyone to know about it. My parents were killed when I was a little over two years old. Someone left me at Matt's house when they found me along with a couple changes of clothing and a letter saying who I was and why I was there. They took me in but I didn't like them that much, so I stayed in my room. Matt didn't even know I was there really. Until my letter came for Salem. Then he knew that I existed but still I didn't pay any attention to him. The summer after I got back, he had brought home two of his friends from his school. I slipped out from my room every now and then to see them all, but I stayed in the shadows. I didn't want them to notice me. Then in the summer before my fourth year, I kind of tripped into one of them when I stumbled over some curtains. They let me into their little group and we became inseparable. Now if you could just leave, I believe Kevin is coming back and I really don't appreciate having to tell strangers my life story."

Sirius seemed to have believed Lily's lie, but James sure didn't. He looked at her strangely and said, "Sorry, my name is James Potter, and this is Sirius Black. I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name."

"That's because I didn't give it, now leave."

"Well, if you don't give me your name, then I guess that you really are Lily Evans. And that would give me reason to kiss you." James knew this was a trap, if Lily gave him her "name" then all he had to do was ask Dani seeing as they supposedly went to the same school. But Lily didn't want others to go thinking that James Potter was able to kiss Lily Evans (who she would be forced to become at start of term) therefore declaring them as a couple.

"Well then fine, I'll give you my name, not that you'll recognize it. Neither would anyone else who went to Salem even. My name is Charlie Pat Start. I went by another name there though, but I won't tell you what. NOW LEAVE."

James laughed. That was the most ludicrous name he had ever heard. It was also the worst lie he had ever heard anyone say. Go by another name when you go to school. That's insane. Well, actually Lily had said the whole lie pretty calmly, and made it look like it was true, anyone who didn't know her would have been convinced. He looked at Lily, she was glaring at him with a fierce look of hatred in her beautiful emerald green eyes. The eyes, they were what captured him most about her. They seemed to suggest abnormality in her, some sort of presence. Unfortunately his laughter didn't last long. It came to an abrupt halt when Kevin, holding two glasses of ice cream in one hand came up and started screaming at him.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HARRASSING MY GIRLFRIEND. YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HER. DID YOU JUST SEE HER IN THE SHOP AND SAY, OH MY WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PERSON, WHY DON'T I GO HARRASS HER? WHO CARES IF SHE HAS A BOYFRIEND! WELL GUESS WHAT I –"

Lily quieted him down by touching him on the arm. She looked in his eyes and shook her head. "Kevin," She started very calmly and quietly, "I am sure that James and Sirius have a perfectly good reason for being here. However, let's not hear it now. We can talk to them at school or something. Why don't we just let them leave and we can enjoy the rest of the afternoon."

Kevin looked at her shocked. He didn't know what she was thinking! She was letting some jerk that she didn't like walk all over her! He didn't want her to do that! But he figured that he would talk to her about that later, if at all. He didn't want to ruin their relationship.

James and Sirius got up and left, glumly though. James was upset at Lily getting one over on him, he was unable to prove solid that that girl was Lily, and he just needed to do that. And Sirius had been watching James and Lily (or at least, Sirius thought that it must be Lily, after he story though he wasn't so sure) go neck and neck at each other and THEY had lost. The MARAUDERS had lost. That was unacceptable for him.

"Hey Prongs," Sirius started, "We know that Isaac and Matt are going to be sixth year Gryfinndor's right? Well, why don't we give them a proper welcoming. They are friends with Kevin and it would be a way to get even."

James smiled. "Sure, we'll do that, but first, you find everyone else. I am going to the Leaky Cauldron. Met me there in oh… 30 minutes?"

"Um… ok, but why? I thought that we were going to spend the day in Diagon Alley? Not stuck up inside some dusty old store."

"First of all Sirius, every store in the whole Alley is dusty. Second, The Cauldron isn't a store. And third, did you take a good look at Lily and her friends? They all have good tans, that would imply a beachy area, and the closest one is almost two hours away. Do you really think that they would travel two hours out here get their stuff go two hours back and then a month later traveling two hours out here again for the train? I doubt it. So they must be staying. I am going to check to see if a certain three boys and a girl have reserved themselves some rooms in for a while."

Lily and Kevin finished their ice cream and found Isaac and Matt in the joke shop. Lily literally had to drag them out so that they didn't buy the entire store. As it is, between the three of them it looked like they had a sample of every item. They made their way back to the Leaky Cauldron and dropped their stuff in their rooms. They lounged around a bit and then at 7:00 went down for dinner. Lily was used to late dinners with these three. They were always in the middle of planning something so were always late, Lily normally pulled into their clutch as well. She quickly glanced around to make sure that there wasn't anyone that she knew and sat down next to Kevin, her back to the whole crowd.
A big thanks to all of my reviewers! HollyEvans, Susan, and DiffenDoofer!

Another quick note about Susan's previous question: I had intended to put this with the explaination but here is a quote "She did however mail (snail post office mail way) Dani and let her know where she was and that she was ok but she didn't hear anything back and figured that Dani had gone on some vacation with her dad." This was the end of chapter seven. She did care that she didn't see her friends so she sent them a letter. Sorry i left that out! :D