A/N: Hey I'm BACK! Did you miss me :D Ok I know you probably forgot about my fic but please don't because if it weren't for you guys I wouldn't have been inspired to continue on with it. SO KEEP READING IT! I've edited this chapter a little at the end so please read and I assure you the fifth chappie will be up soon.
The seventh years had all taken the Hogwarts Express to London at five in the morning. Their first task was to spend half a day in London, and then make their way to Heathrow airport, at seven in the evening, to board a muggle machine called a plane, which would take them to Sydney, Australia.
Sirius, Remus and Peter had decided to while away their time in the Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley, while James decided to hire a room, and take a nap.
"WHERE IS THAT BOY!" Remus cried impatiently.
Sirius, Remus and Peter were sitting in the aeroplane, waiting for James who had quite a big record for being late, but today he was exceptionally late. There was only 10 minutes till take off.
Remus sighed, worried looking over at sirius. "I told you to wake him up in the afternoon didn't I?" he said.
"Yeah" Sirius said flicking through the in-flight magazine, his mind somewhere else.
"Well did you?" Remus cried.
"No" said Sirius casually.
Remus and Peter looked at Sirius pityingly while Sirius figured out what he had just said. Sirius looked up, eyes wide with horror.
"YOU IDIOT!" Remus and Peter yelled, Remus slapped him over the head with the magazine.
"Oops" Sirius squeaked.
"Where's Lily!" Lokini said curiously.
"I bet she can't even move because of her bags, do you know how much that girl packs!" Erin joked good naturally.
"Oh shut up Erin, this isn't the time to be joking around." Leisha scolded. "You don't think she forgot the flight time do you?" she asked biting her lip absently.
"We're talking about Lily here!" Mia cried exasperatedly. "Lily is never late."
There was a silence only to be broken by-
"Maybe she got stuck in the bathroom-" Erin began
"ERIN, SHUTUP!" the three girls roared, earning strange looks from the surrounding passengers.
Lily ran to gate 24 as fast as she could, her bag banging on her legs every step she took. She couldn't believe she had read the ticket wrong! God I am such an idiot! Lily thought, as she absently checked her ticket for the tenth time to make sure that she had read the right gate this time, when she ran head first into-
"Potter?" Lily cried rubbing her red nose.
"Lily!" James said pleasantly.
"James…" Lily said horror stricken. "If your not on the plane, and neither am I…. we could fail this whole assignment!"
"Whoa Lily, calm down-"
"CALM DOWN!" Lily bellowed. "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU THIS LATE ANYWAY?"
"Er," James began awkwardly, "I was kinda napping at the Leaky Cauldron and got up a bit late…." James said sheepishly.
"Trust you to do that!" Lily said scornfully, rolling her eyes.
James had now lost his temper. "Well why are you late then!" James asked furiously, with his arms folded and eyes narrowed.
"I-I….we-well" Lily stammered. Reading the gate number wrong was just as bad as sleeping in, if not worse.
James smirked knowingly.
This is our last call for Qantas flight 277 at gate 24. I female voice echoed around the airport.
"OH MY GOD!" Lily cried. "JAMES C'MON!"
And with that, Lily had grabbed James' hand and started running towards gate 24 again. Lily and James ran quickly, hand in hand, which was hard for Lily because James ran much faster then her, and she was sure she was going to fall any second.
After quickly showing their tickets to the officer, they ran into the portable hall which lead to their plane. The airhostess was just about to close the plane's door, when Lily and James arrived.
"Ahh you must be Mr Potter and Miss Evans?" the airhostess enquired kindly.
Lily and James nodded as she checked their tickets.
She led them to two empty seats and said, "You will have to sit here until after take off, then you can move over to your allotted seats. I'm afraid that we cannot delay the flight any longer."
James and Lily nodded again. With a quick smile the air hostess left.
Lily let out a sigh of relief, and quickly bent down to close her bag, which was stuffed and half opened, when she realised James was still holding her hand.
"Er….James? You can let go of my hand now.." Lily said slowly
James smiled. "What if I don't wanna let go?" James asked mischievously.
"James let go!" Lily cried, desperately trying to free her hand from James' tight grip.
"No can do partner." James said smiling.
"JAMES!" Lily yelled, smacking him hard on the arm.
James let go of Lily, rubbing his arm, where Lily's handprint was now becoming visible.
James and Lily both sat mutely in their chairs, for a couple of minutes.
"So Lily, why did you get late?" James asked again conversationally.
"None of your business" Lily said turning away.
'Yes it is" James protested. "I'm your partner."
Lily scowled. "I got lost…" she muttered.
James smirked again, earning a poisonous glare from Lily, who opened her bag, took out a book and started reading it.
James, who had bent down to fasten his seatbelt, stopped abruptly and said, "Er…Lily?"
"What!" Lily snapped, looking up from her book.
"Is this yours?" James asked, dangling a bra in front of her face.
Blushing furiously, Lily snatched her bra and quickly stuffed it into her bag, and then returned to her book, which she was reading upside down.
James was shifting in his chair, but Lily tried not to notice. Then all of a sudden, James' head popped underneath her book.
"WHAT NOW!" Lily yelled smacking James on the head with her book.
"Nothing," James said grinning. "I just wanted to know how to read a book upside down"
Lily scowled, and took up her book again. James sat silently, looking thoroughly bored.
"Lily...your eyes." James said suddenly
Lily slammed her book down, and looked straight at James. "What's wrong with my eyes?" Lily asked calmly.
"They remind me of someone.." James said, his chocolate brown eyes never leaving her beautiful emerald ones.
"Really?" Lily asked with fake interest. "Who?"
"My grandmother" James answered wistfully.
"Nice to know" Lily replied shortly, before returning to her book
Would all passengers please tighten their seatbelt, ready for take off.
Lily fastened her seatbelt, and looked out the window, determined not to look at James.
"Hey Lily, have you ever been on these planey things before?" James asked conversationally.
Lily didn't answer.
"Hey, uh LILY!" James said waving his hand in front of her face.
No answer.
"LILY EVANS, DON"T YOU DARE START IGNORING ME AGAIN!" James shouted irritated.
"Oh, c'mon on Evans, I'm sorry alright? Can't you accept an apology?" James asked pleadingly.
Still no answer.
"Hello LILY! I just apologized!" James said indigently.
Lily turned to look at him. "Good Potter, you should do that more often." Lily said simply before turning back to the window.
"God Evans!" James said throwing up his hands. "You're impossible, you know that? Impossible. Impossibly stubborn."
With a light bell, the seatbelt sign turned off, and James and Lily got up from their seat.
"Ah, Miss Evans and Mr Potter, may I show you your seats?" The same air hostess as before asked them smiling.
"There you are Lily!" Lokini cried. "We thought you had missed the flight!"
"Well I almost did!" Lily said sighing heavily, as she took a seat.
"What happened?" Erin asked turning around from a seat in front of Lily.
"Eurgh, don't ask" Lily said rolling her eyes. "You don't wanna know."
"Uh, yes we do!" Leisha said from behind her smiling.
Lily turned around, looking for some inspiration to turn around the conversation. She wasn't in the mood to be told that James liked her.
"What's that?" Lily asked curiously, indicating to a pink piece of paper in Lokini's hand.
Lokini grinned. "It's an invitation to a dinner party!" she said excitedly. "You see my sister has this pen-pal in Australia, and when she heard I was going there, she asked her pen-pal to e-mail her an invitation to this party that she's been going on about for ages. You see her older brother organised it."
"wow!" Lily said impressed. "When is it?"
"Friday night, the night we arrive!" Lokini said happily.
"So she's not talking to you again?" Remus asked James.
"Yeah." James said depressed.
"S'ok buddy, happens to the best of us." Commented Sirius as he shifted his gaze from the magazine (which he had flipped through three times already) on to a handbag under the seat in front of him.
Sirius bent over and picked up the bag, while Remus and Peter were busy interrogating James about what happened with Lily.
After a bit of sifting through the endless amounts of cosmetics, mirrors and god knows what else Sirius came across a folded piece of paper, which looked as if it had just been opened. He pulled it out and began reading.
"Hey Padfoot," James started "Wassat?"
"It's an invitation to a party, in Sydney." Sirius murmured as he read on.
"And look" Remus said pointing at the bottom of the page, where Lokini had scrawled her name.
"Lokini?" Peter said raising an eyebrow. That must mean that this was her invitation!"
"Well obviously," said Sirius rolling his eyes "Seeing as I found it in her purse."
"Hey Padfoot, speaking from past experiences I think you should put that back like a good boy." James said nervously.
"Well, that party has just found a couple of extra guests." Sirius said smiling, casually
folding the piece of paper and putting back in Lokini's purse, and returning it to its original position.
James settled back into his seat. If Lokini's going, James thought then Lily's definitely going, and if Lily's going I'm definitely going…
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