I AM SOOOOOO SORRY ABOUT THE LAST FEW CHAPTERS! I've been trying to get all this information in at one time and it's really hard and makes my chapters look really stupid. I don't have much time to add other stuff because of school so I'm making everything happen at one time. Sorry. Hopefully when the breaks come, I'll have more time to make them less stupid. Oh and I can't remember if I mentioned this or not, but the building Lily had entered and sat in the lounge at was a hotel.
Boys will be boys. Girls will be girls.
"No! We are going to find them NOW whether you like it or not!" Tori said grabbing Kate away from the shopping area.
"Lily! James!" the four yelled searching all over London.
After three hours of searching, they all met right outside a hotel, their meeting spot.
"Let's call it a night." Remus said tired.
"Yes please! Sirius Jr. fell asleep so I had to carry him the whole time! I'm dead tired!" Sirius said, his eyes drooping.
"But I'm not tired!" Kate whined.
"Well you can go shopping, but I'm going to bed, 'kay?" Remus said giving her a quick kiss and hugging Tori.
"Yeah I'm with Moony." Sirius said hugging both girls.
"Okay!" Both girls said smiling. Then they stopped.
The boys stopped too.
Tori and Kate stared at them, with puppy faces.
Remus and Sirius sighed.
Both boys reached into their pockets and pulled out some coins.
"Here. You know how to transfer them into muggle money." Remus said handing over some galleons and sickles to the girls.
"Fine. But you owe me." Sirius said mimicking Remus.
And with that, the teenagers went their own way.
The boys went to the hotel to buy a room and sleep, and the girls went shopping downtown.
Little did they know, that their two friends, Lily and James, were fast asleep, only a couple levels above where they stood.
Everything was quiet in the room where Lily and James were.
James was sleeping on the bed closest to the window, and Lily was sleeping on the bed closest to the bathroom. Both were fast asleep, in their own worlds.
James, as usual, was thinking about a certain redhead. That certain redhead seemed to be sleeping just a couple feet away from him.
He always thought about her.
He always thought about everything about her.
Her silky red hair, not like any other.
Her emerald green eyes, almond shaped. He had never seen anything like it. Because of Lily, emerald green was now one of his favorite colors, next to red and gold.
He even knew the number of freckles on her face: 187.
Lily was breathing very softly. She was thinking about how she met everyone.
The very first person she met at Hogwarts was Sirius Black:
Lily Evans, 11 years old, was about to board the train. But there was only one problem.
She couldn't pick up her bags.
She tried again, this time breaking the handle.
Great, she thought.
"One, two, three, PULL!" Lily said trying again to pick up her heavy luggage.
But this time she did manage to pick it up. And it seemed much lighter than she thought.
Lily looked back to see why her bags were so light. She saw a young boy, about her age, carrying it for her.
He had black hair, and a fairly tan skin. His gray eyes showed all his emotions. She had to admit, he was awfully handsome, for someone so young.
He smiled at her after loading her luggage onto the train.
The smile made Lily almost melt.
"Hey, I'm Sirius Black." He said extending a hand out towards her.
"I'm Lily Evans." She said taking his hand.
"Nice to meet you Lily. You have very beautiful eyes." He said.
Lily smiled. "Thank you."
"Would you like to sit with me?" He asked.
"Um, sure." Lily said, she didn't have anywhere else to sit.
"Great! You can come meet my friends!" He said.
Lily had forgotten she hadn't thanked him for carrying her bags.
"Oh and thanks for taking my bags. I appreciated it." Lily said.
"It was nothing." He said making Lily blush.
He opened the door to a compartment and went in.
Lily followed him.
As soon as she entered, everything went quiet.
3 boys were staring at her.
"Wow. You're beautiful." A chubby kid said staring at her.
He had blond hair and watery blue eyes. If Lily had seen him anywhere else, she'd have thought he was a 6 year old.
"Thank you." She said nervously, scooting closer to Sirius.
"That's Peter Pettigrew." Sirius said introducing the guys.
They heard a loud thump.
One of the guys had fallen out of his seat.
"The one playing wizard chess is Remus Lupin. And the one who fell off his seat is James Potter." Sirius finished.
"Guys, this is Lily Evans." Sirius said.
"Hey!" Remus.
"What year are you in?" James asked.
"Um this will be my first year." Lily said.
"Same here! What house do you want to be in?" He asked again.
"House?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, there are four houses. Wait, are you a muggleborn?" He asked.
"Muggleborn?" Lily asked again. She was so confused.
"Yeah you probably are. Muggle is someone who can't do magic. Muggleborn means you can do magic, but you come from a muggle family." Remus explained.
"Oh, then yes, I guess." Lily said blushing.
"Cool! Okay here are the types of houses. There is Slytherin, which is full of bad and evil people. You don't want to end up in their house. Then there is Hufflepuff, where all the stupid people and loyal people go. Then there is Ravenclaw, which is for smart people. and last, but not least, is GRYFFINDOR! All the brave and great people go there! That's where everyone wants to go!" Sirius said.
"Then I guess I want to be in Gryffindor." Lily said.
Lily took a minute to look at the boys.
James had very messy hair, and he kept messing it even more, which annoyed Lily. He had caramel eyes and pink cheeks. He was pretty tall for his age, he and Sirius were about the same height. Like Sirius, Lily thought James was pretty cute.
But soon that thought was going to go away like a breeze.
Suddenly, they heard a scream that was soon followed by some loud stomping and banging on the door.
James and Sirius both had looks of horror on their faces.
The door opened.
Standing there was one of the prettiest 11 year old Lily had ever seen, if she was even 11. Even with purple hair, Lily thought she was pretty.
"JAMES HAROLD POTTER! SIRIUS WHATEVER YOUR MIDDLE NAME IS BLACK! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" The pretty girl said.
"Oh um hey Victoria." James said.
"DON'T CALL ME VICTORIA! COME HERE YOU LITTLE—" She didn't finish because she had seen Lily.
"Tori, this is Lily Evans." Sirius said shuffling behind Lily.
"Oh. My. God." Tori said shaking her head.
"You…you…son of a bi—"
"Now, now Tori. I don't think we should be using those words at a time like this." James said shaking his finger.
"JUST WAIT UNTIL I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!" Tori said lunging forward.
The boys dodged the girl and ran out of the compartment screaming.
Tori let them go, but glared at the two boys left. Getting quite uncomfortable, they too left like their mates, just not screaming.
Now Lily was in a room with a crazy pretty purple head girl. As you could guess, Lily felt like doing the same thing James and Sirius did. But for some reason, something stopped her from running out of the compartment like a lunatic.
"I am so sorry um Lily?" Tori said.
"Yeah it's Lily. It's um it's okay. What happened?" Lily asked.
"Take a guess." Tori said.
"Your hair?" Lily guessed.
"How did you know?" Tori said sarcastically.
Lily laughed nervously. She was still a little scared, though it wasn't as uncomfortable as before.
"I'm uh sorry." Lily said.
"Oh no problem. You had it even worse. Though yours does go well with your eyes. But mine actually matches my shirt." Tori said smiling.
Lily was confused.
"Look at your hair." Tori said seeing the confused face on Lily.
Lily's eyes widened.
She felt like crying. She had gone like this for god knows how long without realizing it.
"It's okay. They do that all the time. I've known James since the second I was born. Seriously though. I bet I saw him before I even saw my parents. We just met Sirius at Diagon Alley. He and James became instant best friends. When you put bad and bad together you get even worse! When they're together god knows what they can do. So when we first came onto the train I met someone whom I thought could control them a little bit. Remus Lupin. We became friends and I introduced him to them. I left them in a compartment together and 5 minutes later, the three were inseparable. I don't know how the other kid came along but somehow now all four of them are inseparable." Tori said.
Lily just stared at her. That was a long speech. It was so long, Lily doubted it would make a difference if Tori had even added her whole life story.
"Just please don't hate them. I promise they are really fun to hang around with. But I don't know about that Peter guy since I've haven't met him, but I do know he is fun to scare." Tori said smiling.
Lily smiled back.
The door opened. Standing there was a slightly older girl with blonde hair and brown eyes.
"Whoa your hair." She said.
"Yeah James and Sirius did it." Tori said.
"Who else would you expect?" She said smiling.
"And who is this?" The blonde asked.
"Oh Andromeada this is Lily Evans. Lily Evans, this is Andromeada Black. Sirius's cousin." Tori said introducing both girls.
"Let me do your hair. We're almost there." Andromeada said. With a flick of her wand, both girls went back to having their regular hair color.
"Wow! Your hair! It's so red! I wish my hair was so colorful!" Tori exclaimed.
Lily laughed and blushed.
Now she took a minute to observe Tori, her new friend.
Like I said before, Tori was really pretty. She had dark brown hair, almost black, that came to her mid back. It was wavy but still extremely pretty. Her eyes were dark brown, just like a new dark brown table. Her figure was like Lily's and so was her height. She was pretty tan, but it went well with her dark hair and eyes. She was wearing lavender shirt that said "love me, hate me, either way I'm on your mind". The letters were printed in white. She was wearing a white ruffled mini skirt to go along with it and pink flip flops.
Lily looked at her own clothes. She felt kind of plain in front of Tori. She was wearing an orange shirt that with the tweety bird on it. She was wearing plain blue jeans and white flip flops.
"Who's that?" Tori asked.
"Who's what?" Lily asked.
"That bird, on your shirt. Do you like birds?" Tori asked.
"Oh um that's a um muggle, I think that's what you call it, character on television." Lily said.
"Yeah it's muggle. Are you muggleborn?"
"I think." Lily said.
Tori smiled.
"Why are you smiling?" Lily asked.
"Oh nothing. It's just that everywhere I go, everyone has always told me muggleborns are below us. But you are way too sweet and pretty to be below me. I guess they were wrong." Tori said.
Lily was still confused. "Thanks." She said hoping it was a compliment.
"Tori!" Someone said. Lily and Tori turned around to find a young boy smiling. He had brown hair and blue eyes, a pretty weird combination for Lily.
"Frank! Lily this is Frank Longbottom, Frank this is Lily Evans." Tori said once again introducing her.
"Pleasure to meet you." Frank said sweetly.
"You too." Lily replied.
Frank turned to Tori.
"This blonde girl keeps annoying me. I mean she's pretty and nice but she's so annoying!" He said.
"Where did you go?" They heard a petite voice come from the corridor.
"Hide me! That's her!" Frank said.
"Oh you mean Alice?" Tori said, but didn't get a reply for Frank was already in his hiding spot.
"Oh hey Tori and…" Alice struggled.
"Lily." Lily said.
Frank came out of his hiding place and was now behind Alice.
"Have you guys seen Frank?" Alice asked.
Frank started moving his hands violently and shaking his head.
"Yeah he's right behind you." Tori said smiling.
Lily giggled.
Frank's eyes widened.
"Frank! Where were you?" Alice said walking out of the compartment with the terrified young boy.
How they got together, will be a huge mystery.
"So what house do you want to be in?" Tori asked Lily.
"I think Gryffindor, that's what those boys said."
Tori smiled.
"They weren't lying to you. I want to be in Gryffindor too." Tori said.
There was a knock on the door.
"For once somebody actually knocks!" Tori said. Lily admired Tori; she wasn't a shy girl at all.
Tori opened the door.
"Hey can I sit with you guys? I bumped into Malfoy and the gang and I'm sorta running from them." the girl said.
"Malfoy…god I hate that kid." Tori said narrowning her eyes.
"Yeah you can sit." Lily said.
"By the way I'm Katherine but call me Kate…I hate the name Katherine." Kate said sitting down.
"I'm Victoria, but call me Tori. Like you, I hate my real name." Tori said.
"And um I'm just Lily. My parents loved flowers. They named my sister Petunia. My mom's name is Daisy." Lily said trying to find something about her name.
Both girls laughed.
"Let's get revenge on James and Sirius. They turned my hair purple and Lily's green." Tori said after half an hour.
"I thought Andromeada said we were almost there though, will we have any time?" Lily asked.
"Ha Andromeada thinks 5 hours is 5 minutes." Tori said.
The three girls went to go find the boys. But they didn't have to walk very far for James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were just outside their compartment.
"What are you guys doing here?" Tori asked.
"Well, we were getting bored so we came to apologize." James said looking very innocent.
"Hey who are you?" Sirius asked looking at Kate.
"Kate. You?" Kate said.
This started another episode of introducing.
"Anyone want to play exploding snap?" Sirius asked.
"I love that game! No one has every beaten me at it." Kate said.
"Well be prepared for some losing then." Sirius said smiling.
"You're going down." Kate said.
They started playing.
Lily was watching them, amazed.
Sirius lost one and something exploded.
Lily screamed.
Everyone laughed.
"Lily are you good at chess?" Remus asked.
"Um yes." Lily said wondering if wizards play chess.
"How about a game of wizard chess then?" Remus said.
"Wizard chess? What's the difference." Lily asked.
"You'll see."
That's how Lily got to love wizard chess.
"Your friend has the best eyes." James said talking to Tori.
"You like her?" Tori asked smiling.
James heard some noises coming from outside. He opened the door, hoping Tori forgot about the question.
There were two older kids snogging. The girl was pushed up against the wall.
"Ew!" The group chorused, and Tori slammed the door.
(Remember: they are only eleven)
Tori stood by the door as if guarding it.
Sirius got up from his seat and went over to her.
"I have to go to the loo." He said.
"The loo? Who's loo? Is she a girl?" Tori asked confused. Tori was having a little misunderstanding.
"No! The loo loo!" Sirius yelled jumping up and down.
"Loo loo? That's a pretty name." Tori said.
At this point people were rolling on the floor and crying they were laughing so hard.
Sirius rolled his eyes.
"I. Have. To. Go. To. The. Bathroom! Otherwise known as the LOO!"
"Oh! Sorry." Tori said blushing.
"And I thought I was the blonde." Kate said.
Lily Evans woke up to some laughter. She opened one eye and saw Sirius staring at her and smiling.
She groaned.
Lily stopped in the middle of her groaning because she realized they had found Sirius.
Lily sat up in bed.
"Where's Tori and Kate?" She asked looking at the three boys.
Remus, Sirius, and James laughed.
"Why are you guys laughing?" Lily asked.
"Evans you talk in your sleep! And you were laughing too!" James said.
"Shut it Potter." Lily scowled.
"Where did you guys come from?" She asked looking towards the two other boys.
"Well you see Lily…when a mommy and a daddy—"
"That's getting old Sirius." Lily said crossing her arms.
"Well what happened was… we were looking all over for you then me and Sirius got tired so we were going to check in this hotel to sleep and Kate and Tori wanted to go shopping…god knows why…and James sleepwalks a lot, so while we were going to our room, James here opened up the door in his sleep, and well you can guess what happened from there." Remus said.
"So…Kate and Tori are shopping?" Lily asked.
"Like I said, god knows why." Remus answered.
"They said they would meet us here when they are done, so we can go sit in that lounging area." Sirius said.
"This top is so cute!" Kate said holding a green shirt up.
"I've always wanted to shop this late at night." Tori said smiling and coming out of the fitting room, wearing an orange and white tube top with a denim pair of jeans.
"That tube top with your black hair doesn't look that good." Kate said.
"Really? I like it." Tori said looking at herself in the mirror.
"Nah. Try baby blue or hot pink." Kate said holding up two similar tops.
"Hey Kate. Thanks for keeping my mind off my father. I actually forgot totally about it while we were shopping." Tori said, her eyes looking distant.
"Hey what are friends for? It's okay to cry a little and be sad. That's all part of being human." Kate said hugging Tori.
"Let's go back now. We have enough clothes to last us eternity without wearing them again!" Tori said wiping her tears.
"Lily! James!" Tori and Kate yelled while entering the hotel. They found them sitting on sofas.
"Tori! Kate!" Lily said hugging them.
"I see you went shopping without me." Lily said.
Tori smiled.
"Ah you are correct. But we didn't fail to get you muggle clothes either." She said.
""What about my size?"
"Hun, we are your best friends. We HAVE to know that." Kate said.
"Look! We got you this really pretty outfit! It will look great in spring!" Tori said pulling out a tangy orange knee length ruffle skirt and a soft green tank top.
"I love it!" Lily said grabbing it.
"I love it!" Sirius said mimicking Lily in a high-pitched girly voice.
The girls rolled their eyes.
The boys stuck out their tongue.
Boys. Can't live with them, can't live without them.
Girls. Can't live with them, can't live without them.
Tell me what you think! And PLEASE review! Sorry it took this long! Labor Day was the only time I had!