Lily and James: Their Summer of Love

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters…except the ones I made up.

Authors Note: Hello all! I hope everyone likes this chapter and I hope I got it up soon enough! You guys will find that there is a mean, evil little twist in here and the next chapter but I hope yall still like it! So PLEASE review because that would be so awesome!

Chapter 14: Swimming Fun

Warm. Comfy. Don't. Want. To. Move.

It was Sunday morning and Lily wasn't exactly keen on getting out of bed at the moment. It felt really early, although it was ten o'clock, and she felt oddly lazy. Opening her eyes for a brief second, the sunlight practically blinded her, causing her to quickly shut them again. She was not going to get up. With a sigh she settled for just thinking, since she didn't plan on moving any time soon and since she was now fully awake. Lily'd been doing a lot of that lately. Thinking.

The past week had been tense. Lily and James barely spoke to each other if they could help it, their friends kept badgering them about it, and this part of their summer (for Lily at least) was currently sucking.

Okay. She knew that James had expected them to pick up right where they left off: the kissing, hand-holding, and the sweet little comments they made to each other. But let's face it. It would just be too weird. It isn't as if she couldn't forgive him because she did!—She just needed some more time. Not to mention she was totally humiliated. She'd made a huge scene, just to find out that she was wrong the whole time.

Lily unwillingly opened her eyes once more, as her pondering was interrupted by a loud series of bangs on her door.

"LILY!' yelled the voice of Payton, causing Lily only to want to burrow further beneath the warm blankets. There was nothing—absolutely nothing that could make her get out of this bed. Nothing.

"BREAKFAST IS READY!"

With a squeal, Lily had her robe and slippers on, before taking a quick look into the mirror and rushing downstairs. She was met with the fragrant smell of chocolate chip pancakes and bacon. She was also met with people looking at her rather oddly, as she sat down on a stool, fork and knife resting readily in her hands.

"What? I'm hungry!" she said defensively, while James set a stack of pancakes in front of her followed by some milk.

"Yay!" she squealed joyously, and hungrily tucked in to her food. Riley raised an eyebrow at Lily, who seemed different this morning. She just couldn't put her finger on it. "Er—Lils? Are you alright this morning? You seem…"

"Happy?" Sirius finished for her, walking into the kitchen, his hand covering his mouth as he finished stifling a yawn. He was wearing red and blue striped pajama pants and a plain white t-shirt.

Riley shrugged. "Yeah..." she finished lamely, giving Sirius a quick kiss.

Lily looked up, glancing around at James for a moment before answering. "Well…yeah. I guess I am happy." She said with a small smile. "Anyways. Do you guys realize that we have been here for almost a month and a half, and we haven't gone swimming yet?"

James turned around to look at her, wiping his hands on a towel as he sat down himself. "Yeah, I think we should go—" his sentence was cut off when two people entered the kitchen, the girl being carried and both laughing and one of them only half dressed.

"Moony! Payton! Go get a room!" Sirius yelled, though a highly amused expression covered his features at the look on his shirtless friends face.

"Looks like they've already been in a room." Lily said with a grin, as the two realized they were in the company of others and were now blushing fiercely.

"Oh—er…" Payton stuttered, as Remus slowly put her down.

"W-we were just—we fancied a walk..." Remus lamely finished for her. Payton nodded furiously. "Yes, a walk! We fancied a walk!"

Riley couldn't keep an amused laugh from escaping. "Right. A walk." She said, her voice filled with disbelief.

Payton glared at her. "We did go out for a walk!" she said defensively. Riley held up her hands. "Alright, alright! No one said that you didn't..." she said, a teasing note in her voice.

"Actually, I say that they didn't!" Sirius piped up, receiving a rude hand gesture from Remus. "Personally I've never needed to take my shirt off to go for a walk."

The two ignored him.

"So… Did someone say swimming?" Payton asked taking a seat next to Remus.

Lily grinned, finishing her pancakes. "Yeah. I'm in!" she said.

She was met with a chorus of, "Me too!" from everyone else.

Standing up Riley pulled both Lily and Payton up. "Well then, we are going to go get ready and we'll meet you guys out there." She said, somewhat bossily.

"Hey, can I come too?" Sirius asked cheekily. Riley just threw him a 'don't-even-think-about-it' look before turning round to go upstairs.

Before Lily knew what she was doing, she was standing on her tiptoes and kissing James quickly on the cheek, as she had done when they had been together. "Thanks for the breakfast, James—oh, er—sorry…" she muttered, before blushing a deep crimson and running up the stairs after Riley and Payton.

---Later---

Lily looked at herself in the mirror, grinning at the two other girls beside her.

"We look HOT!" Riley yelled, followed by a laugh. Lily had to agree. They didn't look bad, that was for sure.

Payton's bathing suit was a hot pink two-piece. She adjusted the strings on her top, which was cut just low enough so that she showed a decent amount of skin but covered enough so that she didn't embarrass herself.

Riley's suit was a great pattern of blue and pink stripes that looked beautiful with her eyes. The strings tied around her neck and ribcage, and the top was adjustable to her fit. Her bottoms were low-cut and had a belt already tied for decoration.

Now Lily. Lily looked like an angel. Her bikini was pure white, except for a tiny green heart stitched on one side of her bottoms. Her top hooked in the back and tied around the neck, with a small metal ring in the middle, allowing the show of just a bit of skin in-between her upper regions. Her bottoms had strings on the sides, which she was now tying into bows.

After they had adjusted and re-adjusted their bikinis they put on shirts and shorts on over them and they were done.

Lily smiled at the three reflections. "Ready to go?"

Payton grinned. "C'mon!"

"Let's knock 'em dead!" Riley said loudly, before they left the bathroom. Laughing the girls grabbed towels and headed outside to James' pool.

Giggling Riley said, "They're mouths are going to fall off when they see us—" she stopped talking when she knocked into Payton who had knocked into Lily who had stopped, her mouth slightly opened. Riley looked around the two girls in front of her to see what they were staring at.

"Oh, Merlin…" she breathed.

There, right in front of them, were three of the finest looking guys in only their bathing suits. Remus. He was the leanest one of the three but he looked just as good. Besides some of the terrible scars that were on his arms that were the result of him being a werewolf (Lily had figured this out for herself in her third year, though she told no one), he was nicely tanned, and wearing plain blue swimming trunks.

Sirius was wearing yellow and blue swimming trunks. You could see every muscle move with whatever he did. He had the broadest shoulders of anyone they had ever seen.

James. Sweet Merlin, James. Lily had to take a moment to get her breath back when she looked at him. He had on red and white swimming trunks. They fit him perfectly. He had a perfectly sculpted, dark, tanned body, most likely from playing quidditch and that hair was just as wonderfully messy as ever—damn he saw her staring.

With her cheeks burning she tore her gaze away from him as they reached the pools edge.

"See something you like, Evans?" he teased, though looking quite pleased about himself.

With a scoff she rolled her eyes. Of course she saw something she liked. Not that she would tell him that.

Instead, deciding to say nothing she walked in front of the giggling two best friends of hers and laid her towel down.

Riley and Payton laid theirs down beside hers and they all began to take off their t-shirts and shorts. When Lily had hers off, she saw James staring at her—which she thought was a perfect opportunity to throw his words back in his face. "See something you like, Potter?" she teased, and had to bite her bottom lip after she said it to keep from laughing.

Unlike she had done though, he just grinned without the faintest trace of pink cheeks. Somewhat abashed that he didn't seem embarrassed she turned around to find that Riley and Payton were already in the pool with both Remus and Sirius. As of now they were playing chicken. And as of now Riley has won.

With one more glance towards James and his sexy self, she walked to the waters edge, testing it first with her toe.

The water was freezing.

"Erm—I think I'll just stay out for a while.." she started with a slight shiver, and began to turn around.

"Oh, no you don't!" Someone yelled, and before she knew it they had grabbed her round the waist and threw her in the water, jumping in after her.

She came up spluttering in indignation and freezing cold. "James!" she yelled, furiously, her green eyes glaring at the messy-haired boy in front of her.

He just cocked his head to the side and said as innocently as possible with his cute little puppy dog face, "What did I do?"

Finally (after a much enjoyable splash-fight with James) she got used to the water and swam over to Payton who was shrieking and squealing as Remus kept grabbing her legs from underwater, and Riley who she had heard saying, "Maybe you could stop goggling at me underwater and we can go to the bedroom later…" to Sirius, who immediately took the goggles off, an impish grin on his face.

"Riley, have you and Sirius already--!" she asked in a soft whisper, though not needing to finish the question as Riley's eyes widened.

"No! Of course not!" she whispered back. Then with a devilish glint in her eye held just for teasing Lily she added, "Well, not yet anyways…"

Lily just gave her a look.

There small discussion was interupted when: "WHO WANTS ANOTHER ROUND OF CHICKEN?" Sirius bellowed loud enough for the whole community to hear.

There was a chorus of "ME!'s all around. Lily grinned at the other two and swam towards James.

""I s'pose we're partners then?" he said with a smirk.

"I suppose so." She answered witha grin, just as he ducked under water. When he was completely under he motioned with his hands for her to get on. Obliging she settled her legs carefully over his shoulders before tugging on his hair, telling him it was safe to get up. As he came up out of the water, Lily straightened up and watched as Riley climbed on Sirius shoulders, but fell off every time he would plant a kiss on one of her legs. She was extrememely ticklish on her legs (which was a very odd place to be ticklish on) and it seemed as if Sirius knew it. Payton was already atop Remus' shoulders and was softly playing with his hair, while he absent-mindedly stroked just above her knee. It was those little gestures that showed how much they cared for each other.

Finally Riley got settled and sent Lily a smirk. "You're going down." She mouthed to her. Lily just shook her head and mouthed back, "In your dreams!".

"Everyone ready?" started Remus. "All right. ONE, TWO, GO!"

The fight started off with Riley and Payton. It didn't take very long to knock Payton down who wasn't exactly as strong as Riley since she was on the quidditch team and easily lost balance. Both she and Remus were a good sport about it though. Now Sirius turned to James, whose hands were holding tightly onto Lily's thighs.

"You know you can't beat me Riles!" Lily teased her, loving to get her friend all wound up.

Riley made a 'yeah, right.' Sound as Sirius walked closer to the pair. The girls grabbed each others hand pushing and tugging, but neither was willing to lose. Finally, Riley gave a hard push and Lily began to fall. Unfortunately, Riley's finger got caught in the strings of her bathing suit. There was a loud ripping sound and as Lily went down, her top flew off.

As she made a large splash in the water, she finally came up, her face beet red as she covered herself up. Looking up, she prayed that James didn't see—damn he had. He was just ogling at her. He had gotten a full peep show. Oh, well. What was done was done. She just couldn't ever face him in a bathing suit again—or ever worked for her.

It was then that Riley jumped off of Sirius and swam quickly over to her. "I am so sorry, Lils! I did not mean for that to happen at all! My finger got caught and—"

She stopped at the growing mortification on Lily's face.

"It's alright Lily, don't worry about it. James won't say anything embarassing…"

Lily glanced at Riley again, confusion on her face for a moment. "No, it's not that…it's just—that was my favorite bikini!"

Authors Note: All right first of all I split this chapter up into two. At first it was called Swimming and Romantic Gestures but Romantic Gestures will be the next chapter since I was having a hard time with this one between cheerleading, homework, chorus practice and so much other stuff. So I'm just putting this one up and the next one should be up soon. I am very sorry if it takes me a while longer to get my chapters up but with school going again, it'll be a bit hard cause I'm so busy. I PROMISE I WON'T QUIT ON THIS STORY THOUGH! Or the sequel. So tell me if you liked this chapter or not. Please do! And review! Reviews make me all fuzzy inside! Just in: Lily and James WILL be back together in at least……3-4 chapters so be looking for that! Thanks and I love yall!

xoxoxo

Riley