Lily and James: Their Summer of Love

Authors Note: It's finally here!

Disclaimer: I own nothing, blah blah blah. You know the drill.

Chapter 20: Awkward Situations

"Oh."

One word is all she said at first.

And then silence.

Clearing her throat, she began awkwardly. "Er—might I ask why?" Riley asked, fully well knowing that she had killed the mood. No more lusty, hormonal snogging for today. Serious talking and awkward silence is what would make up the most part of today. Sitting up straight on the bed, Riley tugged her hair into a pony tail and wrapped a blanket around her seeing as how she only had her undergarments on and cautiously awaited his answer as he pondered carefully, his eyes thinking hard.

"Well," he started slowly, leaning back on the bed with his hands under his head. "I suppose for the obvious reasons of course. I don't exactly fancy having little midget sized Sirius' running all over the place." he said, running a hand through his mussed hair.

After a few moments of silence, he broke it with a clear of his throat.

"Well?"

Riley looked up, slightly startled, and saw him eyeing her oddly. "Well what?" she asked, shrugging her shoulders.

"Well have you slept with anyone yet?" he asked bluntly, those grey eyes finding hers.

A blush rose to her cheeks. Sighing she wished she had never had brought this subject up.

"No." she stated, the heat not leaving her neck.

"Why not?" Sirius asked automatically, already feeling amused as her own questions were thrown back at her.

Riley gave him a look and shrugged her shoulders again as she played with a lock of her hair. "More or les the same reason I guess—and well, let's face it. It's not as if any of my relationships have been serious enough to do that." she added as an after thought.

Nodding ever so slightly, he shifted somewhat uncomfortably as a dull silence swept over them.

Clearing her throat to fill the silence she sighed. "Well this is awkward." she muttered, staring at her fingernails.

Sirius nodded again, avoiding her eyes.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Yep."

A shower.

Exactly the thing James needed. A hot, steamy, boiling—whoa, his thoughts were going places that Lily wouldn't approve of. Running a hand through his hair, he sat up from the comfortable position on his bed and stood up. Yawning lazily, he took his time walking to the bathroom. On his way, he grabbed a towel and that really good smelling soap that Lily liked.

As he reached the bathroom door, he heard water faintly running.

Rolling his eyes he opened the door. "Padfoot?" he yelled in. Sirius knew that James' bathroom was off limits. Especially his shower. He had walked in on him one too many times.

After a minute of silence and waiting, James scowled, stripping himself of his shirt and trousers as he waited for the bloody arse to finish up.

"You'd better not have used all the hot water—" he started shouting. He had stopped because he heard humming and...singing. From the shower. And it was very nice singing so there was absolutely no way in hell it could be Sirius.

Bloody.

Sodding.

Hell.

The shower turned off.

A person stepped out.

A naked person.

With red hair.

"AAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

That was exactly the sound Lily made as she frantically searched for something to cover herself with. James quickly threw his towel towards her and turned around, desperately covering his eyes with his hands.

"I am so, so, so, so, so, so sorry Lily. I didn't mean to—I never would have come in if I would have known. You see, I thought you were Sirius and I was just going to wait till he got out to tell him off for going in my shower but then it was you and you were singing and then you came out and you screamed and you did not have any clothes on and now you hate me because I walked in on you, and bloody hell I'm so, so, so, so, so sorry Lily." James rambled on, holding his hands tightly over his eyes. Lily Evans naked. Of course he had only seen her that way for about half a second, but he had to say: that half a second was glorious.

Her voice slightly shaky Lily started. "I-I'm covered James." James turned slowly around. Lily's face was so bright red it made her hair look pale in comparison. She was now completely covered in two towels and had a bath robe ready to go around her.

"I'm really sorry Lils. I swear to Merlin if I would have known.." he said.

Lily nodded. "I know, I know. I'm sorry too, I didn't mean to come in your bathroom but my shower wasn't working right. I think Sirius charmed it to spit out blue paint instead of water." she shrugged nervously.

James nodded. "Oh, er—sorry about that. I'll fix that." he muttered, clearing his throat and looking around his bathroom as if it were something interesting.

"Well, erm..I s'pose I'll just—go." he said nodding vigorously.

"Right." Lily agreed, opening the door for him, silently wanting him to leave as soon as possible.

With one last awkward look at her, James walked briskly out of the room, desperately wishing for Lily's sake that he could get the naked form of her out of his mind.

"Remus, come on!" Payton pressed, the slightly annoyed boy beside her. She had noticed that he was being more distant. More grouchy. It was rather odd, because he got like this mostly once every month. It actually reminded her of a woman's monthly. Quite annoying actually. "There is nothing wrong with me! I'm fine. Good and chipper as always!" he said sarcastically.

Payton glared at him. "There is not nothing wrong with you or else you wouldn't be acting like this! Just tell me what the problem is and then you can stop being a grouch!" she snapped back at him.

Remus only turned his head away from her. They were sitting at the table, Payton sitting across from him.

"I don't want to talk about it." he muttered angrily.

She reached for his hand. "Remus, just talk to me!" she pleaded softly. He jerked his hand away from hers, startling her.

After a flash of hurt passed over her face, she became even angrier. Scooting her chair back with a loud screeching sound she glared at him.

"I can't talk to you like this. I just want you to tell me what is wrong! I know you're hiding something from me and I can't help you if you don't tell me!"

"You couldn't help me anyways!" he yelled at her in frustration. He couldn't tell her what was wrong with him. She would leave him in a second. And well, that conversation wouldn't exactly go over well now would it? 'Hello Payton, have I got news for you! I'm a werewolf and if I'm not locked up every month I go out and kill people! Yay me!' That would certainly be a fabulous conversation.

Payton let out a large huff. "Well how am I supposed to know that, if you won't tell me what the hell is wrong with you?" she asked, close to hysterics now.

After another moment of silence from him, Payton just let out a shaky breath as her eyes fought back tears.

"Well—once you're ready to stop being so selfish and tell me what's wrong, come find me." she said quietly, walking angrily out of the kitchen, wondering just exactly how many things he was hiding from her.

authors note—WOOOHOOO! I got this chapter up! Now. I wish I could blame this very delayed reaction on the holidays but I can't. Frankly I've either been lazy or extremely busy or I just couldn't think of anything to write. I know, I know. James saw Lily naked, Payton and Remus had their first fight, Sirius and Riley are half naked talking about sex. What has the world come to, right? Lol, anyways I hope the next chapter is up soon! Review!

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