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Chapter Twelve
"So…" Maya arched her left eyebrow suggestively."So…" I wiggled my left eyebrow back at her.
"So…"
"So… what!" I finally said, slightly annoyed.
"So what's going on between you and…"
What is with this girl and not finishing sentences?
"Will you finish your thought!" I exclaimed.
Maya sighed. "What's going on between you and James? Geez, what else would I want to talk about?"
"I could think of several things-"
"Spare me the list. I want to know details!" Maya growled that last word.
"Um..." I trailed off. What was I supposed to say?
"Has she confessed!" Ellie yelled, bursting into our bedroom.
"Not yet." Maya said shaking her head sadly.
"Oh. Too bad." Ellie turned to Cassie who had appeared behind her. "She hasn't said anything."
"We might have to resort to cruder methods." Cassie said thoughtfully.
"I am surrounded by gossip hungry lunatics!" I huffed.
"Aha! So there's gossip to be told!" Ellie pointed her finger accusingly at me.
"No" I groaned. "There's no gossip. But… we are going out." I smiled, immensely happy by this.
Now you might be wondering why I hadn't gone immediately to my best friends with this news, but I liked having James to myself. Even though having my best friends know about us would hardly have taken away from our alone time, in fact it probably would have heightened it because Cassie, Maya, and Ellie would have found tons of excuses to leave James and me alone for long periods of time. I had wanted to avoid going through this though (this meaning the interrogation I was being subjected to).
"You're going out!" Cassie squealed. "As in boyfriend and girlfriend!" she ran over and hugged me.
"Yes, Cassie. As in 'boyfriend and girlfriend'." I answered. How else would be going out? As elephant and monkey?
"What do you call that, if not gossip?" Maya asked me. I just rolled my eyes in response to her sillyness.
"I've always known that you and James would end up together…" Ellie said.
"Yep. You two are perfect for each other." Maya nodded wisely.
"You are being ridiculous." I informed them. "Although, I can't deny that we are perfect for each other…"
"Okay, it's my turn now." Ellie said.
We all turned to look at her.
"I'll be quick about it, that way we can start choosing Lily's wedding dress, and James tux! Just kidding!" Ellie laughed at the glare I sent her way. "To make a longish story short, me and Remus kind of are togetherish."
"You're "kind of togetherish"?" I asked.
"How can you be "kinda togetherish"?" Cassie wondered out loud.
"I don't know how you can be. But we are kind of togetherish." Ellie said.
"Eww! Did you and Remus kiss!" Maya childishly yelled.
"Yep." Ellie grinned. "Lots and lots of times. And let me tell you—"
"Eww! I don't want to hear about you kissing my brother! That's gross, really really gross!" Maya looked slightly green.
"You'd better get used to hearing about it, 'cause you're sure gonna be seeing a lot of it!" Ellie said just to annoy Maya. And sure enough Ellie was rewarded by a loud shriek from Maya.
"Fine. We won't kiss in front of you." Ellie sighed dramatically.
"Thank god" Maya looked relieved.
"You and Remus? He never seemed 'your type'." Cassie said.
"I know. But after the whole thing with Sirius, Remus was really sweet to me. And… maybe my likes in guys have changed. I don't know. Anyway, I'm just happy with what we have right now."
"Your "kind of togetherness"?"
"Exactly." Ellie grinned at me.
"And you, Maya? What about Jon?" Cassie asked.
"Nothing. We're just friends." Maya answered.
Cassie, Ellie, and I looked at her skeptically.
"Seriously, maybe there will be something later, but for now? We're just friends. And I like it that way."
"As long as you are happy, we're happy." I said linking arms with Ellie and Maya, who in turn linked arms with Cassie.
"Lily, hurry up! I'm hungry!" James bellowed from the bottom of the stairs.
"I'm waiting for Ellie!" I yelled down. "Ellie, hurry up! Everyone is hungry!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Ellie grabbed her purse, which was lying on her bed, and raced down the stairs. I hurried after her.
Halfway down, Ellie stopped suddenly and turned to me. "Let's slide down the banister. It'll be faster that way."
"Okay." I pushed my hair, which was currently down, out of my eyes and positioned myself on the banister.
"One, two, three go!" Ellie and I yelled in unison pushing off. We both started screaming as we picked up speed going down. It reminded me of that day (it felt like years ago), when Ellie and I had slid down the banister and I had landed in James' arms.
And just like that time, I was airborne for a few thrilling seconds before finding myself cradled in his arms and looking up into his warm chocolate brown eyes.
"Hey, baby." James said softly.
"Hi." I smiled up at him.
"Will you two stop ogling each other so we can go eat?" Sirius whined.
James kissed me softly before setting me down gently.
"We're ready." I said taking his hand.
"Great. Where are we off to?" Remus asked.
We had all figured that we deserved a treat, and had decided to take ourselves out for dinner.
"Let's go to that Italian restaurant. You know, the one with the good spaghetti sauce." Cassie suggested.
"I don't like Italian." Sirius announced.
"You have for the past 12 years I've known you." James said.
"Well, today I don't." Sirius made a face.
"Sirius, you can't change your food likes overnight." James pointed out.
"I can."
"I guess you're going to have to starve then." Remus said.
"You have no sense of appreciation for those people who are sensitive to food!" Sirius protested.
I was opening my mouth to say "Sirius, you're was hardly sensitive to food seeing as you devour anything that remotely resembles food." When James put his arm around me and leaned in close to whisper into my ear, "Leave it."
I sighed regretting the chance to verbally spar with Sirius. Oh well, I could always do that another time. And Cassie would enjoy the opportunity to flirt with Sirius.
Instead I thought about this summer. This had been a truly… interesting? amazing? No… this had been a truly life changing summer, I thought as I walked out the door.
I was holding hands with the man whom I had previously hated, but now was pretty sure I would love for forever.
And I was surrounded by a group of people who –before this summer- I would've never thought could be in a room together without murdering each other, but could now be in a room together and would only…. well, bicker constantly; as they were doing now. But at least there was no blood being spilt.
"Liiiilly! Earth to Liiilleeee!" Ellie sang annoyingly. When she saw I was paying attention she said. "I'm right, aren't I?" she gave me a pointed look.
"Um, yeah. Of course." I had no clue what she was talking about.
"HA HA HA!" Ellie cackled madly.
"That's not fair!" whined Sirius.
"Sirius quit complaining." Remus scolded. "Ouch!" Remus said a second later. "How come you never inflict physical pain on Cassie's foot when she's trying to put you in line?"
"It's because I'm special." Cassie wrapped her arms around Sirius' middle.
"Remus, I'm sure if you gave Sirius a good make-out session, he'd be more willing to forgive your patronizing comments." James said.
"Eww!" both Sirius and Remus exclaimed.
"Hmm. Sirius and Remus…" Jon considered it. "You'd make a pretty cute couple…"
"Eww!" Sirius and Remus said again before both tackled Jon onto the grass in the front yard.
"Boys are so immature." Maya muttered.
"Tell me about it." I laughed.
"And yet, what would you do without us?" asked James.
"Live a peaceful live?" suggested Cassie.
"Live a boring life, more like." James said.
"I'm hungry!" said Maya. "I want to eat!" She started kicking Sirius, Remus, and Jon's shins.
"Ow ow ow!" Sirius, Remus, and Jon sprang away from Maya -and each other.
"C'mon you big babies." Maya started walking to the bus stop (Cassie had refused to apparate. "I can't do it right before eating!" she claimed). The rest of us hurried to catch up.
The end.
Wow. I can't believe it's over.
I would like to thank a millions times all you people who have read my story! You're awesome, and I can't begin to explain how much your reviews mean to me! Thank you!
Your grateful author,
SilverTiger
Another Authors Note: Here's a brief thing on what happens to some of the characters.
Ellie and Remus stay together for half of the Hogwarts school year before mutually deciding to split up. They remained close friends though.
Cassie and Sirius remained together until after Graduating Hogwarts and beyond. That is, until Sirius was convicted of being a Death Eater and sent to Azkaban. Cassie didn't believe Sirius would kill James and Lily, but she never found out the truth from him.
Maya and Jon see each other a few times after going back to their individual schools. After Hogwarts Maya travels to the U.S.A and meets Jon there. They start dating.
James and Lily get married after graduating from Hogwarts. They have a beautiful wedding with Sirius, Remus, Peter, Jon, as the bride-grooms, and Maya, Cassie, Ellie and Petunia as bridesmaids. They have a son named Harry. Unfortunately they are murdered by Peter Pettigrew when Harry is only a few years old (Note: See Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone).
Thanks again,
Rachel