Can't Buy Me Love Chapter 11: The Truth Comes Out, a harry potter fanfic

Can't Buy Me Love

Summary: Lily paid James for him to pretend to like her, to impress a boy. Well, James isn't pretending anymore, but how will she ever know with HIM in the way?

Disclaimer: As always, I own nothing but the plot and optional characters. Andy Williams owns the first song in this chapter, the second is MINE!

The Truth Comes Out

To say that Vernon Dursley was shocked would be an understatement.

To say that he went crazy, that would be an understatement too.

"A…w…wha?...she…he…sa-said…" Vernon stumbled over his words for a few minutes, and then went into complete shock. "Witch?" he finally managed to get out.

Petunia smiled fake, "Uh, witch! Haha, there's no such thing!" She said standing up and washing the dishes.

Vernon stood up and walked behind Petunia and put his hands on her shoulders. "I think you're not telling me something." he said.

Petunia cleared her throat. "Uhh…well you see…Lily…is well, she's a witch." Petunia finally blurted out.

"A…witch?" Vernon asked.

"She doesn't go to a boarding school, she goes to a place called Hogwarts with…her kind." Petunia said disgusted.

"What did that boy say about cursing you?" He asked.

"She has a stick thing that can do… magic." she spitted out the last word, she hated it.

Vernon frowned. "Oh." he said.

Petunia sniffled, "Is…is that okay?"

"No, it's not okay." He said. He took her hands in his. "But I'm marrying you, not her." Petunia smiled and went back to cleaning the dishes.

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"Look Lils, there's the big dipper." James said pointing to the sky.

Lily looked up and saw the big dipper. "I thought only muggles knew of that." she said.

James smiled down at her, "Well now you do."

"So James-" she started. "Tell me something about yourself." she said.

"Like what?" he asked.

"What's you favorite color?" She asked. '

"Red." he answered. "You?"

Lily pondered it for a moment and then said, "Blue."

James' eyebrows shot up, "Blue is so gloomy!" he exclaimed.

"No it's not!" Lily protested. "It has depth to it. And there are so many shades of blue. Blue brings out emotion." she said.

"Okay." James said looking as if he actually believed her. "What's you favorite food?" he asked.

Lily laughed. "You're going to laugh when I say this." she said. "My absolute favorite food in the world…is bread." she said.

James laughed. "Bread?" she looked away. "Why?" he asked.

"Because you can put so many different things on top." He kept laughing. "Honestly James, it's not that funny!" he stopped laughing. "What's yours?"

"Easy." He said. "Anything Hogwarts or my mum makes." he said bringing her closer.

Lily laughed. "I figured that." she said. "Hmm…where is, or what is your favorite getaway?" she asked.

James said without hesitation, "Flying. I love flying." he said. "What about you?" he asked.

Lily bit her lip in concentration. "Oh god…they're a lot of things. But I guess I would have to say that it's definitely singing." she said. "Because sometimes, you just can't say something. So I put it in lyrics, you get it out and in a way that's beautiful." she said. "To me, and to everyone." she added. "But I also love dancing. I haven't danced since my grandma died thought."

James smiled. "I've never heard you sing before." he said.

Lily chuckled. "Most people haven't." she said. "My songs are private."

"Will you sing one for me?" he asked.

"What?" she asked.

"Sing, for me. A song." he said.

Lily smiled, "No, I heard you but I just can't believe someone asked." she took in a deep breath.

"Will you?" he asked.

Lily smiled and sighed. "Why not?" she said.

"You are my sunshine

My only sunshine

You make he happy

When skies are gray

You'll never know dear

How much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

I'll always love you

And make you happy

If you'll only say the same

But if you go to

Love another

You'll regret it all someday

You told me once dear

You really loved me

And no one else could come between

But now you've gone to

Love another

You have shattered all my dreams." She finished.

James was astounded. Lily's voice was like an angel, but had an angry strong twist to it. "Wow…." he said, that was all he could say.

Lily blushed. "Was that what you wanted?" she asked.

"I was going to ask you to sing one of your songs, but that was…wow…" he said.

"I'll sing you one of my songs if you want." She said. James smiled as a sigh of yes. Lily closed her eyes.

"What no one knows
is that in the middle of the night
She gets up and sits by the fire
Every memory
For every pain that he's caused her
Is a line in a song
Original and free
She feels
Like there's no worries
While she's sitten there
In the big brown chair

The ink washes her pain away.
her grandmother dying
The fear of flying
and the tears that so softly run down her cheek
means nothing to anyone
for anyone who knows
what she's gone through
can't comprehend
can't understand

She comes from a family
who could care less
about her well being.
Her mommy and daddy
do they even know
what been going on?

When she boards that
she looks out the window to see their faces
but all she sees are strangers staring back at her

bridge: When the moonlight shines through her window
and the stars are out dancing
she pulls out her notebook

Can't understand, can't understand ohh…

What no one knows
is that in the middle of the night
She gets up and sits by the fire
Every memory
For every pain that he's caused her
Is a line in a song
Original and free
She feels
Like there's no worries
While she's sitten there
In the big brown chair" she finished.

"I know, it's not all that great but, I just made it up off the top of my head." she said looking away.

James smiled, "I think it was good." he said.

"You're just saying that." She said.

"What if I am?" he asked.

Lily sighed, "You want to owl you mom or something?" she asked.

James stood up and offered her his hand, "Why don't we go and talk to my mom?" he asked.

Lily smiled, "Oh god, now?" she asked walking inside.

"Yup." James said leading her over to the fireplace. He grabbed some floo powder out of his pocket.

"Do you carry that around everywhere?" she asked.

"You never know when you need a quick escape." He said smiling. He stepped into the fireplace as did Lily. "Cheer up Lils, it'll be fine." he said. "Potter Mansion." he said and they disappeared into the green flames.

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"Was that the fireplace?" Kyle Potter said, taking his eyes off of the muggle TV.

"I think so." Anne Potter said from next to him. "Let's check it out." she said getting up. Her husband took his wand out in front of him and Anne, incase someone was breaking in. (A deatheater they were afraid of.)

Without a sound, Anne took her wand out of her track suite as well and carefully opened the door with precaution.

Kyle saw two people with their backs to them, coughing and dusting themselves off. He pointed his wand to the man's neck, as Anne did to the girls. "Who are you?" Kyle demanded.

James turned around, "Whoa, Dad." he said. Kyle pushed him to the wall.

"Hi?" Lily said sheepishly. Anne let her wand down and joined Kyle.

"Who are you, what do you want?" Anne demanded.

"I'm your son!" He said frightened at the two wands pointed at him.

Kyle laughed at the expression on James' face. "We got you there James." he said.

Anne laughed as well and pulled her son into a hug. "Welcome home." She walked over to the red head. "You must be Lily Evans." she said smiling.

Lily smiled at the petite woman in front of her in the white and pink track suite with her wavy honey hair pulled back in a ponytail. "Yes." she replied.

"Well welcome!" She said pulling her into a hug. James brought his dad over.

"Dad Lily, Lily dad." James said.

His dad stuck his hand out as Lily shook it he whispered to James, "She's got a firm grip. I like her."

"PRONGSIE!" A voice yelled from the door. They all turned to see Sirius (winter break had started today.) with his arms outstretched. "I missed you so much! I thought I would just DIE!"

James said, "Oh god, not another nickname." he said as Sirius came towards him. To his surprise, Sirius passed James and picked up Lily and sung her around.

As Sirius let go Lily said, "You better watch it James, Sirius here might tale your place."

But James seemed not to be listening. "Prongsie?" he said to himself.

"Yeah, you're prongs, so I thought the Misses should be Prongsie." Sirius said proud of himself.

"There's one thing wrong with that Siri." Lily started using his nickname (given from the girls).

"Do tell." he said.

"We're not married." James finished for her.

"But you will be, I can feel it!" He said jumping.

"Why don't you stay here for a few days?" Anne suggested to Lily. "Looks like you'll fit right in." she said laughing a bit.

Lily smiled, "I would love to but, I've got to plans to finalize and everything." she said.

"Nonsense, you will stay here. You can come and go as you please. I'm so sorry for the loss." Anne said sympathetically. "Now come on, let me show you your room!" She said excitedly.

James smiled to her, "She doesn't get many females in here. It's usually the Marauders my dad, me and her."

Lily smiled and followed Anne up stairs and down hallways to get to a room.

Anne smiled, "Well, here it is." she said opening the door. "I hope it's okay." she said.

Lily smiled. There was one thing her dad taught her, it was that the should never freak out and always keep her cool. Especially if she went into a expensive store, she would look at the price tags and don't go, "Wow! That's expensive!" but to just look away.

So Lily did exactly that. She looked at the room with blue walls, a huge kings size bed, with silk deep blue sheets and comforter. There was gold molding around the top, that drew Lily's eyes to the vanity, dresser, and a door which she assumed, led to a bathroom. There was a marble balcony overlooking the Potter's Quidditch pitch and the shed which held all the supplies. The floors were white marble and a few rugs here and there that were her favorite color…blue. To say at the least, this was her dream room.

Anne smiled at Lily's reaction in her eyes. "Blue's your favorite color right?" she asked.

Lily walked into the room and smiled. "How did you know?" she asked.

Anne chuckled, "James told me you wear a lot of blue. In letters of course! And I saw a picture of you; you looked like you'd like blue." she said.

Lily smiled, "But how'd you know that I was coming over?" she asked.

"I didn't! I just hoped that you would." Anne said. "Listen…" she said taking Lily's hands, "I was hoping that you would you know…want…that is ONLY if you want…to live here, permititly." she said.

Lily smiled, "How?"

"James has been sending me letters. I heard that you hate your sister. And you know, I just thought that maybe you'd want to get away." she said.

Lily laughed, "Of course." she said. "I'd love to."

Anne smiled and sighed, "Thank god. I don't get females over here often. I'm in a house full of boys all the time." she said. Lily laughed. "All your stuff's here." she said opening the drawer. Lily looked confused, "Magic my dear." she said.

Lily smiled. "Thank you, really." she said.

"I'll let you get settled then." Anne said. Looking at the clock she read that it was 6:30 "Oh, dinner's in half an hour by the way. I hope you haven't eaten."

"I'll be there." She said. "If I can find it." She muttered to herself as Anne walked out.

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"Turn left here…" Lily said looking up from a map and smiled. "Here we are!" She said happily upon seeing everyone. (Kyle, Anne James and Sirius)

James laughed, "I see you've got a map." he said.

Lily smiled and sat down next to him. "Well, this house is so big, I had to have one!" she said.

Sirius smiled, "I left that in there for you." he said. Lily laughed.

"Let the feast begin!" Kyle said.

"Ow!" James yelled halfway through dinner. Everyone looked at Sirius who was having a hard time keeping in his laughs. Everyone went back to eating.

"Ah! My eye!" Sirius said as James threw a pea at his eye.

Anne threw her roll at Kyle, who in turn threw a green bean at Sirius, who threw a piece of chick at Lily, who then poured her soup on James' head, which broke into a food fight.

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"Alright Kids, that's enough." Anne said after throwing some pudding at Sirius an hour later. "Go get cleaned up." she said ushering them out.

Lily found her room and walked into her own bathroom. She gasped. There was a huge spa bath with many faucets waiting to pour out sents from Lavender to Kiwi-Lime. There was a big mirror that spoke to you and a huge glass shower.

She turned on the shower and got in, cleaning off the food still left.

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"Lils?" James said coming in after no reply after knocking.

Lily walked out of the bathroom with just her towel on, not realizing that James was there. When she looked up she blushed a color that matched her hair color. "Uh, hi." he said.

Lily smiled, "Hello." she said putting her silk blue robe on.

James took a deep breath in looking at Lily, deciding he needed a cold shower. She walked over and gave James a kiss on the cheek. "Hold on." she said walking into the bathroom.

Minutes later she emerged in baggy plaid pants and a white cami that came above the belly button. She walked over to her vanity, brushing her hair. "What's up?" she asked pulling her hair to one side.

James walked over and kissed her bare neck. "I just wanted to say good night." he said massaging her shoulders. She laid her brush down and closed her eyes, leaning back onto the chair.

"You smell good." He complimented. "Like peaches." he said.

Lily smiled, "Why thank you." she replied while yawning.

"Come on, time for bed." James said pulling her form her chair to the bed only a few yards away.

Lily let him pull the covers back and place her in the bed. He pulled the covers up to her chin and kissed her passionately.

He pulled back, needing to take a breath. "Goodnight my flower." he said, kissed her on the forehead.

"Night Jimmy." she said.

James stopped at the door and turned the lights off, "Jimmy?" he asked.

Lily laughed tiredly. "If you can call me your flower, I can call you Jimmy." she said.

"Night babe." he said and closed the door softly behind him, telling himself that he loved this girl.

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Okay, that's all for now. It's 11 p.m. and I'm a bit tired.

Chapter should be up by Saturday I think.

Right now I'm not sure what I'm going to do next….

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-ZG