Disclaimer! Most of the characters and locations are from J.K Rowling. However, the plot and several of the characters are mine.

Chapter 2: An old friend, new boyfriend

Lily, after thirty minutes of buying school books, made her way to the door when she spotted someone very familiar.

"LILY!" said Lily's best friend entering the bookstore.

"ANGELICA!" Lily rejoiced as she pulled Angelica into a hug.

"So how was your summer?" asked Angelica happily

"Oh, it was good, except for the usual: Petunia, Potter," said Lily giggling.

The girls got their books and began window shopping and occasionally going in to buy either stuff for school or things they wanted.

"Oh Lily, look! Let's go here!" exclaimed Angelica, pointing to an ice cream parlour. Lily rolled her eyes. Angelica absolutely loved ice cream.

"Um, I would like cookies and cream," said Angelica to the ice cream lady. "What do you want?" Angelica asked, turning to Lily.

"I'll have the same," said Lily.

They sat down at a small table, and, much to Lily's dismay, James and Sirius had found the ice cream parlour as well.

"Fancy seeing you here," said James smirking.

"Not much to my fancy, actually, now that you point it out," retorted Lily aggressively.

James ignored it, though, and he and Sirius went up to get some ice cream.

"So..." James said as he and Sirius pulled up a chair to sit with the girls.

"How are my favourite girls doing these days?" asked James with a charming smile. Sirius couldn't talk though: he was busy scarfing down his ice cream.

"Fine," Lily mumbled.

"Good. How was your summer?" asked Angelica. Lily glared at her for responding to Potter.

"Quite pleasant, thank you, Angelica," replied James, smiling teasingly at Lily.

"Yeah! We have loads of pranks planned this year!" exclaimed Sirius as he had his last bite of ice cream.

"Like what?" asked Lily suspiciously.

"Now what would be the fun in telling you?" said Sirius, smiling.

"If any are on me, then it won't be too much fun when I'm through with you," Lily muttered darkly.

The first time she met James, she had accidentally fallen in on one of James' pranks. He had been trying to turn Snape into a wombat, and Lily had just gotten on the train in front of Snape. Needless to say, she was so angry that she refused to have anything to do with him. She, in turn, hexed him so that he would say anything he was thinking out loud. Once or twice he would say, "you're pretty," or even worse, "I really like you!" to Lily. Once it wore off, he decided to get revenge and jinxed her so she would never stop talking about how great he was. She would uncontrollably say things like: "James is the best Quidditch player alive!" against her will. That was only the beginning.

"You think so?" said James amused.

"HA! You have no idea what I'm capable of" said Lily hotly.

"And you me" replied James grinning suggestively.

"Let the games begin" said Lily smirking.

"Okay then" said James. He whispered "if you ever want me to give in, my question still stands" and with that he and Sirius got up to leave.

"Baboon" Lily yelled back at him, reminding him that she would rather date a baboon before she dated him.

He stared at her and she smiled innocently at him.

"What was that?" asked Angelica.

"Oh it was nothing" Lily grinned. "Come on, let's go"

James watched Lily from a distance, who was looking at beautiful, dangling, silver and pearl earrings.

Lily gazed and the window and sighed. She knew she would never get them, they were too expensive.

"Oh Lily! Let's go in here!" Angelica said pulling Lily into the candy store.

"Come on Prongs! It's Albert's Joke Shop!" said Sirius jumping.

"Here, I'll meet you there, just give me a second," James said as he crossed the street and seeing his breath through the cold air.

He made his way to where Lily was standing half a second ago, looked in the glass showcase and smiled. Little to anyone's knowledge, James had decided to make an extra purchase.

"mmm, I always love a good Susan Scrumptious Lolly!" said Lily licking her lollypop as they walked out of the store.

Angelica nodded as she chewed on her candy bar. "So," she said while swallowing, "think we should start heading back yet?"

"Uhh," said Lily as she pulled up her sleeve and looked at her wrist watch, "no, it's only half past two, I have fifteen minutes."

" I'm meeting my parents now, but you can walk around with us because my brother wants to get a new broomstick—he's on the Quidditch team!" she said.

Lily had already met her brother before. He was in seventh year (a year ahead of them) and was pretty handsome. He had dirty blond hair and brown eyes and Lily was quite fond of him.

"That sounds good," Lily said. Thankfully she wouldn't want to have to stay with James and Sirius.

They went into Hogshead and saw her parents and brother waiting.

"Hello dear, oh and hello Lily!" At the sound of Lily's name, Chris, Angelica's brother turned around and smiled shyly at Lily. "Have you gotten all your books?" Angelica's mum asked politely.

"Yes" they answered in unison.

"Good, good, not giving you too much trouble, Sirius and James?" she asked smiling. She knew James liked Lily but also knew that Lily got easily angered by him.

"Not too much," Lily smiled.

They walked out of Hogshead and went through the filled streets of children and some older students and parents.

"Now let's get in here" her mother ushered in the Broomsticks, Bats, and Books store.

Lily and Angelica waited by the broomstick repair items aisle, while Chris was wearing an anticipating grin and looking at a broomstick with his mum. Occasionally he looked back at Lily to see if she was looking at him.

"He fancies you, you know" informed Angelica.

"Who? Chris?" asked Lily inwardly gleeful.

"Yeah, I could set you up if you wanted?" said Angelica.

"Do you think he would want to?" said Lily unsure.

"Yeah! He's been talking about you for ages" said Angelica contently.

Just then, Chris had walked in on their conversation.

"Mum told me to wait with you, she's buying my broomstick now!" said Chris happily.

"We were just saying how you fancy Lily" said Angelica grinning evilly and her older brother.

Lily saw Chris' ears redden and then caught her off guard by saying "so what do you think? Will you go out with me?"

Lily grinned. "Sure" she said happily. He gave her a dashing smile.

Angelica went to her mum and left Lily and Chris to talk for awhile.

Lily took a glance at her watch and gasped. "Oh! I should have met up with the Potters five minutes ago! Well, say goodbye to your mum for me!" said Lily as she kissed his cheek

"Will do" he said smiling.

"Bye Angelica!" Lily shouted at Angelica, who was waiting with her mum.

"Bye Lily! See you on the train!" said Angelica smiling.

Lily bustled through the massive crowd of students and finally caught sight of Gringotts Bank. She saw Mrs. Potter talking to a friend of hers. She rolled her eyes as she saw James and Sirius flirting with what appeared to be a fifth year girls. Lily walked up the boys.

"…Yeah, so then we put itching powder in his hair he couldn't stop scratching his head for the entire week!" cried James smoothly.

The girls broke out in high pitch giggles.

Sirius beamed. "One of our more brilliant pranks."

"Ooh do you guys want to come and shop with us?" cooed a blonde haired hair.

"Well we would but…" began James with a dashing smile. But Lily interrupted him.

Lily went up behind James and Sirius and yanked them away from the fifth year girls.

"Evans! Want me all to yourself now don't you?" asked James, grinning coyly.

"oh yeah, that's it" stated Lily sarcastically. "Because your self-centered pompous attitude is sooo appealing to me"

"Knew you'd come around," smiled James winking.

"arhhhh," groaned Lily. "Potter was so annoying!"

Lily walked up to Mrs. Potter to leave.

"sorry ladies, we're needed elsewhere" said James.

" See you later" Sirius stated giving a attractive smile and running his fingers through his hair.

"So why were you so late?" asked James as they walked out of the fire place and back into James' living room.

"It was only five minutes, and besides, you seemed pretty occupied when I got there!" cried Lily.

"Is that jealousy I hear?" questioned James raising his eye brows and smiling smugly.

"Please, don't flatter yourself" said Lily.

"That's just in our nature Lils, accept it" stated Sirius jokingly.

"So, wanna go out with me Evans?" asked James

"NO!" shouted an angry Lily.

"oh come on Evans, I bet you can't come up with one reason why you wouldn't go out with me" stated James

"I'll do better, I'll give you two! One, I hate you and two, I already have a boyfriend," retorted Lily

"WHAT, WHO?" James screamed, ignoring her first reason.

"Chris?'" said Lily calmly

"He isn't…you aren't supposed to... I mean you're supposed to…with me" James sputtered hopelessly.

"suppose to.. what?" asked Lily raising her eyebrows.

"ARHH YOU ARE INSUFFERABLE!" screamed an angry James.

"OH REALLY? WELL ATLEAST I'M NOT AN ARROGANT PRICK THAT HEXES PEOPLE FOR THE FUN OF IT!" shouted Lily as she spun on her heel and left the room.

Sirius was grinning maliciously, lying down on the couch with his feet up and his hands behind his head.

"Don't speak" James said warningly.

"What?" Sirius asked innocently. "It's not everyday you see "cool", collected Prongs stutter for a girl. I mean the summer has done her well and everything," Sirius stopped as James gave him an even more furious look.

"Sirius" he said warningly.

"Oi, don't worry I know she's yours mate!" he said defensively with his hands up.

The boys got up and made their way down the hallway and toward the stairs to put their purchases in their rooms.

"cough obsessed cough cough" said Sirius before chuckling as he and James went up stairs.

"Padfoot, shut up" said James looking seriously at Sirius.

Sirius looked at James and tried to look serious. After about five seconds, he couldn't contain it any longer, and bursted into a fit of giggles.

James rolled his eyes and with a small smile said, "You can be such an immature git sometimes Padfoot. You know that?"

"Takes one to know one," retorted Sirius.

Hi everyone! That was a slightly longer than the first chapter. I have the next few chapters ready to submit but I'll only do that if I get more reviews! Let me know what you think!

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