Summer of Love
Lily Evans and her best friend Athena Asimokopoulos head for a vacation in Athena's homeland—Greece. Lily expects a great summer, filled with lazy days on the beach, checking out hot Greek men and eating bizarre Greek food. However, the best part of the entire trip would be NO JAMES POTTER!
James Potter, however, is stunned when he is told he has to go to Greece for his cousins' engagement party. He doesn't want to go at all, but with some persuasion from his mother and Sirius Black, they're off.
Lily is outraged when she sees her worst enemy, James Potter in Greece! She thought she could get rid of him! James, meanwhile, is thanking himself repeatedly for deciding to come to Greece after all.
James is desperate to make Lily fall in love with him before the summer is over, but the question is—can he?
Chapter 6—The Engagement Party Part 2.
Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, do you think I'd be writing this? (Didn't think so). I only own Athena Asimokopoulos, her grandparents, Eileen, Stella and other characters you may not recognize.
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"James! Sirius! Hurry up!" Aimee shouted. "We don't want to be late!"
"I'd like to be late." James muttered, as Sirius tried to figure out how to do a tie.
"How do these bloody Muggles figure out how to do these ties?" Sirius muttered, screwing up every time he tried. "They're so annoying."
"Sirius," James glared at his friend. "They're not very hard to figure out. Here, let me show you."
After fixing Sirius's tie, he gasped, "How do Muggles breathe?"
"Boys!" Aimee yelled again, this time her voice closer to the bedroom. "Let's go!"
"All right!" James said in exasperation. "All right!"
Opening the door, both boys came face to face with James' mother.
She wore a stunning black dress that had slight sparkles at the end, and her straight brown hair had been transformed into a wonderful up do.
"You look beautiful, Mrs. Potter." Sirius said smoothly, "ten years younger."
"Oh, Sirius." Aimee blushed. "You're too kind."
James coughed something that sounded familiar to, "Suck up."
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"Are we there yet?" Athena whined after the twentieth time.
"No," Lily snapped, irritated. "You said it would take half an hour to get there. It's only been twenty minutes."
Athena slumped. "I hate long car rides. Especially these."
"Aren't your grandparents magical?" Lily asked.
"No." Athena said.
Lily rolled her eyes and checked the clock. Six o'clock.
"Um, doesn't the party start at six?" Lily asked. "Cause it's six already."
"Yes," Athena said, drumming her fingers against the window, "the party does start at six, but nobody really gets there until six o' five or six ten. Greeks hate being on time."
"So, it's like fashionably late."
"Right."
Mr. Asimokopoulos pulled to a stop in front of a large Mediterranean style building.
"We're here!" Athena shouted happily.
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"Into the fireplace you go, Jamie." Aimee said, gesturing towards the fireplace where they would Floo to the party.
James turned red. "Do you have to call me that?"
"Jamie! Listen to your mother." Sirius mimicked.
James scowled and went into the fireplace.
"You suck up!" He shouted before spinning so fast that he had to shut up or else he would get sick.
Soon, the spinning stopped and James neatly stepped out of the fireplace.
Three seconds later, Sirius and Aimee appeared. Sirius collapsed onto James and the two boys tumbled over.
"I hate Floo," Sirius muttered. "I hate it—I hate it—I hate it."
"Well, I hate it when you're a suck up." James said crossly. He was in a bad mood already. "Get off me."
Sirius obliged and soon James was standing up.
"Come on boys, let's go." Aimee said impatiently. "It's six o'clock already. Let's go in."
"Fun, fun." James muttered, but followed his mother into the large room where hundreds of tables had been set up.
"Er, how do we find a place to sit?" Sirius asked in shock.
"Do you need some help?" A voice rang and a pretty looking brunette with a red dress came over to them. "Hi, I'm Dina. Do you need to find your seats?"
James could see a gleam in Sirius' eye and knew that he was about to say something stupid to Dina, so he stepped on Sirius' foot and said quietly, "Would you stop staring?"
"She's hot!" Sirius whispered. "I like Greece already!"
"Yes," Aimee said uncertainly. "We're here for Eileen Kravitz and George Golematis's engagement party. Are we in the right room?"
"Yes," Dina said, "Do you need your seats?"
"Yes."
"Last name please." A list seemed to appear in Dina's hands as she looked at it.
"Potter." Aimee said. "James and Aimee Potter."
"Potter..." Dina muttered, scanning the list. "Potter...ahh yes. Table six. And what about him?"
James noticed that when Dina pointed to Sirius, her voice became softer and more seductive.
Sirius grinned. "Sirius Black," he said. "I'm with the Potters."
"Oh."
"Say, how 'bout you and me hook up later?" Sirius asked Dina.
Dina smiled. "Meet me by the bathrooms at seven thirty." She whispered, then turning to the Potters she said,
"You may be seated."
As the Potters and Sirius went to table six, Sirius looked back at Dina and said to James, "Damn, I'm gonna have a great summer! And to think—hundreds of girls would have missed out on Sirius Black if I didn't show up!"
"They would have been bawling their eyes out," James asked sarcastically.
"I know that." Sirius said, not noticing James' sarcasm.
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"Would you calm down?" Lily hissed to Athena as they walked inside the building.
"I hate being cooped up in a car forever." Athena whined. "I need to move."
"You're walking," Lily said, rolling her eyes. "That's moving."
"Wait—STOP!" Athena halted Lily with her hand.
"What for?"
"I think we're here."
Lily followed Athena's gaze and she said slowly, "I believe you're right too."
A huge banner inside the room said, 'GEORGE AND ELENI.'
"We're here." Athena said confidently.
"But, why does it say, 'George and Eleni?' I thought her name was Eileen." Lily asked.
"I told you—her Greek baptismal name is Eleni. George's parents didn't want to but 'Eileen' on there, so they but her Greek name."
"Hello," A brunette in a red dress said. "My name is Dina—may I help you?"
Athena cocked an eyebrow at her while Lily said, "Yes, this is the Golematis/Kravitz engagement party, correct?"
"Yes."
"Okay then, good."
"What are your last names?" Dina asked, clutching her clipboard with all the names on it.
"Oh, I'm Lily Evans, and this is Athena Asimokopoulos. She's with her grandparents too."
Dina scanned the list and said, "Lily Evans? Anna, Gus and Athena Asimokopoulos?"
The girls nodded.
"Table twenty seven." Dina pointed with a long red painted fingernail to a table near the back. "Enjoy the party."
As Athena beckoned to her grandparents to follow her and Lily to the table she took one last glance at Dina before coughing, "Whore."
"Athena!" Lily cried, scandelized. "Why would you say that?"
"Just the way she looks—acts—and I bet you any money when all the guests arrive, she'll go make out with some guy."
Lily shook her head. "Athena, you're something else."
"I know," Athena said, sitting down and snatching the candy that was in the middle. "Mine!"
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James was a little—no, scratch that—completely bored. He just sat there at the table doing nothing but staring at the dance floor while Sirius kept looking over at Dina with a crazy grin on his face while Aimee was chatting to someone at the next table over.
"This is so—boring!" James muttered. "How long do I have to wait until we can leave this stupid place?"
As if his prayers were answered a woman, who sat at the high table reached for the microphone and said, "May I have your attention please?"
The talking ceased immeadiately as hundreds of eyes (James had just noticed that everybody arrived) looked at the woman.
"Thank you." She said, clearing her throat. "My name is Effie Golematis, sister of George Golematis."
Effie gestured to the tall, dark haired, dark skinned man sitting next to Eileen.
"We are here today, to honor the engagement of George Golematis and Eleni Kravitz."
There was slight applause as Effie smiled and repeated the entire thing in Greek, so everybody could understand what she was saying.
"Now," Effie said, "the food will be arriving shortly—graciously provided by the owners of this place. Enjoy."
Effie repeated the small speech one last time in Greek, before caterers appeared and started handing out salad to everybody.
"Oh, great!" Sirius exclaimed. "FOOD!"
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"Thank god for Effie." Athena muttered, as she started to eat her Greek salad.
"What?" Lily asked, picking out the olives and feta cheese from her salad.
"I'm glad that speech was short—usually, their so long you wonder if they will talk the entire night."
"Maybe Effie was hungry." Lily said, "I know I am."
Athena eyed Lily's salad. "Lily—may I ask—what are you doing?"
"Eating a salad."
"No, I mean—you completely destroyed it."
"Oh, I hate olives and feta cheese. It's disgusting."
"You're mad!" Athena cried. "Olives and feta cheese are amazing!"
Lily rolled her eyes. "Hey, I just can't stand it—no, don't give me that, Thena."
Athena sent Lily a look before diving back into her salad.
After the next course (spanakopita, lamb and mashed potatoes) was over and the caterers were picking up the plates, the DJ started playing music and people started rushing to the dance floor.
"C'mon, Lils!" Athena shouted, moving a bit because of the song. "I love this song!"
"Aww, Thena—I hate dancing..." Lily started to say but Athena seized her arm and dragged her onto the dance floor.
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"James, are you sure your not gonna eat the rest of that?" Sirius asked James, eyeing the remains of his food.
James snapped out of it and said, "Yeah. Here you go, Padfoot."
Giving the food to Sirius, he dove into it.
James sighed, leaned back into his chair and rumpled his hair—making his hair look even messier than usual.
The girl across from him giggled and stared at James with love struck eyes. "You're cute." She cooed.
James cocked an eyebrow at the girl and said, "Sorry—didn't catch your name."
The girl giggled again. "Oh, I'm Sarah Fisher—Eileen Kravitz's best friend's sister."
James nodded and said, "Nice to meet you." He said it in a way of, 'I don't want to talk to you.'
Sarah didn't truly get it, wrapped a piece of curly blonde hair around her finger and said, "Say, Jamesie—how bout you and me go dance?"
James grimaced slightly. "Uh—no thanks Sarah. Maybe later."
Sarah frowned. "Hmph."
Sirius looked at his watch and said to Sarah, "Hey, after I use the bathroom—how about we go dance?"
Sarah looked at Sirius. "Okay!" She squealed.
Sirius smirked at James and mouthed, "Going to Dina."
James gave a cocky grin. "Have fun."
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"Opa!" Some guy shouted, breaking a plate on his head while dancing.
"Opa!" Lily and Athena agreed.
Lily knew then, that Greek parties were the best parties to go to—everyone that George Golematis knew was here. Everyone that his grandparents and parents knew were also here—and that was a lot of people.
Lily figured that there must be at least two hundred people at this engagement party.
The fiancée was very beautiful—and she looked Greek, so Athena was satisfied. "At least no one will think she's American. All they got to do is listen to her broken Greek and they'll know right off the back that she's not a native."
Eileen Eleni Kravitz had long wavy dark brown hair and large brown eyes and her skin tone was a little lighter than Athena's, yet she could still pass for an American Greek.
As she danced, Lily felt someone tap her arm and she turned around to see Niko Asimokopoulos standing there, grinning shyly. Lily's heart thudded in her throat as Niko said, "Beautiful Lily," he extended a hand, "May I have this dance?"
Lily smiled. "Of course you can."
She never knew that a pair of angry hazel eyes were watching her every move.
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James Potter was definitely not having any fun. First, this stupid dinner jacket and tie that his mother made him wear—it was so annoying! And it was choking him to death.
James didn't know why his mother dragged him here—he never even met Eileen before—so why should he even come here?
Usually, if he was this bored, he would be planning a prank to pull with Sirius—but he already promised his mother not to prank tonight(and it was killing him to keep that promise) and that Sirius was with that Dina girl.
Aimee Potter, however, had left the table minutes ago to go talk to Stella Kravitz, leaving James alone at the table. (Well, he really wasn't alone, because Sarah was still there—throwing him looks of longing but James wasn't about to count her)
Sighing, James was tempted to break his promsie to his mother and pull out his Filbuster Fireworks when he heard a voice ask in shock, "James Potter?"
Turning around, he too, was shocked to see Athena Asimokopoulos(he could never pronounce her last name)standing in front of him.
"Athena?" He gasped. "W-what are you doing here?"
"I'm here for the engagement party." Athena explained. "But, I believe the question is—what are you doing here?"
"It's my cousin, Eileen Kravitz's engagement party."
"Oh my god!" Athena gasped. "Your couisn is marrying George Golematis? Ooh, Lily's NOT gonna be happy!"
James' face lit up. "Lily Evans is here? Where?"
"She's wearing a green dress," Athena said, scanning the crowd. "And you can't miss her red hair—ah ha!
There she is!"
Athena pointed to the red head, who was dancing with a tall dark haired, dark eyed boy.
"She's dancing with Niko." Athena laughed, pleased. "Ha! I knew she would!"
James looked to where Athena was and his eyes widened. Merlin, did she look beautiful.
Then, his eyes narrowed. Who was that bloke that Lily was dancing with?
He's dancing too close to her," he growled, "I don't like him."
Athena flashed him a look. "You are way to protective of Lily. You keep on acting as if she's your little sister! You hate every boy that comes within a five mile radius between her!"
James ignored Athena's comment and continued to glower at the two.
Lily danced two songs with Niko before excusing herself to go find Athena.
He's so polite and handsome. Lily thought to herself. He's nothing like Potter.
She searched the large room until she found the familiar cream colored dress.
Walking over to her best friend, Lily collapsed onto a chair and gushed, "Niko is an amazing dancer! He's so polite and so—so not like Potter!"
Athena said nothing, but silently fumed.
Lily, who could sense when her friend was mad asked, "What's wrong, Thena?"
Athena looked at Lily and said, "Out of all the people George has to fall in love with—it's Eileen Kravitz!"
"We've been over this before." Lily rolled her eyes. "She looks Greek. Be thankful for that!"
"No, no, no! Not that! I mean her relatives! Her cousin!"
"Who's her cousin?" Lily asked.
Athena gave her a look of pity. "Do you really want to know?"
"Yes!" Lily was getting impatient with her. "Tell—or die!"
"Promise you won't scream?" Athena begged.
"I promise!" Lily promised, crossing her heart.
"Okay," Athena twiddled her thumbs and looked at Lily.
"Okay, uhm..."
"Spill it already!" Lily snapped.
"Okay, okay! Well, Eileen Kravitz's cousin is—"
"James Potter," a deep voice said and Lily turned around to see her worst nightmare. Standing in front of her was jet black messy haired, hazel eyed James Potter.
"WHAT?"
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Ha! Lily and James finally met! Woot! About time. It's 6 chapters and now they met. WOOT. :) This is the longest chapter I've written—but, they should get longer as the plot thickens.
Next Chapter should be up by tomorrow.
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