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 7—Aftershocks/the Deal

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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P.S. This story is dedicated to The Big Dance—for being my 1st and most awesum reviewer! Thanxs SO much TBD!

Lily was in complete shock.

Complete shock.

How could this happen? Out of all the places she came to get rid of him, he had to show up too!

It was as if he was stalking her!

Mouth agape, Lily stared at Athena, who was biting her lip and massaging her temples, to James, who was grinning smugly at the shocked Lily.

"So, Evans," James said, "Isn't this the best day of your life? You get to see me again!"

Lily snapped back into reality as her eyes flashed in anger.

"What are you doing here?" She screamed, luckily, the music was loud enough so her scream was concealed.

James' eyes widened and took a step back. "W-what are you talking about Evans?"
"I said, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"It's my cousin's engagement party!" James said, taking one more step back. Even though he had a huge crush on Lily Evans (ever since first year when he first laid eyes on her), he was scared of her when she got riled up like this.

"Really?" Lily's eyes flashed dangerously as she took a step toward James, poking him straight in the chest.

"Are you sure (poke) that you (poke) didn't (poke) follow me?"

"Honestly!" James cried, his chest starting to hurt because her long nails really did hurt.

"Lils!" Athena shouted, grabbing Lily's hand. "As much as I am shocked to see him," she pointed a finger at James, "don't lose your head too much. I mean, it could be worse."

Lily glared at Athena and then at James, who stood his ground, just in case Lily came after him again.

After a few seconds, Lily sighed and said quietly, "You're right Athena, he isn't worth my time."

Athena winked at James as if to say, 'You can thank me later', as she made Lily sit down.

Unfortunately, James wasn't very smart when it came to girls so he said in a cheeky voice, "Evans, you know how you couldn't win anything against me. I'm way to stronger and taller for you to win anything against me."

Athena clapped a hand against her head as Lily stood up, ready to pounce on the kill.

Just as Lily was about to go claw James' eyes out, Athena snatched her. "Calm down, trelokomio! Katse kato!" (Calm down animal! Sit down!)

Shoving Lily in a chair, Athena turned to face James. "Would you please stop antagonizing her?"

James shook his head. "It's MUCH more fun getting her angry."

Athena was about to open her mouth to say something when another voice exclaimed, "Athena A! How nice to see you!"

Athena's brown eyes widened in shock. "No!" She hollered.

It was none other than the cheeky Sirius Black, who looked very rumpled indeed.

Athena turned to James. "You brought the idiot?" She gasped.

James shrugged.

Sirius grinned at Athena and looked at her up and down. "Wow, Athena! You look hot!"

Athena scowled and put her hands on her hips. "You look the same as ever Black. Where were you? Making out with another girl?"

Sirius gave a grin. "Tsk tsk—I sense some jealousy. Don't worry, Athena. You can be next."

Athena's face turned white. "Go rot in hell Black." She snapped.

"We got a potty mouth!" Sirius exclaimed.

Athena took a threatening step towards Sirius and Lily seized her. "Don't do something you'll regret later." She hissed.

"Let me go!" Athena struggled against Lily. "He deserves every punch I'm about to give him!"

"No!" Lily pulled harder on Athena's arm. "You stopped me from punching Potter—why should I let you have the satisfaction of beating up Black?"

"Because," Athena hissed. "He deserves it!"

"Sit down!" Lily shouted, pulling Athena until she fell on the chair.

Athena waited until Lily let go of her arm before springing up and running after Sirius.

Sirius' face turned white and he screamed like a girl and ran out of the room, with Athena hot on his trail.

Lily made no attempt to go get Athena—but turned to James with an evil smile plastered on her face.

James gave a wavering grin. "So, uh, Evans, how 'bout we go dance?"

Lily stood up, the evil smile still on her face. "I'll give you five seconds," she said sweetly. "Five—four—one."

James gulped and ran off with Lily chucking her heels at him.

--

"I hate to admit it," James groaned as he shuffled slowly back to Sirius, "but Lily should try out for the Quidditch team. She has killer aim."

Sirius nodded, agreeing. "Remember how I said that Greek tempers weren't as bad as redheads?"

"Yes, that was when Athena and Lily had that fight in fifth year."

"Well, I'm taking it back. Greeks have terrible tempers. Athena's fast too—she beat me up and proceeded to pull my wonderful hair out!"

James snorted. Imagine Sirius to get afraid of his hair.

"Yeah, will Lily's no better," James rubbed the back of his neck. "She threw her heels at me. She actually made sure that the heels hit my neck. It hurt even worse when Sadie McCrafen dug her nails in my neck last year. And I thought that was pain."

Sirius winced and said, "I'm just saying I don't want Athena what ever her last name is near me at all during this vacation! I want to break my record of how many girls I can snag this summer."

"What's the record?" James boredly asked.

"Fifty seven." Sirius recited proudly. "I plan on getting fifty eight this year."

"I plan on getting Lily Evans this year."

Sirius howled with laughter. "Unless you haven't noticed," he choked, "she chucked her shoes at you and she hates your guts. Remember in fourth year when she wore a shirt that said, 'I WILL NOT GO OUT WITH YOU POTTER.'"

"But this year is different." James insisted. "I can feel it. Watch, by the end of this summer—she'll be mine."
"Whatever you say, James. Whatever you say."

"And do you know how I'm going to do it?" James asked Sirius.

"No."

"I'm going to follow Lily around!" He announced proudly.

Sirius sniggered. "Then, you're basically stalking her! What are you going to do? Camp out in front of her house and follow her?"

"No! I'm going to make a deal with Athena."

Sirius stopped laughing, he gaped at James." You're going to make a deal with the She-Devil?"

"What's so bad with her?" James asked, scanning the room to find the girl.

"She never keeps her word!" Sirius tried to put some sense into James. "I asked her to do my Transfiguration essay and I promised that I would go out with her!"

"So?" James asked, getting bored. "She did the essay and you went out with her! How didn't she keep her word?"

"Well, she turned to me and said, 'Black, I'll do your essay but I won't go out with you.' It was okay with me, I didn't want to go out with her anyway, but the very next day, McGonagall gave me four detentions! She said that on the essay it said how I hated McGonagall! A twelve inch essay with reasons why I hated McGonagall, and I didn't even write it! That She-Devil did!"

James laughed. "Well, I think you deserved that one. Athena knows how me and Lily are destined to be. She'll understand. See you in a bit."

"All she'll do James," Sirius muttered. "Is ruin your chances!"

James paid no attention to Sirius and went to find Athena.

"You're screwed mate," Sirius shook his head and went to go find another girl. "You're definitely screwed."

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"I hate Potter!" Lily raged. "I hate him—I hate him—I hate him!"

"And I hate Black." Athena agreed, but then turned serious. "Did you honestly throw your shoes at him?"
Lily nodded. "The prat deserved it."

"Even I'm not that cruel to Black!" Athena exclaimed, but then she grinned. "Damn, I should have thought of that."

Lily buried her hands in her face. "Out of all the places to go on vacation—Potter follows me! It's like wherever I turn, he's in my face with that stupid grin on his face and then saying," Lily screwed up her face and mocked James' voice. "Go out with me Evans. You know I'm irresistible."

"No," a voice said. "That's not how I sound. It's too low. My voice is a perfect balance of high and low."

James Potter.

Lily gritted her teeth. "Go away."

James raised his eyebrows. "Touchy Evans, touchy."

"Potter," Lily hissed. "Go now."

"I need to talk to—"

"Do you want shoes thrown at you again?"

To Lily's satisfaction, James winced and rubbed the back of his head. "No, but I need to talk to—"

"Then go away." Lily interrupted.

"Bloody hell woman! Can't I just finish my sentence?"

"No."

James reached to rumple his hair but froze when he saw Lily scowl. He forgot that Lily hated it when he did that.

"I need to talk to Athena."

Lily and Athena had raised eyebrows. "Why?"

"I can't say it in front of Lily."

Lily narrowed her eyes. "If it's anything sick or perverted I'll—"

"No! I just need to talk to Athena—alone."

Athena rolled her eyes. "Fine. But for three minutes."

"Deal."

James pulled Athena aside until they were out of earshot.

"What do you want, James?"

For some reason, James felt embarrassed by Athena's presence. (A/N: No, he does not like her!) "Well, uh, you see..."

"I don't have all day James." Athena snapped.

"Okay, okay, fine." James rubbed his neck again. He should stop rubbing the back of his neck—he kept rubbing it where Lily had thrown her shoes.

"I'm waiting."

"Okay! I was kind of wondering if youwouldhelpmewinLilyover."

Athena put her hand to her ear. "What? You were mumbling!"

"I said, I was wondering if you would help me win Lily over!" He yelled, frustrated.

"Oh!" Athena exclaimed, but then her eyes narrowed. "Why should I help you?"

"Because," James said, "I really care for Lily."

Athena snorted. "You have a funny way of showing it."

"Yes, I know! But, I really want Lily to go out with me."

Athena scowled. "I'm not going to let her be your one week fling. Is this it? You want me to help you break my best friend's heart?"

"No! I do not want Lily to be a one-week flavor! I want her to stop hating me and actually like me!"

"Well, what do you want me to do?"

"I want to know everywhere that you and Lily are going this summer. This way, I can see that I'm a really great guy."

"That won't get her to fall in love with you," Athena snorted. "All that will do is make her annoyed with you."

"Please!" James begged.

"I don't know. . ."

"I'll make sure Sirius doesn't bug you at all this summer!"

Athena froze and looked James straight in the eye to see if he was lying.

James held his breath while Athena thought for a moment.

Finally, she opened her mouth and said, "Deal."

James' face broke out into a grin and he hugged Athena until she said, "If you don't put me down in the next two seconds I will cancel this deal!"

James released her immediately.

"Right." Athena brushed herself off before looking at James and saying, "If Black bugs me at all this summer—I will cancel this automatically."

"Don't tell Lily!" James begged. "I don't want her knowing."

Athena shook her head. "Fine. I promise." She extended her hand out to shake on it.

James quickly shook it before asking excitedly, "Where are you guys going tomorrow?"

"Easy—easy!" Athena snapped. "God, you're like a little boy wanting candy!"

James stopped acting so excited and stood straight still.

"That's better. Now, we're going to the beach tomorrow. I'll send you a list with my owl about what we're doing."

"Wait, you brought your owl?" James laughed.

Athena gave a glare until James stopped laughing.

"Look, do you want me to cooperate or what?"

"Yes." James said.

"Okay then—don't make fun of me bringing my owl! I brought her just in case! Now, tonight, I'll send you what we're doing all day tomorrow."

"Thanks Athena!" James exclaimed wanting to give Athena a hug but remembered her threat and did nothing.

"Your welcome, but remember—you keep your part of the deal—and I'll keep mine."

"Okay!" James had a gigantic grin on his face as he returned inside the room to find Sirius and tell him about his good fortune.

Once James was out of earshot, Athena groaned and muttered, "What did I do to deserve this?"

Returning to the room, she found Lily sitting at their table.

"Finally you came back! I thought Potter held you hostage!" Lily exclaimed.

"If he did, he would have got it." Athena gave a tight smile as she looked at Lily. God, she was terrible at keeping secrets. She knew she would blab eventually.

"So, what did Potter want?"

"Nothing."

"Oh come on! He wouldn't have sounded so urgent for nothing!"

Damn, Lily was too smart for her own good.

"He just wanted to know if you were going to throw any more shoes at him," Athena lied quickly. "Because, he doesn't want you to kill him with your aim."

Lily gave a satisfied smile. "Well, he better learn to leave me alone or I'll start bringing my heels. My summer isn't going to be screwed up by stupid Potter."

What did I get myself into?

Poor Athena, she was dragged into something she doesn't want to! I wonder if she'll be able to keep the secret? How many of you think she will? (Scans audience and sees three hands raised). Not good. Well, we'll see!

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