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 8—Agreements with Sirius
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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IMPORTANT AUTHORS NOTE AT BOTTOM OF PAGE.
"You want me to WHAT?" Sirius yelped later that night as James told him about the bet.
"Yes, you can't under any circumstances bug Athena. Or the deal's off."
"That's torture!" Sirius exclaimed, "I at least have to annoy that girl twice a day!"
James shot him a look. "Do you want Lily to stop hating you and me?"
"It'd be welcome if she would stop screaming at us."
"Well, this plan will stop it." James said confidently.
"Are you sure?" Sirius questioned. "All your other plans sucked."
"Oh come on," James said, "they didn't suck."
"Yeah, I'm sorry." Sirius laughed. "They just made Lily hate you even more."
This deflated James' confidence but he quickly collected himself and said, "Look—this plan is foolproof because Athena's in it. She promised to help if you don't bug her. For the entire summer."
"I can't agree to that." Sirius stubbornly said.
James groaned and put his head in his hands. "Then Lily will still hate me for the rest of my life! And I really, really like her!"
"Obviously," Sirius muttered. "You say her name in her sleep."
James glared. "Look, or you with me—or not?"
"I don't know. . ."
"I'll do anything!" James begged, but then realized what he had said. A grin unraveled from Sirius' handsome face. "Really? Anything I wish?"
James groaned as he realized the error of his way. However, it would be worth it if Lily finally fell in love with him.
"Anything."
Sirius grinned and leaned back against the wall, lacing his hands behind his head. "Okay servant boy, for me to keep my mouth shut is to be my personal slave for the next five weeks."
James' mouth dropped open as Sirius continued, "Oh, yes, and you have to admit that I am a hotter, sexier and all around better person that you are."
"Okay."
"In public—in front of Lily and Athena every day until you get Lily to fall in love with you." Sirius smirked.
James' mouth flew open. "No way—that's where I drop the line."
"Suit yourself—than I will bug Athena and the whole deal with be done with and you will never snag Lily Evans and have ten little James Jr., Lily Jr., and Sirius Jr."
James knew that to win Lily over, he had to obey Sirius, no matter how hard that would be.
"Deal. But, whoever said that I would name my kids after you?"
Sirius grinned. "Well, since I'm your best friend—I should have some kids named after me."
James rolled his eyes. "How about you be my first kid's godfather?"
"Alright!" Sirius punched a fist in the air.
"Are we cool then?" James asked, knowing how easily Sirius could change his mind.
"Yes. Now my first order of you being my servant boy is I'm changing your name to Servant Boy."
"How unoriginal." James muttered.
"Secondly," Sirius said loudly, "you will address me as Your Handsomeness Sirius."
James groaned. "Are you serious?"
"No, I'm Sirius." Sirius cracked up at that extremely old pun.
"Sirius, that joke is old."
"Uh uh," Sirius waggled a finger. "What is my title?"
James screwed up his face. "Your Handsomeness Sirius, that pun is old."
"If you want me to cooperate," Sirius grinned, "you have to laugh every time I say that and all my other amazing jokes that crack everybody up."
Sirius loved doing this to James, just watching him having to do everything he ordered was great!
"Alright." James said.
Sirius laughed. "Good, very good! Now, go fetch-eth me some cookies. Not those nasty Greek cookies—some chocolate chip cookies. I have a fetish for some right now."
James had half a mind to shout, 'Go get your own damn cookies!' but knew that Sirius would screw everything up between he and Lily—and he couldn't afford that.
"I'll be back." James muttered, leaving the room hearing Sirius' howls of laughter.
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About a mile away, Athena was busy asking Lily what their plan was for tomorrow.
"Well," Lily said thoughtfully, "I'd love to go to the beach tomorrow! Maybe try and get a tan."
Athena snorted, as she was writing everything down. "In your dreams, Lils."
Lily glared. "Hey! I could you know! If I spend enough time!"
"Whatever. Anyway, what else?"
"The Parthenon and the Acropolis!"
Athena raised an eyebrow at Lily, "we can do that later—that's too far for us to walk—we'd have to take a cab—or worse, my papou and yiayia's car." (Grandpa and Grandma)
"Okay then," Lily said brightly. "We'll go to the Parthenon another day!"
"How about tomorrow," Athena said slowly, "we go to some olive trees and see how they make wine. It's not very far from here and we could walk."
"That's good." Lily said with a devious smile, "and then, we can drink from them."
"Lily!" Athena exclaimed, shocked.
"I'm joking—I'm joking!" Lily laughed. "I hate the taste of wine—my mum and dad would like it though."
"Right," Athena said, but still kept a wary look at her friend, "and then we go sightseeing."
"Let's go to the islands!" Lily said excitedly.
"We'll see if I can find someone who can actually get us to an island. There are old historical buildings and museums too."
"Cool! Ancient history! Would there be anything about the magical ancient Greeks?"
Athena shrugged. "I dunno. As I said, my dad's parents aren't Greek. However, there is a lot of history for the Muggle ancient Greeks. We could check that out."
"Cool!" Lily was hyped up. "This is going to be so awesome! Sightseeing—adventure—beach—authentic Greek food..."
"There's a good Greek restaurant by the beach—they have awesome Greek food."
"Sweet!" Lily bounced on her bed in excitement. "Woot! This will be so much fun!"
"Trust me paivee mou (kid), you'll have the time of your life in Greece."
"I know I will."
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Athena looked at her list and grinned discreetly. Lily would never know why James would be everywhere she would be—as long as Athena kept her stoma (mouth) shut.
To fake tiredness, Athena gave a long yawn. "I'm beat—I'm going to bed."
Lily glanced at her watch. "It's eleven o'clock." She widened her emerald eyes. "You usually don't go to bed til two a.m."
"Yeah, well tomorrow we have an extremely busy day—if we want a great spot on the beach we need to be out of the door by eleven o'clock."
Lily stood up and shrugged. "You're the boss." She went to her dressers and pulled out her pajamas. "See you in the morning, Thena."
"Kalineehta Lily." (Good night)
Closing the door silently, Athena tip toed to her room, sat at her desk and wrote:
James,
Tomorrow we are going to the beach at 11:00 a.m. It's called 'The Beach' and you can't miss it (unless you and that idiot are dumb enough to skip it). Me and Lily will be sunbathing there. If you want to find us, look for an umbrella with the Greek flag emblazed on it. You seriously can't miss it.
We should be at the beach for two to three hours and then we will probably head somewhere to eat. Follow us AT A DISTANCE. You don't want Lily to get too suspicious (she's very smart).
Ask for a table near ours.
After that, we probably will just walk around. End your meal before us so you can disappear for a while and then when we're walking, exclaim how you 'found us' and 'isn't it a coincidence?' Trust me, it should work.
—Athena
P.S. Hopefully you got Black to behave around me. Cause you know what WILL happen.
Satisfied with her letter, Athena rolled it up, and strung it to her owl, Athens.
"Give this to James Potter," she whispered. "Not to anybody else. You got that?"
Athens blinked and Athena took that as a 'yes.'
"Good, now—fly!"
Athens took off and Athena watched him fly away in the darkness. Maybe—just maybe this plan will work.
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Back where James and Sirius were, James was busy writing a list with Sirius:
WAYS TO MAKE LILY LIKE ME.
Don't act so cheeky.
Stop ruffling my hair
Ask how she is doing today and how she likes Greece
Don't brag about self
Call her by her first name. Don't call her Evans.
Don't always talk about Quidditch
DON'T ASK HER OUT!
Keep Sirius away from Athena—so Athena won't screw everything up. IMPORTANT.
Sirius glanced at the list, and remarked, "Don't forget—don't act like a prat."
"I forgot about that one." James said, scribbling it down on his list.
Sirius shook his head. "Amazing, you remember to write 'Keep Sirius away from Athena' but you forget the most important one! Don't act like a prat!"
James gave a rueful grin. "You're starting to sound like Moony. He would say something like that."
Sirius made a face. "I've been hanging around him too much."
James nodded and went back to his list. "Do you think I should add, 'Don't treat her like a little kid?'"
"No," Sirius said, "add that to your 'How to Make Sirius Not Annoy Athena' list. But change her to him."
James ignored Sirius and added it to the list anyway.
All of a sudden, Sirius' stomach grumbled. "James!" He ordered, "My stomach says its time for more chocolate chip cookies!"
James turned towards Sirius in shock. "I got you a whole box of cookies! You're saying you ate them all ready?"
"Hey, I'm a growing boy—I need food. March servant boy!"
Grumbling, James got up and left the room.
Sirius sighed in laziness, looked inside the box of cookies, took out the last two, and ate them.
"Those are good cookies," Sirius said to himself, "What kind of cookies are they?"
Checking the front of the cookie box it said, 'LITTLE COOKIES.'
"Little Cookies," he muttered, "Good cookies!"
As Sirius threw the box somewhere else, he heard a soft hooting and saw a snowy white owl on the windowsill.
"SERVANT BOY!" Sirius shouted, "SERVANT BOY!"
James rushed back with the box of cookies in his hands. "What Sirius?"
"Sorry, didn't quite hear that." Sirius cupped his ear for emphasis.
James rolled his eyes and said again, "What Your Handsomeness Sirius?"
"That's better. Now, there is a strange owl on the windowsill. Bring it over. Did you get my cookies?"
James threw the box of cookies over to Sirius, who immediately tore the box open and ate four cookies at once.
However, James was over by the windowsill, where the owl was.
Stretching out its leg, James took the letter and the owl flew off.
Opening it, he saw that it was from Athena.
"Ooh's it om?" Sirius asked, with a mouthful of cookies.
"It's from Athena." James said in excitement.
"Athena?" Sirius swallowed. "Why would she be sending you letters?"
"To tell me where their going tomorrow, dolt." James hurriedly read it and said, "Get your swim trunks ready, Sirius! We're going to the beach!"
"Oh good! There's bond to be some hot girls there! Good! I'll need my most hottest pair of trunks...my sunglasses—Servant Boy, you should be taking watch of this. You're carrying my stuff to the beach!"
James paid no attention to what Sirius was saying but was grinning from ear to ear. Day one of Making Lily like him was in effect.
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To iluvsinging333, that is how James got Sirius to stop bugging Athena. Not the best way, but it always works!
I hate to say it, but I won't be updating as frequently as I have been for the last 8 chapters, because school starts on Monday and on Monday starts my hectic schedule—Greek school, Yearbook, Piano lessons, School, homework, and soccer games. Not to mention I have a huge report due this month so don't be surprised if I'm not updating everyday. I will TRY and get a chapter every Saturday or Sunday so keep checking in!
Until then,
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