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Oh and I'm sorry this chapter is so short :'(

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It had been a full week since Lily had arrived at the Potters. She was surprisingly getting along very well with James, even with Sirius. Not a single prank, no one mocking her ... She definitely was not used to such behaviour from them and she deeply wished this change of behaviour was not due to pity. Well of course she was not missing it, but she could not understand how they had changed so quickly towards her. James was like worshipping her and Sirius was acting as a good friend. She was not that surprised regarding James in fact. After all he had just come back to how he had been acting before that fateful day when she had turned him down in front of the whole school. It seems he had finally got over it.

Sirius's change was not that understandable. He had been so harsh with her. He had made her cry in several occasion not hesitating a single second in mocking her in front of everybody, even proclaiming once that he wanted her to get a depression. Truth be told she was not trusting Sirius. She was convinced he was acting like that with her because James had asked him to do so, not because he felt he had been an utter jerk towards her before. But even if he was not being nice to her in a total honest way, it was way better than having him tormenting her all day long.

Lily's morning routine consisted in getting up early and preparing breakfast. Even if the Potters were wealthy enough to hire a whole army of house elves, Mrs Potter loved to cook and she was without a doubt a queen in her kitchen. She had demonstrated her talents several times to Lily, teaching the spells and the wand moves to a very impressed Lily. Lily had really enjoyed herself learning to cook the wizard way. She knew how to cook the muggle way of course but discovering it the wizard way opened a new perspective on her cooking abilities and she had plenty of ideas of recipes to try now. Mrs Potter had granted her the breakfast time so Lily was now in charge of making the breakfast and she truly loved it. She had been very happy and proud when Mrs Potter asked her to prepare it. Then it was her way of thanking her for hosting her.

Lily had offered the Potters the idea of giving them a monthly sum of money to pay her stay but they had refused it, telling her there was no way a guest was going to pay to stay at their house. Even if Lily had insisted, they had firmly but kindly refused her offer. Making breakfast enabled her to ease some of her guilt in fact and she was very thankful to Mrs Potter.

Lily had taken a special muggle subscription to the Daily Prophet. This kind of subscription was granting her the usual Daily Prophet issue plus one muggle newspaper of her choice, both delivered by owl. Every morning she was drinking a pumpkin juice glass reviewing the job offers of both papers trying to find a summer job.

Lily had had no news from Petunia or Vernon and she had realized that she was now all by herself. She didn't even know whether she'd get some money from their parents' house sell. She needed to find a job to support her last year in Hogwarts and then her application to the ministry to become an Auror. Even if she was deeply interested in a wizard summer job, she felt she had more chance to get a muggle job since she had been working in the summer for 2 years now. This little work experience would help her.

After having scanned and selected a couple of job offers, Lily started to prepare breakfast, waving her wand happily. Today though was an exception. She had decided she would prepare a whole muggle breakfast. She had spotted a muggle store the day before and had bought typical muggle food for breakfast. She was now dressing the table with bowls ready to be filled up with cereals and milk, cups ready to be filled up with boiling water for tea, spoons that will be soon filled with marmalade. She had managed to find some muffins and even those delicious little breads Americans called bagels. The wizard pumpkin juice was replaced by the typical muggle orange juice.

Lily was quite excited about this meal. She was smiling in anticipation even though she was a little scared that the Potters might not like it at all. She jumped when a toasted bagel suddenly jumped out of the toaster. Really why would she be so nervous? The Potters were nice people and even if they did not like muggle food she was sure they would appreciate her attention. What if James did not like it though? Maybe he would not like her idea of introducing muggle things in his very wizard house? No, that was nonsense, she knew the Potters, including James were not following the pure blood families that had decided the muggle born were not worth it. She jumped again when she heard someone coming down the stairs. She smiled as James entered the kitchen.

"Tadam," she said gesturing the table.

James had a look over the table and was looking at it with huge eyes wondering what it was all about. What was this food?

"Wow, what are those little breads with a hole? And why is the pumpkin juice so yellow today?" he asked.

"Muggle typical breakfast," answered Lily still smiling.

"Muggle food, really?" asked James still not touching the food.

Lily started to feel worried again. Usually James would just sit and eat with much eagerness. Today he was only looking at the food as if not daring to touch it.

"Well, if you don't like it, I can prepare something else, I thought you might like to taste muggle food but obviously I was wrong, but really it's no problem," said Lily moving to prepare something else. She could not make 3 steps before James stopped her by holding her back to him. Her back was against his chest.

"Come on Lily, I'm very happy about it and I sure wanna taste it. It's just that I wanted to know what everything is and how you eat it. It's my first real muggle breakfast; I'm just not used to it. Plus I certainly don't wanna make a fool of myself in front of you." James said in her ear.

Lily was feeling she was blushing. She felt a rush of warmth coming to her face and she knew she was blushing and she hated that. Being red-haired was not helping to hide her blushing usually. And she knew that when she started to blush, just the fact of realizing she was blushing was having a double effect on her red cheeks.

Why on earth was he holding her and whispering to her ear? It was very intimate and she was not ready to be like that around him. He was acting as if comforting a girlfriend. And now she was madly blushing in his arms and she realized she was slightly shivering as well. She liked being in his muscular arms in fact, as disturbing as the thought might be to her. Disturbing and surprising. She thought it was a little bit too fast for forgetting and forgiving all that he had done to her during their latest year in Hogwarts. But on the other hand, she felt so good in his arms.

"Will you show me Lily?" he whispered again in her left ear.

"Uh, yes, sure," answered a still very blushing Lily. Without realizing it, she took James's hand to guide him to his place.

"So uhm, what don't you know on the table?" asked Lily as if trying to compose herself and starting where to begin.

"What are those?" asked James gesturing towards the bagels.

"Those are typical American little breads. Usually you sliced them in two and toast them. Then you can add something on it. Most of the time you add that;" she said giving him some cream cheese.

"Ok, and is it good?" he asked again not very sure whether he should try it or not.

"It is, my all time favourite are the sesame seeds bagels." Lily answered smiling suddenly amused.

"So I'll have those with the uhm those seeds you talked about." Then James's look fell on little triangular kind of breads. "I know those, I've tasted them in France. Those are good!" he said taking one croissant in his plate near his toasted bagel.

"Right now what will you have with those? Coffee, tea, hot chocolate?" asked Lily

"Tea sounds good. What kind of teas are the muggles having?" he asked.

"I found different kinds: earl grey, Darjeeling, and some flavoured tea as well" Lily said looking at the little tea bags she had settled in a corner of the kitchen counter.

"Er earl grey seems good to me," said James.

"Ok, Mr Potter earl grey tea's ready," said a smiling Lily putting some boiled water in James's cup and handing him the tea bag.

"Thanks," James said.

"You're welcome," Lily answered him.

What they didn't know was that Sirius was listening to their little conversation and had a look at them when James was holding Lily from the slightly open kitchen door. He was grinning madly thinking that finally James would get his girl. Once again, he deeply felt guilty for what he had done to Lily during the year and decided to enter the kitchen to have breakfast before leaving to make his little searched to own Lily's forgiveness.

"Aren't we cute playing house like that!" teased Sirius entering the kitchen.

"Good morning Sirius," said Lily blushing madly again.

"Hey Lily," he greeted her, "Hey Prongs, anything planned for today except playing house with Lily?" he asked James helping himself with some juice.

"Not really, are you up to something?" asked James smiling at his best friend's comment and seeing how embarrassed was Lily. Had she realized something? Was she embarrassed Sirius had told that because it was not true, or because it was indeed true?

"You can say that my friend, but I need you help," said Sirius winking and having a sip at his drink. He then made a face and looked at the juice. "What is it with that pumpkin juice?" he asked staring at his glass confused.

Lily looked at him and realized he had mistaken orange and pumpkin juice. "It's orange juice Sirius, it's muggle," she said amused.

"Oh I get it then, is that food all muggle?" he asked having a circular hungry look at the table.

"You bet it is said James his mouth full of the yummy bagel.

"James Potter, it is rude to speak while having its mouth full of food," said Mrs Potter entering the kitchen.

"Sorry Mom," said a blushing James Potter.

"Lily dear, what have you prepared today? I heard you telling Sirius this was muggle?" asked Mrs Potter.

"Yes it is," answered Lily, "I thought it could be a good idea to let you try muggle breakfast."

"It is indeed, I'm quite curious about this in fact." said Mrs Potter sitting in one chair and imitating James with his tea. Soon they were joined by Mr Potter that was as interested as his wife in the muggle food. It was a huge success for Lily's muggle breakfast and they decided to have a muggle breakfast at least three times a week. Lily beamed with pleasure at their compliments. She then started to tidy the table but was soon stopped by Mrs Potter. "No no no dear, you made your job by doing this wonderful breakfast, it is our turn to work now," she said. Then she turned to James and Sirius, "Boys come and help me please."

"Yes Mom," answered the two boys.

That let Lily enough time to get ready in her bedroom. She settled the wizard shower to the water temperature she wanted and added the soap to the water with a wave of her wand. She loved taking showers; it always had this refreshing effect on her. She was able to think and relax in the same time. Right now she was only thinking about one thing, well scratch that, one person: James.

Was she falling for him? He was so nice with her, not pressuring her, giving her time to adjust to her new situation. But what was she really feeling for him? She knew she had fallen for him before that day when he had been mocking and hurting Severus Snape together with Sirius. She knew this incident had changed her mind and obviously it had changed his as well. But her parents' death seemed to have put back things as they were before. Well the only difference was that he was not asking her out twice a day now. He seemed much more mature about that. He seemed to know she loved him and that she needed to sort her thoughts out before giving in to him. Wait a second; did she use the l word? "Oh man I got it bad", she thought stopping the water.

She sighed as she exited the shower and she engulfed herself in a huge towel. She then dried her hair and got dressed with much elegance.
She had an appointment today with her parents' lawyer. She needed to sort things out with her sister and she had asked for this meeting. Then later in the day she had an appointment for a job in a muggle society.

Ok you guys that's all for now, once again I'm sorry it's short but well, studies studies studies ....