Betrothed
by houdinicat3
A/N- I was just looking at Chap 1 and it looked way too short but it was so late when I wrote/posted it so I can hardly remember writing it.
We walked into the house. It was a beautiful place. If the resented one is as bad as I think he'll be, at least it's a nice house. That was a wicked thing to think but I'm 11 for god's sake.
"James, we're home!" Mrs. Potter called.
"We're in my room." Apparently he didn't want to meet me either. Mrs. Potter and I looked at each other. She rolled her eyes.
"Boys will be boys. I'll show you you're room and then I'll take you to James and his friends. We walked up the stairs and down the hallway. She took me to a guest room. It had a queen sized bed covered in red and gold linens. The windows were draped with them as well. It was amazing.
"You have a beautiful home, Mrs. Potter." I say politely though I mean it.
"Please, call me Sara."
"Ok...Sara." We put my bags down. She then took me into the hallway and gave me the tour of the upstairs.Then we reached a room with the door closed and a "Do Not Enter" sign.
"This is James' room." She explained. She knocked on the door. We heard rushing inside.
"Come in!" Someone called. Sara opened the door when I saw 3 boys. Two were on the floor playing a video game while the other sat on the bed watching. (I know that they might not have existed then but let's pretend lol) I could tell which one was James immediately. He had the same mess dark hair as his father.
"Boys, this is Lily. She'll be staying here until you all go off to Hogwarts. James, introduce your friends to her and be nice." She said the last part sternly. Sara then left the room and shut the door again. James and his friends went back to their game. I hmphed and sat on the edge of the bed and watched the two play. The one on the bed turned to me.
"I'm Remus. The bloke on the right is Sirius and the one on the left if you hadn't guessed is James. We're all starting Hogwarts this year." He stuck out a hand. I shook it. At least one of these kids was nice or at least polite.
"You're such a nerd, Remus!" James said without taking his eyes off the screen.
"And just because I'm civilized doesn't mean that I'm a nerd." He retorted to his friend.
"I dunno, James, he is the one talking up the girl." Sirius said. Lovely. Remus started to blush.
"Yea whatever." James said. He doesn't seem too pleased that I'm here. That makes two of us. I've been with them 5 minutes and I already know their personalities. Sirius is a self-proclaimed ladies man. Remus is polite and somewhat of a nerd. James is just ignoring me. He's probaly in denile. I don't blame him. I wonder if they know about the marraige.
"Seems like somebody is a little jealous of Remus." Sirius said to James trying to get a rise out of him.
"Why would I be jealous of him?" He asks annoyed still focusing on the game. He hasn't even looked at me.
"Because he's getting the pretty girl." Sirius says simply. I blush a little. Remus blushes even more.
"Yea right." He mumbles.
"I sense some hostility." Sirius just doesn't seem to know when to stop.
"Just shove it." James retorts.
"Oooo testy." He's wearing an annoying smirk on his face. He's cute. They all are.
"Shut the bloody hell up!" James yelled turning to him and glaring. Sirius then stopped and didn't bring it up again. I watched amazed.
We had been watching the two play some shooting game for 20 minutes and I was getting bored. I left the room to unpack my things. Remus followed me.
"Hey." He said standing in the doorway.
"Hey yourself." I replied taking my perfectly folded clothes out of my trunk and placing them in drawers.
"Sirius likes to joke around. He doesn't mean have the things he says. Y..you are pretty though." He said looking at his feet blushing.
I blush slightly. "Thanks."
"James isn't that bad either. He's just been in a bad mood lately. He hasn't told us why." So they don't know.
"It's because of me." I said. "He doesn't want me to be here." I wasn't going to go around telling people that I'm getting married to the kid.
"Oh." Remus says quietly. "Do you want some help?" He asks.
"Sure." I reply smiling. He walks over and carefully takes a pile of shirts from my bed and places them in the shirt drawer. As soon as we finished James and Sirius walked into the room.
"We're going out for ice cream." James said to us looking at me for the first time. I see his eyes scan my body. Well isn't that nice?
"Awesome." Remus says.
"You go downstairs with Sirius. I just have to talk to Lily about something." James said.
"Ooooo" Sirius says mockingly. James elbows him in the rib and the two friends leave the room. James walks up to me looks me in the eye.
"So." He said. Some vocabulary huh?
"So." I said. Well shut up.
"We're stuck together I guess."
"I guess." He looks at his feet and we just sort of stand there.
"Are we still going to date other people?" He asks looking away. So that's it? He wants to go out with people.
"Of course.Why wouldn't we?" I ask. He looks at me and is about to say something like 'Because we're getting married.' but he realized what I meant and didn't.
"Are you going to tell anyone?" He asks.
"And that'll get me a boyfriend how?" I respond.
"Good. Me neither. I haven't told Remus or Sirius yet."
"Yet?" I ask.
"They'll find out when it happens." Pause. "I might tell them eventually though."
"Fine with me."
"Good."
"Good."
"Let's go down now. They must be waiting for us."
This will be interesting.
A/N- so a little rl/l there. remember that she is in love with/marries James in the end. I ship L/J but a little preteen RL/L never hurt anyone.