Chapter 3

The Date

Sorry I haven't updated for a while. I've been kind of busy and kind of lazy at the same time: )

Disclaimer: I do not own anything

By the way, I've been calling Lily's friend Amelia and it was actually Amanda Bones. I'm really sorry!

Anyway here's the chapter!

Amanda had gone home a few hours before and Lily was bored. All she could think about was that stupid neighbor of hers, James Potter. Then, she looked up and saw something. Her birthday was in about 2 days! She couldn't wait.

Then Lily remembered that she had to get decorations still. She rushed downstairs and got her mom to drive her to the mall.

With Amanda

Amanda and Sirius were walking down the mall hallways. They were picking a birthday present for Lily and it had to be perfect so of course they were heading to the pranking store.

"What exactly do you have in mind for Lily?" asked Sirius. They were shopping and yet he had no idea what they were shopping for.

"I'm not quite sure. I know that she'll like something in the prankster store though. Lily is a master prankster after all."

"Ya well, I think that Lily has just made James prankster too. He is so determined to get back at her that I was relieved that I had to meet you here."

They entered the pranking store called Prank Lords and started looking.

As Amanda looked, she saw someone with jet black hair move beside her and he started looking at the stuff hanging from the wall.

Amanda thought that she knew who he was so she pretended to look at something in his direction. She knew it. It was James Potter.

" Hi James, what are you doing here?" asked Amanda trying to sound like she was innocent and was up to absolutely nothing.

" Well, since your little friend Lily has done that prank, I thought that I might get some idea of the basic pranks here, what about you?"

" Umm, well Lily's birthday is really soon and I came to get here a pre..."

"Oh, well speak of the devil," said James

Lily had just walked into the store. She looked as if she was looking for something but couldn't find it anywhere else. Then she spotted Amanda.

"Hi Amanda!" she said cheerfully. She was awfully cheerful. She was awfully cheerful, that is, until she saw James Potter.

" Hello Evans," he said coolly. Lily could tell that he was still immensely annoyed with her about her prank.

"Oh, so it's Evans now is it?" she said.

"Yes it is Evans, that is your name, isn't it?"

"Well of course it's my name, dim wit" she retorted. She was starting to get annoyed with him. He thought he was so cool she could just yell, but she knew better than that.

" Amanda, why are you here?" Lily asked, trying not to lose her temper. She could easily just thinking of that great brat that we all know as James Potter.

"Oh, well Sirius and I came to get you a Birthday present. What are you doing here?" she asked.

" Well I realized that I kind of forgot to get decorations for my party" Lily responded.

Amanda thought about this for a minute. Lily, unprepared? That doesn't make sense. Lily is always prepared! She must have something on her mind. That's weird, she normally tells me every little detail in her life.

I'll just have to get it out of her at her party she thought.

"Hey Amanda, I just found something that I thought Lil...lil Snickers my cat would like," Sirius said at the sight of Lily. He couldn't believe that he just almost blurted out to Lily what they were going to get her for her birthday.

" You know Sirius, you are one extremely weird person you know that?" Lily said.

Of course he's weird she thought to herself I mean after all, he is friends with Potter. He'd have to be pretty weird to hang out with that geek.

"So Lily," said Sirius trying to change the subject. He didn't really like to talk about how weird he was. Honestly though, could you blame him? "What are you doing for your party?"

"Oh nothing much. First it's just games and then some of my friends have to go home because they aren't allowed to sleep over that night. Something about diagonally."

Sirius and James emediantly looked at each other. She must mean Diagon Alley. So some of Lily's friends were witches eh? James already knew that Amanda was a witch because their parents met in Hogwarts but what are the chances of the rest of her friends being witches too?

"Lily dear, we really must go! The mall is about to close any minute now," Josephine called.

"I hope to see you guys later okay?" Lily called.

"Or at least most of you" she muttered under her breath thinking of James.

"See you Lily" said Amanda and Sirius while James just 'humphed' and walked away.

"Bye!" she shouted across the busy mall hallway crowded with people.

As Lily walked away James seemed to relax slightly with each step she took.

"So Sirius, what did you find for you lil cat Snickers?" Amanda asked with a slight smile across her face.

"Oh, sod off will you? Anyway, I found her... sorry James, mate, but I kind of can't tell you,"

"What, why?" asked James. Sirius ALWAYS told him what was going on. "Am I not good enough for you any more? I let you stay over at my house and this is the thanks I get! What happened? I thought we had something!"

" Cut the drama queen act James, that's MY role!" Sirius answered with a slight chuckle.

" Uh, fine, be that way! Oh, by the way, I'll see you back at my house." he said and left the mall.

"So, Lily's friends are going to Diagon Alley" Sirius thought allowed.

"Oh my gosh, you're a wizard?" asked Amanda. She didn't think that Sirius had an ounce of magic in him but then again, this wasn't the first time she was wrong.

"Of course!" he said

"Okay, well now that I know that you're a wizard, we can actually talk about magic stuff!"

"Okay, so, what do you want to talk about?" asked Sirius.

There was a dead silence, except for the rest of the mall.

"So, I'll see you later then"

"Yep"

And with that, they left and went back to their houses.

Sorry this is such a short chappie! I was kind of having writer's block. I'll try to make the next one longer!

SIL