Previously: James, still flabbergasted, bid both Remus and Peter a good summer. Slowly, grudgingly, Sirius and James followed Mr. and Mrs. Potter out of the station and to the unpredictable summer ahead.
James and Sirius were sitting in the back of a ministry car that James' dad had rented. The car was spelled so that it could drive by itself and so that Mr. and Mrs. Potter could talk to the boys and not worry about figuring out how to get to the bed and breakfast.
"But Mum, why a bed and breakfast? Why can't we stay somewhere else?"
"Yeah Mum Potter, why not the leaky cauldron or some place else."
"Because boys, I think this will be a great way for you boys to learn about the muggle culture. Besides you might end up really liking this experience." Mrs. Potter said in an exasperated voice.
"Dad!" James whined to his father.
"Harold!" Sirius mimicked.
"Dad, why can't you and Mum—"
"—celebrate your second honeymoon—"
"—when we go back to school."
Both James and Sirius asked, finishing each others sentences.
"No boys." Harold Potter tried to explain, as the car started to slow down, "Our anniversary is tomorrow and we want to celebrate it now."
"Besides," Mrs. Potter continued, "we're here now." She and Mr. Potter stepped out of the car.
Both James and Sirius immediately looked out of the car window and saw a beautiful two story white house with dark blue trimming. It had a magnificent yard with oodles of colorful flowers all over and a thriving garden. It had a cute, white picket fence and cobble stone walkway, leading up to the house. There was a small two person swing set off to the side and a fat orange cat lying on the porch.
James groaned as he and Sirius joined his parents outside of the car.
"Mum, what about our stuff? All of our cloths in our trunk are wizarding cloths. We have our owls with us and everything."
"Don't worry about it champ." Mr. Potter said, grabbing onto the back of James' neck and steering him towards the trunk of the car. "Your mother, being the brilliant witch that she is, thought of that little problem ahead of time. She packed all of your boy's muggle clothing and a few other belongings for you. We will take your Hogwarts trunk home, once we take your school books out and put them in your other bags." Mr. Potter explained.
"What!" James bellowed, "Not only do we have to spend part of our summer here, with muggles I might add, instead of spending it at home, but we also have to do our homework while we stay!"
Both Mr. and Mrs. Potter dejectedly shook their heads, as they walked up the stone path to the house. When they reached the porch, with the boys in tow, Mr. Potter reached out and knocked.
Knock…knock…knock
Not two seconds later the door opened and they were greeted by a friendly looking middle aged woman. She had graying auburn hair and beautiful brown eyes.
"You must be the Potters." The woman said as she ushered the Potters into the house. "My name is Clara Evans, I would like to welcome you to my bed and breakfast."
James' head snapped up at the mention of the owner's last name. "Did you say your last name was Evans?" Clara nodded. "Do you have a daughter?"
"Yes I have two in fact; Petunia and L—"
"LILY!" James said at the same time.
"Yes, do you know h—wait a minute." Clara exclaimed as if realizing something, "Potter. You wouldn't be the famous James Potter that I hear so much about, would you?"
James face lit up at the prospect that Lily had told her mother about him. "Yes, I am James Potter. Is Lily here?"
"I'm afraid that she is not home at the minute. She is out with a friend." James' smile quickly disappeared as he remembered the guy at the station who had hugged Lily and left with her.
"And let me see," Clara turned to Sirius, "Black hair, grey eyes, a mischievous smile. You must be Potter's henchman Sirius Black."
Sirius' eyes twinkled, "The one and only madam. The one and only." Sirius took Clara's hand and kissed the back of it. James rolled his eyes. Sirius was always trying to get on the good side of older women, kind of charm them, you could say.
"Quite the gentleman. Should we move into the house and get you checked in so that you can get you settled?" Clara suggested.
Immediately after Lily and Adam exited the station, they broke into a fit of laughter. They didn't stop laughing until they reached Adam's car.
"You should have seen that boy's face Lily. If looks could kill, I would be dead right now and you would have no way of getting home."
Lily looked at Adam and raised one eyebrow. "Adam if you died, I would just grab the car keys out of your pocket and I would drive myself home." Adam gave Lily a look of feign hurt.
"You would just let him kill me? You wouldn't care if I died?"
"Well I would probably kill Potter for killing you."
Adam gave a look of triumph.
"But only because then I would be rid of two pests instead of just one."
Adam pretended to pout and wouldn't look at Lily. Lily sighed and lightly punched Adam in the arm to let him know that she cared. "Of course I would miss you, you great big lump of lard. If you weren't around then who would stay up with me late at night watching scary movies? Who would help me decide which outfit to wear to a party? Who would let me try a new color of fingernail polish on them?"
"When you put it that way I feel more like a servant than a friend." Even with Lily's sarcastic words, Adam felt much better. "Now Mrs. Evans, I think we should go out to dinner. What do you say?"
"I say that that is a wonderful idea Mr. Summers." And with that Lily and Adam went to there favorite restaurant; Apple Bees.
Once Lily and Adam had there seats they talked none stop. In Lily's case, catching up on all of the rumors around town; on all of her friends and on her mother. She found out that that the high school in her town was closed for a week because some boy put a cherry bomb down the toilet in the boy's locker room. She also found out that as a Halloween joke a group of boys got a hold of a fireman's wrench and went around town, opening up all of the fire hydrants. Of course this proceeded in flooding half of the town because that half was down hit, but…
Lily told Adam all about the new charms that she learned that year and about when Ms. Norris had been cursed so that every time she took a step her coat would change a different color. She described all of the pranks that the Marauders pulled, and how she discovered a new room on the seventh floor that was full of chocolate frogs and sugar quills. She told him of how James had asked her out a total of two hundred and sixteen times that year and of their conversation at the station.
After their dinner was done they decided to go to Baskin Robbins for dessert, but decided to stop by to say hello to Lily's mom first. The whole ride home they discussed what they were going to do for the rest of the summer.
When they arrived home they both jumped out of Adam's car and raced into the house. It was about 10:00 at night so they had to be quiet so that they didn't wake any guests. Lily could hear voices in the kitchen, familiar voices, but couldn't quite make out what they were saying, or who they was.
Lily walked into the kitchen to be met by the sweet aroma of chocolate chip cookies. She looked at the Kitchen table and was almost shocked into unconsciousness. Sitting at her kitchen table, talking to her mother, was none other than James Potter and Sirius Black.
"Potter?" Lily half shriek and half gasped.
'He couldn't be here. Not at her house. This was her vacation, her summer. This was the one place that he shouldn't be and yet, here he is.'
She looked in between her mom and the bane of her existence. This could not be happening.
"Hey Lily we have to go if we want to get dessert and movies." Adam said as he walked into the kitchen behind Lily. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw who was there.
A/N This chapter is the longest thatI have ever in any of my stories ever written. Please review so that I can know how I am doing.
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