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Summary: Both Lily and James's parents are going on a vacation for two weeks at the same time. Lily's family doesn't want her to be alone seeing that her sister Petunia is at a friends house. James has his two friends Sirius and Remus staying over for the summer and James's parents don't trust the trio to be home alone. What will the parents do? Make them spend the two weeks together that's what. L/J.
Hey, Thank you for all the nice reviews ! I'm sorry it took me a while to post this chapter, very busy that and once again I had a bit of writer's block. I hope everyone likes this chapter though!
Chapter 9-Lost in the Woods
Almost a week and a half had past, only 3 days until their parents would return. (AN- yes I know, if you tally how many days I've done that's not actually correct but I have so many good ideas for when they get to Hogwarts and I only skipped like 2 days lol)Lindsey came over a lot but was not there at the moment. Sirius, Remus, and Suffie were sitting in the living room. Suffie and Remus were working on homework that was assigned for over the summer together and Sirius was scribbling down prank ideas on some parchment. James and Lily were out side together. He was teaching her how to fly and the basics on quidditch, they were in a clearing in the woods so that neighbors would not see.
"Do you think Lily and James are falling for each other?" Suffie asked out of no where. Remus and Sirius stopped what they were both doing. They both didn't know what to really say.
"Well...I think James likes this Lily," Sirius said.
"What do you mean 'this' Lily," Suffie asked slightly confused.
"The Lily he knows now. She acts so different, more normal. At school Lily doesn't act like herself, she acts like someone she's not," Remus explained.
"Exactly, I think Prongs is falling for Lily now, but he's gonna have one hell of a reality check when we get back to school. Can't you keep her from changing herself into someone different at school? Just get her to chill and be herself?" Sirius asked.
"M..maybe, I think she's more afraid of acting herself and making friends and even boyfriends and then losing them," Suffie said.
"We'll still all be friends in school, maybe that'll show her?" Remus said.
"Maybe," Suffie said shrugging and then started giggling. Remus looked at her oddly, raising an eyebrow.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Yes, I was just thinking about how cute they'd be together," Suffie said. Sirius nodded and Remus smiled.
"I'm going to go get changed, and you guys should to its already past noon," Suffie said. They were all still in their pajamas because they were to lazy to get changed. "If you do wear something warm its unusually chilly out today," She suggested as she left the room. She put on a three quarter sleeved teal shirt that had a glittery fairy on the front and a pair of faded flares that had a design around the cuffs. She brushed her hair into two small pig tails and put on a little bit of makeup. A while later she walked out and saw Sirius and Remus had already changed. "I'm going to get a drink, you guys want anything?" Suffie asked. They both shook their heads no as she walked into the kitchen.
Lily sighed and sat down. They had found a nice grassy clearing in the woods and James was trying to help her fly and teach her the basics of quidditch but they were getting no where at all. Lily laid back onto the grass and closed her eyes. James flopped down onto the grass next to her.
"How come you never learned to fly before?" James asked.
"I told you before, I don't like heights. Besides what's the point..." Lily asked.
"When your flying it makes you feel free and quidditch is the best sport, admit it when we went flying you loved it," James said smirking. Lily smiled, her eyes still closed. She had loved it when he took her flying, she wanted to go flying again but not on her own it was to hard and she wasn't good enough yet.
"Take me flying again sometime?" Lily asked. James smiled and nodded.
"Sure, but you should learn how to fly on your own also," James said.
"I just realized you guys and Suffie are all leaving in only three days..." Lily said frowning. James looked at her.
"Well maybe we could all meet up at Diagon Alley on certain day and get our school stuff together?" He suggested.
"That would be nice...should we head back now?" Lily asked. James laid back looking up towards the sky.
"No, let's stay out her longer," He said.
Suffie looked up at a old grandfather clock that was hanging on the wall.
"Where could James and Lily be, they've been gone for a while now," She said.
"I'm sure whatever they are doing they're fine," Sirius said and continued scribbling stuff down on the parchment he had.
"Yea, Sirius is right," Remus said wrapping an arm around Suffie's waist.
"What are you scribbling away about Sirius? Can I see?" She asked.
"Nope, sorry," He said and kept writing. Suffie rolled her eyes. "I swear you guys don't tell me any secrets. The whole nickname thing and this too, it's not fair!" Suffie said pouting while Remus laughed.
"I'm sure you have secrets you haven't told me about," Remus said.
"Maybe, maybe not," Suffie said smirking "I'll find your secrets out sooner or later Remus Lupin," She kissed him quickly and continued working on her essay for Potions class. Remus and Sirius looked at each other, Sirius shrugged.
Lily was on James broom her feet hovering slightly off the ground. James was standing next to her.
"Good, now pull up slightly...slower! Okay good!" James said as Lily was now about 8 feet off the ground. "Now, just turn the stick slightly and go around in circles. Don't go any higher though, just in circles." Lily started going around in circles while James stood in the middle watching. After a few circles the broom started jerking, Lily yelped.
"Tighten your grip, let the broom know your in control," James shouted. Lily tried but ended up falling off her broom. She landed on the ground with a thud.
"Oww, that really hurt," Lily moaned, lying on her back on the ground.
"You okay?" James said while standing above her.
"I think..." Lily said. James held out his hand, she hesitated but took it and he helped her up. She stood up for a second and then fell back down.
"I think I hurt my ankle," She said. James knelt beside her and rolled Lily's pant cuff up and looked at her ankle. He touched it.
"Does that hurt," He asked.
"No, not really. It hurts when I stand on it though," Lily said.
"You'll be fine then, It's getting dark though we need to head back. If you hold my broom I'll carry you piggyback to the house." James said. Lily nodded and put her arms around James's neck, the broom in one of her hands and James stood up and he started walking towards the house.
"I made some dinner, I guess we can wait until Lily and James come back to eat," Suffie said. Remus and Sirius looked at each other and started laughing as they both walked into the kitchen.
"At least leave me and them some to eat when they come back!" She yelled. Remus came back into the living room and dragged her into the kitchen.
"Just eat with us, you don't need to wait up for them. They'll be fine," Remus said.
"Fine...but something still doesn't seem right," Suffie said.
"Worry wart," Remus said. Suffie stuck her tongue out at him and sat down at the table. They started eating the dinner Suffie had made, which was macaroni and cheese. After a while they finished and left just enough for James and Lily. The phone began to ring and Suffie went to get it.
"Hello?" She asked "Oh, hi Lindsey. Sirius? Yeah sure, let me get him." "Sirius, it's for you, it's Lindsey." Sirius jumped up and grabbed the telephone.
"Hello?" Sirius said. Suffie started laughing.
"It's upside down Sirius," She said.
"I knew that...Hello?" He said again. Sirius and Lindsey started talking. Suffie grabbed Remus's hand and led him upstairs so that Sirius could have his privacy.
"Think Sirius has a crush on Lindsey?" Suffie asked.
"Yeah, seems that way," Remus said. Suffie and him went into Lily's room. Lily and her owl's were sitting on the window ledge. Suffie looked at the owls and then turned back around, when she did Remus kissed her. They stood there kissing for a while, Remus's tongue brushed Suffie's lips as if asking for entrance, as he did Suffie opened her mouth and there tongues explored each others mouths. Remus and Suffie stumbled back a few steps and they landed on Lily's bed, Remus on top, still kissing. They laid there snogging for quite a while. Remus's hand was playing with the hem of her shirt and Suffie was playing with his hair a bit. He started to kiss her neck and Suffie quickly giggled.
"James?" Lily asked, her head was on his shoulder.
"Yeah," He said, his voice sounded frustrated.
"We're lost, aren't we," She said. James stopped walking and sighed heavily.
"Yep, going to rub it in?" He said.
"No, why would I do that?" She said "Let's just stop here before we get lost more."
"This would be easy if I could see. We should have left earlier so it wouldn't be this dark out, it's my fault I'm sorry," James said. He put her down and they both sat down against a tree. It was slightly chilly out and pitch black so they could barely see. Lily shivered because it was so chilly out. James moved closer to her so that their arms were touching.
"For warmth, if I had a jacket or sweater I'd give it to you but I don't," James said.
"T...thanks," Lily said. James put his hand in his pocket to see what he had on him. He pulled out a galleon, a couple of knuts, some pocket lint, and a red dragon peppermint pattie (AN-hehe yea I made that one up ). James sighed.
"I don't have anything of use, do you?" James asked, Lily shook her head. James thought for a moment.
"I have an idea" James said. He stood up and gathered some sticks, which took a while because it was very hard to see. He arranged them on the ground and the took out the red dragon peppermint pattie. He had got them from Honeydukes a while ago but it would still work, red dragon peppermint patties made the person who ate it breath fire temporarily. He took a bite of it and lit the fire with his breath. He waited a while for the magic to wear off as the fire grew bigger. He went to say something to Lily but when he opened his mouth all that came out was a big puff of smoke. Lily laughed and James started coughing. They both sat closer to the fire.
"We can always find our way out in the morning, that is if Remus, Sirius, and Suffie don't try to find us," James said. Lily nodded while poking a stick in the fire.
"Why are you being so quiet, your not mad at me are you?" James asked.
"No, I'm not mad its not your fault," Lily said.
"Then what?" James asked
'I think I'm starting to fall for you?' Lily thought and laughed to herself 'That's one thing I'll never let him know about me. Doesn't matter anyway he doesn't like me'.
"No reason, just chilly," Lily lied.
"Oh," James said. 'I could just put my arm around her, just so she wouldn't be as cold and only as friends that is...' He thought. "You should get closer to the fire" He suggested and she scooted closer to the fire. James hesitated for a second and then put his arm around her waist so she was closer to him. Lily looked up at him.
"Uh, I...I just thought it would help, so you weren't as cold," James stumbled. 'wow, I sound like an idiot' He thought. "So what do you think Sirius, Remus, and Suffie are all doing?" He asked.
"Hmmm...I think that Sirius is on the phone with Lindsey and Remus and Suffie are snogging somewhere," Lily said.
"Why do you think that?" James asked.
"Woman's intuition," Lily said shrugging. James laughed.
"They're not even going to try and find us are they?" He said.
"No, no they are not," Lily said laughing.
A while past and Sirius finished talking with Lindsey, he said goodnight to her and hung up the phone.
"Remus? Suffie?" He said looking around. 'I wonder were those two went?' he thought. He searched the whole downstairs and then went upstairs. He looked through all the rooms and then he got to Lily's he opened the door and saw Remus and Suffie still snogging on Lily's bed.
"Arg, Merlin my eyes! You two could have at least warned me! Sorry for disturbing you, continue I'll just be leaving," Sirius said as he backed out of the room. Suffie stopped kissing Remus.
"Sirius come back, we'll stop," Suffie laughed. Remus glared at Sirius and mouthed 'way to go'. Sirius laughed and Remus smiled.
"So, how was your snog?" Sirius teased making both Suffie and Remus blush.
"So how was your conversation with Lindsey," Remus teased back.
"Fine, thank you very much," Sirius said. They were all sitting on Lily's bed now. Suffie had her head on Remus's shoulder because she was getting tired. She looked at the clock by Lily's bedside. Its was 9:48.
"9:48!" Suffie yelled.
"Yes, that's called the time," Sirius said looking at her as if she was mental. Suffie smacked Sirius in the back of the head.
"I know that. What I meant was where are Lily and James?" Suffie said frantically. She punched Remus in the arm "I told you there was something wrong!"
"Okay, first calm down Suf, your getting violent on us here," Remus said holding Suffie's fist. Suffie pulled away and crossed her arms.
"Lets go look for them," Sirius said standing up.
"In th..the forest?" Suffie said gulping "But its dark out and late..."
"Suffie are you scared?" Sirius teased.
"Of course not!" Suffie yelled back.
"Don't worry Suffie we'll get some flashlights and you'll be with me and Sirius," Remus said. (AN- yea, I said flashlights. Someone before corrected me and told me in England that they call them torches, but I'm going to continue calling them flashlights cause I'm use to call them that, but what can I say I'm a stupid American and I'm proud of it! Lmao...thanks to the person who informed me about it before though). They all went downstairs into the kitchen where they left the flashlights they had used before. They took three and then put their jackets on and went outside.
"The forest is huge, how will we find them?" Suffie said "What if we get lost too?" Remus wrapped his arm around her.
"Calm down, everything will turn out fine," Remus said.
"Could be worse Suffie, the forest could be magical. Trolls, Nundus, who knows what..." Sirius said trying to scare her.
"Sirius stop teasing her before I beat the snot out of you," Remus said.
"Aw, I'm only kidding. It'll be fine Suf," Sirius said grinning widely as they made their way into the forest.
The fire James had made was starting to die down.
"Guess were stuck sleeping out here..." James said. Lily bit her lip, sleeping out on the patio was different than sleeping out in the middle of the woods somewhere, with who knows what wandering around. James could see she didn't like the idea and absentmindedly rubbed her back a bit with his hand that was still wrapped around her waist. He could feel her tense up a bit when he did.
"James..." She said and looked up at him but then looked back down at the ground. He took his other hand, one still wrapped around her waist, and tilted her chin upwards and looked into her deep emerald eyes. He started to lean closer, once again just as he was only a half an inch from hers she stopped him.
"J...James, please don't..." Lily whispered. James stared at her not moving his face away or anything.
"Why?" He asked.
"Because, I just don't want anything to happen between us. Nothing should or will ever happen between us, that's just how it has to be," Lily explained "Good night James," Lily said softly and fell asleep on the ground. (AN- I'm horrible, I stopped them from kissing again, please don't kill me lol they will kiss eventually I swear ) James ran his hand through his hair and watched the fire as it died out. When the fire finally was gone James laid back on the ground his hands under his head and fell asleep.
"James! Lily!" Sirius called out loudly. They had been walking in the woods for a while now, and had not found Lily or James. Suffie was tightly holding onto Remus's arm.
"This is beginning to seem hopeless," Remus said "One of us should have stayed at her house to make sure they didn't go back. They could be sitting back nice and warm at the house right now for all we know."
"Well if they get back and we aren't there don't you think they'll figure we went to look for them and come look for us?" Suffie said.
"Let's just keep looking for them. Even if we left someone at home it would have to be either me or Remus because I doubt you want to be left there alone," Sirius said "So the best thing to do is just keep searching. Worst thing that could happen is that we spend the night out here and go back to the house when its light out and check if they got back, if they didn't we can come search again in the day light. It will be easier that way."
"Where could they be though?" Remus said.
"Well I know where they were going but I doubt they're still there," Suffie said "They went to clearing in the woods, that's where James was going to help Lily learn to fly, but why would they still be there?" Suffie asked.
"Where's the clearing?" Sirius asked.
"Um, I don't know I forget where it is," Suffie said "It's to dark out to tell."
"Well can you point us where you think it might be," Remus said. Suffie looked around and then pointed to the direction right of them. Sirius nodded and they all started to walk that way. Eventually they came to the clearing, Suffie jumping with joy that she found it correctly. After a while her smile fell.
"I guess I was no help, they aren't even here..." Suffie said.
"Don't worry about it," Sirius said. Suffie shivered as a gust of wind blew at them. Remus looked around.
"They're that way," Remus said pointing forward.
"You sure Moony?" Sirius asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Positive," Remus said nodding (AN- hehehe werewolf sense's if ya didn't catch that . i dunno.) They walked for a while until Sirius tripped over something.
"What the..." Sirius started. Remus pointed his flashlight down.
"A camp fire?" Remus said puzzled. He beamed his flashlight upwards and saw Lily and James asleep, he laughed.
"Found them you guys," Remus said.
"Should we wake them?" Suffie asked.
"No, don't bother them. We'll just camp out with them here," Sirius said. Suffie pouted.
"Do we have to sleep on the ground?" She asked.
"You could use my coat as a pillow if you'd like," Remus said.
"No, you'll freeze!" Suffie said. They all laid down and fell asleep on the ground.
Lily woke up because of a beam of sunlight on her face. She sat up and yawned. Sirius was already up and was sitting there. Lily opened her eyes and saw him sitting there but didn't know it was him. She let out a quick scream.
"Calm down, it's only me!" Sirius said as James bolted up.
"Lily!" He yelled.
"I'm fine," She said.
"Sirius? What are you doing here, how did you find us?" James asked. Suffie and Remus began to wake up also.
"What's going on?" Suffie said rubbing her eyes.
"How about we all start heading back to the house now," Remus said when he was finally awake.
"Ten more minutes," Suffie said sleepily as she closed her eyes and laid her head on Remus's shoulder.
"Sorry sleepy head, you have to wake up now," Remus said poking her shoulder.
"So cruel..." She mumbled.
"Can you stand now Lily?" James asked.
"I'll be fine" She said and stood up. She walked around only slightly limping.
"How come your so tired Suffie?" Lily asked.
"We spent half the night looking for you guys," She whined. "You lucky your my best friend or I would have left you out here." Lily giggled as they began to walk. Fifteen minutes later they saw the house. They walked inside and Suffie went and laid down on her sleeping bag in the living room, after a while Sirius and Remus did also. James and Lily sat in the kitchen eating cereal for breakfast because they weren't as tired as the others. They sat there and ate breakfast together in silence, Lily could feel James's eyes watching her as she ate but she didn't look up because she didn't want to make eye contact with him. 'Why should I like him anyway? Even if we started going out or something he'd just dump me for some other stupid stuck up girl who's a million times more beautiful than me. He probably won't even talk to me ever again once we get back to school, him and the others will probably play pranks on me like this summer had never even happened. I just know it..."
That's all for this chapter . A lot of people have been requesting more Lily/James in it and I just wanted to say don't worry it will all happen in due time hehe . Anyway, please read and review! Also please read and review my other stories! Now go review, I need lots of reviews to continue writing faster, hehehe.