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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.
I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry for not updating. I've been really really busy. Anyway I hope you all like this chapter! Please review!
Chapter 11- Things Happen
Lily felt a drop of wetness roll down her cheek. She shook her head and sat up a bit. She raised a hand to her cheek and wiped the water off. She noticed several drops of rain fall from the sky, 'it must be starting to rain,' She thought. She looked around her, she had fallen asleep outside. She noticed James was next to her and remembered everything that had happened. 'I can't believe Suffie left me here,' She thought 'What was wrong with me last night first I let him kiss me, and then I kissed him a second time' She thought and put her head in her hands. 'All that will come from this is that I'll start to like him and he drop me for some pretty popular girl'. She looked at him and cringed 'but he's so cute sometimes...' she sighed in frustration and stomped into her house leaving James outside to sleep until he realized it was raining.
Lily slammed the door behind her as she went in and went into the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator and took out some milk and poured it over a bowl that had some cereal in it. Sirius and Remus had stopped eating their breakfast and were watching her wearily. She sat down at the table with them and let out an exasperating sigh. She was taking her spoon and angrily crunching the cereal in her bowl into little pieces, she felt them staring at her and looked up at them.
"What are you staring at?" She asked.
"I don't know, I'm just afraid whoever it is might kill me," Remus said.
"Really, what did the cereal do to deserve that kind of treatment?" Sirius joked, trying to lighten the mood a bit.
"Nothing, nothing is wrong at all," Lily said.
"Wow, its really starting to come down out there," Remus said. They all heard a scream from outside. James stomped into the room soaking wet.
"Well thanks for leaving me outside and not waking me up Lily," He said while standing directly behind her.
"Whatever, do you mind moving, your getting me wet," She mumbled. James clenched his fists. Sirius and Remus watched the two and then slowly walked out of the room together.
"What is your problem?" James asked.
"My problem? My problem! The real question is what is our problem James!" She yelled.
"Okay calm down I don't want to argue, even if you did leave me out in the rain!" James said.
"Whatever," Lily mumbled.
"What is going on? Why are you angry with me?" James said.
"Guess James, just guess why I'm mad," She said.
"Hey, I apologized last night for kissing you, besides you kissed back!" He yelled. Lily stood up and started to walk away but he stood in front of her.
"Will you please move," Lily said. James shook his head no and Lily tried to get around him. When she finally did, James caught her arm and pinned her against the wall.
"Lily, please I don't want you to be mad at me! In fact I don't even know why your mad at me!" He argued. Lily wiggled out of his grasp and sighed.
"I'm not really mad at you, I'm mad at myself, okay?" Lily said.
"Care to tell me what's on your mind?" James asked.
"No," Lily said and walked into the living room where Remus and Sirius were. James sighed and went to get some breakfast.
"Hey freak, Mum said to wake up," said a blonde haired girl.
"Petunia, get out of my room," Lily said and threw a pillow in the direction of the voice. Petunia caught and threw it back at Lily.
"Whatever, just wake up," Petunia said and she left mutter things about stupid freaks. Lily stood up and went to take a shower. After her shower she changed into a green turtle neck sweater and a pair of khaki pants and put on some lip gloss and a bit of eye shadow. She was meeting Lindsey, and the Marauders at Diagon Alley. Everyone had owled each other a lot after they left and decided to meet up there to get the school supplies two days before they left for Hogwarts, except Suffie. Everyone had sent Suffie owls but no one had gotten responses. 'She'll probably show up, she always does her school shopping two days before school anyway,' Lily reasoned. She slipped on a pair of brown boots and grabbed her black cloak that had a Celtic clasp on it. She bolted down the stairs.
"Morning Mum, Dad," She said cheerfully.
"Good mourning dear," Her father replied.
"Your looking very pretty this morning Lily," Her mother said. Lily smiled.
"Thank you," She said. Lily heard Petunia mumble a bit but ignored her. Lily grabbed a piece of toast with strawberry jam on it and ate it quickly.
"I'm meeting some friends at Diagon Alley and we're getting our school supplies, that's okay right?" Lily asked.
"Of course, don't be home to late," Her mother said. Lily went to the living room and took some floo powder from the mantel.
"Diagon Alley," She shouted clearly and threw the floo powder down. She landed with a thud and stood up. She brushed the soot of her clothing and wiped it off her face. She looked around her a bit with no sight of any of her friends. She walked around a bit and looked in some stores she thought Suffie or Lindsey might have been in with no luck. She stood on the street and thought a bit while people pushed by her on the busy road. 'Where could they be?' She thought. All of a sudden the word Quidditch popped into her head. She bet anything that the Marauders would be at the 'Quality Quidditch Supplies' shop. She walked down the street a bit and looked into the stores window. In the store stood James, Sirius, and Remus. She smiled widely and waved at them. They noticed her and waved back. Lily went to go into the store but was stopped. She felt a tug on her arm and she turned around to see who it was. There stood three boys she recognized were in Slytherin.
"Can I help you?" Lily asked a little angry. When the boy saw her face he pulled his hand away quickly as if he was burned.
"Well, what happened to you?" The boy whose hand was once on her arm asked, "Your stupid muggle parents make you put on clean clothing?" He sneered.
"Sod off," She spat and tried to walk into the store but once again was stopped. Another boy had pulled her arm a bit forcefully and Lily fell backwards onto the road.
"Hey, you guys," Sirius said.
"Yeah?" James asked. Sirius jerked his head towards the window. They all saw Lily and waved.
"Maybe she knows where Suffie is," Remus said.
"Poor love-sick boy," Sirius said shaking his head. James snickered.
"Uh, James you want to handle this one" Sirius said pointing out the window. They saw Lily and some Slytherin boys, the tallest one pushed Lily and she fell of the ground. Sirius and Remus saw James grow mad and clench his fists around his wand as he stomped out of the store.
Lily heard the bell of the store ring as someone exited it.
"Don't just walk away when we're talking to you mudblood," One of the boys said. The boy yelled out as he was punched in the side of his face. He was still standing but a trickle of blood was coming out from the corner of his mouth.
"Leave her alone, now," Lily heard a familiar voice say. It was James and he had his wand pointed at the chest of the boy standing to the left of the one bleeding. The boy glared at James, he spit on the ground near Lily and walked off with the other two boys. Lily scrunched up her nose, disgusted. James held his hand out and helped Lily up.
"Thanks," She said. James nodded and they both walked into the store. Sirius and Remus who had seen what had happened from the window decided it was best not to bring it up.
"Hello Lils," Remus and Sirius both said to her smiling.
"Hey," She said back to them "Have you guys seen Lindsey or Suffie yet?" She asked.
"Lindsey is at 'Florish and Botts' getting her school books, shes meeting us back here in a bit," Sirius said.
"And I was hoping you would know where Suffie was," Remus added "She didn't answer a single one of my owls."
"Me either," Lily said worried. She looked up at James who had been awfully quiet. He was staring intently at something out the window.
"James?" She said softly. He pointed out the window. They all looked at what James was pointing at. The was a figure, undoubtedly a girl, with a green cloak on and the hood of it drawn over her face. She was standing next to two boys who were looking into the window.
"Hey, the boy with the blonde hair looks like Suffie's brother who made her go home before," Remus said.
"Yea, and I know the other one. He's on our Quidditch team, a really good keeper, I don't remember his name, he never talked to us much." Sirius said. Sirius was a Beater and James was a Chaser on the Gryffindor team.
"That's Thatz, Suffie's other brother," Lily explained. They all walked out of the store.
"Suf! Over here!" Lily yelled out and waved to across the street, trying to get Suffie's attention. Suffie looked up, she looked nervous. Remus made eye contact with her and she looked down at the ground quickly as if hoping not to be notcied. They started to walk towards Suffie but a lost her in the crowd that went by.
"Like she just disappeared," Sirius said, "Maybe she didn't notice us."
"No she looked at me straight in the eye," Remus said.
"Well lets split up and try to find, maybe she really didn't see us," James reasoned "Lily you come with me this way, and Remus you go with Sirius the other way."
Sirius turned around quickly and began to walk but ran into someone. He fell on top of the figure on the ground. The person yelped and Sirius saw it was Lindsey.
"What is with us meeting like this?" Sirius asked and smirked.
"Sirius?" Lindsey said just noticing it was him. She blushed and Sirius got up off of her and helped her up. Lindsey brushed herself off and smiled at Sirius.
"Sorry about that, I was reading my book and I wasn't paying much attention..." She said.
"This conversation seems so familiar," Sirius joked.
"Okay you two, James and Lily already left so could we go look for Suffie now?" Remus asked.
"Hold on lover boy," Sirius teased "You want to come with us Lindsey?"
"Sure...where are we going?" She said.
"To find Suffie," Sirius explained.
James and Lily had searched around for a while, they picked up some of their school supplies at the same time. They looked into shop windows as the passed.
"Maybe we were wrong, or maybe she already left," Lily said. James shrugged.
"I don't know but I vote we get some sweets and some butterbeer. Who knows maybe we'll find her on the way," James said.
"Good idea," Lily laughed. They walked into the sweet shop and bought an assortment of candy. They went up to the counter to pay. James took Lily's candy and paid for it with his own, and they walked out of the store and started toward the Leaky Cauldron for a Butterbeer.
"You didn't have to buy my candy for me, I could have paid for it on my own," Lily said.
"I wanted to buy it," James said shrugging a bit as he shoved his free hand into his pants pocket.
"Thanks," Lily said and they both walked into the Leaky Cauldron. They sat down at a table and ordered their butterbeers, which the waitress brought a moment later.
"Really try this one, it's new. I've never had it but I've heard its good I swear," James said holding out a piece of candy.
"I don't trust you," Lily laughed.
"Hey, I'm the most trustworthy person around" James protested. Lily went to object but the second she opened her mouth he popped the candy in. She ate it quickly.
"You're a evil git, you know that," Lily said.
"Was it good though?" He asked, smirking.
"Yea, it had the oddest taste, but it was good," She said, "Try one."
"It was the only one I bought," James said. Lily looked up at him, their eyes locked. She leaned towards him and he did the same. Their lips brushed but Lily suddenly whipped here head away from him, James getting smacked in the face with her fiery hair. He shook his head and then tried to figure out what had just happened. Lily wasn't even sitting with him anymore she had stood up and walked away. 'What is going on?' James thought and stood up and looked around for Lily.
Sirius, Remus, and Lindsey went into the Leaky Cauldron for a Butterbeer. The noticed Lily and James sitting together but decided not to bother them. They took a seat a little ways away. They couldn't hear what Lily and James were talking about over the noise but the could see them perfectly.
"James is seriously crushing on her, did Lily tell you they kissed?" Sirius asked Lindsey. James had already told him and Remus everything that had happened.
"No! That's so cute, they should go out," Lindsey said, "I think they're about to kiss!" They watched and saw Lily stop just before they kissed, her hair smacking him in the face as she turned her head quickly.
"Oh, shot down again," Remus said.
"Poor guy," Lindsey said. The waitress brought over their butterbeer and they thanked her.
"So, I'm sure you missed me deeply when I left," Sirius said jokingly.
"Oh of course Sirius, I thought I was going to die of depression from being away from you," Lindsey teased.
"I knew it," Sirius said and slipped his arm around her shoulders, she laughed at him.
"And you said I was love-sick Sirius," Remus mumbled.
"Excuse me Moony, did you say something?" Sirius said.
"Nothing, nothing at all," Remus said laughing.
Lily out of the Leaky Cauldron. 'Finally' She thought to herself and tapped two boys on the shoulders. They jumped surprised and turned to look at her.
"Hello Thatz, Orion," Lily said smiling.
"Hey Lils!" Thatz said giving Lily a huge hug, her feet were barely toughing the ground because of his height. Thatz had spiky, messy brown hair and green eyes. He was around 6" 3' and Orion had blonde hair and was only an inch or two taller. Suffie always looked funny next to her brothers because she was so much more shorter.
"Hello," Orion said.
"Orion, I haven't seen you in so long and that's all you say?" Lily said she stood on her tip toes to give him a hug.
"So how are you guys? Where is Suffie?" Lily asked.
"Fine, fine you?" Thatz said.
"Good, do you know where Suffie is?" She asked again.
"Um...Suffie...She's..." Orion said.
"What about me Orion?" Suffie said coming up from behind them.
"Hey!" Lily said happily. Suffie jumped surprised, as she did her hood fell back.
"Oh, hey Lily, how are you?" She stumbled. Lily looked at her confusingly.
"I'm good, you? Is that a bruise on your eye?" Lily asked. Suffie looked into a near by window reflection.
"Oh well what do you know, there is a bruise. I wonder how that got there?" Suffie said. 'Never was good at lying', Lily thought. Suffie shifted her weight, she was carrying a lot of things.
"Thatz, could you help me carry my stuff, its heavy," Suffie said.
"Sure," He said taking it. One of the books fell out. Suffie reached down and picked it up. As she did her sleeve went up, revealing several bruises. Lily pretended not to notice.
"Are you going to get a butterbeer?" Lily asked.
"Well we already got our stuff and we have to get home, dad's not um...feeling well. Sorry tell everyone I said hi and I'll see you all on the train to Hogwarts," Suffie said. Lily nodded and Suffie and her brothers left. James appeared behind Lily and put a hand on her shoulder.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Did you see her?" She asked. James just nodded.
"She looked horrible," Lily said.
"Do you think..." James started but Lily interrupted him.
"Well Suffie's father has been abusing her and her brothers ever since her mother died in an accident when Suffie was three. Only like verbally though, I can only remember her telling me about him physically hurting them one or twice. If you look at Thatz right cheek he has that scar that looks like an 'X', that was from their father. He tells everyone it's from a quidditch accident to look cool though," Lily explained.
"They looked fine though, only Suffie looked hurt," James said.
"Yeah, probably because Thatz and Orion are almost as strong as him. When orion gets a job or something and has enough money, he can claim custody of Suffie and Thatz," Lily said.
"Should we tell the others?" James asked.
"Probably best not to right now," Lily said. James nodded and put his arm around her as they walked back inside.
That's all I got for now. Once again sorry to keep you waiting. I'll try to get the next chapter out soon. Now go reviewwwww! Please review!