Disclaimer: I defiantly do not own Harry Potter. I swear I really don't! I'm just a stupid, pathetic, girl who has no money. Well maybe not stupid and pathetic but I really don't have any money. Don't sue!
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 friend's 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.
Special Thanks: To LadyLupin1020, she really helps me a lot on this story and we kind of keep up each others self esteem on our stories as we write them lol, told you I was going to make this a thing like the 'Disclaimer' ...don't mind me and my craziness everyone...
MUAH, lol wow its been a long time, sorry bout that everyone. Been VERY busy but hey I'll try harder. Oh and why cant everyone just drop the seeker/chaser thing some people are taking it to seriously when this is just a made up story . Well kick back and enjoy the story lol.
Chapter 19 - The Kid in Me
Lily sat down at the Gryffindor table in between James and Lindsey, but across from Suffie.
"Morning!" Lily said cheerfully. Everyone greeted her except for Suffie.
"Suffie, come on! Your not mad at me over something as silly as this, are you?" Lily asked.
"I need to get my cloak for when we leave for Hogsmede. Will you come with me to get it Remy?" Suffie said, paying no attention to Lily. Remus nodded unsure and they both left.
"Hmmm. Well I guess I'll have to make it up to her later," Lily said, mostly talking to herself.
"What are you two fighting about anyway?" Lindsey asked.
"Er, nothing. I can't wait to go to Hogsmede!" Lily said changing the subject.
"Yeah, I need to restock on pranks at Zonko's," Sirius said.
"Zonko's?" Lindsey asked.
"It's the prank shop there in Hogsmede," Sirius explained, Lindsey hadn't been to Hogsmede before.
"Prank shop!" They heard Natilda say with a grin.
Suffie and Remus went off to the sweet shop. Sirius promised to show Lindsey around but they had to go to Zonko's first. They had all decided to meet up at the Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer later. This leaving James and Lily standing alone together on the cobblestone street. It was a beautiful, but chilly, Autumn day.
"As much fun as it is standing here, its cold. Do you want to go somewhere?" James asked. He cocked his head to the side a bit and smirked. Lily shuffled her feet a bit.
"Well I really just wanted to go to the book store. You don't have to come, you can go to Zonko's or Honeydukes if you want..." Lily said.
"I'd rather stay with you," he said with a smile "To the book store!" He said and grabbed her hand, dragging her through the slight crowd. She giggled slightly as he tugged her into the bookstore. A bell rang as they entered. Lily walked through the rows of books, her finger tracing across the bindings as she walked. James followed her.
"Looking for anything in particular?" He asked from behind her. She looked over her shoulder and shook her head 'no'. She pulled out a rather large book. It was red with golden trim. James peered over her shoulder and read the title 'Mystical Creatures and their Features'.
"Hey, the title rhymes," He pointed out.
"Thanks for stating the obvious," Lily laughed "Get a book, we can go sit and read, unless like I said before, you don't want to." Sitting and reading wasn't exactly fun to him, but Lily wanted to and he just wanted to be with her. James went and picked one on quidditch, of course.
"Your so predictable, you know that?" She said.
"You think I'm predictable? Hmm...I'll have to do something about that later," He said. She sat down on a large red couch and he sat beside her. A house elf walked over and gave them to large mugs of hot chocolate with marshmallows. (AN- kind of like Barnes and Nobles lol you know how you can buy drinks and food and go sit and read...yeah...)
Lindsey followed Sirius into Zonko's. She watched Sirius's eyes light up like a two year old in a candy shop. He ran off gathering everything in sight. In only a matter of minutes he had a large pile set down on the counter.
"Ah, Mr. Black, my best customer!" The storekeeper said. Lindsey shook her head and laughed.
"What?" Sirius said.
"Nothing, -Mr. Black-, just buy your stuff, okay?" She teased. He passed the storekeeper some galleons and they walked out, Sirius holding a rather large bag.
"Where to now?" He asked her.
"Well, I don't know. Show me around!" She said. They walked down the street past the shops, Sirius pointing out some every once and a while.
"What's that shop?" Lindsey asked pointing to one with lots of odd objects in the window.
"Hmm...looks like a store full of junk to me," Sirius answered.
"Let's go in and see," Lindsey said, pulling him into the store.
Lily put her book down and took the last sip of her drink.
"I need to go to Zonko's and then Honeydukes, come with me?" James asked her. Lily bit her lip.
"Well, okay. I'll meet you at Honeydukes, you can go to Zonko's with out me," She said. He nodded, got up, and left. Lily stood up and put her book back on the shelf. She put her cloak and scarf on and walked out of the store. She walked down the street, looking in the stores as she passed. She felt herself bump into something and she fell on the ground. She sat up, it was a few Slytherins that she recognized were in her year. There was a girl and two boys.
"Ew, the mudblood filth touched me," One of the boys said wiping off his robes.
"Shut up," Lily sneered.
"I think you owe her an apology," She heard someone behind her said. She looked over her shoulder and saw Thatz.
"Yeah, right!" One of them said and they walked away. Thatz shook his head.
"Stupid gits," He said and helped her up.
"Thank you!" Lily said and smiled. She gave him a hug. "I owe you Thatz."
"Nah, you don't owe me anything Lils," He answered.
"See that's what I like about you," Lily smiled and stood on her tip toes quickly giving Thatz a quick kiss on the lips.
"Um...Lily?" He said. "Your like a little sister to me, just a friend. You know that right?" He said looking upset.
"W...well," Lily stammered.
"I don't mean to hurt you, I'm sorry. It's just, I don't feel the same way and I already have a..." He stopped as a girl came up next to him.
"I was wondering were you went off to Thatz!" She said and then looked at Lily. "Oh, hello. I'm Candice Caine." The girl said. She had long curly blonde hair and blue eyes, that looked almost purplish. (AN-haha Candy is short for Candice. Candy Caine. Lol maybe its me...)
"Er...Lily this is my girlfriend," Thatz said.
"Oh, well nice to meet you. I have to get going. Bye!" Lily said and ran away.
James sighed and leaned against the wall. He didn't mean to be eavesdropping but he had seen Lily and was going to help her, but Thatz got to her first. He was happy Thatz had rejected her, but upset because he knew she was sad. He started running after Lily.
"This shop is crazy," Lindsey said, Sirius nodded. Lindsey poked a small pouch, which suddenly tried to snap at her finger. She yelped and stumbled back into Sirius who steadied her.
Sirius started looking at some glowing rocks. Wondering what else they did other then glow. Lindsey had wandered, looking at some necklaces with magical creatures moving around, life like on them. There were different dragons, each blowing flames or snorting smoke out their nostrils. Winged horses and hippogriffs flapping their wings. She watched a unicorn shake its mane and then rear on its back legs. Their were centaurs, fairies, phoenixes, sphinxes, merpeople, and nifflers. She laughed at a Kneazle that was hopping around. She circled the display case looking at each individual one.
She put her hand on the glass of the case in front of a snidget. It was gold with red eyes and completely round. It had a long, thin beck and was flapping its wings a bit.
"Can I help you with a purchassse?" A old lady hissed. She seemed to appear from no where. She was short and plump and had wild black gray hair.
"Er, no we were just leaving," Sirius said showing up beside Lindsey. He looked at the necklace she was looking at and then they both exited out of the store. They wiped the dust and cobwebs off of themselves, from the shop.
James finally caught up with Lily up by the Shrieking Shack. She was sitting beside a large pile of fallen, golden colored leaves on the hill. Her back was to him so she didn't notice him. He walked up from behind and sat next to her, wrapping an arm around her shoulder. She dropped the grass she had ripped out of the ground and hugged him, crying into his shoulder.
She looked up at him, tears streaming down her face. He hated seeing her like that. He looked away and then looked back. He wiped a newly fallen tear off with his thumb.
"Please don't cry Lils. I can't stand seeing you like that," He said softly.
"I can cry if I want to. You don't even know what happened to me!" She yelled.
"Well, no I don't..." James lied so she wouldn't know he had eavesdropped.
"Whatever, leave me alone James," She said. James stood up, sighed, and fell back into the pile of leaves, a few flying up and hitting Lily as he did.
"W...what are you doing?" Lily stumbled.
"Playing in the leaves. Don't tell me when you were little you never played in the leaves!" James said from underneath the pile, Lily quickly giggled as his head popped up and he pulled her into the leaves. They laid in the leaves next to each other, Lily wiped her tears off on her sleeve and sniffled a bit.
"Thatz didn't seem like your type of guy anyway," James said by accident.
"What did you say?" Lily said confused.
"N...nothing I don't know what your talking about" James stammered.
"You were listening in on me!" Lily yelled.
"I swear I wasn't, I was just there and over heard," he said.
"It's the same thing!" Lily said and gave him a punch on the shoulder.
"Oh, so you want to play it that way, huh?" James said. He tackled her and they both went rolling out of the pile of leaves and down the hill. They rolled to the bottom and both stood up laughing.
"That makes you a bit dizzy," She said putting a hand to her head and stumbling a bit. James grabbed her but he was dizzy also and they both fell on the ground laughing. Lily fell on James but sat up so she was sitting sideways on his stomach. She giggled and pulled a leaf and some grass out of his hair.
"Your laughing at my hair? You should see your own," He said smirking. He slid her off of him and sat up.
"Do you mind taking them out please? I got the leaves out of your hair!" Lily argued.
"Fine, fine calm down Lils," James said. She turned around so her back was to him and her pulled some of the leaves out of her long red hair. She laughed and shook her head back and forth hitting James in the face with her hair.
"Come on James let's go meet everyone," Lily said standing up. She held out her hand and helped him up.
"Sure," James said slinging an arm around her shoulder as they started to walk. "See, everything turns out great when I'm around," He gloated as Lily pried his arm off of her. He put it right back and she rolled her eyes.
"Will you check those two out!" Lindsey exclaimed "They are so cute together!" They had been walking and saw Lily and James up on the hill. Sirius sat down on the grass and Lindsey sat beside him.
"James really likes her," Sirius stated.
"Well, I'm not suppose to tell but she likes Thatz. Suffie told me after breakfast, that's why she's mad at Lily," Lindsey said.
"But they're acting like a couple," Sirius pointed out.
"Couples roll around in leaves?" Lindsey questioned.
"Maybe they do!" Sirius said raising an eyebrow and laughing. He tackled her so that she was lying on the grass and he was on top of her. "No leaves to play in, I'll have to improvise and do something else."
"And what would that be?" She asked. He leaned down and kissed her. They kissed for a while then broke apart. Sirius laid next to her on the grass and they were both looking up at the sky.
"Are we going to tell anyone we're going out...now that the whole Kerri thing is somewhat settled?" Lindsey said looking over at him.
"What do you think we should do?" He asked, while entwining his fingers with hers.
"M...maybe we should continue the secret thing, until the whole Kerri thing officially passes over. This whole secret, sneaking around thing is kind of getting fun," She giggled. Sirius smirked and looked back up at the sky.
"A dog!" Sirius said and pointed into the sky. Lindsey laughed and looked at him.
"Are you feeling okay, Siri?" She asked.
"Perfectly fine thank you. I was talking about the clouds, see that one over there," He said, "It looks like a dog."
"It looks like a big fluffy white cloud," Lindsey stated.
"Oh come on, I think you can use your imagination better then that!" He said.
"Fine, that one over there looks like the head of a unicorn," She laughed.
"See that's better. Oh, oh that one looks like Mcgonagall," Sirius said.
"Looks more like a goblin to me," Lindsey said.
"Same thing," Sirius shrugged.
"Lily and James are playing in the leaves, me and you are looking at clouds, what's next we all get together and play duck, duck, goose? I feel like a little kid," Lindsey said with a smile.
"Is that such a bad thing?" Sirius asked.
"Yes, yes it is," Lindsey said she leaned over and gave him a quick kiss on the lips then stood up. She leaned over him and poked his shoulder. "Tag! Your it!" Lindsey yelled and started running. Sirius got up and chased after her as she ran laughing.
Everyone met up at the Three broomsticks. The sat down at one of the booths instead of a table. Lindsey, Sirius, and Lily on one side. Suffie, Remus, and James on the other. They were all sitting wrapped up in their cloaks having a butterbeer.
James was watching Lily who was across from him. She didn't seem to notice because she was looking beyond him and sighing. James turned around to see what she was staring at and saw Thatz and Candice at a table not to far away. He rolled his eyes and faced forward, continuing to watch Lily. Suffie noticed all this too and looked to see what Lily was looking at.
"Who is Thatz with?" Suffie asked. Sirius, Lindsey, and Remus all looked over also.
"Er, I don't know," Remus said.
"Candice Caine," Lily mumbled and set her head down on the table.
"Who?" Sirius asked.
"His girlfriend," Lily said and then started to bang her head on the table.
"Oh Lily! I told you he was a dork!" Suffie said sympathetically.
"Lily, maybe you should stop banging your head before you get a bruise," Lindsey said. Lily stopped and sighed.
"Are you still mad at me Suff?" She asked.
"Nah," Suffie said and took a sip of her butterbeer. They watched Thatz lean over and kiss the girl then he stood up and walked toward them, Lily let out a sigh.
"Come on Suffie, let's see if 'Rian is around," Thatz said when he got to the table. Suffie nodded and left with him.
"You guys want to head back?" James said and everyone agreed.
"Where's Lily?" James asked as Lindsey walked down from the girls dormitory and plopped down on the couch next to Sirius. Sirius was watching James and Remus play wizards chess.
"Upstairs, she's still a little upset over Thatz I guess," Lindsey said.
"Game over," James said with a smirk and then walked toward the stairs.
"Sure, just when I'm about to win," Remus exclaimed. James knocked on Lily's door and got no response. He opened the door to see Lily laying on her bed, her face buried in a pillow. James sighed and leaned against the doorway.
"Why are you up here when all the fun is downstairs?" He asked.
"What fun?" She said and sat up.
"Well, I don't know, but we can think of something," He laughed.
"No thanks, I'd rather no,t" Lily sighed. James sat down in front of Lily on her bed.
"Lils..." James started.
"What?" She asked looking down at her bed spread. James put his index finger under her chin and lifted her face so she was looking at him. He played with a piece of her red hair and looked into her eyes. He pushed her back so she was laying back on the bed and leaned his forehead against hers, one hand still playing with her hair and the other on the side of her head. He moved his hand and wrapped it around her waist while pulling her hair behind her ear. He brushed his lips against hers and watched her close her eyes. He smirked and then kissed her. He heard her let out a little gasp as he brushed his tongue over her lips. He broke away and kissed her neck then the lobe of her ear.
"Why can't you see your to good for him?" He whispered in her ear. He took her hands which were above her head and wrapped them around his neck. Her mouth opened and closed as she tried to think of what to say. He took his hand out of her hair and ran his finger tip over her lips.
"James, stop..." She said and tried to squirm out from underneath him. She couldn't though because he was stronger then her.
"What?" He asked.
"Get off of me," She said. He moved off of her and she stood up. James stood up as well and leaned his forehead against hers.
"I like you so much Lils, Thatz is stupid for not seeing you the way I do," He said.
"I'm sorry, I don't feel the same way," She said plainly. He moved away from her a little, his hand was on her cheek.
"Honestly? Can you really say that to me? Say that you have no feelings for me what so ever?" He asked.
"James, I..." Lily started "I have no feelings for you what so ever," She mumbled softly. James let his hand fall from her cheek and he walked out the door.
James walked into the common room, grabbed his cloak, and walked out ignoring Sirius, Remus, and Lindsey. He walked down the hall and outside. It had begun to rain and then started to pour. He felt someone run into him but caught the person and braced them so they wouldn't fall.
"Oh! James, you scared me what are you doing out in this rain?" It was Suffie, probably coming back from Hogsmede.
"Nothing," He said blankly.
"Aren't you going in? Your soaked already..." Suffie said confused.
"No," he answered. It continued to rain, James could feel the water soak through his cloak and start to get his clothing wet also. Rain dripped down through his hair and over his face.
"You'll catch a cold," Suffie reasoned.
"So will you, go on in," He said.
"Not without you! What's wrong?" Suffie asked. James let out a long sigh and slung an arm over Suffie's shoulders (brotherly/friendly way here people).
"Let's just go on in."
S'all for now . I really will try to update sooner. And I swear James and Lily will get together! All in due time lol. Please review!