WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS THINGS THAT PEOPLE UNDER 13 SHOULD NOT BE READING. FOR LATER PARTS IN THIS CHAPTER, READER DISCRESSION IS ADVISED.Now, I can't be held responsible for all those people who don't have a file on Fanfiction but are reading anyways and pay absolutely no attention to the rating. Heehee, that sounded like one of those movie warnings, didn't it?

Ch.23, Moving Day and Birthdays

The group spent the rest of their time in the Potter Manor doing several things: Swimming, pranks, snogging, hide and seek, tag, snogging, pranks and the odd bit of snogging. On the day that the couples went thier separate ways, James' parents had arrived back. His mother was very emotional at the prospect of her first son leaving the house. From the way that his parents explained that they had been on a mission for the Ministry, James decided it would be kept as a little surprise to find that he and his friends were also in the Order.

Len and Remus had already had all of their furnature transfered to their appartment. Melissa and Sirius had everything in their Diagon Alley flat. Now James was just taking Lily on a tour of their house.

"Oh James, it's beautiful." Lily said as she looked up at the cottage-like house in a small and friendly mostly muggle comunity called Godrics Hollow. (can someone tell me if I spelt that wrong?) It was white panneled and had a hardwood floor on the inside. Dark green doors made entries from both the front and back. James showed her to the kitchen and dinning room, which were right beside each other. As soon as you entered the house there was a hall about 7 meters long, and ended in stairs leading to the second level. There was a sitting room right across from the kitchen, but you had to cross the hall to get to it. Across from the dinning room was a downstairs bathroom. That's when the stairs started. Upstairs were three bedrooms, a room for each Lily and James; and a guest room. There was a second bathroom on hte second floor, and the guest room had one also.

They used the sitting room fireplace to floo back to James' house. Then they (with the help of the others of course) enlarged the fireplace and levitated what they needed through it. Len and Remus were on the other side, lazily floating things out fo the way for new arrivals.

After everything that needed to be there was there, the rest of the group joined Len and Remus and started to move the furnature into the right places. The kitchen was the most difficult because the door had trouble fitting the wide stove. In the end, Lily temporarily enlarged it to fit.

The house was gorgeous. James and Sirius set up a porch swing on the porch (duh) and then the group left to let Lily and James be alone for a while. The couple was greatful.

Sirius took Melissa on a little tour as well, once they reached the flat. They sat down on the sofa in thier mostly blue living room.

"Mel?" Sirius asked.

"Hm?"

"I love you."

Melissa smiled. "I love you too, Sirius." ( the writer refuses to describe what happens next.)

Remus was waiting for Len, in her house, and talking to her parents. He recieved many deiscreet warnings not to mistreat her or anything like that. She was just getting the last of her things. She came down, with a large bag. She embraced her family, and said goodbye. They flooed to their appartment, and Len apologized for her family.

"You have nothing to apologize for Len! I think it's sweet that their so worried about you." he siad, giving her a quick peck on the lips.

She smiled. "Thanks. Come on- I'll make some dinner."

They ate a nice dinner of salad and soup. Since the appartment was so small, they had dedicated a small corner of the sitting room to a circualr table with four chairs. They used this as their dinning area. That night, they both fell asleep on the sofa.

The next morning it was un-officially agreed that the group would meet at Lily and James' place. It was quite a hysterical sight. Lily and James were eating in the sitting room, and then the fire started up. The couple on the sofa got up, ready to greet whoever it was. Out tumbled Sirius, closely followed by Melissa. Who promptly tripped and brought Sirius down with her, and they were attempting to get up. Then, the fire started up again, and out came Len, who tripped on the people on the floor and joined the tangle. Remus followed and also tripped. Lily and James were doubled over in laughter as their friends struggled to untangle arms and legs. Then there was a quick flash of light and they saw the camera in Lily's hands. She shrieked and ran upstairs.

The group untangeld themselves and followed. After a while of chasing Lily and avoiding James, Remus simply held up his wand and said " Accio camera film that Lily used!" and it flew into his hand. The rest burst out in luaghter at the simplicity of it. And the look on Lily's face was absoluttely priceless.

"I knew you were smart!" Len said as she kissed him. He grinned and said, "Wasn't I all along?"

They spent the day getting a tour of Lily and James' house, and laughing at the embarrased look on James' face when his mother popped in to make sure he was alright. She was fretting around, and her most common phrase was: "My little Jamie is all grown up, his own house and living with his girlfriend..." Of course, she only siad this to herself.

On her way out, she turned to Lily. "Please make sure he eats well, I don't want my Jamie getting sick. He never liked brocoli that much, but he'll eat it if you put a spell on it that makes it taste like vanilla..." Meanwhile, the group was going red in the face from holding in laughter.

"Don't worry Mrs. Potter, I'll make sure that... Jamie eats well. I happen to be very good at itching charms..." and Mrs. Potter laughed at the mock evil planning in her voice. Not to mention that her oldest son had just gone beat red at the use of his pet name. And that all current occupants of the house were just as red as he was, only it was with holding in laughter.

The moment she popped out, the house vibrated with laughter.

"Well, Jamie, would you like us to tuck you in before we go?" Sirius teased.

"Or would Jamie like some playtime first?" Melissa siad.

"Now that's enough, Jamie needs a little din-din I think!" Lily siad, patting James on the head. James mumbled something, and continued to be beat red.

While Lily was making dinner, James turned to the others.

"No more teasing, I need you're help to plan Lily's birthday party."

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The next day, Len was very nervous. This was plain to Remus, who noticed that she talked less and less. It was, after all, the first day of her classes so that she had a teaching liscense.

"If I didn't know better, I'd say that you were nervous." Remus said with a grin as he leaned against the wall. Len looked up from where she was laying on her stomach, reading a book for her classes. She had left her door open, and now Remus was leaning against the doorframe. She smiled at him.

"Is it that obvious?" she asked.

"Yes." he siad, still grinnning.

"And what makes you so happy about that?"

"I just find it ironic that you're spending all you're time thinking about you're class, when you're about to be latte for it."

He laughed as she jumped up, and grabbed her books. Luckily she was already appropriotly dressed, and she opened her wardrobe and took out her bookbag. She got out all her books, and stuffed them in. she waved bye and popped out.

Remus stayed where he was, grinning and waiting.

Len popped back in, and he held out the lunch she had pre-prepared. she smiled at him, gave him a kiss and popped back out, this time with everything she needed.

After she left, Remus popped to Sirius's house. It had been agreed that this would be home base for planning Lily's birthday party, which was a surprise. It was in three days, on August 7th. Remus would fill Len in on what she missed when she got back. Remus, Sirius and Melissa were waiting for James to arrive. He just then popped in.

He got right down to buisiness. "I made a list of things we need. I've already checked somethings off. All we need is decorations, a guest list-"

"Uh James?"

He looked up. "What is it Melissa?"

"I think she would find it very sweet of you to go to all this trouble, but Lily's the one that likes small parties. It's Len and I who like the bigger ones." she siad.

"Huh?"

Melissa sighed. "Len's the one good for explainging this sort of thing. Anyway, where is she Remus?"

"Teaching lessons." he replied quickly.

"Great, now it's my job. Anyway, Lily feels pressured when she's with anybody but us. The eight of us, I mean. Everybody else she knows expects her to be a goody-goody-two shoes all the time. And yes James, Lily is not always a well-behaved, model student type. Before she got her Prefects badge at Hogwarts, she only warned about rules and stuff. She didn't lecture. I think she would be happier with just the seven of us." Melissa finnished.

James shrugged, but really felt a little hurt. "Well then we can cross out guest list, and now all we need is decorations, a game or two, and cake. Oh, and a method to get her out of the house for an hour."

"Me and Len talked about the latter last night. We can take her shopping, and when Lily and Len get shopping, you got an hour and a half on you're hands." Melisssa said with a little laugh.

"Great. Now, decorations." James siad.

"I think her favourite colour is green, right Mel?" Remus asked. Melissa nodded. They spent another fifteen minutes on things like that, and then set out to Diagon Alley to buy the stuff. Melissa and Sirius set out for games and decorations, and Remus and James went to find the perfect cake.

In the end, they got green streamers and balloons, a chocolate cake with cinnamin shavings, but couldn't find any games. They decided to ask Len for ideas on any muggle games that Lily might enjoy. They put the cake in the fridge, and hid the decorations, just in case Lily came looking for James. Which she did. When James was wrapping the present he had picked up for her in Diagon Alley. He quickly hid it behind his back, though Lily might have seen the wrapping paper. And he was very bad at the innocent act. But then, as if on que, Len popped in just as James was about to recieve a scolding.

Len quickly lied about what she was doing here with a large box,( which was filled with muggle games that Remus had asked her to get for Lily) and Lily was still suspicious, but satisfied. Then Melissa came out of the kitchen, where she had been putting a spell on the cake so the icing wouldn't melt.

"Lily! How are you? Listen, Len and I are taking you shopping on you're birthday, the last time you went shopping for fun was... I don't remember." she said just loudly enough for the two people in the kitchen to hear. Who were frantically trying to hide things in case she came in. The group spent the rest of the day staying for dinner at Sirius' amd Melissa's appartment, and just talking.

The next day, which was Saturday, the entire group (minus Lily) made the final preparations for the party. On the actual day, Len and Melissa took Lily shopping while the boys set up the house. Remus sharmed confetti and balloons to fly at Lily as soon as she came in. Sirius and James set up the cake and the presents. They were all hiding and the next moment (two hours later) Lily popped in with Len and Melissa. Then, Lily walked into the living room.

"SURPRISE!" the boys, Len and Melissa shouted. The look on Lily's face was priceless. She dropped her bags (all of which were clothes that Melissa convinced her to get. In other words, what James would like) and stared.

"How do you like it Lily? Happy birthday!" James said, giving his girlfriend a kiss.

"All this... oh thank you James! And the rest of you too!" she siad, flinging her arms around James, who gladly returned the hug.

She proceeded to open presents, and she got a set of books from Melissa and Len, a large box of Berrtie Bott's Every Flavour beans from Sirius, a nice book on DADA from Remus, and a necklace from James. It was gorgeous. It was a locket, and inside it was a picture of both James and Lily. Engraved on the front was I love you and it was the brightest silver. She put it on, and thanked everyone.

After presents they had some cake. After Lily said that she only wanted one piece, for Lily's ammusment James and Sirius had a cake eating contest. Lily was reminded of Hogwarts when she thought about how immature this was. But now she didn't find it anoying, but funny. Sirius won, though he felt quite sick from the rich cake.

Then, to Lily's enjoyment, Len pulled out thier favourite muggle game. (Lily's and Len's)Twister.

"How do you play?" James asked.

"It's simple. (Len lays out the mat on the floor) See the coloured cirles? Someone spins this wheel, (she points to the weel) and it lands on a colour. Then, depending on where the spinner stops, you have to put you're hand or foot on a dot of the same colour. (She gives them an example.) The last one to get tripped up wins." Lily siad.

"The mat we have is big enough for four people. Who wants to play?" Len asked.

Before anyone could fit a word in, Lily added "And I'm playing in this round."

"I will too. I still have yet to beat Miss Flexible over here." Len said, walking over to a corner of the mat while pointing to Lily. After they had heard the rules, the boys learned that this game involved a lot of phisical contact. James and Remus immediatly volunteered.

"I guess I'm stuck with the spinner." Melissa said, and sat over with Sirius, the spinner in her lap. Sirius ate to much cake and now felt nausues from about ten slices of rich cake. But that didn't mean that he wasn't in the mood for a little mischeif.

The game started off very innocently. But then Sirius and Melissa started er... mistaking certain colours, and soon both couples were in very comprimising positions. Lily was in a (has anyone ever done a 'crab' exercise? It's sort of like doing a bridge, but lower.) 'crab' position, and James, if he looked down could see her.

But then Len got tripped up due to distraction from the extrememly close posistion that she and Remus had been stuck in. She had tried to move her leg to blue (which was conveniently on the other side of the playing mat.) and lost her balance. When she fell, her other leg accidentally tripped Remus, who fell on top of her. After a lot of blushing, and just looking at each other, they got untangled and left the mat, ready to see who would win out of Lily and James.

The couple on the floor were almost touching, but each remained balanced. Then, Len and Remus found out about the colour mistaking, but it's not like either of them had an argument! So, they had to move thier right hand to yellow, which just happened to be right under Lily. Lily easily put her hand there, but James was another story. He finaly managed it, and if anyone looked in now, it would look like the couple had been caught in the middle of something.

James, realizing his chance to unintentionally make a move on Lily let his right hand slip when he was told to put it on yellow aswell. When he fell, he landed with his arms around Lily on the floor. Because she was right under him, she fell too.

Lily went red right away, but James just grinned and said, "Hi."

Lily gave half a smile and scowl. It was obvious she was amused, but she was going to try not to show it. James got off of her, and turned to his sniggering friends.

"Why do I get the idea that someone rigged that spinner?" Lily said, trying to sound annoyed.

"Why do I get the idea that you didn't mind too much?" Melissa asked in the same voice. This set the group (minus Lily and James, who just smiled hopefully at Lily) into fits of laughter. Lily blushed.

"Oh well look at the time, you guys had all better be getting back to you're homes now, hadn't you?" Lily said as she blushed and ushered her friends out the door. They waved bye, and with final wishes of 'happy birthday' popped out.

The moment they were gone, Lily turned to James with the smallest hint of a smile on her face. "You hadn't tripped yet, why do I get the feeling you fell on purpose?" she said with an amused tone.

"Well do you think I could resist such a beuatiful girl for long?" James said with a hint of his old Hogwarts voice that he used when he was chasing Lily. He walked towards her and gave her a very passionate kiss. (The writer refuses to describe what happened)

When Len popped back into their appartment, she looked beside her and saw Remus pop in right next to her.

He put his arms around her waist and whispered "Do you have any idea how crazy you just drove me?"

She grinned. "Yes, I do." They started kissing and after a while of intense snogging, Len couldn't help but let out a little moan. She felt him smile against her lips. She let another small moan escape her lips as he moved to her neck. (AN: I refuse to describe the details of the events that follow)

Okay, I think everyone knows what happens there. R,E&R!