Once Lily and Hugo returned to Forks it was still early and Hugo mumbled something about it being too early to be up on a holiday and stumbled upstairs to go back to bed, so Lily made her way to the kitchen when her eyes landed on the phone she didn't even think as she walked up to it and dialed a number she didn't even realize she had memorized.

"Hey Seth its Lily, um I was just calling because I hadn't seen you for a few day and was wondering if you wanted to come to the beach with me and Hugo," Lily said using her aunts cordless phone that sat on the kitchen bench collecting dust.

"Yes, yes of course I will come over right now… If you want or I could come over later whatever it's cool," was Seth's rush reply. Lily let out a breath she didn't know she was holding after hearing Seth's happy voice, the voice that belonged to the boy she hadn't seen for three days now and for some reason affected her more than she would care to admit.

"No um, now's good," Lily replied after a moment, enjoying the sound of Seth's rambling. "So I will see you soon?" she asked.

"Yea I will be over in ten," Seth replied before a string of muffled noises and curses where herd before the line clicked off and Lily was left listening to the dial tone.

"Huey could I ask a small favor of you," Lily asked her cousin a few minutes later when he stumbled down stairs.

"Depends what it is," he mumbled, rubbing his eye's still half asleep.

"Well I wanted to see Seth so I invited him to go to the beach today,"

"That's nice," Hugo questioned not really paying attention to Lily with his back to her, rummaging through the fridge most likely searching for the unhealthiest breakfast food possible.

"Only I kinda said both of us would be there," Lily told him it was then Hugo let out a dramatic sigh before turning to his cousin.

"Am I going to be playing third wheel this whole summer, you know it's not my favorite pastime of the day watching my cousin and some guy drool over each other," he wined

"Can't you come, please just one last time, I promise,"

"Ok, Ok but you owe me,"

"Thank you, I better get ready he should be here soon," Lily said making her way upstairs.

Seth was right on time just as Lily knew he would be, she was surprised to see he held a picnic basket in one hand.

"I thought we could have a picnic, there is this cliff that overlooks the beach it's a nice day and it has a great view, and it's well…" Seth spoke trailing off but he didn't need to say it Lily knew what he meant.

"It's where we first met," lily said smiling at Seth's kindness.

"So how was your weekend," Seth asked

"Good we visited some family," Hugo replied

"Isn't your Family all in England," he questioned " You would've spent the whole weekend on a plane to get there and back in that amount of time,"

"What he meant is some of our family had come over here to visit us it was only a couple days but our parents really wanted to see us," lily replied quickly to cover Hugo's mistake. it seemed to work because Seth let it drop and they continued to chat and joke with one another on the way to the cliff top.

"This is all really good Seth, did you make it," Lily said taking a bite out of yet another chocolate chip cookie, she thought that this food could almost rival their grandmother Molly's cooking, and by the way Hugo was inhaling everything in reach showed he must have thought the same

"I'm afraid my cooking skills go as far as boiling water and making toast, this was made by my cousin Emily, it's like magic with what she can do in the kitchen,"

"Well tell her we loved it," lily said on behalf of herself and Hugo.

Lilly looked out to the ocean the clouds were grey and water looked a little choppy but the weather was decent and it would only get worse, lily liked to make the most of her opportunities and this was one she couldn't pass up.

"it looked like fun when saw you all diving off the cliff carefree as if nothing could hurt you as if gravity didn't apply in those moments after jumping " Lily said getting to her feet walking close to the edge before looking back towards Seth with an excited sparkle gleaming in her eyes.

"Lily be careful it's dangerous," Seth said as she walked to the cliff edge.

"What's so dangerous I saw you and your buddies jumping off the cliff just last week?" she questioned.

"We have been doing it since we were kids, it is actually quite dangerous," Seth said suddenly nervous as if he was reluctant to disappoint her.

"Well if you think a little bit of danger will scare me off then you're wrong," Lily replied sweetly batting her eyes at Seth who was a little taken aback at Lily's fearlessness.

"Lily I don't think this is a good idea," Hugo piped up knowing what his cousin was thinking

"Come on Hugo where is your Gryffindor spirit, it will be fun," Lily told him.

"This has nothing to do with bravery Lily, this is about the fact that our parents sent us here to keep us safe, not to risk our lives by jumping off a cliff," Hugo whispered lowly as not to let Seth hear.

Lily just frowned at her cousin "coming here was not my choice so I if I want to jump off this Cliff then I will, I'm not some helpless child that needs protecting Hugo," without another word she edged her way to the cliff and removed her shoes and socks.

Lily looked down to see that it looked a whole lot longer drop than she had initially thought but she refused to back out, with one last look behind her she saw Seth take a step towards her arms reaching for her then her red headed cousin who looked into her eyes silently pleading her to not jump.

She turned back to the water and took one long deep breath and she jumped.

It was only seconds before she plunged into the icy water but for lily it felt longer, the sudden rush of Adrenalin that coursed through her veins seemed to heightened the experience, she felt the wind rush past her and was certain her heart missed a beat as she was enveloped by the icy water and pulled towards the ocean floor which caused her to panic slightly.

Despite how delicate others perceived Lily she was actually strong and it didn't take long for instinct to kick in and her legs to start to kick, propelling her to the surface, when she emerged she greedily gulped in the air, at that moment there was a ripple in the water as two more bodies entered the water disrupting the surface sending small waves Lily's way. Lily gasped in surprise by her body's desperation for oxygen she had been underwater longer that she thought.

Lily was shocked, and it wasn't seeing Seth in the water who swam towards her as soon as she had come up for air, for some reason a part of her expected that Seth would follow her into the water, the thing that really surprised her was seeing a mop of wet ginger hair emerge from the water, Hugo had jumped.

"You jumped," was all Lily was able to say.

"Sometimes I may not agree with your choices, but that doesn't mean I won't be right behind you when you do this stuff," Hugo told her "now can we get out of the water its really cold," Hugo said with a shiver and chattering of teeth as proof.

"Are you OK, you were underwater for a while, you didn't hit any rocks on your way down or anything did you," Seth questioned as they made their way out of the water, he was holding her arm tightly as his eyes scanned her body over trying to find any possible injury, after a moment he was satisfied he looked up into the Lily's own eyes and slowly as if he was afraid to frighten her off and reached up to her face and pushed her unruly wet hair out of her face.

"You have beautiful eyes Lily," Seth whispered leaning towards her. Lily didn't know what was going on but as if against her will her eyes started to flutter…

"come on you two I'm Freezing, let's go," Hugo interrupted and like that the moment was gone and the two stepped back from each other, Lily blushing and unsure what to say, Seth just smiled grabbing Lily's hand and silently they followed Hugo's rushed pace.

It was at this moment Lily felt that Seth was warm, as in unusually warm for any human muggle or wizard but with the chilly breeze and quickly turning weather she was just glad to be near the warmth and not turning blue like Hugo seemed to be, so the realization went to the back of her mind as the three of them walked back to her home.

Lily and Seth stood together outside of her house, Hugo already gone inside to let the two say goodbye to each other but Lily was unsure of what to say after a perfect day she wasn't ready to let it end. She was grateful when Seth spoke up breaking the silence between them.

"So Lily I was wondering if you would like to have lunch with me at my cousins I mean you don't have to but," Seth said kicking the sand at his feet as he spoke and not looking in one direction for more than a few seconds. Lily had to admit she found Seth's nervous jabbering endearing.

"Seth it's OK, I would love to come over," she told him taking his hand in hers and giving it a reassuring squeeze.

"You can bring Hugo along as well, there will be a few people there and I can tell you are a lot more relaxed when he's near," Seth told her.

"Thanks Seth, I'll let Hugo know," she said smiling and in that moment Lily knew there was something between them and for the first time since starting Hogwarts she felt like more than the great Harry Potters daughter and she loved it.