CHAPTER 3- QUIDDITCH
Lily woke up the next morning to the smell of bacon and eggs. She sat up nervously then looked across into the other bed and remembered where she was.
Marlene looked different when she slept, younger, fresher even. Her brown hair splayed out across the pillow around her head and she looked very happy. Lily had never seen her so peaceful in actual life so it was quite a difference.
Slowly, Lily padded to the small sink in the side of the room and washed her face in it. She looked in the mirror slightly and sighed before reaching for a brush to untangle her hair. Deciding it would take too long, she used large amounts of hair potion which helped a great deal.
'Lily? Is that you?' A bleary eyed Marlene sat up and rubbed her eyes.
'Yeah.' Lily replied, styling her hair into a French plait.
Knock, knock.
'Come in!'
Alice opened the door.
'Your mum says breakfast will be ready in ten minutes,' she grinned.
'OK Marls, GET UP!' Lily yelled at her.
'No,' came the muffled reply as Marlene pulled the covers over her head.
'Help me,' Lily pouted.
'Three, two, one!'
Lily and Alice pulled the covers out from underneath Marlene where she was leaning on the causing the whole thing to unravel and her to fall onto the floor.
'GET UP!' Alice and Lily chorused.
'Seriously guys? This is what you do to your friends? Throw them on the floor in the morning?'
'Ones that don't get up yes!' Alice accused.
'So get up and down to breakfast or we'll throw water on you!'
'Fine, fine.' Marlene muttered.
'You coming down to breakfast?' Asked Alice.
'Let me get dressed,' Lily replied.
Lily and Alice were sitting downstairs with Mary when bleary eyed Sirius and James came downstairs. Lily carefully avoided James eyes and tried not to blush but she felt herself growing red before he was even at the table. She knew he was raising his eyebrows at her but she avoided his gaze.
'No Marlene, Lily-flower?' Sirius asked, piling his plate with bacon and eggs.
'No the lazy thing wouldn't get out of bed this morning!' Replied Alice, eating a rasher of bacon.
'Unusual,' Said James.
'Not really,' Mary said. 'She was like this when my parents were poorly last year. Didn't out of bed till 2:30 one afternoon so I had to chuck water on her for the rest of the week.'
They all burst out laughing.
'What are you all laughing at?' Marlene asked groggily, walking down the stairs.
'About you last year when Mary came to stay,' Lily giggled.
'Oh that! I swear if you do that to me Lily-'
'No problemo, I'll just get Alice to do it!' She replied.
'So,' Sirius said, wanting to change the subject. 'Morning quidditch?'
'Yeah,' Marlene replied, eating a fried egg. 'My parents are taking your school lists into town and then while they're getting our stuff we are going to go in the clearing in the woods outside and play quidditch.'
'Awesome!' Replied Frank, who had been quiet until now. 'Are they gone already?'
'Yep!' Grinned Marlene. 'Which means we have the place to ourselves!'
Half an hour later they were all balanced on brooms zooming around the woods trying to find each other. They had long given up on playing quidditch because Alice, Frank, Remus, Lily and Mary were all awkward on broom games so Lily explained the concept of hide and seek to Alice and they were playing it broom style.
'Found you!' Mary reached out on her broom and poked Lily playfully in the side who turned round to join in the search for Remus, James and Alice.
'Alice?' Lily tentatively. There was a small foot sticking out from a high branch. 'Got you!'
'Arghh! I took ages hiding there and now you've found me, who are we still looking for?'
'Just Remus and James I-!'
'FOUND YOU JAMES!' Sirius cried out from the other side of the clearing.
'OK just Remus then!' Alice laughed and zoomed off leaving Lily to look around the trees.
10 minutes had passed and still no one had found Remus. Everyone sat in the clearing thinking about where he might be.
'Knowing Remus, he's probably in a really obvious place that no one has checked because you know it would be too obvious!' James began.
'But where can he be,' interrupted Frank. 'We've checked virtually everywhere.
BANG!
'What was that?' Hissed Lily.
'I don't know,' Alice murmured. 'Ohmigod! What if it's got Remus?'
An uneasy silence settled over the group. Everybody exchanged awkward glances as several cloaked figures flew down on broomsticks.
'Lie low and they won't see us,' hissed Sirius, flattening himself on the ground. We all copied him, lying silently but worried.
'What are they?' Lily muttered to James.
'Death eaters,' he replied as the rest of the group froze in fear.
After that, there were several more bangs and a couple of shrieks. The group heard footsteps but just stayed silent. There were several rustles nearby but then a voice.
'No one here, lets go. Susan isn't here, might as well check France cos' she's supposed to be there.'
After a few minutes, the broomsticks and their riders flew off once more. The group sat up and looked around nervously.
'James is that you? Sirius? Alice? Lily? It's me Remus,' A voice hissed somewhere in the trees.
'Over here Remus,' Lily called quietly.
There was a rustle and he appeared looking shaken.
'Thank god, I was getting worried. They passed right where I was but I don't think they knew.'
'As a matter of fact where were you?' Sirius grinned, relieved.
'Disillusion charm,' he grinned evilly.
'Cheat!' Marlene accused.
'You didn't say we couldn't!' He laughed. 'Come on, let's go back it's almost lunch time.'
The group headed back laughing now that the fear had gone. They arrived back just after Mrs McKinnon so they could all enjoy a lunch of chicken soup.
As they all settled down at a table, Alice, Mary and Marlene went out of their way to make sure Lily had to sit next to James. Lily frowned at Marlene who just smirked and raised her eyebrows. James was completely oblivious to any of this of course and just talked normally.
He really has changed. Lily thought. He's not asking me out any more or annoying me, just being normal. I don't know which side of him I prefer.
They finished lunch and spend a lazy afternoon in the pool and sunbathing. By the evening Lily was completely shattered and decided to help Julia sort the washing into colour coded piles rather than join in a game of water polo.
When Lily settled down to bed that night. She wondered about James again and what was happening with their relationship. He wasn't mucking it up this time, failing their friendship. This time, it was her because she didn't want to admit, that she was falling for him. Only a little, but still a bit.
Hello guys! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I just had a slight moment of panic because I thought I'd deleted the rest of the story. (That was scary!) I'm back to school tomorrow so I won't be able to update as much as I'll be loaded with soooo much homework! Hopefully though I should be able to update within 2 weeks so read and review! :)