Okay, this Disclaimer is for the entire story: NOT MINE! Also, I plan on making Remus a little more trouble causing in this story, just a note to those wonderful REVIEWers who put me on their author alert list, as you know that Remus was pretty mellow in my last story. And those same people know my policy on Peter. If I must refer to him, he will be called rat.

Ch. 2, Enter: Remus, Genevive, Rose and David

The afternoon that James had been kicked out of a party for the first time in his life, there was a slight commotion over by Lily's house. James and Sirius went over under James' invisibility cloak to see what was going on. They had decided that this would be the best way to get to know Lily, after all, they are Marauders. By spying on her. It would seem that a large party had just been crashed.

"Now Lily, how many times do we have to warn you about alcohol at parties? You guys aren't 18 yet! I don't even know how you got ahold of it!" a female cop was saying strictly to a seemingly relaxed Lily.

"You know I have my ways Kaysee, I have my ways. And this is the... 63 time in the past 3 years." Lily said calmly, inspecting her nails. It seemed to the boys, (though unbelievable, even though the exasperated tone of the cop's voice gave it away) that they had had this conversation plenty of times before.

The cop named Kaysee sighed. "Well you know the drill. I have to tell you're parents."

Lily laughed a genuine, exasperated laugh. "Do you really think that they will care? Oh yeah, and just so you know, their out at a convention for the next few days. Their staying home for a night, to see me after boarding school, and then their leaving in the morning. Listen, can I go now? I'm meeting some friends to catch up. I'll see you later then, okay?" Lily said, stunning the boys, and leaving, not even waiting for an answer. The boys tried to follow her into her house, but she closed the door to quickly.

Ten minutes later, she came out in an outfit that made James' jaw drop. She came out in a royal blue midriff top, that had triangle sleeves. It was low-cut, but not overly revealing. She had on a Jean mini skirt, that flared out at the end. It went up to four inches above her knee. Under her arm, she had a skateboard, and on her head was a silver helmet. Her hair was loose, but clips held it out of the way of her neck. She had on light blue eye shadow to match her outfit, and red lipstick.

"You wouldn't be going clubbing, now would you Lily?" Kaysee shouted over.

Lily put on an angelic face. "Who, me? You should know me better by now!" and with that, she sped off down her driveway, gaining significant speed.

The boys watched, and with confused faces, they decided to conjure up these 'skateboards' and try them. I mean, Lily made it look exceedingly easy. But they realized that they couldn't wear the cloak while riding. It looked easy enough to them, Lily didn't have any trouble. So they disolutioned themselves, and set off. This proved much harder than it looked. This wasn't anything like flying, you didn't use you're hands. You used you're body weight and feet. The boys fell more than once, and ended up walking to the club, covered in scratches. By the time they got in there, it was 5 oclock. There was music blasting inside, and a multi coloured disco ball was the only thing illuminating the building. Luckily the boys weren't noticed as they slipped among the dancing couples. When they reached the bar counter, they casually leaned against it's lit surface, and tried to spot Lily through the crowd.

"What can I do for you boys?" This startled James and Sirius out of their search for the red head. They turned and saw a motherly looking bar tender walking towards them. She wore an apron over what seemed to be a simple waitress atire. Due to the low lighting in the bar, they couldn't really see her face, but they could tell she wore a kind, knowing expression.

"I'm Genevive. I take it you boys are new in town?" she said.

Sirius nodded. "Yes, we-"

"You know, a lot of people come here. They tend to tell stories, and share their problems. A lot of the time, talking about something makes it feel better." Genevive said, staring into the boys' eyes. The two Marauders had to admit, she was creeping them out a little.

"Well, we must be o-" James started, but Genevive cut them off, once again.

"She's over there." she said, pointing to the middle of a dancing group, directly under the disco ball. The boys looked over in surprise, and saw the top of Lily's head.

"Uh, thanks." James said quickly, before getting up and making his way over to where Lily was. Genevive just nodded. When he finally had a clear view of Lily, he was certain his heart stopped.

She was dancing. She was laughing, dancing, and slightly wet from a drink her friend Jane just poured over her head. James quickly got jealous of the boy dancing with her.

"She's in here the most." a voice said from behind him.

"Huh?" James said, startled out of gazing at the red head. Genevive was standing directly behind him, also looking at Lily.

"They say that many unwanted by blood, are those most wanted by water." she said, and it seemed to him that she only spoke in riddles.

"Uh, yeah."

"But that those unwanting of love, disguise it with hate and loathing." she continued, and now James was officially creeped out. Where was Sirius when you needed him? He knew that if he went over to Lily, she'd just have him thrown out again, so he sat at the bar with Genevive, who was silent, and watching James like a hawk. Hours passed, and people started gathering around Lily to say goodbye. Soon it was only her and her friend, but James made sure he stayed out of the way. Making sure that no one was looking, he disolutioned himself. He walked up and say down on the bar stool beside Lily, who was talking with Genevive. "How come you never let me stay and help clean up?" Lily asked.

"Because you need to get home, and work on you're schoolwork, which I know you have." Genevive replied, with a smile. Lily jokingly mocked her on her way out. But it was plain as day that the two were great friends. They boys (James had found Sirius staring longingly at the many dancing girls in the club) followed Lily out of the club, where she met up with Jane. The boys heard snatches of conversation.

"...Lils...beach... day after tomorrow?" Jane was saying.

"Yeah... spread the word... winds are high...boards..." the boys could barely hear Lily because of the wind.

"Will do... tomorrow?"

"Yeah. Bye." Lily said, but then she hopped on her skateboard and sped off down the road. This time, before jumping on one themselves, they bewitched it to be much easier to ride. They soon caught up with Lily, but she closed the door to her house once again, before they could sneak inside.

But that didn't matter now, they had to meet Remus.

When James and Sirius got home, they ran inside and stood by the fireplace. As if on cue, the flames turned a bright green, and Remus, hauling his trunk, stepped out. He was pale, and it seemed the trunk was to heavy for him. The reason he hadn't been able to join his friends was because the full moon just happened to fall on the night that he came back from school. His mother, a healer, had insisted that he stay in bed for at least a day. The boys quickly took the trunk from their friend, who they knew would be still weak.

"Thanks guys. How are you?" Remus greeted.

Sirius smiled. "Guess who James has got for a neighbor?"

James quickly changed the subject. "Well Remus, you have the second guest room, let's go!" he said a tad to enthusiastically for Remus and Sirius. Both of whom smirked.

"Mr. Padfoot would like to know, does Mr. Moony want to know why Mr. Prongs changed the subject?"

"Mr. Moony would like say, yes Mr. Padfoot, Mr. Moony would love to know why Mr. Prongs is trying to change the subject."

"Mr. Prongs would like to say, shut the ---- up Mr. Padfoot, or else Mr. Prongs will hide all the food in the house so that Mr. Padfoot will die a slow and hungry death."

"Mr. Padfoot will say to the comment made by Mr. Prongs, Mr. Padfoot would like to know when Mr. Prongs became a stupid hollow head, because there is something called 'take out' in this town."

"Mr. Moony would like to interrupt this little discussion and say that by starting this argument, Mr. Prongs did indeed successful change the subject. Mr. Moony would also like to ask Mr. Padfoot, who Mr. Prongs has as a neighbor."

"Mr. Padfoot would be happy to tell Mr. Moony that a certain Flower happens to be living a few houses down the street."

"Mr. Moony would like to say, my my my, that is interesting Mr. Padfoot. Would Mr. Padfoot, or Mr. Prongs care to tell Mr. Moony why Mr. Prongs looks very disgruntled?"

"Mr. Padfoot would like to ask Mr. Moony, what does disgruntled mean?"

"Mr. Moony would like to say to Mr. Padfoot, look in a dictionary for once!"

"Mr. Padfoot would like to ask Mr. Moony, what does dictionary mean?"

"Mr. Moony would like to ask, how did Mr. Padfoot ever pass first year? And Mr. Moony would like to say that Mssrs Padfoot and Moony have once again gone off topic, which is why Mr. Prongs looks very UNHAPPY."

"Mr. Padfoot would like to say in answer to Mr. Moony's question, that a certain Flower is very popular here, and had Mr. Prongs kicked out of a party."

"Really?" Remus asked, amazed. He turned to see James, who was blushing. Sirius proceeded to tell of the events that they had witnessed. By the end, Remus was speechless.

"You two are hopeless without me, aren't you?" he said, staring at his two friends.

"Huh?" James said at the exact same time as Sirius.

"You never thought to simply open her door with magic?" they had all turned 17 last January, February and March. Realization dawned on the faces of James and Sirius. Then they smiled, and ran upstairs to get the cloak, and Remus just levitated his forgotten trunk up the stairs. The three Marauders were just about to depart when they heard the voice of James' mother, Kira Potter.

"James! Sirius! Remus! Dinners ready!" Immediately forgetting all thoughts of sneaking out, the boys stampeded down the stairs, as everyone who knew Mrs. Potter's cooking would.

There was a sort of un-spoken tradition. Potter boys just happened to fall in love with feisty red-heads who could cook. (Sorry HarryHermione lovers, but I'm pro HarryGinny!) And as far as they knew, Lily was a feisty red-head, but they didn't know if she could cook or not.

So after 5th helpings of dinner (Sirius), 3 helpings of dessert (Sirius), and 4 helpings of after-dinner dinner (made specially for Sirius) the boys looked at the time. It was 11pm, and Lily would probably be asleep by now. (Or so they thought) so they decided that they would invite themselves over tomorrow.

Little did they know, that Lily was still up, looking at an old book.

Secretly, she was thankful that her parents were out of town. They had used to be a family. But when Rose (used a lot, I know) and David Evans had been promoted in their jobs as part of the Psychiatric Association of Britain, their jobs became their lives. Lily rarely saw them any more, which was good. Her parents considered themselves so high up on the authority of psychiatry, that they never paid attention to what Lily told them. And when they did, they waved it off like it was some normal teenage problem. They laughed and said something like "oh don't worry about it Lillian, it's just a phase." and that was if she ever saw them. She had stopped confiding in her parents at the age of 11. They had been promoted when she was 10. And now, whenever they were around, they would insist about Lily telling them about her times at Hogwarts. But whenever she got a shred of hope that they cared, and said something about feelings, the shred would become nothing.

And Petunia, well she was unbearable for Lily. Somehow, Pett (as Lily called her) found a way to blame Lily for how their mom and dad were behaving. The only thing that Lily and Petunia have ever agreed on, was that their parents don't care about them, so they both learned to fend for themselves.

Lily sighed as she looked at another picture, of when the family was on a picnic. Jane, who they had invited on the picnic, had taken the picture. She and Petunia had started a fierce, but friendly, food fight. Her parents had joined in, and this picture had them all laughing and throwing sandwiches at each other. But if you looked hard, you could see that she herself had the containers with the chocolate cake that they had brought.

This was exactly one day before they had gotten the notice of mom and dad's promotion. A lone tear hit the page, knowing that all the other pictures in the book were formal ones, taken at the insistence of Lily's mother. Neither she or Petunia had really wanted to be a part of those pictures. But Rose wouldn't hear of it. The girls let it go, thinking that it was just one picture, no harm.

They would both be coming over tomorrow, to say the traditional hi, how are you, I'm good, let's get dinner, bye. In that order, giving Lily hardly any time to answer. Then, Rose would insist on the family photo, taken in formal attire, just so that the parents can show their colleagues what well-behaved little angels their daughters were. But Rose just says it's "so we can do proper family bonding, like we've been doing for years". And Lily knew that this was only an excuse.

So, the next morning, Lily quickly cleaned the place up, not wanting her parents to know that she had had a party. Petunia was practically living at her boyfriend's house, but she acted like she had been living here when mom and dad came. She had turned seventeen in late May. But then, she quickly shrunk her surf board, not wanting her parents to see it. Not to mention, that if for some un-known reason they decided to stay for more than the one night, she would have to sneak out, and that was done much easier with a pocket-size surf board.

Then, the doorbell rang. It was Petunia, coming to make it seem as if she lived here too. This was the only thing that the two sisters agreed to help each other with. Fooling their parents.

At 11:30 sharp, the doorbell rang again, as usual, perfectly on time. Petunia opened it, and there they were, Rose and David Evans. Lily was a spiting image of her mother, though she was told that she used to behave exactly like her father did when he was her age. Petunia on the other hand, resembled an aunt on their father's side. Long neck, horse face.

The two said the greeting that Rose and David had come to expect of their children. "Mother, Father, so good to see you. I do hope you're well?" they said together. Rose and David became more and more snobby with each year that passed.

"So good to see you children! And yes, you're mother and I are very well thank you." her father replied.

Then, Lily and Petunia took their luggage up to their parent's room, glad to be away.

" 'So good to see you children!'' " Petunia mocked once they were out of hearing range.

The two girls took as much time as possible placing their parent's luggage in the room, which was more like a hotel room, because they spent so much time in London that they had bought another house there. Lily and Petunia went down the stairs, ASAP (as slow as possible) and then put on faces that would make them appear eager to see their parents again.

"There you are children!" Rose said, ignoring the fact that Lily was 17, and Petunia 18, "This place is so clean! You both have done a wonderful job!"

"Thank you, Mother." Lily and Petunia said at the same time. They decided to continue with the yearly routine.

"Mother, Father, would you like some lunch? I'm certain you're simply famished from you're trip." Lily said, walking over to the kitchen.

"Yes Lillian, you're mother and I would love some lunch. You are such a polite girl." her Father said.

"Let me help you Lillian." Petunia called out. The sisters were told off if they didn't act this formal all the time. Once in the kitchen, the girls played the tape that made it sound as if they were having a wonderful time together, making some tuna casserole. This gave them both a laugh, about how their parents believed it, every year. They hadn't changed the tape, and so they were currently talking about neighbors that had moved away 3 years ago. The two girls listened to what their parents were saying.

"They are so well-behaved, aren't they David?"

"Yes, quite Rose. Do you think they will agree to our proposition?"

"I should think we would know our own children David! We do, and if it's by our wishes then I know that they will."

"I don't like the sound of that Pett." Lily whispered to her sister.

"You're not the only one. Now be quiet, we should have finished making casserole by now!"

They turned off the tape at an appropriate spot, and Lily grabbed some left over casserole she had made the night before. She put it onto the proper dishes, and took it out to her parents.

"This casserole is excellent, as per the usual Lillian." her father complimented.

"Now Lillian, you simply must tell us about you're time at that school of yours!" her mother said, with the air of someone leaking dirty gossip.

"Oh it was quite un-eventful Mother. The usual, really. I passed my exams well, and everyone is so nice to me." Lily lied.

The next few hours passed, with Rose and David insisting that Petunia and Lily tell them every detail of their lives, but of course, both lied through their teeth.

"Goodness, is that the time? Time certainly flies when you're having fun, doesn't it children?" Rose said, realizing it was time for dinner.

"Oh most certainly mother! I didn't realize how long we've been talking!" Petunia lied. Both girls had been counting the seconds.

"Well now, you two girls go and change for dinner, and we'll be off." David said, brushing some dust off of his suit.

"Yes, Father." the sisters chimed as they walked up to their rooms. They got 'properly' dressed, and headed downstairs, to where their parents were waiting by the car. As per Lily's orders, no one in Oakville called her 'Lily' as they passed, but acted all formal, no mention of parties, meetings, or anything that may be considered in proper.

The 'family' had dinner, then the two girls put on large, and obviously fake (to anyone but their parents) smiles for the dreaded forma family photo.

"We'll be back so we can see you off to you're school, Lillian." her mother said, giving Lily a hug.

"Yes dear, do try to write. I know that you didn't have much time to write last year with all you're studies, but do try." David said. They were just getting on the plane back to London.

"You know I'll try Father, but with the exams this year, I will probably be studying most of the time." Lily lied. It would probably be the opposite.

"Goodbye girls! See you soon, I hope!" Rose called to her daughters as they boarded the plane.

Once they were gone, Petunia turned to Lily.

"Notify me when they want to visit again." she said, left. Lily was on her own again.

And she couldn't be happier.

Note added on Dec 22nd 2006: plz tell me what u think. if i don't get any reviews, i'll be too depressed to drag myself out of bed in the morning to the computer to post! (hint hint)