I think you should all know my update plans for this story. By the time you're reading this, I will have already finished the story, but I just want to put it out one chapter a day, to keep you in suspence. Heehee. I'm evil, aren't I ?

Ch.3, A Day At The Beach

The Marauders had watched the whole thing. They watched Lily and Petunia from the kitchen window, and both were too distracted by keeping thier parents happy. They watched when the 'family' had dinner, and when Lily and Petunia were saying bye.

And they felt sorry for her.

She had so many expectations to live up to. At Hogwarts, she had to maintain the studious and Perfect Prefect reputation. At home, she had to maintain the complete opposite. With her parents, she had to maintain a snobby and non-chalant appearance.

Sirius was the only one who could truly relate. He had let his snobby and evil family (even though he didn't know that at the time) down, when he had simply been sorted into Griffindor. But for the first few years, his immediate family was to embarrased to let the rest of the family know that, so they forced Sirius to pretend he was a Slytherin.

But they watched, as her family left her, and a wide smile grew on her face. She checked that the hallways were clear, then did a little happy dance. Remus and Sirius had to put a hand over James' mouth to stop him laughing.

But then, she exited the airport, and Jane was out there, holding two bikes. One was silver, and she was riding that. When Jane saw her friend, she tossed her a gold helmet, and Lily caught it.

Lily grinned. "Finaly. I never thought I'd get away from them. Just let me go get my surf board, and I'll meet you at the beach, 'Kay ?"

"Rightio. See you there!" Jane shouted as her friend sped away.

This time the boys had come prepared. They re-enlarged thier broomsticks, and sped off. They soon caught up with Lily, who was just nearing her house. The Marauders followed, and opened the door with magic when she got in.

They saw Lily lightly running up a flight of stairs with her helmet under one arm. The Maruaders followed her, and she opened the door to her own room. She left it open, not realizing that there were other people in the house.

Lily took out her wand. She muttered an incantation, and waved it. Several things un-shrunk, things that her parents would disaprove of. Her surf board was one of them. Lily grabbed it, and slung it around her back, then tied it in place. An owl came to her window.

Lily walked the short distance and let the Hogwarts owl in.

"Aren't you a little early?" she asked it, and stroked it's feathers. The owl hooted, she offered it some water from the cage of her own sleeping owl, and it flew off, leaving her Hogwarts letter behind.

Lily slit it open, and something bright red and gold fell out and into Lily's hand. It read HG on the front. Lily stared at it.

"Aria. Aria, wake up!" she told her owl, who hooted indignantly and woke up.

"Do you know what this is Aria?" Lily said, but didn't wait for an answer. "This means I'm Head Girl!"

Lily did another little happy dance. Aria flew from her cage, and rested on a large leather book. Lily stopped dancing and glared at her owl.

"No, I'm not going to tell my parents, they would insist on visiting again." she said coldly.

Aria hooted again.

"I know that because it was the same with my prefect badge." Lily said.

Once again, Aria hooted.

"Aria! I'm suprised at you! Now I'm going to go get changed, and no more talking back!"

Soon the boys were following Lily out her door, where she hopped on her bike. The Marauders followed her, flying just past the bar where Genevive worked. Then, they came to a small, but packed beach. Jane came up to Lily when she saw her, and handed her a microphone, showing her a small stage.

Lily sighed when she realized that she was expected to make a speech.

She stepped up, and said, "As you all know, I am Lily Evans, and to celebrate me not having to see my parents who are stuck up snobbs, we are having a surfing day!"

The people cheered. Lily went into one of those little tent things where you can get changed, and she came out in a green bikini bathing suit, with a towel over one arm, her surfboard carried in another. James' jaw dropped at her attire. It was halter style, and small bows decorated the bottom part, where her hips were.

She got many cat calls and wolf whistles as she walked down to the shore. The crowd of at least 70 adolescents and teens parted for her way. Her board was a clear material, and you could see right through it.

She started paddling out. A large wave came up, and she started surfing. It looked as if she was standing on pure water, since her board was clear. Other people soon swam out to join her.

And that's when everything went wrong.

Out of no where, a jet of light that could only be a stunning spell, zoomed out from the rocky hills that made up a wall around the beach. It shot toward her.

Lily, to startled to realize that magic was in a mugle comunity, was hit, her surf board flying high in the air. The wave she was surfing on crashed onto the stunned girl, and the muggles at the shore line were wondering where the jet of light came from. Meanwhile, the Marauders, particularily James, were looking on in horror. James ran out from the cloak, with Remus having enough sense to place a Dissolutionment charm on his friend, James grabbed his broom, (which had the same effect of Dissolutionment) and flew out to where Lily had last been seen.

He tried to see her, and even with his amazing Seeker skills, the water was still foamy from where the wave had crashed. Finaly, after what felt like an eternity of hovering, he saw a flash of red hair. He quickly casted a Bubblehead charm over her, to give her air. But she was still unconcious. He plunged underwater, hoping that his broom will work. Thankfuly it did, and he pulled Lily over to a secluded spot by the rocks, but opposite of the rocks the spell had come from. Finaly, after what seemed like to long for hope to James, Lily started to cough up water. He removed the charm.

"cough Potter? What cough are you cough doing? What cough happened?" she asked.

"Some sort of spell hit you while you were surfing. You fell under, and for a second I was afraid you wouldn't wake up." he replied sincerely. And Lily saw it.

"All I remember cough is falling. Everything went dark...cough I thought I was dead." But Lily was still observant. Her eyes filled with shock when she saw the sincerity in his. Not to mention that he wasn't paying (well, almost) any attention to her body. But then people started to assume that from the voices they heard over there, that she may have washed up near the rocky shore.

"Lily! Oh thank goodness you're alright!" Jane exclaimed when she saw her friend alive.

James started to walk away, but Lily caught his arm. (She's sitting up now) "No," she said, and turned to face Jane, "Thank James."

James had been most surprised when she called him James. He did have to admit, he had been impressed when she lied on the spot about him seeing her by the shore, unconcious, and getting her to land. As people started to gather around Lily, he saw the slightest flicker of an irritated face. But then it changed to joy, and she started to accept and answer everyone's questions.

But then, she tried to stand up. With the excitment of before, she failed to notice the odd twist in her ankle. She stumbled, and as she waited for the sting of pain that would acompany the hard rocks in contact with her back, she squeezed her eyes shut. A few seconds passed. She opened her eyes in wonder, and realized that James had caught her. She glanced up, completely ignoring the pain in her ankle, and saw his hazel eyes, filled with concern. James looked down to Lily's eyes. To his surprise, they were filled with wonder, as if she didn't recognize his act.

James put her back on her feet, and Jane quickly came forward to help Lily change back into warmer clothes. Even though she denied it, they could all see her shaking. By the time Lily came out, James had gotten an idea. He walked up to where Jane was helping a limping Lily off the beach.

"Er...Lily?" he asked tentatively.

Lily turned around. Her eyes were still filled with wonder.

"Um, listen. I know we haven't been the best of friends in the past...but could we start over?" he asked trying to read Lily's new expression.

Lily now had a thoughtful look. The onlookers, hearing the question, held thier breath. To the ladies, he was very cute, and was hoping that the PG would forgive him. She finaly came to a decision.

"Sure." And from that moment on, James was in the inner circle of the socialites in Oakville. In a few short days, he and the Marauders would know everyone, and everyone would know them, just like Lily and Jane.

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Meanwhile, two figures crouched by the rocks where the spell had come from. They were talking in hushed voices, one a male and one a female. The man had his wand out, and was arguing with the female.

"Almost! She was this close to her doom, why did we risk a stunning spell?"

"You're over-reacting. It's those muggles we have to worry about. We have to find a way to stop them from telling thier parents."

And that was that.

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Over the next few days, there was a mystery in Oakville. What was that strange beam of light that toppled the Party Girl? What was the history between the PG and the Newcomers? Were any of those boys single?

These questions rang through the minds of the normal people. But that was soon dismissed, as there were parties every other day. Lily and James remained neutral, as it was with the rest of the Maruaders. But then Officer Kaysee just had to crash another party, where people were getting particularily drunk, because the Marauders had supplied Firewhiskey. But the partiers didn't know what it was called.

"I don't even know what this is!" she exclaimed when she smelt the Firewhiskey.

"A little concoction I know of, now if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment." Lily siad cooly, retrieving her rollerskates. She was already dressed appropriotly, with a pair of jean short shorts that were frayed

and snug orange shirt with the words "You have you're whole life to be a jerk. Why don't you take today off?". She had those strange hand things, colored a nice red. Her skates, like her surf board, were clear, so it looked like she was skating on air.

With a mischievious wave at the cop, she gained speed going down the driveway. She passed James' house, where his mom was gardening. James was already at the place with everyone else.

She turned a sharp corner and got sight of the local skate park. There was a large crowd there, either going on the ramps expertly or wobbling on the ground. she laughed to herself as she saw all three Marauders trying desperatly to use roller skates. Jason was standing nearby, looking annoyed, and holding a first aid kit. Which was half empty.

Lily laughed as James fell onto the ground. Sirius seemed to have a strange obsession with the bandaids. There were several on his forhead, arms, and face. Remus simply refused to try.

Lily rolled over.

Jason sighed in relief. "Lily, please, why do I have to take care of them?" he siad exageratedly, pointing to Remus, who was just getting up, Sirius who was making himslef a hat of bandaids, and James, who was screaming like a little girl every time he tried to go down one of the ramps. All of whom were flirting while doing so.

Lily burst out laughing. This got the attention of James, who stopped flirting and tried to grin. But with scratches and band-aids covering his face, this only made Lily laugh harder.

James' grin fell when she skated away towards an expert ramp. He turned to the girl beside him. Her name was Chelsea.

"You're fighting a losing battle there." she said.

"Why is that?" James siad, and he was genuinly curious.

"PG has never, and I mean never had a boyfriend. Most people gave up a year ago. No one knows why, but she won't let anyone close to her. Jane is the only one who knows anything about why." she said as she walked away.

"Then she might not actualy hate me," James thought, "but if she's afraid of having a boyfriend or something, that would explain a lot."

Just then he heard several cheers. He looked over and saw that Lily was doing several different tricks on her skates, like flips and summersaults. Then, a good-looking boy came over to her.

He seemed to ask her something. James heard Lily's reply.

"Sorry Ricky, but I'm not looking for a date right now."

James stared. The boys walked away crestfallen, and everyone else just kept on going about thier daily buisiness.

He heard Jane talking to Lily.

"Y'know, sometimes I just don't understand you. You flirt, and act, and you are never looking for a boyfriend. I'm thinkin' maybe you have you're eye on someone at that school of yours." she teased.

"Oh please. I flirt and act because it's fun, and I don't have my eye on anyone at school." Lily replied.

"Hey Lils?"

"What is it Jane?"

"Isn' that you're parent's car?"

Lily jumped up, and turned around, while surprisingly regaining her balance. She paled.

"Oh sh-t."

oooh, why are Lily's parent's here after only a few days? Is Lily scared of having a boyfriend? If so, why? FInd out tomorrow when I post, but only if you REVIEW!

Added on Dec 23rd, 2006. well, i had so many nice reviews yesterday that i was able to happily drag myself out of bed, just to post! But i might get um... Poster's block! yeah that'll work... and the only cure is plenty of encouraging reviews!