Chapter Nine

"So Lily where exactly are we all going to sleep tonight?" Sirius asked.

"Well I was thinking that two of you could sleep on the pull out couch and the other on the floor."

"I call the pull out couch!!" Both Remus and Sirius exclaimed calling dibs.

"What?" James looked confused, "Well then I call Lily's bed!"

"I don't think so the bed is mine !!"

"Too bad I already called it. Unless you want to share a bed," his eyes seemed to perk up at this thought.

"Well…" I hesitated, what if David found out? He'd surely kill me. "Whatever, but if you pull anything…"

"Did you hear that Moony, we will be sharing a bed tonight," Sirius winked at Remus.

"Now listen to me Padfoot stay away from me tonight!!"

"Oh come on Moony, you know you want me!!" Sirius blew a kiss to Remus and Remus took down the street screaming. "Come back Moony!! I love you!!!" Sirius yelled running after Remus.

"We don't know them do we?" James asked.

"Not at all," I replied as we laughed and slowly made our way to my dance studio.

"So these are the infamous Marauders," David said as he shook their hands and introduced my friends, "this is Tori, Hannah, and I'm David."

"And this is Remus, Sirius, and I am James Potter. Pleasure to meet all of you." James put on his best manners.

"Hey baby," David said as he pecked me on the cheek and put his arm around my waist. "How has your day been?"

"Fine," I pulled away and James caught my eye exactly when he stiffened up and shoved his hands in his pockets.

"So, where shall we go first?" Remus asked as if to get rid of the tension.

"Well if I must say I think we should eat dinner first because I am absolutely starving!! Eight hours of dancing does a toll to your stomach," Tori joked.

"Yes but where?" Hannah asked.

"Let's go to Sacs Pizza Place on Broadway. They aren't normally crowded on a Friday night." I said.

"Yum pizza my favorite," James said glaring at David.

"Mine too," he replied glaring back.

We walked in an uncomfortable silence for a while unless Remus or Sirius asked something to Tori and Hannah about the US and vice versa. When we go to Sacs Pizza Place we thankfully got a seat right when we walked in and got our pizzas in only ten minutes.

"Tdth id stme qgaltity pida," Sirius said with a mouthful of pizza.

"I would have to agree with you Padfoot, this is excellent pizza." James replied laughing.

"What did you call him? Padfoot? What does that mean?" Hannah asked.

"They are nicknames that the three, used to be four, called each other, and as a group we were the Marauders." Remus replied.

The rest of the dinner was uneventful; David insisted on paying the bill, "it is after all Daddy's money" Tori had joked.

We were now walking around Times Square just enjoying the lights and all the people.

"Oh I forgot to mention guess who I met at Paris," I said to James, Sirius, and Remus.

"Who?" They all asked.

"Peter, he had said something about you guys stripping him of his Marauders title. What is that about?"

"That little prat having the nerve to talk to you!!" James roared, "He is a supporter of Lord Voldemort."

"Who exactly is this Lord Voldemort?"

"We can't tell you that right now Lil," Remus glanced over to David, Hannah, and Tori where they were listening to every word they had been saying, "later though."

The time flew by, before they knew it Lily and James were climbing into bed.

"So David…"

"James please be nice"

"I was going to say he seems like a nice guy."

"Well thank you very much. But wait, what's the catch?"

"Why does there always have to be a catch with me? But there is one, you are too good for him Lil. He handles you like he owns you."

"And how should I be handled?"

And before I knew it James wrapped his hands around my waist and drew me closer to him. "First of all you never start by kissing you on the lips, start with the forehead." And he did just that, very gently he kissed my forehead, then my nose and finally made it to my mouth. It felt great to be back in his arms kissing him like nothing had gone wrong between us. I felt so safe, like nothing in this world could harm me.

I broke away, no matter how good it felt I had to think of David. James' face looked puzzled at my sudden action, "but what about David?"

"Just forget about him for this one night. And I have another matter to take up with you; in the bathroom this morning why were you throwing up? I know the muffin you ate was fine because I had the same one."

"James you have to promise not to yell at me if I tell you."

"Okay I promise."

"I am both anorexic and bulimic." I winced awaiting for the worst.

James was silent, "well then tomorrow we will have to fix that."

"James,"

"Yes Lil."

"Will you kiss me again?"

"It would be my pleasure," he said as he kissed me once again.

"Crucio"

The lady and man trembled in fear right in front of my eyes. I was actually having fun torching them like this.

"This is for all the times you were rotten to me," I said as I lifted the curse, "and now it's time for payback, good bye Mom and Dad. Avada Kedavra!" And they were gone.