Hiya everyone! Just a few things to say…

Firstly, I just spotted a mistake in the last chapter, but I can't be bothered to go change it at the moment. It says near the end: You've got three whole weeks to relax and forget about him. Well what it's supposed to say is: You've got three whole months to relax and forget about him.Whoopsies! My bad, sorry!

Secondly, I hope you have a happy New Year!

Thirdly, enjoy the chapter!

"Walk through the scanner, Sirius," Remus sighed tiredly, looking apologetically at the airport security guard watching the whole thing with an impatient expression on his face.

"No!" Sirius insisted adamantly, "What if it is a lethal brainwashing machine?"

"Padfoot," he said slowly. "Prongs and I have already gone through, and we're just fine. It's not a brainwashing machine."

"I knew letting him watch that film was gonna be bad for his sanity—well what's left of it, anyway," James muttered to himself, but just loud enough so that Sirius and Remus could hear him.

Remus turned to give James the 'Now is not the time' look that he was so famous for, before turning back to Sirius. "Come on! We're holding the line up!" he informed him, letting his eyes drift to the seemingly miles long queue waiting for Sirius to stop being such an idiot.

"But what if it hurts my hair?" Sirius said persistently, he wasn't going to go through that scanner. What would the ladies do if I had no hair? Just the thought made him shudder.

"Look, Padfoot, I promise that it will not hurt your hair. I swear on my place as a Marauder," James told him firmly.

Sirius looked at his best-mate, came to the conclusion: Prongs wouldn't lie to me, and swaggered confidently through the scanner.

Remus threw his arms around in frustration; James had always been able to control Sirius better than he had.

"Moony, don't do that. People will think that you're weird," Sirius said casually, grabbing his backpack off of the floor where James had previously thrown it after it had passed through long before its owner had.

"You can talk!" Remus snapped irritably, hitching his own bag more securely over his shoulder so that it didn't slip down.

"Yes, I can. Well spotted! Honestly, Moony, and I thought you were supposed to be the intelligent one."

"I am!" Remus insisted, looking thoroughly scandalised.

"Well, if Moony's the intelligent one, I'm the handsome one; it's only fair," Sirius told James with a smirk. "You can be the big-headed one!"

Remus laughed and shook his head in disbelief, his friends truly were weird, but Sirius took weird to a whole new level; or as Sirius called it: 'Pure awesomeness!'

James glared at his two friends, grasped his bags tighter and walked off in a huff, no idea whatsoever where he was actually going in particular.

"Aww, come on Prongs! You've got to admit that was funny," Sirius chuckled, jogging to keep up with him. Damn that boy could walk fast!

But James wasn't listening, he was far too preoccupied by thoughts of a particular fiery redhead, and he was wearing the look that Sirius had christened the 'Lily look' back in fourth year.

That kiss had been completely amazing. It had felt so right to be with her. She was perfect. He adored every single thing about her, even the way that she could hate him with such a passion. But he was scared that she was angry with him— wait, no, scratch that…he was sure she was furious with him, and that she didn't like that kiss as much as he had done.

He knew that it had been wrong to force her into something like that, it was a terrible idea. The next time she saw him, he was probably going to get an earful and a few hexes aimed at him, and that was if he was lucky! All it had done was give her an excuse to hate him even more, if such a thing were even possible.

He was so completely caught up in his thoughts that he wasn't really looking where he was going and he crashed right into somebody, sending them both flying.

"I'm really sorry," he apologised, pushing himself up off of the floor and extending a hand out to the poor girl that he had walked into.

She was a redhead, he noticed, causing him to internally flinch. Would just the thought of her haunt him all summer? Would he see her wherever he turned?

"Don't worry about it," the girl said, taking his offered hand for him to pull her up. A pair of bright green eyes stared right into James' hazel ones, and in surprise he let go of her hand, unfortunately though he had already lifted her half to her feet, so she hit the floor again with a thud. They just stared at each other speechless.

At that exact moment Remus and Sirius came around the corner, Remus walking briskly with Sirius complaining loudly about wanting an ice-cream, into his right ear. The pair dodged a great crowd of Muggles before Sirius skidded out and landed right in front of James and Lily. "Lilyflower!" he exclaimed in shock, before his face broke out into a wide grin.

"Hello, Lily," Remus smiled warmly, "Do you want a hand up?" he asked politely, noticing her position at once.

"Er…yes please Remus," Lily replied getting over the initial shock of seeing three quarters of the Marauders in a Muggle airport.

Remus held out his hands and carefully pulled her up off of the floor. He turned to give James and Sirius withering looks about their lack of chivalry whilst Lily wasn't looking and seemed to be checking her handbag to make sure she hadn't dropped anything important.

"Thank you," she smiled quickly, remembering her manners, looking at Remus once she'd double checked that nothing was missing like their boarding passes.

"That's alright," he replied, returning her smile—if anything—a little awkwardly.

Then they all just stood there in silence, not quite able to think of something relevant to say.

"Soooo…what are you doing here on this fine summers day, Evans?" Sirius asked after getting sick of the quiet.

"I'm going on holiday," she answered simply, a bit confused. What does he think I'm doing here? Stalking them?!

"Sweeet! Where are you going?" he pressed nosily.

"America…" she replied suspiciously.

"NO WAY! Where 'bouts in America?"

"Orlando—"

"Bloody hell!" he interrupted with a quick victory dance. "Godric must love you, Prongs! He is smiling down on you from the little Hogwarts in the sky!"

"Why?" Lily asked, her stomach churning in a very uncomfortable she had a feeling that she already knew what the answer was going to be, and it wasn't an overly pleasant thought.

"Because, dearest Lilyflower, that is exactly where us – devilishly handsome – Marauders are going! Although…I'm not so sure if I could call Moony devilishly handsome…he's obviously not as good looking as I am!" he announced, gaining himself a quick, firm, smack over the head from Remus.

Horror surfaced on Lily's face, her eyes widening to the size of dinner plates. No! No, no, no, no! There obviously isn't a God if this is happening to me! She thought to herself.

"Are you going on holiday with your family, Lily?" Remus asked gently, noting her facial expression. "Because I though you said that your Sister was getting married in a few weeks. Surely you should all be at home preparing," he said logically.

"No, I'm um…I here on my own…with Carla and–"

"Wait! The Carla? Carla Taylor?" Sirius cried out, his eyes widening to the size that Lily's had been previously.

"The very same. And she told me the most interesting story about a certain party that you threw after Gryffindor won the Quidditch cup. There was something to do with a cupboard mentioned – if I recall correctly," Lily said, scowling at him slightly.

This news, and the fact that Lily Evans was glaring at him, was enough to send Sirius a ghostly-pale colour. He looked right about ready to throw up. How on earth does Prongs handle this every time she looks at him! He exclaimed internally.

"Um, Padfoot? Are you alright?" James checked, finally getting over the fact that the Lily Evans was stood in front of them and not officially yelling at him.

"Yeah…" Sirius eventually managed to choke out weakly.

"Mel's here as well," Lily added after a second, moving her eyes onto Remus.

He paled considerably too at this fact and James just looked at the pair of them in confusion and a form of mild amusement.

Lily huffed at them before turning on her heels and starting to walk off back towards she'd last seen Carla and Mel. She's been just wandering around the few select shops here to try and clear her head…it hadn't worked.

"Oh! Wait up, Lily!" James called, running after her, leaving Sirius and Remus to gather their wits and regain their composure.

"What, Potter?" Lily demanded exasperatedly. Merlin, she was annoyed! She'd so been looking forwards to three non-Potter months to recover in time for school in September. And now she was possibly going to be stuck seeing far more of him than she'd like.

"Call me 'James'…but anyway, that's not what I wanted to talk to you about. I wanted to apologise for the other day. It was very wrong of me to pull something like that and force you into it, I'm sorry," he said awkwardly, running his hand through his tousled hair, momentarily distracting Lily as she remembered what it had felt like to run her own hands through it.

It had been so soft…she recalled, her breath catching in her throat as she pulled herself back to the present and away from the memory. She looked him in the eyes and saw nothing but utter honesty and embarrassment.

"It's OK," she finally sighed. "I guess I forgive you. Anyway, you didn't really take advantage like most others would have done in your place. Thank you for apologising though."

James' grin filled the whole of his face and he threw his arms around her and swung her around in a circle without any second thought. "Thank you, Lily!"

She couldn't help but giggle quietly and to blush as Muggles passing, gave them strange looks; James saw this to and let her go carefully, taking step backwards away from her to gain the distance between them again.

"I'm going to go back and find Carla and Mel now," she told him. "They're probably wondering where the hell I've gotten to."

"Can we come with you? It's just that, you seem to know where you're doing and where you're going. Us, on the other hand, well…We've already gotten lost multiple times. Although, I don't think Sirius ending up in the ladies toilets was such an accident on his behalf," James said thoughtfully, half to himself.

"Um…well, I don't know. I'm not so sure how Carla would feel if I brought you guys back when I supposedly only went to the toilet. And that was over an hour ago, if you catch my drift," Lily said slowly.

"Yeah…I can see how that would look with Sirius and his reputation," James replied, running his hand though his hair again, letting out a nervous chuckle.

"HEY!" cried Sirius, finally recovering from the shock. "You know I would never even think about touching Evans! Well, unless I was suicidal! You'd have me killed!"

"Padfoot, not right now," Remus sighed.

"Well, either way, I'm going back now," Lily said walking only a few steps before Sirius's arm was slung lazily over her shoulders as they moved their way through the crowds. Lily rolled her eyes and shrugged his arm off; she was already going to be in enough trouble as it was. Carla and Mel were going to kill her.

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"Lily! There you are!" Mel exclaimed. "We were so worried!" She then proceeded to launch herself at Lily and hug her ferociously. She then suddenly pulled away and looked at her in suspicion. "Where were you?"

"Um…I kinda got side-tracked," Lily replied shiftily pointing at the three teenage boys standing just behind her.

Mel just stared at each of them for about ten seconds each, her face completely blank and wiped of all emotion.

"Mel! Lily!" screamed Carla, sliding over to them. "Thank Merlin, I found you! You will never guess who I swear I saw when I looked for you in the ladies bathrooms near the check-in desk…"

James turned to Sirius and whacked him upside the head, "You idiot!"

"Jaaames, not the hair! Pleeeease!" Sirius moaned pathetically.

Carla then caught sight of the Marauders, and all hell broke loose. "WHAT THE HELL!" she screeched furiously. "What on earth are you doing here?" she snarled coming over to Sirius and poking him angrily on the chest.

"Going on holiday, just like you! Only Pete could come because his father suddenly got really ill, so he had to stay to help his Mum! Please, Carly! Don't hurt me! I swear we're just going away for the summer!"

"Using Muggle transport? Yeah right!"

"Honestly! We didn't even know you were here!"

"Sure," she snarled sarcastically. "Sure you'd pass an opportunity to stalk us!"

"Carla," Lily whispered nervously. "They didn't know. I just ran into James down the corridor—literally—and then Sirius and Remus found us."

"And you brought them here?" Carla yelled, turning her temper on Lily.

"Guys, people are staring," Mel mumbled, trying to hide behind her hair. She hated being stared at; she was so shy around strangers, yet amazingly outgoing around her friends; it was almost like you knew two different people at the same time.

"Carla Joanne Taylor, you do not want to get in a screaming fight with me," Lily warned, her emerald eyes flashing dangerously.

James Sirius and Remus all exchanged quick glances before taking a few steps backwards, this could turn pretty nasty. Just, Lily, yelling and screaming insults was bad enough, but Lily and Carla screaming at each other. This was not going to be good.

"Oh, really! Don't I? How could you, Lily?" she yelled.

Mel, sensing an incoming disaster cast a quick disillusion charm over the six of them. So when the Muggles would look at them, they would only see six teenagers sat talking and laughing. She also cast a silencing charm, to try and block out the raised voices.

"How could I? HOW COULD I?" Lily roared furiously. "You are always the one bossing everyone around, trying to drown me and turning Mel's hair every colour of the rainbow! Whenever you don't get your own way you do something to make other people listen, whether or not it hurts anybody's feelings! You are selfish and you don't care about anybody else! You know, just for once, would it kill you to do something selfless, or refrain from retaliating when you don't get your own way?"

"Well you're one to talk! Miss: I'm-so-bloody-perfect-stuck up-prefect- Lily-fucking-Evans! You look down on your nose at everybody like they're not as good as you!"

"How the hell did you work that one out? How can I possibly be like that when I'm a bloody Mudblood?" she snarled.

The Marauders all flinched at the way Lily freely insulted herself; it was almost like she'd gotten to terms with the awful name and accepted it long ago. James wanted to do something to comfort her, but was scared that he'd make the situation even worse than it already was.

"Oh, there you go off again! Feeling sorry for yourself! 'Oh! I hate my life! They only guy who's ever shown interest in me is the one who's only interested in the game! My Sister thinks I'm a freak and my family favour her over me! So much that I've been kicked out all summer so that they don't have to look at my pathetic face!' And who would blame them? At least they got one normal daughter, right?" Carla retaliated.

Lily moved backwards a step in shock, looking like she'd just been slapped. Her eyes begin to tear up and her shoulders droop.

Carla realises what she's just said and suddenly looks horrified with herself. "Oh my Merlin! Lily, I…"

But Lily hadn't heard her. She ran away from them all as fast as she could, sobbing, trying to hide her face in her hands.

But before Mel and Carla had the chance to follow her, James quickly stopped them.

"You stay here. I'll go. If she's that angry, I'm more used to getting hexed than you two are," he ordered before sprinting off in the direction Lily had disappeared.

Oh Merlin, I hope she's OK. He thought as he sprinted in search of her tell-tale red hair over the crowds. She has to be…

Ok, well…thoughts? Please, please, please review! I'd really like to get it up to at least ten reviews by the 14th January. That's two weeks for three people to review! Come on! Pleeeease! Big hugs to the people who do! Oh and Happy New Year!

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