CHAPTER: Sunday Love

Sunday afternoons in Redwood Lane were reserved for field games in the park. Severus who was not athletic refused to accompany Lily and Petunia to the field out of fear of being asked to play.

"Oh come on it wil be fun." Lily begged.

His idea of fun did not involve making an ass of himself. He had enough bad experiences with Quidditch to turn him off of sports for good. "I don't like feel up to it," he protested.

Lily took his hand and intertwined it with hers. "Please," she said purposely looking into his eyes. Again he thought to himself that she must have known that he fancied her or else she wouldn't be using these tactics against him. Then again she thought that he fancied Alice.

He sighed because he knew that she was not going to rest until he agreed. "Okay I guess.

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Lily, Severus and Petunia arrived on the field to find five other teenagers there. Severus only knew one of them, Conner, the boy who threw the water balloon at Lily. There were two other girls, Melina and Sharon and three other boys Jensen, an American cousin of Conner, Wentworth and Wayne.

"So what are we going to play?" asked Lily to the group.

"How about four a piece football," suggested Wentworth.

All the girls began to complain in unison. Apparently girls did not like to play football but Severus had to admit that he himself was thankful because he knew he would stink at it.

"Okay then Rugby?" This drew complains from everyone else who didn't suggest it.

"I know," Lily said. "Let's play cricket." Everyone seemed to agree that this was the best game to play. Severus was on the fence, he didn't know much about cricket, all he knew was when his father started watching a match it would usually take an entire day before he left the house. This was another sport he liked to bet on.

As they started to play Lily made herself a captain and so did Conner. They choose people for their teams and Severus was happy to see that Lily picked him first, then Wentworth and Melina. Conner took the rest.

"So who has a bat and a ball?" she asked looking at the group. Everyone looked form one person to the other until it was realised that none of them had a bat or a ball. "I hate to break it to you guys but we need a bat and a ball to play cricket."

"Well lets play something else." Melina suggested.

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The something else they were going to play would not require any athletic skills. It was Jensen who suggested that they play a game called Spin the Bottle. Severus had never played such a game but he found out form Lily that it was a kissing game. The truth was Severus was just as inexperienced in kissing as he was with athletics and wasn't keen on playing this game either. However he didn't think it wise to let his inexperience be known, he sucked it up and followed the group of teenagers to Conner's house because his parents weren't home.

They sat on the hard wood floor in the living room in a circle. Conner brought out an empty coke bottle and set in middle of the circle. "Lets go in alphabetical order shall we." Severus was very thankful that he didn't have to go first. Conner spin the bottle with a strong hand and watched it spinning, Severus couldn't help but pray that it didn't land on Lily, that was the last thing he wanted, to have a whole bunch of guys who were better looking than himself kissing Lily.

The bottle eventually came to a stop in front of Petunia. This was the result he seemed to be hoping for because he got a little smirk on his face. Petunia on the other hand looked less than please with it. They leaned over and met midway in the circle and kissed on the lips. When they parted Petunia face was a bright pink and Severus could tell that Conner had achieved his goal.

The next person up was Jensen who got to kiss Melina. Then it was Lily's turn. Lily took the bottle in her hands and Severus found himself praying that it wouldn't land on him and at the same time praying it wouldn't land on any other guy. She spun the bottle and the whole group looked at it as it spun. It seemed to take forever to stop. It just kept spinning and spinning and spinning until it finally stopped on no one. In fact it was actually between Severus and Wentworth. She shrugged and spin the bottle again and again it landed on the same spot it did before.

"Jesus just kiss one of them," Melina complained.

Severus could hear his heart beating like a drum, would Lily actually kiss him. He avoided looking at her as she made her decision. "Okay, Wentworth," she said. Severus felt his heart plummet. Why did she choose him, did she fancy him. He began to remember his earlier sentiments about her knowing that he fancied her and cursed in his head. He couldn't believe that he thought for a moment that she was actually interested in him. He was so stupid. He looked away as Lily leaned over in the circle and met Wentworth halfway for the kiss. It seemed like it last a year and he could swear that there was some tongue action going on. He wanted throw something but he sat quietly as the love of his life kissed another guy in front of him.

The next person to go was Melina and he was completely surprised to see that the bottle had landed on Lily and since he was on the right of Lily it meant that Melina would have to kiss him. He totally forgot about the fact that he had never kissed a girl or that he didn't know how to, all he could think about was getting back at Lily for not choosing him. He bent over and gave the Melina the kiss he imagined he would get form Lily. He had to admit he was uncomfortable because he didn't know her for more than an hour and he was kissing her but mostly he was disappointed, he would have liked his first kiss to mean something.

They parted and he sat back down and passed his hands through his hair.

"You're quite a kisser Seveus," Melina commented.

"Thanks," he said slyly. He could see from the corner of his eyes that Lily had her arms folded and was looking totally unimpressed.

Petunia went this time and Severus was thanking god as he watched the bottle slowly move past him and stopped at Wentworth. The kiss lasted not more than a second before they parted and it was Severus' turn. He took the bottle spin it as hardly as he could. He was really hoping that it would land on Lily but it just didn't seem to go his way. It landed on Melina.

"I think the bottle is trying to tell us something," she joked, pinning her hair back behind her ears. Severus smiled at this as he leaned over and kissed Melina with the same passion he did before.

-o-o-o-o-

They were on Lily's bed talking about the afternoon when Lily made a comment that Severus thought was odd. "Did you see those gym pants Melina was wearing, I swear if they were any shorter it would be underwear. The girl is such a tease..." she complained.

Severus was silent. He decided that it was best that he not point out that Lily was wearing those same gym pants that were so short and had actually changed into a tube top when she reached home. She really looked like she was going to the beach and it was much more revealing compared to what Melina was wearing.

"And that new hairstyle, It doesn't take her face, don't you think?" She asked him.

He shrugged. "It looked fine to me."

"You would say that, wouldn't you?" She got up from the bed and walked to the door. "I'm going to sleep." She slammed the door shut as she walked out the room.

Severus laid there wondering what he had said to upset Lily so.

NOTE: I know this chapter wasn't very funny but I had to make Severus kiss someone else. So...