DISCLAIMER: The song is Seals and Croft's Summer Breeze.

CHAPTER: TRADING PUNCHES

"Oh my god," Lily screamed.

"What?" Severus asked from behind a book he found in Lily's room.

"Look at this," she said. She walked over to him and showed him something form a magazine she was watching. "Isn't that the cutest thing you have ever seen?"

"Eh...sure." Lily had just shown him a rather strange looking pair of boots in a magazine. Lily was obsessed with clothes and would always shriek in delight whenever she saw something she liked.

"Moon boots, they coming out this fall."

"Moon boots?" he asked.

"Yeah awesome aren't they?"

"Can you use them on the moon?" he asked.

She laughed. "No silly it's just a name."

"But why call them moon boots if you can't use them on the moon."

She ruffled his hair with her hands, a new habit she picked up. "Because it looks like something astronauts wear."

"Astronauts enjoy wearing brightly coloured shoes."

"You're impossible," she said leaning over and kissing him on his cheek.

"Your parents are home," he reminded her but he made no effort to move away form her.

She sighed and walked over the radio that was on her book shelf and turned it on. Right away a loud squeal of excitement filled the room. "I love this song."

This seemed to be her reaction to every song on the radio therefore he responded to this news by reclining in the chair and burring his head in the book called an Encyclopaedia once more. This did not seem to please her at all so she walked over to him and pulled the big black book out of his hands. "Aren't you going to ask me to dance?"

He snorted. "I don't dance."

She pulled him up by his hands, bringing him to his feet. "You will dance with me because this song is very easy to dance to."

Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

He bit his bottom lip. It wasn' the first time she had asked him to dance with her, he supposed just once he could grant her request. "Okay but not for long."

She wrapped her hands around his waist and he followed her motion, not really knowing what he was doing. Simply she started to move form side to side. She leaned back to look at him. "No so difficult, is it?"

He shook his head. Had it been anyone else and not Lily he would not be able to muster the courage to display this sort of behaviour.

See the paper lying on the sidewalk
A little music from the house next door
So I walk on up to the door step
Through the screen and across the floor

"Now twirl me," she said laughing slightly. Her asking him to twirl he was like being a first year immediately plunged into a NEWT class, it was far more advanced that he would have liked to attempt but yet for some reason he found himself complying. He released her waist and held her hand and let her twirl. He laughed at the site as it was much more simple than he originally anticipated.

"LILLLLLLYYYYYYYY." There was a shout coming form the room next to hers that indicated that Petunia wanted something. But instead of going to see what is was she wanted, Lily decided to shout back a reply at Petunia. "What'cha want?"

Severus let go of her hand and went back to his book that was being neglected.

"COME," she shouted in reply.

"NO YOU COME."

"FINE" she said and about two seconds later Petunia was in their room. Severus made no effort to hide the smirk that was plastered on his face. "So what do you think?" she asked pointing at her outfit.

Lily was silent which Severus knew meant she was going to lie. "You look nice," she said. And a big lie it was, because Petunia did not look anything close to nice. She was wearing a heavily sequenced cerulean shorts, the same length of lily's gym pants and a off the shoulder top that matched in shimmer but not in colour, this was gold. Her shoes were so high she looked like she would fall off them in at minute.

"And the hair, do you like the hair."

Lily nodded but he knew this was another lie because her hair was also a mess; it looked like she was just dumped in a pool and had been attacked by frizz. There was some attempt at curls or flips that failed miserably. "So why are so dressed up?" Lily asked, trying to sound like she didn't think he appearance was funny.

"Haven't I told you, I'm going out with Conner Stonewall."

"Oh," Lil said in genuine surprise.

"Yes you're not the only one with a guy chasing you around." She shot a quick glance at Severus, for the first time acknowledging his presence. "He is quite taken by me."

Severus snorted form behind his book.

"Oh look," Petunia started. "The freak has something to say about it."

"PETUNIA," Lily warned.

"Well I was going to tell you what I thought about it but since you're being so nice I think I will reserve my judgement," Severus said putting his book down.

"Good cause no one give a damn about what you think."

Severus sneered at her. "I will tell you this though." He said through his teeth. "You look like a teenage prostitute. Although I am not certain anyone would pay for that flat ass. You should really change those pants"

She laughed. "Ha, this is coming form a little boy whose only pleasure is a futile dream that Lily will go temporarily insane and grope you."

"Oh trust me, it's not futile."

Lily held up her hands to interject at this conversation was going down a road that she was not comfortable with. . "Everyone just calm down."

Petunia sucked her teeth and walked out the room wobbling on her platform shoes.

Lily looked over to Severus. "You shouldn't have laughed at her."

"Well she took punches at me," he complained.

"That was only after you laughed at her going out with Conner."

"Well It was a bit of joke wasn't it?"

Lily sat on her bed with her hands supporting her as she leaned back. "How so?"

"He doesn't fancy her, so why is he going out with her."

"Why are you so sure he doesn't fancy her?"

"Because he threw the balloon at you, not her, he's trying to make you jealous."

Lily looked at him and laughed slightly. "I doubt that. He has never shown any interest in me."

"Well put it as you like but I am certain that he doesn't like Petunia, I mean who would,"

NOTE: Okay this chapter was sort of a transition. Now everything is in place. So next chapter, you'll see the climax of this story.