:: Chapter 3 James' House and the Dress

It was finally Friday; James had left a note in Lily's bedroom that told her that they changed the time to meet at his house at 10:00 A.M. instead of 12:00.
It was Friday morning 9:00; Lily was running around her house trying to get in some last minute packing. "Gosh, where did I put my green and yellow bathing suit? I just washed it yesterday!!" Lily was scuttling around her bedroom searching through all of the clutter throwing stuff up in the air.
"Are you looking for this?" Petunia stated outside of Lily's door frame. "Mom accidentally put it with my clean clothes instead of yours.
"Petunia, please give it to me. I still have to dry and straighten my hair! Plus James changed the time instead of 12 we have to be there at 10!!" Lily hated begging Petunia for things, but this summer Lily had to look perfect the whole time. Not a hair out of place, but not for James of course.
"What will I get if I give this to you? A fun crap filled summer? Vernon coming over for dinner every night, while, you get to go to the beach with a really hot guy with no chaperones!! I think not!!" Petunia had a revolting look on her thin long face.
"Petuniiaaaaaa, pleasseee give it to me!! James said that y'all could come down for a weekend!! Plus Vernon has to have dinner with his family SOMETIMES!! Don't forget there's a sunny side to every situation." Lily gave her sister the puppy dog face.
"FINE, you win! Once again the perfect little Freak gets her way." Petunia threw the bikini across the room into Lily's hands, stamped out of Lily's room and into her room, and slammed the door.
"Thank you very much!" Lily yelled. "Now, how to get all of this mess picked up…? OH wait!! I'm a witch and of age! Stupid me," Lily laughed, pulled out her wand and performed the Scouring Charm. Her room was spick and span. She finished packing, unwrapped her wet red hair out of the towel, brushed it and ran her wand down her hair. It was dry and straight as a stick. "Gosh, I love magic."
It was 9:58, "Well I better get going mom. I'll send you and dad an owl when we get everything settled tonight." Lily kissed her mom on the cheek. "And you Petunia have fun with Vernon this summer." Lily smirked.
Petunia rolled her eyes, "Oh I sure will, I'm just worried about you not having enough fun."
"That's enough you to," Mr. Evans said, "Now you two hug because who knows the next time you will see each other."
"I'd rather die than hug that Freak," Petunia retorted turning around.
"Good luck to the both of you," and with a pop Lily was gone. As soon as she was gone she arrived at James' door step. Lily was almost nervous to be at James' house. She didn't know why but she had a knot in her throat and she had butterflies in her stomach. She pushed the doorbell and the door instantly opened. A lady opened the door.
"Yes." The lady said
"Um… hi, I'm here to see James." Lily stated shyly.
"Oh, are you Lily Evans? I'm James' maid Penelope. He's been waiting for you all morning!"
"Lily! So glad you could come!" James took Lily's luggage for her. "I have something for you in the living room. Right this way."
He led her into the living room. There was a fireplace, an overstuffed tan love seat, a tan overstuffed (once again) couch, and some other stuff in this spacious room. "Wow James, your house is so beautiful!"
"Thank you; my mom just redecorated this room during the winter holidays. She went to a ski lodge in the United States and all she could talk about are those lovely ski lodges. It was actually quite annoying after a while. Anyway we're getting off track, I was shopping earlier this week and I saw this and it screamed Lily Evans." James handed her a light pink box with one brown ribbon tied in a bow right in the very center.
Lily opened the box, inside was a black, something. She pulled the black "thing" held it up and there it was. It was a little black dress; it was extremely plain and quite frankly ugly. "Oh, thank you so much James, I love it!"
"Wow, you actually think THAT'S the dress?!? Come on Lily, not even the man on the moon has that bad of taste! It looks bloody horrid right now, go and try it on. The bathroom is down that hall the first door on your left." James laughed.
Lily walked down the hall and into the Potter's bathroom. It was the prettiest bathroom she had ever seen! The walls were light pink and the towels and other decorations were light pink and lime green. She slipped off her clothes and into the strikingly hideous black dress.
Almost instantly the dress changed, it turned into an elegant halter top little black dress. Her straight red hair was magically pulled up into a messy bun with two curled tendrils not in the bun. She looked at her feet at once her ugly brown flip-flops turned into a black heeled shoe. Lily's breath was taken aback from the beauty of the dress.
"Lily, when you're done, come back into the living room so I can see it." James said through the closed door. She could sense the eagerness in his voice.
"Ok, I'll be right out." Lily said folding her clothes and grabbing her purse she walked out of the bathroom.
She walked down the hall and into the ski lodge living room. James saw Lily right as she entered because he was sitting on the over-stuffed love seat. "Wow Lily!! You look hot!!" James didn't care if he was gawking; the truth was she was absolutely stunning!
"Why thank you James. Gosh this dress must have cost a thousand Galleons!" Lily ran over to James and hugged him. Unexpectedly she had a spur of the moment thing and kissed him on the cheek.