Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters ect.

A/N: Ok, here is the first real chapter of my new fan fiction. Please enjoy. Oh and as the start of this story is based in France and since I only know a few words in that language, in my story its all ENGLISH!

Chapter 1: New Job, New Country

Today I'm starting my new job as a lifeguard at Hotel Palais Maeterlinck. I'm really nervous because I don't know what to expect.

My dad dropped me off on his way to the office and drove off as soon as I had gotten out off the car as he was running late.

I looked up and read Hotel Palais Maeterlinck which was written in script over the reception.

I walked inside and approached the receptionist who was busy typing on her computer.

"Excuse me, I'm one of the life guards and this is my first day. I was told to report here to receive my uniform and schedule," I told her and she looked up from her computer.

"Oh, sure. They said there had a new life guard starting today. Well here's your tee-shirt" she said, handing over a sunny yellow tee that read 'Life guard' in thick red writing on the front and back, "and here is your schedule," she said handing over a couple of pieces of paper in a plastic slip.

"You've bought your red swimwear haven't you?" she inquired and I reassured her that I had.

"Good. Changing rooms are down the hall to the left,"

"Um, thanks …," I looked at the name on her name tag "Lizzie."

"No problem. It's actually Barbara. I'm filling in for Lizzie so they didn't bother to give me my own," she said and I blushed.

"Well, thanks Barbara," I said and tried to escape before I embarrassed myself even more.

I opened the door and found two other girls my age getting changed in their uniforms. A quick look at my plastic sleeve told me that we were to do duty in threes, as we were all fifteen.

"Umm, hi! I'm Lily Evans and this is my first day," I said as I approached one of the girls.

"And why would I care?" she retorted and flipped her hair over her shoulder and sauntered out of the room.

"Don't worry about her. She's still pissed off as her father made her work for the first time in her life. By the way, I'm Penelope Hunter and that was Rihanna Singleton," Penelope came over to me and said.

"Nice to meet you Penelope. I'm Lily," I said and took off my overalls, which I was wearing over my red bikini and put my 'Life Guard' shirt on instead.

"Have you worked here before?" I asked as I put my clothes in my locker

"Yeah, I worked here last summer and apparently I did a good job because they ASKED me to come back this year. Of course I accepted, though mainly because the pay is great," Penelope told me as I shut and locked my locker.

"Good, then you'll be able to show me the ropes!" I said and headed for the door, Penelope following at my heels.

I opened the door to the pool area and suddenly was blasted with noise.

"Woah!" I said, shaking my head to get rid of the sudden impact of sound.

"Don't worry Lily, you'll get use to it!" Penelope laughed and we walked into the noise.

"So how does this all work?" I asked her as we crossed the baby's pool to the main pool where we are on assigned to be on duty.

"Well, there have to be two lifeguards in the pool and one up on the life guard stand. And it looks like Lady Muck," She stared at Rihanna on top of the guards stand, taking of her lifeguard shirt so she could get a tan, and flirting with the boys in the pool, "Has taken the life guard stand, it looks like we're in the pool,"

"No complaints here. Its HOT!" I exclaimed, slipping of my thongs and diving into the deep end. Once I surfaced, I shook my red hair out of my eyes and looked over at the ledge, trying to find Penelope.

She wasn't there.

Then, an almighty splash erupted behind me. I turned around and watched a girl with long, curly brown hair, jump up from the bottom of the pool and break the surface of the water. Her blue eyes sparkled as she caught sight of my expression.

"Too bad Lily, mine was bigger than yours!" Penelope laughed and dove back under the water.

She swarm back down, underneath me and came up and started splashing me. I turned around and instantly started splashing her back.

"Stop it! We're supposed to be serious lifeguards!" I laughed as I ducked under water to avoid her splashing.

"Hahaha your right. I'll stay on this side of the pool and you can have the other part," she said, sticking her tongue out at me and so I splashed her.

"Trust you to have the deep end. Why don't we just split the pool down the middle, instead of across it?" I suggested "Then that way, we both get the deep and shallow end"

"Ok! But you still have to go over there. I'm in a lazy mood today so I hope nobody drowns," she said, laying down on top of the water.

"Just don't fall asleep, coz they you'll drown and I'll be the one to save you," I warned

"Well, as long as it's you and not Miss Perfect Tan up there. I'm not willing to leave my life in her hands. I probably wouldn't have to worry though, she probably wouldn't notice anyway," she added as an afterthought.

I laughed and began doing backstroke over to my side of the pool, and couldn't help thinking that this was the best job.

-:-

"Those people who are collecting friends or family from flight 317 from London to Nice, the plane has just landed and will be exiting from Gate 34 in the next five minutes. Their luggage shall come out on carrousel three momentarily," the lady over the loud speaker, announced as I walked through the terminal with my parents towards the carrousel three.

We had arrived here to stay for the rest of the summer in a resort on the beach called Hotel Palais Maeterlinck. I know a lot of people would love to come on a holiday to the south of France, but to tell you the truth I'm not one of them.

Truth is, this holiday is going to be BOR-ING. This is the first summer holiday I have had without my best mate Sirius. Mum and dad couldn't bring him without his mother's permission, and she was never going to give it to him.

And really, this isn't a family holiday. It was suppose to be my parents second honeymoon, but I had to tag along as my friends were, well, indisposed.

Sirius's mother is still mad with me and my parents for attempting to take her son out of the country.

Remus had his transformations and his mother couldn't risk me being bitten (little did she or my parent's know that I was animagus so I would have been safe).

And as for Peter, well, he isn't one I would want to spend a whole summer with and besides, I think he was planning to spend it with his new girlfriend, Natalie Gaston who was as much as a wannabe as Peter.

So now I have to hang around my reminiscing parents, who are now embarrassing me as they are romantically kissing each other while waiting for our bags to come around.

Once my mum had located all of her seven bags, we headed outside into the bright, warm sunshine.

Mum was ready to hail down a cab (By the way, my parents insisted that we were all to act as muggles for the whole summer, even me and I'm of age) but my father insisted on paying for the limo that was pulled up right outside the airport doors.

My father was acting like the perfect gentleman, opening the door for my mother and making her giggle like she was still at Hogwarts.

I went and sat next to the driver in the front seat and waited for him to finish putting the rest of my mother's bags in the boot.

Some people might think that I must dislike my parents. Not all, but when they are acting all lovey dovey like they are now, I pretend that I don't know them. You probably would to if you were with your lovesick parents pretending that they were still in high school!

It was about a twenty-minute drive from the airport to the hotel. The driver took us through the scenic route, which also turned out to be the shortest. He drove us past this market place type thing and I made a mental note that I should come back and see it some time.

He also drove us down a street full of nightclubs, one I saw that was for 16-18 year olds and I was smack bang in the middle of that age group.

He pulled up at last at the hotel, which I found out, had its own private beach, and, as a bonus, satellite TV!

The driver loaded our bags onto a trolley and gave it to a trolley boy who was to take it up to our rooms.

As mum and dad were still cooing over how romantic the resort looked, I decided to walk inside to check us in.

"Hi, I'm here to check in!" I said brightly to the receptionist.

"Welcome to Hotel Palais Maeterlinck! Certainly monsieur, my I ask what name the room was under?"

"Um, Mr. and Mrs. Potter," I answered, trying to look through the glass window behind her to get a good look at the resort.

"Aren't you a little young to have a Mrs.?" she inquired as she checked our booking on the computer.

"Oh that's not me, they're my parents. I'm still single," I said, hinting at her and she laughed.

"Ok, you booked two Junior Suites," she said, confirming the booking.

"Two?" I asked in surprise

"Yes monsieur. Two Junior Suits. They both include a queen-size bed, private bathroom on the mezzanine. A large terrace with sea view, non-separated lounge with a cozy corner, a writing desk, air-conditioning, safe and mini-bar," she listed and I tried to take it all in.

"Well, then obviously my parents decided to give me my own room. Either so I can learn to be independent or because I'm responsible enough to have my own, or they're kicking me out so they can have some time alone. Their on their second honeymoon" I added.

"Ahhhhhh I see," she said as my parents entered, hand in hand and my mother was giggling again.

"Good oh James. Got us checked in do you? Good man. Oh, I forgot to mention, we got you your own room. We think you're certainly old enough to have your own room to do what you like," my dad announced.

"Third solution. Definitely" I said to the receptionist, banging my hand down on the bench as she laughed again.

She handed my parents the key to their room and they walked off to check it out, leaving me still standing there in the reception.

"Well, I have a room to myself for the summer. Care to join me tonight?" I flirted and she blushed.

"Sorry Mr. Potter, I'm taken. Besides, you can't be older then sixteen and I'm twenty six!" she said handing me my key.

"Damn!" I said, pretending to be really disappointed.

"But," she added. I lifted my head up a bit, pretending to look hopeful. "You might want to check out the new lifeguard," she said and winked.

"Thanks for the tip…." I looked at her nametag "Lizzie"

"I'm Barbara. I'm just filling in for Lizzie today, so I have to wear her name tag."

"Oh ok. Well thanks anyway, Barbara," I said and walked out of the reception, towards the suites. I paused at the door, turned around to face her and said, "Seventeen."

"Beg your pardon?" she asked, once again looking up from her computer

"I'm seventeen. Not sixteen."

"Oh ok. Thanks for setting me straight."

"I'll be eighteen soon," I added hopefully, hinting to her.

"Go on! Get out off here!" she jokingly ordered and I turned to leave.

I walked back to my room and opened the door. Inside was like a little apartment. I went into the bedroom and found my suitcase on the floor at the end of my bed.

'Wow! Fast service!' I thought and went back out to the lounge room. I lay down on the long, corner couch and switched on the TV.

A short time after that, I heard a soft knock at the door, followed by footsteps in to the apartment.

"What are you doing sitting on the couch?" my mother demanded, as she saw me lying there.

"I'm watching TV mum! You can't expect me to watch TV sitting on a coffee table do you?"

"You can watch TV back in England. Get into your swimmers and go to the beach or the pool. NOW!" my mother ordered.

"Fine, ok!" I said exasperatedly, holding up my hands to prove that I had given in. At least I could check out that new lifeguard I thought.

I fished out my boardies out of my luggage, finding out that my mum had taken out my dark blue ones and had swapped them with these hawaiian ones.

Great. How was I supposed to attract all the French women when I couldn't act cool in these pants!

I put them on though, thinking I would turn off the girls if I went in with nothing, or I could have them coming in droves. But I decided I wouldn't take that chance.

I grabbed one of those white, fluffy towels from the bathroom, flung it over my shoulder, grabbed the keys to my room, locked the door and headed down to the pool.

When I reached the pool I found a lot of people already swimming in there. I reluctantly dropped my towel and keys on a beach chair and dove into the pool.

Once I resurfaced I decided that I would search for the lifeguard that Barbara had mentioned this morning.

I started with the girl on the lifeguard stand.

First thought: Hot

Second thought: Up herself

Third thought: I hope that I don't drown and my life was in her hands.

Sure, she was definitely hot, and sexy to some extent but she was too obsessed with how she looked. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE girls who make themselves look pretty, but I also like girls who know when the right time for that is, and when it is the right time to work and she definitely didn't.

Ok next lifesaver. My eyes scanned the pool and found her on the other side of pool.

First thought: Pretty face

Second thought: Seems nice and kind as she is helping a five year old to swim

Third thought: I'm not attracted to her.

I looked around to see if there was a third lifeguard, but no luck. I lay down on top of the water, looking up at the bright blue sky, thinking about which one I thought Barbara was talking about.

Maybe the brunette, as she looked really nice. Though, maybe she was talking about the blonde on the lifeguard stand, maybe because she was really hot.

My thoughts were suddenly interrupted as somebody swimming by ran into me.

"Oh my God! I'm sorry! I didn't see you there!" the sound of the girl's voice echoed through my head, which had been hit quite hard with her arm.

"Don't worry, I was laying in the middle of the-" I looked up and saw her anxious face "Wow!"

-:-

My arm hit something that definitely wasn't water. I looked up and saw that my arm had hit a teenage boy with unruly black hair in the head.

"Oh my God! I'm sorry! I didn't see you there!" I exclaimed as he raised his hand to his head.

"Don't worry, I was laying in the middle of the-" he looked up and caught sight of me.

"Wow!" he exclaimed.

"What is it? Are you seeing stars?" I asked him.

"No, just blinded by beauty," he replied.

Whoa, that's deep. I don't think any guy has ever said that to me before so I don't know whether to be flattered or insulted.

I guess my expression showed a mixture of both as he hurriedly said, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you! I was trying to give you a compliment but I'm sorry if you thought I was insulting you!"

"Oh, no not at all!"

"I'm James by the way. James Potter" he said, holding out his hand

"Lily Evans," I said, taking it.

"So Lily, how long have you been a life guard?"

"Today's my first day," I admitted

"Well, I certainly hope someone's helping you out!" he said

"Oh yeah! Course! My friend Penelope," I said, pointing her out to him

"Ahhh, the brunette!" he exclaimed, leaning back with his head leaning against his hands.

"Yeah," I said "So how long are you here as a guest?"

"The whole summer," he said lazily.

"The WHOLE summer?" I asked in surprised.

"Yeah, my parent's are on their second honeymoon and I was dragged here with them,"

"I see..."

"Essentially, the rules are that I just mind my own business and occupy myself without bothering them. Actually, those are my rules, I don't want to trail around after my reminiscing parents," he added at the end and I let out a light laugh.

"So as long as I have to stay out off their ways, I was wondering if you would like to go to the movies tonight?" he asked

I must admit it was kind of a surprise. Actually, our whole conversation was surprising because if I hadn't been watching where I was swimming, I would never had bumped into him and hit him in the head.

Oh well, its not as if I had anything better to do. Besides, after 12 years of living in Nice I was entitled to some of that famous French love!

"Ok sure. Meet you at the movies at 7pm?" I asked.

"Sounds good to me."

"Well, see you there!" I said and began swim off.

"Ah, Lily?" he called after me

"Yeah?"

"Where IS the movie theatre?"

A/N: Ok there you go! Please read and review!! Wonder who will be the lucky reviewer number one…………