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Author- Who else could it be? POTTER.loves.EVANS of course!
Disclaimer- Jk Rowling owns Harry Potter characters. If she didn't, I would definitely own James, Sirius, Lily and Remus. Hehe. Yup she owns everything about Harry Potter except this story plot. Hehe I do! Mwahahahaha.
Notes- I'm sorry for the long wait, but I was lazy and yeah. I was busy sleeping in during the holidays and yeah. Well I expect I'll put more chapters up at weekends. Yup.
Thanks to all who reviewed the last chapter.
This chapter is back in Lily's pov okay?
CHAPTER 6
"Morning mum" I said as I walked into the kitchen.
"Morning sweetie. Have a good sleep?" she replied looking up from the frying pan.
"Yup. It was pretty good" I said sitting down at the table.
"Morning Lily" dad said coming in from the lounge room.
"Hey dad! Did you get the tickets for the fair tonight? I'm so excited I can't wait to go and it will be really-"
I was cut off from the look on his face.
"I did get the tickets Lily, but this morning I got a call and I was asked to fill in for Richard tonight, so I won't be able to come" he said sadly.
"But you promised we'd all go together. As a family" I said standing up.
"I know, I know and I'm sorry. But Richard always covers up for me, and I thought it wouldn't be fair if I told him I couldn't"
"And you thought it would be fair to break your promise to your daughter?"
"Lily-"
"No! Couldn't he have asked someone else?" I asked angrily.
"He did, but no one else was free" he said looking away from me.
"You're still coming right mum?" I asked looking at her.
"I'm sorry Lily, but I've got to go to see grandma. You can go with Petunia"
"She's not going remember? She's going to Vernon's" I replied gloomily.
"Well why don't you ask if James and Sirius can come?"
"Yeah, sure okay. But I thought this was a family thing" I said emphasizing the word family. Hey, I don't mind asking James and Sirius. They'd love to come to the fair! They wanted to first off, but I said we couldn't get more tickets because they were all sold out, I felt really bad because I really wanted them to come. And now they can, but still… I am still pissed about mum and dad.
"I know Lily. Why don't you give James and Sirius mine and dad's tickets and they can go with you?" she asked turning back to the frying pan.
"Fine" I said standing up and going into my room. I sighed and a tear slipped down my face.
Dad's always putting off his promises for work. Always. I mean I know he's a surgeon and he's needed a lot but it's as if his job is his WHOLE life. It's always work work work and I'm sick of it. It's not fair.
Then there's mum. She always visits grandma and granddad.
I sighed and got dressed, putting on jeans and a Simple Plan t-shirt. I put on my blue all stars and braided my hair. I glanced at my reflection in the mirror. I put on eye liner, mascara and light pink lip gloss and went downstairs again.
I sat down and ate breakfast, and then I went and brushed my teeth and reapplied my make-up.
I left the house without another word to mum and dad, even though they said goodbye. I ignored it and left, still angry.
"Lily where are you going?" mum asked sticking her head out the kitchen window.
"Next door, to see if James and Sirius will come to the fair with me. I'm sure they would, I mean they do care about me" I said and hurried over to the front door.
Mum stuck her head back in and shut the window and I felt a bit bad for my attitude. But then again they did promise me.
I knocked on the door and it was answered by Daniel.
"Oh hey Lily! How's it going?" he asked with a smile.
"Hi Danny. Great, really great and you?" I lied.
"Excellent as always" he said ushering me inside.
"How's everything at the Ministry?"
"Well, Scrimgeour told me that if I put his pants on fire again he'd fire me and I said that if he insulted another member of my family again he'd regret it. He just told me to get back to work though" he said and I laughed. We walked into the kitchen; where Heather stood making breakfast and James and Sirius were drinking they're orange juice.
"Morning Lily" Heather said smiling.
"Morning Heather" I replied sitting down next to James and he smiled.
I smiled back and Sirius said; "Staying for breaky?"
I shook my head. "I already ate"
"Okay. Watcha been up to?" he asked curiously.
"Oh nothing much. I just woke up, had breakfast, got dressed and wanted to come over and ask you guys something"
"What?" James asked immediately.
"Do you guys wanna come to the fair with me tonight?" I asked.
"I thought you were going with you're parents?" Sirius asked.
"Something came up" I said looking away from him. James gave me a sympathetic smile.
"Well, since I'm you're bestest friend in the WHOLE wide world, yeah sure I'll come" he said and I grinned and Sirius choked in his juice.
"I thought I was your best friend" he said.
James looked at him.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about you" he said smiling. Me and Sirius just laughed and Sirius said, "As if you'd EVER forget about me Prongs"
"Mmm anyway what do you say about the fair Padfoot. You coming or what?"
"Nah James, I'm just gonna sit at home and knit a scarf for you" Sirius replied sarcastically.
I shook my head and smiled. Heather put a plate of bacon and eggs on the table in front of the two boys. They immediately dug in.
"Hungry Lily?" she asked and I shook my head.
"Already ate" I explained and she nodded and winked.
Daniel sat down at the table and said; "Lily, I followed up on that lead and more people believe you two, but Scrimgeour's not budging. So we've been doing it secretly".
"Oh, but couldn't you get into trouble?" I asked frowning.
"I could, but Scrimgeour wouldn't get rid of me, he loves me! He threatens to get rid of me but he never does, lying old-"
"What are you saying dear?" Heather asked dangerously.
"Oh, uh nothing Heather! Nothing!"
"Hey dad tell Lily about the time you took me to the Ministry 'cause it was 'take your kids to work day' and how much trouble I caused" James said smirking.
"Oh my god, that was a lot of fun! You know what he did?" Daniel asked me smiling.
"What? Knowing James it was obviously mischief" I said smirking.
"Oh ha ha" James said sarcastically.
I stuck my tongue out and he did the same and Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Well anyway, he let out all of the creatures in the creature room. Stuff like Nifflers and rats and snakes and spiders and scorpions and crocodiles. It was humorous. The whole Ministry had to help get them all back in the room and fix all the crates"
Me, Sirius, James and Daniel cracked up laughing and Heather tried not to smile. But she did.
"What? I tripped over and landed on a box, making a hole in it" James said and we all kept laughing.
"That wasn't it! He also went into the Ministry library an knocked all the shelves over"
"I slipped on an open book that was lying on the floor and went flying into the book cases" James said and we all just laughed.
"And… And then he went to the Quidditch floor and he… he let out all the snitches and bludgers and everyone had to try to get them!"
We all howled with laughter and James said; "Yeah well, they shouldn't have left them where ten year olds can reach".
"We all stunned the bludgers but we couldn't stun the snitches so little James got on his broom and caught all of them, there was six and he caught them all under seven minutes!" Daniel beamed and I grinned.
"Wow, you really are a pretty good Quidditch star, even at the age of ten" I complimented and James smiled and I smiled back.
"Okay, Daniel I'm gonna go over to Lily's house. Do you want to come and meet Mark?" Heather asked Daniel who was swinging on his chair.
"Huh? Oh yeah of course" he said when Heather glanced at me. They both looked at me and smiled and left.
James stood up and took all the dishes over to the sink and I decided to dry again and he washed and Sirius put them away.
"Lily, you didn't even make the mess" James reminded me.
"So?"
"So you shouldn't be helping because you didn't use anything"
"So?" I repeated.
"So… Therefore you shouldn't dry them. Leave them and Sirius can do them and you won't have to because you never made any of this mess"
"So?" I said again, knowing it would get on his nerves.
"Argh! Women are SO annoying!" James said spraying me with water.
I flung him with the tea-towel and Sirius ran from the room screaming bloody murder.
James continued to splash me and I continued to slap him with the tea-towel, determined not to back down.
But he wasn't ready to give up either.
After he splashed me yet again and I was about to get him with the tea-towel again he grabbed my hand.
"Let go" he said.
"No" I replied smirking.
"Let go" he repeated.
"No" I repeated.
"Okay, you leave me with no choice" he said and began to tickle me in the ribs.
I screamed and laughed and we fell onto the floor, him sitting on top of me and continued to tickle me, ignoring my pleas and me begging him for mercy.
Finally I stopped him by saying; "You're hot"
"I-what?" he stammered and I grinned and he hopped off me, and I sat up, leaning in close to him.
His mouth went dry and I smirked and leaned in toward his ear and whispered' "I was only joking" and I jumped up quickly and ran over to the kitchen door and looked back, expecting him to get up and chase me, but he didn't. Instead I saw him standing there, looking hurt.
No it couldn't be. Why would he be hurt if I told him I was only joking about calling him hot?
I mean he is SUPER hot and… did I just think that? Oh anyway he is very good looking and I was only joking about me joking.
He continued to stare at me and I walked over to him. "James?"
"Do you think I'm ugly or something?" he asked in a strangled voice.
"What? No James I was only joking!" I said laughing but he looked at me sadly.
"No you weren't"
"What? James you idiot I was so joking! God do you always have to take things so seriously?" I asked feeling agitated.
"No. But I know you were lying. You think I'm ugly" he was glaring at me.
"I do not!" I said glaring back.
"Prove it" he said, not looking away.
I stood there, watching him and my mind was made up before I could rethink what I was about to do.
I closed the space in between us and leaned in and brushed my lips against his so softly it was as if we weren't even kissing. He didn't pull away; on the contrary he put his hand on my hip and pulled me closer, deepening the kiss.
I put my arms around his neck, and playfully ran my fingers through his hair. I heard him moan and I smirked. I wonder if any girl has ever made James Potter moan before.
He pulled his lips away from mine and leaned down and began to nibble on my ear affectionately, taking me by complete surprise because only Freckles has done that to me. Without thinking, without knowing, I moaned and he smiled and pulled away.
We stood there looking at each other, and I could see something I've never ever seen before in James' eyes.
Love. No it isn't love, its lust. No wait its love… Oh bloody hell I don't know!
We stood there, just looking at each other, both feeling confused.
I don't know how long we stood there staring at each other, but when we heard Heather and Daniel call out to us we both jumped. They walked into the kitchen and Heather turned to me smiling.
"Hey guys! Lily, you're parents, Danny and I decided that you should spend the night here with us and we can take you to the Hogwarts Express tomorrow" she said.
"Oh, uh okay. Why?" I asked curiously.
"Well you're parents don't think its safe to leave you home alone. You're dad's not going to be home tonight and you're mum is going to stay the night at you're grandma and granddad's house and Petunia is staying at er… what's-his-names place" Daniel added.
I nodded. "She's staying at Vernon's" I explained.
Daniel nodded and smiled.
"So Lily you better go get you're stuff. Pack you're trunk and bring it over" Heather said smiling.
"And you're owl. Can't forget er-"
"Freckles" I said and he nodded grinning.
"Exactly. James why don't you go next door and help Lily?" he asked James who was just standing there looking from Heather to Daniel and then at me.
"Huh? Oh um okay" he said nodding.
They smiled. "Okay then we'll see you guys later" Heather said and we nodded, said goodbye and left.
"Well, Lily before you go back to James' can you feed you're fat doggy?" mum asked smiling.
I raised my eyebrows. "He isn't fat, he's just overweight" I explained, feeling insulted.
"Well you call him fat"
"So that's not the point" I said hurrying over to the fridge and grabbing out some bacon.
"Actually it is" mum said smirking.
"Yeah, yeah" I said and mum scowled.
"Don't yeah, yeah me missy" she said and I rolled my eyes.
I walked out the back door, James following. He stopped and stood just inside the door and I turned around.
"James? You okay?" I asked.
"Uh, remember Chum doesn't er, really like me" he said nervously.
"Oh yeah. Forget it, just hold out some bacon and he'll be all over you" I said smiling.
He nodded and stepped out the back door cautiously and Chum began to bark. James winced and I grabbed his arm and pulled him next to me.
"Now hold out your hand with the bacon and he'll come and eat it"
"My hand or the bacon?" he asked sarcastically.
"Both maybe" I said and he glanced at me, looking scared.
"Oh James I was just joking!" he nodded and offered the bacon to Chum who bounded over happily. He took the bacon from James' hand and began to munch hungrily on it.
I smiled as Chum licked James' hand, James laughed.
"He likes me!" he said excitably and scratched Chum's ears.
I grinned. "See? I told you so"
He straightened up and looked at me.
"Er, Lily about before-"
"Forget it. I have"
He nodded. "Yeah, sure" he said looking away, and I thought I heard his voice evident with hurt and I felt bad.
"I mean, it wasn't bad or anything its just… well it wasn't meant to happen and it was just meant to be er… um friendly and just-"
"Lily, I, I get it. I feel the same" he said.
I nodded. "O-Okay" we went inside and he grabbed my trunk.
"I've got it" said holding out my hand for it but he held it out of my reach.
"I am. You take Freckles and say goodbye" he said nodding at mum and dad.
I turned and hugged them. "Bye Lily, I love you" dad said smiling.
I nodded. "Yeah… I love you too"
I turned to mum who beamed. "I luv you too Lily" she said kissing my cheek.
I nodded again. "Yeah I love you too mum"
"Bye Mrs. Evans" James said and mum turned to him.
"How many times have I told you to call me Jane?"
"About… uh I dunno heaps" he said grinning.
"If you keep calling me 'Mrs. Evans' I'll have to call you Jamesie-wamesie" she said and James' eyes widened.
I laughed and smirked and he glared at me.
"Bye Mr. Evans" he said looking at my dad.
"Good bye James" dad said shaking his hand. They nodded at each other and we left and went next door to James' house.
We walked in and James showed me to my room, the one across from his.
I put my things in there, and we left and went downstairs.
"You know where to find me if you need me" he said smiling.
"Yeah, I do" I said smiling back.
He looked for a second as if he wanted to hug me, but thought better of it.
I smiled and wrapped my arms around him and hugged him tightly.
"You're a really good friend James" I said happily.
"Yeah, you're a good friend too Lily" he replied hugging me back.
Just then Sirius came bounding into my room and grinned.
"'Ello. The Hogwarts letters just arrived" he said and we walked downstairs into the kitchen where sure enough, three letters sat on the table.
One for me, one for James and one for Sirius.
We all went and grabbed the ones addressed to us and I realized mine was heavier then normal. I opened it and a reddish goldish badge fell onto the floor. Everyone looked at me and I bent down and picked it up.
On it, read 'Head Girl'.
"Oh my god" I whispered and Sirius took the badge from me, to read it properly.
"Nice one Lils!" he said hugging me. I grinned and looked at James who smiled.
"Congrats Lily" he said winking.
I smiled. "Thanks"
James turned back to his letter grinning and dropped the letter, and we all looked at him.
"James sweetie what's wrong?" Heather asked.
James stood there, staring at the letter.
I bent down and picked it up, and I found a badge, which Sirius took and he gasped.
I looked down at the letter curiously.
Dear Mr. Potter,
It is my delighted pleasure to inform you that you are the new Head Boy for 1979 at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Because of this, I am asking you to act responsible and act as a role model to younger students.
You must take you're duties seriously and on the 1st of September (tomorrow) you will need to give the new Prefects their orders along with the Head Girl.
Hoping you're holidays are going fine,
Professor M. McGonagall.
Deputy Headmistress
I looked up. "Wow. This means you're a Head too… with me!" I said and ran over and hugged him, taking him by complete surprise.
He swung me around and I laughed.
"This is really er…" he paused not knowing what to say.
"Unexpected? Yes it is" Sirius said smirking.
"Yeah, well it is!" James said nodding.
"Who in their right mind would make you Head Boy?" Sirius asked his eyes bugging out of his head.
"What was Dumbledore on crack or something?"
"Sirius! How can you say that? He was obviously either drunk or smoking pot at the time of his decision" I said taking them by complete surprise.
"Oh nice" James said sarcastically.
"I was only joking Jamesie-wamesie" I said making him scowl.
"Shush up Lilsie-wilsie" he said making me laugh.
Sirius rolled his eyes and handed James his badge.
"Aha! Bow down before me!" James said pointing at Sirius who raised his eyebrows.
"Um, how about 'no'?" Sirius said walking out of the room.
"Oh! Heather's going to be horrible" he said cackling.
"When are you gonna tell you're mum?"
But before James could open his mouth Heather walked in with Daniel and Sirius following.
Heather screamed and ran towards James and pulled him into a massive hug.
"Oh my baby boy is Head Boy! Oh my god!" she shrieked and James looked as if he was about to suffocate.
"Can't… breathe" he whimpered and Daniel pulled her off of him.
"Jeez Heather let the kid breathe" he said smirking.
"Oh I'm sorry I'm just so proud! Oh my little baby!" she said trying to kiss his cheek.
"Mum! Can ya not?" he said grumpily. I smiled.
"And Lily! You too!" she said pulling me into a bone crushing hug.
"Oh, ah yeah" I said embarrassingly.
James shook his head.
"Mum!" he groaned.
"Oh sorry! I'm just so proud of you both!" she said pinching James' cheeks.
"Yeah mum that's nice and all, but well, you know I mean we're only Head Boy and Girl" he said scratching the back of his head.
"Only? Sweetheart this means a lot to me!" Heather said looking crestfallen.
James nodded; "I know".
"You know what this means?" she asked him.
He looked at her. "What?"
"No more pranks"
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(A/N: I considered stopping here but, nah! I'll give you guys the longest chapter in this story!)
"No more pranks?" James asked, his eyes widening.
"No!" whispered Sirius.
"Uh oh" I said quietly glancing at Daniel who was wearing the same look as Sirius, a blank expression.
"I mean guys you need to grow up and act more mature! Plus James has responsibilities now and he's got to be a role model" Heather explained.
The boys all looked at her sadly, James giving her the puppy dog eyes.
"James David Potter don't you look at me like that!" she said watching him closely.
"Don't worry Heather, I'll keep watch on them! If they so much as pull one prank, I'll let you know" I said and the look on their faces was priceless.
"Come one, lets go tell my mum" I said to James and Sirius who looked dumbstruck and followed.
"How could you Lily?" Sirius said in a whisper when we left the house.
I smirked. "I'm not gonna tell her! Don't worry, you guys can pull pranks if you want to, I only said that so she would think that you guys would actually do what she says"
"Oh my god, thank you, thank you, thank you!" James said dropping to the ground, grabbing my hand and kissing it.
"Oh Lily you silly dilly how could you trick us in such a cruel way? Oh god thank you so much!" Sirius said also dropping and kissing my other hand.
I laughed.
"No problem" I said pulling my hands away and they stood up and followed me inside my house.
"Hey mum, dad" I said smiling.
"Lily! What are you doing?" dad asked curiously from over his newspaper.
"I got Head Girl!" I said happily and mum hugged me and dad smiled.
"Nice one Lily! Good on you!" he said and I hugged him to.
"Who's Head Boy?" he asked.
"James" I said smiling.
"Oh! Congratulations James!" mum said hugging him and kissing his cheek.
He was taken aback.
"Oh ah thank you Mrs. Evans"
She pulled away and glared at him.
"Oh I mean Jane" he said smiling charmingly.
I just shook my head.
"Well I just wanted to tell you that" I said smiling.
"I've got to go Heather's going into Diagon Alley and I need to tell her what I need"
"Ok then. Bye sweetheart. We love you" mum said happily.
"Love you too Mum, you too dad" I said and I waved and we left.
"I need a shower" I said when we go inside and James nodded.
"I'll show you where it is and get you a towel" he said and I followed him upstairs.
He passed me a towel and I thanked him, and he showed me the bathroom.
"Um, this ones the hot tap, and this ones the cold. You need to turn the cold one on first though, unlike the showers at Hogwarts" he said with a small smile.
"Thank you" I said grinning.
He nodded.
"Well, I'll leave you to it" he said happily.
I nodded. "Yup" James walked out, closing the door behind him.
"Hey James have you still got you're invisibility cloak?" Sirius asked smirking.
"Sirius Orion Black! Don't even think about it!" I yelled and James hit Sirius over the head.
"Dumbarse" he said grinning.
"Go James!" I yelled happily later that night.
James was playing a game where this ball thing shot out tennis balls and he had to catch them. Since he is excellent at Quidditch he was able to catch all of the ten balls and one a teddy bear.
"Here you go sir" the boy said handing it to James.
"Thank you" James said smiling at him.
He turned to me. "Here you go" he said passing me the teddy bear.
"Oh but you won it!" I said grinning.
"I don't fancy teddy bears" he said smirking and I hugged him. "Thank you" I whispered in his ear.
"Hey I got a swirly colourful lolly pop!" Sirius said coming up to us, and sure enough a swirly coloured lolly pop was in his hand and he was licking it happily.
"This has been really fun" I said as we walked home.
"Yeah hey!" Sirius said skipping along. James stopped me.
"I'll give you a piggy back ey?" he said and I grinned.
"Okay!" I said hopping onto his back and he walked along, my arms wrapped around his neck, and his arms holding my legs.
I ended up falling asleep on James' back and he walked into the kitchen, Heather and Daniel sipping coffee.
"She asleep?" Heather asked.
James nodded. "Yeah" Sirius showed Daniel the fairy floss he was eating. "Don't mind if I do" he said smirking and taking some.
Sirius shrieked and Heather hit on the back of the head, pointing at me. I turned my head, but didn't wake up.
"I'll take her upstairs" James said and began to walk up the so mentioned stairs.
James' pov
I laid Lily down on her bed and covered her with the doona and smiled. She rolled over and grinned in her sleep.
She looks so peaceful, and in a way, cute.
I smiled and lay down beside her, and before I knew it, I was asleep as well.
No one's pov…. Actually third persons…
Lightening struck the windows and Lily woke up, looking around. She saw James lying beside her and smiled. She covered the doona over him and pulled him close to her.
Thunder struck and James woke up, and Lily smiled.
"Thunder" he whispered and Lily frowned. He whimpered. "I don't like thunder"
"It's okay James, it's okay" she said hugging him close to her.
James nodded and before they knew it, they were asleep in each other's arms, smiling in their sleep.
A/N: Ahoy hoy! Well this is the LONGEST chapter I've ever given you guys! 11 pages! Whew! I'm expecting reviews mind you! Lol.
Well I'm gonna go now!
I love you all!
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