Chapter 57: Hawaii Holidays

"Hey, how are we going to spend our holidays?" James asked his five friends who were gathered together at his house on the third day to their start of the summer holidays.

"Do we need to practice with Dumbledore again?" Lily reminded.

"I suposed we need. Well, we can owl him." Remus told them.

"Good idea." James said and accioed a quill and parchment for a note.

"There's no need to write a note to me." A familiar voice called from behind.

"Dumbledore!" The six of them chorused.

"I've accidentally eavesdropped your discussion." Dumbledore winked at them. "Why don't you all have a short break this time? You deserve them."

"How aboutwe go to my holiday beach house at Hawaii magical community?" James suggested excitedly. The last time he went there with his family, more likely his sister, was way before he even enroled into Hogwarts.

"Great idea. Haven't been there for ages." Sirius agreed wholeheartedly. He had joined them once before they entered Hogwarts.

"Don't forget your mission." Dumbledore reminded them. The six of them groaned in disappointment. "If you want, I'll let you all free for one month."

"Thank you so much!" They cheered happily.

"We can go to Hawaii?" James asked Dumbledore and he nodded in agreement.

"There's just one condition. We need to protect the six of you from Volcano, asthe way you all nicknamed him." Dumbleodore turned to a more serious tone. "Harry will be the secret keeper for the six of you while you all are there enjoying yourself while Fion will be there to keep an eye on the six of you."

"Sounds great!"

"Haven't seen Fion for a long time."

The six of them continued on their little discussion happily on what they could do there.

"Harry, soyou're alright withbeing their secret keeper?" Dumbledore was discussing with Mr. Potter at their manor.

"Sure thing. They ought to have some fun once in awhile." Harry Potter agreed. "It had been so long since we last went there."

"Fion will take them there via the portkey and check on them now and then." Helen Potter told him.

"Mum, we'll be fine." James assured his concerned mother again. "We've grown up."

"I'm sure they can take care of themselves but no underage magic still. We'll only allowed you all to practice a little here and there." Dumbledore spoke with a straight face. "When you return, we've to start teaching you how to apparate."

"That sounds awesome."

"I think learning apparation only after you finish school is a little too late. And you can't learn in Hogwarts because it has enchantment to prevent people from apparating in Hogwarts." Dumbledore said.

"So when can we go to the beach-house?" Sirius asked anxiously, changing the topic from seriousness to fun.

"It's up to you all actually." Harry smiled at the teens.

"Tomorrow!" The six of them chorused.

"But first thing first, let's get on with the Fidelius Charm." Dumbledore said and gathered the six of them around him and Mr. Potter as well.

"The six of you looks like excited little kids." Fion grinned at the six eager sixteen-year-olds who were carrying their luggage in their pockets and walkingtowards the portkey room.

"So when is my dear old sister going to get married off?" James asked, rolling his eyes in annoyance to be called a little kid.

"That depends when Gabriel wants it." Fion blushed slightly. Gabriel Dashwood was an outstanding auror and had been together with Fion for about five years. "His job put him at risk, especially now with the rising dark lord."

"It's a noble job." Arabella said in awe.

"I'm going to be an auror someday." Sirius boasted.

"Me too." James added.

"I don't know the nobility of the job if you two are going to be inside." Lily joked.

"Well, I'm glad you're taking your life easy even though you know what your future holds." Fion smiled encouragingly.

"What can we do about it anyway? Since I'm going to die somehow, I might as well as enjoy life now like any other sixteen-year-old."

"I still can't believe I'll be sent to Azkaban for twelve years because I murdered muggles."

"How ever did we actually become professors in Hogwarts is going to be a mystery?"

"I'll go missing in actions and disappear for good. Who's worse?"

"Me of course."

"Definitely, we're the short-lived people around."

"But you two have gotten yourself a son to lead your life." Fion said teasingly. Lily and James started blushing again. The rest of the four friends always laughed at the two whenever the future Harry Potter was mentioned because Lily and James' reaction looked so funny.

"Wow!" Lily looked at the Potter's beach house in amazement. From the exterior, it was made of wooden planks and gave a cozy little beach house look. But the interior looked nothing as compared to the outside and luxurious was an understatement. It had a much simpler design than the Potter's Manor but yet had all the necessities needed for a holiday.

"The world of magic is really amazing." Arabella looked around at the luxuriously designed beach house.

"I designed this beach house many years ago because I wanted to design a house that I really like." Fion said humbly. "My parents refused to let me play with our house deco except my rooms."

"This look amazing." Stefanie complimented. "No wonder it looks kinda different from the last time I seen it." She was invited to their beach house with Sirius last time, but did not stayed as long as the two guys.

"I kept the necessities such as jacuzzi, steam room,saunaand indoor pool though. Only changed the appearance of the walls and furnitures." Fion was giving them a quick tour around the house. The walls looked as though it was made of wooden planks. There was a balcony in front of the entrance with white plastic furniture, which overlook the sea. "You'll get to see a beautiful sunset from this direction." She pointed at the balcony at the side.

"This is really wonderful." Remus said appreciatively.

"Wow, one month here. It sounds really fun." Lily said, looking aroundat the Jacuzzi room.

"Bring your stuffs up first. There are only two rooms and both are identical. One for guys and one for girls." Fion called out to the six scattered teenagers.

"We can always sleep together." Sirius grinned mischievously, winking at James.

"No way!" Arabella shouted out from another direction.

"Let's get to the room. You all have one full month to enjoy the stay here." Fion called out and led the group up to the second floor. "Guys to the left and girls to the right." Fion pointed the guys to go to the left room and led the girls to the right one. "Here is it." She followed the girls to the room since two of the guys had stayed here for a rather long time when they were younger.

"Wow! That's beautiful!" Lily said in awe. The room was about the size of James' bedroom. There was a low wooden king-sized bed with a thick spring mattress facing the direction of the balcony. The balcony overlooked the sea and the entire wall was replaced with transparent glass planes. There was three rattan armchairs lined with sheepskin for extra comfort. A large six-door wooden cupboard lined at one side of the room along with a full-length mirror and dresser. The room had a classic cottage wooden style look.

"How do you maintain this house so perfectly and all it's wooden furniture?" Arabella asked Fion.

"By magic, of course. Several complicated charms and enchantments to protect the stuffs here from too much moisture and salt." Fion told them.

"This house is really beautiful." Stefanie complimented again. "You definitely have great taste."

"Inside or outside?"

"Both!"

"Luckily Fion brought five house elves here for us to do the chores." James said as he ate a slice of Hawaiian pizza.

"It would be disastrous if you guys ever step into the kitchens." Lily joked and helped herself with a large slice of meat lovers' pizza.

"We could be chefs in the future for all you know." Sirius exclaimed in pretended shock.

"Anyone with brains knows better than to eat the food you guys cook." Arabella pretended to mock Sirius.

"So what are we going to do today?" Remus asked the group.

"How about surfing?" Stefanie suggested. "Haven't done that for ages."

"I don't know how." Lily shrugged.

"Neither do I." Arabella added.

"We can teach you." Sirius bragged.

"Risk my life to be taught by you?" Arabella commented. "No, thanks."

"It's going to be fun, I assure you." Sirius said in an extremely smooth voice.

"I don't doubt that." James added enthusiastically.

"Ok, let's give it a try then." Lily told Arabella. "I don't know how to surf either."

"I'llfetch six surfboards for us from the store." James said and headed towards the storeroom. "Accio six surfboards." The six surfboards followed beside him and ended up in front of them.

"Whoever designed this ugly thing?" Arabella commented as they looked at the design which wasa a mess of colors.

"This is call abstract art." Sirius defended.

"So you're the artist for this." Lily teased.

"I designed this when I was only ten."

"I see the resemblance with the owner." Arabella commented.

"It isn't that ugly. Look at James' one."

"Where?" Lily asked, looking around.

"Too bad. I've already erased off the design." James grinned.

He went into the storeroom and took out some magical paints andandstarted designingtheir surfboards, totally personalizing it.

"Finished." James said proudly, holding it up. His surfboard was now bright green in colour with neon flashing orange words that read 'James the Great' in a font similar to comic sans MS.

"That's so egoistic." Lily teased.

"Your isn't anywhere less than mine." James pointed out. Lily's surfbiard was of bright yellow with alternating green and blue words that reads 'LiLy EvAnS'.

"Look at my masterpiece." Sirius called out for attention.

"There's nothing on it." Arabella frowned a little. The rest looked at the plain white glossy board but did not notice anything different.

"Look at this." Sirius held up the boardfacing them and turned it right. The board turned bright blue. Then when he turned it right, it became bright green. When he elevated it, it turned bright red. Basically it was changing color with the direction it goes.

"Luckily it's all magical community here." James said. "The muggles will freak out if they notice your wakeboard changed color with direction."

"Bell, yours look great!" Lily exclaimed. Arabella's board was lavender in color and it was transparent.

"How did you make it transparent when the material still feels about the same?" Stefanie asked.

"I used the crystal-clear charm, although I vaguely remembered that we can't use magic outside school. The wakeboard looked just like a purple outline right?" Arabella admired her wakeboard from different directions.

"I think Sirius and Arabella's surfboard both are out to seek attention." Remus teased.

"The four of us had rather normal looking wakeboards." Stefanie agreed. Her surfboard was a simple design showing the sun, sky, sea and sand with a nice blend of colors. Remus had just made the word 'quiksilver' looking blue and watery instead of just a still word. Generally both their surfboards looked normal.

"Yeah, we shall see mine get more attention or yours." Sirius told Arabella competitively.

"I'm not interested in the attention. I just designed it the way I want." Arabella claimed.

"Let's get upstairs to change to beach wear." James said. "This time those clothes you girls wore on the last day of school really came in a handy."

"You're wearing the same clothes again?" Stefanie asked Lily. Stefanie had brought more than ten set of new beachwear for this holiday.

"Not really. Transfigured clothes don't last long enough." Lily said in a low voice. "I owned the entire outfit that I transfigured that day. The only thing I transfigured out from the magazine was the yellow two piece swimsuit."

"You can borrow mine." Stefanie offered.

"Thanks. But I think I'll feel safer wearing sports bra out in the water. This two-piece is really flimsy and I'm not too comfortablewith it." Lily said and changed out of her bra to sports bra and slipped on a plain white tee and very short blue navy. "I'm done."

"Don't forget to apply sunscreen." Arabella said and started applying an SPF 50 sunscreen upon changing into a transfigured pink and yellow stripe bikini set. "Someone help me with my back."

"Bell, help me with my back." Stefanie sat down in front of Arabella after changing into her one-piece chili-red halter swimsuit with a pair of mini orange drawstring shorts.

"I think I better apply some on myself too." Lily applied a little sunscreen on her face and neck and then applied on her hands and legs. Since she was wearing a top, so she could skip her back. Then she proceed onto help Arabella apply on her back.

"What's taking the girls?" James asked for the fifth time. The three guys had been sitting at the balcony of their beach house for the last ten minutes waiting for the girls to come down.

"Girls are just slow." Sirius said in a bored tone.

"We heard that." Arabella said from the back.

"It's ok. It was meant for you girls to hear anyway." Sirius said coolly, scrutinizing the girls up and down.

"Brother-dear, please keep your eyes on yourself." Stefanie gave her brother a smack on his shoulder.

"Wow. I see why you girls took such a long time." James said, scanning the girls' skimpy and sexy outfit.

"Let's get started with surfing. Spider webs are forming while you girls were upstairs changing." Sirius joked and accioed the surfboards along with them.

"Try standing and balancing on it." James helped Lily with the surfboard. Sirius and Arabella were bickering away while he tried to teach Arabella. Sirius did not want to go to the ocean alone since both his friends were busy helping the girls.

"Ahh." Lily balanced for a little while until the waves came and she fell into the water with a splash.

"C'mon, try again." James encouraged.

"Why don't you do it once and I watch you?" Lily suggested, putting on a bright orangelifejacket.

"Watch me!" James said. He laid on his wakeboard and peddled forward, and then skillfully he stood up and slid along with the waves for several minutes before rejoining Lily at the shoreline.

"Wow. That was great." Lily praised.

"Hasn't done that for ages." James said, water dripping from his wet and messy hair. "Let's give it a try?"

"What if I fall into the sea? I can't swim." Lily said as she tried balancing herself on the surfboard.

"We can save you. All of us can swim." James assured and Lily tried to balance on the slippery surfboard. Remus and Stefanie were already out in the sea surfing. Sirius was still trying to get Arabella to listen to his 'advice on surfing the right way' not too far away from them. "You wanna try it yourself?"

"Might as well." Lily said, trying to sound confident. "I'm sure you want to play too." Sirius and Arabella had just peddled out into the waters.

"Are you sure?"

"Well, you're going to save me if I fall."

"Of course." James assured.

"Okie dokes. Off I go." Lily laid on her wakeboard and peddled out into the waters. Splat. This seems kinda fun. Ok, wave coming in. I'm supposed to stand up or something. This is tough man. Lily tried standing up slowly, still trying to balance.

Wwhhoooossshhh!

The waves came crashing and soaked Lily thoroughly once again. Splat. She emerged on the surface, still lying on the surfboard. Bleah, salt water. She wiped her face with one hand quickly can continued peddling for a while. I see another wave. Let me try again.

Wwwhhooosssshhh!

"AAAHHH!" Lily screamed as she fell into the water. The wave was so hard that it had flunked her off from her surfboard. She took a deep breath as the waves came crashing above her, pushing her under the water but her life jacket kept her afloat. Before she knew it, she had lost consciousness.

Ahhh, the feeling of being push into water is really familiar.

The feeling of water crashing from the top.

Déjà vu.

When did that happened before?

"I believe my parents are going to have some boring Christmas party at home on Chirstmas Day this year. How about all of you come and join me? Sirius, Stefanie, Remus and I had to make an appearance in that party. After that we can have a mini party in one of the rooms without disturbing the adults. Fion said that she misses Sirius and Remus in the last letter and suggested that I can invite some friends over for Christmas."

Who said that? Sounded like someone I know.

"All these gentlemanly manners had to be observed in these sorts of parties. I did this with Fion back then before she had a boyfriend."

Who said that to me before?

"Well, there are a lot of things you don't know about me."

Why is there this male voice kept appearing in my head?

"I like plain and normal looking colors but Remus wanted plain colored ones too. So I figured that tattoos might look interesting on them. Anyway I transfigured one hundred and fifty one of these art pieces here. There're no two rabbits that are identical, mind you."

"My name is Harry Potter and he is Ronald Weasley."

Déjà vu.

"Oh no!" James looked at Lily's empty wakeboard in shocked. Without further ado, he dived into the water and swam vigorously against the strong currents. Please don't let anything happen to Lily. James swam faster and faster. It was getting tiring because the currents were rather strong at the further part of the sea. Where's Lily? James looked around frantically. Lily must be floating around somewhere. She was a wearing a lifejacket, wasn't she?

Suddenly he spotted an orange object with red hair floating not too far away from him. Detecting another wave coming, he swam faster and closer towards the person, keeping his eyes glued to it although the seawater was stinging his eyes.

"Got you." James turned the lifeless body around and saw Lily's face, eyes shut tightly. He grabbed hold of her neck and started peddling back to the shore as quickly as possible. Please don't let anything happen to Lily. Just when the wave came crashing down, both of them reached the shoreline.

"Lily!" Stefanie called Lily as she undid her lifejacket. She had heard James' shouts and realized that Lily could be in danger. Without further delay she did the cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Lily expertly until Lily start splattering salt water out.

"Lily!" James called out and shook her rather vigorously but she was not responding.

"Stef, do continue withthe CPR." Remus said. Stefanie,having learned first aid,continued the steps while they were eyeing her reaction. Lily split out more seawater but still yet regain consciousness.

"What happened to Lily?" Arabella came rushing over with Sirius, leaving their surfboards lying by the shore. "Lily!"

"She fell off the board." James said, not taking his eyes of Lily's pale face.

"Should be okay, she's breathing normally." Stefanie listened to Lily's breathing and heartbeat.

"But why isn't she conscious yet?" James asked frantically shaking Lily.

"I don't know." Stefanie said.

"Lily!" They were all shaking Lily vigorously now.

"Ahh!" Lily gave a faint moan of discomfort with all the shakes.

"You're awake!" James said and hugged Lily tightly. The rest of them looked at the two of them knowingly.

"Yeah. I'm fine." Lily said, sitting upright now.

"You sure?" Stefanie asked, her eyes filled with concern.

"Yup. Don't worry." Lily said feebly and gave an assuring smile.

"We'll take you back to the house." Arabella said and helped Lily up. "Can you walk?"

"Yes."

"If you can't, James will be more than happy to carry you back." Sirius said suggestively, earning a vicious stare from James.

"No, no, no. It's okay. I'm fine." Lily rejected immediately.

"Don't be shy. After all, he rescued you." Sirius grinned cheekily.

"What happened actually? I was knocked out after I fell into the sea." Lily asked Arabella and Stefanie as they accompanied her back to the house.

"James swam out and rescued you back to shore."

"I must really thank him then."

"You owed him your life now."

"What a thing to say. It was normal. Anyone would have saved me. Won't you?" Lily turned to Arabella and Stefanie who were on each side.

"We'll save you of course. But the person who actually risking his life to save you was James."

"Ok, I'll thank him later."

"You seems better now."

"I'm fine. You two just don't believe me."

"You nearly drowned! How can we believe you're fine?"

"I can stay in the room myself. You two go out and join the guys to play." Lily assured them. She had wanted some peace to think.

"We want to keep you company."

"I'll feel bad if you two didn't get to enjoy today because of me."

"We want to stay by your side."

"I'm going to take a shower now. Then I'll go to the beach and find you guys. You two can't stay my side when I shower. Besides I don't want that either."

"Alright then. You take care of yourself. We're just a few steps away."

"Go and have fun! Shoo! Shoo!" Lily shooed them off the beach house jokingly and returned to their room. Whatever happened just now definitely felt a little strange.

Lily on the faucet and let the water run down her body, enjoying the coolness of the water in the middle of the hot tropical Hawaii Island. Did I remember something I have forgotten?