Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter because I am not the lovely JKR.

Fair warning in advance: I know Michael Jackson does not actually release his "Thriller" album until 1982, but he started his solo career in 1971, which was the year Lily, James, Severus, etc. started Hogwarts. He's only two years older than them, and I can picture Lily being a Michael Jackson fan. She is going to listen to him if I want her to, besides I only like two of his songs (I guess I can't really say that because they're the only ones I know, but whatevs), just a fair warning so I don't get any flames from anybody who researched it. I did too, but it's FanFiction so anything can happen. ~May

Chapter 15

Lily was watching Remus, Sirius, and Peter out her window; all three boys were sweating profusely in the odd winter heat as they pulled weeds out of Evanescence Potter's garden.

"What do you want to do why they deal with the weeds?" James' amused voice came from the door and Lily turned to face him.

"I was just going to unpack actually." Lily smiled up at James as he came to stand by her at the window.

"Need any help?" He asked and the three boys in the garden looked up at the window and watched for a moment. Remus thought things were progressing very well, Sirius thought James just needed to snog Lily and get it over with, while Peter thought that if anything would happen it would be Lily to make the move. The three boys had started a bet between them, Peter bet that Lily would make the first move, Sirius bet that James would, and Remus stated that they would act at the same time.

"Sure." Lily left the window to move to one of the boxes. She looked at James suddenly with a questioning look on her face. "Do you think your mum would mind if I changed the color of the walls?"

"No, my mum's cool like that." James joked and Lily smiled slightly before waving her wand, the walls turned a light shade of lavender and James looked at it a bit surprised. He lifted up the giant boombox. "Where do you want this?"

"Top of the dresser," she fumbled through a few cassette tapes before finding the one she wanted, "listen to this."

The cassette slid into a front panel that had been opened by Lily when she pressed a button. After sliding it in and James trying to examine all the metal points that were encased inside it, she pushed the door closed. Lily pressed a few button and the machine lit up, it began to whir and Lily skipped a couple of tracks with difficulty before it started to play. He could tell it was a male voice but he didn't recognize it as any wizarding group. Lily cranked up the volume and opened the window so the boys down below could hear it also.

"They told him don't you ever come around here, don't wanna see your face, you better disappear. The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear, so beat it, just beat it. You better run, you better do what you can, don't wanna see no blood, don't be a macho man. You wanna be tough, better do what you can, so beat it, but you wanna be bad. Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. No one wants to be defeated, showin' how funky, strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Just beat it, beat it. Just beat it, beat it. Just beat it, beat it. Just beat it, beat it. They're out to get you, better leave while you can, don't wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man. You wanna stay alive, better do what you can so beat it, just beat it. You have to show them that you're really not scared, you're playin' with your life, this ain't no truth or dare. They'll kick you, then they beat you, then they'll tell you it's fair, so beat it, but you wanna be bad! Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. No one wants to be defeated, showin' how funky, strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. No one wants to be defeated, showin' how funky, strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. Beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. Beat it, beat it."

Lily had forgotten James was still in the room, she was dancing around to the music and as the guitar solo started she began to pretend to play the guitar, James was laughing at her slightly, she was adorable in his mind. Lily's hair was whipping all over the place and even the boys had stopped weeding for a moment to watch as she danced past the window.

"Beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. No one wants to be defeated, showin' how funky, strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. No one wants to be defeated, showin' how funky, strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. No one wants to be defeated, showin' how funky, strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. No one wants to be defeated, showin' how funky, strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it. No one wants to be defeated, showin' how funky."

The lyrics cut out and Lily stopped dancing, instead she was laughing as she began to fast forward the cassette again to get to the right song.

"Who is that singer?" James asked her and Lily jumped slightly.

"Michael Jackson, he's one hot black man." Lily grinned at him and James was a little jealous of the popular muggle singer.

They continued to unpack Lily's things to another song that Lily informed him was called "Thriller"; to be honest it was a creepy song. Eventually the boys came back in, slightly dirty and sweaty. Lily would not touch any of them until they had a shower, and James had to agree with her. The boys traipsed off leaving Lily, James, and Evanescence alone in the kitchen while dinner was being prepared.

"Did you have a nice afternoon?" Evanescence asked Lily as she chopped up carrots.

"Yeah, it was nice, James helped me unpack; things went a lot quicker that way." Lily replied staring at the carrots hungrily, she'd always loved Fruits and Vegetables more than candy; she did have her spurts where she'd eat tons of candy, but she ate more healthy snacks usually. She really wanted to snitch on or the chopped carrots, her mum wouldn't have minded, knowing Lily's eating habits, but she didn't know about James mum.

"Here." Evanescence was holding out a whole carrot and Lily took it gratefully.

"Thank you." Lily told her politely and Evanescence shook her head.

"I've never seen someone eye vegetables like candy before, I figured it was the least I could do." She grinned at the younger red-head.

Lily was happily munching on her carrot when the boys returned from their showers. Sirius was shocked, he had never seen someone eat vegetables willingly before.

"Say it isn't so Lily!" Sirius dramatized, both Remus and Peter were standing behind him as Sirius gripped Lily's shoulders all of a sudden.

She choked on her carrot and coughed sending a faceful of chewed carrot right at Sirius. Lily's mouth dropped open before she burst into laughter; James, Remus, and Peter were soon to follow. Sirius meanwhile ran around the kitchen screaming that he'd been violated. Having had enough of all the yelling Evanescence waved her wand and cleaned Sirius up, before sending him to set the table; then she turned to Lily.

"You're all right aren't you?"

"Oh yes, Sirius just scared me, I didn't mean to do that to him." Lily was having a hard time controlling her laughter.

"He does tend to do that." Evanescence muttered before returning to the pot of red sauce that she was dumping chopped red peppers in.

Please leave me a review, I've updated for 3 days straight and only received one review, it's sort of depressing. ~May

P.S. Lily is very similar to me, since I like to base my characters around my habits and stuff. The Vegetable and Fruit/Candy thing, that is so me. I had a spurt a couple of weeks ago that I ate about seven Crunch bars in one day, but lately I've been addicted to Peaches. Now you all know.