Note: Hey guys I'm so sorry it's taken so long for me to update, I've been really busy lately.
Lily
4 weeks. That's how long it's been since Lily Evans came home from Hogwarts and 5 weeks since Lily decided that she was done with all things James Potter. He fooled her, deceived her, made her think that he actually had changed, 5 weeks. That's 35 days, 840 hours, 50,400 minutes, and 3,024,000 seconds. Though she didn't want to admit it it seemed like a life time ago. 3 weeks since she actually decided to talk to any of her friends, 2 weeks since she received a letter from James, 1 week before she actually threw the letter out, 24 hours since his latest letter, and 12 hours since she received a letter form Marlene.
Lily was glad to hear from Marlene, even if her letters were pretty small, just simple things like, "Hope you're having a good summer…" "Nothing much is happening here…" or "Don't let Petunia mess with you too much…" It seemed to Lily that something was wrong, but she couldn't know for sure. Lost in thought, Lily was looking out her window, when she heard, BANG! BANG! Jumping Lily spun around and out of instinct pointed her wand.
"Hey! Watch where you point that thing, freak!" Petunia glared standing in the doorway, "You wouldn't want to get expelled from your little magic school, now would you?"
"What do you want Petunia?" Lily asked putting her wand away and leaned against the wall.
"Vernon will be coming to stay with us for a few days next week and I need you to keep all your freak show stuff away, and for you to act like a normal person. That means no wand, no books, no owls, none of it." She spoke every word like it was a disease of some sort.
Lily groaned internally, "Why does he have to come here?" she asked, then thought but didn't speak, 'Why can't you go there?'
"Because his parents are going to will be going away and he needs a place to stay." She said like it was obvious.
" Isn't he like 19? Shouldn't he be old enough to stay home alone? Or is little Vermin scared?"
"Vernon was invited to stay because I wanted him too, he could have, but I didn't see the need." She said, emphasizing the words, "Vernon" and "I".
"Fine…" Lily sighed and closed her eyes, from a brief moment.
"Good, I'm glad we have an… understanding…" Petunia said before turning and leaving the room, and shutting the door behind her.
Muffling a few words, that were so unlike her, under her breath. Lily turned back around and stared out the window and looking out over the clear, open, blue sky…
*That Following Week*
When that following week finally arrived, much to Lily's displeasure, and she was downstairs eating lunch when the doorbell rang and Petunia came running down the stairs and over to the door. In the process she tripped over the umbrella standby the railing. Lily stifled a laugh earning a glare from Petunia, before she opened the door.
"Hey Vernon." Petunia smiled her face lighting up.
"Hello Petunia you look beautiful as always." He smiled and placed a kiss on her lips and Petunia wrapped her arms around his neck.
Pretending to clear her throat, Lily stood up and walked over to the kitchen and placed her dishes in the sink.
"Ahh… Lily… it's a… err… pleasure to see you again…" Vernon said a fake smile plastered on his face.
Lily could tell that there was as much a chance that he meant it as Petunia not considering her a freak. So none.
"You too Vernon." Lily the replied with the same amount of sincerity.
Petunia sent Lily a small glare then turned back to Vernon, "Come on, I'll show you too you room." She smiled and took his hand leading him up the stairs.
Letting out a breath once they were gone, Lilly let out a sigh, this was going to be a long couple of days...
The two days that Vernon spent with the Evans went pretty well.
Lily just hung out in her room more of the time, and wrote back and forth with Marlene, and working on her summer work for school. She didn't need to worry about Vernon coming up because, be barely acknowledged to presence when she was in the room, forget about her not being there.
It wasn't until third day that something actually happened. It was around 6 pm that evening and the 5 of them, Lily, Petunia, Vernon, and her parents, were eating dinner. Petunia was listening intently to Vernon tell a story about some kid he messed with in school and Lily's parents had just left to go for a walk in the warm summer air. Lily couldn't understand what Petunia saw in him. She blocked most of it out until she heard, "Isn't that right Lily?"
Lily looked up surprised that Vernon actually said something to her, "Excuse me?" Lily said, not having had heard him.
A small smile appeared on his face, "About the freak at my college, you would know all about that, right?"
"What are you talking about?" She asked narrowing her eyes at him.
"You know what I'm talking about, being a freak, not fitting in with anyone, anywhere? Where is it you go? A school for the special?"
"Gifted and Talented.." She muttered trying to keep her cool and not letting him get to her. Her parents agreed that it would be the best cover to use when people asked where she went for the year.
"It's a boarding school, am I correct? So that your not a danger to those around you?" A smirk appeared on his face.
Lilly looked at Petunia, having a small bit of hope that she would say something to him. But all she did was smile and bite back a laugh. Seeing that, she gripped her glass that was in her hand, making it shattered everywhere by accident.
Petunia screamed and Vernon put his arms in front of his face, "What the hell was that?" he asked looking at Lily and Petunia looked at Lily, knowing full well what happened, anger and a slight trace of fear in her eyes, though mostly anger. Then all of a sudden Lily's owl came flying through the window with a letter attached to its leg, "What's with the bloody bird?!" Vernon yelled.
Lily's owl seemed to have heard and went to Vernon. Vernon yelled, "Get you bloody bird away from me you freak!" he swung at it, "That's what you are, you are a freak, Petunia was right!"
Lily grabbed her owl that had landed on the table and led it out side, slamming the door behind her. She let the owl go, and it flew up to her window and into her room.
Ran down the street to the park and collapsed on the bench, tears dripping down her face. How could Petunia do that? She wondered.
"You shouldn't let them do that to you..." A voice said making Lily jump.
She turned around and to her surprise saw James Potter standing behind the bench where she sat. Wiping a tear away she looked at him, "What are you doing here?" she demanded.
"I wanted to see you, to talk to you.." He said walking so that he was in front of her, but he still kept his distance.
"I don't want to hear anything you have to say."
Ignoring her he said, "You shouldn't let them treat you that way.." he said again.
"Well, there's nothing I can do about it..." She said crossing her arms and she glared at him, "I don't like getting revenge or attacking people like some."
James winced slightly, as if what she said physically hurt him, "Listen Lily, it was all a big misunderstanding-"
She stopped right there, "Like I said, I don't want to hear anything you have to say, Potter. I did once and you ended up tricking me, I won't make that mistake again.."
"But Lily-" He tried.
"Go home, Potter, just go home and don't waste your breath..." she stared at him.
James looking into her eyes for a moment long before he started walking away. He gave her one last glance before he disappeared around the street corner.
Her eyes started to sting again and a tear escaped her eye. Her heart felt heavy again, the way it did when she first saw James attack Snape. Why did she care? He was nothing to her, just someone that betrayed her trust... But why does that little thing, hurt so much...
Note: Well there you go! I try and promise not to go this long without updating again, hopefully things will start to calm down and I can update more an more. Also, how would you guys feel if I did just 2 or 3 chapters during their 6th year then went right to their 7th?
Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling.