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This is pretty much all dialog and is just a filler. These first few chapters are just setting the relationships between them all so….

I don't think I have much more to say…

Oh yeah I keep forgetting…

I am not the owner or creator of the HP universe. That is all JK and she is certifiably a genius…A friggen rich one so I will just dilly dally in her fun little world…..

Chapter 4

Potter Manor is Full Again

Sirius was sitting gingerly on the edge of James' bed pulling at his ridiculously short hair.

"Are you sure you can't use a spell to make it grow back faster?" he whined as James was thumbing through.

"I am looking mate, she cursed it so you couldn't regrow it with magic, you might just have to wait for it to grow out." James muttered in response

"WHAT! I am DOOMED! DOOMED! The birds only like me because of my hair!" he wailed, dropping his brilliantly bruised face into his hands.

James chuckled at his best friend's dramatics.

"Sirius I am certain they much prefer your snogging ability to your hair, I do live in the girls dorm…They talk, I think you will fare just fine." Alice said walking into the room and sitting down on the floor beside James. "And Mr. Potter. You could have warned a girl that the "Cousin Frank" that was coming over was the freaking amazingly gorgeous head boy of Hogwarts two years ago. The one that I nearly fell over myself everytime he spoke to me."

James looked at her with a scowl on his face.

"Oh I am sorry, I didn't realize that you wanted a formal introduction. I wasn't aware that my cousin registered on your gorgeous guy radar." James replied sulkily.

She glanced at him with mild concern and confusion blatant on her face.

"I'm just saying some warning not to walk into the kitchen in your boxer shorts this morning would have been nice."

The drink of juice that Sirius just took was sprayed all over the floor.

"Excuse me! *cough* You were in James' boxers? *cough* AM I missing something here? Since when is it normal to be in James' boxers?"

Alice blushed furiously realizing her error and James smirked and started playing with his hands.

"Uhm, erm, well I am going to go…I uhm…Lily is coming tomorrow and I want to get ready for her."

It was now James' turn to splatter the floor with his breakfast drink.

"What! Lily…As in Lily Evans…THE Lily…Coming to my house…Tomorrow…WHAT!" he spluttered.

"Uhm, I do not believe this is the topic we were discussing." Sirius said standing up and placing his hands on his hips.

Both boys turned and stared at Alice.

"Right well, as is happens… Lily is going to come stay here with me for a few days so I am not outnumbered and then I am going to go to her place for the rest of the summer. I thought, given uhm…Everything…that it would probably be the best thing, and I didn't think you would mind to terribly James. You seem to like her, so it will be good." Alice said hiding behind her blonde curls while backing up towards the exit.

"I seem to like her…Seem to like her…Are you bloody INSANE?"

"HELLO! WHY WERE YOU IN HIS BOXERS? Are you two shagging?"

"NO you bloody prat." James said at the same time Alice replied.

"No we were just snogging, and I may have seen him in his boxers a bit. And I may have needed them suddenly, no BIG deal."

She continued to get closer to the entrance.

"IT IS SO A BIG DEAL!" Sirius shouted as James glared at Alice.

"Ok, so again going to go get ready for Lily now…" she said as she turned and booked it out of the room.

James felt himself be jerked in a circle, and found himself face to face with Sirius, grinning like a lunatic.

"Spill, now!"

oOoOoOoO

It was midday and the four teens were at the poolside. Sirius was starting to get back up to his old tricks and was definitely on the mend. He was only sporting a few bruises and a brutally short haircut. No matter what they tried even Frank could not make it grow back with magic, he was going to have to tough it out and grow it the muggle way.

"Er, Lils, why are you staring at Sirius Black?" Alice asked as she followed her friends line of sight.

"I never realized that he had such a nice stomach." She said in disbelief.

"Phah…Him nice stomach? My abs are nicer than his anyday of the week. Ask Allie, she agrees." James scoffed as he walked by the two girls and sat on the side of the pool.

Lily looked over at Alice as If to ask "So do you really think that?"

"Sadly yes, James' abs are better than Sirius'." Alice said, regretting it almost immediately.

"Whhhaaaaattttt?!" Sirius screamed from inside the pool. "His abs are so not better than mine! And thanks for the compliment Lils"

Both girls rolled their eyes.

"Well I wouldn't know, I can honestly say I have never seen James without a shirt. Thank Merlin. And it wasn't a compliment it was pure shock and don't call me Lils!" Lily called to Sirius.

Sirius lifted himself out of the pool and sat by his best friend, who was looking at Lily with a glare of indignation, shock, and confusion.

"How have you never seen him shirtless? He takes it off after EVERY single quidditch match."

"I have never been to a match. I hate to fly." She said simply.

James' mouth dropped onto his chest and Sirius fell backwards back into the pool. They waited until Sirius had made his appearance back on the cobblestone to finish their conversation.

"You hate to fly?" James said weekly.

Lily nodded.

"Yup, it is awful. I hate everything about it."

"No it isn't you are just scared." Sirius replied.

Lily stuck out her tongue. James blushed a bit, it was still hard to fathom that he was talking to Lily Evans, who he might add was in a very small bikini and was beautiful with the sun shining off her scarlet hair.

"SO, just because I am scared doesn't mean that I like it I am just scared of it. I don't like it, I just don't" she retorted.

"Let Jamesie take you out. He is a great flyer. Besides, he would raher die than let Lily Evans fall off his broom." Sirius said with a smile.

James turned red and glared at his supposed best mate.

"Oh Merlin Sirius. Shut up before you make his head bigger than it is." She sighed.

She was surprised mid-breath by James' glare and him abruptly standing up and ripping off his shirt before jumping into the pool. She watched his swim a few lengths before Sirius started to speak in a low voice.

"He doesn't have a big head Lily. He just knows what he is good at, and flying is one of them. Honestly if it weren't for this war he would try out for a quidditch team instead of the aurors. He is really good at flying and he knows it, just like you know that you are better than any of us at our school work. It isn't a crime to know you are good at something, or to appreciate the fact that other people agree. You are too hard on him. And yes Alice I am aware that he has better abs than me, stupid bloody, practices all the time prat that he is."

And with that he jumped into the pool onto James as he swam by oblivious, starting a water fight of monsterous proportions that sent both girls back peddling away from the side of the pool. Alice was laughing and Lily was watching the two of them warily as James pulled himself up to sit on the dive. Alice caught her watching.

"He really isn't bad Lils. Sirius is right. And you really can't fault him for being confident about his flying, for Merlin's sakes he made the team at 12 years old. And to be fair, you can't be mad at him for showing off for girls either. I mean the boy has got a nice body, I mean….Well there isn't anything else to say about that."

She watched Lily fidget and turn a bit pink.

"Mmmmhmmmm, I guess I can agree on the physique. I can at least see why you go to quidditch matches now. And why every efffing girl in the castle throws herself at him. He is still a prat though. I mean honestly even looking like that, would you snog him? I mean come on" She said looking at her friend who was now turning very red.

"Uhm, Er, I mean. That isn't a fair question. We have known each other for a really long time and. I mean to say." Alice stuttered.

Lily looked at her baffled before the object of their conversation came to her rescue. He ran over sopping wet and scooped Alice off the ground. She squealed and giggled.

"Come on you little smidget, into the pool with you!" he said with a laugh before running and cannonballing into the pool with Alice still in his arms.

Lily POV

She watched as Alice was pulled up from the bottom of the pool in James' arms. How had she never noticed his arms before? Oh well it didn't matter, she was never going to be caught dead with Potter.

She laid back and to her horror found herself imagining how his arms felt around her instead. Stupid Alice, why did she have to go and put these thoughts into her head?

She was startled out of her very uncomfortable thoughts by the door on the sunroom slamming and heavy footfalls headed their way. She opened her eyes and could just see the blurry outline of Remus Lupin standing the dazzling sun.

Remus' POV

"Er… Hey Lily I didn't know you were going to be here." He said, startled, while looking down at the sun kissed red head.

How James was not going out of his mind with Lily Evans running around in that little white bikini he had no idea. She was enough to make his own mouth run dry let alone James'.

Sirius chose that moment to run up and shake water all over both of them.

"Aggghhh, jeese, Black, you are like a dog, honestly." She yelled as she wiped the water from her face.

"Well, if you are already wet, I mean to say." He said through laughter while he grabbed her, threw her over his shoulder and ran to the pool with Lily kicking and screaming the whole way.

Remus walked closer and saw James in the pool with Alice clinging to his back, she herself was stunning in a little red piece of fabric. He reached his hand out to a spluttering Lily as she reached the side of the pool and pulled her out. He laughed and grabbed a towel for her as she glared at Sirius. She took the towel and leaned into Remus' shoulder.

"I am glad one of your group is civil." She growled as she started to towel dry her hair.

He looked nervously over at James to see how he was going to react to Lily using him as a support beam. Surprisingly James seemed to distracted with Alice to notice much about Lily. Or else he was faking it better than Remus ever knew he could.

"I swear you kids multiply everytime I leave the house!" A familiar voice said from behind him.

The young blonde turned to see who was talking. Frank Longbottom stood smiling.

"Frank! It has been a few years. How are you? Sorry about just dropping in. I thought Jamie was going to be here alone. I didn't realize there would be a houseful already." He said with a grin.

"Well, originally, I think it was just James and that little girlfriend of his over there. And then Black showed up half beat to death. And then this twitchy little firecracker popped in, and now you. I came after Sirius showed up. He was pretty bad off and my aunt didn't want to leave James in charge with it being so severe. I also think she may have been worried about those two in a house together with no one but Sirius Black for a chaperone." He laughed.

Remus glanced back at the three in the pool and laughed. Sirius was holding Alice against the wall while James tickled her silly and she screamed, begging to be released.

"Well no, Sirius would make the worst chaperone ever. But James and Alice are not dating. They haven't ever dated. He is a bit hung up on Lily here." Remus said with certainty as he glanced again between James and Alice. At least he wasn't dating her last he knew….

"Really? Hmmmm. Are you sure? They act awful comfortable with each other. If you two are hung up on each other why aren't you in there too?" Frank asked the blushing, dripping Lily.

"I think you heard him wrong. James is hung up on me, not the other way around. I would rather die alone than be with Potter." She replied and about jumped out of her skin when James' voice sounded right behind her.

"Don't worry Frank, she can die alone, I am so not hung up on her. And no, I am not dating Alice, although, she seems a bit taken by you mate." He said slapping Remus on the back and leaving a nice wet handprint on his shoulder blade.

"Heh, really? I can see why, anyone would prefer me over a scrawny git like you, little cousin." He replied before grabbing the 16 year old and wrestling him back over to throw him in the pool.