Thank you for the reviews we are already in the 80's!

That is awesome!

So this one is probably not going to ease the Lily/James I need to know what happens mood…Sorry about that…

This is just random tid bits of Summertime with our favorite foursome.

There are some runons in here as James gets carried away with his thoughts.

This is pretty much a filler to get to the next chapter.

I hate the summer chapters I get so bored without Hogwarts to play in..

Chapter 23

Summer Girls, Summer Fun

The train ride seemed faster than ever this summer as they made their way back towards London. This year all four boys were staying at Potter Manor with James' parents. James' was thrilled to have the company and the distraction and the other three were just happy not to have to deal with their own families.

Getting off of the train James watched solemnly as Lily walked over and hugged her mum. She waved to Remus who waived back with a small smile.

"You aren't supposed to be friendly with her" Sirius muttered darkly.

James sighed as he continued forward, eyes downcast.

"James doesn't care that Lily and I are friendly to one another. He never did before and he doesn't now." Remus said airily glancing over to see James' reaction.

He shrugged slightly.

"She can be friends with whomever she chooses. She obviously wants friends, she should have them. I don't care, I am nobody to her."

"James." Remus chastised.

Sirius tutted him and Peter hit him lightly in the back of the head.

"If you were nobody than she wouldn't have wanted to be your friend, she wouldn't have been shagging you, she wouldn't have been crying when you told her you wouldn't be her friend, and she certainly wouldn't have the complimentary patronus to yours. You are such a prat I swear." Sirius said in irritation, stopping when he saw the little dark haired witch running towards them.

It took seconds for Mrs. Potter to reach her boys and she gripped James tightly in a hug, though he was head and shoulders taller than her now.

"Hey Mum." James said before allowing her to kiss his cheek.

He looked up and smiled as his father walked up to the group.

He pulled Sirius into a quick hug before freeing James from his mother, who turned her sights on Sirius. Once Sirius was loose from Madeline Potter's arms she glared at both dark headed boys and held out her hands.

"Mum, we are of age." James protested meekly.

She pursed her lips and jerked her hand indicating that she was serious.

James sighed and reluctantly put his hand into his back pocket, Sirius had already placed his wand in her hand the first time she requested it. Taking James' wand firmly in her grasp she turned to Pete and Remus.

"Now I know that I have no right to discipline the two of you. But if you let either of them touch your wands I will take them too, do you understand."

Remus and Peter both gulped and nodded their heads fervently agreeing that they would not help James and Sirius get into trouble.

Later that night all of the boys were settled into their rooms, James and Sirius in their adjoining rooms and Pete and Remus across the hall in two guest suits. They were all in James' room messing about with his mounds of stuff.

"You are such a spoiled prat." Remus said as he fiddled with the sterling silver gobstones James had laying in a crystal bowl on his shelf.

"Thanks mate, that is so sweet of you." James said dryly.

"You really are, I mean who has a working solar system encased in crystal floating at their ceiling?" Pete said looking up at the stars twinkling in awe.

"Sirius, here and at Grimmuld Place." James replied as Sirius shuffled his feet and blushed.

"Point made. Spoiled Prats, the both of you." Remus muttered.

"Yeah, well, you couldn't survive without us." Sirius said defensively.

"Oi, you are right, whatever would we do without 57 detentions in one year?" Pete said in a woeful voice, causing Remus to laugh uncontrollably and James to chuck a pillow at his head.

Pete tried to dodge but James was a chaser and captain after all and it was true to mark, he fell off the spinning desk chair and landed with a fwump onto the carpeted floor.

"Do you think that is why she won't date me?" James mused, seemingly out of nowhere.

The three boys were stunned as this was the first he had talked about this willingly.

"What do yu mean?" Sirius said slowly.

"Do I act like a spoiled prat? I mean, I know I have stuff, a lot of it. I know she knows that, she has stayed at my house for Merlin's sake. Do I act stuck up, is she embarrassed to be my girlfriend because I am a spoiled rich kid?"

"You aren't a spoiled rich kid!" Pete said defensively.

"Pete, you just said I was." James reminded him.

Peter closed his mouth pressing it into a straight line. Sirius scowled at both he and Remus.

"Yes, you are a spoiled rich kid. Both of you are. But you don't act like it, at least not a lot. You are both pig headed and stubborn and yes when it comes to some things you can be a bit cocky…But you are also kind and brave. You are loyal and honest. Sirius you are always yourself, no matter who tries to change you, you are true to what you believe. James you are compassionate and giving. Most spoiled rich boys can't say that about themselves. You may be spoiled rotten but you are good guys. Lily knows that, James. It has nothing to do with your money." Remus said softly.

"Well then why?" James said softly.

Remus smiled at him in pity, not knowing how to answer that question.

"Awe Remmy, I didn't know how much you loved us!" Sirius squealed like a girl before leaping from James' bed onto him, pinning him to the floor.

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REMUS POV

It was hot, really hot. July had turned into a scorching month and James' parents had decided that the best way to deal with the heat was to head to the Canary island beach house for the month. After notifying Mr. Lupin and the Pettigrews that they were going out of the country, they took all four boys with them.

Today James and Sirius were sitting astride their surf boards, the very same that they used on the stairs at Hogwarts, talking to a group of girls who were floating around on their own boards a little ways off the coast. Pete was messing around on a skim board on shore as Remus walked along beside him chatting along the way. Pete tipped a bit and as Remus put his hand out to stop his fall he ran into someone.

"Oh, shit." He said as he was shoved sideways by a falling, flailing Peter, and he grabbed hold of the only thing he could reach. Which happened to be a very pretty blonde, in a pink bathing suit.

They landed in a pile on the sand, with Remus unfortunately on the bottom gripping the poor girl's shoulders and Pete laying on top of both of them.

"Sorry." Pete mumbled, flustered around the girl as always.

"S' alright, just get off." Remus said, his voice muffled by the unknown girl's hair.

He felt Peter's weight lift so he sat up, sitting the girl up with him, she ended up in his lap, both of them blushing to the very roots of their hair. She stood quickly and he followed suit, both of them brushing the sand of their selves.

"I am so so sorry, I didn't mean to grab you like that." Remus said, his face was pinker than her swim suit.

"No, it's ok, your friend was falling, I understand. I'm alright. Are you? We all landed on you after all." She said quickly, trying to discreetly adjust her suit.

"Yeah I'm fine, really. Pete was up quick and, well you don't weigh much at all." He muttered, turning redder.

"Oh, right, well I'm glad you are alright." She held out her hand "I'm Gabriella." She said timidly.

He smiled and wiped his hands on his shorts.

"Hi, I'm Remus. Nice to meet you, bump into you, knock you over…Well whatever I did anyways it was nice to do it." He was so nervous he even pushed his hand through his hair giving it James' signature fly away look.

His face was so red now that even Pete couldn't stifle his laugh and he walked away from the pair shaking his head.

"Do you, uhm, want to go get a smoothie, or ice cream or something? It's the least I can do for bowling you over like that." He said nervously.

"Sure. I'd like that." She said with a grin.

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James POV

They were paddling to shore, it was harder than normal as he and Sirius each had a bathingsuit clad girl on their boards clinging to their backs.

"Is it just me, or is Remmy, walking away with a girl?" Sirius said in awe, watching their normally shy friend walking down the beach talking with a blonde girl.

"He is, and a hot girl from the looks of it…" James said, astounded.

"Hey." The girl on James' board protested.

"Don't worry about it babe. There are more than just one hot girl on the waves today. You happen to be two of them." Sirius replied coolly, obviously thinking he was giving a compliment.

"We just happen to be two of them? It was that random?" the girl holding to his waist said haughtily.

"Well, yeah…" Sirius replied as James shook his head, knowing this wasn't heading anywhere good.

"And you expect us to stay with you after that?" the brunette with James asked.

Sirius shrugged.

"I mean, you can, Well you can stay with Jamie, I however have to go talk to my girlfriend in 20 minutes so, you can hang out for a bit and we can catch up later."

James couldn't help it, he burst into laughter, tipping his board sideways.

When they finally made it to shore both girls stomped off without looking back, James was still doubled over.

"What was wrong with them?" Sirius asked, confused.

"Mate, I dunno how you ever managed to talk Soaryn into dating you, or any of the others into broom closets but please, for your sake, don't let her go." James weazed out in between chuckles.

"Whatever, lets go catch up to Rem, and see where he is headed to, where do you think Pete is?" Sirius said looking around for their missing friend.

James shrugged and ran off after Remus.

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"And his face was so red I thought he had attempted a color change charm" Peter cackled as he laid on Sirius' bed in his and James' shared room at the beach house.

Remus was indeed a bright shade of red in that moment, he did not look thrilled at the retelling of the tale.

"Look it was no big deal." He muttered before glaring at the three boys that were all laughing like lunatics.

"Rem, by the time we had caught up with you, you were still pink, you never get embarrassed. She was smoking hot by the way." Sirius said with a grin.

"She really was." Remus replied softly, shaking his head as he walked out the door, across the hall into his and Peter's shared room.

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James POV

James was sitting against his surf board that was propped up in the sand, he had a muggle soda pop in one hand and was playing with a strand of brunette hair with his other. He smiled contentedly at Remus who was sitting under an umbrella with Gabi, they had met up everyday so far, and Gabi had brought her little sister Greyson with her to visit a week ago. Gracie was 16 and everything that James was looking for in a girl right now. She was flighty, and silly and fun, she was not interested in a relationship, she liked to snog, though that was all they had done, she was rebellious and preferred getting in trouble to have fun instead of listening and being bored, her rebellion also reached into her swimming wear and her shorts…They were much shorter than was considered proper. She was from America, here for her summer break so she knew they were nothing serious. And best of all, she was bloody gorgeous.

Today Sirius was trying to teach Pete how to surf, it wasn't going well, and he and Remus were hanging out on the beach.

"How can they read during the summer? They are insane." She said, flipping her hair over the shoulder farthest from James, causing his hand to fall onto her shoulder.

"Hmmmm? Oh, Remmy and Gabi? I dunno, I can't even read during term let alone on breaks. We should find something better to do." James said tracing her swimsuit strap reveling in the feel of her sun kissed skin.

She giggled happily and leaned back onto her elbows.

"Do we need to go somewhere more private or will here be just fine? I like the sand" she said softly.

He grinned as he stood and pulled her to her feet.

"Private I think….But I bet we can find a deserted stretch of beach somewhere." He replied. "Moony, meet you guys back at the pier in an hour…No…two hours."

Remus nodded and sighed. He thought that James was using Gracie as a rebound…Which he was, she knew it and didn't mind one bit. As she had told her sister, have you seen him? I am not saying no to that.

James smiled as he conveniently found a little stretch of beach that seemed completely private. He fingered Pete's wand that was in his pocket and thanked Merlin for his parents absence this morning. Gracie sat down on the sand closest to the ebb and flow of the water. It splashed up around her hips and ran over her legs, James sat behind her pulling her against his bare chest and letting his legs lay to either side of her hips.

"You leave in three days?" she asked softly.

"Yup, we go back to London. Our school lists arrive and we have to do some shopping. Remus is likely going to get head boy so he will be incorrigible…That will take some pranking to squash." James muttered.

"Head boy?" Gracie said, another English term having thrown her off.

"Yeah, like uhm, he has the best grades and is in charge of the other students, kind of like uhm…well there are students that have more power than normal they patrol and stuff, the head boy and head girl have to be in the highest grade and they are in charge of all the others." James said lamely, not sure how to explain.

"Like…Student government?" she said confused.

"Yeah, I guess. But Remus is sure to get it."

"Oh so he has the highest grades in your school?"

"Erm well no…"

"Oh? So the head girl does, so Remus has the highest grades for the boys?"

"Well no, not exactly." He replied, pushing his hair from his face.

"Oh well, then who does…I am confused." She mumbled

He laughed and ran his fingers through her hair.

"Well, Sirius and I are a pretty even tie for highest grades. Remus and Lily, Lily is who will likely get head girl, they are both right behind us but we have higher grades in Transfiguration than either of them. But no one in their right mind would give me or Sirius head boy, I mean we might would blow up the entire castle." James rambled.

"Transfigurwhat? And what castle?" she said.

James blanched at his error.