But trust me on the sunscreen…
It was a sunny day in the middle of July and the entire Potter family were sat in their back garden enjoying a few hours of the heat. James was busy fighting with a particularly stubborn garden gnome and Lily was busy fighting with a particularly stubborn Harry.
"Just – ow – hold still." Lily caught Harry's pudgy little fist in her hand as he reached to tug on her earring again. Whilst he was preoccupied trying to regain control of his right hand, she dived in with her left and managed to smear a healthy handful of sun tan lotion into the skin of his leg.
He blinked at her in surprise.
Lily felt James settle beside her on the raggedy picnic blanket she had spread out on the lawn and she sighed happily. Resting Harry between the two of them, Lily reached for James hand and he twined their fingers together as he smiled at her. His glasses caught a flash of sunshine and she winced after being momentarily blinded.
"So who won? You or the gnome?"
"Me, of course." James preened unnecessarily and Lily laughed, choosing to pointedly ignore the deep scratches in his arms. Harry looked at her at the sound of her chuckle and she used the opportunity to dot his nose with the little remaining sun screen that was on her index finger. Harry wrinkled his nose and went cross eyed as he tried to see what she had done.
"You'll thank me for this one day when you're not a wrinkled old prune." Lily tapped her son's nose again and managed to steal a smile from him.
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