A/N: Sorry the last chapter was so short. This one will be longer! Also, sorry it took so long to update, I had a lot of work to do for school.
Chapter 4: The Summer Time (in 1977)
Walking down to the seaside cottage, Lily Marie Evans, and her three best friends chatted and laughed about their summers so far. Every year since first, the girls would spend one month with their parents and then (until 5th year) the rest of vacation at one of their homes. Once they got out of 5th year, their parents decided that the girls were old enough to be on their own after they spent one month with their families. So, the last year they did it, they went to Lily's beach house and loved it. They decided to come back this year again.
Once inside the house, the girls went to their rooms to unpack. There were four of them, including Lily. Their names were Alice Katie Spinner, Tara Cassie Greene, and Claudia Bellis Agostonia. Alice had a round face with hazel eyes, a button nose, pale skin, and wavy dark brown hair that fell to her shoulders. She was 5'6" with only a little baby fat around her stomach. Tara had crystal blue eyes, long blonde hair that fell to the middle of her back, lightly tanned skin, and plump lips that she used to her advantage with guys. She was 5'7 ½" and basically a female Sirius. Claudia had a natural Spanish beauty. She had tanned skin, dark, dark brown hair with natural auburn highlights that went to her elbows, brown eyes that looked more hazel when she cried, and stood at 5'5 ¾" (she prided herself in the ¾ an inch after the 5 inches.). Lily was different. She, like them all, was slender with her red hair falling at her natural waist. Her green eyes seemed to look into your soul and her pale skin showed off the few freckles that went across the bridge of her nose. She stood at 5'4", the shortest of the group, but she was definitely the hottest tempered and the unofficial leader of their group which they called Les Petites Fleurs (The Small Flowers). They had nicknames also. Lily became Holly because she had the gift of foresight, Alice became Buttercup because she was always cheerful, Tara became Lemon Verbena because guys always flocked around her, and Claudia became Violet because of her modesty and her ability to calm Lily when she is in a rage. The past year, they pranked the boys, and did a few pranks on the great hall. They were never caught and no one even thought it was them, not even Albus Dumbledore.
The girls decided to enjoy their free time away from the Marauders. The first week was spent tanning and swimming in the ocean. The next week was Alice's birthday, July 11, and then the following week was Claudia's birthday, July 16. Now that they were all 17 (lily's birthday was February 5 and Tara's birthday was April 22) they spent the rest of their vacation clubbing by night and sleeping by day.
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The boys were another story. After getting off the train, they would spend a week with their parent (or in Sirius' case, the whole summer until last year when he ran away) and doing homework. Then they would go to James' house. This year however, Peter had a family reunion in the Chez Republic (his mom's side of the family) and then in Bulgaria (his cousins on his dad's side). Over the years, the boys would spend their time flying on the Quidditch pitch in the back yard, swimming in the pond in the forest (which they used for Remus' transformation), and generally hanging out.
This year would be different. With peter not there, they would be one Marauder short. They would just have to make do without him (which wasn't so hard if you thought about it). This year Remus had spent a week doing homework and spending it with his family, while Peter got ready to go to the Chez Republic and James and Sirius goofed off, did homework, talked about girls (mainly Lily), and spent it with Mr. and Mrs. Potter. When a week was up, Remus came to James' house and Sirius' home while Peter took a portkey to the reunion place.
They spent the first month the three boys were there relaxing, talking about girls (once again Lily with a little bit of teasing Remus about Claudia), playing Quidditch, and bugging Mrs. Potter to make them chocolate chip cookies. They had a great time and Mrs. Potter even gave James a tip or two on how to win Lily's heart (being a red head herself and having gone through the same treatment that Lily was, she told James how his father got her). Overall their first month was a blast.
July arrived and they all decided to head down to Remus' beach house (with permission from the parents). They would arrive there July 9th (enough time for Remus to transform on the 4th and get better before they left) and leave to go home August 30. They needed time to get their schoolbooks and robes from Dagon Alley so two days before the start of term would be enough time they thought. Getting packed, they realized that they need to go shopping for new swimming trunks. They headed out to muggle London where they quickly found what they needed and left, but not after having money troubles (Remus had to pay because he had a better grip on the currency of muggles). Once they had everything packed, they waited for the full moon and had a fun romp before heeling their wounds and letting Remus rest.
July 9th came and went with the boys leaving Potter Manor and heading towards the apparation point. From there, the apparated into a forest, a mile down the road from the entrance to the beach. After thirteen minutes of walking (they are in really good shape), they arrived at the entrance and smiled at the sight before them. There, out on the beach, were Lily, Claudia, Tara, and Alice. James wanted to immediately go up to Lily but Sirius and Remus dragged him away before the girls could see them and ruin their chances of actually letting all seven of them enjoy their vacation, together. Arriving at the house, an old, white cottage with wild flowers in bloom, they unpacked got changed and decided to make lunch and hang out a little before going out onto the beach. Not that they were scared of what the girls would say. No, they just wanted to, prepare themselves, for the yelling that was inevitable.
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July 9th the girls woke up in a good mood. Actually, they woke up to Alice screaming 'TWO DAYS UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY!!!!'. But, other than that they were happy to get up and start the day, just not under that particular circumstance.
Getting up, they changed into their bikinis and headed downstairs to eat breakfast (Lily prepared pancakes with strawberries). After breakfast they headed outside to tan and play in the ocean. Lily wore a jade green tube top bikini with black string bikini bottoms; Alice wore a halter bikini, which was pink; Claudia wore a halter bikini too, with a skirt bikini bottom, the top was yellow with pink flowers and a small tie in the middle while the bottom was brown; Tara on the other hand (being the slut that she was- not necessarily a bad thing-) wore a Venetian red triangle top and an electric blue Brazilian tie side bottoms with a sparkly buckle on one side, showing off a lot of skin.
They spent the morning tanning and gossiping. Around ten, all of the girls except Claudia fell asleep while tanning. Claudia noticed this and started to read a magazine. Around eleven, and two magazines later, the girls were sill asleep so Claudia resorted being very Slytherin. As quietly as she could, Claudia got up and conjured three buckets using Lily's wand so she wouldn't get in trouble. Looking around and seeing no muggles, she went to the ocean, filled up the buckets and levitated them over to the other girls. Dumping them on the three girls, the wet girls screamed and ran after Claudia, efficiently starting a water fight. Sometime later, Claudia felt eyes on them. When she looked up, she could have sworn she saw Remus, James, and Sirius. However, she shrugged it off as nothing and went back to playing with her friends.
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In Scotland at an old castle called Hogwarts, the Headmaster and his guests along with Minerva McGonagall were eating lunch and discussing the upcoming school year and what was to be done.
"Albus, letting a Veela go to school here, what about her mate, what about the students, some may be more than a little upset over the fact that they can not stop them from fawning over Ms. Estelle. Also, have you girls decided on what your names are going to be?"
"Well, I'll remain Scarlet, I guess. Also, I could say that she is my niece, on her father's side since her mother is or was a Veela. Umm, Hermione, you should go by one of your middle names or you can go by Hermione, either way it won't matter because your parents are no longer in school" said Scarlet.
"Alright. I think I'll go by Hermione, so it is easier to get used to. However, we have to chose a middle and last name Scarlet."
"How about I am Scarlet Louisa and you can be …"
"Hermione Gabriella Isadora Eliza umm, I can't think of a last name."
"How about Grey" Albus suggested after a short period of time.
"Alright," said Scarlet, "Scarlet Louisa Grey and Hermione Gabriella Isadora Eliza Grey are coming to Hogwarts. What is it with you and long names?"
"Hey I resent that. Anyway, how are you going to be here?"
"I'll be the new DADA professor" Scarlet stated proudly.
"Oh. So that is what you and Albus were discussing earlier today. Well, congrats! I hope you go easy on me. The last two I had weren't very, hmm how shall I put this, nice."
They all laughed and finished up their meal in peace.