CH5

10 Years After the attack

"Lily, come on! The cab won't wait forever, but I will!" I laughed as I ran towards James. He is my best friend in the whole world. We got to know each other through the orphanage. They seemed to think we were siblings and never separated us. He was a little taller than me and had light brown hair. Our Skin tone and features made us look like relatives and the fact that we came into the orphanage together. He found me by a tree.

"Lily White, are you coming or not?" He laughed and ushered me to hurry.

"I'm coming, I'm coming." He opened the door for me and ushered me in.

The cab driver looked back at us "So where to?"

"The London eye please." James grinned.

"I told you I don't like heights." I punched him in the arm. The cab was already headed in that direction.

"Well I just though it would be cool, maybe you can come up with some more songs for our gigs." He leaned back in the seat and put his arm around me.

"Yeah songs about the fear of heights" I agreed sarcastically. I looked down and fiddled with my necklace. It was a crown locket. Inside was a picture of me and my mom. I missed her and home, I tried several times to get back, but I couldn't find the hole anymore. My thoughts stopped when I saw James starring at me. "What?"

"You haven't told me anything about that locket." I looked at him and shrugged. He grinned and kissed my temple. "Well, when ever you're ready to talk about it, I'll be here."

We walked towards the London eye our hands locked together. We were soon stopped my a group of four teen girls.

"Wow are you guys Lily and James?!" One girl squealed. We both nodded. They squealed again. "Can we have your autographs?" They shoved paper and pens at us. Soon tons of people were surrounding us taking pictures and asking for autographs.

James and I were side by side. He leaned over to my and whispered "The joys of being a celebrity." He smirked. I giggled and continued with the autograph I was signing.

An hour had passed and my hand was starting to cramp, yet the line seemed to be an endlessness of teens and their darn pens and papers. Why couldn't we have come up with a stamp with our signatures already on them?

"Hey James" he glanced over "G' time?" His wink told me yes. G time was our code for the guards. We finished taking a group photo with some girls when I quickly pulled out my cell phone and speed dialed 1.

"Hey G time." I hung up the phone and placed it back in my pocket. It was only 20 minutes later when a group of our body guards showed up.

"Alright, break it up!" A deep scratchy voice came from a large man in a black suit and sunglasses.

"Hey Greg!" We waved over at him. He tilted his sunglasses and winked.

"Alright lets not were out the pop stars before their big gig, am I right?!" The group of teens cheered. Greg strolled over to us and led us to a dark limo parked at the side of the curb.

"So much for the London eye." James sighed with a smile. I stole a glance and grinned. I watched the people pass by as we drove through the city. As we passed the ally where they filmed 'Diagon Ally' for Harry Potter, I thought I saw a large white rabbit. We passed to quickly for me to process the figure. I leaned forward in my seat and tried to look back.

"You ok?"

I spun around and saw James with a puzzled look. "What?"

"You kinda zoned out. I asked if you were ready for tonight's show and you didn't respond and then I asked 'you ok'." His palm moved up against my forehead. "Hmm-" I shoved it off.

"I'm fine. Thought I saw something, that's all." My necklace still hung around my neck and I placed my hand over it continuing my gaze out the window.