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Chapter 5:
The train ride home felt like it passed with no time at all. The Marauders, Frank and the girls all sat in the same compartment as all the others had been taken by the time they got to the train. For most of the trip, the marauders and frank slept while the girls non-stop talked. They were discussing their plans for the break, before their final year began.
"Please come stay at mine for a few days," Lily begged Alice and Marlene, "having you guys around will make things bearable with petunia. Plus my parents love you both, they have no issue with it."
"Yeah of course! We'll look after you. Anyway we have to go shopping! Plus it's Alice's birthday in a few weeks! We have to do something then!" Marlene was all for catching up with her best friends.
"You know," Alice began, "we should try and do something with these idiots," nodding her head towards the completely out of it boys.
"Umm why would we do that?" Lily asked. "We never have before,"
"Yeah but that was because we never got a long with them. Admit it. These last couple of weeks have been alright. And with your new changed attitude to James..." Alice trailed off.
"Really Al? I love you but... Oh whatever no matter what I say, you aren't going to listen to me,"
"Nope," both Marlene and Alice told her.
While the girls had been talking, James had woken up, but he remained slumped back in the chair with his eyes closed listening to them. He however could not stop the corners of his mouths lifting when Alice spoke about him and she got all defensive. He knew he had to find out the reason. Still smiling, he drifted back to sleep.
"WAKE UP!" a voice yelled next to James' head.
Opening his eyes, Marlene was standing over him.
"Get your lazy fat arse up James, we're nearly at Kings Cross!"
James groggily moved to position himself in an upright position. He realised he must have fallen back asleep after hearing the girls talk about him. Thinking about it still made him smile. The fact that Lily could finally be getting used to him made him feel great. It had taken him long enough.
"Leave me alone mar!" James heard Sirius complaining. All the rest were all sitting up now, except for Sirius.
"Sirius Black! I swear to god, don't make me hex you to oblivion!"
"Calm down Mar," James told her, "hey Padfoot I've got a couple of chocolate frogs here. Want them?"
"Food?! Hand 'em over!" Sirius shot up at the mention of food. The group all laughed at him, especially the disappointed look on his face when he realised there was no food for him.
"Oh I'm going to kill you prongs!" Sirius tackled James to the carriage floor. The others just watched with amusement. Lily's and Remus' eyes met, they both smiled at each other. Remus s shrugged saying what can I do? While Lily just rolled her eyes at the boys but the smiled remained.
When Remus saw this he thought that maybe there really was a chance Lily was coming around to all the Marauders and not just himself. Though he realised this new found friendship was going to be the cause of non stop talk from James the entire break.
The group getting off the train had been a slow process. With students reuniting with their families, the hold up of actually getting off the train increased. Together they moved to a corner away from people so they would be able to say their goodbyes before heading off.
Alice and Frank were the first to leave, they were heading to visit both set of parents together. Before Alice left, she gave Lily and Marlene a massive hug.
"Stay in contact guys. I swear, write everyday! If you don't I'm going to apparate to your houses and kidnap you so I hear every detail of what has been happening. And Lils, if your bitch of a sister gives you a hard time, just turn up at my doorstep I won't mind and neither will the family. We'll see each other soon guys."
Peter was next to follow, leaving shortly after Alice and Frank. He told the others that his parents would be waiting and wouldn't be impressed if he was too late.
"I should probably head off too," Lily told them. Turning to Marlene, she gave her best friend a hug.
"Don't worry Lils, we'll be there for you if things get too bad. You know that right?"
"Yeah of course I do. I'm really excited on seeing my parents. But my sister, not so much."
"Write to me when you need me. Or seriously just come visit."
"Shall do, bye Mar."
"Bye Lils."
"Um excuse me, but we want to say goodbye as well,"
Laughing, Lily looked up and saw Sirius standing right next to the girls waiting impatiently.
"Come here Lily-flower!"
Moving closer to him, Lily gave Sirius a hug.
"Have a good break Sirius. I would say stay out of trouble, but I know you too well to say that won't happen."
Laughing Sirius replied, "Thanks Lily-flower, but hey I'm always good! See you soon!"
Pulling away Lily said goodbye to Remus giving him a big hug telling him if he needs anything don't be afraid to write.
The last person that Lily had to say goodbye to was James Potter. She didn't want to be mean and not give him a goodbye hug since he had just watched her hug all his friends but she felt weird that she was about to give him a hug. Sure they had been getting along in the last couple of weeks at school. But hating and avoiding the guy for so long and then to all of a sudden be giving him a hug? It felt weird to her. She however remembered when he had helped her off the floor that day in the common room, and how close she had actually been to his body. Maybe this wouldn't be as bad as she thought it would be.
"Uhh, have a good holiday Potter," she said awkwardly as she reached up to put her arms around his neck for a hug. She felt him hesitate for a slight moment, but his arms wrapped around her waist softly pulling her in closer to him. Surprisingly, she did not object to this. Being wrapped in his arms felt comfortable to Lily. She could feel the heat radiating off him, and when she took a breath she was intoxicated by his scent.
Realising the hug was lasting longer than she expected it to Lily released her arms from around his neck.
"Thanks Evans, you too," James said grinning at her, his eyes sparkling.
Ignoring the looks of both astonishment and confusion from Remus, Sirius and Marlene, she said a final goodbye to all of them and picking up her trunk she apparated to her backyard. Straightening herself up, she walked towards her back door. Her heart was racing and she couldn't stop thinking about her arms around James' neck. Wait…What was she thinking? Shaking her head she tried to remove all thoughts of James from her mind. How his arms had felt wrapped around her waist and how he smelt. No, she told herself. She would not think about the arrogant toe-rag like that.
Walking through her backdoor, she called out "Mum? Dad? Petunia? I'm home!"
"Lily! In the kitchen!"
Hearing her mum's voice, she walked through her lounge room around the corner wall into her kitchen.
"Lily, WELCOME HOME!" Her mum pulled her into a tight hug.
"Mum…can't…breath…" Lily struggled to get out.
"Oops, sorry hun," her mum pulled away slightly, "so how has school been? What kind of stuff are you learning? How's Alice and Marlene? Anything interesting happening? Been on any dates?" Her mum asked question after question without taking a breath.
"Woah calm down Mum!" Lil exclaimed taking a step back, "school has been good. We have been learning heaps of different stuff. Charms is still my favourite. I've learnt this really handy spell for making sure people won't over hear me and my friends. Alice and Marlene are still the same, they are really looking forward to coming over and seeing you again. Nothing interesting and NO, NO DATES! You know its not like that!"
"Aww come on Lils! Any boys then?"
"Mum! No of course not!"
"Ohh there is! Tell me about him! Is he cute"
As her mum was asking her this, Lily couldn't help but not think about James. She knew that he was pretty decent looking, but she would never say that aloud just to allow his big head to increase.
At this time Lily's dad had walked in and joined the mother and daughter.
"Hazel, let Lils settle in before you interrogate her!" moving closer he gave his favourite daughter a hug.
"Thanks Dad! I've missed you!"
"Missed you too sweetheart" David Evans told his daughter.
David and Hazel Evans were the perfect match, they balanced each other out perfectly. Hazel was enthusiastic, talkative and always cheerful. She was the life of a gathering and was loved by everyone. Her straight blond hair fell to her shoulders and both her daughters were a few centimeters taller than her now. David was the opposite. He had a cool nature to himself and would prefer to sit in the corner and read a book. Lily had a mixture of both of her parents in her looks and her personality, but in the most part she was like her dad. Except for the red coloured hair, the long waves that made up her hair came from her dad's side. They were the one thing she absolutely loved about herself. A lot of her personality came from her dad too. Particularly her love of books. Lily was a book worm and would read absolutely everything. Her favourite was probably Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. It was here her desire to excel in her studies came from, as well as the fact that she was muggleborn and there were those who believed that she was not worth it. From her mum was the fire within her. The outgoingness when she was with her friends and those who knew her, and also the arguments she could start with people, particularly James Potter.
"So how have you guys been?" Lily asked her parents as she returned from putting her stuff in her room and headed into the kitchen to grab herself a cup of coffee. Coffee was Lily's absolute addiction. She couldn't live without it.
"Really good honey. Everything at home has pretty much been the exact same. Oh, Petunia has invited Vernon over tonight for dinner," Lily's mum told her.
"Wait what? Mum, why? She probably doesn't want to even see me!"
"Lily that's not true!"
"Yes it is."
Turning, Lily saw her sister standing at the top of the staircase looking down on her and her parents.
"Petunia, don't start…" Lily's dad started.
"No dad, let's hear what she wants to say. Go on Pet."
"Don't call me that, freak! I just wanted to get one thing straight with you and I'm glad mum and dad are here to hear me say it. Tonight you are normal. You better be polite to Vernon and if you do any of you freakish things tonight you can forget that I am your sister because I am going to want nothing to do with you."
"You know what fine, Petunia, but why in godric's name will I do anything involving magi-"
"Don't you dare say that word!"
"Magic! Why do you think I would do anything in front of him?! There is this thing called secrecy! I am not going to go out and tell everyone who I am! I haven't for how many years, WHY WOULD I START NOW?" Lily started telling at her sister.
"I DON'T CARE WHY YOU WOULD OR WOULDN'T! I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT AND I DON'T WANT VERNON TO KNOW ABOUT YOU!"
"OF COURSE YOU DON'T! WHAT HAVE YOU EVEN TOLD HIM? DOES HE EVEN KNOW THAT YOU HAVE A SISTER?!"
"OF COURSE HE DOES!"
"FINE, THEN WHAT DOES HE KNOW ABOUT ME?"
"JUST THAT YOU GO TO A BOARDING SCHOOL. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS! THERE WASN'T MUCH I WANTED TO TELL HIM ABOUT YOU!"
"THAT'S IT! GIRLS CALM DOWN!" Hazel yelled before her daughters could continue their fight. She had noticed that as the fight continued Lily had been getting extremely upset with tears forming in her eyes.
Lily couldn't take it any more. When here mum told her and Petunia to calm down, she ran up to her room slamming the door behind her. Lying on the bed, she put her face into her pillow and just screamed. When she had nothing left within her, she didn't get up. She physically couldn't. Instead she turned onto her side, curling into a ball and just cried.
She hated the fact that her and her sister were like this now. It never used to be. Before Hogwarts, before being friends with Sev, they had been inseparable. Now, they couldn't even stand to be in the same room together without yelling at one another, or getting into some argument.
Once the tears stopped coming, she remained lying on her bed. She had no energy or motivation to even want to get up. Yet she knew that she would have to soon as she would be expected downstairs for dinner to meet Vernon. When she heard the doorbell ring she waited about five minutes before heading downstairs.
When Lily left his arms, James was in absolute shock. When she first moved towards him, his whole body froze, surprised that she would even move that close willingly. He supposed though that she was just being polite, particularly since she hugged the rest of the group.
He watched her apparate away. Staring at the spot that she just disappeared from he thought about the last few moments with Lily Evan in front of him with her arms around his neck. Her hair, which he just loved on her, was so soft against his neck. But not only that, he knew the hug had lasted a bit longer than it probably would have usually. He wondered why that had been? He was finding that since the whole thing with Snivellus, that things between him and Lily were so much better, and even Marlene and Alice had commented on her change of attitude towards him.
"James?" feeling a soft slap across his face, James shook his head shaking all thoughts of Lily away. Looking across, he saw Marlene had moved right next to him.
"Uhh sorry," he told his friends.
"You okay there? Day dreaming about my best friend?"
"Yeah what was that about with Lily-flower? Was it me or did she seem like she was blushing when she apparated away?" Sirius commented.
"No," Remus joined in, "I saw it too."
"Ohh come on guys, leave Lils alone!" Marlene was telling them, even though she knew they were right.
James just stood and listened to his friends, but it was Marlene's tone when she was defending her best friend that made him want to ask what she knew.
"Mar, what do you know?" he asked her.
"I don't know what you are talking about,"
"Sure you don't. Mar we've known each other since forever. You can't lie to me."
"Sure I can."
"Uh no, you can't. So tell me. What is going on with Lily? I heard you and Alice talking about me with her when we were on the train."
"What? You were awake?! You weren't supposed to hear any of that!"
"Um obviously, but since I did…" James trailed off.
"As much as I would love to stay and listen to all of this, I must be off," Remus interrupted James and Marlene, in their one on one discussion.
"Huh," James looked away from Marlene, "of course Moony. Well have a good holiday, but remember, next week you're coming around to mine!"
"Of course Prongs," Remus said as he gave Marlene a hug and slapped Sirius on the back, "I'll see you guys soon," and he apparated away.
"So, Prongs you okay there?" Sirius turned to his best mate.
"Yeah of course I am,"
"Sure doesn't seem like it," Marlene told him with a knowing smile on her face, "seems like a certain best friend of mine has rendered you silent"
"Shut up Mar. Come on guys, let's just go back to mine."
The three of them apparated back to the Potter mansion arriving in the lounge room. Knowing exactly where his mum would be, James lead Marlene and Sirius into the kitchen.
Whenever James arrived home from school, he was always able to find his mum cooking a feast in the kitchen arguing with the house elves, who wanted to help her as much as possible.
"Hi mum! We're home!" James called out as he headed towards the kitchen. Just as expected, Linda Potter was busy moving around the kitchen with a tiny house elf following her around trying to help.
"My children! Welcome home! And you're all here! Perfect. Though I know your parents will want you home soon Marlene. But please stay for a bit."
Linda Potter was a tiny woman, yet a powerful witch. She was a strong willed person who would do anything for those she loved. Her family meant everything to her, and that included Sirius and Marlene who were pretty much her children. She had both auror and healer training but what she loved to do was cook, especially for her family and for any guests.
"Of course Linda! I can always stay here for a bit longer!" Marlene told her.
"So mumma potter, what's for dinner?" Sirius asked.
"Sirius, either mum or Linda is okay. Not mumma potter," she scolded him, though couldn't help but smile a little at his nickname for her, "and you just got in. I'm not telling you what's for dinner."
"Aww come on mumma potter! You know you love me!" Sirius complained but stopped talking when James slapped him across the back of his head.
"God shut up Padfoot."
James moved closer to his mum giving her a hug. She responded, reaching up giving her son a hug. She always missed James when he was away. Even Sirius. It felt great having someone else in the house, and since he moved in officially it would feel odd to not have Sirius in the house. Letting go of her son she moved around him so she could quickly give Marlene a hug and then wrap her other son into her arms.
"Welcome home Sirius."
"Thank you, mum," he said softy, for whenever the Potters called their home his home it always made him feel good. Like he actually belonged. He would always be grateful to them for bringing him into their house.
"Okay, off you go you three, I'm sure you have things to do. James, Sirius, I want you to unpack your trunks and make sure your rooms are clean! Jenni is not going to be cleaning up your rooms after you! Plus I need you out of here so I can continue cooking," Linda told the three teens, shooing them out of the kitchen.
"Okay, okay mum! We're going! When's dad going to be home?" James asked right from the kitchen entry.
"Soon I believe. He said he wanted to be home early to see you two,"
"Okay, well I'll leave you to it then," he said leaving the kitchen.
Both James and Sirius couldn't be bothered yet unpacking their stuff, so they along with Marlene decided that they would just sit in the lounge room that they had apparated into. The three didn't often get to talk as until recently, the three girls would often stay together and Lily, until recently, did whatever she could to stay away from James. As they sat there, they talked about many different things, from the year that passed to the articles in the daily prophet about the deaths of many people, particularly muggleborns and their family's. They then moved on to what their last year at Hogwarts would be like and who the heads would be.
"Moony will get head boy most likely. Out of all the guy prefects in our year, he is by far the best choice. All the others are either snobs, up themselves or complete douchebags," Sirius was saying.
Marlene nodded in agreement, "that's true. And Lils will without a doubt get head girl."
"But they haven't picked two people from the same house as heads in years," James commented, "you know the whole inter-house unity. Which in my opinion is a load of shit, because three out of the four are okay, its just the Slytherins."
"It'll be interesting no matter what who gets it. Plus they have the head common room to share," Marlene said.
"That would be absolutely awkward," James said
"Imagine if you didn't get along well with the other person" Sirius laughed, "so prongs, Lily-flower, huh?"
"What about Lily?" James asked his best mate, knowing exactly where this was going.
"I want details!" whined Sirius.
"There are no details!"
"Lies! All lies!"
"Leave him alone Sirius," Marlene decided to help James a bit, not really wanting to sit there and talk about her best friend.
"Yeah Padfoot, shut up."
"You two suck. There is obviously something more going on. I know for ages we've always joked but come on. It's different lately and there haven't been any arguments. Plus there was the hug! She never hugs you. Willingly!"
James thought about his hug with Lily. It wasn't going to leave his mind. He loved having his arms around her, maybe things would change between them. But maybe he was just being hopeful.
Laughing it off James said, "Yeah I know right? Maybe my amazing charms are finally getting to her,"
"Speak like that James and I'm pretty sure whatever is going through her mind will disappear in a heartbeat," Marlene commented, "that girl is my best friend and I love her to pieces. So I would really love if this newfound ability to be in the same room as you, willingly, remains. It has been awesome being about to spend time will all my friends together. And with that, I'm outta here. My parents will be expecting me home for dinner." Standing Marlene gave the boys a quick hug before heading to the kitchen to say goodbye to Linda.
Sirius watched his best mate after Marlene had left. James had gone silent again, and Sirius knew he was thinking about Lily-flower. There was something going on there, and Sirius really wanted to get to the bottom of it. Though he knew that if forced his friend things wouldn't go down well. Standing up he went to his room to do as Linda had asked him to do. Lying on his bed Sirius was listening to music when James walked in later in the day. James sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Padfoot, I don't know what to do," he started.
Sirius was shocked. He knew James would eventually talk to him, but didn't realised it would be so soon. But before he could reply, James continued, "I know you know I like her. But no one knows how much I really do. I hate that she hates me, that I'm just a big joke to her. I know she's acting differently towards me recently, but what if I'm just being hopeful?"
"Prongs, don't be like that. We've all seen how it's been between you two lately. She just needs to see the guy you really are. The one that looks out for all his friends. The one that is protective of those around him. You know this is true, Moony would agree with me."
"Yeah I know, I know, but I can't help it when I'm around her… Well at least until recently. That night she came into the Great Hall crying, and knowing it had been Snivellus, I walked away from you guys vowing I would be different."
"And you have! If you hadn't, she would be acting all nervous and shit around you!"
"You think she is?"
"Uh yes…In you presence lately dear Lily-flower has spoken to you, blushed and given you a hug willingly. That is definitely a change, considering how many years you guys have spent arguing and she turning you down. Is this why you haven't asked her out in a while?"
"Yeah pretty much. I finally figured that if I stopped asking that she might actually give me a chance."
"Smart move."
"Thanks," James replied dryly.
"You know you really have changed. In a good way too. You'll see Prongs, Lily-flower will come around.
"God I hope so."
A knock came at the door and after Sirius called out to come in, the door opened revealing the tiny house elf Jenni.
"Sirs, Misses has asked me to let you know that dinner is on the table now," the elf bowed her head.
"Thanks Jenni, we'll be right down," James told her.
Walking down to the dining room they found the table was covered in food. Yet again, Linda had out done her self. Sitting at the table was both of James' parents.
James was exactly like his father in both looks and mannerisms. The looks, the scruffy hair that would never flatten and the terrible eyesight therefore requiring glasses were all things James inherited from his father. The only difference was instead of blur eyes, James had hazel eyes which matched his mothers.
Nathaniel Potter was a well known auror, holding one of the higher positions in the ministry. Exactly like his wife, he worried about his family especially with what was happening out in the world at the moment. He knew that his sons were safe at Hogwarts but always worried about them. As they were his sons, he knew what trouble they and the other marauders could get up to.
Standing as he saw the outs enter the kitchen, "Welcome home boys," he said as he gave both a hug, patting them on the backs.
"Sit down and dig in," Linda told her boys.
"How were exams and the rest of the term?" Nathaniel asked them
Both boys had already begun stuffing their mouths with food, so in response they mumbled, "Yeah good."
"No talking with you mouths full!" Linda scolded the boys.
Swallowing quickly, James and Sirius apologized while Nathaniel just laughed at them, well until Linda cut him off with one of her looks. That caused the other two to laugh. Linda just smiled. She missed James and Sirius when they were at school and loved having her family together again.
After the laughter ceased, Nathan asked his sons, "So boys, what spectacular did you do at the final feast?"
Laughing Sirius commented, "Ahh Mr P, you know us so well!"
Rolling his eyes, Nathaniel urged one of them to continue.
"So," James began, "we made it so all the food on the tables transfigured into different animals. It was pretty fun, there was none of the same animal and even some of them payed attention to particular people. Like I have this awesome stag come up to me and Marlene had a unicorn in front of her. Though... It didn't really work how we planned it."
"Oh in what way?" Nathaniel asked curiously. He always loved hearing the pranks they did.
"Well, we had planned that the Slytherin table be covered in miniature snakes, spiders, dragons etcetera all the more dangerous and creepier animals. Instead their table was covered in maggots except for a few animals."
"hmm that's interesting. Well at least those creepy Slytherin's got what they deserve," Nathaniel told his son though he was lost in thought of what he was just told. He knew they practiced their magic before they performed it, so for it to not work like they had planned it surprised him.
The dinner that they had was brilliant. Sirius alone had at least three different helpings and James had gone back for seconds. When they were both full and decided to leave the table Nathaniel stopped them.
"Boys, these holidays, I'm going to be teaching you some offensive and defensive spells. I want and need you both to be prepared for anything."
"Sure of course dad."
With that they left to go find something to do, knowing there was no point to offer clean up as Jenni would be making sure she did it as she had been forced out of the kitchen all day.
When Lily walked downstairs she found her parents sitting in the lounge room with Petunia and a man that looked like a whale.
"Oh Lily there you are! I was just about to come and get you!" Hazel exclaimed as she spotted Lily, "Vernon, this is Lily, Petunia's younger sister. Lily this is Vernon Dursley," Lily's mum made the quickly introductions. While Lily politely smiled and said, "Hi there. Nice to meet you," she in return only got a nod and a gruff acknowledgement. Raising her eyebrow she moved to the sofa that no one was sitting in. Making herself comfortable she looked at her sister who was already glaring at her.
"Lily darling," her dad began, seeming slightly uncomfortable, "Petunia here was just telling us some wonderful news."
"Oh really?"
"Yes," Petunia cut in, "earlier today Vernon here proposed to me. And I said yes!" as she said this she held up her left hand displaying a large rock on her finger.
"Ah..wow...umm.. I guess congratulations are in order then," Lily said standing up and moving to give her sister a hug. She then offered to shake Vernon's hand, but he declined instead only nodding his head.
When Lily turned. She caught her father's eye and rolled her eyes. He smiled slightly back at her but didn't do anything else knowing he could easily be caught and some time of argument may form.
For the rest of the evening lily was in her own world. She knew she had to stay downstairs with her family or else they wouldn't be happy with her, but she had nothing to contribute to the conversation because Petunia and her mum were talking wedding details or Vernon was bragging about his position in some drill business. Zoning out of the conversation she thought about what she wanted to do over the holidays. The main thing was catching up with Alice and Marlene. She also really wanted to do some shopping in Diagon Alley. Her thoughts wandered to next year, her NEWTs, who would be head girl. She hoped it would be her. It was something she had wanted for years. Finally her thoughts landed on the last couple of weeks of the year and the new found friendship with the marauders. She had always gotten along with Remus, especially since they were prefects together and therefore would patrol together. During those times they would talk about everything and anything. They even had the pact that what is said on their patrols stays on their patrols.
But it wasn't just Remus she was thinking about now. Now there was Sirius, whom had always joked around with her; Peter, who wasn't as quiet as she always thought; then there was James. She had no idea what was going on with him. Lily knew that people could never change over night, it just simply never happened. Yet, in the last couple of weeks she had seen some type of change in the potter that would go around hexing people and find a million different ways to ask her out to a guy who hadn't asked her out, stopped hexing people, was polite and tried to have normal conversations with him. She was actually liking the new James she was seeing, but at the moment she was unable to get herself to say it out loud. Maybe when she meets up with her friends she would talk to them about it.
Lily? Is everything okay?" her mum asked her bringing her out of her thoughts.
"Of course mum."
"Hmm okay, you were quiet most of the evening and since Vernon left you've been quieter"
"Seriously, all is okay. I just didn't have a lot to contribute," she looked around before asking her mum, "Mum? Are you actually okay with Petunia marrying him?"
Hazel sighed, "Lils, I saw your reaction to him today and I've told you mine and your fathers opinion. But there is nothing that we can do about it. Honestly if she is happy then so am I. And I want you to take the same approach. Please."
Looking her mum in the eyes, knowing that her parents didn't like see their daughters fight, she agreed, "Sure mum,"
"Thank you sweetheart. You look like you're tired, head up to bed. But tomorrow I want to hear everything about school."
Heading into her room, Lily sat down at her desk. She put her head on her arms and just stared straight forward. She pulled out some parchment and started to write some letters
Dear Al,
I hope everything went really really well with both your parents and Frank's parents (especially his mum, from those stories I've heard!).
How are your parents? Say hi for me.
So my return to home was interesting. Remember all the things I told you that my parents told me about petunias boyfriend? Well it turns out all completely true. I met him tonight and I swear he was all of what my parents described and worse! And guess what? They got engaged! He's actually going to be in the family! Kill me now please?
I can't wait till we catch up! Shopping date in Diagon alley? You, me and Mar? And if you want Frank?
Talk soon!
Lils.
Lily put her quill down and reread her letter. She moved across to Peggie's caged and removed her to attach her letter. Moving to her window she told Peggie to take the letter to Alice. It would be when Peggie returned that she would write a letter to Marlene telling her the news. For now, Lily would sit on her bed and stare at the stars outside until she would eventually fall asleep.