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Cruel Summer
The first half
of the summer went extremely fast to both James’ and Lily’s disapproval. Lily’s
mother had insisted on cleaning the house thoroughly against her daughters’
orders not to.
‘Lily, I’m not
having the first wizard to enter this house seeing it as a t!’
‘He’s not
royalty Mum!’ she had shouted at her Mother, but the decision was fixed.
Lily’s parents
were delighted with the fact that James was staying with them. They knew that
Lily was a witch, but this, they felt, would help them understand it a lot
better. James was a pureblood and knew nothing really about the muggle life that surrounded the wizarding
one. It would be a lesson for him as much as it would be for Lily’s parents.
The one member
of the family that despised the idea was Lily’s sister, Petunia. Both sisters
were completely opposite when it came to appearance and also mentalitly and values. Where Lily’s features were delicate,
exuding charm, Petunia’s seemed constantly distorted in a way of a bull-dog
chewing a lemon. This was most probably due to the fact that there was always
something that she had a problem with. The number one thing being that Lily was
a witch. They did not get along at all and it seemed that Petunia was also finding
it hard that her younger sister was having boys over before her.
‘You and that…that freak,’ Petunia had barked, ‘will not go near
my room or touch anything of mine! Do you understand?’
Lily rolled
her eyes, ‘No I don’t, but please tell me again because it was so captivating.’
Petunia boiled
as her sister walked away from her into her own room.
James would be
staying in the guest bedroom to the order of Lily’s Father. He had tried to
tell her the reason but she dodged the embarrassing talk quickly. The last
thing she needed was her Father assuming that there was something going on
between her and the biggest prat in the school.
Lily was glad
that James was staying in the guest bedroom as it was right next to Petunia’s
and she thought it was wonderful punishment for both of them. He had been expected
to arrive at the Evans household at 10 o’clock that morning but Lily
wasn’t that surprised when he didn’t turn up on time. She had tried to persuade
her Mother not to take it personally and that he would be here soon, but she
secretly hoped that he’d conveniently forgotten or something else just as
stupid.
It was just
gone 8 o’clock that night when there
was a series of knocks on the door.
Lily sighed,
‘Huh, that must be him, probably can’t figure out how to use the doorbell.’
Lily had
ordered her parents, and her nosing sister, to stay in the lounge and she
smiled at her Mother who was fidgeting nervously. Moving towards the front
door, Lily took a deep breath and reached for the handle.
*****************************
James apperated gracefully into the
alien street of the muggle housing estate. He looked around the
identical houses all in a row and frowned, ‘This is so weird.’
Lifting up his
wand he muttered a quick spell and the wand hovered in the air, awaiting its
next command. Shooting a last glance around the strange and unfamiliar
neighbourhood, he looked back at his wand.
‘Which one of
these things is Evans in?’
The wand just
floated in the air for a few seconds then span around to point its tip at a
large house in the corner of the street. James followed the direction with his
eyes and walked towards the gate of the white picket fence.
Stopping in
front of it he looked at the mechanism, he cringed, ‘Ok, Muggle
Studies. Think!’
James glanced
at the house and imagined her laughing at him, just because he couldn’t open a
stupid gate. Looking around and acknowledging there was no one about, he apperated to the front door.
‘Oh no,’ he
mumbled, looking at the doorbell as if it were the enemy, ‘What the hell is
that?’
Ignoring it
and swallowing, he rapped on the door 8 times; like it said to do on the piece
of paper that Dumbledore had given him. James paused and looked around the
front garden.
****************************
Lily opened
the front door and looked at the scruffy haired boy who was looking dubiously
at her Mother’s garden gnomes, wand poised.
‘James!’
‘Yeah,’ he
yelped, looking at her and continuing in a hushed voice, ‘does that man always
smile? It’s weird!’
Lily rolled
her eyes and bent down to pick up the ceramic ornament, holding it in front of
him, ‘It’s a gnome…it’s not real ok?’
James frowned
at her as if she was an idiot and she rapped her knuckles over its artificial
hat for emphasis.
‘Never mind,’
she sighed, putting it back on the grass, ‘you don’t have to curse it though.’
‘Lily!’ her
Mother trilled from the lounge.
James’ head
snapped to the sound, ‘Who’s that?’
‘My Mother,
she wants to meet you. Don’t know why.’
‘Funny,’ he
replied sarcastically.
‘Oh shut up,’
she spat, glaring at him, ‘what was with all the knocking as well?’
James frowned
as Lily shut the front door behind him and he walked into the hall.
‘I knocked the
amount of times it said,’ he told her, holding up the parchment.
‘What?’
It was Lily’s
turn to frown as she looked at the piece of paper that he was holding. She
looked back at him as if he was a complete and utter moron.
‘James,’ she
said flatly, ‘that’s the house number.’
Lily was so
annoyed with having him staying with her, that she failed to see the humour of
his mistake. But seeing the blush that crept over his usually arrogant face did
make her feel better.
‘Why are you
so late?’ she asked, stopping by the lounge door.
‘I can’t tell
stupid muggle time ok!’
Lily
restrained a laugh and opened the door, ushering him through it.
‘James!’
Lily’s Mother smiled, standing up from the sofa and walking to him, ‘Come in
dear.’
Lily’s Dad
followed his wife to welcome the young wizard into their home, greeting him
though he was a spectacular being.
‘Okay!’ Lily
interjected, quickly grabbing James’ cloak, ‘We’ll be going now.’
‘Hold on Lil’,’ her Mother exclaimed, ‘the boy’s just got here.’
The little
mutters and coughs from Petunia’s direction were getting louder and louder
until when she coughed again, Lily snapped.
‘You should
really get some cough medicine Petunia… otherwise you could end up loosing your
voice.’
The promise in
Lily’s statement caused Petunia to shut up quickly.
James looked
at the lanky girl sitting on the sofa, watching…
‘Merlin,
what’s that?’
‘It’s a
television, you idiot,’ Lily snapped at him harshly, ‘don’t you do Muggle Studies?’
‘Lily!’ her
Father scolded.
James looked
at Lily who was now blushing and a smirk gracing his features quickly that only
she caught sight of.
‘Don’t be so
hard on the boy,’ her Father continued, ‘he doesn’t know about our ways.’
Lily looked at
the floor as her parents inspected the foreign being in front of them. She
would have liked nothing more to seize the idiot and chuck him out of her
house, away from her family…but she knew this would be…frowned…upon by a lot of
people.
‘I’ll help him
unpack,’ she said through gritted teeth, grabbing him and pushing him back into
the hall and up the stairs.
*****************************
‘Naughty Lily,
do what Daddy tells you,’ James snickered as Lily pushed him up the stairs.
‘Shut up
James!’
Lily moved in
front of him and walked towards the end of the landing. She stopped in front of
the guest bedroom and opened the door, walking inside. James followed her
inside and looked around his new space. The bedroom was quite girly with plush
cream curtains, carpets and bed covers. Without giving time for Lily to speak,
James reached for his wand and transformed the room to more of his liking.
‘Much better,’
he grinned, looking at her.
Lily just
looked at him, she knew he wanted to piss her off and unfortunately it was
working.
She folded her
arms, ‘I. Hate. You. So.
Much.’
James
shrugged, smiling impishly ‘Wouldn’t want it any other way babe.’
Lily fell
silent as James removed a tiny box from his robes and placed it on the old
writing desk that sat by the wall. She watched in curiosity as he transfigured
it back into a black trunk.
‘Show off,’
she remarked.
‘Oh really?’ James answered sarcastically, ‘And here I was, certain
that that little stunt would make you pine for me.’
Lily flushed
at his comment and all hopes for a witty comeback were dashed quickly.
‘Yeah, you
wish,’ she said, mentally kicking herself at how lame that was.
James didn’t
seem to actually be paying attention to her as he opened the trunk and started
removing his clothes and other items.
Realising she
was still behind him after a few moments, he turned around to face her, ‘Are
you going to stand there and watch me unpack everything?’
Lily didn’t
answer him though; she was looking at the clothes he had brought with him.
‘Have you just
brought robes?’
‘Yeah.’
‘I live in a muggle community,’ she said looking at him, ‘you have no muggle clothing?’
James wrinkled
his face with distaste, ‘Why would I bring muggle
clothes? Should I have?’
‘Well, yes
actually!’
‘Why’s that?’
‘For the
reason I just said!’
James sighed
again, collapsed onto the bed and laid down suggestively; causing Lily to feel
uneasy. He watched her squirm and he grinned, ‘Like what you see
Lily-kins?’
Lily glared at
him defiantly and he sat up, his eyes still twinkling with amusement.
‘The bathroom
is opposite my room, down the hall.’ she said slowly, ‘I suggest you don’t go
into Petunias room, but definitely, definitely do not come into mine.’
With that, Lily walked
straight from the room, causing James to snigger and flop back on the bed.
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