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ReCap: The end of Lily and James fifth year. All the students go swimming in the lake and James and Sirius steal Lily and her friend Bec's clothes. Lily gets angry with him in the dorms. She goes to the prefects' bathroom and is later joined by James, the Bloody Baron and Moaning Myrtle. He falls in. They end up kissing. This kiss is Lily's first kiss. She feels used and regrets it. The next morning James brings Lily to an empty classroom; he kisses her again and asks her out. She says NO because she hears some girls talking about James' ways.

The Boy Next Door!

The Evans' had lived next door to the Harrington's for eleven years. Their youngest children; Lily Evans and Scott Harrington; had been best of friends before Lily went off to Hogwarts. Their summers were spent together: splashing in Scott's pool, sleeping in Lily's cubbyhouse, eating ice-cream by the river and playing on the swings. Lily was now 15 and very beautiful; Scott was now 17 and very...male.

This summer Lily was to spend with her family and Scott was to stay with his. This summer was the first summer in 3 years where they would be home at the same time.

Lily walked slowly up the path leading to the front door. She looked at the familiar houses and surroundings. It was as if nothing had changed. Her eyes drifted on a certain window of a certain house: Scott's window.

"I wonder if he still remembers me?" she asked herself, staring harder at the window, almost wishing that her old best friend would poke his head out and say hi. "I wonder if he still thinks chocolate ice-cream is better than strawberry?"

She giggled quietly. Remembering the times of old. She turned her head and entered her home. Unaware of a certain old best friend making his way to the upstairs balcony that was adjacent to Lily's balcony.

"Sweetie lunch will be ready in a minute. Unpack as much as you can." announced Lily's mother. "Oh and honey." she paused and looked at her beautiful daughter. "It's nice to have you home."

Lily smiled; genuinely happy she had such a noisy and caring mother like Rose Evans. "It's nice being home."

She began putting her dirty clothes in a hamper; she made her way to the underwear which was to be placed in the hamper when she heard a thump on her balcony. She rushed to the door, dirty bra in her hand, and swiftly opened the door.

Scott was dusting off his hands and straightening out his clothes. He had jet black hair, beautiful crystal blue eyes and very sharp features. He was half Vietnamese, and a quarter English and French.

Forgetting the bra in her hand, Lily ran to Scott and gave him a big hug. Scott was not taken aback, he was use to Lily's abrupt actions, and lifted her up and began spinning her around.

"Shit." mumbled Scott. "You're heavy Lily. Haven't you heard of a diet that doesn't include stupid strawberry ice-cream...FATASS!"

Lily smiled and started pulling his hair. "You look fat too!"

Lily's mother walked into her room and saw the two friends 'catching up'. She smiled and cleared her throat. "Children, when you're ready, please join us for lunch."

"Hi Mrs Evans." greeted Scott. "How've you been? Oh I was kind of going to ask you a question later, but now's just as great." he paused and dropped Lily back on her feet. "I'm having a party tomorrow night and I was wondering if Lily and Petunia would be allowed to come?"

Mrs Evans had always trusted Scott and treated him as the son she never had. "I'm afraid only Lily will be able to attend. Petunia won't be getting back for four days. Now get your little bottoms down stairs."

"Are you sure he won't mind?" asked Bec. The two girls were getting ready in Lily's room for Scott's party. Bec would be spending the entire week at Lily's and next week Lily would be spending at Bec's.

"BEC. Re-Lax! Of course he won't mind. There's going to be like twenty billion people there."

"Fine. Just don't blame me when we get kicked out."

Lily laughed and looked at how great they looked. She was wearing tight, light blue, jeans; white flip flop; a pink singlet top with diamantes at the top and a pink and white headscarf. Bec was wearing a tight, short black boob tube dress, with a pink halter neck over the top and pink swirly point shoes.

Ten minutes later they were sitting with a group of Scott's friend, surrounded by over 100 people, and sipping some bourbon and coke.

Sirius and James were walking in a muggle street, wearing muggle clothes and searching for a muggle house, which housed a muggleborn.

Sirius began laughing at James and himself. "We look like fools! Try hard Muggles!"

James shushed him. He was snappy and fidgety all day, but as they got closer and closer to Lily's house he began to get even more snappy and fidgety. Anyway, James thought they actually looked quite nice.

James was wearing tan long shorts, white flip flops and a white Ralph Lauren polo top with a blue Ralph Lauren sweater over the top. Sirius was wearing jeans rolled up, black flip flops and a white t-shirt with a button up top over.

"Okay." James said firmly. "We'll go to her house. No. I'll go to her house. I'll ask to talk to her. No. I'll...I'll do something."

James stopped walking. "Padfoot. What's the address to her house again?"

Sirius began looking through his pockets. Moments later he pulled out a crumpled piece of paper. "18 Harford Crescent, Surrey."

They had reached their destination. They were standing in front of Lily's house now.

"Hey Prongs. You do realise that there's a party going on next door, she might be there." suggested Sirius, delicately, not wanting to get James all worked up. "Do you want to check it out or something?"

James took his eyes of Lily's house and looked next door. "I hope she's alright." he whispered. "Let's go to the party. I remember her talking about her best friend, Harry or something, ages ago. He's her next door neighbour and they grew up together and everything. She mentions his name every Halloween when they bring out the desserts."

Sirius gawked at him. "Obsessed." he coughed. James smiled to himself. He was kind of obsessed, but he preferred to be called attentive.

"Let's go Padfoot!"

Lily's world was now quite tipsy and very funny.

"Hey BECSY!" screamed Lily. "I have a secret. I kissed James Potter."

"Lils, it's not a secret. Number One everyone at school knows and you just yelled it out to the whole world." reminded Bec.

Lily stuck out her tongue to Bec and started talking to David, one of Scott's friends.

"Hey Davey baby baby!" cooed Lily. "I think I'm in love with Potter. I know it's not real full love and everything, but the puppy teenage kind of love in all those soap operas."

David smiled and patted Lily's head. "You're a strange little think aren't you." he paused and glanced sideways at Bec. "One minute you hate someone called James Potter, and now you're in love with him. Are you sure there's not two James Potter's?"

Lily grinned widely. "Nope there's just one" Lily stood up and started spinning around. "The Only One for Me!" she yelled.

She continued to spin, but toned down the volume. "Sometimes I just wish he'll visit me when I least expect it. Like when I'm walking in the park, I just wish he'll pop out of a bush and say 'Hey Evans', or I wish he'll turn up during one of my boring family occasions and get along with my entire family." She paused and looked towards the door. She swallowed hard and blinked furiously. "I wish he was right here, with me, right now!"

James and Sirius entered the party. It was full of sweaty dancing bodies. For anyone trying to find someone it would be impossible, but for James Potter trying to find Lily Evans it was easy. Through the crowds he made out her slim figure. She was spinning round and round.

"Padfoot. I found her."

He stared at her, and then in an instant, she stared at him.

"I found her." he whispered.