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Lily and Arabella's Hogwarts Life, Chapter one: The Beginning

"Mother?" Rose Evans looked up at her daughter. Rose's daughters didn't normally call her 'mother', only when she had formally visit, or if they asked of something important. This time it was important visitors placed in one of the Evans living rooms.
"Yes, Lily."
"I need to go to London, Mother. It's only about a month 'til I'm starting on my new boarding school." Rose smiled at her daughter, so like herself, and yet so very different.
"Sure Lily, we will go tomorrow, then?" The fifteen-year-old smiled at her mother and gracefully left the room.
"An adorable child." One of the visiting women said. Rose smiled at the retreating back of her daughter; "She is indeed."

Lily went back up to her room, smiling. She was very exited about her new school. She had originally been accepted to that school, but her mother and father had wanted her to go to a school closer to home. The school had been no challenge to her, being an exceptionally student, and she hoped that the new school would bring her more challenge. A friend from school, who also was the daughter of Lily's parents' best friends, would also transfer to the school located far up in Scotland somewhere. Lily's mother Rose and Arabella's, Lily's friend from school, mother were childhood friends and Lily's father and Arabella's father were actually cousins, making Lily and Arabella related.

Lily opened one of her gigantic wardrobes and leafed through the clothes. She eventually found some clothes for the next day and she placed them on a table in the corner of the room. She tossed herself down at her huge bed and grabbed the phone from its position on a bedside table. She plunged in the number of Arabella's private phone, and hoped for her best friend to be in hearing distance. After five rings her best friend answered in the other end.
"Hello Lila."
"Hi, I wondered if you and your mother would want to come with me and mum to London tomorrow?"
"Sure, I'll just check with mom." Faintly in the background Lily could hear Arabella's musical voice ring through the Figg mansion. After some phrases had been cast back and forth through the house Arabella turned her attention to Lily again.
"Sure we'll come. When you leaving?"
"Not sure, but mum will probably phone your mum after all these important women leave."
"You have some of them over to? My parents had someone over yesterday. There was this old man there who seemed obsessed with letting me know my hair is blond. Like I didn't know!" Arabella ranted on for a while before Lily broke in and asked if she would come over and swim in their pool for a while. Then Arabella said that instead of that Lily could come over to her and swim in their swimming pool and after a couple of lines like that Lily threw her aces on the table, and Arabella decided for Lily's pool. Lily's aces were a bunch of boys Lily and Arabella's age that lived very close to Lily, these weren't ordinary boys, these were HOT boys.

Lily placed the phone on her bedside table again and jumped out of her bed. She pulled open a drawer and drew out a two piece bathing suit. She removed her summer-dress and fastened the bikini. The bikini were forest green, a colour that really complimented her green eyes, and hugged her curves. She tied a white skirt around her tiny waist and grabbed a fluffy towel. She leaped down the stairs, three steps in one leap, and soon found herself outside the huge manor. For the Evans' lived in a mansion. So did everyone else in this area. The mansions varied in size and looks, but all of them were far above average, and the families living in them were 'filthy rich', as some would call them.

Soon Lily spotted Arabella on her bike, her golden hair flowing in the wind. The sun glinting in Arabella's hair reminded Lily of something and she ran into the house again. She came back out again with a pair of sunglasses she had placed on top of the little nose, and in front of her sparkling green eyes, which so many people complimented. Her red hair normally fell to her lower back, but was now tied up in a knot. Arabella stopped in front of Lily and jumped of her bike. Having cycled that road since they learned how to use a bicycle, this simple task didn't even bring a sweat to Lily and Arabella when they visited each other. Arabella placed her bike around a corner and the two friends went through the lovely gate through the hedge, passed several bushes and flower-beds, ran laughingly past a huge summerhouse before coming to the area where the swimming-pool was placed. Lily threw her towel on one of the chairs placed alongside the pool, as did Arabella. Lily hastily untied the skirt and Arabella pulled her sun-dress over her head revealing a bikini much like Lily's, only in blue, as Arabella's eyes. Arabella dived in, splashing Lily in the process. The laughter glinted in Arabella's eyes as her head broke the water surface; Lily dived in as well and plunged herself at Arabella. Arabella squealed and hurriedly swam towards the pool edge and safety, but Lily was to fast. Lily pushed Arabella's head back under the water and held her there for a second. Lily let her go and Arabella shot up gasping for air. Arabella was about to get her revenge when a loud cough from behind them broke her off. The girls turned around to find two teenage boys casually leaned over the six-seven feet high hedge. Lily smiled charmingly at the boys. They looked very alike, both having black hair, but one of them had blue eyes behind a pair of glasses that fitted him well and the other had mischievous glinting brown eyes.
"Anything you want boys?" Arabella asked sweetly. Those two were Lily's aces, and Arabella fancied the brown eyed.
"Well," the blue eyed said casually, dragging it out.
"We were thinking of joining you, considering that my little brother have got his friends over, and you two are clearly hotter than any of them." Lily smiled while watching Arabella redden in front of her.
"Please do." She said. The boys disappeared for a second then climbed over the hedge carefully with a towel each. They tossed the towels at a chair and dive-bombed the girls. They spent close to an hour in the pool before dragging four chairs into the shadows to escape the sun. One of the Evans Mansion maids brought them some lemonade, ice cream and a bowl of fruit. The blue eyed boy leaned back with a glass of lemonade in his hand.
"So, what are your names?" He asked. Arabella opened one eye and peeked over at him.
"Me Arabella." She said in known Tarzan stile.
"I'm Lily," Lily said.
"And you?"
"Black, Sirius Black." The brown eyed said bowing as gentleman like as he could while lying in a chair with a bowl of vanilla ice cream and chocolate toppings on his stomach.
"And this," he said while nodding at the other boy, "Is my servant, Mr. Johnson." The boy rolled his eyes.
"Don't you mind him. I'm James Potter."

They laid there for a while, casually tossed on some chairs, 'til a "James!" Were heard from the other side of the hedge.
"My little brother," James muttered.
"A royal pain in the butt." James and Sirius bid the girls goodbye and gallant jumped over the hedge, with the help of a chair. Lily picked up their towels and went over to the hedge. She stood there for about half a minute and then a "Uh, Lily?" were heard from the other side. Lily climbed up on the chair the boys had used to climb over. She held up their towels and asked in a sweet voice: "Is these what you are waiting for?" The boys nodded gratefully and she handed the towels to them. They thanked her and raced each other around a corner. Lily shook her head and smiled. She jumped down from the chair and before she knew what had happened to her Arabella had thrown herself at Lily and the pair of them had landed not so gracefully in the pool. They got up again and Lily tried to put an angry expression upon her face, but the laughing Arabella didn't see it, but when Arabella finally broke into hiccups, Lily allowed herself to laugh. They collected together their things and carried the board with the rests of the lemonade, ice cream and fruit into the huge kitchen where a maid took over. The teenagers noted that the dinner soon was ready and ran up to Lily's room to drop the things off there and change. The girls were exactly the same size, only Arabella was a bit lower, so She borrowed clothes from Lily, which they had always done. When the two girls entered the dining room and Lily noted that the visiting ladies finally had left. Her redheaded mother was greeting Lily's father, Zachary Evans, who had just returned from work. Lily ran over to her father and hugged him tight. If Lily had inherited her mothers red hair, she had surly inherited her fathers sparkling green eyes. Lily's parents greeted Arabella and the four seated, but did not start to eat.
"Alice." A maid stopped as she was leaving the room and went over to Lily's father.
"Would you get Petunia?"
"Of course, Mr. Evans." Some minutes later a grumpy looking girl with somewhat of a horse looking face entered the room. Where her sister Petunia's looks had come from in a family of beauty was a mystery to Lily. Petunias hair was a kind of dirty blond colour, and since Rose's family had for years been a family of redheaded and brown-headed members, and Zachary's family contained mainly of black-haired and brown-haired, Lily had no idea of where it had come from. If it hadn't been for the fact that Lily's mother actually had born Petunia, Lily would have thought her to be adopted. Petunia's eyes, though, were a bit closer to the family's eyes; she had blue eyes like their mother, only that Rose's eyes had a special spark in them. And Petunia couldn't really brag about her height either. Even though she was three years older that Lily, she could only provide with a height of five feet, four inches. Lily had already reached the height of five feet, six inches. But then, the Evans' family and Winter's family (Rose's family) had always been of the tallest; Zachary had reached the height of 6 feet, seven inches by the time he stopped growing, and Rose could show off with a height of six feet blank. But Petunia seemed to be untouched by the history of their family. When being a child, Lily had learned everything she could about her family history; Petunia could hardly remember her mother's maiden name. Petunia had never been of the brightest.

As Petunia finally seated herself the meal could start. Today they had dumpling; a Norwegian course made of, among other things, potatoes. It's served with boiled vegetables like carrot and also pig knuckle, sausages and syrup. After having finished of the delicious Norwegian course they had dessert, warm rhubarb soup with cream and sugar.

After excusing themselves Lily and Arabella went down to the stable and got out Lily's horse Azucena and Petunias horse Caballo. Both horses were a deep red almost brown colour. Petunia never rode her horse, and mostly Arabella rode him. Azucena and Caballo were twins, children of Rose and Zachary's horses Esmeralda and Zafiro.

The two girls brushed the horses out in the sunlight and saddled them. As they were mounting the horses, two familiar persons came running up the drive.
"Your horses?" James asked as he reached them.
"Azucena here is mine, but Caballo is my sisters horse." Lily said.
"You know how to ride a horse?" she asked them.
"Nope." Sirius said.
"But we would like to learn." James finished. Lily bit her lip.
"I can ask if we can ride mum and dad's horses. Wait here you two, Arabella watch them." Lily trusted Azucena in Arabella and the boy's hands and ran into the house. After explaining the situation to her parents, they were allowed to borrow the horses. She came out again and found Arabella rolling her eyes at something Sirius had said. Arabella helped Lily take out her parents' horses and then trusted a couple of brushes in the boy's hands. James looked questioningly at her and Sirius started slowly and nervously to brush Zafiro, Zachary's huge horse. After some time, and a lot of help, the two horses were brushed and saddled. Lily was going to ride Zafiro as she was the best rider, and Arabella was going to ride Azucena, as that horse was pretty wild. James was propped upon Caballo, who was a calm and nice horse, not as you would believe from his size. Sirius had been helped up on Esmeralda and looked nervously and longingly down at the ground. The four of them trotted slowly down the road 'til they came to a field. Lily dismounted Zafiro and opened the gate, she closed it when everyone had entered and mounted Zafiro again. Letting Sirius and James sit on the grassing Esmeralda and Caballo, Lily and Arabella showed different tricks with the horses. Eventually Sirius and James got the hang of it, and after being cast of ten to fifteen times they managed trot as well as gallop. They half managed to walk sideways, and dared to ride without saddle even!

After several hours they rode back to the stable and washed and brushed the horses, something that involved four very wet teenagers. When the four horses had been fed they got themselves some food in the kitchen. The four placed themselves in a living room and played several rounds of a card game no one knew the name of. The cards were divided into four heaps with the same amount of cards in. Then the four of them placed a card on the table face up, without looking at any of the cards in the heap, then, if anyone got the same card, they had to yell out the other person's animal sound. Before the game had started each one had chosen one animal sound. You can, for example, chose to have the sound of a hen, a frog, or even a ... what to call it... a horny stag (Sirius was very fond of this, as he could roar as high as his lung would allow him to). As it darkened outside Arabella, Sirius and James bid goodbye and left. Exhausted Lily trudged up the stairs to her bedroom. She pulled of her clothes and dumped herself down on the bed and promptly fell asleep.