Author's*Note-Okay, okay…I know that I should be working on the next chapter of Like A Fairy Tale. However, I've decided to take a little break from that story, but ONLY during spring break. I wanted to write a fun romance fic, and well, my characters in that story are too young for romance. So, basically, my plan is to complete this fic. quickly (possibly by the end of spring break?) and then continue with my other story. Sound good to everyone? Oh, and I'd like to add that I wrote this story last summer and I didn't have the plot for Like A Fairy Tale in my head then. Yet, when I did write Like A Fairy Tale, I used the characters that I had made up for this. However, I just want to let everyone know that this story has nothing to do with Like A Fairy Tale. The characters' names are the same, but some have different personalities and lead different lives. I think I've covered everything…so, on with the story…….
Chapter 1: James is a Real Knock-out
It all started during Lily's first spring break. During her 6th year at Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore had enlisted all the prefects to help him in making the school more memorable and exciting. He wanted his students to take pride in their school, and thought that an easy way to accomplish that goal was to appeal to every type of student that attended Hogwarts. Being a prefect herself, and what she thought of as good representation for the muggle population of Hogwarts, Lily had made it her official goal to acquaint Professor Dumbledore with some of the more teen-oriented muggle customs. Basically, that is what led to the recent initiation of spring break into the Hogwarts schedule.
However, for Lily, her accomplishment was only a tiny part of why she anticipated having the time of her life for the two weeks that made up Hogwarts's spring break. The major factor in that equation was that she would not be spending those aforementioned two weeks at home with her wretched sister, Petunia, and her "god, we can't wait to renew our membership at the country club" parents, Lori and Kyle. Instead, she'd be spending her first spring break with her 4 best friends and probably about 500 complete strangers. You see, one of Lily's closest friends, Jennifer Ryan, was a member of one of the most prestigious wizarding families in the world. Therefore, when Jenn's brother, Zach, got engaged to Heather Black, mostly everyone that the Ryan's cared about or thought of as important was invited to his engagement party. When was that engagement party scheduled? About two weeks before the wedding. How long would it last? Most likely the entire two weeks. When was this wedding going to take place? It was scheduled to happen on the last day of spring break. Naturally, Lily had every intention of spending her entire spring break at Zach's engagement bash. Everyone who was anyone would be there, so she was practically guaranteed a good time.
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It was an unusually hot and humid day that was crowned the first official one of spring break. Lily and her friends had spent the entirety of the previous night having a "girls only" bash in their common room, so she was pretty much satisfied with tanning peacefully on one of the many lounge chairs surrounding the Ryan's pool(A*N-Jenn's mom is muggle, so their house is a combination of both worlds). How did Lily arrive in such a paradise? Well, she didn't like crowds much, so she was content in avoiding the "packed to the max" atmosphere within Jenn's house. A busy Jenn had told her to socialize with the outside crowd for a little while, until her parents set her free from their cheek-pinching friends. Yet, she preferred the simple serenity that lazily lounging around a pool offered, over the endless suffocation that mingling with the swarms of strangers that were milling about all around her offered.
Personally, Lily didn't, at that moment, want to express any type of emotion at all. Her relationship with her boyfriend, Robbie, had landed her in such a state of emotional turmoil over the past couple of months, that she couldn't care less whether or not she expressed any type of emotions whatsoever toward anything within her spring break environment. Point blank, she was sick and tired of feeling. She loved Robbie, or at least she thought she did, but her relationship with him had forced her into social numbness. She was just tired of being hurt, confused, angry, and disappointed. There was no way that she'd let any of those emotions creep into her fun spring break mood. Thank God, Jenn hadn't invited Robbie, or any of his friends for that matter, to Zach's engagement party.
So, there, on that comfy lounge chair, Lily laid, her eyes closed and her mind at ease. That is, until someone collided forcefully with the back of her chair, sending her flying into the nearby pool.
Completely shocked by what had just happened, she sputtered and coughed a little before doing something that she hadn't done in a while. She lost herself in a fit of hysterical laughter. Lily was tired of being serious, and the situation she currently found herself in merited a bout of uncontrollable laughter.
When the giggles finally subsided, the only thought that she could form in her mind was, "Who the heck pushed me into the pool?"
To find the answer to her question, she tentatively looked up. Her bright green eyes were met by a pair of twinkling, ocean blue orbs. For a moment, she was completely mesmerized, but it didn't take long for her to snap out of it. Instead, she decided to get a better look at the mysterious person. Wavy jet black hair that stuck up in every direction, broad shoulders, perfectly tanned skin, and a muscular athletic body is what she saw. She once again stared in awe (something very uncommon for Lily) at the guy who had interrupted her serene mood. He looked slightly uncomfortable at her staring, and realizing that she was being just a tad dramatic, Lily shook her head and looked down at the crystalline blue water that she was wading in. Moments later, however, she found herself stumbling upon his gaze once again.
Breaking the silence, he held out his hand and introduced himself.
"Uh, hi. I'm James, James Potter, and um…I am…really sorry for, well, pushing you."
"Nice to, er, meet you. I'm Lily Evans." She clasped his hand, but, instead of shaking it, tugged at it and pulled him right into the pool along with her. She giggled as he shook himself off.
"What was that for?" He questioned.
"That, Mr. Potter, was well deserved, I believe." Lily said in her most serious tone, but while wearing her most playful smile.
"It was not!" He argued.
"Oh, it was, too!"
"No, it was not. Look at me, I'm soaking wet!"
"So am I!"
"Well, you're the one who was lying by the pool in the first place; you were obviously going to jump into it some time or another."
"Actually, I didn't plan on spending ANY time in the pool!"
"Well, neither did I!"
"Then why do you have a bathing suit on?!"
"Right back atcha, babe."
"Don't call me babe."
"Ok, hon."
"Don't call me that either!"
"Listen, Lily, I didn't mean to push you into the pool."
"Oh, sure you didn't."
"I'm serious!"
"No, you're not."
The bickering was finally interrupted by a hand being waved between the two.
"Made a new friend, J.?" Questioned a male voice from behind them. Lily turned around and found herself looking at Heather's brother, Sirius.
"Thanks to you, definitely not." James shot back.
In a sort of "apologetic" fashion, Sirius bent down and kissed Lily's hand before helping her out of the pool.
"There you go, M'lady…or should I say M'Lily? I didn't quite mean to get you all wet like that." Sirius bowed and grinned flirtatiously at her.
"You mean, this was YOUR fault?" Lily countered.
"Well, Jimmy here happened to ask me who you were. So I simply…er…. made it possible…for him to find out for himself." Sirius stated innocently, putting on his best mock puppy dog face.
Lily ignored Sirius's actions and focused on his words. She'd been yelling at James for something that was totally not his fault. Well, he should know better than to be best friends with Sirius Black, but she couldn't hold that against him.
She turned slightly red as she turned to face James, who was still in the pool. "Well, I guess I should've believed you. Need some help?" She held out her hand to him and, with Sirius's help, lifted him out of the pool.
"Don't worry about it, you had every right to be mad. It's been a pleasure meeting you, Lily." He smirked and swooped down to place a light kiss on her hand, just as Sirius had. Lily felt herself shiver slightly, but brushed off the feeling.
"I'll see you around." James released her hand and left to accompany Sirius in explaining to some girl how it wasn't his best friend, but instead "a sudden gust of wind" that had knocked him into Lily's chair.
Lily watched as the girl rolled her eyes at the boys and shook her head pointedly at Sirius. She leaned forward a bit to get a better look at the girl. She observed that the girl was very tan, with long, shiny dark brown hair and a light blue sundress on. Ah, thought Lily, Heather.
She then quickly leaned back when she saw Heather strolling toward her.
"Hey, Lil. I'm so sorry about my brother….he's…he's a lunatic…and an idiot." Heather added "idiot" as an after thought as she watched her brother spill his drink all over the girl next to him in the buffet line. His attempt to dab the napkin in one particular spot on the girl earned him a slap.
Heather sighed. "I told mom that I wanted to be an only child. Why didn't she listen? I truly am sorry, Lily."
"It's all right, Heather. I'm fine. At least I did something productive with my time. I made two new….friends." Her gaze was on James the whole time, involuntarily causing her to falter at the word "friends".
Heather followed Lily's gaze and chuckled softly.
"What?" Lily broke out of her thoughts and stared at the bride-to-be.
"You like him, don't you?" She gestured toward James.
"Oh, no….I mean, you know, I'm with Robbie." Lily explained matter-of- factly.
"Yeah, but….well, you know. It's spring break…anything could happen."
Author's*Note-I hoped you guys liked this story! Whaddaya think, should I continue this? PLEASE REVIEW….but, please, no flames..I'm on spring break, I really don't need them. For all you LAFT(Like a Fairy Tale) readers, remember-as soon as spring break is over, I'll have a new chapter up in that story! Next chapter should be up VERY soon, that is, if you want another chapter.