B/A/N- Well.  We’ve come a long way, haven’t we?  Now we’re almost in fifth year with our wonderful cast of characters…*sniffle sniffle*. I hate getting all sentimental! Lol, we’ve still got…*counts on fingers* about seven years left to account for!!

 

 

Chappie 31- Midsummer Night’s Dream (Part I)

           

“So, Lil, what do you want to do now?” James asked, rolling over on his bed.  Lily looked down at him, stifling a giggle at how much he looked like a dog, and replied, “I dunno.”

Lily and James had been at James’ house for a week, exploring passages, writing notes to their friends, having people over, and hanging out with his parents.  It had been, just in this one week, the best summer of Lily’s life.  No Petunia, no rules, no bloody bedtime… it was heaven. The Potters were so nice to Lily; Lily just loved them so much!  They were like her second family, and she felt so comfortable in their house.

James looked at her intently, “What are you thinking about?”

Lily looked down at her boyfriend, as he jogged her out of her thoughts again.  Lily had actually been thinking about something she didn’t want James to know about.   She had been thinking of Emilia.  Emilia Potter was always busy these days, always off with her husband, on his arm for good show.  Lily had not gotten to talk to her any more about the premonitions or life in general.  She missed Emilia’s input…Mrs. Potter always knew what Lily should do, and could always understand what Lily was going through.  Lily desperately wanted to tell her own mother of her problems, but she knew her mother would not know what to do.  Her mother might do something terribly rash, and withdraw Lily from Hogwarts altogether, or make her break up with James…and she didn’t think she could handle something like that.  So Lily settled for thinking about them every once in awhile to herself, her usually peaceful demeanor disturbed by mysterious memories of the future.

“Nothing,” she said, twirling her hair idly around her index finger.  “What are you thinking about?”

“I was just thinking about visiting the house-elves and little Lily.”

Lily’s eyes lit up, “Oh, yes! Let’s go, I haven’t gotten to see her since I came here!!”

James laughed, “Alright, alright…let me get my slippers on…”

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“Miss Lily! You’ves comes to visits little Lily!” squeaked the overjoyed house-elf.

Lily smiled down at well, Lily, and replied, “Yup.  I wanted to see how you were doing!”

“I’s justs fine, miss, how is you?”

“Well, alright….tired, but okay.  Hey, do you think you might have any more of those amazing éclairs from last night?”

“Oh, well,” said the house-elf with a twinkle in her eye, “I’s thinks I might manage up somes for my twos favorites wizards!” The house-elf smiled, and scurried off to the back of the kitchens.

James smiled at her, “You seem to get along quite well here!”

Lily laughed, “Yeah, I do, don’t I?”

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A week later, James and Lily decided it was time for a midsummer party.  They, as usual, were arguing.  This time it was about the theme.

Lily’s eyes flashed a dark forest green, as they usually did when she was angry, and she said, “I want flowers!”

James laughed, and said, “I want Shakespeare!”

Lily’s brow furrowed.  What was he talking about? Honestly.  She’s talking about flowers, and he’s talking about…oh.

Lily laughed, “Oh. You’re so right on this one! Midsummer Night’s Dream!”

James laughed, “Now you’re getting it! We can have Siri and Emie bring their owls, too, then we can have the whole cast- Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius!”

Lily nodded, and then her smile faded.  “But Siri and Emie will kill us! They just broke up, they won’t want to go to a party together!”

James nodded at this, but then the familiar glint returned to his eyes.  “What if…they didn’t know it was the other one? They wouldn’t kill us, because they wouldn’t know!”

Lily laughed, “Oh, that’s genius! A costume party! Everyone has to wear a mask!”

James nodded again (he was beginning to look like a bobble-head doll), “This should be fun.”

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B/A/N- That was a quick transitional chapter…just to let you know what’ll be going on next chappie. Hope you guys liked it!