Cruel Summer
`Oi, Lil!'
Lily opened one eye towards her house and watched James and…Sirius walking towards her. She sighed in exasperation and closed them again, hoping that they would go away. Sadly she was wrong. She didn't know why Sirius was here but she knew it would be nothing good and could tell that the reason they wanted to talk to her, would cost her some thing.
`Probably blood,' she thought to herself as they both towered over her.
`Evans?'
Lily moved her hand up to cover her eyes from the sun, and squinted at them, `What?'
James looked at Sirius, who was looking at the barely-clothed girl in front of him, and then turned back to her.
`I'm going out tonight.'
Lily's face hardened at the thought of being woken again at 4 o'clock in the morning, `Where exactly?'
`Just out to some bars and stuff,' he said flatly.
`Oh really?' she started, feeling the anger rise inside her, `Well, if you come back at 4 in the morning Potter, don't expect to be let in!'
Lily glared at the mock-innocent face that he was wearing, and she nodded over at Sirius, `And what's he doing here?'
`Hey!' Sirius frowned, `He has a name actually!'
She looked at the tall boy next to James, `I think `Pig' works quite nicely.'
Sirius shot James a `No Way' look and James looked at Lily again, `Did you swallow a new batch of poison today or something?'
Lily ignored his comment and lied back down onto the cool grass. The boys shifted next to her, keeping silent; they really didn't know how to handle her wiry temper.
`Are you both going to stand there? Or are you going to leave?'
They chose the former.
When she realised this fact, she opened her eyes and glared at them, `What are you do…'
James cut her off, `We want you to come with us.'
Silence.
More silence.
`Eh?'
James closed his eyes to keep to his plan, and he spoke through gritted teeth, `We want you to come with us.'
Lily frowned, not exactly believing what she'd heard.
Oh, it's one of their stupid pranks that no one understands.
But when she looked at their faces, they weren't grinning.
`Why do you want me to come with you?' she spat.
James looked at Sirius, who stood up straight and knelt down to her eye level. He reached out and brushed his hand down her arm, making her flinch away from his touch.
`I want you there Lil.'
He looked deep into her emerald eyes and she pulled away fast.
Erm, what just happened?
Sirius felt like he was loosing her before he'd even started and he made a desperate attempt, `Please?'
Lily thought she was in some kind of dream and she looked between James and Sirius quickly, not believing, not wanting to believe.
`I don't understand,' she thought out loud.
`What's there to understand?'
Sirius moved towards her and picked up her hand that was resting on her knee. She jerked her hand away from his and stood up; grabbing the towel she had next to her.
`Erm…' she hesitated, holding the towel so it covered her body. Both boys watched in curiosity as their Head Girl, the steadiest girl in the whole of Hogwarts, was turned into a blithering idiot.
James laughed inwardly at his description of her and watched, intrigued, as she became more uncomfortable.
Lily glanced at James.
Then she realised…she was playing right into his sick little trap.
The smirk on his face was evident that she was right where he wanted her, and god did she want to fight back.
So she did.
Lily looked at Sirius for a second then lowered the towel, revealing herself a little more; she decided that two could play that game.
`Ok,' she said softly, stepping towards James' best friend, `I'll go.'
She glanced again at James and the expression on his face was one of amazement and sheer frustration. She smirked slightly in his direction and brushed past him, sauntering to the house.
`Nice bikini,' Sirius called to her as she walked inside the house.
James glared at him, `You're not suppose to be enjoying this!'
`Come on Prongs! I have to seduce this girl; I might as well make the most of it.'
James felt like stamping his foot and demanding that Sirius didn't, but he realised that it wouldn't be exactly socially acceptable. The plan was going the right way but he at least thought that it would annoy Lily just a little. She seemed to be enjoying it.
What is wrong with her? She's so backwards!
Walking back into the coolness of the house, he decided to wait and see what would happen tonight. James had planned to take her to some of the Muggle bars that he'd been to with Sirius and the rest of the group, and he wanted to show her exactly how opposite and prissy she really was.
James laughed to himself, imagining Lily drunk and not in control of her own actions.
`She'll probably pass out after a couple of shots,' he thought, `that I've got to see.'
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What am I going to wear?
Lily rummaged through her clothes - or lack of them - finding absolutely nothing suitable to wear for a club or a bar. She had tried on several outfits but she either looked too uptight or…too uptight.
Why don't I have any slutty clothes? James and Sirius are going to laugh in my face if I go down there looking like someone's Grand Mother!
She held out a pair of tight black trousers and thought that they might do the job, but when she unzipped them she realised why she kept them in the back of her cupboard.
`FOR AGES 13 - 14'
She chucked the trousers onto the bed with a fury.
God sake!
Deciding to leave the bottoms until after, she looked through her tops. They all were either long sleeved, stupidly boring or just not the right thing. Lily sighed, very annoyed with herself for not looking like one of the Slytherin girls. She had always thought how stupid they looked with all their low cut robes and extremely short skirts, but now she definitely wanted to look like them at this point in time.
Flicking through a couple of mini skirts that she had, she wished she had bought that tartan mini that she had saw in `Warehouse' when she went shopping with James.
`Oh that would've been perfect,' she thought as she looked at her own non-perfect ones.
What am I going to do?
She looked over to her desk where her Spell notes were strewn everywhere and an idea hit her.
Transfiguration!
I'll just transfigure my clothes to look the way I want!
She walked over to her desk quickly and looked through the parchments. Finding the correct transfiguration one, she pulled on a shirt and a simple mini skirt. Lily picked up her wand and pointed at her clothes. She imagined the ones that she wanted and spoke the spell clearly, glad that Latin was her forte as well.
She slipped into some small strappy mules and did her make-up expertly in 5 seconds - magic again - and left her hair down in the new `just-got-out-of-bed' look.
Lily walked over to the small mirror, just to check that her hair was the way she wanted. It fell in gentle waves down her back and the silver hooped earrings that she wore gave her a kind of hippy look.
Pleased with her appearance, she grabbed her bag and her wand just in case she needed to use the Petrificus Totalus curse on the two Marauders. She walked downstairs, into the kitchen. She could hear Sirius and James laughing and pratting about in the lounge and she rolled her eyes at their stupid-ness, and also at her own by agreeing to go with them that night.
Lily walked over to the counter, picked up her money that was on the side and placed it in her purse. She decided to put on her most confident face before walking into the lounge. If she went in there looking self-conscious they would notice and it would be that that would be embarrassing.
As she walked into the large lounge the two boys turned to look at the Gryffindor girl.
They were stunned.
It was now that she started to feel self-conscious as they stared at her.
`What?' she growled.
James kept silent as he moved his eyes over his enemy's curvy body. He had been surprised when finding out that she had a body before but now it was different.
She looked…sexy.
It was Sirius that voiced his opinion, `Shit! Who knew that Evans had a body like that?'
Lily narrowed her eyes at him and folded her arms, `I'm standing right here.'
`I know you are baby,' Sirius leered, sitting back in the sofa and never shifting his eyes away from her.
Maybe the clothes were a mistake.
James stood up, his eyes still on the tiny red Cami that held her breasts in, too small to wear a bra underneath.
`Hey!' she snarled, `My face is up here.'
James looked at her, thoughts running through his head…of her…under him…moving…
`Ok, I've gotta stop,' he thought, turning to Sirius who wasn't quite as successful restraining in obvious desire towards her.
James glared at his best friend, who looked at him quickly and stood up, although he never moved his eyes away from her. He was too busy thinking thoughts of having to seduce this girl and all the ways he could try to do it.
A dirty grin spread across his handsome features and she looked at him warily. Lily felt uncomfortable with the way he kept staring at her and was pleased when James said the words, `Ok let's go.'
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Getting into town was also very interesting. James and Sirius were adamant that they should apperate there, but Lily was sure that they would be seen by Muggles. Both boys, even though desiring her completely, had got very pissed off by her lack of adventure. They weren't used to playing in between the lines and felt it completely alien to start now.
James had glared at Lily and yelled at her a couple of times before she refused to speak to him, which annoyed him even more. Sirius watched between them both as James shouted at her, Lily ignored him and he shouted at her more.
`For fuck sake Lily! Why do you have to be so awkward?'
…
James turned to Sirius after she had ignored him the last time, `Come on we're going.'
Sirius watched his best friend grab the Head Girl and apperate them both to the bar, Sirius following quickly behind.
When they arrived at the bar, Lily wrenched herself from his grasp and glared at him with such a passion that she was sure she would actually blow a gasket. She was furious with him for just taking advantage of her and she grabbed her bag, opening it fiercely.
Lily pulled her wand out fast and pointed it at his chest, her emerald eyes glowing like hot coals, searing through his own.
`Don't you ever…ever touch me again! Do you understand?'
James sneered at her, `Don't start, I'm not in the mood for your temper tantrums.'
Lily's face flushed with a raw and dangerous anger and she turned and strode off in the direction of the club door; her leather boots clomping under her as her feet hit the pavement.
James turned to Sirius who shrugged nonchalantly and walked towards the club as well.
The Head Boy looked after both of them and spoke bitterly, `Oh Lils I'm so gonna bring you down.'
He walked into the club.
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