My One and Only

My One and Only

Chapter One- Unexpected Guest

I was lying on my bed trying to get to sleep. It was only three in the afternoon, but I figured the most boring day of my life deserved a nap. I’d spent the entire summer hanging out with my three best friends, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. Today, every one of them had their own plans. I had spent it hanging around my house. Yes, it was a HUGE house, but it wasn’t any fun without people to enjoy it with.

Then the doorbell rang. I ran down four huge staircases (my room was the only one on the 5^th floor) and opened the door. Standing on my porch was an average height, emerald eyed, auburn red haired beauty. My good friend: Lily Evans.

“Lily! What are you—” I asked. Then I noticed her face was wet and tears were streaming from her lovely eyes. “What happened?” She broke down into huge sobs and bigger tears. I’d never seen her like this. Lily was usually the girl who helped the Marauders with our next prank, and was always the one for a dirty comment or nasty comeback. I picked up her gigantic bag that was sitting next to her and guided her inside. We sat down in my living room on her favorite couch and suddenly I was engulfed in a humongous hug from the girl I knew to be so strong that she could take any pain.

“My-my…” she stuttered.

“Petunia?” I asked knowingly. She nodded and nuzzled her face into my neck. I calmly stroked her hair until she was ready to talk. When Lily pulled back from my grip I couldn’t help but notice that she still looked beautiful even when her eyes were so puffy and bloodshot.

“How about a game of Foosball? Then I’ll tell you,” Lily suggested. I wiped the tears away from her cheek and nodded. She smiled back at me. Then all of the sudden we were up and sprinting to the Games Room on the 4^th floor, closest to my room. This was a little game Lily and I play. We never have to count, we just know when the other is going to, and then run to wherever we’re supposed to.

I took the stairs three at a time, I had long legs and was very tall. When I would go to Muggle grocery stores total strangers would ask me if I played basketball… whatever that was. Lily says it’s a game with two teams and you put a ball through a hoop. Sort of like quidditch, but there’s no bludgers trying to give you a concussion. Muggles have it made, I tell you!

Lily, being shorter than me could only take them two at a time. She was faster running than I was. We each reached the door at exactly the same time and scrambled in. We both struggled to keep the other from getting to the Foosball table first. I pushed Lily down and she grabbed my leg. Then we were crawling, grasping for a piece of the table!

She reached for it but I grabbed her arm and all of the sudden I was laying on top of her. There was a moment’s silence and I smiled. She raised her eyebrows questionally. Then I lunged for the table and grabbed a post before she even had time to react.

“That wasn’t fair!” she shrieked. I smirked.

“You’re just pissed because I didn’t let you win. Sorry Chick, rules are in this house, that there’s no mercy.”

“Fine. C’mon James, let’s play. I’m gonna whoop your big Potter arse!” she challenged.

“Language Evans, language,” I said while wiggling my pointer finger back and forth at her. “and my arse isn’t that big.” She rolled her eyes and laughed. Then we played… I lost.

“Oh would you stop!” I said to Lily as she continued her victory dance.

“”Not until you admit that I’m better at Foosball,” she exclaimed with a laugh.

“You sound drunk.” I pointed out, sitting down on my favorite royal blue chair and gazing out the window. The chair sagged where Lily sat. She snuggled into me. This was a normal thing; we were very close friends. We could touch each other, unlike most people, but there was no extreme physical interaction, such as kissing or sex. We held hands sometimes though, and I could kiss her forehead or cheek.

“What are you thinking about?” she said softly. I didn’t answer. “She kicked me out.” My attention was there again.

“What?”

“Petunia. She kicked me out of the house…said it was my fault my parents are dead. She made me leave…gave no money.” I simply nodded. Lily’s sister was a total and complete bitch to her. The people who supported the rising Dark Lord, Voldemort, had killed their parents when Lily was away at Hogwarts last year. Why they had attacked the Evans’ was unknown to everyone. “James…” she again said softly.

“What?”

“Uh…never mind,” she said nervously. I let go of her slightly and held her back.

“What is it?” she sighed.

“Can I stay here with you for the rest of the summer?” I pretended to think about it for a while while I rubbed my chin thoughtfully.

“Well, of course!” I said cheerfully. She sighed once more. “Oh, did you really think I was going to say no?”

“Well, I wasn’t entirely positive.”

“Actually, it will cost you I suppose,” I said slyly as I moved my hands down to her waist.

“What do you want, Potter?”

“Oh, you know what I want,” I grinned. She slapped my hands, then my face. “Shit Lily!”

“What was that?”

“I was joking. I meant I wanted a snack!”

“Oh.”

“That’s right, oh,” I fumed. She was always one to jump to conclusions.

“I’m so sorry James,” she gently touched my cheek where I knew a red mark from her hand was going to be. “Does it hurt?”

“Like hell.” she kissed me softly on the cheek and brushed her hand over it again.

“Are you okay?”

“Uh—” Wait, weren’t you just mad at me?

“Let’s go get that snack shall we?” she said smiling widely and hopping up from the couch. I muttered a short,

“Girls,” before following after her.

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I tied a bright orange apron around my white shirt that said, ‘We all have issues, mine are just more important than yours’ and my blue, low rise, hip huggers. I loved the color orange. Whenever people would call me a ‘redhead’ I’d correct them by saying my hair was orange. Now that I’m almost seventeen, I’ve accepted the fact that no one would take me seriously if I told them to call me an ‘orange head’.

“What’re you thinking about?” James Potter’s voice asked from behind me. I realized that I had been gazing, glassy eyed out of the window and shook my head, and then I turned around to see one of my best friends. His messy jet-black hair was sticking up everywhere, except one tiny piece that fell into his piercing hazel eyes.

“Oh, nothing.”

“That orange head thing again?” I gave him a confused look.

“How did you do that?” He shrugged.

“It’s a gift.”

“Oh, I see.” I said sarcastically. “Now, what do you want? Macaroni and cheese with hotdogs in it, I presume?” He nodded guiltily. I giggled, always the same exact thing. James had become infatuated by Muggle foods, Mac and cheese with hotdogs being the best in his mind.

I walked over to the refrigerator after starting the macaroni and pulled out a package of hotdogs. I’d only been to the Potters’ house a few times, but I always felt like I belonged there. The very first time I had stayed for a three-day weekend. By the time I left, I already knew here everything was in each room. It was not getting lost trying to find the room that was the trick.

I carefully cut the hotdogs into equal pieces and tossed them in the pan. I always added the cheese last so it would seep into the hotdogs. I started stirring it when two strong hands grabbed me by the waist. It was James of course. He kissed my cheek.

“Thank you.”

“No problem—” I started but was cut off by a loud voice from behind us saying,

“Oh Lily! You didn’t actually fall for the Potter charm did you? I thought you were stronger than that!” This was Michael Potter, James’ dad. James jumped away from me as I turned around.

“Actually, no. I didn’t. Nice to see you again Mike.”

“Jeez James, little jumpy today. Hello Lily. You too. How long will you be staying with us?”

“The whole summer Dad. And I’m not jumpy. You startled me,” James said, finishing in an annoyed voice, which Mike and I laughed at. We’re always ganging up on James when we get together, his parents are so much fun!

“Yep, I believe you son,” his blue eyes twinkled.

“Here James,” I said, handing him a bowl with my freshly made goods.

“Lily, could I—” Mike was cut off when I shoved a bowl in his hands also, “Thanks. How did you do that?”

“She’s gifted Dad. Spooky isn’t it?” James said through a mouth full of food.

“Chew with your mouth closed will you? And don’t talk when you have food in your mouth,” I said sternly, “and what’s with the spoon?” I hate when people eat Mac and cheese with a spoon, it’s a pet peeve of mine. James instantly dropped his utensil in the sink and grabbed a fork from the drawer, and then he muttered an apology, which was soon followed by whipping noises from Mike.

“C’mon Lils,” James said walking out of the kitchen. Instead of following him I decided to straddle one of the kitchen chairs and look at Mike.

“So, how have things been lately?” I asked.

“What things?”

“You know, order things,” I said slyly. Mike grinned.

“He tells you everything, doesn’t he?”

“Yep.”

“He’s whipped. Bloody brilliant Lily, I tell you.” I laughed. “Okay, so here’s the things, we’ve been trying to gather evidence that suspected Death Eaters are Death Eaters. Unfortunately, we’ve only been able to get the cleared ones. So far we’ve got Cahontic, Barns, Malfoy—”

“Wait, Malfoy is cleared?” The slimy git was two years ahead of James and I at Hogwarts. He tried to hex me my very first day because I was Muggleborn.

“Yeah, there was nothing against him. Shame really, but there’s nothing I can do,” Mike shrugged.

“Lily! What’re you doing?” James called from the living room. I rolled my eyes at Mike who shrugged again, waved me off, and reached for the newest edition of the Daily Prophet. Getting up I walked into the living room. It was large with cream-colored walls, pictures of the Potters’ everywhere, blue furniture, a mega stereo, and a very wide screen television. For the Potters’ to be a Pureblood family they sure knew a lot about Muggle appliances and technology. Mostly because of me, but never the less, it worked.

James was lying on my favorite couch, right in front of the telly. I stood behind it, just looking at him. Then, out of nowhere he reached out his arms and grabbed my waist, and pulled me over the couch and top of him. After this he situated us so that I was on the inside on my side and he was on his back on the outside. A bit of me was on him, as was my left arm, which was wrapped loosely around his neck and my head was in between his shoulder and chest. His right arm was holding my waist as the left one started to play with my hair.

“Okay. So, whaddya wanna watch?” he said, grabbing the remote.

“Don’t care. I’ll probably fall asleep anyway.”

“Okay,” he clicked to a channel where a movie neither of us knew the name of was playing. I was right, ten minutes later I was asleep.

Reviewers:

¤Katie – I know what you mean, I was getting tired of reading all those fics, that I decided to write a Lils and James were best friends first fic. Hee hee

¤Heaven – The reason the Potters have a TV is because Lily persuaded them to get one, she’s practically like a daughter to them, and maybe Michael has an infatuation for muggles like Arthur Weasley does. *Shrugs*

¤Patrioticangel – thanks so much or that advice from your English teacher. It will help me in the long run.

¤Jess131346 – I highly doubt their closeness will change when they start dating. I’m glad you think James’ dad seems nice, that was the point I was trying to get across. His parents are basically the parents anyone would like to have, or at least, I would like to have – my dream parents, hee hee. I’m sorry if it was confusing for you. When the ~¤~~¤~~¤~~¤~~¤~~¤~ thing comes up, it means to point of view is switching, if anyone else is confused, I’ll just start saying : “James POV” or “Lily’s POV”

¤Greeneggsandham – Nope, I haven’t forgotten about it...

¤Everyone – Thanks so much for reviewing, I thrive on nice comments like these and I really appreciate when people like my stuff. I never really let people read it, but I figured, “Hell, it’s the internet, I’ll probably never meet these people, and if I do, they won’t know it’s me.” Hee hee.

A/N: I’m so sorry I haven’t posted at all. I actually stopped writing this story soon after I posted it here, I think. I have 5 chapters posted on another site, though. So I’ll continue posting them here. I’m not sure when I’ll get back to writing this fic, it’s not like there hasn’t been time, what with it being summer and all, but I really haven’t been in the mood. It could be writers block because I don’t have any more ideas for it and my muse is not being very helpful. I started a new fic, one that I can’t post here because it’s Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione based, but I have a lot of ideas formulating for it, so that’s my first priority. I’m really sorry, but maybe you can check it out, it’s called The Real Life, and I’m going to be reposting it on fanfiction.net soon...so if you use that site, too, look out for it!

Chapter Two- Sirius and Remus

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My best friend was truly beautiful! I clicked off the telly and shut my eyes slowly; finally I was getting that nap. All of the sudden I heard someone jump out of the fire and I opened my eyes swiftly.

It was Sirius Black, my very best friend. Sirius had medium length black hair and dark eyes. He and I, along with our other best friend Remus Lupin, were the heartthrobs at Hogwarts. In mere seconds Rem was standing beside Sirius. He had shaggy brown hair and blue eyes.

"Hey Moony, Padfoot." I said using our Marauder names. That's what we called our group; there were four of us: Sirius, Remus, Peter Pettigrew, and Me. Also known as Padfoot, Moony, Wormtail, and Prongs.

Remus was werewolf, so to keep him company during full moons the others three of us became Animagus. I turned into a stag; Sirius, a dog; Peter into a rat. Hints all the nicknames. We called ourselves The Marauders, known for pranks and causing trouble wherever we go. And trust me, if Lily and her girls had been boys, they would be Marauders too. But they had their own group, The Spirits. The didn't have cool nicknames like us though.

"What're you doing here? You said you had other stuff to do." I said. Sirius shrugged and looked at Lily.

"How long has she been here?" He said, sitting down on the nearest chair.

"A few hours I suppose." The guys, well, everyone was really good about Lily and mine's friendship. They didn't care how close we were. Yes, they thought it was odd and they always made jokes and tried to get us together, but no one ever said anything else about it.

"Petunia, I guess?" Remus enquired.

"Yes." I spoke coldly. Lily shifted in her sleep and mumbled something incoherent. Sirius looked at me strangely.

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I heard voices; Sirius and Remy were there. Then I slowly opened my eyes. Siri was staring at James with an odd look on his face and Remus looked really tired. The full moon was just a few days ago!

None of the boys noticed I was awake until Sirius looked down at me and I smiled. He gave me a cheesy grin. Remus smiled too.

"Hey boys." I said in still sleepy tone.

"Boys! No, no, no dearest Lily, we've turned seventeen! We're of age! Which means we're men!" Sirius said boastfully.

"Talk about conceited." I pretended to mutter, loud enough so they could hear me.

"Now, now, I'm seventeen too. You're just to young to understand." James said brightly. I turned seventeen a month after we returned to Hogwarts, on October 3rd.

I got off the couch, purposefully kneeing James in his 'manly parts' in the process. He gasped and I grinned mischievously.

"Ow." He squeaked. Remus laughed as I headed upstairs to change into better clothes.

I walked into James' room. It was a typically wizard boys room with dark blue walls and quidditch posters hanging everywhere. My bag was on his bed and I carefully chose a khaki mini skirt with cargo pockets, a teal tank top, and a short sleeved, button up, over shirt.

I quickly dressed and pulled my hair into a perfect half ponytail, letting two pieces fall into my face on each side. I made my way to the bathroom and washed my face with a new wizard product I'd found in my last Hogsmeade visit of 6th year. Then I brushed my teeth and headed downstairs.

On the way from the 4th to 3rd floors I saw Melanie Potter carrying towels to the bathroom.

"Lily! How are you? You'll be staying for a long time, yes? Wow! It's so good to see you!" She said as she gave me a huge hug.

"Hi Melanie. I'm fine. I'll be staying for the rest of the summer, if it's alright with you."

"Oh, of course it is, Dear! This is just as much your home as it is Sirius'!" This was saying something, because Sirius had lived with the Potter's during break in 5th and 6th years because he had left his home. This summer he bought a flat all to himself with the help of his Uncle Alphard giving him a few galleons.

"Thank you. Do you need any help?" I asked gesturing to the towels she was still holding.

"No, no! I'm fine! Go along! I'll see you!"

"Bye." I went down the rest of the stairs and slid down the last banister, landing in the living room in front of James, Sirius, and Remus who were talking. They all clapped enthusiastically as I bowed. Sirius stared at me.

"Yes Siri, my breasts have gotten larger. Snap out of it you prat!" I said. He choked and shook himself out of his reverie. James and Remus rolled their eyes; I laughed.

"Sirius Black, you'll never change." I stated.

"Would you want me to Lils'?" He said in a seductive voice as he gave me a hug.

"Is there a right answer to that question, Padfoot?" Remus said with a chuckle.

"I asked Lily, not you." Sirius said in an annoyed voice. James glared at him as Remus gave me a huge hug.

"It's good to see you Lils'." He whispered in my ear.

"You too Remy. How's life" He sighed and shrugged.

"Could be worse, I suppose."

"Hey! Look on the bright side! We could get Celia and the others to come over and we could have a little party!"

"Jeez, you act like this is your house." James commented.

"What? It isn't?" I exclaimed. They all laughed.

"Fine, fine. Let's owl 'em." Sirius got some parchment from the study and we sat down to write letters to our friends. I wrote to Valerie, Alice, Isabella, and Sarah, while Sirius and James owled Frank and Peter. That left Celia to Remus, at his request.

Soon we were waiting impatiently by the fire for our friends to show up. Suddenly, it turned green and Celia Greenfield walked out. Celia is about my height with short, dark brown hair and big brown eyes. She hugged everyone, ending at Remus.

"I especially liked your letter Remy." She whispered, handed the note to me and kissed Remus hello. James and Sirius whistled at them as I laughed.

'Celia Greenfield,
Get your fine arse over to the Potter Place because I miss you.
-Remus'

"Nice Rem, nice." I said, patting him on the shoulder. The fire turned green again and there was Valerie McPherson, my best friend. She was tall and had waist long blonde hair and pretty gray eyes. We both shrieked and hugged.

"Okay, Lily. Stop! Get off my girl, I wanna piece." Sirius said as he stole Val into a passionate kiss.

"Jeez! Siri, Val! Get a room would you!" Came a playful voice from behind me, I turned around to face Sarah Matthews. She had changed her appearance since the last time I saw her. Now she had maroonish colored hair and was wearing a black mini skirt, a black shirt was fish net sleeves and the boots she had on made her about two inches taller than me. She still had the same almost lavender eyes.

"Wow!" Is all I managed to say before Isabella McCabe hopped out of the fire and right behind her came Peter Pettigrew.

Isabella had long black hair and blue eyes, while Peter was a blonde hair, watery blue-eyed boy. The boys attacked the 4th Marauder and right away started planning a prank.

After less than five minutes Frank Longbottom and Alice Thomson arrived. They had been dating since 5th year. Sirius and Val had only gotten together the last week of 6th year, and Celia and Remus had been a couple since the beginning of it.

"I say we have too many couples in this group of ours." I stated. Everyone shrugged and the girls continued to hug their last Spirit.

"Okay, so what're we gonna do?" James asked looking at me.

"Well..."

Chapter Three- Truth, Dare, and More Truth

"I can't believe we're playing truth or dare!" Sarah groaned. We all laughed.

"Fine Sar, since you're so cheerful, how about you start?" Sirius suggested.

"Whatever. Celia, truth or dare?"

"Uh, truth I suppose." Celia said nervously.

"Okay then. Have you and Remus done it yet?" The couple looked at each other.

"What do you mean it?" Celia said slyly.

"You know perfectly well what I mean!" Sarah said; throwing a couch pillow at her friend.

"Well, there are many it's! Don't you think? Let's see, kissing, French kissing, necking-" Cel counted off on her fingers.

"Have you and Remy had sex then?" Sarah pushed.

"Oh, well that's all you had to say. Jeez! Beat around the bush why don't you!" It was clear she had already known what Sarah meant.

"So-"

"Yes." Celia said in a matter-of-fact tone. James, Sirius, and I let out whistles and cat calls, causing Remus and Celia to blush slightly.

"Truth or dare Lily." Celia said.

"Truth."

What's wrong with dares!" Sirius whined.

"Shut up you! Now Lily, have you and James ever kissed?" Celia asked.

"Yes." I stated.

"On the lips?" She squealed.

"I answered your question, now, Isabella, truth or dare?" Lily said, ignoring the annoying whines from everyone as James winked mischievously at me and we both laugh.

"Dare." Isabella said, which was followed by a soft "Finally" from Sirius.

"Kiss Frank."

"No!"

"Why not?"

"Well, for one thing, he's dating Alice! And it's pretty well set they'll be getting married! Absolutely not, I refuse!" Bella explained.

"You gotta if you wanna keep playing." I told her.

"Bella, I have no problem with it. I know Frank wouldn't do it in his choice, go ahead." Frank looked slightly shocked that Alice would agree to it. Bella sighed and leaned over to kiss for five seconds as counted by me.

"Alright, Alice-"

"Truth."

"What're you most scared of about leaving Hogwarts?"

"That's simple! Voldemort of course! That guy is a psycho, isn't he? And almost half of us are training to be Aurors!" Alice said. Frank put a reassuring arm around her.

"Siri, dare I presume?" Sirius nodded like a little kid. "Okay, snog Peter."

"There is no way in hell!"

"Fine, Remus."

"No way! I'm out. That's revolting." He shuddered as everyone laughed.

"Ah, c'mon Padfoot! I thought you loved me!" Remus said in a would-be hurt voice.

"Fine then, James?"

"I ain't kissing no guy. Got that Alice?" Everyone laughed again at his bluntness.

"Oh really-" Alice started slyly.

"Truth!" He said in a slightly panicked tone, but then finished calmly, "I pick truth."

"Where have you kissed Lily?" We both rolled our eyes.

"What is up with all of you and Lily and I today? Jeez!" He exclaimed. "But, the cheek.forehead, pretty neutral spots-"

"Neck? That's a pretty neutral spot for me." Sirius implied.

"No, and silence from the losers please." James held up his hand in a girly way.

"Is that all?" Celia whined.

"Yes." I answered defiantly.

"Valerie, dare?"

"Why of course!" And this was followed by a "That's my girl-" and then a quick "Sirius! Shut up!" from everyone else.

"The first time you had Padfoot in bed was he any good, to you?" Sirius choked.

"Honestly? He was okay."

"Hey!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Hey yourself! This is truth or dare, you gotta be honest. Besides, your better now-"

"Oh please spare us the details." James moaned.

"Pete, truth or dare?"

"Dare, I guess-" He spoke nervously.

"Go to Mrs. Potter, start crying, tell her you didn't get your afternoon snack and get her to make you some of that yummy 'Puppy Chow' she whips up." Puppy Chow was Mel's specialty. It was some kind of cereal covered in powered sugar. Peter got up and soon they heard loud sobs coming from the kitchen.

He came back, carrying a large bowl full to the rim and smiling happily.

"James, truth or dare?"

"He just went!" Sarah protested.

"Dare." James said ignoring her.

Snog Lily until we," he gestured to everyone else in the room, "decide you're done." James looked at me.

"Are you okay with this?" I knew he wanted me to say yes, he never backs out of a dare.

"Yeah."

"Bloody brilliant Pete. Never thought you had it in you." Sirius whispered as James leaned down and our lips connected. I felt a shock, which startled me.

James must have felt it too because he pulled away and gave me a questioning look.

"C'mon you two! We don't have all day! Remus said impatiently; grabbing a handful of 'Puppy Chow'.

"Let's get this over with, shall we?" I asked as I put my hand behind his neck and pulled him down. His lips were gentle. After a few seconds I heard Val say,

"That ain't a snog! C'mon guys!" I smiled, some best friend she was. James moved his tongue across my lower lip and I let him enter my mouth. I could hear catcalls and barks. (Probably from Sirius.)

He had his hands around my waist by now and mine were around his neck. I was playing with the hair on the base of it. I had no clue how long we'd been at it. He was being careful with his tongue, as to not go to far. We fell with a 'thunk' on the floor. James was on top of me.

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