Chapter 3

Chapter 3

A few hours later, I woke up to the phone ringing. Harry and Rhea were still asleep. I carefully got out of bed and walked downstairs to the phone.

“Hello?” I answered groggily.

“Hey Lils, its Mandy.” My friend’s voice came through the receiver.

“Hey Mands. What’s up?” I asked.

“Chris has had a little accident and I was wondering if I could bring him over considering you are a doctor and such.” Mands asked.

“Sure hun. Just bring him round.” I answered.

We said goodbye and hung up. I walked into the kitchen and made some tea and breakfast before going to wake my kids.

“Harry, Rhea. Come on wake up.” I said.

The two kids woke up slowly. Before they said hello to me, they smelled the pancakes I had made and rushed out of the room.

I laughed before I noticed the letter on my bedside table. I picked it up and sat down on the edge of my bed to read it.

Dearest Lily;

As I watched you sleep you looked so innocent. My mind flashed back to when you were a simple first year. I watched you grow and you soon became one of my favourite students.

I am sorry that James betrayed you but please don’t let that discourage you.

I can’t wait to see you at the reunion

Albus

I started to cry softly but through my tears, I smiled. Albus was like a father to me especially since my parents died in my 7th year in a car accident.

I came out of my thoughts when I heard a knock on the door.

I walked downstairs and opened the door to find Mandy and Chris standing outside. Chris’ arm was all cut up and there was what looked to be some glass shards in it.

“Ok Chris, can you go into the lounge room with your mum and I’ll grab my bag.” I said.

An hour later, I had removed all the glass and had stitched up his arm. Mandy kissed Chris’ forehead before saying goodbye to me and the kids and leaving.

I got the kids dressed for the day before doing the same for myself.

That day, I took Harry and Rhea out shopping for an outfit to wear to the reunion that was in 3 weeks.

For Harry I got a pair of good jeans and a blue shirt and for Rhea I got a purple dress that she would wear over a pair of black jeans and boots that I bought.

For myself I bought a black halter style dress that ended at my knees. I also bought a pair of black stilettos with diamantes on the straps and buckles.

I couldn’t wait for the reunion even if I had to see James and Holly together, I would still get to see my friends.

-- Reunion Day --

At two o’clock on May 5th, I started to get ready for the dinner. I put on my dress, styled my hair and dressed Harry and Rhea.

“Ok kids. We are going to meet some of mummy’s friends so I want you to be on your best behaviour. Now to get there we are going by fire.” I told my kids. Their eyes widened and they gasped.

“But mummy, wont it burn us?” Rhea asked.

“No baby it wont. Ok now hold on to me very tight and don’t let go.” I said. I picked the twins up, placed them on my hip and shouted “HOGWARTS” as I stepped into the flames.

-- Tazz’s POV --

“SIRIUS, TY, KELSI COME ON!” I yelled to my family.

I heard two collections of footsteps coming down the stairs and I looked up and saw Sirius carrying Kelsi and Ty was walking behind his father.

“Ok campers lets go.” I said. We all apparated to the boundaries of Hogwarts ready to go to the reunion.

-- Meg’s POV --

“Ok kids. Are you both ready?” I asked Mya and Matt.

They both nodded and just as I was straightening Mya’s bow in her hair, Remus walked down the stairs and smiled at me.

He was wearing a suit and he looked fantastic.

“We ready to go?” Remus asked.

I did a double check of everything before nodding. We apparated to the boundaries and caught up to the Blacks before heading inside.

-- James’ POV --

“Stupid reunion. Stupid Holly. Stupid bowtie.” I mumbled under my breath as I fixed up my bowtie. Holly was putting some more hairspray into her already huge hair.

She had on a blue sparkly dress that ended at her thighs and her hair (no joke) looked like a huge rats nest on her head.

“Come on Jamsie. We are going to be late.” Holly said.

I grimaced before grabbing her arm and apparating to Hogwarts

-- Back to Lily’s POV --

The kids and I came out of the fire in Albus’ office. He was sitting at his desk and smiled when we walked out.

“Lily, Harry, Rhea. You all look great. Come on. I have placed you at the same table as your old friends. I hope that that is ok.” Albus said.

I nodded, although a little hesitantly.

Albus clapped his hands together and we walked down to the Great Hall.

“There is a small room set aside for the kids until dinner so let’s go and drop off Harry and Rhea and then we shall join the festivities.” Albus said.

Harry, Rhea and I walked over to the room. I opened the door and walked in with the kids.

“Ok kids. Now I have to leave you guys here for a while and then we will have dinner. Ok?” I asked Harry and Rhea.

Both kids nodded. I kissed Rhea on the head and did the same to Harry before whispering to him “Take care of your sister.”

Harry nodded and the two kids walked into the playroom.

I walked out of the room and met up with Albus. I nodded to him and we both walked into the room.

I looked around and smiled. I was home. I spotted Professor McGonagall in the corner of my eye. I turned and she saw me. She did a double take before walking over to me. She hugged me tight and tears sprung into my eyes.

“Oh Lily. You look amazing. How have you been?” she asked as she pulled away.

“I have been great. You?” I asked.

Before she could continue I heard a loud cry of “LILY EVANS!”

I turned just in time to catch a woman with curly brown hair in a hug.

“Hey Alice. How are you?” I asked as we hugged.

“Oh My God! Lily. I have been great. What about you? I have missed you so much. What have you been up to?” Alice said as she pulled back.

“I have been great. I haven’t been doing much. I became a doctor, a muggle healer but other than that. So are you married? Do you have kids?” I asked.

“Do you remember Frank Longbottom?” She asked me. When I nodded, Alice continued “Well, I married him and now we have a five year old son named Neville.”

“Oh that’s so sweet.” I said to her.

“What about you? Do you have any kids? A husband maybe?” Alice said, hinting on something more.

I shook my head but didn’t elaborate as I didn’t have time before Frank had walked over and swooped me in a hug.

“Ahhh Lils. How have you been?” He asked.

“Great. What about you?” I asked him.

“Absolutely fantastic.” He answered.

We chatted for a while and I also met up with a few friends from my school years. I hugged my Professors but all movement stopped when I heard the unmistakenable voice of my best friends, Tazz and Meg say “Oh My God! Lily is that you?”

-- Tazz’s POV --

Sirius, Ty, Kelsi and I landed at the boundaries of Hogwarts where we were going to wait for our friends.

When I heard the unmistakenable sounds of apparation, I turned and saw Meg, Remus, Mya and Matt walking up to us.

“Hello lovely.” I said as I hugged Meg and Sirius and Remus did a complicated hand shake thing.

“Hello darling. Now we just need James to show up and we can go in.” Meg said.

I grimaced at the thought of having to put up with Holly for the night and it made me think back to what life would be like if Lily had stuck around.

I was brought out of my thoughts with the sound of apparating. I turned and saw James and Holly. They walked up to us and stopped. James, Sirius and Remus did their complicated hand shake whilst Holly just nodded at us. The four kids all said hello and started talking about whatever it is five and four year olds talk about.

“Shall we go inside?” I said hoping to get rid of the tension between Holly and the rest of us.

Remus, Meg, Sirius and I picked up our kids and we walked inside. We dropped the kids off at the small daycare room that Albus had set up before we walked to the Great Hall.

We all scanned the room, smiling at some people, frowning at the Slytherins and waving to people.

For some reason something red caught my eye. I turned and when I saw what it was, I nearly stopped breathing.

Meg looked at me and asked “What’s wrong Tazz?” My husband, Remus and James looked at me whilst Holly ignored me and walked off to talk to her friends.

I pointed to somewhere in the room and Meg gasped as well.

“Oh My God! Lily is that you?” Meg and I asked.

-- Lily’s POV --

I turned and saw my best friends and the Marauders. They all had their mouths wide open and were staring at me. I excused myself from Professor Sprout who smiled at me before I walked over to my (maybe ex) friends.

“Hey Tazz, hey Meg.” I said a little hesitantly.

I thought they would turn their backs on me and walk away. Instead they threw their arms around me and hugged me so tight I thought that I would lose consciousness but I didn’t care. I hugged them back twice as hard as tears ran down my face.

We pulled away and just looked at one another.

I looked past them to the Marauders. I was afraid of the looks they all had on their faces. I was shocked when Sirius came over to me, picked me up and spun me around, saying “if you ever leave again and have no contact with us, I will hunt you down using Moony’s nose and drag you back by your hair. GOT IT!?”

I laughed and was put down before Remus hugged me tight and said the same things as Sirius had just done.

I turned to James and nodded at him. He nodded in return. He opened his mouth to say something when we all heard a high pitched voice say “Jamsie, you have to come meet some friends of mine.”

We all turned and saw Holly sauntering towards us. She took one look at me and said “Oh, you’re back from the gutters I see.”

Tazz and Meg looked as though they wanted to kill her so did the boys. “Holl, leave her alone.” James said in my defence.

She sneered at me before dragging James off to meet her friends. I shook my head and fought back the tears before turning back to my friends.

I smiled before Tazz and Meg linked arms with me just like old times and began telling me everything that I had missed.

-- For the first time ever: Rhea’s POV --

Mummy left Harry and me in the big room before she went off wif Uncle Albus. The room was filled wif toys but they looked different than ours at home. Harry and me walked into a corner of the room and sat down playing with some toys that we found.

We played for a little while before a boy with brown hair and a chubby face came up to us.

“Hi. I’m Neville. Can I play wif you?” He asked.

“Sure you can. I’m Harry and this is my sister Rhiannon but everyone calls her Rhea.” Harry said as he pointed at himself and me. Neville waved at us big like but I only waved back small cause I’m kinda shy (or so mummy says).

We played for a while before a boy with white hair came over to us. He looked at us meanly before he said “hey stupid, what are you doing playing with these people?” Neville looked like I do when I get sick.

The boy turned to us and said “I’m Draco Malfoy. I can help you find good friends. Want to be my friend?”

“No we don’t. We don’t like to be friends with mean people so leave.” I said, standing up for my new friend.

Draco glared at me and said “No-one asked you, you little hippogwiff.”

I gasped. I didn’t know what one was but it sounded mean. I started to cry when I heard a voice say “Hey Malfoy, leave her alone or we will hurt you.”

We all turned and saw two boys and two girls standing behind Draco.

“What ever. See you later.” Draco said.

“Hi are you ok? Don’t worry about him. He is a big bully.” The boys said to me. Harry hugged me and wiped away my tears.

“I’m ok. Thanks.” I said.

“I’m Tyler, this is Matt, Hermione and Kelsi. What are your names?” the boy said.

“I am Harry and this is my sister Rhiannon.” Harry said.

“I like to be called Rhea.” I butted in as Harry finished talking.

“I prefer to be called Mya but Ty just calls me Hermione to annoy me.” The girl with brown hair said.

We all sat down and started to play. We were going to be friends, I could tell.

-- Lily’s POV --

My friends and I talked and talked. We caught up on everything that I had missed and I couldn’t believe what had happened in 5 years.

James joined us again after he had disentangled himself from Holly. He couldn’t look me in the eye and I didn’t want him to.

Soon Albus came up to us and said “You had better get your kids. Dinner is about to be served.”

Tazz and Meg began to walk but they were shocked when I joined them. The Marauders looked confused and joined us.

“Lils, what are you doing?” Tazz asked me.

I shrugged and when we got to the playroom, I opened the door and called out “Harry, Rhea.”

My two kids turned and ran to me. I picked them up and turned to my friends and said “Meet my kids. Harry and Rhiannon.”

One look at Harry and Rhea was all it took for James to faint.