Daisy | The Marauders Era

Christmas 1972: Lily's Phonecall

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    This morning while Daisy was reading her Mr Poppington's book, the loud ringing of their little rotary telephone startled her.

When her father first came home with the device, she almost burst into confetti. Their own telephone. Just like the ones they learned about in school, just a little worn, but on the contrary to how it looked, worked liked a charm.

She was about to get up to answer it when she heard the quick footsteps of someone running down the hall.

Petunia had fired into the room in a haste. "Hello?" She asked sounding hopeful, putting on a much kinder tone that Daisy hadn't heard in quite a while.

"Hello?!" Daisy tightened her lips to suppress a laugh as she heard the faint voice of James Potter shouting through the phone.

"Hello?" Petunia asked, pushing away the phone from her ear in annoyance from the loud voice.

"Is Evans there?!" James yelled over the phone once more.

"Which Evans? There's five of us!" Petunia was easily losing her temper with the boy.

"Lily!" James shouted.

Petunia screwed her face up as if she'd just eaten something sour. "What are you? Another one of those weird people from her school? Don't call here!" The handheld was about to be smashed downwards, but Daisy leapt over the back of the couch and grabbed the device from her sister before the connection could be cut.

"Thanks Petunia, I've got it." She nodded to her sister who scowled before marching out the living room.

"Hello?" Daisy said over the phone and heard James yell back,

"Hi little Evans! I'm using the telly-phone!"

"Yes I can hear that." She laughed. "You know you don't have to shout, you can talk normally James." The boy on the other line gave a high pitched hum in surprise.

"Wow really?" James asked now talking in his normal voice — which still wasn't exactly quiet.

"Yes really! Now if you wait with the phone I'll give mine to Lily and she'll talk to you."

"Oh brilliant!" James cheered, and Daisy rested the phone down on the cabinet to search for her elder sister.

"Lily! Phone for you!" She called upstairs.

"The phone?" Lily popped her head out from her door and looked peered to Daisy. "Yeah hurry up!"

So Lily trotted down in her dressing gown, and Daisy was suppressing a smile as she was already anticipating a show.

"Hello?"

"Hi Evans! It's James!" Lily slowly turned around and stared at Daisy the most unimpressed eyes out of all the unimpressed eyes in the world.

Covering the mouth piece with her hand, Lily asked, "did you tell him to do this?" Her words quiet and sharp.

Daisy shrugged her shoulders cluelessly. "Nope."

    Lily sighed with a roll of her eyes and uncovered the phone once again to reluctantly bring it to her ear. "Hi Potter..."

    She boringly droned.

    As James had stopped yelling through his telephone, Daisy was stuck trying to imagine what the boy was saying by Lily's responses. Which was a rather difficult seeing as Lily was being as short as a house elf.