Lemonade || James Potter

Premier Jour (first day)

   It was Zélie's first day back since...it happened. You could never bring it up around her if you wanted to see her again for the rest of the week. She was grieving the most, it's like everyone was to busy to remember she was there to watch her mom die and she couldn't do anything but watch. After thinking about it too much she went to go get some lemonade, that always made her feel better. No one exactly knows why she likes it so much she doesn't even really know maybe it was the nostalgia of memories of the smell it brought from when she would sell lemonade to get money for a hamster which she never got. She wasn't exactly sure. As she poured the sugar into the lemon juice in the kitchen with the elves she saw the one and only James Potter. They lived in the same block at home so they would hang out from time to time, that was before she began isolating herself. She thought about her memories of the laughing teen in front of her after Sirius had said something about dumbledore while drinking her lemonade. The sweet taste made her fell better. After that she got ready to go to the annual feast of Hogwarts.

       James potter saw Zélie d'Evreux in the corner of his eyes
drinking her lemonade, staring off into the distance, he was the one that found Zé screaming on the floor next to her mothers dead body, calling in his mother and father for help. She stayed with them for a few nights since her dad was in Spain doing hell knows what. He felt a sting in his Heart looking at her walk away to go get ready for the Hogwarts feast. He couldn't imagine how it felt to see his own mother die whilst being tied up and forced to watch. Sirius was still laughing about his joke about dumbledore. But all he thought was guilt. He stopped thinking about it as he entered the great hall starving from the long ride to Hogwarts.

   While Zé walked into great hall she felt as if everyone turned to her feeling guilty. She didn't want their pity. She didn't want to talk about it. She sat down at the far end of the hufflepuff table away from everyone else, a girl that was unknown to Zé tried to sit next to her. "hey-" she couldn't finish, Zé grabbed her by the tie "if you don't t move from this seat right now I will cut your throat in your sleep." She whispered, the girl was too shocked no say anything. "YOU GOT IT!" Zé screamed the whole school hearing her the girl quickly moved to sit with her boyfriend. The school has never seen her so angry, it was always "Hey! Look it's Zé" they would say smiling now it would be "Hey! Look it's Zé" they would say with a straight face whispering about how out of control she is. "Miss d'Evreux there is no need to shout,detention tomorrow and five points from hufflepuff." Dumbledore said with his calm tone Zé always hated "should've sit somewhere else" she mumbled. She left the great hall  early and tried to get some rest early since it was unlikely she was going to sleep like every other night before that.

James saw Zé get up from her seat and leave, he waited a few minutes so it would be suspend left too. He followed after her trying to catch up. "ZÉ!" He said gasping for air she yelped as he put his hand in her should, he instantly took it off. "Potter I really like you so I would prefer you leave before I snap at you too." She said. "What? No I was just gonna ask if I could walk with you to your dorm." He said. "Oh, I suppose that's okay." She mumbled. As they walked James looked down trying to think of a question to ask her. "Why do you like lemonade so much?" He asked, after a few moments of silence she answered, "Not sure" she said. She thought it was thoughtful he didn't even think about asking her about her mother. She knew it would be awkward seeing him again after he found her cradling her moms dead body. "Say? Isn't your birthday on Wednesday next week?" He asked before she could answer he continued "I already know what I'm going to get you" he smiled "it is and you don't have to get me anything." She said smiling. "We'll why not?" "Wouldn't you rather I use my money on a birthday gift other then drugs or something?" He laughed. "We'll yes but-" before she could finish "Oh! This is your stop we've talked the whole way here" he said smiling a giddy grin. Zé rolled her eyes, "good night potter" she pretended to be annoyed. "You can call me James and good night Zé" she softly smiled walking away. As Zé stepped into her dorm she got it no her bed across from a few girls how probably hated you and were spreading rumors. As she tried to sleep all she thought about was what James was going to get her next week.

Zé slept all of two hours last night but with four cups or coffee and two of lemonade she was determined to push through the day. She got ready for the day and put her robes on as she left the room she made sure to wake all her roommates up as a 'nice' gesture.

"Prongs you already got her a birthday present!?" Sirius says completely unaware of what happened last night. "I couldn't wait you know I like giving people birthday gifts." James whined like a child. "What'd you get her" Peter asked trying to look in the bag. James lifted it up high "I will show you if you promise not to tell her. YOU TOO MOONY I KNOW YOU STUDY WITH HER SOMETIMES!" He yelled making sure Remus was awake because he wanted to show him. "I got herrrrr" he kept repeating the 'r' until he got the gift out of the bag which was stuck on something somehow. "A lemonade scented perfume!" He was very proud of himself he didn't even know that lemonade scented perfume was a thing until he asked Mary about it and how Zé really wanted it. He was in the library all night looking for a recipe to brew the perfume which he finally found which took another few hours to brew because he messed 8 multiple times and broke 3 bottles. "That's actually an awesome gift" Sirius said, James always has the best gifts but that had to be one of his bests. "Can I smell it?" Peter asked "well not from the bottle because then you would waste it but if you smell me you'll smell it I broke a lot of bottles trying to fill them" he said Peter reluctantly sniffed his shoulder. "That smells like lemonade to me" he said. "James I'm not letting you give her the gift early. Wait it we'll be so much better in her birthday then right now." Remus finally spoke up. "Fine" he groaned but hid the perfume in one in his drawers.

a/n If your wondering you pronounce Zé (Z) and Zélie (Z-Lee)