Eternal Sunshine - James Potter

Chapter 54

Sirius and James had been out of the house all day. I have no idea what they have been up to, I was just glad they were off doing something together. The last few weeks since finishing Hogwarts have been great. I was bit worried that James and I would get under each other's thumb as even when we were at school, we weren't together 24/7 but that wasn't the case. I would often go off and do something with the girls or visit Monty and Mia in the day while he was usually off doing something with Sirius or one of the boys. Sometimes we would tag along with each other and some days we would go do something just the two of us, but it was nice to break away from each other and then be able to come back together every evening to talk about it. That was the best bit about living with James. Knowing that every day I was going to get to fall asleep next to him.

While James and Sirius were off doing god knows what, I had gone shopping with Kayla, like me she liked to have some time away from Lily just so they could have some time to them selves. I think while we were out, Lily had taken Lucy to the muggle cinema as she had never been before. Kayla and I had stopped off at the Potters on the way home just to have a catch up with Mia and so I could give her a book I picked up for her. When we got back to the house we were both shocked to see a motorbike with a twin car outside. Kayla gasped next to me
"He actually bought one" she said in shock. I wondered why when I asked James what his plans were for the day, he was being really cagey. Sirius has been talking about getting a motor bike for the longest time but recently he came into a bit of money when his uncle died, and I knew it was only a matter of time before he bought a bike.

I opened the front door and could already hear the chaos coming from the living room. Kayla followed closely behind me. What the commotion was over, I wasn't sure, as surely Lily wasn't screaming because of the bike.
"we need to start preparing now" Lily said waving a letter round looking sternly at Sirius
"Evans, it's going to make no difference if you make me clean now, then if you make me clean in the morning!" Sirius argued back.
"why are we all shouting?" I asked walking into the living room. James grinned seeing me coming over and taking my bags from me
"Thank merlin your home love it's chaos in here" he said planting a kiss on my head. Kayla had moved next to Lily who had shoved the letter into her hands the minuet she got close enough.
"Dumbledore is coming to visit, he wants us all here, Remus and Peter included at 5pm on Wednesday" Kayla explained to me. Oh, shit this was it. None of us knew when dumbledore was going to speak to us but I guess it was now.
"Lily wants us to start cleaning right this second even though we have two days before he gets here" I sighed and looked at Lily
"Lily the house is already tidy, and I highly doubt Dumbledore would care anyway. We don't need to do anything right this second but if it would make you feel better why don't you write up a task list for us and we can all sit down tomorrow morning at breakfast and plan how we are going to do it" I said trying to compromise with the red head.
"I guess that could work" she grumbled. Kayla rummaged in one of the shopping bags and pulled out the new note pad she had bought Lily
"here you go. I got you this today, why don't we go write your list on this" Lily smiled at her girlfriend giving her a quick peck before dragging her off to their room. Now that had been resolved I turned to look at James and Sirius
"are we just ignoring the fact there is a motorbike outside the house" I said raising my eyebrow at the boys
"I told you it would go with the leather jacket Em. It really completes the look" I chuckled at him
"come on then, show me how it works"

After two days of intense cleaning and organising, the house had never looked better. Even if it did come at the cost of several arguments. Peter and Remus had arrived not that long ago and were helping themselves to the snacks Lily had made me prepare just in case Dumbledore got hungry, she also made James go out and buy an obscene amount of various tea flavours just so we could give him options. At bang on 5pm there was a knock at the front door, and everyone turned to look at me. I guess I will be answering the door then.