Accio Evans

Chapter 28: Supermarket

Apparating straight into the Evans' kitchen, Lily and James were surprised to find Mr and Mrs Evans sat drinking tea with a rather giraffish looking woman who at the sight of them stormed out the room and by the sound of it, out the house by the slamming of the front door. James stared on confused, not quite understanding what had just occurred. Lily on the other hand rolled her eyes while her parents looked at her apologetically.

"Hello dear." Mrs Evans greeted, they'd obviously been expecting her. Standing up from her chair and embracing her daughter into a close hug. She had the same hair as Lily, long curly and vivid red in colour, but with brilliant blue eyes which sparkled at the sight of her daughter. Mr Evans was next to embrace her, when he looked at James and smiled, James realised that he had Lily's eyes, but paired with a much lighter blonde hair, more like the girl who had stormed out, James wasn't quite sure who she was or her relevance.

"I'm sorry about Petunia dear." Mr Evans said, pulling out of the hug with his youngest daughter. "She's just stressed – about the wedding that is." Mr Evans excused, although he didn't sound like he quite believed what he was saying. James suddenly realised who the girl was, Petunia Evans, Lily's older sister. Lily was by far the prettier of the two girls; despite only seeing her a split second James seemed to have taken in quite a lot of her facial features. She had rather too much neck which made her look like a very sour giraffe whom constantly had its lips pursed, over which hung her slightly too large front teeth, almost like a rabbit. A rabbit giraffe; James had to suppress a giggle to avoid looking rude.

"Dad, Mum, this is James." Lily said, introducing him. James plastered on his most charming smile to hide his nervousness.

"Nice to meet you son." Mr Evans smiled, reaching out a large hand and shaking James' enthusiastically. He was nothing like James imagined, he wasn't frightening at all, and seemed quite pleased to meet him... which had to be a good sign!

"Nice to meet you Mr. Evans." James replied smiling, somewhat more naturally.

"Call me Arthur. Mr. Evans was my father." Arthur smiled.

"Lovely to meet you. I'm Rose; Lily's mum, although you probably guessed that." Mrs Evans smiled, she seemed taken in by James, she smiled charmingly and batted her eyelids slightly; Lily had to suppress a grin, trust her mum to be totally absorbed by her boyfriend! 'Total opposite to what she did when she met Vernon!' Lily noted.

"Come on, we have plenty of tea, come and have some!" Rose offered. James smiled and sat down at the table, next to Rose and opposite Lily and Arthur, feeling much more at ease than he had done a minute previously. Buttering a scone and taking a sip of the coffee which Arthur had just put in front of him, he thought 'this might not be so bad after all.'

"What is this?" James questioned.

"A car." Lily grinned. "You drive it." To which James looked puzzled. Poking the wing mirror, it moved slightly at his touch which made him jump backwards.

"Like a broom?" he asked, looking down at the small black car, it was a compact two door Citroën. Lily laughed and nodded. "Doesn't look much like a broom." James mused, causing Arthur, who had been hanging out of the front door watching James' reaction with a look of fascination and amusement, to laugh raucously.

"You never driven in a car before James?" Arthur asked, making his way from the front door towards James, Arthur was fascinated by the world of magic and meeting James – who had never encountered the muggle world before - was amazing to him, to see his recations to a seemingly normal muggle object. James had only been at the house for a few hours and yet Arthur loved him already, it might have been his natural charm or maybe his amazed expression as he encountered the muggle world, or just the way he looked at Lily, with pure love in his eyes, Arthur couldn't put his finger on it, but he knew he liked James an awful lot more than he liked Vernon. Lily smirked and held the driver's door open, leaning on the top it, still chuckling to herself at James.