Ok but if the Marauders and Lily took a trip to the sea how? great? would it be?
first of all none of them are of age yet which means road trip!
because Lily, Remus, and Peter all learned how to drive illegally the summer before sixth year and none of them give a shit about getting arrested
They rent a big van and switch off who gets to sit alone in the row farthest back to nap
The van quickly fills with empty coffee cups, takeout containers, wadded up paper from the fight Sirius and James had had two hours in, and everyone’s shoes which they all keep taking off
Once they get to the little cottage they’re staying in for the week there’s an all out war for the big bedroom which Lily wins by threatening to castrate each of the boys in the middle of the night.
James and Sirius end up in the one closest to the bathroom so Sirius can do his hair in the mornings and Peter and Remus share the last one
Their first voyage into town involves Lily flirting with the boy selling ice cream to get a discount, a jealous James, and buying swim trunks for Peter because he forgot his
They spend most of their time at the beach, where Sirius complains about the lack of food and sand getting in his eyes
To which Lily throws more sand at him (as mentioned here) as a “snack” and Remus yells from the umbrella he and Lily have been hiding from the sun under to “stop acting like idiots while I’m trying to read!”
They have bonfires almost every night and James always insists on lighting them because he’s, as Sirius says, “absolutely obsessed with fire. A bit mad, really. He’s got scented candles all over the place at home”
Lily brings Muggle sparklers and the boys are terrified of them
There’s a lot of ogling each other in swimsuits while the other’s back is turned
To which Peter laughs at every time without fail
One day it rains and they all stay inside to play card games until they get too cooped up at which point they go back into town and get Sirius to flirt with the barmaid to let them buy drinks underage
they get kicked out of the bar
The ride home is a lot worse because everyone’s tired and hot
But Lily puts on her favorite cassette and they spend the last three hours screaming along to songs
They come home missing six hair ties, Peter’s new swim trunks, and James’s favorite sunglasses, but they have a weird statue Lily bought at some hippy store, enough sand to “start another beach, damnit, I told you this stuff gets everywhere” and enough photos to fill an entire album
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