Okay, I'm back and I've got work to be done! I'm going through and fixing this and that (taking the "e" from the end of Lupine..lol) Going to take out A/Ns that no longer apply, going to put A/Ns that do apply at the front of chapters now, hopefully get new chatpers up.
Oh, PS! All of the chapters have names now, check them out and let me know what you think!
Chapter 1: Taxi Talk
Seven-teen year old Lily Evans sat next to her best friend Anne Pagan. They were in a cab on their way to Kings Cross station for their seventh and final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"Meeting someone at the station girls?" asked the cab driver.
"Oh no," replied Anne, "We are taking the train to school."
The rest of the ride went by rather quickly and soon the girls found themselves standing between platforms nine and ten.
"Well here we are, our last year," Lily dramatically announced while facing the barrier between the two platforms.
"Don't worry Lily, in some years to come when one of us is Mrs. Remus Lupin, we will be back here again sending off Remus Jr.," Anne teased.
"Oh stop it Anne I don't like Remus nearly as much as you do, he and I are just friends. Now, let's get onto the platform before one of the Marauders show up and hear us. Their heads are big enough as it is," Lily snapped back.
Remus Lupin was a boy in their class and house to whom both girls had been attracted to. When Lily and Remus became prefects in their fifth year they became friends but nothing more. But Anne's crush for him remained, and if it was possible, grew stronger.
The Marauders was the group of troublemakers that Remus belonged to. Lily never understood why Remus hung with them. Remus was so smart and well behaved but his reputation as a Marauder gave him more detentions then ten Slytherin students together. The other three boys in the group were James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew.
James was the head of the Gryffindor quidditch team and played chaser. He also had a bad habit to chase after Lily. All of the girls in school were jealous of the fact that James was "in love" with her, although Lily would have none of it. James was very handsome, and it was an honor to date a Marauder, but he was also very immature. Lily saw his "I love Lily" stunts as a call for attention. He always seemed to ask her out when as many people as he could were looking and Lily was convinced that the only reason he might have the slightest interest in her was because she was one of the only girls who would not throw herself at a boy, Marauder or not.
Sirius was also on the quidditch team but played beater. Sirius and James were like brothers and shared everything school wide fame to detentions and even home work; the latter two caused Lily to hate the them even more. Sirius was the school player and was very good at it. If Sirius was seen with the same girl wrapped around his arm for more then a day then the whole female student body was thrown into an uproar of panic.
Along with Remus, Lily could not figure out why the final boy in the group was accepted as well. Peter Pettigrew was a short chubby boy. He had none the looks, talents, skills, or intellect that the three other boys obtained. He was pretty much as sissy, following James and Sirius around and worshiping the ground that they walked on. Anne had heard once that Peter collected things of James' and Sirius' and kept a shrine to the two in the Gryffindor boy's bathroom.