summary - Four average sixteen years old guys, and four average sixteen year old girls, with very average hormones, and very average lives...well, unless you count the fact that they're all witches and wizards,the girls are known as The Stars,and the guys happen to be called The Marauders...yeah, that may throw off the whole 'average' idea.

Numb Me Sweetly
Prologue

I'm nowhere near perfect; I eat when
I'm bored; I fall for boys too easily; I'm
vulnerable to believing lies; I'm hoping
that one day I don't need a fake smile &&
made up stories to get someone to like me;
I live by quotes & lyrics that explain exactly what
I'm going through & I make up excuses for
everything. I have my best friends && my
enemies; drama & memories. I'm just your
average typical teenager...

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Lily Evans quietly said goodbye to her parents. It was the first time she would be away from them for a long period of time. She gave them one last hug, a single tear rolling down her cheek.

Lily walked through the barrier 9 ¾ just as Professor Dumbledore had told her to.

Her parents watched silently as they saw the last piece of her red hair as it disappeared knowing that their little girl was growing up.

Lily stared up in amazement at the red steam engine.

Suddenly, Lily found herself lying on the hard ground. "Oh my God! I am sooo sorry!" The girl said helping her up from the ground. "Are you a first year? I'm a first year too! I'm sooo happy to finally be able to go to Hogwarts! Oh my, I'm rambling, I ramble a lot when I'm nervous! Are you nervous because I…"

"I'm so sorry about my sister." A boy with sandy blonde hair said. "My name is Remus Lupin, and this is my sister Isabella. I too am a first year." Remus stuck out his hand for her to shake which Lily took, glad to finally know someone.

"Lily Evans, and it's okay about your sister. Would you like to go and find a compartment?"

Isabella nodded her head quickly and started to lead the way.

"So Lily, when we came through the barrier you looked a little lost. Was something the matter?" Remus asked, trying to start up a polite conversation.

"I've just never been this far away form my parents. See, both of my parents are muggles. I hope that the right term, I'm still new at this. Geez, now I'm starting to ramble." Lily looked away embarrassed.

"Yeah, that's the right term." Remus laughed lightly. "You'll get the hang of it eventually. If you need any help feel free to come to me."

"I just might have to take you up on that sometime." Lily said smiling at Remus.

Isabella started to slow down walking next to Lily. "So Lily, I have a feeling we'll become friends in no time. I mean, you have green eyes; I've always wanted green eyes. I'm rambling again, oh well! I'm also sure we'll have lots of other things in common. Like…" And on and on she went, not realizing that Remus and Lily were laughing at her the whole time.

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James Potter was standing up against the wall, staring up at the steam engine. As he was staring he remembered this morning.

James had woken up and went downstairs expecting to see his parents at the kitchen table eating breakfast. But all he saw was a letter, another bloody letter.

"You know, by now I should know better than to get my hopes up. They'll always come crashing down in the end anyway." He said to himself, knowing that the house was empty.

He knew what the letter said. It always remained the same:

'Sorry James, had to go to work early. Hope that we'll be back earlier then normal. Love Mum. P.S. don't eat all junk food!'

James wasn't hungry this morning so he glanced at the clock in the hallway realizing that he slept longer than he ought to. He picked up his trunk heading for the door, knowing that he would eventually find someone that would take him to Kings Cross Station.

James opened the front door.

"Did you seriously think we would let you catch the train without us seeing you off?" James' dad said as his mother gave him a hug.

James chuckled to himself as he relived that morning's event.

He glanced over as he saw a familiar face. James walked over towards Sirius Black; hesitated as he saw who was with him, but them he continued acting as he would've if he'd never seen Lucius Malfoy and the other girl.

"Hey Sirius." James greeted.

"Potter." Lucius said to James.

"Malfoy."

They stood at silence for a few seconds.

"I don't believe I caught your name." James said to the girl who was standing next to Lucius looking bored.

"I don't believe I said it." She replied coldly looking him straight in the eye.

"Well, what is it?" James asked as he tapped his foot impatiently. "I'm James Potter by the way."

"I know who you are." She snapped.

James looked over at Sirius who's looked suggested getting a compartment.

"Let's go." Lucius said to the girl as he grabbed her wrist and dragged her away. She pulled away from his grasp and turned walking backwards.

"Torri by the way, Victoria Malfoy." Torri turned around laughing as she stumbled.

"Wait, was that…"

"Malfoy's sister, yeah." Sirius answered finishing James' sentence.

"But they're…"

"Total opposites, I know. Let just get a compartment." Sirius said walking away towards the train.

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Lily, Remus, and Isabella settled into an empty compartment. They each took a seat, all taking out a book, laughing as they realized they had done the same thing at the same thing at exactly the same time.

"Great minds think alike I guess!" Isabella, (or Bella, which people refer to her as even though she doesn't particularly like it) said opening her muggle Lord of the Rings book. (a/n: I only picked that one because in English class we are reading the fellowship!)

Suddenly, two boys with black hair, James whose hair was an uncontrollable mess, and Sirius who could at least tame his, walked into their compartment.

"Would you mind if we sat here, I'd rather not have to sit with the Malfoy's." Sirius asked Bella.

Bella looked over at her brother and then at Lily who both nodded in agreement. "Sure, suit yourselves."

"Lupin… Remus right?" James asked curiously.

"Yes."

"Wow, I haven't seen you since we were what… nine? You guys haven't come to a ministry party at our house lately." James continued on.

"We've been going to family parties." Bella answered.

"Ah, if it isn't Isabella, haven't seen you since… when?" Sirius said. Bella didn't answer, but picked her book back up signaling that she was no longer in the conversation.

Everybody was silent for a little until the train whistle blew and the wheels started rolling.

"And you would be?" James asked looking at Lily as she stared out the window.

"Lily Evans." She said still staring out the window.

"I'm James Potter, and this is Sirius Black. I'm sorry we didn't introduce ourselves when we came in."

"That's nice." She replied. After a few minutes of silence she spoke again. "I'm sorry, that came out harsh. It's a pleasure to meet you. I apologize again, I just don't really feel like talking, I think I'll just read my book." Lily said picking up her King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table book and began to read. (a/n: yet again another book from English, all I have to do know is to include Freak the Mighty.)

Remus, Sirius, and James started talking about quidditch amongst themselves. Soon Bella joined in, and eventually they started giving Lily a complex explanation of the sport who gradually started to fall in love with it.

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Midway through their journey the conversation changed to what house they wanted to be in.

"Houses?" Lily questioned. Everyone in the compartment stared in disbelief at the girl.

"Wait, you're muggleborn right?" said James.

"Yeah," said Lily.

"Then I guess we'll have to explain," Sirius said giving James and amused look.

"There's Gryffindor, which my whole family had been in," James said.

"Ravenclaw, for the smart and studious," Remus added.

"Hufflepuff for everyone," Bella put in.

Sirius finished with, "And my families house… unfortunately. Slytherin for the evil."

As he ended Torri burst in laughing uncontrollably.

"Her family has also been in Slytherin for generations," Sirius said to Torri to attempt to get her to calm down. Although it wasn't very successful. Sirius had to physically had to get up out of his seat and walk over to Torri, grab her around the waist and had to carry her over the other side of the compartment.

Torri struggled out of his grasp and glared at him. "What was that for?"

"You were laughing hysterically, and I figured you wouldn't be as loud to the people walking outside if you were over here," Sirius answered.

Torri shook her head still stifling her laughter. "What were you saying about my family?" Torri finally looked around to find everyone in the compartment was looking at her.

"Just that they've been in Slytherin for generations…"

"Fools I say, can't see that their opinions aren't they views for everyone," Torri said interrupting Sirius. "Sorry, I'm not myself. Victoria Malfoy." She said giving a look to each and everyone of them. After proper introductions, Sirius sat back down in his seat and glanced around seeing no empty seats. Torri shrugged and sat on the floor underneath the window.

"Weird this one is," Sirius said pointing at Torri, everyone in the compartment laughed as Torri said pouting like a four year old whose mother wouldn't let get the lollypop at the register at the checkout.

Everyone was silent as they finally reached the castle, staring at it in awe.

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The group from the train stood scared as they were about to be sorted. Professor McGonagall was shouting out the names as each individual got sorted.

Sirius Black, Lily Evans, Isabella and Remus Lupin, and James Potter had all been sorted into Gryffindor… the house they had all hoped for.

Torri had put the hat, and it had take a couple minutes. The Hat had started to shout out… "Slyther---," but then mid word had change it's mind "GRYFFINDOR!" Torri had jumped off of the stool and walked over to the Gryffindor table, feeling her brothers glare the whole time.

Boy, was this going to be an interesting seven years.

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Okay. End of prologue. Please, if this kind of bored you, at least attempt to read the next chapter. Oh! And, if you have any advice, ideas or anything about this or future parts of the chapter...feel free to leave it in an a review...or an email (which can be found on our profile page )

DISCLAIMER -x- We infact, do not own Harry Potter or it's universe or anything this else that belongs to the wonderful J.K. Rowling. We also do not own the quotes, or songs we use. This is, however, our idea. We do indeed own two characters… Torri and Bella… in the future you will find we do own a number of original characters (hence 'original')