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Lily woke up early that morning. It was about 5:30 in the morning and she was the only person possibly awake at this time. She's in her 6th year and is one of the brightest witches of her age. She has red hair that is smooth and straight and it stops somewhere around her waist. She has green eyes that perfectly adds up to her looks. Her best friends are Alice Prewett and Marlene Mckinnon and they were the only ones who Lily could open up to. She took a quick bath, grabbed her favorite book and headed to the Gryffindor common room. She sat on her favorite chair in front of the fireplace and started reading her book quickly getting absorbed in the pages.

"Lily! Let's go to the Great Hall before the food disappears." someone said snapping her back to reality.

"Sorry Alice. I got too absorbed in my book again" replied a sheepish looking Lily.

"No shiz. Now let's go" Marlene said and they headed towards the great hall. Lily looked at the people left in the great hall and spotted James Potter. If you're wondering who he is then he is one of the most popular boys in Hogwarts. He has hazel colored eyes and has black untidy hair that he always runs a hand through to make it look as if he just got off his broom after a Quidditch match. He has girls asking him out almost everyday but he rejected all of them, nicely of also changed over the years. He isn't the same arrogant prat that hexes all the younger kids just for fun. He even stopped Instead, he helps all of them and that's probably the reason why Lily started fancying him. James has two friends namely Sirius Black and Remus Lupin or in other words known as the school's troublemakers, The Marauders. Sirius has black hair and gray eyes. He is known as the school's player. He has a girl every week and Marlene fancies him but was never one of his girls that he uses. Remus has sandy brown hair and blue eyes. He is one of the brightest wizards of his age together with Sirius and James. Alice sat next to Frank, her boyfriend, and beckoned us to follow her. All of them are in Gryffindor.

"Morning Frank" Lily greeted, smiling.

"Morning Lily, Marlene" Frank replied, giving Alice a quick peck on the cheek. There weren't a lot of people left in the great hall and the only ones seated at the Gryffindor table are Frank, Alice, Marlene, Lily and of course, the Marauders. Suddenly, the doors burst open and of course, the two most slutty girls came in. Lily hated those girls ever since the start of her first year.

"Well well, look what we have here. Did the filthy little mudblood oversleep again or where you enjoying a dream in which you were the most popular girl in school? Well, keep dreaming because it will never happen anyway" Jessica said loud enough for the everyone in the great hall to hear. Jessica has been insulting Lily since last year and has been picking on her a lot but this was the last straw. Not a lot of people knew that Lily was one of those girls who are emotionally weak and those who knew are only Frank, Alice and Marlene who swore not to tell a soul. Lily always had to bite her tongue and close her eyes so that she wouldn't cry. She had a sister who hates her and a mum that doesn't care about her so everything's been really hard for her. Her father died last summer due to a death eater attack and he was the only one who truly cared about her. Ever since then she's been treated like a slave every single day during her summer vacation.

"Aww, is the little nerd crying?" Vanessa, Jessica's friend said smirking. Everyone in the great hall was silent watching intently. Lily quickly wiped a tear that was silently falling down her cheek.

Marlene stood up. " Why don't you just-"

"It isn't worth it Marlene. I'll meet you in classes" Lily cut in and rushed out of the Great Hall.

After Lily left, without even touching her food, Jessica rushed towards James saying, "Jamsie, don't you hate know-it-all nerds roaming about in the castle. Plus, she's a mudblood too"

James face hardened. "What did you call her?" he asked in a deathly calm voice, his friends glaring at her and Vanessa the whole time.

"A mudblood why?" Jessica asked. James chose to ignore this the first time but to insult his fellow Gryffindor twice was the last straw.

"Look, even though you are a Slytherin, I've been trying to be nice towards you but after insulting her I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU" James said emphasizing each word, proving his point.

Sirius stood up and said,"Don't even bother coming to us asking for forgiveness. Oh and Remus? Did you say something about a hex a while ago?"

Remus smirked devilishly. " Oh, I have a lot more than one hex up my sleeve"

"And I bet starting today, no one will bother talking to you two" James spat. Jessica and Vanessa quickly paled and ran away to who knows where. The whole hall erupted into cheers for none of them liked Jessica and Vanessa even a little bit.

"Hey Prongs. Are you starting to like Lily?" Remus asked curious.

"What makes you say that?" he replied.

"Well... One: for the past few weeks, you kept staring and talking about her. Two: The way you defended her today reminded me about the time you and Padfoot defended me when Snape called me a werewolf and three: I think you've got her memorized" Remus elaborated.

"He's got her memorized?" Sirius asked the question James was about to ask.

"Yeah. Like how she tenses up when Snape goes near her and how she tries to hide how their broken friendship saddens her and stuff" Remus explained eating his pancakes which has a lot of chocolate syrup. He just loves chocolate so much.

"Then how come you know, huh?" James asked defensively.

Remus sighed. "Because you kept repeating it over and over again" he said matter-of-factly.

"Oh" James replied running a hand through his hair "I guess I do"

"Ha!" Remus suddenly exclaimed "Padfoot, you owe me 10 galleons"

"What!" Sirius replied "That's no fair! You told him about it. If you didn't then he still wouldn't know"

"Fine. 7 galleons" Remus said.

"3"

"6"

"4"

"5"

"Deal" they both said shaking hands.

"You guys bet who I would start liking first?" James asked disbelievingly

"No. Our bet was about when you would start noticing your feelings for Lily" Sirius corrected, grinning

"You guys are unbelievable but I'm glad you're my mates" James said, chuckling softly. "Now Let's go to classes before we'll get scolded by McGonagall scolds us. After all I don't want to lose points any more than Remus does"

"I'll take that as a compliment" Remus said getting his things and started heading towards our Transfiguration class.

Hey Guys! I know it's really short but I hope you liked it so far and please review! Go easy on me though :)