I sat alone on the Hogwarts express, watching the trees fly by outside the window. My friends Grace and Rebecca would normally would be sitting with me in my compartment, but they were currently on prefect duty, as much as they hated it. I was head girl this year, but my friends weren't surprised. Grace just told me that my being head girl was like James Potter asking me out. Everyone knew it was going to happen.

James Potter was the most over confident, self absorbed, immature jerk at school, He had been out with every girl but me, and I wasn't about to say yes, so he'd just have to live with it.

Just then I saw the Marauders heading this way. I groaned and attempted to bury my face in a book.

Hello Lily," a voice purred as the train compartment door opened.

"What do you want Black?" I asked tiredly. Sirius Black stood blocking the door with his Marauder friends not too far behind him, as always.

Sirius was James's right hand man, with his long black hair and his tendency to break the hearts of ever girl at Hogwarts, after snogging them of course.

Remus was the more quiet one of the group, and he had sandy blond hair and glasses. He got good grades and was generally nicer then Sirius or James.

Then there was Peter. A hungry little boy who worshipped the ground the other Marauders walked on. He was, at this moment, chewing on a chocolate frog hungrily and not paying a cent of attention to what was going on around him.

"A place to sit," Sirius answered my question confidently.

I sighed and moved over to let them sit in my compartment.

"Lily?" James asked. I knew what was coming. I wasn't going to go out with him! Ever!

"No," I said.

"Please?" James pleaded.

"No!" I answered. Remus and Sirius just looked at each other.

"How do they do that?" Sirius asked Remus.

"They just know each other so well," Remus said with a mischievous grin. I rolled my green eyes and stared out the window.

James sat down beside me (oh joy) and Remus and Sirius sat down across from us.

"I'm going to go get more food!" Peter piped up. So he left in search of the food trolley, leaving me to listen to the Marauder's conversation.

"Guess what?" James asked me. I looked over at him and was startled by how close he had moved to me. He had one hand on the seat, only inches away from me and was leaning on it. His big brown chocolate eyes looked into mine. He was so handsome.

WHAT? Did I just think that he was handsome? JAMES?

"What?" I asked him, getting ahold of my thoughts.

"I'm head boy," he announced.

"Oh, great," I said sarcastically. Then i realized something. He had matured over the last year. He hardly pulled any pranks these days and he was acting... nice. That's when I decided something. The next time he asked me out, I would say yes!

He sighed and sat back up.

"Why won't you go out with me?" he asked sadly. That surprised me.

"Why do you ask me?" I turned the quiestion around.

"Because you're the only girl who hasn't said yes," he answered simply. That was not the right answer. He only asked me because I didn't say yes! This was some kind of challenge for him! A game! If he gets me to say yes, he wins. I thought he actually liked me! I thought he was handsome! I THOUGHT HE HAD FINALLY GROWN UP.

"Move," I ordered angrily.

"What?" he looked confused.

"I said move!" I snapped. He stumbled, trying to stand up quickly. I tore out of the compartment and down the hall, bumping into Peter, his arms full of candy.

"Want a jelly bean?" he asked, his mouth full of food. I shook my head, for fear that if i said something i would cry.

Tears stung at my eyes and the worst part was that I didn't know why i was upset! Why was this making me sad? WHY?

I found Grace and Rebecca patrolling the halls.

"What's the matter?" Rebecca asked, alarmed.

"James Potter is a jerk," I sobbed into Grace's shoulder.