Impatiently she waited, glancing at her watch every what seemed to be ten seconds. How could someone who had been selected to hold so much power, so much responsibility, be twenty minutes late for one of those responsibilities? The thought pondered Lily Evan's head as she became more furious with her new partner. The girl had always been the impatient type, impatient actually seemed rather dim for what she was.
Of course it bugged Lily that the guy she was supposed to be working with for the next year was twenty minutes late. Actually, he was only five minutes late. Lily had always been that responsible, well ordered person who arrived fifteen minutes before she was supposed to be there. So even though the boy in question was only five minutes late, she was angry for having to sit there by herself for twenty minutes. Shouldn't Dumbledore have put someone just as responsible as her in the position of head boy? She was actually sure he did, after calming down and thinking about it, she came to find she felt foolish for thinking badly of Dumbledore's judgment. He had chosen her hadn't he? She soon decided that the head boy would have a very reasonable explanation for not showing up at the right time.
So for the next two and a half minutes the seventeen year old witch sat in the compartment considering possible reasons the young man would be late for something so important. Well honestly it wasn't end of the world kind of importance. Just a few weeks before young Lily Evans had received her usual letter from Hogwarts. It went on telling her about what kind of books she would be needing his year, which classes she would be taking and some other nonsense. But this year, like a letter two years previous when she had been declared a prefect, this letter happened to be very special. She had been chosen by the head master to be Head Girl. With the letter came a pin with the letters HG, and instructions to meet the new Head Boy in the heads compartment at 11:00 where they would discuss prefect arrangements, password arrangements for the school and a few other things.
When Lily had first recieved the letter she couldn't even speak because she was over whelmed with joy, after that it turned to fear. What if the person Dumbledore had chosen for her to work with, was someone she couldn't stand? What if it was someone extremely irresponsible and had no respect for authority? But after a while the young girl came to the realization that Dumbledore would only pick someone who was responsible for the job, and from what she knew the Head Boy and Head Girl positions were chosen from the prefects of their year, and so she knew it would be either Remus Lupin or Teddy Mackson, because they were the most responsible boys of the four prefects. She in fact got along with the two young men very well, even though she couldn't stand Remus' three friends. But she had decided not to judge him by his three idiotic friends. Now Lily had no fear of either situation, sure Dumbledore sometimes seemed quite insane, but she was sure he would do what was best for his school.
Suddenly the door began to rattle a bit (you had to rattle the door to open it because it stuck a bit), and Lily knew that the Head Boy would emerge any second. And when the door finally slid open, and he did enter, she felt her body go into shock. No this couldn't be right, it just couldn't be. How could Dumbledore make JAMES BLOODY POTTER head boy?! How could he? James Potter was the most ego filled jerk on the planet. Not only that but he had NO respect for rules or authority, his life seemed to be all about BREAKING rules, not enforcing them. Dumbledore had clearly lost his mind. How could he make the least responsible boy on the face of the earth head boy? It made no sense! Had he fallen and injured his head since the school year had ended? Was he ill? Or was he just plain crazy as she had always believed him too be? Either way how could this be happening?! Both of her earlier fears had now been realized.
James stood there for a few moments, staring at Lily. She was to shocked to move or say anything, she wasn't even sure if she was breathing or not. She just sat there, wide eyed with her mouth hanging slightly open. She was expecting it to happen any moment, like it always did when they encountered, she was waiting for him to hit on her, ask him out, or something of the sort. But it ever came.
"Yeah I can just see how much you missed me," Potter said, closing the door and walking over to his seat. His voice wasn't filled with the flirty tone that it usually was, he didn't wink at her, or show any signs in being vaguely interested in her like he had for the past six years. It shocked her even more, "sorry for being late. Remus was helping explain some things about the head boy position to me." he explained, not even looking at Lily for more than a second, he then pulled out some pieces or parchment.
Before Lily could even say anything he continued, "Now rather than assigning a schedule to the prefects, I was thinking just set up a chart in the meeting room and have them sign up for two nights a week that they would like to do rounds. That way it won't get in the way of any other commitments they have." The boy mummered as he stared at his paper. The idea stunned Lily. Who was this boy? It certainly was not the James Potter she had known for the past six years, she was close to presuming that it was all just a nightmare, but after secretly pinching herself she came to discover that she was in fact very much awake.
"Uh.. y-yeah. That is a great idea," she stuttered, still in shock of how mature the boy seemed to be. It was something she never thought she would live to see.
James looked at her with a questioning look, probably because her how she stuttered. It was not like her. Lily normally spoke with a strong, confident voice, or well she did around him anyway. His face seemed to have even change, she noted as she examined his face. It was not the same. Normally it was so bright, playful, foolish, but now it seemed.. well she didn't know but it was an unplaceable, cold look. Even his normally bright hazel eyes seemed to have dulled down. But she did not like it, it even kind of worried her. She was worried about Potter? That was certainly new.
"As for the passwords, I already wrote down a list," he said and handed them to Lily, "I sent them to Dumbledore last night actually, he approved them, so that's another thing we don't have to discuss."
The young raven haired boy rummaged through some more papers. Lily was used to being the one that did things a head of schedule, she was the one that usually took the responsibility of doing all the work so this was a second new experience for that took place in only a few short minutes. First, James Potter actually did something, and he seemed to be responsible and have no interest in her. Second, someone else had done all the work.
"I think that's all we had to discuss here," he said and looked up at her, before tucking the parchments back away, "Is there anything that you wanted to add?" he asked, Lily just shook her head. And with that the boy nodded at her, "Later Evans." he said before exiting the compartment.
Lily Evans sat there staring at the boy she had despised for six years. She was feeling something about the way he had treated her, but she could not quite place it. Was he really not interested in her? But that was a good thing! Yeah. A good thing. She sat there for a few moments, just thinking about what had just happened, and then she got up and too exited the compartment and set off to go find her friends, to tell them about what she had just experienced.