Beachbum

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Chapter 1

Lily was waking up to her last day of year six. She rolled over to meet her worst nightmare. Without moving a muscle silently screamed to herself and then she used her logical side of her brain and figured she was still sleeping, as she would never do this and really she was in a nightmare. Picking up her hand slowly she pinched her tanned cheek hard.

'OUCH!' She exclaimed to herself biting her bottom lip so she wouldn't make a noise.

'Oh dear lord please no' she pleaded to no-one. Lying next to her in her magically expanded bed was James Thomas Potter, Marauder ringleader and hottie of the school. Lily did admit he was hot but his personality was to s#*t. He was the kind of person that knew they were smart, hot and confident. He didn't walk around the school he swaggered and every girl swooned at the sight of him. Lily hated the attention he received just because of his looks and blood. 'Who cares if he's hot if he's got the personality of a horseshoe? And blood? Oh don't get me started' she would argue. No-one seemed to understand this reasonable claim and deduced she was jealous of James. Soon enough people realised that was not to case she just genuinely hated him.

Lily was a very studious young girl at her school. She always wore loose clothes, her hair in a tight bun and a watch that told her schedule. She was the cold model student she was so cold that even her best friend, Jamiliah Teewok, didn't know her as well as true best friends do. Lily was a sweet girl but she was very uptight with rules and the Marauders. Lily was in the running for Head girl and so she was definitely a Prefect and that meant that she had to pull the Marauders reigns from time to time. She was the only one that wasn't sucked into the Marauder charm; the rest of the Prefects and teachers let a lot of things slide with the three boys.

You're probably asking who the Marauders are right about now. The marauders consist of three very charming, handsome, intelligent and confident school pranksters. The ringleader is James Potter. With his black flyaway hair and deep hazel eyes he caught the girl's attentions very easily, but kept it by playing the gentleman. Sirius Black, the white sheep of the Black family, was the loyal best friend and co-prankster of James Potter. The two boys were as thick as thieves and closer than brothers. Sirius's silky black locks, stormy grey eyes and rebel attitude are what brought the girls running in his direction. The last member of the illustrious three is the anomaly of the group. Remus Lupin prankster, brain and… School prefect? That's right Remus J. Lupin was the rule abider and silent one of the group. His mystery and silence were what attracted the girls to him. Remus neither treated them like the trash they were acting or like his friends. When Remus had a girlfriend he would keep her and if they broke up he would approach them maturely and explain his reasons and the want to remain friends. He was boy next door to all the soft hearted romantics of the school.

Lily Evans, shoe in for Head Girl was the only one not to be sucked into their looks, personality ('what personality?' she would yell) and charm. She remained level-headed, unless dealing with James, and treated them like any other student, if not a bit harsher. Lily had no attractive feature to the boys; she was like Janie out of Not another Teen Movie. She was the best student in the school but contained nothing that would attract any attention from even the lowliest Slytherin.

After Lily noticed the boy lying contently next to her she tried in vain to chew off her arm. 'Too much Coyote Ugly' she thought after the first bite brought tears to her eyes. Instead of losing her limb she tried to wiggle out of the bed but a beady eye opened and looked at her.

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'What the hell is that noise?' James Potter thought to himself after lying in bed with his eyes open. A weird squeak was heard in his bed next to him. 'Oh great Padfoot's beating up Peter again'. James realised that Peter had left school in fifth year. Peter Pettigrew was anther Marauder but hadn't achieved the marks to continue with his education and instead decided on an apprenticeship with the Madam Malkin of Madam Malkin's robes for all occasions. It wasn't the most glamorous of jobs but he got paid and that's all that mattered to him. The other marauders, mainly Remus, sent his updates of what was going on at school.

Finally he opened his eyes when the warm bed sheet scratched against his shoulder. In bed, beside him, was the most uptight girl he had met ever since he had come to Hogwarts, Lily Evans. She was staring at him with tears in her eyes and bite marks on her arms. 'Alright then' James thought to himself as he looked up at the startled Prefect with red eyes and an opened mouth. Lily Evans was the only person in the entire school that has resisted his charm and here he wakes up with her in his bed. He thought about the weird Lily Evans and remembered her as the cold, intelligent and heartless future head girl.

She was magically talented he must give her that but physically, emotionally and any other -ally wise she was zip, nada, nothing. She had no figure, no dress sense and most definitely no sense of fun. He remembered the day she caught them in the middle of pranking the Slytherins and wouldn't listen to their very valid reasons – 'they're just Slytherins' he remembered telling her as though it was reason enough. She exploded 'just Slytherins? Just Slytherins?' she yelled with disbelief 'They are part of this school and have no reason to be ridiculed because you are simply bored and can't think of anything else to occupy your mind other than immature, useless and stupid pranks on other houses.' She screamed at them. Didn't she understand? It was tradition, Gryffindor always hated Slytherin and vice versa, they were the rivals of the school.

James rolled out of the bed and Evans rolled out with him. She was holding his hand! Both teens stared at their hands before the silence escalated into a full blown yelling match.

"Let go of my hand Potter!" she hissed glaring daggers at the startled boy.

"Me? How about you? Personally I would prefer being attached to Snape rather than you" spat James. No way in the world would he be holding her hand. How could she even think for a minute that he would voluntarily hold her hand?

"It's nice that you finally come out of the closet so why don't you let go of my hand and find your beloved?" screamed Lily while trying to pry his hand away from hers.

Soon footsteps could be heard from outside the room and the door smashed open to reveal Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Jamiliah Teewok.

Jamiliah was very different from her best friend. She was super model thin, had the unoriginal beauty: blonde hair, blue eyes, big boobs and long legs. She was an air head where as Lily was smart. She believed in fantasy worlds where Lily believed in reality. They were quiet the weird pair of friends

Once upon a time they were best of friends then Lily became cold and a model student and Jamiliah a ditz, but they stuck by each other out of familiarity.

Seeing the two school rivals holding hands and having a full blown screaming match confused their young friends especially Jamiliah.

Jamiliah broke the yells by yelling herself "LILY!" she screamed.

"How could you do this to me?" she cried hysterically. Jamiliah along with having a huge crush on the Marauder ring leader was also the president of his fan club. Neither friend truly understood each other these days.

Jamiliah continued to rant and rave about how Lily had betrayed her and that she stole James from her.

"You just pretended to hate him so you could have him instead. Didn't you?" she screamed finally running from the room in tears.

"JAM!" Lily yelled after her upset that someone would think that of her. But surprisingly she wasn't upset that their friendship was over. It felt like a weight had been lifted off of her shoulders. Finally she wasn't held down by the ditz.

Sirius and Remus continued to stare at their hands as though Merlin himself had graced them with his presence and was currently dancing the hula while telling them that it was great for his hips.

"Stop staring" Lily and James yelled at the two of them. The two quickly escaped their wrath by running from the room to breakfast. Lily transfigured her clothes to her school uniform and started to make her way out of the room tugging James along with her. James started protesting that he didn't want to because he wasn't dressed so Lily transfigured his clothes into the school uniform. Unfortunately Lily wasn't very good with transfiguration and James ended up in one of Lily's uniforms.

"Sorry" Lily apologised not sounding sorry at all, "that's the only one I really know" she ended smiling evilly at his new attired.

James flicked his wand in a complicated fashion and changed his clothes from the uncomfortable and constricting girl's uniform to freeing grey slacks, a red sweater and a black school robe with the Gryffindor symbol on the breast pocket. The Marauders added another embellishment to their uniform that was charmed with notice-me-not charms so the teachers would see. An elaborate M was printed on the back of their robes with three crossed wands and sparks from the wands as a watermark behind the M. The entire design was purple as it was a colour usually symbolising magic and royalty. The colour suited the three boys. All of them were magically gifted and were the royalty of the school; everyone fell at their feet – except the Slytherins and Lily of course.

Once that one particular hurdle was passed James continued his objections to eating breakfast. Lily finally sick of trying to drag him out of the room like the mother of a three year old – James of course being the three year old – demanded what was wrong.

"What? What's the matter?" she finally cracked. Her eyes were shining angrily and her hair was almost rivalling James's own flyaway style.

"I don't …" the ending mumbled to his reason of not wanting to eat a meal.

"What?" she once again yelled getting angrier and angrier as she got hungrier and hungrier.

He took a deep breath and finally said "I don't want to go in holding your hand."

"Well I don't care I'm hungry." She said with finality and continued to march towards the Great Hall with James now reluctantly following.

On the way to the Great Hall students stared at the two rivals holding hands and marching towards the Great Hall. Lily sick of all the attention changed direction and made her way down some stairs, up some, across corridors, in a few portraits, through a mirror and finally stood next to the painting of a young elfin girl with blue skin, short silver locks and bright green eyes. James stared at her, mouth agape as she conjured a sweet for the young girl in the painting and magically painted the large lollypop on the girl's hand. Licking the lolly the girl snapped three of her fingers and the portrait swung open to reveal the kitchens. Lily stepped through the doorway dragging a stunned Potter behind her.

"What?" she demanded once he hadn't even lunged towards the food in front of him. He continued to ogle around the room, his eyes eventually staring at Lily.

Getting impatient at his constant staring Lily hit him over the head with a plate and woke him up. Rubbing his head and sulking he sat down and ate his food silently still keeping an eye on Lily