Lily Evans sat in the red compartment of the Hogwarts train with her best friends, Alice Tomas, Emilie and Jennifer Cortright. 'Seventh year at last!' Lily thought to herself. She'd made Head Girl, a goal she'd had since she had found out there was such a thing. A thought clicked in her head. The meeting! She had completely forgotten the meeting that was to be held with her, the Head Boy and all the prefects. "Oh my gosh, I gotta go!" She stumbled out of the compartment and down the hall. Coming to a stop outside the Head's compartment, she quietly pushed open the door.
"…and you all stay out of trouble and have a good year." a familiar voice said. Lily froze, 'No, dear God don't let it be…' "Hey there, Flower." James Potter greeted her from the opposite side of the cabin.
"I thought I told you to quit calling me that, Potter." she snapped as all of the prefects filed passed her. "And what are you doing in here, this is for Heads only." he got off the bench and walked slowly closer.
"One, I could start calling you something else, like I dunno…. Foxy, two, my name isJames, not Potter, and three, I'm Head Boy." Lily just looked at him.
"No seriously, what are you doing here?" Remus and Peter poked their heads in the door then came in. "And where, might I ask, is the final counterpart?" Sirius, not being in the room, was most likely getting into some kind of trouble.
"Well, he's either getting something to eat or he's with Jenn." Remus reasoned. Out of all of the Marauders, Remus was the only one that she had ever gotten along with.
"Jenn, as in myJenn?" She couldn't bear to think that Jenn would sink that low. He nodded. Someone poked their head into the compartment, a black haired boy that was not Sirius.
"What do you want?" James snapped when he saw Severus standing in the door way. "This compartment is for Heads only."
"Then why are you here?" he retorted dully.
"He's Head Boy, Sev." Lily cut in. The train screeched to a halt and Lily fled the compartment barley containing her excitement. Wait. She stopped dead in her tracks. Had she really just thought that she was excited that James was Head Boy? She shook her head and continued walking. It must have been the excitement of making Head Girl seeping into every other aspect of her complicated life. She reached Alice and Emilie. they all piled into the carriages as they lurched forward. Derrick Morgan followed them to their carriage and took a seat across from Lily and Alice. He kissed Emilie and they continued talking. Lily and Alice exchanged surprised glances and shook their heads.
"Hey Lil, do you really have your own dorm?" Alice asked. Lily nodded still mulling over her confused feelings.
"You haven't told us yet, who is Head Boy?" Emilie asked, breaking away from her boyfriend.
"Where is Jenn?" Lily changed the subject. Emilie gave her a stern glare. "James Potter" she whispered.
"No way, there is another James Potter? Like, other than the one you swore to hate forever? 'Cause the one I know would never make Head anything." Lily shook her head pitifully. "You actually haveto spend time with him?" Emilie suppressed laughter; once again Lily was forced to nod. At this Emilie and Alice both burst into uncontrolled fits of laughter. After a few seconds they attempted to restrain themselves.
"What is so bloody funny?" Derrick asked not quite understanding. Both girls shook their heads. "Where is Jenn?" Emilie's smile disappeared completely and Alice burst into peals of laughter again. "Where is she?"
"She…is…. w-w-with….S-s…." Alice choked out between giggles. She took several deep breaths and began again, "She's with S-s…" Alice couldn't speak anymore. "Sirius"
"Sirius Black? I thought we'd beat sense into her a long, long, time ago." Lily burst as the carriages came to a stop. They piled out and stood in a group, shivering from the crisp night air. "Are you sure? Did he kidnap her?"
"Who kidnapped who?" Jenn asked from behind them. Sirius stood with her, his arm draped around her shoulders.
"No one, where've you been?" Lily demanded.
"Ease up, Flower." James said coming up on them. Lily scowled at him for being told off.
"All of you inside now please." McGonagall called from the front doors. James winked to Lily as they followed the professor inside. She smiled for a second then quickly changed it to a scowl.
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"Now that all of you have stiffed yourselves considerably, I have a few announcements. This year both of our Heads are from Gryffindor House, Miss Lily Evans and Mr. James Potter." James and Lily both stood as he rest of the hall clapped. Once they returned to their seats Professor Dumbledore continued his speech and dismissed them to go off to their dorms.
"So, Lily, what shall we have as our password?" James asked her as they stood outside their dorm. He put his arm around her shoulders. For a minute she didn't react.
"Well, first of all we don't have a password unless we so choose..." she began.
"Ah, but I think we should have a password. You know if we don't have a password then some little first year could see something that they shouldn't..." James said in a low voice, stepping closer to her. She backed away from him looking a little confused.
"What, may I ask, would they see." Lily asked quietly, walking through the portrait hole backwards. Thank God it's dark! Lily thought as she felt her face grow red.
"Well..." James moved closer to her still until they were only a few inches apart. "I don't know, maybe we can find out." He moved as if to kiss her. For a minute he thought that Lily was going to let him kiss her. That is until she moved at the last possible second before they touched.
"I...um... er... good night, James." she whispered turning on her heel and heading across their common room and into her own room. Lily closed the door behind her and sank to the floor with her head in her hands. For some reason she was breathing heavily. What is the matter with me? She asked herself rocking back and forth slightly. Did I seriouslyjust almost let James Potter kiss me? I need some air. She waited until she was sure that James had gone to ed and crept out of her room.
James stood in the dark corridor leading to the portrait hole. He smiled to him self and walked to Lily's bedroom door. He raised a hand to knock on the door. Sirius burst into the common room tugging Jenn by the hand. "Hey man! What's up?" James lowered his hand, waved slightly and walked to his own door. "Hey, I'll be right back babe." He kissed Jenn. James stopped in his doorway, eyes wide. He cleared his throat louder than necessary to break them apart. He continued on into his room shaking his head. He heard an explosion of chatter as Sirius closed the door behind himself. Once or twice he was sure that he heard his name in the conversation. A door opened and shut as another voice joined the chatter.
"NO WAY!" he heard Emilie shriek. Lily has to tell her best friends everything doesn't she.
"What did you do?" Sirius asked when he heard the explosion of laughter and yet more chatter.
"I... well... erm... I almost kissed Lily." he mumbled.
"NO WAY! And you're still alive and in one piece. That's bloody AMAZING!" They continued talking and laughing as Remus and Peter filed into the room. After a few hours they all left, leaving James by himself in the common room. He stared into the fire thinking of Lily until he drifted off to sleep.
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Lily crept out of her room and into their common room. She stopped when she saw James on the couch. A slight smile flickered across her face when he snored quietly. Lily grabbed her jacket from the chair and left to patrol the corridors.
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James woke the next morning and dragged himself into the bathroom to take a shower. After a little while he heard someone banging in the door. "Potter!! Hurry up we're going to be late!" he didn't hear her. A few minutes later he thought that he head the door open and shut a few seconds later. James shut the shower off and stepped out wrapping the towel firmly round his waist. There was a message written in the steam on the mirror. 'You're going to be late! Next time don't take so long. Lily.' He read the message quickly and grinned to himself with the thought of what she could've seen. Turning to the shower door those thoughts disappeared when he saw that the door was fogged up as well.
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A/N- I might as well tell you all the obvious: Regrettably, I don't own any of the characters except for the ones that I created, but then again neither do you.