Sirius Potter and Marlene McKinnon were at the potter mansion lolling on the green grass. James Potter was flying high above them on his new broomstick. Sirius Black looked at his best friend and sighed, "What's up Sirius?" the blond asked curiously, "Do you think Lily and James will ever end up together?" Marlene blinked in surprise at the question. Lily Evans was her best friend in the whole wide world, but hated James Potter who was Marlene's oldest friend. To be fair he was an idiot but he was utterly in love with her. "I hope so, but it doesn't seem likely." Marlene replied to the boy after a moment of pondering the circumstance. Sirius sighed again "he loves her so much, god knows wh..." Marlene narrowed her blue eyes in defence of her best friend "watch it Sirius, she is my best friend despite her thoughts on James- he does pester her." Sirius glared back at Marlene "only because he loves her." Marlene lay back down on the grass and closed her eyes in defeat. "Sirius they would be so good together, if he deflated his head, and she saw him for what he can be; caring and funny rather than what she thinks he is like." Sirius nodded even though Marlene still had her eyes closed, soaking in the sunshine. Sirius lay down next to her. From high above if James would ever notice, which was not likely, they looked perfect together, Marlene was curvy and beautiful, Sirius was athletic and handsome, and they shared the same dirty humour and were both intelligent. As Marlene lay next to him she inhaled his scent cologne, conditioner and quidditch. Quidditch was a smell- kind of sweaty but nice. Marlene shook the thought of how much she loved his smell and started a conversation about quidditch. Sirius responded with enthusiasm, but a tiny part of him couldn't help but think her voice sounded like music.
Far away Lily Evans was inside her house packing for Hogwarts, which she would return to in exactly a week. Her red air was tied up in a messy ponytail; she hummed while she folded her robes neatly. No one could deny she was beautiful, maybe not as obvious as Marlene but she was: the way her eyes sparkled like emeralds, her gorgeous red hair, and her smile that lit up the world. James Potter noticed this but there were plenty of beautiful girls at Hogwarts but Lily was different, she was so intelligent, kind, funny and brave.
Lily loved magic ever since she found out she was a witch it had fascinated her, so obviously to learn more about brought lots of books so when she arrived at her first year at Hogwarts she would know as much as any of the children from magical families. And she did Lily was soon recognised as one of the most talented witches in the school despite her muggle heritage. She had received the highest possible grades in her OWLs, but she still felt she didn't belong anywhere. "Mudblood" Lily winced at the memory of her former best friend calling her a name she had dreaded facing for years, she was a muggleborns; she didn't belong in the magic world. "FREAK!" her sister called her that so frequently and made her feel so unwanted Lily knew she didn't belong in the muggle world. "Lily dear its time for lunch" Called her mum, Lily raced down stairs.
As they eat their delectable lunch of Pizza and Salad Lily found herself explaining what apperation was "It's where I can travel anywhere in the space of a second." Her father's face shone with excitement "like teleportation?" Lily nodded a forkful of salad in her mouth. "Sounds exciting dearie, would you need a passport?" Lily swallowed "No, when a pass my test I will take you to anywhere you want to go, you don't have to pay for flights, it only takes seconds, but you still have to pay for hotels." Her parent's eyes lit up; unlike her sister her parents loved magic, despite not being able to do it. "So you could go to Spain-right now." Lily laughed at her parent's eagerness "not until after her test." Lily's mother replied sternly to her husband. Jack Evans grinned at his wife, "Ok after the test- could you?" Lily nodded. The conversation continued for a while, once all the plates were clean Jack said "Magic chess?" Daisy Evans chortled at her husband as she washed the dishes Lily said "if you are willing to be beaten." The fake trash talk continued as they got down the chess board, which Lily had brought her dad, it was magic and he loved it. These were the days Lily loved, spending time with her parents and having fun.
Back at the Potters house Marlene had left to go to some boy's house, and the other marauders had arrived. The four boys were sprawled across the second lounge. Peter and Sirius were playing exploding snap, while Remus and James were having a heated discussion about the werewolf rights "Prongs I'm telling you even IF there is such a thing as an afterlife, monsters would not be invited." James looked at him "Probably true, dementors won't be there, no need to worry about them moony." Sirius snorted Remus glared at James "that's not what I meant." James smirked "I know what you meant moony but…" "YOU ARE NOT A MONSTER!" Sirius, Peter and James said simultaneously. Remus looked at his friends and smiled.
Peter looked at his 3 best friends though he sometimes felt out of place, he loved being with the cool kids "Guys are you excited for the end of summer potter party?" Peter squeaked, they all grinned at each other "It's going to be the best one yet." Remus said grinning, Sirius nodded. "Do you think Lily will come?" Sirius put his arm round his best friend, "who knows prongs, maybe but if she DOE snt doesn't let it get you down. James snorted at the doe pun. He looked at the three other boys and felt a surge of emotion flurry through him. "You know I am kind of glad I met you losers." He said smiling a real smile. Peter said "Really, god. I think you lot are wankers." They all laughed. Mrs Potter came in at this moment with 4 hot chocolates. James snatched his up but the other marauders thanked her. Sirius had said subconsciously "Thanks mum." To which she hugged him and said "One of my sons is polite." Sirius blushed slightly and kissed her on the cheek. Then she fussed over Remus who also smiled, Mrs Potter made each boy feel welcome.
Lily woke up as 3 figures lunged on her bed "Ahhhh!" She exclaimed the 3 girls grinned at her. She glared at them. Alice laughed and hugged her "missed you to Lil." Mary smirked "It was Marlene's idea." "Was not." "Was to!" "Maybe but it was funny." Lily looked at them all and brought them into a group hug "I love you but if you do that again I will release all my fury on you." The others laughed "Anyway" Said Mary "We have got to get you all dolled up for the party." Lily groaned- not because she didn't like the occasional party, because she loved to dance- but because it was the potter's party!
The preparation for the party was less painful than Lily had thought. At 7 o'clock all of the girls had long painted nails, not a hair out of place, make up impeccable. Then they got dressed; Marlene wore a tight (but not tight enough to be slutty) blue dress that matched her eyes with not a lot of thigh but a fair amount of cleverage, Mary wore white skinny jeans and a low cut black top (again sexy not slutty) Alice had a black short skirt with a floaty pink top. Then there was lily in a black tee slightly baggy and a knee length red skirt. "What are you wearing?" Marlene exclaimed dramatically, pointing at the girl with a mock of horror. Lily blushed. "It's comfy." She said defensively. Marlene closed her eyes as if in too much pain for the conversation. Mary took over "Lily do you think these heals feel good on my feet- no they hurt like hell, now take that off put your and we are going to make you sexy." Lily took off her clothes self-consciously. After some consideration it was for Lily to wear a figure hugging white dress which was much too high for Lily's liking. "Alice, help me!" Lily cried dramatically to her only friend who was not trying to put her in the dress. Alice looked at Lily half amused half sympathetic. "Lily I love you but you will look nice they know what they are talking about." Marlene gave a triumphant whoop.
James potter was standing in a checked shirt and black slim fitted jeans in the party room as everyone who is anyone at Hogwarts filed in. He was in mid conversation with his friend Fabien Prewett in the year above when he saw Lily Evans. He looked gobsmacked at the girl, as did many others, she always looked gorgeous but tonight she looked hot. James stared at her oblivious to Fabien's laugh "James here is some advice- she hates you for your big headiness- don't ask her out, give her space. Trust me." And walked off.
The girls walked up to the drinks table when a voice said "boo!" Alice made a noise of excitement and leaped on to Frank Longbottom, the two were now thoroughly engaged in the others mouth. It was cute in a gross kind of way Lily concluded. After a while Mary was chatting up a hot boy who Lily vaguely recognised to be a now 7th year hufflepuff and Marlene was more than likely snogging the pants off some boy. Sirius crept up "well Evans you look hot." Lily blushed desperately wishing to evaporate. Sirius laughed off her obvious awkwardness, "good summer?" He asked, Lily nodded "you?" Sirius smirked "Yeah ran away from hell and banged a hot veela." Lily wrinkled her nose "Marlene told me about the hell thing, I hope you're ok now." Sirius smiled down at the girl "You don't want to know about my amazing sex?" Lily blushed bright red and Sirius chortled again "Thanks red, so I know you are dying to tell me about your OWLs." Lily grinned slightly "I did pretty bad…12 Os." Sirius gave her a short round of applause. "You are the smartest girl in the year red. I got 4 O's 5 E's and 2 A's." They made small talk until "Remus!" Lily hugged the boy delighted to see him. Sirius muttered "Deer someone could get jealous." Remus ignored this, and luckily Lily hadn't heard. Sirius went to find a girl who was vaguely attractive whilst Remus and Lily caught up.
James Potter had managed to keep himself away from Lily by socialising with most of the room, however to James surprise it was Lily Evans who walked over to him buterbeer in hand. Automatically James ran his figures threw his hair "Evans." He nodded towards the red head expecting her to keep walking "Potter, hi how are you?" James only had a mili second to comprehend that it was a question for him "Good how about you?" Lily nodded "Good, Potter I am sorry for shouting at you, the day of the lake. You were a prat but I shouldn't have taken what sev-snape said out on you." James felt as if Christmas had come early "It is fine, I am sorry I was a prat." The tiniest smile crept up on Lily's lips, "It's a good party." James smirked "yet you don't seem to look very happy." Lily blushed "Is it that obvious?" James nodded still smirking he was about to say something about how she looked but stopped himself as Fabien's words rang through his head. "Why are you?" He asked. The girl smiled a little more "The dress is awfully short and I don't know anyone." James nodded understandingly. Lily prepared herself for a comment about how short her dress was, to her surprise non came. "Well Evans, you know me." Lily flashed a smile at him "I do now I assume you are dying to brag off your O in transfiguration?" James laughed "Remus told you?" "No I guessed, don't get all big headed but you are the best in the class." James' heart back flipped but he stayed cool and said "Maybe at transfiguration but you are the smartest girl in the year, 100 outstanding?" Lily smiled "Only 12." James laughed "you sound disappointed that you only got the highest score possible." Lily laughed a little. For the next hour the two of them stood talking.
Marlene McKinnon and 'damn what's his name' were snogging when Sirius Black walked past and felt a surge of jealousy and shouted before his mind knew what he had said "Marlene you cheater!" They broke apart and the boy scampered. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Marlene shouted at him "He was a creep. Trust me you are lucky I helped you." Marlene felt her blood boil "YOU SAW THE BACK OF HIS HEAD HOW DO YOU KNOW HE IS A CREEP?" Sirius almost lost his cool "I saw you go up." Marlene still glared, "You are hot when you're angry." Marlene continued to scowl but Sirius stepped forward and muttered "You are still angry there for you want to look hot for me." Marlene laughed "No Sirius. You just find me hot." Sirius scoffed "I have standards McKinnon." Despite herself Marlene took a step forward, closing the gap and said her hot breath in Sirius face "I have heel higher than your standards." Sirius smirked "Ah but you have high standards which I fulfil." Marlene blushed, Sirius but his lips millimetres away from hers. Marlene was lost for words. Sirius smirked "You want to kiss me." Marlene did but stayed strong "You want ME." Sirius conformed this as their lips met passionately.
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