A/N: This is my first fan fiction so I hope you guys like it! Even if you hate it please let me know by reviewing! I will be posting chapters about once every two weeks, maybe more frequently if I'm not very busy. And without further ado, here's my story! I don't own anything!

"LILY!" screeched three seventh year girls on platform nine and three-quarters. The girls embraced Lily and started chattering wildly.

"Hey guys! How was your summer? Mary, I love your hair! Alice, you better still be with Frank! And for Merlin's sake Marlene, stop ogling Sirius Black and just go out with him already!" said Lily with a teasing tone in her voice. Everyone but Marlene laughed.

"I don't like Black!" Marlene sputtered. Having said goodbye to their families already, the girls chatted for several more minutes before Lily looked at her watch.

"Guys! Get on the train! We have one minute until it leaves!" The girls hurried across the mostly deserted platform. They managed to get on just seconds before the train started moving.

"Wow that was close!" Mary exclaimed. "Let's find a compartment." After going through what seemed like half the train, the girls finally found a compartment with enough room for all four of them.

"You've got to be joking!" Lily cried. "The only compartment we can find has the bloody Marauders in it!" The Marauders, Lily was sure, lived to torment her. There were four of them, and they were the biggest pranksters in the school. Remus Lupin wasn't that bad, in Lily's opinion. He was very smart, and loved books. However, Lily suspected that he was the mastermind between several of the Marauder's pranks. Then, there was Peter Pettigrew; he had mousy brown hair, watery eyes, and practically worshiped the other Marauders. Sirius Black was arrogant and broke girls' hearts like it was nobody's business. Finally, there was their leader, James Potter, who was the most arrogant of them all. From the day Lily had met him, she hated his guts. Whether it was running his hair through his messy, black hair to annoy her, or constantly asking her out, he was always getting on Lily's nerve. She clenched her fists at the thought.

"Lily calm down," reasoned Alice. "You only have to be in here for about ten minutes before you go off into the Head's compartment." Lily smiled. How could she have forgotten? It had been one of the best days of her life when her Hogwarts letter came, and her shiny, Head girl badge fell out. She screamed so loudly, that her muggle neighbors called the police. She had tried to figure out who Head boy was all summer, and still didn't have the faintest idea of who it could be. She voiced her thoughts aloud as they entered the compartment and stowed their trunks.

"Do you guys have any idea who got Head boy?" The Marauders laughed so hard that they started crying. "What's so funny?" They only laughed harder. Remus finally managed to gasp, "Who's going to tell her?"

"Tell me what?" Lily half-shouted. "Do you guys know who got Head boy?" If the Marauders heard her, they didn't answer.

After catching his breath, James said with a smile, "I'll tell her. Evans, you might want to sit down."

"I'm fine standing thank you very much, Potter."

"Ok then, here it is: I got Head boy!"

"This is a joke, right? He's joking, right?" Lily said with a panicked voice. James pulled out his Head boy badge, and the last thing she heard was, "It's real," before everything went dark.

When Lily woke up she was in James' arms. She quickly pushed him away and stood up, only to be pushed into a seat by Marlene and Alice.

"What happened?" demanded Lily.

"You fainted when I took out my Head boy badge," said James with his trademark lopsided grin.

Mary, with amazement in her voice, said, "You should have seen James! It was incredible! As soon as you started to fall he darted over and caught you right before you hid your head!"

Lily was revolted. "Next time, Potter," she snarled, "let me hit my head and get a concussion. I'd rather have a head injury than your filthy hands all over me!" Lily thought she saw a flicker of hurt in his eyes, but as soon as it came, it left.

"You know Evans; we are going to be partners for the rest of the year. I think you should really lay off the insults for a while." James said, with a teasing smile.

"In your dreams, Potter."

Sirius stretched out his arms and said, "It sure is good to be back! I didn't realize how much I missed you two bickering!" Everyone, even Lily, laughed.

Alice checked her watch. "Good Merlin! Lily, James, you're late for your meeting with the prefects!"

Lily gasped, grabbed everything she needed, and ran to the prefect's carriage with James right behind her. Out of breath, she apologized profusely for being late and started her speech she had written. As she talked she surveyed this year's prefects. Most of them looked alright, with the exception of one Slytherin and her former best friend: Severus Snape. Her eyes narrowed at him, but she finished talking and dismissed everyone. As they walked back to their compartment Lily was thoroughly surprised; James had usually asked her out by now.

"Potter, are you ill? We've been in each other's company for more than an hour and you haven't asked me out once!"

"Evans, it sounds like you miss being asked out!" Lily gave him an exasperated look. "I have changed Evans; I'm not like I was before."

Lily snorted. "Yeah, right! I'll believe that when pigs fly!" They walked back into their compartment and Lily noticed that the only two seats left open were right next to each other. She sat down as far away from James as she could so that she was practically on Remus' lap. While Lily was looking the other way, Remus gave James an apologetic look.

"Remus?" whispered Lily.

"Yeah?" responded Remus.

"You do know that the only reason Dumbledore didn't pick you for Head boy is because of your furry little problem?" He pretended not to hear her, but Lily knew he had. You see, Remus was a werewolf. The only people who knew were Lily and the Marauders. In fourth year, Lily had noticed something was up. She noticed that the Marauders disappeared monthly, right around the full moon. She confronted Remus and he told her everything: he was a werewolf and every full moon the other Marauders helped him during the night. How they helped him without ending up dead or lycanthropes was beyond Lily. She tried to press Remus for more details about it, but he flat out refused, muttering something about how, "It wasn't his secret to tell". James, completely oblivious of the conversation, leaned over Lily to talk to Remus.

"So, what's your amazing idea for our back to school prank, Moony?"

"Prongs, are you sure you want to do this in front of Lily?" asked Remus tentatively.

"We'll be fine. Evans won't tell anyone." But Lily wasn't listening. She was too busy realizing that James smelled like cinnamon and apples: her favorite smell in the whole world. Unnoticed by anyone, she inhaled deeply, closed her eyes, and drifted off to sleep.

Lily woke up to Sirius' loud voice. "Can I have the last chocolate frog, Prongs pleeeeeease!"

"Padfoot! What if I want to have it?"

"But I never get anything!" Lily rolled her eyes at Sirius' comment.

"Sirius. My parents spoiled you all summer. You honestly can't complain."

"Wait," interrupted Lily, "Black, you live with the Potters?" The Marauders suddenly looked uncomfortable.

"Er, well yeah. My lovely mother wasn't too happy that I wasn't evil like the rest of the Black family. Actually, that's an understatement; she downright hated me. I got a little upset and ran away from that awful house to live in my true home: Potter Manor."

"That's horrible!" exclaimed Lily.

"Well, I guess that's what happens when you're a part of The Most Ancient and Noble House of Black." Sirius said sarcastically. There was a long silence. Finally Marlene said, "That was pretty serious Sirius!"

Sirius cried, "Nooooo! Not the serious Sirius jokes!"

"Hey!" piped up Peter. "We're here!" Everyone looked out the window to see the Hogsmeade station. This was it. This was their last year.