Hi! my twin and I decided to write this together, it's our first fanfic! (mostly because a friend (Blueholly) showed us this site not too long ago)! There'll be lot's of Marauders, Lily and friends in this. If they all end up together...(that was for the suspense). So, read and tell us what you think!
Lily POV
September 1st
I can't believe what happened today! I met Potter. Well there's nothing incredible about that, he does make a point of asking me out on a very regular basis. The point is, he was nice during the whole conversation and nothing exploded, transformed, attacked me, or acted strangely in any way during that whole time!!! God, I really must be careful!
Lily stuck a stray strand of wavy, copperish-gold red hair behind her ear and thoughfully twirled her pen with her fingers, letting it drop just as the compartiment door of the train leading them to their sixth year at Hogwarts was flung open with over-enthusiastic force. She suddently gagged for breath as she was swept up in a tight headlock.
"My favourite flower!"
"Sirius Black! it's my friend you're strangling!" cried out Cathleen Kingsley, Lily's best mate apart for Anna-Maria Willows, trying to hide the amusement in her voice.
Cathleen was about five foot six and had chestnut hair that fell in soft curls until her elbows. Her eyes were a deep ocean blue but seemed to get darker when she got angry. She was quite shy and afraid of letting people know too much about her, so she had only had few boyfriends despite her slim figure and lovely face. However, she loved having a good laugh and never revealed secrets. Anna-Maria had light brown eyes with small chips of olive-green in them and waist-lenth brillant black hair. She was a bit shorter than Cathleen and had an rather curvy silhouette that had earned her many admiring looks from boys. Lily would trust both of them with her life.
Sirius let Lily go and sat down beside Cathleen, giving her one of the charming smiles that had earned him the solid reputation of being one of Hogwarts most wanted boys along with James Potter. Their best friends, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, were also considered handsome (Peter only because he was part of the Marauders), even if they had had less girlfriends and prefered more stable relationships. Lily knew why girls pursued Potter, but even thought he had already asked her out many times, he was too... well... not mature enough... or... maybe it was that he had tricked, teased, and made fun of her for the last five years. Or perharps having so many people praising him all the time had made his head and ego grow so much they really needed a serious deflating.
Lily turned back to what was happening next to her just in time to see Siruis flick a strand of black hair expertly out of his gorgeous gray eyes.
"So, tell me, how come I haven't noticed such a beautiful girl yet? Have you been wearing an invisibility cloak or what?"
Cathleen blushed and glanced down before looking at him again.
"Will you stop that? Be serious! she asked with a small smile. Besides, I'm sure you've allready noticed me, since you hexed me quite a few times in the past years."
"Of course I'm Sirius! Who d'you think I am?" He exclaimed with a wide grin, making her giggle. "Wait a second, it's stifling in here, let's open a window."
Lily raised her eyebrows at that. She didn't think it was very warm. Sirius reached for the window, convieniently ending up a few inches away from Cathleen with his arm over her shoulders.
James Potter and Remus Lupin chose that precise moment to burst in, big grins on both thier faces, and threw themselves in the luggage rack. Cathleen took advantage of the situation to slip away from Sirius, who hurriedly joined his friends, just as the door opened for the third time, revealing a group of pink-and-green striped, softly glowing Slytherins.
"Where are they!!!!!!"
The three girls were overcome by unvoluntary giggles.
"Who?"Managed to choke out rather innocently Anna-Maria.
"You know very well who I'm talking about!" snapped a very angry, not-so-blond-anymore Lucius Malfoy. "So you better tell us or we will hex you," he snarled, reaching for his wand.
Cathleen jumped to her feet and whipped her own wand out, slashing it down at Malfoy.
"Exbotalogius!"
Gray flapping things appeared all over the Slytherins, who hurriedly stumbled back into the corrider, trying to find an empty compartiment.
The Marauders slipped back to the ground, sitting down next to the girls.
"Wow guys! So, who had this brillant idea?" Inquired Sirius.
"Remus did, he invented the spell." James turned toward Lily.
"So Lils, had nice vacations? I heard you went to France? Did you like it there?"
Lily threw him a curious look. He had actually sounded sincere, as if he truly cared. Had he really changed over the summer? She hesitated and then nodded.
"It's perfect, I absolutely loved it, but I didn't understand a single word. I even visited Beauxbatons! It was really pretty, but I prefer good old Hogwarts."
"Where's Peter?" cut in Anna-Maria.
"Went chasing after the candy-wagon," replied Sirius nonchalantely. "By the way, nice bat-bogey Cathleen, I never imagined I'd see you hexing someone."
Cathleen blushed again.
"I think you're rubbing off on me. I seem to be getting as crazy as you..."
Sirius chukled and gave her another one of his famous smiles.
"I think we should start putting our robes on," said Anna-Maria. "Boys, out of here. And Black, I need to talk to you."
She led Sirius out of the compartiment and rounded on him, leaving a few startled persons behind her.
"Sirius Black! If you even dare break my freind's heart, I shall kill you!!!"
"Don't worry darling, you know me," smiled Sirius.
He sauntered off.
"That's exactly the problem!" Yelled Anna-Maria at his retreating back.
She joined Cathleen and Lily and ushered the rest of the Marauders out.
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Septembre the 1st , very late
When we got off the train, it was pouring, and the first years looked scared, having to sail across the lake in this weather; but at least James Potter was not there to push them inside.
Let's finish what I was writing earlier.
I had just gotten on the platform, a bit too early because I wanted to get rid of my awful sister Petunia, (honestly, she is a true pain! Same goes for her boyfreind Vernon something. I pity any child of thiers,with such an heritage), and just as I was rejoicing over seeing Cathleen and Anna-Maria, hoping they would already be there, I spotted one of the last people I wanted to see, striding towards me with a big grin on his face. Of course, I did the only logical thing I could have done and started looking for the dungbomb, or whatever other stupid prank he was planning.
"Hey Lily, how are you?" he asked rather nicely, his eyes twinkling, not noticing my searching look.
"Fine," I replied nervously.(the only times he had talked to me nicely in the past were when he asked me out or when I was about to become the innocent victim of one of his tricks.)"How bout you?"
I immediatly regretted this last comment, wich broke rule number one: never encourage Potter. He does it well enough on his own.
"Much better now," he replied softly.
And then, my mouth got away with me and before I could do anything about that, it blurted out:
"Why?"
And then,(oh god, this is embarrassing) he ansewered perfectly naturally, as if he does that every day,
"Because I saw you Lily, of course!"
That made me go red. I could feel my face burning; why did that have to happen just then? I blush easily, like Cathleen (Anna-Maria is lucky). Besides, he was just joking... Deciding it would be best to change the subject, I mentioned (rather offhandedly, I hope)(thought probably not, as this is me we're talking about) a subject I was sure he would catch onto immediatly.
"Did you go to the Quidditch World Cup this summer?"
Touché. His face lit up.
"Of course I did! Did you? It was absolutely, spiffingly great! Too bad England lost... Did you see it?"
"In fact, I did, due to the immense pressure Anna-Maria stiffled me with until I agreed to go. And I didn't even regret it! Remember when the keeper got hit with the beater's bat after it was victouriously thrown in the air at the end of the match?"
(by then I had given up looking for a so-called joke and had actually admitted he was just being nice to me)
Well, after that, we just continued talking until I spotted my friends and ducked away. Gosh, he's grown even more handsome over the summer. Wait. Did I just write that down?
Scratch it. Maybe he's really changed?
"Lilykins!" James Potter looked at her incredously. "Is that a diary?"
Scratch that too!!!
"...No...it's a... Textbook!"
He smiled arrogantly. She just hated it when he did that! Apparently she had been wrong. He hadn't changed. Had he?
"Can I look at it then?" he smirked.
James should have known better. Lily slowly got to her feet, her eyes blazing.
"Get the hell out of here before I hex you Potter!"
"Aaah, lylikins is getting mad? D'you really think you can be faster than me Evans?"
He grinned and got closer to her, a superiour smile on his face. Lily cracked.
"What the?"
He was hanging in the air, suspended by his ankle, his wand resting on the floor just out of reach.
"Non-verbal spells Potter... And did you really think you were the only one capable of using levicorpus?"
She marched up the stairs to the dormitory.
"Hey! Evans! Lily! Get me down!!!"
"I think I'll just leave you there... until next summer?"
Lily stiffled a victourious smile and left the common room.
"Lily! Please! Lilykins? Lily-flower? Come on! Are you even listening to me???"
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