"Lily, come on, we are going to be late for the party,"

"God damn, Craig, I'm comming I'm comming," Lily said to her long time crush and date as she climbed out her window.

"Be quiet or your parents will wake up,"

"Please Craig, my parents passed out a long time ago," She had reached the edge of the roof where her two best friends were sitting a story below in a white convertible.

"What ever you say babe,"

"Babe?"

"Just go,"Lily raised her eye brows before lowering herself off the edge of the roof and falling into the backseat.

"Hey Lils!"

"We missed ya!" Jeremy and Adi said each hugging her.

"Oh, I missed you too!" She replied burying herself into Adi's arms.

"Ready to party guys?"

"HELL YES!"

"So, Lils,"Adi yelled over the wind.

"Yeah,"

"How is school?"

"Its okay, but you remember that guy I'm always talking about?"

"Yeah, Josh, or whatever,"
"James, yeah, well he has taken to asking me out three times a day,"

"God, how insufferable,"Jeremy yelled over to her. She laughed and hugged them both again.

"So where is this party?" Lily yelled up to Craig.

"I dunno some kids house. Distant friend of a friend."

"Sounds great,"

"Your telling me, we don't even have to clean this time,"

"No shit," Adi yelled to Craig. "You remember that one party where the damn kid made us stay and clean till like ten in the morning." The rest of the car ride passed by them recounting the best and worst party stories they had. Lily even told them about the party James threw back in fourth year when Gryffindor had won the Quiddich cup, of course she changed Quiddich out with Soccor, but it was a good story none the less.

She had great friends at school and all, they were just nothing like Adi and Jeremy, they had been going to parties together for ever, her friends at school all drank too, but she could never let the Mauraders see her drinking. What would they say? God only knows James would have a field day, and Sirius, she would never have a peaceful moment. He would want to get hammered that night. No it was best for everything including her head girl badge that they never found out.

When they finally got to the party there were cars everywhere, music was pumping through the walls, and people were everywhere. Lily supposed there was a pool out back because she heard a splash followed by a squeel. She laughed and grabbed Adi's hand. She grabbed her purse her bottle of Dark Eyes vodka and hopped out of the car. Craig looked at her holding Adi's hand and raised his eye brows. She laughed and offered it to him instead. He took it and they went in. There were people everywhere and they easily found the room with the booze. It wasn't hard to find, the most crowded. There was currently three games of beer pong going in the the next room and two games of quarters going on at both the kitchen table and the kitchen counter. She laughed and pulled craig over to the quarters table where two people she knew were currently egging on a third person she knew to knock back a shot. He did and everyone clapped including Lily.

"Good one Trent!"

"LILY!" The table screamed.

"HI guys! Mind if we get in?"

"Not at all!" They all scooted around to make room for Lily and Craig and they took their seats.

"You next Lily," She took the quarter and bounced it off the table it landed square in the bottom of the glass. It was a good thing it was wet because it would have bounced out otherwise. She laughed and pointed at Joshua.

"Lily come on you just got here make Craig take it," he scowled. She shook her head and laughed. "Everyone gang up on Lily after this," he said and poured himself a shot. He took it and spit the quarter out and handed it to Craig.

"Get ready for that shot Lily,"

"Yeah right Craig, I've seen you play, you couldn't hit,"tink,"Oh fuck,"Everyone laughed as Craig sank it. She poured a shot and took it spitting it out and sliding it to Veronica.

"You ready hunny, I've had some warm up time," Lily knew better than to say anything, Veronica was easily better than Lily.

"Why don't I just save you the time and take the shot?" Lily offered.

"Oh where is the fun in that Lils?" tink Lily laughed and poured another shot. She sank that one and once the entire table had gone around it was Lily's turn. She was already seeing two shot glasses.

"Shit," she said before tink,"good, now everyone gang up on Craig here, he hasn't had any." Craig stared at here before pouring himself a shot of something or other that certainly wasn't vodka and knocking it back.

"You suck ass Lily," he laughed.

"Don't I know it."

"Hey Lily, how is school going up north or wherever the fuck you go?"

"Its okay, James is a dick as usual but her what can you do." She laughed.

"No shit,"tink another one for Craig.

"I know what you mean Lils, us guys can be horrible,"Treant said.

"Your telling me," she giggled.

"Hey where are Adi and Jeremy?"

"Hell if I know I'll go look shall I?"

"Good idea," Trent laughed. Lily pried herself out of her chair grabbed her bottle and her purse. Everyone raised her eyebrows.

"Don't start I know you lot, I'll go be back and this shit will be gone." she laughed at her friends before wandering around to find Adi.

She walked through the rooms to see a few other people she partied with on a regular basis. She hugged them all and told them all about school. How much she missed them and moved on. When she got into the beer pong room she found Adi plastered and making a shot on two other people she knew. She ran over.

"Jessica! Rose! How have you lot been?"

"God Lily! I've missed you," Rose said as she and Jessica were engulfed in hugs. Jessi had cut her hair and died it, it was now very cute and short, a lot like Adi's but instead of Adi's beautiful blonde hair it was black with blue streaks. It looked great on Jessi. Lily smiled at Rose to see that she had dark circles around her pretty face. She was close to as tall as Lily was. God Lily loved her. Adi sank a second shot.

"Bring 'em home baby! God I am owning you guys!"

"And your plastered. What more could a girl want!" Lily screamed to her.

"Hark whos' talking Lily-Kins." Lily busted out laughing.

"Ill be back I'm going to go and get Craig I call next game."

"Cheers!" The room yelled. She laughed and went back to the kitchen. Craig was slumped over the table. More people had been added and she supposed they really had ganged up on Craig. She pulled him up and kissed him on the cheek.

"Lets go play beer pong Craig."

"Okay," he slurred heavily, if Lily hadn't been around parties for years she would have had trouble understanding him. Instead she laughed and picked him off the chair. They got to the beer pong room to see that there were only two cups left on Rose and Jessi's side, five on Adi and Jermey's.

"Wow Ladies I left for five minutes and you are losing this bad. Come on I taught you better than that." Lily laughed at her two friends before depositing Craig in a chair. If he was awake long enough he could play the next game with her, if not, well she had better get looking.

She moved around the room asking people of varying stages of drunkin-ness if they were any good at beer pong. A few said yes but their friends yelled them down. She moved back over to the table to see Jeremy sealing the deal. She leaned over to see Craig passed out. If only Potter were here, or even Black, both are great at this game. Then she heard it. Someone had laughed in the next room. She could have sworn it was James. But no, it couldn't have been she reasoned. Potter lived in his mansion on the other side of the country. No, it wasn't him. She ducked out of the room none the less to have a look. She wandered through the room looking around, until, no. She ducked her head. James and Black along with Remus were standing across the room chatting up none other than a thuroughly trashed Veronica. Lily swore. If she wanted to win she needed them. Not to mention Veronica had no idea what she was getting into. Her pride and her competitive-ness were having an inner battle. She stood there torn until.

"Holy fucking shut, EVANS!"

"Damn it." Lily swore to herself as Balck crossed the room.

"What the hell?" Lily chanced a look over at James, his jaw was below the floor and Remus had choked on his drink and pushed it to James in a hurry.

"Hi," she squeeked.

Lily did some quick thinking and decided that she would rather discuss this with James. She looked meaningfully at him and then to the door. He nodded still open mouthed and moved in a daze toward the door. Lily caught up with him and grabbed his hand dragging him into an empty bed room.

"Well Lily I didn't know you were that way,"James said raising his eye brows at her.

"Shup it Potter." She snapped. He laughed she could see it all over his face, he was dieing to tell her that she wasn't quite what she had pretended to be all these years.

"So Lily why so fake,"

"So you lot would leave me the hell alone. Could you imagine Sirius beggin the "Dearest Head Girl" to knock a few back every bleeding night." She had said exactly what she had always thought when it came to this.

"Well, why are you here?"

"To drink Potter," he seemed to contemplate this for a moment.

"how long?"

"Years, now look I need your help," James raised his eyebrows at this. "Stop it, I just want you to make sure the Sirius will keep his damned mouth shut, and I need you to play a game of beer pong with me." She said this last bit in a rush she needed to hurry if she even wanted to play.

"Ok he said simply," he shrugged and then he grabbed her hand and led her out of the room. People cat called as they left the bedroom. Lily laughed and turned around and without thinking kissed James. He responded imediatly deepening it. Lily had realized what she had done the second she did it but when James deepened it she didn't object. They were still moving through the rooms. James taking her into the beer pong room before fianlly letting go.

"Wow," James said to a dazed Lily. Had she really just kissed Potter and not minded it? What the hell was going on with her? He hated her, everytime he asked her out it was all a prank. A long prank. What the fuck?

"LILY! There you are lets go!"

"Right," she spun around to face to table. Adi being the nice soul she was had filled Lily's cups for her.

"What are you drinking Lily dear."

"Dark Eyes,"

"Damn, Evans you must be awful expierenced to be drinking that shit." Sirius said. Lily shot James a look and took her first shot. It missed. Adi made it and Lily tossed the ball back to her. Adi was grinning.

"Well well Lily you are a tad rusty. You can't be telling me you don't play beer pong at that school of yours," Adi yelled over the noise.

"Nope she doesn't even drink at school," James said. Everyone in the room who had ever met Lily Evans went dead silent.

"Thank you James." Lily said.

"LILY?"

"I know Adi but I do, just not in front of them, she jerked her thumb over her shoulder at James, Sirius, and Remus before catching Adi's second miss in her free hand. She handed one of the balls to James and offered him to first through. He took it and sank the bitch. 'Good choice in partners there," said a voice in the back of her mind. She smiled and took her shot. She sank it. This shit was in the bag.

"SEND THEM BOYS HOME!" She yelled to Adi. Adi looked shocked and deftly tossed both the balls back to her. She slapped James' hand and placed one of the bright yellow ping pong balls emblazoned with the words 'Pong King' into his hand. Adi handed Jeremy his cup and they downed them.

James and Lily both missed their next shots. Adi missed and Jeremy made it. Lily drank it. James snuck glances at her as she was chugging. ,' So much for the perfect miss Lily-Kins,' he thought to himself. He liked this one better anyway. He smiled as Lily took it like a champ and put the cup off to the side.

"So James," Lily said as she shot her shot and missed. "How did you end up here,"

"Sirius lives three doors down," He said as he bounced his shot off the rim.

"No shit?"

"No shit,"

"Damn, small ass world 'eh?"

"I suppose," James swatted the shot Adi had been trying to bounce in and laughed.

Jeremy took his shot and sank it. Lily pulled the ball out licked her fingers and handed James the cup. He grinned a goofy grin like he couldn't believe his eyes and chugged. When he finished he took aim and sunk one. Lily smiled, so maybe here was the perfect guy, the one who could party like it was no big deal, then again it was Potter. But it didn't seem like Potter, no this was James. He wasn't acting full of himself, he hadn't asked her out, he wasn't even cracking jokes at her. What the hell had the world done with the Potter she knew? She smiled as she took aim. She bounced hers off the rim.

"DAMN!"

"Easy Lils, no big deal,"James said and he kissed her cheek.

Several things happened at once, Sirius gasped, Remus spit his drink out and leapt up to keep Lily back, Craig woke up and was livid, and sirins blared outside.

"FUCK!" Lily screamed. She grabbed her purse and her bottle and was about to bolt for the door but she felt a hand grab hers and she grabbed Adi who grabbed Jeremy and James led them out the back door. He followed Sirius and Remus who were sprinting and Lily was clining to him for dear life,Adi was clinging to her, and she suppsed Jeremy had let go as he was level with Lily. Lily didn't listen to his hissed questions as she had no answer as to where they were going. Sirius was dashing through yards and they finally came to a stop far away from the sirins.

"These people are gone so we can just hang out here until the cops leave." He said climbing up the ladder of a tree house. They all got up and Lily saw that it was rather large. There was a streio and four bean bag chairs. Remus plopped down on a green one, Sirius on a pink on, Jame pulled Lily onto his lap in a blue one, and Adi sat on Jeremy's lap on a black one.

"Lily did you really bring that bottle,"

"Hell yes I did." Lily said and she plopped the bottle down on the ground of the tree house.

"Good one Lils!" Adi said.

"So Lily bean do we actually get an explination to this,"Sirius waved his hand to idicate the bottle,"now?"

"Sure why not, Sirius I didn't tell you guys because I know you all. James would nover have let me hear the end of it, 'Oh you aren't quite so perfect now Miss Head Girl,' Remus would have been disappointed, and you,"she pointed a finger accusingly at him,"would have made me drink with you every bleeding day!"

"True," Surius said.

James had wrapped his hands around Lily's waist without her notice until Remus said,"Well that is great but what about that?" He indicated the hands crossed in front of Lily.

"That, I'm not so sure about yet," Lily said.

"So shall we continue this party?" Adi said grabbing the bottle and unscrewing the lid. "Sirius what kind of music they got?"

"OHHHHH QUEEN!" Sirius said bouncing up and down. He put the record on and Adi suggested a drinking game.

"Lets play I have," the room nodded and Remus stood to riful through a cupboard. He pulled out six glasses. Adi poured a generous amount into each. Lily took hers and handed James his. James kissed her cheek and thanked her. She smiled and offered Adi the start. She grinned.

"My favorite question when I'm playing with new people. I have slept with someone," Adi drank, Lily drank, James gasped then drank, Sirius drank, Remus smiled, and Jeremy didn't move. Lily shrugged at James and wrapped her hands around her glass again.

"I have, been arrested," Jeremy said. Adi and Lily grabbed hands and drank together. The only time they had been arrested they were arrested together. James gasped again and Sirius fell off his bean bag chair.

Slowly the game pregressed and soon it was four. Lily gasped at the clock.

"FUCK!"

"What?" James asked clearly concerned.

"I have to get home, or better yet, Adi can I stay with you?"

"Mum, thinks I'm staying with you,"

"You can all stay with me," James said to the room at large.

"Good idea Prongs. But how are we suppsed to get to your house?"

"Good point," James said thinking. He couldn't drive, nor fly which was how he was planning on going home.

"Lets just stay here, I'm sure there are blankets in here somewhere," Adi said.

"Good idea. I'll just call, hold on, everyone be quiet." Lily pulled a cell phone out of her purse and dialed her home number. It went to voice mail and she sighed in relief. She didn't want to get in a fight with her parents in front of the Marauders. "Mum, sorry I know I should have woken you up, but Adi got in a huge fight with her Mum, so I'm staying with her. Call me if you need me I'll be home somtime around noonish? I'll be home tomorrow sometime. Love you," She hung up and accepted the blanket offered to her by James. She folded it over her self and lay down on the hard floor. She took James' hand and fell asleep looking into his eyes, thinking about how this had all come about. She liked the new James. He was nice.