A/N-Hello! I am a new author to the Harry Potter section of ff.net. Usually I write and read in the Tamora Pierce section of this site. I'm just not a big Harry Potter shipper. The only HP fics I do read are the Lily/James ones. I don't like to usually read any other ones, so I finally decided to write a Lily/James fic of my own. This story is sort of like a play called "Cyrano de Bergerac" and if you've never read that play, or watched it, you'll recognize the plot because a whole lot of movies and some TV show episodes sort of follow the play. Let's see…which one can I think of right now…Has anyone ever seen Smart Guy on Disney channel? My sister watches that channel and I remember seeing one of those episodes that follows that play. It's the one where Marcus, I think that's his name, likes this one girl, so he asks T.J. to write a letter to her, and then the girl asks T.J. to write a letter to Marcus from her? Well, if you have, that follows the play. And a remake of the play that I've seen is the movie, Roxanne. Anyway, you get the idea. This story isn't exactly love/hate really. It might be a little bit, but I'm not really sure. To tell you the truth, right now, I'm not even sure how this story is exactly going to work, but I'll figure it out as I go, I always do. Umm, I guess this starts in their fifth year.

Disclaimer-If you recognize anything from J.K. Rowling's books, guess who they belong to? Not me. They belong to J.K. Rowling. I did have to make up some characters and some teachers. And I haven't read any of the Harry Potter books in awhile, so sorry if there's some mistakes, although there's not much to mess up on, because if I remember correctly, it never talked much about Harry's parents when they were at school.

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Shoot, I Don't Have a Title Yet!! AHHH!!

By ChaChaChica

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(A/N-Okay, you know what? I just realized that I don't have a title yet. I always do that! I start fics and I don't have a title for them yet. Well, if you have any title ideas, please tell me in a review! I need serious help…with the title, and in general too.)

Lily and Marissa walked into King's Cross Station dragging their trunks behind them, and walked through the barrier to enter Platform Nine and Three Quarters where a bright red steam engine called the Hogwarts Express was parked. They saw many witches and wizards rushing about in the Platform, saying their good-byes to their families and hurrying their trunks onto the train.

Marissa and Lily had been best friends for as long as either of them could remember. They lived next door to each other and had attended school together before they had both gotten their letters from Hogwarts. Lily got her letter first, and after she had told Marissa (Lily had known that you shouldn't really tell Muggles things like that, but she had always told Marissa everything and had decided that this time was no different.), they were both so upset. They had thought that they would have to say good-bye to each other until next summer, and that somehow their friendship would never be the same. They had also got into a big fight. Marissa had thought that Lily would forget about her and make some new witch friends and Marissa had been jealous and hadn't spoken to Lily for two days, the longest they had ever not spoken to each other, but when Marissa got her letter three days later, their fight was completely forgotten in their excitement. Since then, they had never been in another argument again. 

Many of the witches and wizards stopped to say 'hi' to Lily and Marissa. Many were surprised at how much they'd changed over the summer. Marissa had told her mom that she wanted a sort of makeover and a new wardrobe, and Marissa had begged Lily to come with them and do the same. Lily had reluctantly agreed and they had come home very different.

Marissa and Lily had never been very popular. They hadn't been geeks either, they just weren't popular. Looking around her, Lily knew somehow, that this year would be different.

They both got their trunks onto the train, after having to get some help from some people standing nearby. After they were on the train, they began to search for a compartment to sit in. Most of the compartments were already full, so it took them quite a while to find one with two seats left in it. Lily finally opened a door to a compartment, seeing the Marauders, James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew, inside.

"Hi James," Lily said. He was the quiet one of the Marauders. He still pulled all the pranks and caused trouble, but he still pulled good grades. In their first year, they worked on a project for their history of magic class and they had become good friends during that.

The Marauders were the popular boys of the school. Every girl liked them, except maybe Lily and Marissa. They knew that the Marauders had new girlfriends every week and it wasn't really on their to-do list to become one of them.

"Lily? Marissa?" James asked in disbelief.

For a moment, Lily had forgotten about her new look, and as she remembered, she flushed slightly.

"James, how rude," Sirius said, not taking his eyes off of Lily and Marissa. Sirius was definitely the flirt of the group. Lily didn't really know what all of the girls saw in him, but it must have been something. They were always after him. "You've forgotten to introduce us."

Lily rolled her eyes slightly and Marissa glanced sidelong at her, one eyebrow raised.

"Sirius, you know Lily. Lily Evans," James said, hoping the name would ring a bell in Sirius's head.

"Lily?" Sirius asked, just as James had. And then he just sort of ogled at her. (A/N-I love that word, ogled. That is the coolest word ever! I just had to put it in here. That's the first time I've ever put it in one of my stories.

James sighed. "That's what I just said wasn't it?"

"And this is my friend Marissa Alley," Lily hurriedly put in, hoping to draw attention off of her quickly.

"My name's Sirius, Sirius Black," Sirius said, taking each of their hands and kissing them.

Lily's shoulder shook with barely suppressed laughter and Marissa hid her laughing with a cough. They both found the situation very amusing.

"Sirius, will you just sit down? Honestly, I don't think that they want you to slobber all over their hands!" Remus said teasingly. Remus was one of the quieter ones, although he still wasn't quiet enough to actually be technically called quiet. None of the Marauders were quiet enough to be called quiet, except maybe Peter, but he wasn't technically a Marauder either. Peter was on the heavy side and was unusually quiet for one for the Marauders' friends. Come to think of it, Lily wasn't even sure why Peter was a part of their group. He wasn't the best-looking or the most popular guy as the other Marauders were.

"I am not slobbering," Sirius said huffily. "Besides, the ladies don't mind, do you?" he asked, turning to them.

Marissa couldn't answer because she was still coughing. She was practically hacking her lungs out, and Lily, still trying to suppress her laughter, but letting out a few sort of snorting noises, took a seat.

Sirius glanced at them both. "Are you two okay? Do you need to see nurse or something?"

"Sirius, there aren't any nurses on the train," James pointed out.

"Well, you've taken healing courses at Hogwarts haven't you Prongs?" Sirius asked.

"No, I haven't."

Sirius looked at Remus.

"Hey, don't look to me either," Remus said, throwing up his hands. "And besides, I think they're just fine. Apparently, they find you amusing Sirius."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Sirius asked.

"It is only a good think when they are laughing with you, but in this case, they are laughing AT you, which is a bad thing," Remus told him.

The rest of the train ride was mostly uneventful. Sirius kept trying to hit on Lily, which got annoying after awhile, so she took out her history of magic textbook and began to read that until the compartment door swung open to reveal Lucious Malfoy and Severus Snape standing in the doorway.

Immediately, all of the Marauders stood up, bracing themselves for a fight or an argument, no one could tell which yet, except Peter, who just sat in the corner seat, oblivious to what was going on. Lily and Marissa stood as well, Lily setting her book down on the seat.

"Well, well, well," Malfoy said, crossing his arms and leaning against the doorframe. "Look who we've found here. Potter, Black, Lupin, and their little lady friends. I don't believe we've met," Malfoy said heading towards Lily and Marissa.

"Oh, but we have Malfoy," Lily said coldly. "We already have."

"Lily?" Malfoy asked incredulously. "My my you've changed haven't you? And then this must be your little friend. What was her name again?"

"Marissa," Lily supplied, still in an ice-cold voice.

"Ah, right," Malfoy said. "Now I remember. You must forgive me, I have trouble with names sometimes."

They heard Snape snicker from the doorway.

"Get out before we make you get out Malfoy," James said, his voice low and dangerous.

"Ooh, what's Potter gonna do about it if we decide to stay? Or better yet, we'll just take Lily and her friend here over to our compartment and have a spot of fun," Malfoy said, eyeing Lily and Marissa.

"Leave them alone," James said, his voice a bit angry now.

"And get out," Sirius added, very angry.

"Oh come on. They want to come with us right?" Malfoy said, edging closer to Lily and slipping an arm around her waist.

As each of the Marauders, except Peter lunged for Malfoy, Lily slapped Lucious square across the face. Snape moved into the compartment, ready to join the fight.

"Now get out Malfoy, and you too Snape. I have made it perfectly clear that I do not want to come with you, and I'm sure that Marissa is not going anywhere either," Lily said, her voice filled with venom.

Malfoy looked around him, surveying the odds. The odds were against him unfortunately, he realized, seeing that it was three guys and two girls against two. "This won't be forgotten Lily, and watch your back Potter," Malfoy said, walking out of the compartment, Snape following.

They all waited until they heard the door shut and Snape's and Malfoy's retreating footsteps.

Anger boiled in Lily's veins. Malfoy and Snape had never paid any attention to Lily and Mariss last year, and only did now because they looked different. And she hated his superior I'm-better-than-you tone. Her hands clenched on her textbook after she had sat back down and picked it up.

"What is wrong with you Peter?" Sirius demanded angrily. "Snape and Malfoy just walked in here, this close to starting a fight and you just sit there off in La-La Land!"

Peter turned towards him, his eyes snapping back in focus. "Wha? There was a fight? When? Who?"

"Just now. Malfoy and Snape," Remus answered, in a tone that showed that he was just as angry as Sirius.

Peter turned red and went back to staring out the window. Sirius threw up his hands in resignation and sat down while Remus muttered, "I give up!" and also sat down.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk Lily," James said, putting his wand, which he had grabbed out when Snape and Malfoy had entered, back into the pocket of his robe, and then wagging a finger at her. "We get to Hogwarts soon and you have not read all of your textbooks yet. I finished mine yesterday," he said, sticking his nose into the air, which brought the laughs he had expected and lightened the tense mood.

They finally arrived at Hogwarts some time later and entered the Great Hall. As they took their seats and watched the Sorting, Lily could hear many whispers go up and down the Gryffindor table.

"Who are those hotties?" One boy whispered to his friend. "Oh my gosh. That's Lily and Marissa!"

"Who are they?"

"You don't remember them from last year?"

"Lily Evans? The bookworm with the straight A's? No, you're wrong."

"I am not."

Soon, other joined into the conversation. Lily pretended to be absorbed in the Sorting. A girl named Helena Billikins became a new Hufflepuff. A boy named Goridon Thehors (A/N-Hey, check the name! I came up with that without even thinking about it at first. You know how J.K. Rowling has all of those authors have the names that can be phrases or whatever? Go ride on the horse. See? Goridon Thehors? I didn't even think about that one before I came up with it. I don't even know why it's go ride on the horse. My brain just sort of came up with it by itself. As you can tell I have little control over my brain, which is probably a bad thing…) became a new Gryffindor.

"Are you listening to all of this?" Marissa whispered excitedly into Lily's ear.

"The Sorting? Umm, yeah, but it's nothing to get all excited over. It happens every year," Lily told her, kind of puzzled.

"No, not the Sorting silly! Are you listening to what they're saying about us?" Marissa whispered, and Lily could tell that if Marissa were talking normally instead of whispereing, she would have made a sort of squealing noise.

"Yes, but I'm trying to ignore it," Lily muttered.

"Why? Don't you want to hear? It's all good!" Marissa told her.

"Well, I just don't like to hear them talk about us as if…we're just sort of objects or property, not people," Lily said, a bit annoyed.

"Oh, come on. That's how guys always talk about girls," Marissa pointed out.

"I'm going to find one who doesn't talk like that. No way I'm going to have some shallow guy who only cares about looks," Lily declared.

Marissa snorted softly. "Riiiight, good luck with that one Lily. I hope you find a guy like that before you die. Meanwhile, I'm going to listen to what they're saying.

"You do that," Lily murmured, thinking. Was it possible to find a guy like that?

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A/N-The reason why you don't recognize the plot from any play, TV show, or movie yet is because that aspect of the story hasn't come in yet. I think it will the next chapter, but I'm not sure yet. So, how'd you guys like it? Bad good? Any ideas that won't interfere with my plot that I could use? Should I continue? REVIEW! Any flames will be used to set my math book aflame, which, in turn, will be thrown at my math teacher. Hee hee, he'll never know what hit him!! Flying, flaming math books…not something you see everyday…unless you're in my math class of course. Then you do see it about everyday…Now REVIEW!!