Green with Envy

Chapter One: Making secret plans

Disclaimer: The only things I own in the world are my guitar, my iPod and my bean bag chair. The only things I own in this story are Riley and Murphy. Get the picture?

A/N: TODAY IS THE TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY I JOINED FANFICTION! So to celebrate you guys are getting a mass update! I am re-posting this story that I used to have up. It's totally revised, and I hope you like it! I'm also posting a new oneshot and I'm adding a chapter to my story "Soundtrack of my Summer". So, if you like, you guys can check that stuff out after you read this. In the meantime, please enjoy the story, and don't forget to leave me an anniversary present review at the end!

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"Lily!" came a voice from the other end of the train station. Lily sighed and kept walking in the direction she was going, not even bothering to turn around. She knew that it was James Potter calling her, and she didn't want him to be the first person she saw in her 7th year at Hogwarts.

"Lily! How was your summer?" James said, catching up to her. He was a little out of breath, and had obviously been looking for her.

"Excellent! I didn't see you for a whole two months. It was amazing," Lily said sarcastically. James just smiled and shrugged it off as a joke.

"Well, anyway, Riley was looking for you. She was in some compartment in the back, and she told me if I saw you to tell you to go back there. So I'll see you later," James said. He then turned and walked off. Lily stared after him for a minute. Did he really just talk to her without asking her out? She turned around, still a little confused, and walked off toward the back of the train to find her friend.

When she got there, she was greeted by a mob of curly blonde hair in her face as her ecstatic friend nearly threw herself on Lily with a hug. Lily laughed and pulled away after a moment to look into Riley's clear gray eyes.

"Lily! How are you?!" the girl demanded happily. Lily grinned, and struggled under the grasp of the girl. When she was finally liberated, she took a seat by the window.

"I'm fine, how about you Riley? I see you still have your 'pep'" Lily said. Riley smiled, giggling a little bit. Riley was known throughout the school as very energetic, and always happy. The girls sat and caught up for a few minutes, but before too long they were interrupted by the arrival of someone else.

"Riley Jones, Lily Evans, you are about to be graced with the presence of the wonderful Murphy Steen! Are you ready?" Came a voice from the doorway. Lily and Riley laughed and looked up, seeing their friend Murphy standing in the doorway. Murphy had brown hair with a noticeable yet natural red tint to it, and chocolate brown eyes. She was a major prankster, and helped the Marauders out a lot with their jokes. However, she was also the kind of girl you had to think was innocent to matter what she had really done, so Murphy rarely got in trouble after pulling a prank with the boys.

"Hey Murph! How was your summer?" Lily asked. Murphy shrugged and said, "Not too bad. You know, the usual. How about you?"

"Oh, not so bad. It was pretty much the usual for me too. Petunia was being annoying like always… only this time I was of age and I had my magic to teach her a lesson with," Lily said, an evil smile growing on her face.

"Lily Evans, what did you do?!" Riley demanded, shocked that Lily would have done anything at all.

"Oh, nothing she didn't deserve. If she put something in my tea, I transformed her cup into a rat. Nothing too bad," Lily said, the smirk still on her face. Murphy sighed.

"You come up with the most amazing pranks ever when it comes to Petunia. If only you would use those skills for good, and join forces with me and the marauders, to make the greatest pranking team ever!" Murphy said. Lily laughed and shook her head.

"I can't do that! I only do it at home when my parents aren't there because I know they would believe me over Petunia. But I couldn't do something like that at school! What if I were to get caught? I am Head Girl you know, what kind of an example would that set for the rest of the school?" Lily asked, looking sternly at Murphy. However, suddenly her expression changed, and a look of shock overtook her face.

"Shit! I have to get to the prefect meeting. I'm Head Girl, I'm supposed to be running it with whoever the Head Boy is!" Lily said, picking up her purse and rushing out. Riley, who was a prefect, was right on her heels. Lily tripped on the way, and Riley passed her, seeming to make it on time while Lily was stalled. She finally got back to her feet, scowling slightly at Riley's back, and set off once again for the very front of the train where the prefects meeting was being held.

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Lily rushed into the meeting about five minutes late. She was hoping that they had not started without her, but she wasn't so lucky.

The Head Boy already started the meeting, and when Lily walked in he was blabbering on about patrolling. Lily walked a little closer to him and stopped in shock, looking at the messy hair of the person she least expected...

"James!" Lily said shocked, "Why are you here?" James turned around and grinned at her.

"I happen to be head boy this year," James said, still grinning his head off.

"You!? Come on, you aren't responsible enough to be Head Boy!" Lily said exasperated.

"At least I was on time," James said. Lily just stared at him in anger for a moment, before she stormed over to stand next to him. The meeting continued on, with Lily taking over, and James trying not to be obnoxious. However, Lily thought he was obnoxious anyway. When the meeting was over, Lily left right away, as she was eager to put as much space as possible between herself and James. James, however, stayed behind in the prefect's compartment.

He slowly walked over to the seat by the window and sat down, sighing deeply. He had tried to be civil to Lily, but she still seemed to hate him. He hadn't asked her out yet, and she still thought he was a conceited jerk. James got up and walked over to the door. He opened it, and nearly collided with Riley Jones.

"Woah, sorry. Hey, why are you here? You aren't even a prefect," James said. Riley rolled her eyes.

"Ok, two things. First of all, I am a prefect now that Lily is Head Girl. I was at the meeting the whole time, you are obviously not very observant. Second, I was looking for Lily, she never made it back to our compartment," Riley said as she and James walked back into the compartment.

"Oh, right. Yeah," James said, running a hand through his hair distractedly. Riley frowned.

"Why the long face?" she asked. James looked up suddenly, as if he just realized he was having a conversation with Riley.

"Oh! Um... no reason," James answered, fidgeting a little bit. Riley looked right into his hazel eyes, and sighed.

"You're lying," Riley said, surprising James. She was exactly right.

"How did you know that?" James asked. Riley surprised him by smiling.

"Oh, I didn't know for sure. But you just confirmed it. So now you have to tell me what's wrong." Riley said, obviously pleased with herself. James sighed.

"Okay, fine. To be honest... Lily still acts like she hates me, and she probably does, but it really hurts. I like her so much! And I'm trying to change! I didn't do anything to annoy her yet, and I haven't asked her out once!" James said. Riley nodded once he finished talking.

"Well, first of all, you have done something to annoy her... do you recall a certain remark along the lines of 'well at least I was on time'?" James looked confused for a second, before it dawned on him what she meant.

"Oh, come on! I am so stupid! Why did I say that!? She is never going to like me if I keep saying things like that to her" James sighed, frustrated.

"Well, we have to find a way to change that. You two are obviously meant for each other everyone in the whole school can see it except for Lily. We just need to think of a plan that even you can't mess up," Riley said. James nodded in agreement, too focused on what she said to register that she had insulted him. He opened his mouth to answer, but he stopped as some unpopular fifth year prefect walked into the compartment. James and Riley got up and walked out, not anxious to continue the conversation in front of the white and nerdy kid from Ravenclaw.

"James, meet Murphy and I in the library tomorrow night at midnight. Bring your friends with you. We'll think of a plan to get Lily to like you," Riley said to James, before walking down the train toward her compartment, leaving James standing there with a small sense of hope.

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So, I hope you all liked it! Please review! Since I already have the next four chapters written, I should be able to update soon! So review! Show me some love on my anniversary please!