A/N I redid my first chapter slightly, because in my sheer brilliance I contradicted myself in a later chapter. Also, I know that I got reviews to fix my first couple of chapters because they were bunched together. So sorry about that. The way it was coming up on my browser, it wasn't reformatting. This story is pretty much Lily, the Marauder's and a few characters of my own in their seventh year. I hope you like it :) Please review:)

Lily rolled out of bed with a large thud. She glanced up at her calendar and smiled broadly. Today she was going back to Hogwarts. She had gotten her Head Girl's badge in the post and was a little shocked that she had been chosen but was glad nonetheless. She also knew that it had really shocked Petunia that she had made Head Girl. She could imagine exactly what Petunia would say.

She'd say something along the lines of, "Oh how could a freak like you make Head Girl? I'm sure it was a silly mistake." After saying something like that she would stalk away or launch into conversation about her 'fantastic fiance' Vernon Dursley. She had just announced her engagement to the whale, which somehow didn't surprise Lily, as Petunia was looking more horse-like each day. They at least shared the same classification as mamammals. Lily liked to think that their children would resemble little pigs.

It wasn't that Lily hated her sister. It was that Petunia hated Lily. Lily had learned that she needed to be detached whendealing with Petunia, especially since she was all she had. Lily had managed to more or less substitute her family with her friends. It was then that Lily bothered to look at her clock. She lurched out of bed and ran down stairs. Life was cruel.

She whirled around as she heard and all too-familiar voice.

"Lily-kins!"she groaned as she tossed her red hair over her shoulder.

"Not happening," she groaned under hear breath. "Potter." James Potter walked towards her.

"Did you manage to survive an entire holiday without me Evans?" He gave her a cheeky grin. "Potter I could manage and second without you. Trust me it would be a gift." He laughed and stepped towards her seductively.

"Oh Evans, you know you can't resist this." He motioned to himself.

"As I've said I would rather kiss the squid than you." She was about to add something else and stopped short. She gave him a quick glare before running over to another teenage girl walking towards her. She was about five foot seven. She had long loose silvery blonde curls that were layered to the middle of her back and indigo eyes.

"Cris!" Cris Holt was one of Lily's best friends and had been since first year. Cris was one of the sweetest people that you could ever meet. She wasn't a pushover like most people thought. She reserved her crazy and uninhibited side for her close friends. She didn't quite share Lily's hatred of the Marauder's but understood. Cris had always gotten along with Remus very well.

"Oiy, Holt did Evans tell you she loves me yet?" James stopped abruptly. "Moony!" Cris glanced over at Remus, who for some reason all four the marauders called Moony.

"I see James has already started in for this year." Lily nodded glaring slightly.

"Anyway Lils I'm so happy that you made Head Girl, that's fantastic. Do you know who made Head Boy?" Lily shook her head.

" I don't know but it's probably Remus." Cris glanced over at Remus again. He was about six feet tall. He had sandy colored hair and warm light blue eyes. He was the quietest out of the four Marauders and although he did the pranks he never crossed the line like Sirius and James.

"Sirius doesn't seem be here yet," Cris observed calmly. Lily nodded.

"Don't worry he'll be here otherwise Potter will find someway to hold up the train until he gets here. Speaking of missing friends where's Alia andTristan?" Cris sucked in a breath.

"I've barely spoken to Tristan all holiday. I don't think Alia has either. Have you, Lils?" Lily furrowed her forehead slightly. She ran her fingers through her dark red hair and bit her lip.

" I haven't heard from Tris either, but… Oh there's Alia." The girl that she was pointing to had medium length hair in tight glossy black curls with large exotic black eyes and olive gold skin. She was thin and about five feet six inches, only and inch shorter than Cris and Lily.

"Hey, everyone have a good holiday? Oh Lily, congratulations about making Head Girl, that's awesome. She hugged Cris and Lily.

"So Potter start asking you out yet?" Since third year James had made a point of constantly asking Lily out and making stupid and embarrassing gestures.

"Not in so many words, but he's tried." Alia laughed and shook her head.

"Ah, there's James' other half." Lily didn't need to ask what she meant as she heard shouts of Prongsie-Poo and Padfoot.

James flagged down Sirius ignoring the irate looks of the people passing by.

"Prongsie-Poo I've been lost without you." James pretended to faint while Remus shook his head at the two of them.

"Where you been mate?"Sirius smiled suggestively.

"You see Prongs I was with you and then I saw this girl and she was in absolute-" Remus cut him off.

"All right we don't need to hear about the poor innocent girl you picked up." James laughed. "Anyway we all have to celebrate James making Head Boy tonight." Remus eyed Sirius suspiciously.

"Would this be including alcohol and prank planning?" Sirius gave his best attempt at a mysterious look.

"Hmm, I wonder who made Head Girl," James said thoughtfully. Remus gave a quick glance at Sirius, who raised his eyebrows.

"Well James, the head girl is ummm. It's ugh, Lily." Sirius started howling with laughter and fell to the floor rolling over.

"You and Evans….. She hates you…. Oh this is going to be fantastic." James kicked Sirius and Remus gave an apologetic look to the passers by.

"You're kidding Mate, she can't be head girl. "Remus sighed. "Yeah James. I know she hates you but look on the bright side she doesn't know yet." This made Sirius laugh harder.

"Padfoot stop it." Sirius stopped his manic laughter. "Jamsie-Poo, still in love with Evans?" He had stopped laughing and pulled himself up off the floor.

"Don't laugh, this is the year I'm gonna get Lily Evans. I'm sure of it." Remus and Sirius just shook their heads. James had been obsessed with her ever since she had turned him down in third year. "Hey don't laugh at me, I'm not the one completely in love with a girl that I've never made a move on Remus." Remus glared at James and Sirius, both pretending not to notice.

"I am not 'in love' with Cris. We're just friends. Besides when was the last time that either of you were friends with a Sirius" James smiled. It was Sirius' turn to take a defensive air.

"Heymate, it's not my fault that all these girls want to do is snog with my wonderful self,"he said cockily. James motioned towards Cris who was currently hugging one of her friends, Alia Damascus, "Looks like someone's missing," he grinned evilly at Sirius, "I wonder who that could be?" he grinned at Sirius and Remus started laughing. The girl he was referring to was Tristan Hollis. She was a close friends of Lily and her friends. She had become friends with the other girls in first year. All the girls discovered that they had a common enemy. The Marauders.

James and Lily had done okay on the hate scale until he had started asking her out. Their relationship went downhill from there. Sirius and Tristan were even worse, however. It was well known that Sirius and Tristan hated each other. They had huge arguments and pranked each other. Leaving the two of them alone together was a very dangerous idea. They seemed to get along worse that Lily and James. No one ever really knew why Tristan and Sirius hated each other so much but they did not that the two were like fire and ice.

"Maybe she's dead or has been attacked by boils and feels so ashamed she'll never come back… James… Remus…?" He looked at his two best friends, his black hair hanging into his steel gray eyes. He pushed it away from his face. "Moony, Prongs, Wormtail," he just noticed Peter standing there, "what are you all staring at?" Remus and Peter started coughing and James started to smile as he shook his head.

"I think that she's coming back mate, unfortunately for you. No, I guarantee that she's coming back," James said, his voice becoming slightly choked as he stared at something.

"Hey, don't ruin my dream," Sirius whined. "Besides she could have been hit by a trolley." He looked hopeful.

"Trust me she was not hit by anything over the holidays, she's very much alive," Remus stated. "Can you really be a hundred percent sure, I mean look at my horrible aunt-" He was cut off my James laughingand Remus talking,

"I'm sure because I think that's her over there." Sirius whirled around and stared in shock.

"That can't be her." He gaped open mouthed at the girl walking towards Lily and her friends. "Evidently you're not the only one to think so," Remus said in a somewhat strangled voice, motioning to Cris and Lily who were staring open mouthed and Alia, who was smiling.

Lily was in the middle of talking about Vernon Dursley when Cris tapped her shoulder.

"What is Cris?" Cris just pointed and Lily stopped mid breath and stood open mouthed. There was a teenager walking in their direction. She was their age, seventeen, and had on black three quarter sleeve shirt and a pair of black jeans and black boots. As she walked closer Lily could see silver embroidery on the jeans. The person in the jeans, however, was someone that Lily knew very well. "Tristan?"

The girl had straightened blue-black hair with the ends died electric blue. Her bangs were shaped and fell into here eyes and her straightened hair was layered past the middle of her back. She was shaped but was incredibly thin. She had high cheekbones and full lips her face was also thin. Her skin was the color of very light creamed coffee. As she walked closer Lily noticed that she had her nose pierced with a small diamond and that her exotic dark blue eyes were framed with a very thin layer of black eyeliner. She looked mysterious and edgy and very beautiful.

"Hello. You know you might want to close your jaws, " She laughed, "congratulations about making head girl. What are you all staring at?" She looked genuinely puzzled it was as if she had no clue as to the change in herself. Even her clipped way of speaking was different. To Cris and Lily it wasn't so much that she looked gorgeous that shocked them, it was the way she looked gorgeous.

Last year her hair had been loose curls and kept shoulder length. The only make-up that she wore was usually light, like Lily, Cris, and Alia. She was much thinner than last year and the nose piercing and double ear piercing was a new addition.

"Well it's just that you look really different Tristan." Tristan laughed and hugged each of them in turn. Alia hugged her tightly and smiled at her. She knew that something had happened and she knew that Tristan would probably never tell any of them.

"Not really but thank you I think. So are we going to get on the train or not?" "You'd think that there would be an empty compartment somewhere in this bloody train I mean the Head's have their own compartment and yet we're not allowed there." Tristan had her eyes narrowed slightly after having left another occupied compartment.

"Tris, technically because you were late it's your fault, so I wouldn't be getting so frustrated." Alia laughed slightly as she said this. Tristan gave Alia a quick grin.

"Yeah well my fantastic cousin couldn't understand what being 'on time' meant." Lily laughed thinking about herself and Petunia.

"So Lils any idea who the new head boy is because you two will be spending a lot of time together. Organizing things. Patrolling, prefect meetings and-"

"I know what my responsibilities are and I haven't a clue who it is. I suppose that it's Remus." Cris shook her head slightly, brushing a silvery blonde curl out of her ivory colored face.

"Remus said he didn't make Head Boy, but he is prefect again. He said you'd make an excellent Head Girl." She said this quietly looking at her feet as she shuffled towards the next compartment. Lily opened the door to the last compartment,

"Now how do you- Potter, " she said coolly. The four Marauders looked up from their chocolate to stare at lily and the three other girls with her. She was about to leave when Alia stopped her; "Potter there's no other compartments mind if we share yours?" Sirius immediately shook his head. Lily turned a little red and Tristan glowered at Sirius.

"Why we'd love to have my beloved Evans. " He reached out to put an arm around her but she jumped back violently. "I would rather sit outside she informed them coldly." Tristan and Sirius were glaring at one another.

"I would rather share and apartment with the Slytherin's." From the compartment door a voice spoke,

"That could be arranged." Everyone instantly sprung back and whirled around. Sirius drew his wand.

"Hello cousin."