Chapter One - Absoultely
This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looks so sad in photographs
I absolutely love her when she smiles
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The Hogwarts Express
August 30th, 1976
"I'm depressed." a girl, age seventeen, with a curly mass of dark brown hair and dark blue eyes. She had freckles splashed across her nose and cheeks. Her pale skin flushed slightly from the amazingly chilly late August air. The girl was Kaylie Rhodes.
"And why is that my good friend?" Lily Evans asked as she sat down beside her friend, her dark red hair pulled up into a high ponytail.
"Isn't it obvious?" Kaylie asked. "This is the last time we'll be on the train, going to Hogwarts!" the girl whined.
"Oh my god, Kaylie, you're right!" a girl with shaggy, sandy hair and icy grey eyes said, a look of amazement on her face. This girl Tahnee Costello.
"I know I'm right, Tahnee!" Kaylie shot back with a smirk.
"But it really is depressing, isn't it?" Lily said, flopping her head onto Kaylie's shoulder.
"Yes, almost too depressing to bear!" Kaylie said sadly.
"Hey, Prongs, check it out! We got some girl on girl action goin' on!" Sirius Black said, busting into the compartment laughing, followed by his two best friends, Remus Lupin and James Potter.
"Classy, Black!" Kaylie said scooting over.
"Yeah, that's me, classy." Sirius laughed, plopping down in the seat opposite Kaylie.
"Hello, Mistress Lily." James said with a huge smile as he sat down between Lily and Kaylie, much to Lily's dismay.
"Potter, why don't you go deflate your head and go find some other poor, innocent girl to hopelessly hit on." Lily said in disgust as he put his large arm around her shoulders.
"Oh come on, Lilsly-kins, you know you love me." James said, smiling down at her.
"I must have missed that lesson on Lily Evans loving a arrogant bastard like yourself. And don't call me Lilsly-kins!" Lily said, shrugging his arm off her shoulders, her anger growing to a dangerous level.
"Me, a bastard? I think not." James snorted.
"How is that possible, for you don't think at all!" Lily shouted. "I have duties to do." she said, standing up abruptly and leaving the compartment.
"James, can I ask you a question?" Tahnee asked, looking up from her magazine.
"I suppose so, yes." James said, nodding.
"Why do you anger and persue her so?" Tahnee sighed.
"Because it's fun!" James said, smiling widely.
"And I have another question." Kailey said, raising her hand slightly. "Do you even like her, or do you just do it because you claim it's fun?"
"You know, I've never really thought about that." James said. "But, I do really like her."
"Then tell her that, instead of pestering and stalking her like you do! If you just sit her down and tell her, without joking around, how you fell about her, she'd probably consider going out with you." Kailey said, matter of factly, leaning up against the wall beside the seat, and biting into an Oreo.
"You really think so?" James asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yep." Tahnee and Kaylie said together.
"Fine then." James said, pausing to stand up. He stood up surprisingly straight, puffed out his chest, balled his handing into fists and placed them on his hips, and said in an extremely deep voice, "I'll do it!" Immediatly after saying so, his chest caved in with laughter and everyone in the compartment joined in.
"James, you have no idea how idiotic you just sounded!" Remus said, his face slightly red with laughter.
"More or less idiotic then when I sang God Save The Queen while drunk?" James asked, his face serious.
"James, my friend, I really don't think you could ever top that one!" Sirius said, still laughing.
"Yeah, you're right." James snorted.
"What's so funny?" Lily asked when she arrived back at the compartment.
"Nothing, just being my usual stupid self, Lily." James said, leaning back in the seat. Lily frowned then shrugged and surprisingly sat back down beside James.
"You called me Lily." Lily said quietly.
Maybe Tahnee and Kaylie's predictions had been right.
Maybe this year, their seventh and final year at Hogwarts, would be the year that Lily Evans would come to terms that she was hopelessly and totally in love with James Potter. And if she didn't do it on her own, it would be up to Tahnee, Kaylie, Sirius, and Remus.
AN -- Chapter title&lyrics courtesy of Ninedays.