Hey! This is my first fan fic, so be nice please. Well, hope you enjoy my attempt at an L/J fic.

A/N #2: The early chapters are in the midst of major rewriting because they had been put on the side because of writers block for so long. It is far past time they got updated and adjusted. Please enjoy.

Disclaimer: I own nothing. 'Sigh' Wish I did though. Oh, well, I'm over it now.

Chapter 1: Trains and What Not to do on them

It was a warm day for September as a pretty, slim girl with silky red hair flowing down her back like a miniature waterfall walked to the barrier that marked the separation of platforms nine and ten. Kings Cross Station was bustling with people as trains pulled in and out of the station at alternate intervals, and people pushed luggage trolleys in front of them. The girl's emerald eyes sparkled with happiness as she casually leaned through the barrier and fell through onto platform nine and three quarters.

She was immediately covered in several pairs of arms as her friends greeted her after their many months of separation. There were some shouts of, "Lily, oh my gosh, you'll never believe what happened….yes, I said naked….found my soul mate, Lily, he's perfect….you look wonderful, Lil…etc."

Lily Evans bore the conversations in good humor while she put her things on the train. She was all poise as grace, as usual. People began to usher the children onto the train, and the group around Lily slowly dispersed as they left to find compartments. Lily walked around until she heard her name being called from within one of them and walked in as the train began its long ride to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"Lily Evans, where have you been all summer?" asked a girl with short blonde hair.

They hugged tightly and Lily replied, " I went to see my aunt in Ireland. It was the most beautiful place that I've ever seen before. You should come with me next time, Shannon."

"Sounds lovely. You will tell me all about it, I am sure," said Shannon, happily. There was a light knock at the compartment door and the two turned to see a girl with dark brown hair down to nearly her ankles standing there.

There were cries of joy as the three embraced and sat down in a flurry. Suddenly one of them, the new comer, noticed the badge that was pinned to Lily's shirtfront.

"Oh, my God, Lils, why didn't you tell us you were head girl this year? Not that we expected anything less of you, but you know."

"It's not that important, Meredith, really," said Lily.

"Oh, come on Lils, Mer is right. You've got to admit, it is impressive. So, what do you have to do, anyway?" asked Shannon.

"Well, pretty much the same stuff as the prefects, except a bit more responsibility. You know how much I hate being in charge." The girls laughed at that. "I have to meet with the head boy in a bit in the front compartment."

The girls soon lapsed into conversation about their summer holidays and all seemed right with the world.

A boy with messy black hair and hazel eyes that were kept hidden behind glasses, sat staring out the window of the train as his three best friend talked animatedly around him. Summer had been great, but it felt right to be going back to Hogwarts again. He did miss the women after all. James thought that he wouldn't make it through the summer without a few "companions." That is, until he met the new neighbors and their three sixteen-year-old daughters. What could he say? He was a teenage boy full of hormone bursting to find an outlet. He could not be held accountable for all of his horn dog actions, right? The holidays had not been as bad as they could have been.

Another exceptionally attractive boy smacked him on the shoulder, shoving him to the floor, to pull him out of his reverie.

"What, Sirius?" mumbled James from his perch on the floor.

"What's the matter with you mate? You've said hardly a word since we got on the train, and I know something is up with you," he finished.

"It's nothing, really."

"Bull, James. We know something is up if you haven't been rampaging down the train to greet all of your fan club by five minutes after we board the thing," said a boy with eyes slightly sunken into his pale, tired face. The shadows under his eyes spoke of stress ad lack of sleep, but his expression looked happy now that he was with his friends after such a long haul without them. It was always so much more difficult to stay himself when he did not have friends around to keep him that way.

"Remus, do shut-up," said James, beginning to get agitated with them all.

"Oh, never mind, I know what his problem is." A sly grin crept across Sirius' face. "It's Lily, isn't it James? You're anxious to begin yet another year of white witch hunting, right? Mate, don't you think if she hasn't fallen to your flirting by now that she never will?"

James actually blushed and turned his face so his hair managed to hide it well enough, avoiding the questions. The truth was, Lily invaded his dreams on a weekly basis. He'd lusted after her from afar for years, but she'd seemed to be thawing towards him at the end of the last term; she'd been almost friendly. James had hope. Sirius and Lupin exchanged grins with one another and a small, round, mousy boy sitting by the window.

"What do you think, Peter? Is James a bit infatuated with Miss Lily Evans still?" asked Remus.

"Moony, stop using big words, Peter can't compute them quickly enough to keep up with the conversation," said Sirius.

"Shut-up, Sirius. I can keep up with whatever Remus is saying, thanks very much," said Peter Pettigrew from his corner on one of the seats. "I think he's stupid for trying for Lily still. She's not interested, and there's plenty of girls falling at your feet, James. Why don't you take a pick and leave the other girls to the rest of us, eh?"

James sat up, threw one of the shoes Sirius had disgarded on the floor at its owner. Sirius ducked and followed James out the door, grin on his face.

"James, Where are you going?" asked Sirius. "Come on, mate, you know we're only ribbing you."

"Ah, it's nothing, Padfoot. Just remembered that I have to meet the head girl in the front compartment to give the new prefects their instructions, not that I know what I'm supposed to tell them. Sorry, got to go, and I was so enjoying having my failure thrown in my face. I'm probably already late so it's best if I get a move on." Sirius relinquished James and moves back into the compartment before closing the door and continuing his conversation with the other two boys.

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Lily tapped her foot impatiently as she waited, with a few of the new prefects who had managed to find the compartment, for the new head boy who, it appeared, was doing his best to irritate her before he had even made his first appearance. Lily looked up from the floor, where she had been examining the design of the carpet, when she heard several of the younger girls sigh. To her not-so-utter astonishment, James Potter was walking up the corridor towards them. She had suspected he might be up for the head boy position, but he couldn't be coming to the same compartment, surely. That would mean that he, and she, and they would be…Oh heavens. They'd be living together somewhat. Lily's train of thought trailed off as James came to a halt at the compartment door. She had to admit to herself that he really did look good, all lightly sun kissed and quidditch muscles. Lily shook her head slightly; these were not thought she should be having right before a meeting where she should be in charge. Once more the girls that Lily was senior of sighed and gave each other meaningful looks. Lily thought she might be sick…or strangle them.

Lily rolled her eyes and ushered them all inside the compartment to their left. The seats on either side of James were waged a tiny war upon as every girl tried their best to get the favored ones right next to him. Lilly groaned, and shoved the girls onto the opposite side from James, taking the seat beside him herself to but a stop to the bickering. The girls glared at Lily, settling down as she pinned them with her own venomous stare. James watched the whole fast exchange with amusement. As far as he was concerned, Lily sitting next to him was the best part of the whole meeting. He brushed fingers along the side of her thigh, making it look accidental. Lily looked at him sideways, still addressing the prefects. She smelled so good, like soap and fresh air.

All the while James kept trying to catch her eye, Lily trying her best to ignore him until she dismissed the prefects to their appointed duties. She closed the door to the compartment.

"Now, listen, Potter. If I am going to spend an entire year living with you, then there's going to have to be some rules set down right from the start. You will respect my space, and I will give you the same courtesy. Knock on any door before you enter the room. We don't want any surprises. Now—" James leaned in and gave her a quick kiss on the lips, barely a brush, but Lily jumped like she'd been shocked. If she admitted it, she had felt a jolt. "James, what the hell a that?" Lily shoved him. "And wipe that grin right off your face."

"You called me James instead of Potter. I feel that's a win for my side." James was indeed grinning from ear to ear, an amused glint in his eyes.

"You are so terribly frustrating. Why did you do that?"

"Do you really need to ask?"

"James, I swear—" He kissed her again, this time grasping her shoulders and pulling her towards him. Through her head, all Lily could think for a few moments was how good he smelled, how warm his hands were, how nice his lips moved against her. Then she broke form her revelry and shoved him away. "Damn it, Potter. Don't do that."

"Why not?"

"Because I said so. We're friends, and that's it right now."

"Friends? I have moved up. And what's that 'right now' you mentioned, Lily my dear?"

Lily almost growled in frustration. She turned and shoved her way out into the hall. He followed her out.

"Lily," James began, but was almost immediately interrupted by a shout of the same name from further down the hallway. She ignored him in favor of the new voice.

Any excuse to get away from James was a welcome one. She was more than a little flustered by this new Potter revelation. So Lily walked swiftly towards the boy who had called her name.

"Amos, you look great, " she exclaimed, exchanging a friendly hug with him.

"You don't look too bad yourself, Lily," said Amos. James walked swiftly past the two with a look of mixed disgust and jealousy on his face.

He could hear them all the way back to his compartment until he slammed the door shut and the glass shuddered in its frame. The other boys looked up as he entered. They had enough sense not to ask about his mood when they saw the look on his face, but after a while Remis made a feeble attempt.

"James," he said, " you alright mate?"

James sighed and sat up straighter before saying, " Yeah, just a little pissed right now."

"At whom, may I ask, are you pissed? What did you do without us to supervise you?"

"Don't blame me. It's not my fault. Rreally, I mean it, and don't look at me like that Remus. All I did was kiss her a little, and believe me, she needed to be kissed, and then she runs out into the hall, and that bloke, Amos Diggory runs right up to Lily when I was trying to talk to her. I swear he was undressing her with is eyes. The pervert," he added as an after thought.

At this, Sirius was overtaken by a fit of laughter, and finally managed to say, "Um, James, you undress her mentally that all the time, as I recall. You really have no room to talk, mate." The other boys burst out laughing, too and finally James joined them. He felt better now that he had been reminded of how Lily was with him, and how badly he was going to get Diggory for trying to get his grubby paws on Lily. It felt like one of those 'well if I can't have her, then no one can' situations. "And what's this about you making a move on Evans?" Sirius continued.

James looked at him. "Uh, nothing, mate. Really. Just, uh, kissed her a bit. She seemed to like it, but uh, then she, uh, well, she came back to herself and ran out the door."

"Well, you'll just have to give it another go, then. You know what they say, 'if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.'"

James rolled his eyes as the boys continued to hurl questions at him about the short interlude with Lily. He had new material for a month's worth of dreams now, which was probably not good, considering he would be semi-living with her. The conversation lapsed into what they could do to Diggory to get a little bit of revenge so that James could feel better about the whole thing. This was normal behavior for them all, and their dislike of Amos was growing, now only seconded by their hate of Severus Snape and all Slytherins.

Meanwhile, when James had walked off, Lily had followed Amos down the hall to his compartment for a bit of a chat. It was already occupied with two boys and three girls that all looked up expectantly as she and Amos walked in and sat down. There were polite greetings exchanged before the other people lapsed back into their previous conversations. Lily began to talk with a girl from Ravenclaw, named Emily, who sat across from her, resting in the crook of her boyfriend's arm as he babbled on with one of his friends about some quidditch match between teams Lily had never heard of being brought up in the muggle world. Emily grinned as Amos made a very fake yawn and made to stretch before laying the arm across Lily's shoulders.

"Subtlety is not one of your strong suits, Amos," said one of his friends jokingly.

Lily leaned into his arm, and he visibly relaxed. Jokes were passed from one person to the other and conversation ranged from the interesting potions professor to the song that the sorting hat would sing that year. All the while Amos' hand had glided lower until it rested around her waist. The friends babbled and laughed, catching up on their friends' lives, give Lily and Amos some semblance of privacy. He looked over at her and shifted his position on the seat.

"Um, Lily, how are you doing? I mean, I hope you had a nice summer holiday and all. I was, um, wondering if you would you like to… well… would you like to… um… go out with me?" he stuttered out.

She grinned at him and said, " That sounds like fun, Amos. I haven't been on a date all summer."

He leaned over and laid a gently kiss upon her pink lips. She was certainly having one heck of a train ride to Hogwarts. It was soft, not demanding anything of her. It was an easy, light kiss that she could choose to ignore or respond to. His arm tightened its grip upon her waist as Lily chose to respond to his invitation, but they worn thrown quite forcefully to the floor as the train suddenly lurched forward. They landed in a heap on the carpet and began picking themselves up and brushing off. Lily was blushing slightly. The compartment was laughing at them.

"Caught a bit off guard there, love birds?" asked Emily.

"Um, are you okay, Amos? The ground is not the most comfortable place to be" she said, as she stood and went to the door.

"Yeah, I'm good. I'll talk to you later, Lily. Enjoy the feast." She slipped out the door and continued her way back to her friends, who by now, were probably beginning to wonder what had happened to her.

The rest of the trip was mostly uneventful, except for Lily knocking a pair of third year boys senseless for hurling themselves through the girls' compartment door and forcing it to come crashing to the ground. They stumbled away, after Lily had given them a thorough telling off, looking rather scared. Inside the compartment, the other girls were laughing uncontrollably.

"Lily, I think you scared that one off of women. Did you see the look on his face? I thought that he was going to cry. You're far too good at this whole head girl thing, did you know that?" laughed Mer.

"Well, it's a good thing too, or else the school would be under siege by misbehaving boys," said Lily.

The three girls lapsed back into happy giggles until one of them looked at her watch and said simply that they had better get ready because they only had an hour left on the train, and Lily had to go usher the new students to get dressed and remind the older students that they had limited time as of that moment to collect their belongings.

Dressed and ready, Lily stepped out into the hallway and tapped on the doors of the other compartment, sticking her head in to make the announcement that Hogwarts was fast approaching. Ten compartments from the back of the train and Lily had stopped tapping on the doors, figuring that by now most people would be dressed and decent. The next door she opened without preamble and stepped into the room to be greeted almost immediately with yells of surprise form the boys who were in their underwear inside it. She rushed back out and slammed the door behind her.

The four boys inside the compartment stared at each other before Remus said, "Um, was that Lily?"

"You know, I think it was," replied a rather stunned looking Sirius. "Looks like she wanted to see more of James than we knew. She must have liked that she saw earlier, eh James? Then again, it's probably me she's after. Yes, must be it. She's finally giving in to her animal desire to have her way with me." Sirius made a few lude gestures.

"Shut-up, Sirius," said James, tossing something at Sirius while he quickly threw on the rest of his clothes and opened the door to find Lily who, upon realizing who it was she had walked in on, began to blush furiously.

"Um, we'll be at the school in a little less than an hour, so you should collect your things, and you, James Potter," she said regaining her composer, "should be out here helping me get these people ready to depart from the train. You can do the last of them because I still have to go finish putting my clothes away." Even embarrassed she could still take charge and give him orders. Oh yes, he was head over heels for this girl. With that she turned and rushed back down the hall to Mer and Shannon.

James watched her go with a wistful expression on his face before turning around and continuing Lily's efforts to get the students ready to get off at the station.

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