Chapter 1 – The Hogwarts Express
Lily Potter was entering her sixth year at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizadry. It was time to go onto the school train that would take them to the school. Waving goodbye to her mother and father, her sister was trying to ignore her and eyeing a wizard who was bandaged up heavily.
As the School train descended the platform Lily went in search of her friends. Lily passed Slytherins that hissed at her, Ravenclaws that were frantically searching pockets and, much to her disgust, James Potter's carriage.
"Evans! Hey Evans!" James shouted after her.
"What?" Lily snarled
"Come sit with us!" James looked hopeful, a smile spread across her face.
"Sorry I said I would meet Mona." Lily lied, Sirius suddenly looked up. Sirius was a handsome wizard and the best friend of James Potter, Sirius was very interested in Mona. Mona was a metamorphmugus and very very pretty.
"Do you need help looking?" Sirius asked his eyes twinkling.
"No, I think I can find my friends by myself thank you." She said coldly.
"Bye Evans!" James said.
Lily ignored him and carried on looking, he came across a couple of Slytherin girls, relatives of Sirius Black.
"Oh! Cissy look who it is!" Bellatrix Black snarled looking hungrily at Lily.
"You needn't look Bella, the stench coming off her is merely enough." Narcissa Black smirked.
Lily carried on looking finally finding her group of friends: Mona; Katie and Theresa.
"LILY!" Katie ran over hugged Lily. Katie came from Newcastle and had a strong Geordie accent. Katie though very pretty was degraded because of her loudness. Theresa moved her bags so Lily could sit down, Theresa was a black girl that had her hair in curls, her curvy figure sent the boys wild and had recently ended her long term relationship with Sirius Black. Mona sat alone, today her new look was based on strong gothic. Her hair was a long black curtain, her eyes were outlined with black and her skin was so pale she looked ill.
"Loving the new look Mona." Lily smiled. Mona smiled back and revealed perfectly straight white teeth.
"By the way, Black has been looking for you." Monas smile faltered as she glanced at Theresa, who was now powdering her nose. Katie let out a noise of longing. Theresa made a tutting noise and shut her mirror.
"I honestly don't see the appeal to him." Theresa frowned.
"Oh, you definitely don't see the appeal do you? How long did you date him? A year was it?" Mona giggled.
Lily laughed and started to play exploding snap with Katie. They were interrupted by Katie's shrieks as James walked past, which only meant one thing!
"Aye Aye Sexy!"
"Katie!" Mona shrieked with laughter as Sirius peered round.
"Someone call me?" he grinned. Katie flushed bright red as Sirius placed himself next to Katie and Mona( Much to Monas disgust) the rest of the group of boys entered there carriage and Katie was almost wetting her self with excitement as Sirius leaned over to speak to James who had sat next to Lily.
"Moony said something about the prefects meeting." Sirius grinned.
"The prefects meeting, oh yes I remember now!" James laughed.
"OH NO I FORGOT!" Mona shrieked, her hair leaving the smell of passion flowers as she raced outside. Sirius' smile faltered as Mona exited.
"Don't worry I'm sure you'll be able to pull her." Theresa snarled from behind her Witch Weekly magazine.
"Ah, Theresa, looking as lovely as usual I see," Sirius spat. Katie looked between the two and decided to make conversation with the silent Peter. James shifted towards Lily, who got up and took Monas empty seat next to the window.
"Ah Evans why you gotta be like that?" James asked looking slightly annoyed.
"Ah Potter why you gotta act like a prat?" Lily snarled, Sirus chortled and spoke to a tomato red Katie.
"We'd better change into our robes." Theresa stated.
"Cool," Sirius said.
"Meaning you should leave."
"What if we don't want to leave?"
"Then I'll make you leave."
"Like to see you try,"
"Okay, you watching? Firnius Fredelias!"(Made up!)
Sirius face immediately started sprouting fungus.
"You –"
"We'll just be leaving now." James cut across Sirius insult.
Lily stifled her laughter as Mona walked in with Remus in tow, the look of shock and amusement made Sirius turn red. Sirius turned to look at Theresa and made a rude gesture with his fingers as he exited with the rest of the Marauders as the liked to call themselves.
"Let me guess, Sirius annoyed you Theresa?" Remus laughed as he waved goodbye.
"How did you guess?" Theresa said innocently playing with her long curls.
"You didn't have to go that far!" Katie scowled.
"Oh shut up Katie, you have no idea." Theresa scorned as she applied more make up.
"Why are you being so mean?" Katie asked
"I'm not I am only speaking my mind." Theresa said, in Lily's opinion, Theresa was being slightly unfair, but she wasn't going to admit that right now.
"Lily, come with me to make sure he is ok." Katie whimpered.
"He'll be fine Katie." Mona said for the first time, experimenting with a tattoo on her forearm.
"Urgh no. have a fairy Mona!" Theresa said.
Mona settled on a fairy, gothic obviously. Katie kept scowling at Theresa who showed no sign of caring. Finally Theresa got fed up. "Oh just go with her Lily!" Theresa sighed. Lily flashed a look of meaningless hate towards Theresa as she walked out the carriage.
"Maybe we should use the fireworks!" James said.
"Nah we did that last year." Sirius said as Remus attempted a counter curse on a particularly nasty fungus. Lily rapped on the door, the marauders turned to look round at the guests.
"Lily!" James said a look of excitement on his face.
"We just came to see Sirius." Lily said.
James shot Sirius a jealous glare. Katie walked in the carriage and rushed to Sirius. Lily sat down opposite James.
"Lily. Can I have a word?" Sirius asked Lily. James looked horrified as Sirius got up and lent Lily his arm.
"Err- Ok." Lily said confusion spreading across her face, but she took Sirius arm. Katie let out a silent howl of tears. They walked out the carriage, Lily couldn't help but look smug as the girls all shot daggers at them. Sirius laughed when he looked at Lily, who went an astounding shade of red as she realised he had looked at her.
"Lily, I know how much you hate James-"
"To right!" Lily said looking into Sirius' grey eyes, she had to look up as she was quite short and Sirius tall.
"But he really does like you." Sirius said
"Oh yes he really likes me that's why he asked out Katie."
"He asked out Katie so that he had a reason to be with you."
"Yeah. And if I said yes. Which I wont. He would have found a new girlfriend by the end of the week."
"Don't bet on it, just remember he has had crushes, but not as big as he has on you." Sirius said his hair flopped into his eyes. A Ravenclaw girl sighed. Lily bit her lip, staring at nothing in particular. Finally Sirius broke the silence. "You had better get your trunk."
"Yeah, see you later!" Lily said walking away, Sirius grabbed her arm.
"Remember what I said." He smiled and cheekily winked at her as he turned away.
"I will." Lily said.