Chapter 1: The Horrible Morning
Lily woke-up groggily, reaching for her contacts on her bedside table. She put them in, and then took in the morning blinkingly. Looking at her clock, she started to groan. It was only six a.m., an hour before she had to get up. Knowing that she was too awake to fall back asleep; she got out of bed and put on a pair of socks. She walked downstairs quietly, as not to wake any of her horrid family. Lily's parents always acted as if they were proud to have a witch in the family, but Lily knew it was all an act. Her sister Petunia, however, didn't even pretend to be happy for Lly. She spat at her and stated loudly that she was now an only child. Walking in the kitchen, Lily poured herself a cup of strong black coffee and popped some toast in the toaster. When the toast popped up, she buttered it and started to eat and drink. Ten minutes after her breakfast was finished, the sound of feet filled the upstairs bedrooms, signally to Lily that it was time for her to go back upstairs, before Petunia came downstairs for her breakfast. Lily bound up the stairs and into her room quickly. She didn't want to get in a fight this morning since today was the day that she went back to Hogwarts.
Once in her room, she started to pack. Going to her closet, she took out a huge mound of black clothes and put them in her trunk. Grabbing her boots, (her only pair of shoes) and she put them on. She grabbed a long-sleeved, black, medieval style shirt and a pair of black pants with a studded belt in the loops from the pile in her trunk and put them both on. Then she applied thick eyeliner and mascara. Looking in the mirror, Lily smirked. She looked the way she always did but she didn't care, she loved the way she and her friends looked. Despite the fact that everyone called them freaks but that was the last thing on her mind. She opened her jewelry box and put on seven or eight necklace, one reaching her naval. Lastly, she inserted her eyebrow spike and her nose stud and she was ready. Lily ran her hands through her newly highlighted hair. She had gotten blonde highlights in her flaming red hair, much to the disapproval of her parents. Lily didn't even know why they were complaining. It wasn't as if she had made them pay for it. Hell, her parents had not bought her anything since she was seven! Her grandmother, her father's mother, was the only one who had taken pity on her and given her some clothes that she was going to give to a shelter! Now, Lily saved up her money for all her stuff; clothes, school books…EVERYTHING! All of her parent's extra money went to their "perfect daughter", Petunia. Petunia was normal, Lily wasn't, Petunia was an angel and Lily was the spawn of Satan. Petunia was always happy and Lily was morbid. But if her parents ever took a few extra seconds to really look at Lily, they would realize it was THEM making her morbid.
Lily shook her head and resumed packing. Putting her school books in her trunk with her CD player, CDs, and a laptop in her purse, which she placed in her trunk carefully. Hidden in a small side pocket of her purse was a miniaturized amp and guitar. Two years ago, she had bewitched all her electronics so they would work in school. Her three friends Katrina Lendon, Mitch VanLetts, and Tylor Howland and her were in a band together named A.X.S. She smirked, thinking about how much fun her friends and her were going to have because Lily was appointed Head Girl a year early by Dumbledore. She didn't know who the Head Boy was, but she didn't care. Head Girl meant benefits, such as getting scumbags like James Potter and Lucius Malfoy into detention on a regular basis. Not that Potter would care, Lily thought, he's already made that his permanent home...him and that friend of his Sirius Black. Lily shook her head vigorously again; she didn't want to be thinking of them when they barely qualified to live in her opinion. She closed the top of her trunk, locked it, and hen sat on top of it for a moment. Looking at her clock, she saw that she had a half an hour until the train left the platform. She called a cab, knowing that her parents wouldn't take her. Since she had no muggle currency, she crept into her sister's now empty room and took £15 from her purse. That should be enough, Lily thought and pocketed it. She jogged back to her room and began to struggle with her trunk and the steep staircase. When she finally got it down the stairs, she heard someone behind her say, "Isn't there a dress code in that freak joint of yours?" Lily spun around and was face to face with her sister Petunia.
"No, but even if there was, I wouldn't give a damn. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a cab to catch to take me from this hell!" Petunia stared at Lily for having the audacity to curs at her, and marched away from Lily with her bony nose in the air. Lily's parents didn't leave the kitchen to grunt their farewells. Slamming the door behind her, Lily started towards an approaching cab. The driver got out, and helped Lily get her trunk in the trunk of the cab. When they had climbed in the cab the driver turned and asked Lily,
"Where to young Miss?"
"Kings Cross Station," Lily stated. The driver nodded and drove away from the house that she wouldn't have to see for another ten months. After a silent twenty-minute drive, they finally reached Kings Cross Station. He driver got out and got Lily a trolley and helped her get her trunk out of the cab. She paid the driver and when the trunk was lashed securely to the trolley she started toward platforms nine and ten. When she was sure no one was looking at her, she ran at the barrier. Lily looked around for her friends at the newly appeared platform 9 ¾. Going over to the luggage car, Lily took her purse out of her trunk and struggled yet again with he trunk and moving it. As she walked up to the Head Compartment she could already hear people whispering about her, but she kept her gaze frontward and walked on. "Lils…LILS…LILS! HOLD ON!" Lily spun around and saw her friends running towards her.
Katrina was a mildly pretty girl with black hair that had two blood red streaks that framed her face. She was about 5'8" and had brown eyes. Tylor, her boyfriend, had dirty blonde hair that he kept semi-spiked. His blue eyes barely left Kat as she ran ahead of the boys with trying to hold down her black dress and not trip in her combat boots. Tylor was an aver height of 5'11", not counting the inch of spiked hair. Just behind Tylor was the last member of their group, Mitch. He had black hair that he spuked up with red dyed tips. He was a towering 6'3" with a well-built body. He had a few scars and bruises covering him though. Mitch came from a broken home and lived with his muggle mother and her very abusive boyfriend. Because of that, Mitch never really talked to anyone but his friends. Some teachers thought that his silence was because he could string two words together. Lily, Tylor, and Kat knew different. Katrina finally reached Lily and hugged her. "Hey Kat… Tylor… Mitch," Lily acknowledged each I the order they approached her. Tylor was panting for breath.
"Christ Lils we've been shouting for you for ages! Did your sister rip your bloody eardrums out or something?" Tylor looked at her with an exasperated expression.
" Sorry, but don't worry I gotta surprise for you! I got Head Girl which means… the best compartment on the whole damn train!" The three smirked evilly at her.
"Right-o, let's go," Tylor said in a mockingly pompous tone. The other just rolled their eyes and followed him in, only to find out that there were already four boys in the compartment. It was the marauders of Hogwarts. Sirius Black with shaggy brown hair and brown eyes, Remus Lupin with sandy colored hair and blue eyes, Peter Pettigrew with water blue eyes and blonde hair and finally James Potter. James had messy black hair and hazel eyes and an egotistical prat. He thought that he was only one-step down from God because he was the star seeker and captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. James was wanted by every girl and envied by every bow (a.nexcluding the Marauders obviously), except Lily and her friends.
"Well, well, well look what e've got here! Freaks on the loose! Too bad this compartment is for the Head Boy and Girl and their friends. Now scarm, before we're forced to do so ourselves.: Jaes looked at them while fingering his wand as hif they were nothing but dirt on his expensive shoes. Mitch's arm muscles twitched as he clenched his hands into ghost white fists. Lily touched his arm and looked at James.
"Well Potter, it just so happens that I AM the Head Girl," Lily spat back. She dugin her purse, extracted her Head Girl badge and pinned it to the strap of her black purse. James' eyes widened as he opened his mouth to speak. However, Sirius beat him to the punch.
"Well then, my Lily flower, you should know that Jamsie here is Head Boy." Sirius flashed his most dashing smile at her. She was unmoved and just gave him an icy glare that wiped the grin right off his face.
"Don't you ever, EVER call her your Lily flower again Black," Mitch snarled at Sirius. Sirius backed into his seat, intimidated by Mitch's size.
"WOAH! You can talk?" Mitch's eyes burned with hatred as Lily spoke up.
"Listen you sleazebags, don't talk to us and we won't talk to you… GOT IT?" Lily yelled at the Marauders. Then she and her friends sat down on the opposite side of the rather large compartment and began to talk.