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1 September 1977

I

It's the last day of summer, almost Lily's last year of school. Today she was going to go meet with her friends Marlene and Mary in Diagon Alley at eight-thirty and get some ice cream before they had to go on the train. The biggest problem for Lily was getting there, once she gets there it will be smooth sailing. Currently it is an hour before she had to go meet her friends, she should have been getting ready, but instead she was picking out food from her hair and clothes. At breakfast Petunia had gotten upset at her and proceeded to throw toast and pancakes at Lily.

"Stupid thing to get upset about, really." Lily mumbled under her breath. "I have an hour to get ready and my new outfit is ruined!" she was quiet for a while then reached for her wand on the desk by her bed. "I can't believe I forgot about magic!"

Lily often did that, forgetting that she was not a muggle and can use magic to solve her daily problems. She's been getting better since she first found out at eleven but there were still times where she did completely forget and do things the muggle way. Most witches and wizards didn't see the point to do things the muggle way, but for Lily and other muggle-borns it was normal.

A second later all the food that was flung at her disappeared. "That's better." Lily then double checked to see if she had packed everything added a few trinkets every now and then. After a good while fussing over her trunk she shrunk it and stuck it in her pocket. She then flung open the door and started down the stairs. "Mum! Dad! I'm going to Diagon Alley!"

Lily's parents, Rose Tabitha Evans and David Timothy Evans, came running into the living room before Lily had made it fully down the staircase.

"Oh honey." Rose said as she pulled Lily into a tight embrace. "I'm going to miss you, be good and stay safe and get good grades and—"

David cut off his wife before she could continue her rambling. "Don't overload her again. The last time you did that we got an owl saying that Lily sabotaged her entire class so that she would get the best grade in Transfiguration." Rose let go of her daughter and quickly wiped her eyes and slapped her husband on the stomach with the back of his hand. "Ouch."

Lily laughed and hugged her father too. "I'm gonna miss you two," she wasn't too short or too tall but when she hugged her dad her head barely even came up to the top of his chest, she pressed her head against his chest and could feel his heart beating underneath her ear.

"Us too, don't forget about us, owl us every week." Her father said, placing a kiss on the top of her head.

"I will, I will."

"Lily dear, you're going to be late, get gone." Her mother said.

Lily let go of them and started towards the door. "I'll owl you when I get to Hogwarts after the feast. Bye, I love you!" they called back their love as Lily apparated to the Leaky Cauldron. Once Lily found Marlene and Mary the three got ice cream and walked around for a bit before going back to the Leaky Cauldron to sit and talk.

"So Lil," Mary started. "How was your summer?" Mary is a muggle-born like Lily and knew how to dress like one, whereas Marlene stuck out no matter how much effort was placed into her muggle attire. Marlene is a pure-blood and has a slight problem about dressing like a muggle, and it always made Lily and Mary laugh.

Sighing Lily answered. "Same, and you two?"

Marlene smirked. "Well, I got to know a new neighbour, he just moved here with his parents, he's a muggle, I can't really recall his name, but it sounded nice…I think. Anyway he's a really great kisser." She twirled a strand of her blond hair around her finger.

Mary and Lily rolled their eyes. "Oh Marls," Lily said as she shook her head. "sometimes you act like Sir—"

Before Lily could finish Marlene had cast a silencing charm on her and a look of horror on her face. "Never, say anything that compares me to that—that thing!" Mary undid the charm on Lily as soon as Lily promised to say sorry and never mention it again which took at least five minutes to get out of Lily. Sometimes Lily just liked to be stubborn.

After that they kept the conversation away from what they did over the summer, and chatted away until it was ten-thirty when they had to go to the train station. They took out their shrunken trunks and unshrunk them to load them onto the train. Quickly they went into the train to find a good compartment.

Marlene raised her eyebrow to Lily. "So Ms Head Girl, aren't you supposed to go do Head Girl stuff with the prefects and such?"

Rolling her eyes Lily answered. "Yes, but not until after everyone's on the train and it starts to leave the station. Until then I'm free to hang out with you guys." She leaned back in her seat and started to eat some chocolate frogs. "Has anyone seen any of the other girls?"

Both shook their heads no, Marlene spoke. "They'll find us eventually." She brushed it away. In the end they always found a way to share a compartment, it was kind of like a tradition. After a few minutes of just the three talking, they decided to have a little fun.

"How about we place a little friendly bet?" Marlene asked, twirling her blond hair.

Lily and Mary shared a look. Shakily Lily bit her lip. "I don't know."

Mary just kept looking back and forth between the two of them. "Why not?" both of the other girls looked at her like she was crazy. "What?"

Marlene got out of her state of shock first. "It's just that I thought I would have to fight my side for a good while before you said yes and we convince Lils to, you shocked me, that's all." Mary nodded her head in understanding, then turned her gaze toward Lily.

"So are you going to join in on our bet or not?" Mary asked curtly. Lily worried her lip before nodding once. "Great! So Marls, what are we going to bet on?"

There was an evil glint in Marlene's eyes as she sat up straighter. "Well, I was thinking that we could bet on who finds us first and if they will announce it to the others or not." Lily bit down on her lip even harder thinking whether or not she should bet against her friends then thought, 'why not?'

"Okay," Lily started. "I bet that Emmeline will find us first and that she will tell everyone where we are." All of them grew wide smiles.

Mary went next, "I think that Hestia will find us and tell the others where we are, what about you, Marls?"

"Since you two went with those two I will go with Dorcas, and that she won't tell the others. Now how much do you want to bet on? Five galleons?" Everyone checked to see if they had enough and agreed to it. "Five galleons if we get the person right, another five if we get if they'll tell or not. If we just get whether they tell or not we get nothing. Deal?"

"Deal." The other two chorused. Patiently they waited and filled the time with talk and chit-chat until a figure ran into the compartment.

"Found you!" Emmeline Vance exclaimed as she slid into one of the available seats. Mary and Marlene gave Lily five galleons each as Emmeline didn't tell the other two girls where the three were sitting. "We split up to see who would find you first, I would say that I won, but Lily here got money so…I still think I won." The others laughed and greeted her.

"Who do you think will find us next?" Lily asked.

The compartment door slid open. "Me," James Potter, Marauder and Lily's enemy since first year slid into the compartment. Shortly afterward Sirius Black entered, also a Marauder and on Lily's bad side since first year.

"Go away, Black, Potter." Lily said as she turned back to her conversation with her friends.

Sirius and James put on a look of pain. "Ouch, Evans," James said as he leaned against the side of the compartment for support.

"That hurt," Sirius finished. "though if I were you I would be careful what you say to your co-head."

That caught Lily's attention. "What? Who?"

James smirked. "That got your attention. Look, I'm the Head boy." He held out his badge for all of them to see. After that she blacked out, she only recalls casting a few dozen charms in his direction before Mary took away her wand. The two Heads had to be separated until Lily could calm down—but that would take forever.

Mary, Marlene, and Emmeline were sitting in a compartment with Lily, trying to get her to calm down.

"Lils," Marlene started. "Just go to the meeting and act civil, then you can go on hating him when all the prefects have left." Instead of answering with words Lily sent her a glare as she tried to reach her wand which was floating just out of her reach.

Emmeline stood up. "Lily! Stop!" She obeyed. "Oh, wow, I didn't think that would work… can you use your words and tell us what's on your mind?"

Instead of ignoring Emmeline Lily sat down and gave up her pursuit on her wand. "I just thought that this would be the one year that I wouldn't have to put up with Potter, he left me somewhat alone towards the end of the year and I thought that I would get some peace and quiet. But no. Dumbledore had to go and—and ruin my year!" at the word year she threw her fist at the wall of the compartment. A loud noise accompanied the hit, but Lily didn't flinch.

Mary sat down next to her and handed her a chocolate frog. Lily accepted it and the conversation went back to normal until the meeting with the prefects time came.

During the meeting Lily barely said a word to James, but when she did it was somewhat kind and pleasant. She was the first to leave the meeting when it was over. James waited until everyone had left and it was just him and Remus. A few seconds later Sirius came into the compartment with Peter, beaming.

"I know what to do about your Evans problem!" Sirius smirked. "I've got a plan."