Ok. This is my first Harry Potter fanfic. Any and all reviews are appreciated. You'll have to be patient with me though. It might start out slow, but I promise it will be good. I've been working on it for months. Haha. :

Tickle Bug

Lily Evans, Madison Roberts, and Christal Staninas were sitting outside of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They had just finished with their final exams of their sixth year and were quite glad to be finished with them. They were sitting underneath the beech tree by the Black Lake, talking, laughing, and enjoying the warm summer air.

"So, Christal, how many jobs do you have lined up for this summer?" Madison, known as Maddie by her friends, asked. Maddie was 5'6". She had strait blonde hair that fell just past her shoulders and eyes as blue as a calm summer sky. She was one of the prettiest girls in school, but didn't know just how pretty she was. Lily and Christal were always telling her how pretty she was, but Maddie always refused to see their point of view. Maddie was quiet and shy. She loved to read and aspired to be a healer when she graduated from Hogwarts. Though Maddie seemed quiet to everyone else, she had a temper as bad as Christal and Lily's.

"To be honest, Mad, I lost count after the first week's worth of jobs." Christal answered. Christal was the shortest of the three standing at 5'1". She had long medium brown hair that was waist length. Her eyes were a greenish gray that tended to sparkle with mischief. Out of the three girls, Christal was the one getting into the most trouble. She loved playing pranks on others and had a temper to make even the nastiest Slytherin cower. She tended to take her anger out on one certain boy, but we'll get back to him later. Christal loved reading just as much as Lily and Maddie and had a collection of books to rival that of the school's library. Christal was temperamental and outspoken. She feared almost nothing and had a tendency to be maternal to her friends. Christal was extremely observant and often shocked others with how much she noticed.

Lily laughed. "Chris, you're going to end up running yourself into the ground this summer." Lily said that every year and Christal just shrugged it off. Lily had vibrant red hair that fell half way down her back and emerald green eyes that were always sparkling. Lily's temper was just as great as Christal's. Lily was the tallest of the three being 5'8". Lily loved to read to. She was a Gryffindor prefect and was hoping to get the Head Girl position next year. Lily was the one that kept Christal in line most of the time. Sometimes even Lily couldn't control her.

All three of them were exceptionally intelligent and held the top three spots in their class, being tied with three others. They all loved to read and had tempers on them, each had different length fuses, though. They were sixth year Gryffindors loved by almost all. Another thing that made the girls unique, particularly in the magical world, was that they were muggleborns. Normally that wasn't so odd, it was the fact that they were at the top of their class and muggleborns.

The girls had been laughing at the thought of Lily's sister, Petunia, when they heard an all too familiar voice call out to them.

"Oh ladies!" Sirius Black's voice rang out across the grounds. At the sound of his voice, the three girls cringed while other girls that were on the grounds did a variation of forms of swooning. Sirius Black was a sixth year Gryffindor as well. He had long onyx black hair that fell into his midnight blue eyes that were sparkling mischievously. Sirius was 6'2". He loved to play pranks, particularly on unsuspecting Slytherins. Sirius played the position of beater on the Gryffindor quidditch team. The girls liked to refer to him as the resident man whore of Hogwarts.

With Sirius were his best friends and fellow troublemakers. James Potter, who was standing right next to Sirius, was smirking at the girls. James was the same height as Sirius. He had raven colored hair that was always messy and hazel eyes that had the same sparkle in them as Sirius'. James was captain of the Gryffindor quidditch team and played the position of chaser. He loved to play pranks as well. When it came to girls, James was just as bad as Sirius. Though Lily refused to believe it, it was apparent to anybody with half a brain that James was completely, head over heals, in love with Lily.

Remus Lupin was the third one of the group. He stood at 6'1". Remus had sandy blonde hair that fell into his eyes slightly, though no where near as much as Sirius'. Remus' eyes were a calm before the storm kind of gray. Though Remus was gentle in nature, that did not mean that he was always like that. Remus had a dark secret. That secret made him like tired and old for his age. What Remus didn't know was that the girls (Lily, Maddie, and Christal) knew his secret. Remus was a prefect just like Lily, but did not want the position as Head Boy. Remus was a very studious boy, his secret causing him to be more quiet then the others, but that didn't mean that he didn't prank like the others did. Remus loved playing pranks as well. He just didn't pull them as often as the others.

Last but not least, there was Peter Pettigrew. Peter was 5'11". He had short, straw like blonde hair and watery blue eyes. Peter wasn't ugly, but he wasn't the best looking either. Peter was a bit on the heavier side. Not obese, but not thin and muscular like the others either. Peter wasn't as intelligent as the others, but the other three never let him fall to far behind.

Together the four boys made up a group called the Marauders. The biggest, most womanizing pranksters in the school. The only exception to the womanizing being Remus. The four Marauders each had a nickname. James: Prongs, Sirius: Padfoot, Remus: Moony, and Peter: Wormtail. The boys that that the girls had no clue what the nicknames meant, and they were right for the most part. Christal, however, did know. The three boys (meaning James, Sirius, and Remus) were tied with the girls for the top three spots in the class. James and Lily being tied for first, Christal and Sirius being tied for second, and Maddie and Remus being tied for third. Peter was ranked somewhere along 70 something only because of the help his friends gave him.

"What do you want, Black?" Christal asked in a tired voice. Sirius just happened to be the boy that Christal took her anger out on. Sirius continually infuriated Christal. He constantly asked her out. Except, unlike James, it really was because she was the only one that had said no. Even all of the brainy Ravenclaws had said yes to Sirius.

"You mean besides for you to go out with me? Why nothing at all dear." Sirius was really laying it on thick and the others could see Christal always short fuse starting to diminish.

"Call me dear one more time and I swear you won't be a man whore anymore." Christal said through gritted teeth.

"How's it going, Evans?" James could never pass up the opportunity to talk to Lily, even though she absolutely despised him.

"It was going fine until you showed up, Potter" Lily was just as aggravated as Christal and getting angrier by the minute. Remus and Maddie, seeing the trouble coming with the direction the conversations were going, decided to intervene.

"So," Remus began. "Are you guys doing the talent show tonight?" Remus thought that that was a safe direction for the conversation.

Christal turned to Remus, promptly ignoring Sirius. "Actually, we are. I didn't want to, but Maddie and Lily made me."

Remus had to chuckle at that. "Now Christal, you and I both know that it's impossible to make you do something that you don't want to do." Even Christal had to laugh at that.

"Ok, ok. They pestered me until I finally caved." Remus was the one Marauder that they all got on with. Lily could tolerate Sirius occasionally and Christal: James. It was very rare, however, that they all got along at once.

"Oooohhhhhhhhh." said James. "What are you guys doing?" "Singing" was the reply that he got from all three girls at once. It wasn't unusual for the girls to answer simultaneously. Most professors found it entertaining when they did that. So did most students.

"What are you signing?" Sirius asked. Christal ignored him, but Lily and Maddie took pity on him. "We're signing a song that Christal wrote."

"You wrote it, Christal?" Remus asked, slightly shocked. Christal was always writing, but very few people knew of her writings. "Yea, I did. Lily, Maddie, we better get going. We have other stuff we have to do before tonight."

James watched as they stood up. Not one to let an opportunity pass, he asked "Hey, Evans! Want to go out with me?" Lily, not even looking over shoulder as the girls walked away called "No!". With that the girls walked back inside of the castle.

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Well? What did you think? I'll write more soon. Next chapter: The Talent Show. Please R&R!

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TickleBug