Chapter 1
A/N: I actually just wrote this in my statistics class because I was soooo bored! Enjoy :) aaand, Review!
"Ohhhh Marley!" Came a loud call throughout the train corridor, it could be heard in a compartment where two girls were sitting.
"Here comes your knight in shining armor Marlene." The red head joked.
Marlene, or Marley, ground her teeth as she scowled at the compartment door, waiting for it to open.
Sure enough, she could hear the raucous footsteps, and then the door was flung open to reveal a tall boy with longish black hair and a joyous smile spread across his youthful face.
"Oh but Lily, where Black is, Potter is never far behind." Marlene teased scathingly. Then another dark haired boy entered the compartment; he had warm brown eyes behind his spectacles. Marlene watched her friend's face instant turn into a grimace.
"My sweet Lily-Flower. How was your summer?" The second boy, Potter, asked as he sat down rather close to the fuming Lily.
"James, mate, how come you can't tell; she's not into you." The first boy said as he threw his arm around Marlene, who pretended to vomit.
"Oi, look at Marlene! She's definitely not into you, Sirius!" James accused.
Sirius grinned casually at Marlene, "Aw but me and Marley have a special friendship. She thinks she hates me, but she secretly loves me. Right Marley?"
"My name is Marlene, not Marley. That is a dog name." Marlene pouted.
"Pfft, who says Marley is a dog name?" Sirius asked.
"It's a muggle book! It's called Marley and Me, and it's all about this couple who own the worst dog in the whole world, whose name is Marley." Marlene said stoutly.
"Hmmph, there's nothing wrong with having a dog name…" now it was Sirius's turn to pout.
The whole compartment laughed at this, Sirius was after all, named after the Dog Star, Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.
Marlene removed Sirius's arm from her shoulders as Lily stood up to leave. "Hey, where are you going?" demanded Marlene.
"Well, I am Head Girl, and there is a meeting now." Lily explained herself. James leapt to his feet to follow her, "Why are you following me?" Lily asked.
James began rummaging around in his pockets until he pulled out a shiny badge and pinned it to the front of his robes. It read, Head Boy. Lily gaped, "No, just, no." She wailed as James ran after her.
"Wait for me Lilykins, you can't start the meeting without the Head Boy!"
Sirius and Marlene burst out laughing as the compartment door slammed shut. Marlene shifted away from Sirius, suddenly aware of how alone and close they were. Sirius smirked at her.
"Well, I best go find the rest of the boys." He got up and stood by the door, and looked back at her. Marlene was sitting by the window looking lonely. Sirius sighed, "Would you like to join me?"
Marlene bounced up, grinning, "Why thank you, yes I would." She smiled cheekily at him. Sirius couldn't help but scowl as she lead the way out of the compartment.
After checking practically the whole train, Sirius and Marlene found the other two boys sitting in a compartment near the end of the train. Marlene smiled and greeted the two boys, "Hello Remus," She smiled at the one with sandy brown hair. "Hello Peter," She said to the pudgy boy. Both boys looked up and greeted her and Sirius. The boys began to discuss their summer, and their beginning of the year prank they always play, it was after all their last year at Hogwarts, so everything had to be spectacular.
While they did this, Marlene observed them carefully; at the moment, Sirius was leader because of James's absence, Sirius was talking animatedly while Remus and Peter watched. Remus watched Sirius's wild gestures with amusement, while Peter watched in awe. Marlene had always wondered how little Peter Pettigrew had found himself in the Marauder group. The other three boys were all very attractive, James had his charisma, which was contagious; Sirius had his dark bad-boyesque good looks; Remus had his sensitivity and smarts; but Peter, well he was not very smart, not very athletic, like James and Sirius, and he wasn't very attractive. Marlene figured that James and Remus pitied Peter, while Sirius just put up with him.
She knew this group, the Marauders, were famous at Hogwarts, they were popular, smart (save Peter), attractive (again, except Peter), and could play some wicked pranks. Marlene was suddenly brought out of her musings by a shake.
"Oi, Marley, want anything from the trolley?" Sirius asked pulling on her sleeve.
"Oh, yes. And it's Marlene, not Marley." She got up and asked for a pumpkin pasty and two licorice wands.
There was silence in the compartment as the four happily munched on their snacks, that is until James and Lily came pommeling through the door.
"Marlene! Lets go!" Lily snapped reaching for her friend's hand.
"Well, see you later boys," Marlene laughed as was wrenched out of the compartment.
Her grin fell when she heard Sirius call out: "Bye Marley!"
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"He's just so arrogant!" Lily ranted.
Marlene had heard it all before, Lily would go on for a little while longer, calling James names, like "toe-rag" and "prat" and "git" but Marlene was used to it by now. She just sighed and listened as Lily let it all out. Over the summer she had forgotten how much James riled Lily up, but Marlene thought Lily's ranting was different, it was slightly hysteric, like she was trying to convince herself that all those things she yelled about James were still true. Marlene knew that this year was going to have a lot in store.