Untitled (Will soon have a title)
A/N: Ugh… sorry you HP fans for my lazy-ness! I also apologize GREATLY for deleting my other HP stories, and I swear to you that I'll make it up to you! I swear it! Please forgive me! Ooh, and could you people please suggest some titles maybe? The first 3 titles given to me will be voted upon…
James: God what is she desperate?
Sirius: Y –
Lily: No, she's not desperate, just stressed out. There's a gal at school beating her up.
A/N: And I'm a good kid, with lots of friends, and I get beat up… grrr… **hunts down the other person**
Lily: Well, she doesn't own us –
James: She doesn't? Yay! **Runs away**
Lily: Only owns the plot… -_-
Harry: Which is 'bout you and my dad! **Jumps up and down happily**
Lily: **Thwacks Harry over the head with a newspaper** Down boy…
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Lily Evans woke up. Monday. It was exactly a week before school started, and, she wasn't so happy, because she would, yet again, be going to the same school as her sister, Petunia. She looked at her bedside clock, which, yet again, Petunia had turned her alarm off so it wouldn't go off to wake her. Lily knew this for it was 10:30 in the morning, and her alarm should have gone off in her ear sometime around 5:30 in the morning. ((A/N: My God that's when I wake up!))
Lily sat up and stretched. Her feet hardly touched the floor from her perch on the bed. She slid off the edge of the bed, and pulled on a robe, and headed downstairs to the smell of bacon. She loved bacon.
When she got downstairs, she was greeted with a glare from Petunia, but she got a glare every morning from Petunia in place of a welcome, so she simply ignored it. "Good morning dear," her mother said, putting the plate of bacon onto the table. "How was your sleep?"
Lily smiled. "I had a wonderful sleep mom. You?"
"Yes dear, so did I," she smiled, and went to get the toast.
"Here mom, let me help," Lily said, getting up and taking the toast instead of her mom, placing it on the table. Mrs. Evans was remotely surprised, but hid it well; Petunia was just so angry because of it. To her, Lily always had one way or another of getting her mother's attention and affection, while Petunia sat alone usually.
"Thank you," Mrs. Evans said, sitting down at the table. Mr. Evans put down the paper and got ready to eat. It was a silent breakfast, until about mid-way through, when a large bird flew through the open kitchen window, and landed elegantly on Lily's shoulder.
"Is that your pet you freak?" Petunia spat, and Lily stuck her tongue out at her, and noticing the envelope in the large owl's beak, she removed it, and looked at the back of it.
"It's a letter for me… but why would somebody send it by way of an owl?" Lily asked.
"I don't know, filthy animals to have in the house…" Mrs. Evans said, watching the owl, which was eyeing the bacon. Lily looked at the owl, and then picked up one piece of bacon, and gave it to the owl. Everyone expected it to then just steal all the bacon, but it seemed quite satisfied, and flew out the window again.
"Open it Lily," Mr. Evans said, looking at the letter. Lily snapped back to her senses and nodded, and gently broke the seal of the envelope and opened it, pulling out some pieces of parchment, and a train ticket. Lily furrowed her brows in curiosity, and unfolded the pieces of parchment, and began to read the letters outloud, then looked up at her mother. How could this be true? She wished they had someone to ask if it was true or not, but, they might as well try, and go to the train station on September the first just to check.
And that was what the family planned to do. Petunia had gone to her room long before, slamming the door behind her. Now all Lily had to do was wait and find out if it was for real, and, luckily, September the first was a Sunday…
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On September the first they did indeed go to the train station. Petunia sat in the car though. Lily walked around the train station. "How am I s'posed to find Platform 9 and ¾ if it's here?" she asked her parents, they had gotten her all her school supplies, except a pet, so that way, she wouldn't look so strange in the train station if it was only a prank.
But then the answer seemed to come. Mr. Evans had been staring off into space when he saw three boys run through one of the barriers between platforms 9 and 10. "The same way they did… however they did it, c'mon, let's ask the fourth boy and his mother…" and so they went over to them. The woman was obviously the boy's mother, their eyes were the same, and so was their hair color. The boy had messy black hair, and chocolate brown eyes. The woman jumped when they came to her, and the boy was just about to run to the platform, but stopped, looking at them through his glasses. He had an owl in a cage on top of his cart. A Great Horned Owl.
"Er – excuse me, could you tell our daughter how the other three boys got onto the platform? It's her first year, she doesn't know how…" the woman smiled at Mr. Evans' words, and nodded.
"James, c'mere!" the boy nodded, and walked over to his mother and the Evans family. The owl cooed, and ruffled its feathers. "Show this young lady how to get onto the platform. She's muggle born, she won't know how." James nodded.
"C'mon," he said to Lily, and motioned for her to come with him, she did so. "You have to run at the barrier between those two platforms. You won't run into the barrier and fall over, you'll get through. You go first, wait for me, I'll come in right after you, to make sure you got through. Okay?" Lily nodded. She did as she was told, and was amazed to find herself on a platform, a large, scarlet steam engine in front of her.
Her mouth was open slightly in awe, and she was so enchanted by the sight she didn't see the raven-haired boy come through the platform after her, stopping beside her. "Ooh good, your parents wanted me to make sure you're all right, and that you got through," James smiled at her. It was a handsome smile. "Well, I should go and catch up with my friends, I'll see you at Hogwarts! If you can't find a train compartment, come and try to find ours!" he said, as he began to walk away. "Ooh, and by the way, my name's James!"
"Bye James! My name's Lily!" and with that, Lily went to load her stuff onto the train, wishing she had a pet.
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Lily had found a compartment, and the train had already made it to Hogwarts. The first-years, Lily included, were taking boats to the school with a large, burly man named Hagrid. Lily already liked Hagrid.
After they got to the school, they were herded into the front hall in front of two, large oak doors. Soon, after a short lecture from a teacher known as Professor McGonagall, they were lead into the Great Hall to be sorted. Lily was very nervous, and soon her name was called.
It took the hat a while to sort her, but soon it called out 'Gryffindor!' Lily had already made quite a few friends on the train, and when most of them were sorted into Gryffindor, she knew it would make the entire school year a lot more fun.
Especially when she heard an explosion from the Slytherin table, and saw the Slytherins had all turned into frogs, or snakes, or spiders, and were crawling all over their chairs in surprise, and heard a roar of laughter from James, and the friends he had left to go and find back at the train station. This year would be very worth Lily's while.
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As the first few years of Hogwarts classes, Lily was absolutely ecstatic about going back the next year. She was now in her fifth year, and was very excited. She hadn't become friends with James and the Marauders, figuring they were a group best left alone, but, she had her thoughts like a lot of the other girls about the certain boys in that four-man group of pranksters…
She woke very early that morning, the last day of summer, the last day she'd be stuck in this hell hole with her sister, Petunia, until the next summer. She still didn't have a pet for Hogwarts, but it didn't matter. How often did she send letters to her parents anyways? They knew to come and pick her up at the train station every holiday, every summer. And if there was an emergency, they would always somehow contact Dumbledore, and he would easily tell Lily any overly important news.
Lily went down for an early breakfast, to find only her father there, who was just getting ready to leave. "I won't be home when you get home daddy," Lily said, and hugged him before he left. "I'll see you in the holidays!" she smiled, and so did he, ruffling her red hair affectionately.
"Good bye dear, have a good year, and stay away from boys," he said, teasingly, and kissed her forehead, then left for work.
Lily made her own breakfast, and ate it quickly, but she was still very excited. She ran upstairs, and jumped onto her sister's bed, just needing to do something overly active to get all her excitement out.
"Buzz off you little freak…" Petunia pulled the covers over her head, but Lily pulled them back down.
"No, I want to say good morning! And good boy, for I shall not be here when mom comes back," Lily said, acting dramatic.
"Thank God… and did you say good BOY?" Petunia shot up. Lily grinned sheepishly, and then ran out of the room, down the stairs, and to the small, but beautiful back garden they had, Petunia's yells behind her.
Lily laughed when she got out into her backyard, watching as the sky began to brighten with the sunrise. "It's beautiful, isn't it Lil?" a voice said from behind her, and Lily spun around.
There was her best friend, Arabella Figg, known mostly for her gigantic crush on Sirius Black, standing behind her. Lily hugged her friend, then pulled away and nodded.
"My, my Lil, you're certainly overjoyed today!" Arabella said, grinning.
"You are too! You're grinning from ear to ear! I mean, we're FINALLY going back to Hogwarts! I can finally get away from my sister and be with my friends and great teachers again!" Lily said, jumping up and down with excitement.
Arabella laughed. "I can't wait to see how you greet the others. And yes, this year, I know, is going to be something to look forward too. Especially with all the new pranks I just KNOW Sirius and James have come up with!"
"Yes! I can't wait to see what they do to the Slytherins this year!" Lily exclaimed. Arabella suddenly looked thoughtful.
"Lily, how did you know how to get on the platform when you first came to Hogwarts if you were muggle born?" she asked curiously.
Lily grinned. "A little raven-haired angel with glasses told me."
"My God you like James Potter don't you? Don't you?" Arabella grinned, and Lily blushed.
"No, but I won't deny he's good-looking, and he does look like an angel, when you think about it. Only minus the wings and the halo…"
"Lil, if James were an angel, his halo would be crooked…" Arabella grinned, and Lily smiled and laughed a bit.
"Too true! Too true!"
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Time sure flew by. Arabella stayed at Lily's until it was time to leave, and then Mrs. Evans offered to drive both of them, since Petunia was staying home, and Arabella accepted thankfully.
Soon they were at Kings Cross Station, and then on the platform, loading their luggage onto the train. As they did so, Sirius poked his head out from the compartment window, right beside where the girls were storing their luggage currently.
"Hullo lovely ladies," Sirius greeted, and both of them looked at him. Arabella blushed, and Lily rolled her eyes. "Why no blush Flower?" Sirius asked Lily.
Lily smiled. "Because, I don't find you charming, I find you stupid."
The other three boys could be heard laughing at that inside the compartment, but Sirius pouted. "That was mean… I gonna tell mommy…" he pulled his head into the compartment, and then said, loud enough for the girls to hear. "Mommy James, Flower's makin' fun of me again."
That made the boys laugh harder, and the girls crack amused smiles and some snickering.
"What d'you say we go and crash their laughing party?" Arabella asked enthusiastically. "Maybe we can all become better friends that way!"
Lily grinned, knowing Arabella's ulterior motive, but agreed. "Sounds like fun. You think they're ticklish?"
"Even if they aren't, we can make them ticklish!" Arabella grinned, and Lily laughed. The two girls finished with their luggage and ran onto the train, running to James, Sirius, Remus and Peter's compartment.
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Soon, however, the train pulled up to Hogwarts, and the girls and boys fun was over for the time being. They all went inside and sat together, Lily between James and Sirius, and Arabella across from Sirius with Peter beside her and Remus across from James.
Lily didn't like the way Peter was looking at her, and James could tell, so
could Sirius, Remus, and Arabella.
The start of the year ceremonies began, and before the feast came, the poor Slytherins had gotten one of the Marauders' pranks… along with Peter, and only Peter. Their voices went high, and cracked terribly when they talked, and they could only talk in Latin.
Yes… Lily thought. This will be quite a year…
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A/N: My God that was long… Ugh… sore arms… shoulders… entire body… stiff… **falls over** **TwitchTwitch**