A/N Hey everyone this is my first story EVER!!! So I will take all sorts of criticism but please no flames. If you don't like it then don't read it!

Disclaimer – I don't own any of it cept a few characters it all goes to the wonderful J.K. Rowling!!

The Beginning

If you were walking through Kings Cross Station in London you might see a girl with flaming red hair, magnificent green eyes, not too tall at only 5'5, and a somewhat athletic build carrying one or two trunks with her. To anyone this is a normal site. This girl is named Lily Evans, an everyday beauty but a force to be reckoned with. To any passerby she would look normal, but this particular girl is not normal…far from it actually. You see, Lily Evans is a witch and is on her way to her final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

She carefully stepped through the barrier onto platform 9& ¾ and paused for a short while. Taking in the sites of all the new first years trying to get onto the train without leaving all of what they brought with them behind and all of the other students saying hurried goodbyes to their parents and loved ones. She started to remember her first day here. Ahhh…what a long time ago!

Flashback

A very young Lily Evans, eleven at the time, was standing in between the platforms of 9 and 10 looking for platform 9 and ¾.

"I must look like I just escaped form the mental hospital just standing here like this." she thought. Just as she was about to go and see if her parents were still outside she felt a heavy blow to her mid section and was suddenly laying on the sticky train station floor. When she opened her eyes she found herself looking up into a pair of chocolate brown ones with slightly darker hair partially covering one.

"O my gosh I am such a klutz!" the eyes said. The girl got to her feet and extended her hand for Lily to grab. She gratefully took it and brushed herself off once she was on stable ground.

"I'm sorry about that but the freaks of nature my dad likes to call my brothers were trying to hug me goodbye but when its all four of them against only one of me I have to run for the hills! My name is Sarah Halman by the way. What's yours?"

"My name is Lily Evans." She replied. As they shook hands she could get a better look at Sarah. She had dark brown hair that fell to about her mid back but had bangs that covered her right eye and was a little on the thin side but not anorexic. Her eyes twinkled with mischief and had an aura of someone who has had to deal with a lot even in the short amount of time she's been alive. But her smile looked so natural like it never leaves her face. She was wearing black flipflops, denim caprices with little black and silver jewels on them with a black tank top to pull off the outfit and the only makeup she seemed to be wearing was some eyeliner and lipgloss.

As Lily was taking in her appearance Sarah was debating on asking her where platform 9&3/4 was because she saw that her trunk had the Hogwarts emblem on the side just like her own. 'O well she probably thinks I'm nuts as it is so why not?'

"Do you happen to know where platform 9&3/4 is?" she said at the same time Lily did. They both just stared at each other for a few seconds then started into a fit of giggles. "So I guess your going to Hogwarts too eh?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, I am. That is if I can ever find the platform." Sarah said as she glanced around the station. "But oh well I guess we'll just have to figure out this mystery together!" she declared as she wrapped her arm around Lily's. 'I think I see a good friend here.' Lily thought as they started to move towards a new direction.

As soon as the duo turned around they came face to face with a young Filipino girl about their age with hair so thick it looked like a ship could sink in it and eyes that say her mysteries take ages to figure out so don't even try. She was a nice size and only about 5'1, the same height as the other girls, and wearing a black denim skirt that came to her knees along with a gray long sleeved tight fitted sweater.

Next to her was a boy about 5'5, with short, choppy, spiky black hair and blue eyes so clear they looked like pools of ice. He had a fairly nice tan that covered his lanky body. He was wearing tight skater jeans with a brown Hollister Tee shirt.

"Did you guys mention Hogwarts?" the girl asked. "Umm…yeah we did actually do you know it?" Lily asked in return. The girl turned to the boy and they both started to smile at the same time. "Yeah, we know it." The boy said.

"By the way, my name is Nicole Cunnanan and this idiot over here is Ian Crawford." She said as she pointed to herself and the boy next to her. "And we're first years too but both of our parents went to Hogwarts so we know how to get there."

"Oh, well that's great cause our plan basically consisted of standing here doing nothing so this is a great improvement. I'm Sarah Halman and this is Lily Evans and we're completely and utterly confused." Lily stood there the whole time just nodding her head in agreement.

"Ha ha ha, yea well Ian will show you how to get through won't you Ian?" Nicole asked him with a fake sweet smile. He just turned to her and glared, "Yes mistress." He said through gritted teeth. He pulled his trunk in front of him and started to run full speed at the wall. Sarah almost closed her eyes for not wanting to see him fall on his ass but if she had she wouldn't have seen him go straight through the wall.

Lily and Sarah just stood there with their mouths hanging open until Nicole chuckled and closed it for them. "You'll catch flies that way." she commented as she closed their mouths with the tip of her finger.

"But, but that's j - just not logi-" "HE WENT THROUGH THE WALL!!!!" Lily started and Sarah finished. "Yes that's how you get onto the platform, why don't you try next Lily?" Nicole explained.

"Umm…okay." Lily stammered. She towed her trolley over towards the wall and then started to run. She jumped on to the back bar of the trolley so when she hit she wouldn't get her legs taken off, but instead of the jerk she was expecting she just kept rolling. She turned around in time to see Sarah come through in pretty much the same fashion. But what she didn't see was the boy with dark greasy hair and a long pointed nose.

"Ouufff!" she said as she made contact with the boy. She heard a small yelp as Sarah collided with a boy who looked to be about 5'5 and had platinum blonde hair that was so long from the back you would think he was a girl.

The boy with greasy hair pulled her up and mumbled his apologies as he started to pick up her things. "Put those down Severus! We don't help mudbloods!" the boy with platinum blonde hair said as he grabbed the greasy haired boy by the shoulder and gathered their things.

Nicole chose that moment to glide in graceful as ever. "Hey I'm sorry it took so long I was just saying goodb-" she stopped mid sentence when she saw who was in the company of her new found friends. "What are you doing here Malfoy?" she said with an icy tone.

"Well we were on our way to the train until these…things got in our way! Really Cunanan I thought better of you than to be hanging around lesser beings!" he sneered.

"You know not everyone's as low as you gits so why don't you just go on your way." A voice said from behind all of them. Instead of the high voice of Nicole it was the low voice of Ian.

"Crawford why don't you mind your own business or do you stand up for these filthy blooded cretins like your little girlfriend?" he barked back while stepping closer and closer to Ian's face.

"First off, she's not my girlfriend. Second off, stop calling them names like they're not people cause as much as you wished they weren't they are so get OVER it!! And third, is that a threat cause I'll take you anytime anywhere asshole!" He said approaching Malfoy till they were almost nose to nose (with Ian being a slightly taller nose).

"Now, now boys I think we've had enough of the mine's bigger than yours routine so why don't we all just move along now." Sarah said as she stepped in between the two.

"Stay out of this you stupid hore!" Malfoy said but as soon as last syllable left his mouth Sarah's fist replaced it. He stepped back and stood in shock that this little girl had actually punched him. Ian grabbed Sarah and held her back as she tried to take another swing at the blonde rat in front of her.

"Come on lets go!" Lily said as she started to pull Nicole and, a less excited, Sarah towards the train. Ian followed directly behind saying that he had found an empty compartment when he came through so to follow him.

"As they were all getting into the compartment they all heard through the open window Malfoy, who until then had remained frozen from shock despite the tugs from the long nosed boy named Severus, yell "OWWWWW!!!"

For a moment they all just looked at each other and then they all fell into either the seats (Lily and Nicole) or the floor (Sarah and Ian) laughing hysterically. This was when they all officially became friends!

End Flashback

As she was standing there reminiscing she didn't hear the screams of 'Lily' until it was too late and she was already swamped by a mass of black hair. "Hi to you too Nicole now can you let me go so I can breathe?" she said through the swamp of darkness.

"Oh, sorry bout that but I haven't seen you in what, three weeks and that's just three weeks too long so I ran over here to give you a hug and show you where our compartment is. Before you ask I only know where one of our other two buddies are. The retarded one is off with his new squeeze of the week and the extremely retarded one is guarding our compartment." She said in all one breath.

"Ooookkk, Nicole who gave you the coffee?" she said as she took a cautionary steep backwards. "Hahahaha, I gave it to myself so I could wake up cause the usual thought of yelling at the Marauders just wasn't cutting it today for some reason." She said with a maniac smile plastered on her small round face.

Nicole was no longer the awkward looking eleven year old she once was. She now had curves and her hair got smoother and shinier to the point where the sun would create a beautiful glint from it even at twilight. It also now reached her mid back and liked to swish it around every now and then. She would also use it as a great tool to 'accidentally' hit some one with it when it was in a ponytail by turning around to fast.

"By the way, why did you let Sarah guard the compartment? Do you not remember what happened last year?" she asked as they started towards the train. "Of course I do. I mean it's hard to forget when a first year, a moving train, gravity, and Sarah are involved. But he was alright they got him out of there quick as a jiff." Nicole said with an optimistic tone.

By now they were halfway through the train and could hear a commotion up ahead. "Oh no! You don't think?" Lily asked "No, he- I mean- they. Oh lets just go make sure she doesn't kill him!" Nicole said in a huff, all optimism gone. They made their way to the compartment they were supposed to be occupying and found the source of the up rousing.

"BLACK I SWEAR TO MERLIN YOU COME NEAR ME ONE MORE TIME AND I'LL TEACH YOU TO FLY WITHOUT A BROOM!!!" Lily and Nicole looked to each other and at the same time said, "Aww crap."

The next thing anybody new a boy about their age came crashing through the door of the compartment where the screaming had come from. "Aww…Halman! I, I think you killed me! Oh yes! This is the end of old Mr. Black!" the boy yelled from the ground through the now open doorway. Apparently the person on the inside was not impressed because he then said, "Alright in all seriousness, and I should know seriousness, I think you broke my arm! Only a kiss from a sweet maiden such as you could help it! Aww… my arm hurts!" he cried while clutching the hurt appendage.

Sarah finally stepped into the doorway but with her only being 5'3 she didn't look as tough as she wished she did. Her now shorter brown hair still came to a little higher than her mid back and her brown, eyeliner dabbed, eyes glowed with frustration. She got more toned since she was the lead chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team and she also had a nice tan. She did go through a little chubby faze through 3rd and 4th year but she eventually got her curves and used them to her advantage by dating half of the male population at Hogwarts.

"Oh get over yourself ya jackass. Your actin like a puppy that got its tail stuck in a door. And by the way that spell was meant to just get you out of the room but to not harm you so your not hurt at all." She finished with a satisfied smirk on her oval shaped face. Both the other girls didn't miss how her slightly southern American accent became even more pronounced since she was mad.

At the end of her little speech the boy stopped squirming around on the floor and looked up at all of the people who had now surrounded the scene. He then smiled sheepishly as he hopped up to his feet. "What do ya know? I'm healed. Woops!" he then slipped and fell flat on his bum.

It was then that Sarah realized that the majority of the crowd was apart of the Sirius Black fan club and would jump at any chance to touch the supposed 'god' which they did just now to 'help the poor one' from his feet. Lily and Nicole could have sworn that they heard her mumble, "Those filthy cows. Can't wait to 'accidentally' fall in his pants." as she went into the compartment.

Sirius was about 6'1 and had black hair that fell gracefully into his cloudy gray eyes that have supposedly trapped every girl in Hogwarts, every girl that is except for Lily, Nicole, and Sarah. He was well tanned and muscled because he was one of the beaters also on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He had a reputation of being a date um' and dump um' kind of guy and yet for some reason every girl wanted to be his next victim. He was also apart of a group of four guys called the Marauders. The other three happened to be showing up at that particular moment.

"Oh, double crap!" Lily whispered as she silently hid behind Nicole. "What is it?" Nicole questioned. All she did in reply was point to the tall, 6'3, boy with messy brown hair, round spectacles, and a well muscled chest from being the seeker and Quidditch captain these past two years for, yet again, the Gryffindor team. This boy was none other than James Potter. The second biggest player of Hogwarts next to his best mate Sirius, a.k.a padfoot.

That was another one of the things that got on the girls nerves were their little pet names for each other. For example James was Prongs and Sirius was Padfoot. But James meant not joy and happiness but pain and aggravation for one Lily Evans because he had made it his job to ask her out every time he saw her and to prank a slytherin soon before or soon after she turns him down…again.

"Ohhh! Just stay behind me and maybe he won't notice you!" she whispered towards her shoulder. "Alright thanks! By the way I do believe I see your boyfriend over there." She said through giggles. Nicole automatically turned a faint pink color at the mention of the other Marauder Remus Lupin. "Shut up or I'll move and leave you to the hounds." Was her quick reply.

Remus was about 6'0 and was not nearly as muscled as the others because he did not play on any team. He was still tan from his long hours on the lawn reading a book or studying for an exam that wasn't for another two weeks. No one could ever figure out why he was friends' with the Marauders when they were so against homework and for pranking and he was all for homework and, not totally against but not obsessed with, pranking. His eyebrows went up into his sandy blonde hair and his deep blue eyes widened when he heard one of his best mates calling him for help from his fan club. "Moony, moony come save me please! Ahhh… REMUS use your smartness to save me!" he cried from inside a mob of girls.

"Ahhh let me think about that…no." he said with a straight face. "Yeah pads I guess your just gonna have to deal with it your self." Said a very small mouse of a boy with watery blue eyes and dull brown hair by the name of Peter Pettigrew. He was a little lump of a boy that only reached 5'10 and was the final installment of the marauder's quartet. Everyone thought that the only reason the others kept him around was because he worshiped the ground they walked on.

James grabbed Sirius's extended hand and they started running towards their own seats further down the train. "Phew! Glad he's gone." Lily sighed as she came out from her hiding space. "Glad who's gone?" came a low baritone voice from behind them. They spun around and came face to face with a 6'2 boy with icy blue eyes, spiky hair that came in front of his face 'adorably' as most girls call it. Ian came up and gave each of them a hug as he asked once again whom they were talking about.

"Just the bane of my existence." Lily said as calmly as ever. "Ah, come on Lils he's not that bad. He just…he just tries too hard whenever your involved so what ever he does ends up not exactly the way he meant it to. You really shouldn't be so hard on him." Ian said while patting her on the back. Ian is first and foremost best friends with Sarah, Lily and Nicole but is also best friends with the Marauders as well but with the two groups hating each other so much it got a little difficult to be in the middle.

"Yeah, well you would think after three years of 'trying too hard' he would come up with an attempt that worked." She said with her hands on her hips. "Yeah you would think so." he chuckled.

"Am I just gonna be ignored over here?" Nicole said impatiently. "Of course not buddy. I couldn't forget you even if I wanted to. You'd probably hurt me if I did." Ian said while ruffling her hair. She glared at his back as he walked into the compartment where a still ticked off Sarah resided. "At least he didn't call me Nicky." She mentioned but as soon as she finished Ian popped his head around the corner "Come along Nicky dear." he said in a high pitch voice.

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU CRAWFORD!!"

They were now all in the compartment with Ian and Nicole not killing each other but instead playing a game of exploding snap. And Sarah was now calmly eating a chocolate frog while peaking over Lily's shoulder to read a muggle magazine she had brought. Sarah started to remember their first train ride, which seemed like a long, long time ago.

They were all laughing from hearing Malfoy's loud cry of pain a few minutes earlier. "Goodness gracious that was fun!" Sarah laughed from the floor of the compartment. "Yeah it was, nice punch by the way. Great shot." Ian said while gazing at her in respect. "Well when you grow up with four brothers around you sort of learn how to defend yourself." she replied while pumping up her arms to show off her very small muscles.

"By the way what was it that he was calling us anyways?" Lily asked. Ian and Nicole's faces automatically turned grim at the reminder of what the jerk had said. Sarah was now listening intently to the conversation.

"They called you guys…Mudbloods. (shudder) it's not exactly something you hear very often with normal people. It means filthy blood, basically someone who is muggle born like you two. There are a few people, like Malfoy and Snape, who think that only purebloods, someone who comes from an all magic family, is acceptable in the magical world." Nicole explained with a grimace.

"Me and Nicole come from two of the oldest pureblood families still in existence. But like most our families are against the dark witches and wizards like those who think horrible things about muggleborns. But there are other families like ours such as the Potters and the Weaslys who both have children going here now." Ian continued.

"So basically he was calling us bad names to our face and we didn't even know it?" Sarah questioned.

"Uhh, yeah basically." Said Ian.

"Well now I don't feel bad at all about sockin him one!" Sarah exclaimed.

"You know I suddenly don't feel bad about doing this either." Lily said as she started tickling Sarah on her sides. Apparently Sarah was extremely ticklish because she started laughing and kicking as soon as Lily's hands were on her. Soon Ian and Nicole joined in on the fun. "Ohhh! It's on!!" could be heard from the bottom of the dog pile in a loud American accent

Thus began one of many tickle wars the group would share.

Sarah was brought back to the here and now when she heard Lily yell, "Hey you guys you'll never guess what came in my Hogwarts letter this year!"

They all looked at each other and simultaneously said, "Your head girl."

"How did you know?" she asked a little disappointed at the fact that they weren't surprised.

"Well Lily it was sort of obvious. It was either you or that little Ravenclaw that never shuts up." Sarah explained.

"I wonder who the new Head boy is?" Nicole wondered aloud. "Yeah I've been wondering who it would be but its probably Remus." Lily stated with confidence.

"No actually, the Head Boy is standing right here." came a voice from inside the doorway. Lily didn't turn around because she new that voice. But that couldn't have been him it just couldn't have been. Just to see if she was the only one that heard it she opened her eyes, she didn't even remember closing them, to see the others reactions. Nicole just sat there with her mouth hanging open and Ian was laughing his butt off. "Was Dumbledore on crack when he gave you that?!" Sarah said while staring at the bright bronze badge that gleamed form his shirt.

"You know that's the same thing Pads said when he found out." James chuckled as he came in and leaned against the wall. Lily just stared at him with a blank expression, not blinking and everyone had to look hard to see if she was even breathing. "I guess we need to down to the meeting and address the prefects now." she said in a flat tone.

"Umm…yeah I guess we do." James said carefully waiting for the explosion he had been expecting. But no such thing came he followed her out of the door and as he was shutting it he turned around to see Nicole and Sarah with dumbfounded looks, most likely like the one that was on his face, and Ian with surprisingly a mischievous smile.

"What is wrong with her?" Nicole asked.

"Is everyone on crack?!" Sarah questioned still staring at the now closed door. She turned to Ian since he was unusually quiet. He usually would have said something smart like "If so I want some." Or something like that. But instead he was just rubbing his hands together while laughing quietly to himself. "I think he's finally lost it." she whispered over her shoulder to Nicole.

"I'll be back in a little bit." he called as he raced out the door and down the corridor.

Sarah just sat there wondering why everyone was leaving. She suddenly started to sniff her armpit. "What in the hell are you doing?" Nicole said with a disgusted look on her face. Sarah just looked at her and asked.

"Do I offend?"

Remus was watching what his friends have become. Scratch that they were always like this but still it saddens him to think that at least one of these two still gets decent grades.

Peter and Sirius are currently trying to see who can fart the loudest…no need to explain any more than that to show why he is so confused about their IQ's. He is currently wearing a bubblehead charm so he won't die from the toxic fumes.

"Hey guys! Hey you guys I just had- OH MY MERLIN!!! SOMEONE SEND IN SOME OZYGEN PLEASE!" Ian cried after he had busted through the door. Remus quickly cast a bubble onto his head and after he took a deep breath he calmly thanked him. "Now…I HAVE A BRILLIANT BEYOND BRILLIANT IDEA!!!"

"What is your ever so brilliant idea Ian wuddles?" questioned Sirius in his little baby voice.

"Oh just the fact that a certain Head Boy and a certain Head Girl will be spending a lot of time together this year and I think we can make the best of it!"

Soooo…how'd ya like it?!?! I already have the next chapter in my head but I wont post it unless I get some feedback! I'll keep posting even if there is a few people that read it! By the way Sarah is me and Nicole is my Beta…Nicole! Yeah I wasn't very creative! It'll get better I PROMISE!!! Now that that's over please review! peace Sarah ;-)