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Chapter One

Collisions

"Lily!"

Lily Evans turned at the sound of her name, her dark red hair swirling behind her. "Jordan!" she cried, running to give the taller girl a hug. "How are you? I haven't seen you all summer?"

"Ah, can't complain." Jordan said, throwing her stuff on top of Lily's trolley. "Come, walk with me. We've gotta put our stuff away."

"Okay." Lily said pushing her trolley towards the Hogwarts Express. She took her eyes away from where she was going and looked up at her friend. "Have you grown again?"

"No," Jordan laughed, tucking some of her brown hair behind her ears, her blue eyes glinting. "Maybe you've shr-look out!"

She pushed Lily's trolley to the side in order to narrowly prevent a collision with the tall, handsome boy who had somehow appeared in their path.  Lily couldn't tell who it was, as the sudden shove had thrown her off balance and she had lost control of the trolley. She was desperately attempting to stop it before it ran into the Hogwarts Express, however, her efforts seemed fruitless.  Though she dug her feet into the ground, she was no match for the trolley, which had the advantage of weight due to the number of bags piled up on it. She closed her eyes in anticipation of a collision as the trolley sped nearer and nearer to the train.  Suddenly, she crashed into the pushbar of the trolley, though not for the reason she expected.  The reason for her sudden stop was the tall, handsome boy who she now recognized as James Potter.

"Are you okay, Evans?" he asked.

"What? Yeah. I'm fine, just a little shook up." Lily answered while feeling her ribs to see how many were broken. They all seemed to be more or less intact so she looked up at James.

James was slightly startled by how green her eyes were but did his best to hide his surprise. "Sorry about that, I didn't mean to, um, run you off course like that."

Lily gave a little smile. "It's alright, but now could you let go of my trolley? The train's about to leave soon and I'd like to be on it, preferably with my stuff."

"What? Oh. Sorry." James quickly let go. Regaining his composure, he said "I'll see you at school" and strolled over to his friends; Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew, all who were standing there with smirks on their faces. 

*

"Well now, Lily." Jordan said as they put their stuff in their compartment before Lily went to the front of the train to assume her Head Girl duties. "Looks like young Mr. Potter may be falling for the beautiful Miss Evans..."

"Don't be ridiculous, Jordan. What would he want with me?"

"Um, let's see.  You're beautiful, smart, caring...need I go on?" Jordan asked, while counting off Lily's attributes on her fingers. "I think you should go for him.  You need a guy anyway. It's been what?  Four years?"

"I've been busy." Lily muttered. "I have to go now, I don't want to be late."

"Think about what I said!" Jordan called after Lily as she headed towards the front.

*

Though she had solemnly resolved never to think of the matter ever again, Lily found herself pondering it the whole way to the compartment where the Head Boy and Girl were to meet before the prefects arrived.  She was so absorbed in this that she walked into the compartment and sat down before she realized who the Head Boy was.

"You!"

"Yes, me. And yes, I'm happy to see you too." James said.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean for it to sound like that. I'm just surprised, that's all." Lily said quickly, wishing with all her might that she could be the one redhead in the world who didn't blush.

James noticed, with dismay, that she looked disarmingly pretty especially when she blushed. "It's, ah, alright." he stuttered.

There was an uncomfortable silence that seemed to stretch into eternity until Lily finally cleared her throat, a little nervously, and said, "So, we're to have the prefects patrol the cars?"

"Yeah.  In shifts of two for about 15 minutes each." James answered.

"Alright.  Should we take the first shift to set an example?" Lily asked, inwardly cursing herself for sounding so inefficient, she was Head Girl for heaven's sake!

"Okay, that sounds good. Oh, hello." James said to her and then to the first few prefects to arrive.

*

"That wasn't so bad." Lily said as they wandered between compartments.

"Nah, it wasn't." agreed James. "Have you gone here all seven years?"

"What? Yes, of course I have. Why?" asked Lily, caught slightly off guard by the question.

"Ah, I don't know. I've never really noticed you before." he answered sheepishly.

"Well, I haven't exactly run you over with a trolley before."

"And I haven't exactly saved you from putting a dent in the Hogwarts Express before."

"You make it sound like it was my fault!" laughed Lily.

"It was! I was just walking along, minding my own business, and then out of nowhere some trolley comes and nearly runs me down!" countered James.

Lily laughed as she shoved him into the wall. "See?" complained James, barely hiding a smile. "We've barely met and already you seem to have an urge to cause some serious damage to me!"

"I do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do—"

"Hey, could you guys keep it down? Some of us are trying to study in here!"  Sirius Black poked his head out of a compartment with a knowing smirk on his face.

"What, you? Study?" said James. "That would be like hell freezing over."

Sirius' smirk stretched into a grin. "You're right, it would. Now are you going to introduce us to the pretty lady or do we have to do it ourselves?"

"I couldn't possibly inflict such mental damage on her like that. But, since you are my best friends. Evans, I'm very sorry about this." James said with a grin as big as Sirius'.

"It's alright." Lily said, smiling. "They seem more interesting than damaging."

"Speak for yourself, but I'm going to be needing years of intensive therapy because of these guys, specifically him." teased James while gesturing at Sirius. "Anyway, Evans, this is Sirius, Remus, and Peter."

"It's all well and good for you to call her 'Evans,' Prongsy, but what's her real name?"

"Lily." chimed in Lily.

"That's a nice name." Remus said, looking up from his book and brushing his sandy hair out of his gray eyes.

"Thanks." responded Lily.

"A-anyway," broke in James. "Evans, don't we have to go make sure the prefects who have the next shift are starting? It's been 15 minutes."

Lily checked her watch. "You're right. Let's go. I'll see you guys later." she said, waving at the Marauders, who were exchanging knowing glances.

*And there you have it...please review!! The more reviews I get...the faster I crank out another story. Yes that's bribery. J*