Disclaimer: I am borrowing these characters from JK Rowling... Just borrowing...

A/N: This is my first ever fanfic! So R&R!! tell me what you think!!

It was the second year at Hogwarts for James and his friends. Like usual, James Potter and Sirius Black would be joking around, laughing, telling jokes, planning what they were going to do this year to Snape...

Rachel Clark and Lily Potter were just two of the new students at Hogwarts this year.

"You nervous?" Rachel asked

"Oh my Gosh! I can't believe were going to Hogwarts!"

"Yeah its unbelievable, it will probably be hard for me to adjust"

"Yeah me too. I really hope we're put in Gryffindor, I mean I would be sooo disappointed if I wasn't. But then anything is better than Slytherin. According to the book I was reading.... What was it called again? Oh! History of Hogwarts or something, not one person who is in Slytherin hasn't' turned bad"

"Really? Wow I didn't' know that!" Lily answered gazing out of the window, she was obviously upset about something...

"You still upset about what happened between you and father? I'm sure he didn't mean it." Rachel told her sympathetically

"No its not that, it just feels so weird being away from my mother, you know"

"Yea, hey do you want to go and see if we can make any new friends?" "umm no I think I'll just stay here, you can go Lily said, still staring out the window.

"Are you sure? Okay then, I guess I'll see you when we get there, are you sure your going to be okay?"

"I'll be fine" Lily answered with a forced smile.

Rachel walked out of her compartment, she thought it would be a great idea to get to know more friends, get to know more about the school...

She walked up to the compartment next to hers and knocked.

"Come in" Sirius shouted. Rachel slowly slid open the door, she was quite shy when it came to boys. She walked in shyly and introduced herself to the bunch of boys in the compartment. She had no idea where to start.

"Hi, I'm Rachel, I'm a new student at Hogwarts.I don't know much about the school, I just came around to see-"

"Oh hi. I'm Sirius, and this is James, and Remus." Sirius interrupted. But Rachel wasn't listening to any of this. She was looking straight into the eyes of the most handsome guy she had ever seen. His soft blue eyes lit up the entire compartment. James looked away shyly. But regretted doing so a moment later. Rachel turned pink with embarrassment.

"Well it was nice meeting you all, I guess I'll see you at Hogwarts" she quickly left the compartment extremely embarrassed. But no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't take the vision of James Potter's soft blue eyes staring at her...... he was so hot, and handsome...

"ooooooh....so James, what do you think" Sirius asked ironically

"What do I think about what?" James replied turning a bit pink

"Do you think that I am stupid or something? Anyone would have been able to tell that you've fallen for her"

"Fallen for who?"

"Like you don't know who I'm talking about..."

"You mean that Rachel girl? Yea right!"

"Well she's pretty, I would go out with her any day"

"Then go out with her! No one is stopping you!"

"Fine I will then!"

"Up to you!" James said with a grin. He turned his head and gazed out the window. I can't really have fallen for a girl that quickly... but then she's pretty and cute... and she seems smart. She's not 'that' bad actually...

Rachel meanwhile kept looking around, seeing if she could make any new friends. She was rather good at making friends, she was quite shy, but her friendly nature always lets people like her more and more.

Lily was a similar sort of person, the only difference is that Rachel's personality is soft on the outside, but inside, she was strong, she could take tragedies, and curses better than anyone could, while Lily is strong on the outside, but inside she is weak. She could not take her mind off what happened between her and her father. Inside, she was dying to cry, but externally, she holds back her tears.

"This is all because of Rachel... If her mother and my father hadn't married, I would still be with my father. Now me and my mother live in a cottage, while she gets the huge mansion... how can Rachel be my friend? She know this but pretends nothing has happened. She can do this, But I cant..." Lily sobbed, tears came streaming down her cheeks. She just couldn't hold back any longer.

Suddenly Rachel opens the compartment.

Lily quickly dries her tears, hoping Rachel doesn't notice anything.

"We're nearly there!" She said.

"Yeah" Rachel agreed.

AFTER LILY AND RACHEL HAS BEEN SORTED BY THE SORTING HAT

"Lily! can you believe this? Were in Gryffindor!"

"I know! Its great!" Lily exclaimed now completely forgetting about her family matters.

James and Sirius walks in the Gryffindor common room.

"Rachel?" Sirius interrupted again "you remember us from the train, right?"

"Yea Yea! I remember" she answered with a grin, but that grin faded away when she realized James Potter's eyes were not on hers like last time. Instead, this time they were focused completely on Lily, who didn't seem to notice at all

A/N okay this is my first fanfic, I don't have that much experience yet, but I promise it gets better later in the story! Please review! It's a short chapter I know but later the chapters will get longer! get the reviews going