"Don't forget to finish your essays tonight! You're all dismissed," Albus Dumbledore had to yell over the loud bustling of his Transfiguration class.
Lily sighed as she left the room, "He'll never stop giving us huge essays to write every night, will he?"
"Probably not."
The voice startled her, but as she turned around she recognized her fellow Prefect, Remus Lupin. She always liked him, he was so nice and polite.
"Dippet wanted me to tell you we have a meeting tonight at 7, in the Room of Requirements," he said.
"Thanks, I'll be there then."
She walked back to Gryffindor common room with her friends, and they sat around the fire; trying, but failing, to finish their mounds of homework.
"Hey Lily, don't you think Remus is kind of cute?" her best friend, Clair Steubing, asked.
"He's not that bad, but I would never like him that way!"
No matter how nice Remus Lupin was, it was hard for her to even begin thinking of him like that. He and his friends always loved pulling pranks on her. They were the pranksters of the school. His friends, especially James Potter, were so arrogant, and she hated them for that.
"Well we think he likes you," said her other best friend, Natalie, grinning widely.
"Come on you guys, you know who I like!"
"Yeah, yeah he's all you ever talk about. 'Ohh Paul, you're so beautiful! I love you, I love you!'" Claire and Natalie laughed at their impressions of Lily.
It was true. She was secretly in love with Paul Schmidt. She loved his flowing blonde hair, those piercing blue eyes, and especially his smile. She got lost in a daze just thinking of him. What she didn't know, was that Remus really did have a small crush on her, and she had no idea of what would happen next.