Lily Evans boarded the train to Hogwarts, with her trunk hovering behind her. She went straight for the compartment up front and loaded her trunk. She sat quietly in the Heads compartment, wating for the Head Boy to came and greet her.
A boy with messy jet black hair, hazel eyes and a long nose, poked his head in.
"Hello there Lily!" he said, a grin spreading on his cockily handsome face.
"Hello James. Have you seen who the Head Boy is this year?" she asked politely.
"As a matter of fact, I have!" he replied, showing his badge to her.
Lily stared at it disbelievingly. She couldn't quite absorb what she had seen just yet. James Potter. Head Boy? Yes, he did quite deflate his gigantic head of ego for the past two years, but he was still quite the troublemaker of the school. What had Dumbledore been thinking?
She felt mean thinking this about her newfound friend. Last year, she started noticing that James had started to act more maturely, acting less like an idiot jerk and more like a nicer human being. She accepted his small talk for the past year, which had not included him trying to ask her out. He was becoming genuinely friendly.
"I know it's unbelievable, I couldn't believe it myself at first."he said, like he was reading her mind.
"I bet Sirius was laughing his head off when he saw it didn't he?" Lily joked.
"Actually, I did."Sirius' voice came into the compartment.
"Ahh Sirius, always a pleasure." said Lily.
"Lily, I have no surprise seeing you with that badge," Sirius walked in and sat on a seat.
James' fingers went numb at the sound of Lily's name. He took her advice from fifth year and stopped hexing and jinxing people, with the exception of Snape that is. He acted like he was over Lily, but in truth, he was even more in love with her with every minute that she was actually nice to him. He was planning to ask her out this year, hoping his efforts to be a better person have not come to waste.
"How many hearts have you broken this summer, Sirius?" Lily asked curiously.
"Oh, a couple this summer, but this last year has meant more to grab,"Sirius replied casually.
"He went out with two muggle girls at the same time in one night. Then, he ditched both of them by midnight and went to a witch's house, climbing up her window and came back home nearly 6 in the morning" interjected James enthusiastically.
"Prongs likes to exagerrate. That sounds worse than it really was." stammered Sirius.
"No, that's me putting it mildly of what you've done. And that's just the three girls from the start of summer."
Lily listened to all the stories James told about Sirius' wild escapades, while Sirius tried shutting him up with his hands. All Lily could do was laugh. She hadn't had a good summer at all.
Petunia was going out with Vernon Dursley, why, she couldn't understand. She was teased all summer by her sister and her new boyfriend, and she didn't have Severus as a friend anymore. Not since their fifth year.
"Wait just a moment Sirius, we'll have to make this speech thing for the prefects and all, be back in a moment." said James.
"Oh, don't worry about me, I'll be fine on my own" said Sirius as a dark haired beauty passed by the compartment, who glanced involuntarily with her brown eyes and looked away again.
The three of them stood up. James and Lily went to the prefect's compartment while Sirius followed the brunette and started chatting her up.
"Alright everyone. Here's your job: don't do any funny business, squeal on the people who you see doing funny business and give them detention." said james lightly.
Everyone laughed at his arrogant charm.
"Plus, do your patrols. Here's your schedules and the passwords to your Houses. Okay, buhbye now"
Lily added, and she went out and strolled back to the compartment.
"You're not as uptight as I thought you were, Lilyflower."James said, catching up.
"You have no idea." Lily replied playfully.
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Lily, James, Sirius, Remus and Peter boarded one of the carriages when the train stopped. Lily felt out of place and felt like the fifth wheel of the popular group. They talked about their summers with ease, while she tried to keep up. She could sense James trying to make her feel comfortable, but the other three were oblivious to her uncomfortability.
When they got there, Lily felt relieved. She left the marauders and went straight to the great hall and searched for her girl friends. She may be nice, but there were too much boy stuff that she could only have limits.
She spotted Annie, Alex and Hannah, her very best friends who were in her year.
Annie had short blonde hair, stunning blue eyes and a fair complexion. Hannah looked like the Little Mermaid. She had waist length dark red hair and deep blue eyes. Alex was the mosty exotic looking, and most beautiful of them four. She had shiny black hair reaching to the middle of her back.
Had an evenly tanned body, she exuded a glow which was the fault of her skin color. She had small Asian black eyes, not scary, but they had a soft twinkle in them that made her look happy all the time. She had full lips and a gorgeous smile. She was the only girl who Sirius set his eyes on but didn't fall for him. That's why he kept on trying to woo her every year, and during the summer, gave her expensive, unique presents.
Their group was the most beautiful in Hogwarts, but they were too humble to brag about it. They knew that they were envied by girls, and admired by guys, they were just discreet on how they flaunted it. People thought of Alex as their leader, the most popular girl, liked by her good looks,
niceness and devilish ideas. Lily was thought of as James Potter's longtime crush. Untouchable because the guys were scared of what james would do to them if they ever dated her. So, they resorted to like Hannah and Annie, who were standing in the shadow of Alex and Lily's greatness.
"Lily, we've been looking for you!"Alex said loudly.
"I'm sorry, I got trapped with the Marauders."
You have to hear what Sirius has been doing to get her." laughed Hannah.
"You don't need to, it's the same story as always." Alex murmured.
"Sirius sends her lovely gifts, she sends them back, he sends it back with a letter of refusal to accept it back. He comes to her house to try and talk to her, she small talks and slams the door in his face, he leaves with high spirits, still. Alex is so lucky to have the hottest guys in school going after her without giving up." Annie said enviously, combing her fingers through her hair.
"But there's more!"Hannah squealed."Alex said there was more!"
"C'mon Alex, you can tell us,"urged Lily."We're your friends remember?"
"Okay, okay. He finally bugged me enough to consider him." Alex said weakly.
"You mean actually date him?" the three squealed in unison, attracting curious stares.
"No. Give him a bit of hope. But maybe I will" Alex said thoughtfully.
"Just-put your guard up. I think he's playing with Miranda Hartman, know her? The Brunette with brown eyes and had three D's in her O.W.L.'s, from Ravenclaw? She grew prettier over the summer." Lily said wisely.
"I didn't say because I want to, maybe-I'll be the heartbreaker."Alex said slyly.
"You're so mean" Annie giggled.
"He should know what it feels" Alex shrugged.
Just then, their conversation was cut short when the mauraders themselves came to their part of the table and sat down. Sirius placed himself next to Alex, who ignored his arm, which snaked around her shoulder. James sat down next to Lily, casting her a small smile which surprised her.
The sorting happened, Dumbledore gave his speech and the food appeared. Sirius took his arm off Alex and she sighed with relief, she was getting annoyed with Sirius thinking he had a chance with her now. She grabbed a chicken leg and smiled at Lily devilishly. Lily grinned back.
Lily mouthed 'talk to you later' and Alex nodded.
After dinner, Dumbledore dismissed them and called for Lily and James.
"As Heads, you have your own dormitories. It's at the seventh floor ,the door beside the painting of the witches dancing the conga. The password is candid heartbreaker" Dumbledore said as they reached him.
James looked at her with an amused smile in his face. She knew what he was laughing at. The ridiculous password that Dumbledore gave them.
Alex was waiting for Lily by the doors. Lily told James that she would just see him at the dormitory.
"What is it you want to tell me?" asked Alex seriously.
"I think-I think I'm starting to like James." Lily stuttered.
Alex just smiled at her knowingly.
"What?" demanded Lily.
"You told me in out third year that you would never ever date him when he started asking you out for Hogsmeade. When we were in fifth year, you said you would rather date the giant squid. Last year, you started warming up to him, but you said, only to me mind you, that if he asked you out, you would end your friendship in a snap. And now, you actually like him. I kind of knew you were going to end up liking him anyway. He's James Potter for cripes sake!" she replied quickly."Now, do you want me to arrange for you to date the giant squid before you date James? You said so."
Lily couldn't conatin a laugh. Soon, the two best friends were laughing their heads off by the small joke that entered the conversation.
"So, you mean you approve? You're okay with it if I start dating James?" Lily stopped laughing.
"Baby carrot, it's your life. Your a big girl okay? I know you can handle James." Alex said kindly.
"Good, beacause i'm sharing a dormitory with him."
"Leaving the best for last aren't you?"Alex joked.
"Well, I need to go, it's late!" Lily said as she kissed Alex on the cheek and ran up the stairs to her new dormitory.
A/N-hey! tell me what you like and don't like! Reviews please! I love them! Until next time...