Things We Said Today.
Chapter 1: Wake Me Up When September Ends.
"Oy, Evans!."
A girl of seventeen years old turned around to see two more girls heading for her. The redhead grinned slightly, at the sight of her two best friends. How great it was to see them, especially the brunette one.
"Peyton! Carmella!" Lily Evans cried, enfolding both of the girls into her arms for a quick hug that involved giggles and soft, excited screams. That definitely earned them some glares inside the platform. Ah, Platform Nine and Three Quarters. It was packed full of students saying their goodbyes to their parents, and exchanging hellos with their friends, such as what Lily was doing.
Lily looked to Peyton and grinned. The girl had definitely gotten way more prettier over the summer holidays. Peyton Conrad had pin straight blonde locks with ocassional darker streaks. Her hair was also very thin, which made it look prettier. She had these steel coloured eyes that seemed fierce, but they were really calm and friendly. She wore a simple pair of old and faded jeans that clung to her thin thighs, though flared out just slightly at the calf, down. A simple tank top adorned her torso, but a black and pink zipup sweater covered it, half zipped up. She had a bright smile on her face that could light up the world, if it had to.
Peyton grinned back, and they both turned to look at the other girl. Carmella Princeton, has also gotten slightly prettier. She had thick brown hair that had natural ringlets in it, and these very pretty cerulean eyes. Her eyes showed calm and peacefulness, with a slight twinkle in them from her smile. The seventeen year old was slightly skinny, from past disorders that she had that were now over with. Carmella wore a pair of long, baggy shorts and a tank top as well. She broke her gaze from her best friends to take a look around quickly. Lily and Peyton exchanged looks. They knew that Carmella was crazy over one of their fellow seventh years, Remus Lupin. They followed her eyes, seeing Remus with his three other best mates, two in which were looking in the girls directions. They happened to be James Potter and Sirius Black. Peter Pettigrew was along with them too, though looking around nervously. Lily and Peyton quickly looked away, then the three girls made their way onto the scarlet train.
"Oh, it was so obvious you were going to get Head Girl, Lils." Peyton said, her grin never leaving her face. A smile spread across Lily's lipglossed lips, but she said nothing. As the girls found a compartment, Lily sat down and played with her long red hair. Carmella was envious of Lily's red mop, and Peyton always said she could be the mascot for Christmas, with her emerald coloured eyes. She wore a simple red t-shirt and jeans. She didn't need to get all dressy for anything. Lily was casual, and girls liked that about her. Of course, Lily was the so-called-popular one, but her only two best friends were Peyton and Carmella.
"James Potter got Head Boy." Carmella said in a quiet voice. Lily, who was just about to laugh, choked on oxygen.
"WHAT!" she yelled, staring disbelievingly at Carmella. Instead of Carmella though, Peyton nodded.
"Yep. I was with him when he got the letter," Peyton said. Her father and James's father were work partners, and pretty good friends. So when Mr. Conrad was at the Potter's, Peyton would usually tag along. James was her friend and fellow Quidditch player. It was Sirius that got to her though. Even the name made her scowl. You see, Sirius Black was rather taken with Miss Conrad, usually pulling the James routine and following her around, asking her out all the time. "He got Quidditch captain too.." she added, though Lily had tuned that part out. Peyton was a Beater on the Quidditch team, and she rather liked her position.
But Lily had other things on her mind. She'd have to share nightly duties with Potter? That was impossible, it was a joke, a fraud letter! Was Dumbledore going out of his mind? Lily thought so. She'd have to see it to believe it, because right now, she didn't believe it. Not one bit at all. She heard a snort, and it snapped her from her daze. Peyton was giggling at Lily's face. Well, she was shocked.
"I seriously don't fucking believe this." Lily muttered.
"You better believe it, Miss Evans." a voice said. It was a deep male's voice. Lily jumped, and looked up to see the face of James Potter, whom was smirking down at her. He had a mischevious look on his face, but when did he didn't? Sirius was at his side, looking down at Peyton with a handsome grin. She was now looking out the window, brooding. Carmella was doing the same as she saw Remus appear behind them, with a faint pink tint on her face. Lily gave each boy a once over, seeing how much they changed over the summer. She winced at how handsome the threesome were.
Oh, indeed, they were handsome. Even frail old Remus was getting better looking. He looked heathful, as the full moon had passed just a week ago. His sandy brown hair was tousled slightly, but it seemed he hadn't minded. His amber eyes were expressionless, and his clothes were slightly old and raggy. But that didn't matter much, as his face was clean and bright, and no doubt he was good looking.
Lily wasn't at all surprised to see how little James changed. He still had the well built body from being the Chaser on the Quidditch team, and he still had the same, untidy black hair that stuck up in every direction. He still had those warm hazel eyes shielded by those thin glasses. From as far as she was concerned, his ego was as big as ever. And Sirius too. It was like they were twins. Well, Sirius did look much different from James. He, like James, was tall. Both reached about six feet, three inches. He too, had a very well built body from being a Beater on the team, alongside Peyton (she wasn't so happy about this, but refused to quit the team). He used to have shaggy black hair that was longer than a normal boys hair, but it looked as though it was recently cut. A few strands hung casually in front of his grey eyes. He usually made most of the female population swoon over him. The only turn off was his humongously large ego.
"Better believe it, Evans." James repeated, casually holding up the badge with the words Head Boy in the middle. Lily gaped at him, though Carmella and Peyton seemed unamused and uninterested in this.
"Haha, nice prank Potter. Stop trying to get on my nerves, because you're doing a good job." she spat at him, folding her arms across her chest and standing up. She was inches from him, though he was much taller than her five foot, six inch frame. James grinned triumphantly at her, staring at her face. How he wished that face was his.
"Oh, no joke Evans. This is real," he said, watching as Lily's expression turned to disgusted.
"We thought Dumbledore was going mad too, right Moony?" Sirius said chuckling, nudging Remus in the ribs. This made him grunt softly, and rub his side. But he nodded. Sirius said he was dead positive that Remus would get it. So much for that.
"Anyway, we need to go to the Heads compartment now and learn about our duties. Come along, Evans." James said. Lily was surprised at how much of a leader he sounded like. It was probably being Quidditch captain that made him like this. She nodded quickly, waving goodbye to her two friends and reluctantly trailing behind James towards the Heads compartment, looking glum.
Sirius grinned as the pair left, and he pulled Remus into the compartment with him. Carmella flushed slightly, scooting closer towards the wall as Remus sat on the seat next to her. Sirius sat down rather close to Peyton, making her roll her eyes at him.
"So, ladies, how was your summer?" Sirius asked, throwing his arm around Peyton's shoulders. Peyton looked disgusted, shrugging him off. Sirius merely continued to grin as if nothing was wrong, and lounged back in the seat comfortably.
"Who invited you in here, Black?" Peyton asked, glaring daggers at him. Sirius, however, looked unaffected by this.
"Myself, of course!" he replied to her, sounding cocky. Peyton shook her head, ignoring him as she fixed her eyes on Remus and Carmella.
"It was okay, I guess. I went to Tahiti with my parents and sister." Carmella squeaked, with a weak smile. Remus looked at her funny, and Peyton smirked.
"I went to Milan with Lily." Peyton said. Carmella smiled. She knew about the trip that her two friends took by themselves. It included drinking, fashion, shopping and Italian boys.
"Milan? How interesting!" Remus exclaimed. Peyton shrugged as if it were nothing, wishing Lily and James would come back so that Sirius would stop staring at her. Carmella, though, was rather pleased that the boys were in here, even if she was being an anti-social git in front of Remus.
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"Heads, you will have to call a prefect meeting twice every week. You will do morning and nightly duties every day, either with each other or alone," the professor in the compartment dragged along.
So at least Lily wasn't forced to work with James Potter every day. Besides, doing duties alone meant covering more grounds.
"If you see a prefect abusing their position, you shall report it right away. I think that will be it," the professor finished. Lily jumped up, and James slowly pulled himself to his feet. "Oh, there is one more thing. You two will be given a special dorm room up in the Gryffindor tower. It's two bedrooms, one for the each of you, along with a small common room area and a bathroom for each of you as well." the professor added on. Lily stopped at the door. Sharing a dormitory with Potter? Could the year get any worse?
"Of course, you could stay in the regular dormitories if you'd prefer. Regular rules apply, Potter you are not allowed in Evans' dormitory, but Evans is allowed in yours." he said. James smirked, Lily frowned. Why the bloody hell would she want to go in James's dormitory?
"We'll check it out." James told the professor, then bid him farewell and emerged from the compartment with Lily trailing after him. He stopped though, to wait for Lily. She just seemed to breeze past him, trying to ignore the fact that he was there.
"Oh, come on Evans. It's our last year here, can't we be friends?" James asked, mock-pouting. Lily turned around, glaring at him.
"Depends. Is your ego still the size of Hogwarts or did it deflate?" she snapped. James simply grinned at her, starting to walk again and brushed past her. As he did so, he whispered something in her ear.
"You tell me." he had said, then went to retrieve Sirius and Remus.
Lily sighed. It was going to be a long and difficult year.
Yet a very fun one at that.