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Because of You

Lily Evans sat on the Hogwarts Express while curling her red hair around her finger and gazing out the window thinking about the new year. She was so excited about her last year attending Hogwarts and seeing her best friends, Sara and Dani, who she hadn't seen all summer. They had all met during their first year on the train, and had all become very close to one another and had been ever since.

She turned when she heard the door to the compartment open. Thinking it would be Sara and Dani she turned with a wide smile on her face, but her smile turned to her a frown and her emerald green eyes turned to slits when she saw James Potter, the one person she could not stand, come into the compartment.

"Potter what, may I ask, do you think you're doing?" she asked rudely with a scowl on her face.

"Just wanted to see how your summer went Evans." he replied as he shut the door and sat beside Lily a smile gliding across his face. She grunted with disgust as she stood and went to sit on the bench across from the one that James was occupying. "Lily, you don't have to move to make more room for me, but since you're so generous..." he said then put his legs up and put his hands behind his head.

Lily crossed her arms over her chest and glared at him. Seeing that Lily didn't answer and the look upon her face, all James could do was smile more widely. "So Lily, if you don't have any plans tonight maybe could meet up in the astronomy tower and..."

"If you ask me to go out on a date with you Potter, I think I'll scream" Lily interrupted with as much calmness as she could muster.

"Evans now that is not a very good way to start off this year, especially with it being our last one together." he said sweetly.

Just as he said that the door flew open and in came Sara and Dani laughing until they noticed James sitting with his legs stretched out on the bench and Lily glaring at him.

"James, do you always have to be a pest?" Dani said with a confused look on her face.

"Dani I would never annoy Evans." He said as he stood up looking offended.

"The fact that you breathe annoys her James." Sara cocked her eyebrow.

All of a sudden something crashed down the hall right before Sirius Black and Remus Lupin came running into the room. Remus looked around to see who was in the compartment and finally laid his eyes on Sara, remembering his little crush he'd had on her ever since their first year.

Sara looked over at Remus noticing he was staring at her. She turned away quickly, her cheeks turning into a soft red, remembering she too, had a crush on Remus.

"Ugh, Sirius don't you have some girl to do or a river to drown in or something like that." Dani said with disgust in her voice.

Sirius just lifted his eyebrow, "Well Dani, if you want to be that girl then lets get down to it."

"Been there, done that and was not worth it," she said referring to when they had a fling in fourth year right before he became the Hogwarts Sex God.

Before Sirius could retort, James came in the middle of it, "Well boys I think that it's time for to go find the food cart and turn Severus's hair pink. Does that sound good?"

"Sounds fine." Sirius said still staring at Dani. The boys filed out one by one, James being last. Right before he shut the door he stuck his head in and said "Have a nice ride ladies," then turned to Lily and winked at her, then shut the compartment door.

Dani, Lily, and Sara said nothing to each other for the rest of the train ride and nothing at dinner. It wasn't until they were back in their dorms getting ready for bed that Sara couldn't stand it any longer.

"Okay what is wrong with both of you?!" she yelled at them, "How can you let those ignorant bastards get under your skin that much?"

Lily rolled her eyes and sighed. "Potter asked me out AGAIN!"

"You know you need to do something about that so he'll stop." Sara stated.

"Yea I know, but what? I can't prank him he'll just end up getting back at me ten times worse."

Suddenly Dani's eyes brightened up as she got an idea. "You can go out with him!" she exclaimed.

Sara and Lily turned to Dani and looked at her as if she had completely lost her mind. "Unless you haven't noticed, I really do not like James Potter and never will. So why do you think this will be a good idea?"

"You go out with him and then drop him on his ass before you do anything! With his reputation being almost as bad as Sirius's and him having such a big head, he won't be able to stand it!" The idea ran through Lily and Sara's heads and then they both agreed.

The plan lifted the girl's spirits and they laughed at the idea, chatting about the evil plan until they were too tired to talk anymore. They all bid each other good night and fell asleep. But before Lily drifted off to sleep, she gave a faint smile to herself, thinking of ruining James Potter's reputation.

Meanwhile, in the boy's dormitories, the Marauders were discussing what new 'conquests' they were going to take on this year.

"I quite honestly have no idea who I want to screw this year." Sirius said lying back on his bed. This surprised the others considering he had the worst, or in Sirius's opinion, the best reputation for having more one night stands than any other guy at Hogwarts.

James started to laugh as he walked out of the adjoining bathroom and took a seat in an armchair.. "Well as long as she has big tits, long legs, and an okay face, then you'd do her Padfoot."

"Their face has to be more than okay." Sirius straightened up to a sitting position looking offended.

"I don't remember Shaye having a nice face." Remus said from his seat on the floor eating chocolate frogs.

"She did when I was drunk." Sirius said. At this everyone laughed. "So what about you James, who are you going to go after?"

James pondered this question. "I was thinking about Evans. I think she's the only girl left in Gryffindor who's still a virgin." James and the others smirked.

"Prongs, that's what you said the year before that, and two years before that. Do you really think that she'll go for you this year?" Remus asked in curiosity.

James shrugged. "Who knows? Maybe she's looking for a real man instead of you pussies." He laughed at his little joke but Sirius and Remus didn't find it amusing at all. Sirius opened his mouth to retort, but James got up from his chair and spoke up again. "Well ladies, we don't want to be late for our classes tomorrow. I say we go to bed. Sound good?"

The two other boys rolled their eyes at James but agreed with going to bed. They all went to their four poster beds, each one falling asleep quickly.