A/N - Hello, thanks for taking the time to open this story! This is my first Jily fanfiction so bare with me! I would just like to say that I'm not J.K Rowling and I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters. With that said let's get on with it.
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Lily Evans moves quickly through the crowd of people on the platform. Alice Prewett, her best friend, hurried behind her. Both girls pulled heavy trunks behind them. Lily manages to get to the train and pulls her stuff onto the train. Once Alice has gotten
on they walk along the train looking for an empty compartment. When they find a compartment they place their stuff onto the racks and sit down across from each other. "Are you excited?" Alice asks her friend. Lily nods and smiles widely.
"Of course I am. It's not everyday that you get to go to a famous wizarding school." She exclaims excitedly. Only two months ago Lily had found out she was a wizard. Her parents weren't that surprised at her fathers great grandfather had been a wizard,
and plus lily had always shown signs of Magic abilities, like once when she was four she had made her favorite toy float over to her and ever since her parents had known. When Lily had found out she was a wizard she decided to read berthing there
was to read about Hogwarts and wizarding. One day her best friend Alice had come round and seen one of Lily's books sitting on the coffee table. She had frowned and then looked at Lily with an excited grin.
"You never told me you were a witch!" Alice says surprised picking up the 'Hogwarts a History' book.
"H-how do you know I'm a witch?" Lily said shocked that her friend could possibly know that.
Alice's grin widened. "Because I'm going to Hogwarts too!"
Lily gasped.
"Really?"
"Yes! It's so amazing that your a witch as well!" Alice said hugging Lily. After that Lily and Alice decided to both go over to Alice's house and ask her parents what Hogwarts is like. Ever since then Lily and Alice had become even better friends
then they were before.
A knock on the compartment door snaps Lily out of her thoughts. The door opens and Marlene McKinnon, Dorcas Meadows and Emmeline Vance walk in.
"Lily, Alice, we finally found you!" Marlene exclaimed sitting down beside Lily.
"It's so good to see you guys!" Lily smiles throwing her arms around Marlene. She hugs the other girls two before sitting down again. The five friends had known each other for a month. They'd met at Diagon Ally, Lily and Alice were browsing the books
when they met the other three and since then they'd fast become friends. "So how are you?" Dorcas asks them.
"I'm reallygood" Alice replies. Lily nods her head in agreement.
"So what house do you think you'll be put into?" Emmeline asks smoothing down her top. Lily shrugs.
"I hope I'm not in Slytherin, I've never heard one good thing about that house!" Alice sighs. Dorcas nods.
"Yeah their always up to trouble" she says picking at her nails. The girls 'mmm'd in agreement.
"So Dorcas, how's Jackson?" Lily asks referring to Dorcas' longtime crush. Dorcas' face goes slightly pink and she smiles.
"I'm not sure, we haven't talked in a while" she says slightly downcast.
"Aw cheer up, he's just a muggle, I'm sure there's better looking boys at Hogwarts." Marlene smiles. Dorcas frowns and mumbles something about not wanting another boy, which makes the girls crack up with laughter. Lily looks out the compartment Windows
and watched the scenery whiz by. She can hear distant laughter coming from further along the train. The laughter slowly gets louder before it stops. A moment later two boys walk past their compartment. Marlene frowns.
"Wait a second, I think that was Sirius who just walked by." She says starting to get up.
"Who's Sirius?" Lily asked.
"Marlene's crush" Dorcas laughs, receiving a glare from Marlene.
"I don't fancy Sirius, he just our friend" Marlene says quickly. "I'm gonna go see him" she says avoiding looking at Dorcas who was making a face at her. She opens the door and quickly walks away.
"She so fancies him" Dorcas laughs when she's left. Lily smiles and starts to talk to Dorcas about Hogwarts. Five minutes later Marlene arrives back with two boys. The boy on the right has black glossy hair that goes to just under his ears, he has
soft grey eyes that are looking at Marlene fondly. As for height, he seemed about the same size as lily possibly shorter. As for the boy on the right, he had messy dark brown hair, with hazel eyes and black glasses. He was also the same size as lily
and he was quite lanky. Marlene opens the door and let's the two boys in.
"Hey guys" Marlene says sitting down beside Lily. The boy with the longer hair sits down beside Marlene while the other sits across from them.
"Oh Lily, this is Sirius Black" Marlene says referring to the long haired boy.
"And this is James Potter" she says referring to the other boy.
"Boys, this is Lily Evans"
"Hey" Lily says to them.
"Hey" the says in sinc.
"Oh Sirius I need to ask you something!" Marlene says to the boy beside her. The two start having their own conversation. Lily looks over at James, who is looking at Lily. He clears his throat.
"So Evans, where are you from?" He asks.
"Cokeworth, in England. What about you Potter?" She asks. He looks sort of surprised at this question.
"To be honest I'm surprised you don't know. I'm kind of famous" he smiles smugly. Lily rolls her eyes.
"I have no idea what your talking about" she says.
"My parents are famous aurors. They work to fight against Voldemort. Everyone knows who they are."
"Well not me, I guess it's not like I'm going to know that since I only found out I was a wizard a couple of months ago." She says. James nods.
"Well at least now you can officially say you know a celebrity!" He smiles at her. Lily rolls her eyes again.
"Oh wow! Can I get your signature Mr Potter?" She says in a fake high pitch voice. James chuckle and lily just smiles at him. Suddenly a lanky boy with brown hair knocks on the door and comes in.
"We're almost there so you might want to get changed-" the boy stops talking and looks at Lily. "Oh I'm sorry, Remus Lupin" he smiles extending his hand. Lily shakes it.
"Lily Evans" she says. He nods at her and sits down in James place as he has gotten up to get changed.
"I'm going to get changed" Emmeline says getting up. Lily stands up too and grabs her robes.
"I'll come too." Lily and Emmeline go out the door. James is standing waiting for the others outside. He lets Emmeline past but stand in front of Lily when she try's to pass. Lily gives hima look.
"Could you get out my way?" She asks politely. He smiles.
"Sorry, I can't do that. You have to kiss me to get past" he shrugs. Lily frowns.
"Seriously?" She says
"I'm ALWAYS serious"
"God, are all celebrity's like this or is it just you?" She smirks.
James nods "Just me"
"So I have to kiss you to pass?"
"Yes, you have to-" James is cut off by Lily placing both her hands on his face and herlips pressing against his. A weird feeling passes through him, it's a nice feeling but he has no idea what it is. She pulls back soon and smiles.
"Excuse me" and with that she slips under James arm and continues on to the toilet. James watches her walk away in awe, completely forgetting about the fact his friends in the compartment saw everything that just happened and we're all simply smiling
at each other. James decided to go walk around and try find Peter Pettigrew.
A while later the group are spilling out of the train. They are directed through a shady path to a clearing beside the lake. There are boats lined up along the side which could easily fit ten people. Lily, Dorcas, Marlene, Emmeline and Alice all sit down
on one side of the boat while the boys decide to sit on the other side. Once all the first years are seated the boats seem to spring to life and magically transport them across the lake. Ooh's and Ah's are heard from the first years. Out the corner
of her eye Lily can see James looking at her causing her to blush. Once over to the other side of the lake they're taken into the great hall to be sorted. Lily walks beside Sirius on the way.
"So what house do you think you'll end up in?"
"Probably Slytherin"
"You don't seem like a Slytherin"
"Thanks Evans. But it's because my family has all been in Slytherin, I doubt I'll be any different"
"You never know" she smiles as they walk through the grand doors that lead to the hall. Older students cheer from either sides of them, and it's hard not to smile. Headmaster Dumbledore is standing trying to hush the students.
"Students! Students! Hush now! Ah thank you. Now before we commence the sorting I would like to say a few words. I would like to welcome the first year students-" a loud cheer erupts. "And I would like to welcome everyone else back." Another cheer
is heard. "Now let's begin the sorting" professor McGonagall stands up and pick up a scroll. She pulls it open and starts to read the names. After standing around for a while Sirius' name is called. The hat is placed on his head where it sits silently
for a while. Sirius looks bored sitting on the stool, he makes eye contact with Marlene and sends her a wink.
"GRYFFINDOR!" It yells all of a sudden. Sirius grins and walks over to the Gryffindor table sending a wink at Lily as he goes.
"Evans, Lily" McGonagall calls out. Lily nervously walks up to the stool and sits down. To be honest she was quite happy to have a seat, it felt as though she'd been standing up for ages. After the has been on her head for a minute it calls out
"GRIFFINDOR!" And goes quite as the Gryffindor a cheer once again. Sliding off the seat lily sits down next to Sirius.
"So much for being in Slytherin" she whispers to him. The sortingcontinues and eventually Dorcas, Marline and Alice have all been put into Gryffindor, along with Remus, James, the boy named Peter and a boy named Frank Longbottom. Now it's just Emmeline
missing from their group.
"Vance, Emmeline" Emmeline sits in the stool. After a moment the hat says something quietly and Emmeline says something back.
"GRYFFINDOR!" The sorting hat calls out once again. Emmeline comes over and slips in just in front of Lily.
"This is so great! The girls are all here" Dorcas smiles at her friends.
"Hey Emmeline, what did you say to the hat?" Lily asks. Emmeline Ducks her head.
"Well, I kind of asked him to put me in Gryffindor" she admits.
"Well thank goodness you did!" Marlene exclaims.
"Wait. Did you say you asked him?" Sirius frowns.
"Yeah?"
"How are we supposed to know its a him?"
"It has a deep voice"
"Girls can have a deep voice too" Sirius argues.
"Ok Sirius, it's a girl" Emmeline smiles. Sirius nods and then continues his conversation about quidditch tryouts. Dumbledore stands up and starts to go on about head girl and boy and prefects. Once he's finished talking food magically appears on the
tables. Sirius and James immediately grab food off the plates and start stuffing it in their mouths. James turns to Sirius. "Someone told me that Snivelus is here"
"Really? I haven't seen him in ages" Sirius says with a full mouth.
"Who's Snivelus?" Lily asks ignoring the chewed up food in Sirius' mouth.
"Severus Snape" Sirius says accidentally sending a bit of chewed up food flying across the table. Lily wrinkles up her nose in disgust. They finish the feast and follow the prefect up to their new second home for the next seven years. James watches
lily walk in front of him. He notices how she holds herself proudly and how her Auburn hair swings when she walks. Since she kissed him on the train he couldn't get her out his thoughts. That was his second kiss ever. He just couldn't ignore the feeling
that had swept through him when her lips pressed against his. "You're staring" Sirius smirks at his best friend.
"No I'm not" James says looking away from the redhead. Sirius raises his eyebrows but says nothing. When they get to the portrait hole the prefect tell them the rules and the password "Hippogriff". They get in and split ways. The girls all traipse up
to their dorm to unpack.
"So have you seen any boys to replace Jackson?" Marlene asks. Dorcas rolls her eyes.
"Well no, but Benjy Fenwick is quite cute" "Ooh" Marlene wriggles her eyebrows suggestively.
"Dorcas Fenwick. It has a nice ring to it" Lily laughs. Dorcas throws her pillow at lily.
"Leave me alone" she says giggling all the less. Their trunks all sit beside their beds waiting to be unpacked. Marlene pulls open her trunk and a burst of ink pops out at her face covering the top half of her. She screams while the other girls laugh.
"I bet you they did this!" Marlene says getting up. "JAMES POTTER I WILL KILL YOU!" She says when she opens the door of the dorm and goes marching out. The girls left in the roomtry to stop laughing but fail miserably. A cry of pain is heard outside
before a smug looking Marlene walks back into the dorm and into the bathroom to wash off the ink. That night the five girls drift off to sleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.
James sits on his bed folding up the clothes that he'd chucked in this morning. "Where's my trunk? " Peter Pettigrew asks looking around the room.
"It's on your bed, Pete"
"Oh, thanks" he wonders over to his bed. James gives up on folding all his clothes and just shoved them in the trunk and puts it away. Remus walks in and sits down on James' bed.
"So what's our first prank of the year going to be?" Remus asks. Sirius sits up in his bed.
"Ooh, I was thinking muggle laxatives in the food" laughing at his own idea.
"That's a good one but we've done it before" Peter states. James suddenly gets a brilliant idea.
"I've got it!" He grins mischievously. That night the boys plot and plan for their big plan the next day. They later fall into mischief filled dreams.
How was that? I hope it was good and look forward to updates coming soon. Again sorry if I have any mistakes.
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