Disclaimer: Don't own HP because if I did, I would be rich. But Im not. So I don't own it.
The sun shone brightly in London as the Evans family made its way into Kings Cross Train Station. The man of the group, a tall man with green eyes and brown hair, was holding hands with a red haired lady next to him, who was obviously his wife. One of the girls, who looked slightly older than the other, was trailing behind the rest of her family, groaning. The other girl, who happened to have a remarkable resemblance to her mother, besides the eyes (she had her father's eyes), was walking besides her mother. She was pushing her cart down the platforms. On this cart happened to be a large trunk and a cage, which soft purrs from her gray cat Mimsy could be heard, all of which gained peculiar looks on passing people.
The family stopped in between platforms 9 and 10. Looking at her parents, Lily smiled sadly and gave them both hugs.
"We're so proud!" Mrs. Evans said. "With you being top of the class and everything-you better not let all that go," she added strictly.
"Of course not, Mum!" Lily assured her. Then she turned back to her father. "Bye Daddy, I'll miss you!" Her father smiled and gave her another hug. He was a quiet man of few words. Lily then turned towards the other girl with mousy brown hair and skinny face. The girl, who was Lily's sister, glared at her. "Tuney-"
"No, Lily."
"Please-"
"No! For the last time, Lily, stop trying to make me accept you," she huffed at her younger sister. "Don't ask me one more time to 'worship' you the way Mum and Dad do. I am the only one in this family who see's you for who you truly are…a freak!"
Lily sighed, blinking back tears, and turned back to her parents, who of course had heard nothing of what had just gone on between her and Petunia. They smiled at her proudly.
Her mother asked, "You'll write every week, right sweetie?"
"Yes."
"And say hello to Cara and Alice for the family?"
"Yes."
"And you won't-"
"Yes, Mum, relax!" Lily laughed out. She gave her another hug. "Goodbye Mum, Dad, I'll keep in touch. Promise. Love you!" Then she gave them one last smile, turned around, and ran with her cart straight into platform 9. When she got through to the other side, she looked fondly at the scarlet train that would take her back to Hogwarts. After loading her luggage on board, she hopped onto the train. She walked down the corridors through the crowds of people, trying to find her friends. Suddenly, a boy with black messy hair and glasses ran down the corridor laughing, bumping into her.
"Sorry, I-"the boy then noticed it was Lily he had bumped into, and a wide grin spread across his handsome face. "Lily!"His hazel eyes glittered with excitement.
Lily grimaced as she got up. "Potter," she spat, "Why am I not surprised? You would be the one to run into me. What have you been up to?"
James Potter feigned surprise. "Why, Lily," he said, "Why would you automatically jump to conclusions and suspect that I've been up to something? I must tell you, I am quite offended!" Just then, a boy ran up besides James, laughing hard. He, too, had handsome features, some including his shaggy dark brown hair and grayish blue eyes.
"Prongs that was the best!" he laughed, obviously not realizing Lily was there. "Did you see Nott's face?!!!" James looked at him warningly and glanced at Lily's furious face.
"What did you do, Black?"
"Oh, Lilyflower, it was nothing!" Sirius Black assured her.
Lily stared at him knowingly. "Don't call me that," she warned him.
"Right-oh, Lilyflower. You see, our fellow Slytherin friend Nott is simply…err, having a bad hair day!" James laughed. Lily took out of her pocket a shiny gold Head Girl badge, showing it to Sirius and James. "Only you 2 would lose 20 points to Gryffindor before you arrived at the castle."
James looked happily surprised…a little too happy to be honest. "Whatever you say," he said while reaching into his jean pocket and pulling out a similar badge.
Lily's heart pounded faster and suddenly turned pale. No, she thought to herself, shocked and scared. No way. Then she turned without another word and ran down the corridor of the train, frantically searching for her friends. Lily ran past a compartment, catching a glimpse of her 2 best friends. She backtracked to their compartment, and slammed the door wide open, causing a clatter. Cara Grace, Alice Prewitt, and a girl she had never met before looked up at her.
"Lily!" Cara exclaimed and jumped up to give her best friend a hug. She had light brown hair that fell just below her shoulders, curling at the bottoms. Her constantly changing eyes matched her light blue cardigan over her lemon tank top. Her permanently tanned skin had gotten tanner over the summer.
Lily gave her a small hug back but still looked shocked. "Cara, Alice, did you know that James Potter was the Head Boy???"
"Oh, yes, I did know that," Alice said. She had pretty brown eyes that matched her short hair. Her naturally rosy cheeks always blushed, and she had a rather plump figure. "Why Lily?"
Lily looked sick as she showed them her prefects badge pinned to the front of her robes. Alice and Cara stared at it and then turned to her with happy faces.
"Oh, Lily, this is great! You're Head Girl!" Cara squealed.
"Yeah, with Potter!"
"He's not that bad, you know Lily," Alice said. "He's very nice and funny, and he adores you to death." She sighed, watching Frank Longbottom pass by the door. Little did she know that when she looked away sadly, Frank looked longingly back to her.
Lily stared at Alice, once again shocked. "He is a conceited fool who curses anyone in his way, Alice! I thought you would've realized that by now."Alice shrugged, looking away. Only then did Lily really notice the new girl sitting next to Cara. She had pale skin, was their age, and had chocolate straight layered hair that curved up at the shoulders. Her eyes were startling electric blue. "Hi, I'm Lily Evans," Lily said as she stuck out her hand to shake the new girls.
The new girl smiled and took her hand. "I'm Julissa Starr," she said in a soft, tinkling voice, "but you can call me Jules. I just transferred to Hogwarts from Pigfarts, another wizarding school in America (Yes I know that Pigfarts is from A Very Potter Musical and I am truly sorry I took the name for this one chapter, but how could I not? It's the best musical ever!!! YouTube it.) and I'm going into 7th year."
"Hey, we are too!"Cara cried. "Omg do you know what house you're in yet???"
"No, but I really would like to be in Gryffindor, or at least Ravenclaw if I don't have that luck."
"That's our house! Hope you make it!" Lily said. She got up and walked towards the door. "Got to go to the Head's carriage. Be right back!" She walked out, leaving Cara, Jules and Alice talking to each other. She made her way to the Head'scarriage and walked in a minute before the meeting started. When she did, James immediately looked up and grinned, acknoledging the spot next to him. She scowled, but made her way over.
"Lily…"
She turned to the door of the compartment to see Severus Snape looking in, pleadingly, and her heart suddenly hurt. She frowned and turned away. Snape had been one of her very best friends up until the end of 5th year. He was the one she grew up with, who introduced Hogwarts and the wizarding world to her. He was the one friend she had whom all of her other friends despise; they didn't understand how she could be friends with him. Then, two Junes ago, he had done the unforgivable- he called her a Mudblood. Lily's heart turned frozen and she blinked back a tear when she thought of the memory. Snape watched her apologetically and longingly.
She turned back to the group of prefects. "Hello everyone, I'm Lily Evans and-"
"Lily…!"Snape called to her. She gave him a cold glare and mouthed 'No Snape'. He looked as hurt as he ever had. He stared at her, as did James, and then stalked away. Lily turned back to the group and begun the meeting. Once the meeting was over she ran out of there immediately, not even giving a second glance to James.
James looked after her as she swept from the prefects compartment. 10 minutes ago, he had felt like the luckiest guy on earth to be prefects with the beautiful Lily Evans, whom he had been totally in love with since 2nd year. Now, as he watched her gorgeous naturally curly red hair walk away from him, he knew nothing good could come out of it. He stalked back to his compartment, where Sirius, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew were waiting for him.
"Ah, there you are Prongs! That meeting took forever! And we still have to plan our homecoming prank!" Sirius said mischievously and excitedly. James sat down next to him, glumly nodding.
"Uh oh, that's the Lily-Evans-Hates-Me face," Remus pointed out to the fellow Marauders. He had sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. "James, you have got to know that she doesn't like you. When will you give up on her?"
"You don't get it Remus! She absolutely hates me! Nothing I do is right!" James sighed. "And I love her! I can't simply tell myself to get over her, it takes more than that. And besides…I don't know if I want to."
The gang looked at each other. "Any other girl here would absolutely love to have you, Prongs, and you simply have got to choose the one who won't," Sirius said.
"Well, why don't you think she does?" a small, round, watery eyed boy said. Peter Pettigrew had always been a part of the Marauders, but he was always the follower, so to say.
"I have no idea!" Suddenly, James looked at Remus all excited. "Moony, you're friends with Lily. Try and figure out why she won't go out with me! Please?? Try to convince her."
Remus looked at James doubtfully for a second and then said "Sure, I'll give it a go."
"Thank you, Moony!!"James yelled, jumping up and hugging him.
"Sirius laughed and said, "You know, if we weren't just discussing your love for a girl, I'd probably be thinking you're gay right about now. But you're not so…"he grinned like a mad man and shouted "MARAUDER HUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Everyone laughed and joined into one big group hug. As they sat back down Sirius put his mischievous face on again. "And now, we prank-plan." The group laughed and went to work.