A/N: So... this is actually a story I started a long time ago, but as many of my other stories, I was in a bit of a dought whether or not I should put it up. But at last the pros won and I thought everyone here on FF should have the chance to read it too... The first ten chapters are finished, ready to be posted, when we get to that point there might be a little longer between my updates. Yep... Oh and one more thing, this chapter is rather short and the following will be nearly twice as long. And remember to leave feeback, it makes me happy and when I'm happy I tend to update faster (hint, hint) :P
Disclaimer: There'll only be one of those so listen! I'm not JKR. I wish I was though. I also wish I owned Sirius...

1 – The list

The lonely candlelight lit up the three best friends faces, letting them see how much the war at this time had affected each other. Lily's once so green and sparkling eyes had an almost permanent thinking and worrying expression. They had been almost constantly serious before, but it was worse now. Her smile was not forced, but something hid underneath it; probably the thought of the danger her family was in. Mary's light blue eyes had faded and were now more serious than ever. Yet her smile was more alive than Lily's. She on the other hand had fallen silent. When she had first attended Hogwarts she had been an incredibly bubbly and happy girl, but the death of her mother a year before had taken its toll. Anna looked just as bad as her friends; her once light brown eyes had been shadowed by a darkness that had appeared lately and were now more dark brown. She had always been the happy and smiling girl of the group, she still was, but she could sometimes forget all about her surroundings and just sit and stare out in the blue for several minutes before someone shoved her or talked to her so she snapped out of her thoughts.

Lily flicked her long dark red hair over one shoulder and looked from Anna to Mary and down to the paper in front of her. The other two looked down as well.

"Okay…" Mary said and slowly pulled a hand through her hair to get it away from her face. "Ten things we all need to do and five personal goals, right?"

Anna nodded. "Yeah…"

"Err…" Lily muttered and cleared her throat. "What should the goals be?"

Mary frowned and looked into the candlelight with an empty gaze. Anna let her gaze slide from Mary to Lily.

"Things we would not do if it wasn't because of this list," she said.

"Crazy things?" Mary asked, not removing her eyes from the candlelight.

Lily nodded. "Yes… What would I never do if it wasn't because of this list?"

"Go on a date with James Potter," Anna said promptly, grinning.

"You're not making me do that!" Lily growled. "That'll be over my dead body."

"A marauder then?" Mary asked, still not moving her gaze from the candlelight. "You can always go with Remus, Sirius or Peter instead."

Lily sighed and wrote it on a paper. "Okay…" she mumbled. "And now we're on the subject… I've always wondered what their nicknames mean…"

"Okay, write that," Anna said. "I have a request… Once, we should sneak out after hours and go to Hogsmeade."

"And drink firewhiskey," Lily ended it and wrote it. "Any ideas, Mary?"

Finally Mary looked away from the candlelight. "Well we're all singles…"

Anna nodded. "We have to get boyfriends…"

"And a thing more…" Mary said, biting her lower lip. "We're… Err, we're all virgins…" she stopped.

"We can't be that at the end of the year," Anna ended it.

Lily nodded. "Okay… But to make it a bit exciting at have to be in the same room."

Anna grinned. "Okay that'll be fu-"

"Not at the same time of course!" Lily interrupted.

Mary laughed. "Oh! Another idea!" she exclaimed; Anna and Lily looked questioned at her and she continued, "Skip a whole day of classes…"

"Yes!" Anna grinned and Lily wrote it.

There were a couple of minutes of silence while they all thought. Suddenly an idea popped up in Anna's mind. "What about… swimming naked in the lake?"

"I'm head girl!" Lily exclaimed. "I'm not-"

"I like it," Mary said. "Just write it, Lily."

Lily wailed out loud but wrote it. "Fine. But now that we're breaking rules… I've always dreamed of doing something to the Slytherins…"

"Poo in their food?" Anna asked.

"Then we have to find the kitchens," Mary said. "Can we that?"

"I think," Anna said, frowning. "With a little luck…"

Lily nodded and wrote it all down. She sighed, looking up at the others. "What more?"

"Err…" Mary said. "If it has to be something I'd never do… I'd say get a 'T' in an essay?"

"Yeah," Anna said and nodded. "Sure."

"What?!" Lily exclaimed.

"Lily it's just an essay… Write it… It can't be that hard."

Lily mumbled something Anna and Mary did not hear, but it sounded angry and they exchanged amused glances. She wrote it nevertheless.

"We only need one thing," she said as she had written it down.

"Patricia and Susanne," Anna said.

The other two girls understood and they both nodded.

"What should we do?" Mary asked.

"Just something," Lily said and wrote it. "So… that was all our common goals…"

Anna smiled. "What about personal goals?"

"Hmm…" Lily bit the pen. "I think I'll go for a whole week without hitting Potter."

"Yeah, right!" Mary grinned. "Err… I'll start a party in the common room..."

"And drink yourself… Uh! You can't knit!" Anna said. "Knit a jumper and wear it!"

"Please no!"

"I think it's a great idea," Lily said and wrote it. "What about you Anna?"

"That has to be wild!"

"Get a piercing!" Mary said and Anna gave her a look. "Well I have to wear a jumper I've kitted myself!"

"Fine," she sighed, really she wanted a piercing, just in the ear or something. "But I also want to kiss a guy in the rain!"

Lily wrote it all. "And you also want to go to class one day without anything under your skirt!"

"No way!"

"Too late…" Lily said in a false sorry tone. "I've already written it down."

"Then you have to learn how to ride a broom!" Anna said.

"No! You know I'm afraid of heights!

"Do it!" Mary said. "You made Anna go to class almost naked!"

Lily sighed and wrote. "And you, Mary Doreen Macdonald, have to declare your never-ending love for a guy at dinner to the whole great hall!"

Mary groaned. "Fine! But I'll also learn to dance!"

"And slap someone," Anna said and both of her friends looked at her. "Well, Mary, you've always been too nice towards people. Seriously… Then I'll learn how to play the guitar!"

"I need to do something about my shape," Lily said thoughtfully, while writing. "I can't climb too many stairs without lose my breath."

"And you also want to kiss a guy under the perfect night sky!" Mary said. "That's so romantic."

"Sure! But the flying thing…"

"Honestly Lily!" Anna sighed. "I have to get a piercing and go to class without anything under my skirt! You can easily learn how to fly."

Lily wailed loud and wrote it all, then she fell silent.

"I… I feel like I need to try and fix my relationship with Petunia. I know it's nothing to do with our school, but I wish it had."

Mary nodded. "I understand."

Lily wrote it and looked at Anna. "Any ideas?"

"Uh!" Anna exclaimed. "I have to make Edward realise I can stand up for myself…"

"Interesting," Mary said, smiling.

"Wow…" Lily sighed and wrote that down. "What a year it will be."

"Do we need more goals?" Mary asked and looked at the paper.

"Nope," Lily said and shook her head. "That's pretty much it! And we have to do it before we get our diplomas at graduation."

"Okay…Can I see the list?" Anna asked.

Lily handled her the paper, and she red.

We, Mary Doreen Macdonald, Anna Giselle Harrington and Lily Michelle Evans, will accomplish every single of the points mentioned below before we have graduated and received our diplomas of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry.

Common To-Dos:

1. Fall in love and have a boyfriend.
2. Swim in the lake. Naked…
3. Sneak out once after hours and drink fire whiskey in Hogsmeade!
4. Skip school for one whole day just to sleep or make trouble.
5. Have our first time with a boy in the same room. (Not at the same time of course!)
6. Patricia and Susanne. Something!
7. Find the kitchens and tell the house elves to put poo in the Slytherins' dinner!
8. Go on a date with a Marauder and not blow it off before he does.
9. Receive a 'T' in an essay and not care about it…
10. Find out what the Marauders' nicknames mean!

Personal To-Dos:

Lily:

1. Not hit, yell at or hurt Potter in any way for a whole week.
2. Kiss under a perfect night sky.
3. Learn how to ride a broom.
4. Tell my sister I love her and that I wish she had been with me.
5. Run at least 1 mile per week.

Anna:

1. Kiss in the rain.
2. Go to class one day without anything under my skirt.
3. Get a visible piercing or tattoo.
4. Learn to play the guitar.
5. Make Edward realise he's not the protector of me.

Mary:

1. Start party in the Gryffindor tower (and drink myself).
2. Declare my undying love for a guy to the whole school at breakfast.
3. Hit someone because they deserve it, not because I want to.
4. Knit a jumper and wear it for a whole week.
5. Learn how to dance.

Anna sighed deeply and looked up at Mary; she was playing with the candle but looked up and met her eyes. Lily smiled as she studied them.

"So?" she asked.

"So what?" Anna asked back.

"It's a deal then?" she said. "That we'll do all those things?"

"It's a deal," Mary nodded. "But what if we don't accomplish it all?"

"We will," Anna said confidently

"We only have one year!"

"Then we better get started, right?" Anna grinned. "And we won't tell anyone!"

Mary nodded. "Okay."

They all looked at each other a couple of seconds, then at the list and back at each other.

"Now," Lily said. "I need some of your blood."

"What?" Mary gasped; she was afraid of blood, especially her own.

"A drop of your blood! Then we can't break it."

"What if we do?" Anna asked.

Lily looked at her. "I'm serious. You actually can't. It's ancient magic. No matter how hard you try not to, you will do all those things at that list. It's not like you feel forced to do it, you just… do it. I can't explain it."

Anna raised an eyebrow. "You believe in that?"

"Yeah…"

"Fine," Anna sighed and found her wand, waved it at her finger and a drop of blood fell down onto the parchment.

"Mary?" Lily asked.

Mary looked like she was going to cry but at last waved her wand too and a drop of her blood fell on top of Anna's. At last Lily did it. Then she took the candlelight carefully and dripped three drops candle wax down on top of the blood. She placed the candlelight back and looked at her two friends.

"We have to blow it out together to make it complete."

Anna shrugged and leaned forward along with the others. They blew at the same time and darkness fell upon them.

"And the game has begun!" Anna said dramatic to the darkness.

It truly had.