A/N: I've been working on this for a while now without having any idea about where I going with it, but I've got a few ideas now, so I decided i would just go ahead and post this. Let me know what you guys think, so I know if I should continue it or not. R&R. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: The plot is the only thing that is mine. Any characters you recognize belong to the incredible J.K. Rowling, who, sadly, I am not. Savy?

Chapter 1:

Summer before Seventh Year- Lily Evans

Lily was laying on her bed, raving over her and Petunia's latest argument. When Lily's Hogwarts letter had come by means of owl, the poor animal had frightened her sister. Petunia went on ranting about how only freaks send post by owls, and only freaks got letters from a magical school in the first place.

Lily slapped herself mentally. She wasn't supposed to care what Petunia thought; they hated each other. She sighed, knowing this would never be true, and proceeded to open the letter.

Her eyes scanned the note quickly, but soon stopped. Lily reread the last part again, and her bottle green eyes widened. She squealed excitedly and turned the envelope the letter had come in upside down. A shiny, silver badge fell out, and Lily picked it up carefully, not wanting to leave fingerprints, or damage it.

The badge bore the Gryffindor symbol, and had the words Head Girl scrawled over the top of the lion. She pinned it on her Muggle shirt and ran downstairs, ignoring Petunia's glares, and muttered comments.

"Mum, look! I made Head Girl!" Lily exclaimed jabbing her finger at the badge proudly. Mrs. Evans moved forward to get a closer look.

"Congratulations, baby!" her mother cried and pulled Lily into a hug. Mr. Evans entered the room, curious as to what all the noise was. "Oh, Jason, our little girl got that badge she's been wanting!"

Jason Evans joined in on the hug, beckoning Petunia to come over. Petunia glared, stuck her nose up in the air, and stomped up the stairs. Lily's parents stared after her sadly. "I'm so proud of you!" Mr. Evans whispered in his daughter's ear, and then kissed her head. "Come on, let's celebrate!"

Lily pulled away from her parents, and smiled sheepishly. "I'm sorry, but I promised Alice and Camey that I'd go to Diagon Alley with them today. But maybe we can go do something tomorrow," she suggested. Her mum and dad nodded eagerly and kissed her cheek.

"That's alright, sweetie. We're flexible. You just go ahead and have fun with your friends!" Rose smiled at her daughter warmly, and shooed her back up to her room.

When Lily reached her room, another owl was tapping at her window. When she opened the window for him, he dropped three letters on her desk and then perched on her windowsill. Lily opened the first of the letters, smiling; she recognized her best friend's messy print right away.

Lily-

Congratulations on making Head Girl! Well, I hope you did, otherwise this letter would make you feel truly dreadful. But who else would it be? Certainly not Camey—she's too big of a flirt to be Head Girl…

Anyways, Camey is at my house right now, and we plan on Apparating to your house, so we can all travel to Diagon Alley together. We'll celebrate over ice cream—Camey can pay. Owl me back with a time. See you soon!

Love, Alice

Lily laughed and scribbled her reply. She set her letter to Alice aside and opened the second letter. She grimaced when she saw the opening statement.

Hey, Lilykins! I'm guessing you made Head Girl? I just knew you would. Dumbledore was bound to choose you—you're too pretty, smart, and unfun not to be!

Sirius, can you try not to be such a prat? She's probably thinking about what hexes she can use against you when she sees you next. Anyway, good job, Lily!

Aw, how sweet! You're such a gentleman, Prongs. Lily is sure to fall in love with you this year. I'll tell you, Lily, he took what you said about growing up very literally. He spent the entire summer—

Now would be a very good time to shut up, Padfoot. And would you stop taking the quill out of my hand! Ugh, there is no way we're sending this to Lily.

Of course we are, Jamesie. In fact, we're sending it right now. Congrats, Lily Flower! We'll see you soon!

Sirius! No—

The letter ended there, and Lily stood with the letter in her hands, feeling very amused, and trying futilely to suppress a smile. She ran Sirius's words through her head a few times, puzzling over what it could possible mean, and why James cut him off so abruptly. 'He took what you said about growing up very literally…'

Lily shook her head, and set the letter next to Alice's without bothering to write a reply. She picked up the final envelope and very carefully slid her finger under the edge, trying not to rip the Hogwarts seal. It was just instructions on what her duties were as Head Girl, and the expectations she was going to be held to. There was also a bit explaining what was going to happen on the train in a few days' time.

She tied the letter to Alice on her owl's ankle, and watched him fly out of the room. Lily spent the next few minutes awaiting Alice and Camey's arrival, and pondering whom the Head Boy could be.

Knowing Dumbledore, it will probably be someone completely unexpected, Lily thought. Hmm, maybe Amos Diggory? I've heard he's fairly nice, and has top marks in his classes. Or, it could be Sirius Black. He's the opposite of what people are going to assume. But, no, he would have told me in that letter. James would have told me if it was he, too.

Disappointment flooded through knowing it wouldn't be James. Lily pushed the feeling back and chided herself mentally. You hate James! one side of her argued.

The other, more reasonable side spoke up. No, you don't. You have to admit he's not that bad, and after the last few weeks of sixth year, he is actually growing on you.

Lily had to agree with that. Ever since she had screamed at James for being an 'insufferable, pig-headed prat' he seemed to back off a bit. He no longer tormented Lily to go out with him every five minutes, or participated in publicly humiliating Severus Snape.

Lily frowned at the thought of Snape, and reminisced back to a few days before sixth year ended.

Lily sat in the Gryffindor common room at one of the round table, doing her homework. It was very late at night, and not a soul was in sight. All of the sudden, Lily heard James's unmistakable, booming voice. "You did WHAT?"

She hadn't heard him use that tone for a while now, since she had reprimanded him in front of the whole school. She looked up curiously, and saw him sprinting down the stairs from the boys' dormitories, Sirius hot on his tail.

"James, wait!" Sirius yelled after his best friend. Neither of them had noticed Lily sitting there, wide eyed.

James spun around and glared at his best friend. His face was hard, and cold. "How could you do this Sirius?" he shouted. Lily cringed and discreetly cast a charm around the room, so they wouldn't wake up the other students. "Didn't you even think what this would do to Remus?"

Sirius's face crumpled, and he looked down at his feet. "I'm sorry, James, I wasn't thinking," he admitted.

"Obviously not," James snarled, wearing a deadly look on his face. "This isn't some prank, Sirius! We are talking about someone's life here. You may hate Snape, I do, too, but Moony would never forgive us if he accidentally killed him." And with that, he turned on his heel and ran out of the common room, swearing the entire way.

Sirius stood there for a minute, dumbstruck, before he cussed loudly, and tore off after James, kicking something along the way. Lily waited for a while, and then crept out the portrait hole to find them. From one of the windows on the second floor, she could see James running towards the frozen Whomping Willow and Sirius close behind him. There was also another figure standing at the base of the tree. Suddenly they both disappeared.

Lily gasped and flew down the last staircase, taking the steps two at a time. She barely slowed to push open the doors of the castle and dashed down the steps. Sirius saw her and grabbed her arm to prevent her from following James and Snape. Lily thrashed against his arms, begging him to let her go after them.

There was a loud howling coming from somewhere very near. Sirius looked very panicked, and nervous. Lily froze. "What was that?" she asked, frightened.

Sirius, hearing or seeing something that she did not, turned to her, and said in a low voice, "Lily, you have to get out of here. I need you to go back into the castle." There was another growl, and a pained yelp. "Now!" Sirius screamed. He let her go, and ran towards the tree, ignoring Lily's protests.

Lily knew it took something very dangerous to make Sirius Black act like that, so she took his advice, and ran back to the castle. From the second story window she had peered out before, she was able to watch the event unfold.

She watched as a huge, black dog took Sirius's place, and slid out of sight. Lily held her breath until Snape, James, and Sirius remerged. She breathed a sigh of relief, but that quickly turned to a gasp of horror when they walked into a beam of light put off by the full moon.

Lily could tell he was limping badly, and he was covered in blood. Snape looked even paler than usual, and Sirius looked utterly ashamed of himself. Lily wondered where Remus was, and then something dawned on her. 'Did you even think about what this would do to Remus…Moony would never forgive you if he accidentally killed him.'

She gasped. Lily fled to her dorm. Remus couldn't be a werewolf. He couldn't. He was too nice, and harmless. Lily cried herself to sleep that night, just imagining what Remus had to go through.

A loud pop shook Lily out of her reverie. She quickly adjusted her skirt, and pulled her hair up into a loose bun on the top of her head. After checking her appearance in the mirror, she bounded down the steps and flung the front door out of her way.

"Lily!" Alice and Camey squealed and threw their arms around their best friend. "We've missed you! Oh, I have so much to tell you…"

Alice was small, about 5'4", and thin, but was very fit and toned from playing Quidditch. She had shoulder length, dark brown hair, and striking blue eyes. That was her favorite feature. People always loved her deep blue eyes. You could get lost in them so easily. Alice was pretty, but not near as pretty as Camellia.

Camey, as they liked to call her, was blessed with a tall, athletic figure, and gorgeous face. She had waist-length blonde hair, and celery green eyes. Long, thick eyelashes framed her eyes nicely, and her perfect, full lips nearly always wore a smile, completing the picture. Like Alice, she was very outgoing, and had a bubbly personality, but she had a terrible habit of flirting with every decent-looking boy that passes. Not that those boys ever really minded. Especially not Sirius Black. Even though she loved to flirt, she never actually had a boyfriend. Mostly she just had snogging partners.

Lily and Alice found her habits highly amusing and she usually provided them with laughter for the rest of the day. They were already laughing at her tales as they made their way to an alley where it would be safe to Apparate.

Lily found herself anticipating her seventh year at Hogwarts more than ever.

A/N: So? What do y'all think? Should I continue with this or forget about it and move onto something bigger and better? I really want to know what you think, so just click that rectangular button down there and type 'stop' or 'go' along with anything else you want to say. Thanks so much!

~Livelier~