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SORRY JEN!!

Chapter One: Deal!

Lily Evans climbed onto the Hogwarts Express and went into a compartment on her own. She wasn't going to wait for anyone. There was no one to talk to. She had no friends, and she had given up trying to ages ago. If anyone knew her, it would only be because she was the 'top student' and they just wanted the answers to the questions they didn't know.

Lily Evans had frizzy, uncontrolled fiery red hair, round glasses as thick as jam jars and as round and had braces, which made her lisp a bit. She was at the height of 5'6, she was the biggest bookworm Hogwarts has ever known and the brightest green eyes, you've ever seen.

She sighed. Only one more year left. Boy, I'm gonna miss this place. I hope this year is going to be exciting, she thought, sadly and opened her book, The Big Book of Magic by Werldina Pollio, for the sixth time.

~*Meanwhile*~

"Oy, Prongs," said Sirius Black, poking his best mate in the back, "Grease muff and co. are coming over here. Gas masks at the ready."

James Potter, the most popular boy in Hogwarts, having black scruffy hair and piecing blue eyes and black framed glasses, turned around and saw his most hated enemy, Severus Snape, and his side kick, Lucius Malfoy and two other boys, who were called Humfery Crabbe and Gregory Goyle.

"Well, Well," Snape said, with his greasiest voice. "If it isn't the Potty and his followers?"

"What do you want, Slimy?" James asked, hand on wand, just in case.

"I was wondering if you want to have a bit of fun? You know, like having a bet as it is our last year and, well, see who comes out better. Following?"

"And we have to be apart of this because.....?" Remus Lupin, other of James's friends, asked, raising his sandy colour eyebrows.

Snape turn to him and looked at him like Remus was something smelly and unwanted. "Well, maybe our little secret could end up in the Daily Prop—" Malfoy sneered but soon stopped because Sirius grabbed him by the neck and pinned him against the wall, his black eyes ablaze.

"You better not," he whispered deadly, his brown eyes alight with rage, "or every single bone in your body will be broken as well as your wand."

"C'mon guys, we don't need this crap," James said, and all four of the marauders, that James, Sirius, Remus and Peter Prettigrew called themselves, started to walk to the train until...

"Wait!" Snape shouted, "Money's involved!"

They hauled. Money? True, they all had plenty of money, more than plenty actually, but a little bit more wouldn't hurt. They all looked at each other and nodded. They walked back to the Slytherins.

"Now, we interested now, huh?" One of the two boys said that they didn't know.

"What's the bet?" Remus asked.

"We have to got the geekiest girl in our house to be 'Queen of the Houses' at our graduation party. Whoever wins get four hundred galleons each from the losers."

"Four hundred galleons? A bit pricey, isn't it?"

"So? What's the matter, can't poor Potty Poo afford it?"

"Yeah we can! Only if, at the end of the year, whoever loses, they have to say whom they love in find of everyone and you've got yourself a deal. All four of them!"

Both James and Snape said "DEAL!" as they shook hands. They walked their different ways after that.

"Someone get me a soap." James winced, holding his hand away from him.

"Why?" asked Peter.

"I might get a slime-ball disease," He, Sirius and Remus laughed whilst Peter was looking in his bag.

"What are you doing, Wormtail?" Remus asked.

"Looking for the wand, ah bingo," and he pointed his wan at James, "Washingus I doyl!" The next thing James knew was that he was nearly naked, a towel wrapped around him, holding a rubber duck and a sponge, with a bar of soap. Peter, Remus and Sirius were rolling on the floor in laughter.

"Remember to wash behind you ears, Jamsie!" chuckled Peter. "I'm sure that will get rid of the 'Slime ball disease'!"

"Wormtail!" James shouted, blushing scarlet, running towards Peter, stream coming out of his ears.

"OK, OK," He pointed his wand at James again, "Reverse Lleps!" And once again, James was back in his normal clothes.

"You know what, Prongs," Sirius said, laughing still, a little, wrapping an arm over Wormtail, who choked a bit, as Sirius was too strong for little Pete. "He's learning."

"Yeah, I suppose you're right." James scruffed up Peter's hair and said, "C'mon, we've got a girl to look for. There's a girl who gonna make us rich! Well, richer, anyway!"