Chapter 1

Lily was alone in the crowded train station pushing her cart with her trunk, owl, and books on it. She walked up to platform 9¾ and went straight through the wall. No one in the train station even noticed. Lily had red hair that helped her stand out from most students at Hogwarts. Her bright green eyes were glowing as she wore her black robes. When Lily stepped through the other side, a tall, dark haired boy came up to her. His name was James.

"Can I help you with that Lily?" James asked her, "How was your summer?"

"My summer was alright. No I think I can get my bags on by myself thanks." She said in a very annoyed voice. James Potter had been asking her out since the beginning of first year, and Lily never gave him a chance. All she saw him as was a bigheaded boy who gloats around hoping one day everyone will love him. James got the hint and walked away. But what Lily didn't know was this year, her 7th and final year at Hogwarts, everything was about to change for them.

Two of Lily's best friends came walking up to her, Dawn and not far behind her was Willow. Dawn's light brown hair was just at her shoulders, her hazel eyes were sweet and innocent. Willow was the youngest out of the four friends. She had blonde hair with blue eyes, although she was very pretty she never said much.
"Hey how was the ride here?" Dawn asked sarcastically. Lily, Dawn, and Bex had known each other before Hogwarts. The three were neighbors, and have been best friends since age seven. Bex was the crazy one; she never wanted to settle down. Bex had dark brown hair with dark brown eyes.

"Fine I guess. Hey where's Bex, she needs to put her trunk on the train." Lily said looking around.

"Oh you wont find her." Willow said smiling, "She walked to the other of the train with Sirius a few minutes ago."

After the three girls put their trunks on the train, they found an empty compartment near the front of the train. Bex found them in the compartment a few moments later. But before she even got a chance to sit down Dawn started questioning her.
"What happened behind the train?" she asked immediately.
Bex light up with the thought of knowing something her friends didn't. She shrugged her shoulders and just smiled."Bex! Tell me you can't do this to us!" Dawn said in a shot tone.

The girls sat in their compartment talking about everything, from the new year to memories of first year. They were inseparable. The four girls had shared a dorm since first year. They promised each other that they would stay friends and no boy would ever come between them.

"Sirius and I didn't do anything, we went around the other side of the train just to talk." Bex began.

"You know that's not really what your known for 'just talking.' So other people may not think that." Lily said.

The four looked at each other, they all knew that Bex liked Sirius and that Dawn liked Remus. But Lily never said anyone. There was only one person Lily trusted with that secret, and that was Bex. She was close to Dawn and Willow too but she felt like she could talk to Bex more than the others.

"Well I don't care what people think about me." Bex replied.

"So Lil you going to give Potter a chance this year or what?" Willow said changing the subject.

"He does the same lame lines every year, I'm not going out with him." Lily said.

"But he is so cute and smart I just don't understand you and boys Lil." Bex said.

"He is just not my type."

"Do you have a type?"

"Yes and James Potter isn't it!"

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Down on the other side of the train talking about ways to get out of the castle were James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. James was popular, good looking, and his dark brown hair was always untidy. He had round glasses and brown eyes. Sirius was James's best friend. The two were always seen together. Sirius had shaggy jet-black hair that stopped right before his brown eyes. Remus was the smartest and most mature. He had dark blonde hair and green eyes. Peter had blonde hair and blue eyes; he was a little plump and not the brightest of the bunch. The four were gathered a round the Marauder's Map. Because of this map they had learned every secret passage in and out of the castle.

"What happened between you and Bex behind the train earlier?" James asked Sirius.

"Nothing we were just talking about last year and everything that happened, nothing big Prongs." Sirius said.

"Sure you were Padfoot, we all know you still like her."

"We're good friends that's all."

The train started to near the school, so the boys changed into their robes. As they got off and started walking to the Great Hall for the feast, James saw a flash of red hair whip passed him. James froze; Sirius knew James had just seen Lily.

"Come on man, your not sill hooked on Evans are you?"

"Its different with her. Come on you should start to know how it feels because of Bex right?"

"I guess but I haven't been drooling over her for six years."

"Oh shut up and lets eat." Remus finally said nudging them toward the castle.

All throughout dinner James couldn't help himself to look up at the girl he only dreamed of holding. He thought about her, about her soft touch, her warm cheeks, and her tender lips.

"You going to sit here all night James or are you going to come up to the common room?" Sirius said, snapping James out of his daydream.
James suddenly looked around and saw the Great Hall was almost empty. He got up and followed them to the common room. He didn't say much to them the rest of the night. He just changed into his night robes and lay there thinking about Lily Evans, which made his heart jump.

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But when the girls got back to their dorms they didn't go right to sleep.

"This is so sad, did you see him all though dinner?" Willow said.

"Come on Lil, why not?" Bex pleaded.

"Because he is a cocky, self-centered, argent person. Besides he walks around the school like he owns the place."

"Well you guys can talk this one out but Willow and I are going to sleep, so could you go down to the common room?" Dawn said with a yawn.

"Yeah sure, Lil you want to go?" Bex said looking up at Lily.

"Sure." Lily said while getting up and walking down the stairs. They sat down on the couch in the empty common room. They sat there for a few minutes, and then Bex brought up the conversation again."So what if he matures? I mean Sirius did." She added.

"Yeah well look how you and Sirius turned out." Lily didn't mean to blurt out.
"I mean…I'm sorry Bex."

"It's okay, now."

"I mean at least you didn't go too far with him, right?"

"Well you see about that…I kind of…did. But Lil… before you say anything, it's just, when you find someone who really cares about you, and you care so much about them that when you're with him and he is holding you…it just feels so right." Bex explained.

"YOU WHAT! YOU DID! Why didn't you tell me!?" Lily softly yelled.

"Because I knew you would give me a big, long talk about how I shouldn't have and I should be more careful."

"But Bex I'm your best friend you can tell me anything. And your right I probably would have told you, you shouldn't have, but that's because I never want to see you get hurt. I'm only trying to look out for you."

"I know, but I just didn't tell anyone because I didn't want anyone to know. I mean I knew I would tell you sometime. I just didn't think you had to know right then. And before I knew it…Sirius and I were…over."

"How long after you did it until you started hearing things about well…Sirius and Cammie?"

"Oh about two, three weeks, but he didn't act different at all. He was just gone at night, a lot, and then I asked him why and he just said he couldn't tell me. I didn't think he was cheating until someone told me they saw them together."

"Who told you that?"

"Rebecca."

"Oh, I know her, she's the real pretty one with really long brown hair, in Hufflepuff right?"

"Yeah, she came up to me and asked if Sirius and I were still dating and I said yes. Well she said she saw them in the hallway before class two days ago and it didn't look like it."

"I'm sorry B, I know how much you liked him, or how much you like him." Lily said with a smile.

"We talked about it today, when we were behind the train. He told me he would never hurt me like that, and that he never cheated on me. Cammie was coming on to him but he told her that he was in love with someone else. And that he still felt that strongly about me, but he wants to give me my space and if I need him he will always there for me."

"Well at least you know you can trust him again." Lily looked at her watch it read 12:30, "Oh, gosh we better get to bed or we wont wake up in the morning."

Lily was right, she was 45 minuets late for her class; she was running down the corridor trying to keep her books up under her arm. In class they were going to begin their first Divination project of the year. It was going to be half their grade so they had to do well on it, but because she was late she got the worst partner she could have imagined, James. Lily was not looking forward to sending time with James for half the year and she and James both loathed Divination. Great way to start the year she thought.

"Lily, we have to do well on this project and I don't want things from the past to get in the way, so lets just try to be friends through this year." James said at the end of class.

"Yeah, I know what you mean. However, I'm not every good at Divination so we'll need to start early. How's Friday before dinner?" Lily asked trying to sound nice.

"Friday is good for me."