A/N: Hello again everyone! So this is my very first fan fiction. It will be about James and Lily while they're still in school. Voldemort is gaining power and the war is close to breaking out. The story will include the Marauders, Lily and her friends (who will be made up by me), Dumbledore, Bellatrix, Rudolphus Lestrange, Severus Snape and of course, the giant squid. There are more characters but I wont list them all. It's set in Lily and James' fourth year. Italic writing are Lily's thoughts, bold are James's. Enjoy :).

Disclaimer: I own only Bella, Morgana and Emily. All other characters are owned by the wonderful J.K Rowling.

Chapter 1

"POTTER!" Lily Evans screamed. She had had just about enough of that boy and his constant schemes with his awful friends. The practical jokers of the school. The oh-so-great "Marauders" as they called themselves. Always finding new ways to drive her and her Hogwarts professors to the brink of madness. Why must they always insist on wreaking havoc on the castle and it's inhabitants? Pulling their stupid pranks on everyone just for the sake of a laugh. Not that their pranks usually concerned Lily at all of course, but the way they thought they ruled the school just made Lily's blood boil. Especially when it came to Potter. And this time he had taken it much too far.

I swear, when I get my hands on that foul git, she thought, not even Madam Pomfrey will be able to save his sorry butt

She stormed out of the Great Hall, her face so red with anger, it reached a shade close to her fiery dark red hair. How dare they humiliate her and her best friend in front of the entire school! And its not like they just stopped after one fit of laughter from the students (and some of the teachers to Lily's horror)! No! They had to go and extract a further three more bouts of laughter, each more humiliatingly loud than the last. She was going to hex the foul git so many times that that stupid idiotic smirk of his, could never cross his stupid idiotic face ever again! She rounded the corner at the end of the corridor and came face to face with a very dishevelled looking Severus Snape. Lily's face softened as she saw her best friend.

"Oh hi Sev" she said quietly. When he did nothing but look at his feet nervously she continued to talk. "What are you doing out here?"

"Thought I'd get some air" he mumbled, still not looking up from his feet.

"oh ok." This was turning out to be a very awkward conversation between two people who were meant to be best friends.

Severus was still looking at his feet as if they were a very interesting quittich match. Lily wasn't sure what to say to him. What James Potter had just revealed to the entire Great Hall was extremely embarrassing of course but she didn't expect Severus to act this way. The event shouldn't have had any effect on their friendship, even if what James had said was true.

"I better get back to dinner" Severus said, breaking the silence and finally looking into Lily's almond shaped eyes.

"Oh yeah ok then" Lily said, quite surprised that Severus didn't want to talk to her any longer.

Very quickly Severus walked away, his hands not leaving his pockets as he went. Lily stood in the corridor by herself for a minute, thinking about whether what James had said was true or not, then remembered her reason for leaving the Great Hall in the first place. Her re-newed thirst for James Potters blood returning, she stalked off to find him, ready to hex him so that he couldn't see straight even with his glasses on the first chance she got.