"Lily!!!" screamed a voice not too far away. Lily turned away from her parents to see her best friend, Elizabeth Morgan, waving madly at her. She held up a finger and shouted 'hold on' indicating that she wanted to finish her good-byes then she'd be right there.

"Well, there's Liz. Bye mum", Lily said, hugging her mother tightly. It was Lily's seventh and final year at Hogwarts.

"Bye sweetie. I'm so proud of you; my little baby is Head Girl. I love you!" Mrs. Evans said, tears welling up in her eyes. Lily let go of her mother and moved to her dad.

"Bye daddy. I love you!"

"I love you too princess. Be careful and have fun being in charge of everyone", Mr. Evans chuckled.

Finally, Lily turned to her sister, but didn't give her a hug. Petunia hated Lily being a witch, she hated how her parents always gave Lily the attention. She so badly wanted to yell at her younger sister, scream at her for 'ruining' her life because her sister, as she called it was a freak.

But during the summer before Lily's 5th year, they made an agreement to be human to each other in front of their parents. So when Lily said, "Good-bye Petunia, I'll see you next summer" Petunia decided to reply with,

"I'll see next summer." And not a word more.

"Okay, bye everyone!" Lily said before turning and walking towards Liz.

"Bye sweetie! Write often!" Mrs. Evans shouted after her daughter.

"I will!" Lily shouted back. She jogged over to Liz with her cart. Before she could reach where Liz was standing, Liz ran forward and embraced Lily Tightly. Lily stopped and hugged back, laughing. Lily sometime felt Liz was more of a sister to her then Petunia was.

"I've missed you SO much!!" screamed Liz.

"I've missed you too Liz!" Lily said back, stepping away from Liz. "Gosh, you've tanned so much!"

Liz had gone to Venezuela for summer break. She was half Venezuelan so she had a beautiful, even dark look to her. Lily, unlike Liz, had ivory colored skin and usually sizzled in intense heat. She had gone to Mexico when she was 13. When she came back, her face was one shade lighter than her scarlet hair.

"Thank-you. But you should see my back, it's all red! My very first sunburn!" said Liz, cringing at her last few words.

"Don't worry, once we get back to school, I'll fix you right back to normal. But first we should board the train", Lily said quickly, checking her watch. "We have less than ten minutes."

"Okay, let's hurry so we can get a compartment!"

Lily was about to say 'okay' and start walking towards the train but then remembered. She looked at Liz guiltily.

"Um, I have something to tell you. Some good, some bad. I was mad Head Girl and'" But before she could finish, Liz started screaming and pulled Lily into a rib-breaking hug.

"Head Girl?! Why didn't you tell me before?!"

"Well, firstly, I forgot and also I was trying to avoid this soon-to-be-fatal crush you call a hug", Lily managed to breath out, which was a bad idea because she didn't have much of that left.

Liz let go and glared. But it turned into a grin right away.

I'm so happy for you! And me! Head Girl's Best friend! I get special privileges, right?" Liz asked hopefully.

I dunno. You get the title, that's just about it" Lily said smirking.

"Hmph!" Liz huffed. "Anyways, what was the other thing you wanted to tell me?

Oh, um, there's a special Head Compartment that I'm supposed to stay in for a meeting with the prefects", Lily mumbled slowly, seeing the sad look on Liz's face. "But after the meeting you can join me in the compartment!"

Liz's face lit up. "Okay! I'll just sit with the Marauders in the mean time"

"Oh, no you wont! Then they'll follow you to where I'm sitting and there is no way I'm sitting with that arrogant prick!" Lily nearly shouted.

"Some one call me?" a deep voice said behind the two girls. Lily spun around to se the boy that cased her around for 6 years.

"Potter!" Lily growled softly.

"Yes my beautiful lily-flower?" James asked, grinning innocently.

"Don't call me that!

"Yes lily-flower"

"Urgh, this is wasting my time!" Lily said, obviously frustrated. She turned to Liz. "Liz, I'll see you in a bit, I gotta go to the Head Compartment."

Lily started walking to the train. She went up the steps and hauled her trunk behind her.

"Need help?"

"No, not from you Potter", Lily sneered without turning around. She started walking briskly ahead towards the end of the train where the Head's carriage was located. She felt someone followin, sh she turned her head to see James trailing behind her. She opened her mouth to say something, but she chose to ignore James.

Lily started walking faster, trying to loose him but her kept following her. Without any warning, she spun around and shouted, "What do you want?!"

James almost started laughing, for Lily's face was red with anger. But he decided it would be wise not to, he didn't want to experience the wrath of Lily's read-head temper.

"Nothing, I'm just going to my compartment" James said with an innocent look on his face. Lily sighed deeply, frustrated.

"Fine", she turned around and started walking again.