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Lily put on an oh-please-forgive-me expression and faced James's smirk, 'oh, really baby? I'm so sorry, here's something to go with your shattered heart,' and Lily chucked the rest of her sundae at them and stalked off to buy the rest of her Hogwarts needs.
'Lily, Lily wait! Won't you just go out with me?' James called after her. She didn't look back.
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September the first arrived after several weeks of Petunia yelling bloody whenever she had to talk to Lily. Lily was relived to know that Petunia wasn't riding along to Kings Cross to send Lily off to her final year at Hogwarts.
'Now, be good dear, don't wander off, make sure you finish your-'
'I know Mum! I've heard those words every single year before I set off for Hogwarts.
'Yes, well, dear, I'm only worried for your safety. Then again, your school has all sorts of enchantments over it hasn't it?'
'Yes it has, now Mum if you don't mind it's ten thirty and you know that I hate to be late for anything.'
Lily turned her trolley around and stared hard at the wall between platform nine and ten. She glanced around her to check that no-one was watching, waved goodbye to her parents and slid through the wall with platform Nine and Three Quarters appearing in front of her.
The scarlet red Hogwarts express was already gleaming in front of her and since Ami and Ruth had not yet arrived, she decided to first dump her heavy trunk up in front, in the prefect's compartments. She reread her second piece of parchment from her letter from Hogwarts. She wondered who was Head Boy…
'Lily! Lily! She popped her head out of the window and saw Ami and Ruth rapping rapidly on her window.
'Come outside and help us with our trunks! They're to damn heavy!'
'Yup! Coming!' Lily hurried outside to help her friends load their trunks into a compartment not too far away. She stayed in their compartment and talked and laughed so much that they only stopped when they heard the whistle for the train to be pulled out of the station.
'Oh!' cried Lily, 'I'm meant to be in the Prefect compartment to give prefects directions! See ya girls!' And with that she was already out in the corridor.
She burst into the prefect compartment to find none other than the big prat…James Potter…
'You?'
'Me.' James smiled.
'You a Hogwarts Head Boy?'
'Yes, me a Hogwarts Head Boy.'
Lily glared at him. 'Fine, you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone, deal?' Lily glared straight at him, every part of her loathing every part of him.
'Oh, Lily, my flower, how you break my heart.' James tilted his head back, a bit to the right, half closed his eyes and crossed his hands across his chest
Lily glared at him even harder that she felt her eyes were going to pop out any second soon… 'Oh, James,' she changed tactics at the last moment 'my love (here she added extra, super heavy sarcasm in her voice) how did your heart break? James, my love (sarcasm once again) did you heart melt into liquid with the sundae I presented you with?'
James smiled, 'Yes, Lily, my flower, it melted in the bright sunlight that radiates off your fat head, and it evaporated before I could drink it all up.'
Lily couldn't help but let out fits of giggles.
'Even you, Lily, my flower, cannot resist the temptation to laugh with me, (Lily laughed harder) me and my beautiful words and poetry ('God! Yeah right Potter!' Lily laughed even harder when James mentioned poetry) and so I would kneel before you, although I cannot for there are giant mosquito bites on my knees, (Lily couldn't control herself now, she fell back onto the seat, clutching her stomach) to ask you, do you need to go to the loos, because I really don't want a wet patch in here from you laughing so hard.'
Lily had no control over herself and ran out the door, down the corridor to the other end of the train and burst into the toilets.
Lily came back about half an hour later with her hair now neat and her face still with a pink tinge in it.
'So Potter, don't bother me because I do not bother me because I want to look acceptable for when the prefects come in, so we can tell them what to do and what their common room passwords are. Then we have to patrol as well so don't bother me during that either.'
'Actually Lily, they've already come in and I've already given them directions and when to patrol the corridors.' Said James, smiling.
'You- you have?' Lily asked in bewilderment. She had never missed anything important – and since when was James that responsible?
She stood at the door wondering until James got up and said, 'Lily, you can stop thinking about me now, we have to patrol the corridors now.'
Lily was brought back to earth and gathered herself. 'Oh, right, well then I'll go patrol down the back, and you can patrol the front.' With that she strode briskly away before James could do anything else.
Lily dropped in to say 'hi' to Ami and Ruth first before setting out to patrol the corridors. Lily told a few people off for shouting and running down the corridors but every student's behaviour was acceptable, even Sirius's, much to Lily's surprise.
Lily returned to the prefect compartment and was reading her potions text book when James was back from Patrolling.
'So, did you have fun patrolling?' James asked as he sat down and bought about one quarter of what was on the food trolley and started chewing his Bertie Bott's Every Flavour beans. Lily ignored him and continued reading until the end of the train ride.
