A/N: Chapter two, I hope you enjoy it. I certainly enjoyed writing it!

So, read on…

Chapter 2: Train Ride, Part 2.

"Mom, Vernon is coming over tomorrow evening and I want every thing to be perfect. Nothing can go wrong, understand?" Petunia, Lily Evans' very annoying older sister told her mother for the hundredth time today. "I want to go into London and get the groceries from there. Ok?" Petunia demanded to our mother, cocking one light eyebrow at her.

"Yes darling, I told you that we would go shopping today after we drop off Lily at the train station. We will go shopping straight after that, ok honey?" her mother said in a very strained voice. Her hands gripped the steering wheel a little too tightly to be considered comfortable.

Petunia nodded stiffly and continued to stare straight ahead of her, looking at the road in front, barely moving.

Lily turned around in the back seat of the car and looked out of the window next to her, thinking about her best friend Alice and how much she missed her. She hoped she would see her on the platform before she boards the train.

"We're here," her mother called to her, jolting her away from the window.

"Great," Lily smiled; she really couldn't wait to see her friends again.

Her mother got out of the car and went to the boot to get her trunk out. Lily followed.

"Well, here we are then. Are you ready to go?" her mother asked in a small voice. This always happened. Her mother would start crying every time she leaves for school and that would set off Lily, making her cry as well.

"Yeah, I have every thing. Please don't cry mom, you'll set me off too." Lily laughed, hugging her tight. She hugged Lily back fiercely.

"Bye mom, I love you." Lily mumbled into her shoulder.

"Love you too, sweetie." She said back, voice thick with emotion.

Lily pulled back and her mother wiped at Lily's cheek. She had been crying. She felt foolish for crying, especially since it was her last year, even if it was a tradition.

"Bye," Lily waved at her mother and sister, who gave her a sneer as usual, and turned to enter platform 9 ¾.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she was bombarded by her best friend, Alice. She hugged her back and then stepped back to look at her.

"It's so good to so you again, I missed you like crazy." Alice said, hugging her again.

"So did I," she said. She looked around and then back at Alice, who was wearing a massive smile on her face.

"Do you want to go and get a compartment?" Lily asked, indicating with her thumb towards the train.

"Yeah, sure," Alice said, linking arms with her.

"So, where's Frank?" Lily asked when they were sitting in an empty compartment.

"Well, Frank told me that he wanted to go find the boys and catch up with them for a bit. So he'll probably be her in a minute." She said, inspecting her nails.

"How are you guys," Lily asked, even though she pretty much knew what the answer would be.

"Oh, we're great Lily, really. All through summer all I could do was think of him. We kept owling each other, but it's not the same as being in the same room, you know? That's why I was so excited to go back to school, to see him again. When I saw him on the platform, my heart literally leapt out of my chest-."

"Okay, okay, enough already, your making me want to puke." Lily interrupted, pulling a face at her and holding her stomach.

"Shut up," Alice laughed. "You ask, you receive." She said, laughing again as Lily pulled another face at her.

"What's all this laughing about?" a new voice asked. Lily turned around in her seat to see Sirius Black standing in the doorway. He moved into the compartment and sat opposite Lily and Alice. Remus soon followed, but sat next to Lily instead. They answered his question, then talked for a bit, until the compartment door slide open again to reveal Frank Longbottom and James Potter.

Frank headed straight for Alice and they started kissing very passionately right in front of Lily and the rest of them. James hesitantly walked in and peeked over at Lily before deciding to sit next to Sirius.

"So, Lily, how was your holiday?" Remus asked. It seemed like he was doing it to break the tension in the room, obviously caused by Lily and James's presence.

"Um… what? Oh, yeah, it was alright I guess. I mean considering I spent a whole summer listening to my annoying older sister who wants nothing to do with me drone on and on about her stupid oaf of boyfriend and how perfect he is, I guess I held out pretty well." Lily said in a rush. She looked over at Remus who was half way between being amused and sympathetic, then at Sirius who was looking at her as though she had lost her mind, at Alice and Frank, who were still glued at the mouth, and finally at James, who had a very serious look on his face. When she met his eye, she could see understanding in them, and it shocked her. She quickly looked down at her hands and then rubbed her face with them. He was not supposed to be like this, she thought, he is meant to be an inconsiderate toe rag.

"I'm sorry Lily," Remus said, placing his hand on top of Lily's.

"It's ok; I'm used to it by now. It doesn't affect me anymore." She smiled and gave his hand a squeeze.

"You alright James, you look a little pale mate." Sirius said, smiling slightly. Lily looked over at James and saw that he had indeed gone pale and was glaring at Remus. Remus himself looked quite amused by his friend's behaviour, and knew exactly what had triggered it, so decided to uncover Lily's hand from his own to avoid any arguments.

James muttered something about needing some air and left the compartment very quickly.

"Well… anyone want a game of exploding snaps?" Sirius asked clapping his hands together and looking around the compartment for possible players.

"You sure do know how to break the tension, Padfoot." Remus said, laughing at him and reaching for the cards to play with.

"Has anyone seen Peter?" Lily asked. She had been wondering where he had been for the past 15 minutes.

"He said he was going to the toilet like half an hour ago, I could go look for him if you want?" The ever helpful Remus asked Lily.

"If you want to, I was just wandering where he was really." Lily said back to him.

James's head appeared through the compartment door. He looked straight at Lily and said, "Evans, there's a head meeting in five minutes. Thought I should tell you, so that you don't panic. Like you always do." James muttered the last bit under his breath so no-one could hear him.

"Oh my God!" Lily jumped up; causing Sirius and Remus's game of exploding snap to blow up, nearly singing off their eyebrows. "I completely forgot to tell you! I made head girl!" Alice congratulated and hugged her while James and Sirius both snickered behind their backs.

"What's so funny?" Alice asked, raising an eyebrow. Lily just stood there glaring at James.

"Nothing's funny, it's just, of course we knew that Lily would get the head girl position. She's the smartest girl in our year." Sirius said, lounging on the compartment seat. "Haven't you got somewhere to go Lily? You know, you got to meet up with the head boy, who ever he is." Sirius sent an amused glance over at James.

"Yeah, I better get going. See you later guys." She quickly waved before sprinting out of the compartment and into the hallway.

Lily entered the head's compartment and looked at all the prefects, trying to locate the new head boy. As she looked over, she saw Severus Snape openly staring at her, she ignored him.

She decided to sit down and wait for the head boy to appear, after realising he was not in the room.

As she was tapping her pencil against the table in front of her, she saw Remus and the last person she would expect to see enter the room: James Potter.

She almost died when he walked over to her and showed her the head boy badge.

"What? You're head boy? How? When? Why?" Lily was trying and failing to keep her voice down.

"Yeah, I'm head boy. I thought it was a joke when I got it. I was pretty sure Remus or Amos Diggory would get it, not me." He shook his head and looked down at his badge, shining brightly in the light.

"Yeah, well, I guess I'm stuck with you. Not like I'm happy about it." She ground her teeth together and stood up, addressing the prefects as she did so.

James just stood behind her, looking at her longingly. Wishing that he could only reach out and take her hand…

"Potter?" Lily asked him, knocking him out of his thoughts.

"Uh, yeah?" he said back, running his hands through his hair.

"It's time to go, unless you want to stay behind, which wouldn't bother me one bit." Lily said, with her back to him, tidying up the paperwork on the table in front of her.

"Yeah, thanks. Um, bye." He waved at her, even though she couldn't see him with her back turned, and left the compartment in search of the Marauders.

Lily turned around and leaned up against the table, running her hands through the long, straight, red hair.

Is it possible that he could have changed over the summer into a nice person? She thought to herself, as the train came to a steady stop at Hogsmeade station.

A/N: I like this chapter a lot. Please review!

Klgw xx