Hello lovely readers. I am a million times sorry for the late upload especially to RegulusBlackForever whom I had promised I would post a new chapter soon. I have just had the worst writers block and along with that I am in the middle of all my exams. But there are no excuses so here is the new chapter, hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I do not in any way own the Harry Potter books or any of the characters. That privilege belongs only to J. K. Rowling whom I unfortunately am not.

"Lily wait up" She heard a voice behind her say. She turned on the spot and was almost knocked down by a girl running towards her after a second she realized who it was.

"Hestia" She squealed upon seeing her best friend.

"Lily" Hestia squealed back at her. "I can't believe I haven't seen you in almost 3 months" Hestia hugged her tightly. "How are you? How was your summer? You simply have to tell me everything!" she held Lily out in front of her. It was first now Lily was able to really look at Hestia. She had changed a lot over the summer. She had let her hair grow so it now fell in log wavy black locks to her waist. Hestia had spent the summer in Spain and the sun had made her gorgeously tan. Her spirited dark brown eyes were staring into Lily's green ones. And a huge grin was spread across Hestia's face.

"Im good, and my summer was great" In the background behind Hestia Lily could see the giant clock hanging over the platform. "Hestia I will tell you everything on the train, but we have to hurry, there are only a couple of minutes before the train leaves." She grabbed Hestias hand and they began pushing through the crowd of people to get aboard the train.

"Have you seen Alice?" Lily asked Hestia just as they passed a mother saying goodbye to her two sons.

"No not today, she's probably already on the train." The had now reached the train and were climbing aboard, escaping the mass of people surrounding them. "Lets go find her." Hestia said as she grabbed Lily's wrist and dragged her down through the train. They pushed past the other students while looking into every compartment they passed. Every once in a while one of them would stop when they saw a blond curl or a pair of blue eyes. Finally they found her sitting alone in a compartment and looking out through the window. Lily hadn't even noticed that the train had started moving. They were now rushing past the beautiful countryside. Alice looked up when they opened the doors.

"There you are" she said. "I was waiting for you." She got up from her seat and went over to hug them. Alice was like Lily not very tall. She was very doll-like and had curly blond her that reached her shoulders. Her eyes were big and blue and they always made her look slightly surprised. Alice was one of the most cheerful people Lily had ever met, she had a way of always seeing the best in a situation. After giving them both a hug she turned to Hestia and said: "Seriously are you ever going to stop growing? I swear you have gotten taller since three months ago"

"Nope same height as always" Hestia nudged Alice in the side. "Maybe its you who have gotten shorter." Hestia had always been the tallest of the three. Even if she hadn't had a model like body it wouldn't have been hard to beat Lily and Alice in height. Though both Lily and Alice were rather short they had very different bodies. Alice didn't have many curves which made her look thiner than she really was. With her height at 5'3 she was very petit. Lily on the other hand was just as slim as Alice and Hestia, but she had more curves which her 5'5 height enhanced.

"I most certainly have not" Alice made a little huff sound and crossed her arms pretending to be insulted. The girls sat down. Hestia put her feet up beside Lily, and nudged her in the side with her foot.

"So how was your summer?" She nudged Lily in the side again.

"It was okay. I was pretty lonely though. Since Sev…Snape is the only one I really know in my neighborhood, so besides my family I didn't have a lot of company." Lily shrugged "But I got to read a lot, so it wasn't that bad." She smiled at them.

"Im sorry that we were away all summer, otherwise you could have stayed with one of us for part of the summer like we usually do." Alice looked down at the floor, as she said it.

"What? Alice don't you dare blame yourself. You were on vacation, and I was fine. This goes for you to Hestia. You guys have nothing to blame yourselves for, you wrote to me practically every day through the entire summer." Lily leaned over to hug her friends. "You two are the best friends ever. Now you have to tell me how were you're vacations"

They spent the next two hours talking about their summers. Hestia, who had been to Barcelona in Spain, had talked for almost 20 minutes straight about how hot the guys had been, before Lily and Hestia had been able to shut her up. Alice had been to France, and seen some of the most amazing art, some of which had been muggle as her parents also had taken her to the Louvre. Hestia almost fell asleep, when Alice started describing the Mona Lisa in great detail. Alice loved art and could go on for hours about brushstrokes or color nuances.

"Anything from the trolly dears?" The girls were ripped out off their conversation, as the trolly witch passed them pushing the large trolly filled with sweets. All three girls got up to get some candy.

"Would you two like anything?" Alice asked turning around to look at them.

"Some liquorice wands would be nice" Lily said looking up at Alice. "And many some pepper imps."

"I would like some sugar mice if you please." Hestia said.

"You know on second thought could I think I'll have some sugar quills as well. They're not for now, but I would love some for the weeks before we go to Hogsmeade." Lily said with a thoughtful look.

When Alice came back from the trolly with the candy, the other two girls handed her the money. They got to talking again.

"It's just amazing that you got Head Girl Lily" Hestia said, as they started eating their sweets. "Just think of all the things we can get away with now."

"Hestia!" Lily said outraged "I did not become Head Girl, to help you brake the school rules!"

"Im'm just saying that now if one of us accidentally gets caught snogging a boy in a broom cupboard after hours, we might get of a bit easier." Hestia replied batting her eyelashes at Lily sweetly.

"One of us? I think the only one getting caught in broom closets is you my dear Hestia" Lily said before dropping a pepper imp in her mouth.

"Oh I don't think our dear Alice would mind spending some time locked in a broom cupboard with the lovely Frank Longbottom" Hestia wiggled her eyebrows suggestively at Alice. Alice was now blushing so much, that she slightly resembled a tomato.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Alice said quietly.

"Oh come off it Alice. We all know that you have had a major crush on Frank Longbottom since what sixth year?" Lily said

"I'd say end of fifth year" Hestia said with her mouth full, after just haven taken a bite out of a sugar mouse. "Speaking of boys who do you think is going to be this years Head Boy?" Alice who grateful for a change of subject quickly joined in.

"Yeah Lily, do you know?"

"I don't, but it has to be one of the boys who were prefects last year right?" Lily thought back on the previous year. "That means that the options are: Pine from Ravenclaw. He wouldn't be to bad. There is Avery from Slytherin, though it's not likely that Dumbledore would choose him as Head Boy. I don't even know how he became a prefect. Then there is Diggory from Hufflepuff…"

"Oh god I hope it's not Diggory, he will not stop hitting on you." Hestia interrupted with a groan. "Or me for that matter." She added with an afterthought.

"Yeah well at least he's not as bad as Potter." Lily said with a sigh "I don't know whats wrong with that boy! I mean when will he learn to take hint it's been six years, doesn't he have better things to do?"

"Unfortunately you are most likely going to have to get used to seeing him a bit more" Alice said glancing over at Lily.

"Why?" Both Lily and Hestia asked.

"Because out of all the boys who were perfects last year, Lupin is most likely the one who got Head."

"So…?" Hestia asked lifting one eyebrow at Alice.

"So Lily and the Head Boy share a separate dorm." Lily had now realized where Alice was going with this and groaned. Hestia, on the other hand, though looked just as confused as she did before

"Will someone please tell me what the big issue is."

"Do you really think that Potter, Black and Pettigrew won't take advantage of the fact that their best friend has a dorm all to himself… along with our dear Lily of course?" Alice said giving both Hestia and Lily a knowing look. Just as Alice had said it Lily heard a deep voice behind her.

"Well, hello ladies enjoying the train ride?" Lily turned around and much to her displeasure there stood James Potter. He was leaning on the doorframe that lead in to the compartment. "Not talking about me are you?" Behind him stood Black, Lupin and Pettigrew. Lily's eyes drifted over him. He had grown since she saw him last. He wasn't as scrawny as he had been. His shirt stretched across his cheats and shoulders showing the muscles, he had gained over the summer. He was also taller. His black and messy hair reached the top of his glasses, that sat slightly askew on the bridge of his nose. His Hogwarts uniform was untidy and his tie hung unbound around his neck. Despite her best efforts to ignore it, she had to admit that he looked good.

"What are you doing here Potter?" She asked rather annoyed.

"I was just coming to check in with the ever lovely Head Girl. To remind her, that she has to be in the prefects compartment in 20 minutes to meet with the Head Boy before the prefects meeting." He smirked at her as he walked into the compartment and sat down next to Lily . Sirius followed sitting down next to Hestia and laying his arm across her shoulders. Hestia lifted her eyebrows at him but didn't do anything about it. Remus and Peter continued standing up, though Peter looked as if he was debating wether or not to follow James and Sirius's lead. He ended up sitting down at the end of the seats, a bit away from the others.

"You don't need to remind me Potter. I know my what my Head duties are, so I don't need you to tell me." She made an annoyed little huff and turned to face him. "Why do you care any…" Lily had been momentarily blinded by the sun reflecting in the little golden badge placed on the left side of James' robes. When she had regained her sight, she saw it. "Potter" Lily was using all her will-power to keep her voice on a normal level, which you could hear from the strain in her voice. "Why do you have the Head Boys badge?"

"Well you see dear Lily it's required for the Heads to wear their badges at all times, as to make sure that everyone knows who they are." James finished his explanation with a toothpaste-commercial worthy smile, looking at her with an innocent look. Sirius snickered slightly knowing that it wouldn't be long till Lily's patients ran up and she would start yelling at James. This snicker though earned him a jab in the gut from Hestia's elbow.

"Ow" Sirius practically yelled, though no one seemed to care much.

"You mean to say that Dumbledore gave YOU Head Boy?" Lily said, continuing on and paying notice to Sirius outburst.

"Trust me we were all shocked." Sirius said.

"But… but… you weren't even a prefect last year" Lily said "Or the year before that."

"Well, that isn't really a requirement" Remus said now also sitting down. "It's just usually the way it's done."

"Look Lily I don't know why Dumbledore made me Head Boy, but he did" James voice had changed to a more serious tone, and he sounded very sincere. "And since we are going to be spending quite a lot of time together, wether you like it or not, I suggest a truce." James took a deep breath. "I won't ask you out anymore and in return you won't yell at me over stupid things…"

"I don't yell at you over stupid things!" Lily hen realized that she had in fact done just that and lowered her voice. "I always have a perfectly good reason for yelling at you." She folded her arms and turned her head so she wasn't looking at James any more.

"Lily" Alice said "come on"

"Fine" Lily said looking back at James. "what else?"

"You will also try, just as I will, to get along." James said sticking out his hand for her to shake. "So what do you say? Truce?" She shook his hand.

"Truce"

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K.