Disclaimer: Im not J.K. Rowling, I don't not own the characters, ect, ect.

Author's Note: Yeah I know I have other unfinished stories but I can't help it. I've got this one in mind and it's not going away so I decided maybe something different from the ones I put on and remove all the time. Also I know the Hogwarts Express scene is a little different than the one in the book but I didn't want to rewrite the whole scene plus I can make it a little different, can't I?

Lily was bouncing in her seat as she rode in the back seat with Sev. She had been like this ever since she had received her letter. Sev had assured her she would be going, but to be holding the letter in her hand, it felt more real, like it was going to happen. She needed change. This much she knew. And this was possibly going to be the biggest change in her whole life.

"We're here," announced Mrs. Evans as the car came to a halt.

"Mum, do you mind if I stay in the car?" Petunia asked.

Her mum gave a confused look than nodded as she and her husband walked to the trunk of the car.

Lily looked over at her sister. "What? I thought you were coming to see me off?"

"God, Lily the whole world isn't about you the entire time. Get over yourself," She spat.

Lily looked at her sister shocked. "I thought you weren't mad at me anymore."

"I'm not mad at you. But you're stinking up the car with your freaky odor and I'm sorry but I'm about to suffocate so if you don't mind closing the door…" she trailed off venomously.

Lily slammed the door shut, almost in tears. She looked over at her parents who were getting out her and Sev's trunks from the back.

The window rolled down, "You're such a baby. What are you going to do? Go crying to Mummy and Daddy? Not only are you a freak, you're also a cry-baby."

"Shut up!" Lily shouted at her sister, drawing her parents attention.

"Lily, please don't tell people to shut up. It's rather rude."

"Sorry mum," she said. "Sod off," she hissed to her sister, so that her parents couldn't hear her. "Just because you're jealous…" and with that she trailed off and stomped away after her parents.

As they arrived at the platform, Lily felt nervous. "Will I run into the barrier?" She asked Sev for what she knew what about to be the hundredth time.

"No, just get a running start and don't think about it. You'll be fine." He gave her a small smile, clearly nervous to.

"You sure?"

"I'm positive, Lily," He gave her hand a reassuring squeeze. "I'll even go first if you want."

"Thank you, Sev."

"It's no problem," And he took a running start vanishing once he hit the bricks.

"I don't think we can come." Lily's mum said, glancing at the barrier. "And I'm not sure I want to," She gave a nervous laugh. "But behave yourself. Write to us every time you get the chance. I'm sure Petty will love to hear from you."

"I rather doubt that," Lily whispered.

"Oh, Lils," her mum pulled her into a tight hug, "She's just jealous, give her a while to soak it in and you two will be closer than ever."

"You think so?" She asked.

"I know so," she let go and Lily turned to hug her dad but, not before she saw a small tear rolling down her mother's face.

"I'm going to miss you, Daddy," she hugged him.

"Me too, Lils, have a good time. Behave yourself. I don't want a letter coming home, even if it by owl, saying that you have been misbehaving."

"There's nothing to worry about, Daddy."

He chuckled, "I know," and kissed the top of her head as he let her go.

"We will be here until 11:30 in case something goes wrong," her mum said. "Have fun."

"Thanks," She smiled at her parents before positioning herself in front of the barrier as she had seen Sev do. She gave a wave and ran towards it, closing her eyes, expecting to hit it on instinct.

She stopped running and opened her eyes. I did it! It was exactly like how Sev described it.

"Hey, I thought you got lost!" Sev smiled at her still pushing his trunk. "Let's go put these away and find a seat."

They found an empty compartment towards the back and sat down.

"I'm going to go and change into my robes. I'll be back." Sev said standing, he passed two boys as they entered the compartment.

Lily dragged Severus away, fuming about those, those boys! They went to another compartment that was empty except for a girl, whom looked like a first year herself. "Do you mind if we sit here?"

"Oh no, it's fine, of course I don't mind," The girl gestured to the seats across from her, "I'm so glad you asked. I was afraid I would have to ride the train by myself. My friend, Frank, he wanted to sit with some other boys, he said it would look bad if he were to sit with a girl. He said everyone would tease him because I'm a girl," the girl looked like she was about to cry, "He's my best friend and no one else was sitting with us and a couple of boys came by and asked him if he wanted to sit with them because no one wants to sit with a girl on the first day and he left me all by myself without even saying goodbye. Like we didn't even know each other. We have known each other since like we were three. He's my best friend." She started to sniffle.

"I'm sorry." Lily sat next to the girl, Sev taking the seat across from them. "I'm Lily by the way and this is Severus. Sev for short."

"Severus," he said looking at the girl. "I only let people I know call me Sev."

"Hi Lily, Hi Sev… I mean Severus. I'm Alice." She wiped away her tears. "I'm sorry. I just don't know what I did."

"It's ok, you did nothing. He's being a boy. Sometimes boys act like that. Even if they are acting like they are seven. I'm sure Frank will come around."

"Thanks for being so nice to me."

"Sure Alice, I will always be there for you."

"Okay… since we are friends, can I tell you something?"

"Sure," This was probably the oddest and quickest friendship Lily had ever had.

"I'm sorry, but it is kind of private, only something for girls," Alice said to Sev, then bent close to Lily's ear to whisper something to her. "I kind of like Frank, but I don't think he likes me back. I mean like like. Like a crush like. He's my first crush. What should I do?"

Lily stared. A crush like? Lily was yet to find her first real crush. Anything else, she decided, didn't count anymore. If she were back her old school she would be going into grade six. She supposed it was okay to really like someone now that she was older, so perhaps it would be okay for someone else to already like someone too. Lily remembered Derek and Kiley, two kids from her old school. They went out in grade four. Of course it wasn't really dating, as Lily had learned from Petunia. You didn't really start to date until later on in life. Would now be later? Lily decided it was. Later was now. Lily now had a mission, to find a real crush.

"Lily?" Alice poked her, "What should I do?"

Lily leaned in to whisper, "I don't think Frank is ready yet. Wait a couple of years."

"You completely right, Lily! I'll find someone else in the meantime," Alice beamed and gave her a hug. "We are going to be great friends!"

She smiled, "We are."

When it was dark, an older student came by. "Hey, we are close to arriving, I would put on your robes. They normally won't tell you, but when I was in my first year, I didn't know you should put them on before you got there. I felt really stupid if you know what I mean," The boy started to leave.

"What's that badge mean?" Lily pointed to his chest.

"Which one?" He asked, turning around.

"Well all of them I guess."

"Oh well this one here represents my house, Hufflepuff, and this one is because I'm quidditch captain, this one here since I'm Head Boy, and this one for being prefect."

"Wow," Lily stared, "Can I have a look?"

"Sure," he smiled and removed the Head Boy badge.

"I want one," Lily whispered, entranced.

Laughing, he gingerly took it back, "I'm afraid you can't acquire a badge like this until your seventh year and only if you are head girl."

"What's that?" Asked Lily.

"I'll explain later, I want to fill in the other first year about the robes thing. My name's Parker Ridgeman, so just ask for me if you ever need anything."

"Thank you, Parker."

He nodded and then left.

Lily poked Alice, "I've decided I'm going to have a crush on him. He's accomplished."

Sev snorted, "You can't like him, Lils."

"Why not? I can like whomever I want to, thank you very much," Lily said, hurt.

"Because, he's a seventh year," Sev said, looking at her.

"Oh. Never mind then." Lily slumped down in her seat.

"It's ok, Lily. You can't decide who you are going to like. It just happens," Alice gave her a pointed look.

"I know that," Lily looked at her. "But he is cute."

"Yeah, he is," Both girls giggled and glanced to the door where he had gone.

Severus rolled his eyes. "So what house do you want to get into Alice?"

"I'm hoping Gryffindor. That's where my mum was. My dad was in Ravenclaw, but I'm not really that smart. What about you guys?"

"Slytherin," Sev answered proudly. "All of my family has gone in there."

"Oh," Alice didn't say much more and she turned to Lily, "What about you?"

"Wherever you two go I guess. Maybe we can all be in Slytherin!" Lily bounced in her seat excitedly.

"Maybe," Alice looked sullen again and picked up some magazine which she promptly started to read.

Lily glanced at Sev, confused. He just shrugged his shoulders. Lily sighed and pulled out a book from her bag. A History of Magic. Maybe that would settle the nerves.

The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful. Alice hadn't shown any interest in Sev at all, in fact she almost ignored him, and she barely made eye contact with Lily. Lily decided to excuse it as nerves. Soon enough she found herself and the rest of the first years waiting before a huge pair of doors. The lady who had introduced herself as Professor McGonagall had entered through them a couple minutes before, telling the students to wait. Lily found herself standing between a timid looking boy covered with scars and Sev. Sev was conversing with two boys whom Lily didn't not like the looks of. She decided to talk to nervous boy.

"Hi," she said brightly.

"Hello," the boy said after looking around to make sure it was him who was being talked to.

"My name's Lily. Lily Evans. What's yours?"

"Er," The boy stared at her.

"What's your name?" Lily repeated for him.

"Oh, um, Remus," He blushed scarlet and started to turn away.

"Remus what?" Asked Lily, even more curious about the boy that stood before her.

"Remus, er, Lupin," his face turned even redder.

"Nice to meet you Remus er Lupin," She said trying to make him laugh.

He managed to squeeze out a small smile and turned redder, something Lily didn't think was possible. "Nice to meet you too, Lily Evans."

"So what house do you want to be in?" Lily asked taking the generic question that she had heard Sev asking multiple times.

"I don't really care actually. I just think I'm lucky to have been accepted," then a look of horror crossed his face and he turned away from her.

"I doubt it. You seem rather nice and I bet you have loads of talent."

"Thanks," Remus turned towards Lily again. "What about you? What house do you want to be in?"

"I'm not really sure to be honest. My friend says that Slytherin is good so maybe there."

He frowned. "Are you muggle born?"

This time it was Lily's turn to frown. "Muggle born?"

"Born from people without magic. Mugggles are those without magic."

"Oh, well, yes then."

"I doubt you'll be in Slytherin then," Remus said darkly.

"What?" Lily asked taken aback.

"Normally only purebloods have gotten into Slytherin. I doubt that a muggle born will get there. No offense."

Lily stared at him. "So what you don't think I'm good enough to get in there?"

"No, no, no. That's not what I meant at all. Sorry if that came out rude. It's just that, well Slytherin isn't the best place to be. You'll find out soon enough. The people in there can tend to be rather nasty. I'm sure not all of them though. But I'll bet you get into Gryffindor. Trust me it's loads better."

"I guess," Lily stared ahead.

"Sorry," Remus said quietly. "I didn't mean to offend you."

"You didn't. I just, I don't know," Lily said still a little annoyed.

Suddenly the woman was back, "It is time," and with that she lead them into the Great Hall.

"Black, Sirius," she called as the third person stepped up to the stool.

"Gryffindor!" The hat shouted and the boy ,that Lily recognized as one of the ones that had sat with Lily and Sev in the first compartment, skipped down to the table.

"Suck that, Blacks! Yeah!"He shouted and pumped his fist.

Lily tuned out Professor McGonagall until she heard her name. "Evans, Lily." Lily felt her hand shaking as she walked up to the stool bravely. The hat was placed onto her head.

"Gryffindor!" the hat shouted.

She leapt off and shot Sev a sad smile.

Sev ended up being in Slytherin, along with the two boys he had been talking to when they were waiting. Remus and Alice ended up being in Gryffindor along with a Frank Longbottom that Lily took to be Alice's Frank. James Potter, the boy that had been talking to Sirius Black also was sorted into Gryffindor, much to Lily's dismay. That night, Lily found herself in her room, her four dorm mates already asleep. Alice was one of them. Along with three girls named Emmeline, Cecily, and Aaliyah. Lily was definitely a night owl. She loved the night and especially the stars. She was captivated by them so she stared out the window into the infinite darkness, feeling truly happy and at home.