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"LILY!"

Lily turned around and was hit by a wall in the shape of her best friend Marlene, her vision clouded by a tangle of jet black hair.

"Hey Marley! How was your summer?" grinned Lily, she was so glad to see Marlene happy especially considering that it was her first summer without her mum. At this Lily felt a small pang; Marley's mum was murdered by Lord Voldemort's followers- The Death Eaters- earlier that year. Marlene had gone into a deep depression the rest of the term and it was finally good to see her happy again.

"It was great Lils! It was hard at first but, honestly, I've come to terms with what happened. My dad has been amazing. How was your summer?" Lily couldn't help but scowl.

"My summer was awful, Petunia has been a grade a cow, her and her whale of a boyfriend-" Lily noticed Marlene scoff, making her smile "-have not stopped moaning about me being home! But apart from that...guess what!"

"What?" asked Marlene her mouth forming a little 'o'

"Dumbledore made me Head Girl!" squealed Lily. Marlene's face lit up as she hugged her friend.

"Oh Lils, that's amazing! Congratulations!"

Lily beamed when she heard someone call her; she turned around to see Alice and Mary running towards them battling against the see of shoppers.

"Lily! Marley! How are you?"

Lily and her friends all greeted each other and decided to go to FloreanFortescue's Ice Cream Parlour to catch up. The four girls linked arms and made their way to their long awaited chocolate sundaes.

Lily sat there in the shining sun scooping chocolate ice cream into her mouth and turned to look at her friends. Alice was sat there searching her ice creams for more nuts; Mary sat absent mindedly scooping ice cream into her mouth. Marlene sat, staring into her ice cream appearing to be deep in thought when all of a sudden her head snapped up and she stared at Lily. This sudden change made Lily jump and spill the ice cream on her spoon on the table.

"Merlin Marley, don't do that!"

"Do what?" asked Marlene

"Never mind."

"Right… anyway. Lils, have you heard from James at all this summer?"

Lily looked at her friends they all appeared to be listening intently. Lily frowned at her friends.

"Not much, just a couple of letters. Why?"

"No reason." Lily looked at her friends suspiciously. What was their fascination with Potter? They constantly kept reminding her that he likes, or in his words 'loves', her but he's such an arrogant toe-rag. She could never like him, not in a million years. Lily resumed eating her ice cream when she heard a yell.

"LILYKINS!"

Oh Merlinthought Lily; before she knew it Sirius had wrapped her in a bear hug and was spinning her around, at this she couldn't help but laugh.

Lily and Sirius had gotten closer over the past year. Due to both being the only people who took History of Magic for their N.E.W.T.S -apart from a Ryan Wells, a Hufflepuff- you couldn't help but talk and get closer. Lily soon discovered that Sirius wasn't all that bad. Neither were Peter and Remus, it was just James that was a pain.

"Hello Sirius! How was your summer?" asked Lily, feeling slightly sick from being spun around after finishing her ice cream.

"Excellent, thank you my Lilyflower! Yourself?" said Sirius, bowing low.

Lily chuckled "Could've been better, thanks Sirius."

"That's a shame. Hey Black Beauty!" grinned Sirius, sitting on Marlene's lap. Lily smiled; even though she'd never admit it, Lily knew that Marlene liked Sirius. A lot.

Lily turned around and greeted the rest of the Marauders, meanwhile Sirius had moved onto Mary's lap, who looked incredibly uncomfortable. Lily noticed James throw himself inbetween her and Marley.

"Hey Evans." James said smiling at her; for a moment Lily looked into James' brown eyes and smiled back before quickly snapping out of it.

"Hey Potter." she said bluntly.

"How was your summer?"

"Fine." she snapped, James looked frustrated for a moment put it quickly passed.

"Good. Mine was great by the way, thanks for asking." James said with a smirk on his face. Lily gave him an annoyed look and turned back to her ice cream which had now melted.

"Right, I'm done. I need to go to Flourish and Blotts, you guys coming?" said Marlene standing up and walking away. Lily, Mary and Alice hurried after her.

After they had finished in Flourish and Blotts Lily said she need to go to the Apothecary to stock up her ingredients for Potions and agreed to meet the girls at the Leaky Cauldron. Once finished Lily walked out of the Apothecary and bumped straight into James.

"Oops sorry Evans didn't see you there." said James, running a hand through his hair.

"Of course you didn't." Lily muttered darkly and stalked off to the Leaky Cauldron, getting as far away from James Potter as possible.

James stood in the middle of Diagon Alley watching Lily hurry away, nice one James, no wonder she doesn't like you. James couldn't help but picture Lily and Sirius at the Ice cream parlour feeling jealous. Why couldn't lily be like that for him? Why did she hate him so much? But before he could dwell on it any further he felt a pair of arms snake around his waist.

"Hello handsome."

Great, the last person I want to see reluctantly James turned around and looked into the made up face of Maddie Asher. James and Maddie weren't exactly dating but were just having fun, but since his feelings for Lily had intensified he had been trying to avoid Maddie as much as possible. Now, rather than finding her sexy he just found her fake and clingy.

"Hey Maddie." James said unhooking himself from her grasp and putting alittle distance between them.

"How was your summer?" she purred, licking her lips.

"Good." James said bluntly trying to end the conversation quickly and get back to the Marauders. At this Maddie looked a little put out, but continued to stroke James' chest anyway.

"Mine too,want to go to the Leaky cauldron for a drink?" her tone strongly suggesting that she wanted more than a drink.

"Actually Maddie, I have to meet the rest of the Marauders, maybe another time. See you at Hogwarts!" and with that James quickly turned on his heel and strolled off with a sigh of relief.

"James! Where have you been? We said meet back here half an hour ago!" said Peter looking worried.

"Oh, I got held up with Maddie." The Marauders exchanged exasperated looks beforeturning back to James. "No guys, it's not what you think she was trying to go for a drink but, to be honest; I just wanted to get away from her. I'm finished with that now." With that the Marauders all gave a sigh of relief and walked back to the Leaky Cauldron to go home.

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