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CHAPTER TWO!  Train Ride.

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James stood on platform 9 ¾ and looked around for Remus and Peter.  Sirius was on the train getting a compartment.  James could feel the Head Boy badge in his pocket as he moved.  He didn't want to be stuck in a compartment with the prefects for the whole train ride.  He figured he'd go in there, talk, and leave as soon as possible.  He was almost positive that Lily Evans had been appointed Head Girl, and ever since he had received his badge he'd been imagining the look on her face when she saw him: angry, indignant, shocked, disappointed, annoyed…  But for some reason now he didn't want to wear the badge.  He knew he could run into her at any moment but…

He wondered what she'd say when she found out who the new captain of the Quidditch team was.

"PRONGS!" someone yelled out over the crowd.  James turned to the source of the noise.  He saw Sirius and Remus with their head out of one of the windows on the train.

"Come here!" Sirius bellowed to him.

James obeyed and pushed through the crowd.  He didn't notice that he knocked into Lily Evans as he walked.

But Lily Evans did.

Her head whipped around and she was about to sling some nasty remark at him, except for she noticed that he hadn't seen her.

She also noticed that he didn't have a Head Boy badge on.

Lily elbowed her friend Kaye.

"Did you see that?" she asked.

"See what?" Kay said, confused.

Lily nodded her head in the direction James had gone.  "James Potter didn't have a Heads badge on!" she exclaimed excitedly.  "I knew he was too much of a delinquent.  I bet you Remus Lupin got it.  He was the boy prefect for Gryffindor anyway."

In Actuality, Lily was quite surprised that James didn't have a Head Boy badge on.  She was sure that he would get it.  Of course she had been selected for Head Girl, but… well it was just surprising.  And it also seemed like a sign that the year was going to go well.

"There's Mel," Kaye pointed out.

The two girls met their friend and got on the train.  Lily excused herself to go to the prefects/heads compartment and said she'd be back shortly.

Of course she was in for a surprise when she got there.

She slid open the door to the compartment and… there was James Potter among all the random prefects, including Remus Lupin.

And in all her surprise and anger Lily actually spoke.  "What the hell!?" she actually said aloud.

James just knew she was talking about him as soon as he heard her voice.

Butterflies shot through his stomach as he smiled.  An angry Lily Evans was better than no Lily Evans.

"Come on, Evans, don't tell me you're surprised?" James said in a slightly arrogant tone.

All the prefects quieted down from the low noise they were making a second ago.  It looked like the competition had begun and they didn't want to miss a minute of it.

Lily was about to retort that she would've been less surprised if Snape had become the Gryffindor prefect when she remembered that she had been expecting this all summer and bit her tongue.

They barely talked through the meeting (a/n—Harry wasn't a prefect so I don't know what goes on in that compartment and I'm not in the mood to make it up… sorry) and when they did talk, it was more talking at each other as opposed to talking to each other.

Lily was glad when she could leave.

"So have you found out who's been made Quidditch captain yet?" James asked her as she was exiting the compartment.

She turned grudgingly around.  "No," she replied shortly.

He didn't give any indication that he knew at all.  "Just wondering… see you then."

She walked off, and he stood there looking after her.

For some reason, being able to hold things over her head and be better at her was losing its appeal.  He really liked her… he'd rather be dating her than competing with her.  And it was apparent that trying to be the best wasn't the way to go about winning her affections.  The only problem was… he didn't know what the best way was.

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Back in Lily's compartment, she was still seething over James… not that she had any real reason to seethe.

"I hate him, I hate him, I hate him!" She grumbled.

Kaye raised one eyebrow.  "Why, did he beat you at something else?  Did he get Quidditch captain or something?"

"No, he's Head Boy and I don't know who got Quidditch captain," Lily replied.

But suddenly a horrible thought struck Lily.  What if he did get Quidditch captain?

In just a few hours time, her thoughts that the year was going to go well had changed into thoughts that the year was going to be horrible.

Lily sighed and leaned back.  It was going to be a long year.

**end chapter two**