A/N: Sorry it took so long to upload, I sorta forgot about the story for a while, but hopefully I can get on track with this story and finish it, as I have a couple other story idea's wafting around. Oh, and before I forget thanks for the review's, I'm hoping to get a couple more with this chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, J.K Rowling does, lucky girl she is. But, frolicking in the vast sand box that is the Harry Potter world will have to do.

2. Train Ride

"Mom please, everyone is watching," James said nervously, a red flush to his face as he looked about platform 9 ¾ over Maria's shoulder.

As the clock struck 10 o'clock, his mom let out a sob and gripped her son in a bone-crushing hug. He heard a bit of giggling and looked to Sirius and Remus, who were a couple feet away, laughing quietly. He scowled at his friends, which caused Sirius to laugh even harder.

His mom let go with a sigh, looking to her only son, "Just promise to not get in any trouble, alright?" Maria asked her son quietly.

James nodded, "Alright mum, I promise." He said his back to his friends, who noticed James put his hand behind his back and cross his fingers. Remus gasped, while Sirius started to grin widely.

Maria hugged her son one more time quickly, before leaving James to board the Hogwarts Express with his friends. James looked over to his dad, who was smiling at him.

James smiled back and turned back towards the scarlet locomotive and sighed as he hefted his trunk onto the train, Sirius and Remus following suit. They passed through the first 2 cars, passing many talking 5th year girls and a couple of other nervous first years. James sighed as they finally found a free compartment near the middle of the third car of the train.

Remus opened the compartment doors and walked in, still trudging his trunk behind him. Remus grunted as he put his trunk into the cabinet, and flopped into the comfy seats, "Next time, we are getting a seat earlier." Remus sighed, closing his weary eyes for a moment before hearing a loud 'thump' of trunks and 2 softer sounds from his 2 friends following his actions. James and Sirius simply nodded in agreement.

Sirius whistled softly, "It really is a great sight." he said, pointing towards the window of the compartment.

James looked out of the window and gasped, Sirius was right. It was amazing, in every sense of the word. The rolling green landscapes were covered in lush, green, long grass. Farther in the distance, there was a large forest of tall, regal looking trees, and fields of sunflowers, that shone in mid-days glow like the sun it self. From behind him, James heard a soft knocking.

"Oooh, the trolley lady is here!" Sirius said excitedly as he opened the door. "Trolley dears?" said the woman pushing the trolley, filled with sweets of every kind and some James had not heard of.

Sirius nodded vigorously, reaching for a couple small boxes of jelly beans. He reached into his pocket and gave the trolley woman a couple of sickles and knuts. James looked to the trolley and saw some chocolate frogs and grabbed them. He pulled out a couple of sickles and handed it to the trolley lady. She nodded to the two boys, looking to Remus, he shook his head, and the woman smiled kindly to him, nodded her head and left the three boys, heading to the next compartment. Remus reached over and closed the compartment doors and sighed.

Sirius looked at Remus, confused that his friend did not want any candy. He shrugged it off and ripped open the top of one of the boxes of jelly beans, "Bertie Bott's every flavor beans, and when they say every flavour they mean EVERY flavour. My brother, Regulus once had a brussel-sprout flavoured one once."

Remus and James shivered.

"But there are a lot of good flavoured ones." Sirius reached into the box, pulled out a white and green bean, threw it into his mouth and began to chew, "See, spearmint, you try one." He held the box out to James, who reluctantly put his hand in and pulled out a blackened bean, and put it into his mouth, and choked.
"Pepper." James managed to say, still choking on the bean.

Sirius smiled at James,"I know mate, sorry 'bout that." he said, reaching into the box, pulling out a yellow bean and held it out to James, "Don't worry, this ones lemon." James grabbed the bean at his hand and examined the bean carefully before popping it into his mouth and bit down into the bean. Lemon, just like Sirius said. He sighed in relief, still chewing on the bean.

"Thats not going to get the taste out, try eating one of your chocolate frogs, that's what I did when I got a pepper."

James looked to his friend, nodded and grabbed a chocolate frog from his pile. He sighed slightly, looking to his cased chocolate frog he had in his hand. "I'm horrendous at catching these, they always manage to squirm through my fingers." James breathed deep and opened the small tin and stuck his hand over and grabbed it quickly, and immediately, it began to squirm fiercely in his hand. As he brought his hand up to his mouth to eat the small chocolate frog, he felt a sharp pain in his hand, "BLOODY HELL! WHAT WAS THAT?" he yelled loudly, holding his hand. He looked down and saw the chocolate frog bouncing around the room franticly. He sighed and looked down at his hand. His ring finger now had deep red marks, shaped suspiciously like bite marks, "Since when did they bloody bite or have teeth?" James asked angrily, looking to Sirius for the first time, who was holding his sides, bursting with laughter.

James looked to Remus, who was smiling widely and just shrugged.

"I dunno, it must be something new or something, never seen that before." Sirius said, still wiping tears from the corners of his eyes, "But you weren't kidding, you really are bad with chocolate frogs."

James grumbled and grabbed another of Sirius' every flavoured beans, he looked at it quickly before popping it into his mouth, a smooth brown colour. He chewed it for a couple of seconds, caramel, best one yet, 'Maybe I should really give these things a chance.' James thought before sticking his hand back into the box of jelly beans. James pulled out a handful and started to throw them into his mouth one by one without checking the colour, chewing them slowly at first then quickly later on, until he threw one into his mouth, gagged, and spit it onto the compartment carpet. Wiping his tongue on the hem of his shirt, he looked to Remus and Sirius,

"What flavour was it?" Remus asked looking at the yellowish jelly bean on the carpet,

"Vomit." James said distastefully.

"Ouch," Sirius said cringing slightly as his friend continued to try and rid his tongue of the putrid beans flavour.

James looked to Sirius and Remus,"I'll be back in a bit,"nodding towards the door. Sirius and Remus simply nodded as James left the compartment, going to the front of the third train, knowing that there was a washroom. After he came out, he heard a giggle coming from beside him, he turned and saw a small group of girls looking towards him. They were all his age, and all of them were blushing a slight bit, all whispering quickly, his breath caught as he looked closer at the individuals in the group. It was the girl he saw at the Leaky Cauldron the day he went to Diagon Ally. She looked at him smiling, and he felt all the blood rush to his face and all of the girls giggled at his reaction,"H-hi,"he stuttered out, his eyes still on the one girl, he shook his head for a second.

He put his hand out to the girls, one of the girls with long, straight brown hair, and wide, brown eyes came up shook his hand,"Sarah,"she said with a smile, looking into James eyes momentarily, before letting his hand go.

The second girl shook his hand lightly,"Tracy," said a petite brunette, with hazel eyes sweetly.

Finally, the girl from Diagon Ally came up and shook his hand, sending a shiver through-out his whole body,"Lily," she said with a serene smile, her green eyes locking onto his brown ones. Lily winked towards him, making him blush a deep red. At seeing this, she laughed, and headed back down the train,"See you at the sorting," Lily said with a wave as she disappeared through the door leading to the second car.

James went back to the compartment, still in awe of the whole situation. Lily, the girl from the Leaky Cauldron, was going to Hogwarts. As James opened the sliding compartment doors and walked into the compartment, still partly dazed of what had just happened. Sirius was first to notice this and as James collapsed into one of the seats, a dazed look in his eyes,"Whoa, what happened out there mate?" Sirius said in mock-awe.

Remus grinned as he noticed the look in James eyes,"I do believe, dear Sirius, that James here, has a crush." Remus stated in the utmost serious manor. Remus looked towards Sirius, who at the time had his hand over his mouth in an attempt not to laugh, which failed miserably as Sirius burst into fits of laughter, followed by Remus.

James looked to his two friends, who by now were on the compartment floor, holding their sides from laughter. "Why you guys laughing so hard?" James asked in an honest voice, which sent Remus and Sirius into an increased bout of laughter.

Remus was about to let James in on the joke, when the compartment door slid open, revealing a platinum-haired boy standing in the door way. He had pale complexion and looked to be about 3 years older then the rest of them. He sneered as he looked towards Sirius, who was still on the floor, wiping the tears out of his eyes,"I heard there was a Black on the train, I came to see if this was true." Sirius looked to Remus, who shrugged and shook his head.

Sirius sighed and stood up slowly,"Yes, Malfoy, I'm on the train, now what do you want?"

The boy hissed loudly,"How dare you, you would rather be with these," Malfoy stopped for a second before finishing,"filthy half-breeds then your own kind?" Malfoy finished, disgust seeping out of his voice as he looked towards Remus. At that point, James had heard enough, he stood up cleared his throat to get the attention of Malfoy. He looked towards him, just as James' fist span outward and caught him in the jaw, sending him flying to the ground. He looked towards James, a stunned expression frozen on his pale face as he held his jaw,"Don't, insult my friends, EVER!" James spat at Malfoy.

He sat frozen for a moment before scrambling to his feet,"You will rue the day Potter, I swear it, you will rue the day." Malfoy said before retreating towards the front of the train.

Remus looked in shock towards James at what had just happened, however, Sirius was grinning like a madman where he stood,"That was brilliant mate! Not smart mind you, but still brilliant!"

James shrugged as he sat back down, when he became aware of a dull pain in his hand,"Damn, he had a hard head." muttered James to no one in particular.

Remus shook his head,"You didn't need to do that you know."Remus said, looking at James' reddening hand. James shrugged and laid down on the compartment seat, and dozed off.

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"HAH! Got your queen Remus!"Sirius proclaimed loudly, waking up the sleeping James, who mumbled incoherently about being woken up from a wonderful sleep.

Sirius looked at James as realization dawned on his face,"Oh, sorry mate, forgot for a second you were there." Sirius said apologetically.

Remus looked towards James also and shrugged,"We're almost at Hogwarts anyways, we would have had to wake him up anyways."

James made his way over to the window and looked out and gasped. The sky had gone from a blue sky to a dark summer night, the moon, shone brilliantly as it hung in the sky, casting a pale blue light across the rolling grassy landscape they were passing by. In the distance, James could make out a large illuminated shape, approaching quite quickly. James looked in awe as more and more of the castle came into view, and detail was easier seen. He reached into his trunk and pulled out a black Hogwarts robe and slipped it on over his head,'That will have to do for now' he thought hastily, looking to his friends who had done the same thing. James glanced to the window quickly and saw that the train had began to slow down and steadily come to a stop.

The trio quickly left the compartment and headed out the trains doors to the station in Hogemede,"First years, all first years, over here!" called an aging man to the large crowd of students,"Follow the lanterns to the lake, wait for a boat, and take it."

The three looked at each other and shrugged, following a line lanterns until they reached a dock with many boats sitting along it. They walked onto the dock and found an empty boat to take and sit in it. As soon as Sirius sat in the boat, it jolted a bit and began to move forward slowly. James looked around the lake and saw a couple of boats ahead of him. About 10 feet away, sitting in another boat, was Lily and her two friends whispering to each other and giggling softly. Just as James looked towards the boat, Lily turned about after one of her friends pointed at him. She looked at him for a second before waving to him. James blushed furiously and waved back as she turned back to her friends.

Sirius, who was looking in the water at the time, didn't notice the blush, but Remus, however did notice and smiled,"Ah, so SHE'S the one that has Jamesy wrapped around her finger."

By this time, Sirius had looked up and noticed to, as he started to grin as well and cleared his throat,"Jamesy's got a girlfriend, Jamesy's got a girlfriend..." he began to chant endlessly, and soon Remus joined in.

James started to blush a even deeper red, "Shut it guys."