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Year One

Chapter Two

The next morning, Lily woke up bright and early; she wanted to look nice for her first day of school. She got into the bathroom and took a shower. After her shower she did her hair and a touch of make-up; she was never really into make-up that much. She put on her school uniform and looked in the mirror. How can you look good in this outfit? She wondered. And she was right. She didn't have time to contemplate changing, even though she knew she wasn't allowed to. She went downstairs to the Great Hall for breakfast. She entered and noticed how much more empty it looked at breakfast time rather than the night before at the feast. She went over to the Gryffindor table where she saw Julia and Megan. She grabbed some toast and spread some jelly on it and ate it quickly. The three of them were approached by the lady that had welcomed them the night before. It turns out it was Professor McGonagall.

"Here are your schedules ladies." Professor McGonagall said and moved on to the next group of people. They took a look at their schedules and smiled. Lily was very excited to start class; she was also very nervous, but extremely excited. Their first class was Charms with Professor Flitwick. They each finished their breakfast and ran back up to their dormitory to grab their things. They came down the stairs and turned into the Charms hallway; Megan and Julia talking the whole way. They were all still trying to get to know each other. Lily walked on in silence. She was a very shy person and didn't open up very well. They all sat down next to each other. When everyone had entered, a short, little man appeared at the front of the room; although this was unnoticed by many. He had to have only been 2 feet tall. Lily herself was examining the room. There were many stacks of books. The room was a mess.

"Ahem!" Professor Flitwick coughed. Everyone's eyes suddenly flew around the room, looking for who caused the noise. Red sparks were suddenly in the air above the teacher's head. Everyone's eyes focus on him immediately. "I am Professor Flitwick, and I'm your charms teacher, if you didn't know that already. Today will not be much, I'd really like to set up a seating chart and work on getting to know you today." He said and conjured up a piece of paper that had names on it. He started calling out names and pointing to spots where they would sit. Megan was in the front row on the left side, and Julia had been in the back row on the same side. He had not called Lily's name yet.

"Black? Yes, you'll sit here. Then, Evans? Yes next to Sirius. And Potter? Right next to Ms. Evans. And Lupin? You'll be next to James." Professor said.

"Alright!" James had said. Lily groaned. Great, a whole year next to Potter and his best friends. Just what I need, to be harassed. "This will be a fun year!" Potter and Black gave a high five. Apparently Lily got put between the wrong two.

"Now class, I want you to all sit here for the rest of the year, and tomorrow we'll begin work on the levitating spell." Professor said and they were free to go. Megan, Julia, and Lily started walking back up to the Gryffindor tower for a moment and hang out for a few minutes. Lily needed a break from James and Sirius. After awhile, they went to Transfiguration with Professor McGonagall, and then to lunch. Lily was looking forward to lunch so she would get away from James, but, to her luck, she was wrong. James had sat next to her yet again. He was talking the whole time, while Lily pretended to listen. It worked well. He didn't suspect a thing. After lunch, they had Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts.

After class, the Gryffindor girls trudged up to the common room. Lily was very tired, but couldn't go to sleep yet because she had Transfiguration homework and Defense Against the Dark Arts homework. They made it to the sixth floor when suddenly Lily stopped.

"What is it?" Julia asked her.

"I left my book and my homework assignment in Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Will one of you go with me?" Lily asked, desperate. She did not want to go back to the third floor by herself at night.

"Are you kidding? It's late and dark; I don't want to go back there." Megan said.

"I don't want to go by myself." Lily told them.

"Sorry." Julia said. Lily turned around and headed back down the stairs to the third floor, alone. She entered the classroom and went to her desk where she saw her book lying on the table exactly where she left it. She picked it up and put it into her bag and headed for the door.

Fussing with her bag, she didn't realize that the door started closing as she approached it. There was someone behind the door. Thinking it was James again, she put on this angry face and was ready to tell him off, but it wasn't James; it was Lucius Malfoy. Her facial expression changed immediately. She really didn't know him; she really didn't know anyone to be honest, but least of all this slimy Slytherin boy.

"You know, for a mudblood, you're kind of cute." He said straight off. At the time, Lily didn't even know his name.

"Um…" She didn't know what to say. She had never said a word to this boy before and she wasn't sure how to respond to that comment. "Thanks?"

"Come on, let's have some fun." He said, coming closer; he was backing her into a desk.

"I don't even know you, plus I'm only eleven." She said; her voice shaking. She was getting scared, he would never listen to her if he didn't want to.

"So am I, that doesn't matter." He had her against the desk now. He was an inch from her face, not seeming like he was going to back off.

"HELP!! HELP ME PLEASE!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, having a feeling no one would hear her. All of a sudden, the door opened and in walked the last person Lily would have asked for help, but accepted all the same. James Potter, very confused, came in and plastered this look of curiosity on his face before he said:

"Well Lucius, it seems we have a lot more in common than we thought. Not only do we both plan on trying out for our Quidditch house teams on our first year, we're both after the same girl. Looks like you beat me to her."

"Get out of here, Potter." Lucius said with extra emphasis on Potter. It was obvious that Lucius did not like James whatsoever.

"I don't think so Malfoy. Get your hands off of her." James said, all traces of joking gone from his face. Lucius hadn't moved an inch. He wasn't going to listen to James. Why should he really? This time James pulled out his wand and pointed it at Lucius. Lucius laughed.

"What are you going to do Potter? Hex me? I bet I know a lot more spells than you do, you don't want to get in a duel with me." Lucius had said, pulling out his wand and instead of pointing it at James as would have been expected, he pointed it at Lily's throat. This scared Lily even more. Now he was going to kill an innocent girl on her first day of school. How nice. I knew I shouldn't have come alone. Lily thought. James gave Lucius this look and a head nod, and Lucius lowered his wand and walked out of the room, sneering at James and then back at Lily. She let out a huge sigh of relief.

"Thanks so much, you don't know how scared I was." She confided in him.

"No problem, I'll keep it in mind when you owe me." He said and started walking ahead of Lily. She didn't want to walk alone, and since they were going to the same place, she decided to catch up with him and walk with him. She felt a little more protected being with James.

"What do you mean, 'when you owe me'?"

"You can't think that I'm just going to do this for free? You obviously don't know me. I thought that was understood when I saved you that you would owe me something later on?"

"No it wasn't 'understood'! I was just trying to get out of there alive and still a virgin alright!"

"Sorry, well, you still owe me one." By this time they had reached the portrait of the fat lady. "Flobberworm Mucus." Lily sighed a huge, audible sigh. She was extremely tired, but still had homework. I've lived through enough tonight. She thought and climbed the stairs into the girl's dormitories as James flopped onto the couch with Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

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"Why were you gone so long? I thought you just went down to get your quill from Defense Against the Dark Arts class?" Sirius asked.

"Well, I did, but I got caught up with some trouble." Sirius laughed.

"I have a feeling that won't be the first time that 'trouble catches up with you.'"

"Yeah, well, it wasn't just anything. You know that prick, Lucius Malfoy?" James asked. The three of them were quiet. Remus didn't know, he was a muggleborn, and Peter was upstairs sleeping. Sirius had a face of extreme dislike.

"Yeah, he's my cousin. What'd he do this time?" Sirius asked.

"Well, I was on my way to the classroom, when I heard someone screaming for help. Coincidentally, it was coming from the classroom I was heading to. The screams were coming from the mouth of Lily Evans."

"Oh boy." Said Remus.

"Yeah, she was bent backwards over a desk with Lucius on top of her. The scene looked very curious to the onlookers' eye, but me, hearing the screams for help, knew differently. She was being attacked. I shared a little joke with Lucius, who didn't find my joke very funny. Finally I got him to get off of her and leave. It took awhile though. He's stupid, thinking he can get some on his first day. From a first year no less! What surprised me was that he was going for Lily. He knows she's a muggleborn. Isn't his family all pureblood?"

"Yeah, that's strange. Oh well, who cares? His family could use a little new blood; they've been marrying their cousins for years now." Sirius had said. They all laughed as if they had not a care in the world.

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The next morning, James woke up to someone shaking him awake. He did not know what time it was when he finally fell asleep, but he was almost positive that he hadn't been asleep for very long. He tried to open his eyes, but they seemed to be glued shut.

"If you don't get up you're going to be late for Potions class. I'm betting to guess that you'll get a detention from Professor Slughorn if you're late." He heard. He finally got his eyes to open, and noticed that it wasn't just anybody shaking him awake, it was Lily Evans, dressed and ready for class.

"What time is it?" He asked.

"You've got fifteen minutes until class starts. Forget a shower and take one during lunch."

"I can't skip lunch!"

"Shower later then, just get ready and go. I'm going to leave now so I'm not late." She said. James got up and ran upstairs. He noticed that everyone was gone. He grabbed his bag and jumped the stairs to the common room when he noticed that Sirius and Remus had gotten up for class without waking him up. They're probably already down to class already. Why does Potions have to be in the dungeons? Or why does Gryffindor have to be on the seventh floor? James was thinking as he sprinted down the stairs. He didn't have any trouble with traffic, just tripping over steps and turns. He finally made it into the Potions classroom, and not two seconds later, the bell rang. James sighed in relief and walk down the aisle and sat next to Lily, her being his Potions partner.

"By the way, I owe you nothing now." She whispered as Professor Slughorn entered the classroom. James gawked at how sneaky she could really be.

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Lily had woken up early again, regretting it almost immediately. She'd rather sleep in, but she didn't want to be smelly for class, so she jumped in the shower quickly. She got ready and went down to breakfast, seeing James, Sirius, and Remus all fast asleep on the couch by the fire. She debated waking them up, but she thought it would be funny to see them scramble to get ready. She walked down to the Great Hall where she found Julia sitting next to a strange girl eating and talking. Lily came up and sat down next to her.

"Hi Lily! This is my older sister, Maddie." Maddie smiled at her and said hello. "She's a fourth year." This could come in handy. Lily thought as her mind wandered away…

She finished her breakfast and told Julia she'd meet her in Potions; she had left her bag upstairs. Julia had hers with her, so she didn't have to go back upstairs. Lily hustled up the stairs to the seventh floor, said the password to get into the common room, up more stairs to her dormitory, and then back down stairs to hurry to Potions. On her way out, she noticed James still sleeping on the couch. Sirius and Remus had woken up and forgotten to wake James. She would have left him, but she remembered that she owed him one. She went over to him and shook him awake. He rushed upstairs and back down in ten seconds flat. By time he came back, she had already left though. When the bell rang, James had been in the classroom only seconds before. He sat down when Lily told him that she no longer owed him anything anymore. She felt extremely smug. She had outsmarted James Potter.

Potions had gone by smoothly. They were supposed to concoct a cure for a paper-cut. Lily had glanced at the directions on the board once and got to work on her potion. She was the first one finished and it was perfect. James on the other hand, was having some trouble. His potion had turned hot pink, when it was supposed to turn lime green. Unfortunately, Professor Slughorn had been walking by at that moment.

"Oh, Potter, you seemed to have mixed rat tails instead of bat wings." Professor Slughorn said.

"Well, I was having trouble reading the label. It got smudged, see. I couldn't tell if this was bat or rat." He lifted up his bottle of rat tails and showed Professor Slughorn.

"Well, I suggest you put a new label on then." He said and cleared his cauldron with a flick of his wand and walked away. Lily tried hard to stifle her laughs, but a little came out and James threw her a dirty look. Lily laughed harder. Oh, this is war. She thought. She knew James was thinking the same thing. This was going to be an interesting year.

After Potions was Transfiguration. This was a bit more complicated. Lily was having trouble with the incantations and the wand movements at the same time. She couldn't think of them both at the same time. James seemed to be having more luck than Lily and gave her the smug little look that she gave him before. So she was talented in Potions and James was talented in Transfiguration. Everyone was different. But it was still a competition, and Lily was going to win.

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During lunch, she was finally at peace. James was upstairs taking a shower instead of eating lunch. She didn't think he would actually do it, but he did. She ate a little and then went straight to Charms. During Charms, she was doing great; good wand movements, good incantations. She was outstanding. James was doing, exceptional. Lily was winning this battle. And then came Defense Against the Dark Arts. Lily walked towards the door, once she entered the room, she couldn't come to her desk. It was the same desk that she had been attacked by Lucius. She was just standing in the doorway. When James walked in, he pushed her forward closer to the desk. She refused to, but when she turned around and saw Lucius approaching, she rushed to the desk.

"Hey mudblood, keeping your cool?" Lucius asked. She was sweating she was so nervous. She sat down and was silent until class actually started. They had started with simple spells and Lily was mastering them with good results. Her pillow was doing what it was supposed to, but when she looked at James, he was doing amazing. He was undoubtedly going to do something dealing with the Dark Arts when he grew up. Lily could just tell. Now they were even in their battle over who was better. It was an unspoken battle, but a battle nonetheless. Then Lily remembered, they still had Astronomy later that night. She'd beat him at that for sure.

She was walking back to the Gryffindor common room with Julia when she realized for the first time that day, that Megan wasn't with them, and hadn't been with them all day.

"What happened to Megan? I haven't seen her all day."

"She wanted to sleep." Julia told her.

"On the second day of school?"

"Yeah, I know, she's probably going to fail her first year. I can already tell. How was your day, I feel like I've barely talked to you today."

"Well, it was alright, but you have to realize, I rarely talk at all."

"But even still, we usually talk more than this usually." Lily shrugged. Sure they usually talked during the day, but Lily didn't talk much ever. She was just a naturally shy person. She couldn't do anything about how she was. After she got to know a person better, that's when she would become a more outgoing person. No one had ever told her to her face that she should talk more, but she knew that she should. They had come to the portrait of the fat lady. They said the password and entered the common room. Lily wanted to sleep, but she needed to do her homework for Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration. She sat down by the fire and got to work. Julia had gone upstairs when they entered the common room, so Lily was all alone. A little while later, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter came into the common room causing a ruckus. Peter and Remus ascended the stairs for bed while Sirius and James decided to stay and keep bothering Lily.

"Do you really think this is a smart choice?" Lily asked.

"What?" James asked her.

"Staying up all night doing absolutely nothing, and falling asleep on the couch and almost missing your first class and missing lunch so you can shower?" Lily replied.

"Yeah, we have fun." James told her.

"Do you think it's fun to wake up with five minutes to get down to the dungeons from the astronomy tower, because your best friend decided it would be funny to leave you sleeping?" She asked while looking at Sirius.

"It was pretty funny." Sirius said.

"Not really; not for me." James said. Lily sighed loudly and looked back to her homework. When she finished she ran up the stairs to go to bed. James and Sirius really needed to get over themselves. They weren't funny, even if they thought they were. She crawled into bed listening to the sound of the other girls' breathing. She fell asleep almost instantly; she was extremely tired.

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"Why did you leave me to wake up on my own this morning?" James asked.

"Well, I thought it would be funny. I mean, it's just something that I would do." Sirius told him.

"I was almost late for class; I could have gotten detention!" James said; raising his voice.

"What's wrong with detention? A little trouble never hurt anyone!"

"It could hurt my school record. What if I wanted to get a job after school?"

"Jobs are overrated. So is school. Just give up now." Sirius said.

"If school's such a waste, why did you come?"

"Because, it wasn't because my parents wanted me to. I do everything in my power to disobey them, but there was just something telling me to go."

James was thinking. This kid tried everything in his power to not follow the rules. He was sure that Sirius's parents wanted him to go to school, but if he didn't want to do what his parents wanted, why would he go to school? It didn't make sense. Maybe James would learn in time about Sirius's odd ways. He was also thinking; why did Lily hate them so? What had they ever done to her, really? I mean, sure there was the whole bug in the hair incident, but that was it. She couldn't hate him forever because of one small incident that wasn't even real. Maybe she'd warm up to him after awhile.

James and Sirius started playing wizard's chess because they both thought that they would beat the other because they were both the best around. After Sirius won, James flopped on the couch and started drifting off into a sleep. He soon realized that he'd want to go to his room and sleep, or he'd be late again tomorrow. Sirius had already fallen asleep and was snoring quite loudly. Let's see him struggle to class tomorrow morning. James thought as he climbed the stairs to the boy's dormitories. He went in the bathroom and changed and brushed his teeth. He ran into his room and fell asleep.

The alarm went off for James to wake up. He turned over onto his other side and slammed his hand down onto the snooze button. He crawled out of bed and changed his clothes. He made his way quietly downstairs and then realized he left his bag up in his room. He went back up and got it, and then came back down into the common room once again. Sirius was still fast asleep on the couch. James smirked at himself and went back down to the Great Hall for breakfast. The minute he looked up and down the Gryffindor table for someone to sit with. Remus, Peter, Lily…anyone. He saw Lily sitting with her friends Julia and Megan. He sat down next to Lily, who looked greatly disgusted.

"Hello, Ms. Lily. Look at me all on time. Sirius fell asleep on the couch last night. I'm going to leave him like he left me. He deserves it." James told her.

"You can't do that! That's so mean, just because he did it to you doesn't mean you should do it to him. Two wrongs don't make a right." Lily told him. She made him feel so guilty. He decided he'd go back upstairs and wake Sirius up before class. Besides, it gave him time to be alone with Lily because she had to go upstairs and get her bag with her stuff for Defense Against the Dark Arts. They went upstairs and got Lily's bag and woke Sirius. He casually made his way upstairs and down the hall, he didn't seem to care whether he was late or not. James and Lily were hurrying towards the third floor to be on time. They always cut it really close, every day.

The rest of the day went by fast. They didn't do much new stuff. They just didn't do anything new. Strange? James was ready to finish the week. He wanted some free time to hang out with Sirius, Remus, and Peter. The four of them would have a lot of fun. They spent a lot of time planning things to do, but hadn't found a way to balance school and doing the stuff they wanted to do, so they stuck with schoolwork until they found a way to balance it out.

After class, James, Sirius, and Remus had gone up to the boy's dormitory and played exploding snap in the privacy of their own room. Peter was in the library, studying. All of a sudden, they heard a knock on the door. What boy knocks before they enter? James had already won a game of exploding snap against Remus and was getting ready to play against Sirius. He decided to change into something more comfortable before playing, which was a mistake because he walked to see who was at the door. He opened it, in his boxers to come face to face with Lily Evans. He felt really embarrassed, but stood there like nothing was out of the ordinary.

"Yeah?" He asked.

"You left your book in Transfiguration." She said, trying not to look at him. She felt really awkward him being almost naked and all.

"Oh, thanks." He said and took the book from her. She started to walk away, so he shut the door. Sirius and Remus started cracking up.

"Do you think she liked the stripes?" Sirius said through fits of laughter.

"How did she even get up here? Don't they have rules against that kind of thing?" Remus asked wiping tears from his eyes.

"That's actually a good thing to know…" Sirius said, all his laughter gone.

"SIRIUS!!" Remus and James said and gave him this outraged look.

"What? Not right now, I'm only eleven, but maybe someday I will. I'm not like Lucius okay?" Sirius said and they all started laughing again about James and his boxers.

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Lily turned to walk away after handing James his Transfiguration book, and made her way down the stairs to the common room. As if it wasn't awkward enough having James as her partner for every class, she had to walk into his room while he was getting dressed. Of course he didn't care, but she did. Why would she have wanted to see him in his underwear? She had made it into the common room and saw Megan and Julia sitting on the floor doing their Charms homework. They looked up when they heard Lily approaching.

"Why does your face look like you've just seen a ghost?" Julia asked.

"Well, I went to give James his book back, and, well, he wasn't exactly dressed."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WASN'T EXACTLY DRESSED?!" Megan whisper yelled, very interested.

"Well, how many things can it mean?"

"Well, it can mean he was butt naked, or he was wearing something."

"He came to the door in his underwear, okay? Do you need anymore detail?"

"What did they look like?"

"Striped okay? Enough with the stupid questions!" Lily said, not wanting to talk about James and his underwear anymore.

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