A/N Here's chapter 2 for ya! I'm not sure what my updating timings going to be like since I've never done this before but since it's summer I should up-date pretty regularly. Enough with me talking read the new addition to…The Beginning!

Disclaimer: If I was really J.K. Rowling do you really think that I would be on here and not out working on the next book? Hmmm…answer me truthfully.

The prefect meeting had been over for a few minutes and James and Lily were now heading back to their compartments. James was starting to get worried. Lily hadn't said a word on the way to the meeting, hardly talked during the meeting, and now hasn't said anything on the way back. He was worried that this was the calm before the storm and he would be the poor farm house in the way. 'Maybe she's still in shock? I knew she would be upset that I'm head boy but I didn't think she'd go all zombieish on me.'

Out of nowhere Lily said, "Potter?" James jumped at the sound. "Uh, yeah Evans?"

"Umm…I've been thinking, since we're probably going to be seeing a lot of each other this year, ya know more than the usual bickering match and all, maybe we could, at least try to be…friends?"

James was stunned. He wasn't sure if he had heard her correctly. She was just starring at him. 'O crap its been a while and all I've done is stare at her like an idiot! Come on James say something!' "Lily sounds that great." She just stared at him with a confused look on her face. 'Gosh she looks cute when she's confused. Then again she looks cute all the time. Wait she's confused for a reason and that reason is you just said a bunch of words that make you sound slower than usual!!!'

"What I meant to say was, that sounds great Lily." He said while messing up his hair again. She smiled at his tense face before she said, "Yeah I think we could make it work unless…"

"Unless, what?" he questioned. She got a tough look on her face as she stared him straight in the eye and said, "Unless, you constantly ask me out, trick me, prank me, or anything else that I've yelled at you about over the past six years."

"Well, that sounds fair enough. So since we're going to be friends and all don't you think we should call each other by our first names?" he asked sheepishly, still scrunching up out of reflex to her anger bursts. But instead of blowing up in his face like he anticipated she shocked him again by saying, "That sounds like a good idea James."

'That sounded funny but still…I don't know, right.' She smiled at him and walked into her compartment leaving him standing in the hallway with his mouth hanging open making him look a lot like a nutcracker.

When she walked into her compartment she saw that Nicole was almost finished reading a book that she most likely started at the beginning of the train ride, the girl was a speed reader, and Sarah was lying on her back throwing a baseball up in the air and catching it, even though she went to Hogwarts she still liked muggle sports.

As soon as she shut the door both of their heads shot up like dogs that heard a can opener and they ran to her almost knocking her down in the process.

"Was it extremely awful?"

"Did I miss anything exciting?"

"Why are you smiling?"

"You got in a fight with him didn't you?"

"Was that James's voice I heard outside a minute ago?"

"I bet you beat his ass didn't you? Show him what real magic you could do, huh?"

"What were you two talking about?"

"Do you smell ham?"

You can probably tell who said what. Lily was able to keep up with their speed questioning after living with them for the past six years.

"Not as bad as I thought, no not really, cause of the big news I got to tell you, no I didn't, yes it was, I didn't fight him but if I did I'd win easily I'm shocked its even an option not to, stuff, and…" she stopped there because her and Nicole turned their heads at the same time and questioned, "Ham?"

"What? I smell ham and all of a sudden I'm gettin looked at as if I'm some alien!"

"Sometimes I think you are." Nicole said as she shook her head back and forth. "Anyways, what is this big news you have to tell us?"

"Oh yes do tell!" Sarah said in her bad imitation of a British accent. It was her own form of getting back at Nicole for making the alien comment since she hates when she 'tries' to speak with an accent.

Nicole glared at her as she sat down next to the smiling Lily on the seat.

"Well…I've decided that since Po-James and I are going to be spending a lot of time together this year that we…might as well be friendly with one another."

Silence swallowed the room. Nicole opened her mouth once, twice, and then she finally was about to say something when a loud cry from Sarah made them turn around to look at her. "YOU'RE GONNA WHAT?!?!?"

"Oh, come on Sarah it's not going to be that bad. I think it's great that you're giving this a try Lily!"

"Oh come on!! You're only saying that because you know that this little arrangement means that you'll get to spend more time with Remus! And if your off doing head duties with James and your off making out with Remus in a closet somewhere then that means that I will be stuck with the fat one and (shudder) Black." She finished with her eyes squinted towards what the others thought to be an imaginary person in the shape of Sirius in front of her.

"Sarah! How many times do I have to tell you, both of you, that I don't like Remus? Besides, even if I did like him, hypothetically, he wouldn't want to go out with me." she said as she looked directly at the floor.

"Ahh, of course you do buddy. Ya know, denial isn't just a river in Egypt." Sarah said with an all-knowing eye. "Yeah, we know, the marauders have probably figured it out, hell the whole school knows by now! It seems that the only people that don't know it, or at least won't admit it are you and the old boy himself." Lily stated as a matter of fact.

Nicole was yet again speechless. As she tried to say something it came out more of a, "phhffttt." 'O crap! I do like him, heck I've liked him since third year! I should just admit it…but then again I don't have to do it right now.'

"Don't change the subject. Do you really think that you and James are going to make it through the year with out going at each others throats all the time?" Nicole asked with a questioning look.

"Well we can at least try right? But as soon as he starts acting like the huge arrogant prat that we all know and hate, which shouldn't take too long I suspect, then it will be straight back to him bugging me to death and me yelling at him till he goes deaf. But until then I'm going to ask both of you to just…try and deal with the marauders. Okay?"

"Of course we will won't we Sarah?" she asked as she kicked Sarah in the foot.

"No. No, no, no, no, and NO!!! I will not deal with that…that thing for the entire year. Our last year on top of everything!" she said as she crossed her arms in front of her chest.

Lily and Nicole looked at each other and shared a secretive smile before both turning to Sarah and giving her the best puppy dog eyes they could come up with. "Oh! Oh don't even try it! Nuh-uh I won't change my mind! You-can't-make-me!" They just got closer and closer till she was surrounded. She looked from side to side and she couldn't see anything but patheticness! "ALRIGHT! Alright I'll do it! But only cause for some reason I like you people!"

"Ahh thank you! You won't regret it…ok maybe you will but I can't promise you anything." Lily said as she hugged Sarah till she was gasping for air.

A few compartments down the marauders and Ian were having a similar conversation.

As soon as James walked into the compartment he was knocked to his feet by Sirius who had just jumped onto him screaming 'Jamie's back, Jamie's back'!

"It's about time you got back here because we want to know exactly what happened." said Ian from on the bench next to Remus and across from Peter.

"Did she scream?"

"She was kind of quiet during the meeting, was she ok?"

"Did you bring me any souvenirs?"

"To answer all of your questions no. And why would I bring you back anything? I only went to the other end of the train." He asked Sirius as he stared at him like he had two heads.

"We had to tell him that you just went on a trip since he thought you left him." Remus stated simply. "Oh, yeah like when his frog died." James said.

"Wait…he DIED?" Sirius said, as he froze mid move towards the now empty box of licorice wands. "You-you told me that he, he just went away for awhile."

The others ignored him as he quickly got over the dead frog and then got disappointed again after he found out that there was not only no more licorice wands but also no more chocolate frogs.

"You guys will never believe what Lily asked me on our way back from the prefect meeting." He said as he sat down.

All of them leaned in and waited, and waited some more. James just stared back at them. "Well?!?!" they all asked at the same time, getting impatient.

"Oh, yeah well she asked if we could be friends this year." He stated as he leaned back with a smug smile on his face with his hands behind his head.

Ian started jumping up and down mumbling things such as, 'This is brilliant, this couldn't have come at a better time.'

"What couldn't have come at a better time?" James asked with a perplexed look.

"Well, we have decided that we will help you come up with a solution to your Lily problem."

"It's a lot better than our first option and that was to just make ya get over her." Peter squeaked from the back, which made everyone remember that he was even there in the first place.

"Yes, old buddy, old pal we will not rest until the beautiful Lillian Evans and you are- is that chocolate?" Sirius asked as he dove from standing on top of the seat he had climbed up on, onto an unsuspecting peter who was eating a chocolate frog he had hid a few minutes earlier for later…apparently that later was now.

As the other boys looked at Sirius trying to get at Peter on the ground Ian and Remus looked at each other then at James and said, "We'll help you."

They formed James in on the plan that they had come up with while he was gone. Afterwards he said, "Well thank you mates. This really means a lot that you would do this for me. Thanks Remus for coming up with it. I knew that if anyone would come up with a good plan it would be you."

"Hold the phone! I came up with the plan not Remus!" Ian said from his left. "Why do you automatically think that he came up with it?"

"Oh, I'm sorry mate I just thought- well he does always come up with the ideas where we don't get caught when we're pranking." James said sheepishly.

"Yeah well, he doesn't…it's just…aw well your right." They all laughed and that was how they spent the rest of the train ride.

They soon got to the Hogsmead station and heard the familiar boom of Hagrid's voice calling all of the first years over to him to take their boat ride into Hogwarts. "Hey Hagrid my man. How've ya been?" Sarah asked as she jumped to give him a high five.

"Oh, I've been alrigh'. But 'ow bout you? I think you may 'ave gotten smaller since I last seen ya." He chuckled as he watched her struggle to reach his hand. "I'm not that short!" she chuckled as she walked off with Nicole and Lily to find a carriage.

"Oy Sirius, James, Remus, ya didn't think dat you could sneak pas' me and not say 'ello did ya?" Hagrid chuckled. "Of course not Hagrid we were just coming over to say hello." Sirius said as he shook the giants hand.

"Well we better be off to find a carriage that we can all fit in. The four of them, Ian had left earlier to find the girls, ran up to a carriage in the middle of the line.

As Ian entered the carriage Nicole wacked him on the back of the head and asked him, "And where have you been? You say you'll be back in a sec and then you just disappear!"

"I was only with the guys. You do know that I have other friends besides you guys right?"

Sarah faked an over exaggerated gasp and held her hand to her heart. "Are you saying that we just aren't good enough for you anymore? Ian…are you leaving us?" She pretended to wipe away tears.

"Oh no my darling I would never insinuate such a preposterous idea!" he said playing along while taking her hand.

"Oh, ok then." She said and just like that everything was back to normal. Lily laughed at her friend's antics. She gazed blindly out the window randomly laughing at a joke that Sarah or Ian would say and the smart remark Nicole would come back with. She was thinking about the new arrangement with James, it just got easier and easier to say she found, she thought that maybe it would work…maybe her and James actually could get along for the year.

She was broken from her train of thought by Sarah saying, "We're home." Lily looked out the other window to see the magnificent castle towering above the turn around where the carriages were stopped. 'Yes.' She thought. 'We are home.'

A/N Sooo…how did ya like it? There's only one way for me to find out…REVIEW!!! Anyways I will be posting the next chapter not too long from now. My b-days on the 3rd so I'll be a little busy but other than that I'm free! ;-)So go ahead and review now…if you can't tell it's the little blueish/purpleish button right down there.

Sarah