Chapter 1 – Head Boy and Girl

"Potter, you self-centered, stupid, bullying, git!" Lily Evans said hitting him with her book bag, after dragging herself up from the ground.

"I swear," James Potter said, "I didn't do it on purpose, it was an accident!"

She just glared at him as she picked up her owls cage that had been toppled over.

"Just go away Potter, no one needs you here." Lily said with venom.

James stepped forward, and went to pick up one of her books off the ground, when Lily smacked and pulled his hand away. "I have it Potter and it wouldn't even be in the floor if you hadn't pushed it over. Go away before I hex you." Glaring at him, James finally gave in. Picking up his stuff, he headed for the train. Sighing heavily, Lily got on her hands and knees and tried picking up all the stuff that exploded out of her trunk.

When everything was finally put back in its original place, she put a light weight charm on the items, and easily carried it onto the train.

Opening a compartment door, she found some of her friends sitting inside.

"Hey Alice," Lily said to the round faced seventeen year old.

"Hey," Alice replied. Although Alice was a Hufflepuff, her and Lily have always been very good friends. Alice frowned at Lily, and Lily could have only guessed why.

"Your face is red," she said. "Did you run into Potter again?"

Lily frowned. "Yeah, when is he ever going to learn to grow up?"

Alice smiled knowingly, "If he won't leave you alone, I can go beat him up for you."

Lily laughed while sitting down, "Yeah that would be funny. Alice Urquart, beating up James Potter! You know, I really would like to see that." They laughed a bit more.

"So what did you do this summer?" Marlene McKinnon asked.

"Well," Alice replied. "My family decided to go to Greece, to visit our cousins. They were there trying to help my aunt pick a husband for my cousin Marian. You know my cousins, right Lily? The pureblood fanatics." Lily nodded in annoyance. She went to her house once, and her parents hadn't really approved of Lily's heritage.

"And you know what is even worse?" Alice asked. Marlene shook her head.

"My dad was hinting that it was time to start finding me one as well." Lily huffed why Marlene rolled her eyes.

"That wouldn't be a problem if you would just accept being Longbottoms date." Marlene muttered.

Alice looked annoyed. "Why? He annoys me; always trying to brag that he got top marks in Herbology. I mean, no one bloody cares!" The other two girls just giggled.

"Come on," Marlene pushed her arm. "He's cute!"

Alice rolled her eyes at the Ravenclaws antics. "Sometimes I wonder why Lily isn't a Ravenclaw and you are a Gryffindor." Marlene just laughed a little bit more.

"Anyways," Lily said. "I have to head off to talk to the prefects. You know, being head girl and all."

"Oi!" Alice shouted playfully, "No need to brag."

"What is there to brag about? Being head girl stinks." Marlene said.

Lily just laughed and left the compartment.

Upon entering the prefect's compartment, she found a bunch fifth, sixth, and seventh years waiting. "Hey guys," Lily said, as she was prefect and knew most of the students except the fifth years, as they were new. "Professor McGonagall has made me head girl, and I am yet to find out who the head boy is."

She heard a laugh from Remus Lupin, and looked over at him. "What?"

He shook his head with a smile. "That would be telling."

Confused, she heard the compartment door slide open behind her. Turning around, she found James Potter standing there. "What are you doing here Potter? If this is another one of your pranks-" that was until she looked at his chest and found what she would have never expected.

"Head boy? Who in their right mind would make you head boy, out of anyone?" She spouted off. "This is one of your pranks, isn't it?"

James just laughed at her. "Evans, calm down; I was just as surprised as you are. Who would have thought; James Potter, Quidditch captain, marauder, and extremely good looking, is head boy?! I tried to talk Minnie into making Remus head boy, but she refused. I think this is her way of punishment."

"Yeah," Remus said sarcastically. "You get your own room, a total punishment!"

"Anyway," Lily cut in, annoyed at Potters selfishness. "We need to get to business. Seventh years, you are in charge of the train after everyone gets off. All you have to do is make sure that no one is left behind, sleeping children, hexed children, and even some drunken children, but that is rare." The seventh years looked at each other with knowing smiles.

"Okay, sixth years you are-" She was cut off by James.

"You are in charge of monitoring the carriages, only six people per carriage, and to make sure no first years try to get on. Now, if there is any fighting going on, feel free to curse anyone as you please. Then come and get one of us, we will be waiting at the front door of the castle." He pointed out.

"No," Lily said. "Do not feel free to hex them, just threaten them with a detention, and then come and get us. Anything but fighting, that isn't very good leadership." The prefects were just grinning, knowing that they were going to start bickering any minute now. "Fifth years, you are in charge of leading the first years to their dormitories after the feast. Explain to them the rules, and how everything works, and then send them off to bed. Got it?" Lily said as all the prefects nodded.

"The first night of patrolling will be done by Lily and I, we will have list of patrolling rounds hung up in every common room by tomorrow morning. Any questions? Okay, great. Bye!" He went to open the compartment door when Lily stepped in the way.

"Not so fast Potter, we have to deal with patrolling on the train."

"Oh come on Lils, this is our last year on the train on the way to Hogwarts. Don't you want to make it memorable?" He begged with a smile.

She glared at him. "First of all, don't call me Lils, and second, no! You are head boy and you are here to set an example."

"But what if I don't want to set an example?" He whined.
"Then you are going to suck it up or turn in your badge." She snapped.

"But Minnie won't let me."

"That sucks."

"Why do you have to be a spoil-sport?"

"I'm not, I'm being responsible."

"Being responsible stinks,"

"Suck it up you big baby."

"I am not a big baby!"

"Yeah, keep telling yourself that."

"You're cruel."

"You're stupid,"

"How?"

"You're over-confident."

"That doesn't even make sense."

"Yes it does."

"Well, you're an over achiever."

"Good to hear."

"How can you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Be so calm about everything!"

"I'm not."

"Yes you are!"

"Do you want me to be mad?"

"Well… no."

"Then you better shut up."

"Only if you go out with me."

Lily had it by that last comment.

"You know James Potter? I hate you! All you care is about yourself and your fragile little ego! You don't get it. I WILL NEVER GO OUT WITH YOU! You are an idiot, you are un-responsible, and your stupid pranks are not going to get you anywhere in life. I don't know how you became head boy, but this does not mean I will want to spend all this extra time with you. If you ever suck up your stupid and immature act, maybe I'll give it a go. But at this point, you are never getting a chance with me!" She shouted, angry tears forming in her eyes. Opening the compartment door she stormed out.

James stood there wide eyed. He had always taken all her comments over the years, but this topped it off. James had always thought that she deeply actually liked him, and she would come to her senses and date him, but now, she hates him, probably always has. He has always liked her, like, crazy liked her, and if he is ever going to get his chance before someone else took it, he needed to clean up his act. He turned around to look at Remus in the eyes, helplessly.

"Tough luck mate." He said.

The prefects looked pretty entertained, and before James could say anything, silently left the compartment.

"Come on, let's go find the others." He said, trying to cheer up James. "And maybe I'll even give you a chocolate bar from my stash; sounds good eh?"

"HUFFLEPUFF!" The sorting hat called as the last girl excitedly made her way down to the Hufflepuff table.

"Now, let the feast begin!" Dumbledore shouted, making it seem more dramatic than it really was. But to top it off, the first years always gasped as the food magically appeared in front of them. Lily reached forward taking her usual favorite of roast beef with gravy.

"Come on Lils, tell us what happened!" Another one of her friends, Mary Macdonald, asked. Her other friend, Emmeline Vance, nodded in agreement.

"It's nothing, just James Potter again." She replied, knowing exactly what their reactions were going to be.

"Oh, you are so lucky! I wish James Potter threw himself at me like he does to you, just accept his date already!" Mary said wistfully.

"Why should I accept a date from that low-life? No thank you."

Mary just rolled her eyes, and started talking with her best friend Emmeline. Lily admits that they are her friends, and she has to share a dormitory with them, but they will always be annoying and girly (as in stupid). Taking another bite of roast beef, she silently finished the feast with just her and her thinking.

As they were patrolling the hallways, James Potter was abnormally silent. Lily kept on looking over her shoulder, thinking that a prank was coming her way, but never did. After an hour, all they found was a couple snogging in a broom cupboard; they silently made their way up to the common room. As they made their way up the steps to the head boys and girl dormitories, Lily kept thinking on how different Potter was acting. When they finally parted ways to their own rooms, Potter had said

"Night, don't let the bed bugs bite." And then he disappeared. Lily just stared weirdly at his closed door, as that was a muggles saying. Shaking it off, she entered into her room. Finding a queen sized four poster bed; she quickly changed into her night clothes, and lay down. Silently, she was hoping this year would turn out to be one of the best years, but so far, wasn't turning out so great.

Meanwhile, in the head boy's room, James was staring up at the top of his bed, thinking of ways he could change his attitude. Arrogant and cocky, or nice and helpful? He had never noticed how he actually acted until today, and that was going to change. He was going to get Lily Evans to date him.

The two fell asleep hoping for a better outcome this year than anything.

What did you think? I thought the end was a bit cheesy, but... oh well. I decided to use third person for once, as I have never practiced it or used it before. Sometimes I slipped up and put 'I thought' and had to change it to 'she thought', it was quite annoying.

Author update 1/19/14: Just thought to give a reminder that I wrote this about a year ago on the website Wattpad. Feel free for reviews, because trust me, I need it. Oh, and I'd like to let you all know before anybody mentions it: People say that Alice's last name was Prewett. but there is actually no real source linking to that fact. J.K. Rowling had not given her that last name, and neither was it listed anywhere in the books. Since it is not completely true, I just decided to make up my own last name.

Someone had mentioned it before, so yeah.

Please review and let me know what you think. Thanks.

- Castle Sky