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Chapter Dos

"Alice, please, just a few more minutes!" I yelled into my pillow.

"No, Lily! You have to get ready now! I gave you thirty more minutes so get up!" I heard her respond. I could hear her rushing back and forth across the room getting ready. I didn't see the point. We still had about an hour until breakfast and we still had about a couple more hours after than until we had to get on the Hogwarts Express.

I groaned and finally got up. "You did not give me thirty minutes of sleep!" I protested.

Alice turned and looked at me. "Uh, yeah I did, Lily."

"No, you did not, Alice. You tried waking me up for the past thirty minutes."

She turned and looked at her reflection in the mirror. She was already in uniform and her hair was perfectly straight. Her reflection showed someone I saw every day: My gorgeous best friend. She never saw the girl that I saw. She always told me about how plain she was. I always argued when she told me any statement related to that. It was so far from the truth.

Alice Prewett was very beautiful. She had beautiful, anti-frizz, caramel colored hair. It was so straight and she barely ever had a hair out of place. Her eyes were a warm brown. She always had a hint of gold in them. They always had a shine when she was out in the sun (Or when she was thinking of something devious). She had high cheek bones and rosy colored cheeks. A thin face that went well with her thin figure. Even though she a bit taller than the average 16 year old, she was still considered a delicate princess in minds of many guys. Too bad for them, Alice was with Frank.

And Alice envied me?

I never really understood why. Then, last night came to mind.

I quickly wiped that thought away and listened to what Alice said.

"Well, it's not like it's easy to wake you up." She grumbled.

I yawned and finally stood from where I was perched on the side of my bed. I went straight to the loo and showered. When I got out in my towel, I saw that Alice was still unbelievably getting ready. She ran a brush through her hair, desperately looking for any knots she might've missed. I rolled my eyes. It was no use telling her that she looked fine. I looked around our room and noticed that our other three room mates were already gone.

"When did the other three leave?"

I saw Alice roll her eyes. "Some time during the time I spent trying to wake you up."

Alice got annoyed too easily. But I guess I shouldn't be talking.

I quickly brushed my hair and went back into the loo with my clothes to get changed. When I came out Alice was just starting to pull her socks on. I did the same and pulled my shoes on as soon as I found them under my bed.

"Come on, Alice." I said standing next to the door with my hand on the handle. She gave one last glance into the mirror and finally hurried over to me.

"Let's go." She agreed.

We went down to the common room and saw that there weren't many people. But that was expected. Most people would go straight down to the Great Hall and talk with friends from different houses. Alice and I left the common room as soon as we saw that none of our friends were there. We arrived at the Great Hall and looked up and down the Gryffindor table and finally spotted our group.

Only today, our group was mixed in with the Marauders.

"Hey, what happened here?" Alice said voicing my thoughts.

I saw Frank shrug his shoulders. "Friendly reunion?"

Alice and I both sat down. I looked around the table and tried to memorize the faces of my friends that I would not see for the summer.

There was Clair Donovan: The Gryffindor beauty. You'd expect someone as beautiful as her to be snobby. But she wasn't she was fun and friendly. Her hair was a honey blonde without a trace of brunette in it. Her eyes were a cool, clear, crystal blue. She was tall and very curvy. She was very popular and outgoing. She played chaser on the Gryffindor team. She was pretty good at it too. She was so into Quidditch and never seemed tired about talking about it. Not only was she athletic, but she was smart too. She was definitely in the top ten of very class.

Next to her was my other friend Natalie Bruno. She was pretty and smart too. She had the average height and wasn't too curvy, but guys were always talking about her bum. Her hair was a dark brunette and it was also layered. The longest part went all the way down to her mid-spine. Her eyes were a very light brown. She was one of those girls that seemed to have a flawless life. But since she was my best friend, I knew this was not true. Many of her family members had died. In fact, since first year I have had to comfort her a total of five times because of another passed family member. But over all, she was happy most of the time.

There was my other friend, Jennifer Peterson. She had curly black hair and blue eyes (That made her really stand out). She was always either happy or really hyper. Even in the mornings she was happy to get up and sing her lungs out in the shower. That would wake up the other girls and then either Alice or Clair would wake me up. I preferred Alice waking me up. Clair had a habit of flipping my mattress and then claim that she had been trying to wake me up forever. And to think, all of that started with Jennifer's singing. Not that she was a bad singer or anything. She actually had a pretty good voice, but it was also loud. I loved her, anyway.

Then, there was Frank Longbottom. His hair was a shade of brunette and his eyes were a warm chocolate brown. He was tall and thin and he had a small face. He even looked smart. He was a very friendly and out-going guy. He was everybody's friend. No one could ever hate him (except those stupid snobby Slytherins). Even when McGonagall was furious, she always seemed to cool down after talking to Frank a bit. He was just a guy that everybody wanted to be friends with. And he was one of those friends you were proud to have.

"Good morning, all." Alice said.

There was a chorus of "Morning". I had the luck of having to sit next to Black.

"Morning, love." He said pouring himself some pumpkin juice, not really bothering to look at me.

"Good morning, Black. Long night?" I asked piling some bacon and eggs on my plate.

"Ugh. You have no idea, love." He yawned.

"Let me guess…end of the year prank?"

He finally looked at me and gave me his classic mischievous grin. I couldn't help but chuckle. The Marauders grinned like that so often that it seemed like they themselves invented mischievous.

"Lily, will you pass the juice?" Potter asked me.

I mentally sighed. I couldn't ignore him forever.

I grabbed the pitcher and passed it to him. He caught my eye and grinned. I smiled back and tried not to think of his words from the previous night. I knew that if I did, I would blush. I couldn't understand why. It wasn't like I liked him. I wasn't even sure he was an acquaintance.

Suddenly, there was a loud 'boom'. I looked at the Marauders, wide-eyed. They all grinned back.

"What did you guys do now?" Clair said rolling her eyes.

"You better not have blown the side of the school off." Jennifer warned.

"Just wait." Potter said chuckling.

There were shrieks coming from the corridors. I was about to ask who that was when the doors of the Great Hall opened. In came some frightened looking Slytherins. There was Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucious Malfoy, Severus Snape, and a few more after them. Behind them was a huge cluster of fireworks. They chased the screaming Slytherins to the Slytherin table. But the fireworks didn't stop there they chased the Slytherins around the Great Hall at least five times before McGonagall came in. The fireworks shot up straight into the air and exploded like any normal firework would. McGonagall watched for a minute and turned to look in our direction. Every single Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor was laughing their arses off. I swore I saw McGonagall's lips twitch upward a bit. She thought the fireworks were harmless enough so she left them. Either that or she knew the Marauders had put a multiplying spell on them.

I turned to look at the four boys once McGonagall had seated herself.

"How long did that take you guys?" I asked.

"Five minutes to think of it. A couple hours of setting it up, though." Remus replied. He had a soft smile on his face. That didn't fool me for a second. That smile could fill itself up with mischief in seconds.

"As soon as the professors leave, they start chasing the Slytherins again." Potter said proudly.

"I wish Reg a horrible day." Black said stealing a glance towards his younger brother at the Slytherin table.

I turned to look and saw that the Slytherins were sending glares our way.

"Watch this." Clair said to us all.

She looked straight at Bellatrix. After Bellatrix caught her eye she glared at Clair with all her might. Clair shrugged and flicked her off. We all burst out laughing at the look of pure rage on Bellatrix's face. I high-fived Clair and Black hollered "You go, babe".

Clair inclined her head at Black in a small bow. Other Gryffindors that had seen what she did were cheering her on. She raised her two hands in a thank you gesture.

We ate our breakfast happily laughing and joking with one another. In my mind it was a great way to end the school year.

Then it was time to go. We were led outside and got onto the carriages. We managed to fit all ten of us into one carriage. We laughed the entire way enjoying the slow ride. We said our goodbyes to the castle as we managed to get one more glimpse of it before we made a turn and the castle was out of sight. We were laughing so much that we hardly realized that it would be the last time we would see the castle until school started again.

We boarded the Hogwarts Express and found a compartment. A compartment could fit six of us in the seats. So, we argued a bit over who would have to sit in the floor. Then, Remus pointed out that a good gentleman would let the girls sit in the seats. So the other three Marauders immediately jumped up and volunteered to sit in the floor.

Later after about what seemed like hours, Remus got up and informed us that he was going to go say good bye to other friends. A few of us got up too. That left Black, Potter, and Jennifer and I.

"So, what are you up to this summer, Peterson, love?" Black asked Jennifer.

"Uh, I'm not sure. We might go to the beach in Italy. Speaking of which, Lily, I was gonna ask you if you'd like to go."

"I'm not sure. If my summers hell, then yeah, I'd like to go."

She grinned. "Great! 'Cause Mum was all like 'are you gonna take any friends?' and I was like 'I don't know, mum, should I?' and she was like 'yeah, I'd really like you to take Lily'. She really loves you which is good if I wanna have you over during the summer. I mean, isn't always better when your parents approve of your best friend? Not that I wouldn't sneak out of the house to hang out with you if my parents didn't like you, but it's much easier this way. Saves me the trouble of plotting. Anyway, mum said you can come over anytime you'd like which again is great. She thinks you're all goody-goody two shoes and all that-"

"Well, she is." I mentally praised Black for cutting her off.

"Uh, no she's not. You don't know her, Sirius. This one time, Alice and I had to drag Lily's drunk ass back to school-ow!" I had elbowed her right in the rib cage. Hard.

"Drunk? Evans?" Black snorted.

"She's really fun when you get to know her." Jenn said before I could stop her.

"Then maybe we should get to know her." Black said to Potter.

Potter grinned at me. "I think we could be great friends."

I smiled lightly at him.

The others came back in and Black couldn't help himself. "Lily got drunk!"

"What?" Frank asked looking at me with questioning eyes. I groaned and thumped my head against the window.

"Well, not now. I meant she's gotten drunk before. Isn't that amazing?"

Black had the spirit of a six year old.

"Yeah, you've gotten drunk too, Sirius. I don't know what you're so excited about." Alice said.

"Well, even I have to admit, I'm surprised." Remus said. His eyes were full of amusement.

"It was a long night when it happened." I defended myself.

The others only laughed. We talked so much and a few of us eventually started playing games. After watching Clair and Black snogging for quite a while after a game of spin the bottle, we quit playing and settled back down. Somehow after all of those games and the switch-ups and everything I ended up between Potter and the window. I was quiet, listening to the conversation of others.

"Hey, Lily." Potter said.

"Hey." I answered.

"Um, Lily?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I have your address?"

"Why…?"I asked slowly and cautiously.

"I want to owl you over the summer…can I?"

I looked at Potter and saw that he was serious. I hesitated a bit, but I finally agreed. He smiled at me and I gave him a barely there smile back. I just hoped I didn't make a mistake.

Time seemed to go by faster than I would've liked. Not that I enjoyed Potter's company much. But I would've appreciated a bit more time with my friends.

We all found our luggage when we got off and tried looking for our families.

I said my sad good bye's to all my friends and saw my parents waving and smiling at me. I smiled back and started towards their direction.

"Wait, Lily!"

I turned and saw Potter rushing towards me. I stopped and waited for him to catch up. He finally got to me and ran a hand through his hair.

"So, I guess this is good-bye for the summer?"

"Yeah." I smiled.

"Well, remember what I said last night." And there was that blush I promised. "Don't let your sister get to you, okay? She just wants attention drawn towards her. I would know." He joked.

I chuckled a bit. "Yeah, you would know, wouldn't you?"

"Yeah. But seriously, Lily, don't pay attention to her. Write to your friends if you have to. Write to me."

He looked a bit desperate. I nodded. "I will."

"I'll write to you as soon as I can. I promise. I'll get Moony to write to you too, if you'd like."

"Remus always writes to me." I pointed out.

"Right. Well, don't stress too much this summer, okay?"

"I won't" I promised. I would've laughed at Potter, but he looked to alarmed right now to joke with him.

"Well, good-bye, Lily."

"Bye." I gave him one last smile and continued toward my parents.

"Come on, Lily. I have a wonderful dinner waiting at home for you!" Mum said as she pulled me into a tight hug.

"I missed you both so much." I said.

"We missed you too, Lils." Dad promised me. He pulled me into an even tighter hug than Mum's.

"Well, let's get going." Mum said. They walked ahead of me.

I turned and looked one last time and saw Potter. He was talking to a woman that resembled him. It must've been his mum. He said something to her. Then he turned and looked straight into my eyes. It was as if he knew I had been staring the whole time. I gave him another wave. He grinned and waved back. Before his mum could turn to see who he was grinning at I looked away and kept following my parents.

"Thanks, Mum, that was great." I thanked her for the dinner.

She smiled at me. "All for you, Lily."

After Dad volunteered to wash the dishes I went up to my room and sat on my bed. There was the crinkling sound of paper and I stood again. I grabbed the piece of paper I had sat on.

It was a letter with my name written on it in thin and a bit sloppy bit of handwriting.

I opened it. It read:

Dear Lily,

I hope your summer has been well so far. Mine hasn't. I miss you and Hogwarts.

Love, James

I laughed aloud. It had only been about a couple of hours since I had seen this boy and he was already writing. He was so ridiculous some times. But I realized that he could make me laugh.

I set the letter on my nightstand and laid back on my heap of pillows.

I guess giving Potter my address wasn't going to be a mistake after all.

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