Lily sat in her compartment with her friends and listened as they laughed and joked about and tried to laugh at the appropriate times but she wasn't really listening. What she was thinking about was the connection she had felt with James as she had boarded the train and how empty she felt once the connection was lost. It was only once everyone had stopped talking and all her friends were staring at her that Lily pulled herself from her thoughts and engaged herself in the conversation. It was only Alice who noticed the difference in her best friend and how her eyes were not sparkling as brightly as they usually did and were a dull green compared to the usual bright emerald, a sign that she was in deep thought, and took a mental note to enquire what was on her friend's mind when they were alone. Beaming at Lily she tried to pick up the conversation again and soon the compartment was filled with joyful laughter again.
Meanwhile in the marauders compartment evil schemes had already started to form. They were just finalising the details of their big opening prank which was to be preformed at the feast and other less grand prank ideas when Sirius stopped to look at James. Though engaged in the conversation Sirius knew there was something wrong, he knew James better then his own brother and knew that something was troubling him. He could tell by the way James was not being as loud as usual and instead of constantly ruffling his messy hair he just left it to cover half his face. This was something James usually did when he was trying to hide his emotions. Reminding himself to ask James about it later, Sirius turned back to Remus to continue his pleading to borrow his homework. Remus was definitely not budging and when he had finally had enough of saying no to Sirius he stood and excused himself to go attend the prefects meeting. James did not even raise his head as he felt himself fill with jealously that Remus got to spend time with Lily and yet he was constantly rejected by her. HIM! The irresistible James Potter was being ignored by the only girl he truly felt anything for it killed him inside every time he saw her. And it was worse because he knew that Remus was leaving early to go pick up Lily from her compartment on the way because the pair had grown quite close due to both being Gryffindor prefects yet was not saying so he did not upset James and that just enraged him more. Trying to subdue his anger and pain James lifted his head defiantly and pushed back his hair and began a conversation with Peter on what was better, Cauldron cakes or Pumpkin pasties whilst Sirius left to go seek out some poor, unfortunate girl. James was the only one who knew that Sirius loved Mary and all these other girls were just fillers, as were his own girlfriends. Though James did not get bored quite as quickly as Sirius and he only went for single girls. Sirius would never learn and with that thought James chuckled and began attacking Peter again who eventually gave up, as always, and began eating a chocolate frog.