THIS CHAPTER HAD BEEN REWRITTEN!
The three girls quickly hopped off the train and scurried to find a carriage. Well, that was until Olivia spotted Remus. She ran up to him, and threw her arms out, giving the biggest hug Lily had ever seen. Then they went off with Peter and Sirius to find a carriage.
Lily turned to Alice but the girl was gone. She had run over to Hagrid to share some new knowledge about plants to him.
Lily sighed, of course she was alone. She walked to one of the carriages when she was intercepted by a tall boy.
Nate York was the boy of any girls dream. A Ravenclaw, he was intelligent. He was the keeper for his house Quidditch team and also the captain, which helped shape his muscles to perfection. His eyes were a bright ocean blue that seemed to sparkle. His hair was a golden blonde that shimmered in the moonlight. His smile was huge and showed is perfect white teeth. And he was also the guy that Lily had been pretty much in love with. Well, that is until she changed her mind about James.
"Hey Lily," Nate said with his dazzling smile. "Did your friends ditch you?"
Lily smiled. "Yup. One to talk about plants. How fascinating! And the other ran off with her boyfriend."
"Well my friends ditched me too. Care to share one?" he said, motioning to a carriage.
Lily nodded and he held the door open for her before climbing in himself.
"So, how was your summer?" he asked, reaching to close the door.
"Oh it was-" she was cut off by a voice.
"Hey is there room for two more." A smiling James Potter asked, grabbing the door before it closed.
Nate grimaced. He did not want to share with Jame Potter of all people. Nate had spent all of last year trying to ask Lily out, but was always thwarted by the goons called the Marauders. "Go ahead." He said through his teeth. He didn't want to seem rude in front of Lily.
James pulled open the door and jumped inside, leaving it open for the second person, Marlene.
Marlene pulled herself in. She flashed that famous smile that made any boy's heart melt, right at Nate. "Hey Natie. How are you?" She used her most seductive voice.
"Marlene, don't call me Natie. You know I hate that." Nate said scowling. He turned to Lily. "So what were you saying about your summer?"
Lily blushed. "Oh nothing much. It was good. Lots of wedding plans though which was so boring." She mimed yawning and Nate laughed.
Marlene also yawned and turned to James to talk about her favorite subject, her.
"Mine was the same, well minus the wedding plans. All my friends ran off to do stuff with their girlfriends. I mostly played Quidditch. Gotta start shaping up for the season since I'm Quidditch captain" He said beaming.
"Oh, so you're the Ravenclaw captain," James said looking up, "I've been wondering who got it for the other houses." Marlene pouted at the loss of attention.
"Yup. Got the badge this summer. " He said aiming that at Lily.
"Same. Also got the one for Head Boy." James said nodding.
"Jamie," Marlene whined, "Leave them alone and talk to me. Can't you see they don't want you in their conversation. Let Natie flirt with Lils."
Lily was torn on whether she should laugh or roll her eyes. On one hand , she knew for a fact that James hated to be called Jamie. And on the other hand she was annoyed. Did this girl really need to give everyone a nickname?
She could see a little spark of annoyance in James eyes. "Fine" he mumbled and turned back to Marlene.
For the remainder of the ride, Lily and Nate talked about everything from classes to muggle movies.
"Did you see that one with the robots?" Lily asked
"YES! It was amazing." Nate said back.
"What's a movie?" James finally chimed in again.
Lily opened her mouth to answer but was cut off by Marlene.
"Who cares Jamie, we're here." She said as the carriage rolled to a stop. She grabbed James' arm and dragged him out.
"Well, um, that was an interesting ride." Lily said, stepping out of the carriage.
"Yeah it certainly was. But it was also so much fun talking to you." He said with a lopsided smile.
Lily nodded. "Yeah we should do it again sometime."
Nate took a breath "Yeah. Maybe we could do it at the next Hogsmede weekend."
Lily didn't know what to say. She was in love with James but she had so much fun with Nate. "Sure." She said not even realizing it. "I'd like that." That's when she spotted Olivia and Remus waving towards her. She blushed and said. "My friends need me, I'll talk to you later." And ran off.
Nate strode off to meet up with his Ravenclaw friends.
Neither of the two noticed Marlene McKinnon running around looking for her boyfriend. Or the scowling James Potter hiding behind the carriage who had heard the entire conversation.
"So what happened?" Olivia asked, shoving food onto her plate at the Welcoming feast. They were sitting far away from the whole Marauder group because James and Marlene, had decided that dinner was not in fact food, but each other's faces.
Olivia had seen Lily walk away from a grinning Nate and wanted full details.
"Well he saw me alone and asked to sit with me. We talked and such and then he asked me to go to Hogsmede with him." Lily said. Olivia growled in anger at the lack of detail. "Oh and the oh so happy couple was also in our carriage."
"WHAT!" Olivia screamed and immediately clapped a hand over her mouth. People stared for a little and once they were positive there was nothing gossip worthy they looked away. "Are you okay?" Olivia asked, whispering.
Lily shrugged. "Yeah I guess so. It was quite funny to see James get really annoyed with Marlene when she called him Jamie."
"Did he yell?" Olivia asked intrigued.
"Nope. I could tell by his eyes. They just flashed a little every time she said it. Ugh and get this. She called Nate "Natie" and me "Lils"."
The two girls burst into laughter, attracting a few stares from each house. The girls brought it down to a chuckle. The opening feast went by quickly and by the end everyone was stuffed.
As the four houses got up Olivia turned to Lily. "Do you have to bring the first years?"
Lily shook her head. "Nope, that's the 5th years duty."
The two started walking up the stairs when they were joined by Remus. He had gotten so sick of the gross display of affection from Marlene and James.
They quickly trudged tiredly up the stairs until they reached the portrait.
"Lavender." Remus mumbled. He was so tired he could barely stand up. Tomorrow was the full moon and he usually felt like this the day before.
The common room was completely empty. This year had a huge ammount of first year which made the sorting go longer. By the time the feast was over it was 11:00 PM. Once they reached the dorm stairs, Remus leaned down and kissed Olivia goodnight. "See you tomorrow, Liv." he said ascending the stairs.
"Come on Lily let's go up." Olivia said in a daze.
"Sorry Liv, my dorm is down here. I'm head girl, remember?" Lily asked amused.
"Shoot." Olivia said snapping her fingers, and she ran upstairs.
Lily chuckled and walked over to the portrait on the far end of the common room. It was in the very corner, under the boys staircase so not many people knew about it. Each house's common room had a head boy and girl dorm, that way the heads could be easily accesable. Since James was head boy, she would be unfortunately (fortunately? Lily didn't even know how she felt at this point) had to share the room with him.
"Fillybrig." she murmered to it and it swung open. She quickly walked in, eager to get to her bed.
The head common room was beautifully furnished. It was a miny replica of the one outside the door. It had two desks on either side to use for homework. Right as Lily was about to turn the knob into her actual room, the outside door once again opened.
In walked James Potter. "Oh hey Lily." he said with a smile. "Sorry about Marlene today." Lily smiled. He was going to apologize for kicking her out of the compartment. "She gets really annoying with those nicknames." Her smile faltered. Of course perfect Marlene could do no wrong.
"It's fine." she said in a bored voice. Lily turned back to her door to open it.
"So what is a movie?" James asked.
Lily turned around again. She was so tired but she really wanted to spend time with him. James won. "Well it's a moving picture story really. Like how wizard pictures can move and sometimes talk. It's both of that but telling a whole story. They're usually about an hour and a half to 2 hours long."
"Oh. Cool. Now I want to see one." James said.
Lily chuckled. "I'll take you one day."
James smiled and walked over to his door. "I'm holding you to that."
Lily chuckled. "Okay, James."
They both turned the knobs and walked into their respective rooms. They both sat down on their bed,smiling, and at the same time said, "Whoa."
A/N: longer than usual for you here. That's a present seeing as I haven't updated in a while. Hope you enjoyed! Review! And if you have any ideas let me know and I will consider it and I will credit you for it. Let me know what you think so I can make it better!
~Olivia