The train ride
As Lily sat down in the train compartment with her friends she thought about James, about how she'd agreed to be friends with him and about him being head boy. She would try to be friends with him and to make it work but after everything that they'd been through, all the fighting and arguments it wouldn't be easy. He was head boy and she was head girl, that was a fact and there was no changing it, they were going to have to see more of each other whether she liked it or not. Maybe she could make it work, Alice had said that Potter and Black no, James and Sirius had changed maybe just maybe they would get on this year.
''Lily... Lily are you listening to us,''
''What, sorry,'' Lily said coming out of her reverie
''Ugh,'' Alice said with a roll of her eyes ''We were saying that we should change soon probably,''
''Oh yeh we should,''
"What time is it?'' Mary asked tapping her watch which appeared to have broken
''12,'' Marlene said in answer
''And what was the time when we left?''
''11 Mary, its been leaving at 11 for all the time we've been getting it years, why would that change?'' Marlene said with an amused look
''I don't know, it might be late,''
''Yeah for the first time since it started, whenever that was. You know for someone who got O's in all their O.W.L's apart from 3 you can be really blond Mary,''
They all laughed at this before Lily brought them all sharply back to reality ''But how can he be head boy, he's broken every rule in the school, like at least 3 times,''
''And then some,'' Marlene added hiding a smile badly
Mary rolled her eyes at them both ''He hasn't broken every rule Lily, I'm pretty sure its against the rules to kill any one and he hasn't done that,''
''Yet,'' Marlene said now clearly grinning at how easily she could wind up her friends
Marlene Mary said ''We're meant to be helping,''
Alice laughed at them all before saying ''I think he has grown up a bit you know Lily, whenever I saw him and Sirius over the summer they both seemed… different,'' Alice remembered exactly how much James and Sirius had matured since last year and told her friends about how they had helped Dora out at dinner. She really thought that James and Lily were made for each other but wanted them to find out on them selves, or rather Lily to work it for herself out rather than other people hammering it in to her as she knew full well that that wouldn't work, Lily had to make up her own mind.
''Yeh,'' Marlene said grinning and pulling Alice back to reality ''Their mental age has gone from a 2 year old to a 4 year old, that's a whole 2 years,''
''Marley you are not helping,'' Mary said irritably causing Marlene to stick her tongue out at her
Alice started laughing suddenly and the three other girls looked at her with raised eyebrows ''You know all the time we've been at Hogwarts you've hated talking about them Lily and now we're arguing over them,''
''We are not arguing over them'' Lily said indignantly ''We're just-"
"Disagreeing about them,'' Mary said
''That's the same as arguing,'' Marlene pointed out grinning evilly
''Remind me again, why am I your friend,'' Mary said teasingly
''Because, you can't resist me,'' Marlene said sticking her tongue out at Mary who was now laughing along with the others
''I knew there was a reason,''
''So'' Sirius said with a grin ''what are we going to do first this year,''
''You mean, like pranks,'' James said with a slight unease
''No, I mean homework,'' Sirius said sarcastically ''Of course I mean pranks. Or are you going to be all head boy-ish now,'' he said raising his eyebrows questioningly at James as he lifted all the trunks down from the luggage rack.
" 'Head boy-ish' is not a word.'' James said ''And no I'm not to 'head boy-ish', I just think that with this being our last year we should maybe, do fewer pranks,''
''It's a word now, I just made it. That's exactly why we should do more pranks, it's our last year, our last chance.'' Sirius made big puppy dog eyes at James once he'd finished speaking
''Padfoot we've been doing it for 6 years, you haven't exactly been deprived of opertunerties,''
''Yeah but this is our last year, I want to do loads,''
''How about we do one big one and a couple of small ones,'' Remus said compromising, he had always thought that they had done to many pranks, so in his opinion this solution was perfect
Sirius scowled ''That's three, THREE. We have all year and you want us to do three pranks, how am I supposed to survive. And aren't you two supposed to be helping the midgets,''
''Midgets?'' Remus said ignoring his first comment
''First years,'' James answered ''Are we?''
''No the fifth years do it. Didn't you read the letter, it explained it all''
''He through it out the window before i could it before I could,'' James said accusingly pointing at Sirius
Peter and Remus looked incredulously at Sirius ''You are an idiot you know Padfoot,'' Peter said laughing
Sirius stuck his tounge out at them as he picked his trunk up and began dragging it out of the compartment
A/N
I dont like this chapter much and I think the other ones were better. I know this one was really short :/ I got majorly stuck on this and I don't like it very much but I thought I may as well post it because I cant work out how to make it any better (tips for writers block would be greatly appreciated) and I've rewritten it about a million times already.
I had a physics exam today which I think I might have done really bad at so reviews would be very nice to cheer me up please :)
I tried to put less dialogue in this one and more thought but I'm not sure if I did I very well at it
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