Early a/n: So for the note things:
Leila's in normal font
Lily's in italics
And Remus's is in bold

History of Magic is boring. I mean I know you can't really expect much from a class being taught by a ghost so old he probably lived through all the historical events he was describing but still, would it kill him to speak in anything but a monotone? Oh wait he's dead so…nevermind.

The only good thing about History of Magic is that Remus is also in the class with me. And we pass notes while Lily glares at us disapprovingly. Really this whole Head Girl thing has totally gotten to her head. I mean sure she's been pretty much the same her whole life but now that she's Head Girl she has like this extra powerful aura. I must ask Remus what he thinks about my observations.

[These are the notes we passed in class]

So you think giving people positions of power changes their aura.

Jesus Leels what are you on?

Um excuse me? I am on nothing. It's a perfectly valid question.

You're kind of crazy you know.

Yes I am aware of that. That's probably why no one loves me.

Excuse me, what do you mean no one? Do I not count as a someone?

Yes but still. I'm prickly.

Where is this even coming from?

Nowhere.

Shit Lily grabbed the notebook. [Remus threw this piece of paper at me and it hit me in the eye]

Stop throwing pieces of paper at me Remus Lupin. Oh wait nevermind. YOU LET HER TAKE THE BOOK YOU IDIOT?

Mayday mayday

Will you two idiots stop? Binns is dead not blind. And this "prickly" "nobody loves me" nonsense is coming from your stupid arse of a mate Sirius Black. [Lily returned the book to us]

What is she talking about Leels?

Nothing. She can never ever keep her stupid trap shut.

If it's any consolation I fancied you rotten in Third Year.

Aww that's sweet. [Though as I was writing this, my heart was doing something that resembled a foxtrot]. I knew there was a reason I kept you around.

No you keep me around because of my devilish charm and stunning good looks.

I'm confiscating your notebook Leels so haha you can't flirt with Remus until next period.

And then I slept for the rest of the class until Lily poked me in the eye and told me that I snored like a freight train.

"And you know that can't be something that Remus finds attractive," she said, smirking.

"Shut up and go snog Potter," I said crabbily.

"Now put your game face on," she said. "We have Potions next."

"No no no Lily," I groaned. "Why can't we have Charms or Transfiguration? Why Potions."

"Because it's a beautiful and thrilling subject," she said.

"You just like it because Slughorn thinks your some potions making prodigy and every time he steps near your cauldron he's all like Lily-will-one-day-rule-the-world," I snapped at her. "How do you manage to get both you most favorite subjects, which just so happen to be my least favourite subjects, first Monday morning?"

"Are you done Cranky McCrankypants?" she asked. "And wash your face you have ink stains all over it."

"And you couldn't tell me this earlier," I cried.

"Well no one told you to fall asleep on your half finished notes," she said. "It serves you right."

"You know what I cannot even be bother," I huffed. "And besides there's no one to even impress in that class."

"By no one do you mean Remus?" Lily asked dryly.

"Of course not," I said, though I might have blushed a bit.

"Shut up, I know you're in love with him," she said. "I've known forever."

"No I'm not," I said, rather unconvincingly. "Go snog Potter."

"So that's become your comeback of the day?" Lily asked dryly. "Your brilliance astounds me."

"Yeah well at least I'm over Remus," I said, and I really was, I promise. There were just tiny little lingering feelings. "You and Potter still have that whole I don't-know-if-I-want-to-rip-his-clothes-or-his-hea d-off thing going."

"Um I was dating someone till very recently," she said quietly. And then I knew I had to drop it because Brendan Moore was still a bit of a sore topic.

When we got to Potions there was one whole free table. Yay! Lily and I never get whole free tables because the class is kind of full. And Potions is basically the best class to get whole free tables in, especially when we did practicals because we could totally spread out and be comfortable.

Slughorn had already written the instructions for the day on the board and was now quite happily munching on some crystallized pineapple. Isn't that kind of unhygienic though? Eating in a crowded space with a bunch of teenagers doing experimental potions?

But then my little happy bubble was burst because even though we were doing Pepper-Up Potion (which I am quite brilliant at brewing) those two imbeciles who call themselves Marauders showed up out of breath and all red in the face. When I say two imbeciles I mean Black and Potter because lets face it Remus really can't be included in the imbecile part of the Marauders and Pettigrew definitely wasn't smart enough to get into NEWT level Potions.

And of course after muttering completely unapologetic sounding apologies they made a beeline for our table because we were the only ones with free space. Dammit. If I had known these idiots were going to show up I would've just sat with Prunella Scones even though she has a laugh like a horse and insists on poking me in the ribs with her stupid wand.

We had just about gotten our supplies out when Slughorn dropped his crystallized pineapple with a start and started hyperventilating a little.

"Professor Slughorn?" Snape asked hesitantly. "What's wrong?"

"I entirely forgot to tell you," Slughorn said looking a little green. "The teachers have been told that in order to foster teamwork amongst students we must make them work in pairs. I was supposed to put people from different houses together but since you've all set your equipment up I suppose we can just have pairs from the same table."

I looked at Lily thankfully. She was a brilliant Potioneer and actually having her as my partner pretty much guaranteed an O because Slughorn worshipped her.

"Miss Evans pair up with Mr. Potter," Slughorn said completely shattering my happy dream of an actual O in potions. "Miss Bennet and Mr. Black." I nearly cried. Like the day hadn't been going badly enough already. He continued to call out partners as I silently swore at him in my head.

Lily shot me an I'm-so-sorry look and patted me on the back. James on the other hand looked like Christmas has just come early. Black just stared ahead looking like a piece of stone or something.

"Oh and because Pepper-Up Potion is much too easy for this assignment how about you try Everlasting Elixirs," Slughorn said casually.

"So lets get started then shall we?" Black said haughtily immediately making me want to punch him.

"Yes lets," I said matching his tone.

Lily was laughing at something James had said and Black frowned. "She's awfully friendly with him now isn't she?" he said.

I just glared at him and he went back to looking for ingredients. He still had that stupid frown on his face though.

"Can we just get this done," I said pointedly. If he thought I was a bitch I was definitely going to act like one. At least to him anyway.

He quickly got out the ingredients and we started mixing it up.

"Fuck fuck fuck ," I swore quietly under by breath as I stirred desperately. We had managed to get the potion to the blue-y green stage but it was refusing to turn a violent shade of fuchsia.

Black was looking just as confused as me by our potion's stubbornness.

"Er… do you reckon we should add some more ragworm?" he asked tentatively.

"Well I don't see how we can fix it so do what you want." I sighed. That was meant to come out bitchy and harsh but I just sounded tired.

Black took over the mixing for a bit and I sort of just collapsed. It was only 10 o'clock and I was exhausted.

By the time Slughorn got to use with a potion bottle Black had somehow managed to get the potion to somewhere near fuchsia though it wasn't anywhere near as perfect as Lily and James's potion. So I guess he was smart. That didn't make me hate him any less.

Merlin, Morgana and Agrippa what was that hairflip? Lily Evans you disgusting slag. She was just flipping her hair all over the place. I hadn't seen the hairflip since the early part of the Brendan Moore train wreck. Black had also obviously seen the hairflip and did not look too happy about. Though he was pretty pleased that James got all close to her yesterday. Ugh why can't the wanker make up his mind?

Okay so maybe I'm projecting a little. I mean I'm sure that that is just Black's natural expression and he doesn't really hate Lily. But Merlin why is he glaring at her so much?

I was inordinately thankful when Potions was over. I mean the hostility emanating from Black was actually toxic. I don't really understand. He was perfectly fine a few years ago. I mean mad as a hatter of course but never particularly horrible. It's like he some sort of personality transplant last year and come back all nasty.

I made a mental note to stop thinking so much about Black and I went on my way to Transfiguration. This was actually my favourite class. McGonagall was stern but incredibly fair. Not to mention a cracking good teacher. We started on transfiguring plates into roosters. All non-verbally of course. Lily hates transfiguration. It was the only OWL she got an E in. And that's actually saying something though that her worst grade is an E. Maybe she does deserve to be the high and mighty Head Girl.

The rest of the day passed pretty quickly. For some reason we ended up sitting next to the Marauders sans Black during lunch. Remus sat with me while James and Lily flirted with each other.

"What is this even?" he asked.

"I don't know but I think she just realized that he's a pretty decent bloke," I whispered back. "Lets not go saying anything that might ruin it."

"James suddenly said something that Pettigrew obviously found very funny (because he was laughing sycophantically) but was not to Lily's taste. Ah shit well I knew that couldn't last though I secretly hoped it would.

"Sorry Potter," I said as sympathetically as I could after Lily stormed off. "If it's any consolation she did tell me yesterday that you might not be quite as bad as she thought you were."

Potter looked a little bit happier but still fairly depressed. "Really?" he asked.

"Really," I replied. "Okay I'm going to go find her. Enjoy your meal."

a/n: Okay so here's the next chapter :P I'll keep writing and writing (well as much as I can anyway) and I hope you enjoy this. Even though I really shouldn't ask this because of my horrible track record with updating please please drop me a review. I love to know what you think so far.