Having finally snuck back to James and Al's old compartment, gotten Lilly's trunk, they settled on going to Scorpius's compartment. By the time they got there Scorpius's Slytherin friends had already come in.
"Hey, mate! Where you been off to?" Preston Zabini greeted Scorpius when the two came in.
"Where do you think? I've already succeeded in pulling one prank this year and we haven't even gotten to Hogwarts," Scorpius said offhandedly. Lily elbowed him in the side, grinning when he groaned.
"Correction, we already pulled a prank. And I was the one who planed it," Lily corrected, crossing her arms, This managed to extrude laughter for the Slytherin occupants.
In the midst of the laughter one of the boys recognized Lily.
"Hey, aren't you Al's little sister?" one of the boys asked. Lily nodded, and in the back of her mind wondered if she would be known as 'Al's little sister' for the rest of the year.
"Ah, this is Lily, the master prankster, joker, and violent girl in her family," Scorpius said grinning as he rubbed his side where Lily had elbowed him. "It's best if you don't get on her bad side, who knows what she'll do to you."
"Well, I'm Tom Knott," the boy said with a nod. The rest of the boys proceeded to introduce themselves to her.
"So, Scorp', why have you finally decided to show up?" Tom questioned.
"We had to get away for Al' and his older brother. Lily had the idea to hex them both. It worked out pretty well, that is, until we were seen," Scorpius explained, "We had to run for almost ten minutes just to get away from them, and then there was the task of getting Lily's trunk which we had accidentally left in their compartment."
"Sounds like you had a good time," Preston joked.
"Yeah, it really was fun," Lily said grinning.
Oh, if I could just get the image of them batting away those bats in my memory for ever I will always be able to have a good laugh, she thought to herself.
They both sat down, Scorpius talking to his friends and Lily, the boys occasionally talking to her.
Finally, she excused herself to change into her school robes. Slipping out into the corridor, she walked to the bathrooms to change, a bag at her side to put her things in.
"Lily!"
Lily turned around and saw her cousin, Rose, coming towards her.
"Where have you been? James and Al came into my compartment blubbering about some hex that you put on them," Rose said rolling her eyes as if that was impossible.
"Oh yeah, Scor and I played a little prank on them. I got Scor to put the Bat-Bogey hex on them. It was great, you should have seen it," Lily said grinning.
"Well, where have you been, now?"
"Hanging out with Scor and his friends. They are quite interesting," Lily said simply and Rose gave her a strange look.
"You know, you can't just hang out with all of those third year guys, you have to make some friends your own age too," Rose said, walking alongside Lily as she went to change.
"Yeah, yeah, I know. You don't want me being 'anti-social'," Lily said waving her hand in an offhanded way.
"Seriously, Lil. I know that you have a 'thing' for him, but you shouldn't hang out just with his friends, you know what I mean?" Rose said.
Lily blushed. "I don't have a 'thing' for Scor. He's Al's friend and he's a nice guy. It is just natural for me to hang out with someone familiar, someone that I know," she defended, "And I doubt that James and Al want to hang out with me right now."
"Lily, you know that you can trust me. And everyone already knows that you like Scorpius, I wouldn't be surprised if even he knew. I just want you to enjoy your first year here and not spend the entire time chasing after some guy," Rose said putting her arm around Lily.
Lily sighed. "Do you really think that he knows?" she asked her older cousin.
"Lily, I don't know, but it does kind of show."
Lily looked down at the floor for a moment and then smiled. "Well, if he does and he hasn't said anything then I might have a chance," she said.
Rose looked as if she wanted to say something but held back, she didn't want to hurt her little cousin's feelings.
