Chapter 3

"You would think after six years of shopping, those two would know what they were doing." Brittney said to Lily, who smirked. Alaina and Alyssa were a few steps ahead of them, looking at their school list, and looking dearly confused.

All four of the girls were carrying bags filled with school supplies. Hogwarts was going to begin in a week, and following true Alaina fashion, the girls had almost waited for the last minute to actually do their shopping. Before leaving, Alaina had proudly declared how happy she was that the girls were following in her footsteps, but it hadn't taken long for Alyssa to shut her up with a well placed silence curse.

"Hey," Lily whispered, with a large grin on her face. "Its Alaina and Alyssa. They are some of the weirdest friends we have."

"I heard that!" Alyssa called back and she turned around. "Its not nice to talk about people behind their backs, Evans!" Alyssa had a smile on her face.

"Would you rather us I do it in front of your back?" Brittney said with a smirk. "That may be difficult, but I think we can manage. Huh, Lily?" Lily nodded her head, her eyes wide. Alyssa rolled her eyes and turned back around.

Just not in time.

There was a loud crash as four people crashed into each other. Alyssa and Alaina's bags slipped from the hands and the contents spread all over the place. Brittney and Lily rushed forward to help their friends up, but Lily froze in her tracks.

Oh this was not good.

"Wow, we took a little spill, didn't we?" A handsome man with smooth dark black hair was sitting upon the ground. He was extremely gorgeous, everyone in all of Hogwarts thought so. "Are you okay, Remus?" Sirius Black asked.

Oh this was defiantly not good.

"Fine, fine." A 17 year old man stood up and brushed his knees off. He had short brown hair, and very light mahogany eyes. He had several scars, but none were very noticeable, and strangely seemed to disappear with time. Remus Lupin held out his hand to Alyssa. She blushed read.

"Thanks," Alyssa whispered, and she blushing a bright red. Remus held onto her hand a moment longer than was necessary. He stuffed his hand into his pocket, and he too turned red. Sirius however was the complete opposite.

"ALLY!" He exclaimed, with much enthusiasm. He jumped onto his feet and grabbed Alaina's wrists. He tugged her up too roughly and she shot into his arms. Alaina blushed pink and quickly pushed herself out of Sirius's arms.

"Black!" Lily snarled as she walked forward. "Where's your counterpart?" Not that Lily cared, James Potter had always been the last thing on her mind, and to her, he always would be. However, if James was close by, she wanted to get her and the girls out of there as quickly as possible.

Remus was currently helping Alyssa pick up the many magical objects she had dropped, including owl biscuits for her red owl, Rose. Once again they were in a race for who could blush more. Alaina had already gathered up her items as soon as she had escaped Sirius. She was now hiding behind Brittney.

It was hard to imagine Alaina shy, but she defiantly was. It had taken many months for Brittney, Alyssa, and Lily to get her to open up. When she finally did, they were shocked by how different and more carefree she was.

"Aw, Evans..." Lily gulped at the sound of that voice. She slammed her palm to her forehead. "Did you worry about me?" Lily was too afraid to look around, thinking that her nightmare had come true.

"Lily? Worry about you?" Brittney scoffed, with a large grin plastered to her face. "That's a laugh." Lily took a deep breath and turned slowly around.

There stood the immature, big-headed, selfish, bullying, arrogant, self-centered, conceited, inconsiderate, beautiful, handsome, wonderful Quidditch playing jerk.

'No!' Lily thought in her head. How could she be thing those things! James Potter was a horrible person and did not deserve any praise.

"Potter-," Lily snarled under her breath. "Just leave me alone, today. I don't even want to hear your voice." The bespectacled boy's eyes widened in shock. Lily knew he had not done anything wrong, but it was the pretense of what he was going to do that was the problem. He opened his mouth to speak but Alyssa cut him off.

"James, if you want to keep all of your body parts, I suggest you keep silent around Lily." She said this kindly, and James nodded. He looked slightly hurt and dragged his feet over to where Sirius and Remus stood.

They two completely different group of friends wandered off in different directions to finish their shopping. Little did they know that one day quite soon their lives would be in great peril and all they would have would be each other.

James Potter, was after all the last thing on Lily's mind.

Or so she thought.