LILY

I was being shaked. "Lily? Lily?"

"No" I mumbled.

"You're going to miss class."

I bolted up, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes; I brushed my hair, threw on my robes, and slung my bag over my shoulder. "What time is it?"

Alice grinned. "7:30."

I gasped. "You pig. Class doesn't start until 9:00. I had plenty of time."

"Well, you always like getting the potions early, and you had to eat breakfast. Also I forgot you could get ready in less than a minute."

"Oh well. At least we'll probably won't see Potter. They never get up before 8:30"

"Yeah. Come on."

We walked out of our dorm, and into the common room. I spotted Remus with his head in a book. "Hey Remus!" we walked over to him. He put the book down startled. "Oh. Hey girls!"

"You're up early." I observed.

"I wanted some peace and quiet before Sirius and James wakes up."

"That must be hard to get." I grinned. "Have you eaten breakfast or would you like to join us?"

"Thanks for the offer, but I told James, Sirius and Peter I would wait for them."

"Ok. See you in potions!"

"See ya." he said absent-mindedly, with his head already back into Standard Book of Spells Grade 5.

When we got to the Great Hall, we were greeted by tons of laughter. I looked over to see what they were laughing at. My eyes turned to slits as a walked towards the Slytherin table. Every last one of them had their hair turned bright bubblegum pink!

"Severus, who did this to you?"

"Oh, hey Lily. Can't you guess?"

"Potter." I growled.

"Yup."

I turned away and stalked back to the Gryffindor table.

"Lily, it's Potter. What did you expect?"

"He pranked innocent first years!" I exclaimed. "I'm not surprised about the other people, but first years?"

"You have a point."

"Thanks for agreeing." I ate fast and waited by the entrance of the great hall, tapping my toes, waiting for Potter. Finally, I saw that messy black hair and round glasses. He came up to me.

"Hello, Evans. Lovely day isn't it?"

"Don't play innocent. I know that it was you who made the slytherins hair pink"

"How did you know it was me?"

"One. Severus told me. Two. You just confessed. Potter, I'm not surprised you did it to the older students, but first years! It's their first day here!"

"It doesn't matter how old they are, they're still slytherins."

"Not all people for slytherin are evil. If you've forgotten, I'm friends with one!"

"Evans. I don't know how you've failed to notice that ever since last year, your dear friend Snivlly has wanted to join you-know-who and become a death eater."

I was ready to slap him. "He does not! It's not his fault he got sorted into slytherin."

"He wanted to though. Don't you remember the first train ride here? I was there. Remember?"


JAMES

It was obvious that Lily was remembering that day on the train ride. I remembered it clearly. After all, it was the first time I saw Lily.

Sirius, Remus, Peter and I were in a compartment together on the train going to Hogwarts for the first time. We were laughing about prank we had pulled when we were little, and talking about how Hogwarts would be, when a certain redhead walked in.

"Excuse me? Would it be all right if I sat here?" we all pretty much ignored her, even though we saw that she sat down and was crying. I was about to ask her if she was all right, when a greasy haired, hook- nose eleven year old walked in and sat down next to her. I shrugged and turned back to my new friends and ignored them until I heard the greasy haired boy say to Lily- " you better be in slytherin."

That stunned me. Who would want to be in slytherin? I spoke up, "slytherin?" I smirked. "Who would want to be in slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" I turned to Sirius. He didn't smile back. "My whole family have been in slytherin." he said quietly. I raised my eyebrows. How could this guy, who I was sure would become my best mate, have a chance of being in slytherin? "Blimey. And I thought you seemed all right!" Sirius grinned, and I silently cheered.

"Maybe I'll break the tradition. Where are you heading if you had a choice?' he asked me.

Being the stupid eleven year old I was, I pretended to lift an invisible sword. "Gryffindor, where the dwell the brave at heart!" I said in a pompous manor. As a side thought I added. "Like my dad." The greasy haired boy made a strange sound.

"Got a problem with that?"

"No." he answered. He had a sneer on his face now. "If you'd rather be brawny than brainy-"

"Where're you hoping to go, seeing you're neither?" Sirius sneered back. Yup! It looks like I just found my best mate. I started cracking up. Lily, who had been hanging back, narrowed her eyes, and glared at Sirius and me. She stood up. "Come on Severus, let's find another compartment. "Oooooooo..." Sirius and I imitated her lofty voice. As she stormed out, with Snape on her heels I tried to trip him, but I just climbed over my leg. Lily slammed the compartment door slammed shut behind her, as Sirius shouted, "See ya, Snivellus!" as we all roared with laughter again. And so, the rivalry was born.

Lily was remembering this to. "Never mind that, that doesn't prove that he's evil."

"Ok. That doesn't matter, but look at who he hangs out with! Avery and Mulciber! They are well known for wanting to join you-know-who!"

"I don't care who he hangs out with, and that's final!"

I knew she was going to turn me down but I decided to ask anyway.

"Hey Evans, go out with me."

She came up to me, and slapped me. Hard. "Will you ever get it into your think scull that I don't want to go out with you?" she hissed.

"So what answer is that? Yes?"

"NO!" she screamed, as she headed off towards the dungeon for potions. I sighed. I the rest of the day I couldn't stop thinking about her. That beautiful girl was in every one of my classes, so I was in a trance staring at her during every lesson, not taking in a word of all the teachers speeches about how O.W.L.S are so important. I finished the day, falling asleep thinking about Lily.