A/N- Thanks to hpfan2013, hpotteralways394 and JadeLights07 for their reviews. I'm glad you liked the third chapter and I hope you like this. Sorry for the delay in updating, my cousins had come over. HAPPY 2014!

#Chapter-4

The First of September

'Finally the stupid holidays were ending. I'm so glad that today I'm going back to Hogwarts. I missed it.' James thought.

He walked towards the barrier and crashed into two people on the other side.

"Ow! I'm sorry." He said.

"It's quite okay." The two boys replied, that's when James looked up to see the boys' faces. They were Remus and Peter.

"REMUS, PETER!" James yelled jovially and hugged them.

"So what have you been up to all summer?" Remus asked him.

"Oh, well, I kind of visited Lily a few times, played Quidditch, etc, etc."

At that moment Sirius came through the barrier. He greeted Remus and Peter and they set off to find a compartment.

"So you were telling us about Lily?" Sirius prodded. James never really told him anything about his little visits except that Lily had got herself a boyfriend.

"Um… yeah, I was sort of bored, like, 3 weeks into the summer and I wrote to her planning to, you know, get together and she said that her sister was getting married this summer so she was busy though she missed me and really wanted to meet me. So I thought maybe it would be nice if I went to meet her and surprise her and I did and she literally threw herself at me," Sirius sniggered.

James continued, "And we talked, she introduced me to her boyfriend, David Hardcastle and then we went back to Lils' place talking loudly on the staircase and her sister yelled at her and I lost my temper and I may or may not have slapped Petunia. And Lily broke up with Hardcastle."

"My, my." Sirius said feigning sadness and James and Remus whacked him upside the head. "OW!" he exclaimed.

"You seriously slapped Petunia?" Remus asked concernedly.

"YES!" James exclaimed proudly.

"Poor girl." Peter said in a mock-pitying voice and Sirius sniggered,

At that point James saw a certain redhead having trouble with her trunk and ran off to help her.

"Hey, Lils." He said causing her to look up.

"James, hi!" she exclaimed happily and enveloped him in a big hug. The other three Marauders who were watching from a distance, raised their eyebrows. James hugged her back happily. Severus Snape passed the happy huggers and fake-coughed when he saw who they were. They broke apart and noticed the source of the sound. "Snape." They acknowledged with a curt nod.

"Lily, please can I speak to you for a moment?" he pleaded.

"NO." James thundered before Lily could respond.

"James!" Lily turned to look at him and they immediately began arguing in hushed voices.

"Lily, he means in person."

"Yeah, I know."

"Lil what if he does anything to you?"

"He won't James."

"Lily, please, no"

"James, I can take care of myself."

"Yes, you can, but just this once, for the sake of my peace of mind let me be there."

"James, NO. Please." Lily pouted and gave him the puppy eyes.

"Oh, okay." He sighed and gave in.

"Fine, Snape. You have two minutes." Lily stated and they walked off.

"Lily, I wanted to apologize. I'm so so so sorry-" Snape began but Lily cut him off

"Save your breath. And I'm not Lily anymore, it's Evans."

"What about that Potter?" Snape ignored Lily. "What happened to hating him, Lily?

"He changed." She stated simply.

"So did I." Snape retorted.

"YOU DON'T GET IT IN YOUR THICK BRAIN DO YOU? WHEREAS, JAMES CHANGED FOR BETTERMENT YOU CHANGED TO BECOME A WANNABE DEATHEATHER. HE CHANGED FOR ME WHEREAS YOU CHANGED TO FAVOUR THE SIDE THAT WANTS MUGGLEBORNS LIKE ME DEAD. YOU ARE PATHETIC SNAPE. YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND." With that, Lily stormed off.

"James, please help me with my trunk." She said in a dangerously sweet voice which clearly said 'obey me if you wish to live'.

"Yeah, sure." He said and picked up both their trunks and placed them on the floor of the train. He climbed up and offered his hand to Lily who took it and climbed up.

"Everything okay, Flower?"

Lily looked at him, questioning the nickname.

"What? Can't I call you, Flower? I'm your friend. Aren't I?" he asked defensively.

Lily burst out laughing. "Awww, James, you're too cute." She said and pulled his cheeks.

James rubbed his cheek and called out to the Marauders to come aboard.

"So, Flower-" James began.

"- James, please don't call me Flower. It's annoying." Lily snapped.

"I'm sorry." He said quickly and continued. "So, Petal-"

Lily laughed again. "James, how many names do you have for me?"

"Let's see," James thought for a moment and began speaking "Lil, Lilykins, Lils, Lilpad, Lily-Flower, Lily-Petal, Lily-Love, Petal, Flower, Love, Babe, Darling, Sweetheart -"

"Oh okay, J-James, th-that's enough." Lily said, she was laughing so hard that she was clutching James' shoulder for support.

The other three Marauders climbed on to see Lily laughing her head off.

"What's the matter, James? Did you accidentally slip her the Essence of Insanity? She seems to have gone mad." Sirius said causing Lily to laugh harder if possible.

"No, she is laughing at the names that I call her."

"Oh, anyway, Lily, have you seen Tia anywhere? Remus asked

"Um, no, they said they'd meet us on the train." With that the five friends set off to find a compartment.

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"Hey, guys." Marlene, Alice and Hestia said as they entered the compartment five minutes later.

"Hi." Everyone replied.

Hestia walked over to Remus gave him a kiss and sat in his lap.

"So, guys, anyone up for a game?" Sirius asked.

"No, Padfoot, for god's sake, sometimes just sit and chat." James denied.

"BORING." He fake-yawned.

No one paid attention to him and continued chatting. James with Lily, Remus with Hestia and Alice with Marlene and Peter had gone off somewhere. Everyone was lost in their own worlds when, just out of the blue, the compartment door slid open and Frank Longbottom stepped in.

"Wassup, guys?" he asked

"Nothing, really, these boring people are chatting and leaving me out." Sirius said loudly.

"Remus, Lily aren't you supposed to be in the prefects' compartment?" Frank asked.

"Nah, bunking." They both said casually and James and Sirius jumped up dramatically –

"NO! My ears must be deceiving me! Ol' Moony and Lily-Flower bunking a prefects' meeting? Who are you?" they yelled dramatically and took out their wands and placed them on Remus' and Lily's noses.

"Are you Slytherins disguised as our friends?"

Everyone burst out laughing. "What?" They protested. "Can't we be concerned? They might just be Slytherins in disguise." Soon the best friends joined in the laughter. The happiness was contagious. They didn't know that somewhere, close by, a friend was turning dark, a friend was turning traitor.

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A/N- So, another chapter down! How was it? More of a filler chapter I know, and also the shortest chapter! I'm sorry I promise I'll make up to you guys in the next chapter!

JilyLoveForever

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