Disclaimer: Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy! But I'm not JK Rowling, so don't sue me, maybe? Oh, haha, I'm so creative, but seriously, I'm not JK Rowling, I'm just an overly obsessed fan! Also, the song in this story is originally by Elvis Presley. I am just using it in this story!

I feel hot air in my face, and my eyes flutter open… "AAHH!" I jump back and fall off my four-poster bed. Hestia had crept up rather close to my face while I was sleeping, and was now rolling on the floor with laughter. "A good morning would've been enough," I mutter picking myself off the floor.

"Come on, Lils," Emmeline says from her four-poster bed, "Get up and get dressed! It's the first day of term!"

Oh, right! I was at Hogwarts! I go over to the bathroom attached to our dormitory, and begin my usual morning routine. I wash my face thoroughly to wake myself up, then I begin brushing my teeth, and lastly, brushing out my hair. This is always a hassle due to the thickness of my hair. It can also get rather frizzy when it's wet, due to its natural waviness. After about 10 minutes battling with my hair, I finally get it to a point where it looks nice, and go to change into the uniform I set out the night before.

After I'm changed, I see that Hestia, Marlene, and Em have already changed into their uniforms as well, and were putting their schoolbooks and wands in their bags. I do the same' grabbing all my books and supplies, because I don't know my schedule yet, and didn't wan to risk not having a book for one of my classes.

After we're all set, we go down to the Great Hall for breakfast. Once there, I see just as much food as there was last night. Only this time, they're all breakfast foods. There are large stacks of French toast, pancakes, waffles, and toast. As well as a large helpings of bacon, sausage, ham, fried and scrambled eggs, porridge, kippers, oatmeal, rolls, fried tomatoes, and cinnamon buns. And several drinks that I recognized from home such as orange juice, milk, water, chocolate milk, and also some wizarding drinks like pumpkin juice, and of course, the delicious butterbeer.

I serve myself some pancakes, bacon, and, again, a heapload of strawberries. And of course, I get a mug of hot butterbeer.

"Do you want some syrup for your pancakes, Lily?" Emmeline offers to me.

I make a small face of disgust, and say, "Ew, no thanks, I hate syrup on my pancakes."

"You hate syrup on your pancakes?" Hestia says, bewildered.

"Yeah, it's sticky and rather disgusting." I say, still disgusted by the syrup.

"So you eat your pancakes plain?" Marlene asks me, with as much bewilderment as Hestia. "Without anything on them?"

"No, don't be ridiculous!" I say to my three shocked friends. "Could you pass me the powdered sugar, please?"

"For what?" Hestia says, passing the sugar to me.

"For my pancakes, of course!" I respond, sprinkling the sugar on my pancakes.

"Lily, you are one of the strangest people I've ever met in my life!" Hestia says turning to her breakfast.

I look down at her boldly striped stockings and her knee-high shoes and respond, "Hmm. Says you."

After a while of us conversing over the randomest things, Professor McGonagall comes by with our schedules for the day. I review my schedule, and see that my first class is Potions, with the Slytherins. Perfect. Finally get a chance to be with Sev.

Being in the same year and house, I have all my classes with Emmeline, Hestia, and Marlene. And, disappointingly, also with Potter and the other guys. I didn't mind Remus and Peter, they seemed nice, but it was Potter and Black I couldn't stand.

"GOOD MORNING HOGWARTS!" Ugh, there they were. Potter, Black, Remus, and Peter had just bounded in through the doors of the great hall, and had just screamed a "cheery" good morning to the whole school.

"Ready, boys?" Potter said taking out his wand.

"Ready!" The other three responded, also with their wands taken out.

The four waved their wands and 4 streams of fireworks erupted from their wands. All 4 of the sets of fireworks turned into 4 different animals: a stag, a dog, a wolf, and a rat. They galloped, pounced, bounded, and scurried all throughout the Great Hall, playfully interacting with the students.

While some students were enjoying this, and laughing along, some were terrified of theses fiery animals. And me, well I was just annoyed, yet fascinated at the same time. They didn't have any magical training! How is it that they were able to master such magic like this? I had read about a charm like this, the Patronus Charm, but this was different. A Patronus charm gives off a cool, blueish-white, glow. These animals were bright, and made of sparks.

I looked over to the teachers' table to see what they planned to do about this. Professor McGonagall looked furious, and turned to Professor Dumbledore, and said something to him. But whatever it was, Professor Dumbledore just waved her off with a cheery smile on his face. He seemed to be enjoying this.

Suddenly, the four animals stopped, each of them at one corner of the hall. They bounded towards the middle, and they all exploded in a shower of sparks. These sparks then rearrange themselves to say: Happy First-Day-of-Term! ~The Marauders: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.

A lot of students stood up and started to applaud, which they bowed to. Hestia and Marlene were included in the students who were applauding. I looked to the two with a look that said, "Why are you clapping? Sit down! They're gits and they disrupted breakfast!" Or at least that what I hoped it said.

But they got the message. Hestia just laughed and said to me, "Oh, lighten up Lils! That was extraordinary!" I didn't applaud though. But in my head I was actually rather jealous. No magical training and that's what they're able to accomplish? It would take me years of training to accomplish that sort of magic!

After the clapping died down, they came over to sit across from Hestia, Marlene, Emmeline and I. They immediately begin wolfing down food in the matter that they did the night before.

I do my best to ignore them, but Marlene had other ideas.

"That was wicked, you guys! How'd you manage to do that?" She says to the boys.

"You liked it?" Potter says. "Trust us, it wasn't easy, but Moony here had told us about it and we decided that we'd give it a try."

"Moony?" Emmeline asks, confused. "Who's Moony?"

"Oh! Right sorry, Moony is our nickname for Remus." Potter says, signaling to Remus.

"We all have nicknames!" Black says, after swallowing some bacon. "I'm Padfoot, James is Prongs, Peter's Wormtail, and, well you already know Remus'." Black says, sipping a bit of pumpkin juice.

"Why those nicknames?" Hestia asks.

"You saw the animals that came out of our wands!" Potter replies.

"Oh right!" Hestia says, giving herself a small whack on the head.

Everyone else continues chatting happily, but I just listen. I'm not going to be rude to them for no specific reason, but frankly, I don't like them much.

Although I don't speak, Potter's eyes keep darting towards me. And he keeps looking at the giant clock embellished with the Hogwarts crest on the wall.

Then, at the same time all 4 of the guys look at each other, and stand up on the bench they were sitting on.

"ATTENTION HOGWARTS STUDENTS AND STAFF!" Black hollers to the entire hall. "I'M SIRIUS BLACK, AND THIS HERE," he says pointing to Potter, "IS MY MATE, JAMES! AND HE HAS A VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCMENT!"

The other 3 boys sit down and James stays standing. He nods towards Remus, and he flourishes his wand, and out of nowhere, music begins playing. I recognize it, it's a muggle song that came out years ago. It was one of my favorite songs. James then opens his mouth and begins to sing:

"Wise men say only fools rush in

But I can't help falling in love with you

Shall I stay

Would it be a sin

If I can't help falling in love with you"

Everyone in the hall's mouth were wide open. He was actually quite a good singer. I saw girl at the Ravenclaw table whisper to the girl sitting next to her, "This is surely for me!" Her friend then smacks her in the shoulder, and they get into a small scuffle over Potter. I roll my eyes. Who would actually want to go out with Potter?

"Like a river flows surely to the sea

Darling so it goes

Some things are meant to be

Take my hand, take my whole life too

For I can't help falling in love with you"

I see girl at the Ravenclaw table whisper to the girl sitting next to her, "This is surely for me!" Her friend then smacks her in the shoulder, and they get into a small scuffle over Potter. I roll my eyes. Who would actually want to go out with Potter?

"Like a river flows surely to the sea

Darling so it goes

Some things are meant to be

Take my hand, take my whole life too

For I can't help falling in love with you

For I can't help falling in love with you"

He finishes the song, and the entire Hall erupts with applause. I hear a girl at the Hufflepuff table, perhaps in her 4th year, shout to him, "I love you too, Jamesie!" Pathetic. She's 3 years older than him!

The entire hall quiets down and he says, "Now, that song was for a very special girl, who's in this hall right now." He gets off the bench and turns to the Hestia, Marlene, Emmeline, and I. This was obviously for Marlene, she was very pretty, and was rather nice to him.

"Lily Evans," Oh crap. Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap! He did not just say my name. Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap!

He continues. "Lily Evans, will you go out with me?" The entire hall gasps. And you can here several girls crying, and screaming, "NO!"

I stutter. "I, uh, I um." What was I supposed to say? The guy just freakin' sang me a love song in front of the entire school! He put himself out there for me! But he was a git!

I turn to Hestia, Marlene, and Em for some guidance. They're no help. They just sit there with their mouths wide open.

I turn back to the boy standing in front of me with a hopeful expression on his face. I look down to the floor and whisper out, "No."

His face falls. Some girls throughout the hall let out sighs of relief, a few pump their fists in the air in celebration. But Potter is completely silent. He quickly puts on a smirk and says to me, but loud enough so the whole hall can hear, "Ah, playing hard to get I see? Not to worry, I will ask you every day for the rest of your life until you say yes!" He then quiets down, and gets rather close to my face, and whispers, "You mark my words, Lily Evans, you will eventually fall in love with me."

He springs up, grabs a piece of bacon, and says to his friends, "Let's go fellow Marauders! First day of term, we don't want to be late!" They then link arms, and skip out of the hall in a merry fashion.

I could tell, James Potter will be the death of me.

AND DONE! Yes, I know, I know, I'm 2 months late, feel free to hit me with as many bat-bogey hexes as you want! I was busy with Personalized Head Cannons, but I had to delete that story. (You can see why on my profile) But know I can focus on Lily Petals! I swear, if you guys could read my mind, you would be able to read the rest of the story! Yes, I know every single event that I want to happen, it's just a matter of linking them all together in a way that makes sense! I will try to update faster, but I am in the middle of moving! And that's always hard! Now, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I know it was't NEARLY as long as the last one, but I had fun writing it! Hope you enjoyed, tata for now!

~LilyFlower99