Chapter Eight-Home Again

Lily stormed back to her compartment where her friends were waiting for her.

How dare he? That inconsiderate, egotistical prick! Had he actually thought that he could put his filthy hands on her and get away with it? She shuddered at the thought.

She suddenly stopped. He had tried touching her before, and she had blown up at him, even though it wasn't in a perverted way, but it had never annoyed her as much as it had this time.

It must have just been because I was already mad since he made Head Boy when I don't really believe he should have Lily reasoned with herself, determinedly ignoring the fluttering feeling that had started when James had touched her back. It was back now, as she recalled the feeling his hand's pressure softly urging her out the door.

What am I thinking? It was just bullying, arrogant, annoying, egotistical, loud-mouthed, bragging, tall, smart, handsome, -NO! I didn't mean that! I didn't just think that! Potter is just a great, big, bullying prick! Lily thought to herself. But the more she though about it, the more she was surprised to find that she was wrong.

Ever since that scene by the lake in fifth year, James had started cursing fewer amounts of people. Well, at least as few as could be expected from a Marauder. He had even started deflating his ego and by the end of last term, it had become almost non-existent. And she couldn't deny that he was handsome, not matter how hard she tried.

"Maybe he isn't so bad after all." Lily thought.

Looking up, she realized she was back at her compartment. Sliding the door open, Lily smiled and walked in.

"Hey guys, I'm back!" Lily said to her group of friends. There was Alex, who had hazel eyes and dirty blonde hair. She was muggle born, like Lily. Tamara (or Tammy) had brown hair and brown eyes. Up until third year, her hair had hung down to her waist. She and Alex were quiet and smart, but would speak their minds forcefully should the need arise. Sitting between them was Anna, who was the shortest with strawberry blonde hair and dark blue eyes. All three of them were in Gryffindor with Lily.

"Hey Lily! How was it?" Alex asked cheerfully.

"Ok, but you'll never guess who made Head Boy!" Lily exclaimed.

Her four friends looked uneasily at each other.

"Er…actually Lily, we could." Alex finally said. Lily looked at them in curious shock.

"You knew?" Lily asked, looking hurt.

"Well, we didn't know until after you had left to go to the meeting." Tammy said quickly and apologetically. Actually, there was more to the story that they weren't telling. They looked at each other, each with a small smile on their faces as Lily rummaged through her bag.

Flash Back

Alex, Tammy, Kyree, and Anna were talking happily. Lily had left for the Head/Prefect meeting about ten minutes ago.

"Yeah, I can't wait till-"the door of the compartment came crashing open, cutting Anna off in the middle of her sentence.

Two boys came tumbling into the compartment. Remus and Sirius straightened up, panting and out of breath.

"What are you guys doing here?" Tammy asked.

Remus held up a hand as he regained his breath. After a few moments he straightened up.

"You'll never guess where James had to go!" he said excitedly. The girls looked at each other and shrugged.

"The Head's meeting."

Remus watched as his words sunk in.

"Oh my God! That means they're going to have to spend practically the whole year together! They'll have to do patrols, prefect meetings, and plan events! Oh this is going to be wicked!" Alex said, squealing with delight.

"But we're also going to have to put our plans into action sooner so they don't kill each other before the end of the week." Remus said, smiling.

Over the summer, the three girls and Sirius and Remus had agreed on something.

They had to get James and Lily together. They could all tell Lily liked James, she was just being stubborn. And if you didn't know that James was fond of Lily, well then there was just something wrong with you.

So, during the holiday break, the group had formed the "James' Lily" plan. So far, they had one definite plan. To get James and Lily together, no matter what.

End Flashback

Ducking their heads to stifle their giggles, the girls trying to look as innocent as possible.

Once Lily had looked back up, she was slightly suspicious, but decided she would find out sooner or later.

The always seem to be plotting against me. Lily though slightly amused. It was true, she always happened to fall victim to a plot, though she always enjoyed it.

"So, how were things while I was gone?" Lily asked. The other girls looked quickly at each other, answering with short "Fine"'s.

In truth, everything had gone fine. They had come up with a plan to set "James' Lily" into motion.

Then, seeing the first flow of prefects, Sirius and Remus had hurried back to their own compartment, for fear of Peter coming out of the compartment to see if they were back from the "bathroom"(they had decided not to include Peter in their plans, for fear of being found out, as Peter was not the best person at keeping secrets), or incase James made it back before they did.

So the two Marauders had dashed off, leaving the girls to come up with the final details of "Stage One", as Sirius had called it.

The six friends talked for awhile, stopping only when the food trolley arrived.

Once they had stocked themselves up on sweets ("Chocolate!"), the girls resumed talking.

Looking out the window, Tammy noticed tall turrets starting to pierce the inky night sky.

"We better put our robes on." She said, pointing to the massive towers reaching for the stars in the distance.

Lily turned to the luggage rack and handed Anna, Tammy, and Alex their trunks, then turned to her own and pulled out her school robes, which were lying in a neat stack on the top of her things. Quickly pulling them on, Lily turned to face Anna, who was already done. They waited a couple minutes, looking out the window at the nearing castle.

Finally, the train screeched to a halt. The girls grabbed their trunks and slid the door open, stepping into the corridor where they were shuffled forward by the torrent of bodies.

Reaching the door, they one by one stepped out into the cool, refreshing night air.

Lily sighed, looking out over the vast lake to the dark, waiting castle. She was home.

Yeah, yeah, I know, sappy ending (and remarkably like my Titanic one-shot) review plz!