Here it is, Chapter 1! I hope you guys enjoy the story as much as I enjoyed writing it! This chapter doesn't really have much in it since it's the first chapter but I promise things will start to get interesting in the next chapter! Chapter 2 will be about the start of the term feast and their first day back to classes! We'll meet the marauders, Lily and her friends' worst enemies, at the feast so be prepared for an epic prank!

Lily Evans was a short girl with waist-length red hair with a wild temper to match. She had pale skin, emerald green eyes, and about a million freckles. She also happened to be a muggle-born witch.

Lily opened her eyes and looked around her small bedroom. It was September first. The first day of sixth year. She sleepily looked over at her alarm clock. It read nine fifty-eight. She had a good hour before she needed to be at King's Cross station, which meant she had about twenty minutes to get ready. Lily sat up on her bed. She had packed most of her stuff the day before. All she had left was a couple of stray quills and books. Lily stood up and walked over to her closet, and opened the doors. Then it hit her.

"OH MY GOD, I have like twenty minutes before we need to leave!"

Lily started rushing around her room, shoving the rest of her books and quills and a few scrap pieces of parchment into her trunk. She ran over to her closet and pulled out one of her favorite T-shirts. Lily and her friends Marly, Alice, and Erin had tye-dyed shirts over the summer, and this was one of the ones Lily had tye-dyed. She paired the over large T-shirt with a pair of black athletic shorts. She glanced over at her trunk and frowned.

"Tuneeey!" Lily sang, looking in her mirror.

Her sister Petunia was a muggle and hated everything to do with magic, including Lily. Petunia looked like her dad with dirty blond hair and dark brown eyes. She was tall and skinny and had a weirdly long neck.

"What," Petunia, asked opening Lily's door. She looked around Lily's slightly messy bedroom with a disgusted look on he horse-like face. Petunia had always been a neat freak.

"I need to use your hairbrush," Lily said, watching Petunia's reflection in the mirror as she played with her hair.

"Why?"

"I packed mine."

"Well, get it back out then."

"That would take too long, and think about it, the faster I get ready, the faster you can get rid of me."

"Fine," Petunia said, walking across the hall to her bedroom.

Lily sighed. She didn't understand why her sister hated her so much.

Petunia came back into her sister's room and handed Lily the hairbrush. "What are you gonna do with your hair?"

"Not sure. I might just leave it down."

"You should straighten it again. It looked beautiful at church last week."

"Really?"

Petunia nodded

"hmm, I'm not sure if I have enough time."

"Probably not. We need to go in ten minutes."

"Dammit! Only ten minutes! I haven't even eaten yet."

Petunia started making Lily's bed as Lily rushed downstairs.

"Morning, mum," Lily said, Jumping off the last step and walking into the kitchen.

"There you are," Rose Evans exclaimed, " I was worried we were going to be late"! Mrs. Evans had the same fiery red hair and emerald eyes as her younger daughter.

"What's there to eat?"

"There's toast on the dining room table."

"Yum," Lily said, walking into the dining room where her dad was reading the morning paper. "Morning, Dad," Lily said, grabbing two slices of toast.

"Morning, Lily-Bean," Mr. Evans said, looking up from his newspaper and removing his glasses. David Evans, like his older daughter, had deep brown eyes and dirty blond hair, but his had a little bit of grey in it.

Lily sat down at the end of the table at ate her toast. When she was done eating she went into the living room and pulled her favorite pair of tennis shoes out from under the coffee table, where she had left them yesterday. She sat down on the couch and pulled them on. Then, Lily walked back through the kitchen and up the stairs.

Lily gripped the handle on the side of her trunk and dug her heels into the hallway carpet. She couldn't get her trunk to move any further. She sighed defeatedly and went back into her room. She looked through her desk drawer for a piece of paper. She found an old piece of notebook paper and a muggle pen.

"Need help getting trunk downstairs. Please help." Lily whispered as she scribbled the message on the paper.

She walked over to her small burrowing owl, Athena, and gave her the note before sending her out the window. Athena was named for the Greek goddess of wisdom who was often represented as an owl. When Lily was eleven she had been really into Greek mythology. Lily went over to where her empty bulletin board was hanging on the wall. Usually, it held letters and pictures her family and friends had sent her but now all of those letters were in her trunk waiting to be put up on her school bulletin board tomorrow night. Decorating her bulletin board was one of Lily's favorite things to do. She touched the spot where a picture of her and the marauders usually was. James had been really nice to her at that party they had over the summer to congratulate Lily and Remus on becoming prefects. He hadn't pranked her or asked her out at all over the summer. Maybe he would finally stop asking her out and they could become friends this year.

Lily turned toward her bedroom door as her friend Severus Snape came in. He was a tall and skinny boy with greasy black hair that touched his shoulders.

"Hi," he said.

"Hey," Lily said cheerfully, "Could you help me get my trunk down the stairs?"

Snape nodded in reply and followed Lily into the hallway. They each grabbed a handle and pulled the trunk over to the stairs.

"Do you wanna try sliding it down or carry it," Snape asked?

"It might be too heavy to lift, you know how I always overpack. We should try sliding it."

Snape walked backward down three steps before pulling the trunk toward him. It slid easily down the steps. They continued that way until the trunk was all the way down the stairs, Snape walking down the stairs and pulling with Lily pushing.

"Got it," Lily said, grinning at one of her best friends.

"Now we just have to get it into your car," Snape said.

"Eh, we can get my dad to do that. Want some toast? There might be some left if Petunia's pig hasn't arrived yet."

Lily was, of course, referring to Petunia's rather large boyfriend, Vernon Dursley. The two had been dating for two years. Lily suspected that the pig might ask her sister to marry him now that they were both eighteen.

"You really shouldn't call him a pig you know, Petunia likes him," Snape said, grinning mischievously.

Lily grunted. "Yeah right, you were the one that came up with that nickname in the first place!"

Snape laughed as Mrs. Evens came in.

"Oh hi Severus," She said in an overly cheery voice, she didn't like Snape very much, "I thought I heard the two of you! There's toast in the dining room if you want some."

"Sorry kids, we've really got to go if we're going to be on time," Mr, Evens said as he opened the front door and started to drag lily's trunk out.

"Oh, I better get home then. See you on the platform," Snape said, walking out the front door.

"Bye Sev," Lily said, waving as he started to run down the street.

"Hurry up and get in the car Lily," Petunia said as she marched out the front door and sat down in the backseat of the car.

Lily rolled her eyes and said, "Stop being such a jerk Petunia."

"Language Lils," Her mom reminded her.

"Sorry," Lily grumbled as she hopped into the car.

Later…

"LILY," Marlene McKinnon, Lily's very best friend squealed as Lily walked into their usual compartment at the very back of the Hogwarts Express!

"Hi, Lil's," Erin Brewer, another of Lily's friends said grinning!

"We missed you SO much," Mary Macdonald said, dramatically waving her hands and grinning!

"How was spending all summer in boring old England with your crazy sister," Alice Fortescue said, with a sympathetic smile on her face.

"It was alright, I missed you guys too," Lily said, studying her friends.

Alice, also known as Ally, had her silky brown hair in a short ponytail. She had always wanted to try a pixie cut but her mother just wouldn't allow it. She was also wearing one of the t-shirts the girls had tie-dyed over the summer. Hers fit her perfectly since she was so tall. She had a slight sunburn across her cheeks from spending all summer at her family's summer house on the beach.

Mary Mac and Marley also had sunburns but theirs were on their shoulders. The two cousins had spent the last month of the summer holidays in Paris. Mary had two french braids in her medium-length, white-blond hair. Marley had her long, dirty blond hair in a messy bun on the top of her head. They were both wearing white tank tops with the Eiffel tower on them.

Erin was incapable of sunburning thanks to her dark skin. She had her tight black curls in a ponytail at the back of her head. She was wearing a sky blue t-shirt with a large daisy printed on the back of it. On the front, it said Daisy Designs in pretty cursive letters. Erin's little sister Daisy had designed it.

Lily's summer had been pretty boring, except for the occasional party, usually thrown by the marauders. Her friend's summers had been much more exciting. Hearing her friend's epic summer stories always made her a little bit jealous. The Evans weren't poor, but they weren't as well off as The Fortescue's, McKinnon's, Macdonald's, or Brewers. As the girls sat down and started telling each other about their amazing summer vacations Snape came into the compartment.

"Lily, we need to go to the prefect's compartment."

"Oh yeah! I totally forgot! thanks for coming to get me Sev," Lily said, as she walked out of the compartment, "See you later guys."

"Bye Lily," the girls chorused back.

Lily and Snape had to walk all the way to the front of the train to the prefect's compartment. On their way, they ran into Remus Lupin, the other Gryffindor prefect, and a marauder.

"Oh hey Lils," Remus said grinning at her. He only nodded at Snape whom he didn't like very much. He and his friends were not very nice to Snape and called him all sorts of mean names, like Snivillus.

"Hi Remus, you on your way to the prefect's compartment too?"

"Yeah, we'd better hurry or we're gonna be late," Remus said glancing down at his watch.

The three prefects started jogging down the hall to the front of the train. Lily and Remus in front and Snape going slightly slower behind them.

"I wonder who the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff prefects are," Lily said as they reached the compartment.

"I'm not sure I guess we'll have to see," Remus said as he pulled open the compartment door.

Snape went to sit with Narcissa Black, the other Slytherin prefect, and Lily and Remus sat together. The Hufflepuff prefects were Amalia Edwards and Evan Moon. The Ravenclaw prefects were Xavier Peyne and Caroline Kent. Lily's breath caught as she looked at Xavier. He was tall and had blond hair and blue eyes. He was a really nice boy, and Lily had started to develop a small crush on him at the end of her fifth year. Lily's crush had grown over the summer when Xavier and Lily had become sort of pen pals.

"Hey Lily," Xavier said smiling at Lily.

Just act natural, Lily thought to herself as she sat down next to Remus and across from Xavier. "Hi, Xaiver."

Hope everybody enjoyed it! I don't know when I'll be able to update again but I am already working on this next chapter which will be much longer than this one. Please Review! Thanks so much for reading!