Platform 9 3/4 was as packed up with people as always, everywhere students were saying their last goodbyes to their family.

"Goodbye, mom and dad," Alexa Potter said, giving them both one last hug.

"Bye sweeties, don't get in trouble," Euphemia Potter said, giving both of her kids a stern look, "If Professor McGonagall sends me one more owl complaining about you, I swear to god I'll hex both of your arses off."

"When do we ever get in trouble?" James asked innocently, but when he saw his mum's face he quickly added, "But we'll be extra good this year."

"Just make sure you don't get caught," The father of the twins said.

"Fleamont, don't encourage them!" Euphemia said as she hit her husband on his arm.

"Prongs!"

"Padfoot!" James yelled as he bro-hugged the black-haired guy.

Alexa quickly walked away hoping the black-haired guy hadn't seen her, but sadly for her, he did.

"Lexi, always nice to see you!" He yelled.

Alexa sighed, turned around, "What do you want Black?"

"Nothing, I was just saying hi"

"O, bye, then," She said as she got on the Hogwarts Express. It didn't take her long to find the compartment her friends had claimed.

"Lexi! Finally, you are here. We thought you were dead," Marlene said her voice even more dramatic than usual.

Alexa sat down laughing, "I was just saying goodbye to my family, but I'm here now don't worry," Then she noticed there were only two other girls in the compartment, "Where is Lily?"

"She is at the prefect compartment," Alice said running her hand through her black hair.

"O yeah, I forgot little miss perfect is a prefect now," Alexa said, "I'm so glad that I'm not a prefect."

"No offense, but you would be the worst prefect ever," Lily said as she walked into the compartment.

"LILY!" Marlene yelled as she pulled Lily into a hug, "I missed you so much"

"We just saw each other like twenty minutes ago," Lily informed her.

"Twenty minutes is a long time," Marlene defended herself.

Knowing Marlene wouldn't let it go, Lily said, "I missed you too."

"I knew you missed me Lily-flower," James, who was standing behind Lily, said.

Lily rolled her eyes. James Potter was by far the most annoying person she had ever met. She had told her numerous times she wasn't into him, but he kept trying to flirt with her.

"I have to go to the prefect compartment," She said, pushed James to the side and walked away.

"Nice try Prongs," Sirius chuckled, "But let's go find Wormtail before he gets lost on the train."

"Bye little sis," James said.

"First of all, I'm not that little. You are just giants. And se-," She said, but Sirius interrupted her.

"No, we just have giant dicks"

"Nice one Padfoot," James said as he high-fived Sirius.

Alexa grabbed one of Marlene's pumpkin pies and threw it at Sirius, but he dodged it and the pumpkin pie flew against the compartment door.

"Almost little sis, almost," James said and he and Sirius walked away to find Peter.

"Ey that was mine!" Marlene yelled at Alexa, "I'm going to kill you!"

That was the sign for Alexa to run. As she was running towards the front of the train, she bumped into something hard.

"Why the hell on earth are you running?" Remus asked confused, but then he saw an angry Marlene running at them, "Quickly, go in here," He said and he pushed Alexa into an empty compartment.

"Have you seen Alexa?" Marlene asked him, "I need to have a word with her."

"No, I haven't seen her," Remus said innocently, "Why do you need to have a word with her?"

"So, you haven't seen her?" Marlene asked again.

"Nope, not since last year," He lied.

"Okay, thank you anyway," And the blond girl began to run away again.

Remus got into the compartment, "So do you want to tell me what that was all about?"

"Black was being his annoying self again, so I threw one of Marlene's pumpkin pies at him," She explained, "How can you be friends with someone like him anyway? He is such a jerk."

Remus chuckled, "He is not that bad, but anyway how was your summer?"

"It was pretty great even though James was a total pain in the arse."

"What did he do this time?" He asked curiously.

"What didn't he do," Alexa answered, making Remus laugh,

"That sounds like James."

"How was your summer?" Alexa asked.

"It was fine," He answered nervously, not going into debt, "I'm sorry, but I got to go be a prefect now. It was nice catching up with you," And with that being said he left the compartment leaving Alexa feeling confused.

Half an hour later, Alexa had joined her group of friends again. She still had Remus in her mind. Now that she was thinking about it, he never really talked about his life at home. The only time she heard about them was when his mother was sick again, which happened to be almost every month.

"Hello? Lexi, are you still in there?" Marlene said as she waved her hand in front of Alexa's face.

"Huh?"

"I asked if you wanted a chocolate frog," Marlene laughed.

"I'm sorry I was just daydreaming, but I would love one," Alexa smiled as Marlene gave her one of her precious chocolate frogs.

"Were you thinking about Remus again," Alice asked and she put her book away, "Why don't you just tell him you like him. I bet he likes you too."

Alexa ran her hand through her dark brown hair nervously, "What are you talking about? The only feelings I have for Remus are friendly ones."

"Pff, Liar," Marlene said as she ate another chocolate frog.

"I swear I'm not lying," She said, trying to hide the fact she was blushing. She knew she was lying, but if she told her friends the truth, they wouldn't shut up about it.

"Whatever," Alice said and she picked up her Herbology book again.

"Lily would believe me," Alexa mumbled as she looked out of the window. She always loved seeing the landscape change as the train rode on for hours and hours. It calmed her down.

When the girls finally arrived at Hogwarts and Lily joined the group again, the balance of the group finally returned. When one of the four girls weren't around the balance of the group changed and the others were left feeling incomplete. The four girls had completely different personalities, which made them such a good team: they completed each other.

The four girls sat down at the Gryffindor table, trying to be as far away as possible from James and Sirius, as none of them wanted another encounter with the boys that called themselves the marauders.

During the sorting ceremony, Marlene complained about being hungry numerous times.

"You had like five pumpkin pies in the train," Alice said as Marlene once again said she was starving, "You are going to regret eating so much later," She warned Marlene.

"It was four pumpkin pies, not five," Marlene said giving Alexa a nasty look, "Someone thought it was a good idea to use MY pies as a weapon."

"I'm sorry Marlie," Alexa said and luckily for her, the sorting ceremony had come to an end and the feast started. The tables quickly filled themselves with all kinds of delicious foods. By the sight of all the food Marlene immediately forgot about the pie-throwing incident.

"I think I'm going to die," Marlene said as she held her stomach, "I hate to admit it, but you were right Alice. I think I'm going to go to Madame Pomfrey."

"I'll go with you," Alice said, helping her friend to the hospital wing.

"Gryffindor first years follow me please," Lily said and she raised her voice, so all the new Gryffindors could hear her.

"Follow us please," James yelled as he stood next to Lily and held her hand.

"Can you just not. You're not even a prefect," Lily said as she pulled her hand and pushed the boy away, "I'll take you to your common room," She said to the new Gryffindors and she took off with the group of first years following her.

Alexa proceeded to walk to the Gryffindor common room on her own. She was filled with happiness, as she was finally back at the place, she called her second home. She loved every single bit about the castle. She was almost at the portrait of the fat lady when she felt someone's hand on her shoulder...