Lily was startled into waking. She gasped as she took in her surroundings, thankful it was only her bed in Hogwarts. She had awoken from a vivid dream, of chases and of wild creatures. She dimly remembered being in the Forbidden Forest, chased by an unknown dark creature. She had stumbled, and the beast had come up behind her, ready to rip her throat out, but after that she didn't remember anything. She sighed, knowing that the chance of further sleep was gonna be an impossible reality (Does that make sense? Oh well, hell, she wasn't gonna go back to bed, k?)

She picked up the journal lying next to her bed, and strode down to the common room, to sit next to the fire, and contemplate in a rare, peaceful, and quiet moment. ****************

However..

Unknown to her, three of the Marauders were sitting in the room, glancing at each other questioningly. James, Sirius, and Remus were hidden under James's prized invisibility coat, about to pull a start of term prank on Prof. McGonagull. "What the hell is she doing??? She's gonna ruin everything, the timing has to be just right, or McGonagall isn't gonna get locked in. She'll be locked out!" Sirius hissed frantically. They had created a racket in the boy's bathroom, luring a tired. Grumpy, Mcgonagull in to tell them off.however they had hoped to lock her in there until the morning, when she would be confronted with about 20 Slytherin boys, all in the nude! Not only would it embarrass the professor, but the Slytherins as well! The only problem was lily..

"We gotta get her outta here, she's totally gonna bust us when she hears the racket! Damn you Evans! Here, lets go try to see what she's doing, and maybe we can stun her or something."

"James! We're NOT going to stun her. Get the idea out of your head!" Remus the serious one scolded. "Let's just see what she's doing."

The snuck up on Lily, trying to shuffle quietly as to not alert her of their presence. She seemed to be writing in that journal again, and the boys curious as to what she was doing leaned over and started to read.

"Dear diary,

I just had the strangest dream, and I couldn't sleep. I decided to come down here to cogitate a little in the firelight. Tonight was another sorting.. I miss them so much, it's unimaginable! I tried to talk to Petunia a little earlier, but she still blames me for their deaths, and for her misfortune. What was it? Oh ya, it was me and my freak powers that did it. I dunno, she makes me feel like if I wasn't here the world would be a better place to inhabit or something, like I'm really ignoble. But she's such a hypocrite it creates the most annoying quandaries and paradoxes. I dunno.At least its only one more year of Blonde lily, than maybe I can move away and become myself again. Far.far..away.

Love always Lily.

The marauders glanced up surprised, since when did Lily have an IQ high enough to know what quandary meant??? They watched silently as she drifted off to sleep before them, no longer anticipating their prank, but wondering what was up with the now mysterious Lily Evans.