A giant castle loomed over Lily. She was sitting in a horseless carriage between Remus and Sirius. Across from them was Peter, James, and James' current girlfriend, Jessica.

Jessica was a sixth year Hufflepuff. She was short and looked like a child standing next to her six foot boyfriend. She had irresistible baby blue eyes and long blond hair. She loved to talk and could be very overwhelming. The only reason the others put up with her was because she was James' girlfriend. He was oblivious to the fact that the others didn't like her.

As they got out of the carriage, Remus – forever the gentleman – offered Lily his hand and walked her to the Great Hall. James on the other hand, didn't help Jessica at all. He hardly even registered she was there. He walked to the Hall, closely behind Remus and Lily, laughing and joking around with peter and Sirius. Peter let a little smile escape at Jessica's angry glares at James.

As they entered the Great hall, they stared at the decorations in awe. Every one of the House colors were around the room, causing it to look like fireworks of streamers and confetti had been let loose in their dining area. There was a giant banner reading "Welcome Back Hogwarts!" It was flashing between the colors gold, silver, and bronze.

"James," he broke out of his trance long enough to look at his girlfriend, "I've got to go. Hufflepuffs await."

"Oh, OK" he answered, not really caring.

Jessica sulked away to her table, occasionally glaring at James.

"James," Peter was laughing at his friend, "you just totally blew the girl off!"

"I did?" His friends nodded. "Well, I was going to break up with her anyway, she's too superficial."

"Ooo, vocab word!"

"Shut up, Sirius."

Lily hooked arms with James and led him slowly to their table, "Normally I would call you a womanizing pig about your little Jess comment. But I'm willing to make an exception on her case."

He laughed and held her close, some people who didn't know them will enough might have thought that they were about to kiss passionately. "Well, Lillian, the only reason I stuck with her for so long was to make you incredibly jealous and insane with anger."

"Oh." She pulled out of his grip, "Didn't work a bit." She sauntered over to Sirius, in a mock sexy manner, and sat close to him. James saw him put his arm over her shoulders and then sighed and went over and awaited the sorting.

After the sorting, Dumbledore stood up to give a speech.

"Oh great, now we'll never get to eat." Said Peter sarcastically. Everybody around him snickered.

"I'd like to welcome the first years," everybody broke out in applause and the first years turned beet red, "Now to set some ground rules. The Forbidden Forest is, of course, forbidden. That means nobody" he cast an obvious glance at Sirius, "is allowed in unless accompanied by a Professor. Now, I would like to have everybody give a round of applause to this year's prefects! From Hufflepuff, Dianne Summers and Richard Simmons" (A/N We all knew there was something different about him!!! LOL, don't really know why I chose that name honestly…). There was a round of applause through out the hall. "From Ravenclaw, Karen York and Brian Matthews" Another round of applause. "From Slytheryn, Lucius Malfoy and Patricia Parkinson." This time there was just a polite applause and a few obvious coughs from the Gryffindor table. "And finally, from Gryffindor, we have James Potter and Lily Evans." A ruckus of hooting and hollering and a few cat calls came from the Gryffindor table.

Lily and James, though, hadn't realized they had been addressed and were wondering what was going on. Sirius started laughing and Dumbledore told them to stand up and take a bow. James, being an attention hog got up on the table and bowed, blowing kisses at pretty much any girl that looked his way. Lily stood up, took a bow, and tried to just sit down again, not comfortable with the cat calls that were obviously for her.

But of course, James couldn't have that.

He bent down, pulled her up on the table, took one of her hands and rose it up over their heads – much like the winner of the Olympics would. Finally, they sat down. Once most of the attention was off of them, Lily smacked James in the chest.

"Lils! What was that for?"

"For making me feel like a fool in front of the entire school."

"You know you loved it."

Lily didn't say anything, but just glared at him. Well… she tried to glare at him, she could feel the tugs of a smile pulling at her lips.

Their back-to-school feast came and went pretty quickly, and relatively uneventful. After all, Malfoy getting up and doing the jitterbug on the Slytheryn table was a regular occurrence, right?

As James and Lily led the students up the many staircases, they delighted themselves in telling the younger students of the many horrors that awaited them this year – the students in their year were either laughing at them or trying to calm the younger ones down. They got to the portrait of the fat lady and gave the students the password – Fire's Eye – and gave them the 'grand tour' of the common room.

"Girl's room on the right, Guy's on the left" Lily said. (A/N is that right? Well, it is now…) "You'll find your luggage in your room, you'll find your room because your name, along with your dorm mates', will be on the door. Good night, you'll get you schedule at breakfast tomorrow."

With that, most of the Gryffindor population went upstairs to meet up with their roommates and go to bed.

"Geez, Lils, you could just talk the night away, couldn't you?"

Lily smiled, "Yes, Pete, I believe I could."

Lily gave all four of her friends a peck on the cheek and went up to bed. They could hear her voice softly telling them to have a good night.

James looked up at her retreating form, a little confused. Shaking his head, as if to clear it of thoughts, he climbed up the stairs to go to bed.

The other three soon followed, wishing classes didn't have to start the next day.

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OK, I want to apologize for those two notes that I put in there, I try to not put them in my stories, they're distracting. Well, I'm so sorry that it took so long to get this chapter out, I know what's going to happen, I just don't know how I'm going to get there…

I'd like to thank everybody who reviewed, it would take up too much room to thank everybody individually, sorry! But I do read each and every one of the reviews, believe me!

OH! I was wondering if anybody would possibly, for some reason, be interested in being my beta reader? Just to make sure I've spelled things correctly and that everything is constant in the story. I've read ones where James goes from being 6 feet, to close to 6 feet, to a towering 6 foot 5… I really don't want to become one of those stories. If anybody out here would be interested, please E-Mail me at iced_fire@earthlink.net with "Beta Reader" in the subject line. If you don't put that in the subject line, I'll probably just delete it.

OK, well, I'll try to get the next chapter out sooner. OK, well, *in surfer voice* catch ya' on the flip side, dude!

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