Lily Evans, Head Girl and Charms Princess, strolled confidently through the barrier at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters pushing a trolley piled high with a trunk and a cage before her. Her autumn red hair swung to and fro at her waist with every movement, glistening as light bounced of the straight silky locks. She smiled brightly, showing perfect white teeth , when she saw her two very best friends standing together next to the scarlet locomotive called the Hogwarts Express. Her green eyes twinkled with joy as she walked towards them quickly.
Jocelyn looked up and waved when she saw Lily walking toward them. Jocelyn was a stunning blond with twinkling baby blue eyes that suggested that somewhere along, she was related to Professor Dumbledore. Jocelyn could always be found reading, writing, or flirting, her three favoritre things (except for talking to Lily and Rose). She wasn't a prefect because Dumbledore had decided she showed a little too much porcelin skin when she went to parties or didn't wear her Hogwarts robes on the weekends.
Rose was the pessimist of the group. Her raven hair made her look shocking because of her pale skin and icy blue eyes. Rose was hart to anger, but when she was upset , get out of her way. Her impecible sense of right and wrong counterbalanced her flawless figure causeing boys to be scared of her. Rose was a prefect and an excellent one at that.
"Hey Rose, Jocelyn," Lily smiled. "What's going on?"
Rose glared angrily at four boys down the train platform, hands on her hips. "Those creatures over there were just bragging on how Precious Potter became Head Boy. He apparently got the news just before he left this morning. Jocelyn and I were pitying the poor sap who got stuck being Head Girl with him."
The creatures that Rose loathed so much were none other than James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. Sirius became the unlucky reciepient of Rose's anger back in frist year when he pranked her by turning her robes into a thorn bush and her hat into a rose while she was wearing them. Over the years, that anger transferred itself to the rest of Sirius's marauding friends. When they pulled a prank, Rose was most normally the one to catch them. Rose despised them a lot. Lily could never find it in her heart of tell Rose that she and Remus were good friends, and that they had been so since they were two.
"Uh…guys," Lily stammered, "I'm Head Girl with Potter. I got the letter this morning also."
Rose and Jocelyn's mouths went wide in shock. Rose began to sputter in disbelief, "You…you…."
"What she means to say, Lils, is that she is very sorry that you got stuck with Potter. She hopes it turns into a pleasant experience eventually, and that you'll get her a date with Sirius for the end of the year ball," Jocelyn elaborated.
Rose turned with a look of pure loathing on her face towards Jocelyn. Lily smiled at this normal banter, and began to give Rose the normal 'be nice' talk that happened at least fifty million times a year. In the middle of Lily's sentence about not getting mad at friends who are joking, the whistle blew, signaling that the girls needed to get on the train.
Jocelyn jumped into the train and sat down in the first available compartment. Lily and Rose followed while Lily continued to give Rose the 'be nice' talk. The girls were just settling down when the door to their compartment was opened to reveal the smiling face of Sirius Black.
"Lily, sweetheart angelface, I haven't seen you in ages…Josie, light of my life, how are you?...Rose, my magnificent prefect, protector of right…" Sirius began as he saw the girls staring at him in open mouth disbelief.
"Can it, Black. We don't want you hear. Go away. I will not have you playing more tricks on me or Lily or Josie. We don't want to be blue and purple. So just go away. In fact, I order you to go away as a prefect. I'm sure Lily would back me up as Head Girl," Rose admonished to the shaggy haired flirt. Sirius looked shocked for a moment.
"Lily, my darling angel, of course you're Head Girl. I should have known. How could Dumbledore but choose the only perfect girl in the school to be the female head of all prefects. O, Leader of the School, I come bearing tidings from your counterpart, James Potter, that he would like to pay you a visit. Please say yay that he can come to you or that you will come to him, if the fiery lady Rose objects to his presence, flower of existence. Please," Sirius ended wiggling his eye brows up and down in a suggestive sort of way.
Rose glared, her fine complexion was getting reder and reder. Josie began to try to soothe Rose, after motioning for Lily to follow Sirius to their compartment. Lily waved goodbye and shut the door behind her.
"Sirius," Lily began, "I don't know why you have to do that to her. She never did anything to you. Why must you always keep getting on her bad side?"
"Princess of my school, it's because she broke my fragile heart when she refused to date me that first shocking year of Hogwarts," Sirius proclaimed.
"Sirius, you have Great Wall of China surrounding your heart. Girls endlessly try to scale it, but it never breaks down," Lily observed.
"Lils, was that a joke? Was the sweet, innocent Head Girl joking with me? Have we begun to corrupt her at last?" Sirius questioned happily, jerking open the door to his compartment.
"In you dreams, Sirius," Lily muttered. "Rose and Josie are rubbing off, not you."
Lily stepped inside to find the Marauders sitting around a table. Pettigrew and Remus were playing a game of exploding snap, while Potter was looking through a book entitled Fantastic Pranks for the Last. Sirius slid in beside Pettigrew and patted the seat beside himself. Lily shook her head and remained standing.
"James, I have brought back your equal after a long quest through thorn infested waters. The Head Girl this year is none other than a water lily caught among some thorns," Sirius said and then saw the stash of pumpkin pasties sitting on the table. He reached over and grabbed five, proceeding to eat them faster than Lily thought was possible.
James looked up and saw Lily standing uncertainly in the doorway. He quickly placed the book in Pettigrew's lap and smiled innocently at Lily. Pretending like he just noticed the book where he had placed it, he admonished, "Wormtail, I am surprised at you, reading something like that when your best friend has a duty to uphold all rules and regulations set by Headmaster and Staff."
James picked up the book and stuffed it into a bag. "Lily, how are you? I had no idea that you were going to be Head Girl," James welcomed her.
"Yes, I am, Potter," Lily smiled. "What was it that you wanted?"
"Oh yeah, Dumbledore told me in the letter to find the Head Girl and tell her that we are going to be eating dinner with him after the ceremony starts," James notified her.
"Oh well, okay. I need to get back. Rose, Josie, and I are trying to figure out how we can sneak out to watch the full moon tonight," Lily responded.
All movement in the compartment stopped. Remus finally looked up and noticed her.
"Lils, hello. Come and give me a hug," Remus suggested.
Lily reached over Potter and hugged Remus. Remus was giving her a kiss on the cheek when the door slid open.
"Lily!" Josie cried, "what are you doing?"
Lily began to pull away to face her friends when the train jerked to a stop. Lily found herself laying in someone's lap. Strong hands picked her up and put her up right. She locked her arms around his neck, frightened by the extreme darkness.
As suddenly as it had happened, the lights came on and the train jerked forwards causing Lily and her comfort, James, to fall to the ground, him on top of her and her arms around his neck. Both looked extremely shocked.
"Awww, Lily, I though you were my gal," Sirius pretended to pout.
James quickly got off Lily, a little shaken by how wonderful it felt to have Lily in his arms. Rose reached out her hand lifted Lily off the floor.
"Lily, can't we leave you alone for five minutes without you being so nice to everyone that you give them kisses and let them almost kiss you?" Rose sighed. "And you all, I am ashamed at this compartment. Books about pranks, kissing a poor innocent girl like Lily, being yourselves, it's shameful. I will not accept it. If I see it again, it will be five points from Gryffindor a piece."
Josie and Rose walked out, holding the door and waiting for Lily to follow. Before she left Lily smiled at Remus.
"Relax, guys, it's not full moon. Honestly, don't you keep up with your astronomy over the break?" Lily asked. Then she strolled out of the compartment.
"What did I say, we are having influence over the queen of hearts," Sirius boasted. The Marauders just looked at him.
"What? It's true!"