The next few days seemed to drag on for Lily. She was so excited
about going to Hogwarts! She had already read all of the books that she had
baught and nearly memeroized some of them. Finally, the day came for Lily
to go to Hogwarts.
"Mum! Oh, I'm so excited!" Lily said happily as she danced around the dinner table. "Really? We hadn't noticed," said Mr. Evans cheerfully. He was so proud of his daughter.
"Lily, Aunt Judy will be here at any moment, you have all of your stuff packed, don't you?" asked Mrs. Evans.
"Yes, Mum. Everything is packed."
"Hey! Is anybody here? Lily! Time to go!" shouted a voice from the front door.
"Oh! That must be Aunt Judy! Love you, Mum, Love you, Dad!" said Lily as she kissed her parents goodbye and left with her aunt.
On the way to Kings Cross Station, Lily looked at her ticket. 'Platform 9 3/4? Must be a magical thing...' thought Lily.
"Well, dear, we're here," said Judy as Lily and Judy made their way to the platform carring Lily's bags.
"Lily!" shouted Paige as she ran up to Lily.
"Paige! How are you?!" asked Lily as she hugged Paige.
"I'm great! How about you?"
"I'm good," Lily said. Lily noticed another girl who was standing next to Paige.
"Oh, how rude of me. Lily, this is Alexia. Alexia, this is Lily. I met Alexia a few minutes ago. Her mum and dad were going to show me how to get onto the platform. She's in first year too!" said Paige as Lily and Alexia smiled a greeting at each other.
"Hi," said Lily.
"Hi," replied Alexia. Alexia had blond hair that was the same length as Lily's and she had hazel eyes. She was also very beautiful, but she didn't seem the type to admit it.
"Should we all sit together on the Hogwarts Express?" asked Paige.
"Sure! You three will be the only people I know," said Lily,
"Is that alright with you, Alexia?"
"Yeah, that'd be great!" said Alexia.
"Well, you girls had better be going now! The express leaves in ten minutes and if it is as crowded as it was when I went to school then you will need to hurry to get yourselves a good compartment," said Judy as she shooed the girls along.
After the somewhat frightening event of getting onto the platform, Lily, Alexia, and Paige made their way to the back of the train. They kept walking unil they made it to an empty compartment. The three girls got sitiuated into the compartment and began to talk about their lives.
*~Meanwhile, in a compartment across from them~*
"Hello! James! Earth to James!" shouted an energetic Sirius Black as he waved his hand in front of James' face. Sirius Black had long, messy, dark brown hair that gave him a rather sexy apperence.
"James! Buddy! You've been sorta out of it ever since we left Zonkoos!" said Remus Lupin, another one of James' friends. Remus had sandy brown hair, soft, brown eyes, and a very cute, attractive face.
"Sorry, guys. It's just that girl I ran into...I can't stop thinking about her..." said James Potter. James still had the same messy dark hair and entrancing chocolate-brown eyes. If at all possible, James looked even more handsome than when he was younger.
"Does James have a crush?" asked Sirius as Peter Pettigrew snorted. Peter had blondish hair and brown eyes. He was a little chunky, and had a baby face. He wasn't ugly, but he was nothing compared to the other boys.
"Shut up Siri, it isn't like that. It's just that she seemed so familiar..." James trailed off.
"Whatever, buddy," said Remus as he began to talk to Sirius about Quidditch. 'Who was she? That red hair...it seems so familiar. Bumping into her reminded me of someone...but who?' thought James.
"Hey, James, what do you say that we play a little prank?" asked Sirius with a grin.
"Sure!" said James. He couldn't resist a prank, "On who?"
"The apartment across from us has three girls in it. I saw them go in earlier. They sure are hott. What should we do?" asked Sirius as James rolled his eyes. All four boys were girl crazy, but Sirius was the one most obsessed with girls.
"Nothing permenint," said James as the boys got up with their wands.
Sirius snuck his hand into the girl's compartment and muttered a spell. Suddenly the girl's compartment was filled with a nasty green gooze. The girls started to scream.
"What is this?!" screamed Paige as she tried to peal some of the gooze off of her, but unable to do so.
"Ew ew ew ew ew!" was all that Alexia could find to say.
"When I find out who did this I'm gonna-" Lily was in mid-sentence when the compartment door flew open to reveal a grinning James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Lily's back was to the door, so nobody could see her face.
"You're gonna what my dear?" asked James in a mock voice.
"All I can say is watch your back," Paige said angerly as she grabbed Lily and Alexia's arms and drug them into another compartment, with their bags following. Just as the girls got into the compartment, a man outside could be heard saying:
"A' firs' year 'tis way."
"WHAT?! WE'RE HERE ALREADY?!" shouted Paige. The three girls changed into their robes and cleaned up in what must have been record time.
James was speechless. He was sure that the girl with the red hair was the same girl he had bumped into. 'Why do I feel like I know her?' James thought, getting adjitated, 'I know! I'll just ask her what her name is once we get off of the train.'
However, once the first years started to get off of the train, James was uable to find the girl in the mass of people. James decided just to watch for her during the sorting.
Lily, Paige, and Alexia fallowed a large man in boats to the castle.
"It's beautiful," said a girl in awe.
"Yes, it is," agreed another girl.
"A fifth year told me that when you put on the hat, you have to take it off really fast or else it will try to eat you," said a boy. Lily snorted. Judy had told Lily all about the four Hogwarts houses and what the sorting was like, so Lily knew that wouldn't happen.
Once the first years got into the castle, they were greeted by a lady who called herself Professor McGonagall.
"Hello. My name is Professor McGonagall. I am the head of Griffendor house. You are to fallow me threw these doors, and stand in a line. When I call your name, I will place the sorting hat on your head, and you will be sorted. It has come to my attention that some students have tried to scare some of you by telling you that the sorting hat will try to eat you. I will be the first to tell you that is not true. Now, if you will, please follow me." All of the students followed Professor McGonagall to the Great Hall.
"Are you nervous?" Lily asked Paige and Alexia.
"No," said Paige, her voice breaking.
"Liar," said Lily.
"Yup, I know," said Paige, her hands shaking.
"I'm nervous," said Alexia, "how about you Lily?"
"I'm not nervous," then, at the looks that Alexia and Paige gave her, she added, "I'm terrified."
"May I have your attention," began Professor McGonagall, "We will now begin the sorting." Professor McGonagall walked up onto the stage where the teachers were sitting and the sorting hat was.
"Ok, the first person is...Anthony Adams," said Professor McGonagall as a rather scared Anthony Adams walked up to the stage, sat on a chair, and Professor McGonagall put the sorting hat on Anthony's head. Anthony flinched as the hat began to talk to him.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat. Anthony got up and quickly walked to the Hufflepuff table where he was greeted by other Hufflepuffs.
"Katie Andrews," said McGonagall. A girl who looked and acted rather snotty walked up and had the hat put on her head.
"SLYTHERIN!" shouted the hat.
"Josh Bowls."
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Sirius Black," as Professor McGonagall called his name, Sirius bowed to the audiance, causing many guys to laugh, and causing many girls to comment on his good looks.
"GRIFFENDOR!"
The sorting went on like this for a while. During the entire time James was trying to find the girl with the red hair. Everytime he would think that he had found her, he would loose her again. Finally, McGonagall got to Lily.
"Lily Evans." James was unable to hear the name called above the cat calls that were being thrown at Lily. All of the guys were commenting on how pretty she was. Because of the people in front of him were so tall, James was unable to see her face. James asked the people around him if they had caught the girl's name, but nobody had heard it.
"GRIFFENDOR!" shouted the hat. Lily walked to the Griffendor table and sat down. Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Alexia Foley, and Paige Collins were all sorted into Griffendor. Then, it came James' turn to be sorted.
"James Potter," said McGonagall. Lily's heart jumped. 'JAMES?! DID THEY JUST SAY JAMES POTTER?!! HE'S HERE??!!!!' thought Lily as her eyes darted to the boy who was on the stage. Even before the hat was completly on James' head, it shouted:
"GRIFFENDOR!" the hat announced as Lily stood up.
"JAMES?!" she yelled as loud as her voice would allow her to go.
James looked up at the girl, and so did everyone else in the Great Hall. At first he couldn't figure out who it was, then he saw her eyes. Green...emerald green...suddenly, relization hit him.
"L-LILY?!" he shouted equally as loud as her.
Lily smiled, James smiled. In a motion so quick that if you would have blinked you would have missed it James was off the stage and was running towards Lily. In one quick motion James had swept Lily in a tight embrace. James was holding back tears, but Lily was unable to do so. Tears were streaming freely down her face. The Great Hall was speechless.
"I've m-missed you s-so much!" Lily managed to say in between sniffles.
"I've missed you too! You never told me you're family was magical!" James said, his eyes glossy.
"They aren't! Only me and my Aunt Judy are! I found out on my birthday! You never told me that you were either!" Lily said, tears still running down her cheeks.
"I couldn't, if I did then we would have to do memory charms on your family! That's why I couldn't tell you where I was moving!" James was holding onto Lily so tight it was as if he was afraid that she was going to dissapear.
Professor Dumbledor cleared his throat.
"Oh, sorry, Professor," said James as he and Lily took a seat next to each other at the Griffendor table, holding hands. Paige was to the right of Lily, and to the right of Paige was Alexia. To the left of James was Sirius, then Remus, then Peter. Sirius leaned over to James and asked:
"So, who's the babe?"
"That "babe" was my best friend during the entire time my family was in hiding," James explained, "her name is Lily Evans."
"She's cute," Sirius said staring at Lily.
"Sirius, do NOT even think about it," James said glaring at Sirius.
"Think about what dear James?" Sirius asked innocently. James turned to Lily.
"Wow, I still can't believe that you're a witch! It's almost too good to be true!" he said as he piled food onto his plate.
"Yes, it is. I used to think that you had forgotten about me. You never wrote, you never called. Not once," at Lily's words James froze and looked at her.
"You thought that I had forgotten about you? Lily, I never did. Actually, I tried to forget about you, thinking of you hurt too much, but I just couldn't do it. I'm so sorry, Lily," Lily could see in James' eyes that he really was sorry.
"It's ok, James. I know now that you had good reason for keeping secrets," said Lily with a reassuring smile. 'I have missed that smile so much,' thought James as he stared at Lily. James was snapped out of his thoughts when Sirius waved a hand in front of his face.
"James, aren't you going to introduce us?" Sirius said in a mock hurt voice.
"Oh, yeah. Lily, this is Sirius Black," Sirius kissed Lily's hand, causing Lily to give Sirius a weird look, and James to glare daggers, "this is Remus Lupin," Remus shook Lily's hand, "and that boy over there is Peter Pettigrew." Peter just waved at Lily.
"Ok, my turn. This is Paige Collins," Sirius grabbed Paige's hand and was about to kiss it when Paige pulled her hand out and hit him in the head. James laughed and Lily smiled, "and she is Alexia Foley." Sirius didn't dare pull another stunt like he had done to Lily and Paige, so he only smiled. Remus smiled as well, and Alexia smiled back.
"So, now that we're all introduced, let's eat," said Sirius as he and James began to dig into their food [literally]. 'Wow, he still has the same appetite,' thought Lily.
The entire dinner was spent with James and Lily updating each other on each other's lifes. James hated Petunia even more for treating Lily like she did when she found out that Lily was a witch. Lily realized that James' life was a lot more complicated than she had thought. Sirius kept staring at Lily and Paige, and Remus and Alexia kept staring at each other. Peter was too interested in his food to notice the three beauties who were sitting only a few seats down from him. Every male in the Great Hall kept casting glances at Lily, Paige, and Alexia. Everytime James would catch someone gawking at Lily he would send them a look that would scare even the professors. The girls in the Great Hall were also gawking at James, this, at first, didn't bother Lily, that was until the other girls began to shoot Lily glances of death out of jelousy.
"Well, students, especially first years, I hope that this has been a wonderful Welcoming Feast. Today, new friendships were made and old friendships were found," said Dumbledor as he glanced at Lily and James. "I hope that this year will be a great one. I think it's time for you all to go back to your common rooms. Prefects, please lead your houses to their dormitories," said Dumbledor. The prefects led their housed to their common rooms, just as Dumbledor had instructed.
"Too many bloody stairs!" said Sirius as he huffed after James, who refused to leave Lily's side. Remus and Alexia were behind Sirius, talking. Paige was making fun of Sirius, and Peter was having even more trouble then Sirius to keep up with the rest of the group.
As soon as the Griffendors got to their common room, Lily and James collapsed on the floor. Remus and Alexia sat on the couch and continued their conversation, Peter sat in one of the chairs, Paige sat in the other chair, and Sirius "accidently" tripped and fell on top of Lily. James' face turned red and was about to jerk Sirius off of her when Lily took action. Before anyone knew what was happening, Sirius was laying on the floor with some unknown objects growing out of his chest. James looked up at Lily in amazment.
"What? I read about that hex in a book," Lily said as she sat next to James and laughed at Sirius.
"Ew, Sirius got whipped by a girl," said James in a teasing tone.
"Hmph," said Sirius as the hex wore off.
"Well, I guess we're even now," said Remus.
"I think I'm going to go to bed," said Remus as he and Alexia walked up to their SEPERATE dorms. Peter followed Remus to the dorm.
"Well, I can see that neither of you two lovely ladies would like to accompany me to my dorm, so I think that I'll just go and sulk on my own. 'Night," said Sirius as he headded up to his dorm. Paige told Lily goodnight, and she, too went to bed.
"I think Remus likes your friend," said James once Paige was out of the room.
"Alexia? I think she likes him, too," Lily said.
"Sorry about Sirius. He's just like that around girls, especially ones he finds attractive," James said, hoping that Lily didn't hate Sirius.
"I know, he really didn't bother me that much. The only people who bothered me were those girls who kept fawning over you. I swear they are out to kill me just for talking to you," Lily said as she laughed.
"Well, I wasn't really the only one who had a fan club. Did you see all of those guys? They looked like fishes with their mouths hanging open," James said, laughing. There was a long, silent pause.
"So...Sirius thinks I'm attractive?" Lily asked as she wrinkled up her nose.
"Yeah, and he's not the only one," James said withough thinking. 'Oh, no. I said too much,' thought James as he blushed. James was relieved to see Lily blushing as well.
"I wonder how long it will be until Remus and Alexia hook up," James thought aloud.
"I wonder how long it will be until Sirius and Paige hook up," Lily said. James looked at her.
"What? They hate each other," James said, thinking Lily had gone crazy.
"I don't think that Paige really hates him. She is just like that naturally. If someone annoys her, it can seem like she hates them, even if she doesn't. And you may have not noticed it, but they kept shooting glances at each other all threw dinner," Lily said. James looked at her in amazement, 'Still the same Lily. Always seems to know what is going on.'
"You're right," James said.
"Well, of course I am," Lily said giggling.
"I can't wait to owl my mum and dad and tell them that you're a witch! They'll be so happy!" James said trying to imagine his parents reactions.
"And I can't wait to tell my parents that you're a wizard. Petunia will hate me even more once she finds out that I'm going to school with you."
"So, old Petunia still has her eye on me, huh?" James asked disgusted.
"Are you kidding? She cried herself to sleep every night for over a week," then Lily mummbled, "Not that I really did any better."
"What?" asked James, although he had heard her clearly.
"Nothing," answered Lily.
Lily and James just sat there for what seemed to be minutes, but were really hours. Just enjoying the presence of the other. James yawned.
"Well, we had better be getting to bed. We have classes tomarrow," Lily said as she stood up and stretched.
"Yeah, we should," James said as he also stood up.
"Well, goodnight James," Lily said as she smiled at him.
"Goodnight Lily," James said as he returned a smile. Although they both had said their goodnights, they just stood there, staring at each other. This time, it was Lily who hugged James.
"You can't even begin to imagine how much I've missed you," Lily said as her eyes once again clouded with tears. James was stunned. He knew that she would miss him, but he had never had any idea that she would have missed him this much. He wrapped his arms around her and returned the hug.
"I missed you too Lils," He said into her hair. Lily felt her heart rise at James using the nickname he used to use for her. Lily pulled herself away from James and smiled a teary smile at him. He looked down at her and smiled back.
"Goodnight, James," Lily said.
"Goodnight, Lils," and with that, Lily and James went to their dorms and to bed with only one person on their minds: each other.
"Mum! Oh, I'm so excited!" Lily said happily as she danced around the dinner table. "Really? We hadn't noticed," said Mr. Evans cheerfully. He was so proud of his daughter.
"Lily, Aunt Judy will be here at any moment, you have all of your stuff packed, don't you?" asked Mrs. Evans.
"Yes, Mum. Everything is packed."
"Hey! Is anybody here? Lily! Time to go!" shouted a voice from the front door.
"Oh! That must be Aunt Judy! Love you, Mum, Love you, Dad!" said Lily as she kissed her parents goodbye and left with her aunt.
On the way to Kings Cross Station, Lily looked at her ticket. 'Platform 9 3/4? Must be a magical thing...' thought Lily.
"Well, dear, we're here," said Judy as Lily and Judy made their way to the platform carring Lily's bags.
"Lily!" shouted Paige as she ran up to Lily.
"Paige! How are you?!" asked Lily as she hugged Paige.
"I'm great! How about you?"
"I'm good," Lily said. Lily noticed another girl who was standing next to Paige.
"Oh, how rude of me. Lily, this is Alexia. Alexia, this is Lily. I met Alexia a few minutes ago. Her mum and dad were going to show me how to get onto the platform. She's in first year too!" said Paige as Lily and Alexia smiled a greeting at each other.
"Hi," said Lily.
"Hi," replied Alexia. Alexia had blond hair that was the same length as Lily's and she had hazel eyes. She was also very beautiful, but she didn't seem the type to admit it.
"Should we all sit together on the Hogwarts Express?" asked Paige.
"Sure! You three will be the only people I know," said Lily,
"Is that alright with you, Alexia?"
"Yeah, that'd be great!" said Alexia.
"Well, you girls had better be going now! The express leaves in ten minutes and if it is as crowded as it was when I went to school then you will need to hurry to get yourselves a good compartment," said Judy as she shooed the girls along.
After the somewhat frightening event of getting onto the platform, Lily, Alexia, and Paige made their way to the back of the train. They kept walking unil they made it to an empty compartment. The three girls got sitiuated into the compartment and began to talk about their lives.
*~Meanwhile, in a compartment across from them~*
"Hello! James! Earth to James!" shouted an energetic Sirius Black as he waved his hand in front of James' face. Sirius Black had long, messy, dark brown hair that gave him a rather sexy apperence.
"James! Buddy! You've been sorta out of it ever since we left Zonkoos!" said Remus Lupin, another one of James' friends. Remus had sandy brown hair, soft, brown eyes, and a very cute, attractive face.
"Sorry, guys. It's just that girl I ran into...I can't stop thinking about her..." said James Potter. James still had the same messy dark hair and entrancing chocolate-brown eyes. If at all possible, James looked even more handsome than when he was younger.
"Does James have a crush?" asked Sirius as Peter Pettigrew snorted. Peter had blondish hair and brown eyes. He was a little chunky, and had a baby face. He wasn't ugly, but he was nothing compared to the other boys.
"Shut up Siri, it isn't like that. It's just that she seemed so familiar..." James trailed off.
"Whatever, buddy," said Remus as he began to talk to Sirius about Quidditch. 'Who was she? That red hair...it seems so familiar. Bumping into her reminded me of someone...but who?' thought James.
"Hey, James, what do you say that we play a little prank?" asked Sirius with a grin.
"Sure!" said James. He couldn't resist a prank, "On who?"
"The apartment across from us has three girls in it. I saw them go in earlier. They sure are hott. What should we do?" asked Sirius as James rolled his eyes. All four boys were girl crazy, but Sirius was the one most obsessed with girls.
"Nothing permenint," said James as the boys got up with their wands.
Sirius snuck his hand into the girl's compartment and muttered a spell. Suddenly the girl's compartment was filled with a nasty green gooze. The girls started to scream.
"What is this?!" screamed Paige as she tried to peal some of the gooze off of her, but unable to do so.
"Ew ew ew ew ew!" was all that Alexia could find to say.
"When I find out who did this I'm gonna-" Lily was in mid-sentence when the compartment door flew open to reveal a grinning James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Lily's back was to the door, so nobody could see her face.
"You're gonna what my dear?" asked James in a mock voice.
"All I can say is watch your back," Paige said angerly as she grabbed Lily and Alexia's arms and drug them into another compartment, with their bags following. Just as the girls got into the compartment, a man outside could be heard saying:
"A' firs' year 'tis way."
"WHAT?! WE'RE HERE ALREADY?!" shouted Paige. The three girls changed into their robes and cleaned up in what must have been record time.
James was speechless. He was sure that the girl with the red hair was the same girl he had bumped into. 'Why do I feel like I know her?' James thought, getting adjitated, 'I know! I'll just ask her what her name is once we get off of the train.'
However, once the first years started to get off of the train, James was uable to find the girl in the mass of people. James decided just to watch for her during the sorting.
Lily, Paige, and Alexia fallowed a large man in boats to the castle.
"It's beautiful," said a girl in awe.
"Yes, it is," agreed another girl.
"A fifth year told me that when you put on the hat, you have to take it off really fast or else it will try to eat you," said a boy. Lily snorted. Judy had told Lily all about the four Hogwarts houses and what the sorting was like, so Lily knew that wouldn't happen.
Once the first years got into the castle, they were greeted by a lady who called herself Professor McGonagall.
"Hello. My name is Professor McGonagall. I am the head of Griffendor house. You are to fallow me threw these doors, and stand in a line. When I call your name, I will place the sorting hat on your head, and you will be sorted. It has come to my attention that some students have tried to scare some of you by telling you that the sorting hat will try to eat you. I will be the first to tell you that is not true. Now, if you will, please follow me." All of the students followed Professor McGonagall to the Great Hall.
"Are you nervous?" Lily asked Paige and Alexia.
"No," said Paige, her voice breaking.
"Liar," said Lily.
"Yup, I know," said Paige, her hands shaking.
"I'm nervous," said Alexia, "how about you Lily?"
"I'm not nervous," then, at the looks that Alexia and Paige gave her, she added, "I'm terrified."
"May I have your attention," began Professor McGonagall, "We will now begin the sorting." Professor McGonagall walked up onto the stage where the teachers were sitting and the sorting hat was.
"Ok, the first person is...Anthony Adams," said Professor McGonagall as a rather scared Anthony Adams walked up to the stage, sat on a chair, and Professor McGonagall put the sorting hat on Anthony's head. Anthony flinched as the hat began to talk to him.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat. Anthony got up and quickly walked to the Hufflepuff table where he was greeted by other Hufflepuffs.
"Katie Andrews," said McGonagall. A girl who looked and acted rather snotty walked up and had the hat put on her head.
"SLYTHERIN!" shouted the hat.
"Josh Bowls."
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Sirius Black," as Professor McGonagall called his name, Sirius bowed to the audiance, causing many guys to laugh, and causing many girls to comment on his good looks.
"GRIFFENDOR!"
The sorting went on like this for a while. During the entire time James was trying to find the girl with the red hair. Everytime he would think that he had found her, he would loose her again. Finally, McGonagall got to Lily.
"Lily Evans." James was unable to hear the name called above the cat calls that were being thrown at Lily. All of the guys were commenting on how pretty she was. Because of the people in front of him were so tall, James was unable to see her face. James asked the people around him if they had caught the girl's name, but nobody had heard it.
"GRIFFENDOR!" shouted the hat. Lily walked to the Griffendor table and sat down. Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Alexia Foley, and Paige Collins were all sorted into Griffendor. Then, it came James' turn to be sorted.
"James Potter," said McGonagall. Lily's heart jumped. 'JAMES?! DID THEY JUST SAY JAMES POTTER?!! HE'S HERE??!!!!' thought Lily as her eyes darted to the boy who was on the stage. Even before the hat was completly on James' head, it shouted:
"GRIFFENDOR!" the hat announced as Lily stood up.
"JAMES?!" she yelled as loud as her voice would allow her to go.
James looked up at the girl, and so did everyone else in the Great Hall. At first he couldn't figure out who it was, then he saw her eyes. Green...emerald green...suddenly, relization hit him.
"L-LILY?!" he shouted equally as loud as her.
Lily smiled, James smiled. In a motion so quick that if you would have blinked you would have missed it James was off the stage and was running towards Lily. In one quick motion James had swept Lily in a tight embrace. James was holding back tears, but Lily was unable to do so. Tears were streaming freely down her face. The Great Hall was speechless.
"I've m-missed you s-so much!" Lily managed to say in between sniffles.
"I've missed you too! You never told me you're family was magical!" James said, his eyes glossy.
"They aren't! Only me and my Aunt Judy are! I found out on my birthday! You never told me that you were either!" Lily said, tears still running down her cheeks.
"I couldn't, if I did then we would have to do memory charms on your family! That's why I couldn't tell you where I was moving!" James was holding onto Lily so tight it was as if he was afraid that she was going to dissapear.
Professor Dumbledor cleared his throat.
"Oh, sorry, Professor," said James as he and Lily took a seat next to each other at the Griffendor table, holding hands. Paige was to the right of Lily, and to the right of Paige was Alexia. To the left of James was Sirius, then Remus, then Peter. Sirius leaned over to James and asked:
"So, who's the babe?"
"That "babe" was my best friend during the entire time my family was in hiding," James explained, "her name is Lily Evans."
"She's cute," Sirius said staring at Lily.
"Sirius, do NOT even think about it," James said glaring at Sirius.
"Think about what dear James?" Sirius asked innocently. James turned to Lily.
"Wow, I still can't believe that you're a witch! It's almost too good to be true!" he said as he piled food onto his plate.
"Yes, it is. I used to think that you had forgotten about me. You never wrote, you never called. Not once," at Lily's words James froze and looked at her.
"You thought that I had forgotten about you? Lily, I never did. Actually, I tried to forget about you, thinking of you hurt too much, but I just couldn't do it. I'm so sorry, Lily," Lily could see in James' eyes that he really was sorry.
"It's ok, James. I know now that you had good reason for keeping secrets," said Lily with a reassuring smile. 'I have missed that smile so much,' thought James as he stared at Lily. James was snapped out of his thoughts when Sirius waved a hand in front of his face.
"James, aren't you going to introduce us?" Sirius said in a mock hurt voice.
"Oh, yeah. Lily, this is Sirius Black," Sirius kissed Lily's hand, causing Lily to give Sirius a weird look, and James to glare daggers, "this is Remus Lupin," Remus shook Lily's hand, "and that boy over there is Peter Pettigrew." Peter just waved at Lily.
"Ok, my turn. This is Paige Collins," Sirius grabbed Paige's hand and was about to kiss it when Paige pulled her hand out and hit him in the head. James laughed and Lily smiled, "and she is Alexia Foley." Sirius didn't dare pull another stunt like he had done to Lily and Paige, so he only smiled. Remus smiled as well, and Alexia smiled back.
"So, now that we're all introduced, let's eat," said Sirius as he and James began to dig into their food [literally]. 'Wow, he still has the same appetite,' thought Lily.
The entire dinner was spent with James and Lily updating each other on each other's lifes. James hated Petunia even more for treating Lily like she did when she found out that Lily was a witch. Lily realized that James' life was a lot more complicated than she had thought. Sirius kept staring at Lily and Paige, and Remus and Alexia kept staring at each other. Peter was too interested in his food to notice the three beauties who were sitting only a few seats down from him. Every male in the Great Hall kept casting glances at Lily, Paige, and Alexia. Everytime James would catch someone gawking at Lily he would send them a look that would scare even the professors. The girls in the Great Hall were also gawking at James, this, at first, didn't bother Lily, that was until the other girls began to shoot Lily glances of death out of jelousy.
"Well, students, especially first years, I hope that this has been a wonderful Welcoming Feast. Today, new friendships were made and old friendships were found," said Dumbledor as he glanced at Lily and James. "I hope that this year will be a great one. I think it's time for you all to go back to your common rooms. Prefects, please lead your houses to their dormitories," said Dumbledor. The prefects led their housed to their common rooms, just as Dumbledor had instructed.
"Too many bloody stairs!" said Sirius as he huffed after James, who refused to leave Lily's side. Remus and Alexia were behind Sirius, talking. Paige was making fun of Sirius, and Peter was having even more trouble then Sirius to keep up with the rest of the group.
As soon as the Griffendors got to their common room, Lily and James collapsed on the floor. Remus and Alexia sat on the couch and continued their conversation, Peter sat in one of the chairs, Paige sat in the other chair, and Sirius "accidently" tripped and fell on top of Lily. James' face turned red and was about to jerk Sirius off of her when Lily took action. Before anyone knew what was happening, Sirius was laying on the floor with some unknown objects growing out of his chest. James looked up at Lily in amazment.
"What? I read about that hex in a book," Lily said as she sat next to James and laughed at Sirius.
"Ew, Sirius got whipped by a girl," said James in a teasing tone.
"Hmph," said Sirius as the hex wore off.
"Well, I guess we're even now," said Remus.
"I think I'm going to go to bed," said Remus as he and Alexia walked up to their SEPERATE dorms. Peter followed Remus to the dorm.
"Well, I can see that neither of you two lovely ladies would like to accompany me to my dorm, so I think that I'll just go and sulk on my own. 'Night," said Sirius as he headded up to his dorm. Paige told Lily goodnight, and she, too went to bed.
"I think Remus likes your friend," said James once Paige was out of the room.
"Alexia? I think she likes him, too," Lily said.
"Sorry about Sirius. He's just like that around girls, especially ones he finds attractive," James said, hoping that Lily didn't hate Sirius.
"I know, he really didn't bother me that much. The only people who bothered me were those girls who kept fawning over you. I swear they are out to kill me just for talking to you," Lily said as she laughed.
"Well, I wasn't really the only one who had a fan club. Did you see all of those guys? They looked like fishes with their mouths hanging open," James said, laughing. There was a long, silent pause.
"So...Sirius thinks I'm attractive?" Lily asked as she wrinkled up her nose.
"Yeah, and he's not the only one," James said withough thinking. 'Oh, no. I said too much,' thought James as he blushed. James was relieved to see Lily blushing as well.
"I wonder how long it will be until Remus and Alexia hook up," James thought aloud.
"I wonder how long it will be until Sirius and Paige hook up," Lily said. James looked at her.
"What? They hate each other," James said, thinking Lily had gone crazy.
"I don't think that Paige really hates him. She is just like that naturally. If someone annoys her, it can seem like she hates them, even if she doesn't. And you may have not noticed it, but they kept shooting glances at each other all threw dinner," Lily said. James looked at her in amazement, 'Still the same Lily. Always seems to know what is going on.'
"You're right," James said.
"Well, of course I am," Lily said giggling.
"I can't wait to owl my mum and dad and tell them that you're a witch! They'll be so happy!" James said trying to imagine his parents reactions.
"And I can't wait to tell my parents that you're a wizard. Petunia will hate me even more once she finds out that I'm going to school with you."
"So, old Petunia still has her eye on me, huh?" James asked disgusted.
"Are you kidding? She cried herself to sleep every night for over a week," then Lily mummbled, "Not that I really did any better."
"What?" asked James, although he had heard her clearly.
"Nothing," answered Lily.
Lily and James just sat there for what seemed to be minutes, but were really hours. Just enjoying the presence of the other. James yawned.
"Well, we had better be getting to bed. We have classes tomarrow," Lily said as she stood up and stretched.
"Yeah, we should," James said as he also stood up.
"Well, goodnight James," Lily said as she smiled at him.
"Goodnight Lily," James said as he returned a smile. Although they both had said their goodnights, they just stood there, staring at each other. This time, it was Lily who hugged James.
"You can't even begin to imagine how much I've missed you," Lily said as her eyes once again clouded with tears. James was stunned. He knew that she would miss him, but he had never had any idea that she would have missed him this much. He wrapped his arms around her and returned the hug.
"I missed you too Lils," He said into her hair. Lily felt her heart rise at James using the nickname he used to use for her. Lily pulled herself away from James and smiled a teary smile at him. He looked down at her and smiled back.
"Goodnight, James," Lily said.
"Goodnight, Lils," and with that, Lily and James went to their dorms and to bed with only one person on their minds: each other.
