All My Life
"Ava! You must be insane!? Don't you remember something like this when I was trying to get into Diagon Alley?" Lily practically screamed at her best friend. "I'm not walking into a barrier to get to 'Platform 9 ¾.' You must be ill!"
"Lily! Trust me this actually works, I had to go through with Rhyce a couple times! Come on Lily!" Ave said shaking her head. "Well you can just sit here by yourself until I get back from school, because I'm going in!"
"Fine Ava. Bye." Lily told her friend, she wasn't going to budge on this one. Lily is quite stubborn once you get to know her.
"Bye Lil, see you at Christmas!" Ava said happily, pushing her cart through the barrier.
"It worked!" Lily marveled, yet still not getting up.
"What's going on here Miss Lily?" A very happy Sirius said.
"I'm not going through the barrier, I tried to get through the wall at the Leaky Cauldron, and it didn't work, so this will most defenitly not work," she said with a serious tone in her voice.
As James whispered to Sirius, they both broke out in a huge grin.
"What are you guys doooooING!! Put me down right now!" Lily yelled. James had just grabbed her and was running full speed into the barrier! "You must be daft! We won't go… oh, we're here!" James placed her back on her feet and she brushed herself off.
"Nice to see you again Lily," he said. He was amazed that she looked even better than she did when he met her.
"Yes nice to see you too! Oh, guys, I don't think you've met my best friend," Lily said, while running over and grabbing Ava. "Avienna Graham."
"Oh, hello, you guys can call me Ava though. Your names are…?" Ava asked staring at the blank faces.
"This is James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin." Lily said, laughing at all the staring boys.
"He-hello Ava, very nice to meet you, I must show you to our special compartment!" Sirius said grabbing Ava and walking with her to the train.
"Got any more of those?" Remus asked.
"Got any more what?" Lily asked back.
"Friends." He said with a huge grin plastered on his face, walking towards the train still smiling.
"Well Lily, lets get going to the train then, we want to get a good seat!" James said, grabbing Lily's hand and walking towards the train.
No sooner had they settled in their compartment, had the cart lady come by with mountains of sweets, and the three boys bought just about the whole thing.
While Sirius was trying (trying is the operative word) to teach Lily how to play exploding snaps, a very pretty brown-haired girl walked in the compartment.
"Hey, would you mind if I sat here until we get to school?" The girl asked the group.
"No, no of course not! Sit here by me! Scoot over Sirius!" Remus said pushing over his friend.
"Oh thank you so much. I was stuck in a compartment with soon to be Slytherins and so I set off a dungbomb and left!" the girl stated.
"A girl after my own heart…" Remus mused.
"Oh, by the way, my name is Isabelle Jacobs, but please call me Elle."
"Well I am Sirius Black, that is Remus Lupin, James Potter, Ava Graham, and this girl I am TRYING to teach exploding snap is Lily Evans. What house do you wanna be in Elle?"
"Gryffindor! Most defenitly!"
"Well you'll fit right in here then, because that's were all of us will be!" James said.
The group chatted with one another until it was time for them to get ready to pull into Hogwarts. The three girls had become very close on the train ride and were hoping that they will all be in Gryffindor together.
"Hey Sirius! Take a picture of us girls together ok?" Lily said handing him a muggle camera and posing with Elle and Ava.
"Hey Sirius," James whispered, "I will take a copy of that photo!"
"Me too!" Remus said, and Sirius nodded along.
The boat ride was un-eventful, and the 6 were so excited to get into their houses! Once they had been sorted and gone through the feast the girls headed up to their dorms, while the boys explored the castle. The picture that was taken on the train was developed, and since it was muggle, the picture didn't move, but it was a gorgeous picture nonetheless. Since Lily, Ava and Elle were the only ones who were in the dorm, they blew it up to about 8' by 10' (just about the whole wall) and placed it there.
"Girls," Lily said, while tacking up the picture, "I think this is the begin of the greatest times of our lives. I mean, I have barely known you two, and I feel already that you are my best friends. I've never had that before."
"I know Lil, I mean, I met you two on the train and you two are the best friends I have ever had! Crazy." Elle said.
"You took the words right out of my mouth! SO on a lighter note, what do you two think of Sirius?" Ava asked with a twinkle in her eye.
"He's really cute Ava! But you know who is so hot!?" Elle asked. "Rhyce! Your brother! Oh my goodness I'm in love with him!" (A/N: Betcha didn't see that coming!)
"I am going to pretend you didn't say that. RHYCE! Ugh I can't even think about it!" Ava gagged.
"Well Ava, he is cute!" Lily agreed.
"Not you too! AH!" Ava looked like she was about to faint. "Lily, I think you and James should get together someday!"
"No thank-you! I'm way too young to be in a relationship! I don't really like him either. But I think he likes me or something, I'm just gonna try to stay away from him." Lily said truthfully.
"Well Lil, he is VERY HOT, but it's your decision! I'm going to bed! Love you two! Night!" Elle said her goodbyes and drifted off to sleep, as did the other two girls.
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"So guys what do you think of Ava? Pretty hot, huh? Woo! She's on fire!" Sirius said while lying on his bed staring up at a picture of her.
"Very hot Sirius, very hot." James agreed. "Lily is too, and so is Elle. How did we get so lucky this year!?"
"Hey guys," Remus said, "are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"PRANK!" They all yelled in unison.
"So. What prank? I mean there are SOOOO many to do?"
"I think I have an idea!" James said, and then they planned the first prank of their first year. "So Friday night? 12? I think it's a go boys!"
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The next morning, the six friends headed down to breakfast and sat down to eat.
"So what is our first class?" Lily asked with a mouthful of toast.
"Um… looks like, Herbology! With Hufflepuff. How boring. Honestly, I mean, Herbology is probably the MOST boring subject, and now we have it with the Hufflepuffs?" Ava complained.
"I don't know, the Hufflepuff guys aren't that bad." Lily said grinning.
James felt a pang of jealousy but he let it go by un-noticed.
"What's the rest of the schedule?"
"Umm, after Herbology, we have Transfiguration with Ravenclaw, and then Potions with Slytherin. Then tomorrow we have DADD and then History of Magic and Care of Magical Creatures." Elle said all in one breath, reading over Ava's shoulder.
"With what house?"
"DADD with Slytherin and the rest with Hufflepuff."
"Oh great." Ava said, in a considerably less happy voice.
"Great!" Lily and Elle said, excited that they have more classes with the very cute but kinda dumb Hufflepuff boys.
"Do you think of anything other than guys?" Ava asked while shaking her head, noticing how quiet James was getting. "So how do you think the Gryffindor quidditch team will be this year?" She knew this would get James and Sirius talking, so that James wouldn't notice Lily as much.
"Oh I am glad you asked…" Sirius said, beginning to talk about the Gryffindor beaters, and how they could be so much better. This reminded James of how the chasers were just lacking in many categories.
"Ok girls, lets leave these boys to talk of their flying stick game (that comment received a bunch of HEY!'s and 'Quidditch is so much more than…..') and lets go to class so we can good seats." Elle stated while getting up and walking to Herbology.
The rest of the day passed uneventfully, and so did the rest of the week. Finally it was Friday, and you know what that means. The big prank day.