[ a/n: yes! Today is may 30th! The day I update. well here ya go!

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Chapter 5

Lily stared out of the window from their quiet dorm. To the bed to her right was Ariana's and the left belonged to Jennifer. She was lucky her two best friends shared the same dorm as them. Across the room there were two more beds. To Lily's dismay, the owner of the bed was none other than Lana and the one next to hers was her best friend and partner-in-crime, Marissa.

Lily had her own room because she was Head Girl, but she didn't want to spend most of her time alone for her last year of Hogwarts. But the room would come in handy if she wanted a place to think.

Lily was never a heavy sleeper, as she always enjoyed watching the sunrise. The pink and yellow streaks in the sky blended to form a beautiful collage of colors mixed with the sun.

On her mind was still the issue of her friends' crushes on the infamous Sirius Black and the sweet and gentle, but oh-so-handsome, Remus Lupin. Lily was always on good terms with Remus as she befriended him early at Hogwarts. But she definitely couldn't say the same for Sirius Black. The devilishly handsome Sirius Black was quite the looker. When Lily's mind would wander, she always thought that Sirius was better looking out of the four. But he was the co-conspirator, and closest confidante with James Potter, the teenage wizard she loathed.

Although Lily was a bit stubborn at times, she could never hold a grudge against her two best friends for that long.

Deciding what to do, she got up from the windowsill and attempted to wake up Jennifer and Ariana.

"Rise and shine! Get up Ari, Jen!" Lily tried to sound enthusiastic, just to try to encourage her sound-sleeping friends. She rung open the curtains of Ariana's four-poster bed to find her curled in the fetal position. She looked so peaceful and was enjoying her sleep, well until Ariana was disturbed.

Ariana groggily opened her sleep-induced eyes. "What are you doing Lily? It is," she quickly glanced at her clock and moaned. "It's only six in the morning!"

Rolling her eyes, "Look at Lana and Marissa! They already got up half an hour ago, and you two are the only ones still asleep."

Ariana was annoyed. She hated waking up early and she wasn't much of a morning person. "Is it my problem that Lana and Marissa actually enjoy waking up early just to pretty themselves?"

Sure enough, Lana came out from the bathroom and sat at her vanity applying her layers of makeup to hide who-knows-what.

"Speak of the devil" muttered Lily. It wasn't like Lily wasn't on good terms with Lana. It was just that she was too girly-girly for Lily. Lily was no tomboy, she just didn't take it to the extreme looking like the stereotypical bimbo, although Lana was a grade-A bitch.

They both were rivals in a way, more like rivals in different categories. All in all, Lana assumed she was better in the appearance department, and Lily didn't doubt that. She was a beautiful girl of a petite five-two stature and mid-back brunette hair. But to make up for the so-called lesser appearance, Lily excelled in almost every subject, that is of course why she was Head Girl. Both were popular and had friends from all houses, except Lily who didn't befriend any Slytherins except one.

Plastering on a fake smile, Lily said, "Good morning Lana."

After applying a sixth coat of mascara, Lana stole a glance at Lily. She was surely dumb for not noticing in six years that Lily never really liked her. She was more of an acquaintance to Lily.

"Oh hello Lily."

After dragging Ariana and Jennifer out of bed, they quickly made themselves presentable to the public and headed down to the Great Hall.

Ariana sat down as she mumbled something along the lines 'too early.'

Reaching for some strawberries to add to her cereal, Lily noticed a shadow over her. Wondering whom it was, she looked up to see the face of the one and only, Remus Lupin.

"Hullo Lily. Mind if I sit with you girls?" Remus flashed her a grin as he sat down without waiting for Lily's reply.

Too startled to say anything, Lily just stared at him. She finally cleared her throat. "Why are you sitting here?"

"Oh, well as you can see, none of my other friends have gotten up yet so I decided to join you three."

All she could say was 'Oh.'

She didn't notice that one her friends was blushing madly because of his presence.

Lily had a strange feeling. She didn't know what it was. But Remus kind of gave her a weird feeling this morning. From the corner of her eye, she glanced at Remus.

'Hmm.. He has nice hair. Good facial features. No wonder Jen likes him.'

She just couldn't put her finger on it.

As more students came into the Great Hall to receive their first meal of the day, the last three Marauders made their presence known.

"Oy Moony! Why are you sitting there?"

Sirius walked up to their little group and decided to join himself. Like the little follower he is, Peter followed suit and sat down by Jennifer, who was a little miffed of his chosen seat. To Lily's dismay, James had no choice but to sit with them.

In an awkward silence, the seven of them ate their breakfast.

'Why are they sitting here? Why did Remus join us anyways.' Lily thought it was unusual of their behavior but ignored it.

'Eww. Pettigrew is looking at me. I wonder what's his problem.' Jennifer was definitely an unhappy camper.

Sirius just sat where he was consuming all the food in his line of sight. 'Ninety-nine bottles of butterbeer, ninety-nine bottles of butterbeer. Take one down, paas it around, ninety-eight bottles of butterbeer.'

'Lily looks good today. Her hair looks so soft, and her green eyes, not a speck of brown in them. Pure green. Wait, what am I saying? Remember your number one rule.' James had this confused look on his face while he was apathetic towards his meal.

'Wonder why Lily is so nervous around me. I wonder if she knows.' Remus was just as confused as James, well about a different issue.

'God is Sirius so hot.' Guess Ariana couldn't take her mind off him for a minute.

'Should I use a classic 'hey how you doin babe'? I need help from James and Sirius! They're the experts!' Peter contemplated how he should ask Jennifer out, hoping he wouldn't be rejected like all the others.

It seemed like hours before Professor McGonagall passed out the timetables for the students' schedules.

"Hey! We all have Charms together! Isn't that neat?" Sirius looked gleefully from one face to the next, but most just shrugged, as they weren't the best of friends.

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"Good morning class! Today will be another fun-filled lesson in Charms! I will start off announcing our first project for the first term!" Professor Flitwick's squeaky voice echoed through the walls of the classroom. His expression changed from cheerful to disapprovingly since the class emitted a number of groans because of the new "fun" project.

"Now, now class, this project will be fairly easy, but tedious. There will be two parts to this project! The first is of course, the research. You must write a three-foot long essay on parchment that is due in two weeks on two charms of your choice. Make sure to research on the history. Bonus points will be given to those who do the history of one or more of the Unforgivable Curses.

"That is all I will tell you for now, more information will come later on the second half of the project. Each person will be paired with a partner of my choice!

"Start discussing your topic choices once I have called your name. Ms. Figg with Mr. Pettigrew."

A noticeably loud groan could be heard from Jennifer as she unwillingly got up to sit next to Peter to discuss their project.

"Ms. Johnson and Mr. Black."

Ariana waved happily to Lily as she got up to join her new partner for the next two months.

After Professor Flitwick continued with the pairings, only a few students were left unpaired.

Among them were herself, Lana, James Potter, and Remus Lupin. Since they were boy-girl pairings, Lily hoped she would get Remus as her partner.

"Ms. Evans and ."

'Please choose Remus, please choose Remus.' Lily chanted silently to herself whilst waiting for Professor Flitwick's verdict.

"and Mr. Lupin."

Noticeably relieved, Lily slowly got up and walked towards Remus.

"Well hullo there Lily. Fancy meeting you again. Looks like we're stuck together on this project!"

"Yeah I guess so."

There it was again, that tingly feeling in the pit of her stomach. Lily didn't know what it was, or if it was good or bad.

No one noticed the disappointment in James' eyes, as Lily was announced partners with Remus.

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[ a/n: yay! I finished it! Hehe. it's 10:30 pM where I live so I technically finished it on the 30th! Hehe. a bit late though. Well review! Expect updates to be quicker as today is officially my first day of summer (

Stay tuned for the next chapter!

Some possible questions: what is going on up there in Remus' head?? Or how about that "tingly feeling" (hehe that's probably a more obvious one.)

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