Chapter 2- One Hell of a Year

Lily sat down next to Bella at the tables. She eyed the doors leading into the Great Hall in anticipation of their enemies walking into it with total humiliation in store. Almost as soon as the Sorting started, the Marauders snuck into the Hall. Lily snorted and nudged Bella who looked at them with wide eyes that were soon to be filled with tears as she tried her hardest to control her laughter.

Sirius was the first to spot the two laughing girls and pointed them out to the rest of his gang. The girls laughed even harder as the boys glared at them through eyes done up in brilliant colors of green, blue, pink, and gold. Mascara was evident on both of them. Remus simply stood there with his hand covering his smile. Lily and Bella spared Remus since he had always been nice to them and never really played a prank on them even if James and Sirius wanted to.

Lily gave Bella a high five and pulled out a small camera. She quickly snapped a picture and replaced the camera back into her robes.

Time to put the plan into action. Lily thought to herself as she leaned over to the girl next to her, which happened to be Rita Skeeter, the biggest gossip in Hogwarts. She was also the editor of her own newspaper which ran every week and was quite popular if Rita did say so herself.

"Hey, I just got a picture of those cross-dressers over there," Lily whispered to her. Rita perked up at the word 'picture' and 'cross-dressers'. She turned to look in the direction that Lily was pointing and her eyes widened in astonishment as she saw whom the alleged 'cross-dressers' were.

"Oh my God!" she screeched into Lily's ear. Lily rubbed her ear as Rita continued to screech in surprise. "Those are the Marauders. You know. The Marauders are made up of the most wanted guys in the whole school."

Lily nodded wincing at the sound of Rita's squeaky voice. She tried to block her out as Rita started naming all of the Marauders while checking them off with her fingers.

"James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin."

Lily turned to Bella and rolled her eyes. She turned back to the still jabbering Rita and pasted a fake smile on her face. Her eyes drifted back to where the boys stood trying to remove Bella's spell.

At that moment, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore rose to his feet and started the speech that Lily was very familiar with, "Welcome all of you to Hogwarts. I know that the older ones here all know the rules and hopefully will encourage the younger ones to not break them. Although it must be hard when you look upon the lovely faces of the Marauders who now hold the record for the most detentions in the schools long history. Some people just love to get dressed up for the first day of school. Well now for the Sorting."

At his statement all eyes turned towards Remus, James, and Sirius who beneath all the make-up a faint trace of redness was evident on all of their faces. Three pairs of eyes turned towards where the two sixth year girls were laughing at something that they were holding in their hands. James glared bloody murder at everybody who even glanced his way and his brown eyes searched the crowd for the red headed girl that had put him in this mess in the first place. Sirius nudged him and pointed to the door and James nodded. The Marauders snuck quietly out the door discussing what kind of hexes and curses that they would use on their worst enemies this year.

On their way to the boys dormitory they discussed which girls they wanted to do this year.

"That girl from Ravenclaw is pretty hot," Sirius said nudging James in the side as the brunette passed and she smiled at James and winked.

"James, love the dress. Very sexy," she said and smiled again. James' carefree grin turned into one of anger and resentment when he remembered the dress that he was wearing courtesy of Lily Evans. Sirius' expression pretty much mirrored James' own.

"We have to get her back for this humiliation, Padfoot," James muttered angrily, "she cannot get away with this."

They continued on their way to the boy's dormitories and James had just started to turn the corner when a certain red-head decided to turn the corner at the same time. Lily ran into James and stumbled a few steps back as she regained her balance.

"I'm so sor-" she started then she raised her eyes to James' angry brown ones and smirked. "Oh, it's just you," she said breezily.

Lily smirked and crossed her arms over her chest. She looked James up and down and then said, "James what a pretty dress, you must let me borrow it someday."

That statement sent James over the edge and he lunged at her his hands reaching for her throat. He was jerked back by Sirius and Remus who pulled him back and held him there. Lily smiled innocently. "Don't lose your pretty little head now, James."

And she turned on her heels and walked back in the direction she had originally come from. James, Sirius, and Remus looked at each other all thinking the same thing. This is going to be one hell of a year.

A/N: This is the second chapter of my story……obviously. LoL…Thank you to all who have reviewed..I really appreciate the input…

Laur- Me and you both…I had always loved the classic love/hate Lily and James romance…. Just not the ones that include Lily/ Snape pairings…he always gave me the creeps!! I hope that this story will continue flowing just as well as the first few chapters have been doing…

meLisSa- Fanfiction.net was being really stupid for the past two days. Whenever I tried to get on it wouldn't let me….I was so relieved to finally be able to upload this chapter and to check my reviews!!!!

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