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Remus quickly walked to the Gryffindor Common Room.

"Lily?" He said, softly. Lily sobbed as an answer. He saw her in a corner, hugging her knees to her body.

"What's wrong, Lil?" He asked her, sitting down by her. Lily sniffled and sighed.

"I don't know." She said quietly. Remus smiled and put his arm around her. Lily leaned her head on his shoulders and started to tell about how she got to be a prefect, her running into James, him acting so friendly, and at the end, him and Sarah snogging, right in front of her, acting as if she wasn't there.

"I know it's not a big deal, but…" Lily sighed. "I just don't know…" She said, looking in to Remus' grey eyes. "It just all added up with me worrying about Malfoy, Snape, and Gringley. I guess I was so happy when James talked to me, but how he just ignored me, kissing that slut… I thought I really liked him… and I thought he—he—li—liked me back. I guess it just reminded me how nobody cares about me or my feelings... "

"No, Lily, no. I care about you. Shay cares about you. So does your parents. Don't ever think like that Lily." Remus said, looking at her in the eye. "James has a girlfriend, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care about you. If he didn't care about you, why would he talk to you?" Lily thought about this and nodded. Remus got up and offered her his hand. Lily smiled and took it.

"Can you please not tell this to anyone, especially James?" Lily said. Remus smiled reassuringly and nodded.

"Want breakfast?" Remus said. Lily was about to say no, but said yes instead. They walked out of the Common Room and into the Great Hall. Lily sat by Shay and Remus sat between Lily and Peter.

"Lily, are you okay?" Shay asked. Lily nodded. "Sorry, I was going to follow you but Professor Dumbledore just started announcing about the IQC." Shay said. "The tryouts for the subtitutes start next tuesday a referee from Norway will referee all matches. ."

Lily nodded began to talk cheerfully as if nothing happened. "Let's see," She said, comparing Shay, Sunmin, and her schedule. "I have Double Advanced Charms with you Shay, lunch, then I go to Care for Magical Creatures, DADA and Transfiguration with all of us."

The great clock chimed as it announced 8:50, 10 minutes before class. Everyone got up, some stuffing a toast or two in their pockets. Lily and Shay grabbed a toast to eat on the way.

"Bye Minnie, I'll see you at Lunch!" Shay and Lily waved bye to their friend and walked out of the Great Hall.

"So Lily, will you tell me what happened?" Shay said.

Lily told the whole story over again.

"Oh! I didn't notice the prefect badge! That is so cool. I'm so sorry about what happened with James though. I'm sure he didn't purposely ignore you. Plus, I heard that he and Sarah are going to break up soon." Shay said.

They walked down the long corridor and walked into the classroom. Professor Flitwick was standing on his usual stack of books.

"Welcome Miss Evans and Miss Fintley! There's a seating chart in that back corner desk." Professor Flitwick said.

They walked to the back and looked at the seating chart.

"Look, you sit in front of me" Shay said. The seating chart said that Shay sat by James and Lily sat by Tonya Abott, a very smart Ravenclaw. Sunmin and Shay sat down and talked.

"Look, there's Tonya," Shay said. "Tonya, here! You sit by Lily."

Tonya was a tall girl. She had brown hair and hazel eyes and wore round frame glasses. She knew Lily and Shay because they got the top marks in Charms last year.

"Hi Lily, hi Shay." Tonya said, sitting down. One by one, everyone walked in and sat down in their assigned seats. When James came in, Lily pretended to be very interested in her quill.

"Lily, I'm really sorry about what happened. I—" James began to apologize but was cut off by Professor Flitwick.

"Now, this year will be very fun." He said. "First, we'll be studying different kinds of wands. I know this isn't really part of the unit, but this is the most fitting class to study them. Mr. Ollivander will come to our class every Wednesday to talk about wands. Then, after Halloween, we'll be practicing on the strength of your charms. We'll work on distance between your wand and the item or person you're performing the charm on and precision of them. We'll be working on that until Christmas. I haven't planned out the rest of the year yet." He said. "Now take out your Wands Work the Wonders."

Everyone got out their thick bright blue book.

"Now, where did I put that book? I know I've seen it somewhere…" Professor Flitwick muttered.

"Um, professor? You're standing on it." Tonya said cautiously, not wanting to insult his height or anything.

"Oh!" He jumped down and tried to pull the book from under the other thick books. He grunted and pulled, but it didn't budge. Sirius who sat in the front, got up and pulled it out with ease.

"Thank you, Mr. Black!" Professor Flitwick said, wiping his forehead and sighed. "Now I want you to turn your books to page 15 and read the first section…"

The class went on for another for two hours, and it was finally time for lunch.

"Now, I want you to write a profile about your wand by tomorrow. It doesn't have to be long, just try different spells on it, and see its 'personality'." He finished and jumped down from his stack of books.

"That was an interesting lesson, don't you think?" Tonya said. "I mean, I never really paid that much attention to my wand."

"Yeah." Shay answered. They walked out of the classroom.

"Lily," James said.

I can't ignore him this time, Lily thought. She turned around and faced him.

"I'm really sorry about what happened this morning. I just forgot you were there. I didn't purposely ignore you." He said, his eyes looking sad.

"It's okay, don't worry about it." Lily was going to leave it at that, but her emotions took over. "Plus, I'm used to it."

"Lily." James said, about to touch her arm, but he thought about it and withdrew. He sighed as Lily walked away.

"James, what's wrong?" Sirius said, walking up to his friend.

"Nothing," James said. But Sirius raised his eyebrows. "Fine, I was being nice to Lily Evans, you know the other prefect, because I thought she looked kind of lonely, just hanging around her few friends, not talking to anyone else. But then Sarah came up and kissed me. Lily got really mad at me because I forgot about her. So she probably thinks that I'm some jerk who just goes out with airheads… like Sarah."

"Oh. So, you're breaking up with Sarah?" Sirius said.

"I don't know. I would. But then, she'll probably break up with me first." James said, almost looking hopeful. Sirius laughed. He playfully slapped James in the back and they went to lunch.

They sat down across Remus and Peter.

"How was Potion Remus?" Sirius said.

"Fine. We're learning on how to about the potion to make you an Animagus." Remus said, smiling. The four boys started laughing.

At Lily's table, an argument broke out between Shay and Riley. They were arguing which broom is the best.

"Hey Minnie, do you want to come to the library with me?" Lily asked Minnie. They had both gotten tired of all the Quidditch talk.

"Sure" They went into the school library. There were already a lot of people there. They went to an empty table and sat there.

"So, how was your day?" Minnie asked Lily.

"Fine," Lily lied. "I just found out I'm a prefect."

"Oh really? That's awesome." She said.

"Hey, have you ever seen Muggle photos?" Lily asked. Minnie shook her head. Lily got out the pictures of her family and laid them out on the table, pointing everyone in her family.

They continued to talk about their families until Malfoy, Snape, and Gringley came over.

"Hey Lily" said Gringley. Lily felt like she was being x-rayed. She gulped. They sat down next to her. She whimpered and squirmed around trying to find an excuse to leave. She noticed that Gringley was moving closer and closer to her. She scooted to the farthest end of the bench as possible. "Who are these?" Gringley, asked, pointing to the photos.

"My family" Lily mumbled.

"Why aren't they moving?" Gringley said, taking the photo and shaking it.

"Because they're Muggle photos" Minnie said.

"You mean, you're a muggle-born?!" Malfoy spat, looking at Lily.

Lily nodded. They threw disgusted looks at her.

"You're a mudblood!" Gringley said, now edging away from her. Lily could feel hot tears stinging at her eyes. "Come on, you guys, I don't want to breathe too much Mudblood air, it'll pollute my pure blood."

The three Slytherins left. Lily was partly relieved but inside she was screaming. 'Who fucking cares if I'm a mudblood! I can do magic! I'm a prefect!' She was too angry to cry. She gripped her bag tightly, put her photos in, and said to Minnie,

"Let's go, we don't want to be late."

They left the library and separated into their classes. Lily arrived at her class 10 minutes early. This classroom was outside, at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. She didn't feel like going in and being alone with the teacher, Professor Icheo. So she sat on the edge of the steps, reading. She suddenly felt a shadow over her head and looked up.

"James" she whispered shyly.

"Can I sit here?" He said, pointing next to her. Lily just moved her bag and he sat.

"So, how was your lunch?" James asked.

"Fine, if you don't count Gringley calling me mudblood." Lily said before she could stop. What did I just do? Why am I telling him this?! She thought. But it did feel better when she told someone, even if it was someone who she hardly knew.

"Oh. I'm sorry. He thinks he's so great, being in Slytherin and being pure-blooded, same with Malfoy and Snape." James said. He tried to forget about that morning. "Sarah dumped me." He said.

"Why?" Lily asked, fiddling with her shoelaces.

"Same reason as the past 13 girls. They fell in love with Sirius." James said. He chuckled and stopped immediately. He looked at her, or more like the back of her head. "Look, I'm really sorry about this morning. Forgive me, please."

Lily looked up from her shoes and studied his eyes. They were deep brown but she noticed, with grey specks. They reminded her of the wings of an eagle. She slowly nodded. Suddenly there was an explosion at the top tower.

"That would be Sirius…" James murmured. "We've been trying to make something that will make an item disappear after a while, an illusion, kind of like Leprechaun Gold."

Professor Icheo came out.

"What are you two doing here!" He said. He was extremely paranoid and dangerous, if you got on the wrong side of him.

"We have your class next, sir." James said.

"Well, then come in." Professor Icheo said. "Students strutting around when they're supposed to be a lunch… no privacy anymore..."

Soon everyone filled the small classroom. The room smelled faintly of owls and cats. It was messy and there were feathers and dust all over the displays hung up on the ceiling. There were names floating on each desk and Lily went to hers and sat down. The smoke-like letters wisped away. Lily sat down by Riley who was also in this class. When everyone settled down, he went up to the front of the classroom, staring at everyone with his hawk-like eyes.

"We're going to be starting a project tomorrow. You'll be chosen a partner of the opposite sex, to raise a baby winged horse. They'll be kept in the barn and you'll need to come here 2 times a day to feed it, and to exercise it. I'll go into more detail about that tomorrow, but today, you're going to research about how to take care of the winged horses. They're very similar to regular horses, with some differences, such as the most obvious one, wings." He told them. "Take out your Taking Care of Various Magical Creatures and start reading and taking notes on the 4th chapter, which is on page 194."

Lily turned to the page and was greeted by a picture of a beautiful white winged horse flying through the clouds. She couldn't wait to start her project. She instantly fell in love with the winged horses as she read more about them. She already loved horses and was working at a Muggle stable every summer. Time flied by and the class was already over. Lily muttered a spell to make the book smaller and lighter and put it in her bag. She walked through the big grassy lawn, which was being divided into two Qudditch practice fields, the dark corridors that led to the Defense Against Dark Arts, and into the classroom and sat by Minnie.

"Hey!" Minnie said.

"Hi!" Lily answered. But that was all they could say before the professor began her lesson. They were studying werewolves and professor assigned a feet long essay due by next Friday.

Lily was looking forward to her next lesson. She was beginning to like the new professor, Professor McGonagall, even though a lot of people were beginning to say she was too strict. Finally the bell rang and Lily and Minnie walked to their next class.

It was already crowded by the time that they got there. It wasn't the sight the Lily was expecting. People were talking loudly and some were running around. On the teacher's table, there was a cat, sitting stiffly and looking very grim at the students. On the blackboard, there was a message.

'Class-
Please sit according to the seating chart and stay seated until I come. I will be back in 15 minutes. Start doing the introductory questions below. When I arrive and you are not in your proper seats, there will be consequences.
Professor McGonagall'

Lily her seat and started to work on the questions. Shay ran over.

"Hi Lily!" Shay said. "Come on! Conner Banks is about to do 100 push ups!"

Lily noticed the cat staring at her and shook her head, pointing to the blackboard.

"Oh Lily," Shay whined. "Come on, loose up a bit. It says that she won't be here for 15 minutes. We still have a safe 10 minutes!"

"Fine" Lily said. She walked to where there was a ring of people. In the center, Conner was deep purple and red, trying to do a hundred push-ups.

"84…85…86…87…88…89…90…91…" He groaned, shaking. He finally gave up at 92. The crowd booed.

"Come on, Conner, you can do better than that! I heard Potter and Black can do about 150 [i dunno if that's a realisticc number]! Even Lupin can do a 100!" Riley said, helping him up. Riley gave a disgusted groan as her hand was covered in sweat from Conner's hand. Riley wiped her hand on her robe.

"You guys! It's almost 15!" Someone shouted. Everyone rushed back to their seats and started to work furiously on the questions on the board.

"Where is she?" Shay turned around to look at the door. Just then, the cat in front of the class sprang up and transformed into Professor McGonagall before their eyes. Everyone gulped at the same time.

"Oh, Professor, we just, um, uh, were you sitting there the whole time?" Shay asked, her voice faltering.

"Yes." Professor McGonagall answered. Everyone waited in silence. "Yes, I was sitting there the whole time and I was watching the whole time too." Lily bowed her head. "I'm very very disappointed at this class. 6th years! Seriously! My 2nd year class was better!"

There was a deadly silence throughout the whole room. Professor McGonagall's eyes flashed dangerously.

"Miss Evans! I thought better! You're a prefect!" She screamed shrilly. Lily bowed her head further and felt her ears burning.

"P-Professor, I convinced Lily…" Shay tried to defend her.

"I know Miss Fintley! I was here!" She shouted.

"What did James Potter do then?" Shay said, getting more fierce.

That stumped her. Everyone knew that James, Sirius, and Remus were already in Advanced Transfiguration and would've probably started a chaos. Professor McGonagall shook in anger. She opened her mouth to say something, but closed it. She just pointed to the questions, her lips pressed tightly in a thin line. There was no more to be said. Everyone hurriedly did the questions.

After about 10 minutes, Professor McGonagall wrote their homework on the board.

"You may get a head start on it and work on it during class." She said and sat back down.

They had to do a 2 feet essay by the following Thursday, which was in two days. A few people dared groan but the rest kept quiet. The long-waited bell sounded and everyone quickly packed and left the class. But Lily summoned all of her courage and walked to Professor McGonagall.

"P-Professor, I'm so sorry about what happened. I promise you that this won't happen again. Again, I'm so sorry. If you want, I could help grade papers…" Lily trailed off.

"It's okay Miss Evans. I know you're better than that, the other professors have told me much about you." She responded. Lily beamed and walked out of the classroom. Minnie was waiting for her. They walked to dinner together and sat down by Shay and Riley.

"Hey you guys." Shay said. They said hi back and started eating.

"So what are you guys doing tonight?" Lily asked.

"Quidditch practice." Shay and Riley said at the same time.

"What? You already had one!" Minnie said.

"I know, James is obsessive. I swear, if we don't win the IQC, he'll kill himself." Riley said, eating a chicken leg.

"Yeah. Oh Riley! You can't eat that! Remember? Veggie only on dinners! James will get furious!" Shay exclaimed.

"Oh whatever. It's not like he'll ever know. He's probably in the library, poring over a Quidditch book." Riley said, dismissing it.

"Or maybe he's right behind you." James said. Riley slowly lowered her chicken leg and turned around.

"Hi James! You eat fast, you know. You should eat slower, helps the digestive system." Riley said in a squeaky voice, her voice termbling. James sat down between Riley and Shay. "I am so so so very sorry James. I thought one couldn't do any harm!" Riley said.

"It's okay. Don't worry about it. I guess I was a little nervous this morning and went a little too far. Practice is canceled tonight. Prefect meeting." James said. "By the way, are you going to have that drumstick?" James pointed to the last chicken which was on Riley's plate.

"No! Take it! All yours!" Riley said, shoving the plate toward him. He snatched it before she could just realize what she had done. "Hey!" Riley said, trying to take it back. But it was already in James' mouth. He gave a playful grin and left, enjoying the drumstick. Everyone laughed at Riley's dumbstruck face.

Soon everyone was done eating.

"Do you guys want to go to the Common Room and work on our homework?" Shay said.

"Sure!" Minnie said, wanting to get some of her homework done.

They walked through the portrait and gathered around one of the desks.

"I'll do my charms first…" Lily said.

"Me too…" Shay agreed.

They were measuring their wands when James came in.

"Lily! It's 7:50! The prefect meeting!" He said.

"Oh! Thank you so much!" Lily said, putting her stuff away. She ran up to her room and threw her bag on the bed. She put her wand in her robe and ran down.

"Come on, we don't want to be late." James said. They walked out.

"You know for the Care of Magical Creatures project, you're going to be my partner." James said.

Lily gave a surprised look at him. "What makes you say that?"

"Because in every project, the prefects are always partners." He answered.

"Oh." Lily said. They reached the meeting room. There were a few people already there. This was an octagonal room. There were four banners hanging from the ceiling, representing each house. There were four round tables with the house color tablecloths comfortable chairs. In the front of the room, there were seven seats. The one in the center said, "Headmaster", the four chairs on the left had the names of the heads of the houses. The two chairs on the right each had "Head Girl" and "Head Boy". Lily and James sat down at the Gryffindor table and waited. Soon the room filled and Professor Dumbledore walked in. He sat down at his chair and talked.

"First of all, I want to congratulate you for achieving the position of prefect, especially Head Boy and Girl." Everyone applauded. "Now, you all know the roles of a prefect. Not only, are you setting good examples for the lower classmen this year, you are representing the best and the brightest of our school, since IQC is coming up." A few people sat up straighter. "There are four prefect bathrooms, the password will be provided by the Heads of your house later," He said, motioning his hand toward the teachers. "There will be meetings every two weeks, unless notified." He picked up a stack of papers continued. "Now let's get to business, shall we? Okay. I will give out a packet of school rules to each of you, and it's your responsibility to make sure that the students follow them, which includes yourself." He said, his eyes twinkling as he looked at James. He gave the stack of paper to the Head Girl and she passed them out.

"We'll need to plan for the IQC and the following ball. Remember, the schools are arriving on the fourth of December and the IQC starts on the seventh." Professor Dumbledore said.

"What schools are coming?" James asked.

"Salem, Beauxton, Durmstrang, Soojin, Xangho, Berkeley, Denver, Berlin, Whaler, Hooter, Livingstone, Sierra, Tinhorn, and Renegade." Professor Dumbledore said. He continued.

"The matches are already planned and the trophy for the winning team is chosen. All we need to do is make room to accommodate the let's see… if I am correct, 196 Quidditch players, 14 tutors, 14 advisors, and 14 translators! They will be coming by the train into Hogsmeade."

"Why can't they sleep at the inn there?" A Ravenclaw prefect asked.

"The tutors told me that they wanted to do that. Also, Durmstrang, Berlin, Tinhorn, and Livingstone are going to sleep at the inn. The rest, we wanted to welcome them into our school, instead of just sending them to sleep at some inn." Dumbledore said smiling. "We have exactly 33 empty classrooms right now. We'll use two classrooms per school. So we'll be using 20 of them. We need to furnish them. I want you to talk it over in your tables and tell me when you've come up with something."

"I think 8 beds should be enough: 7 for each player, 1 for one of the adults. Maybe a nightstand per two bed and 2 wardrobes." Lily said.

"Okay. Let me write that down." James said, jotting down the ideas. "The walls can the color of their schools. The floor will be needed to be filled with carpet of course. We can always move a painting or two to each room."

Professor Dumbledore was walking around, looking at each group's list.

"When you are done, get it approved by the head of your house and you may go. Come up with the budget and the floor plan as soon as possible. It needs to be under 50 galleons per school, which is what they have paid for accommodations. We already have most of the furniture ready. Give the list of things you need and you may start furnishing each room as soon as you receive the things you need." He said. He came over to Lily and James' table.

"You will be responsible for Soojin and Berkeley." He said simply.

Lily and James got done and got it approved by Professor McGonagall. They walked out of the room. He looked at his watch.

"It's 10 pm. That was pretty long." He said to Lily.

"Yeah…" She said softly staring into space. The short walk to the Gryffindor common room was silent. They said the password and walked in. Most of the people had already gone upstairs. Sirius, Remus, and Peter were sitting on the desk that Lily was sitting on. Lily went upstairs to get her books. Shay had already gone to sleep. There was a note by her bed.

'Lily~

Sorry I couldn't wait for you. I have to get some sleep for Quidditch. Minnie's still up. She's in her dorm, waiting for you. (If you're reading this before 10:30 pm). Well, I'll see you next morning!

Love,
Shay'

Lily grabbed her books and went into Minnie's dorm.

"Minnie?" Lily said, knocking on the door. Minnie was reading a book on her bed.

"Oh! Let's go. I didn't want to be alone with Sirius, Remus, and Peter." She said, grabbing her books too. They went downstairs.

Lily sat down by Remus and Minnie sat by James.

"Hi Remus." Lily said.

"Hi Lily." Remus said, smiling. Lily and Minnie took their books out and started to do their homework. Lily was writing her Charms Wand Analysis. She measured her wand.

"10 ¼ in" she muttered. "Willow… unicorn tail" She wrote those things down and tried a few spells on it. "Best with charms…" Soon, she was done with her homework. "What are you doing Minnie?" Lily asked, peering over to her work.

"Divination. We have to describe our palm. It's really stupid. I'm almost done though." She said, staring intently at her left hand.

"Lily, do you want to work on the budget and floor plan?" James asked.

"Sure." She said. He sat down next to her and they started to discuss how they'll furnish the rooms. They made a list of things they would need.

"Our next Hogsmeade weekend is next week. We can visit some stores and get some prices." James said. Lily nodded. They decided to paint the Berkeley room navy blue with gold stripes, the Soojin room olive and sandy colors.


"Oh yeah, we're in charge of furnishing the room that the Soojin school will be staying in Minnie" Lily said.

"Really? So they're coming? Yes!" She said. She continued to work for another 20 minutes.

"Done!" Minnie yelled, throwing down her quill. Everyone jumped.

"You scared us!" Sirius said. She giggled and said sorry. Minnie and Lily went upstairs and to their own dorms.

"Good night!" Lily said to Minnie.

"I'll see you next morning!" Minnie responded.

Lily climbed into her comfortable bed and sighed as snuggled on the pillow. She thought about all the things that happened that day: James, James, James, James… No! What am I doing? She thought. I don't like James! I'm just working with him on a lot of things... Stop it! She fought in her head. She instead of thought about the winged horses project. Then they somehow led back to James, James, James...

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