Lily Evans was sitting in her car, heading back to her school, now that
summer was over. Her parents were taking her to the train station, and
there she would get on a train and go back to the school where she lived.
Lily was a very pretty girl, with flaming red hair, and beautiful green eyes that attracted many people to her. She was not an ordinary girl though. Lily Evans was a witch. She was heading back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she would start her sixth year.
Lily just couldn't wait to see her five best friends, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Audrey Joaquin, and Kristin Alvina. She always had so much fun with all of them; they were always laughing together and playing pranks on the Slytherins, the rivals of the Gryffindors. Lily had really missed that all summer.
The person she missed the most though, was James Potter. He meant everything to her, and Lily didn't know what she would do without him.
Yes, it's true; Lily was in love with one of her best friends. She couldn't help it.
Just the way James always stood up for her when she was in trouble, or when jerks would bother her about being muggle-born. The way James looked at her with those lovely eyes of his. She got lost in those lovely eyes every time she looked at him. Every time she saw that messy but attractive hair and that gorgeous smile, she just wanted to kiss him, and never stop.
Lily and her two best friends Kristin and Audrey were inseparable, and they called themselves the Roses (some knew them however as the Marauders girls.) The Roses and the Marauders had been close to each other ever since first year.
Everyone knew Lucius Malfoy had a thing for Lily Evans and in first year when he told her he liked her, she didn't like him.
James had been walking in the hallway and he saw Lily pinned up to the wall by Lucius who was screaming at her and calling her a mudblood.
James of course-being the sweetie that he is- ran came to Lily's aid.
Lily had liked him ever since that day he saved her from Malfoy. She and her friends started hanging out with James and his friends and they all had been close ever since first year. Anyway, now that that's all explained: back to the present.
"We're almost there!" Lily's dad announced, and Lily was so excited. She had so many butterflies in her stomach that she thought it was going to burst.
She was really exited to see her friends. She had really missed those nights when they would all hang out in the common room, laughing, and telling stories, making fun of Snape and Malfoy.
Some of the nights last year Lily ended up down in the common room alone with James, and they would spend hours talking and laughing together. Lily felt like she could tell James anything, except for the fact that she liked him. She could even tell him things that she couldn't tell her closest girlfriends.
*Maybe James likes me, too?* she thought. *No, no he couldn't, I mean why would he? He's always going out with those stupid snobs that fall all over him. He probably just thinks of me as a friend, and that's it,* Lily thought sadly to herself.
"We're here!" Lily's mother said, snapping Lily out of her thoughts.
*Oh my god! We're here!* Lily was thinking in her head. *I'm gonna see all my friends in a few minutes! Oh my god I'm gonna see James in a few minutes! Oh! This is so exciting!*
"Mum?" Lily asked. "Yes, dear?" her mom said. "How do I look? Is my hair okay? Do you think my outfit is too much? Do you like my make up?"
"Oh sweetie, you look so beautiful. I-I think I'm g-going to cry. I'm g- going to m-m-miss you so much, honey!"
"Oh, Mum! Don't cry! I'll be fine, really! I'm gonna see you in the summer, don't worry!" Lily had a smile across her face.
Then her mother stopped crying and started smiling. "Who is it that you're trying to impress anyway, Lily? Got any special boys at school that you're waiting to see again?" said her mother with a big grin.
Lily's smile, however, seemed to have disappeared. "N-no one! I'm not trying to impress anyone. I just um want to uh look good for the-for the first day of school! Yeah, t-that's it!"
"Oh, I see," her father said. "Oh come on guys," Lily said to her parents, "please don't embarrass me! Really please don't!"
Petunia however looked very happy to see Lily embarrassed like this. "Well," said her dad, "I guess this is where we leave you, Lily dear."
"Yeah guess so," said Lily. Lily's parents weren't going to go through the platform with Lily because Petunia refused to go and her parents didn't want to leave Petunia alone
"See ya, freak," said Petunia, "stay there for Christmas if you can." Lily sighed. "Bye Petunia," she said with no enthusiasm.
After hugging her father and getting hugged by her mother (about five times!), Lily was off. She waved to her parents right before she went through the barrier.
About two minutes after Lily got through the barrier, she heard someone screaming her name.
"Lily, Lily! Oy Lily!" Lily turned around. It was Remus and Sirius.
"Remus!" she screamed, "Sirius!" she screamed again. People cleared the way as Lily ran towards them and they ran towards Lily.
Sirius got there first and picked her up and gave her a great hug. "Oh man did I miss ya Lily daling," said Sirius. Lily thought Sirius was so sweet.
Sirius had been calling Lily "Lily dahling" since before she could remember.
"Oh I missed you guys too!" said Lily, smiling at them.
She hugged Remus next. "It's great to see, you again, Lily! I missed you! You look great!"
"Oh Remus you're such a sweetie! I missed you so so so much!" Remus smiled at her. She hugged them both again before she heard someone else.
"Lily! Hey girl!" it was Audrey and Kristin. Lily ran up to them. When they reached each other they all started hugging, jumping up and screaming. They were attracting a lot of attention with all the noise they were making. Remus and Sirius just stood there watching them and laughing.
"Oh my gosh you guys! It's so great to see you! I've missed you so so so much! I can't wait to go back!"
"Yeah," said Audrey, "me, too! I really can't wait."
"How about you, Kristin?" but when Lily looked at Kristin, she was staring at Sirius with a longing look in her eyes.
"Hello? Earth to Kristin!" Lily said. "What? Huh? Oh oh uh yeah," Kristin said.
"Girl you are so in love with him!" said Lily. "Well how can I help it?" said Kristin. "He's just so cute! And I wouldn't be talking Lils, you are hopelessly in love with James," Kristin said.
Lily smiled. "So what if I am. How can I not be?" Lily asked.
Kristin noticed Audrey trying to hold in her laughs and said "you, too Audrey. I saw you drooling over Remus."
All three of them giggled and Kristin and Audrey ran over and hugged Remus and Sirius.
Then, Lily heard someone that made her heart leap. Guess who it was.
"Hey, Lily Flower!" Lily turned around. It was James. She knew it was him before she turned around because he always called her Lily Flower and he was the only one. She loved it.
"James!" she shouted. They ran towards each other. (Imagine one of those cute little love scenes in a romance movie where two people are running at each other in slow motion and music is playing hehe)
Lily just couldn't wait until she was in James' arms. They finally reached each other and he picked her up and twirled her around.
Many people were looking at them and smiling. James put her down and they started hugging each other.
"Lily, you just won't believe how much I missed you!" said James.
Lily could tell he really meant it. "Oh James I missed you so much," she said.
Lily had tears in her eyes because she was just so happy. Little did Lily and James know, Remus, Sirius, Kristin, and Audrey were talking about them.
"Dude did you see that?" Sirius asked. "Yup," said Kristin, "they are so in love with each other."
"You know what?" said Remus, "I think we have a bit of hooking up to do here." Audrey giggled, and Remus smiled at her.
They stopped talking when Lily and James walked over. "Well you two little love birds sure were happy to see each other," said Sirius smiling his famous smile.
James and Lily both turned a deep shade of red. "Oy, James," said Remus, "don't we get any 'Nice to see you's' at least?" the girls all giggled.
James said hello to them all and hugged Kristin and Audrey (it was a little awkward for the boys to hug)
"Shall we get onto the train now?" said Audrey. They all agreed and got their luggage, well the girls did.
"Hey boys where is your luggage?" Kristin asked. "We already put our trunks on the train," said James. "Yeah we got a compartment to ourselves," said Sirius.
The girls got their trunks and they all headed towards the train. Remus and Audrey were walking to the train together-very close to each other.
Remus was helping Audrey with her luggage. Sirius had already carried Kristin's luggage on the train and they were already sitting in the compartment.
Lily could see them through the window sitting very close to each other and Kristin seemed to be giggling at one of Sirius' jokes.
Lily was having trouble with her trunk. It was really heavy.
"Do you need a hand Lily my Flower?" James asked, and smiled, with his go- week-at-the- knees smile. Lily's hearted melted.
"Sure," she said, and smiled back at him. They both stared at each other and their eyes locked.
They snapped out of it when they heard Sirius shout through the window "Oy James, Lily dahling, let's go! The train's leaving!"
They both looked at each other and smiled, then James helped Lily get her trunk into their compartment.
The Marauders and the Roses were having a great time together. They were laughing, talking, making fun of Snape and Malfoy, and Peter the Pest but he didn't notice it since he was snoring in the corner and drooling.
Lily sat next to James and next to them was Audrey and Remus. Across was Sirius and Kristin, and Peter the Pest snoring away in the corner.
Lily was really happy with the seating arrangement, and little did she know, so was James and everyone else.
They had stopped talking after a while and all of them fell asleep. Kristin woke up first.
She was lying down in Sirius' lap. "Oh my god," she said, and she sat up quickly fixing her hair.
"Finally awake I see," said Sirius smiling. "Yeah sorry that I was in your lap, it must have been uncomfortable," she said, looking awkward.
"Oh, no, no it was fine. I didn't wanna wake you, and actually I kinda liked having you there." Kristin looked up at him.
They both smiled at each other. They moved in for a kiss but then Peter made a disturbing noise and they both pulled away and blushed.
"Kristin," said Sirius, taking her hand , "I really, really like you. I've liked you since third year. Will you be my girlfriend? It's okay if you won't though." Oh, he's so sweet, Kristin was thinking to herself.
"Sirius, of course I will!!! I've liked you for so long! I just really didn't think you liked me. I would love to be your girlfriend!" she said, enthusiastically, and then they pulled into a short but passionate kiss.
When they reluctantly pulled out, they were both grinning like mad. Sirius put his arm around her shoulder, and she put her head on his shoulder.
Sirius started laughing after about five minutes. "What is it," Kristin asked curiously. "Look at them" he said, smiling and pointing at the others.
She looked over and saw the Lily was sleeping with her head on James shoulder and he had his arm around her and they were leaning on the wall next to them.
Audrey had her head in Remus' lap and he had his arm around her. Sirius and Kristin laughed so hard that it woke all four of them up-not Peter though- he sleeps through everything.
They were glad Peter didn't wake up-they didn't really want to talk to him.
Lily and James realized how they were positions and they both quickly sat up, blushing and smiling.
Audrey and Remus did the same thing and they both smiled at each other and stared at each other for a long time.
"Um, guys?" said Sirius, "we have something to tell you." Everyone looked up, curious.
"Me and Kristin are together now." Kristin smiled and blushed. Sirius seemed really happy.
For just a minute they were all silent, then Lily and Audrey jumped up and started screaming and hugging Kristin.
They were all smiling and giggling. I hope that will happen with James and I, thought Lily. I'm so happy for Kristin she thought!
Remus and James smiled at Sirius. They congratulated him.
They knew how much Sirius had liked Kristin and they kept telling him to ask her out, and he waited for the perfect moment.
Their smiles all soon faded, though, because the compartment door slid open and Malfoy, Snape, and their stupid gang entered.
"What do you want?" Remus asked coldly. "Sorry to ruin your little happy moment," said Lucius, "but I wanted to say hello to Lily."
Lily, afraid, back up away from Malfoy and James stepped in front of her.
"You leave her alone, understand Malfoy? Now get outta here!" said James who was getting very angry.
"What if I don't want to?" said Malfoy. "Hi," said Lily coldly, "there I said hi, now you can leave!"
Sirius noticed Snape Looking Kristin up and down and stepped in front of her. "Back of Snivellus," he said.
"Malfoy, we're not kidding, leave!" said Remus.
"I will, I will," Malfoy sneered, "Lily why don't you come with me?" he said.
"Didn't you hear James you git?" said Remus, angrily, "you leave Lily and Kristin and Audrey alone, or we Marauders will make your life a living nightmare."
Malfoy and his gang all sneered. "Well, hey! It's been fun but do us all a favor and go!" Sirius said sarcastically. "There's the door," he said "or were you too stupid to see it?"
So they left. When the door closed Lily rolled her eyes. She was sick of Malfoy always acting like a stupid git.
"Thanks James," Lily said to James. "Ugh, I hate Malfoy he's such a stupid git!" Lily said angrily. "I know Lily Flower," James said putting an arm around her and smiling, "I know." Lily smiled adoringly at James and he smiled back.
Everyone in the compartment realized James and Lily were in love, except - well - James and Lily. They would realize it soon (with a little help from their friends!!!).
~*~*
Lily was a very pretty girl, with flaming red hair, and beautiful green eyes that attracted many people to her. She was not an ordinary girl though. Lily Evans was a witch. She was heading back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she would start her sixth year.
Lily just couldn't wait to see her five best friends, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Audrey Joaquin, and Kristin Alvina. She always had so much fun with all of them; they were always laughing together and playing pranks on the Slytherins, the rivals of the Gryffindors. Lily had really missed that all summer.
The person she missed the most though, was James Potter. He meant everything to her, and Lily didn't know what she would do without him.
Yes, it's true; Lily was in love with one of her best friends. She couldn't help it.
Just the way James always stood up for her when she was in trouble, or when jerks would bother her about being muggle-born. The way James looked at her with those lovely eyes of his. She got lost in those lovely eyes every time she looked at him. Every time she saw that messy but attractive hair and that gorgeous smile, she just wanted to kiss him, and never stop.
Lily and her two best friends Kristin and Audrey were inseparable, and they called themselves the Roses (some knew them however as the Marauders girls.) The Roses and the Marauders had been close to each other ever since first year.
Everyone knew Lucius Malfoy had a thing for Lily Evans and in first year when he told her he liked her, she didn't like him.
James had been walking in the hallway and he saw Lily pinned up to the wall by Lucius who was screaming at her and calling her a mudblood.
James of course-being the sweetie that he is- ran came to Lily's aid.
Lily had liked him ever since that day he saved her from Malfoy. She and her friends started hanging out with James and his friends and they all had been close ever since first year. Anyway, now that that's all explained: back to the present.
"We're almost there!" Lily's dad announced, and Lily was so excited. She had so many butterflies in her stomach that she thought it was going to burst.
She was really exited to see her friends. She had really missed those nights when they would all hang out in the common room, laughing, and telling stories, making fun of Snape and Malfoy.
Some of the nights last year Lily ended up down in the common room alone with James, and they would spend hours talking and laughing together. Lily felt like she could tell James anything, except for the fact that she liked him. She could even tell him things that she couldn't tell her closest girlfriends.
*Maybe James likes me, too?* she thought. *No, no he couldn't, I mean why would he? He's always going out with those stupid snobs that fall all over him. He probably just thinks of me as a friend, and that's it,* Lily thought sadly to herself.
"We're here!" Lily's mother said, snapping Lily out of her thoughts.
*Oh my god! We're here!* Lily was thinking in her head. *I'm gonna see all my friends in a few minutes! Oh my god I'm gonna see James in a few minutes! Oh! This is so exciting!*
"Mum?" Lily asked. "Yes, dear?" her mom said. "How do I look? Is my hair okay? Do you think my outfit is too much? Do you like my make up?"
"Oh sweetie, you look so beautiful. I-I think I'm g-going to cry. I'm g- going to m-m-miss you so much, honey!"
"Oh, Mum! Don't cry! I'll be fine, really! I'm gonna see you in the summer, don't worry!" Lily had a smile across her face.
Then her mother stopped crying and started smiling. "Who is it that you're trying to impress anyway, Lily? Got any special boys at school that you're waiting to see again?" said her mother with a big grin.
Lily's smile, however, seemed to have disappeared. "N-no one! I'm not trying to impress anyone. I just um want to uh look good for the-for the first day of school! Yeah, t-that's it!"
"Oh, I see," her father said. "Oh come on guys," Lily said to her parents, "please don't embarrass me! Really please don't!"
Petunia however looked very happy to see Lily embarrassed like this. "Well," said her dad, "I guess this is where we leave you, Lily dear."
"Yeah guess so," said Lily. Lily's parents weren't going to go through the platform with Lily because Petunia refused to go and her parents didn't want to leave Petunia alone
"See ya, freak," said Petunia, "stay there for Christmas if you can." Lily sighed. "Bye Petunia," she said with no enthusiasm.
After hugging her father and getting hugged by her mother (about five times!), Lily was off. She waved to her parents right before she went through the barrier.
About two minutes after Lily got through the barrier, she heard someone screaming her name.
"Lily, Lily! Oy Lily!" Lily turned around. It was Remus and Sirius.
"Remus!" she screamed, "Sirius!" she screamed again. People cleared the way as Lily ran towards them and they ran towards Lily.
Sirius got there first and picked her up and gave her a great hug. "Oh man did I miss ya Lily daling," said Sirius. Lily thought Sirius was so sweet.
Sirius had been calling Lily "Lily dahling" since before she could remember.
"Oh I missed you guys too!" said Lily, smiling at them.
She hugged Remus next. "It's great to see, you again, Lily! I missed you! You look great!"
"Oh Remus you're such a sweetie! I missed you so so so much!" Remus smiled at her. She hugged them both again before she heard someone else.
"Lily! Hey girl!" it was Audrey and Kristin. Lily ran up to them. When they reached each other they all started hugging, jumping up and screaming. They were attracting a lot of attention with all the noise they were making. Remus and Sirius just stood there watching them and laughing.
"Oh my gosh you guys! It's so great to see you! I've missed you so so so much! I can't wait to go back!"
"Yeah," said Audrey, "me, too! I really can't wait."
"How about you, Kristin?" but when Lily looked at Kristin, she was staring at Sirius with a longing look in her eyes.
"Hello? Earth to Kristin!" Lily said. "What? Huh? Oh oh uh yeah," Kristin said.
"Girl you are so in love with him!" said Lily. "Well how can I help it?" said Kristin. "He's just so cute! And I wouldn't be talking Lils, you are hopelessly in love with James," Kristin said.
Lily smiled. "So what if I am. How can I not be?" Lily asked.
Kristin noticed Audrey trying to hold in her laughs and said "you, too Audrey. I saw you drooling over Remus."
All three of them giggled and Kristin and Audrey ran over and hugged Remus and Sirius.
Then, Lily heard someone that made her heart leap. Guess who it was.
"Hey, Lily Flower!" Lily turned around. It was James. She knew it was him before she turned around because he always called her Lily Flower and he was the only one. She loved it.
"James!" she shouted. They ran towards each other. (Imagine one of those cute little love scenes in a romance movie where two people are running at each other in slow motion and music is playing hehe)
Lily just couldn't wait until she was in James' arms. They finally reached each other and he picked her up and twirled her around.
Many people were looking at them and smiling. James put her down and they started hugging each other.
"Lily, you just won't believe how much I missed you!" said James.
Lily could tell he really meant it. "Oh James I missed you so much," she said.
Lily had tears in her eyes because she was just so happy. Little did Lily and James know, Remus, Sirius, Kristin, and Audrey were talking about them.
"Dude did you see that?" Sirius asked. "Yup," said Kristin, "they are so in love with each other."
"You know what?" said Remus, "I think we have a bit of hooking up to do here." Audrey giggled, and Remus smiled at her.
They stopped talking when Lily and James walked over. "Well you two little love birds sure were happy to see each other," said Sirius smiling his famous smile.
James and Lily both turned a deep shade of red. "Oy, James," said Remus, "don't we get any 'Nice to see you's' at least?" the girls all giggled.
James said hello to them all and hugged Kristin and Audrey (it was a little awkward for the boys to hug)
"Shall we get onto the train now?" said Audrey. They all agreed and got their luggage, well the girls did.
"Hey boys where is your luggage?" Kristin asked. "We already put our trunks on the train," said James. "Yeah we got a compartment to ourselves," said Sirius.
The girls got their trunks and they all headed towards the train. Remus and Audrey were walking to the train together-very close to each other.
Remus was helping Audrey with her luggage. Sirius had already carried Kristin's luggage on the train and they were already sitting in the compartment.
Lily could see them through the window sitting very close to each other and Kristin seemed to be giggling at one of Sirius' jokes.
Lily was having trouble with her trunk. It was really heavy.
"Do you need a hand Lily my Flower?" James asked, and smiled, with his go- week-at-the- knees smile. Lily's hearted melted.
"Sure," she said, and smiled back at him. They both stared at each other and their eyes locked.
They snapped out of it when they heard Sirius shout through the window "Oy James, Lily dahling, let's go! The train's leaving!"
They both looked at each other and smiled, then James helped Lily get her trunk into their compartment.
The Marauders and the Roses were having a great time together. They were laughing, talking, making fun of Snape and Malfoy, and Peter the Pest but he didn't notice it since he was snoring in the corner and drooling.
Lily sat next to James and next to them was Audrey and Remus. Across was Sirius and Kristin, and Peter the Pest snoring away in the corner.
Lily was really happy with the seating arrangement, and little did she know, so was James and everyone else.
They had stopped talking after a while and all of them fell asleep. Kristin woke up first.
She was lying down in Sirius' lap. "Oh my god," she said, and she sat up quickly fixing her hair.
"Finally awake I see," said Sirius smiling. "Yeah sorry that I was in your lap, it must have been uncomfortable," she said, looking awkward.
"Oh, no, no it was fine. I didn't wanna wake you, and actually I kinda liked having you there." Kristin looked up at him.
They both smiled at each other. They moved in for a kiss but then Peter made a disturbing noise and they both pulled away and blushed.
"Kristin," said Sirius, taking her hand , "I really, really like you. I've liked you since third year. Will you be my girlfriend? It's okay if you won't though." Oh, he's so sweet, Kristin was thinking to herself.
"Sirius, of course I will!!! I've liked you for so long! I just really didn't think you liked me. I would love to be your girlfriend!" she said, enthusiastically, and then they pulled into a short but passionate kiss.
When they reluctantly pulled out, they were both grinning like mad. Sirius put his arm around her shoulder, and she put her head on his shoulder.
Sirius started laughing after about five minutes. "What is it," Kristin asked curiously. "Look at them" he said, smiling and pointing at the others.
She looked over and saw the Lily was sleeping with her head on James shoulder and he had his arm around her and they were leaning on the wall next to them.
Audrey had her head in Remus' lap and he had his arm around her. Sirius and Kristin laughed so hard that it woke all four of them up-not Peter though- he sleeps through everything.
They were glad Peter didn't wake up-they didn't really want to talk to him.
Lily and James realized how they were positions and they both quickly sat up, blushing and smiling.
Audrey and Remus did the same thing and they both smiled at each other and stared at each other for a long time.
"Um, guys?" said Sirius, "we have something to tell you." Everyone looked up, curious.
"Me and Kristin are together now." Kristin smiled and blushed. Sirius seemed really happy.
For just a minute they were all silent, then Lily and Audrey jumped up and started screaming and hugging Kristin.
They were all smiling and giggling. I hope that will happen with James and I, thought Lily. I'm so happy for Kristin she thought!
Remus and James smiled at Sirius. They congratulated him.
They knew how much Sirius had liked Kristin and they kept telling him to ask her out, and he waited for the perfect moment.
Their smiles all soon faded, though, because the compartment door slid open and Malfoy, Snape, and their stupid gang entered.
"What do you want?" Remus asked coldly. "Sorry to ruin your little happy moment," said Lucius, "but I wanted to say hello to Lily."
Lily, afraid, back up away from Malfoy and James stepped in front of her.
"You leave her alone, understand Malfoy? Now get outta here!" said James who was getting very angry.
"What if I don't want to?" said Malfoy. "Hi," said Lily coldly, "there I said hi, now you can leave!"
Sirius noticed Snape Looking Kristin up and down and stepped in front of her. "Back of Snivellus," he said.
"Malfoy, we're not kidding, leave!" said Remus.
"I will, I will," Malfoy sneered, "Lily why don't you come with me?" he said.
"Didn't you hear James you git?" said Remus, angrily, "you leave Lily and Kristin and Audrey alone, or we Marauders will make your life a living nightmare."
Malfoy and his gang all sneered. "Well, hey! It's been fun but do us all a favor and go!" Sirius said sarcastically. "There's the door," he said "or were you too stupid to see it?"
So they left. When the door closed Lily rolled her eyes. She was sick of Malfoy always acting like a stupid git.
"Thanks James," Lily said to James. "Ugh, I hate Malfoy he's such a stupid git!" Lily said angrily. "I know Lily Flower," James said putting an arm around her and smiling, "I know." Lily smiled adoringly at James and he smiled back.
Everyone in the compartment realized James and Lily were in love, except - well - James and Lily. They would realize it soon (with a little help from their friends!!!).
~*~*