A/N: Ahh! 29 reviews!!!!!!!! I can't thank you guys enough! I certainly wasn't expecting that many, but it was a very nice surprise, I assure you. I'm sitting here and grinning my head off as as I read them...it's so nice to smile after studying for math finals for an hour. Thank you guys sooo much, I love you! I wish I could thank each of you who reviewed one by one, but there's just so many of you! So I just wanted to tell you all how happy I am that you liked the first chapter, I honestly didn't think many people would. I hope you like this chapter too!

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Chapter 2- Revelations in Personality

"Ugh! Look what my mother put in my trunk!" Mary suddenly yelled out. Lily looked up to see her friend holding up a new robe. Not just any new robe...it had very, er, nice lacing.

"Eww, what kind of robe is that? Does she honestly expect you to *wear* that?" Lily said in a tone that implied she found the robe sickening.

"Knowing her, she thinks I'll find the robe absolutely *adorable*. Quite the opposite, I assure you. I don't think the word adorable should even be allowed into my vocabulary. Not for clothes, anyway." she threw the robe aside in irritation. "They're all like this! Ahh!"

"Looks like you'll be needing to borrow a robe for today, or maybe longer. We'll have to get you new robes in Hogsmeade. But I'm not sure when the next Hogsmeade weekend is. Hopefully not far from now." she said, glancing into her own trunk. "I'm on a short supply too; I'd better buy some new ones as well. Here." She threw a robe to Mary. Then she suddenly groaned.

"Look what *my* mother sent me!" Lily held up something. At first glance, most people wouldn't even know what it was. But if you looked closer, you would see that it was a horrible hat. It was a pointed hat, like all magical people wore, but with a few...additions that made it seem a bit much.

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Later on that evening, they seated themselves in the common room to play chess. They were both thoroughly engrossed in the game, and weren't paying any attention to their surroundings. Mary moved her knight, and Lily groaned.

"I hate playing chess with you, you always win!" She said, crossing her arms defiantly.

"Oh, don't be a poor sport." Mary replied, keeping her eyes on the game.

Lily mumbled as she moved one of her pawns. "You wouldn't say that if you were losing."

Her friend paid her comment no heed, and proceeded to win the game in a matter of a half hour or so. They rose, stretched, and sat back down.

"We have classes tomorrow, you know. I wonder if they'll be boring again this year." Lily commented. She slouched in her chair, something she took advantage of doing when her parents weren't around.

Mary grinned. "But you're Head Girl now. I would think that you'd enjoy classes to the fullest." She said teasingly.

"You know very well that I'm only Head Girl because my parents made me work my ass off to get such good grades. I wouldn't have even bothered otherwise. I wouldn't need to, since they already have my future all planned out."

"Good point."

"Oh, Mary, what am I going to do?" Lily whined, though not haughtily.

"About what?"

It was then that Lily remembered that she had never told her friend about what her mother had done. "My mom has chosen my husband. You know Patrick Peterson?"

"That prat?! She's making you marry *him*?!"

"Yes, the one and only. But I can't do it, Mary, I just can't. I have to get out of it somehow!" She was beginning to feel frantic and worried again. Lily and Mary were used to the idea of arranged marriages, but they had prayed that it would never happen to them. And now it was.

Mary sighed. "I don't know how, but we'll find a way to get you out of it. We have to."

Lily, however, was not listening. She had just spotted a certain raven-haired boy sitting on the other side of the common room. He was staring off into the fire, but jumped abruptly as his best friend, one Sirius Black, slapped him on the back. Sirius was very tall, somewhat muscular from Quidditch, and handsome. He had short, brown hair and big, green eyes. He was the most mischievous of the four of them, though James was not far behind.

James started talking profusely with his friend. They seemed to be leaning over something that James held in his lap. She was curious, but decided to just sit and watch.

It was about five minutes later when James looked up from his seat. He looked around the room for his other two friends, who weren't present just then. But his eyes rested on Lily Evans, and she was staring right back at him. When he hesitated to look away, she raised an eyebrow teasingly at him. He grinned cutely and put on a fake look of smugness. They continued to give each other looks like this until each of their friends poked them to get them to look away.

"Ouch! What was that for?" Lily asked, a little louder than needed.

"I was getting you out of your trance. You have been staring that way for several minutes now, and I thought you'd like me to wake you up." Mary replied in a tone that implied an explanation.

She grinned. "I wasn't just staring 'that way'. I was staring at a certain someone named James Potter."

Mary's smile fell off of her face. "Lily! You know that he's a trouble maker. He isn't exactly the best guy to get involved with. One, he could break your heart, and two, your parents would *seriously* disapprove."

"You think I care about that? Since when do you? And if he does break my heart, why should I care? It's not as if I'm suddenly in love with him or something."

Her friend grinned again. "You're right, I don't care. But *James Potter*?" Lily just smiled waywardly in response. There was a long pause, in which she stared at the back of his head.

"Mary? I've thought of a way we could get those new robes before the next Hogsmeade weeked."

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At breakfast the next morning, Lily was not really looking forward to her first class. Potions with the Slytherins and Professor Welch. Okay, so Welch really wasn't *that* bad. He just wasn't the most pleasant person ever.

She was just taking her first bite of scrambled eggs, when Dumbledore rose and began to speak. "I hope you all will enjoy your first day back. I see that most of you have already started eating, so I won't bother you now." His pale eyes twinkled as he sat back down. Almost immediately, he jumped back up and said, "Oh, I almost forgot. Would James Potter and Lily Evans please approach the staff table at this time? They're our Head Boy and Girl this year." he added to the students.

Lily's eyes had widened when she learned that James was Head Boy. I didn't know he was that smart. I always thought he was just a 'bad boy'. Huh, maybe not. She glanced over at him as they made their way up to the front of the Hall. His black hair fell all over the place, and the way he held himself seemed to say a lot about his personality . What does Dumbledore want?

Dumbledore smiled when they stopped before him. "I'm so happy to see such nice students as Head Boy and Girl this year. We've had some *cough* bad ones in the past." he added with a glance at the Slytherin table. "Now, I don't want anything formal, just yet. I only wanted you two to become acquainted with each other. You may need to work together on a few things this year. I thought maybe you two could skip your first class and go talk in your common room. You know, just to meet each other." His eyes twinkled even more behind his half-moon spectacles. Lily's heart beat faster at the mention of missing Potions, and James' face brightened.

"That would be great, Professor! Thanks!"

Dumbledore continued to smile and replied, "Don't mention it."

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Mary groaned as they stopped at the portrait hole. "I can't believe you get to miss Potions. How unfair! Can't I just skip with you?"

"I'm not skipping, Dumbledore gave me permission." Lily replied, grinning.

"Alright, well I'd better get going or I'll be late." she sighed deeply and started to walk away. Then she added, "Have fun with James." and smiled.

Lily entered the common room to find him already there. He looked up when she walked in and smiled at her. He has such a cute smile. So roguish. I love it.

She extended her hand. "I don't believe we've ever really met. I'm Lily Evans." He took her hand and pulled her over to him, pushing her into a chair.

Still grinning, he said, "I'm James Potter. Very nice to meet you."

Lily didn't know what to say next, and so she just blurted out what she had been wondering. "I didn't know you were so smart." She had to hide a blush. So smart? What an idiotic statement. Couldn't I have said "I didn't know you were in the top of our class." or "I wasn't aware that your grades were so high"...

He laughed. "That's because I'm known for my trouble making. Nobody cares to look closer to see that my friends and I work very hard for our grades. But most people don't know that, and so I have quite a weird reputation around here. True, I'm definately not a model student. I have the most detentions in a hundred years. My parents hate it, but I long ago decided that I just *can't* please them, whatever I do. But that doesn't bother me. I don't care what other people think."

"Really? Me neither. I always hated it when people judge without really knowing a person." she smiled up at him.

James wasn't really thinking, and blurted out. "But I thought you were rich. Don't all rich people care about those sort of things?"

The smile quickly fell from her face and she said blankly, "I might be rich, but I certainly don't enjoy it. I'd do anything to get away from my parents and their parties, and the 'high' society. It's horrible."

He grinned at her again. "In that case, I have a feeling we're going to be very good friends..."

She stared at him, up into his big chocolate brown eyes. It was like she knew so much about him already. He's such a fun-loving person. God knows I need a little of what I'd like to call *fun* in my life...What if this once, just this once, I decided to pitch the rule book into the trash?

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A/N: Alright, so what did you think? I hope it was up to your standards...I tried to make it as interesting as possible. I'm still attempting to, you know, introduce the whole thing to you...so it's kind of taking awhile to get to the point. Though all of this does lead up to it..anyway, I'm rambling. I still can't believe how many reviews I got for last chapter!! I'm thinking that next chapter should begin where I left off, because now that I read over it, there were a few things that I wanted them to say that I didn't include yet. I hope this chapter wasn't too boring and you guys liked it! I already know what will happen in chapter 3. If you're wondering, it should be a quote 'developing relationship', they'll get some new robes, and…well, I won't tell you all of it. Please please REVIEW? If nobody likes it, there's no reason for me to continue...Can we make it to 60 reviews? That would be soooo awesome!