Lily trudged slowly through the people at King Cross. She was getting ready to start a new year, her final year... Now-a-days Lily wasn't caring for anything, just letting it all slide by...

Who needs life? Who needs to do chores? Who needs friends? 'I sure do...' Lily thought to herself, then looked up at the sky and sighed.

She probably was just standing there daydreaming when somebody shouted at her, "Move, little girl!"

Lily came back to reality, and looked over at the man who shouted at her. She sighed once more; she was half expecting it to be a wizard... Because muggles could communicate with her.

"That's just spiffy." Lily said to him, in a monotonous voice.

It seemed like he was just about to tell her off, but then the clock behind Lily caught his attention, and then he ran to a train that was just about to leave.

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Lily was on the Hogwarts Express by now, but not many other people were on. She was early this time... It was only 10:30 A.M., and the train should take off at 11 A.M.

Lily amused herself by looking out the window at the worried people who were running to and fro to catch their trains.

She started humming to herself a little after that, getting bored at watching people. Instead, Lily looked at her in the reflection of the glass.

She had her same red hair, and those jade colored eyes... still. The eye color hadn't faded or anything, and she was pretty sure they would never until the spell wore off...

Right now, her attire was of a sleeveless blue shirt, with a peace symbol on it, and baggy black pants. Her hair was down to her bum, and she had it out loose, but with some braids in it.

She didn't wear makeup or anything, I mean, what's the reason if nobody notices it? But Lily was naturally pretty, not absolutely gorgeous or anything, but she was simple and plain.

Lily rested her head on the window, and it made a slight, 'thump,' and she kept on doing that: Banging her head on the window.

She quit after a while; it was about to give her a headache. Instead she rested her head on her hand, and took the free hand and started tapping on the glass to a song she had in her head. After a while she started singing to it. (Headstrong - Trapt)

"Back off! I'll take you on!

Headstrong to take on anyone...

I know that you are wrong...

Headstrong! We're headstron--," Lily was interrupted by those four pranksters we saw before, but now named the Marauders.

Of course they didn't see her, and they just came and sat down in the compartment, laughing and joking about something.

"I mean -- Did you see her face?" The boy named Sirius said. He had grown into a handsome man, with black hair and enigmatic dark eyes.

"Yeah, she's so thick! What kind of freakish stare did she give us? What a loser!" The one called James said. He had messy brown hair that he kept on messing up. He also had hazel eyes, and glasses.

"Yeah-- Anyways, isn't she supposed to be Snape's girlfriend or something?" Remus Lupin inquired. He still appeared looking sickly, and his brownish-gold colored hair looked quite lifeless... But his eyes were still that shining amber, full of excitement and laughter.

"I think so..." Peter Pettigrew said in an almost cautious voice. He had watery sea-blue eyes, and blonde hair. He was slightly chubby, and a little shorter than his friends.

Lily sighed; She wanted to have peace and quiet in this compartment, and now these four pranksters will be ruining it.

She couldn't leave this compartment, because she was pretty sure all the other ones would be full.

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Lily probably fell asleep in the middle of the train-ride, but for some weird reason she just woke up abruptly.

She suddenly seemed so alert... It was really odd. Lily looked over at the four marauders, and they appeared pretty normal.

Sirius and James were playing Wizard's Chess, with Peter watching the game. Remus was looking out the window, deep in thought.

Suddenly they all went sort of went into a spasm; they looked up, shivered, and looked directly at Lily.

Lily stared back at them, and blinked. 'What in the world?' She thought.

Remus coughed, while still looking at her and said, "Er... He-Hello..."

Lily blinked again. "What? Why are you speaking to me?"

"First of all... um... why are you... here?" Said James, cautiously.

"Huh? Here? First, you answer me. Why are you speaking to me?" Lily asked, getting a bit scared and curious.

"Erm... Because... Because, oh I don't know. Maybe because you're in this compartment... And when did you come in here, anyways?" Voiced Remus.

"I've been here. Before you guys ever came here." Lily said nervously.

Peter said, "No... We were here first... Or maybe we didn't notice you...?"

Lily's eyes widened, and spoke rapidly, "So - So, you guys can see me? And you're talking to me? Well, obviously..." Lily started laughing a bit.

"Uh-huh... Right..." Sirius coughed, "Yeah... We see you. What's your name? Are you a new student?"

"I'm not a new student... I've been here all 6 and now to be 7 years..."

"You -- You have? What? This is too confusing. I've never spoke, or noticed you before... Not that I remember, at least..." James said, confused.

Lily smirked, "But you have. And I'm in the house Gryffindor."

"Whatever. Can you just leave?" Sirius said, a bit timidly.

"Leave? No way. I was here first, you know."

Remus raised his eyebrows, "Sure... But if you were, well, we never noticed you here... And that's not possible."

Lily gave a hollow sort of laugh, "It is possible. It's been possible for..." She gasped. Has time passed that fast? Well, if she was on Time's shoulders, he was probably running. "...Five years..."

"What do you mean?" Demanded James. "What's possible? For not, well, noticing you? Yeah right."

Lily narrowed her eyes at him, "Nobody's noticed me in Hogwarts for five years, for your information. I had a spell on myself on not to be noticed. And I guess it just now wore off."

"What a tall-tale! If it this 'spell' had been on for 5 years, well, it'd probably be too advanced for your..." Sirius stopped and then said, "second-year mind!"

"Yes, and I don't think there is any spell like that, anyways..." Peter said.

Lily rolled their eyes at them, "How ignorant... How very ignorant. There is a spell. It's called the--," Lily stopped talking, why should they know about everything?

Lily sighed, and looked out the window.

The marauders just stared at her. "What the hell? Hello?" Sirius said.

Lily just sat there and thought. She supposed this spell sort of shielded her form all the ignorance, and un-fairness of the world... She didn't understand about how people talked, and what they demanded.

"Oy! Are you there?" James said, looked at his friends and mouthed out 'How thick!'

Lily looked over at them and said, "What?"

Remus just stared at her and thought, 'By god... There probably is a spell. And she probably was so... walled in by her loneliness she hasn't a clue about how to be social...'

Remus gave Lily a small, encouraging smile, and then said to his friends, "Guys... Just, leave her alone... She probably needs time to..." He looked back at Lily, who nodded, and continued, "...To think."

"Oh, whatever Remus." Said Sirius, and he just crossed his arms and looked down.

James was confused, but shrugged it off, and just sat there and thought.

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A/N: Okay... Geez... I'm sorry I didn't update! It's because I was lazy, and I did have all the time in the world to update, but I just... Didn't want to? Anyways, I crashed my comp about a week or two ago, and I didn't have Word, and couldn't find a CD to install it... And all that jazz. Ho Hum... I can't think of anything else that's anything near important to say... Except that I'm extremely sorry for not updating!