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Chapter 4—Annoying Brat.

It was exactly a year later did Lily walk up the girls side of the dorm steps in the Raven claw common room to start another year at the school with Jessie, Sasha, Anna and Hannah.

'Oh Merlin that boy is so annoying.'

Jessie rolled her eyes pertly and Sasha, Hannah and Anna laughed.

'Lily darling you couldn't possibly be talking about Potter now can you?'

'No Jessie, I'm talking about the Easter bunny. Who else would I be talking about? You ask as if you don't know when you do.'

'Oh I don't know maybe the fact that a certain third year asked you out who is rather dashing if I do say so myself and you turned him down.'

'Jessie Hun, please do not bring that up again. I'm angry enough as it is on the other matter.'

'Okay, sorry but I mean what Potter and Black did was funny.'

'It was not. It was horrid. I have been at the receiving end of a prank before and let me tell you something its not a good feeling to feel cornered.'

'Lily they turned my hair pink and I thought it was funny in a way though I'd never tell them that. That's why I walked around school for a week with pink hair.' Anna informed them.

'You never told us that.' Hannah exclaimed surprised.

'Yeah you always said that you like the colour that's why you kept it.' Sasha added looking at Anna who was perched on the dresser.

'Hey would you want to give them the satisfaction of a successful prank?'

'I guess not.' Hannah and Sasha agreed.

'Girls you're all missing the point of this discussion.'

'No we aren't Lily.'

'Yes you are. Can't you see that they are marauding imbeciles?'

'Especially Potter?' Jessie asked.

'Yes.'

'But what about Black, Lupin, Pettigrew and Ashton?'

Lily glared at all her friends. They had, had this basic conversation before. No matter how many times she got angry over something the Gryffindore boys did her friends either waved it off or didn't get angry enough.

Potter was clearly the ringleader. That much explains it all mainly for her disliking the bloke.

Black was almost as bad because you really couldn't separate the two of them and they seemed to chare in the causing trouble responsibilities.

Lupin seems nice enough but he and Pettigrew—who is sort of shy—go along to help them.

Ashton was different in a way but just because he didn't totally go around causing havoc doesn't mean that he should lose any of the blame even if his marauding is only part time.

'Lets just drop it okay?' Lily sighed knowing that it was just a lost cause.

'Okay Lily but I need to know one thing.'

'Yeah?'

'Why did you turn down Michael Johnston?'

Lily stared at her friends and wondered if she should tell them anything. It would suit them right not to know a thing for not backing her up.

When she had told him no in front of all of them, they were clearly taken aback by her behaviour. Especially Jessie and Anna. They were horrified.

'If you girls overheard what I did you would have done worse than just slapped him as I had done.'

'What did he do?' asked Hannah as she kicked off her shoes and went in search of her night things from her trunk.

Lily deciding that she might as well tell them folded her legs under her and told them.

'I was walking with, Dani you know Danielle Ginther to the train this morning and we over heard Mr. Johnston's brother David telling him that they only way to make Megan Matthews jealous was to go out with another girl. Davy boy arrogantly suggested that she should be someone from her own year so it would make her more upset if he asked out someone she knew.

'Though the thing about it was that I was surprised he picked me to ask. I mean I don't exactly look like someone to be jealous of.' Lily told them saying the last bit firmly.

'Aw Lil, I'm jealous of you.' Anna said reassuringly.

'Anna you're sweet but I'm skinny as a whip, I accept that. I just don't want a bloke who thinks they can use whom they think is a naïve little twit to their liking.' She replied knowingly before turning back to look for her toiletries.

Lily went into the showers and her thoughts involuntarily returned to the one James Potter. He was such a lean witted twit that it was not even funny.

May be not.

He was smart, to smart for his own good.

He and Black topped the first years score last year. Well he topped black but just barely. The two of them making her effort however look silly.

She had barely scraped third place.

She had to admit that she was impress but she wouldn't dare tell him that sort of thing to any of her friends much less him.

Of course they—she and James—hardly spoke to being with.

They only had Defence Against The Dark Arts and History of Magic with the Gryffindores but she disliked him from afar.

Because in their first class together Potter and Black had disrupted it from the beginning. Then later on in the year not only were Lupin and Pettigrew getting in on the act but Ashton as well.

Lily never really made and comments to them personally—she doubted that they even knew her first name—to show that she was angry and bothered by what they were doing.

But only her friends knew, not that they didn't like them as well, they did though the fact that they didn't dislike Potter and his group as much as she did made her feel at times like a horrid person while at other times there was another reason to feel horrid about disliking him.

Because it was about four months ago that something awful happened to him—Potter—that made her feel like a rotten fig for disliking him.

But even before that she disliked him and she heard by word of mouth that Potter and Black's family didn't get along to well, well that was putting it mildly. They hated each other but the two of them had still chosen to become friends.

But the thing that was strange was that something almost the same happened to Black nine months before but unlike Potter, Black hadn't shown any sadness to the fact that his father was missing.

Lily had been one of the few who saw Potter lash out at a classroom, smashing all the wooden desks when he heard the news—without his wand.

McGonagal had pretended that the magic was abnormal when she led Potter to Dumbledore's off ice to go home and she fooled a lot of people. But Lily felt that Potter knew more about magic than they had supposed to know at that year.

That's it no more thinking of James Potter.

It was gibing her the mother of all headaches. She decided to change the train of thought as she stepped into the shower and then thought back to the past summer holidays.

Petunia had come home from her school in Wales the day after her and from the time she met Lily at home she didn't talk to her.

Having spent the entire school year with people who actually talked to her and spent time with her she had grown up emotionally and this time she fought back. Spending the year with those four girls made her feel so free that the normal ignorance of Petunia really got her temper up.

For the entire time home the both of them fought over the smallest thing. Not that she was home all that often. She spent her time with her parents but whenever there was any call for her to stay alone with Petunia somewhere she left.

With Jessie living ten minutes away on bicycle she spent most of her free time—well when her mother allowed her—there.

Stepping out of the shower her thoughts involuntarily returned to Potter and when she realised that she scowled at her image on the mirror in front of her.

'Don't look like that dear. Your face may stay that way you know.' Her reflection stated to her.

Muttering a curse she dressed and walked back outside to where her friends had already packed way their things form their trunks.

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An hour later all five of them were in their beds but sleep was the farthest thing from their minds as Jessie went and brought up William Hardison, the keeper of the Armor Charms.

Sirius was talking to his cousin Andromeda and her friend Amelia so James decided to play wizard's chess with Remus. Peter was still struggling to finish his history essay that was given to them over the summer holidays.

They arrived at Hogworts on a Saturday so Peter was lucky he had another day to finish.

Sirius has spent some of his summer with James who was very glad about it although he was slightly worried about his friend's behaviour—or lack of.

It has been nine months since Sirius's father had disappeared and four months since his own parents were killed.

His parents.

Just remembering still made his insides grow cold.

They were no longer with him. They were killed under "mysterious circumstances". Not that they told him that though. They—his grandparents—felt that he was too young to know the real reason for his parents' death.

He had over heard a ministry official talking to his grandparents about it.

Mr. and Mrs. Nicolas and Norma Potter were married twenty years ago. It may seem odd that they were only married twenty years when their son was thirty-seven years old when he died.

That was because Nicolas was not Harrison's father but his uncle. Harrison's father Joseph had left the family when Harrison was at his fifth year at Hogworts and divorced Norma a moth after.

Two years and two months later after Harrison left Hogworts his mother remarried Nicolas Potter—his father's brother—because they had fallen in love.

James never knew Joseph because since the day he left the family Harrison had never seen him again but he didn't mind he loved Nicolas and that's who his grandfather was which was all that had really mattered.

Even James knew how much Nicolas had meant to his father who respected him greatly because he never treated any of them any differently. He made up for the fact that his brother was so irresponsible.

James really appreciated his grandparents but it still wasn't the same as his own. He missed his parents but Sirius never mentions his father or any of his other family for that matter.

Last year Bellatrix had taken the chance to leave Hogworts behind and left in the exchange program. This year she was staying. The headmaster was very pleased with her abilities in the dark arts.

Sirius and his older cousin Andromeda or Andy rather didn't have to tell people how happy they were about that James could tell but just looking at them.

It was a week or so later and they were just getting back into a familiar routine but suddenly it seemed as though it wasn't really the same.

James looked across at the group of girls sitting under a tree nest to the green houses. The blonde looked at him and smiled and he felt this odd sensation.

He wanted to get to her better. He actually though he liked her. He knew what he wanted to do. He'd go ask her to be his girlfriend first chance he got.

He got his chance when they got up and walked towards the grass towards the Great hall entrance. He knew her name of course. She was in his herbology class. Caitlin something or the other… he really didn't care about her last name anyway.

He waited until most of her friends had passed the hearing distance and he called out to her.

Within minutes he had asked her, her name, introduced himself cheekily and asked her to be his girlfriend.

She looked at him and he couldn't have decided whether she was going to say yes or no. She chose the former.

Grinning he left her with a kiss on the cheek and met up with Sirius in the common room to brag about what he had done.

Leah Carrier walked towards the greenhouse with her friend Jenna. Jessie and Lily were walking behind them. It was entering October and they were following the Slytherins down the hill towards the green houses where herbology was about to take place.

For second year students Leah and Jenna acted very much as though they were in third speaking to know whom they think is immature. They felt that they were superior to all girls and they didn't have to tell Jessie and Lily that it was seen by all of the girls in their year.

Maybe that was why they weren't particularly liked.

The Ravenclaws were always on the whole cleverer than the Slytherins but that didn't stop them from competing.

However the enmity of the Slytherins were more towards the Gryffindores.

Leah and Jenna walked into the green house and took the seats directly across from the boys in Lily and Jessie's house.

When she and Jessie finally joined Hannah and Sasha they were rolling their eyes obviously at Leah and Jenna. The two girls were always so predictable because they do that every time.

Anna had barely made it into the class when the professor started talking about Genovacrates.

After the class was over it was dinnertime and the girls walked into the great hall and sat at their table.

'Ugh! Disgusting!' Anna exclaimed.

'What is?' Lily asked and all of them turned to where Anna was pointing.

'They're kissing in the great hall?' exclaimed Hannah.

The kissing couple in question was James Potter and Caitlin Steele. A Gryffindore and a Hufflepuff snogging out in front of nearly everyone.

It was barely three weeks ago that the news went around school that the two of them were a couple but they were kissing in front of everyone.

Lily looked on to the teachers' table. No one was there yet.

How could twelve year olds be kissing like that?

Finally they broke off and Cat smiled at Potter before heading to her own table past Lily's.

After she left Jessie snorted into her hands.

'Did you see the look on her face. You'd think the bloke was the best kisser on the planet.' Anna said in disgust.

Lily knew she hated when girls got all soft like that and thought the world rotated around one boy.

'What? Have you kissed a bloke and found him to be the best kisser in the world.' Jessie asked Anna tongue in cheek.

'Oh for heavens sake.' She replied scandalized and then started to laugh.

'Hey at least they weren't French kissing.' Sasha added after the laughter died down.

'I know,' exclaimed Lily. 'That would have been beyond disgusting.' She said then turned to looked at Potter in the Gryffindore table.

He had leaned to tell Black something and the both of them laughed. It seemed at though everyone was growing up because Potter had a girlfriend and if he had one then yeah, everyone was growing up.

James could wait to try out for the Quidditch team that had the position of seeker and beater open.

He was the only second year trying out for the Gryffindore team Sirius and Matthew were trying out also. But after a few trail runs Matthew and Sirius didn't get in.

Two other blokes that were in the third year got them. James was called back for a final test and he passed.

He was now the Gryffindore seeker.

It wasn't until after Halloween that James found out that Sirius wasn't thinking about dating just yet.

Sure he was flirting with the first and second year girls—he was even flirting with the third years though they chose to ignore him—but he wasn't asking anyone of them out.

James knew he wasn't going for any first year girls because like James he thought that liking a first year was like hitting yourself over the head with a frying pan.

But James was in for the chock of his life because two weeks later Sirius had gone and asked Katrina Hart who was a first year Gryffindore to be his girlfriend.

James didn't bother to ask his friend if he had lost his mind. He figured that Sirius would see the light soon enough.

Christmas came and He had Sirius left Hogworts to go to his grandparents' house. Remus went home to his mothers while Peter and Matthew stayed in school.

Lily had gone home also, as well as Jessie and Sasha but Anna and Hannah had to stay at school because their parents were going to Rome and Athens respectively.

When everyone came home form Christmas holidays work started as usual.

By the end of January it was just as James predicted. Sirius had broken up with Kat though he wouldn't say why.

Easter holidays came and they were loaded with more homework than ever before. He particularly hated the library now.

Maybe it was because he was spending more and more time there everyday.

The Quidditch final came and since last year the Gryffindores finished in last place the finals was a big step.

They fought against Ravenclaw but even though James caught the snitch in they lost by ten points.

By the time exams rolled around he, Sirius, Remus and Peter hardly had time to pull any more pranks.

Matthew was hanging around with a couple of girls studying and he felt the pressure when they left because he had to study harder than when he was with them.

They were very distracting.

Anna was writing over an essay while studying. Jessie was meditating while humming spells like a mantra.

Sasha was besides herself reading form the Standard books of Spells and not remembering a thing about what she read only a few minutes before.

Hannah and Lily were quizzing each other back and forth about the different type of potions they learned this year and even he year before.

By the beginning of July everyone was feeling the relief of the end of exams. There was a couple more days left before going back home and James felt that his relationship was going sour with Caitlin and broke up with her.

HE could tell she was mad about how he did with when she slapped his face. He had told her in front of his friends and she had gotten mad and embarrassed and let him have it.

Soon they were all packing their trunks and heading off towards the great hall for the leaving feast.

After a great meal they took the horseless carriages back to the Hogsmede station where they took the train home.

The end of another year.