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Chapter 1-Going Back to Hogwarts

A solitary red-haired girl wandered down the aisle of the Hogwarts Express looking for her best friends' compartment. The compartments she had passed so far were full of timid-looking first years who were desperately trying to make friends with the other first years. She laughed and stopped walking as she remembered her first time onboard the Hogwarts Express. That was also the day she met her three best friends.

"Hi. Is this seat taken?" she had asked rather timidly. Every other compartment on the train was full and she had luckily stumbled across this one with three girls in it.

"That seats free, but only if you want to join us," the blonde girl had smiled.

"Thanks," she had replied. "Every other compartment I went in was either 'taken' or full."

"I'm Caroline," the blonde introduced herself and turned to her companions, "and these two are Monica and Jennifer."

"Hi," they both had giggled.

"Oh, and my name's Lily!" she had excitedly told them. She was glad to have people to talk to during the journey.

"So are you excit-"

Somebody bumped into Lily and knocked her out of her reverie, causing her to collide with the cold, hard floor.

"Ouch!" Lily cried out in pain as she hit the floor.

"Look what you did, Prongs," a male voice snickered.

"Shut up, Padfoot," another voice retorted. "I'm really sorry about that. Here," a hand shot out, "let me help you up."

Lily grasped the hand gratefully and let it haul up. She bent down to dust herself off and then looked up into the hand's hazel eyes, James Potter's hazel eyes! Lily's green eyes hardened due to reflexes from the previous six years. She glared at him for a few moments before growling, "Be more careful next time, Potter!" Before he had a chance to reply, she spun around on her heel and was stomping moodily down the aisle.

"Wow," Remus muttered, "you handled that one well."

James glared at his two friends until Sirius broke the silence and gave him and understanding look that morphed into a smile. "Good ol' Lily Evans. Never changes, does she?"

"Very funny," Remus scowled disapprovingly.

"Anyways," Sirius waved off Remus' comment, "let's go secure our compartment before some grimy-handed first years steal it. Or worse, some slimy Slytherins!" Sirius headed off to their usual compartment, the same way Lily had gone.

"Good ol' Sirius Black," James muttered, mocking what Sirius had said earlier about Lily, his Lily. "Never changes, does he?" And jogged to catch up with Remus and Sirius

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Three girls were chatting and catching up in their compartment when they saw a mass of red hair pass it.

A girl with short brown hair and brown eyes jumped up and hurried over to the door which the red hair had passed a moment ago. "Lily," the girl shouted and waited for Lily to turn around. She didn't have to wait long because when Lily heard her name she turned around.

"Oh Moni!" Lily cried out. "I'm so happy to see you." She ran up to Monica and gave her a giant bear hug. "I looked everywhere for you guys."

"Well obviously not hard enough," Monica laughed back. "Wow," she fingered the Head Girl badge attached to Lily's t-shirt, "this is impressive!" They laughed at that as they walked back to the compartment.

"Lily!" Jennifer and Caroline cried out standing up from their seats.

"Cari! Jeni!" Lily exclaimed and hugged them both. "It's good to see you guys again!"

"Don't I get one, too?" a male voice pouted.

Lily turned around and saw James Potter leaning against the door frame of their compartment. "Why'd you follow me?" she asked suspiciously.

"I didn't," James replied defensively. "We," he motioned to his friends standing behind him, "were coming to take our seats in our usual compartment. And when we got to our compartment, there was something different about it." James grinned.

"And what was different about it, James?" Lily asked, clearly bored of his game already.

"Well, much to our sheer pleasure," James paused grinning, "was already taken by four beautiful girls."

Lily blushed apprehensively, which caused James to grin even more. "Why must he always be so charming? No! This is James Potter. He's not charming!"

Caroline then jumped into the conversation and smiled wickedly. "Why don't you and your friends join those beautiful girls?"

Lily turned and stared at Caroline in disbelief, but only caused Caroline's grin to get even wickeder. "Did she just invite James Potter to sit with us, ALL THE WAY TO HOGWARTS?"

"Don't mind if we do," Sirius took up Caroline's invitation and pushed past James. He sat down next to Monica and smiled, "Hey. How you doin'?" Monica smiled and blushed in return.

Lily turned around and faced James. A glint on his chest caught her eyes and she frowned. She stared at his chest and thought, "Why is he wearing the Head Boy badge?"

James' noticed Lily's frown and followed her eyes down to his chest. "Oh," he grinned, "it looks as if I'm Head Boy and you're Head Girl."

"Thank you Mr. Obvious," Remus stated and started chucking. He abruptly stopped, though, when James shot a look at him.

"Lily looked at him, stunned, before quickly recovering. "Yes, it would appear that way. You must've taken it from Remus," she pointed at Remus who was still standing behind James, "just to make me angry, right?"

"Sorry to disappoint you, Lils, but I got mine the same way you did."

James walked forward and put his hand on Lily's back. "Well," he said directing her towards an empty seat so she could sit down, "all you need to focus on is the fact that we're going to be staying in the same tower for a year!" After saying this, he sank down next to her and placed is hand on her knee.

Lily didn't hear what he said or notice his hand, lucky for James, because she was still staring dumbfounded at him. "I have to stay in a tower with James for a year! There is no way this year can get worse."

Remus chose to step into the compartment at that moment and sat down next to Jennifer. They looked at each other and smiled shyly.

Lily didn't say anything for the whole trip to Hogwarts. She didn't even scream at James whose hand had now advanced from her knee to her thigh.

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