Chapter One: The Prank

So now here I am in my seventh year at Hogwarts. In one day I'll be leaving school forever and going to live with my friends in a flat in London. Sure, I'm going to miss Hogwarts horribly and probably visit my teachers every weekend until I stop getting homesick.

I know, Hogwarts isn't "technically" my home. But I have lived there for around ten months every year for seven years. That's a long time and I'm going to miss all my teachers even if everyone else I know is going to be jumping for joy when school finally ends.

I heard footsteps coming up the stairs to my dorm room as I sat on my bed, looking out the window. A notepad was on my lap and I was subconsciously chewing on a quill as I thought about what I was to write. Generally I never have to think when I'm writing. It just comes to me...just flows onto the paper, you know? But not today, today I'm suffering a horrible case of writer's block.

I turned my attention to the door and braced myself to see James Potter burst through my door, but thankfully that wasn't who it was. I saw a familiar face pop in the door and I grinned.

"Hey Rem. Come on in." I said, grinning at one of my best friends as he stepped in the door.

Remus Lupin, Abbey Masters and Anais (A/N Anais is pronounced Ana-ese) Smith were my three best friends. Remus was about 6'0 ft with sandy blonde hair and hazel eyes. Abbey was around 5'5 with blonde hair and blue eyes. Nesie was given the gift of height out of us three girls and she stood at about 5'8 with brown, curly hair and brown eyes.

Me, well I consider myself the ugly duckling out of the three of us. I have red, wavy hair that goes a little beyond my shoulders. I'm around 5'6 ft and I have emerald colored eyes.

One of the reasons I dislike Potter so much is because he mocks my appearance so much. It's always "Oh Evans, you look so gorgeous today" or "Wow, your eyes captivate me". Now, I bet you're thinking 'that doesn't sound mean', well normally it wouldn't be mean, if it was coming from anyone but Potter. I can just tell by the way his eyes sparkle mischievously when he talks to me.

Remus smiled at me and sat next to me on the bed.

"What are you writing today?" He asked curiously, looking over my shoulder. I sighed unhappily and showed him the blank parchment.

"Writer's block?" He asked and I nodded sadly. Remus smiled and pulled the parchment out of my hands. I watched him curiously as he pulled the quill out of my mouth.

"What in the name of Merlin are you doing?" I asked him, he knew how I loved to write and when I was in a writing mood no one could stop me.

"I want you to come outside with me and...everyone else. You can write out there, just don't keep yourself cooped up in here. It's unhealthy." Remus pleaded with those big puppy dog eyes. I mean serious puppy dog eyes, it's like he's mastered the look. Which is no surprise, seeing as he's a werewolf.

"But Remus," I whined," I want to write in here! In the coziness of my room, this is my last day and-"

"Exactly," Did Remus just cut me off? Oh no he didn't. First he takes my writing utensil and then he won't let me speak?!

"Exactly..." I muttered and he just smiled cheekily.

"It's your last day; spend it outside with your buddies!" Remus then put on the full-force puppy dog look. The eyes AND the pouting mouth. Oh dear god, this boy will be the end of me.

"Ugh, fine. Just because I love you." I teased and he winked at me.

"Don't let Jamsie hear you say that." He warned jokingly and I rolled my eyes.

"James can think whatever he wants to think." I muttered testily and then Remus' eyes sparked with interest. "Hey Lils...How bout you do one last prank with me on the famous Mr. Potter?" Remus said to me and my eyes immediately lit up with excitement. I could finally get James back for tripping Snape in the hallway and then laughing as he fell down on his face. Oh, he would pay.

"How about you and I pretend to fall madly in love right under James' nose. I can carry you outside and stuff and James will freak out." Remus said, mostly in a joking voice but I loved it.

"It's great!" I exclaimed and Remus' eyes widened in excitement.

"Okay. James and Sirius are outside on the grounds right now. Abbey and Nesie will be down in about 30 minutes. So we need to do it before they get there because they know us too well." Remus planned out thoughtfully.

"We better go down now." I said, completely forgetting about my writing mood. Perhaps that was Remus' idea.

Remus and I walked all the way down to the doors that led outside to the ground. I stopped and looked at Remus and he smiled secretively back. We decided he would pick me up after we walked outside so we could spot the other two Marauders first.

I opened the doors and Remus followed behind me. He whispered something in my ear, I had no idea what it was but I giggled flirtatiously just incase you-know-who was watching.

That's when I saw him, he was sitting under an oak tree laughing with Sirius. My smile widened at the prank we were about to pull and I felt James' gaze stop on me. The only reason I knew that me being with Remus would bother him was because I was the only girl James Potter could never have.

Remus suddenly swooped me up in his arms and I let out a fake shriek of laughter. Remus nuzzled his face into my neck and I tried not to laugh because, he didn't know this of course, but it was an extremely ticklish place for me. I laughed out loud and now I had Sirius' attention as well.

From what I could tell James was peeved. He was turning a little red in the face and started muttering to himself. Remus carried me over to them and then I pretended to push him away.

"Remus." I said in a flirty voice. "Did you have to do that so everyone could see?" I asked, winking at him.

Remus grinned at me and then pulled me down into his lap, next to James.

"What's going on guys?" Sirius choked out. I guess he was just surprised I didn't fall in love with James, but with Remus instead. Even though I really didn't love either of them.

"Oh. You'll never guess." I giggled, in what I hoped was a 'I've-fallen-in-love' voice. "Remus came to see me and well-"I decided to take this part up a bit, hoping Remus would go for it. "We're engaged!" I exclaimed and all three of the boy's mouths dropped open.

I nudged Remus lightly in the stomach and he seemed to come to his senses.

"You...you WHAT?!" James exploded. I hadn't expected him to scream at us...not at all, just be jealous of Remus for getting the one girl who hated his guts.

"Erm...Prongs..." Remus stuttered as James began to stand up, still yelling incoherent things at us. I was still trying not to laugh because Remus' leg hair was tickling my leg.

"JAMES POTTER!" Remus yelled and I jumped, startled. Apparently James was frightened as well, for he stopped muttering and looked at us, apprehensively.

"Don't you know how to take a joke?" Remus asked. That's when I burst out laughing, James looked gob-smacked. Remus, Sirius and I were all three clutching our sides in laughter at James' face.

After a couple moments James gave in and slumped back down next to me. He still looked a little peeved, but hey, he'd get over it.

"God, James. Did you actually think Remus was going to steal Lily?" Sirius laughed and James rolled his eyes.

"Steal me from what, exactly?" I asked, giving them a fake glare. Sirius moved around uncomfortably and James shifted his vision to the ground. I was about to ask them what the hell they were talking about when Abbey and Anais walked up. I immediately hopped out of Remus' lap and onto James', until I realized what I had done it was too late.

"Lily?" Abbey asked as they sat down. "I see you've finally given in." That was all she said to me as the two of them began talking about where to eat the night after graduation. They didn't even tease me about sitting in James Potter's lap; they just smiled and went on talking. I think I need new best friends.

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-A lesson before dying