Chapter 3: So far, close again
"You know, I would appreciate a hello here and there" said a voice behind the three girls, as they stood at the window laughing at a limping James Potter.
"Liv!" Lily said hugging her.
"How's my wikkle butter doing?" Sydney said as she and Cassidy hugged her too.
"Well, I was doing fine till I stubbed my toe kicking James…but other than that I'm just happy to see you three again, you don't know how much I've missed you, I haven't seen you for three days and I had to live with bloody James and Sirius (Sydney blushed slightly) at the same time, I nearly threw one of them out the window, hey, it would hurt more from a tower, maybe I could try that" Olivia said thoughtfully as the girls settled down for the train ride.
Half an hour later, Lily started to rummage through her trunk and pulled out her uniform.
"Why are you getting ready so early" Olivia said, trying to take a look at Sydney's holiday photos.
"I need to be in the Prefect's compartment in 10 minutes" Lily said changing into her uniform – a black pleat skirt, a white blouse, a red jumper (Gryffindor) and a red and yellow tie, with her Hogwarts robe over it with a Gryffindor badge on one side. She went through her jean pockets and pulled out her Hogwarts badge.
"I'll put these away for you" Cassidy said, starting to fold up Lily's sweater.
"Thanks, and could you lot save me some food…I think I'm going to be in there a while" Lily said pulling open the Compartment door.
She was walking down towards the front of the train when a door swung open, revealing Remus Lupin, the other Gryffindor Prefect and a quarter of the Marauder's.
"Hey Lily, ready to go be drowned into boredom" Remus smiled.
Lily was about to answer but someone shouted behind him.
"Evan's is there" a voice said. Lily could recognise this voice anywhere, seeing as the person whom it belonged to, loved to annoy her to no end.
"What do you want Potter?" Lily droned.
"For you to fall in love with me, for you to propose to me, we get married and we have seven children, making our own Quidditch team…is that too much to ask for" James Potter, smiled at her.
"Potter, I'm going to kick you up the-"Lily started, but Remus shut the compartment door behind him.
"Okay…that was bound to happen" Remus smiled at her.
"Sorry Remus, but I feel like really kicking him up the-"but Remus laughed.
They walked up the rest of the way to the front of the train talking about the others summers.
The meeting took at least an hour and by the time they had been released, Lily's mind was so occupied with new information she didn't think that it could hold anything else, but on her way to her compartment Remus stopped her.
"Lily…is Sydney alright by any chance?" Remus said.
"Yeah she's absolutely fine, why?" Lily asked.
"No reason…I just saw her trying to kill her sister before" Remus said casually.
"Why don't you just ask me if she likes you…like that" Lily grinned, making Remus blush.
"Well…does she?" Remus said
"Go ask her yourself, seeing as you're friends have decided to sit with mine" Lily said reading a note left in the compartment that the boys were seated in before.
They walked down towards Lily's compartment and found the door ajar. They peeked inside to see Olivia kicking James as he tried to see over her shoulder whilst she read her magazine, a disgruntled Sirius who was getting killed in a match of chess, and a petrified Peter who was being warded off by an angry Sydney.
"It seems to be, Remus that we was just walked into a zoo" Lily said smiling.
"Evans!" James said, his hand reaching to brush his hair away.
"Oh save it" Lily said grabbing the magazine in Olivia's hand and walking off to find an empty compartment, away from James Potter.
Five minutes later, she was seated comfortable in a compartment, her magazine in her hands and a cup of hot chocolate on the carriage floor. There was a knock on the door, making her look up. She smiled to herself as she saw the shadow of Potter and so she muttered a simple, "Come in".
"Evans, you know you shouldn't run off from the love of you're life" James said, shaking his finger at her.
"I'll keep that in mind…IF I ever see him" Lily said, her eyes still on her magazine.
"Funny Evans" James said.
"What do you want Potter?" Lily said, taking a sip of her drink.
"I already told you before, but I've decided something different now…I actually want 14 kids, they could play against each other in matches, and it would be magical" James said.
"James Potter, get over yourself, the only way I would come that close to you to reproduce would be if you deflated you're head to at least a tenth its size right now, get a life, and if you were actually good looking" Lily said, she knew she was lying on the last statement seeing as he was one of the most good looking guys in Hogwarts, and had even accomplished having his own psychotic fan club.
"Evans…you know you want me…and I'm going to make it very easy for you…go out with me?" he said smiling at her, with his dazzling, but bigheaded, smile.
"Like I've been saying to you for the past three years, I'd rather go out with the giant squid, and you know what I might just go ask him as soon as we get to school, it seems he has a smaller head then yourself, you know what? You're too vain for your own good. You seem to annoy me every minute that I'm in you're company, and it's starting to get old Potter. You might have had a chance if you weren't a bullying toe rag, who cares for nothing but himself, but right now you make me sick, I hate you Potter, and that's the way it's going to stay" Lily said standing up, and brushing past him as she walked out the compartment and back to her own.
James just shook his head, and followed her, though not even he could hide the disappointment in his eyes.
The rest of the train ride to the school was silent between the redhead and the persistent Marauder. The others failed to notice what was happening as they embarked on different conversations though Sydney was careful not to sit anywhere near Remus, it seemed that she thought he wouldn't be interested in her because she looked like a spotty freak, she didn't understand when the girls tried to explain that she didn't have a single blemish on her complexion.
As the train came to a halt, they all exited dressed in their uniforms, out into the silent night. The girls took leave in front of the boys and made their way to a carriage and took seats. Sirius was just about to climb in but Olivia pulled something out her bag, examining a dog biscuit she threw it out the carriage and shouted, "Go fetch", slamming the door in Sirius' shocked face.
"You're sisters an evil bugger" Sirius exclaimed to James, climbing into the next one.
"I know isn't it just great" James grinned.
"Don't forget Padfoot, she's you're sister too…and personally I think she follows you more then Prongs" Peter said.
"You want to be eaten by the Giant Squid, Pete?" Sirius asked.
"No"
"Then shut up" Sirius informed.
Lily climbed out of the carriage and looked up at the lights that shone throughout the great castle illuminating it through the darkness of the night. She smiled as Cassidy pulled her towards the huge oak doors, and she went without hesitance, noticing four boys walking behind a laughing Olivia and Sydney.