Chapter One-
The Whistle blew loudly just as Lily passed through the Brick Barrier between platforms nine and ten. She ran with her trunk scraping it's bottom on the Concrete, through the crowd of waving parents, saying their last goodbye to their Children for the semester as the scarlet train began to move.
"Wait! Please wait!" she cried, as the handle on her trunk broke off. She pulled out her wand, "Leviosa" She said, Tapping her trunk and making a break for the train, her trunk now zooming along behind her.
On any other platform that would have raised an eyebrow but of course, Not platform nine and three quarters, that platform was created for the Students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And Lily just happened to be A Witch, not only a witch, a seventh year witch At Hogwarts, but again, not only a seventh year witch at Hogwarts the Head Girl witch.
Lily was very proud of herself, only 6 years ago she had no clue she was a witch at all. She had been an Ordinary Girl, with Ordinary Aspirations, She had been a young Redheaded, freckle faced, Green-eyed Girl, Although she was still a very strong willed Girl.
It happened one morning, She had just sat down to breakfast when the mail came, Bill, bill, bill, letter for a 15 year reunion for her father, bill, bill, And one other. A peculiar looking letter to a Miss Lily Evans, Made of parchment with a strange crest on the back.
Her parents had been thrilled Lily was a Witch, her Sister, Petunia, on the other hand, had not been as happy… But Lily found the Wizarding world extremely fascinating, by the time She'd gotten her school supplies, she realized how much she had yet to learn, she knew nothing about the magical world, which made her long to go to school, to Hogwarts. She wanted to learn as much as she could, to practice magic, and to experience things she'd never dreamt of before.
Which leads her to now, running for the train. She grabbed the poll at the very end and slung her other arm to get a better hold on the train as it began to gather speed, She jumped and her feet barely landed on the railing. From behind she heard whoops and applause from the crowd. She blushed and pulled herself onto the train and stepped in through the back door to find James Potter clapping slowly.
"Well done, Evans, thought for sure you were gonna fall."
"Oh Lily! Are you Alright!" Remus cried as he took the spell off Lily's trunk and fixed the handle.
"Yeah Evans, You had us worried Sick!" Sirius said putting his hand to his forehead and pretending to faint.
"Oy! No! James! You're head boy!" Lily cried as she spotted the head boy crest on James' Robes.
"Yea, wh-… Oh! I guess you're Head Girl! Perfect!" He said rubbing his hands together and sadly looking very much like the big bad wolf.
"Whatever Dirty little thoughts are in your head, you'd better put them to rest, Potter."
"What makes you think they're Dirty, Evans?"
"Shouldn't you be patrolling the train?"
"You need to be too"
"Well start without me, I've got to put my stuff up."
"Oh, I can do that Lily!" Remus said taking a step toward her.
"I'm Sorry Remus, I think I'll do it myself thanks." She said walking past a very dejected looking Remus and a Smirking James.
"So what will you do about her this year?" Sirius said just when Lily was just out of earshot.
"I'll get her to love me, Of course!"
"But how?" Remus said taking interest in James' love life.
"I'll give her what She's been wanting." James said leaving his Companions to patrol the train.
Sirius burst out laughing, taking James' comment in a perverted manner, and Remus Frowned.
"What's that mean?"
Meanwhile-
Lily sighed as she walked the length of the train searching for somewhere to leave her trunk, the only two compartments left were the marauders now empty compartment and Severus Snape's Compartment.
Severus Snape was a rich pureblood boy with long greasy black hair and a long crooked nose. He'd always been rude to Lily, though she'd always stuck up for him. He was rather an ungrateful little Slytherin, but what Slytherin wasn't?
Lily weighed her odds, a compartment with 4 boys, one who never stopped asking her out, one who was almost annoyingly Sweet, one who was quiet, mousy, and creepy, and one that was rudely funny. Then there was another compartment, which only had one boy, but he hated her… she sat outside the marauder's compartment thinking about which she should enter when James came strolling down the train. Lily grabbed her trunk and hurried into Severus Snape's Compartment.
"What do you want?" Snape said.
"Uhm… do you mind? There's nowhere else…" She said quietly, as James passed the compartment door.
"You're not going to leave anyway so just sit down." He said returning to a rather large book.
"Thanks" She said pulling a book out of her trunk and putting her trunk away. She sat down opposite him and opened her book to the place she left off.
They sat there quietly reading, both enjoying their respective books, and lost track of time until the portly witch with the Trolley stopped in.
"Why Lily! Hello Again! How was your summer?" She asked Kindly.
"Just fine, and yours?" Lily said picking a sugar quill and a box of Bertie Botts every flavor beans and giving the trolley witch her money.
"Dreadful! And anything for you dear?" She asked Severus, he bought a sugar quill from the witch without a word.
"Well, Must be off, I'll miss you, Lily." She said patting Lily's cheek fondly.
"You too, Gretchen." Lily said opening her box of Bertie Botts every flavor beans and giving Gretchen a handful.
"Bless you, child." She said closing the door. Lily settled back down into her seat with her book and box of jellybeans, eating one at a time, occasionally making a sour face, as Severus watched her over the top of his book. She was more sincere than he thought. He used to think she played the hero to look good, but Lily was truly a kind hearted, strong-headed girl. Severus had never noticed.
Lily felt his gaze, she tried her best not to look up, finally when Severus buried himself back into his book she glanced up at him, he was so intense. Lily popped another jellybean in her mouth, Blueberry, one of her favorites. After a while of silence Lily's mouth got the better of her.
"So… How was your summer?" she said awkwardly.
Severus looked up at her with a quizzical look on his face. "Why?" He asked rather rudely.
"Well… I don't know… the silence was getting to me, I guess." She said blushing slightly and burying herself into her book.
"It was rather boring. Yours?" He said not looking up.
Lily looked up at him; rather surprised he'd answered. "Oh, mine was alright… Jellybean?" she said shaking the box slightly, though the sound didn't at all make them any more appealing. Severus nodded and Lily gave him a handful.
"Want to play a game with them?" She said smiling.
"Well… uhm, all right." He said tentatively.
"Okay here's how it goes, you pick out a bean from your hand and let me look at it a minute or so. Then I guess what it is, if I'm right, I get to either ask you a question or make you do something, your choice If I'm wrong, you ask me a question or make me do something, my choice"
"Er… all right. I'll play." He said fingering the jellybeans, looking for what seemed to be a good tasting one. He finally decided on a deep red one, He handed it to Lily and she examined it closely.
"Oh! Red velvet cake!" She said happily as she handed it back for judgement.
Severus nibbled it and smiled, popping it into his mouth and nodded to Lily, rather Glad she was good at this game.
Lily smiled and took a moment to think, "okay, truth or dare?"
Severus sighed. "Truth I suppose."
"What color socks are you wearing?" She said laughing slightly.
Severus gave her the oddest look, "Black…" he lifted the leg of his trousers so she can see his black socks.
She laughed a moment, then picked out a jellybean for herself. She handed Severus a green jellybean; He sniggered a bit and handed it back to her.
"That's Grass" he sounded overly confident.
"Are you sure?" She asked, giving him a 'you could be wrong!' look.
"Positive."
"Wanna bet on it?" She asked playfully.
"Uhm… er… sure…" he said, losing quite a bit of his confidence.
She bit the jellybean in half, chewed on it a minute then coughed, "Ew! Nasty! Brussels sprouts!"
"What! No way! You're just saying that." He cried.
"Don't believe me? Eat the other half then!" she said shoving a half-eaten jellybean in his hand.
"Er… that's all right. I'll take a Dare?" he suddenly wished he hadn't chosen dare because Lily had erupted in a fit of giggles.
"Oh yay! Okay, I Dare you to…." She paused a moment, thinking hard on a suitable 'punishment' for his wrong guess, Then a mischievous grin found is way on her face. "I dare you to pounce on and smolick all over the next person to pass by this compartment, no matter who is happens to be!" she said opening the compartment door.
"What? No! What if it-"
"It's a Dare, you chose Dare, and part of the game is, if you choose dare, you have to do whatever I dare you to do!" She cried, proving in perfect reasoning why he'd have to do as she told him.
"Fine!" he said getting up with a rather pouty look on his face. He walked over to the open compartment door and saw a first year nervously treading pass by the door. Severus Sighed and hugged the little shrimp of a first year and closed the door. "HAPPY!"
Lily could NOT stop laughing. "Oh the face on that poor kid was priceless!"
"Eh ha hehehe" he sat down in his seat, mock laughing her. He picked out a purple and red spotted bean and so it went, both of them picking out various colored jellybeans and guessing what they were and after several more embarrassing dares, it was time to put on their Hogwarts robes. Lily carefully pinned the head girl badge to her chest
as Severus tried his best to tie his tie but with no luck. Lily watched him with a smirk on her face and after a minute of wrestling with his tie Severus pulled it off his neck and held it out in his hand to Lily.
"Would you mind?" He said with a rather surrendering tone.
Lily chuckled under her breath, removed own her tie and began tying his Green and silver tie on herself. Severus watched her closely, she looked good in green, red had always clashed with her hair. She bit her lip, accidentally making a knot too tight and screwing up her face in concentration to fix it. And before Severus could stop himself he'd placed his hands softly on either side of her face and placed a gentle kiss on her lips. Lily's breath caught in her throat as Severus' lips touched hers. It seemed to take an hour before either of them thought to pull away. Severus was the first; His face was scarlet red. Lily paused a moment, her mind registering what had just happened. She looked at Severus; he was carefully looking at the floor, his hands wringing. Lily took off his tie and put it on him, adjusting it slowly, then pulled him toward her with it, she kissed him back pressing against him and holding him to her with his tie. Severus' eyes shot up at Lily's though she was too blurry to really see, He tilted his head into her kiss and laced his hands together on the small of her back.
