Because it took me so long to update last time, I've

decided to start another chapter again sooner.

DobbyGrl: Thanks! I'm soo sorry about how long it took

me to update! I was always thinking to myself that I

should go write it and post it so I didn't lose all my

reviewers but I just never got around to it!

apotterlover: Thanks! No I didn't give up on the

story, I just never got around to updating. Sorry

about that!

Flame Of Desire: Yeah, in this story I decided to make

it so that they both like each other, but Lily prefers

to lead him on, play with his mind, and make him feel

stupid instead of go out with him in the beginning,

which I have already started to try and show. Maybe

it's be her test to see how much guys actually like

her, or maybe something else. I'm not sure yet, but I

hope I'll be able to write things so they play out as

well in the story as they do in my head. But only time

will tell. lol. Thanks!

IceCrystal: Thanks! Yeah I did describe her a bit in

the second chapter. Even I forgot I described her

there and began to re-describe her in the third

chapter, but then I remembered that I already had.

Your not being stupid it had just been a while since

the last update. lol

Thanks to all of you for reading the story and

reviewing!

Because none of you showed a preference in the way I

write the next chapter of the same day, only in

Lilly's POV.

Chapter 4; Lilly meets James

Lily's POV

I woke up that morning to a ray of light across my

face and birds singing outside. I was a beautiful day,

but I couldn't focus on it one bit because I have a

ton of butterflies fluttering around in my stomach,

and I couldn't even remember why. The next thing

Mariah said reminded me, and the knowledge came

crashing down on my head.

"YAY! Everybody's coming to school again! Your not too

nervous, are you?" Mariah asked me, looking concerned.

"No!" I said, a little too quickly. She raised her

eyebrows at me.

"Okay. . . I was just gonna say that I could make you

a potion to fix it but if your fine. . ."

"You know maybe the potion wouldn't be that bad of an

idea." I said quickly. She mumbled something about me

being indecisive before going to her stash of supplies

and quickly throwing a bunch of things together and

handed it to me in a thin vial.

"Drink this. It shouldn't wear out before the day

ends,but if it does let me know, and I'll make you

more." I took a large gulp of the red liquid, and then

choked on it, then swallowed it.

"What is that crap! Are you trying to kill me!" I

asked her jokingly.

"Yeah I forgot to tell you that the majority of the

time the potions won't taste too great."

"Thanks!" I said with a mix of sarcasm and a joke.

"No Problem!"

"For you. . ." I mumbled, before choking down the rest

of the liquid. I went and sat on her bed with her. On

the bedside table there was a muggle picture of her,

four guys, three of whom being extremely hott, and

three other girls. By looking at the group you could

tell that they were the fabulous people of the school.

Along with the other girls, Mariah looked like she had

put a lot of effort on what she looked like that

morning. She was wearing suggestive clothing and

makeup, she looked really different from the laid back

Mariah that I had gotten to know that summer.

"Who are all of these people?" I asked curiously. She

picked up the frame and told me about everybody in the

picture (other than herself) after pointing to them.

"That's Amber." She pointed to a girl with long brown

hair, a pretty face, and a body structure similar to

the rest of the girls in the picture, and Lily.

"She's such a great friend. I grew up living next to

her in Muggle London. We were both so happy when we

saw each other at Hogwarts the first day. We couldn't

tell each other about going to Hogwarts, and I thought

that I would practically never see her. In third year

she began to dress a bit more. . . like she is in the

picture, so the rest of us did, too. When people would

call us whores or something though, we'd stand up for

each other. She's so much different from everyone

else, it makes her so much more interesting than other

people at this school. This is Kat. " She pointed to a

blonde girl with an amused look on her face that said,

'I know something that you don't and I'm not going to

tell you what it is.' But it also said that there is

so much more to the pretty girl behind the pretty

face. The girl caught my

curiosity, and I wondered what she was like.

"She was the second one to start dressing differently.

She's such a nice person, and she's so much fun to be

around. She's a lot like Amber, in a way that she's

very 'this-is-how-I-am-and I'm-not changing-anything.'

They both speak their minds a lot. This is Michelle."

She pointed to a girl with black hair, longer than

Mariah's. She was wearing tight, dark blue jeans, and

the only makeup she wore was eyeliner and lip gloss.

She stood out from the rest of the girls because she

was the only one not wearing a skirt and tons of

makeup.

"Michelle was very reluctant to get into the whole

girly look. She's really athletic and the most girly

thing we could get her into was a pair of tight jeans.

She's dresses like us a bit more now but she still

dresses athletic a lot too. Here's Peter." she said,

pointing to an ugly, short boy with a frown on her

face.

"Ugly and annoying as hell but the guys like him so we

can't get rid of him. Nothing else to say about him.

Here's Sirius." She pointed to a hott boy.

"He started going out with Kat over the summer. He's

usually quite a player but who knows? Maybe Kat can

knock some sense into him. He's a really funny guy and

plays tons of pranks with the rest of the marauders.

Oh! The guys in this picture are the marauders. Here's

James." she pointed to the, in my opinion, most hott

guy in the picture.

"Just as funny and mischevious as Sirius, maybe more.

I think you two would make a great couple. Amber and

him had a FWB thing going on but she owled me recently

and told me that she's probably going to ask Jason

King out so you won't have to feel uncomfortable

getting. . . close to him. This is Remus." She pointed

to a hott guy, and in the picture he's standing

behind Mariah and they're both facing the camera and

he has his arms around her.

"He's my-." She stopped and blushed. "He's my friend."

She finished lamely.

"You were going to say boyfriend, weren't you?"

"Yeah. We've been FWB's for so long now that I kinda

think of him that way. I guess he's just afraid of

commitment or something."

"That sucks."

"Yep. Hey, do you wanna go swimming in the lake?"

"Sure!"

We both walked over to our own wardrobes and I

searched through it and I pulled out a white bikini

with a buckle on the bottoms. I bought it for surfing

when I had gone shopping with Chelsea just a couple of

days before getting my invitation to Hogwarts. It was

just a month ago but it seemed like an eternity.

Mariah was in a navy blue bikini and had her wand

sticking out of her bottoms. I grabbed my wand and did

a quick spell that changed my outfit into the bikini.

"Hey Mariah? I gotta write a letter to my friend

Chelsea before I go swimming, so I'll meet you down

there, okay?"

"Okay. Try not to take too long or I'll get bored

alone!"

"Alright," I said, but it didn't matter because she

was already out of the door and headed towards the

lake. I summoned a piece of parchment and a quill and

began to write.

Dear Chelsea,

I miss you so much! I wish you could be here with me!

Today is the day that everybody is gonna come to

school and i used to be SO nervous but Mariah made me

a potion and now I'm fine. I'm excited, though. I hope

I fit in with everybody and all that new kid worry

crap. Well I'm gonna go cuz I'm gonna go swimming with

Mariah in the lake. WRITE BACK!

xoxo LiLy

When I was finished I called the owl that Dumbledore

had gotten for me, Sky Rider. I almost named her

something stupid like Snow, but then I didn't, and I'm

happy I changed my mind! I toed the letter to her leg,

then let her out the window. I watched her fly away

for a couple of seconds, then hurried down to the lake

with my wand in my hand. When I got there I saw Mariah

swimming laps, so I called her name to get her

attention. When I did that she looked up quickly then

swam to me, and said,

"Hey."

"Hi," I replied, then jumped into the lake with her.

We swam laps and practiced diving for hours. Then, a

guy saying,

"Hey, babe, what're ya doing in the lake?" scared the

living hell outta me. It didn't seem to faze Mariah in

the least, and she said smoothly,

"Exactly what it looks like I'm doing, swimming." The

boy that said that was tall and muscular and had well

kept brown hair.He had a handsome face and a joking

smile. Close behind him were the also muscular and

hott James and Sirius. James, with messy black hair

and glasses, and Sirius with well kept black hair and

searching eyes. Also behind them were Michelle, Kat,

and Amber. I recognized them all from the picture

Mariah had shown me earlier. Then I said, so only

Mariah could hear me,

"Awwwww! It's Remus! He's soooo cute! I bet you just

wanna jump on him and. . ." I stopped because Mariah

was walking out of the lake, and was giving me the

finger behind her back. I laughed and followed her

out. James, who had an extremely strong accent, said,

"Hey Mariah," then did something both completely

surprising, and hilarious. He turned to me, and in a

very 'macho' voice, said,

"And who might you be?" before bending over my hand

and kissing it. I tried not to laugh, I really did,

but it was just too tempting! I cracked up, and then

said,

"Oh my god your accent is so strong I can barely

understand you!" He looked extremely embarrassed. Then

he said,

"Well so does Mariah! And anyways, what's wrong with

my accent? Don't you like it?" and I could tell he

was pretending to be hurt.

Then I replied,

"Yeah, but Mariah's accent isn't as strong as yours

is. And nothings wrong with your accent," I said, then

I thought of something funny to add, "It's actually a

pretty big turn on." Then I smiled sexily and turned

to Amber, Michelle, Kat and the rest of the guys.

"I'm Lily," I said. Everybody introduced themselves to

me, and even though I already knew who they were I

pretended that I didn't. We all chatted for a while,

and then I said,

"Hey Mariah, the sorting starts pretty soon, doesn't

it? We should go up and change so I don't miss my

first, and only sorting."

"Oh, you're right! Girls, you wanna come up with us so

we can get changed?" Mariah asked. After they agreed

to coming with us, she turned to the guys, and said,

"We'll catch you guys later, at the sorting." And then

we began to walk back up to the castle.

Okay, so chapter 4 is finished! I did it all today,

too! Just for you guys! lol! okay so I'm not going to

check it because I really want to get it up, so I'm

sorry if it isn't that great. Please Review!