Love Makes The World Go Round

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A/N: I am so sorry that it took me a lot longer than a day or two to post another chapter up! I've been super busy- helping my brother move out and babysitting a lot for my neighbors! I want to thank everyone who has reviewed! I love you all tons!!!! And I also hope that you like this chapter!

Chapter Four: Boys!

"Lily, have fun, be safe, and don't get in any trouble! Ok, dear?"

"No, Mum. I'm going to just be absolutely wild and throw a water slide party in the hallways," Lily replied sarcastically. "Of course, I will be good! Mum, why do we have to go through this every year?" Lily then said in a monotonous tone, "I will be safe, respect my elders, and I'll send you a letter once a week. Like always!"

Lily's dad burst out laughing. Lily's mum gave him a death-glare. "Sorry, honey, but she was dead-on with that!"

"Alright, alright. One you two get done mocking me, can I please get a hug from my little baby girl?!" Lily gave her mother a tender hug, kissing her on the cheek. "I'm going to miss you so much, my red ball of fire!"

"I'll miss you too Mum!" Lily said earnestly; then giving her father the same hug and kiss. She gave them one final glance and a wave, and walked through Platform 9 and ¾ with her luggage, where she heard a loud scream!

"Ahhhhh! Lily!!! I haven't seen you in forever," the piercing voice screamed out. Lily turned to see Alexis, running towards her, pulling Lily into a big bear hug.

"Calm down, Alex!" Lily exclaimed in mid-giggles. "The summer wasn't that long!"

"I know, I know! But I missed you tons! I so wished you could have come with my family to Egypt! It would have been so much fun!"

"It would have been but, you know how my parents are- they wanted me home for the holidays."

"Well, who cares anymore?! We have the rest of the year hanging out together as big, bad seventh-years!"

"Alex, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but we also have NEWTs this year which won't be very pleasant."

"Ugh! You just had to remind me! Mum and Dad were bugging me the whole bloody summer about that!" Alex put on a voice, mimicking her mother, "Alex, you better study well and hard for your NEWTs! Your OWL scores were absolutely horrible and we don't want to see anything like that again! Why can't you be more like Lily and work hard for good grades?" Alex went back to her normal voice, "Lily, Lily, Lily!"

Lily erupted out laughing. "Come on. Let's get a seat on the train before its full, you little Lily-wannabe!"

"Hey! I don't want to be like you, thank you very much! I happen to like my 'don't study until the night before' plan. It works very well, indeed. But I can never get you or Remus to leave my nifty plan alone!" Alex exclaimed as the two walked around the hallway of the train, looking for a place to sit.

Lily, with a grin on her face, replied, "We're just looking out for you, Al. By the way, how is Remus? Is he still ill?"

Alex face suddenly became grim as she found a compartment to sit in and placed her luggage in the compartment. "Yes. And to top that off, I can tell something is bugging him but he won't tell me what it is! Its been driving me berserk the whole summer! I mean, we are in a bloody relationship! You think he would be able to tell me if anything is wrong!"

"Oh, I'm sorry! Just give him some time, honey. I'm sure he'll come around!!!" Lily said, trying to comfort her best friend.

"Yeah, I hope..." Alex glanced around the compartment and suddenly said in a happier tone, "Well, as I said before, this year is going to kick complete arse! We are going to be able to boss around the younger kids finally and......."

"Alex!!! Don't tell me that you're actually going to do that! You're going to be worst then the Marauders, with the exception, of course, of your boyfriend!"

"Oh, shove off, Lily. The Marauders aren't that bad!" Alex, then said, after looking at Lily's outraged face, "Okay, okay! They did do some bad things earlier in the years, but Remus told me that James was seriously changing for the better! And he is doing it all for you, Lily. Maybe you should give him a chance! I mean, he has been asking you out since the fourth year! And he is head boy, which means that Dumbledore must trust him enough to hold such responsibility."

"Well, all I say is that I'll believe it when I see it! Oh, wait! What time is it?! I'm late for the meeting with the Prefects!!!" Lily squealed as she ran out of the compartment, giving Alexis an apologetic look.

Alex yelled, "Alright! But be back later so we can finish our conversation! You can't get out of it that easily!" "Oh my gosh! I can't believe I am late again!!!" Lily muttered to herself as she run to the meeting.

"You know- speaking to yourself is the first sign of insanity," Sirius had exclaimed as he jumped in front of Lily, causing her to stumble to the ground.

"SIRIUS! Gosh! Leave me the HELL ALONE!"

"Feisty, huh? Well you know that's how I like my girls!"

"Sirius, leave her alone!" a voice exclaimed from down the hallway. Lily looked up to see who it was, seeing none other than James Potter.

"Com'on, Prongs! I was just joking around!" Sirius helped Lily up, while she gave James the very same death-glare that Lily's mother gave to her father.

"Contrary to what you think, Potter, I don't need your help! I can handle your bloody friend just fine! And plus, what are you doing here?! Shouldn't you be at the meeting since you are, from what I have heard, head boy? What are you doing, stalking me?!"

"Relax, Evans. I wasn't stalking you! I was looking for the head girl, because she just so happened to be late, which isn't very responsible, if you ask me. Right, Sirius?" James looked over to Sirius, hoping that the fight between the two of them was over.

"Right, indeed, Prongs. And lookie here!" Sirius said, while pointing to Lily's head girl badge, "It looks like here is the irresponsible one!"

Lily glared at them and said, "Well, yes. I am head girl, but it wasn't my fault I was late!"

Sirius laughed, "So wait! Lemme guess! Did a niffler kidnap you and say you couldn't come to the meeting on time?"

"Ugh!" Lily yelled and then went back to running down the corridor to get to the meeting.

James caught up to her quite quickly, probably because of his long legs. "Sorry about Sirius' behavior. He just likes goofing around."

"It wasn't JUST SIRIUS' BEHAVIOR THAT WAS ANNOYING ME, POTTER! IT WAS YOU, TOO! GOSH, WHEN WILL YOU EVER LEARN?!" Lily exclaimed before pushing him down and running off with all her might, leaving James sitting on the ground, completely thrown back.

'Wait! What did I do?! ' James thought to himself, bewildered by Lily's temper.