Chapter 3

Lily was awoken the next morning by someone shaking her. She groaned and covered her head with her covers.

"Lily wake up!" Blair's voice rang through her ears

"Go away!" Lily groaned

"Zezly, Willow get up! We need your help waking up Lily" Ebony said, her voice sounded farther away than Blair's

"Can't" Willow groaned

"Too sleepy" Zezly groaned

"Fine!" Blair said

Blair and Ebony grinned at each other then began singing really bad opera.

"You know opera puts people to sleep right?" Willow stated

The room fell silent.

"Lily if you don't get up right know we'll…" Blair stopped to think

"Tell James you want him, extremely bad" Ebony finished

Lily sat up.

"I hate you" Lily glared at the girls

Blair kissed the air in Lily's direction.

"We're going to the showers, you coming?" Ebony asked

"Yea" Lily said

Lily, Blair and Ebony walked down to the showers leaving Zezly and Willow who were slowly waking up. When they returned Zezly and Willow were still in bed.

"Guys if you don't get up now there will be no food left!" Ebony said

Willow and Zezly practically jumped out of their beds. They got changed then walked down to the Great Hall for breakfast.

"What do we have first?" Zezly asked after a couple of minutes of stuffing her face

"I think we have Transfiguration" Lily said

"Yea we do" Ebony confirmed

"Good morning ladies!" James said brightly as he walked over to them

"Go away" Lily moaned

James ignored that comment and sat down next to her.

"And how are you this fine morning?" James grinned

"To tired to take your crap" Lily muttered

"What crap? I am just trying to make conversation" James said as he poured himself some pumpkin juice

"Well stop trying" Lily said

Sirius sat down next to Willow.

"So Willow would you like to go to Hogsmeade with me?" Sirius asked in a charming tone

"Why not" Willow smiled

"So…how about that broom closet?" Sirius said

"Um…no" Willow said

"Hey!" Sean said as he walked over and sat down next to Ebony

"What do we have first?" Sean asked after popping a grape in his mouth

"Transfiguration" Ebony said

"I love Transfiguration!" Sean said excited

Sean reminded Lily of a little boy, he was excited by almost everything.

"Ah, Transfiguration. My best class" James bragged

Lily just rolled her eyes.

After they were done eating the five girls and Sean walked down to their class. They were soon joined by the Marauders.

Transfiguration went by pretty slow for Lily. She attempted to pay attention to what she was doing while James tried to get her attention or show off. Finally Lily had enough of him.

"James could not talk for the rest of the class! Thank you!" Lily said angrily

Ebony, Blair, Willow and Zezly applauded and laughed.

When class ended everyone rushed for the door to get to their next class. The girls stood up and began to walk toward the door.

"Defense Against the Dark Arts" Willow answered Zezly's question

The girls then headed to their next class.

In Defense Against the Dark Arts they were told to get a partner for a practice duel.

"Evans, do you want to be my partner?" James asked

Lily grabbed the nearest arm without looking to see who it was.

"Already have one" Lily stated

"Oh" James said

As James walked away in search of a partner Lily looked up to see who her partner was. Fortunately she was looking up at Sean.

In the middle of the class dueling James conjured a snake in attempt to impress Lily. The snake jumped onto Sean and wrapped itself around his neck. Lily quickly turned the snake into a butterfly. The butterfly took flight and flew out into the hallway.

"Thanks" Sean said

"No problem" Lily said while glaring at James

"Sorry Sean, I didn't mean for that to happen" James apologized, ignoring Lily's glare

"Oh, it's okay" Sean smiled

The rest of the class went by pretty slowly.

"FOOD!" Sirius yelled when the class was dismissed

Lily began gathering books.

"Do you want us to wait for you?" Ebony asked

"No, I'll catch up" Lily said

"You sure?" Blair eyed her suspiciously

"Guys, come on!" Willow called

"Need food…NOW!" Zezly yelled

"Yea" Lily said

"Alright" Blair and Ebony said at the same time

The four girls then walked out of the class room and walked towards the Great Hall.

Lily out all of her books, parchment, quill and ink into her bag then slung it over her shoulder. When she left the room someone yelled "BOO!" from behind her, making her scream. Lily spun around to see who it was.

"Hey" James smiled

Lily quickly turned back around and headed towards the Great Hall.

"Wait up!" James ran to catch up with her, "You can walk pretty fast"

Lily sped up by James stayed at her side

"What do you want Potter?" Lily said dryly

"A date" James said hopefully

"Well you're not going to get one so go away!" Lily spat

"What do I have to do to change you mind?" James asked

"Try thinking of someone other then yourself for a change" Lily exclaimed as they enter the Great Hall.

When Lily finally found her friends she down between Zezly and Willow.

After the girls were done eating they headed down to the dungeons for potions.

Potions went by slow, too slow according to Lily. She desperately tried to keep up with the teacher. Lily found this impossible for she kept on getting distracted by whispers from Sirius and James on their plans to prank a Slytherin named Snape. By the end of the class Lily felt as if her brain was fried.

"What's next?" Lily asked in hopes of something good

"Divination" Zezly replied

"I don't" Blair said gloomily

"What do you have?" Willow asked

"Ancient Runes…with Jaren" Blair sighed

"Fun" Ebony said sarcastically

"Oh yeah" Blair rolled her eyes

"Well, we'll meet you in the common room" Lily said

"Yeah, later" Blair said

With that Blair turned and walked to her class, the others did the same in the opposite direction.

Divination was the best class of the day for Lily. It was the first class Lily had that James wasn't in.

After the class Ebony, Lily, Zezly and Willow walked up to the Gryffindor common room. They sat down at an empty table and talked, except for Lily who was looking over her potions notes.

"Why are you studying? It's the first day for school!" Zezly exclaimed

"I don't want to get behind" Lily said

Willow and Zezly shook their heads.

Suddenly the portrait hole opened and in stormed a heated Blair.

"Blair, over here!" Ebony called

Blair ignored her then stormed up to the dorm room.

"Not good" Willow said

The four girls ran up after her.

"I can't believe my brother!" Blair ranted

"What happened?" Zezly asked

"Jaren wants me to date a Slytherin named Riley! He says I need to date a pureblood so that I can pass on the Zanbini 'trait'!" Blair exclaimed

"Well that's dumb" Ebony said plainly

"I'm suppose to meet him tonight after dinner" Blair sat down on her bed

"So don't go" Willow said

"I have to" Blair grumbled

"Why?" Lily asked

"If I don't he'll tell Mum and Dad about me dating a muggle born last year" Blair said through gritted teeth

"Shane?" Ebony asked

"Yea" Blair said

They sat up there talking until it was time to go down for dinner.

Blair ate as slowly as she could to put off meeting this Slytherin boy. Finally Jaren came over to where Blair was sitting.

"It is time" Jaren said seriously

"God! Your making sound like I'm off to my grave!" Blair exclaimed

Blair got up and looked to her friends with emotions of anger, nervousness and longing to stay with them.

"Bye" Blair called as Jaren pulled her away

"I hope he doesn't make her mad" Willow thought out loud

"Yea, remember what she did to him last year?" Ebony asked

"Now that was just plain funny" Zezly laughed

The girls laughed in remembrance of when Blair hung Jaren from a tree by his underwear. The underwear ripped off and Jaren had to walk back into the school butt naked.

"Good time" Zezly said dumbly

The girls headed back up to the common room. They talked to old friends until everyone began headed up to their dorms. Lily, Ebony, Zezly, and Willow got ready for bed. They then tried to wait up for Blair but they ended up falling asleep