Chapter Three: Peter's Prank

"James. Can you please tell me what you are doing in my yard?" asked Lily firmly, looking at James trapped in the lilac bush.

James smiled brightly.

"I decided to uh… say hi to the um… the robins? I think they like me!" cheered James. Right at the moment, the robins screeched and flew away.

"Indeed," said Lily sarcastically. For a few seconds there was silence until James spoke up.

"What time is it?" asked James randomly.

Lily quickly glanced at her watch and looked frantic.

"Oh my gosh. I'm suppose to be at King Cross in 10 minutes!" shrieked Lily.

James started to smile slyly.

"Well I guess you'll just have to come with me," said James

Lily rolled her eyes.

"How it that suppose to get us there faster," sighed Lily.

James quickly responded.

"Uh… you see. My parents have this new car and it's really fast," said James happily.

Lily smiled.

"Fine then, you can help me bring out my stuff," said Lily patting his shoulder.

James followed Lily into her house. His eyes were wide opened as he saw muggle things he'd never seen before. He looked at pictures of Lily and the family. He laughed when he saw a recent picture of Petunia.

"Woah. Who is skeletor?" joked James pointing at a picture of Petunia

Lily scowled at him.

"You always… have to be… ugh. We have no time! Come in my room!" said Lily hastily.

"With pleasure," cheered James but he quickly got stopped by Mr. Evans.

"And who are you?" asked Mr. Evans, narrowing his emerald eyes down on him.

James looked at Lily, then at her father.

"I'm her…" said James – but he was interrupted by Lily.

"Friend… anyways. We have to get going," said Lily, as she dragged James into her room.

Sirius and a boy with light shaggy brown hair sat in a compartment by themselves on the hogwort's express. Sirius quickly helped himself to an-almost-endless supply of chocolate, which his friend had with him.

"Where do you get all of this, Remus?" asked Sirius to his friend.

After finishing his last bite of his chocolate frog, Remus looked up at his friend and responded.

"My aunt worked at this chocolate factory, so she gave us lots of chocolate and such," said Remus happily.

Sirius didn't say much back. He looked out their compartment window, wondering what was taking James so long. Sirius felt guilty about what he said earlier to James. He quickly ate another chocolate frog.

A girl with neck length blonde hair, and a few scattered freckles on her face popped in the compartment. She nervously cleared her throat, not looking at Sirius or Remus.

"Have you two seen Lily around? The train is about to leave, and I'm worried about her," said the girl.

Sirius looked at her and frowned.

"Maybe she is with James, he's not here either, …" said Sirius, but was interrupted with the arrival of Lily and James storming in the compartment, panting a bit.

"Lily! I was worried sick about you!" shrieked the girl.

Lily smiled at her best friend.

"Don't worry Helena, I was just with James!" assured Lily

Sirius laughed.

"That explains why you two were late," said Sirius winking

Remus looked up.

"Uh. Well there, James. I heard you are head boy. Congratulations!" said Remus happily, but secretly it was always his dream to be head boy.

James shrugged. "I always thought it would be you Remus," said James.

Remus smiled. "Well you have been acting more mature lately, I guess,"

James proudly puffed out his chest and nodded. Lily laughed, and poked his chest immediately.

"No way," laughed Lily.

Helena smiled nervously. "I-I have to use the lady's room. Excuse me," said Helena as she quickly moved out of the compartment.

Sirius looked at Lily.

"Wow Evans. What's with your friend?" asked Sirius rudely

Lily scowled at him.

"She's just a bit shy, that's all!" said Lily angrily as she got up and stormed out.

Sirius looked around.

"Um. Was it something I said?" asked Sirius

Remus sighed, and opened up his history of magic book.

Lily walked down the hallway of the train, looking for her friend. She quickly spotted her alone in a compartment. Helena looked sad, and looked out the window. Lily wasn't sure what was wrong with her, so she came in and sat across from her.

"What's wrong Helena?" asked Lily

Helena sighed, "It's Sirius. He didn't he even notice me; none of them ever notice me,"

Lily frowned and hugged her. "You know that's not true. Maybe if you spoke up, or said something more often, maybe he would say something to you,"

Helena bit her lip and sighed again. "What's the sense? I'm ugly, and I have horrible freckles… He would never notice me. You're pretty and fun. I'm just boring,"

Lily smiled at her. "You are pretty, you just don't know it,"

"I don't know, …" said Helena.

Lily smiled at Helena and looked out the window, it looked bright and sunny. She missed hogworts, and was pleased that she was made head girl. Lily knew it was going to be an eventful year, and she couldn't wait until she stepped right inside the grounds. Everything was floating in her mind, not noticing that the sky was changing.

"Odd weather, it's kinda hot in here" sighed Helena, noticing the storm clouds approaching.

Lily did feel the heat, but soon enough, there was an odd rush of cold air that floated around her.

"Did you feel that cold breeze?" asked Lily to Helena.

"I wish!" sighed Helena, sweating immensely.

"Weird, …" said Lily looking at her schedule.

Sirius, James, Remus, and a pudgy boy called "peter" were in a deep conversation about past memories. They chatted for a while, but were interrupted by loud thunder.

"Wonderful weather," muttered Sirius.

"I hope it's not like that for the rest of the week. I have quidditch," said James.

Remus looked out the window. "It'll probably last a day,"

Peter looked out of their compartment, goggling at something. He had a shocked look on his face, but didn't say anything.

"Peter… What are you looking at?" asked James

"Um. It's Miranda. Looks like she is going out with Lucious Malfoy," squeeled Peter

Sirius got up quickly with rage in his face.

"WHAT!" yelled Sirius as he stormed out of the compartment and directed his wand at Malfoy.

Miranda immediately rolled her eyes at Sirius.

"Sirius… You do assume things so quickly. We were just talking. You know Lucious is going out with your cousin Narcissa," snarled Miranda, pulling a long strand of her chestnut brown hair behind her ears.

Sirius felt embarrassed and stormed back into the compartment.

"Peter… I'm going to… UGH!" yelled Sirius. Peter was laughing hysterically. James and Remus quickly got up and held Sirius back, so he couldn't hit Peter.

Remus sighed sarcastically. "It's going to be a lovely year,"