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You had one eye in the mirror as,

You watched yourself gavotte,

And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner,

You're so vain

"You're So Vain" Carly Simon

You're So Vain

Turning, Lily and James found themselves facing a seventh year prefect, Severus Snape.

"What do you want Snivell—I mean, what are you doing here Snape?" James said, catching himself before he said 'Snivellus'.

"Well, this is the prefects compartment, and I am a prefect. I should be asking you what your doing here, Potter." Snape said, in that drawling voice of his that everyone hated so much.

"I'm Head Boy this year, Snape, which means you'll be taking orders from me and Lily, the Head Girl," James said, flashing the badge in front of Snape's face. Snape was taken back for a moment as he stared at the two of them. When the shock had worn off, his smug smile returned.

"So, the Mudblood and her Knight in Shining Armor," Snape said, as James glared. "I always knew this school would go to the dogs."

James wanted to hex Snape so badly, but he restrained. If he wanted to show Lily he had changed, he had to control himself, but what Lily did surprised him.

"10 points from Slytherin," she said pushing her way past Snape and heading toward a door beyond them. She turned back, " For insulting the school AND James and myself. C'mon, James." She said, turning back toward the door. James smirked at Snape's stunned expression and followed her into the room.

As he walked in, James thought the compartment looked a little like the Gryffindor Common Room. It had two couches in the middle of the room with a coffee table in between them. There were also a few desks with some chairs to go along with them.

"I didn't know we could take points," James said as he examined the room, "I can't wait to tell Sirius about this!" he said, but realizing his mistake a second too late.

"No, you won't! As the Heads we can't take advantage of our position. For instance, you cannot take points away from Slytherin just because Snape 'exists'," she said referring to the time that James had said that in fifth year. He blushed.

"You can only take points from the House if there is a good reason. AND, if someone from your own House does something wrong, you must take points from them. Yes, Potter, I will take points from my own House," Lily said as she saw the astonished look upon his face.

"I never realized there were so many rules that came with this duty," recovering from the shock. "How am I going to remember them all?" he asked. Lily walked to the desk that sat in the middle of the room and took out a piece of parchment and handed it to James. It was a list of all the responsibilities of the Head Boy and Girl. James took the parchment and sat down at the couch nearest him.

James had been sitting at the couch for a few minutes, reading the rules, when he looked up and examined Lily. She was sitting at one of the desks and was looking over her rule sheet as well. Suddenly, James broke the silence.

"Lily?" he asked looking up from the paper. "Hmmm?" she said not looking up from hers. She expected him to ask her something about patrol duties every night, but what he did ask surprised her.

"Why do you hate me so much? When we were in fourth year, we were good friends, but now you act like I'm some kind of pest. What happened?"

Lily finally looked up from her paper. She didn't look at him right away, but thought about the question he had asked her. It was true; they had been friends. What had happened? Even she had to think about the answer for a moment. And then she found her answer.

" First of all, hormones happened James. We were good friends until you realized that the other girls of the castle and I didn't have cooties after all. Then the first time you became arrogant enough to insist that I go out with you, we sort of, parted ways."

They sat in silence as James stared out the window. After about a minute, he turned back to Lily.

"I never knew that that's how you felt about it Lily and I'm sorry." James said walking over to her. " What can I say though? I mean, come on, I was 15, of course I was like that. C'mon, you can't tell me that there was never a time when you were a little boy crazy."

Lily snorted. "Do you know me that little, James? We were friends for a long time. I was always buried in my work; I still am. That's why I got this position. I never had time to think about boys."

Sitting in the chair next to her, James said humorously, "You could have been like Myself and Sirius and multi-tasked. We had time to make good grades and chase around girls. That is what I call talent!"

Lily rolled her eyes. "Mr. Potter, you are so vain. I'm surprised your mirror doesn't have a mirror." James laughed

"Oh gosh," Lily said looking at her watch, "the prefect meeting is about to start, and I haven't even set up yet. James, you stay and finish reading the rules and I'll be right back," she said as she walked toward the door. James had just started reading the rules again when he heard his name.

"James?" Lily said, as she was about to walk out the door. She turned and smiled, "I don't hate you," and with that she walked out. James was on cloud nine.

"So, Natalie, how was your summer?" Remus asked a few minutes after James and Lily's' departure from the compartment. He wanted to see if someone else's holiday was better than his, feeling miserable about his breakup with his girlfriend, Jessica Spencer, from the following year. They had been together for two years, but then, she dumped him to go out with the star quidditch player from Hufflepuff. His friends tried to cheer him up, but it was no use. Hopefully this year would be better than the last.

"Oh, it was pretty good. My family and I went to Scotland to visit some of my relatives from there. It was so beautiful. I love it there. So how was your summer?" she asked. She obviously didn't know about Jessica.

"Ya know, the same old thing. Stay at home for a month, then go to James' house for a few weeks, and then go back home till the beginning of term. Nothing special," he said with a shrug of his soldiers.

"That sounds really fun," Natalie said, genuinely meaning it. "We always travel during the summer, so I never have the chance to hang out with my friends. I really miss them during the summer," she said thoughtfully.

Remus hadn't really heard this statement; he was back in his Jessica la-la-land of sorrow. Natalie noticed the vacant expression on his face.

"Still moping about that Jessica girl from Ravenclaw?" Maybe she did know about Jessica.

"Moping?" Remus asked, trying to sound casual, "what do you mean 'moping'?"

" Come on, Remus. Everyone can see that you're still depressed about it," Natalie said, turning towards him. "Let me tell you something though, Remus. You better pull your act together and get out of the dumps, cause you don't want to slip up on your NEWT's would you? And, I know you don't want Peter to beat you at Herbology like he did last year. So suck it up!" she said as she slapped him on the back and walked out of the compartment as Riley and Marissa were also doing, leaving Remus staring dumbly after her.

A/N: ok, thanks to all my reviewers! I didn't particularly like this chapter, I had a serious case of writers block! On another note, this might be the last chapter for awhile until I get readjusted at school, which starts Monday! EEK, wish me luck! Haha, ok, now just go down there and push the review button! Ya know you want to!