Chapter 2:
"Lily!" The shriek of Arabella Figg, could be heard over all the other shouting voices on platform 9 ¾'s. Lily laughed at her best friends complete lack of subtlety and pushed her way through he crowds to reach her.
"Hey Bella, how was Italy?"
"It was amazing! You should've come with me,w e had the most fantastic time!" At this Lily looked confused,
"We?" Arabella's eyes suddenly widened as she realised her mistake.
"Did I say we? Silly me i meant...um...my family and me!" Just as Lily was about to question her further an all too familiar voice came from behind her.
"Well, if it isn't little miss Evans!" Lily turned to see the person she hated more than anyone else in the world!
"Potter, is it just me or did your head balloon to double it's size over the summer?" James simple smirked and looked over Lily to Bella.
"Hey Bella, did you get all your stuff alright? We got back pretty late from Italy," at the shocked look on Lily's face he continued, "Oh, Evans didn't you know? Bella, me and Sirius spent the summer together in Italy, pity you couldn't have made it i wouldn't have minded seeing you in a bikini!" At this, Lily swung at him furiously and James ducked, missing her hand by centimetres. "Woah Evans, chill, if my heads doubled in size then your temper must have tripled over the summer," to Bella he said, "See ya on the train, I know Sirius will be waiting," with this he winked and turned to get on the train, leaving Bella to deal with a furious Lily.
"How could you not tell me that you spent the last two months with Potter and Black? Did it just slip your mind? Or did you not care that your best friend can't stand them?" Before Bella had a chance to answer, Lily turned on her heels and stormed onto the train to find the prefects compartment, inside there was only one occupant, fortunately it was the one Marauder that Lily actually liked, Remus Lupin.
"Hey Lily, good summer?" then he noticed Lily's flustered appearance and asked, "James?"
"Urgh, how can you be friends with such an arrogant, self-centered jerk like him?" Lupin smiled in response to this and put down the book he had been reading.
"Honestly Lily, you must be the only girl to ever meet James and dislike him! Like I keep telling you, he really isn't that bad once you get to know him, in fact he's a bloody good friend!" Lily just rolled her eyes and flopped down onto a seat.
"I just don't see why he acts the way he does. I know he's not a bad person, but he does a pretty good job at imitating one sometimes! Nevermind I'm putting him from my mind this year, the OWLS are too important to screw up because of him. So how was your summer?"
Remus smiled at her complete change in temperment, from furious to friendly, but he was used to it by now, "it was good actually. We went to Cyprus for a month. Did you go anywhere?"
Lily shook her head, "No, dad had to work all summer, but it was fine, i got to spend it with all my old friends and we had a really great time!"
At this point the rest of the prefects entered the compartment with the Head boy and girl. Lily and Remus didn't have a chance to talk for the rest of the journey, with the threat of Lord Voldemort the prefects had many extra duties and so had to hear what they were expected to do this year. By the time the train arrived at the station the prefects were exhausted just by listening to the amount of tasks they were expected to perform in the upcoming year. Lily and Remus went their seperate ways once the train stopped and Lily decided to skip the feast and instead go up to her dorm. She had just closed the door to her room and reached for a glass beside her bed to fill with water, when she felt a tug behind her navel and the next thing she knew she felt like she was falling through air. When she landed she was in a dark room lit with a few candles. Disoriented she looked around, hoping to discover where she was, when from the darkness a high pitched voice said, "Miss Evans i presume, I've been waiting for you!"