-Beep Beep- James' eyes flashed open. "One more hour," he groaned, rolling over dragging the covers in a tangled mass with him.

James was tall and had untidy black hair and hazel eyes framed by a pair of glasses. For all purposes he was a pretty good looking person.

Beep Beep The alarm clock once again reminded James of its (in James' thoughts) unfortunate existence. James reached out a lazy hand to attempt to silence the devilish thing by blindly searching for the off button.

After the third (incorrect) slap James ended up pushing the clock of the stand. Rather grudgingly he leaned over to pick up the fallen clock when his eyes landed on the time. He sprung out of bed cursed loudly and ran down the hallway to the vacated room next to his that the Potter family had just recently filled with James' best mate Sirius.

Sirius was very good looking. He, like James, was tall and had black hair that fell just perfectly into his gray-blue eyes. He was considered the heart throb of Hogwarts (a magical school both boys attended).

"Sirius, wake up!" James pounded on the door. "I didn't do it…" mumbled a sleepy Sirius. "Come on for real get up! We only have twenty-five minutes until the train leaves!" "What!"Holy $h!t!" Sirius screamed on top of his lungs (to the slight annoyance of a bird flying past his window at the time).

James ran back to his room to get ready. Both boys raced downstairs (Sirius actually kind of sliding down the banister) and immediately scarfed down everything waiting for them on the table.

Both boys ran out of the house saying their hurried goodbyes. No sooner were they out the door than they turned around and came back in. "Uh…mom…we kinda need a ride to the station." James explained, having forgotten that completely.


Lily Evans, a girl with amazingly red hair and sparkling emerald eyes, took in the whole atmosphere of Platform nine and three-quarters. She loved it here. She was finally going (as it seemed to her) back home.

Lily's peace was interrupted by the all too familiar sound of bickering. "…and another thing..." Lily's best fried Jade was now standing in the middle of the train making quite the scene.

Jade was beautiful. She had fair skin, bone straight black hair, chocolate brown eyes, and quite the temper.

Of course the heart of this argument also included the marauders (James, Sirius, Remus (a sandy brown haired boy now standing with his face covered by his hands), and Peter (a mousy looking boy whom was overly obsessed with his marauder friends).

"Move it!" A voice yelled. Lily could not agree with this voice more. She stopped suddenly appalled with her self for agreeing with the voice once she recognized who it came from. "Shut your mouth Malfoy, or ill hex you into oblivion." Jade yelled to a blonde Slytherin.

Lily sighed she really had to get to the Heads' compartment. "Head girl coming through!" she shouted. Everyone parted so Lily could cross.

"Hey Lily!" Jade yelled out when she passed her. Lily smiled and waved. When she arrived in the heads compartment many of the prefects were just arriving. Lily checked her watch. Where is the head boy? She wondered.

Two minutes into the already delayed meeting, a prefect announced the head boy was here. "Excellent"! I wonder what took him so long. She smiled and turned around to greet the head boy when her smile was replaced with a look of shock and horror. "Potter?" she asked weakly.

James smiled. Lily felt sick but there were a group of prefects waiting for a speech. She would just have to pull herself together and get through this.

Lily and James went through the entire meeting slightly distracted (for completely different reasons). However the prefects took no notice of this and it went quickly.

"So do you all understand?" Lily asked. The prefects nodded their heads. "Good! James would you like to add anything?" James shook his head shocked at the fact that Lily had just called him by his first name. She sighed. "Alright, you're all free to go now."

Lily found her compartment with ease. The fact that Lily's friends were sharing it with the marauders made Lily's mood worse. Jade and Sirius were screaming about something insignificant (Lily thought she heard something about pink marshmallow bunnies and that there indeed is such thing as cotton candy flavored Jell-O) ,Remus kept trying to get a word in with no success, and Serena (A girl with blonde hair that almost looked gold) just sat quietly fishing through a magazine.

When Jade noticed Lily standing there she immediately broke off her argument with Sirius and grinned. "So you found out who the head boy was"? Lily mumbled something about unpleasant surprises and sat next to Serena who finally looked up from her magazine.

James took a seat next to Remus and across from Lily. "Why can't we sit with Alice and Emmeline?" Lily asked, pathetically trying to move to a different compartment. "They're with some other girls." Jade replied calmly. "Oh, come on, the ride's almost over, you'll be fine." This time Serena spoke.

Lily suddenly realized that Remus had been staring at Serena the entire time. Obviously Serena noticed this as well because she smiled sweetly at him. Remus smiled shyly back. Sirius made a gagging sound and in spite of herself Lily laughed.

Surprisingly Lily was fine throughout the remainder of the train ride. She was shocked to find her self talking and laughing with everyone else including James.

Maybe he's not so bad after all. Lily thought. She shook her head. Nah, of course he's that bad. What are you thinking? Oh come on Lily, maybe your being to hard on him. No way. He deserves it. Does he? Her thoughts were interrupted as Hogwarts came into view.