"Lily darling, have you got everything?"

"Yes mum. Can we go now?"

"Well, call Petty and we'll go."

"Finally!" Lily Evans stood at the foot of the staircase in her house and called up to her sister. "Petunia! Let's go, I'm going to be late!"

"Why should I care?" came the sour reply.

"Because I'll hex you into next week if you don't hurry up. And by the time we catch up with you in next week, you might realize that we'll be stuck with each other for the entire school year!"

Petunia Evans came sliding down the banister, all attempts at putting on make-up forgotten. "What are we waiting for, then?"

"Mum and Dad," replied Lily.

"MUM! DAD!" they shouted.

Christine and Mark Evans ran towards the girls. "Ready?"

"Yes! Let's go!"

Lily sat in the back seat of her father's car, fingering her prefect badge. 'This is going to be a great year. Well, it's not going to be much of a great year with Potter around, but a good year nonetheless.'

The car pulled up at the train station and Lily ran around to the back of the car grabbed her luggage, dumped it into the nearest trolley, ran around to her father's side of the car, and tried to get him out.

"Let's go daddy!" Lily cried, tugging on his arm.

"All right, I'm coming!" Mark laughed.

Once they were all out of the car, Lily hugged her parents and turned to her sister. "Have a good year Pet," she whispered as she hugged her sister.

"You too," Petunia whispered back.

Lily grabbed her trolley and, facing the barrier, looked over her shoulder and waved good bye to her family. She ran through the wall and let out a deep breath.

Now to find her friends and get settled. But somehow, Lily knew that it wasn't going to be anywhere near that simple.

"Oi! Evans!"

'Not now,' thought Lily. 'Please not now!' Lily's fifth year at Hogwarts was already off to a bad start. Just hearing her name come out of that thing's mouth made her angry. She turned around slowly, dreading the sight she was sure to see. James Potter and Sirius Black grinned at her.

"What do you want?" she asked evenly, surprising herself. James stood staring at her, that idiotic grin still on his face. Sirius elbowed him in the ribs.

"Oh! I …um… er…I mean, well…." Sirius shook his head pitifully at James, and pushed past him.

"What my friend here means to say is," here he got down on his knees and looked up at Lily. "Evans, would you like to share a compartment with us?"

Lily pretended to think about it. "Gee I'm really sorry, Black." She stressed the word really and rolled her eyes. "But I can't."

"Aw, come on Evans, why?" James had finally come to and was now on the ground next to Sirius.

"One because I don't like you, two because I have to go to the prefect's compartment, three because I really don't like you, four because I have other-no actual friends to meet, and five because I just don't like you." Lily stalked onto the train.

"You know, I'm getting the impression that Lily doesn't like you two very much."

James and Sirius looked up to see one of their best friends, Remus Lupin. They Looked at each other and exchanged glances. "Say Moony, did you get prefect this year?" Sirius asked conversationally.

"Yes. I was just on my way to-" Remus was cut off by James and Sirius looking up at him once again, this time with identical malicious glints in their eyes. 'Uh-oh," thought Remus. 'This is not going to be a good year."