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Just Another Day

Chapter 2: Arrival

In the car, Lily was trying hard to focus on one thing in particular. I'm too excited to just be going back to school, she thought. You'd think I'm getting married. But she had every right to be happy. She was head girl, Lily was glowing about that, and being alienated from the wizard world for two months had been really hard, but what she was really excited about was seeing all her friends again. It had been weeks since they'd said goodbye, as both Dawn and Sabina had been gone, visiting family in various parts of the world.

She thought jealously about the adventures they'd had. Sabina had family in all of Italy, and had owled Lily continuously about the beautiful views and how happy she was to see everyone.

Dawn, on the other hand, had been "forced to my Siberia, the United States," but she'd evidently met a football player there, so it turned out all right.

Lily had stayed home. Her father's job was taking him away from home a lot, and she understood that right now her family couldn't afford huge vacations. Which was fine, but she wished that she'd have better stories to trade other than, "I babysat a lot," or "I got a job at this bakery three blocks from my house."

"I'm going to miss you, Lily," said Mrs. Evans.

"I know, mum." Lily smiled. She would miss her mom a lot at Hogwarts. They had gotten close over the past few summers, probably because Lily was out of the house for the majority of the year, so they kept their short weeks together fighting free. "I'll miss you too. But I am really excited to see Dawn and Sabina again."

"I'm so glad that you have nice friends, Lily. Good friends who make good choices are so important at this point in your life." Lily laughed. Her mother was always concerned about Lily making good choices, even though she had no history of being very rebellious in the past.

"Oh, mum, pullover! We're at the exit!" cried Lily.

"Calm down," muttered her mother. "Don't jump out of the car just yet."

"Sorry… I forgot myself." Lily laughed. "Just because I'm a witch doesn't mean I can fly. But I'm just so happy, mum!"

"I know, Lily," said Mrs. Evans quietly. "You've practically been bouncing the whole way here."

Lily blushed, but had nothing to say. Instead, she grinned as the car pulled into the parking lot and bounded out, pulling her luggage out of the trunk.

"Lily dear, if you aren't careful, you'll" Mrs. Evans winced as her daughter dropped her owl's cage, "drop something."

"Sorry, mum."

Mrs. Evans smiled as Lily continued to stack her things at haphazard angles atop each other, loosing the cage again as they started to move.

"JAMES POTTER! JAIME MIGUEL PRONGS POTTER!"

James rolled his eyes as he followed the voice on Platform 9 ¾. "Hello, Sirius," he said, coming up behind his obnoxious best friend.

"PRONGS!" cried Sirius. "You made it! I doubted you would."

"Miguel?"

Sirius laughed. "I thought you'd like a new name."

"Thanks, but next time, let me decide what middle name I have. Now everyone's going to think I'm Spanish or something."

The mad boy grinned. "Is that bad? Besides, I thought you were trying to impress Miss Little Lilikins with your bilingualism."

"Prongs is bilingual?" asked Remus Lupin, coming up behind his best friends. "Congratulations, James, you did something with your summer."

"Don't insult me with suggesting I learned something over summer, Moony."

"Oh, Remus, you didn't let me shout your name!" whined Sirius. "How about you go stand fifteen feet away, and I can pretend like I didn't see you."

"I'll pass, thanks."

"But I came up with the best name: Remus Liechester Moonimus Lupin."

James snorted.

"Shut it, Miguel," growled Moonimus.

"It's better than Liechester Lupin. Honestly, Padfoot. That sounds like the scientific name of some plant."

But Sirius wasn't listening. "Hey, Prongs, isn't that Miss Lilikins coming at us right now?"

"What?"

It was true. Lily was walking straight toward them.

"Now would be the time to speak, Prongs," prompted Remus.

"Hey, Lily," said James, wondering if it was the right tone of voice. "How was your summer?"

"It was nice, thanks for asking." She smiled at him. Lily smiled at me!, he thought. "I'm glad to be back, though. Hey, I was wondering if any of you had seen Dawn or Sabina. I just got here, and I've been dying to see them all summer."

"I bumped into Georgie a few minutes ago," said Sirius. It was Dawn's Quidditch nickname, her last name being Georgiano. "She looked pretty good."

"From you, Sirius, that could mean anything, and I'm not even going to ask," laughed Lily. "So nothing of Bina?"

"I saw her over by the engine, actually," volunteered Remus.

"Thanks so much, guys," said Lily, ready to turn away.

"No problem. Sorry we couldn't have been more of a help," said James.

"Hey, Miss Lily," jumped in his womanizing friend, "if you girls need a compartment, why don't you come join ours. It's…"

"Number Seven, I know. It's the one you always have. Well, if we wouldn't be intruding…"

She didn't see Sirius hit James.

"No! We'd love to have you," he rallied.

"That'd be lovely. Okay, well I guess I'll see you guys later than. Thanks!" She disappeared through the press of students.

Sirius grabbed his trunk and started to haul it towards the train. "Nice, Prongs," he muttered. "Make me do everything."

"Hey, it's not my fault," cried James running after him.

"Of course it is! James, just because you like her doesn't mean you're a leper. You're allowed to sit with her."

"She doesn't hate you or anything," added Remus. "After all, she approached you."

"Us, she approached us."

"Right, well I was hoping you hadn't noticed that."

Lily ran up to the scarlet engine where she saw her best friends waiting. "Dawn! Bina!" she cried, wrapping them in a hug.

"Lily!" Dawn squealed. Dawn Georgiano was a tall athletic blonde whose blue eyes sparkled whenever she was about to do a bad thing. Strangely enough, this happened a lot.

"Hey, Lils," said Sabina, much more collectedly. Lily loved that about her friend Sabina Beru, she was always much calmer than Dawn. Her straight black hair framed her face, and her dark eyes were looking mischievous. "Why are you so happy?"

"Well, I haven't seen either of you in much too long of a time to recall."

"No," persisted Sabina. "Not that kind of happy. More like, 'the Marauders just spoke to me,' happy."

"Oh. There's a reason for that."

"Spill."

The whistle blew a long, shrill blast.

"Come on. I'll show you guys. Accio trunk!" Lily winced as her baggage narrowly missed a first year.

"Lily!" cried James. "Do you want help with your things?"

"Are you guys being gentlemen?" asked Dawn, smiling.

"But of course, Georgie," said Sirius, bowing before her. "You didn't expect us to neglect three such lovely ladies as yourselves."

"Au contraire. I most certainly did. You've never been so chivalrous at Quidditch."

"Well, that's Quidditch. Besides, you don't like us babying you."

Dawn brushed this thought aside as she thoughtfully watched Remus grab all Sabina's luggage. "So, why are you doing this?"

"Didn't Lily tell you?" asked James, watching her red curls bounce as she fervently shook her head. "Oh. Well, you're sharing a compartment with us."

"What?"

Both Sabina and Dawn stared at Lily. "How was that decided?" asked Sabina quietly.

"Sirius asked, and I accepted," she answered. Lily had no idea why it was such a big deal. "Hey we'd better board now if we want to get there at all."

"No kidding," said James, as the whistle blew again, as a last call.

As they made their way to Compartment 7, Dawn commented, "I bet there's about fifty girls on this train that would kill to be in your compartment."

"I find honesty is the best policy, Georgie," said Sirius. "And therefore, I believe you're right."

He grinned until she slapped him.

It was true, though. As the three Marauders walked through the train with Lily and company in tow, there was many a jealous glance at the girls, and in one case, Sabina put up a shield charm at just the right time.

"Sabina dear, did you happen to see who it was that just threw that hex at you?" asked Sirius sweetly.

"I'm afraid to tell you."

"Why?" He seemed shocked.

"Because you four would do something much worse to them."

"I saw who it was, Padfoot," volunteered Remus.

"Who was it, Moons?"

"I can't tell you if it goes against Miss Beru's wishes."

Sirius groaned as they reached the compartment. "Goodness, a suggestion like, 'Let's have a little chivalry around here' really goes to your guy's heads."

"I like it," commented Lily.

She likes chivalry, thought James. I have yet to find out if she is impressed by bilingualism.

"I appreciate the gesture as well, Black," laughed Dawn, "but would appreciate immensely more if you would get out of the compartment door and let us enter."

He didn't hear her. His face had gone green.

"Sirius? Earth to Sirius?"

He pointed.

In the corner, Peter was kissing a fourth year girl, who only seemed to be half interested in what she was doing.

In unison, James, Remus, and Sirius cleared their throats. When this did nothing, James called, "Oy, Wormtail, take the love fest outside. At least when we snog we don't do it in front of fellow Marauders."

"That's not always true," Remus muttered, but was silenced by a look from Sirius.

"Alright, Veronica, lets go," he said. She looked disappointed to be leaving just when the important Marauders got there, but allowed herself to be led out, and only as a second thought she threw a wink at the boys.

"Who was that for?" Sirius called back after her. "I don't see any cheaters in here."

"You don't cheat on your girlfriends, Black?" asked Dawn, sitting down.

"No. I might dump them at an abnormally fast rate, but I never have cheated on one."

"Do you believe him?" Dawn asked Sabina.

She nodded. "I put a truth charm on the room, just in case."

"Just in case of what?"

"Just… in case."

While the others were talking, James turned to Lily, an awkward smile on his face. "So…"

Thankfully, she rescued him. "So, earlier you asked me how my summer was. How as yours?"

"It was all right, I guess. We went to Spain for a while."

"Really?" Lily seemed really interested. He wasn't used to this. Like Remus had said, it wasn't like she hated him, but they never talked. "What'd you do?"

"We went to the Prado, which was interesting, for a muggle museum, and did a lot of walking around."

"I want to go to the Prado so badly," sighed Lily. "So, do you speak any Spanish?"

"Yes?"

"Really? Show me."

James mumbled something.

"What was that?"

He realized suddenly that being bilingual meant you had to know more than three phrases. "Hola, adios, y tengo hambre."

Lily laughed. "Hello, good bye, and you're hungry? What else?"

"I can speak a lot more, but I wouldn't want you to be jealous."

"Right. This is me bursting with jealousy, James." Lily glanced down at her watch and grabbed her bag. "Hey guys, I have to go, I'll see you all in about half an hour, okay."

James watched as she disappeared down the hallway, then sat down and opened up a magazine.

"Where did Lily go?" asked Remus.

"Some meeting," answered Sabina.

Sirius looked up from his conversation with Dawn. "Hey, Prongs, don't you have something disciplinary to do? Like stopping future Marauders from having fun on the train?"

"Or getting Slytherins in trouble?" asked Remus.

"Since when have any of you Marauders been interested in discipline?" asked Sabina.

"Since James became head boy."

There was a stunned silence, and an exchange of meaningful looks between the girls.

Finally, Dawn whispered, "Lily's head girl."

James jolted up. "Um, I have a meeting to go to," said James. "I must've forgotten." Every noticed the spring in his step as he ran out the door.

"So," said Sirius, holding his fingertips together in what he thought was a calculating way. "Miss Lilikins is head girl? This certainly is an interesting development."