Disclaimer : If I was JK Rowling I would own everything. But I'm not... So I don't. But I do own the plot and the characters you don't recognise... meaning the ones I made up.
Chapter 1 : Platform 9¾
It was a beautiful sunny September 1st at Kings Cross Station. At 16, Lily Evans was getting ready to start her fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Her parents helped her load her things onto a cart and walked her into the station. Being Muggles, they didn't know where to go. So they let Lily walk to the barrier herself. They kissed her good-bye and drove away.
Lily entered the station and was trying her best to maneuver through the crowds with her trunk and owl cage on a cart, her red hair, which reached a little past her shoulders, was neatly in place with a gold headband. She was about to walk through the barrier when she heard a voice calling her name.
"Evans!" said the voice. Lily turned around to see a boy with messy, raven black hair and glasses over his stunning hazel-brown eyes. This boy was none other than James Potter walking briskly towards her with his trunk in tow. He ran his fingers through his hair and mussed it up. "Hey." he said, catching his breath, looking straight into her emerald green eyes. "Shall we?" Lilly rolled her eyes and walked through the barrier. James smiled after her, watching the last bit of her cross through the barrier.
Lily found herself on Platform 9¾ with the big, red Hogwarts express standing there in all its glory. Lilly had stopped right in front of the barrier, so when James came through, he ran right into her.
"Hey! Watch where your standing, Evans!" said a semi-annoyed James. Lily gave him a reproachful look and attempted to put her trunk back on the cart. "Here. Let me help you." James said as he grabbed the other side of her trunk. "One… two… THREE…" And they lifted the trunk back onto the cart.
"Thanks." Lily mumbled.
"No problem." James said. He looked around the platform, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of his friends. Finally, he saw his best friend, Sirius Black. "Padfoot!" he yelled across the station. "See ya later, Evans." Lily watched James walk over to Sirius and started to make her way over to the train.
One of the attendants helped her load her trunk onto the train. "Thanks." she said. She dragged her trunk to an empty compartment and attempted to lift it into one of the over head racks.
"Need my help again, Evans?" James had appeared at the door of her compartment along with Sirius, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. James threw her a quick smile. Lily was not fast to return it. "Padfoot, help me with this, will ya?" Sirius grabbed the other handle on her trunk and together James and Sirius lifted her trunk into the rack.
"There ya go, Lily." said Sirius, his jet black hair falling slightly into his light grey eyes.
"Thanks." she said with a slight smile. He smiled back. Lily noticed that he had a strong jaw and very handsome features. She sat herself comfortably into one of the seats and looked out the window. She watched all the little first years leaning out the windows to say their final good-byes to their teary-eyed parents. She heard the compartment door opening and turned to see Ava Fields, Lana Chesterton and Delia Lipton enter the compartment.
"Hey Lily!" said Ava. "Wow… Don't rush to help us with our trunks!" she said with a smile. Ava had pin-straight light blonde hair, which was a little longer than Lily's, that was pulled into a neat half-up half-down ponytail. She had brilliant light aquamarine eyes that always looked a little mischievous. Lily smiled back and helped Ava, Delia and Lana lift their trunks into the racks and they sat back into their seats. Lana took the window seat across from Lily and Ava sat next to Lana and Delia sat next to Lily. Lana had wavy, honey brown hair that just brushed the tops of her shoulders. She had side bangs which accentuated her brilliant light gold-brown eyes. But out of the four friends, Delia was by far the prettiest. Even they agreed so. Delia had stunning light blue-grey eyes and long straight, jet black hair. She was not very tall but she was very slender. Even James admitted that he had liked her.
"So, how has your summer been, Lily." Lana asked.
"Eh… Can't complain Lana, what bout you Ava?" asked Lily.
"Same old, same old… I got into that Quidditch program in July so I went to that. It was fun. The kids there were mostly guys… And mostly Irish… And mostly very good looking!" Ava said with a little laugh. Lily and Lana laughed along.
"Wow… I can only imagine a whole bunch of hot Irish guys together in one place!" said Lana, looking dreamily out the window.
"Speaking of Quidditch…" Delia said. "What's up with you and Potter, Lil?"
"What?" Lily said, slightly offended. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well I'm just asking." Delia said. "Are you going out or anything?"
"I can't believe you even bothered asking." Lily said, looking out the window.
"Everyone knows he likes you, Lil." said Lana.
"Yea… only, like, the whole school…" added Ava.
"Yea, I noticed." Lily said. She looked out the compartment door window and looked into the compartment across the hall. James and his friends were sitting there laughing at something. Lily couldn't help but look at James. She then noticed his eyes looking into hers and she quickly looked away.
James looked back over at Lily, ruffling his hair, to see if she was looking again, but she wasn't, but rather staring out of her window at the passing fields. Sirius noticed James staring absentmindedly at Lily.
"So… How are things with you and Evans?" he asked.
"What?" James asked, shaking his head and looking back at his friend sitting across from him. "Nothing… Nothing…" he said in a slightly disappointed tone. Sirius noticed this.
"Ask her out again if you're really that into her."
"Why? And have her say 'No' and not talk to me for another month? I don't think so." James retorted.
"Do as you wish, mate." Sirius said, placing his feet up in the empty seat next to him. Remus looked up from his book and shook his head and rolled his light blue eyes. "What are you reading now, Moony?" he asked, trying to coax Remus out of his book.
"I was reading our Transfiguration textbook, but now I have to leave and get going with my Prefect duties. I'll see you guys at the feast." Remus said, closing his book and putting it in his bag. His short dirty blonde hair was cut slightly shorter than James and Sirius'. He ran a hand through it and walked out of the compartment.
"Bye Moony…" said Sirius. He took a quick glance into Lily's compartment and noticed Ava looking straight at him, her eyes shining in the sunset. She gave him a smile and he smiled back. She looked away, blushing a shade of light pink. She started whispering something to Lana.
"Sirius just smiled at me…" Ava said, still blushing.
"Oooh! Someone's got a crush on the lovely, stunningly handsome Sirius Black, maybe?" Delia asked now looking at Ava.
"Most definitely." said Lana, smiling. Lana then took a glance over. She noticed that Remus and James were exiting the compartment. Remus gave her a slight wink and continued walking down the hall. She sighed. No one knew that she secretly liked Remus. She thought it would upset Lily since both of her friends fancied two of the Marauder's. So, Lana kept this little bit of information to herself.
"I have to go, too. You know… Head Girl duties. I'll see you later." Lily said. She left the compartment and started to head for the Prefect's compartment.
"Bye." said Ava and Lana. Ava had stretched herself out across a few seats, leaning her back against the wall the compartment door was on. She was looking up at the ceiling, thinking about something. Lana was still looking out the compartment door window. The sky had become dark and the lanterns were on, but a sliver of sun still existed on the horizon.
As Lily made her way down the corridor, she wondered what would happen if they each went out with one of the Marauder's. She pictured Ava with Sirius, not only because Ava was one of the most outgoing people she'd ever met, just that their complete personalities seemed to compliment each other. Ava was the one of the three that always seemed to get herself into trouble and she was a phenomenal Quidditch player. Not only that, Ava and Sirius were on the House Team together, both chasers. Lily told Ava that the only reason she had been going to the Quidditch games was to see her play, but Ava believed that she wasn't the only one Lily was there to see. Lana would definitely be with Remus. Lana spent a lot of her time in the library, as did Remus. They were both kind and shy. Not to mention that they both always had their face buried into a book of some sort. Delia, well she wouldn't go out with Peter, so maybe James? "James' yours you idiot." "Right, right… No wait… WHAT? James is not mine!" "I'm you conscience… I beg to differ." She tried not to think of this anymore.
After Lily left, Ava and Lana engrossed themselves in a game of Exploding Snap. Delia was running her fingers through her hair, sucking on a lollypop while she was reading "Hogwarts: A History". Twenty minutes or so passed by before anyone entered the compartment. It was Remus.
"Hey Lupin." said Lana, slightly blushing.
"You should start getting your robes on. We're almost at school." he said looking from one to the next, glancing a little longer at Lana.
"Thanks, Remus." said Ava.
Ava and Delia looked suspiciously at Lana. They didn't say anything because the look on Lana's face said it all. It was an 'if-you-say-anything-to-Lily-I-swear-I-will-kill-you' look.
The train started to slow down. "I'll get the guys to help us with our trunks." said Delia.
"If you must." Lily replied, as she soon appeared back into the compartment.
Delia walked across the hall to the boys' compartment. She knocked, and then opened the door. "Do you guys think you could help us with our trunks?" she said with a slight smile.
"I guess we could do that." Sirius said smiling at her.
With the help of the boys, mostly James and Sirius, all the trunks were taken down from the racks and carried out of the compartment. They got off the train and walked towards the horseless carriages.
A/N : Ok... Here's the first chapter... again. I was having problems with the first chapter so I deleted the story... So here's the new, revamped chapter.The only major changes I made were character names, so it's basically the same. Ok... This is my first fanfic and I'm actually pretty happy with how this chapter came out. Some of the other chapters are prewritten so once I know how you guys like this one, I'll post some more. I PROMISE that I will update as much as school, sports and my writing muse allows. For now, I have enough ideas to last a few chapters. So yea... Read and Review please! Advice and stuff is greatly appreciated! Thanks! --Erica