Chapter 3: The Dream

"Jeez Lily, I told you to have more than just a Pumpkin Pasty! I could hear your stomach grumbling from the carriage behind you!" said Elizabeth, a bit grumpily. She had gotten separated from Lily and Katherine while trying to get on the carriages, and had gotten stuck with some second years on the carriage behind them.

"Yes, well, I wasn't hungry at the time." Lily said, blushing furiously at the thought of everyone hearing her starving stomach. She had been so preoccupied with seeing James again that she hadn't even realized that she was hungry.

James had tried to get on her carriage. He had screamed, "Hey Lily! Can we sit with you?" Lily turned as she was stepping up into the carriage, and saw James dragging Sirius towards her. She grabbed Katherine and two other people and threw them inside, so that there would be no room for the boys. When she got in, she looked out and saw James, crestfallen, get in another carriage and Elizabeth get in the carriage behind her. Lily would have felt bad for not grabbing her as well, but she was too pissed off – and hurt.

So that had been her eventful carriage ride to the castle. She didn't even talk to Katherine or the two random third years she had taken. She just sat looking out the window, fuming.

When she sat down at the Gryffindor table and could picture all the food that would soon be upon it, Lily's mouth started to water like crazy. She barely watched the sorting and didn't listen to Dumbledore's announcements. She then saw the most wonderful thing ever: Food.

She was so busy pigging out that she didn't even notice James sitting a few seats away from her, not eating, but just watching her.

"Aww man…" James muttered sullenly.

After being dissed by Lily with the whole carriage fiasco and basically being non existent to her at the feast, James felt like crap.

He was sitting on his bed four poster in his dormitory. He probably should have been unpacking, like his friends, but he just didn't have the heart. All he felt like doing was rolling over and going to sleep, but Sirius had other plans.

"All right! What are we doing tonight? We can either: go find Snivellus and piss him off, or go find Snivellus and piss him off, or my personal favorite, go find Snivellus and piss him off! Or we could go sneak up to the girls' dormitory and spy on them! Which one guys?" Sirius said excitedly.

"Find Snivellus!" Peter shrieked. The three other boys rolled their eyes.

Remus then said, "I dunno, Sirius. I really don't think we should-"

"Oh yeah, I forgot, Remus is a prefect now. We're gonna hafta watch our step, James. With Remus around, we won't be able to break any rules out all. Our days of sneaking out and causing mischief are finished." Sirius smirked.

Peter laughed again, Remus sighed and looked away, and James stayed silent. After a moment of his silence, James said, "Listen, Sirius, mate, I'm tired. Let's stay here tonight and actually go to sleep at a decent hour." He didn't mention that the girls' dormitory as the last place he wanted to be.

Peter stopped laughing mid-chuckle, Remus looked gratefully at James, and Siris was speechless.

"Y-y..you…you want to…what?" Sirius stuttered.

James blinked. Crap, this is gonna be hard. " I just wanna go to sleep." James replied lamely.

Sirius still looked shocked. "I- but- you…we haven't actually gone to sleep before midnight since first year!" choked Sirius.

"Yeah, well…"

"I think we should go to sleep too." added Remus.

Sirius still looked aghast at the behaviour of his best friends, but said, "Fine. Me and Peter'll go find Snivellus by ourselves."

Peter shrieked a shriek of delight.

Sirius gave James and Remus the evil eye and stalked out of the dormitory. Peter followed, still giggling.

"Thanks for sticking up for me, James."

"No problem Remus." James laughed. "Anyway, did you see the look on Peter's face when he realized it was just him and Sirius out to torture Snivellus? I thought he was gonna piss in his pants!"

"Yeah," Remus laughed. "Well, g'night James." Remus said as he climbed into his bed.

"G'night." James got into bed and sighed. Peace and quiet. I can finally think in peace. But instead of think, he fell straight to sleep.

James was on his broom, trying to catch the snitch. He finally caught it and it turned into Lily's head. He tried to kiss her, but when he was an inch away from her lips, she whispered into his ear, "Sorry, but I don't kiss assholes who betray me like you did..." Lily's head then turned into Sirius's head, which said, "I can't be friends with someone who goes to sleep before midnight..." Sirius's head then became Remus's, who just howled, then James's mother's, who told him to wear his mittens and to keep warm. The snitch finally turned into Peter, who just laughed at James. The snitch, still in the form of Peter's head, flew out of James's hands and just circled around his head, still laughing at him.

James woke abruptly. He could barely remember his dream; all he could recall was the snitch and Peter's laughter. He looked around the room and saw that Sirius and Peter were back, both snoring lightly. But he could not shake the feeling of loneliness sweeping through him.

A/N: It's been a while, but I finally updated! But...REVIEW! If you don't, I'm not gonna keep writing the story...