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The bags were packed.
The robes were packed.
Parents had said goodbye to their offspring and gone back to their quiet lives.
Our old friend Lily Evans was desperately hiding from one J. Potter.
Hiding with her were two other girls, one tallish with dark hair and a decidedly hung over look and the other was smallish with hair that formed pink dreadlocks. They hung forward over her face, and had earned her her nickname, Spikes. The other girl, Carmen, asked for about the seventh time
'Why the fuck do we have to do this when I have a headache? I'm always one for a OOWW!'
Lily pinched her.
'Shut up, Carmen. It serves you right for being hung over the day we go on a long train journey'
'Well, I made the clearly naïve assumption that I would be allowed to sit down for some of it, Merlin forbid even sleep a bit'
'That just shows, when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' said Lily still craning around the doorway.
'What?'
'It doesn't matter' said Lily laughing
'Why are we hiding anyway?' asked Spikes resignedly.
''because' said Lily with the air of someone explaining to an idiot 'If we bump into James and posse, then I will be very embarrassed and will make the whole thing worse than it already is'
'So you got smashed and crashed at his flat? I DON'T CARE' yelled Carmen, before returning to whimpering in the corner of the compartment.
Lily glanced at the clock on the wall.
'Crap I've got to go to the Heads meeting thing.'
'So what was the point of this whole thing? You'll see James there anyway.' Said Spikes
Lily laughed.
'I sincerely doubt anyone has made James a prefect'
Spikes grinned.
'No. But they made him Head Boy'
Lily was dumbfounded, but Carmen sat bolt upright.
'WHAT! You made me be quiet and she's going to have to see him ANYWAY! I don't know why I even BOTHER!'
James sighed.
His day was NOT going well. He had slept in, which meant his mother had given Sirius free rein with waking him up.
Which is never good.
It had involved being drenched head to toe in freezing water. Not very clean freezing water either. Sirius confided in him later that it had come from the blocked drain pipe under his window.
So that was lovely.
Then it occurred to him that when his mother had said yesterday 'This is your absolute last chance to pack go and do it now' it would have been quite a good idea to actually have done it.
He had basically solved this problem by throwing everything in his drawers, shelves and wardrobe into his bag and buckling it shut very tight.
Then it had occurred to him he had packed every t-shirt he owned. And given that there was no way in HELL he was unpacking, he had to put on a very thick jumper.
He walked downstairs hauling his trunk behind him. He was getting quite red in the face by this point, due to an interesting combination of extreme heat, embarrassment and anger, seeing as Sirius was following him around openly pointing and laughing.
And now, to top it all off, he had completely forgotten about the whole head boy meeting thing. They had only remembered because it suddenly hit them that they had not seen Remus for about an hour. James hurried along the corridors of the train towards the prefect's compartment, muttering to himself
'stupid friends…..can't help it if I didn't notice he'd gone……damned quiet friends…I should get him a neck bell…...GAH!
'There's no need to scream like a little girl' said Sirius from underneath the cloak
'What are you doing?' he hissed
'First sign of madness, talking to yourself, Potter' said Lily from where she was waiting for him to move so she could get past.
James ran a hand through his hair.
'And where are you going this fair morning?' he asked with a desperate attempt at nonchalant arrogance.
'Looking for you, actually.' She sighed as he opened his mouth to reply, a smirk spreading itself over his face 'don't get excited, Potter, it's only because you can't seem to find your way to the prefect's compartment on your own'
There was a noise from behind James that sounded suspiciously like 'you got told…'
'Did you hear something?' asked Lily curiously
'No, no, no, definitely not maybe you have some kind of horrible disease that makes you hear things?'
'Um….. Right.' Said Lily with an odd look in his direction.
She turned round and Sirius cuffed James around the head, who retaliated with a gut punch. They continued fighting until Lily looked around, when James smiled innocently.
'So,' he said after a second 'why did they send you?'
'Oh ha ha, Potter'
'How is that funny? In any way?'
She turned around.
'What?'
'I was actually asking'
'Oh. Okay then. They sent me because I'm head girl. Obviously.'
'Obviously' said James weakly, as it dawned on him that she was head girl. And he was head boy. So they would be sharing the tower. Excellent.