Hello! This story was originally I Hate To Love You, but it wouldn't let me update. So I decided to repost it as Deplorable Beginnings to Happier Endings. It wouldn't let me delete it either! My first chapter was supposed to be posted September 28, but I forgot that you have to wait 3 days before posting a story. I used to be just a reader until I got a brilliant idea to write my own story. I believe this will be a wonderful romantic dramatic story full of fluff, heartache and learning. LOL that sounded very odd and don't mind me I'm weird like that...oh well I know your all tired of this authors note so on to my first story.

Disclaimer-I own nothing! It all belongs to J.K. Rowling. And I thank her for lending me her characters for which I terrorize. I own anything you don't recognize.

"Lies" by Evanescence

Bound at every limb by my shackles of fear
Sealed with lies through so many tears
Lost from within, pursuing the end
I fight for the chance to be lied to again

"Deplorable Beginnings to Happier Endings"

Chapter 1 "An Irritated Head Girl"

Lily stifled back a loud yawn as she emerged onto Platform 9 3/4. She tossed her long curly red hair over her shoulder, as she smiled sadly at the Hogwarts Express for probably the last time. Her bright emerald eyes were mixed with sad and happy emotions. She clutched a Head girl badge in her fist. Looking to her parents that were quite uncomfortable, being the few muggles around many witches and wizards. Lily's lips grew into a smile,

"Bye Mum, by Dad, I'll owl you soon." she said giving them hugs.

"Bye dear, have a great term I'll see you at Christmas time." her mother said holding her tightly.

"Bye Lily, please write often, we want to know what kinds of spells you learn" her father said his eyes lighting up with excitement.

Lily let out a laugh,

"I will"

Tugging along her trunk, and her new fluffy black and white kitten Romeo, she made her way to the train. After stowing her trunk away she began to look for an open compartment. Romeo was squirming in her arms so she walked faster and running into something solid.

"Ouch!" she cried falling backwards onto the ground. Romeo meowed loudly and ran underneath a nearby seat.

"Oi! look, Evans really has fallen for me" came a male voice. Lily winced inwardly when she recognized that voice, she saw none other than James Potter standing over her with the famous, 'Potter grin' plastered upon his smug face. She rolled her eyes, and stood up.

"Oh sod off Potter and get over yourself" she snapped and stalked off to find Romeo. James watched her for a minute before running his hand through his black hair. Next to him Sirius snickered,

"Just get over her already mate"

James punched him lightly in the arm and said,

"Not as easy as it looks" Remus smiled slightly as Peter peered around nervously.

Lily dropped to her knees and looked underneath all the seats,

"Romeo! Romeo!" She called out.

"Who's Romeo?" asked a voice from behind her. Lily turned around to see her best friend Allie Anderson. Allie stood about 5' 6", with thick long wavy light copper hair and matching brown eyes. She wore a pair of jeans and a black tee shirt.

"Allie!" Lily exclaimed practically jumping on top of her in a hug.

"Nice to see you too Lily!" Allie said laughing.

"So who's Romeo?" asked Allie once Lily had let her go.

"My kitten who's lost on the train, no thanks to Potter" she answered irritably while looking under more seats.

"Is this what your looking for?" asked a small first year girl with brown pigtails holding up a squirming ball of black and white fur.

"Oh Romeo! Yes thank you!" Lily said graciously accepting him. The small girl left her pigtails bouncing.

"Lily didn't you get Head girl this year?" asked Allie,

"Yeah I did- Oh bloody hell, I'm supposed to be in the Prefect compartment!" Lily shrieked running away with Romeo perched atop her shoulder. She burst into the compartment,

"...the Head boy and girl will patrol toge-" read a blonde girl with shining blue/grey eyes.

Lily had interrupted the meeting.

"And this is our Head girl Lily Evans" said the girl she was a 6th year Prefect.

Lily groaned, it was Coley Fisher. Coley always wore too much make-up, she practically slathered it on. Her perfect bleach bottle blonde hair glistened as she smiled, a fake smile, revealing perfect white teeth too. She wore top of the line designer robes, and everything matched.

Lily bit back the urge to make a smart remark, she couldn't stand her. She had a bad experience with her...don't ask.

"As I was saying the head boy and girl will patrol together on their own schedule, they will organize dances, Hogsmeade trips and Prefect meetings" Coley said flipping her hair. Lily rolled her eyes.

"Who's head boy?" asked Lily interrupting Coley again.

Coley gave her a nasty glare before snapping,

"Would you stop interru-"

"I'm Head Boy" came a voice from a person that she had not taken notice of.

"Potter! No you can't be bloody serious!" Lily shrieked.

"I'm not Sirius would you like me to go get him?" he said smirking at her yet again. Coley burst out laughing at his horribly awful joke.

"Oh get a grip Fisher it wasn't that funny! And Potter you need to deflate that head of yours. I'm shocked you could fit it though the door!" and with that said she stomped out.

Lily opened the compartment door and slammed it shut.

"Oi Lily, what's the matter?" asked her friend Serenity Hugoi. Allie sat across from Serenity brushing her long hair.

Serenity's straight jet black hair that stopped at her jaw line was tipped bright red. She was shorter than the two, only about 5" 3', and a bit quieter. Her blue eyes sparkled as she jumped up and hugged Lily.

"Serenity!" Lily squealed, "I haven't seen you in forever!"

"I know it's been, what, two weeks!" Serenity laughed jokingly.

"Yeah a whole two weeks" said Lily sarcastically. The three girls laughed.

"So anyway what were you so pissed about earlier?" asked Allie.

"You have to ask?" She remarked pretending to mess up her hair.

"So Potter's still being an arse? Ugh...Some things will never change I'm afraid" remarked Allie snickering. They nodded their heads in unison.

"So how was your summer? You went to the U.S. right? How was it?" Lily asked finally sitting down next to Serenity.

"One question at a time!" exclaimed Serenity laughing.

"My summer was fun, and we did go to the U.S. It was fun it's not really that different from here, they talk differently, they say 'like' a lot it's very annoying and they drive on the wrong side of the road. My mum freaked when the cars were coming at us, luckily she swerved just in time to avoid the car." Serenity said between laughter. The girls erupted into laughter.

Sirius brushed his shaggy black hair out of his dark eyes and smiled lazily at a couple giggling girls that were staring at him from across the hall. He turned to his best friends and fellow Marauders and snickered.

Sirius Black was 17 years old with stormy grey eyes and black shaggy hair that always seemed to fall into his eyes 'just right'. He was one of the biggest pranksters in the group and by far the most immature.

"They always fawn over you three..." mumbled Peter quite downheartedly.

Peter Pettigrew was indeed 17 but was a short, lump of a boy with blue eyes and blonde hair. Poor Peter was constantly overlooked by everyone, when they say The Marauders they always meant James, Sirius and Remus, Peter was just kind of there.

"We can't help it if we're worshiped by the female population" remarked James arrogantly.

James Potter was 17. With his hazel eyes that would melt any girls heart, that were lavishly framed by glasses, to his black unruly hair that he was constantly messing up to look as if he had just gotten back from Quidditch practice, to his toned physique from Quidditch too. All the girls literally drooled over him.

Remus rolled his eyes and went back to his book. Remus was too 17 years old and had sandy colored hair and blue eyes, he was taller than the other three, and a bit thinner. One certain 'occasions' he has dark circles under his eyes and looked a bit peaky. Remus was quieter than the other but just as brilliant in coming up with pranks.

James reached into his pocket and pulled out a fluttering snitch. He let it go and caught it in the nick of time. Peter twittered excitedly.

"Where'd you get that?" asked Sirius smirking.

"I nicked it last year at the end of Quidditch season" he replied with a wink.

"You should have been Seeker" Peter said in awe as James made another spectacular

catch.

"I've told you Wormtail I like being a Chaser just fine, besides Allie's a great Seeker"

James said tossing the Snitch around again.

"Ahhh...fond of Ms. Anderson are you?" asked Sirius wiggling his eyebrows.

"No-"

"I forgot your still hung up over Evans..who by the way still hates you mate" Sirius remarked clasping him on the shoulder. James pushed his hand away and mumbled,

"Yeah yeah..."

The Hogwarts Express came to a screeching halt. The students poured out of the train, the air buzzed with talk and laughter. The hot summer sun scorched over head, no wind blew and to make it worst there were about 1000 students all packed into and around the train station. Lily fanned herself as she Serenity and Allie walked towards the castle their trunks in tow. Romeo was perched atop Lily's trunk staring hungrily at an owl snoozing in it's cage, as a third year passed. A few teachers ushered the first years onto the right path, Lily couldn't help but gaze at them in wonder.

"Were we really that twitchy?" she said disbelievingly.

"Aye..." replied Allie sadly.

"It seems so long ago that we were the little first years and everything was new" Serenity said half heartedly.

The girls came to a stop lost in their memories of their first year at Hogwarts.

:Flash:Back:

Eleven year old Lily stood there gaping at Hogwarts. The castle is self was enormous, the lush green grass seemed to go for miles and miles. The day seemed so perfect the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and someone had ran into her. With a loud

"oof!" Lily and the person fell to the ground.

"Oh I'm so sorry!" cried out another girl she had long black hair that was braided and fell down to her lower back. Lily looked up and her green eyes met bright blue ones. Lily smiled and stood up.

"It's alright, I'm Lily Evans" she said kindly offering a hand to the fallen girl. The girl accepted it and rose to her feet.

"I'm Serenity Hugoi" she said softly. The stood there for a moment looking at one another until Lily spoke up.

"Want to go in together since we both don't know our way around here?"

Serenity broke into a huge smile and nodded happily.

The sat in the great hall and awaited to be sorted. Serenity and Lily had both been put into Gryffindor and took a seat next to an older looking boy with blonde hair. More cheering erupted from the Gryffindor table as a tall girl with short copper hair and matching eyes walked towards the table and took a seat next to Lily.

"Hi! I'm Allie. Allie Anderson" she said brightly.

"I'm Lily!"

"Hello I'm Serenity"

"Nice to meet you guys I think we'll be great friends" said Allie clasping her hands together and laughing. Serenity and Lily both laughed too.

:End:Flash:Back:

"Get it moving your holding us all up!" yelled a second year boy named Davey. Lily turned around her head girl badge glinting in the sun.

"Ah...um...uh...n-never mind...I didn't mean to yell at you...you being the head girl in all..." he stumbled suddenly quite flustered. Lily laughed and kept on walking. Serenity, Allie and Lily put their trunks on top of the carriage and climbed in. Romeo put up quite a fuss getting into the carriage apparently the thresals frightened him terribly. After a few tries and scratched hands later the thresal (sp?) drawn carriage was moving along smoothly. After some time it came to an abrupt stop and the girls and feisty black and white kitten climbed out.

Hogwarts was a glorious as ever. To it's stone walls reaching higher than 3 muggle homes on top of one another, the castle seemed to have an ancient mysterious aura surrounding it. The grass was less green and in the far off distance the whopping willow was showing signs that summer was at a closing. Lily watched as a bird flew to close and was struck by a thin branch, a shower of yellow feathers fluttering to the ground.

Romeo was squirming yet again, and Lily gave a frustrated sigh as she struggled to hold onto him.

"Let me" said Allie, and with a flick of her wand the rock by Lily's feet turned into a pet carrier.

"Thank you so much! I don't know why I hadn't though of that." Lily laughed trying to get him inside. Romeo however protested and held fast to the door. Serenity threw a pebble into the carrier as it nosily clanged around, Romeo saw it and darted inside to 'kill' whatever had moved. Quickly latching the door shut, the girls laughed in triumph.

"The feast! We're gonna be late!" shrieked Allie grabbing Serenity who grabbed Lily who grabbed the pet carrier and ran into the Great Hall.

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James sat in the carriage joking around with Sirius, Lupin and Peter, who was laughing annoyingly at everything that was said.

"So Moony, what's with you and Lyza Middle?" asked James raising an eyebrow at Remus. Sirius leaned in a bit to hear the answer, Peter listened inventively.

"Nothing" Remus said simply. He stuck his hands in his pockets and looked out the window.

"Who's Lyza Middle?" Peter asked confusion written all over his face. The other three sighed.

"Pay attention Wormtail...Lyza is a 6th year with curly blonde hair and big green eyes that Mooney here fancies" responded Sirius batting his eyes lashes.

"I do not fancy her I tutored her the last semester in Potions, that's all" he said putting the emphasis on that's all.

"Right, ah huh, sure, whatever" Sirius smirked, he knew for a fast Remus had fancied her. He just never knew why they hadn't gone out. (A/N– I happen to say that phrase all the time. Lol)

:Flash:Back:

Two figures sat in the deserted Gryffindor common room, the fire was barely burning, the last embers were dull. Only the sound of scratching quills, crinkling parchment and the occasional whisper were heard

Remus yawned and dropped his quill onto a stack of parchment.

"So do you get it now?" he asked rubbing his eyes. It was getting quite late.

A girl in her 5th year with blonde curly hair and hazy green eyes looked up. She seemed quite nervous for a girl who was just merely being tutored.

"Remus..." she asked quietly.

"Yes Lyza? He asked looking at her. The firelight cast a soft glow on her face that seemed like she was glowing almost like an angel.

"I have a confession" she said quietly twisting her fingers into a knot. His breath was caught in his throat.

"I don't need to be tutored...I-I just asked so I could spend time with you and ask you something..." Lyza said blushing furiously. Remus bit his lip, and took a deep breath.

"Lyza...I really li-" "Could you tell Sir-?" they said at the same time.

"Go ahead." Remus said politely.

"Could you possibly tell Sirius that I really like him, I mean I would but I'm really shy"

This crushed Remus, she had gone through him to get to Sirius.

"Uh yeah...okay I will" he said softly.

"What were you going to say?" she asked.

"Nothing just that I should be getting some sleep"

"Oh alright...thank you Remus. Good night"

"Night." Remus said sadly his heart clenched up, and felt as if it was ready to break this was the first girl her truly wanted to be with and she had just broken his heart.

:End:Flash:Back

Remus couldn't tell Sirius that the girl of his dreams wanted his best friend instead of him, so he never did and Lyza had moved on anyway and went out with someone else.

The carriage came to a halt and the Marauders stepped out.

"It's good to be back!" exclaimed James smiling truly. Together they walked quickly into the Great Hall ready for their 7th and final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.