Chapter One
"Lily! Hey!" yelled a brown haired girl in blue jeans and a black sweatshirt, that read Field Hockey in pink letters.
"Oh My Gosh! Joey is that You?" yelled Lily Evans hugging Joey tightly.
"come on we have a compartment further back on the train." A red haired girl commented passively.
"How was your summer Arielle?" Lily asked slinging an arm around her shoulders.
"Oh you know, Not so great" Arielle said shrugging and tugging on a piece of red hair that had fallen out of her pony tail.
Lily nodded sympathetically. "How are you're foster parents treating you" she asked.
"There most of the problem," Arielle said quietly. "Then quickly she added, "Not that I'm complaining."
"You never do" said Joey slinging another arm around her friend. Joey and Arielle had known each other forever and they always could tell what was wrong. Joey was only quiet when Arielle was in another of her depressed moods. Everyone made fun of her and Joey was her fiercest when she was protecting Arielle from her peers.
"Lilykins!" cried a sarcastic voice.
Lily and Joey turned around to face a medium height girl with mid back, black hair and purple eyes. Her name was Brittany SaintClaire and she was every guys heartthrob and everyone wanted to be her.
Joey groaned, "Leave us alone"
Britt's eyes glittered, "and how is dear Jamsie-poo?" Britt asked Lily ignoring Joey.
Lily turned bright red, "LAY OFF!"
"Look now your face matches your hair. If you eat enough tomatoes your face might just actually stay that color. Have a nice ride! Toodles," Britt wiggled her fingers in haughty wave and flicked her gorgeous hair over her shoulder as she walked back to her best friend Megan Phillips.
"Ooooooh she makes my blood boil" Joey said clenching her fists.
"So how was Lily?" Megan as Britt came into view.
"oh she's feeling lovely," Britt answered.
"Hi girls!" said a pretty light-haired girl.
"Heide!" exclaimed Meg giving her a hug.
"Hi!" said Britt warmly joining the hug. Sirius came over and hugged them all too.
"Aww! It's been ages gals," Sirius said in a high pitched voice.
Britt pushed Sirius off, "how was your summer Heidi?"
"great how was yours?" Heide said watching Sirius rejoin the marauders and blushing slightly as Remus turned to look at her.
"Awesome!" meg exclaimed.
"umm….you know" Britt answered shiftily avoiding Heidi's eyes.
As meg rattled on about how her eldest brother had come home and brought her to the quidditch world cup and how it had been held in Romania and how good the food was there and how much she had enjoyed it.
Britt pretended to care and Heidi looked at Britt worriedly this was Britt's forte. Quidditch was her sport. It was what she excelled at and she loved it. Why wasn't she oooing and aaahing at Meg's trip. And why had she avoided the question about her summer.
"Look, I'll meet you guys on the train," Britt said cutting through meg's happy dialogue.
Heidi detected small tears in Britt's eyes, and excused herself as well.
"FINE!" meg yelled, "I'll get there by myself."
The Marauders
The marauder's walked towards the very last compartment on the train
"James are you planning on making any moves on Lily this year?" asked Peter looking up at James. He was the shortest of the marauders and he looked like a fourth year even though he was in his seventh. His blonde hair was falling in his brown eyes in an attempt to look hot. But with his short stature he only managed to look, well, cute.
"No, I think that I'll just let things run their course and act normal instead of try to impress her," James said running his fingers through his black hair.
"Mate," Sirius said. "That could seriously damage your chances."
"Not entirely, you dolt," James said alarmedly.
"Move," Britt said pushing through them.
"Nice manners, SaintClaire" Sirius called.
"Whatever, Black."
At that moment Heidi burst through the group yelling, "God Britt!"
Britt and CO.
"Whoa! Heidi," James said steadying her as she tripped. She tried to keep going but Sirius stopped her.
"Don't you have something to say to Remy-darling?" Sirius asked.
"I'm kinda in a hurry," Heidi said smiling apologetically at Remus. "Something is wrong with Britt,"
"isn't there always?" Sirius asked glumly.
"No, I mean yes but this ones major. I'll T-T-Y-L" and she ran off down the car.
"God Britt!" Heidi yelled, "Wait the HELL UP!"
"Since you swore," Britt stopped turning around.
"What happened this summer?" Heidi asked looking Britt straight in the eye, daring her to lie.
Britt started to twirl a lock of her black hair, a nervous habit.
"Tell me." Heidi demanded.
"fine. This summer my parents were captured by Death Eater's on…..business…..and Dumbledore says that he's not sure If they're alive or dead because they've been gone since June. " Finally Britt let a tear slide down her cheek.
"Oh, darling that's horrible" Heidi said hugging Britt. Britt had always been close to her parents and they were aurors exactly what Britt had wanted to be. Her parents seemed perfect they had a great job, they loved eachother dearly. When you got to know them you saw they were kinda scatterbrained, comic and very personal people. They were also the perfect people to come to with teenage troubles and they believed in independence so Britt was never bugged about anything needing to be done.
"don't worry to much about it, okay?" Britt said. She hated getting negative attention. What she did to be annoying, mean, or obnoxious was because she liked to be annoying, mean, or obnoxious on occasion.
"if you're sure?" Heidi said.
Britt nodded and Meg walked up.
"How does peter get off hanging with those three class A hotties? I mean not that any of them are hott buttons or anything, but still Peter looks SO out of place!" Meg ranted.
"he's not ugly" Heidi said.
"Whatever," Meg said waltzing into a compartment.
The Marauders
"yoo-hoo! Sirius are you in?" Remus asked waving a hand in front of Sirius's eyes.
James laughed excessively loudly in Sirius's opinion.
"Shuttup," Sirius said. "James c'mon," he pleaded.
"Look, it's fair Lily of the Valley," Peter said as Lily entered the car.
"hey evans," James managed to cough out in between uncontrollable gasps of laughter.
"James," Lily said coldly acknowledging his presence.
"Dude, Seriously, STOP," Sirius said trying to put a hand over James 's mouth.
"I'm trying too," James gasped tears streaming down his face. "I'm just remembering how you told me that you mmmmmm mmmmhmmmmmhhhhhhm,"
Sirius yelled, "Silencio," and that was how James finished.
Remus quickly muttered the counter curse and James finished.
"If I don't get into her pants I'll die."
Sirius covered his face with his hands and groaned, "Why did I tell him that? Why couldn't I have told Moony? Moony can keep a secret,"
"I think it's a little more than that," James said still laughing.
"If it's Britt," Lily said. "You know she's still a virgin? Right?" and with that she waltzed on by them.
Sirius's mouth gaped open after her, "How did she know?" he whispered.
"It's kinda obvious mate" Remus said patting him on the shoulder.
"Hey Evans!" James called to her retreating back.
Lily winced and turned around what Potter," she asked resignedly.
"Do you know who Head Girl is?"
"N----Yes. Me. Why?" Lily asked confused.
"Because I'm head boy," Sirius said
"Haha! Nice one Black."
"I mean James is," Sirius amended.
Lily laughed outright. "You're jokes get better and better."
"He wasn't joking," James said pulling out his red and gold badge.
"Give the badge back to Remus," Lily said still laughing slightly. But as she looked closer she saw "James Potter" etched into the bottom of the badge.
She screamed and ran from the car.
"Somehow I don't think it would be fair to hope that that was a scream of joy or exhilaration." Sirius said thoughtfully.
Lily and CO.