A/N...okay second chapter! tell me what you think.
Disclaimer:I do not own Harry Potter.
The next morning dawned bright and sunny, with birds happily chirping. Lily braced herself for the bright sun. As usual it came, Lily squinted and sat up in bed. She gazed around the room and found Katherine already up. She was brushing her dirty blond hair slowly and steadily.
"Morning Kath!" Lily sang as she swung out of bed.
Katherine jumped and looked around the room until her eyes fell upon Lily. "Oh hey Lil's!" She replied. "Have a good night sleep?"
"Okay…I just feel bad about last night. I could have talked to him, you know?" Lily said, sighing and pushing her hair behind her ears.
"Yeah you could have, but don't beat yourself up about it. You were both angry." Katherine said, placing her brush upon her dresser and walking to stand next to Lily.
"I know…it's just he's kind of a bully. Remember what he did last year to Snape? He and Sirius were tormenting him, and all in good fun! How could something like that be fun?"
"I don't know Lils, but hexing can be amusing." Katherine reasoned.
"Amusing? AMUSING? How could you say something like that Kath?" Lily said as her eyes widened in shock at her friends words.
"Lily, you can't honestly say you don't have fun making James' hair long, or his skin pink?"
Lily smiled fondly at the memory, but quickly wiped it from her face. Obviously not quick enough.
"See?" Katherine said, nodding towards Lily's smile. "I'm not saying what James did was okay, but can't you move on? Snape obviously has. Did you see the hexes he put on the Marauders? Without a single detention!"
"I know, but I don't know if I'm ready to be friends with someone so immature." Lily said.
"Lils, you're putting yourself a little high up on the maturity ladder aren't you?" Katherine smirked. "I mean, you did just quarrel like 'rabid squirrels' or whatever."
"Will you two stop talking so LOUDLY?" came Marlee's groggy voice from under her pillow. Katherine and Lily smiled and tiptoed to the bathroom to brush their teeth.
James woke up on Sunday morning to a particularly loud snort from Sirius. James sighed and allowed his eyes to shoot daggers at Sirius' form on the bed. James got up and saw Remus and Peter talking quietly.
"Hey." James said.
They looked and James and smiled. "About time you got up." Remus said, smiling. "We needed a third person to wake up Sirius."
James grinned and they all walked over to Sirius' bed.
"Sirius. Sirius wake up." Remus said calmly. "Okay. Step two, go Peter."
"Sirius! You need to wake up! Snape is here, he's going to hex us into a million pieces!" Peter said loudly. He shrugged and glanced and James. "Okay, Step three, go James."
James nodded and stepped closer to Sirius. "SIRIUS BLACK GET YOUR STUPID ARSE OUT OF BED NOW! AND I MEAN NOW!" James screamed, emphasizing a few words.
Sirius stirred and then there was silence. Everyone grinned and nodded, raising their wands. "Step FOUR." They said together. At once, every wand tip shot out a different hex. Remus shot out water, Peter shot out mini hands that smacked Sirius over the head, again and again and again. James' wand shot out an enormous gong that echoed throughout the room loudly when hit.
"Waddya doin'?" Sirius exclaimed groggily, sitting up in bed and smacking the gong and hangs away. "I was sleepin'! Can't you guys ever wake me up normally?"
The other three boys exchanged glances, then rolled their eyes. "C'mon, let's go to breakfast." Peter said at last.
The Marauders made their way to lunch and sat down at the Gryfindor table where Lily, Marlee, Sara and Katherine were already seated.
"Hey ladies," Sirius said, sliding into a chair across from Sara. He winked at her which caused her to blush slightly. She smiled at him and he gave her his famous smile. The others watched the two with amused and disgusted glances.
"Anyways, not that that's over with." Marlee said, giving Sirius and Sara a pointed look. "Can you guys believe there's only three weeks left? Then we'll be seventh years. SEVENTH years!"
Everyone nodded their agreement. Lily snuck a glance at James, but saw that he was staring pointedly at his breakfast. Lily sighed and began eating breakfast.
The plates were cleared and everyone trudged back to their common rooms. Not James. And not Lily.
"James…" Lily began, looking away. "C-can I talk to you?"
James stared at her for a while before nodding. They walked around the school for a while before reaching a deserted hallway. James slumped down on the floor and leaned against the wall. Lily walked to the opposite wall and did the same.
"So?" James said.
"What do you mean so?" Lily said, trying desperately to keep her voice from the edginess that was trying to emerge into her every word.
"I mean why do you want to talk to me?" James asked, obviously trying to keep his voice under control like Lily.
"I wanted to talk to you because…because YOU wanted to talk to ME yesterday." Lily finished lamely.
"Well I DID, but since you left me hanging in front of all our friends, suddenly the idea doesn't sound as appealing!" James cried.
Lily sprung to her feet and glared down at James. "Well excuse me if I didn't want to talk to you. Its not like you did anything stupid to me, like say…turn my hair PURPLE."
James stood up abruptly and rose to his full height, which was well over Lily's. "YOU turned my skin pink polk-a-dots the day before. I was merely retaliating!"
"Oh that's rich!" Lily exclaimed. "It's not like you turned my-"
"Okay STOP!" James cut her off. "We're not getting anywhere. I wanted to talk to you to see if we could sort all this out but the obviously isn't going to happen."
"No I guess not. It's not like I wanted it to anyways!" Lily screamed, placing her hands on her hips.
"Me either!" James yelled.
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
Lily glared at him once more before turning around and running in the opposite direction. James ruffled his hair a bit and waited a while, before following her to the common room.
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Lily sprinted up the stairs to her dorm and flopped down. She didn't even bother to greet her friends downstairs. She ignored the hot tears in the back of her eyes threatening to come forward. She placed her palms on her eyes and sighed deeply.
"Lil?" Marlee asked nervously from the doorway.
"Yeah?" Lily replied wearily.
"Um…are you okay?"
"Yeah, fine." Lily lied.
Marlee sat down next to her and put her arm around her shoulders. "C'mon Lily, something's bothering you and I know it. What is it?"
"James and I pretty much agreed we would never be friends." Lily cried, burying her face in her hands.
"Well, you've never been exactly friends." Marlee asked carefully. "It's no big deal, right?"
Lily shook her head vigorously and looked up at Marlee. "No Mari, it sounded so official this time. I mean, we always not liked each other and stuff, but now we know we never will be friends. Ever."
Marlee nodded in understanding and stood up. "I'm sorry Lil, but it will work out, trust me."
Lily nodded and laid back down on her bed. Marlee took that as her cue to leave and walked out. After a while, Lily realized how tired she really was, after not getting much sleep last night. She buried her face deeper into her pillow and sank into a sleep.
"Lily? Hun it's time to get up." Sara said, looking at Lily carefully. Lily rubbed her eyes drowsily and sat up. "Here, we brought you some food from lunch. We figured you needed the sleep, so decided to just bring you up something."
Lily nodded and thanked each of her three friends that were standing around her bed. Sara pushed the plate of food closer and Lily picked up her sandwich. She took a big bite and chewed it thoughtfully.
"So…" Sara said, looking down at Lily.
"So." Lily replied, taking another bite from her sandwich. "Hey… when's the next Hogsmeade date?"
Her friends looked surprised at her randomness and then looked thoughtful. "Umm… I think its next Saturday." Marlee said after a while.
Lily nodded. "I was just thinking, because I could really use a butterbeer."
Her friends laughed and sat down on the floor. "Want to play cards?" Lily asked after a while. "I brought my muggle ones from home if anyone wants to play."
"I will," Katherine said, who had a muggle father and a magical mother.
Lily got off her bed and retrieved her deck of cards. They played a few games, with Marlee, a pureblood, and Sara, another pureblood, watching them closely.
"I can't take it anymore!" Marlee said after a while. "Don't you ever get bored?"
Lily and Katherine laughed, placing their cards down and stretching their arms out. "Well then, what do you suggest we do?" Katherine asked.
"I don't know, let's go downstairs." Marlee suggested. The other three shrugged and walked downstairs with Marlee in the lead.
"AH HA! I've got you now, check-mate!" a familiar voice rang out. The four girls turned and smiled when their eyes fell on an exuberant Sirius Black, and a disappointed James Potter, who was sitting across from Sirius at the chess table.
"Hey guys!" Sara called out, she looked at the clock and then back at them. "Wow, it's already time for dinner, you guys coming?"
Sirius and James nodded and glanced over at Remus and Peter who were lounging on the couches. "You guys coming to dinner?" James asked, not even bothering to keep the bitterness of losing the match from his voice.
"Coming!" Peter sang, perking up almost at once.
The eight students began their walk the great hall. James caught a glance of greasy black hair and looked around to see if any of the other boys saw it too.
They did.
"Umm… listen girls, we forgot something up at the common room and we need to go get it." James said, saying the first thing that came to mind.
"And what might that be?" Sara asked, looking at them curiously.
"Sirius' teeth." James said quickly. James blushed at his own words and then looked at Sirius. He had put his lips around his teeth, pretending as though he had none.
The girls laughed and looked at each other disbelievingly. "Whatever, I don't even want to know what could be so bad that you four had to come up with such a lame excuse." Sara said with a wave of her hand.
The boys nodded quickly and gratefully and headed off after the black haired, greasy boy. Severus Snape.
"What do you think their up to?" Lily asked curiously. "There's only one thing they run after. Girls, and we're here, food, and that's where we were heading, and…" Lily stopped in her tracks and looked at the other girls. "Snape."
"C'mon, I think he went this way." James said, leading the boys around the corner. "We're going to get him this time, there's no way he can get away with calling Lily a mudbl-well you know what he called her."
The boys nodded and quickened their pace.
"Well, well, well." Said a drawling voice from behind them. The four boys spun around to find Snape, hovering a few feet away.
"Hello Snivellus." Sirius said, pulling out his wand and advancing. "You didn't think we could let you go after landing us in detention for three weeks for doing nothing, and calling one of our best friends a…you know."
"Yes I do know. I called her a mudblood, because that's what she is. A no good, filthy mudblood that has no right to live."
"You crossed the line Snape." James replied through gritted teeth. "Wash out your mouth! Scourify!"
Bubbles began emerging from Snapes mouth. He began coughing and glaring at the four, very highly amused boys.
"WHAT are you doing?" Came a cold voice from behind them. The boys whirled around to find Lily, her three friends behind her. "Stop it Potter, stop it now."
James released the curse and glared and Lily. Did she even know why they were doing that? Didn't she know what Snape called her?
Remus was looking at the ground sheepishly. He usually stopped them. He was usually level headed, but Snape…Snape was different, and sometimes he didn't care what they did to him.
"Why do you keep doing this?" Lily cried, gesturing to Snape who was now glaring at all of them.
"Evans you have no idea what he does." Sirius replied evenly.
"Whatever he does, it gives you no excuse to do this!" She yelled.
"No one asked for your help, mudblood." Snape said.
Lily turned to Snape with anger and disappointment in her eyes. It was like fifth year all over again. Hadn't anyone changed? Hadn't James changed? Was he ever going to?
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