okay i got a review Pink Luvin Goddess asking me what the potion was that Lily was going to use on James did: it basically enlarges whatever it touches.

And i saw that ellieo added me to their c2...thanks

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Chapter 5: All Your Fault

Looking in the mirror more tear began to roll down Lily's cheeks. Why couldn't James just leave her alone and stop concentrating on making her life a living hell? Lily rubbed her eyes one last time, making sure that the makeup didn't come off. She grabbed a tissue and dried her face and trudged back to her bed.

Lily woke up about once every few hours and checked the mirror to see if it was all still there, and every time (to her disappointment) all of the makeup remained on her face.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

In the morning Lily came up with a possible plan to get rid of the hideous makeup as soon as possible. When she got on the train she would ask everybody she knew if they knew how to get rid of it. She would pester James, begging him to fix it if she had to. If she didn't get the makeup off before she got off the train, she would go straight to Dumbledore and ask him if he would fix it for her. She would even go to the school nurse, Ms. Dougherty. Lily knew she would go to any extreme to get rid of the makeup.

In the mean time Lily wanted to hide the makeup the best she could. As Lily did not normally wear makeup (feeling she looked better without) she did not own any. Lily went downstairs, trying to hide her face the best she could. When her father saw her he immediately wondered why his daughter was hiding her face.

"Honey, what's wrong?" He said, worried that something might be wrong with his daughter.

Mrs. Evans looked over and said, "Oh Lily, did you get a pimple, it's nothing to be embarrassed of."

"Mom I've had pimples before," Lily said, still hiding her face, "that jerk James snuck into our house last night."

"Why would that boy sneak into our house, he seemed like a gentleman," Mrs. Evans, thinking Lily was making it all up.

"Well he's not!" Lily said, "He came in and put a spell on me that gave me permanent makeup, and it's terrible. Don't believe me, just ask Petunia, and he woke up Vernon he left last night, I don't know how he didn't wake you up! And plus just look at my face, do you seriously think that I would put on makeup like this, and even if it looked good I don't like makeup." Lily then uncovered her face.

"Oh honey! I don't know what to do, it wouldn't just wash off," Mrs. Evans said, feeling very sympathetic.

"No, that's why I came down here, can I borrow some of your makeup to cover it up the best I can?" Lily asked.

"Of course, I would never make you go out in public looking like that and not let you use my makeup," her mother said.

Lily then thanked her mother for letting her borrow some of her makeup, and Lily's mother went upstairs to check on Petunia and see how Vernon handled it.

Lily grabbed her mother's concealer and tried to hide the eye shadow with it. The green-brown eye shadow was slightly lighter and the eye liner looked less thick. Lily then took the face powder and covered her whole face with it. The blush then only looked like a light orange and her eye makeup looked even lighter. She then took a pinkish brown eye shadow and put it on her eyelid. The Last thing she did was use her mom's red lipstick. Her lips were bright red, but red was the only color her mom had, and bright red was much better than purple. Lily didn't look great but she would much rather go to school looking like that than what she looked like before. Looking in the mirror, hoping that she would get the spell taken off soon, Lily suddenly heard Petunia screaming.

"SHE RUINED MY LIFE MUM!" Petunia was screaming at the top of her lungs, "VERNON FOUND OUT AND HE PROBALBLY WON'T EVER WANT TO SEE ME AGAIN! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST KICK THAT FREAK OUT OF THE HOUSE?"

Lily her parents bathroom and walked into her and Petunia's bedroom. She stood in the doorway and leaned against the paneling.

"Petunia, your sister can't help what she is, and plus you should be proud of her abilities," Mrs. Evans said, "Your sister did nothing wrong, it was all that boy's fault and I will be writing to his parents about what he has done."

"Actually his grandparents," Lily corrected her mother.

"What happened to his parents?" Mrs. Evans said, turning to her daughter.

"Well Voldemort killed them in our third year, and yeah I feel bad for him, but that is still no excuse for him doing this to me, so don't go treat him like a little angel," Lily said, knowing perfectly well that her mother will not want to get James punished considering he no longer had any parents.

"Oh the poor dear, I hope that he is alright, but you know, I am a little worried about this Voldemort thing," Mrs. Evans said nervously, "You aren't in any danger are you?"

"I would expect that I am, I've never done anything to him," Lily said, not mentioning that he was also after innocent muggle-borns. "And while I'm at Hogwarts I will be perfectly safe, Voldemort would never dare attack Dumbledore."

"Okay well I hope you are safe, and I guess I will still write his grandparents I think it is important to know what their grandson is up to," Mrs. Evans said.

"Just write the letter, and I'll have Einstein deliver it," Lily said.

"HAVE YOU COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT MY PROBLEM HERE?" Petunia came back into the conversation, "I MIGHT NOT EVER SEE VERNON AGAIN…PUNISH HER!"

"Now Petunia," Mrs. Evans said, "It is not your sisters fault and I'm sure James will be punished. About Vernon your father and I will speak to him if you want, I'm sure he still likes you enough to understand."

"FINE, BUT YOU BETTER NOT EVER COME NEAR VERNON, LILY OR I WILL MAKE YOU LIKE A LIVING HELL, BELIEVE ME!" Petunia threatened.

"Why in hell would I ever want to go near Vernon, he is disgusting," Lily said, glad that she might never have to see that horrid boy again.

"Now Lily, don't be so rude," Mrs. Evans said.

"Don't you ever talk about Vernon like that," Petunia said in a dangerous whisper.

Lily rolled her eyes, "And why not?"

"Like I said before, I could make your like a living hell."

"I'd like to see you try, and you know in a few months I can legally do magic in front of you, or more to you. I'd really like to see your try."

"Done." Petunia then grabbed a pair of scissors that were sitting on Lily's desk, "I already did it once before, but I think you could use another hair cut."

Lily then covered her head and ran and yelled back behind her, "You know when I get on the Hogwarts train I can do magic, I actually happen to know a spell that restores your hair, I had to use it on one of my friends once. You can't do very much that will hurt me much!"

"Fine then I'll hurt you physically!"

Lily ran faster at that point, she knew he sister could get very out of hand. For all she knew Petunia might try and cut off one of her fingers. She then pulled out her wand and pointed it at Petunia's hand.

"You'll get expelled," Petunia said nervously.

"Not if it's self defense, and even if the ministry says something, Dumbledore will fix it I'm sure. Fudge listens to everything he says.

"What the hell are you talking about; does Fudge hold some secret power or something?" Petunia laughed.

"Cornelius Fudge happens to be the Minister of Magic," Lily said.

"Fine, but you better feel lucky, and oh, how does it feel having to rely on someone else to help you from your sister."

"How does it feel to be afraid of your little sister?"

"Stop fighting you two! Petunia this is going to be the last day you get to see your sister until next summer," Mrs. Evans caught up with the two girls. "Petunia you are grounded for a month, and if you hurt your sister at all make it a year!"

Lily smiled and stuck out her tongue at Petunia in a childish manner and went back into their bedroom. She sat down on her bed and looked at the clock…8:00 only three more hours and she would be on the Hogwarts Express…two hours until she would be leaving the house (but unfortunately her parents were making Petunia come).

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Happiness flooded Lily's thoughts in the silent car. Knowing she was going back to Hogwarts was all she needed to cheer her up.

Petunia sat staring at the headrest of her father's seat in front of her, feeling completely miserable: her boyfriend was too afraid to come over to her house and she didn't know if he would ever talk to her again, Lily obviously was going to make her life a nightmare once she turned seventeen, and her parents were completely on Lily's side. She only had one thing to be happy about: Lily was leaving for Hogwarts. Even the thought of not having to see her until next summer seemed to cheer her up a bit; maybe Vernon could come over again if Lily wasn't there.

It was 10:35 when the Evans arrived at Kings Cross. Lily hopped out of the car, happy that she would be on her way to Hogwarts in ten minutes time. But the second her feet hit the ground and she saw James Potter and Sirius Black standing a few feet away from her Lily remembered the makeup and hid her face. Lily hoped that no one would see her makeup, and she really hoped James wouldn't see her and point it out to everyone.

James did notice Lily, but he pretended he didn't, feeling very guilty about making her cry, he never meant to hurt her, he thought it was just an innocent prank. But to James's disappointment Sirius did notice Lily walking towards them.

"Oh Lily, so nice to see you," Sirius said loudly.

A few people walking down the street looked at Lily when they heard Sirius. Some of them laughed when they saw how ridiculous Lily's makeup was. Lily covered her face in her hands.

"What are you so embarrassed about?" Sirius said, just as loudly.

Lily starting walking over to the platform, her father pushing her cart for her. Petunia decided to make the most of how bad Lily looked and said even more loudly than Sirius, "I don't know why you insist on putting so much shit on your face, it makes you look even uglier than before (if possible)."

"Oh, ew, you know you really need to brush your teeth more than once a week. I know that you hate everyone nagging you about it, but it really is not healthy," Petunia continued, Lily opened her mouth about to say something but Petunia stopped her, "Now I know your usual argument, it's more natural, and natural is healthy, but sometimes natural is a not the healthy way. Please brush your teeth for everyone else's sake."

Petunia smiled, she was proud of her skills of publicly humiliating Lily. She expected Lily to burst out in tears, but she didn't. Lily turned around and punched Petunia hard in the face.

Petunia screamed, blood was pouring out of her obviously broken nose. James stared at Lily and her sister with his mouth open; he never would expect anything like that from Lily. When he realized his mouth was open he shut it immediately, he felt even guiltier than he had before. He made it worse for her, her sister must be bad enough, and then he goes and screws up her face.

Sirius walked up to Lily, grabbed her hand and shook it violently, "Wow Lily, I'm impressed; I am in awe of your skills."

Normally Lily would laugh but she was not in a good mood at all with Sirius, after all he helped James with the whole makeup thing. She then turned and looked at James and said, "This is all your fault you jackass!"

"What did I do?" James said, thinking all he did was get Petunia started (on accident).

"You scared away her boyfriend, so she tried to kill me with scissors for your information. You put that blasted makeup on my face, so she milked it out for all its worth because she was pissed at me because you scared away her boyfriend. All. Your. Fault."

Once again the feeling of guilt over came him, and even worse than before. James felt just awful. He did not know what to say other than the cliché: "I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry?" Lily asked looking at him, "I'm sorry, James? I thought even you could come up with a better apology than that."

Lily didn't even wait for her mother to yell at her for breaking her sister's nose before she grabbed her cart from her dad and stomped off towards the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Some of the muggles that had been watching were very confused. Lily realized this before she passed through the barrier luckily.

"MY NOSE! YOU BROKE MY NOSE!" either Lily and all of the onlookers seemed to tune in all of Petunia's shrieks at the same time, or she was yelling louder, Lily didn't know which but she was glad all the attention was averted away from her. Lily took this advantage and leaned against the barrier without being noticed.

Lily looked at the familiar sight of the Hogwarts Express and smiled. She had not forgotten about her makeup crisis, she looked around for someone who might know how to fix it. She turned around and saw James and Sirius had gotten through the barrier also. Lily thought about asking James to fix it now, but she didn't ever want to go to James for help.

Lily didn't even have to try to find someone to fix her makeup, but she would much rather have to spend the whole train ride looking like that to get her makeup fixed they way she did.

James saw that Lily looked at him; he felt another pang of guilt. He decided he needed to fix what he started as much as he could, he knew hew couldn't make it one hundred percent better, but he'd do the best he could. James muttered a spell and Lily's face was not longer covered in makeup. The spell that removed the permanent makeup also removed the makeup Lily put on top of it.

Lily felt the spell hit her face, but she didn't know what it did. She spun around fast and glared at James, "What the hell did you do?"

She had a dangerous look in her face; James realized that he did something very stupid. There was a good chance that Lily would break his nose next. James backed up slowly and spoke, "Now, Lily…I didn't do anything to hurt you. I got rid of the makeup now that I can perform a spell without getting expelled."

"And why should I believe you?" Lily's hand was gripping her wand in her pocket.

"Look in the mirror," James said. He conjured up a mirror and handed it to Lily.

Lily grabbed the mirror from him a little more forcefully than she meant to. She looked in the mirror and saw that her face looked just like it normally would, makeup free.

"Thanks," Lily said coldly, she tossed James the mirror and started walking away from him. Lily loaded all of her luggage into the train walked towards the prefects' compartment.

James ran and caught up with her, and ran in front of her and blocked the door the prefect's compartment.

"James, get out of my way," Lily said, pointing her wand at him.

"Lily, please listen to me," James pleaded, "I didn't want to hurt you."

"Oh yeah and that's why you did the stupid makeup thing," she was trying to think of a spell to hit James with.

"I feel like shit after doing that to you," James said, hoping that she wouldn't hate him for this forever.

"Well you should," Lily said.

James felt he had done the best he could to apologize so he unblocked her compartment and walked off and found the one Sirius and Peter were sitting in (Remus would be sitting in the prefects compartment).

"Well Lily officially hates me," James said as he sat down next to Peter.

Sirius didn't want to point out that she already did, he felt bad for James, the only time he saw him this down was when his parents died, "Look I'm really sorry, but you can't say I didn't warn you."

"Shut up, I didn't think she would take it this hard," James said with his face in his hands.

"Maybe you should stop pulling pranks on her," Peter suggested.

"Nah, it's too fun," James said.

"Do you seriously think that you're having fun right now?" Peter asked.

"Well no, but most of the other pranks are fun," James said.

"Yeah, maybe when you didn't like her," Peter said, wondering why his friend could be so stupid.

"No, I have fun pulling pranks on her as long as she doesn't cry or anything," James said truthfully.

"Well if you don't stop pulling pranks on her, she's never going to like you back," Remus said.

Sirius secretly agreed with them, but he didn't want to stop pulling pranks on Lily. It was always a lot of fun when they did.

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"What was that all about?" Katrina Fischer asked Lily. Katrina was a sixth year Ravenclaw who was a prefect.

"That jerk broke into my house and ruined my life," Lily explained what happened to all of the Prefects in the compartment.

Theodore Gregory, Gina Willis, Luscius Malfoy and Narcissa Black were the Slytherin Prefects. They all sat in silence while all the other prefects in the compartment showed sympathy for her.

The train started moving and Remus Lupin walked in, panting, "Almost missed the train, I realized I forgot some of my books when I got here, and I had to go back and get them."

Remus sat down next to Lily and said, "I'm glad you got the makeup off, James and Sirius told me what they were going to do."

"And you didn't stop them!" Lily said, she didn't think Remus would be in on this one, she would usually get along with Remus.

"I thought about telling you, but I thought it was an innocent prank, I didn't think you'd get this angry," Remus said, noticing how red Lily's face had gotten.

Katrina told Remus what exactly happened because of the prank.

"Wow, I'm really sorry it got that out of hand, but please forgive James," Remus said.

"I would never forgive that asshole."

"I'm sure he is very sorry."

"Yeah he tried to apologize, but he's done too much. I can't take it anymore, first he gets me grounded for two weeks, then he does this…I can't take it."

"Please forgive him, he likes you a lot."

Lily just stared at Remus; she thought that was all just a joke to annoy her. Then she realized that maybe Remus was just playing along with them, "God damn why can't you guys just stop joking about that, it is so annoying, and it's not even funny."

"I'm not joking, he really likes you, and everyone else sees it. And James never plays out the same joke for that long; you know that, instead he'll just pull another prank on you."

"Well if he does really have a crush on me, he needs to find someone else, because I will never take him. You can go tell him that when you go down to his compartment."

"No thanks, I am not telling him, he'll freak out on me, you need to tell him if you really want him to know, but there is no way in hell I'm telling him."

"Fine I will after the meeting."

Right then Amanda Eubanks of Ravenclaw and Amos Diggory of Hufflepuff walked in. Apparently they were the new head girl and boy.

"Okay it's nice to see you guys here," Amanda said, "I think this year we will have excellent prefects. You probably know the drill but you guys need to patrol the train, and make sure everyone is following the rules. Now you can't take house points but you can assign detentions. After the feast I'll have you guys guide the first years to your common rooms, I believe Dumbledore already sent you the passwords."

Everyone nodded, "Okay," Amos continued from Amanda's little speech, "I think that's all we needed to tell you. You guys can go and sit in whatever compartment you want, but keep checking on other compartments to keep everyone in line."

Then Amos and Amanda went back into the head compartment and some of the prefects left the prefect's compartment.

Lily walked down the train looking for which room James was in. Finally she found James Sirius and Peter sitting in a compartment on her left hand side.

Lily slid the door open and James looked at her in confusion, "Yes Lily?"

"Remus said that you liked me…a lot, and you know I just thought I'd tell you that you better go find someone else, because you have no chance in hell that I would ever be interested," Lily said.

"Are you kidding me," Sirius laughed, "Are you telling me that you never knew that James really liked you?"

"I thought it was just a stupid joke between you guys," Lily said.

"Well it wasn't, and I'm not moving on, you know you like me," James said.

"No, I hate you," Lily said, which hurt James's feelings, although he was not at all surprised by her response.

Lily then walked out of the compartment and found the one holding Claire and Mariah. Remus was also in there, sitting next to Claire.

She walked in and sat next to Mariah. Remus looked over at Lily and said, "Please say you didn't tell him."

"I did."

"Damn, you know, now I am going to have to spend a lot of time comforting him or whatever, he always gets so depressed when your mad at him. Can please try to be a little nice to him…for my sake."

"Who are you talking about?" Claire asked.

"James," Lily said, and she told Claire and Mariah what had happened.

"Remus why didn't you tell her," Claire said angrily at her boyfriend.

"I didn't think it would get that out of hand," Remus answered.

The four of them talked about James for about half an hour until Remus left to go join the Marauders.

Lily would occasionally go check the compartments, but she never had to give out a detention. When they only had about 15 minutes until they would arrive at Hogwarts the girls changed into their Hogwarts robes. Lily fastened her prefect's badge, she was very proud of being a prefect.

Finally the train came to a halt and all of the students filed out of the train. All of the returning students got in the horseless carriages and the first years crossed the lake in boats with the young but large gamekeeper named Hagrid.

Lily got a compartment with Claire, Mariah and some second years they didn't know. They got out of the carriage when they reached the castle. Lily got out and smiled as she reached the doors to Hogwarts, she was home.

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

PLEASE REVIEW! even if you dont like my story much please still review, construcive critisism! oh and by the way, before i added all the authors notes and stuff this chapter was exactly 4000 words...crazy huh

school is starting for my this tuesday so i'm not gonna b able to update as much, cuz between school and volleyball, my schedule is getting kinda crazy.