A/N: This a Lily and James fanfiction, this chapter begins on the first train ride to Hogwarts. This chapter will be in Lily's POV and the next wil be in James'.

Summary: Lily hates James, James gets easily fustrated by Lily. But why the urge to ask her out? Only time will tell as they both begin to grow up and finally figure out their true feelings for one another.

Disclaimer: I do not own any Harry Potter characters. The only characters in this chapter that I didcreate are Lily's three friends.

Getting There

Part I

"OMG!", that's what Lily Evans kept thinking as she walked onto the Hogwarts Express.. "I can't believe I'm on this train, this is so amazing!"

Lily Evans was a witch, and was a first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She never dreamed of coming here because she was a muggle-born , meaning she wasn't from a magical family she was from a non-magical one. Or a muggle family. So it came as a total shock, to her and her family when her letter came attached to an owl. Her parents were as excited as her, maybe even more, but her older sister Petunia was just the opposite. She called Lily a freak and began to hate even more than before the letter came. Lily didn't care though, she was used to it by now, after all she had to get used to it after eleven years. See Lily wasn't the most gorgeous girl ever. She had auburn hair and shocking green, almond shaped eyes. And Petunia only cared about looks so she had always called Lily a freak. Not that Lily was ugly, she was actually to many people quite pretty, she just wasn't the most gorgeous girl ever.

After calming down a bit, Lily went to go find her friends that she had met at Diagon Alley. Diagon Alley was in the wizarding world and it was where Hogwarts students would get their school supplies for the new year. Her friends were Allie Thomson, Rebecca Chang, and Kerry Scott. Kerry, like Lily, was also a muggle-born, Allie was a half-blood meaning one of her parents was muggle or non-magical, and Rebecca was a pureblood. A pureblood was a person who came from a long line of wizards and witches, Allie and Rebecca had been friends since birth. After going through tons of compartments she finally found them, way in the back of the train. "Thank god I didn't' start looking for them in the front of the train.", Lily thought.

"Hey everyone!", Lily said happily as she entered the compartment.

"Lily, hey we were wondering if you forgot about our promises to sit with each other today.", said a gorgeous blond haired, blue eyed girl.

"Of course not Allie. How could I?"

"Okay. Now that Lily is here can you please explain all these 'necessary things that we have to know to be able to survive Hogwarts?", asked Kerry, who was a pretty dirty-blind haired girl with blue-green eyes.

"Yeah sure.", replied Rebecca, who was the opposite of Allie in her looks with dark brown hair and dark brown, almost black eyes.

"What necessary things?"

"Oh sorry Lily, we forgot to fill you in. Me and Becca told Kerry that we would fill you two in about everything you need to know about the wizarding world and we mean EVERYTHING.", said Allie.

"Wow, thanks you guys. That sounds great!"

But before Allie could start talking the compartment door opened and there stood a boy with blond hair a cold gray eyes, who looked about four years older than the girls, then there was another boy with greasy black hair and dark black eyes, who looked their age. "My, my what do we have here? A bunch of wittle, icky first years?", said the blond haired boy. The other boy just laughed, though he was probably a first year himself.

"What do you want Malfoy?", asked Allie who obviously knew him. So did Rebecca because she glared at them with pure hate. "we're busy so it you don't mind… leave."

"Actually I do mind. I mean you're lucky I don't have more people with me right now.", replied Malfoy. Malfoy seemed to be the leader of the two and it sounded like he had more 'followers'. "So I think we'll stay, if you don't mind.", he added sarcastically.

"Actually I think they do mind, so get lost.", said a boy with messy jet black hair and glasses over his cute hazel eyes.

"And you too, slime ball.", said another boy with black hair and grey eyes, Lily guessed he was talking to the younger looking boy.

"Oh, and what makes you think we'll listen to you Potter, Black?", Malfoy sneered. Then two more boys appeared behind them. One had light brown hair and gray eyes. The other boy was short, chubby and had blond hair and watery, blue eyes.

"Do you need anymore reason?", asked the boy Lily thought might be Potter. Malfoy just motioned to the other nameless boy and they left. After they left the Potter boy said, "Hello Allie, Rebecca how are you ladies doing? And might I ask who your lovely friends are?"

"Hey you guys. Um, thanks for helping us with those jerks. Oh and this is Lily Evans and Kerry Scott, we met them in Diagon Alley.", Rebecca answered him, blushing a little bit, and Lily could see why, that Potter boy was sort of cute. "Lily, Kerry this is James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew."

"I'm very surprised we haven't me either of you before, James and Sirius here practically know everyone.", said Remus with a slight smile.

"Well we're both muggle-borns so that's probably why.", Lily answered for Kerry and herself. While taking a quick glance of James.

"Well, we have to go and make some 'important visits' to some people we haven't seen in a while.", said James. "See you around, I hope."

"Yeah, it was nice meeting you.", said Remus and Sirius.

"I thought we had to go-", Sirius covered a confused Peter's mouth before he could finish and smiled a dazzling smile at the girls before leaving the compartment.

"They seem very nice.", said Kerry.

Allie laughed, "Don't let them fool you, they're the biggest pranksters ever. Those 'important visits' were really some pranks they were going to pull on some people they hate, such as Malfoy. But they are nice just never get on their bad side, and even if you are friends with them it doesn't mean your safe. They only way you won't get pranked is if you're one of them.

"What kind of pranks do they pull? They're probably funny.", Lily said smiling slightly.

"Yup, they are really funny, even the ones they've pulled on us!", agreed Becca.

Allie laughed at this, "The only reason you find them so funny is because you have a thing for James!"

"I do not!"

"Yeah, sure.". Allie replied rolling her eyes.

Before Becca could argue back, Kerry asked, "Okay, I know this is off topic but what about those necessary things we need to know to survive Hogwarts?

A/N: Okay I know it started off a bit slow but it does get better! In the next chapter you'll get to see James reaction for seeing Lily the first time. An reveiws would be greatly appreciated! Good or bad.